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Sports / US Headlines | By Brandon Jones
Roger Clemens cleared of all perjury charges
A jury has cleared the famous baseball pitcher, Roger Clemens, of all perjury charges for allegedly lying to Congress, denying using performance-enhancing drugs.
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After ten hours of deliberation, the jurors returned on Monday to end a 10-week trial, a five-year investigation and mark the end of the charges against Clemens.
CNN adds that Clemens wiped his eyes after the verdict was announced, then hugged his likewise emotional sons. His lawyer, Rusty Hardin, meanwhile, gave a thumbs-up to the jury before leaving the courtroom.
"Mr. Clemens, you're free to go," Judge Reggie Walton said.
Minutes later, Clemens thanked his family, lawyers and others who have supported him during the trial and in the years since he was accused of using illicit performance enhancing drugs.
"I put a lot of hard work into that career," he told reporters, choking up on the steps of the federal courthouse in Washington. "I appreciate my teammates that came in, and all the e-mails and phone calls."
Hardin thanked the jury, and lavished praise on his client for his demeanor and character.
"It has been four and a half years since we listened to a picture that doesn't match up at all with the man we have grown to know and love," the lawyer said. "He is not only a seven-time Cy Young winner, he's a hell of a man."
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Do Americans or Canadians use it? I have heard this word from non-native English speakers

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U.S. Economy Added 250,000 Jobs In October; Unemployment Remains At 3.7 Percent Employers added more jobs than analysts expected, as the jobless rate remained at a nearly 50-year low. Friday's report gives voters a final glimpse of the economy before the midterm elections.
Job seekers line up at a technology fair in Los Angeles in March. Employers added more jobs than analysts expected last month, as the jobless rate remained at a nearly 50-year low of 3.7 percent.
Employers added 250,000 jobs in October, more than analysts expected, as the jobless rate remained at 3.7 percent, a nearly 50-year low, the Labor Department said Friday.
The report also showed that the pace of wage growth picked up last month. Average earnings climbed to $27.30 an hour — 3.1 percent above a year earlier.
The 12-month wage increase was the largest since 2009 and topped September's 2.8 percent gain.
But the 3.1 percent wage gain is still considered moderate. And it's unlikely to change the Federal Reserve's strategy of gradually increasing interest rates.
"The moderate improvement in wage growth keeps the Fed on track to hike again in December, and enables them to transition to a slower pace of rate increases next year," economist Mickey Levy of Berenberg Capital Markets said before the report was released.
Friday's report gives voters a final glimpse of the economy before Tuesday's midterm elections.
The increase in jobs marked the 97th straight month of gains. The economy is currently in one of the longest expansions in modern U.S. history.
The number of jobs added in September was revised down to 118,000 from the 134,000 originally reported. The September number was somewhat depressed compared with prior months because of Hurricane Florence, which ravaged North and South Carolina.
Hurricane Michael, which hit the Florida Panhandle and Georgia last month "had no discernible effect on the national employment and unemployment estimates for October," the Labor Department said.
The rebound in job creation last month was widely expected. Economists had projected the economy added around 200,000 jobs in October.
Last month, the economy added 47,000 jobs in health care, 42,000 in leisure and hospitality, 32,000 in manufacturing, 30,000 in construction and nearly 25,000 in transportation and warehousing.
One of the most positive signs for workers in the labor data has been the 7.1 million job openings in the U.S. economy. That's more jobs than the 6.1 million people officially unemployed under the government's primary measure of joblessness. Employers know this well, as they continue to struggle to fill openings.


In mine the membrane is only on the audio funtions keys, which makes sense! How about the batteries, do you know for what is for?
can it be reprogramed to act like a scroll instead?
Disappointing, indeed. Everyone loves knobs! But knobs are inherently analog things, needing more finesse than spitting out repeating letters.
ideally this could make a fantastic project board with some tinkering, maybe get a controller hooked up to the knobs, get a custom plate cut if you can figure out mounting for it, fill out the chassis some more etc.


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Administrators Must Help Recruits Hide From Overzealous Online Fans
Ruben Gonzalez and Andre Davis, two of the top wide receivers in Hillsborough County, Fla., announced their commitments to the University of South Florida within a week of one another earlier this year.
Heavily recruited linebacker C.J. Johnson smiled for the camera during the 2011 U.S. Army All-American Bowl, but he blamed Facebook for making the recruiting experience
Ruben Gonzalez and Andre Davis, two of the top wide receivers in Hillsborough County, Fla., announced their commitments to the University of South Florida within a week of one another earlier this year. But rather than call a traditional press conference, as high-profile recruits have done in years past, the Tampa-area players opted to write poorly punctuated announcements on their own Facebook pages.
"To whom this may concern, for the next four years of my collegiate career I will be attending USF! Go Bulls!" Gonzalez, a standout at Robinson High School, posted on his wall. Jefferson High's Davis took a similar approach: "I Andre Davis am officially a USF Bull. The feeling is indescribable."
Local media picked up on the posts, and the news spread.
"It's the new way to do things," says Shane Kenny, co-founder of InternetSafety.com, an Acworth, Ga.-based provider of web-filtering solutions for consumers and businesses since 1999, now owned by digital security company McAfee. "That's just the way teenagers are communicating these days."
Gonzalez and Davis are among the new breed of interscholastic student-athletes who achieved star status at the dawn of an enhanced era of online social media - and both of them were able to take advantage of the medium. But things don't always go so smoothly.
When Brent Calloway, a highly touted running back/linebacker from Russellville (Ala.) High School, backed out of his commitment to the University of Alabama and accepted a scholarship offer from rival Auburn University, his Facebook page lit up with unfriendly comments. "I got things saying they hope I break my legs," Calloway told The Times Daily in Florence, Ala. "I've had death threats. They hope I lose my scholarship. A bunch of crazy stuff." (After all that, Calloway ultimately elected to stick with his initial decision and signed with the Crimson Tide.)
And Philadelphia (Miss.) High School linebacker C.J. Johnson, who decommitted from Mississippi State following defensive coordinator Manny Diaz's departure for the University of Texas, announced he was logging off Facebook once he settled on Ole Miss. With false Internet rumors flying that Johnson reneged on Mississippi State because his mother allegedly cleaned the house of an Ole Miss administrator for $100,000 a year, the trash talk on Johnson's Facebook page reached new levels. "This is my last post and I'm gonna leave facebook with this," he wrote. "I will not be a Mississippi state bulldog and I'm not considering Mississippi state anymore bc you have constantly comment on my page send me crazy inboxes and has made my recruiting experience a living nightmare. Goodbye facebook."
Today, nearly half of all Americans use Facebook (compared to only 7 percent who use Twitter), and statistics reveal that as many as 73 percent of all kids between the ages of 12 and 17 participate in some sort of online social networking site, according to the Pew Research Center.
That means most student-athletes on any given high school sports team probably are active on Facebook. As a result, coaches and athletic directors need to help participants survive in a new frontier where privacy simply does not exist.
"It comes down to the same rules we tell everybody," Kenny says. "The number one rule is, be careful what you post. If it's spelled wrong, or it's inappropriate, or you're going to regret it later, don't post it. The second rule is, know your audience. Facebook has pretty good privacy features, if you get in there and set them up correctly. And third, only friend your friends. You don't have to friend everyone who sends you an invite - especially if you don't know who that person is. This is a big one, especially with young athletes, because the number of friends someone has is really like a status symbol. Think about it from a teenager's point of view: They want everyone to know what they're doing."
Kenny is willing to bet that Russellville High's Calloway and Philadelphia High's Johnson did not have their Facebook privacy profiles set to "friends only," meaning that literally anyone in the world could visit those players' Facebook pages and join in the trash talk.
One way for coaches and athletic administrators to better grasp how student-athletes are using Facebook is to actually "friend" players, using a school-only account. (That way, players won't have access to details about coaches' personal lives.) Practice updates, team reminders and other messages could be posted to that account's Facebook wall and sent immediately to players.
Football coach Marc Wilson and his staff at Imhotep Institute Charter High School in Philadelphia "friended" several players last fall in an effort to monitor a "Facebook curfew," which banned the team from posting anything on the site after 11 p.m. the night before a game. "We've seen it happen before where individuals start an exchange on Facebook, and it leads to something that becomes more physical and realistic," Wilson told The Philadelphia Inquirer, adding that he could still monitor the activity of players who weren't his "friends." "They have friended someone, who's a friend of someone we are friends with. So word eventually gets back."
Wilson told Inquirer reporter Pat Gillespie that he had disciplined at least eight players for misusing Facebook - including senior Maurice Howard, who admitted that "when I was doing it, I wasn't really thinking too much about the repercussions."
Sports teams should use their school's Facebook and social-networking policies as a guide for creating team policies, Kenny suggests. Like other codes of conduct, those policies should be read by players and parents, then signed and returned to coaches. And while the punishment for violating such policies must fit the crime, it also should be enforced as rigorously as every other team policy.
Ideally, teaching social-networking protocol is a schoolwide mission. "Every teacher needs to be drilling these Internet safety concepts into students, whether it's on the football field or in a math class," Kenny says.
In fact, with mobile devices already defining the next generation of social media, Facebook and whatever comes after it are only going to become more ubiquitous in the lives of student-athletes, readily at their fingertips all the time. He wouldn't even be surprised if high school players begin hosting their own virtual press conferences, shooting an iPhone video from the field, posting it on YouTube and waiting for it to go viral.
"This is the way things are," Kenny says. "And you're not going to stop it."
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Let me get something straight. Under normal circumstances I would consider my co-host, Adam Gori, a friend of mine. However, when that so-called "friend" gets an 80-yard garbage point touchdown and wins our matchup by six points I'm forced to reconsider our relationship. That's what fantasy football can do to people.
That's exactly what Prime Time Fantasy Football is for, folks. We give you all the advice you need so you don't even have to worry about being garbage points-ed to death!
On the Week 11 preview show of Prime Time we have four, count 'em FOUR, listener questions to answer. Trust me when I say each one was better than the last. We also have some good topics of conversation in our game previews, which include Ronnie Hillman, Blake Bortles, and Michael Crabtree.
Plus, per usual, we'll give you some picks in Show Me The Money and offer the best stats around in our Fantasy Facts of the Week.


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500 Hennessy Road is the next mega-mall in Hysan Development portfolio of "works". It's been a construction site since we arrived in Causeway Bay in mid 2008. Only recently has it started reaching for the skies.
Word on the street is it will have 11 floors of retail space and 36 floors overall with 4 basement levels. A business pamphlet regaling its awesomeness toots that it will be a green building with green roofs with energy sustaining features lah de dah de dah. Actually they list quite a lot of energy/green measures in their blurb and it takes up about 90% of the information given. Must be feeling the heat from somewhere.
There's a bit too much blue sky in the artist's impression. Picture it, if you will, with a dozen more concrete structures surrounding it. You may glimpse a bit of blue sky in between the concrete jungle or reflected of the energy efficient windows. I can only imagine the increase in traffic in the area. Yowsa!


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Voting Rights for Ex-convicts
A NY Times article dated November 3, 2012, Wrongly Turning Away Ex-Offenders, addresses state laws dating back to Reconstruction that deny the vote to people who have committed felonies barring about 5.85 million people from voting in the 2012 election. Policies on restoration of the voting franchise to convicted felons among the 50 states are so inconsistent that they create confusion among for both former offenders who wish to regain the right to vote as well as the officials charged with implementing the laws. See the State by State Chart of Felon Voting Laws on the Pro.Con.org website. This past October, the Minnesota Supreme in Council on Crime and Justice and Enjoli Rosas v. Mark Ritchie issued an Order in a case where a probation office incorrectly told a voter who pleaded guilty to felony possession of marijuana, was placed on 5 years of probation, and received a stay of adjudication that she could not vote and doing so would be a new felony offense. After the State admitted its mistake regarding the petitioner's ability to vote, the Supreme Court dismissed the case as moot. However, the case illustrates that kind of misinformation that discourages legally eligible voters from registering to vote and may cause confusion for former offenders who, unaware of their state's restrictions, then register and vote, unwittingly committing a new crime.
Other countries address felony re-enfranchisement much differently. The Australian Senate recently voted to amend the Electoral and Referendum Act to give the right to vote to persons who are serving sentences of three years or less. The amendment came after the High Court of Australia 2006 ruling in Roach v Electoral Commissioner on the validity of Commonwealth legislation that prevented prisoners from voting. In 2002, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled in Sauvé v. Canada that any ban on prison voting violates Canada's Constitution and is counterproductive to the governments' professed goal of promoting civil responsibility and respect for the rule of law.
Last year, Brooklyn Law School Professor Susan N. Herman stated in a NY Times article, Restore the Right to Vote, that she does not view voting as a "privilege" and that "the idea that our democracy is only open to a chosen few flies in the face of decades of struggle to democratize the fundamental right to vote." The Brooklyn Law School Library has a number of items in its collection on the subject of the loss of political rights including suffrage for ex-convicts in the United States including The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons by Elizabeth Hull (Call # KF9747.Z95 H84 2006) and My First Vote, a compilation of stories by the Brennan Center for Justice from people across the country who voted for the first time in November 2008 after having lost, and then regained, their right to vote following a criminal conviction.
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According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, The US fish farming industry is well established and diverse. The first fish hatchery in the U.S. was in Madison, Wisconsin in 1887 but there are now several thousand. Although some fish farming in USA raises recreational or ornamental fish, the majority is finfish produced for consumption. Fish can be raised in ponds, recirculation tanks, raceways, cages or net pens but the species of a successful fish farm depends greatly on market demand and water quality, flow, oxygen, and temperature.
Most popular species in the US fish farming industry. Until they reach about 1 ½ pounds, catfish, usually channel catfish, have an efficient rate of conversion of pellet feed to pound of fish. Catfish are a warm water species, actively feeding and growing in warmer temperatures, and are tolerant of lower oxygen levels than many other species.
This non-native species is another warm water species. In fact, if the temperature drops below 50 degrees, no more flakey white fillets. Production facilities are mostly indoor, often greenhouse type structures where the fish consumes tiny leftover particles often from water incorporated from other aquaculture or hydroponic operations.
Although a smaller fish, yellow perch fillets are highly prized. There are several pros for this cold water species fish farming in USA such as its ability to train well to feed and tolerate crowded conditions. However, timing of productions shifts and spawning inconsistencies can complicate farming.
With any farm, there is a high concentration of organisms, and thus, a potential for things to go wrong. For example, there is concern that if salmon in ocean net pens escape they may put the wild population at risk for disease. However, fish farming in USA certainly helps supply meet demand. It also reduces pressure on some of our natural resources and can help fish conservation, like the purchase of your fishing license.


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Monrovia defenders, including Gracie Lee (40) and Grace Whitaker (13) surround Edgewood's 6-3 center, Kaiden Harrington, during Monday's game in Branch McCracken Memorial Gymnasium. (Steve Page / Correspondent)
Sophomore Emma Crouch looks for an opening while Monrovia teammates Mallory Willett (34) and Ashley Lewis (24) watch during Monday's game agaisnt visiting Edgewood. (Steve Page / Correspondent)
With head coah Kevin Rounds quarantined, Jennifer Baylor (right) directs the Monrovia girls during Monday's home game with Edgewood. (Steve Page / Correspondent)
Bulldogs battle, but Mustangs prevail
By Steve Page Correspondent
MONROVIA — Going in to Monday's makeup game in Branch McCracken Memorial Gymnasium, Monrovia knew that Class 3A Edgewood would be a tough opponent.
Then, the Bulldogs learned that their coach, Kevin Rounds, has been quarantined by the COVID-19 epidemic.
That left junior varsity coach Jennifer Baylor to direct the Bulldogs against the Mustangs, who came in with an 11-6 record and victories in their three previous games.
They also brought 6-3 sophomore center Kaiden Harrington. While she scored just eight points, the Bulldogs, with no one taller than 5-10 sophomore Addie Tracy, could not match up inside.
And while the Mustangs showed just one senior on the roster to Monrovia's three, the visitors included seven juniors to the Bulldogs' two.
It all proved too much for Monrovia.
The Mustangs scored the game's first nine points, then tacked together a 15-2 run in the second period to run the margin to 23 points.
They led the rest of the way in posting a 60-37 nonconference win.
Three other Mustangs scored in double figures, with junior guard Carly Sherfield scoring 13 points, senior guard Taylor Minnick 11 and 5-10 forward Trista Helms adding 10.
Mallory Willett, a 5-8 senior, worked the baseline for 14 Monrovia points, including four free throws. Grace Whitaker, a 5-7 senior, worked inside and out for 12 points, but no other Bulldog could muster more than five points.
"That's a tough team, and we didn't have anybody to match up with their big girl," Baylor said of Harrington, who did a good job of clogging up the middle and rebounding on defense and dishing off to her teammates and rebounding on offense.
"I'm proud of how the girls played without coach Rounds being here," Baylor said. "They didn't find out until mid-day that he wouldn't be here. Our seniors and juniors stepped up."
Baylor credited the girls with carrying on without their coach.
"I'm not sure of all the plays they use," she said. "Grace Whitaker led the whole way, knowing the plays. Mallory Willett did well. They stepped up with a positive attitude."
Also contributing were junior Harley Mobley with two field goals and a free throw, sophomore Ashley Lewis with a field goal and a free throw, senior Gracie Lee with a basket and sophomore Emily Crouch with a free throw.
Baylor said she saw promise in the second half.
"We did put together some nice runs," she said.
Monrovia scored the first five points of the second half, as Willett hit a free throw, Whitaker netted a layup after a nifty feed from Willett, then Mobley took a pass from Willett for another short shot.
After the teams traded baskets at the end of the third quarter, the Bulldogs put together another rally over the last half of the last quarter.
Mobley scored on a layup off a pass from Lewis, was fouled and sank the free throw. Lee scored on a fast-break layup after the Bulldogs forced a turnover. Willett made a free throw, then stole the ball and scored on a layup before adding a follow shot. Whitaker added a layup as the Bulldogs outscored the Mustangs 12-5 in the contest's waning moments.
Edgewood had started the game by dominating the first quarter and building a 17-4 lead at the break. Willett opened the second quarter by hitting a baseline jumper and Crouch added a free throw to trim the deficit to 10 points. But the Mustangs then put together a 14-2 run over the next 4:34 and led 34-12 at the half.
The Bulldogs (6-6) returned to Indiana Crossroads Conference play by traveling to Cascade on Tuesday. They then host Crawfordsville at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
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The Executive MBA in Banking and Financial Institutions is a unique two-year program designed to develop and enhance a candidate's skills necessary for a position of leadership in a financial institution or regulatory agency. This program emphasizes the integration and synthesis of various disciplines to develop a student's ability to function and make sound administrative decisions in a dynamic financial institution environment. The Executive MBA in Banking Financial Institutions is perfect for working professionals in the banking and financial services industry. While the program offers a challenging and robust academic curriculum, the EMBA is structured with your busy schedule in mind offering convenient online courses and limited in-class sessions.
The curriculum is a 36-credit hour program over a two year period with a new cohort beginning each fall semester. Each cohort is limited to 25 students per year. An annual two-week residency at the main campus is required prior to the start of each fall semester. Outside of these two residencies, students will complete their coursework (18 credit hours each year) entirely online. See SHSU Online Technical Requirements regarding supported browsers and operating systems.
The University in cooperation with the Graduate School of Banking at SMU in Dallas, Texas will allow graduates of their program to obtain credit for up to nine hours of course work toward the Executive MBA.
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Q: Why do bellman error gradients become big? I read these notes on deep q learning (DQN) and it said that Bellman error gradients can become pretty big. While watching the lecture video for that slide, the speaker basically said that we are using the gradient of a squared bellman error and the derivative of a quadratic can become a large value. I am a little lost why that is the case? DQN is basically performing regression and we don't seem to worry about regression gradients being large.
Here's the typical loss function of a typical DQN -
$$L(\theta) = 1/2(R_{t+1} + \gamma[\![ \max_{a}q_{\theta}(S_{t+1,a})]\!] - q_{\theta}(S_{t}, A_t))^2$$
Here, $R_{t+1}, S_{t}, A_t$ denote the reward, state and action at the current time step. $S_{t+1}$ denotes the next state and $q_{\theta}$ the q values. Also, we do not take the gradient of the term within $[\![ ]\!]$ as this is not a true gradient method but semi-gradient method.


The following profile is a representation of the Massachusetts public education state longitudinal data system (SLDS) as presented through publicly available resources of public primary, secondary and higher education, information made available to the public through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the Data Quality Campaign, published research articles, other third party internet resources (as noted), and direct contact with state and federal public education officials. It is not a formal program evaluation.
Edwin Analytics is Massachusetts's public education state longitudinal data system (SLDS) managed by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MDESE). Edwin Analytics, created for the purpose of collecting and analyzing Massachusetts's public education data at the individual, course, institution, and system levels, links data records from the breadth of the Massachusetts public education systems. The combined data collection systems are part of a nation-wide effort to record granular public education detail over time in order to document the entirety of the students' education experience. This information is intended to be available for analysis and public policy consideration for the purpose of producing improvements in student learning at elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and higher education levels, and to optimize labor market outcomes, individually and generally.
Massachusetts is one of the 47 states having received public funding to create a state longitudinal data system (SLDS). Despite state-to-state differences, each SLDS shares a common purpose of supporting research and analysis with the intent of informing individual, household, and public policy decisions based on standardized criteria.
This review assesses the overall quality of Edwin Analytics as an SLDS by considering the nature of the organization maintaining the data system, those agencies and institutions providing inputs to the data system, and to which agencies and institutions the data systems' outputs are available. The assessment also considers the data system's funding mechanisms, internal and external researcher data accessibility, the quality of the data system's public user interface (dashboard), and the data system's current Data Quality Campaign (DQC) ranking. This report considers each of these criteria pertaining to Edwin Analytics and provides contact information to the departments and individuals who maintain and manage the SLDS.
The BESE closely monitors the development of Edwin Analytics and other data related projects and initiatives occurring within the department. Policy decisions are overseen by an internal Leadership Team which is comprised of all Department Policy Directors. The MDESE manages and maintains Edwin Analytics. The data system is located in-house MDESE's SLDS project team. These team maintain, support and evaluate the technical infrastructure of Edwin Analytics, including its data security, accessibility, application maintenance, and network services.
The MDESE has created a public user portal for Edwin Analytic. The Data Warehouse puts data about Massachusetts' schools in a centralized location which is easy to access and use. The public user portal provides aggregate level data about various education issues within Massachusetts relating to its students and education institutions. This portal is intended to provide the state's education stakeholders include policy makers, administrators, educators, parents, students and other interested parties within Massachusetts. The quality of this portal will be evaluated using several different criteria which include: the user-friendliness of the portal, the extent of data offered by the portal, whether the portal is self-sufficient or relies upon other webpages to provide information, and the extent of customizable reports that can be made using the portal.
The portal is easily-accessible through the MDESE online site. Edwin Analytics home page provides a comprehensive overview of each of the information sections provided within the portal. The portal is intuitive to use and easy to navigate. Users are provided a clear overview of the sections contained in the portal and are provided step by step instructions on how to use the tools in these sections.
The portal provided K-12 data on each school district and county in the state of Massachusetts. It also provides K-12 data on the overall education outcomes of the state in general and the amount of students that are moving onto higher education or post-secondary institutions.
The portal provides direct access to the district and school reports that can be generated within it. In addition to this, the portal provides a connection to the MDESE Data Warehouse and all of the tools, resources and information that can be found within the site.
In 2011, the Massachusetts legislature passed Statute 6005 which officially created the mandate for the MDESE to develop and maintain Edwin Analytics. The statute establishes the capabilities that the MDESE must be capable of performing and state and federal laws the data system must adhere to.


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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is actively maneuvering from the consumer marketplace to the world of finance, banking and accounting. Many businesses are looking to streamline processes and utilize AI to become more efficient and profitable. Expex is pleased to be featured in The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership online newsletter, Next Wave Ideas. The article, How AI is impacting small & medium sized businesses discusses the availability of services that are accessible to small and medium sized business.
"Not long ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was thought of as a sophisticated and expensive technology that only large companies could afford and use. As consumers, we've seen applications of AI in self-driving cars, voice recognition and various aspects of Facebook (Facebook has a division called "FAIR" – Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research to perform R&D for new apps and products). But what about small and medium size companies? Are there solutions that can help them become more efficient or even more profitable?
Expex is a SaaS application that automates accounting and bookkeeping tasks, improves cash flow, lowers business expenses, and reduces the time required to review financial data and transactions. The app has smart alerts that notify users of critical issues requiring their attention and is integrated with QuickBooks and 11,000 financial institutions. www.expexinc.com.
Anthony Lombardo is the President and founder of Expex, Inc in the Capital District of New York. As a small business owner, he saw that he needed to understand his finances and cash-flow. When he went to look for these tools, he couldn't find a system that would provide him with the information he needed, so he built his own platform.
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4-star WR Quaydarius Davis commits to USC
Another one from Texas!
By Cam Mellor@CamMellor May 3, 2020, 7:26am PDT
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The USC Trojans football recruiting path is carving up teams like their Air Raid offense does to opposing defenses as of late. Head coach Clay Helton and Co. picked up another big-time recruit this weekend with 4-star WR Quaydarius Davis pledging his services to the Trojans.
Davis, who goes by Quay, is 6'0, 193 and represents a true yards-after-the-catch threat. He's the 17th-ranked receiver on the 247Sports Composite and the 105th-best player in the country. Hailing from Skyline High School in Dallas, Texas, he also represents the 10th commitment to USC for the class of 2021 and the second offensive skill player from the state of Texas to pledge to the Trojans.
Largely seen as one of the top receivers in this class, Davis' highlights are extensive and truly a sight to see. In fact, Rivals.com has Davis as the 21st-best prospect in the country and these highlights will show you why:
Davis had previously committed to Texas, for a large portion of 2019, but backed off that commitment in November, only to reveal on May 1 that he's a solid commit to USC without even seeing campus. Due to coronavirus, his plans to visit USC have been placed on hold and he'll want to get out as soon as he can.
He told Rivals earlier this year that he 'has got to get out to see (the campus)' so for him to commit without being able to speaks volumes to Helton and Keary Colbert's ability to recruit virtually this offseason.
The USC recruiting class for 2021 is taking the nation by storm and has officially cracked the top 10 overall recruiting classes on each of the recruiting services. 247Sports has USC ranked No. 7 nationally while Rivals has them at No. 6 overall.
That's quite a haul so far and quite a ranking to date, something that is extremely promising for not only the future of the program, but for the future of Helton's job as the head coach.
Now, all he has to do is turn these recruiting wins into wins on the field.
Easier said than done, right?


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Spring -- The attraction of poppers to largemouths in spring seems to stem from the fish's natural inclination to move into shallow cover-filled bays that warm fast in the early spring sun. Fish bask near the surface, apparently soaking up the warmth to boost their metabolism. They're easily spooked and not aggressive, but will softly engulf a lure floating on the surface, or gently twitched near a stump or over a weed clump.
Note, however, that this fast charge into shallow bays is characteristic only for largemouth bass of the north-central region. Farther south, the progression into thin water is gradual. Bass pro Danny Joe Humphrey, a longtime topwater expert from North Carolina, considers 60F the threshold for poppin' action in mid-south reservoirs like Buggs Island. Humphrey, who markets several Japanese-made poppers in the Viva Series, prefers subtle poppers like the Viva Pencil Popper prior to the spawn.
Fall -- At the other end of the seasonal scale, poppers can be the best bait to throw late in fall, once vegetation has thinned and bass hold among shallow wood and remaining clumps of vegetation for their final meals before ice covers the lake. Smaller poppers, as well as floating minnowbaits consistently take largemouths at water temperatures down to about 45F.
Summer -- Admittedly, though, poppers and chuggers are in their prime from the Spawn Period through the Post-Summer Period, the period of the In-Fisherman calendar that begins when water temperatures first decline in late summer and ends at Fall Turnover. The food web is in high gear during midsummer, and that's when bass do the bulk of their annual feeding. Few baits draw strikes from active bass as surely as poppers.
The fast skittering, spitting retrieve that's the standard for summer daytime fishing in impoundments imitates the sight and sound of panicked shad. For when bass and predators sense that other fish are feeding, they want to join the feast.
During summer, poppers also appeal to largemouth and smallmouth bass that hold in cover but are ready to feed opportunistically. In rivers, all species of black bass choose holding positions that give them shelter from current but allow them to scan the water moving by, to pick off potential prey. During low water in summer, which also brings clear water, smallmouths hold by boulders and deadhead logs in the main channel.
Big smallmouths bit best when the popper drifted alongside the cover object, and then was popped and allowed to settle. In the clear water, the bass could be seen easing out, nosing up to the lure, then smashing it with a vengeance. In productive areas, almost every log and rock held a fish.
Like other topwater lures, poppers and chuggers generally produce best during summer's low-light hours or overcast conditions. But following this generalization too closely can cause you to miss a good topwater bite.
Poppers built for bass range in size from Rebel's 1/8-ounce P50 Pop-R and Lucky Craft's 3/16-ounce Bevy Popper that barely stretch two inches, to Storm's 4 1/2-inch 7/8-ounce Big Bug and the 1-ounce Yo-Zuri Mag Popper. Size matters but in ways you may not have considered.
Size: If you've spent much time pitching poppers, you've surely caught numbers of largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth bass whose length barely exceeds that of the bait. Bluegills, too, will nip a popper, as if it were an overgrown grasshopper. Poppers get the attention of fish in shallow water and those holding near the surface over greater depths.
Their spitting and blooping, and quivering at rest mimic the most vulnerable prey a bass can find. The helpless looking bait, pinned against the surface, begs to be eaten with each pop or blip. And in the tiny brain of our finny adversary, a big splash sometimes is more attractive than a little one, particularly if big active bass are in the vicinity. As a rule, the bigger the popper, the larger the average size of bass caught on it. But not always. Midsize poppers, from about 1/4 to 3/8 ounce cover most situations.
Mouth Shape: The key to a popper, of course, is its concave mouth that catches water and causes surface commotion. The depth of cupping, angle of the cup, and sharpness of the edge determine to a large extent whether the bait makes a bloop or boil, a quiet spit, or some other combination of commotions. These actions, of course, depend as well on the retrieve. The shape of the lure's mouth also affects to what extent the bait will walk back and forth in a walk-the-dog pattern during a steady snapping retrieve.
Slow Retrieves (Bloopin'): Original instructions in the Hula Popper box recommend casting the bait, then letting it sit till the ripples subside, then giving it a pop and repeating the procedure until the bait moves past a high-percentage area. That's the way anglers started fishing the first Pop-R, and this retrieve can be deadly for all species of black bass.
Where bass hold in thick weedbeds or under wood cover, the splash down and sharp bloops let them know something's there. The surface commotion suggests a small fish in its death throes, or maybe a frog hopping off a lily pad. Splashes, too, can stimulate bass to feed, as they think another fish has snatched a prey from the surface.
These cues may cause bass to approach cautiously or sometimes to zoom in on a lure for a closer look. A subtle twitch may be the final trigger for a strike. Or the skirted tail quivering in current can motivate an aggressive attack.
At night, slow intermittent retrieves give bass the opportunity to approach the lure and then strike. Bass may strike but miss fast-moving baits, especially if they move erratically.
When fished over deep water, for example along the edge of a bluff bank, a loud bloop summons fish from below, as well as from cover. I've learned that Mexican bass fancy a mega bloop-and-pause retrieve. After watching my fast-spitting retrieve along the edge of a cliff that dropped fast into 30 feet of water, my guide Arturo approached the bow and beckoned for me to hand over my rod.
He cast and began savagely blooping the lure, letting it settle between pulls. I followed his advice and more than doubled my topwater strikes on that trip and subsequent ones. These semitropical largemouths, with their aggressive strikes and awesome pulling power, have some of the savage tendencies of those jungle marauders, the peacock bass.
Fast Retrieves (Spittin'): Another key retrieve for poppers is the spittin' skittering action that's become standard for summertime fishing on shad- filled reservoirs. Rick Clunn's introduction to this action came more than 20 years ago as he guided a client on Lake Conroe. The man worked his Pop-R frantically fast, the bait spitting water and bobbing unpredictably from side to side.
At first amused, Clunn was soon impressed as bass attacked the bait all day. Later, Clunn experimented with the 1/4-ounce bait and did a bit of filing and sanding to produce the secret bait he used to win well over $100,000. Many modern poppers, including most of the Japanese editions, are designed more for spitting than popping. The mouth is moderate size, and the lower lip is considerably shorter than the upper lip, and its leading edges are sharp.
But versatile topwater anglers should view retrieves as a continuum of speeds and actions between the extremes of a fast spit and a bloop-and-die cadence. On a given day, a special surface dance can make a major difference in the bait's attraction. While it's good to have a few time-tested retrieves that need no concentration to execute, breaking the mold can pay dividends.
Rod Choice: With a bloop-and-pause retrieve, rod position isn't critical, so anglers can select rod lengths and actions according to personal preference and fishing situation. With experience, you'll learn the best angle to hold the rod, based on the lure's characteristics and its distance from the boat or shore. In general, the rod should be gradually lowered as the lure approaches.
Match rod action and line strength to lure size, cover conditions, and potential size of bass. For tough-battling potentially monstrous Mexican bass or giant Floridas, heavy-action trigger sticks with abrasion-resistant mono or superbraid lines are the ticket. On heavy tackle, bigger, heavier poppers cast farther and tend to attract the biggest bass. But make sure the hooks don't bend under the strain. Some of the super-sharp fine-gauge Japanese hooks must be changed for this application.
Night fishing, too, calls for stout equipment as outsize bass roam open pockets in vegetation or maraud along breaklines to flush preyfish from cover. Their first reaction to your hookset is to return to the densest cover around, and you must stop that initial run or lose most of the big ones.
Skittering a popper is best accomplished by repeatedly snapping the rod toward the water, in much the same retrieve used for walking a Zara Spook. Several models are shaped and balanced to walk in a perfect left-right cadence, while others are less predictable. For such retrieves, a shorter (5 1/2- to 6 1/2-foot) rod provides the best snapping action. Precise length depends on the angler's height and the height of the boat's deck above the water. Fishing, for example, from a johnboat requires the shortest rod because your feet may be below water level. But in the bow of a large multispecies boat, a much longer rod works well.
For the fastest retrieves, tie directly to the eye of the popper. Using a snap, split ring, or loop knot gives the bait more freedom of movement, which gives a walking bait more lateral movement.
Line Considerations: In fishing poppers, match line to lure style, as well as to lure weight and rod power. Finesse poppers like Lucky Craft's Bevy Popper or the smallest Pop-R perform best with lighter line (6- to 10-pound test). Larger-diameter lines (12- to 17-pound test) work fine for most poppers from 1/4- to 3/8-ounce.
Monofilament sinks, but larger-diameter lines remain on the surface more readily because of their greater water resistance. As a result, many anglers like to fish poppers on heavy monofilament (17- to 20-pound test), particularly over thick vegetation or around timber. One trick is to apply wax to the last 3 or 4 feet of line, which makes it buoyant.
Lines of Spectra fiber also float, including "superbraids" like SpiderWire, Berkley FireLine, SpiderWire Fusion, and Bass Pro Shops Nitro. These lines keep the nose of poppers floating high for a stronger spitting action. In ultraclear water where bass may get too good a look at the optically dense braided lines, use a 3-foot fluorocarbon leader at the terminal end for minimal visibility and excellent lure action.
When using low-stretch and no-stretch braids, though, the adage about not setting the hook until you feel the weight of a fish is particularly true. And fish these lines on lighter-action rods than you'd use with monofilament, to avoid bending hooks or tearing them from the fish's mouth.
Fine-Tuning: Whatever the fishing situation, try to read the position and disposition of the bass. A certain retrieve may work best at first light but strikes dwindle as the sun rises. Often, changing the cadence or speed of the retrieve will renew the bite. Colors, too, can make a difference.
When fine-tuning lure action, experiment with different models of popper. While many look almost identical, nearly all have a slightly different action when retrieved a particular way. It's not unusual for two experienced anglers to enjoy varying success with poppers, even while sharing a boat.
Not long ago, I considered myself fully equipped for popper fishing, with a selection of about a dozen lures. After fishing this category of topwater baits extensively over the last three years, I have several tackle boxes containing no other lure, much as I do with diving baits. I have a smallmouth selection for rivers and lakes, one for summertime largemouths, and another for night fishing and lunker hunting. Some overlap in lure models occurs, but I select colors and sizes for each application.
The more you fish poppers, the more you'll learn about this fascinating category of lures. Whether you count your poppers by the bait or the boxful, count on catching bass and having a blast doing it.


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Oracle Updates Autonomous Cloud Services, Data Integration
By: David Needle | June 13, 2018
Oracle continues to build out its autonomous enterprise concept with new cloud services that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate tasks and offer predictive insights.
The latest version of the Oracle Cloud Platform released June 13 features a range of built-in autonomous capabilities, including the Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise, Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud, and Oracle API Platform Cloud.
These new features builds on the software giant's introduction last fall of its Autonomous Database, a self-monitoring system that automatically finds and applies patches and regularly tunes itself for optimum performance.
The new Mobile Cloud Enterprise makes it easier for developers to add features such as chatbots for customer interaction via popular services such as Facebook Messenger and Amazon Alexa. Oracle said it's easier because MCE takes care of the time-consuming task of integrating these messaging platforms with the chatbot.
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"We also use natural language processing to understand the user's intent as part of our dialog engine so the developer doesn't need to code for every type of end user," Siddhartha Agarwal, vice president of product management at Oracle, told eWEEK.
"We can help manage the conversation as it goes along because the chatbot understands the sentiment of the conversation. Also, it will hand off to a human if the customer doesn't understand something or the customer is, say, getting ticked off."
In an enterprise setting Agarwal said the chatbot's integration with either Software as a Service or on-premises applications helps it work more effectively. "There is intelligent interaction between you and the system so if you say, for example, I need a new laptop, the system shows the three laptops you are eligible to procure and walks you through the transaction," he said.
The Mutual Madrid Open ATP Tennis Tournament used the Oracle Cloud to develop a chatbot it calls MatchBot that uses AI to engage in "natural" conversations with fans online related to information about the event, players and results as well as information about hospitality services.
"With this new technology, we were able to provide visitors with an amazing experience—a pleasant, simpler, and faster way to get the information they wanted about the tournament, Gerard Tsobanian, president and CEO of Mutua Madrid Open, said in a statement.
Oracle is also tackling big data in this latest release by simplifying and automating the creation of so-called data lakes and data warehouses, the huge repositories of operational data and customer transactions that companies rely on for insights into buying trends and customer satisfaction.
Oracle's Data Integration Platform Cloud uses AI to stream and transfer large data volumes. Agarwal said Oracle is removing a lot of the steps developers typically have to take to build a data lake, such as knowing how to stream all the data, cleanse it, set up permission zones and directories.
"You need a lot of integration tools. We give you one tool to do all of that from configuring the data lake to cataloging the data," said Agarwal. "We land the data in the right security zones and we understand the meta data coming through and tag it so you have easier access to customer insights."
Oracle also updated the Oracle API Platform Cloud and the Oracle Developer Cloud. The API Platform Cloud supports both Oracle and third-party clouds for agile API design and development. Oracle said it's designed to help with hybrid deployments across Oracle Cloud, private and third party clouds covering every aspect of the API lifecycle. The system continually "learns" usage patterns and recommends allocation limits and configurations.
"We've created an API gateway and enabled that gateway to run in our public cloud or you can have it run locally," said Agarwal.
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Last week in Senegal we ran a workshop on achieving a sustainable Water-Energy-Food Nexus and how off-grid energy can play a key role with participants from across the whole region. We had been hoping for a few tentative examples of progress on the ground. To our surprise speaker after speaker came up with news of projects in their area. True bottom up approaches where smallholder farmers had themselves seen the potential of solar pumps to start irrigation schemes, milling and grinding machines to process crops and solar dryers to dry fruit and vegetables. Some with the help of NGOs, but many purely through local ingenuity. We had also invited journalists and they too had found similar stories. Which made me wonder how many such stories are we missing? Every week we get plenty of top down stories of new initiatives and grants, along with a smattering of local stories that various foundations have supported journalists to find. Yet this can only be the tip of the iceberg and so I would encourage you to send in any stories of local success you hear so we can spread the good news that things are happening. Off-grid should not mean Off the Radar!
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If you've never come across it before the idea of meeting 'one to one' or "to do a one to one" might either sound a little bit odd or just a bit too intimate. And yet the phrase seems to have recently become popular vocabulary amongst churches and Christian ministry across the UK.
I can think of lots of friends who testify to 'one to ones' being precious times of personal growth, both in learning to read the Bible for themselves, and in getting to know Jesus and going deeper into Christian discipleship.
In this helpful video below my friend Amy talks about why meeting up to dig into the Bible with someone 'one to one' is a brilliant thing, as well as explaining what it might actually involve.


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WILSON, N.C. – The Lees-McRae College women's lacrosse team was defeated in conference play for the first time this spring Friday night as Barton knocked off the Bobcats in a high-scoring tilt, 22-11. The loss moves LMC's overall record to 1-3 and 1-1 in league play.
Lees-McRae's 11 goals Friday were split up amongst five different players. Leading this charge was senior Peyton LeCompte. LeCompte scored a season-high six goals and chipped in an assist as well for LMC. Fellow senior Constance Madden added two goals of her own to bring her season goal total to five. Tiffany Laster, Christy Caton, Beth Haynes accounted for the other three goals for Lees-McRae in the contest.
Defensively, the Bobcats could not slow down the Bulldogs. Barton scored 11 goals in both halves to accumulate its goal total in the game. The trio of Kayli Ashenfelter, Jenna Brunclik and Brooke Lonergan were especially dangerous combining for 20 of the team's 22 goals.
The Bobcats will be back in action Saturday when they take on Mount Olive on the road. Start time for that contest is set for noon.


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Burr Oak Cemetery
On Wednesday July 8th, 2009, the Cook County Sheriff's Department raided the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. Six weeks earlier, the Sheriff's Department began investigating unsettling and macabre allegations: the cemetery manager had allegedly been digging up graves and selling occupied plots to unsuspecting buyers. The scheme was targeted at poor African American families who paid for plots in cash with little evidence of the transaction apart from the cemetery's own records.
What the Sheriff's Department found in its initial search of the grounds was an area towards the back of the cemetery, roughly the size of three football fields, where cemetery workers had been instructed to dump the remains of emptied graves. Bones had been crushed, scattered about, and in some instances discarded in piles behind dumpsters. Caskets had been smashed along with burial vaults and heaped in piles throughout the back of the cemetery. Sheriff's officials estimated that as many as 300 bodies had been disinterred and left in this area.
Sheriff Tom Dart, in cooperation with the FBI, eventually shut down the entire cemetery and declared it the largest crime scene in Illinois history. During one of the multiple press conferences held during the week, Dart seemed visibly shaken as he described how his officers had been unable to locate the markers for an entire section of the cemetery known as "Baby Land". A spokeswoman for Dart later elaborated that "every family that came out to look for an infant in Baby Land was unable to find a headstone."
Word spread to the community, and by mid-day Wednesday, family members who had buried loved ones in the cemetery started to gather outside the gates. On Thursday, approximately 450 people arrived at the cemetery, hoping to find headstones of relatives and loved ones. On Friday, July 10, the Cook County Sheriff's Department estimated that 700 people visited the cemetery, looking for any indication that their loved ones still remained in their original gravesites.
The cemetery, which was Chicago's first burial place for its African American residents, contains within its walls the final resting place of 1950's lynching victim Emmett Till, jazz legends Dinah Washington and Willie Dixon, at least 15 Negro League Baseball players, as well as over 100,000 graves of local residents' grandparents, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. As of noon this past Monday, the Cook County Sheriff's Office had reported over 12,000 requests filed in-person for information about the burial sites of loved ones, over 37,500 phone calls to hotlines, and approximately 4,000 emails from concerned family members.
Walking the grounds of the cemetery early that Friday were people clutching maps that had been provided by the Sheriff's office, which outlined recorded burial plots. Others walked with family Bibles that contained detailed notes of burial locations, obituaries, and funeral cards—even hastily scratched lists of family & friends who had been buried in the cemetery. Another woman held a small piece of paper on which she had collected the names of relatives buried in the cemetery. Using a map provided by Cook County officials, she was sure that she was standing on the spot where she had buried her uncle some 10 years earlier. The headstone, however, stated that the occupant of the gravesite had been buried there only four years ago.
An elderly African-American woman, also holding a piece of paper containing names of family members, had written the word "okay" alongside each name on the top half of the list. The woman, who asked not to be photographed or identified, stated, "The bottom half is for later. I know that's in a part where people aren't being found."
The Reverend Jesse Jackson was onsite throughout all of Thursday and Friday, walking the grounds with families, making phone calls and arrangements for people to be escorted to far-reaching areas of the cemetery, and in some instances, personally escorting families to the spots they thought their loved ones were buried. "There is a special place in hell for these graveyard robbers," stated Jackson during a press conference.


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A decision of paternity issued and valid in a foreign country is, as a rule, recognised in Finland without a separate legal establishment. The competent authority is the Local Register Office.
As a rule, paternity should be confirmed in the child's country of residence in accordance with the legislation in the country in question. When a decision of paternity issued in a foreign country is valid in that country it can be recognised in Finland without a separate legal establishment.
A decision on paternity refers to a decision by a court of law or other authority and the confirmation or registration of a legal act that establishes the relation between the child and man as one of paternity in the country in which the registration or other act took place.
Where necessary, the Helsinki District Court may confirm, by application, whether a decision on paternity issued in a foreign country is recognised in Finland.
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With original cobblestones on a pedestrian-only street, Rue Cler is an authentic market square where locals buy fresh food. You'll find specialty food stores, butchers, patisseries, delicatessens, fishmongers, cheese specialists, chocolate shops, farm produce, and outdoor cafes. Many people consider this market square to be the most famous in all of France, with many permanent stores and stands selling fresh seasonal goods. Arrange to visit Rue Cler and other attractions in Paris using our Paris trip itinerary planning tool .
I often go to this neighborhood. Bakery, supermarket, fruit shop, etc. on the side dishes. St James is also a great avenue to enjoy.


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The Middle East is a melting pot of different cultures and nationalities and because of this has embraced a global outlook whilst retaining much of its rich heritage. Working in the Middle East offers a wide and varied list of benefits for associates and their families. Not only are salaries and packages considerably higher than in most other countries in the world, but net income receives a considerable boost because of the absence of personal income tax.
I was really happy when I joined Abdul Latif Jameel to see that I can do what I love to do.
You're given a chance to show the best that you can offer, and I really appreciate that.
I have worked for Abdul Latif Jameel for ten years, which is also proof of how happy I am here.
The best thing about working for Abdul Latif Jameel is the opportunity to grow and enhance your skills.
It surprised me how quickly my family adapted to living in Jeddah, but it helped that like Australia, so much time here is spent outdoors.
There are many benefits of working in Saudi Arabia. Not only can salaries and packages be considerably higher than most other countries in the world, but your net income receives a considerable boost through the absence of personal income tax.
The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, is a melting pot of different cultures and nationalities and because of this has embraced a global outlook whilst also retaining much of its rich heritage. Working in the UAE offers a wide and varied list of benefits for you and your family. Not only are salaries generally higher than other countries in the world, but your net income receives a considerable boost through the absence of personal income tax.
The MENAT region offers a rich variety of lifestyle and entertainment options. With year-round sunshine, the opportunities for an active, outdoor life are great. There is also diverse range of cultural experiences, encompassing the arts, regional and global cuisine, and local heritage. The region also has many impressive shopping malls, home to global brands, as well as entertainment facilities for the whole family.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia) is a large, predominantly desert, country encompassing most of the Arabian Peninsula, with the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf coastlines and is an incredibly diverse country, with forests, grasslands, mountain ranges and deserts making up its vast landscape.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the area now known as the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, was predominantly known for its thriving pearling industry. Since then it has transformed itself from a group of adjacent Emirates with small, but significant, trading ports, into a dynamic, unified country at the heart of global commerce and tourism. The UAE became a federation of six emirates – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah on December 2nd 1971, with Ras Al Khaimah joining this alliance the following February.
Hailed as the 'gateway between East and West', for thousands of years, the countries of the Middle East, together with the rapidly evolving economies of North Africa and Turkey form the MENAT region.
MENAT sits at the geographical epicenter of global travel, tourism and, of course, commerce today, making this one of the world's most exciting regions in which to live and work.
Abdul Latif Jameel isn't the average employer. Our inherent values guide the way we work with our business partners, within our communities, and with each other. Through Respect, Innovation, a Pioneering Spirit and Empowerment, we have created a culture where ideas can blossom, people can thrive, and success can flourish.
Although many expatriates and their families love living in Saudi Arabia, it goes without saying that moving to Saudi Arabia is not for everyone. You must give careful consideration as to whether it is the right move for you. We hope this website will serve as a useful tool allowing you and your family to make your decision, prepare for your move and get the most out of your experience here.
Abdul Latif Jameel's Dubai office is based in Jumeirah Lakes Towers (commonly referred to as JLT). Situated in the heart of Dubai on Sheikh Zayed Road, across from Dubai Marina, JLT is conveniently located within easy reach of most residential and commercial areas of Dubai either by car, or by metro, being in close proximity to two metro stations––Dubai Marina (now DAMAC Properties) and Jumeirah Lakes Towers.


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Укупна дужина водотока је 213 km, површина сливног подручја око 2.770 km², а просечан проток у зони ушћа око 31,1 m³/s. Свој ток започиње у мочварном подручју Кољског полуострва, тече углавном у смеру југа, а корито се одликје бројним окукама.

Најважније притоке су Берјозова, Лембуј, Вересовка, Сљудјанка, Белаја.

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 Бело море
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The Edinburgh Fringe 2016
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The Edinburgh Fringe
This month we take a look at the fringe and all that goes with it, as the decision makers in TV land trawl the festival for new faces. Our own managing editor Mark Ritchie takes in what is to many an annual pilgrimage and a monumental party.
Arriving on a Sunday afternoon, after a four hour drive up to Edinburgh from my native Yorkshire, I was soon walking up the steps in the area known as The Mound and heading around straight into the action, on the Royal Mile.
My late evening intention was to catch Festival regular Steve Mc Lean and his latest offering.
Steve McLean's Rambunctious Reading room.
Canon's Gait pub
Duration 1 hr
Downstairs at The Canon's Gait pub and Mr McLean was soon out on stage, warming up a friendly first night audience. Although English, Steve tells us that he lives in Dumbarton, where glass is both a noun and a verb. The show is all about drunk people talking sarcastically about books and the irony within the title of an old literary offering by Rolf Harris, plus the subjects of Operation Yewtree and Incest were explored.
Steve's three guests were only referred to by their forenames. David talked on the subject of Panda's and a presumably quite old book, entitled, A woman's guide to wedding etiquette. David, whatever his surname was, looked by far the most experienced of Mr McLean's guests and was highly accomplished and very funny.
Rosie spoke about tenuous links between the author Charles Dickens and various dictators of the world. Rosie had some great material and could turn into a true stand-up talent, once she learns to perform the material and listen to the ebb and flow of audience reaction.
Chris was the final speaker. He turned up to be a travel-writer called Chris Atkin. As with Rosie before him, Chris's contribution could have been better performed, as the whole experience became more of a talk than anything else.
An interesting experience here and a novel idea, presumably from the comedy mind of Steve McLean.
Another day and a high noon show a venue called 48 below, slightly off the fringe throng in Broughton Street. The venue is in fact the cellar of a pub called The Phoenix and comedian Noel Brodie was on stage.
Noel Brodie- Ninky Nonks and Bear Haters
The Laughing Horse @ 48 below
Duration 1 hour
Here we have a London comedian, now based in the West Country, who is a genuine and highly accomplished gag-man. This is Mr Brodie's first Fringe, after initially struggling to find a venue.
Clever, wordy comedy here, from a funny man with ambition, who is not afraid to put his own life experiences on the line and hold himself up to ridicule. A cringe-worthy commentary on the subject of vasectomy totally the hit the mark. Some efforts at examining youth culture and an inspired skit on modern day dialects/ gangster rap influences proved beyond all reasonable doubt that Mr Brodie deserves to be seen and seen quickly by the telly bods. In my view Noel Brodie and a bit of telly would welcome each other with open arms.
To feel the true Fringe experience, I spent some time on the streets, handing out leaflets on the Noel Brodie show. To some free fringe performers, leafleting must be an even tougher gig than playing to small fringe audiences. The competition is fierce and the pitches of those out there dragging in the patrons, seem to become ever more desperate as show time comes nearer.
The evening saw another show, this time the venue was the imposing and atmospheric assembly building. I have long been an ardent admirer of Mark Steel on television. I like his attitude and his point of view, now here was an opportunity to get up close to Steel in a live situation.
Mark Steel in the Toon
Rainy Hall, The Assembly
Duration 1 hr 40 minutes approx
Straying away from the Free Fringe, I joined a queue that snaked down the mound, for one of the big, sell-out Fringe attractions.
Mark Steel came out to tumultuous applause from a capacity audience, who like me have negotiated their way through the labyrinth of badly lit corridors, into the Rainy Hall. The room, a sort of lecture theatre wreaking of academia, seemed hugely apposite for what was to follow.
The surroundings may have been Gothic, but the opening routine was anything but. According to Mr Steel, the EU vote wasn't entirely the fault of jingoistic old people….but apparently it was 'mainly'. The tone of the material was received with a lukewarm reaction, by an audience in which the age group was mixed. The Farage bashing was predictable, but funny nonetheless.
Things picked up immeasurably with an inspired bit of observation on the subject of Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher on Sky TV. A long and completely pant-wetting routine on technology and youth culture followed.
Mr Steel turns out to be quite adept at spotting local accents and the whole show was illustrated with photos on a big screen, taken from his travels around the UK, from Dorset to far flung Orkney and Shetland.
The front row of the audience was so close to Mr Steel they were practically touching his sober black blazer jacket. As a performer myself, I would find this off-putting, but not even the fireworks from the Edinburgh tattoo, just up the road, were able to throw this engaging and wildly funny performer too far away from continuing to plough his comedy furrow.
There was a strong element of revealing the quirks of different areas of the UK Mr Steel has visited. Much of the content was like listening to a sort of comedy history teacher.
Mark Steel is a massive Fringe favourite and in terms of audience reaction, the reason is obvious. This is high comedy stand-up, with a broad aim being taken. Not exactly a scattergun approach here, as I suspect the script was stuck to quite rigidly.
Mark Steel is just plain likeable. Even if many of us in the audience will not always go along with his politics and, in my view, his often simplistic view of the world, many love to hear him do his thing nonetheless. After all, perhaps quantifying the plain lunacy of the way the capitalist path the world has taken is sure to be rich ground for someone like Mark Steel to explore.
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Strong and Aggressive Day of Racing Across the Board from CCC Team at Primus Classic
Sep 21, 2019 in Race reports | by Press Office
CCC Team put on an aggressive display of racing at the Primus Classic today with Michael Schär and Nathan Van Hooydonck leading the race going into the final ten kilometers before, eventually both Jakub Mareczko and Greg Van Avermaet sprinted to top ten finishes behind late attacker and the day's winner, Edward Theuns (Trek - Segafredo).
Greg Van Avermaet
Jakub Mareczko
Michael Schär
Nathan Van Hooydonck
Primus Classic
Schär was one of five riders that formed the day's breakaway after multiple attempts to go clear in opening 20 kilometers, of the almost 200-kilometer long course, and the Swiss rider's group was eventually given the freedom to open up a maximum advantage of six minutes.
Approaching the 70-kilometer to go mark, the gap to Schär and his fellow race leaders had fallen to two minutes 30 seconds as a handful of teams started to send riders on the attack and, this marked the start of what we would be a hard and fast finale.
Fresh out of the Vuelta a España, Van Hooydonck was part of a trio of riders that bridged across to Schär's front group before, shortly after, the CCC Team duo went on the attack together while behind 2014 winner, Van Avermaet was following a strong move that saw the peloton explode all across the road.
Schär and Van Hooydonck were hovering around 40 seconds ahead of a regrouped, albeit reduced, peloton as the race reached the last of the day's 15 typically Belgian punchy climbs with Van Avermaet sitting in the first half of the main field, which was being led by the pure sprinter's teams.
After a strong and gutsy effort, the CCC Team leading duo was caught with just under eight kilometers remaining and, despite a predominantly flat run into Haacht, a couple of technical corners lent themselves nicely to a late attack and, in the end, it was Theuns who was able to take advantage of this and hold on to the line.
Mareczko and Van Avermaet were working well together as the bunch chased hard behind and after being brought into position in the wheel of Van Avermaet, CCC Team's Italian sprinter claimed sixth on the line while the reigning Olympic champion crossed just behind in seventh place.
Quotes From The Finish Line
Michael Schär:
"We planned to have someone in the breakaway and in the end, it was me who slipped into the successful move which was good for our team. I was at first just riding along, my goal was not to waste too much energy before the real climbs and the finale started with around 50 kilometers to go. I was hoping that someone from the bunch would bridge across and Nathan made a nice move from the back to come across to me and we made an attack together on the steep cobbled climb, Moskensstraat, and immediately it was only the two of us out in front."
"It was really fun to have a teammate and a good friend in front with me and also a tall guy as it meant that I could also get a little bit of a draft at times. We tried and we believed in the move and we gave it our all. You have to try to the end and that's what we did but with the sprinters' teams it's not easy to make it like that."
Nathan Van Hooydonck:
"I was very cool to be in the front with Michi because he is a guy who I really look up to on the team so to be leading the race with him, going full gas and not holding back was super cool. I really enjoyed it."
"I was feeling good during training after the Vuelta so I already knew I was still in good shape before this race but to do an effort like that in a race is always a bit more difficult because everyone wants to do it and during training you can go fast whenever you like."
"In the meeting, we said we should try to race a bit more aggressively and so I saw an opportunity on a climb to do something and, at that point, we were closing in on Michi's group so I thought I would go when Pedersen went. Nobody really followed and as soon as Greg said on the radio that we had a nice gap, I knew we needed to go full gas to get across to Michi's group. As soon as we were there, I moved straight up to the front on the cobbled climb and when I looked back it was only Michi on my wheel. I knew that Michi has a lot of experience so if it would have been better to wait, he would have for sure said something but he didn't and from there on we just gave it everything we had to try to make it."
Jakub Mareczko:
"It was a really hard day of racing. We were going full gas right from the start of the race and there was a big fight at the beginning to make it into the breakaway. Luckily for us, we had Michi in there so, some of the pressure was gone and we didn't have to help do any of the chasing. Going into the final 70 kilometers, the pace increased a lot again and at first, some splits opened up but, when Nathan joined Michi in front, the race settled down a bit and the main group came back together. I was happy that I could still be there in the end as it was really hard at times. In the final, Greg was helping guide me for the sprint and I am always thankful for that opportunity. It was a pity we couldn't finish it off but I think, overall, we can be happy with the performance of the whole team today."
Greg Van Avermaet:
"I think we raced well as a team. We had someone in the breakaway with Michi and then again in the counter-attack with Nathan. The two of them were then able to go out in front together and it was quite nice for me to see them there trying something. Behind, I was just trying to stick on the wheels of the best riders on the climbs and I was feeling good myself. It was good that we had two riders in front though and they tried really hard to stay away. The final was quite flat so I knew it would be hard for myself to stay away also so I was hoping they could make it. In the end, everything came back together and I tried to make as good a result as possible. I tried to launch Jakub from 500 meters to go and I also ended up in the top ten. It was a good result for this type of race and also a good training opportunity looking ahead."
Race Profile
One-day race: Brakel > Haacht (197km)
Top 3: 1. Edward Theuns (Trek – Segafredo) 2. Pascal Ackermann (BORA – hansgrohe) 3. Jasper De Buyst (Lotto Soudal)
CCC Team Top 3: 6. Jakub Mareczko 7. Greg Van Avermaet 55. Jonas Koch
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Atilla Valter
Fausto Masnada
Francisco Ventoso
Georg Zimmermann
Gijs Van Hoecke
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Jonas Koch
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Kamil Gradek
Kamil Małecki
Łukasz Wiśniowski
Michael Sc
Michał Paluta
Patrick Bevin
Pawel Kochetkov
Serge Pauwels
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Victor de la Parte
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Staff at Vaughn Correctional Center say giving inmates a forum to express their views is helping them gain skills they'll need after they're released.
Warden Dana Metzger created the Inmates Advisory Council last fall after the February 2017 riot at Vaughn. Ten inmates sit on the council. Prison staff say the inmates had to go through a kind of job interview to get a position on the council.
The inmates represent different buildings on the compound. They discuss beforehand what they'd like to bring up at monthly meetings with prison staff where they pitch ideas and air grievances.
Treatment Administrator James Simms said it's been an opportunity to relate to each other as people and really connect.
"And if you for a moment suspend the fact that this is a correctional high security environment, as we would out here, as we're doing right now, it's about having a conversation and showing in that sense a mutual respect," he said.
Simms said inmates on the council are learning problem solving and interpersonal skills.
Kelsea Stevens, a Vaughn counselor, said inmates are able to use the meetings to convince staff to make changes like removing certain food from the prison menu.
"They'll come up with reasons why we shouldn't serve cajun rice, not just because they don't like it," she said. "But if we have 200 people eating and only 10 of them actually eat it, then you're throwing away so much cajun rice. So, they're like 'How cost-effective for the state is that.'"?
Inmate Andre Peters is on the council. He said he sees a new level of respect between staff and inmates because of the improved communication.
The final progress report on implementing recommendations from the independent review of Vaughn Correctional Center was released Tuesday.
Delaware's Department of Corrections said it's making measurable progress on 40 of the 41 recommendations laid out last September.
The Delaware Department of Correction is planning to demolish the C building at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna.
The Delaware Department of Correction has released figures from a staffing analysis of James T. Vaughn Correctional Center completed in December.
The study by a Department Staffing Analysis Team (DSAT) calls for 137 additional positions at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in various correctional officer classifications.


Ohio State-James Cancer Inst study suggests complete genetic testing for all early-onset colorectal patients.
One in every six colorectal cancer patients (16 percent) diagnosed under age 50 has at least one inherited genetic mutation that increases his or her cancer risk and many of these mutations could go undetected with the current screening approach, according to initial data from a statewide colorectal cancer screening study conducted at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James).
They report their findings in the Dec. 15, 2016, issue of the medical journal JAMA Oncology.