NEW YORK – Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña visited student-led parent teacher conferences at MS 577, Conselyea Preparatory School in Brooklyn today and highlighted an increase in parent engagement across the City. She championed the efforts of principals to implement innovative programs and support services to strengthen the partnership with families that raises standards and improves student achievement.
At today's school visit, Chancellor Fariña championed the importance of parent-teacher conferences, and the added value of student participation in those conferences. Under the new teachers contract, all schools must hold four evening parent-teacher conferences this school year. At the urging of the Department of Education (DOE), many schools have adopted the student-led parent-teacher conference model, enabling students to take ownership of their successes, articulate areas for improvement, and establish a clear focus of immediate and future goals. At these meetings, students discuss their academic progress and parents are asked to fill out a checklist and self-reflect on their child's ability to articulate his or her academic performance, progress, and goals.
Parent-teacher conferences represent one aspect of Chancellor Fariña's focus on family engagement, one of the critical components of the Framework for Great Schools. As part of its new school support structure, the DOE is currently hiring Family Support Coordinators to work in the office of each community and high school superintendent. The new Family Support Coordinators – who will join District Family Advocates to ensure two dedicated family and community engagement staff members in each superintendent's office – will be a single, dedicated point of contact for families in the district, and will work across the system to address and resolve issues and concerns. This new role will also allow District Family Advocates to focus on additional responsibilities critical to the community, including supporting parent leadership structures and building community partnerships.
As part of the recent teachers contract, DOE has supported schools through 40 minutes of weekly time for educators to connect with families. Schools have hosted innovative, welcoming activities like a "homework diner" and "bilingual parent breakfast" where, respectively, educators and parents share strategies over dinner and bilingual parents share their concerns in their native language. The DOE has compiled innovative ideas schools are implementing online.
Chancellor Fariña has also focused on family engagement through the Chancellor's parent conferences as well as her attendance at Town Hall meetings. Beginning in Spring 2014, the Chancellor's six parent conferences have attracted more than 1,500 parents from across the City to Tweed Courthouse for grade-specific workshops on topics included reading to your child, pre-K activities for the home, preventing bullying, helping teens organize and prioritize, helping adolescents manage stress, and the Individualized Education Plan process. Chancellor Fariña will host three additional parent conferences – one each for elementary, middle, and high school parents – this fall. She has also listened to the needs of school communities across the City since January 2014 through her attendance at 36 Town Halls and Education Council meetings.
Additional support for the important work of Citywide and Community Education Councils has also taken the form of the 2015 "Raise Your Hand" campaign, a multi-lingual, Citywide outreach effort that encouraged parents to run for a seat on their Council this year. As a result, 1,290 parents applied, a 77% increase in parent participation from 2013, when only 729 parents applied. The 32 district CECs are responsible for approving school zoning lines, holding hearings on the Capital Plan, and providing additional input on important policy issues. Citywide Councils evaluate and advise on school policy concerning their areas of focus. Election results will be announced shortly, and elected parents will receive training and leadership development sessions to ensure they are able to use their positions effectively to make their voices heard, advocate for students, and form functional Councils. Additionally, 21 current presidents of Community and Citywide Education Councils and Presidents' Councils graduated from the Parent Council Leadership Institute, a professional development and leadership coaching series developed in collaboration with NYC Service.
The DOE's Division of Family and Community Engagement has also invested in training school staff who advocate for parents, providing 25 professional development trainings for parent coordinators and District Family Advocates this school year. Three-thousand parent coordinators attended one or more of these trainings, which focused on topics ranging from how to leverage the City's art and cultural institutions as a family resource to understanding trauma and emotional resiliency. In addition, the Division's Translation and Interpretation Unit provided training for hundreds of language access coordinators. Language access coordinators are responsible for monitoring parents' language needs, and working with school leaders to address these needs and effectively communicate with families who speak a language other than English.


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Fitness system creates virtual avatars in 10 minutes
by Bielefeld University
In order to test the new process, doctoral student Jascha Achenbach had 40 cameras photograph him simultaneously (left). Ten minutes later, the virtual version of the researcher was finished (right). Credit: CITEC/Bielefeld University
Avatars—virtual persons—are a core element of ICSpace, a virtual fitness and movement environment at Bielefeld University's Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC). The system makes it possible to practice and improve motion sequences by providing individualised feedback in real time. The system consists of a virtual person acting as a coach.
In addition, users see themselves as avatars, virtual copies of themselves in the mirror of the virtual room. The creation of such personalised avatars used to take several days, but CITEC researchers have now developed an accelerated process.
In order to create avatars for the ICSpace system, the researchers "scan" people. The computer scientists use a circular array of 40 DSLR cameras to photograph the subject from all sides and use these images to compute several million three-dimensional sample points on the person's body. A generic virtual human model is fitted to this data in such a way that it corresponds to the shape and appearance of the person scanned. "Our virtual human model was generated from more than one hundred 3-D scans and contains statistical knowledge about human body shape and movement," says Professor Dr. Mario Botsch, head of the Computer Graphics and Geometry Processing research group and one of the coordinators of the ICSpace project. "Only through this model are we able to create avatars quickly and automatically."
The resulting virtual people can be animated in detail: they can move all joints, even individual fingers, and communicate through facial expressions, speech and gestures. "The most important feature, though, is that they reflect the user photorealistically," says Botsch. This is crucial because personalised avatars are much more readily accepted by users. This is shown in a study carried out by computer graphic researchers from Bielefeld in cooperation with Professor Dr. Marc Latoschik from the University of Würzburg. "The study shows that users identify better with such a custom-tailored individualised avatar than with an avatar that does not resemble them, even if it looks similarly realistic," says Latoschik, who holds the chair for Human-Computer Interaction in Würzburg.
"Until a few months ago, the individual processing steps for creating avatars were scarcely automated," says Botsch. The new process has changed this.
For the current study, his team has developed algorithms that accelerate the complete processing of the photo data right up to the animated avatar. "This way, we can now generate the avatar of any person within 10 minutes," says Jascha Achenbach, lead author of the resulting publication. "We create the virtual avatars in a format that is also used by the computer games industry," says Thomas Waltemate, who, like Achenbach, works in Botsch's research group.
The researchers presented their development of accelerated avatar generation a month ago in Gothenburg (Sweden) at the conference "ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology." The study on how personalised avatars are accepted by users will be presented at the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3-D User Interfaces in the spring of 2018.
The virtual training environment ICSpace is a joint development by six research groups of the Excellence Cluster CITEC. ICSpace stands for "Intelligent Coaching Space." The system analyses the movement of athletes and rehabilitation patients and helps to correct them. It is based on an open space with two projection walls (front and floor), known as Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). The CAVE makes it possible to simulate a walk-in, computer-generated virtual environment. Test subjects wear 3-D glasses similar to those worn in the cinema. It is the first system of its kind worldwide to simulate the complete training process and adapt flexibly to the user's behaviour. Mario Botsch coordinates the project together with computer scientist Professor Dr. Stefan Kopp and sport and cognitive scientist Professor Dr. Thomas Schack.
Smart physical training in virtual reality
More information: Paper: Fast Generation of Realistic Virtual Humans, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - www.hci.uni-wuerzburg.de/downl … c-virtual-humans.pdf
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Keeping in consideration the poultry business in the state and thousands of chicken which are imported to meet the demand without taking safety measures such as testing due to which non-vegetarians have a considerable health risk. One of the doctors from Animal Husbandry Department Kashmir told that the chicken present in the market is infected with lethal diseases caused by micro-organisms like Campylobacter, Salmonella and E.coli and thus once consumed; they can prove fatal for the consumers.
Besides that, it is sad that our Government has not devised any mechanism to check if the imported poultry is safe or not. And there are not many health officers in our state who can properly inspect the stock. Owing to the unemployment in the state, educated youth is turning to poultry farming to a great magnitude in the areas like Jammu, Srinagar, Baramulla, Kathua, Udhampur, Pulwama and Budgam etc. According to a ball park estimate, somewhere around 36 lakh chicken is produced in the state whereas 5.5 crore chicken is imported from Haryana and Punjab.
Doctors claim that there is no foolproof method to check whether the chicken is infection free or not and the consequence being 'Gullian-Barre Syndrome' which kills approximately 2 Lakh people annually.
A doctor who is presently posted in Srinagar said that the poultry birds are dosed with antibiotics and people consume it without thinking about it which in turn makes them resistant to those drugs further increasing the health hazard. Experts say that every year tens of millions of chicken are trucked through different seasons with their wings and legs broken during transportation and then they are brought to slaughterhouses where they are further tortured in de feathering tanks and are scorched to death without any food or water. Further he added, most of the chicken present in the state have breathing issues as they are kept in grimy sheds with thousand other birds which lead to the occurrence of various deadly diseases. Moreover 99 percent of broiler chicken cadavers which are sold have noticeable degree of E.coli bacteria.


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Construction set to start on SH2 Rimutaka Hill Road corner widening
14 March 2017 10:44 am | NZ Transport Agency: Central region
The NZ Transport Agency will be widening one of the narrowest corners on the Rimutaka Hill Road, State Highway 2 between Wellington and the Wairarapa.
Located on the Wairarapa side of the Rimutaka Hill Road, the corner to be widened is approximately 4 kilometres below the summit on the Featherston side.
"This corner is one of the tighter sections of the Rimutaka Hill Road. Widening it will make safer for all road users, especially larger vehicles, says NZ Transport Agency Regional Performance Manager Mark Owen.
Starting from 20 March, the project is expected to take four weeks with two solid weeks of major earthworks, during which time the road will be down to one lane and traffic controlled by mobile traffic lights. The traffic light system can be adjusted to meet the changes in traffic flows, which helps reduce the delays for people using the route. The work is weather dependent so bad weather will prolong the time taken to complete the work.
"This is a major undertaking, both in terms of the physical works, and the management of traffic, particularly heavy vehicles such as logging trucks and wide loads," says Mr Owen. "We've worked with representatives of the Road Transport Association and Heavy Haulage Association on the logistics of how to get large loads past the work site. We need to keep the highway open while the work is underway, but also give our crews enough room to work safely and efficiently."
Motorists will have one lane to get past the work site with an additional one metre shoulder, which will allow larger trucks to pull longer trailers safely around the corner. "Operators and members are asked to be patient and considerate during earthworks that we have campaigned for," says Road Transport Association Area Executive, Sandy Walker. "It's definitely a case of 'short term pain for long term gain'".
While the project is underway, those moving over-dimension and wide loads will need to provide notification. Any applications for house movements will be assessed before their permit is issued.
Construction on the $250,000 project has been designed to get the work done as efficiently as possible with the least amount of disruption to those travelling over the Rimutaka Hill Road. "We'll have crews working both during the day and at night to make the most of the more settled weather and minimise the disruption for people travelling over the Rimutaka Hill Road," says Mr Owen. "We're advising people to allow an extra 5-10 minutes or so for their journey, particularly during the morning and evening peak."
The road will be widened by three metres at the narrowest point, and require the removal of 2700 cubic metres of soil and rock from the hillside. Once the earthworks are complete, crews can start constructing the new road surface. The final stage of the project is the repositioning of a new guardrail. During this last phase, stop/go traffic management will still be in place but motorists will be able to drive on the new road alignment.
The corner-widening project is one of a number of initiatives over recent years to improve safety for people travelling over the Rimutaka Hill Road, including the installation of roadside edge barriers to prevent drop-offs, a speed-activated electronic warning sign and signs that illuminate when a truck is approaching, and additional curve signage to alert drivers of the safe speeds to travel around curves.
In addition, construction is planned to begin in spring 2017 at a corner approximately 400 metres north, to install a new safety barrier and widen the road, providing more room for oncoming vehicles travelling around the corner. This project is expected to take approximately six weeks, depending on weather, and will require a full lane closure for the majority of the construction period.
"The Rimutaka Hill Road forms a critical part of State Highway 2. We will continue to maintain and improve the highway to keep it open and safe," says Mr Owen.


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Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveller Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers - sometimes dark, sometimes joyful, usually bizarre and very occasionally deadly groups who bring their own all-American spin to the biblical idea of the apocalypse. This is a funny and frightening look at millennial, utopian and futuristic subcultures. Among the cast of characters encountered are: a UFO cult whose members look forward to the mass landing of Angelic Space Brothers in 2001; trembling New Age penitents who fear our polluted planet is bent on taking highly-conscious revenge; a born-again Christian determined, on God's orders, to carry a 12-foot cross across every nation on earth; life-extensionists convinced that if they can only live long enough, science will make sure that they live forever; and a collection of other paranoid, credulous, and/or ecstatic countrymen.


The 2019-2020 Iowa football season is 141 days away. However, with the ending of basketball season Hawkeye fans now shift their focus to the boys of fall. This years Iowa squad will be lead undoubtedly by senior captain Quarterback Nate Stanley. The 6'4 243 pound senior leader from Menomonie, Wisconsin has the chance to go down as one of the best Iowa Quarterbacks ever depending on this upcoming season's accomplishments. Nate Stanley has already provided Iowa fans with multiple career highlights, the latest an Outback bowl victory over Mississippi State.
Stanley set an Iowa bowl record for longest touchdown pass when he completed a 75 yard touchdown to Nick Easley during the bowl game. However this is just one of an abundant amount of accomplishments throughout Stanley's last two seasons as a full-time starter. Not only a leader on the field, but Nate is a two-time Academic All big-ten selection as well. 26 touchdowns this past season ranked Stanley 2nd in the big ten, a conference with solid Quarterback play. 52 touchdowns in two years is the best two year total of any Iowa Quarterback. One of Two Iowa quarterbacks to throw for 5 or more touchdowns at least 3 times in their career. The other QB to do so was legend Chuck Long.
These are only a few of Nate's accolades, there are many more. However, I did not want to write an article only stating statistics. The point is, Stanley is already one of the best to ever take snaps at Iowa. However, this upcoming season he could truly separate himself from those before him. Stanley is currently sitting at 9th all time in career passing yards at a total of 5,351. Chuck Long is 1st at 10,461 total yards. Stanley catching this record set by Chuck is not going to happen. Especially with the departure of top targets Noah Fant and TJ Hockenson. A 3,000 yard season would be difficult, but is possible as last year his total marked 2,852 yards. If he achieves the 3,000 yard benchmark he could possibly move up to 2nd all time in that statistic.
A notable record that is very attainable for Stanley is the passing touchdowns statistic. He will have a shot at the career touchdowns record, single season, and the single game record as well. As it sits today, #4 has 52 career touchdown passes. He needs 23 more to break Chuck Long's record of 74. Yes, Stanley has a very realistic opportunity to be the Iowa Hawkeye touchdown passing King. Last year Stanley recorded 26 touchdown passes, if he increases that mark by 2 he will also set a single season record. These two records (Both currently held by Chuck long) have not been re-written in 34 years. (3 plus Decades!) If the offense begins the season connected and receiving options develop, Nate Stanley will go down as one of the best passers in Hawkeye history. I believe that breaking these records will be no easy task, but they may need to be achieved if Iowa is going to have an elite season.
Brian Ferentz will need to put ultimate trust into the senior Quarterback to obtain these lofty stats. The expectations will be high around Iowa City for this years squad, but most know you can only go as far as solid Quarterback play takes you. Getting back to the Rose Bowl and winning the division are team goals that Stanley must accomplish to help separate himself. I firmly believe Nate has the skill set and with another year in this pro-style offense he will be as comfortable as ever. Keeping interceptions at a minimum and developing better deep threat passing accuracy are main things to watch in Stanley's game.
Nate has been a joy to watch on Saturday's but his performances throughout the upcoming season will dictate not only Iowa's success, but his own possibilities at the next level. NFL Experts and scouts already had him on the NFL radar after last season. In the mean time, Senior quarterback is fully committed to helping the Hawkeyes win a Big Ten Title.
Will the Senior captain lead the Hawkeyes to new heights?


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The major advantage of high resolution electrophoresis over conventional protein electrophoresis is that it gives more information about the patient's condition. Fifteen or so proteins can be visualized by use of high resolution, high sensitivity agarose gel electrophoresis of serum. It is the method of choice for detecting monoclonal immunoglobulins in serum and urine. The superior resolution and sensitivity of the procedure separates and detects proteins with similar electrophoretic mobilities and those present in low concentrations that may be invisible on other methods.
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News analysis: Lloyds-Execution talks adds fuel to the fire
Liam Vaughan
Tuesday November 24, 2009 5:41 pm
It must have been particularly galling for the three independent stockbrokers, who this month tried to organise a campaign against alleged anti-competitive practices at state-backed banks, to read yesterday's news – just days after dropping their campaign it was reported that Lloyds Banking Group is planning a tie-up with broker Execution.
Earlier this month, Numis, Panmure Gordon and Evolution wrote to Lord Myners, expressing concerns about the way Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group were wielding their state-backed...


Mornings are usually my favorite time of day. I feel the best in the morning. I get to spend a significant amount of time with God. My husband and I have time to pray and talk with each other. I get to have a hot cup of coffee. My kids cuddle on the bed with us after they get up. It's all nice, comforting, safe.
This morning, I just couldn't wake up. I slept right through my usual 4am appointment with God and my coffee. I slept til 6am, and even then, it was a challenge for me to get up. I wanted to just lay there for a long time and doze in and out of dream land. My body took the flu pretty hard, I guess.
I have noticed that the sun is shining this morning, and we do not have snow! So, that is worth getting up for. It's still cold outside, but with the sun, there is hope of warmth. It lifts my spirits and makes me want to plant pansies in the yard. I want to get out all the patio furniture and sit in my swing on the mossy rock patio in the back yard. I want to have a barbecue, invite over some friends, and bask in the warmth. I want to stroll with my bare feet along the beach and touch the water. I want to go on a long walk with a friend, and have conversation. Ah, the beauty of the sun and the warmth!
I am still faced with conflict inside my heart. There are feelings of cold and feelings of warmth. God is saying to me every morning that I need to love, be patient, pray for a friend. I am feeling mixed, angry, hurt, and betrayed, yet still wanting to reconcile. I pray to Him asking that He just release me from the emotion, the hope, the pain. But, He responds to me by saying I need to love. I tell Him to just take it all, and love through me because I do not know how to. This is about Him loving through me. I ask Him to change my heart, move me in the direction that is real and alive through Him. Use me in my friends life so that He shines.Bring warmth, bring hope, bring life.
And so, I am seeing that some relationships, when there is a rift, take time. God has assured me that He is working, and that I need to be steadfast, patient, and loving. He has listened over and over again to my feelings of pain, and each time He takes them, He gives me a little more healing. He binds up the wound that pierced my heart, and has assured me that His plan is moving forward.
I keep talking to Him, listening to Him. I will love Him and believe that He is soveriegn and good all the time. I will walk IN Him today.
Say That Again, Jesus. YOU are here, using me, working through me, bring Your plan to fruition. You are changing my heart, my eyes to see as You see. I will wait on You today.


we are experiencing some performance issues with Solr batch indexing: we have a cluster composed by 4 workers, each of which is equipped with 32 cores and 256GB of RAM. YARN is configured to use 100 vCores and 785.05GB of memory. The HDFS storage is managed by an EMC Isilon system connected through a 10Gb interface. Our cluster runs CDH 5.8.0, features Solr 4.10.3 and it is Kerberized.
With the current setup, speaking of compressed data, we can index about 25GB per day and 500GB per month by using MapReduce jobs. Some of these jobs run daily and they take almost 12 hours to index 15 GB of compressed data. In particular, MorphlineMapper jobs last approximately 5 hours and TreeMergeMapper last about 6 hours. Are these performances normal? Can you suggest us some tweaks that could improve our indexing performances?
That said it could be caused by a lot of things.
Do you use a custom map/reduce job for indexing or are you using the "MapReduceIndexerTool" ?
Does your Yarn configuration allow enough memory for map and reduce job ? Too small JVM can lead to slowing the performance of a job (too much GC).
Do you see some pending containers during the job ?
Does your network is saturated ?
The MorphlineMapper phase takes all available resources, the TreeMergeMapper takes only a couple of containers.
We don't need to make queries for the moment, we just need to index historical data. We are wondering if there is a way to speed up indexing time and then optimize collections for searching when indexing is complete.
Hi, I assume you are working with the previous person on the same project ?
Usualy, the "java.opts" parameters are set to 80% of the memory.mb one. Is there some specific reason you have set it to "50%" only ?
How is configured your collection ? How many shards (and how many replica per shard) ?
In the first post, it is said that the mapper phase takes 5 hours (for roughly 15GB of compressed data).
What is the processing time of a "single mapper task" ?
How many mapper tasks are launched in this phase ?
What is the compression algorithm used ?
Is it efficient (the trade off between compression rate and performance is acceptable?) ?
There is no information on the disk part of the "worker nodes".
What types of disks are attached. And how many ?
Did you check the I/O. Is there some contention on them ?
What is the maximum throughput of the disks ?
Is the CPUs of the "worker nodes" overused during an indexation ? Or is it "idle" ?
Is there some room to improve the processing time of the morphline script ? Is it efficient enough ?
There is no "load_solr" instruction in the morphline ?
yes I forgot to say that I'm a colleague of the guy in the first post.
Thanks for your help, I'll try to be as clear as possible.
We didn't find good documentation about this, we just set these parameters based on our experience. Are there resources about this?
We upgraded our cluster since the first post. Now we have 8 workers, with a total of 200 vcores and 1,5TB of memory.
Our collections have 12 shards and 2 replicas per shard. The workload is balanced between machines, so there are 3 cores per machine.
Our source produces about 20GB of compressed data every day, split into about 550 compressed files. The number of map tasks is the same as the number of input files. We run one indexing task per day.
A single MorphlineMapper's map task takes about 20 minutes to complete. Considering the total number of cores, with a full unloaded cluster, the map phase takes about 1 hour to complete. During this phase, the worker's CPUs are almost 100% loaded.
We started indexing without setting the "--reducers" parameter. In this case, this phase takes 24 cores and almost 3 hours. When it ends, the TreeMergeMapper starts, which takes almost 2 hours to complete.
As far as I know, during this phases 24 "virtual shards" are created, then they are merged into the final 12 desired shards.
To avoid the TreeMergeMapper job, we tried to set the number of reducers to 12 (the same as the number of shards). In this case, by the way, the MorphlineMapper's reduce phase takes 12 cores and almost 5 hours to complete.
So, we can't see any significant improvement using this strategy.
When MorphlineMapper job (and eventually the TreeMergeMapper one) ends, the "Current" sign in the Solr web ui's Statistics tab becomes red, meaning there is something going on. We can't keep track of this in yarn, and cpu and memory usage is not very high during this stage. What is it about? After 4-5 hours the sign returns green and the collection is fully available.
Gzip is used to compress records, every compressed file contains a single txt. This is the way our source sends data.
2 - 550 files for 20GB of data means an average size of 37MB per file. I guess your block size is higher (64 ou 128MB). Having fewer bigger files might help the mapper phase.
3 - I don't think you need the LOAD_SOLR instruction inside the morphline.
From my understanding, the HBaseIndexerTool is in charge to load solr at the end of the processing. Having this particular instruction inside the morphline means you load twice solr (as far as I understand, at least this is the case when reading from HBase).
Try removing this instruction in the morphline configuration file.
Is using MapReduceIndexerTool remotely possible?


Tanzania: We Went on a Safari!
So we went on a roadtrip!
This is the second, and I think the better part, of my trip.
I needed a break from the hustle and bustle in Paris and Western Ireland is the perfect getaway location for that. Unbelievably tranquil and naturally beautiful.
So since my school is now in full-speed and I have spent all my weekends travelling and not studying, I will keep this post short text-wise and instead shower you with pictures that, in my opinion, could all very well be postcards because OMG it was amazingly beautiful!
Anyone who knows me knows that I do not like guided tours. I'm like a cat who does whatever she wants to do and whenever she wants to do it. However, for the first time (or at least first time after school class trips) I opted for a guided bus tour and headed to the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland.
My first post is about magnificent Ireland and one of its most famous sights – Cliffs of Moher.


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The fall 2018 TV season arrives full force this week with the return of "Murphy Brown," a new "Magnum P.I." and a throng of other intriguing series.
Binge-watching isn't just for millennials consuming entire seasons of streaming shows in one sitting. Even viewers who wonder which channel Netflix is on (per usual, ask your grandkids!) can binge on the fall TV season that begins in earnest this week.
The surge of new and returning series is a feast for the eyes, a workout for the remote, and a challenge in terms of deciding what to watch and what to skip. Here are 15 titles that are worth checking out, whether because they're an entirely new show, or old shows with new revivals, or existing shows with new networks or ... you get the idea.
The vintage Tom Selleck vehicle revs up again, this time with Magnum as a former Navy SEAL who served in Afghanistan before becoming a private detective. Only in this version, dashing Jay Hernandez inherits the title role, sans moustache, and essential supporting character Higgins is a woman (played by Perdita Weeks). (9 p.m. Mon., CBS).
Not since the days of Marcus Welby has a TV doctor seemed to care this much about the actual doctoring (sorry if we're getting too technical here). Ryan Eggold plays the new hospital medical director who's ready to change all the rules, forget about money and put patients first. And if he succeeds at that, will season two introduce universal healthcare? (10 p.m. Tue., NBC).
"Saturday Night Live" alum Taran Killam is at the center of this ensemble comedy about moms and dads who support each other as they attempt to raise their kids alone and maintain a semblance of a social life. Also starring "Gossip Girl" graduate Leighton Meester" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" staple Brad Garrett. So far, it's shaping up to be a case of what's not to like here? (9:30 p.m. Wed., ABC).
Returning after 20 years off the air, the outspoken TV journalist played by Candice Bergen is back to speak truth to the Trump presidency and take on those who reduce the media to fake news. Fans of the classic sitcom only ask one thing in return: Don't ruin our memories by not living up to the high bar set by the original "Murphy"! (9:30 p.m. Thu., CBS).
We're contractually obligated to cover metro Detroit favorite Tim Allen. No, we're not? Well, Allen actually deserves coverage in this case, because his show's cancellation by ABC despite solid ratings and subsequent resurrection by Fox was big network news this year. Both Allen and Nancy Travis are back in the family-friendly comedy, while a few of the relatives have been recast. Now it's up to viewers to vote with their eyeballs on this second chance. (8 p.m. Fri., Fox).
Nathan Fillion's jaunty charisma on the small screen is not to be underestimated. The "Castle" and "Firefly" veteran is one of those small-screen actors who brings viewers with him wherever he goes. Fillion's task this time is to play the oldest newcomer to the Los Angeles police force. It's serious, it's funny and it's all in the hands of a TV pro. (10 p.m., Oct. 16, ABC).


Visual Pond's End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, together with Gallery NOVA, presented Manny Montelibano's Sorry for the Inconvenience, the second exhibition under the 2011-2012 Philippine video art festival. The solo exhibition of Montelibano ran at Gallery NOVA from 13 August to 9 September 2011 with an artist talk held on 16 August.
Examining the idea of aggravating disturbances amidst the thrust for the public good, Sorry for the Inconvenience stages an audio-visual affront on the rhetoric of the politically powerful. In a gathering, manipulation and collision of declamations, the exhibition suggests of the all-consuming nature of dominance, which comes at both the impact and expense of others.
Montelibano's Sorry for the Inconvenience follows the first End Frame 3 show of Tad Ermitaño last January. Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, the theme of the third edition, "Present," refers to the current project's focus on selected Philippine contemporary artists' practices in video art. Throughout the festival, each artist stages a show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. Other artists presenting for End Frame 3 include Claro Ramirez, Kiri Dalena, Yason Banal, Kaloy Olavides and Maria Taniguchi.


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March 2011 Accolades
March 2, 2011 Sharon Wood
Robert M. Hazen, Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences; and James Trefil, Robinson Professor of Physics, wrote an essay, "Scientific Literacy: A Modest Proposal," which appears in the book "Science and the Educated American: A Core Component of Liberal Education," edited by Jerrold Mainwald and John G. Hildebrand; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010; 57–69. The volume resulted from the academy's project on Science in the Liberal Arts Curriculum. Hazen was a keynote speaker on "Deep Carbon Observatory" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. He also delivered the Linnaeus Prize Lecture at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. The three-day event included a formal dinner with the president of the university, the public prize lecture on origins of life, and a symposium at the university, where he presented a second lecture on his research. He recorded segments on origins of life research for Japan Public Television and National Public Radio.
Hugh Heclo, Robinson Professor of Public Affairs, presented "Varieties of American Exceptionalism" at the Sixth Annual Ronald Reagan Symposium held at Regent University.
John Paden, Robinson Professor of International Studies, lectured to the U.S. Department of State on "Islamic Identity Factors and the Upcoming Nigerian Elections."


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Question: What Bible Says About Lie?
What the Bible says about truth?
What are the 7 sins God hates?
Does God forgive all sins?
Is being deceitful the same as lying?
Who lied in the Bible?
What's the meaning of omission?
Is whispering a sin?
What is the unforgivable sin?
What is Aristotle's definition of truth?
What does the Bible say about lies of omission?
What is the true meaning of truth?
Why is the truth important?
What are the 5 deadly sins?
What is Plato's definition of truth?
How do you know what is truth?
Christ Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).
That's a wonderful promise that can be taken seriously, especially when you feel the need for some sort of healing – whether the difficulty is injury, illness, financial hardship, a troubled relationship, or anything else..
According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth, which are contrary to the seven heavenly virtues.
All sins shall be forgiven, except the sin against the Holy Ghost; for Jesus will save all except the sons of perdition. What must a man do to commit the unpardonable sin? He must receive the Holy Ghost, have the heavens opened unto him, and know God, and then sin against him.
Lying is a form of deception, but not all forms of deception are lies. Lying is giving some information while believing it to be untrue, intending to deceive by doing so. … A lie communicates some information. The liar intends to deceive or mislead.
Peter stated that Ananias had lied not to men, but to God. Ananias died on the spot and was carried out. Everyone who heard about the incident feared the Lord. Three hours after Ananias' death his wife arrived, unaware of what had happened.
the act of omitting. the state of being omitted. something left out, not done, or neglected: an important omission in a report.
The Bible is not kind towards gossip, or, as some translations render it, whispering. Gossip is an insidious sort of sin that masks its evil with the veneer of conversation and dialogue, but which, when engaged in, seldom cause anything but unhappiness and strife.
In the Christian Scriptures, there are three verses that take up the subject of unforgivable sin. In the Book of Matthew (12: 31-32), we read, "Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven.
The correspondence theory is often traced back to Aristotle's well-known definition of truth (Metaphysics 1011b25): "To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true"—but virtually identical formulations can be found …
Lie of Omission In Catholicism the ninth commandment is "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." This includes lies of omission which are also known as exclusionary detailing or continuing a misrepresentation.
Truth, in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, the property of sentences, assertions, beliefs, thoughts, or propositions that are said, in ordinary discourse, to agree with the facts or to state what is the case. Truth.
The Importance of Truth. Truth matters, both to us as individuals and to society as a whole. As individuals, being truthful means that we can grow and mature, learning from our mistakes. For society, truthfulness makes social bonds, and lying and hypocrisy break them.
Thomas Aquinas, they are (1) vainglory, or pride, (2) greed, or covetousness, (3) lust, or inordinate or illicit sexual desire, (4) envy, (5) gluttony, which is usually understood to include drunkenness, (6) wrath, or anger, and (7) sloth.
Plato believed that there are truths to be discovered; that knowledge is possible. … Since truth is objective, our knowledge of true propositions must be about real things. According to Plato, these real things are Forms. Their nature is such that the only mode by which we can know them is rationality.
Four factors determine the truthfulness of a theory or explanation: congruence, consistency, coherence, and usefulness. A true theory is congruent with our experience – meaning, it fits the facts. It is in principle falsifiable, but nothing falsifying it has been found.
Question: What Culture Do Donuts Come From?
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What happens at a Skelly hearing? During a Skelly hearing
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Quiz: The U.S. Special Forces Quiz
The U.S. Special Forces Quiz
The United States trains thousands of service members who perform covert or special missions of critical importance. How much do you know about U.S. Special Forces and their operations?
The 24th Special Tactics Squadron is special because of which characteristic?
It attaches to other special forces teams to help them complete missions.
It features solders who can both defuse and build bombs.
It is the only special forces unit from the Air Force.
It doesn't take on missions by itself; instead, it augments units such as Delta Force and Navy SEALs.
The 75th Ranger Regiment is an elite raiding force from which branch of the military?
The history of the Rangers begins prior to the formal establishment of the United States.
What was a precipitating event for the creation of the Special Operations Command (SOCOM), which oversees all special forces?
Iran hostage crisis
A lack of coordination was blamed for the mission's failure.
What was the first joint operation that SOCOM helped to coordinate?
Invasion of Grenada
protecting ships during Iran-Iraq War
Invasion of Panama
Special forces helped to defend ships from Iranian attack and harassment.
SOCCENT is the operations command in charge of special operations in which geographical area?
There are many other sub-commands around the world that plan operations and call the shots in their specific areas.
SOCOM commanded Operation Provide Relief, in which teams helped move food to citizens in which war-torn country?
Unfortunately, much of the food was stolen by armed thugs working for various factions.
"Of Their Own Accord" is the motto of which special forces unit?
7th Ranger Regiment
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment
They also use "Rangers Lead the Way."
Members of which special forces unit are often referred to as "operators?"
Aviation Tactics and Evaluation Group
They are one of the most secretive military groups in the world.
Navy SEALS endure some of the hardest training in special forces. About what percentage of soldiers drop from the training course?
about 65%
Only a third of candidates will make it through training.
Special forces often engage in JCET training, which stands for what?
Joint Committed Engagement Training
Joint Covert Engagement Training
Joint Combined Exchange Training
They perform training exercises with (and against) the elite forces of other countries to built rapport and exchange ideas.
The special forces group called Green Berets is a branch of which part of the military?
There are about 7,000 Green Berets, who are known for their diplomatic skills as much as their weapons work.
Which special forces team captured Abu Anas al-Libi in Libya in 2013?
They snagged him and sent him to prison, where he died of liver problems in 2015.
Since the start of the war on terror, the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) has mostly been deployed where?
It hasn't been deployed.
The group hasn't taken a breather since the start of the war.
The Night Stalkers are known primarily for which skill set?
conducting mountain raids
flying helicopters
night assaults
The Night Stalkers are from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
Under which branch of military does the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment exist?
The Night Stalkers provide air power and transportation for many critical special operations.
"The Activity" is a nickname for a special forces unit that primarily focuses on which efforts?
Direct assault
The group is the Intelligence Support Activity, and it gathers intelligence used in special forces operations.
In March 2014, what did Navy SEALs seize from Libyan hijackers?
Convoy of oil tanker trucks
An oil tanker
They subdued the three hijackers without firing a shot and then returned the ship to the Libyan government.
Which special forces teams train in a course called "Operation Guile Strike?"
Marine special forces
Navy special forces
Army special forces
During the operation, members learn how to conduct raids on rural and urban targets.
To how many countries did special operations forces deploy in 2014?
That's about 70% of the countries on the entire planet.
Which special forces group has been referred to as Gray Fox, Torn Victor, Centra Spike and other code names?
The name has been changed, in part, to throw off anyone searching for information about the secretive group.
What is one of the primary purposes of Combat Controllers during a battle?
coordinating combat groups
providing communication between special forces units
These Air Force personnel go through the same rigorous physical training and have the nerves to deal with air traffic control in the middle of a war, too.
Force RECON, which assists with reconnaissance for some special forces operations, is organized into which branch of the military?
In addition to scouting, they may actually take part in raids.
In 2014, special operations forces were leading about how many missions in Afghanistan every month?
Even now, U.S. special forces are leading the way in Afghanistan, many years after the start of the conflict.
Which special forces group members are often called "Raiders?"
Marine Corps special forces
This branch of the special forces wasn't created until 2005.
The "Raiders" name honors special forces teams from which conflict?
Special forces conducted many operations during WWII in an effort to beat back the Axis powers.
Special Operations Weather Technicians are part of which military branch?
They often tag along with special forces teams to keep tabs on weather, which can drastically affect many operations.
Where did the Marine Corps special forces first deploy?
They have since been used in many operations against the war on terror.
Where is the Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat Course?
Coronado, Calif.
Fort Benning
The base is also home to several other courses meant for special operations training.
"Eyes Forward" is the motto of which special operations group?
Force RECON
Special Operations Weather Technicians
The SOWT units offer critical insights into Mother Nature's attempts to derail special forces missions.
Which special forces unit wears tan berets?
They used to be black berets, but the Rangers switched to tan in 2002 after regular soldiers started wearing the black.
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Homo floresiensis and the evolution of the hominin shoulder.
Non-invasive detection and identification of brain activity patterns in the developing fetus.
Optical tomography of the neonatal brain.
Assessment of infant brain development with frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy.
Outcome following subdural haemorrhages in infancy.
White matter volume predicts reaction time instability.
Brain magnetic resonance imaging of infants exposed prenatally to buprenorphine.
Do people accept brain death as death? A study in Brazil.
An antiboy antibody? Re-examination of the maternal immune hypothesis.
Evidence supporting the use of melatonin in short gestation infants.
Thalamo-cortical connectivity in children born preterm mapped using probabilistic magnetic resonance tractography.
Brain death and withdrawal of support.
Intrauterine growth restriction, brain-sparing effect, and neurotrophins.
Neurodevelopmental outcome of the late preterm infant.
Disorders of cerebellar growth and development.
Developmental factors regulating susceptibility to perinatal brain injury and seizures.
Trends in anesthesia-related death and brain damage: A closed claims analysis.
Hypothermia for brain protection and resuscitation.
Perinatal risk factors altering regional brain structure in the preterm infant.
Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography to confirm brain death: a meta-analysis.
Potential for organ donation in Victoria: an audit of hospital deaths.
Resection of anterior orbital meningoencephalocele in a newborn infant.
Frontal cerebral blood flow change associated with infant-directed speech.
Infant brains detect arithmetic errors.
Regional brain development in serial magnetic resonance imaging of low-risk preterm infants.
BRD2 is one of BRD7-interacting proteins and its over-expression could initiate apoptosis.
Neonatal loss of gamma-aminobutyric acid pathway expression after human perinatal brain injury.
Neonatal infection and long-term neurodevelopmental outcome in the preterm infant.


Why choose New Frontier Animal Medical Center?
The mission of New Frontier Animal Medical Center is to promote and nourish the client relationship. We provide state of the art care utilizing current technology and techniques in order to provide the best medical treatment for our patients.
Our goal is to support our employees in a pleasant and stimulating work environment. As a result, our employees seek to provide our patients and their owners with the highest standard of care.
We value our relationship with our clients. It is our objective to collaborate with clients regarding their pet's health plan. We believe in being 100% transparent and want our clients to know we have an "open-door" policy. We welcome and encourage them to come take a tour of the hospital. You can rest assured that our patients are being cared for in a relaxed, "Fear Free" environment: utilizing specific techniques to prevent and alleviate fear, anxiety and stress in pets during their visit.
We pride ourselves on providing the best medical care for your pets and incorporating you, the owner, into our veterinary family. You can expect exceptional service from every phone call to every visit. Our team is eager to help you with all of your pet care needs.
New Frontier Animal Medical Center has voluntarily sought accreditation by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) since 1996. In order to be AAHA accredited we regularly have our practice evaluated on 900 standards including anesthesia, cleanliness, dentistry, emergency care, patient care, records keeping, and surgery (just to name a few). This means that you can be sure we are doing everything we can to provide your pet with the best possible care.
In recognition of our commitment to AAHA standards and our dedication to providing excellent medicine to our patients, AAHA awarded New Frontier Animal Medical Center with second place as the 2014 AAHA accredited Hospital of the Year. This is an honor that not only reflects our belief in providing best medicine, but also serves as a catalyst to continue to offer the best service possible to all our clients and patients.
We offer complete in-house, quality-controlled laboratory tests and state-of-the-art radiography techniques. Our facility uses modern and safe anesthesia equipment and monitoring devices and our intensive care unit allows us to hospitalize serious cases. We also work closely with the specialty centers in Tucson for cases that require 24 hour monitoring.


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SI-Frontiers-Robotics-AI-MCPC 2022 : Special Issue @ Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Mobile Cyber-Physical Collectives
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/24380/mobile-cyber-physical-collectives
Abstract Registration Due
Categories cyber-physical systems robot swarms collective intelligence self-organization
Current trends are pushing towards a vision of computational and physical processes that seamlessly, continuously interact to provide novel kinds of services, applications, and solutions. Such tightly integrated processes are carried out by Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), namely networks of "cyber" and "physical" components engineered by emphasizing the three "C"s of communication, computation, and control. It is expected that our environments (bodies, homes, buildings, cities) will be increasingly filled with devices capable of situated action as well as decision making through their computational counterparts (cf. digital twins), which may be supported on-board or remotely. In many cases, these CPSs are able to move about their environment making them mobile CPS. The more devices get deployed, the more the emphasis moves from what an individual cyber-physical device can provide to what an entire collective of mobile cyber-physical devices can provide. Swarms of robots, crowds of augmented people, ICT infrastructures, wireless sensor and actuator networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart grids, are all examples of Mobile Cyber-Physical Collectives (MCPCs), namely collections of mobile cyber-physical elements sharing tasks or aiming at global goals or "social benefits".
While opportunities of emerging CPSs such as MCPCs arise, research is devoted to addressing theoretical and practical challenges inherent to distribution, coordination, control, and operational requirements. In MCPCs, the collective nature adds more challenges related to collective decision making, emergent behavior, and scalability, which fosters decentralized architectures and solutions. Additionally, given the large number of components involved in CPCs, heterogeneity would be omnipresent and an element to be considered. This brings about different space and time scales with which we need to deal. System-level adaptation to environmental change is another prominent issue to be addressed and studied in fields like self-organizing systems (SOSs) and collective adaptive systems (CASs) engineering, where natural phenomena and processes (cf. ant colonies, force fields, cellular systems, chemical reactions) are often used as inspiration for devising novel methods and mechanisms. Moreover, nowadays, ICT infrastructures are getting more complex and intensely exploited, enabling multiple possibilities for communication and computation across the edge-fog-cloud continuum; this provides alternatives for deployment of cyber elements and hence different guarantees and non-functional outcomes for communication CPSs.
To address these challenges, this Research Topic invites original, high-quality work presenting novel research on mobile Cyber-physical Systems operating as collectives. Featured articles should present novel strategies that address issues in different aspects of collective CPS such as methods, architecture, design, validation, verification, and application of cyber-physical collectives.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Digital twins for large-scale CPSs
• Bio-inspired distributed computing approaches
• Multi-disciplinary approaches to collective behaviour design
• Decentralised algorithms for collective decision-making
• Models and tools for heterogeneous socio-technical systems
• Architectures and patterns for CPC systems design
• Methodologies for CPC systems engineering
• Programming languages and non-conventional paradigms for collective systems
• Techniques for soft or hard real-time coordination of collective activity
• Organisational paradigms for multi-agent systems
• Privacy and security in cyber-physical ecosystems
• Formal methods for analysis and prediction of emergent collective behaviour
• Verification and validation approaches for cyber-physical CAS (collective adaptive systems)
• Soft computing approaches to collective systems
• Mobility computing approaches to CPSs
• Approaches to crowds of augmented people and smart devices
• Approaches to swarm robotics
• Approaches to CI (collective intelligence)
• Case studies and applications involving CPCs (e.g., in context like smart cities, manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, security, healthcare)
xainlp 2023 Frontiers Research Topic: Explainable AI in Natural Language Processing
ACM CPSS 2023 9th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop
Frontiers-SI 2023 New trends in Security, Trust, and Privacy in Future Cyber-Systems
CCGrid'23 STP-CPS 2023 6th IEEE STP-CPS with 23rd IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2023, 1-4 May 2023 - Bangalore, India
MEDES 2023 The 15th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems
NMLM 2023 Frontiers: Neurocomputational models of language processing
TCPS-SI-Fault-Resilient 2023 Call For Papers: TCPS Special Issue on Fault-Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
SIUSAI 2023 2023 International Symposium on Intelligent Unmanned Systems and Artificial Intelligence (SIUSAI 2023)
Machines - SI 2023 Special Issue - Advances in Digital Twin Technology in the Manufacturing Field


Eleven people braved the cold showery weather and were rewarded with a largely clear day for their exploration. Manawa Karioi is easily accessible from Danube St or Rhine St, Island Bay. Although privately owned by the Tapu Te Ranga Marae Trust, it is publicly accessible. As one of Wellington's earliest restoration projects, and one which has been undertaken with ecological integrity from the outset, it is worth botanists' attention and has recently been included in a comprehensive Waikato University study of urban forest restoration sites across NZ.
We traversed the main tracks in the northern part of the reserve and spent most of our time in two gullies where a range of restoration plantings have been concentrated. We had the benefit of an early (1992) species list compiled by Maggie Wassilieff, and a comprehensive up to-date list compiled by Pete Russell. The latter included a vast list of plant pests and other adventive NZ native and introduced species, indicating the size of the task any reserve manager hoping to undertake serious ecological restoration in a city suburb must undertake. We inspected and discussed the range of species planted.
In recent years Manawa Karioi has enriched the early planted successional species such as ngaio, Veronica parviflora, Coprosma spp, puka, kawakawa, māpou etc., with small numbers of later successional species including tawa, kohekohe, northern rātā, porokaiwhiri, Sophora spp, black maire, and the podocarps rimu, mataī, miro, kahikatea and tōtara, plus a few vines including kiekie and puawhānga.
All species planted since the start have been locally ecosourced. We were pleased to see the range of planted species that are now freely regenerating, including tōtara, ngaio (very prolific and probably now the most significant forest canopy dominant), kōwhai, and many smaller broadleaved trees. We also saw small apparently regenerating puawhānga (now flowering, see photo), and a few planted swamp maire which are doing well. Thanks to Eleanor who collated the species observations which included several additions to the list, including six fern species. We also observed for the first time Coprosma areolata which may well have selfintroduced from Tawatawa Reserve across the ridge. Non-local natives such as karaka, karo, lacebark and five-finger hybrids are also thriving, and we discussed weed control priorities, which Manawa Karioi are now reassessing.
Our pick of the most urgent control priorities included climbing asparagus, wild ginger, Darwin's barberry, flowering cherry, privet and karo. With the exception of karo, these are all of relatively limited distribution in the reserve. We felt that generally the reserve was in good condition with fewer weeds impeding native succession than in comparable Wellington reserves.
Participants: Paul Blaschke (leader/scribe), Eleanor Burton, Gavin Dench, Michelle Dickson, Richard Grasse, Kate Jordan, Rodney Lewington, Russell Poole (Palmerston North), Peter Russell (Manawa Karioi group), Sunita Singh (co-leader), Xavier Warne.
We are looking for Volunteer Scrub-cutter Operators for mowing the grass on the tracks through the reserve with a scrub-bar every 6-8 weeks during the period November - April and less frequently during the rest of the year. Each volunteer will be responsible for a section of track that will take about 2 hours to mow. The scrub-bar and fuel and safety equipment will be provided by us. We are an ecological restoration project in Island Bay that is open to the public and is a valued recreational resource for walkers: runners: mountain bikers and horse riders. We would like scrub-bar operators to commit to doing the job for a minimum of 6 months and would be delighted for them to continue beyond that for as long as they like.
We are hosting two of our popular guided walks at Manawa Karioi in March 10th at 11am and 1pm.
Join us for a casual walk around the tracks with a Manawa Karioi with some of our committee members and hear about the progress of the restoration project, hear about the history of the land and discover some new tracks.
Please bring a gold coin koha that will go towards the running costs of our project. Dogs are welcome on leads.
Meeting at Tapu te Ranga Marae carpark by the interpretation board at the end of Danube Street.
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week, The Island Bay Community Center and the Manawa Karioi Society would like to invite you to a community picnic at the Manawa Karioi Ecological Restoration Project.
The theme for the Mental Health Awareness Week is 'Let Nature in' so we have found a picturesque flat grassy spot that is just 5 minutes walk from the Tapu te Ranga Marae carpark in Island Bay.
Pack a picnic of delicious snacks, gather your family and friends and join us for our community picnic in the regenerating native forest of Manawa Karioi. Children and dogs on leads are welcome. Meeting at 2pm at the interpretation shelter in the Tapu te Ranga Carpark and we will have signposts for any late arrivals. Depending on interest we can lead a bush walk on the tracks after the picnic around 3.30pm.
Meet at the Tapu te Ranga Marae carpark and at 2pm, walk up to the picnic area.
Katherine has chosen Manawa Karioi as a research site and because of its age, she has made two research plots on the site.
What a difference a decade (or two) makes!
Nothing better illustrates the progress that can be rapidly made than a few photos that were taken decades apart. Here are three views looking at the main gully and hillside above the Tapu Te Ranga Marae carpark, and one shot from under the established canopy.
This photo was taken around 1994. The first plantings were done in 1991, and most are around 1 metre high. Notice that gorse is rapidly taking over the grassy slopes of the former farmland.
Photo 2 was taken in 2008. The canopy has gotten taller, and the plantings are spreading up the gullies. The gorse has also gotten taller and has become a major problem (along with blackberry) by blocking the tracks, which require a lot of effort to keep open. What isn't visible is that a lot of natural regeneration is occurring under the gorse. The seed source for this comes from the faster-growing species that have already been planted, as well as from nearby regenerating bush in the surrounding Town Belt.
Photo 3 was taken recently in early 2018. Like the other two photos, it was taken when the gorse was in flower (bright yellow flowers) as this is the best way of distinguishing gorse from other vegetation. The first thing that really strikes you is how little gorse there is now. Many years of planting along the track sides have resulted in the gorse getting shaded out and dying off, making track maintenance much easier. This method also eventually shades out the blackberry. The canopy has grown up to 15 metres high in the lower gully, and the diversity of underplantings has greatly increased. Natural regeneration continues, with kawakawa becoming abundant. This plant gives this coastal part of south Wellington its' original name of "Paekawakawa".
As gorse is highly flammable, the risk of accidental fire is greatly lowered when forest returns, as many native trees are not as combustible. This has been shown from a couple of accidental fires at Manawa Karioi (possibly started by discarded cigarette butts) and also from several deliberately lit fires over the hill in Happy Valley.
A shot looking up at the canopy near where the fresh-water spring emerges. 20 years ago this was a sunny clearing choked with blackberry. Now the nikau and some of the podocarps are between 3-5 metres high!
We welcome any groups who want to help us out; it can be a great team-building exercise or just a way to contribute something practical to the project.
Each year, we run our planting working bees each Sunday of May and August, planting is in winter to allow the plants to establish roots before the drier summer months arrive. This year, we used social media, a new website and emails to attract volunteers, and as a result we have been rewarded with lots of volunteers showing up to our working bees.
Clematis paniculata flowering in Seed Source Gully, not to be confused with introduced invasive Clematis vitalba (old man's beard).
This is possibly the first time this species has flowered at the Manawa Karioi site in 150 years.
Although occasionally present in gardens, this is a great step towards re-establishing this plant in the local area using locally sourced seed, thereby helping to protect the local gene pool of this species.
Planted 5 years ago, this is an example of our efforts to re-establish the broad range of plants that once existed in the area.
These are female flowers - the species is diecious (has separate male and female plants). So we will need to establish a few male plants nearby to pollinate it.
Island Bay's Manawa Karioi Ecological Restoration Project has won a $5000 grant to erect signs and put in track markers that will help people walk local bush trails.
The money comes from the Walking Access Commission's Enhanced Access Fund, which supports local groups to build and preserve outdoor access - especially tracks and trails.
Walking Access went to Manawa Karioi to meet Chris Livesey from the restoration project. Chris says that currently the tracks, none of which are marked, can be a confusing web for people who have not used them before. New map panels at the entrances to Manawa Karioi and colour-coded track markers will help more people to enjoy them.
Are you keen to help keep the wheels of the Manawa Karioi Ecological Restoration Project turning, or to learn more about the project?
consider joining the Society's Committee to help shape the direction of the project and to help with its implementation.
The context for our project is given by the Society's rather unique objectives - see below. The last year has seen good progress with additional planting, weed control and track maintenance. During the next year we will also be putting effort into track signage so that our tracks are more accessible and user-friendly. The AGM is an opportunity to collect our thoughts, review our progress and make plans for the future.


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Philippine's Kenny Gonzales competes in the men's javelin throw final during the athletics competition at the 30th Southeast Asian Games at Athletics Stadium in New Clark City, Tarlac province, northern Philippines on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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The Philosophy of Law is a broad-reaching text that guides readers through the basic analytical and normative issues in the field, highlighting key historical and contemporary thinkers and offering a unified treatment of the various issues in the philosophy of law.
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Employs the idea of three central commonplaces about law - that law is a social matter, that law is authoritative, and that law is for the common good - to organize seemingly disparate topics and to bring rival views into contention with each other.
The first volume in the Fundamentals of Philosophy series, in which leading philosophers explore the fundamental issues and core problems in the major sub-disciplines of philosophy.
Mark C. Murphy is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, where he works in moral, political, and legal philosophy. He is the author of Natural Law and Practical Rationality (2001), An Essay on Divine Authority (2002), and Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics (2006), and the editor of Alasdair MacIntyre (2003).
Acknowledgments.
0.1 Philosophy, the Familiar, and the Unfamiliar.
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0.3 The Course of Our Inquiry.
For Further Reading.
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1.4 Hartian Positivism.
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Appendix: Why is it Called "Natural Law Theory"?.
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A number of recent developments has increased the desirability of using exclusive OR (XOR) gates in the synthesis of switching functions. This has, in turn, led naturally to an increased interest in algorithms for the minimization of Exclusive-Or Sum of Products (ESOP) forms. Although this is an active area of research, it is not nearly as developed as the traditional Sum of Products forms. Computer programs to find minimum ESOPs are not readily available and those that do exist are impractical to use as investigative tools because they are too slow and/or require too much memory. A practical tool would be easy enough to use (faster/smaller) so that it could be run many times to explore the solution space of the minimization problem as well as to provide a baseline of comparison. This thesis develops and investigates such a tool.
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Q: How to convert delimited string into multi-dimensional array with associative keys? Can anyone help with this regular expression please?
Here's an example string I'm trying to convert into php array.
$str="hopOptions:hops hopOptions:salmonSafe region:domestic region:specialty region:imported"
And I need the final aray to be:
$filters = array (
    "hopOptions"  => array("hops", "salmonSafe"),
    "region"      => array("domestic", "specialty", "imported")
);

Any help or direction will be greatly appreciated!

A: I do not know php and came up with this. Hope there's better way.
$str = "hopOptions:hops hopOptions:salmonSafe region:domestic region:specialty region:imported";

// it creates an array of pairs
$ta = array_map(function($s) {return explode(":", $s);}, explode(" ", $str));

// this loop converts the paris into desired form
$filters = array();
foreach($ta as $pair) {
    if (array_key_exists($pair[0], $filters)) {
        array_push($filters[$pair[0]], $pair[1]);
    }
    else {
        $filters[$pair[0]] = array($pair[1]);
    }
}

print_r($filters);

Output:
Array
(
    [hopOptions] => Array
        (
            [0] => hops
            [1] => salmonSafe
        )

    [region] => Array
        (
            [0] => domestic
            [1] => specialty
            [2] => imported
        )

)

A: Faster is to avoid regex and use two explode calls:
Demo
Code:
$str = "hopOptions:hops hopOptions:salmonSafe region:domestic region:specialty region:imported";
foreach(explode(' ',$str) as $pair){
    $x=explode(':',$pair);
    $result[$x[0]][]=$x[1];
}
var_export($result);

Or with regex...
PHP Demo
Code:
$str = "hopOptions:hops hopOptions:salmonSafe region:domestic region:specialty region:imported";
if(preg_match_all('/([^ ]+):([^ ]+)/',$str,$out)){
    foreach($out[1] as $i=>$v){
        $result[$v][]=$out[2][$i];
    }
    var_export($result);
}else{
    echo "no matches";
}

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BMC floats water bill scheme till March end
Abhay Yojana extended for the second time in a year to pay water bills
Recording an increase in water bill payments, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday extended its Abhay Yojana scheme till March 31, 2021. This is the second time BMC has extended the deadline of the scheme in 2020.
Consumers need to pay their monthly water bill within one month from the date of receipt, failing to do so the civic body would impose an additional 2 per cent charge on the payment amount per month, for late payment.
Under the Yojana scheme, Mumbaikars are exempted from paying the additional 2 per cent on pending water bills. Earlier, in August 2020, the civic body had extended the deadline till December 31 in view of the pandemic outbreak.
In an official statement, BMC has appealed to Mumbaikars urging them to pay all the outstanding bills by March end, to avoid late penalties. "Customers are requested to pay the outstanding amount of bills on water meter rent by March 31. Please contact the assistant engineer (water works) department at your nearby ward office and avail the advantage of the scheme," BMC stated in its statement.
The civic body supplies an average 3,850 million litres of water to the city daily and this year the body had set up a target of procuring Rs 1,535 crores as sewerage and water supply charges. Earlier in August, outstanding charges worth Rs 2,000 crores were pending from two lakh consumers. Senior officials from the hydraulic engineering department, informed following the extension imposed on August, more people started to clear their dues to avoid paying outstanding amounts of bills.
"More people started to pay the bills following the deadline extension in August. Hence to encourage the consumers and to make sure that more people come forward to pay the bills, we have extended the date further till March," a senior official from the hydraulics department told FPJ.
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