We've now had 6 months of GDPR. The dreaded General Data Protection Regulation came into effect in May, and there's no denying the fact that it has presented businesses with some serious challenges. It's been a huge wake-up call for many companies. They've had to completely reassess how they collect their data.
However, it hasn't been all bad.
Yes, GDPR was designed to protect consumers' personal information. But it also protects you as a business from overstepping your boundaries and losing your customers' trust in you.
For companies who have taken GDPR seriously and have done it right, it's actually proven to be a great opportunity.
Was GDPR worth the panic?
There's no denying that the last 6 months of GDPR have introduced some huge changes.
It was almost like the world was going to end on the 25th of May, and everyone was rushing to prevent it from happening.
Six months on, though, and the world hasn't ended, and businesses have started to view GDPR more clearly.
Many business' email lists probably suffered, but for good reason. Although they would have most likely seen an increase in unsubscribes, they should have also seen an increase in engagement from their subscribers.
Until GDPR came into effect, European data privacy and security regulations were pretty vague. Businesses handled them in different ways.
After 6 months of GDPR, things have changed – it's simplified things. The guidelines have been set, and there are serious repercussions for those who don't comply.
Consumers are much more educated on what GDPR is and how their personal data should be handled.
According to Marketing Week, 57% of people felt that they had a better understanding of how brands were using their personal data. Businesses should expect more scrutiny from both new and existing customers, who have become increasingly cautious. However, being transparent with your customers is key to surviving in this post-GDPR world.
True, it does require changes to how you build your email list, and many business' lists will have significantly shrunk after GDPR. However, it's not a massive loss. If you think about it, these email addresses were either inactive or they just belonged to people who simply didn't want to hear from you.
What I'm trying to say is, GDPR has actually proved to be a massive opportunity for businesses.
It's now much more effective to target your email campaigns towards the needs of your subscribers who genuinely want to engage with your brand. Insurance provider HomeServe saw an increase in the engagement with their marketing since GDPR was enforced, despite now having a smaller number of consumers to market to. They're now receiving fewer unsubscribes as they're only communicating with people who genuinely want to be communicated to.
Learn to organically build your email list and nurture your leads in the right way, and you'll not only comply with GDPR, but you'll have a stronger list of subscribers, too.
You've probably heard a lot of myths surrounding GDPR. Truth is, GDPR will still apply after Brexit. The UK's exit from the EU won't make a difference to GDPR.
This is because GDPR is already part of British Law, and the government have no plans to reverse it.
The government have said that the UK will implement their own GDPR equivalent post-Brexit. This is now known as the Data Protection Act 2018. So, nothing will change for your business as far as GDPR goes.
Perhaps the most important thing we've learnt after 6 months of GDPR is that compliance isn't just a box to be ticked. It's a journey.
If you haven't already made sure that your business is fully compliant with GDPR, then you can download our step-by-step guide to GDPR compliance here.
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Titus 1:9 I left you in charge in Crete so you could complete what I left half-done. Appoint leaders in every town according to my instructions. As you select them, ask, "Is this man well-thought-of? Is he comm holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. He must have a strong belief in the trustworthy message he was taught; then he will be able to encourage others with wholesome teaching and show those who oppose it where they are wrong. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. By holding on to the trustworthy word just as we teach it, overseers can help people by using true teaching, and they can show those who are against the true teaching that they are wrong. holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy word [of God] as it was taught to him, so that he will be able both to give accurate instruction in sound [reliable, error-free] doctrine and to refute those who He must have a firm grasp of the trustworthy message that he has been taught. This will enable him to both encourage others with healthy teachings and provide convincing answers to those who oppose hi He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
I left you in charge in Crete so you could complete what I left half-done. Appoint leaders in every town according to my instructions. As you select them, ask, "Is this man well-thought-of? Is he committed to his wife? Are his children believers? Do they respect him and stay out of trouble?" It's important that a church leader, responsible for the affairs in God's house, be looked up to—not pushy, not short-tempered, not a drunk, not a bully, not money-hungry. He must welcome people, be helpful, wise, fair, reverent, have a good grip on himself, and have a good grip on the Message, knowing how to use the truth to either spur people on in knowledge or stop them in their tracks if they oppose it.
He must have a strong belief in the trustworthy message he was taught; then he will be able to encourage others with wholesome teaching and show those who oppose it where they are wrong.
By holding on to the trustworthy word just as we teach it, overseers can help people by using true teaching, and they can show those who are against the true teaching that they are wrong.
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.
He must hold firmly to the trustworthy word [of God] as it was taught to him, so that he will be able both to give accurate instruction in sound [reliable, error-free] doctrine and to refute those who contradict [it by explaining their error].
He must have a firm grasp of the trustworthy message that he has been taught. This will enable him to both encourage others with healthy teachings and provide convincing answers to those who oppose his message.


ECB LTRO Won't Stop Contagion.
ECB LTRO Won't Stop Contagion.
Bond action in the Eurozone has modestly picked up (yields steady or falling) since the ECB's 3-Year LTRO program – Long Term Refinance Operation. However, European banks still do not trust each other, not even for overnight lending.
Use of the European Central Bank's overnight deposit facility hit the second all-time high in a row Tuesday as euro area banks increased the amount of cash they park at the central bank's safe haven, ECB data showed Wednesday.
Banks parked €452.034 billion ($589.72 billion) at the ECB, up from €411.813 billion the previous day. The high level reflects prevailing distrust among banks which prefer using the ECB's facility rather than lending to each other.
The increase in deposits follows the ECB's first-ever three-year liquidity tender last week in which it allocated nearly half a trillion euros to more than 500 banks.
The "first-ever three-year liquidity tender" offer cited by the Wall Street Journal is the 3-year LTRO that I mentioned at the top.
Here is the stark reality of what forced the ECB to offer unprecedented three year loans at absurd rates and most alarmingly, the acceptance of collateral that no other financial institutions will accept. The ECB has sacrificed its balance sheet in yet another EU "kick at the can".
Excerpts do not do the article full justice. It's well worth a read in entirety.


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New Smithstown Light Engineering facility to bring 60 jobs to Shannon
by Lisa Ardill
The Clare-based firm will be on the lookout for engineering machinists, programmers and quality control specialists over the next two years.
Smithstown Light Engineering has officially opened its new 40,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Shannon, Co Clare.
The precision engineering firm works with medical device and orthopaedic companies around the world, and its current expansion in Ireland will see it create up to 60 new jobs over the next two to three years.
Having reached capacity at its original plant, the company opened a second manufacturing site in 2017, which has now been extended with support from Enterprise Ireland. The facility is based in Smithstown Industrial Estate in Shannon.
Smithstown Light Engineering is a second-generation indigenous Irish firm that was first set up in 1974. It currently employs 128 people and over the past year it has invested more than €6m in its extension and new machine technologies.
New roles opening up at the company will include engineering machinists, programmers and quality control specialists. The new site will also house an innovation centre, enabling the company to collaborate with customers in R&D, to examine opportunities with new technologies in the additive manufacturing sector, and to potentially deliver advanced technology roles.
'Future-proofing'
Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business Pat Breen, TD, said: "This expansion and the announcement today of 60 new high-quality jobs is very welcome news for the Shannon area and is an endorsement of Ireland's growing reputation as a global leader in life sciences and medical devices."
Gerard King, CEO of Smithstown Light Engineering, added: "Since our inception 45 years ago, we have transitioned from a parts production company to a global leader in new technologies and advanced manufacturing methods for the medtech sector at home and abroad.
"This is about future-proofing. Our customers are experiencing incredible growth and are keen to reduce lead times in sourcing products around the world. This expansion ensures we can keep up with their growing demand for ultra-precision products used in life-saving treatments."
Enterprise Ireland senior development advisor John Shiel said that Smithstown Light Engineering is "a vital component of the ever-growing life sciences industry in Ireland", adding that today's announcement is "particularly positive for the Shannon region".
"Sustained investment is an important aspect of that work and it ultimately means investing in Ireland's regions and domestic job creation," Shiel concluded.
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Column #HR202 The rest of the Rick Ney Story
June 26, 2017 Howie Reed's Column
Column HR202
The rest of the Rick Ney Story
With the advent and growth of the PDC and the worldwide explosion of soft point darts more people are playing darts today than ever before. This is especially so in Asia.
While steel point players in North America bemoan the loss of the old tournament trail many have become "convertible dart players," working both sides of the darting street and taking advantage of the opportunities to play for more money. It's human nature to look on the Dark Side rather than just continue to stroll along on the "Sunnyside of the Street."
Growing up, there was a cartoon character called "Gloomy Gus." My beleaguered mother, Irene Maude, would call me that on occasions when I would go into full pout mode, protruding lower lip and all. "Watch out," she'd say, "or you'll step on your lip."
With the announcement that the PDC was due to hit Las Vegas July 11-15 the Gloomy Guses of North American darts were out in force. As part of that visit the North American Championship Open offers four Qualifiers with a total purse of $61,200 (the eight finalists will compete for another $25,000). Still many whined. The pater would say, "They'd complain if they were hung with a new rope." Possibly this is just in the dart player's DNA.
Players were required to book at the host hotel for two days. Oh yes, and they had to enter all four qualifiers at once.
Another of Irene Maude's saying was, "My God, the Bridge!" – which was her answer to the occasional whine from the ODC who was just a work in progress at the time, and still is. I doubt she borrowed the quote from the Little Jimmy Dickens song – "The Bridge Washed Out, I Can't Swim and My Baby's On the Other Side." Maybe Jimmy copped it from Mom.
Relax North American Dart players and take a deep breath. The tungsten god, who works in mysterious ways, has now decreed that "registering at the Tropicana hotel" is no longer required. Sold out. Bet you can still go on line a book a room.
Entries for the North American Championships close on June 27. A player can enter by going to the PDC web site.
The Old Dart Coach always like to issue kudos to players that have maintained a high level of play over the years and are really good people. The first kudo goes out to one of the nicest ladies in darts, Canadian Kim Whaley Hilts. Hmm, she didn't get hyphenated. She won this year's Canadian women's singles title, then joined up for the women's doubles crown also. Even when she doesn't win she's a champion.
Internationally, Lim Leong Hwa took Stage 2 of the DARTSLIFE event in France. The win moved him into the lead for the year over USA's Alex Reyes by 11 points. Reyes has a 3 point lead over Harith "I'm Not His Brother" Lim with Japan's Yuji Eguchi 4th, only 3 points ahead of Yank Darrin Young. Leong Hwa, aka Paul Lim, who defeated Francis Emouts from Belgium for the win in France is the defending champion of the profitable series. Next up is Taichung, Japan, starting July 30th.
Cherish your kudos as they are rare.
Throughout the years one fact has remained constant in darts: along with winning all darters are looking for sponsors. Of course that's true for all competitors regardless of the sport. It's more difficult in darts.
"You play what?" are usually are the first words out of a potential sponsor's mouth. In the early days of darts one of the North American sponsors that stepped up big time was Walt Bottelsen of Bottelsen Darts.
He produced the first and best "movable point" dart. In England, Staymaster made a movable point which relied on a small watch spring that would wear out quicker than a $2 Walmart watch. Staymaster sponsored players Linda "WB" Batten and Keith Deller, to name two. The BDO dictator Olly Croft wouldn't allow the darts to be used in BDO play which certainly didn't help the marketing. That and the fact the dart had serious durability problems sunk the venture.
Walt Bottelsen sponsored Jerry Umberger, Rick Ney, and John Kramer, among an other. Yes, the ODC does know the "other" but won't use his name. He's a jerk. That's not merely the ODC's opinion; it's the consensus of anyone that knew him.
When Rick Ney died recently what wasn't known, outside of a small circle of close friends, was that his family was having some serious financial problems. A group of Rick's friends joined together to raise money for the family. Spearheaded by Jerry Umberger, Dave Kelly, David Miller, Julie Nichol Hyphenated and Russ Lopez formed the original group. Since then, donations have come from Jerry Feather, Paul "Dartoid" Seigel, Frank Smith, Dennis Hasset, and Ron Deane. Johnny K is planning a Memorial Shoot in the fall.
Rick Ney's long time playing partner Jerry Umberger contacted their old sponsor Walt Bottelsen. He came through in flying colors. First, he made a direct monetary donation to Rick's widow, Lynn. Walt then re-tooled his machines to produce a small number of limited edition "Rick Ney" signature darts in both steel point and convertible soft. The darts were made available to the "group" at no cost with all proceeds from the sale of the darts to go directly to Ney's family.
The darts retail on the steel point is $125 and $100 for the convertible. With only 10 sets, five of each, every set will immediately become a collector's item. Julie Nicoll-Jennings will be raffling off some sets at various tournament in the Midwest later in the year. A request has gone out to the PDC for permission to hold a raffle during the North American Qualifiers and Championship. At press time no response has been received from the PDC.
In addition a "silent auction" will be held staring now and running through September 1. The darts will be sold to the highest bidder or binders that the "group" approves. Bids may be submitted via the Dartoid's World website – just click on "Contact" at the far right on the navigation bar.
Howie Reed
The one and only Howie Reed (the Old Dart Coach) goes back decades with the legends of our sport - he knows where the skeletons are buried. Just ask any of the ADO and WDF old-timers! His widely popular column, Toeing the Oche, is a must-read.
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With many delightful courses, pure coastal breeze from the Atlantic ocean, great fresh gastronomy and fantastic weather conditions, the Azores is a Golf Bliss for most golfers.
The initial island group found in the Azores was discovered in 1427 but this fact is somewhat disputed by other records. There is a belief that the Island of Corvo was already known to exist to the Carthaginians in 3.000 before Christ.
Plato in his reference to the "Empire of Atlantis" must have been based on some knowledge of the existence of these Islands, and equally Plutarch refers to the "Atlantic Islands". It is almost certain that they were previously known about and there is reference to their existence in the Catalan Atlas of 1375 by Jafunda Cresquez. Some 100 years later in 1427 a ship commanded by Diogo da Silva is recorded to have visited the Azores. Based on all this information Henry the Navigator organized two voyages in 1431 and 1432 under the command of Frei Gonçalo Velho a Knight of the Order of Christ, and who was later instructed under royal edict to find the islands and take possession in the name of Portugal.
Lying some 900 miles from the coast of Portugal in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean the Islands cover an area of some six hundred kilometres in length and a land area of 2.333 square kilometres.
From the tourists point-of-view they should note that there are flights between all the islands and ferryboat services. This latter should be checked by the visitor as the local services vary depending on the destination and naturally the condition of the local weather.


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Before I get into it, I will say that I'm working at W3B CRM, so my opinion is biased. W3B CRM is a one-stop solution for all your management needs and, from the moment you begin collaborating with us, we will customize everything according to your needs. Over time, we want to offer even more, by adding new features as well as by offering amazing support.
Our W3B CRM has three main sections: CRM/Sales, PM (Project Management) and Online Invoicing and they are so well interlinked, that you don't realize that they actually are separate sections. You will be able to manage leads, turn them into customers and manage your work by setting up projects and tasks, track work, close projects and generate invoices within the same software. You will not need any other third party software anymore as you have all the necessary software in one place, our W3B CRM.
Let me break it down real quick: within the CRM/Sales module you have, as expected, "Contacts", "Leads", "Customers", "Opportunities" as well as "Territories", "Quotes" and "Products" and you are able to generate reports based on each of these categories. You can also filter listings and sort them however it suits your needs.
The Project Management module encompasses all the aspects of project management into one neatly crafted system. You can set up milestones and tasks so you always know what is going on and what needs to be done next. Another neat feature is viewing the progress of all your projects, milestones or tasks on a Gantt chart system. Yes, we make the data easy to understand, not just spread it on the page.
The third module, Online Invoicing, does just what the name suggests: it generates invoices for the work on your projects, invoices that you can send out to your clients directly from the software itself.
W3B CRM really does come full circle when it comes to managing your business and it's there for you from the very beginning of a project to the very end without having to rely on integration with other systems to get the job done.


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RNAi in transgenic animal models
Hidetoshi Hasuwa, Masaru Okabe
With completion of the "genome project" in human and mouse, we have entered the postgenome era, centered around the analysis of 30,000 to 40,000 gene functions. At present, ES cells and homologous recombination serve as powerful tools for many researchers aiming to elucidate the function of target genes in live animals. However, such methods are slow and cumbersome and are limited to mouse because of the technical difficulty in establishing ES cells in other species. Any improved technique should meet the following criteria: (a) simplicity of method to facilitate analysis of many genes in a short period of time, and (b) applicability to species other than mouse. RNAi could thus serve as an alternative, or supplemental, method to homologous re-combination.
Gene Silencing by RNA Interference
Technology and Application
CRC Press
Published - 2004 Jan 1
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Chicago Mayor On Trump's Federal Goon Squads: 'We're Just Not Having That In Chicago'
CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 26: Chicago Mayor-Elect Lori Lightfoot attends the Hamilton: The Exhibition world premiere at Northerly Island on April 26, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images)
By Zoe Richards
July 23, 2020 10:40 a.m.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Thursday that she would not allow federal agents slated to be dispatched in her city in the coming days to repeat what's happened amid protests in Portland.
"That is not going to happen in Chicago," she said.
"We are not going to agree to or accept anything like what's happening on the streets of Portland, Oregon," Lightfoot told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist. "We're not going to have unnamed federal agents patrolling our streets, pretending to be police, sweeping people off, and denying them of their constitutional rights. That is not going to happen in Chicago."
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday that she would not allow federal agents dispatched in her city to repeat what's happened in Portland where she says protesters have been swept off the streets and denied their rights. "That is not going to happen in Chicago," she said. pic.twitter.com/5SaVoh7u8U
The remarks come after President Donald Trump formally announced Wednesday that the government would be deploying a "surge" of federal agents to Chicago and Albuquerque amid attempts to roll out a message of law and order the President hopes can drown out failures to properly address the coronavirus pandemic and boost his re-election prospects.
The Chicago mayor has been a frequent critic of the President, becoming particularly vocal about her disapproval of Trump's handling of social unrest following the police killing of George Floyd in May.
Earlier this week, Lightfoot threatened to sue the President, and on Monday she addressed a four-page letter to Trump in which she outlined various ways that the federal government was uniquely positioned to help fight crime in a city that has historically struggled with gun violence.
In the letter, Lightfoot said that addressing crime in Chicago required genuine collaboration instead of further division — a tactic that has been a hallmark of the Trump administration's attempts at race-baiting in recent weeks amid social unrest.
Lightfoot said if the President really wanted to help Chicago, rather than "mocking the level of violence that challenges Chicagoans," he should enact gun control legislation, do more to curb the coronavirus, partner with local law enforcement and offer support for community programs.
A mass shooting at a funeral Tuesday night left at least 15 people wounded on the city's South Side. But Lightfoot said "the kind help that we need from the federal government we haven't heard the president or anyone else talk about." The Democratic mayor reissued a call made in her letter to the President Monday for "common sense gun control."
When pressed about concerns that federal agents may overstep the boundaries she said she has made clear to Trump, Lightfoot, who is a former assistant U.S. attorney, said she would not hesitate to seek a restraining order against noncompliant agents.
"We're just not having that in Chicago," Lightfoot said.
Zoe Richards is a TPM newswriter based in New York. Previously, she reported on local politics in Kampala, Uganda, wrote about sustainability from a think-tank in Paris, France, and has pursued documentary and broadcast news projects closer to home. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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Siwa is an oasis lying to the West of the Nile Valley. Siwa has very strong historical and cultural ties to the Nile Valley to the extent that Alexander the Great may have had it as the first thing he visited in Egypt upon conquering it.Today, Siwa offers for native Egyptians -along with Sinai Mountains and beaches- some of the most interesting visiting places after the Nile Valley countryside. In this collaborative article, Siwa's culture, geography as well as all logistical details will be explained for the most intellectual explorers by the Community of SaharaSafaris.
The discussion will cover the many sides of one of few research-based novels in Egypt. It tells the story of the remote Siwa oasis during the troubling days after the British occupation of Egypt in the 19th Century. The novel has been awarded the inaugural IPAF (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) AKA the Arab Booker Prize. The discussion is welcoming all notes on literature, history, culture, geography of Siwa and the area.


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4. Apriori
What does it do? The Apriori algorithm learns association rules and is applied to a database containing a large number of transactions.
What are association rules? Association rule learning is a data mining technique for learning correlations and relations among variables in a database.
What's an example of Apriori? Let's say we have a database full of supermarket transactions. You can think of a database as a giant spreadsheet where each row is a customer transaction and every column represents a different grocery item.
Here's the best part:
By applying the Apriori algorithm, we can learn the grocery items that are purchased together a.k.a association rules.
The power of this is:
You can find those items that tend to be purchased together more frequently than other items — the ultimate goal being to get shoppers to buy more. Together, these items are called itemsets.
You can probably quickly see that chips + dip and chips + soda seem to frequently occur together. These are called 2-itemsets. With a large enough dataset, it will be much harder to "see" the relationships especially when you're dealing with 3-itemsets or more. That's precisely what Apriori helps with!
You might be wondering how Apriori works? Before getting into the nitty-gritty of algorithm, you'll need to define 3 things:
The first is the size of your itemset. Do you want to see patterns for a 2-itemset, 3-itemset, etc.?
The second is your support or the number of transactions containing the itemset divided by the total number of transactions. An itemset that meets the support is called a frequent itemset.
The third is your confidence or the conditional probability of some item given you have certain other items in your itemset. A good example is given chips in your itemset, there is a 67% confidence of having soda also in the itemset.
The basic Apriori algorithm is a 3 step approach:
Join. Scan the whole database for how frequent 1-itemsets are.
Prune. Those itemsets that satisfy the support and confidence move onto the next round for 2-itemsets.
Repeat. This is repeated for each itemset level until we reach our previously defined size.
Is this supervised or unsupervised? Apriori is generally considered an unsupervised learning approach, since it's often used to discover or mine for interesting patterns and relationships.
Apriori can also be modified to do classification based on labelled data.
Why use Apriori? Apriori is well understood, easy to implement and has many derivatives.
The algorithm can be quite memory, space and time intensive when generating itemsets.
Where is it used? Plenty of implementations of Apriori are available. Some popular ones are the ARtool, Weka, and Orange.
The next algorithm was the most difficult for me to understand, look at the next algorithm…
5. EM
What does it do? In data mining, expectation-maximization (EM) is generally used as a clustering algorithm (like k-means) for knowledge discovery.
In statistics, the EM algorithm iterates and optimizes the likelihood of seeing observed data while estimating the parameters of a statistical model with unobserved variables.
OK, hang on while I explain…
I'm not a statistician, so hopefully my simplification is both correct and helps with understanding.
Here are a few concepts that will make this way easier…
What's a statistical model? I see a model as something that describes how observed data is generated. For example, the grades for an exam could fit a bell curve, so the assumption that the grades are generated via a bell curve (a.k.a. normal distribution) is the model.
Wait, what's a distribution? A distribution represents the probabilities for all measurable outcomes. For example, the grades for an exam could fit a normal distribution. This normal distribution represents all the probabilities of a grade.
In other words, given a grade, you can use the distribution to determine how many exam takers are expected to get that grade.
Cool, what are the parameters of a model? A parameter describes a distribution which is part of a model. For example, a bell curve can be described by its mean and variance.
Using the exam scenario, the distribution of grades on an exam (the measurable outcomes) followed a bell curve (this is the distribution). The mean was 85 and the variance was 100.
So, all you need to describe a normal distribution are 2 parameters:
The mean
The variance
And likelihood? Going back to our previous bell curve example… suppose we have a bunch of grades and are told the grades follow a bell curve. However, we're not given all the grades… only a sample.
We don't know the mean or variance of all the grades, but we can estimate them using the sample. The likelihood is the probability that the bell curve with estimated mean and variance results in those bunch of grades.
In other words, given a set of measurable outcomes, let's estimate the parameters. Using these estimated parameters, the hypothetical probability of the outcomes is called likelihood.
Remember, it's the hypothetical probability of the existing grades, not the probability of a future grade.
You're probably wondering, what's probability then?
Using the bell curve example, suppose we know the mean and variance. Then we're told the grades follow a bell curve. The chance that we observe certain grades and how often they are observed is the probability.
In more general terms, given the parameters, let's estimate what outcomes should be observed. That's what probability does for us.
Great! Now, what's the difference between observed and unobserved data? Observed data is the data that you saw or recorded. Unobserved data is data that is missing. There a number of reasons that the data could be missing (not recorded, ignored, etc.).
Here's the kicker:
For data mining and clustering, what's important to us is looking at the class of a data point as missing data. We don't know the class, so interpreting missing data this way is crucial for applying EM to the task of clustering.
Once again: The EM algorithm iterates and optimizes the likelihood of seeing observed data while estimating the parameters of a statistical model with unobserved variables. Hopefully, this is way more understandable now.
The best part is…
By optimizing the likelihood, EM generates an awesome model that assigns class labels to data points — sounds like clustering to me!
How does EM help with clustering? EM begins by making a guess at the model parameters.
Then it follows an iterative 3-step process:
E-step: Based on the model parameters, it calculates the probabilities for assignments of each data point to a cluster.
M-step: Update the model parameters based on the cluster assignments from the E-step.
Repeat until the model parameters and cluster assignments stabilize (a.k.a. convergence).
Is this supervised or unsupervised? Since we do not provide labeled class information, this is unsupervised learning.
Why use EM? A key selling point of EM is it's simple and straight-forward to implement. In addition, not only can it optimize for model parameters, it can also iteratively make guesses about missing data.
This makes it great for clustering and generating a model with parameters. Knowing the clusters and model parameters, it's possible to reason about what the clusters have in common and which cluster new data belongs to.
EM is not without weaknesses though…
First, EM is fast in the early iterations, but slow in the later iterations.
Second, EM doesn't always find the optimal parameters and gets stuck in local optima rather than global optima.
Where is it used? The EM algorithm is available in Weka. R has an implementation in the mclust package. scikit-learn also has an implementation in its gmm module.
What data mining does Google do? Take a look…
6. PageRank
What does it do? PageRank is a link analysis algorithm designed to determine the relative importance of some object linked within a network of objects.
Yikes.. what's link analysis? It's a type of network analysis looking to explore the associations (a.k.a. links) among objects.
Here's an example: The most prevalent example of PageRank is Google's search engine. Although their search engine doesn't solely rely on PageRank, it's one of the measures Google uses to determine a web page's importance.
Web pages on the World Wide Web link to each other. If rayli.net links to a web page on CNN, a vote is added for the CNN page indicating rayli.net finds the CNN web page relevant.
And it doesn't stop there…
rayli.net's votes are in turn weighted by rayli.net's importance and relevance. In other words, any web page that's voted for rayli.net increases rayli.net's relevance.
This concept of voting and relevance is PageRank. rayli.net's vote for CNN increases CNN's PageRank, and the strength of rayli.net's PageRank influences how much its vote affects CNN's PageRank.
What does a PageRank of 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. mean? Although the precise meaning of a PageRank number isn't disclosed by Google, we can get a sense of its relative meaning.
And here's how:
It's a bit like a popularity contest. We all have a sense of which websites are relevant and popular in our minds. PageRank is just an uber elegant way to define it.
What other applications are there of PageRank? PageRank was specifically designed for the World Wide Web.
Think about it:
At its core, PageRank is really just a super effective way to do link analysis.The objects being linked don't have to be web pages.
Here are 3 innovative applications of PageRank:
Dr Stefano Allesina, from the University of Chicago, applied PageRank to ecology to determine which species are critical for sustaining ecosystems.
Twitter developed WTF (Who-to-Follow) which is a personalized PageRank recommendation engine about who to follow.
Bin Jiang, from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, used a variant of PageRank to predict human movement rates based on topographical metrics in London.
Is this supervised or unsupervised? PageRank is generally considered an unsupervised learning approach, since it's often used to discover the importance or relevance of a web page.
Why use PageRank? Arguably, the main selling point of PageRank is its robustness due to the difficulty of getting a relevant incoming link.
Simply stated:
If you have a graph or network and want to understand relative importance, priority, ranking or relevance, give PageRank a try.
Where is it used? The PageRank trademark is owned by Google. However, the PageRank algorithm is actually patented by Stanford University.
You might be wondering if you can use PageRank:
I'm not a lawyer, so best to check with an actual lawyer, but you can probably use the algorithm as long as it doesn't commercially compete against Google/Stanford.
Here are 3 implementations of PageRank:
C++ OpenSource PageRank Implementation
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The Apple Watch 7 may have 41mm and 45mm models
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The Apple Watch 7 is already rumored for a pretty big redesign, and that could include two new larger sizes. This is literally a big deal, as the Apple Watch could become more independent of the iPhone.
According to a leaker named UnclePan on the Chinese social platform Weibo (via MacRumors), the Apple Watch 7 may come in larger 41mm and 45mm case sizes. This would replace the 40mm and 44mm options on the Apple Watch Series 6.
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By comparison, the standard Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 comes in a 40mm model and 44mm model, so both of the Apple Watch 7 options would be bigger than the baseline version of Samsung's latest smartwatch. The Classic model comes in 42mm and 46mm versions though, so Samsung would still offer a larger smartwatch than Apple.
The good news is that the leaker claims that the best Apple Watch bands for 40mm and 44mm Apple Watches will continue to work with the newer 41mm and 45mm Apple Watch 7 models. So those upgrading to a new Apple Watch would hopefully be able to keep using their current bands.
An earlier Apple Watch 7 leak by Front Page Tech's Jon Prosser pointed to this possibility. At the time, he said "the display will likely stay the same as it has been for the past few generations, though, at least from what I've heard, they have tested prototypes with even smaller bezels and more screen."
There are a number of possible benefits for a larger Apple Watch, including the ability to more often use the Apple Watch 7 on its own without the need for an iPhone. The larger panel would make it easier to do everything from sending messages to checking out photos. In addition, the already unveiled watchOS 8 is adding support for digital keys, so people can get into cars, hotel rooms and more with a wrist-based virtual wallet.
Prosser also said that Apple was "working on experimental colors" as part of a redesign that should include flatter edges, similar to the design language for the iPhone 12 and iPad Pro.
More recently, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on the possible Apple Watch 7 upgrades. He noted the flatter design as well, in addition to slimmer bezels, an updated processor and a new Time to Run mode. He reported that Apple is testing a new lamination technique that raises the display closer to the top cover.
Other possible upgrades for the Apple Watch 7 include new swim tracking features and larger batteries, though a rumor claiming the watch would add blood glucose monitoring has been shot down for this year.
The Apple Watch 7 may be slightly thicker than its predecessors, but we're willing to bet that lots of shoppers will be willing to make that trade-off for a larger display.
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The nation's top safety recruit, Xavier Nwankpa, is staying home to play for the Iowa Hawkeyes. The Southeast Polk (IA) star announced a top three of Iowa, Notre Dame, and Ohio State on Oct. 2 prior to announcing his pledge to Iowa today.
Many speculated that Ohio State was the team to beat early on, then it turned to Notre Dame for a period of time, but in the end he chose to stay home and represent his state.
What the Hawkeyes are getting:
Nwankpa is an elite talent with upside that is rarely seen in an Iowa recruiting class. That says a lot when you consider how many players the Hawkeyes put in the NFL. The Iowa recruiting model has typically been to identify players that fit their program, and then develop them into star players. Now they have a player who is already a star in the making. When you consider what the Hawkeye staff has done in developing lesser talent, you begin to wonder how far they can take a player with Nwankpa's tools.
Nwankpa has an NFL frame which still has plenty of room for growth, and should flourish in the Iowa weight program. He has great speed, is extremely efficient in all of his movements, shows great range, and is physical to boot. Along with being an elite safety, Nwankpa also has next level ability as a return man. He is extremely impressive with the ball in his hands, and one could argue that Nwankpa has a skill-set that makes him a future NFL prospect on both sides of the ball.
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Xavier Nwankpa will be the highest rated in-state prospect that Iowa has ever signed, and the second highest rated overall. The Hawkeyes showed flashes of being a championship caliber team this year, and one could argue that they are only a couple of elite players away from competing for a spot in the college football playoff. Not only is Nwankpa an elite talent, he is also connected with a number of highly rated recruits across the country. You have to look no further than his own teammate, five-star OT Kadyn Proctor, for an example. His pledge could prove to pay dividends on the recruiting trail from day one. It is almost hard to put into words how big this commitment is for Iowa.
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A LaGrange Art Museum internship program was recently named in memory of Owen C. Holleran, Jr., a 21-year staff member, according to a press release from the museum.
Holleran, who died at the age of 91 on May 12, was the Curator of Collections. The museum's board of governors took this action at its June 10 board meeting, and the focus of the internship is on museum studies and collections.
The first student under the newly named internship is Point University senior Joanna Gallman. The Calhoun native is studying under Deputy Director Lauren Oliver. Gallman assisted with the receipt and installation of the "Who Are We?" exhibition featuring the works of Robin Holder. She also has been learning about artists and art collections from Wes Cochran, owner of the Cochran Gallery and long-time art collector. Gallman is majoring in humanities.
Holleran was a graduate of the United States military academy and a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. After a long career as an Army officer and civilian employee of the Army at the Pentagon, he and his wife, Bobbie, returned to LaGrange in 1987. Holleran worked at the art museum until his retirement.
"As past president and friend, I had the honor and joy of knowing Mr. Holleran for 34 years, of which 21 were his years at the museum. He was a delight and had a great sense of humor," said Ethyl Ault, past president of the museum.
"He loved research and developed the first organized process for documenting and caring for our permanent collection. This internship is the ideal way to honor him."
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Click Frenzy, Australia's first online mass discounting event, has seen a surge in early consumer interest, with the site crashing shortly after its launch last night.
The 24-hour promotion, which kicked off at 7pm last night, aims to recreate the US's successful Cyber Monday sales bonanza with hugely discounted items for sale.
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GST review ruled out by Gillard and Abbott
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott have both distanced themselves from a review of the GST regime after the next federal election.
Independent MP Rob Oakeshott claimed that both leaders had promised him a review of GST, along with middle-class and business welfare.
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The consumer watchdog's Federal Court action claims that the franchisees did not honour warranties, refused to provide refunds or replacements for certain items and insisted that customers pay for repairs.
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Research on the island of Cyprus showing that each year 330,000 to 400,000 Greek Cypriots visit the Turkish-controlled northern regions of the island to gamble in casinos there has led to a debate about whether or not to build land casinos in the southern, internationally recognized Greek regions of Cyprus (the Turkish controlled northern Cypriot government is recognized only by Turkey). If the figures are correct, it is believed that over 44 million Cypriot pounds are spent by these Greek gamblers at northern casino locations, making opening a casino in the south a viable alternative. But while some in the south are in favor of opening a casino or multiple casinos in southern Cyprus, not everyone is behind the idea.
One Greek Cypriot official said that "The creation of casinos will help to give quality service to tourists visiting the island and to Greek Cypriots interested in casinos gambling, instead of the sleazy, low-class game clubs in the north. The decision on whether to build a casino will be taken by the government after the Cyprus Tourism Office finalizes its full report on the gambling phenomenon." But representatives of SAKO, the Association Confronting Social Problems, is decidedly against the possibility of a casino opening in Greek Cyprus.
"It is worth noting the potential cost to the national economy for the treatment of compulsive gamblers," a spokesman for SAKO said. "There are 616,700 persons aged 12 and in the free (Greek) areas. According to the Centre for Research on Human Behavior, an NGO based in Athens, Greece, the cost of treatment per gambling addict is 9,000 Cyprus pounds. So multiply 6,167 – the conservative 1 percent estimate for those likely to become addicted to casino gambling – by 9,000 and you get a cost of 55,503,000 Cyprus pounds; assume the figure is more likely to be two per cent, and the cost to the taxpayer rises to 111,006,000. This is just the cost of treatment: it does not include casino-linked criminality."
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Researchers from The University of Western Australia, Australia's national science agency CSIRO, the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Exeter have developed a new mining technique that uses electric fields to extract metals from hard rock ore.
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The technique could replace the traditional method of digging which results in significant costs to the environment.
Digging methods are currently used in 99 per cent of mining activity, often resulting in significant environmental degradation and huge quantities of solid waste.
Global estimates of waste are of the order of 100 gigatonnes per year, significantly larger than any other form of waste generated by humans.
The new technique is published in Science Advances. It is now being further developed and refined with support from the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia.
Professor Henning Prommer from UWA's School of Earth Sciences and CSIRO said the technique worked by installing electrodes within the ore body and applying electric currents that could induce the transport of electrically charged metals such as copper through rocks by a process called electromigration.
"The metals are extracted within the ore body, instead of the traditional means of having to dig them out and milling huge amounts of material, a technique which traditionally has placed huge pressure on the environment," Professor Prommer said.
"Traditional methods of excavating ore material result in a large amount of solid waste brought to the Earth's surface which needs to be disposed of, whereas this new method dramatically decreases wastage". Professor Henning Prommer
Professor Andy Fourie from UWA's School of Engineering said the new technique held immense possibilities.
"It will not only improve mining outcomes, it will help us shift towards a more sustainable way of mining," Professor Fourie said.
The researchers have tested the technique in laboratory experiments and through computer modelling.
After successfully extracting copper from some very tight rock samples they are confident the idea will also work in the field, not only for copper but also for a wide range of other metals.
"This is really exciting because we can use intermittent power sources such as solar and wind to extract minerals," Professor Prommer said.
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PTT delivers access to real-time communications, with options to immediately call teammates on the same channel or to switch channels to easily communicate with other teams. Unlike conventional radios, PTT has no radio licencing and no range limit. Leveraging integrated cellular communications, PTT doesn't require additional wi-fi or costly radio infrastructure. PTT features an all-call broadcast channel, where managers or supervisors can quickly relay emergency broadcasts to every device on the network.
Combining radio functionality with real-time safety features, PTT provides a connected solution enabling efficient communications throughout both day-to-day tasks and in the event of an emergency.
Conventional radios typically only offer 16 or 32 channels, but PTT features 100 customizable channels that automatically connect to wireless cellular networks in over 100 countries. These channels can be easily tailored to an organizations structure, projects and sites, regardless of their location. With the ability to support up to 250 users on a single channel, users can easily collaborate to help adhere to project schedules and deadlines. With PTT, G7c's functionality is expanded in a way that significantly improves employee efficiency and productivity.
PTT integrates seamlessly with your device's existing gas detection and real-time safety features, and G7c's built-in cellular communications means it works right out of the box. Many businesses haven't equipped each employee with two-way radios, but they wear a gas detector or lone worker monitor.
Blackline addresses this by providing an affordable solution for businesses to combine three devices into one, allowing more employees to have access to radio functionality. Teams are able to stay in touch without having to stop work to access a phone or radio, increasing an organization's overall productivity and keeping employees safe.
With millions invested in technology research and development, Blackline Safety is recognized for quality and innovation. Our talented team of designers and engineers create and manufacture everything in-house — from wearable technology and personal gas detectors to cloud-hosted infrastructure and web-based interfaces for global industry. We deliver the world's first turn-key, work-anywhere connected safety monitoring solution with gas detection, 3G wireless, two-way speakerphone and live monitoring to meet the demanding safety challenges of organizations in over 200 countries.


While listing her credentials to be president, Clinton also said people vote for different reasons, including how a person looks or their hairstyle.
"And that is another difference, you know how long it takes me to get ready than my two opponents — I mean really just think about it," she joked. "I think I should get points for working as hard as I do plus the time it takes to get ready."
Nevermind that, had one of her male opponents said something similar - "jokingly" or otherwise - he would have been castigated to no end for his bigotry; when Hillary says it, the statement gets only passing comment as a humorous anecdote.
Okay, Hillary: we all feel so sorry for you - even without your on-cue tears (which, I assume, will be turning up again, just any day now). You could always try shaving your head and going without the makeup. It would sort of be like campaigning on your true agenda, without trying to pretend your some kind of moderate. Both would have the same outcome: scaring the crap out of the electorate.


Many people are migrating away from the office job and turning their sights on a job they can do from home that will let them do other things as well.
Finding this type of work that you can work at from your home PC is not going to just come into your email inbox. . For the most part it will not fall into your lap.
It is, as anything else, a job.. A job that you will need to go and find, be interviewed for and many others will want that same position. Many, if not most of the people who do clerical work from home, created their own jobs by virtue of hard work, effort and a lot of scanning Internet sites, freelance job areas and sites and applications to various companies on their own time.
Very few of the clerical work from home classified on the Internet that you pay tons of funds to access will truly pan out for you sadly enough.
Before you begin to do your job search, assess your skills. The possession of a computer and typing in a role play or in chat rooms or emails to your mother in law do not in any case count as "marketable" skills.
What kind of clerical skills do you have that are marketable.? Are you a very fast typist? Can you transcribe, proofread, write knowledgeably about many things, or be able to spot typos a mile away?? Do you have any formal training in any area that will help you to find a job as a virtual assistant or a web site author?
The best advice many home workers in the clerical field, give is that they offered low cost typing, printing or desktop publishing to businesses or smaller businesses in their area, and began their business generally purchasing outsourced bits and pieces and then worked their way up.
-paralegal, veterinary offices, physicians offices, confirmation calls, hospital phone calls.
Each person who is actively working phoned this type business and offered to outsource for them, giving a cut rate until they had proven themselves in the field.
Some telecommuting jobs don't pay what you will be used to in an office job, and they are not always high powered positions that will give you access to vast sums of money on a weekly basis. Most are part-time. So–if you're looking for a position that will pay you about 100 -150 a week, then this is probably the way for you to go.
Writing articles on various web sites can be found on many for bid web sites, and dependent upon your skills or how fast you write, you can make as much as you like, provided that you build a good reputation and take in more than one bid per week.
As with any other position, rising through the ranks will take time and effort but not having to dress for the office will be well worth it.


Environment & Sustainability Award Winners!
Announced as part of the annual GCBEA gala dinner held at Jupiter's Hotel & Casino on Saturday 19th November 2016, Rocky Point Mulching was excited to be awarded the 2016 category win for Environment & Sustainability, after collecting the monthly award in June.
The Environment & Sustainability award is sponsored by the City of Gold Coast, and was presented by Mayor Tom Tate and accepted by representatives below from Rocky Point Mulching.
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Niger State Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Chieftaincy Affairs is to present a budget estimate of over N56.5b to the state house of assembly.
The commissioner of the ministry, Alh Balarabe Ibrahim disclosed this at the post exco meeting held at the Government House, Minna, Wednesday.
Alh Balarabe said that the recurrent expenditure makes up 66.03 percent of the budget size at N37.3b and that the capital expenditure stood at N19.2b making up 33.97 percent of the budget.
He said that the projection of the budget is hinged on the following expectations: statutory allocation N43.6b, internally generated revenue (IGR) from state N1.7b, Value Added Tax (VAT) N9.2b, local government IGR N1.5b, and N1.4b from capital receipts.
He added that the recurrent expenditure was higher than the capital expenditure due to the fact that less work is being done at LG level as compared to the state.
The commissioner revealed that the verification exercise to find out genuine LG staff strength was still ongoing.
Meanwhile Commissioner for Environment and Forestry, Alh Jibril Idris Amin has said that the executive council has approved the sum N232.5m to tackle gully erosion in some parts of the state.
Alh Amin said that the areas affected by the erosion are Mashegu, Kontagora, Bida, Mokwa, Kwamba area in Suleja, and FUT-Minna area.
He added that an engineering firm has been engaged to handle the project.


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This is a listing of places in Cardiff, county and capital city of Wales.

Administrative divisions

Electoral wards
This is a list of electoral wards covered by Cardiff Council:

Communities

City Centre

The city centre is Cardiff's main shopping area, the sixth largest in the UK. It is also the location of historical and cultural attractions such as:

Civic Centre

The Civic Centre is built from white Portland stone, and location of much of:
Cardiff University
National Museum and Gallery of Wales
Cardiff City Hall
Crown Buildings
Cardiff Crown Court
Temple of Peace

Cardiff Bay

Formerly called Tiger Bay, this was where the world's first million-pound cheque was signed and was the centre of the global coal industry in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1980s the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was set up to redevelop the area and has since been transformed into a high-profile area of living, shopping, dining and culture attractions, such as:

Red Dragon Centre
Mermaid Quay
Wales Millennium Centre
Senedd
Techniquest
The Coal Exchange
St David's Hotel & Spa
Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve

Cardiff International Sports Village

The International Sports Village is a work in progress in Cardiff, with additional sporting and retail sites being added every so often.

Cardiff International Pool
Cardiff International White Water
Cardiff Arena
Ice Arena Wales

Buildings

Covered markets and shopping centres

Leisure centres

Public libraries

Police stations
Cardiff Bay (area headquarters)
Cardiff Central

Historical

Communities that no longer exist
Crockherbtown
Newtown
Temperance Town
Tredegarville

Notable buildings that no longer exist

Geographical

Rivers and waterways
 Rivers
River Taff
River Ely
Rhymney River
 Canals
Dock Feeder Canal
Glamorganshire Canal
Melingriffith Feeder Canal (Whitchurch)
 Weirs
Blackweir
Llandaff weir
Radyr Weir
 Lakes and reservoirs
Roath Park Lake
Llanishen Reservoir
Pentwyn Lake

Woods
Plymouth woods
Leckwith woods
Long Wood (Forest farm)

Educational establishments

Higher Education
Cardiff University
Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly UWIC)
University of South Wales (formerly University of Glamorgan and University of Wales, Newport)
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
St. Michael's College, Llandaff (theological college)

Further Education
Cardiff and Vale College
St David's Catholic College
Cardiff Sixth Form College

Primary and Secondary Education

 Adamsdown
Adamsdown Primary School
Stacey Primary School
Tredegarville Primary School

 Birchgrove
Birchgrove Primary School

 Butetown
Mount Stuart Primary School
St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Primary School
St Mary The Virgin Church in Wales Primary School
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Hamadryad

 Caerau
Glyn Derw High School
Woodlands High School
Riverbank School
Millbank Primary School
Trelai Primary School
Caerau Infant School
Cwrt-Yr-Ala Junior School

 Canton
Fitzalan High School
Lansdowne Primary School
Radnor Primary School
Ysgol Gymraeg Pwll Coch
Ysgol Gymraeg Treganna
Severn Infant School
Severn Junior School

 Cathays
Cathays High School
Gladstone Primary School
Cardiff Muslim Primary School
St Monica's Church in Wales Primary School

 Coryton
Coryton Primary School

 Creigiau
Cregiau Primary School

 Cyncoed
Cardiff High School
Lakeside Primary School
Rhydypenau Primary School

 Ely
Michaelston Community College (Formerly Glan Ely High School)
Herbert Thompson Primary School
St Fagan's Church in Wales Primary School
St Francis Roman Catholic Primary School
Hywel Dda Infant School
Hywel Dda Junior School
Windsor Clive Infant School
Windsor Clive Junior School

 Fairwater
Bishop Hannon High School (closed 1987)
Cantonian High School
Bishop of Llandaff Church in Wales High School
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr
Fairwater Primary School
Holy Family Roman Catholic Primary School
Pentrebane Primary School
Peter Lea Primary School
Ysgol Gymraeg Coed-Y-Gof

 GabalfaAllensbank Primary School
Gabalfa Primary School
Ysgol Mynydd Bychan
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School
St Monica's Church in Wales Primary School

 GrangetownGrangetown Primary School
Ninian Park Primary School
St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School
St Paul's Church in Wales Primary School

 HeathTon-Yr-Ywen Primary School

 LisvaneCorpus Christi Roman Catholic High School
Llysfaen Primary School

 LlandaffThe Cathedral School, Llandaff
Howell's School, Llandaff
Bishop of Llandaff Church in Wales High School
Llandaff Church in Wales Primary School
Ysgol Pencae
Danescourt Infant School
Danescourt Junior School

 Llandaff NorthYsgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf
Meadowbank School
Hawthorn Infant School
Hawthorn Junior School

 LlanedeyrnLlanedeyrn High School
Llanedeyrn Primary School

 LlanishenLlanishen High School
Cefn Onn Primary School
Christ the King Roman Catholic Primary School
Coed Glas Primary School
Ysgol Y Wern
The Court School

 LlanrumneyLlanrumney High School
Bryn Hafod Primary School
Glan-yr-Afon Primary School
Pen-y-Bryn Primary School
St Cadoc's Roman Catholic Primary School
St Mellon's Church in Wales Primary School
Ysgol Bro Eirwg

 PentwynAll Saints Primary School
Bryn Celyn Primary School
The Hollies School
Springwood Primary School
St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School
St David's Church in Wales Primary School
St Peter Evan's Roman Catholic Primary School
Ysgol Y Berllan Deg
Glyncoed Infant & Nursery School
Glyncoed Junior School
St Philip Evans Roman Catholic Primary School

 PentyrchPentyrch Primary School
Ysgol Gynradd Gwaelod Y Garth Primary School

 PenylanSt Teilo's Church in Wales High School
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern
Ty Gwyn School
Marlborough Infant School
Marlborough Junior School

 PontprennauPontprennau Primary School

 Radyr & MorganstownRadyr Comprehensive School
Bryn Deri Primary School
Radyr Primary School

 RhiwbinaGreenhill School
Llanishen Fach Primary School
Rhiwbeina Primary School
Greenhill School

 RiversideKitchener Primary School
St Mary's Catholic Primary School

 RoathAlbany Primary School
St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School
Taibah Muslim Primary School
St Anne's Church in Wales Infant School

 RumneyEastern High School, Cardiff
St Illtyd's Catholic High School
Greenway Primary School
Rumney Primary School

 SplottBaden Powell Primary School
Moorland Primary School
St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School
Ysgol Glan Morfa

 ThornhillThornhill Primary School

 TongwynlaisTongwynlais Primary School

 TremorfaWillows High School

 TrowbridgeBishop Childs Church in Wales Primary School
Meadowlane Primary School
Oakfield Primary School
St John Lloyd Roman Catholic Primary School
Willowbrook Primary School
Trowbridge Primary School

 Whitchurch'''
Whitchurch High School
Eglwys Newydd Primary School
Eglwys Wen Primary School
Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd

Parks

Archaeological sites
Cardiff Castle
Castell Coch
 Morganstown Castle Mound
 Twmpath Castle
 The Priory (Bute park)
 The Friary (foundations removed to build the Capital Tower)

Retail parks

Transport

Public transport hubs
Cardiff Central railway station
Cardiff Queen Street railway station
Radyr railway station
Dumfries Place (bus interchange)
Greyfriars Road (bus interchange)

Major roads

A4055 road
A4232 road
A470 road
A48 road
A4161 road
A48(M) motorway
Cowbridge Road East/West
M4 motorway
Newport Road

Railway lines

Railway stations

Cycle routes
Taff Trail
Ely Trail
Rhymney Trail
Lôn Las Cymru (National Cycle Network: Route 8)
National Cycle Network: Route 88

Walking routes
Cardiff Centenary Walk

Bridges

Shipping
Cardiff Bay (leisure boats and local ferries)
Penarth Marina

Airports
 Cardiff Heliport

(Cardiff International Airport and the military base RAF St Athan are both located in the neighbouring Vale of Glamorgan)

See also
List of cultural venues in Cardiff
List of places in Wales

References

Places
Cardiff

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Q: How to deal with indentation-sensitive language with Irony? I am trying to parse a very naive indentation-sensitive language with only two constructs (hello the statement, and fun a block definition).
hello
hello
fun
  hello
  hello
hello

In order to do that, I have composed the following grammar with Irony:
public class NaiveIndent : Grammar
{
    public NaiveIndent()
        : base(true) // CaseSensitive
    {
        var myexp = ToTerm("hello");
        var fun = ToTerm("fun");

        var statementList = new NonTerminal("statementList");
        var statement = new NonTerminal("statement");
        var block = new NonTerminal("block");

        statementList.Rule = MakePlusRule(statementList, NewLineStar, statement);
        statement.Rule = (myexp | block) + NewLine;
        block.Rule = fun + NewLine + Indent + statementList + Dedent;

        Root = statementList;
        LanguageFlags = LanguageFlags.NewLineBeforeEOF;
    }
}

Yet parsing the sample fails with the error (4,3) Syntax error, expected: INDENT
Could anyone pinpoint what I am doing wrong?

A: Have you checked his Python sample?
http://irony.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#Irony.Samples/MiniPython/MiniPython.cs

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Black British Drama
A Transnational Story
By Michael Pearce
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters comb ... Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters combine historical documentation and discussion with close analysis to provide an in-depth, absorbing account of post-war black British drama situated within global and transnational circuits. A significant contribution to black British and black diaspora theatre studies, Black British Drama is a must-read for scholars and students in this evolving field.
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters combine historical documentation and discussion with close analysis to provide an in-depth, absorbing account of post-war black British drama situated within global and transnational circuits. A significant contribution to black British and black diaspora theatre studies, Black British Drama is a must-read for scholars and students in this evolving field.
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How to Start Playing a Guitar: Chord Basics for Newbies
ByJames August 9, 2022 August 9, 2022
The ability to play musical instruments has long been considered an indicator of education. The guitar has always been popular, famous for its affordability and versatility, like online slots that can be played even for free. It also successfully fits into almost all styles of popular music.
How to Hold a Guitar Properly
If there is a correct answer to the question of where to start playing the guitar, it's with the landing. When it comes to the classical guitar, there can only be one option. To do this, the guitar is placed with the lower notch on the left leg, which in this case should be higher than the right. Someone uses a stack of books for lifting, but there are specialized stands. As a result the neck is closer to the eyes and the soundboard is placed so that it is convenient to put your hands on it in a classical position.
Acoustic guitars with metal strings and electric guitars can be taken in such a way too, but more often they are put on the right leg. The left leg remains completely free. This position makes it harder to see the fingerboard and takes some getting used to using the classic left hand position on the fingerboard, but it's much more mobile and close to where you'd put your guitar standing up.
How to Grip the Fingerboard
There are also two ways to place your hand on the fingerboard. Classical position is to put your thumb behind the fingerboard, which means that its end should be approximately in the middle of the fingerboard. The hand is brought forward, which allows the hand to move more freely on the fingerboard. This is useful for strumming complex chords without a barre and fast melodies, that is, can be used on all types of guitars. No other staging options can be used on the classical guitar.
Another way comes from the blues. This stance implies putting your thumb on the fingerboard from the top. Depending on the size of a hand it can be either the tip or the middle of the finger. This grip provides a reliable grip on the fingerboard, which is necessary for pulling up the strings and simplifies the chords with barre, but limits mobility. This staging variant is equally suitable for pop acoustic and electric guitars.
What Are Chords and How to Clamp Them
Chords are three or more notes played simultaneously. If the same notes are played one after the other, it's an overdub. If you're basically wondering how to play a 5-string guitar, learning basic chords is a must, as it'll allow you to play the most popular songs.
How to Read Chord Fingering
Fingering patterns may vary slightly, but the idea behind them is always the same. They are read from left to right, from top to bottom. Vertical lines indicate strings: usually the thickest string (the sixth) on the left, and the thinnest string (the first) on the right. The dots and lines indicate how the strings are pressed – with one finger or barre respectively.
If the chord is suddenly shifted across the fingerboard, there will additionally be fret lines drawn on the left, indicating where on the fingerboard your hand should be shifted. Moreover, open strings are often used in chords – these are indicated by an empty circle at the top. If an open string should not sound, but the fingering is between sounding strings, it's also marked with an X at the top.
How to Clamp and Rearrange Am, E, and Dm Chords
Am, E, and Dm are used in many songs and allow you to play all those songs that can be played in A minor key at all.
All three chords have a similar fingering and require almost the same hand position. You need three fingers: the index, middle, and ring fingers. The first is placed on the uppermost note, and the other two are on top of each other and clasp the rest. There will also necessarily be one bass string above the last finger, which in this case is the tonic note that sets the base for the entire chord.
You need to master the transposition of these three chords. It's simple enough: you just need to shift your hand to the lower or upper strings, and everything else stays as it is. The only exception is the Dm chord: it requires you to move your ring finger one fret to the right.
How to Clamp and Rearrange the A7, C, and G Chords
The A7 chord requires only two fingers – the middle and ring fingers. They are placed on the second fret of the fourth and second strings respectively, and all other strings, except the sixth, sound open.
For the C chord, three fingers placed diagonally above each other are enough.
The G chord isn't used as often. Nevertheless, it's an uncomplicated and beautiful chord that can also be used in various popular songs.
How to Clamp and Rearrange Em, D, and H7 Chords
For the Chord, all you need to do is place two fingers on the second fret of the fifth and fourth strings, and leave the rest open. You can also move it farther down the fingerboard, but then you must add a barre on all six strings one fret before the two fingers are placed.
It isn't hard to learn how to play the chord D by yourself. But moving this chord across the fingerboard is difficult even for experienced guitarists. Because of this, it's usually used only on the first frets.
The H7 chord has an amazing sound. Unpopularity is related to the complexity of playing: it requires all four fingers, which are cunningly placed under each other. At the same time, you have to manage not to touch the second string, which should remain open and sound.
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