In recent years, cell phone manufacturers started installing GPS receivers in cell phones so that people could be easily located in the event that they needed to call 911 from their cell phone. This service is called enhanced 911.
It didn't take long for clever people to figure out that they could write applications that make it possible to use their cell phones as cell phone tracking devices. There are several cell phone locator services to choose from these days.
Some of them are free, other cell phone locator services charge a fee. Some require you to download and install special software on your cell phone and some don't. Some cell phone locator services require you to subscribe to a data plan and some don't.
The beauty of GPS cell phone tracker services is that there is a service that will work with most any cell phone. Whether you want to keep an eye on your children with one of these apps or you want to keep track of your employees, there is a defiantly a cell phone tracker app that will be perfect for you.
Everyone should have a tracking app installed on their smartphone for one simple reason. If you ever lose your phone, you can use the app to find it. Taking a few minutes now to install a cell phone locator on your phone could end up saving you a lot of money in the future. You'll be glad that you did when you're able to quickly find your lost cell phone!
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I don't know how we can ever really know that answer to that one. It's entirely possible that cell phone locator technology is much more sophisticated than we are currently aware of.
For example, when GPS technology was first made available to the general public, the government felt that for reasons of national security, civilian GPS units should be restricted in their level of accuracy.
Is this happening with GPS phone tracking technology today? Unfortunately we can only speculate as to whether it is or isn't.
Traditionally, a mobile phone locator technician would use triangulation as the primary way of determining the location of a cell phone.
Whenever someone has their phone turned on, it sends intermittent "pings" to the cell phone towers around it. This is the phones way of knowing whether it is in a roaming area, how strong of signal it has, and what towers to use when you need to either receive to make a phone call.
Triangulation as a cell phone location method is only an estimate of where the phone was the last time it was "pinged". Law enforcement can send a ping to the phone only in an emergency. Any other time, your cell phone location is considered part of your private information. They would need a warrant to ping the phone for non emergency reasons.
This method of tracking a phone isn't generally used by cell phone locator applications.
Another, more modern and accurate way a cell phone locator service works is through GPS (Global Position System). This service is also available to emergency services via a system called Enhanced 911.
In addition to emergency personnel being able to locate a cellular phone with this service, it is now commonly available to private individuals.
In order to utilize this technology, an individual must own a phone that has a GPS receiver built into it. Fortunately, nearly all modern cell phones meet this requirement now days.
Tracking apps that utilize the GPS capabilities of a phone are much more accurate than those that are limited by the simpler triangulation method.
It's worth pointing out that in most cases, the phone that you would like to track must be in a cell phone service area and have a signal in order for the app to determine the GPS coordinates of a phone.
In some cases cell phone tracking apps make use of Wi-Fi to determine the location of a mobile phone. Unfortunately, this method of tracking isn't very accurate.
What the app does is attempt to determine if the phone is receiving a Wi-Fi signal. If it is, the app will extract the IP address of the Wi-Fi router and then report the location of the IP address.
If the Wi-Fi connection is using a "dedicated IP address", the location results are fairly accurate. If the connection is using a "shared IP address, the location that is reported can be as much as 100 miles off.
One very good cell phone locator service that you must pay to use is the Sprint Family locator. Sprint only charges $5.00 a month for this service and it is well worth getting.
You don't need to download or program anything onto your phone for this cell phone tracker to work. You don't need to subscribe to a data plan. You can do an unlimited number of searches for only $5.00 a month.
They also have a very cool feature that will allow you to program the application to send you a text message with the location of anyone in your cell phone tracking network at a predetermined time of day.
A couple of other fee based phone tracking systems are the Verizon Family Locator and AT&T FamilyMap. Both programs offer a means for the company's customers to track cell phones on their network for a small monthly fee.
Here is a short video from Sprint about their flagship cell phone tracking program.
Here's a short video about the cell phone tracking service called "Family Locator". It will give you a basic idea of how there service works.
There are many fee based services to choose from but there is also plenty of free applications available for users of all types of smartphones.
One very popular free cell phone locator is called Find My iPhone but it only works with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. You used to have to sign up for MobileMe to use Find My iPhone and it was free to test out for 60 days. If after the 60 days is up, you decided that you wanted to stay with the service, it would have cost you $99 a year. Nowadays, however, Find My iPhone is free to use if you have a free iCloud account.
Another free cell phone locator is called Glympse. With this one, you simply go to the Glympse website and send a text message or email to someone that you want to be able to track your cell phone. You set a time limit for each message that you send. This way, the person who receives the message can only track you for as long as you set the timer for. This cell phone locator service is great for business users.
Unfortunately, the only free tracking apps are for cell phones that have the ability to have apps installed on them. These are most commonly referred to as smartphones. If you have an older style of phone, you'll have a really hard time getting a free tracking app to work on it.
If you're looking for a free tracking application, simply go to the app store for your particular style of phone and search for the keyword "cell phone tracker". You'll find a long list of apps that are free to download. Since they're free, you can feel free to try a couple out to see which one you like the most.
Here's a short video that briefly demonstrates the free GPS tracking app called Glympse.
There is a very cool feature that is available with some of the premium cell phone tracking applications that are on the market called "geo fencing". Geo fencing is basically a feature that allows you to establish "virtual boundaries" for people in your phone tracking network.
This is a great feature to use for keeping track of teenage drivers. Once you have established the "geo fence" you will get a text message alerting you to the fact that the person who was carrying that cell phone breached your virtual perimeter. You can then get on the phone and find out why your teenage driver is driving some place that you have forbidden them from driving.
This feature can also be useful to businesses that employ delivery drivers. Through the use of Geo fencing, businesses can be alerted if their drivers travel outside of their assigned routes.
I'll bet you didn't know that it's actually really quite easy to retrieve deleted text messages from a cell phone. Some cell phone tracking apps make it possible to retrieve these so called deleted messages without ever having the phone in your hand.
How doe they do this, you might ask? Well, as it turns out, nothing is "actually" deleted when you delete data from a cell phone. All that happens is the name of the particular bit of data is removed so you don't see it anymore on your phone.
This deleted data will remain on the phone until new data is stored in it's place. How long this will take really depends on the how much data your phone is capable of storing as well as how much new data is continually being added to the phone.
If you get 2,000 text messages a month, this old data may be recorded over fairly quickly. If you only get a few texts each month, it may stay on your phone for months.
If being able to recover deleted text messages from your cell phone tracker app is important to you, you can check out and app called SpyBubble.
Many of the popular cell phone locator apps these days come equipped with a couple of very handy security features.
The first is called "Remote Lock". This feature can be used to lock your phone from a computer to prevent unauthorized access to your sensitive personal information should you ever lose it or have it stolen.
The second is called "Remote Wipe" or "Wipe Clean". This feature should only be used if you've lost your phone and you don't think there's any way of retrieving it. If you activate this feature, everything on your phone will be erased to protect your personal information that might be stored on the phone.
As good as these phone tracker apps have become at tracking cell phones. They still aren't perfect and there are some limiting factors that you should probably know about if you plan to use them.
There's no way for these apps to automatically turn your phone on when you need to use them so the phone must be turned on or they won't work. This means that if you have an occasion to use them like when you misplace your phone, you should attempt to locate the phone right away before the battery dies and the phone turns off.
As mentioned above, the phone needs to be in a cell phone service coverage area and have a signal or the tracking app won't work.
There are some circumstances that will limit the accuracy of the apps. If you are in a building that blocks the phone's ability to use it's GPS receiver to calculate the location of the phone, the accuracy won't be as good. In some cases it will report the last known location of the phone. In other cases, the app will attempt to determine the location of the phone with other methods.
Well, for the time being it looks like cell phone locating a mixture of both science fiction and science fact. It is possible to some degree. Depending on the circumstances, it may work perfect one time and not at all another. For example, if you're inside a building, your phone won't be able to get a GPS signal and the app won't be able to report accurate location details.
If you're looking for a cell phone tracking app that will allow you to simply type in a phone number and you'll instantly see the location of the phone, you'll be looking for a long time because such an app just doesn't exist.
I've seen the technology of cell phone locating apps evolve quite rapidly over the past couple of years and I fully expect it to continue making dramatic strides forward.
Have you ever used a cell phone locator app to track a cell phone?
It's your responsibility to check the local laws that pertain to tracking someone with their cell phone prior to doing so.
You should always get permission from the user of the phone before tracking any cell phone.
You should never use any kind of software or technology to invade someone's privacy!
What are your thoughts on cell phone locator services?
the gov. of dubai is using it perfectlly to locate anybody and i've proven it my self when one of my guy had a problem with somebody.
I have a website with a forum. We allow people to sign up for the website using fake names and fake e-mail addresses. It is a community website and we have never had a problem until recently when someone (I have a pretty good idea who it is) posted anonymously under 4 different names. His posts were really rants and extremely derogatory. He made several threats related to destruction of property.
I took this threat and the apparent rage seriously because we did have some significant property damage a year ago. I called the police who clearly don't want to get involved. He used a Sprint phone/tablet and I have 7 of the IP addresses and the date and time they were sent (all within a day). Most of them track back to the Kansas where Sprint has a headquarters. We don't live in Kansas.
is there a way to track someone without them knowing?
Thanks so much for posting this article. It was really helpful to me and I'll certainly be implementing what I've learned on our children's phones.
Misha, call you cell phone company and ask if they have a tracking service that can be activated remotely.
I need to be able to secretly track anyone I want to without Paying !
Sure, there are lots of apps that will do this but you'll have to install one on the phone that you want to be able to track.
i need to be able to locate a cell phone in real time but for free ,not what town it in,the exact location as in street and its moving target for free is there sush thing?
Can u track a Stolen iPhone that u did not install any tracking app on. I read that apple tracks all iPhones anyway.
i love this website i first lost my phone oh look at that i found it again all because of my phone.
i need to make sure my husband isn't spending my money on drugs and cheating he has a metro pcs phone its a huwaia or something like that think its a smart phone will this work?
really good reviews, thanks already providing useful information .
i am jst loving it!!
@quiethorse - No this won't work on prepaid phones. Sorry.
Hey, can you tell me if there is a cell phone tracker that will work on a prepaid phone?
I had no idea this was even possible! Thanks so much for writing about this!
Thank your very much for some good information here. This will really help me and my family. I'm so glad I found your site. Thanks again!
i hope igoogle could also offer SMS tracker by simply inserting your SIM card into an adapter that could be inserted to a laptop or desktop. In this way one could trace a texter who only text to disturb people. at least by identifying the city where the SMS came from, you will be able to guess who are those stupid texters.
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Decision Optimization for Data Science Experience: Why?
In a recent post, I introduced the major areas of functionality of our recent delivery of Decision Optimization for Data Science Experience. The DSX Local platform now additionally includes the ability to develop, validate and deploy Decision Optimization models. But, without background on Decision Optimization, you might wonder: "Why is it so important to have Decision Optimization in my Data Science Platform". This is the topic of this post.
3. use this information and insights in order to decide what actions should be done next.
For each of these objectives, different scientific techniques can be used, and sometimes the same type of algorithm can be used in different areas.
3. the car, based on the destination you have indicated, data on the car and traffic, suggests the path to follow: this is prescriptive analytics.
Why Predictive is not enough?
The news suggest machine learning is all what you need to take the right decisions. With enough historical data, algorithms will train to find the right decisions. This is currently true only on specific and limited cases.
As an example, let's consider the marketing campaign optimization. Imagine a company can promote some products to some customers.
Using a trained predictive algorithm, it is possible to predict the expected revenue for each product/customer combination according to product and customer properties. If there is no additional regulation, then all best combinations can be selected. Easy.
But what if there is some additional regulations?
Consider the simplistic case of 3 products and 10 customers, with a given limit of 3 customers per campaign and 1 product per customer. Because of the constraints, it might be better not to always select the highest individual expected revenue. The optimal solution is yet not trivial, and these are just thousands of combinations. Imagine the real application with dozens of products and millions of customers!
Where does Decision Optimization applies?
If I would be sarcastic, I would say Machine Learning applications reduces to recognizing cats and dogs in pictures. This is an area where it is really performing well. If correctly trained, the model might even perform better than humans, as he might extract new features and better use these features.There are lots of potential (future?) applications of Machine Learning, and you read about them everyday in the news.
Decision Optimization easily outperforms humans after the model has been formulated.
Applications of Decision Optimization are just everywhere (already!), although we don't read about them every day in the news.
When you go to the supermarket, the prices have been optimized using DO, the positioning of products on the shelfs have been optimized using DO, the replenishment of the store has been optimized using DO, the localization of warehouses has been optimized using DO, the transportation of the items from the plants to the warehouses has been optimized using DO, the production lines have been scheduled using DO, the maintenance plan of the production lines has been optimized using DO, etc.
In the hospital, nurses are scheduled using DO, in the post office, mails delivery is optimized using DO.
At home, the water and electricity distribution are planned using DO. The generation of electricity is planned using DO, and if you have a failure and call the customer service, the personal there have their planning optimized using DO.
Traveling? the planes construction and maintenance is scheduled using DO, the different flights are optimized using DO, the types of fleets are assigned using DO, the crew and pilots are scheduled using DO, the price of individual tickets is optimized using DO. The assignment of planes to tails and gates in the airport is optimized using DO, and your luggage is handled optimally using DO.
You understand I could continue, and that Decision Optimization even if not very present on the newspapers is really used everywhere.
A data scientist willing to extract insights to take action from data should really consider DO.
Decision Optimization solves complex problems but requires data. In order to optimally schedule which goods should be produced and transported, one need to take into account the expected demand for these goods at different periods and locations. Decision Optimization is fed with future data which has been predicted from historical data. This is just an example, but any Decision Optimization application requires at some point the outcome of some kind of predictive model.
With the addition of Decision Optimization to Data Science Experience, data scientists now have access to all technologies required to implement complete decision applications within the same platform with common tools to develop, share, validate and deploy models.
With an example, such as Marketing Campaign Optimization, I will illustrate how the complete set of features can be used.


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Mark Grimmette (born January 23, 1971) is an American luger who competed from 1990 to 2010. Competing in five Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the men's doubles event with a silver in 2002 and a bronze in 1998. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Grimmette also won nine medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with two silvers (Mixed team: 2004, 2005) and seven bronzes (Men's doubles: 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009; Mixed team: 2001). He won the overall Luge World Cup men's doubles title three times (1997–1998, 1998–1999, 2002–2003). He was selected in December 2009 to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Grimmette carried the United States flag during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

He announced his retirement on March 17, 2010.

On April 29, 2010, it was announced that Grimmette was named USA Luge's Sports Program Director and also was involved as a head coach.

Personal life
Mark Grimmette lived in Muskegon, Michigan and graduated from Reeths-Puffer High School originally, but moved to Lake Placid, New York after being named to his current position. He lives there with his wife Keela, founder of www.reason2smile.org. Grimmette and his wife Keela have three children.

A biography of Mark Grimmette is 9.8 Meters Per Second Per Second by Jean E. Van Lente.

Grimmette attended the University of Denver in the early 1990s.

References

 1994 luge men's doubles results
 2006 luge men's doubles results
 DatabaseOlympics.com profile on Grimmette.
 FIL-Luge profile
  (April 29, 2010 article accessed April 29, 2010.)
 Fuzilogik Sports – Winter Olympic results – Men's luge
 Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skeleton.
 Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton.
 List of men's doubles luge World Cup champions since 1978.
 Official website of Grimmette and Martin
 USA Luge profile of Grimmette and Martin

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1971 births
Living people
American male lugers
Olympic lugers of the United States
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in luge
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in luge
Lugers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Ann Arbor, Michigan
20th-century American people
21st-century American people

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U2's Chicago #4 setlist, 29/06
U2 performed the penultimate night of their five-night stand in Chicago today. After yesterday's surprises, there were more in store today. The band in soundcheck ran through Two Hearts Beat As One, Sweetest Thing, and The Crystal Ballroom, and Bono and Edge also did Stevie Wonder's version of Happy Birthday. Previous rehearsals of Crystal Ballroom have not included Bono, but today he participated. You can watch a brief video of it here.
This soundcheck, finally, was a harbinger of things to come for The Crystal Ballroom. It made its live debut tonight as the 13th new song to be played this tour (9 from the main Songs Of Innocence album, Invisible, Ordinary Love, Lucifer's Hands, and now Crystal Ballroom). The Innocence + Experience Tour is now level with 360 for new songs: 360 had seven from No Line On The Horizon and six then-unreleased songs. (It is, however, worth noting that one of the current tour's thirteen is Every Breaking Wave, which although a new song now was also played as an unreleased song on 360.) The last tour to have more than thirteen new songs was ZooTV, with a total of eighteen from Achtung Baby and Zooropa - or nineteen if you count Slow Dancing, which debuted on Lovetown, was also played on ZooTV, and was finally released in late 1993 as a b-side to Stay.
Here's footage of Crystal Ballroom:
Sweetest Thing returned to the set after an absence of over a month; it had missed thirteen shows. Bono dedicated it to his wife Ali, who like last night was in attendance at this show. The Electric Co. and I Still Haven't Found returned after missing two shows each. Before I Still Haven't Found, Bono led the crowd in singing Happy Birthday for John Cusack. This is the first time this tour that Bono has led the crowd in singing Happy Birthday; he did it 14 times across 360.
The setlist was:
The Electric Co. / Send in the Clowns (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet) / Smells Like Teen Spirit (snippet)
Sunday Bloody Sunday / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
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ABOUT BARB'S WOOD SIGNS
All of Barb's Wood Signs are handcrafted at our custom facilities in Sherwood, Oregon. Each sign is painted and stenciled by hand. Solid pine is used as the medium, and because of this, each sign is unique in appearance. Some may have knots, cracks, or various imperfections that aid in the vintage look of the signs.
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Barb Agnew was practically born with a hammer in her hand and always wanted to work with wood. Taught the trade of wood-working by her father Carlos, a custom cabinet maker who owned his own business in Western Oregon, Barb's creative path was established early. As a child, Barb spent countless days in her dad's cabinet shop and has been working with wood for most of her life. She enjoyed making furniture, crafts and most importantly loved to make signs! Barb ended up completing a design degree at Oregon State University yet originally moved into a career in Human Resources.
What began as a hobby shortly after her father's death in 1991, soon became a growing enterprise. Her hand made sign work stemmed from her love of personalizing her own home. Word quickly got around to friends and neighbors and Barb soon became known simply as "the sign lady."
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KAMI WILLIAMS
An invitation to help out family friend Barb Agnew in September 2006, helped Kami Williams learn that she wanted to become an entrepreneur. This was a big departure from her original plan of heading to work at a large corporation after finishing her global marketing studies at Portland State University.
Kami immediately witnessed Barb's commitment to excellence and realized her passion to help build the company into an even larger, more successful operation. Kami brings her youthful energy, boundless creativity and desire for personal growth to Barb's Wood Signs. Kami is involved in every part of the process, especially making sure that every customer is completely satisfied with their personalized wood sign.


New Orleans — The National Automobile Dealers Association on Friday unveiled a plan that it hopes will reverse inconsistent auto lending practices to minority consumers. The move, the first time NADA has made a recommendation of the sort, will also impact the millions of buyers who rely on vehicle financing each year.
Friend of Jalopnik, Karl Henkel has the scoop at Detriot News.
Now the key phrase in this is "optional for dealers." So if the dealerships cannot continue to screw people, especially minority buyers with sub-prime credit why would they participate? Perhaps if more people were educated in the was of financing a vehicle they would be less likely to be taken advantage of. Jus sayin'.


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Ebeid, Nutley and Beltagui (seen partially) at the MTF.
Guards in pharaonic costume paraded outside the Cairo International Exhibition and Convention Centre, venue of the Mediterranean Travel Fair (MTF), September 24-26, as a folklore group served up lively Egyptian fare.
There was the normal bustle associated with an international trade fair, and the pundits who forecast a disruption following the September 11 terrorist incidents in the US were proved wrong.
Certainly, security measures were in full force, but that was nothing new to Egyptian conference or tourist sites, Cairo having dealt with terrorist incidents in the past decade. Egyptian Prime Minister Dr Atef Ebeid opened the event, reflecting the importance the Egyptian government attaches to tourism.
Although 11 companies failed to show up, enthusiasm was far from dampened, with the announcement that the number of stands was in fact a 10 per cent increase over the 2000 MTF, the newcomers including representations from Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Argentina and Malta.
"This is an encouraging sign," said Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mamdouh El Beltagui. "Our MTF guests, by coming here, have demonstrated they consider Egypt a peaceable nation and a safe destination."
Tom Nutley, managing director of Reed Travel Exhibitions, which organised the event in association with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, said the cancellations were not serious as in any such event, there were four or five withdrawals by opening day.
The effects of the terrorist strikes would be felt in the regional travel and tourism industry, but it was resilient, as it had experienced violence before, he said, referring to terrorist incidents in Egypt in recent years.
"It comes back stronger, more resilient, in better shape and continues to grow," said Nutley.
"This is an industry that in the long term will run, will provide income, will provide employment."
He expected regional tourism growth to be four per cent per year.
That only 11 companies had withdrawn from the MTF "says a lot about the industry and the professionalism of the industry", he added.
The Egyptian travel and tourism industry was well represented and the event had the support of the Egyptian Travel Agents Association, the Egyptian Hotels Association and Egypt Air.
Beltagui reacted strongly to suggestions there was a serious slump in hotel business after September 11, saying the figures his ministry had collected did not reflect that position.
The minister acknowledged the terrorist strikes in the US triggered cancellations but these were no more than 18 per cent overall in the first week after the incidents.
Europe contributes up to 80 per cent of the incoming tourist traffic, the Arab world 16 per cent and the US and other regions four per cent.
Tourist arrivals in Egypt in 2000 were 5.5 million against 4.79 million in 1999 and 3.9 million in 1997. One in 10 Egyptians earns his bread from tourism.
Beltagui said the Egyptian tourism industry would suffer when the expected US-led retaliatory strikes materialised. The effect would depend on "the volume, location and duration" of the military action.
There is growing interest in the US in Egpytian history with several American universities having participated in archaeological expeditions including efforts to determine the age of the Great Sphinx.
Egyptian authorities therefore are concerned that US visitor numbers are not commensurate with that scholastic enthusiasm.
"The US market was not affected much because of its small size. We want this market to grow," Beltagui said.
The strikes came at a time when Egypt's tourism campaign was in full flow. Beltagui spoke of initiatives during the past year to bolster confidence among Europeans, saying strong links had been forged with tour operators.
To stem the fallout from the September 11 incidents, Egypt has enforced security like never before, with airports, hotels, convention centres, archaeological sites and museums subjected to the strictest scrutiny.
Sniffer dogs were on hand at the MTF and metal detection devices and body searches slowed movement into the venue but were seen by the visitors as appropriate steps.
Reflecting on security, Beltagui remarked that notwithstanding the arrangements, there would be a degree of fear among air travellers, considering the terrorists had proved chillingly that a means of transportation could be converted into an engine of death and TV screens across the world had transmitted that horror in all its shocking detail.
One of the visitors to the MTF was American Charlie Gatt who asked what steps Egypt was taking to build confidence among tourists wishing to head for Cairo.
"There is a comprehensive plan. We are working with the private sector - parties there that go with us to market the product," responded Beltagui.
The first step was to maintain communication channels with tourism companies abroad. The tourism industry would have to be told the truth about the situation in Egypt through credible statistics.
The second step would be to accelerate the familiarisation tour programme. An important approach towards developing the tourist traffic would be to find a balance between promotion and marketing with pricing playing a crucial role. Price flexibility would be of the essence.
It was also important that tourists realised that terrorism could not be equated with Islam, said Beltagui.
Arab and Muslim states would have to tackle the issue of the image of Islam.
One of the exhibitors was Egypt's private carrier Scorpio Aviation, which is the country's only other airline apart from national carrier Egypt Air.
Scorpio announced at the MTF it was on the threshold of covering the whole of Egypt with scheduled flights to begin from October 1 to the resorts of Mersa Alam and Taba from Cairo.
The airline already flies to Abu Simbel, Aswan, Luxor, Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh with two 46-seat ATR42-320 aircraft built by an Airbus subsidiary.
The airline will also start services to Amman, Aqaba and Beirut this month and plans to introduce a service to the Gulf states within the next few months after acquiring two larger aircraft.


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Plus, the 3-byte is definitely enough for the double value I have. I have some code here if it will help:
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A: I figured out that since a double needs at least 8 bytes, therefore; It is not possible to convert a double to an arbitrary-size byte array(in other words: squeeze it into a byte array smaller than 8 bytes) without losing precision and compromising the original value .
Extra info:
For anyone interested, after reading the documentation regarding the ASTERIX protocol I realized I needed to process the value through a given algorithm . This algorithm would then make it possible to store the value as a 3-byte(3-OCTET) data.
The specific data I needed to process is called Time Of Track Information.
Here is the simple solution:
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        return value;
    }

For more information regarding the ASTERIX protocol go to: ASTERIX | Eurocontrol

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Student apathy on the rise
11/19/2010 | CHARLES A. TITA, Ph.D.
Education reform has been the subject of an unending debate within the academy and at various levels of government. For newcomers, the general premise is that education standards are low and the debate revolves around ways to raise them. "In the 1980s and early 1990s, several governors argued that they had to test all their students to raise school standards and improve their economies" (The Washington Post. Nov. 14, 2006). In 2010, the debate is still as fierce and unresolved as it was in the 1980s, in spite of enormous investments that have been directed toward this problem at all levels. One problem that is undoubtedly on the rise and contributing to low standards is student apathy. Apathy is defined as "indifference," or "lack of emotional connection." This deadening of the senses toward academic achievement is rising on college campuses.
One might argue that it is the very effort to reinforce standardized tests that has inadvertently given birth to student apathy. It is ironic that "testing" rather than "learning" is driving the debate about education reform. The irony takes a more somber dimension with the realization that most of the students reared on standardization are seeing their "learning" only as a function of "tests." Perhaps a cursory attempt to trace the history of standardization will help shed light on the insurgence of this trenchant phenomenon of student apathy. How did we get here?
Dan Fletcher explains that, "in the Western World, examiners usually favored giving essays, a tradition stemming from the ancient Greeks' affinity for the Socratic Method. But as the Industrial Revolution (and the progressive movement of the early 1800s followed) took school-age kids out of the farms and factories and put them behind desks, standardized examinations emerged as an easy way to test large numbers of students quickly" (Time. December 11, 2009). It was a flawed education system that was primarily anti-intellectual, as satirized by Charles Dickens in Hard Times. The fictional Gradgrind School symbolizes an industrial society that was ruled by numerical values, at the expense of imagination. Questions required precise answers, representing the genesis of Western standardized testing.
Consequently, we inherited an educational practice that is innately counter-intellectual. The dilemma, therefore, is obvious. While teachers ideally seek to assure that "learning" occurs, the larger economic "system" leads students to see the test as the thing they need in order to get ahead. Ken Robinson argues that this disjunction is the case because we are using a 19th century educational model that was driven by the "economic imperative" of the industrial revolution, based on the "intellectual culture of the enlightenment" (RSA Lecture. Feb. 4, 2009). In its present, misaligned form, the model is inherently counter to the prevailing forces of our own age.
For the model to work, one may argue, it must be adapted to the new circumstances of globalization. The students we train in American universities will live, interact, collaborate and compete with graduates from Canadian, Chinese, Japanese, African and European universities in an increasingly global community. So, these students have to develop facility in cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary competencies.
One is by no means making an argument to debunk testing. To the contrary, the discussion is only an attempt to recognize testing as an educational tool, and to explain that it need not become the goal of academic enterprise. Our over-dependence on standardization has led to unintended consequences, including student apathy. More testing has only prepared our students to become test-taking drones, and, in effect, their understanding of what it means to be an intellectual, as well as the role that the university plays in that process, has been compromised. This seems to be a general trend. Even the Ivy League institutions are not immune to this effect of standardization as confirmed by William Deresiewicz: "Not just the Ivy League and its peer institutions, but also the mechanisms that get you there in the first place: the private and affluent public 'feeder' schools, the ever-growing parastructure of tutors and test-prep courses and enrichment programs, the whole admission frenzy and everything that leads up to and away from it." (www.theamericanscholar.org. June 1, 2008.) Since students have been led to believe that various tests are the only measurements that enable them to progress towards the world of work, they see testing as a "touch stone" against which success is measured.
As teachers, while it is not probable to expect any drastic, revolutionary changes that would replace the current model of education, there are little steps that we can take to effectuate substantial outcomes. First, we have to recognize that our students are being trained for a market place that is increasingly global, and collaboration, not isolationism, will determine how well they succeed in their lives and careers. Most students do not see how the rising tides of globalization will affect them, until they are out of school. Cross cultural training for the students can be achieved through curriculums that include various learning collaborations.
The internet has made it possible to link classrooms across national divides. On my campus, many faculty colleagues have implemented teaching collaborations with other colleagues at universities abroad, and, in some cases, these collaborations include study-abroad arrangements. When the students return to campus, their views of the world are forever changed. They develop a new kind of respect for and admiration of other cultures. Cross cultural competence has become a broad area of study and aspects of it are discipline-specific, so there is something in it for every course. These kinds of collaboration and immersion defeat apathy.
Another root cause of apathy is the fact that students are constantly being bombarded with images and symbols that present them with a false sense of self and their place in the world. They are reminded that they are of the first world and, therefore, better than others who are of the second world or the third world. These images of static hierarchies are antithetical to the notions of collaboration and cross cultural competence as necessary attributes for success in a global society.
We have to help students overcome the decadent ideas of the past that are still deeply entrenched in our national consciousness. Understanding how globalization is incrementally transforming the world through advances in transportation and telecommunication technologies will enable students to see the world as a dynamic community, not a static organism. The reality of a global market place means that a factory in America is being guided by global economics, not national variables, and that explains why many factories have moved to China and Mexico in just the last decade. That explains, also, why Equatorial Guinea, a small African country in the Gulf of Guinea, has become a major producer of petroleum and now ranks ninth on the World Bank list of countries with the highest per capita incomes.
Because we have created an educational culture that celebrates success on tests, as opposed to success in acquiring new knowledge, more and more students are only interested in mindlessly cramming study materials in preparation for tests. In the middle of an exciting, provocative discussion, students often want me to assure them that what we are studying will be on the test, and they typically request a study guide, too, before the test. Learning, not tests, should always be the end-goal.
Jay Mathews reminds us that learning typical consists of dialogue and inquiry, as demonstrated by Socrates who "tested his students through conversations. Answers were not scored as right or wrong. They just led to more dialogue. Many intellectual elites in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. cared more about finding the path to higher knowledge than producing a correct response." (Washington Post. Nov. 14, 2006.) Unfortunately, this kind of learning has been eclipsed for many smart students by the anti intellectual ferment of our day, which is rooted in an ironic imperative of economic success.
Our students must be led to the understanding that thinking passionately and critically about ideas is the pathway to intellectual growth. And here lies a fundamental stasis that riddles the debate on education reform. We want our students to be innovative and think outside of the box, but at the same time we box them into curriculums that do not allow pluralistic thinking. We do this through prescribed courses, standard pedagogies and standardized testing. These paradoxes only lead to increasing student apathy. Although there have been efforts to implement cross-disciplinary approaches, the fact is that courses are still ranked based on their economic values. The humanities are routinely at the bottom of the scale, and students see no use for general education courses which, in their minds, bear no apparent relation to their disciplines.
Therefore, standardization and testing are not synonymous. Testing is only one form of standardization. Curricular hierarchy, where subjects and disciplines are ranked in order of "importance," is another form. As Ken Robinson argues, subject and disciplinary hierarchies constitute another unintended consequence of an educational model designed for another age. (RSA Lecture. Feb. 4, 2010.)
In our quest to prepare students who will be more competitive in the global market place, we seem to over-emphasize the value of the sciences, and almost never talk about the humanities on the same level, although music, for example, has, arguably, played just as significant a role on the global scene as computer science. The message for students, alas, is that there is no economic utility for these courses, which, by the way, we want them to take as part of their general education requirements. And we wonder why students are jaded.
Charles A. Tita, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Director of Distance Education at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
hunter kilgore
im a student in here
Xavier Cardenas
I have student apathy
Really good article.
Andrew Hopkins
Great job on the article, it helped me in one of my projects alot! :)
Its not the tests.
I found your article in a search of student apathy. I have read many articles this morning. What I find interesting is that your opinion is in direct opposition to an article I read earlier arguing that the countries that are soundly beating us educationally not only give standardized tests, but use those tests in ways that are meaningful and valuable to the students in their immediate lives. In my mind, that article won the debate. You might want to read it at http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=articles
Steve Murphy
Thanks for the comment, Aubrey! Glad the article was helpful.
Thank you so much for the helpful information in your article. (: I myself am writing an opinion article on school apathy for my high school newspaper and this information has helped me a lot.
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Yesterday, I was observing the epiphanies in my life.
In the morning I had a lovely chat with my best friends discussing our New Year's resolutions and how we envisage our life the next year. Life was good and I felt a sense of connection and being supported. I had many epiphanies during our discussions on how I sabotage myself in areas of my life where I feel stuck and 'unlucky'.
After our talk, I went to have something to eat and I found my mum with a measuring tape and a list of furniture outlets. After my inquiry she told me that she and my brother had decided to move my bookshelf, put my books into some cabinet in my brother's bedroom and stand a hanger in place of the bookshelf that so far had stood in my brother's living room.
I went into an unexpected rage saying 'You do not dare touch my things! If anything is on your way, I'll take care of it.' With that I steamed upstairs and moved the whole book case into 'my' bedroom. Upon my furious rearranging the living room my brother questioned my behavior. I told him that I was only moving my bookcase and books into my bedroom. I was simply told that it was not 'my bedroom' and I am only quest in his house. My mother seconded that by saying that I was behaving like an idiot.
The experience was excruciating. I suddenly had flashbacks from my childhood when my mother threw out my personal diaries while I was away in a summer camp and of feelings of total disrespect towards my personal items, my chosen life-style, my ideas … I felt a surge of outrage and fear.
After having moved the bookcase into the 'not my room' where I usually reside when visiting my family and which is full of my personal items since I do not have a place on my own at the moment, I set down with my thoughts, feelings and tears.
I felt that I was someone who did not matter. I felt the pain of my unimportance in every single bone of my body aching. I felt that I was to blame for the uncomfortable situation that arose as a result of my reaction.
The truth was that the members of my family (and the majority of society they live in) do not sense others' existence. They can only go with fulfilling their own immediate needs. We as a society walk all over each other without realizing how hurtful this behaviour is when one's needs are not respected. Additionally, in this situation, nobody was willing to look at what was really happening and how to learn from it.
I cannot change the way my family functions, thinks, behaves and reacts. I have tried numerous times to show them that there are other ways of living beyond going through the motion of existence without actually noticing it. They did not understand it. I gave up. I focus on myself now, my revelations, my advancement, my freedom from the traps of the 'games people play'.
I know now that what I feel has nothing to do with others' actions or reactions. I take full responsibility for myself (thoughts, feelings, pains and aches). Others may act as triggers but they do not have the power to make me feel in any way I do not choose to.
So what is the 'story' I am running and how can I heal it?
Somewhere deep in my unconscious, I believe that my needs, wishes, rights do not matter and can be violated at any moment. I also believe that I do not have the right to have needs. I am not important. In response to that I learnt to swing myself into some rage that (hopefully) scares the intruder enough to stop walking all over me. I feel that I must defend myself in a violent way so I would be heard. Naturally, as a result of my harsh and threatening behavior the nest gets stirred up and everyone involved gets distressed.
The second act of the play is about someone to blame. Since I am the loudest and the crudest, it is obvious that I should be the one taking the blame. In the meantime I am aware that I have the deep-seated belief that I am at fault. They have the right to blame me because I made everyone upset. (Says the unknowing child inside of me.) All this, usually, launch a series of back and forth snaps, upsets, shouts, and not talking to each other for months.
People do not change, particularly when they are not aware of their thoughts, beliefs and actions. It is my responsibility to change the way I see things by healing and letting go of the past. It is my job to make myself feel important and know that I matter. It is me who need to find the way to reclaim my innocence so the inner and outer terror can finally rest in peace.
Yesterday, I was once again given the opportunity to observe my patterns, let them go, and love myself no matter what, in a way that is embracing and healing. As a child I learnt from the environment that I was a vexing, troublesome, forceful and very different person and if I behaved in an expected way I could avoid blame and punishment. Eventually, I accepted their truth to be mine because I could not see myself clearly any more. I became the black sheep, the scapegoat and the nuisance, sort of willingly.
Yesterday, I was reminded that I have a choice to play into others' vision of me or forgive, let go and hold a vision of myself that is true to who I truly am. I am only peeling the layers of deceit off. What is essential, however, is that I am holding myself in the Light of Innocence engraving it in my consciousness so I do not need to generate these painful experiences any more in order to remember that I am a Child of God and I am inherently Pure.
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Women's History Month: Honoring Women from India
Posted on: 03-7-2017 by: Deshvidesh
As you probably know, March is Women's History Month. Desh Videsh Media Group is proud to honor Indian women who have faced tough challenges throughout their lives. Many have achieved the honor of being the first in their fields.
Recognizing the achievements of women in all walks of life – politics, activism, education, sports, medicine, etc. – offers young girls and women all over the world an opportunity to see that change and success are possible. For many, especially in developing and third world countries, strengthened moral, increased self respect, and a forward-thinking vision are possible through the successes of those before them.
Each of the women noted on our list have faced challenges and each has uniquely overcome them. It is our hope that young girls and women growing up in the US get to know and be inspired by these women. Parents – sit down with your children (sons and daughters!) and talk about the importance of choosing role models, while also explaining to them that "Everything is possible if you make up your mind." As Swami Vivekananda said, "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached."
This list is by no means exhaustive. If you notice a name we forgot, please email the name and achievements to info@deshvidesh.com.
In our next post, we will highlight Indian American women who have made significant achievements.
Captain Durga Banerjee became the first Indian woman pilot of the state airline, Indian Airlines.
Chandramukhi
Basu
Chandramukhi Basu and Kadambini Ganguly were first female graduates of India and the British Empire.
Joining the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972, Kiran Bedi became the first woman officer in India. Moreover, later in 2003, Kiran Bedi also became the first woman who was appointed as the United Nations Civil Police adviser.
Besant became the first female president of the Indian National Congress.
Jijabai Shahaji
Bhosale
Mother of the legendary Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji who was the embodiment of strength and confidence and nurtured his early years with a firm hand and a keen eye. She became a source of inspiration for women all over as one who kindled the heroism in Shivaji making her an epoch making mother who occupies a proud place in shaping the history of the land.
Justice Anna
Chandy
Chandy was the first female judge in India, and the first woman in India to become a High Court judge. (Kerala High Court)
Asima
Chatterjee
Chatterjee was the first Indian woman to receive a Doctorate of Science from an Indian university.
Kamaladevi
Chattopadhyay
A social activist and Indian freedom fighter, Chattopadhyay won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership.
Chaturvedi was onne of India's First three women fighter pilots.
Kittur
Chennamma
Chennamma led an armed rebellion against the East India Company.
Harita Kaur
Deol
Flight Lt. Harita Kaur Deol was a pilot in the Indian Air Force. She became the first woman pilot to fly solo in the Indian Air Force in 1994.
Reena Kaushal
Dharmshaktu
Dharmshaktu was the first Indian woman to ski to the South Pole. Her journey took 40 days, 8 to 10 hours per day, traversing 915 kms in bitter cold and to one of the most desolate regions of the world.
Reita
She was the first Indian beauty to win the coveted Miss World title in 1966.
Fathima Beevi
In 1989, Justice M. Fathima Beevi became the first female judge appointed to the Supreme Court of India.
She became the first woman Prime Minister of India and served from 1966 to 1977. She was also the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna award.
Kadambini
Ganguly.
Chandramukhi Basu and Kadambini Ganguly became the first female graduates of India and the British Empire.
Jhingan
Priyan Jhingan became the first Indian woman to join the Indian Army in 1993.
Anandi Gopal.
Joshi
Anandi Gopal Joshi became the first women from India to be trained in Western medicine.
Bhawana
Kanth
Kanth was one of India's first three women fighter pilots.
Dhondo Keshav
Karve
The first women's university, SNDT Women's University, was founded on June 2, 1916 by the social reformer Dhondo Keshav Karve with just five students.
Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom, also known as Mary Kom is the only woman boxer who has won a medal in each of the six World Championships. She was the only Indian woman boxer who qualified for the 2012 Olympics and became the first Indian woman boxer to win a gold medal in Asian Games in 2014.
Kriplani
Sucheta Kriplani became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the first woman to hold that position in any Indian state.
Meira Kumar became the first female Speaker of Lok Sabha.
Lakshmibai
Lakshmibai led a rebellion against the British.
Malhotra
Anna Rajam Malhotra became the first woman IAS officer of India.
Mathur
Prem Mathur of Deccan Airways becomes the first Indian woman commercial pilot.
The professional tennis player became the first ever Indian woman to win a Women's Tennis Association (WTA) title in 2005. Later in 2015, Sania Mirza became the first Indian woman to be ranked no. 1 in WTA's double rankings.
Sarojini
Sarojini Naidu was a poet and politician. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949. She was the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so.
Saina
Nehwal
Currently ranking no. 2 in the World, Saina Nehwal became the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at Olympics in 2012. Later in 2015, she became the first Indian woman to become no. 1 in World ranking.
Bachendri
In 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Vijaya Lakshmi
The first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations General Assembly.
She became the first woman President of India and held office from July 2007 to July 2012.
Amruta
India's First Woman Graphic Novelist
Savitribai
Phule
Started India's first school for girls.
Ramabai
For her distinguished social service, Pandita Ramabai became the first Indian woman to be awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal by the British Raj.
Ramasundaram
India's Head Of A Paramilitary Force, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
India's First Woman To Swim The English Channel
Captain Lakshmi
Sahgal
Indian independence revolutionary
Kamaljit
Sandhu
Kamaljit Sandhu becomes the first Indian woman to win a Gold in the Asian Games
India's First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court
One of India's first three women fighter pilots.
Subbulakshmi
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi , also known as M.S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, Asia's highest civilian award, in 1974.
Suzanne RD
Suzanne RD Tata becomes the first Indian woman to drive a car.
Thakral
Sarla Thakral became the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft.
Surekha
Surekha Yadav became the first woman loco-pilot, railway driver, for India and Asia.
Categories: Incredible Indians


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Write a program that allows the user to enter two numbers and displays one of two messages: "The first number is larger" or "The second number is larger".
Modify the program 1. so that it can display a third message: "The two numbers are equal".
Write a program that allows the user to enter any two numbers and always the displays the smaller number first, followed by the second number.
Write a program that allows the user to enter 3 numbers and displays the largest of the three numbers.
Write a program that allows the user to enter 2 numbers followed by a single character representing their desired operation: 'a' for add, 's' for subtract, 'm' for multiply or 'd' for divide. Perform the arithmetic operation that the user specifies.
Modify program 5. so that it can accept either uppercase or lowercase letters.
Write a program for a furniture company. Ask the user to choose P for pine, O for oak, or M for mahogany. Show the price of a table manufactured with the chosen wood. Pine tables cost $100, oak tables cost $225, and mahogany tables cost $310.
Write a program that asks the user to type a vowel from the keyboard. If the character is a vowel, display "OK"; if it is not a vowel, display an error message. Be sure to allow both uppercase and lowercase vowels.
The Bone Jour Dog Day Care Center charges clients a daily rate that is based on both the size of the dog and the number of days per month in a client's contract. The following table shows the daily rates.


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import model_params
from nupic.frameworks.opf.modelfactory import ModelFactory
from nupic.encoders.scalar import ScalarEncoder
from nupic.encoders.date import DateEncoder
from nupic.encoders.sdrcategory import SDRCategoryEncoder
from nupic.data.inference_shifter import InferenceShifter
import numpy
import foursquare
import datetime

class Checkin():
    def __init__(self, latitude, longitude, time, likes, people, categories):
        self.latitude=latitude
        self.longitude=longitude
        self.time=time
        self.likes=likes
        self.people=people
        self.categories=categories

class FourSquareAnomalyDetector():
    def __init__(self):
        self.lat = ScalarEncoder(name='latitude',  w=3, n=100, minval=-90, maxval=90,
                        periodic=False)
        self.long= ScalarEncoder(name='longitude',  w=3, n=100, minval=-180, maxval=180,
                        periodic=True)
        self.timeenc= DateEncoder(season=0, dayOfWeek=1, weekend=3, timeOfDay=5)
        self.likes = ScalarEncoder(name='likes',  w=3, n=50, minval=0, maxval=100000,
                        periodic=False)
        self.people = ScalarEncoder(name='numpeople',  w=3, n=20, minval=0, maxval=100,
                        periodic=False)
        self.categories = SDRCategoryEncoder(n=87, w=3, categoryList = None,
                             name="cats", verbosity=0)
        self.run()

    def run(self):
        check1=Checkin(10,100,datetime.datetime.utcnow(),12,5,"cafe")
        check2=Checkin(10,100,datetime.datetime.utcnow(),12,5,"cafe")
        check3=Checkin(10,100,datetime.datetime.utcnow(),12,5,"cafe")
        check4=Checkin(10,100,datetime.datetime.utcnow(),12,5,"cafe")
        check5=Checkin(10,100,datetime.datetime.utcnow(),12,5,"cafe")
        check6=Checkin(10,100,datetime.datetime.utcnow(),12,5,"cafe")
        check7=Checkin(10,100,datetime.datetime.utcnow(),12,5,"cafe")
        check8=Checkin(10,100,datetime.datetime.utcnow(),12,5,"cafe")
        list_of_unencoded_checkins=[check1,check2,check3,check4,check5,check6,check7,check8]
        list_of_encoded_checkins=[]
        for check in list_of_unencoded_checkins:
            print check
            list_of_encoded_checkins.append(self.encode(check))
        print self.LastAnomalyScore(list_of_encoded_checkins)

    def createModel(self):
        return ModelFactory.create(model_params.MODEL_PARAMS)

    def encode(self, checkin):
        print checkin
        latenc=self.lat.encode(checkin.latitude)
        longenc=self.long.encode(checkin.longitude)
        timenc=self.timeenc.encode(checkin.time)
        likeenc=self.likes.encode(checkin.likes)
        peoplenc=self.people.encode(checkin.people)
        for cat in checkin.categories:
            try:
                catenc=numpy.logical_or(catenc,self.categories.encode(cat))
            except:
                catenc=self.categories.encode(cat)
        checkinsdr=numpy.concatenate((latenc,longenc,timenc,likeenc,peoplenc,catenc))
        print checkinsdr
        print type(checkinsdr)
        return checkinsdr

    def LastAnomalyScore(self, checkin_list):
        model = self.createModel()
        model.enableInference({'predictedField': 'checkin'})
        last_anomaly = 0
        for i, record in enumerate(checkin_list, start=1):
            modelInput = {"checkin": record}
            result = model.run(modelInput)
            anomalyScore = result.inferences['anomalyScore']
            last_anomaly = anomalyScore
        return last_anomaly

foursq = FourSquareAnomalyDetector()


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Црногорски дан у Њујорку била је манифестација захвалности САД-а својој најмањој савезници у Првом свјетском рату, Краљевини Црни Гори. Одржан је 11. октобра 1918. године.

Манифестација у Њујорку отпочела је подизањем заставе Црне Горе на Кип слободе. Свечана поворка је пролазила центром града, све до Пете авеније и позорнице окићене црногорском и америчком заставом.

Одсвирана је химна Црне Горе, Убавој нам Црној Гори, а црногорски велепосланик, генерал Анто Гвозденовић се обратио окупљенима на енглеском. Након свечаности организован је ручак у хотелу Белмонт.

Референце

1918.
Историја Црне Горе


Smoking is one of the leading causes of ill health and premature death in Australia.
Around 22 South Australians die each week from diseases caused by smoking tobacco. Smoking also affects the health of others who breathe in second-hand smoke.
Millions of people in Australia have successfully quit smoking.
Quitting can be hard, but it is one of the best things you can do for your health. When you quit, you start to reduce the chances of illness and disease caused by smoking cigarettes. This means every quit attempt is worthwhile, even if you only manage to stay off cigarettes for a short time in the first attempt.
People who stop smoking tobacco experience health benefits almost immediately.
Cigarettes are full of poisons. Smoking affects every organ in your body – no doubt you've seen the television commercials and the warning labels.
Emphysema – irreversible damage to the air sacs in the lungs that causes shortness of breath. Just about every smoker has emphysema in its early stages.
Health risks for your unborn baby.
For more information about smoking harms and quitting, visit the Quitline.
Want to find out more about the risks?
Check out the statistics on tobacco use in South Australia.
Most people take more than one attempt to quit smoking for good and try a variety of methods before being successful.
Many people quit smoking by going 'cold turkey'; most make several attempts without using any quit smoking medications. Others may first try to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked each day before they attempt to quit altogether.
Many people have success in stopping smoking if they use a support service such as Quitline (13 7848), which offers free telephone support, a call back service and other services.
Quit NOW: My QuitBuddy is a personalised phone app with quit tips, daily motivational messages and more.
Doctors, pharmacists and health professionals are good sources of information and can offer options for quitting, especially for advice on quit smoking medications. If you are taking other medications, it is important to see your doctor before quitting as the chemicals in cigarettes can change the way some medications work.
The Cancer Council SA Quitline website has great information about the harms of smoking to yourself and others, strategies for quitting, coping with cravings, and how to stay quit. The Give up smokes campaign includes specific information for Aboriginal people.
Quitline (13 7848) also has specific resources and support for smokers living with a mental illness who want to quit, as we know that quitting can be very difficult for these smokers but it can be done.
Get help from friends and family. You may be surprised at how much support and encouragement they can and want to provide. It can be useful to ask someone you trust to sit down with you to write a list of what you do and don't like about smoking. This can be helpful in giving you the final impetus to make a quit attempt.
Smokers use many different strategies for quitting, but probably the most important thing to do is to plan your attempt. This helps you to understand why you smoke and plan some quitting strategies.
For information about medications, going cold turkey and other quitting methods visit the Cancer Council SA Quitline website or for free apps to help you quit, visit the Quitnow website.


This is THE question my husband and I get asked A LOT! I may have a work at home job where I can set up shop anywhere in the world at any given moment, but my husband works a normal, wake up early in the morning 5 sometimes 6 days a week type of job. His co-workers, who have the exact number of vacation days as he does, still bombard him with this question & he has known most of these people for years now!
The truth is that we really don't travel nearly as much as many people you see in the Blogosphere living a jet set life (even if my instagram seems like I'm constantly generating new pictures).
Nonetheless, with the constraints of my husbands "normal job", we can still manage to see a lot of the world by being strategic about our time and money. You don't have to be a full-time backpacker to see several fabulous destinations every year.
we have found that if you just prioritize travel, it can make a GIGANTIC difference in how much you really get out there exploring the world around you.
Here are a few ideas on how YOU can travel more without a radical change in lifestyle!
Have you ever looked at hotel prices during spring break?!?!! The cost of hotels and transportation can double during the busiest months. It's hard to imagine that a trip can cost nearly 50% of its high season price if you just wait a few months! And in a lot of warmer places, like Florida or even the Caribbean, early Autumn has more enjoyable weather, just as much sunshine AND fewer crowds!!!
Depending on where you work, spring break and Christmas break are usually the most popular times to ask for time off since the kids are out of school! Which makes it an outright competition to request vacation time off. Traveling in the off-season means fewer coworkers are likely to be out at the same time as you, making it easy for your boss to approve the request.
Don't limit yourself to a few big trips per year! When you don't have a ton of vacation days, it's easy to think that the only kind of travel that makes sense is a single long break. But I'm here to challenge that idea. Most people have Saturday and Sunday off of work. Use your vacation days on a Friday or Monday off! Hello long weekend and an awesome long weekend getaway. Just imagine how many long weekend trips you can take a year if you use your vacation days one or two at a time?
There are so many hidden treasures in our own cities and within a tank of gas away!!! It really is unbelievable the places you can find when you look at a map!! This year it has actually been a blogging goal of mine to do more of these staycation type of trips and showcase all of these local hidden gems. I have been searching NY and PA for all the touristy things and believe it or not, have been having the best time ever playing tourist! None of these trips required any vacation time to be consumed, and we have been making life time family memories on these local adventures.
This is obviously something we all do, regardless if we are professional travelers or not. If you're family is like mine, on a mission to see the whole world, sometimes taking a scan of all the discount flights and where they are headed is the best option for planning that getaway. One of my all time favorite sites to use is skyscanner.com. I wasn't paid to suggest this site, it's the real deal and I use it all the time!!! Just type in your local airport and select a month, and it will tell you EVERY killer deal for that specific airport! This is where traveling during the off season can really come in handy as well. So when your friends are shelling out thousands for that spring break airline ticket, you can just giggle knowing that you can vacation a few more times than your work bestie that year since you planned around peak seasons and paid the same price your your two-three trips as they did on their one!
This is all such great advice. We love long weekends and traveling off season. We always take one big trip off season.
I wish we had traveled more before we had kids, but alas! These are some great ideas. I really like the long weekend idea!
I prefer traveling in the off season. I get really annoyed with competing with crowds!
I am always looking for ideas on how to get in more time to travel! Traveling off season is a great tip, but unfortunately it's hard for me to travel anytime except the summer.
These are all good suggestions. I do love to travel but unfortunately the budget simply doesn't permit it as often as I'd like to.
There was actually a poll posted by TODAY on FB that I saw that asked if you would agree to a law making it illegal to pull your kids out of school for a vacation. Like you said, vacationing in the off season makes it so much easier for everyone all around - and cheaper - so it would be terrible if it was illegal to travel while school was in!
LOVE traveling in the offseason. Although, I know this is going to get harder now that my oldest daughter is about to enter kindergarten this Fall.
I totally agree with your ideas. I always travel off peak and over the weekends. On the east coast, especially, there is so much to do within a few short hours.
These are great tips! I really like the idea of trips close to home ... there are some great places nearby I still need to explore.
These are great suggestion. Travelling is the best part of my life, I work and get break to travel. I have a long to do list. But sometimes due to schedule I have to change my routines while travelling. This article is really helpful to me.
Great Tips! I have a 9-5 too, and although my company gives generous vacation time, I often take long weekends in order to spread my days out. I also really avoid taking sick days if I can help it!
We do a lot of long weekend trips. I feel like they are the perfect amount of time! Such graet tips!
Great tips. We are big off-season travelers. We travel to warm spots, so even in off-season it's nice and not too hot!
Thanks for all the great tips. We most of the time travel off season we got great deals last time when we visited Europe. Saving allows also to add more experiences while overseas.
These are great tips! We used to take a lot of long weekend trips. It was the perfect time to get away for a little trip.
These are great. Thanks for the suggestions!