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Hunter Biden says he's under federal investigation over his taxes
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Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden, said Wednesday that the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware is investigating his tax affairs.
"I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors," Hunter Biden said in a statement issued by the Biden-Harris transition team.
He said that he learned of the investigation on Tuesday when his lawyer was advised of the investigation by federal prosecutors.
The transition team also issued a statement describing the president-elect as "deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger."
The transition team did not offer any more information about the investigation. CNN reported that federal authorities are investigating Hunter Biden's business dealings with foreign countries such as China, including potential violations of tax and money laundering laws. The investigation reportedly began as early as 2018.
The revelation comes days before Joe Biden's election as president will become official with the meeting of the Electoral College. It is certain to open up the Biden family to further scrutiny from President Trump and his allies. Trump has refused to concede the election.
Hunter Biden withstood a mountain of attacks from Trump during the primary and general election campaigns as a result of his foreign business dealings. He served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company when Joe Biden served as vice president under the Obama administration.
Hunter Biden said in an ABC News interview last year that he used "poor judgment" when he decided to take the role because it opened up his father to attacks from his opponents but said he did nothing improper.
Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives last year for pressing Ukraine's president to investigate the Bidens' affairs.
Hunter Biden is the president-elect's only living son. His other son, Beau Biden, died in 2015 after a battle with brain cancer.
A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware declined to comment, citing the Justice Department's policy not to comment on ongoing investigations.
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What does it take to make the NCAA? High school athletes getting to know
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Published August 21, 2017 at 6:37 AM EDT
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Buffalo Public Schools want to make sure high school students who want to play college sports knows the rules.
City schools have not had many athletes who make the big time. Usually it has been because grades were not high enough to meet NCAA standards.
Now, starting in seventh grade, the district is training coaches, guidance counselors and parents, as well as the students themselves about those rules. Athletics Director Aubrey Lloyd said the district is moving aggressively to explain the rules on grades and change who is briefed on the rules.
"They kind of figure this out kind of late, sophomore year, junior year and they're already prying academically, so part of the blueprint for the NCAA for our student-athletes is to target our seventh and eight graders and educate them and their families about the NCAA and then they'll be knowledgeable that, hey, if I have to take a remedial class in ninth grade I have to take a class that the NCAA Eligibility Center requires," he said.
Lloyd said the rules are not well understood.
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Q: C# while loop not functioning I am trying to build a stimulate income tax calculator. The progress I am wanting to make is :

*

*print out a message of "What is your total income :" to ask user to input their income in positive numeric number.

*to read their inputs

*make a loop: if the user put in strings, print "Enter your income as a whole-dollar numeric number",and go back to step 1. If the user put in negative number, print "Your income cannot be negative",and go back to step 1.
4.if the user has successfully enter the positve numeric number, process to step 5.

*print out a message "How many children do you have?"

*read the user's input.

*make a loop: if the user types in strings, print "You must enter a valid number", and go back to step 5. If the user types in negative number, print "You must enter a positive number", and go back to step 5.

*if the user successfully enter the postive numeric number, process to step 9.

*put the income and children's figure in the tax calculation formula. if the totalTax <= 0, print "You owe no tax". if the total Tax > 0, print "you have to pay [tax amount] tax". END
I have tried to use the code bellow, but it doesn't work at all.
//Record user's income into double list "income"
double i;

//Record user's number of children into double list "kid"
double k;

//if...elif statement to calculate the toatal tax of the user
bool incomeOK = false;
bool kidOK = false;

do
{
    Console.Write("What is your total income : ");
    incomeOK = double.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out i);

    if (!incomeOK || i < 0)
    {
        if (!incomeOK)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Enter your income as a whole-dollar numeric figure.");
        }
        else if (i < 0)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Your income cannot be negative.");
        }
    }
    else
    {
        Console.Write("How many children do you have: ");
        kidOK = double.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out k);

        while (!kidOK || k < 0)
        {
            Console.Write("How many children do you have: ");
            kidOK = double.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out k);

            if (kidOK && k >= 0)
            {
                //Calculate the total payable tax of the user
                double totalTax = (i - 10000 - (k * 2000)) * 0.02;

                if (totalTax <= 10000)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("You owe no tax.");
                    Console.WriteLine("\n\n Hit Enter to exit.");
                    Console.ReadLine();
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("You owe a total of $ " + totalTax + " tax.");
                    Console.WriteLine("\n\n Hit Enter to exit.");
                    Console.ReadLine();
                }
            }

            if (!kidOK || k < 0)
            {
                if (!kidOK)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("You must enter a valid number.");
                }
                else if (k < 0)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("You must enter a positive number.");
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
while (!incomeOK || !kidOK);

but the OUTPUT:

What is your total income : sfd
Enter your income as a whole-dollar numeric figure.
Press any key to continue...

A: You need to split it up into sections.
First: Get positive number
double i;
double k;

Console.Write("What is your total income : ");

while (!double.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out i) || i < 0)
{
    if (i < 0)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Your income cannot be negative.");
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Enter your income as a whole-dollar numeric figure.");
    }
}

Second: Get number of children
Console.Write("How many children do you have: ");

while (!double.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out k) || k < 0)
{
    if (k < 0)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("You must enter a positive number.");
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine("You must enter a valid number.");
    }
}

Third: Calculate
double totalTax = (i - 10000 - (k * 2000)) * 0.02;

if (totalTax <= 10000)
{
    Console.WriteLine("You owe no tax.");
    Console.WriteLine("\n\n Hit Enter to exit.");
    Console.ReadLine();
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine("You owe a total of $ " + totalTax + " tax.");
    Console.WriteLine("\n\n Hit Enter to exit.");
    Console.ReadLine();
}

Whenever you get a wrong input, the while loop forces you to stay inside. When you get out, you can be sure the input is correct.
PS: I would use int for number of children, because it doesn't make any sense that you would have 2.3 children.

A: In your code, you aren't looping when it successfully parses but is a negative number.
Since your two loops are basically independent of each other, I wouldn't wrap them together in a loop (unless you intend on asking multiple times, but then that's simply another loop to repeat outside). Keep it simple and its easier to see the error. I changed it to this:
do
{
    Console.Write("What is your total income : ");
    incomeOK = double.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out i);

    if (!incomeOK)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Enter your income as a whole-dollar numeric figure.");
        continue;
    }

    if (i < 0)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Your income cannot be negative.");
        incomeOK = false; // You need to manually set this to false to indicate it is not ok for it to loop.
    }
} while (!incomeOk)

do
{
    Console.Write("How many children do you have: ");
    kidOK = double.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out k);

    if (!kidOK)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("You must enter a valid number.");
        continue;
    }

    if(k < 0)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("You must enter a positive number.");
        kidOK = false; // Same deal as before
        continue;
    }

    /// ... Your calculations
} while (!kidOK);

The code is now in two loops, your inputs for income, and inputs for children. Also, there's really no need to check if it's (!incomeOK || i < 0) first. If it's not ok, you output your message and loop. If it's negative, output your message, and make sure it loops. Otherwise just proceed with normal.

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Comparison of eccentric knee extensor muscle actions at two muscle lengths on indices of damage and angle-specific force production in humans
Robert Child, John Saxton, Alan Donnelly
Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation
In this study, we investigated the effects of knee extensor length during eccentric exercise on indices of muscle damage and adaptation. Subjects (n = 7) performed two bouts of 75 maximal voluntary eccentric muscle actions at a knee joint angular velocity of 1.57 rad s(-1). One bout was performed at a short muscle length (bout S) with a knee joint range of motion of 2.79 to 1.40 radians (160 degrees to 80 degrees), and a second with the contralateral knee extensors at a long muscle length (bout L) with a range of motion of 2.01 to 0.7 radians (120 degrees to 40 degrees). The maximum voluntary contractile force (MVC) was measured before and 5 min after exercise, and again on days 3, 5, 7, 10 and 12, at knee angles of 160 degrees, 120 degrees and 80 degrees. Muscle soreness was measured before exercise and on each day after exercise. Serum creatine kinase activity was measured before exercise and on days 3, 5, 7, 10 and 12 post-exercise. The MVC declined after each bout (P <0.01), with a greater decline after bout L (P <0.05). Muscle soreness was higher relative to bout S on days 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 (P <0.05). Although serum creatine kinase activity was elevated after both exercise bouts (P <0.01), there was no difference between bouts. Functional muscle damage markers and muscle soreness suggest greater damage after bout L. Post-exercise angle-specific force decrements suggest a transient increase in muscle length after bout L but not bout S.
Journal of Sports Sciences
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Child, R., Saxton, J., & Donnelly, A. (1998). Comparison of eccentric knee extensor muscle actions at two muscle lengths on indices of damage and angle-specific force production in humans. Journal of Sports Sciences, 16(4), 301-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640419808559358
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The CTSUs allow investigators to focus on their research and patients, instead of administrative tasks. CTSUs use a standard set of work guides to harmonize elements across the clinical trial enterprise while allowing for local flexibility to reflect the uniqueness of various types of trials. CTSUs provide mandatory pre-/post- award support and optional study coordinator support. All of the CTSUs offer a Finance Lead, Contract & Grants Specialist, Project Coordinator, and Study Coordinator Support. For more information, visit the Clinical Trials Support Units page.
All clinical trials being serviced by a Clinical Trials Support Unit (CTSU) will be managed in OnCore, an enterprise Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS). OnCore allows for automated standard interfaces with MiChart, which helps reduce duplication of effort and the possibility of erroneous data by connecting these systems and leveraging data already present. OnCore provides the ability to track and report on any protocol, at any stage, for all participants registered as well as financial metrics.
The OnCore Central Support Team provides support and training to help the clinical trials community transition to OnCore. Each OnCore training session provides hands-on training to allow staff and faculty practice with the functions they will frequently use. OnDemand OnCore Training Videos are also available. To view all OnCore training resources, visit the OnCore Training & Education page.
Below are some of the event calendars directed towards biomedical researchers.
The Office of Research & Sponsored Projects offers a variety of training programs and workshops to help researchers and research administrators learn the ins and outs of research administration at the University of Michigan. For more information, visit the ORSP's Navigate page.
MLearning is the University's online training tool offering high quality education solutions for Michigan Medicine faculty and staff.
MICHR's Research Basics Workshop series presents basic, introductory-level material covering concepts in clinical or health research. This three-part series engages participants and provides opportunities for skill building and learning.
For more information, visit their Research Basics Workshop page.
In 2016, the Medical School Office of Research hosted the Communicating Science Seminar Series, tailored to answer questions about communications here at the university and beyond. From PR and social media, to data visualization, to website development, these sessions continue to be a resource for communicating science to the general public.
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Egypt accuses Ethiopia of delaying resumption of renaissance dam discussions
Egypt's Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmy, has accused Ethiopian authorities of stalling the resolution of the renaissance dam dispute after they have failed to respond to several requests from Egypt to restart the talks.
However, he has insisted that the Egyptian government would continue to advocate for its interests and rights to the shared water – despite some criticisms from Sudan.
Reports indicate that Mr. Fahmy met with his Ethiopian counterpart, Ato Alemayehu Tegenu, briefly in Brussels last month. But they are yet to build on their discussions.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is set to be the largest hydro-electrical plant on the continent upon its completion in 2017. The 6,000 MW plant, which is expected to cost about $4.6 billion, will reportedly have a reservoir capacity of nearly 63 billion cubic meters.
The Egyptian government have since raised alarm that the dam will reduce the freshwater supply from the Blue Nile to the arid country. However, Ethiopian authorities insist otherwise.
An international panel of experts consulted to study the dam last year concluded that although the plant will not have a significant impact on the environment, more studies need to be undertaken.
But after three rounds of meetings between the water resources ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, the officials are yet to decide on how to implement the recommendations of the panel of experts.
Last month, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, invited Egypt for another round of tripartite discussions.
He went on to confirm that the dam is already over 30% complete and is set to begin generating power by next year.
Recently, Egypt's presidential candidate, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi also disclosed that he favours dialogue with Ethiopia. Nonetheless, he underscored the fact that "The dam issue is one of life or death for Egypt.
"While I understand others' interests, I expect them to understand ours" he said.
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EU Member States plan to ignore EU Court data retention rulings
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The Water Heritage Anthropological Project (WHAP) hosted USU students Shastee Holliday and Stacey Whitehair for a week-long lab, June 1– 5, as part of the Native American Summer Mentorship Program.
The group met, virtually, each day to discuss topics related to water heritage including the history of water management and infrastructure in Utah. The two students learned about and practiced the different methodologies that the WHAP is using to study water heritage and its meaning for Utah communities. For example, the WHAP team relies on geospatial technology to understand the relationship between the location of water features and social and environmental processes. One lab focused on geospatial technologies and required that the students use ESRI ArcGIS Online to create their own cartographic representations of two water features in Cache Valley.
Another method the WHAP team integrates into its approach includes ethnography and participant interviews. The WHAP team is currently interviewing participants from around northern Utah to understand the relationship between residents and water heritage in the region. Holliday and Whitehair conducted interviews with each other to practice ethnographic data collection and shared their responses with the WHAP team. Graduate student and WHAP team member who assisted with the virtual lab, Kelly Jimenez, remarks, "I especially enjoyed hearing the testimonies of Stacey and Shastee because they provided how native communities view and interact with their local water features. This is different than what we have previously heard in our interviews."
Molly Boeka Cannon, project co-director, found the virtual labs and collaboration between the WHAP team and Holliday and Whitehair both challenging and rewarding. "The challenges are many including poor internet connections, inability to spend time with our students to make connections face-to-face, and the limitations of some of the work that our project is doing but the rewards are that we can work with students from across the state of Utah and beyond to do research in meaningful ways."
The WHAP is in its first year of a five-year multidisciplinary project supported by a grant from the Bureau of Reclamation to study Utah's historic canals and water features. "The virtual lab serves as our first, of many to come, outreach efforts," said Cannon. "The NASMP was a great way – especially during a time when face-to-face interaction is restricted – to integrate research, teaching, and outreach about the role of waterways in Utah communities," adds project co-director Anna Cohen. Program goals include the development of a digital archive with oral history accounts, collated historic documents such as photographs and other archival materials, as well as archaeological research and documentation.
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So what is supervised learning and how is it different from unsupervised learning?
where we have pairs of inputs and desired outputs.
even for examples that the supervised learning algorithm has never seen before.
is what distinguishes supervised from unsupervised learning.
There are two main types of supervised learning, classification and regression.
In classification, we predict results in a discrete output.
assigns unseen observations to one or more classes.
we predict result within a continuous numerical output.
Continuous means that there aren't any gaps in the value that the output can take.
sell or predicting the age of a person based on their image.
for both classification and regression problems.
of an asthma exacerbation based on data from preceding telemonitoring reports.
the disease, as expressed through continuous clinical variables.
There is a wide range of supervised learning techniques available.
linear regression, logistic regression and others.
Let's look at a few of these in more detail.
the simplest machine learning algorithms used for classification and regression.
is the mode or mean of the values of its K-closest data points.
In other words, its K-Nearest neighbors.
Here, we have blue circles and red boxes.
and we want to predict whether it is a blue circle or a red box.
then all we need to do is find the closest data point and assign its value to our star.
In this case, we predict that our star should be a red box.
We could try with different values for K, such as three.
In this case, our star is predicted to be a blue circle and that's all it is.
their mode, in the case of classification or their mean, in the case of regression.
And how do we decide what value K should take?
of K and choose the one that has the best accuracy.
how do we measure the distance between different data points?
the Hamming distance is used.
a multidimensional feature space, each with a class label.
air pollution and allergies, are used as features in the model.
and often gives reasonable performance without a lot of adjustments.
prediction can be rather slow.
a baseline method before considering more advanced options.
a target variable based on a set of input variables.
and hence used for classification.
decision trees have a tree like structure, consisting of nodes and edges.
while the edges coming from that node, are the total possible values of that node.
possible values, greater or lower than £400,000.
the tree to identify the predictive value of the leaf node.
So, suppose that we want to predict the location of a flat with these characteristics.
here, and the prediction is that it's an Edinburgh flat.
But how do we build a decision tree like that?
Learning a decision tree is about learning the sequence of questions.
possible values that gets us to the correct answer more quickly.
Let's explain this with the use of the flat example that we just saw.
flats in Edinburgh and New York with these attributes.
questions, and picks the one that is most informative about the target variable.
as it is a big determinant of flat location.
then it's most likely to be based in New York and the other way round.
400k as well as cases of New York flats that are cheaper than 400k.
the search for the next attribute for each of the two subsets.
it's the year in which the flat was built.
These new splits improve the prediction accuracy of the tree.
further attributes until the trees' accuracy is 100 percent.
our extended decision tree would then not perform well on previously unseen test data.
the ability of the model to generalize from the training to the test data.
blood infections or even predict heart attack outcomes in chest pain patients.
An extension of decision trees has also been used, called random forests.
the training data set and then are combined to improve the prediction accuracy.
large amounts of data while remaining easy to read and communicate.
overly complex models and overfitting could be an issue.
another technique that is used for both classification and regression problems.
which are captured here as circles.
which can transmit a signal from one neuron to another.
process it and then signal neurons that are connected to it.
Neural networks are typically organized in layers.
There is an input and an output layer and then maybe one or more hidden layers.
let's explain how a single neuron processing works.
a threshold or activation function to determine whether the signal will be sent or not.
which are again combined to yield the final result.
then we can compute the output, even manually.
However, all we know in supervised learning is the inputs and outputs.
existing data, so as to make predictions about previously unseen data.
set by the user, is the number of nodes in the hidden layer.
It is also possible to add more layers, as shown here.
of these layers is referred to as deep learning.
such as, image analysis and natural language processing.
Neural networks and deep learning are extremely powerful.
They can deal with large amounts of data and build incredibly complex models.
This however comes at the cost of interpretability.
the harder it is to understand what is happening inside the neural network.
Training large and powerful neural networks can also be a challenging task.


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U.S., N. Korea could hold more working-level talks this year: think tank
The United States and North Korea could hold one or two more rounds of working-level nuclear talks ahead of the year-end deadline Pyongyang set for Washington to come up with a new proposal, a Seoul-based think tank said Thursday.
The U.S. will try to maintain the momentum for talks in an effort to keep the North Korea issue under control, especially at a time when it needs visible diplomatic achievement ahead of the 2020 presidential election, the Institute for National Security Strategy affiliated with Seoul's spy agency said.
"The U.S. could offer inducements to the North to make sure that its leader Kim Jong-un does not come up with a message on the new path (that Pyongyang has suggested) during his New Year's address next year," the institute said in a release.
In April, the North's leader warned he would give up on negotiations with the U.S. and take a "new path" unless the U.S. puts forward a new proposal by the end of the year. Kim also said he would wait for the U.S. to make a "courageous" decision.
Kim's recent horseback ride up Mount Paekdu, considered one of the most sacred places in the North, also appears partially aimed at pressuring Washington by spawning speculation a major political or diplomatic decision could be coming, the think tank said.
Yet North Korea is not expected to rush to a "new path" without additional negotiations, worrying that such a move could trigger U.S. President Donald Trump's "unpredictability" while also failing to earn support from China and Russia, it said.
"It seems clear that North Korea is considering a new path that it can go with China and Russia, but the problem with such an approach is that it is operational only when the North shows its willingness to denuclearize," Choi Yong-hwan, Vice President for Security Strategy Division of the institute, said during a press conference in Sokcho.
Earlier in the day, a former top North Korean nuclear envoy, Kim Kye-gwan, said he hopes to see the U.S. act "wisely" through the end of the year, signaling Pyongyang's intention to resume the talks.
The two countries held their first meeting in seven months in Stockholm early this month, but the talks broke down again, with the North accusing the U.S. of failing to come up with a new proposal.
On Wednesday, Sweden's special envoy for the Korean Peninsula, Kent Harstedt, said his country will send invitations to the two countries in the coming weeks for another round of nuclear negotiations.
Sweden had invited the two sides to come back to the European country in two weeks and meet again following the breakdown of the talks, but North Korea rejected the offer.


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Local Artist Becomes President of RBSA
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Birmingham artist Wayne Attwood has been elected President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, following the organisation's annual general meeting. "I'm honoured to be elected," says Wayne, who was previously Vice President. "I hope to do as good a job at Robert Neil, the outgoing president."
Wayne Attwood splits his time between painting in the UK and the Mediterranean. His work is represented in private, corporate and public collections across Europe. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows including the RBSA Gallery and Mall Galleries.
Walter R Sickert once wrote that: "the most fruitful course of study for the painter" lies in a persistent effort to render the magic and poetry which they daily see around them". When looking for inspiration, this quote always seems to come to Wayne's mind.
The primary aim of his painting is to capture the atmosphere and culture of the everyday environments we inhabit, as he perceives or experiences them, which is why he is continually drawn to urban, social, industrial and cultural subjects as a motif.
There resides a fascination with how we are connected through a mutual experience of these shared urban spaces.
Although draughtsmanship is fundamental to the work, he doesn't necessarily wish to produce an accurate topographical documentation, but rather capture an emotive, perceptual 'sense of place'.
Realism is not the intent. Working from direct observation, he creates a series of drawings and studies which are then used to design and produce studio paintings; not tending to use a single source of reference but refer to various sources for each painting.
In 2004 he left the UK to sail with his wife, on their 35ft yacht 'Hitrapia', around the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe, rediscovering his passion for painting. While travelling, Wayne spent an extended period in Malta, producing a body of work devoted entirely to this group of enchanting and historic islands.
He has participated in various exhibitions in Malta – presenting a solo show in Valletta and, as an invited artist, in exhibitions for The Prime Minister of Malta (2013 and 2014) and The President of Malta (2013, 2014 and 2015). He has also completed a number of commissions, including a painting for Dr Austin Gatt, Maltese Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications.
Prior to becoming a full-time artist Wayne was Creative Director of a national advertising and marketing agency. He undertook projects across the UK and Europe for corporations such as Coca-Cola, Disney, BBC, Film4, Sky TV, Kodak, Thomas Cook, Barclays Bank and Diageo/Guinness to name a few.
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Is Jasper Johns destined to become the Van Gogh of the contemporary art market?
He already holds the record for contemporary art sold at auction. Now, a seminal Johns painting--billed as "the most expensive and important painting by a living artist ever to be offered at auction" - is expected to smash that record in a May 3 sale at Christie's in New York.
"I think it's a fair estimate," said Martha Baer, Christie's director of 20th-Century fine arts, in a telephone interview. Conceding that the price could go much higher, she said, "It's very hard to estimate works like this and we don't want to scare people away."
Van Gogh's Irises sold for $53.9 million in November, 1998, and in the same year, Sunflowers fetched $39.9 million in March and "Bridge at Trinquetaille" brought $20.2 million.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in 1980 paid $1 million - a stunning price at the time - for his "Three Flags" painting in a private transaction.


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The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, presented the 2017 Spring Symposium Series, held Monday through Wednesday, March 27–29, 2017 on the campus of Stanford University. The eight symposia held were Artificial Intelligence for the Social Good (SS-17-01); Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding (SS-17-02); Computational Context: Why It's Important, What It Means, and Can It Be Computed? (SS-17-03); Designing the User Experience of Machine Learning Systems (SS-17-04); Interactive Multisensory Object Perception for Embodied Agents (SS-17-05); Learning from Observation of Humans (SS-17-06); Science of Intelligence: Computational Principles of Natural and Artificial Intelligence (SS-17-07); and Wellbeing AI: From Machine Learning to Subjectivity Oriented Computing (SS-17-08). This report, compiled from organizers of the symposia, summarizes the research that took place.


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Native Voices In A White Society
Evan Tlesla Adams (1993)
The media-fest in Oka and Kahnawake in the summer of 1990 assaulted all of us with its images of threatened brutality. Canada, which has never seen its First Nations peoples as adults with important things to say, suddenly had to listen on native terms to native voices. Imagine, "Indians" shaking the very foundations of this country's government's status quo and, worst of all, its sense of decorum.
In December 1991, Wii Seeks led a few First Nations people in briefly occupying the Santa Maria, one of the Spanish flotilla replicas of Columbus' fleet, near San Juan, Puerto Rico. That theatrical gesture focused the eyes of the world, albeit briefly, directly on us, the First Nations peoples.
"If we hadn't done it, we might as well have invited insult to ourselves. I was not around 200 years ago, but I am today," said Wii Seeks afterwards. There is no question; we are saying it is time for Canadians and the other nations of the world to hear First Nations' opinions about all that has and is transpiring.
But who is speaking for First Nations peoples? Who is choosing to speak for native people and who is being chosen? Is it still the movies, romantic visions from Kevin Costner for mass consumption? Is it still the media, leering across razor wire barricades at masked Warriors? For many, these images are still the only images they have of First Nations people.
We've all heard generalizations about native people—even from other native people—but which ones count? Who defines "native" for the native people? I once heard someone say, "Tyin' a rag around your head and bangin' a drum doesn't make you an Indian." I have to agree, but what exactly does? Surely, it is not the officious red and white status cards some of us have been given.
Is a mixed-blood raised on the reserve less "native" than a full-blood raised in Detroit and therefore a less important voice? Should we be hearing more from traditionalists like the Elders and less from the new self-defining of the younger generation?
One thing is terribly clear. The governments of this country are still defining and determining who we are: B.C. Supreme Court Justice Allan McEachern's decision on the Gitskan-Wet'suwet'en case: Delgam Uukw vs. Her Majesty the Queen, March 8, 1991:
"The Indians have remained dependent for too long. Even a national annual payment of billions of dollars on Indian problems, which undoubtedly ameliorates some hardships, will not likely break this debilitating cycle of dependence..."
This statement was used to support his decision that First Nations peoples had their land rights extinguished long ago, in part because we're not really "Native" anymore. We rely on funding from non-native bodies that decide which of us is producing "good" art. To some degree then, some of the "good" native art that is currently being made has been enabled according to someone else's aesthetic.
Some First Nations artists have agreed to play by the rules: that if you're good enough, you'll get what you deserve. The truth is, however good an actor you may be, if you're not white, forget even auditioning for the thousands of lead roles that are written by a white, mainstream and for a supposedly white audience.
First Nations peoples are still working in a white-dominated industry. We still do not have equal access to media. The colour lines exist. Images of First Nations peoples seldom come from First Nations peoples themselves. This has been called "appropriation."
Jack Gray, President of the Writers Guild of Canada, defends the writers' right to write about whatever they choose: cultural appropriation is "fundamentally a question of freedom of expression."
We all, as writers, appropriate ideas. The cry against someone else telling stories about us is not about censorship; it is a warning to artists to be responsible - your freedom to write about us is the same freedom we have to cry out if you're writing "Al Jolson-esque" black-face portrayals. It is also the same cry from Oka and from that harbour in Puerto Rico: "We have something to say for ourselves!"
We, as First Nations artists, are beginning to talk about the true state of our societies, i.e. multi-generational trauma, abuse, suicide and alcoholism, colonialism and the throw-away culture. We are also in recovery, successfully seeking peace and justice through traditional means, being victorious in being seen and heard by the dominant culture, and setting an example for the world about respect for Mother Earth. These are all our stories and we are raising our voices to tell them.
I hope that we are really being heard. The worst oppression is silence - we talk, no one responds. Can we convert the overwhelming ignorance and denial of the native reality into a constructive appreciation and respect for these differences between us?
First Nations people are a people in exile. We have lost that which we knew, hence we have alienation, depression, rage, pain. We are acknowledging this for ourselves, and letting other people hear about it too. Constructive appreciation and respect is not being told, "Get over it, honey."
Let our stories speak for themselves. As artists and as First Nations peoples we put forth our identities, our sense of self, who we are and WHO WE ARE NOT through these stories. We thank you for sitting and experiencing these voices and their stories. They speak volumes about who we really are.
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Evan Tlesla Adams
Evan Adams is a Coast Salish actor and physician from the Sliammon Band near Powell River, BC, Canada.
Evan stars in the Emmy-winning TV-movie "Lost in the Barrens" and its nominated sequel "Curse of the Viking Grave" and as Thomas Builds-The-Fire in ShadowCatcher Entertainment's SMOKE SIGNALS, written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre, for which he won Best Actor awards from the American Indian Film Festival, and from First Americans in the Arts, and a 1999 Independent Spirit Award. Evan is the past host of Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's #1-rated show Buffalo Tracks, starred in FallsApart Production's American feature The Business of Fancydancing, and had a recurring role on the CBC TV-series DA VINCI'S CITY HALL.
Aside from his career in the arts, Evan has completed 3 years of pre-med studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC), a Medical Doctorate from the University of Calgary in 2002, and a Family Practice residency (as Chief Resident) in the Aboriginal Family Practice program at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC. He is the 2005 winner of the (provincial) Family Medicine Resident Leadership Award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), and the 2005 national winner of the Murray Stalker Award from the CFPC Research and Education Foundation. He is the past-President of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada, and is currently the Director of the Division of Aboriginal Peoples' Health, UBC Department of Family Practice. He is an MPH-candidate with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health while working with the Office of the Provincial Health Officer.