We recently started work on an interesting but deceptively simple project. It's all about a device that tracks and helps improve the user's posture. It has built-in sensors that constantly feed data into it's embedded software. In turn, the software needs to determine if the posture is OK or not, based on the sensor readings. In the latter case, the software also needs to determine what exactly is wrong with the user's posture.
In typical Pareto fashion, all went smoothly for about 80% of the project. Using simple algorithms, we were able to determine the majority of bad postures.
If the values received from sensors 3 and 6 are much lower than the average of the others (that is, below a given threshold), then we certainly have [bad posture type 4].
However, basic math and (mere human) logic proved not to be enough. There was one type of bad posture that was hard to detect given the sensor readings. No matter what we tried, about half of the results were OK while the other half were either false positives or false negatives.
After a few fails, we no longer benefited from a device that noted our increasingly bad posture, so we changed our approach. Instead of bashing our brains against the large amount of data, we decided to create a new, more specialized brain … to bash. And bash we did.
First off, had to test the viability of our new approach. As such, we needed to be able to quickly create, train and test various neural network types and configurations.
Neuroph is lightweight Java neural network framework to develop common neural network architectures. It contains well designed, open source Java library with small number of basic classes which correspond to basic NN concepts. Also has nice GUI neural network editor to quickly create Java neural network components. It has been released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license, and it's FREE for you to use it.
After a few hacks like altering command line switches in neurophstudio/etc/neurophstudio.conf (WAT?), we managed to get NeurophStudio working (that is: "-J-Xms768m -J-Xmx1024m" for you techies out there).
Beyond this, we just followed well known recipes and it was pretty much smooth sailing.
First off, in order to complete step 1. (above), I got the chance to walk up to unsuspecting colleagues and say: "Hi, my name is Vlad and I need to use your body … for science.". This is reward enough for me, personally.
As per the project, the goal was to reduce the large error rate.
And so we did. We started with a very large error rate of about 50% (for the given problematic case) and reduced it to less than 1%.
A huge improvement, a great result and better posture for the team!


Utah Lake Photography Contest The Utah Lake Commission is pleased to announce the 5th annual Utah Lake Photography Contest.
The Utah Lake Commission is excited to announce the 1st annual Utah Lake Youth Photography and Art Contest.
***Please be aware that an updated post about the contest is available on our website. Click here to see it. The information in this article is slightly outdated, please see the updated post before deciding to participate. Thank you.
We have seen a lot of interest in our 10 Historic Utah Lake Photographs article that we posted last week. The Slide at Geneva Resort (pictured above) was the most popular photo based on the voting. For more information on the history of that slide and the lake, take a look at our previous article.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Utah Lake Photography Exhibit. The public voted on the photographs during the Utah Lake Festival, which was held on June 7th, 2014, at Utah Lake State Park.
Are you looking for something fun and creative to start off your Summer?


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Rails-to-Trails Moves Forward
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Frank Chiachiere
This post originally appeared on Orphan Road.
Looks like a deal is inching ever closer:
The trail would be designed as a "dual-use facility" that could accommodate a high-capacity passenger rail line sometime in the future, said one of the architects of the deal, County Executive Ron Sims.
If a final deal is reached in the coming months, the Port would pay $103 million for the rail line, then swap it with King County in exchange for county-owed Boeing Field.
The Port would also give the county $66 million to build a biking and hiking trail south of the Snohomish County line. Freight trains would continue to run between Woodinville and Snohomish.
So the Port is paying $169 million for an entire airport, or roughly one-tenth of the cost to add a third runway at Sea-Tac. Not a bad deal! The county gets to divest itself from the airport business, which makes sense, and it gets to preserve the right-of-way for transit use down the road.
The P-I adds:
Operations [at the airport] would not change at least until 2022, when SeaTac Airport, which is owned by the port, is expected to reach capacity, Sims said.
That's when the pedal hits the metal. Remember that Sims was able to halt Southwest's proposal to build a passenger terminal at Boeing Field in 2005. The Port objected to Southwest's proposal, mainly because Alaska Air would have moved to match it, and the resulting decrease in gate fees at Sea-Tac would have hurt the Port's funding for the afore-mentioned third runway.
Now, with the Port in control of Boeing Field's destiny, it will be able to dole out passenger service as it sees fit. And, wouldn't you know it, 2022 is just about the time Sea-Tac, third runway and all, is expected to reach capacity. Georgetown residents probably ought to get ready to fight again.
Hood Canal Bridge Construction
WSDOT has a surprisingly well-made construction cam documenting the rebuilding of the Hood Canal Bridge.
Most of these government sites are pretty poorly designed, but this one's got a pretty slick interface. It's fun. Too bad the photos aren't very dramatic. Maybe in a few months…
P-I Says "No-No"
The Seattle PI today endorses a NO-NO vote on the viaduct:
The message behind this no-no vote might be lost on Gregoire, Nickels and Chopp, who each appear immovable on the issue, and have abdicated their duty to lead. We'd like to send them back to the table to study carefully, and without prejudice, all possibilities, including a surface-plus-transit option. In the meantime, the state is responsible for safety on the current viaduct. Perhaps it ought to retrofit the thing while decisions are being made so that we don't risk it crumbling over our heads or beneath our wheels.
The Stranger concurs:
Instead of spending our limited transportation tax dollars on more concrete for cars, we should be doing what cities across the country, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to San Francisco, to Portland, Oregon, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, are doing, with universally positive results: tear the viaduct down, implement all the surface-street improvements we're going to be doing anyway during the 9 to 12 years the viaduct will be closed for construction, and see if we can get by without it permanently.
And that seems to be the nut of it: if we have to close the corridor for a decade anyway, we may as well close it for a few years and see what happens.
The Bus Apocalypse
Brian Miller, writing on the Weekly's blog, notes that the downtown condo boom means that Seattle's rich will be able to avoid traffic, while the poor will be pushed out to the auto-dependent suburbs:
So those affluent enough to trade addresses from Mercer Island or the Sammamish Plateau or even Laurelhurst would be able to avoid paralyzing, permanent gridlock. Horrendous traffic jams would be something to enjoy, even laugh at, while looking out the windows of Smith Tower, martini glass in hand.
…a pattern emerges: Commuting is for the poor, for the powerless, for those dispossessed from Seattle and its politics.
In other words, in the not-too-distant future, the rich will walk to work every day while the folks who do their laundry will be bused in from Renton and Federal Way, a grueling two-hour bus trip.
He's exactly right. But it's a pattern common to all of America's gentrifying cities, from Philly to San Francisco, not just Seattle. And it has little to do with the Viaduct. Overall, shrinking commutes are a good thing. If a downtown apartment becomes a symbol of "the good life" in America (as opposed to a lawn and a two-car garage), that's even better, because it will increase demand for density.
Nonetheless, it's a real problem for the working-class and poor in the city. There are really only two ways to mitigate its effects:
(1) Low-income housing in the city, which can never solve all of our problems, and doesn't address the core issue: Why would a working-class family want to live in a downtown where the only grocery store is an unaffordable Whole Foods?
(2) Transit, transit, transit. A true regional rapid transit system will allow people to spread out and avoid a traffic-clogged commute every morning.
It should be clear to anyone who reads this blog that I'm a fan of the latter solution. But the poor alone don't have the muscle to advocate for rapid-transit. So the question, to bring it back to the meat of Miller's argument, is whether or not the city's elites, the ones living in the new Smith tower and working in nearby city hall, will advocate for more rapid transit, or whether they'll just hole up in their downtown condos and take a rooftop helicopter to the airport when they need to. The latter is the true apocalypse scenario Miller's hinting at.
Given how spread out the region's employment centers are (Redmond, Bellevue, Downtown, Renton…), it's almost impossible to spend your entire career living and working within walking distance. So I have to think that it's in everyone's interest, even if you live downtown, to build a true regional transit system. Because even if you never ride the bus, you still benefit from its existence, in the form of decreased traffic on the highways. With that in mind, I think the trend of wealth moving downtown could actually be a boon for the poor, because it will increase demand for transportation alternatives. And that's a good thing for everyone in the long run.
The Not-so-simple Viaduct Calculus
On March 13, Seattle voters (well, all 5 of them who mail in ballots) will face two questions:
1. Tunnel: yea or nay
2. Rebuild: yea or nay
You can vote yes on one, both, or neither. The Times breaks down the possible results here. The most likely option seems to be no/no, which is what the folks at The Stranger have been hawking.
The second most likely option is no/yes, which would almost certainly bring the debate to an end and result in an elevated rebuild. Even the Mayor would have to concede that he's lost this one. If you gamble on a referendum, you have to be willing to accept the results.
Soundoff on the Viaduct
If you were uncertain about just how opinionated everyone's become about the Viaduct, look no further than the Seattle P-I's "Popular Soundoffs," where no less then 3 of the top 5 most commented-upon articles are on the Viaduct:
We're not wanting for opinions on this particular topic.
Surface Option Gets Staffing
The "Surface/Transit" option for replacing the viaduct seems to be picking up steam, according to the Times:
The state DOT says it is not studying surface proposals.
"I would say emphatically no," said David Dye, the agency's urban-corridors administrator. "We're taking our lead from the statements of legislative leadership and the governor's office. We're focusing on working on the elevated design."
But DOT itself has temporarily reassigned staffer David Hopkins, who was helping craft a regional highway package, to gather information about surface and transit ideas that Sims and King County transportation staffers are developing.
In other words, WSDOT is gearing up for the fight. Or, as transportation secretary Doug MacDonald says, "The surface discussion is coming like a freight train."
Surface/Transit is just an idea at this point. Like "Bus Rapid Transit," (BRT) it means different things to different people. The graphic that accompanies the Times article provides some detail as to what it might include, such as keeping 3rd Avenue bus-only through downtown.
The most innovative part of the plan, though, is to connect Highway 99 with I-5 interchanges at several points downtown. The problem now is that freight trucks coming off the waterfront have to take the Viaduct north through downtown. Their first real chance to switch over to I-5 (to reach destinations North and East of Seattle) is at Mercer Street. If you provide the trucks with the opportunity to hop over to I-5 South of Downtown, you alleviate that need.
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Chillies are a personal favourite of mine. With the differences in cultivars among the five domesticated species of Capsicum, there's shapes, colours, flavours and heat-levels to suit anyone! Great in food, good for you, and easy to grow, chillies make a rewarding herb/spice to keep in your garden.
HOT Long and thin. 12cm Cayenne is a chilli cultivar that is as much prized for its health benefits, as it is for its use in various cuisine. Matures from green to bright red.
Capsicum annuum With a mild to medium pungency, and good sized fruit, Jalapeño chillies are a firm favourite with many. They can be eaten fresh, pickled, smoked (known as chipotles), or stuffed (poppers).
Matures from green to bright red. Usually used when green.
HOT Small thin pods with pointed tips. 4cm The small fruit ripen from green (through yellow and orange) to bright red.
Capsicum annuum Loco is a compact multi-branching bush type chilli with many pungent short and small upright bright purple fruits that ripen to red. Attractive patio plant. Flowers are also purple or purple tinged rather than white. 10 000 - 24 000 SHU MILD > HOT Small and round. 2cm Matures from almost black through purple to red.
Chenzo Capsicum frutescens Attractive black fruit, and a compact growth habit makes this chilli a good patio or balcony specimen. Fruit are of medium to hot pungency and tasty.
45 000 SHU HOT Tapered pods measure about 7cm Brilliant black maturing to purple, then green and finally red.
Capsicum annuum These very mild sweet peppers are also known as wax peppers, and are typically eaten when bright yellow. Not to be confused with Hungarian wax peppers (hotter) or Pepperoncini.
Aji (yellow) Capsicum baccatum Ripening from green to a bright yellow colour, with a fruity taste and hot pungency, the yellow aji pepper is perfect for hot sauces.
MILD 5cm Elongated conic shape. Bright green or yellow-green.
Capsicum baccatum The Bishop's Crown or Christmas Bell Pepper is a hot pepper with unusual shaped fruit resembling a joker's hat. Ripening from green to bright red, they are easy to grow and prolific.
MILD > HOT Bell/crown-shaped. 6cm Green to bright red.
Capsicum annuum On a par with a very mild Jalapeño in terms of heat, these sweet-with-a-bite hybrid peppers are perfect for stuffing, pickling, or roasting. Small and round like little red cherries.
5 000 MILD Small and round. Bright red.
7-Pot Capsicum chinense Related to the Trinidad Scorpion Pepper (2nd hottest on record), the 7-pot peppers are extremely hot. The name implies one chilli has enough spice to make 7 pots of hot chilli stew. Fruity.
950 000 - 1 000 000 SHU EXCEPTIONALLY HOT Round, plump and wrinkled (dimply), sometimes with a "sting-like" pointed end. Bright red.
flavour and a searing heat. Delicious in hot sauces, especially if paired with fruit. Mostly used in sauces, salsa, marinades and other processed liquids.
Capsicum frutescens Bushy plants with upright growing fruit maturing from green through orange to bright red. Native to the Tabasco province in Mexico, these juicy chillies are for hot sauces and vinegars.
30 000 - 50 000 SHU HOT 4cm long tapering pods Ripening from green through yellow and orange to red.
Capsicum frutescens This compact & bushy chilli is family of Tabasco peppers and has masses of upward-facing fruit ripening from green through pale yellow, orange to bright red— like little flames.
50 000 - 80 000 SHU HOT 4cm long tapering pods Ripening from green through yellow and orange to red.
Capsicum annuum Jingle Bells are sweet mini bell-peppers with fruit resembling Christmas light bulbs. Delicious fresh in salads, stuffed with feta cheese, or pickled.
0 SHU SWEET Small round, bell pepper shaped Green, red, orange and yellow.
Capsicum annuum This heirloom is grown for its very unique shape! Quite piquant, it is mostly pickled. Definitely one that will be talked about if you grow it!
Capsicum annuum Producing large, oblong and tapered fruit, like a cow or bull's horn, the Corno di Torro Pepper is sweet and delicious. Eat fresh or charred under the grill. May be mildly spicy.
Capsicum chinense This habanero is fragrant and very hot. Resembling somewhat a flying saucer, they are great to use in hot sauces.
VERY HOT Oblong and Lantern shaped. Deep yellow to bright orange.
Manzano peppers, and are charecterized by their black seeds and hairy leaves. Very hot.
SWEET Various Green, red, orange, yellow, purple.
Tequila Capsicum annuum Large purple bell peppers ripen to red if left on the plant. Gorgeous coloured fruit makes this a sought after hybrid. 0 SHU SWEET Bell pepper Purple to red.
A list of the capsicums - hot chilli and sweet peppers - we will be growing at MeadowSweet this season (2016).


Officials of Castell Project, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the careers of women professionals in the hospitality industry, today announced its inaugural "WSH List," a growing list of female hoteliers and hospitality real estate executives with the knowledge and experience to offer unique perspectives on today's changing marketplaces. Referrals from the list are available to all conference organizers seeking to add diversity to their lineups of highly qualified and sought-after presenters.
"Conference organizers and sponsors have found it difficult to reach outside of their traditional networks to identify diverse speakers. The WSH list is a resource to broaden speaking opportunities for women and create more diverse and interesting programs," said Peggy Berg, Castell president.
The podium is critical to showing prospective employees that the industry offers a future for women. Opportunities to speak lead to recognition and opportunity for our rising female executives. Castell Project challenges program organizers and sponsors to become more gender inclusive. The Castell Project is focused on providing industry leaders, as well as on-the-ground associates, with points of view that might not otherwise be considered.
Source = Castell Project, Inc.


Buy the best, breed to the best and stand out from the rest!
Promised Land Farm has an amazing variety of black pure Peruvian studs to choose from. Several are double black, most are unrelated to each other, and all are unrelated to the most common black bloodlines in this part of the country.
We will do mobile mating within a one-hour radius. We will also do "drive-by" breeding if you want to take your momma and her cute little cria right back home with you after the breeding. For those females who stay at our farm for the breeding, we include up to 60 days free board, a progesterone test at 21 days gestation AND confirmation by ultrasound at 25-30 days. All our breedings come with a live cria guarantee (Our definition of a live cria guarantee is a cria that survives for at least 10 days).
This fine-fleeced Black Mesquite son is a real eye-catcher. He is a true non-fading jet black with absolutely no spots. He moves with a fluid grace that denotes exceptional conformation. He has that marvelous quality known as "presence" that makes him really stand out in a crowd, yet he is calm, confident, well-trained and easy to handle.
His dam, 6Peruvian Black Cloud, was the finest fleeced solid black animal in the last Peruvian import with a micron of 19.2 at the time of import! and she has maintained her fineness in the very low 20's as she has produced exceptional fine-fleeced offspring year after year, including several Champions. She stamps her gorgeous classic head on every offspring and they in tern are passing it along.
His sire, MFI Peruvian Black Mesquite, needs no introduction. Mesquite is known worldwide for the awesome quality of his offspring and his $7500 stud fee reflects the high demand for his genetics.
Buy this Mesquite son now while he is young and priced affordably. He should be ready to start breeding for you this spring. (He thinks he is ready now!) The first 3 breedings booked for this promising young male will be only $750 each. Breedings to his famous sire cost TEN TIMES that much and are very limited. This price will double after the first three are booked so reserve your breeding right away!!! This flashy young male has now settled his first female. the first cria is due in the fall of '09. Now there are only two Breedings left at this fantastic introductory price. Reserve one now!
If you like your whites white and very bright, PLF Peruvian Grandstander could be just what you are looking for. This Accoyo/Allianza eyecather has the gleaming white fleece, high frequency deep bold crimp and the fineness and density that will be needed to breed the outstanding white animals that are the future of our fiber industry. Dr. Norm Evans put Grandstander in the top 1 1/2% of the animals he has tested by skin biopsy.
His sire Accoyo Grandmaster is known for passing along color and adding very fine fleeces. Grandstander's older full brother PLF Peruvian Jubilant is doing the same out in Colorado and we expect that Grandstander will carry on this "family tradition"!!
At the 2006 Northern Illinois Alpaca Extravaganza show the judge placed him at the head of a large, competitive class. He has amazing staple length and coverage from the top of his head to the tips of his toes. He stands very regal and proud like he owns the pasture or the show ring which earned him his name, but he remains easy to handle. In fact he has been been shown in performance and junior showmanship classes and has won Blue Ribbons in those classes also.
He just took another Blue Ribbon in a large competitive White Yearling Male Halter class (Is there a tougher category?)at the Ohio Alpacafest 2007. The judge commented at length on his strong frame, perfect conformation, fineness and density, but was most impressed by the consistency of his fleece from shoulder to flank to hip and from top to midside to belly.
Grandstander is co-owned with Donna A. Wolfer of Southern Cross Alpacas, but will be standing stud at Promised Land Farm most of the time.
We offered 3 introductory breedings at $750 and they were snapped up almost immediately. The $750 breedings are gone now, but we are offering the next 3 for only $1000. Don't miss out on your chance to chance to breed to this amazing male at this amazing price! First crias due this spring!
Pride of America is a Pure Peruvian treasure! Impressive grey genetics from sire Dom Timbo, and advanced fleece characteristics from outstanding fawn dam 6Peruvian Maisa combined to produce a fleece of amazing fineness, density, staple length, brightness and high-frequency crimp. His first fleece took Best of Show at Fiberfest 2002; the next a Blue Ribbon at the AOBA National Conference 2003. He has also taken firsts and seconds in full-fleece halter classes and in composite. Strong and square with terrific bone, great conformation, majestic presence and excellent libido, he remains easy to handle. At nearly 4 years of age his AFD remains a low 20.7 microns. His first crias have arrived and most of them are GREY! He has produced both rosegrey and silver and even the folks that got male crias are happy and have come back for more. His stud fee is $3,000, with a $500 discount for small breeders (less than six breeding females). Live cria guarantee. Limited breedings. Reserve now. Pride of America is Co-owned with Pride of Americas Alpacas. He is standing stud at Kalmar Kolors Alpacas in Western Illinois.
Half Accoyo! Full Peruvian! Rosegrey! What more could you ask? Super fine fleece with outstanding high-frequency crimp, sheen, brightness and amazing density? Square compact body style, superb conformation, typey head? Peruvian Calypso, the rare rosegrey son of Accoyo Peruvian Grand Master, has all of this and more  show-stopping presence and pizzazz!
Peruvian Calypso's show record has been impressive. He is a Champion, twice Reserve Champion and four time Blue Ribbon winner. Calypso now has many offspring on the ground, most of them girls, in colors from True Black to Rosegrey. His most recent histogram (see green box) taken at 3 1/2 years of age is little short of amazing.
Calypso has recently returned to the Promised Land after 4 months "on tour" at Kalmar Kolors in Western Illinios where he made many new friends. We are happy to have him back home. He will be standing stud here for the next year and a half.
Calypso's oldest daughter, PLF Peruvian Lacy's Legacy owned by Storybook Alpacas, just returned from her very first show with a blue ribbon and a Reserve Championship!
We took three of his daughters to the 2006 AOBA National Conference and each one took a 2nd place in a large and competitive classes.
His stud fee is $2,500, with a $500 discount for small breeders (less than six breeding females). Live cria guarantee. Demand is high. Reserve your breeding now to this phenomenal Herd Sire. Calypso is co-owned with Pride of Americas Alpacas.
PLF Peruvian Blacksmith of Camelot is a truly magnificent animal. We call him "Smitty" for short. He took first place at the Ohio Alpacafest and his yearling fleece took first place at the AOBA National Conference and first place and Reserve Champion at the Ohio Alpacafest among other honors.
His sire, 5Peruvian Camelot, is arguably the best dark-colored male alpaca ever imported from Peru. He is a rare and wonderful true maroon (it isn't on the color chart any more, but it is still a real and very desirable color!) He has passed his incredible fleece characteristics on to his offspring. His dam is the beautiful silver grey Dona Ariana who has produced a long string of show winners and Champions for us. She is a permanent part of our foundation herd. Even at her advanced age she is still an eye-catcher and she is still the undisputed queen of all she surveys.
A quick note about the photos - "Smitty" is a very solid and consistent black. The areas that look like spots in these photos are actually "green slime". A few minutes before Nancy Haus arrived for his photo shoot he decided to show all the other boys who was boss. They retaliated by sliming him. What timing!
His first crias have arrived and all have phenomenal fleeces. His stud fee is $2,500, with a $500 discount for small breeders (less than six breeding females).
1st place AOBA National Conference Fleece Show 2003!
He took 1st place at the Ohio Alpaca Fest in November 2002.
PLF Peruvian Juneau is a half Accoyo son of the famous Accoyo Augusto. Augusto is no longer available for outside breedings. Here is your chance to capture his rare and desirable genetics by breeding to one of his best sons. Juneau took the White Male Color Championship at the Kentucky Classic 2005 under highly respected senior judge Dr. Julio Sumar against some of the stiffest competition in the country — Magical Farms, Stachowski, Mary's Alpaca, Five Star, Hobby Horse and more! His bright, dense fleece will amaze you.
His first crias have arrived and they are amazing! His stud fee is $2,000, with a $500 discount for small breeders (less than six breeding females).
Peruvian Black Maverick is a true black pure Peruvian stud who is unrelated to most of the black Peruvians in this part of the country. His fawn mother contributed to his outstanding fleece - 23.4 microns, dense and very crimpy. He has excellent conformation, good bone, and terrific coverage.
Black Maverick took first place in the adult black male class at the Pennsylvania Breeder's Showcase Alpaca Show in Butler, Pa. last spring.
Black Maverick - affectionately known as "Ricky" will charm you with his sweet dispostion and his calm and friendly attitude. Everybody loves Ricky and we just know the ladies will, too. He started breeding in June, 2001. His first crias have begun to arrive and everyone is excited!
Black Maverick is co-owned with Snugglers' Meadow Alpacas whose farm is only ten minutes from ours, so he will never be far away. He will be available when you need him. Black Maverick is currently residing at Promised Land Farm. We invite you to introduce your ladies to this distinguished gentleman. His stud fee is $2,500, with a $500 discount for small breeders (less than six breeding females).
This remarkable young male will add color and quality to almost any herd. Every inch of him is covered with glistening, non-fading, true black fleece. He has 2 black parents - both Champions - and 3 black grandparents (the 4th is dark silver grey). This depth of color genetics is rare in pure Peruvians. Put him over light-colored females to bring out color without sacrificing fineness. Put him over black and grey to add fineness without sacrificing color.
He is a proud, upstanding young male with lovely conformation and a correct bite. His fleece is dense, fine and bright with high frequency crimp and character.
PLF Peruvian Beowulf has recently started his breeding career. His first crias are due in October 2007. His introductory stud fee is $750.
PLF Peruvian Black Cornerstone has been quite the show-ring success. He has had two first place and two second place finishes in his brief show career. His conformation is about as close to perfect as it gets, his bite is excellent and his incredibly soft fleece, with its bundling and high amplitude crimp all the way to the very tips has everyone oohing and aahing. He has settled three females and his first crias came in the fall of 2003. Cornerstone is out of 6Peruvian Dona Aparacida, our best black female and sired by 6Peruvian Dom Timbo, an outstanding grey.
In 2002 he took 1st place at the POABA Breeders Showcase in the full-fleece, black jeuvenile male category.
Designer Genes has taken a blue ribbon each time shown!


Ian Mulheirn advises the Chancellor to reduce tax-free ISA allowances and pensioner tax benefits. He suggests the money freed up could generate £50bn for infrastructure investment projects over four years, which would offer a growth strategy while cutting the fiscal deficit (20 February). We do not need to penalise savers or pensioners to achieve this though. Surely, it makes more sense to use the billions of pounds already set aside for future retirement income, which is currently languishing in low-interest government bonds. Pension funds are desperate for better returns and the long-term inflation linked return profile of successful infrastructure projects, with some capital upside as well, is ideally suited to pension liabilities. There are funds available already thanks to past pension savings. It would be far better to provide a state underpin to long-term, job-creating projects than to keep printing new money and force government bond yields to ever more over-valued levels. Let's harness the power of pension investments to help stimulate the economy and generate better returns for the future.


In compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the university makes available to prospective employees its annual security and fire safety report.
The report includes statistics for the previous three years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus, in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the University of Florida, and on public property within or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the UF campus. It also includes institutional policies concerning campus security such as policies regarding alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, sexual assault, the reporting of crimes, and other personal and property safety issues.
Hard copy requests may be made by e-mail to updinfo@admin.ufl.edu, or by mail to University of Florida Police Department, P.O. Box 112150, Gainesville, FL 32611-2150.


A masterpiece of ancient perception and medical accuracy, this is often the definitive paintings on Greek astronomy and the Copernican Revolution. starting with the traditional Egyptians, it levels from the Pythagoreans and Plato to medieval ecu and Islamic cosmologies, concluding with detailed surveys of the works of Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler.
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Allan Hall's Messier Astrophotography Reference takes the duty of delivering an in depth, sensible, visible consultant to the evening sky's Messier items - all one hundred ten of them - heavily, yet now not with out the author's trademark approachability and aim of delivering home-based astrophotographers at any adventure point with the basic assets they should shoot clever.
If they were right and Chiron was a comet, it was a big one; its brightness suggested that it was about fifteen times bigger than the nucleus of Halley's comet. A few more details of the nature of Chiron were revealed a decade later when David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, amongst others, showed that Chiron was brightening faster than expected as it approached the Sun. Like planets, asteroids do not shine by themselves, they merely reflect sunlight and their brightness at any given time depends on a number of factors.
The fact that some, indeed an increasing number of them, are being detected means that the Centaur population is being continuously replenished. The discovery of the Centaurs lent credence to increasingly detailed suggestions that there was a reservoir of objects beyond Neptune that could be diverted into Centaur-like orbits and which would then evolve inwards to become short-period comets. 38 CHAPTER 3 The mystery of the shortperiod comets By the early 1970s the rate at which short-period comets were being discovered was increasing suspicions that there were too many to be explained by objects captured directly from the Oort Cloud.
A number of other Centaurs have since been discovered, but many of them are very faint and not much is known about them. The best observed are 7066 Nessus (1993 HA2), 8504 Asbolus (1995 GO) and 10199 Chariklo (1997 CU26), all of which were discovered by the Spacewatch team. Chariklo is quite bright and photometry of this object shows that it is redder than Chiron, but less red than Pholus. 25 micron feature seen on Pholus. Paradoxically, ice is not seen in most published spectra of 8504 Asbolus,‡ which looks otherwise rather similar to Chariklo.


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Audiences go for a second helping of 'Encanto'
by: LINDSEY BAHR, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 5, 2021 / 10:41 AM CST / Updated: Dec 5, 2021 / 02:30 PM CST
This image released by Disney shows Mirabel, voiced by Stephanie Beatriz, in a scene from the animated film "Encanto." (Disney via AP)
Leftovers were on the menu for moviegoers in North America this weekend. "Encanto," "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" and "House of Gucci" repeated in the top three spots, according to studio estimates on Sunday. All three films are playing exclusively in theaters.
The weekend after Thanksgiving is usually pretty quiet at the box office and this year was no exception considering new offerings like "Flee" and "Benedetta" were playing only in limited release. Disney's "Encanto," an animated tale with original music from Lin-Manuel Miranda, earned $12.7 million to take the top spot, down 53% from its opening last weekend. Globally, it's earned $116.1 million to date.
"Ghostbusters: Afterlife" took second place in its third weekend with $10.4 million, pushing it just past the $100 million threshold. And Ridley Scott's ripped from the headlines "House of Gucci," starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, came in third place in its second weekend with $6.8 million from 3,477 locations, bringing its domestic total to $33.6 million.
In other notable showings, Warner Bros.' brought "Dune" back to IMAX screens this weekend. The premium screens accounted for over half of its $1.8 million domestic earnings.
Neon's animated documentary "Flee" also opened on four screens, earning $25,033. The film is about a man who fled Afghanistan as a child in the 1980s.
Things should pick up next week as Steven Spielberg's take on "West Side Story" dances into theaters nationwide.
BATON ROUGE, La. (KTVE/KARD) —On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, two Louisiana men were arrested by Livestock Brand Inspectors regarding two separate investigations involving theft of livestock in St. Landry Parish.


Gil Coan was an outfielder who played 11 years in the major leagues, getting his start with the Washington Senators in 1946. He appeared in over 100 games a year from 1948 through 1952, managing back-to-back batting averages of .303 in 1950 and 1951. After a drop in production in 1953, Coan was traded to the newly relocated Baltimore Orioles for Roy Sievers. Coan spent 1954 and part of 1955 in Baltimore, also playing for the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants that same season. His career came to an end in 1956 after only four games with the Giants in April of that year.
1951: The Shot Heard 'Round the World Bobby Thomson's historic home run caps one of baseball's greatest pennant races for the New York Giants.


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Q: Codeigniter large form insertion I've a form with 120 fields to insert into the DB. The form is inserting fine and the approach I used is below:
I'm fetching all the fields from the view as below in the controller and passing the array($postdata) to the model file to insert.
**View**
$postdata = array(
'firstname' => $this->input->post('firstname'), //1st field
'lastname' => $this->input->post('lastname'), // 2nd field
'age' => $this->input->post('age'),
....
....
'test' => $this->input->post('test') // 120th field.
);
$this->Form_Model->insertdata($postdata);

**Model:**
function insertdata($data = array()) {
        $sql_query = $this->db->insert('form_insert', $data);
        redirect('Form');
}

My question is Is there any better way to insert. This approach feels bit repetitive.

A: If you simply want to get an array of all the data submitted, you can do it like this:
$postdata = $this->input->post();

This means, all the data submitted from the form will be there in this array.
And if you want to remove any particular element from this array, you can use unset().
Say for example, you may have named your submit button as "submit_btn" like this:
<input type="submit" name="submit_btn" />

then this value would be there in the above returned array. You can remove it like this:
$postdata = $this->input->post();

unset( $postdata['submit_btn']);

Btw, I have a couple of suggestions. The logic part is done in a Controller(you referred it by mistake as View). A View is simply for the displaying. And the Model is for the database communication.
Also, it would always be better to do some validations on the input that you received from the User through form submissions. We may don't even know what data they are sending!
And move that redirect() you used in the Model to the Controller from where you were trying to call that insertdata() method. In that Model, you just return a value (true or false or maybe something else) and do the business logic inside the Controller
You were kind of mixing up everything. That's why I thought to give you some pointers to help you.
Hope it helps :)

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THIBODAUX, La. – Senior Jacob Bedevian threw all nine innings for the Nicholls State University baseball team and the Colonel offense pounded out their Southland best of 15 hits as Nicholls evened up the series against UIW with a 7-3 victory Saturday afternoon on Ben Meyer Diamond at Didier Field.
Bedevian, who played for UIW as a freshman, totaled 118 pitches against his former squad for his second complete game since becoming a Colonel. He struck out three, allowed just four hits and only two earned runs.
Champ Davison had another impressive showing at the plate, going 4 for 5 with two runs scored and an RBI. Davison had three hits in Friday's game against UIW, which slipped to 22-13 overall and 10-7. Adam Tarver, Dane Simon, and Christopher Sandberg each had two hits for the Colonels.
Sandberg accounted for the first run with an RBI bunt single in the second. With Austin France on third and Simon on second, Sandberg dropped a perfect bunt down the third base line. After France scored easily, Simon tried to score as well but was thrown out at the plate.
Nicholls broke the game open with four runs on four hits in the fourth. Waylon LeBlanc and Davison had back-to-back RBI singles against Tyler Perez (0-2) before a wild pitch made it 4-0. Austin France then drew a four-pitch walk with the bases loaded for a five-run lead.
Following an unearned run in the sixth that made it 6-0, UIW cut the deficit in half with three in the seventh. Antonio Valdez drove in the Cardinals' first run on a sacrifice fly and Sean Arnold followed with an RBI single to center, and another run scored on Arnold's hit via an error.
Tarver got the run back for Nicholls in the eighth with an RBI double that drove in Davison.
Bedevian retired UIW in order in the ninth to close the door on his complete game.
Nicholls and UIW wrap up the series Sunday for Military Appreciation Day. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.