According to our database1, Lei Yu authored at least 179 papers between 1998 and 2019.
Maxlifd: Joint Maximum Likelihood Localization Fusing Fingerprints and Mutual Distances.
Characteristics of operating mode distributions of light duty vehicles by road type, average speed, and driver type for estimating on-road emissions: Case study of Beijing.
The size of 3-uniform hypergraphs with given matching number and codegree.
Segmentation and Recognition of Basic and Transitional Activities for Continuous Physical Human Activity.
SLAC: Calibration-Free Pedometer-Fingerprint Fusion for Indoor Localization.
A Novel Device-Free Counting Method Based on Channel Status Information.
Prediction of Soil Organic Matter by VIS-NIR Spectroscopy Using Normalized Soil Moisture Index as a Proxy of Soil Moisture.
Combining Fractional Order Derivative and Spectral Variable Selection for Organic Matter Estimation of Homogeneous Soil Samples by VIS-NIR Spectroscopy.
Hand-Held 3-D Reconstruction of Large-Scale Scene With Kinect Sensors Based on Surfel and Video Sequences.
Sliding mode switching control under arbitrary switchings in the presence of uncertain parameters.
Study on control and optimization algorithm of dynamic green wave used in city traffic intelligent control.
Adaptive full-order and reduced-order observers for one-sided Lur'e systems with set-valued mappings.
Control design for stochastic one-sided Lipschitz differential inclusion system with time delay.
A correlation-based binary particle swarm optimization method for feature selection in human activity recognition.
Odd Induced Subgraphs in Graphs with Treewidth at Most Two.
Energy-aware and multi-resource overload probability constraint-based virtual machine dynamic consolidation method.
Speckle noise reduction in medical ultrasound image using monogenic wavelet and Laplace mixture distribution.
Federated Filter Algorithm with Positioning Technique Based on 3D Sensor.
Large-Screen Interactive Imaging System with Switching Federated Filter Method Based on 3D Sensor.
Image Noise Preprocessing of Interactive Projection System Based on Switching Filtering Scheme.
People logistics in smart cities.
Checking Function-Level Kernel Control Flow Integrity for Cloud Computing.
Data Fusion-Based Multi-Object Tracking for Unconstrained Visual Sensor Networks.
An Empirical Study of OAuth-Based SSO System on Web.
A New Detection Method for Stack Overflow Vulnerability Based on Component Binary Code for Third-Party Component.
Enhancing Security and Scalability in Software Defined LTE Core Networks.
Design and Implementation of High Concurrent Communication Server in Health Monitoring System.
Compare Stereo Patches Using Atrous Convolutional Neural Networks.
Maximal Guessing Coupling and Its Applications.
Large Scale Data Centers Simulation Based on Baseline Test Model.
Research Into Sar Imaging of Moving Ship Target Based on Isar Technology.
Crawled Data Analysis on Baidu API Website for Improving SaaS Platform (Short Paper).
Utility-Aware Synthesis of Differentially Private and Attack-Resilient Location Traces.
A Flexible Compound Sensing System for Tactile Detection in Prosthetic Hands.
Diverse Exploration for Fast and Safe Policy Improvement.
Energy efficiency of VM consolidation in IaaS clouds.
Multi-Mode GF-3 Satellite Image Geometric Accuracy Verification Using the RPC Model.
The 2015-2016 Ground Displacements of the Shanghai Coastal Area Inferred from a Combined COSMO-SkyMed/Sentinel-1 DInSAR Analysis.
A discriminative graph inferring framework towards weakly supervised image parsing.
Ionospheric Decontamination for HF Hybrid Sky-Surface Wave Radar on a Shipborne Platform.
Contactless multi-touch interactive technology based on adaptive filtering algorithm.
H∞ observer design for singular one-sided Lur'e differential inclusion system.
Safe and Environment-Friendly Forward Collision Warning Messages in the Advance Warning Area of a Construction Zone.
BiliScreen: Smartphone-Based Scleral Jaundice Monitoring for Liver and Pancreatic Disorders.
Service composition based on multi-agent in the cooperative game.
A hybrid fuzzy-stochastic technique for planning peak electricity management under multiple uncertainties.
Sparse multiple maximum scatter difference for dimensionality reduction.
Sliding Mode Switching Control of Manipulators Based on Disturbance Observer.
A D2D mode selection scheme with energy consumption minimization underlaying two-tier heterogeneous cellular networks.
SAR deception jamming target recognition based on the shadow feature.
Predicting food nutrition facts using pocket-size near-infrared sensor.
Privacy-Preserving Inductive Learning with Decision Trees.
DoCE: Direct Extension of On-Chip Interconnects over Converged Ethernet for Rack-Scale Memory Sharing.
A Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Model with Deep Structure for Recommender Systems.
FrameFab: robotic fabrication of frame shapes.
Node Scaling Analysis for Power-Aware Real-Time Tasks Scheduling.
Financial literacy is associated with white matter integrity in old age.
Novel observer design method for Lur'e differential inclusion systems.
Semantically structured service community discovery: based on relationship and functionality.
Complete characterization of bicyclic graphs with minimal Kirchhoff index.
Bridging Semantic Gap Between App Names: Collective Matrix Factorization for Similar Mobile App Recommendation.
Image annotation of power grid objects based on convolutional neural networks.
Titian2: a scalable system-level emulator with all programmability for datacenter servers in cloud computing.
A method of metamorphic relations constructing for object-oriented software testing.
A framework for test data generation of object-oriented programs based on complete testing chain.
GPU-FV: Realtime Fisher Vector and Its Applications in Video Monitoring.
Co-DIMM: Inter-Socket Data Sharing via a Common DIMM Channel.
Towards a Restrained Use of Non-Equivocation for Achieving Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus.
Dynamic scaling of virtual clusters with bandwidth guarantee in cloud datacenters.
Neural Variational Inference for Text Processing.
Online Segment to Segment Neural Transduction.
Service Recommendation Based on Topics and Trend Prediction.
The Research and Discussion on Effectiveness Evaluation of Software Protection.
sAXI: A High-Efficient Hardware Inter-Node Link in ARM Server for Remote Memory Access.
Aging and Financial Decision Making.
Robust neural network control of robotic manipulators via switching strategy.
Design of Robust Adaptive Neural Switching Controller for Robotic Manipulators with Uncertainty and Disturbances.
Principal patterns of fractional-order differential gradients for face recognition.
Analysis and design of rectangular waveguide to substrate integrated waveguide transition with voltage and current probe in W-band.
A Neural Network Approach for Tracking Control of Uncertain Switched Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Dead-Zone Input.
Fuzzy Approximation of a Novel Nonlinear Adaptive Switching Controller Design.
Listwise Approach for Rank Aggregation in Crowdsourcing.
MPDBS: A multi-level parallel database system based on B-Tree.
Detect Similar Mobile Applications with Transfer Learning.
Trajectory Optimization for Cooperative Air Combat Engagement Based on Receding Horizon Control.
Fusing noisy fingerprints with distance bounds for indoor localization.
Calibration-free fusion of step counter and wireless fingerprints for indoor localization.
Node Scaling Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks in a Power-Aware Datacenter.
Small instance detection by integer programming on object density maps.
Research on Storage and Retrieval Method of Mass Data for High-Speed Train.
The SYSU system for the interspeech 2015 automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures challenge.
Time-Aware Semantic Web Service Recommendation.
A novel real-time scheduling algorithm and performance analysis of a MapReduce-based cloud.
Gas Sensitivity and Sensing Mechanism Studies on Au-Doped TiO2 Nanotube Arrays for Detecting SF6 Decomposed Components.
Learning-Based Web Service Composition in Uncertain Environment.
Robust adaptive control for single input/single output discrete systems via multi-model switching.
Exponential stability of linear distributed parameter switched systems with time-delay.
Research on Application of Improved Smart Data Aggregation Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Network.
Face recognition with histograms of fractional differential gradients.
The Burgers Equation for a New Continuum Model with Consideration of Driver's Forecast Effect.
An experimental analysis of packet reception rate in RFID localization network.
An adaptive neural network switching control approach of robotic manipulators for trajectory tracking.
Trajectory Switching Control of Robotic Manipulators Based on RBF Neural Networks.
Stabilization and Finite Time Stabilization of Nonlinear Differential Inclusions Based on Control Lyapunov Function.
An Energy-Efficient VM Placement in Cloud Datacenter.
The Industry Data Analysis Processing Model Design: The Regional Health Disease Trend Analysis Model.
An Advanced RFID Localization Algorithm Based on Region Division and Error Compensation.
Non-linear adaptive sliding mode switching control with average dwell-time.
A Formal Model of IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic.
System-Level Assessment of Non-Orthogonal Spectrum Sharing via Transmit Beamforming.
A Localization and Tracking Approach with Sparse Reference Tags.
Simulating software behavior based on UML activity diagram.
Label localization with weakly spatial constrained graph propagation.
Label localization by appearance guided graph inferring.
A Hadoop MapReduce Performance Prediction Method.
Frequency-Utilization Based Power-Aware Schedule Policy for Real-Time Multi-core System.
A proposed data converter for current signal with temperature-compensated sample resistor.
Control of switched linear systems with actuator saturation and its applications.
Smart Hospital based on Internet of Things.
Using digital cameras for comparative phenological monitoring in an evergreen broad-leaved forest and a seasonal rain forest.
A RFID based e-STOP sign and its impacts to vehicle emissions.
Performance Evaluation of Threshold-Based TOA Estimation Techniques Using IR-UWB Indoor Measurements.
Coordinated scheduling and beamforming for multicell spectrum sharing networks using branch & bound.
Performance Analysis for Finite Sample MVDR Beamformer With Forward Backward Processing.
An Efficient and Flexible Task Management for Many Cores.
Aggregation Properties of a Polymeric Anticancer Therapeutic: A Coarse-Grained Modeling Study.
A Novel Frequent Trajectory Mining Method Based on GSP.
Reliability Comparison of Schedulability Test in Ubiquitous Computing.
SimMapReduce: A Simulator for Modeling MapReduce Framework.
Short-term forecasting of transit route OD matrix with smart card data.
Fingerprinting localization based on neural networks and ultra-wideband signals.
Descriptive local feature groups for image classification.
Gabor Texture Information for Face Recognition Using the Generalized Gaussian Model.
Dynamic adaptive scheduling for virtual machines.
Comparison of Hybrid Localization Schemes using RSSI, TOA, and TDOA.
A precision 2.5V bandgap voltage reference with excellent initial accuracy of 0.25% for high resolution ADCs.
SINR analysis of the subtraction-based SMI beamformer.
An ab initio potential energy surface and vibrational energy levels of ZnH2.
Gabor texture representation method for face recognition using the Gamma and generalized Gaussian models.
Multilayer neural networks-based direct adaptive control for switched nonlinear systems.
Robust adaptive neural tracking control for a class of switched affine nonlinear systems.
Robust beamforming methods for multipath signal reception.
An indoor tracking algorithm with the virtual reference based positioning.
Discovering Phrase-Level Lexicon for Image Annotation.
Micro-simulation study of the effect of median bus lanes with midblock stop on capacity of urban signalized intersection.
Incorporating Instruction-Based Sampling into AMD CodeAnalyst.
Thread Owned Block Cache: Managing Latency in Many-Core Architecture.
Efficient Address Mapping of Shared Cache for On-Chip Many-Core Architecture.
Security Challenges on the Clone, Snapshot, Migration and Rollback of Xen Based Computing Environments.
Godson-T: An Efficient Many-Core Architecture for Parallel Program Executions.
Multilevel Thresholding Method Based on Normalized Cut.
Effects of ignoring baseline on modeling transitions from intact cognition to dementia.
Service scheduling and rescheduling in an applications integration framework.
Fuzzy C-Means Based Stop Line and Crosswalk Placement at Right Turn Vehicle Exclusive Lane.
Study on Fine-Grained Synchronization in Many-Core Architecture.
A study on cross-language text summarization using supervised methods.
Evaluation Method of Synchronization for Shared-Memory On-Chip Many-Core Processor.
Robust beamforming with combined worst-case performance optimization and soft constraints in a multipath environment.
Design of New Hash Mapping Functions.
A Trust Model Based on Subjective Logic for Multi-Domains in Grids.
Data Compression for Emitter Location Finding in Sensor Networks.
Back-Propagation Neural Network for Traffic Incident Detection Based on Fusion of Loop Detector and Probe Vehicle Data.
A Novel Evaluating Model of CPV Vocational Ability Based on SVM Multilayer Classifier.
The Evaluation and Optimization of Enterprises' Production-Run Efficacy based on Factor Analysis and Fuzzy Association Rule Mining.
Automatic Text Summarization Based on Lexical Chains and Structural Features.
SR-UPF and its application on airborne passive location using double wave band infrared information.
A Framework for Dynamic Deployment of Scientific Applications Based on WSRF.
CRM Method for Power Supply Enterprises Based on Analysis of Utility and Customers_ Credit and Multistage Fuzzy Evaluation.
A Chinese Automatic Text Summarization system for mobile devices.
Recursive neural filters and dynamical range transformers.
Consistency Control in Synchronous Cooperative Work.
Supporting Distributed Corporate Planning through New Coordination Technologies.


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N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell, Far Sector #1-6 (DC Comics; 2020)
N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campell's Far Sector is a relevant, rich, and beautiful comic about Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein, a black, queer, ex-cop from Earth, who has been assigned to a sector of space so far out it has no number. The set piece to the story is a murder. As we follow Lantern Mullein through the investigation of that murder we learn of the complex society to which she has been assigned.
The City Enduring in this far sector is made up of 23 billion citizens and three races known as the Trilogy. The Trilogy is made up of the Nah, who are humanoids with wings and tails, the @At, a race of cyber-beings, and the Keh-Topli, a race of carnivorous plants who have human-shape. The initial murder is of a Keh-Topli eating a Nah (something they used to do earlier in their history). I write initial murder as the Keh-Topli is murdered while in Peace Division custody—possibly to cover-up the first murder. As Lantern Mullein comments, "everything is complicated here."
What makes Far Sector so riveting is not only are we, the readers, discovering the complexity of the City Enduring and its culture with Lantern Mullein, an example of immersive sub-creation owing to Jemisin's masterful storytelling and Campbell's stunning art, but this comic is also incredibly timely as it focuses on racism, classism, and police brutality. I write this review while protests over the murder of a black man, George Floyd, by a Minneapolis police officer continue across the United States and spread across the globe. Racial injustice and protest is at the heart of Far Sector, as Jemisin has created a world in which tensions between the Trilogy are increasing. Jo's own history as a whistle-blower because her white, male partner had beaten a black man during an arrest, combined with her being unjustly fired from the police force for a social media violation as she was tagged in a Black Lives Matter post of a friend adds current social commentary. These two events also lead her to be recruited by the Green Lantern Corp. As the Green Lantern recruiter comments to Jo about the police, "an assemblage of warriors ostensibly devoted to the security of their society and yet they fail to detain or exile their out-of-control cowards? Hmph."
An example of the power of this comic is in the latest issue (#5). Jemisin asks hard questions about the power of protest and the role that law enforcement plays in their interactions with those who assemble to fight injustice. The protest surrounding the murder is an integral part of the on-going story as Lantern Mullein must keep the various factions separate while allowing their voices to be heard. She is also put in the middle as the Council has authorized the Peace Division to fire onto the protestors. What starts as a peaceful protest begins to escalate into a riot as the police threatens the crowd with increased numbers and guns. This is a testament to the power of this book: Lantern Mullein champions the power of protest and the voice of the people; the Peace Division is willing to sacrifice its citizens for order, something that Jo cannot abide (with a long history of Black protest empowering her).
Jemisin and Campbell gives us the best kind of comic book: socially relevant, masterful storytelling, gorgeous art. I cannot recommend Far Sector enough.
Christopher Michael Roman is Professor of English and the Graduate Studies Coordinator at Kent State University.
www.kent.edu/english/dr-christopher-m-roman
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Q: Check if expression is null in Kotlin, Lua-style? In Lua (which is rarely used outside of development in Corona SDK), you can evaluate ANY expression in an if statement as follows:

*

*If expression is null, will return false

*If expression is the boolean value false, will return false

*Everything else will return true
Examples
if (1) // true
if ("Hello World") // true
if (instanceOfSomeRandomClass) // true
if ( [2, null, "foo"] ) // true
if (thisFunctionCallWithReturnNull()) // false
if (0 == 1) // false

if also happens to be an expression in Kotlin, so combining these features, I can see make creative ways to use it.
Is there an equivalent in Kotlin?
I know you can always manually check if (expression != null) and there's nothing wrong with that, but if (expression) is lazier, and I like being lazy :)

A: Citing the Kotlin language specification:

The type of the condition expression must be a subtype of kotlin.Boolean, otherwise it is an error.

So no, there is no direct equivalent in Kotlin.
However, you could potentially emulate the behaviour using a custom extension function on Any?:
fun Any?.toBoolean() = this != null && this != false

See it in action (note the input.toBoolean()):
fun main() {
    evaluate(1)
    evaluate("Hello World")
    evaluate(String())
    evaluate(listOf(2, null, "foo"))
    evaluate(null)
    evaluate(0 == 1)
}

fun evaluate(input: Any?) {
    println("$input is ${input.toBoolean()}")
}

Output:
1 is true
Hello World is true
 is true
[2, null, foo] is true
null is false
false is false

Not sure if this would qualify as "lazier", though.

A: To make it more convenient, you can create a higher-order luaIf function:
sealed class LuaIf<T> {
    class True<T>(val value: T) : LuaIf<T>()
    object False : LuaIf<Nothing>()
}

inline fun <T> luaIf(condition: Any?, block: () -> T): LuaIf<T> =
    if (condition == null || condition == false) False as LuaIf<T>
    else True(block())

inline infix fun <T : R, R> LuaIf<T>.els(ifFalse: () -> R): R = when (this) {
    is True -> value
    False -> ifFalse()
}

And use it like this:
luaIf(null) { 1 } els { 0.5 } // 0.5
luaIf(Any()) { 1 } els { 0.5 } // 1

Unfortunately, every time the condition is true (or not null), the LuaIf.True instance is created. You can optimize it by inlining LuaIf class:
inline class LuaIf<T> @Deprecated(
    message = "Not type-safe, use factory method",
    replaceWith = ReplaceWith("luaIf(true) { _value }", "package.file.luaIf")
) constructor(val _value: Any?)

object LuaIfFalse

inline fun <T> luaIf(condition: Any?, ifTrue: () -> T): LuaIf<T> =
    if (condition == null || condition == false) LuaIf(LuaIfFalse)
    else LuaIf(ifTrue())

inline infix fun <T : R, R> LuaIf<T>.els(ifFalse: () -> R): R =
    if (_value == LuaIfFalse) ifFalse()
    else _value as T

Now, if you look at the bytecode of println(luaIf(nullableAny) { 1 } els { 0.5 }), you will see that no additional objects are created. Here is bytecode decompiled by me:
Object $this$els$iv = LuaIf.constructor-impl(
        nullableAny != null && !Intrinsics.areEqual(nullableAny, false) ? 1 : LuaIfFalse.INSTANCE
);
System.out.println(
        Intrinsics.areEqual($this$els$iv, LuaIfFalse.INSTANCE) ? 0.5 : $this$els$iv
);

public final class LuaIf {
   public static Object constructor-impl(@Nullable Object _value) {
      return _value;
   }
}

But since inline classes are experimental, they may lead to some bugs if you use them in a weird way. For example, the following code throws ClassCastException: Integer cannot be cast to LuaIf:
falseLua { luaIf(0) { 0 } } els { 0 }

fun <T> falseLua(other: () -> T): T = luaIf(false) { error("Impossible") } els other

I have already asked a question about this exception.

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The Illinois Police Officers Memorial Committee was established in 1985. Our monument in Springfield, Illinois bears the names of the officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving their communities. Every year on the first Thursday of May, we hold a ceremony to pay tribute to fallen officers and their families. We are grateful to all our contributors who have helped us keep these memories alive.
Almighty God, Father of all Mercies, we ask Thy Blessing and guidance upon all Law Enforcement Officers engaged in the protection of our citizens. Be with them in their lonely tours of duty while patrolling the busy streets of our cities and the remote area of the country. Give them the Blessings of Your Wisdom, to know and do what is right. Temper their actions with mercy and justice. When their tours are completed and the day is over, guide them safely home to their loved ones.
The 2019 ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 2nd.
To ask questions about accessibility or request accommodations, please contact mail@illinoispolicememorial.org. Two weeks' advance notice will allow us to provide seamless access.
If you know of an officer that should be included on the memorial, the Illinois Police Memorial Notification Form can be found in PDF format and in DOCX format.


The bug is inherent to Microsoft Windows 10 (1803).
The solution is everywhere and thousands of users have solved the problem in a few minutes.
By the way, the Microsoft bug hit the following Elements versions: 14, 15 and 2018 as well as Photoshop.
Previous versions up to PSE13 will work.
I understand about the bug and the solution which involves making changes to the registry. However, I prefer to work with a more basic editor such as Photo Studio 5.5. It opens faster and doesn't bombard you with stuff you don't need. I also use Photomatix Pro 6.0. As real estate photographers we don't need a lot of fancy editing tools, just the basic tools for minor touch ups.


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A távközlésben és a jelfeldolgozásban az alapsáv olyan frekvenciasávot jelölhet, amely a 0 hertztől kezdődik és amely egy meghatározott levágási frekvenciáig tart. Az alapsávot esetenként a modulálatlan vagy alsófrekvenciás szinonimájaként is használják.

Alkalmazása
Minden jel különböző frekvenciák összegéből áll elő. Ezek a frekvenciák különböző teljesítményt képviselnek a frekvenciaspektrumban, ezt mutatja a teljesítménysűrűség-spektrum.

A telekommunikációban gyakran előfordul, hogy egy alacsonyabb frekvenciasávban lévő jelet valamilyen okból magasabb frekvenciákra transzformálunk, másolunk, általában átviteli célból, annak ellenére, hogy az alacsony frekvenciás jeleket néhány átviteli közeg többnyire torzítás nélkül viszi át. Az ilyen esetekben, az eredeti, alacsony frekvenciás komponensekre szokás alapsávi jelként hivatkozni.

Alacsony frekvenciás jeleket tipikusan akkor "másolunk" magasabb frekvenciákra, ha például azokat 'RF' (rádiófrekvenciás) jelként akarjuk továbbítani. A magasabb frekvenciákra való másolás ugyancsak bevett gyakorlat a frekvenciaosztásos multiplexálás esetében.

Pontosabban, egy "alapsávi" jel általában 0 Hz körüli frekvenciatartományba eső frekvenciákból áll össze, azaz e frekvenciák teljesítménye ebben a sávban a legnagyobb. Az átvitelhez a jelet általában modulálják. A moduláció eredménye egy magasabb frekvenciatartományba (RF) eső jel lesz. Ugyanakkor a moduláció miatt a eredeti, "alapsávi" jel sávszélessége megkettőződik. Általában elmondható, hogy egy alapsávi jel sávszélességét az RF tartományba modulálás megkétszerezi, mint ahogyan ezt az ábra is mutatja. Ezt a hatást speciális elektromos szűrőkkel csökkenteni lehet, és az elnyomott oldalsávos (SSB-SC), vagy egy oldalsávos rádióadó/vevő berendezések ezt a megoldást használják annak érdekében, hogy kisebb teljesítménnyel lehessen a jelet kisugározni, másrészt kisebb legyen a szükséges sávszélesség.

A legegyszerűbb definíció szerint: az alapsávi jel sávszélessége azonos modulálás vagy multiplexelés előtt, vagy demultiplexálás és demodulálás után.

A kompozit video jel, amit videólejátszók, a játékkonzolok vagy a DVD-k szolgáltatnak, általában szintén alapsávi jel.

Más jelentések
Rádiósáv – általában magas frekvenciatartomány, amelyet direkt erre a célra tartanak fenn, és az egyes használható frekvenciák kiosztása – többnyire – nemzetközi szabványok alapján történik
Szélessáv – egy kommunikációs médium vagy jel, ami nagy, széles frekvenciatartományra terjed ki, vagy széles valami mással összehasonlítva
Keskenysáv – a szélessáv ellentéte

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There is no better feeling then knowing that your birthday is right around the corner. Not only are you getting a day dedicated to you, but you are also going to be able to spend some time with all those people who mean the most to you.
When it is your birthday, you are likely to want to think about the best things to do with your nearest and dearest. After all, you are going to want to have plenty of fun on your special day.
To help you out a little, we have put together our guide to some of the most unique birthday celebration ideas in York.
Take a cruise down The Ouse
There is something amazingly picturesque about being able to cruise down a river and The Ouse is no different. Much like many other city rivers, The Ouse will take you through the entire city and down towards the Humber Estuary. Of course, you can take a walk along the riverside paths, but if you really want to see the city from the best point of view, then you should definitely book in one of the regular cruises.
Visit the Shambles
The name might make it sound like the least tempting place to spend your birthday at, but The Shambles is actually an incredibly quaint and fascinating spot to spend some time. A perfectly preserved street, showing you just how York used to be. The Shambles is actually an old English word for Slaughterhouse and you will see butcher's hooks out the front of many of the buildings, just to remind you of its rather grisly history.
Book in a comedy show at the Grand Opera House
Spending your birthday laughing with friends really does sound like an amazing idea; and for the best laughs you are going to want to visit the Grand Opera House. There are a wide variety of theatre shows for you to take in at this amazing venue, however, for guaranteed laughs, you should definitely see one of the comedy shows that are frequently part of the programme.
Take a Ghost Bus Tour around the city
Being scared might not seem like the best birthday treat out there, but booking on one of our amazing Ghost Bus Tours of York can actually be one of the best birthday treats possible. Not only is a great way to see everything that the city has to offer, but it is also great fun too. You will learn plenty of freaky facts about the history of York and you will be treated to a fantastic theatre show on wheels at the same time too.
Now you know the amazing things that you can do in York, why not make plans to spend your special day with those who mean the most to you? We are sure that you won't ever get bored with so many great choices and such a fascinating city.
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All of our tours are hosted by trained actors. We have been the recipients of a number of prestigious tourism awards including the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. We also host a venue at Edinburgh Fringe Festival annually, an internationally renowned hotbed for comedy acts.
Scott Monument
This Victorian-Gothic monument dedicated to Sir Walter Scott stands in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. At 200 feet, six inches tall, it is the second largest monument in the world dedicated to a writer. The monument is adorned with countless figurative statues, including Scott and his dog.
The site of the headquarters of the Scottish government, Calton Hill is also home to many other famous landmarks such as Holyrood Palace, the National Monument, the Nelson Monument, the old Royal High School, the Robert Burns Monument, the Political Martyrs' Monument and the City Observatory.
Grassmarket
Directly under Edinburgh Castle is the historic market place of Grassmarket. As well as traditionally being the site for many hotels, hostels and taverns, it was also one of the major sites for public executions.
The Royal Mile
A succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of Edinburgh's Old Town comprise The Royal Mile. From the castle gates at one end to the palace gates at the other, it is almost exactly a mile long. It is made up of Castlehill, the Lawnmarket, the High Street, the Canongate, and Abbey Strand.
Established in 2004, the Scottish Parliament Building is the heart of Scottish politics.
Holyrood Park is a royal park in central Edinburgh. It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges and basalt cliffs. Arthur's Seat at the center of Holyrood Park is the highest point in Edinburgh.
St. Giles Cathedral
The principal place of worship of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh. Built in the 12th century, it was named after St. Giles, the patron saint of Edinburgh.
Greyfriar's Church
One of Edinburgh's oldest surviving buildings, Greyfriar's Church was established by the Franciscan order of Greyfriars in 1620. The churchyard was at one time used as a prison and is also the site where Greyfriars Bobby guarded his owners grave until death.
At the corner where Edinburgh's Candlemaker Row and George IV Bridge meet, a statue of Bobby the Skye Terrier sits. Bobby was renowned for having guarded his owners grave for over 14 years, until Bobby died himself. Loyal beyond the grave.
Dominating Edinburgh's skyline from it's perch upon the Castle Rock, Edinburgh Castle is the iconic sight of Edinburgh. In it's history of over a thousand years, it has been sieged an astonishing twenty-six times, leading to it being dubbed "one of the most attacked placed in the world".
St. Cuthbert's Grave
The site surrounding St. Cuthbert's Church has been a place of Christian burial for over a thousand years, although today, the oldest surviving headstone is that of Reverend Robert Pont, who died in 1606. It has seen it's fair share of grave robbery too over the years!
Knavesmire Gallows
One of The Strays of York, Knavesmire is a marshy area in York. It was the usual site for public hangings for a long time, the gallows were originally erected back in 1379. Today it is a recreational area and the host of many of York's public events.
Terry's Chocolate Factory
Also known as The Chocolate Works, Terry's Chocolate Factory was opened in 1926 to produce Terry's chocolate. It was closed in 2005 when Kraft Foods acquired Terry's and outsourced production to mainland Europe.
Dick Turpin's Grave
This notorious highwayman, horse thief, poacher, burglar and killer was executed in Knavesmire, York in 1739 for his many deeds. Turpin ascended to the status of 'hero' and 'legend', romanticised by subsequent dramatic interpretations of his life. He now lies under York.
The ruins of York Castle, known as Clifford's Tower overlook York. Built on the orders of William I, the tower served as a fort until a major explosion in 1684 rendered it uninhabitable. It was then used as a prison until 1929.
Golden Fleece Pub
They claim to be the most haunted public house in York! The Golden Fleece is an inn and public house that dates back to the sixteenth century, facing on to The Shambles.
The Shambles
Originally home to over twenty five butcher's shops, The (Great Flesh) Shambles name originates from the Anglo-Saxon word 'Fleshammels' which means 'meat shelves', referring to not only the butcher's hooks, but also the shelf-like structure of the buildings themselves. Some of The Shambles buildings date back to as far as the fourteenth century.
Black Swan Pub
This fifteenth century public house and inn is a hotbed of ghostly history. A haunt truly unlike another!
York Minister
The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter, better known as York Minster, is one of the largest cathedrals in northern Europe. The Minister is the seat of the Archbishop of York and the second highest office of the Church of England.
St Crux Parish Church
Erected in 1888, on the remains of a medieval church of St. Crux, which was shut down and eventually demolished after becoming unsafe, it's tower leaning dangerously. The remaining parish is now home to the exuberant ornaments retained from the original church.
Monk Bar
This four-storey gatehouse sits at the limits of the walls surrounding York city. It was originally a fort capable of being defended on every floor.
St.Mary's Abbey
These ruins in the York Museum Gardens were once the richest abbey in the north of England. The original church was founded in 1055 and dedicated to St Olaf II of Norway. All that remains today are the north and west walls, the pilgrim's Hospitium, the west gate, and the King's Manor.
Holyrood Palace
Opposing Edinburgh Castle at the other end of the Royal Mile. It has served as the principal residence of the Kings and Queens of Scots since the 16th century. A witches ghost is said to haunt the palace.
Tower Bridge is a famed suspension bridge linking Tower Hamlets and Southwark across the River Thames. Originally built between 1886 and 1894, the bridge is an iconic symbol of London itself.
The most popular paid tourist attraction in the entire United Kingdom. Erected in 2000, it was originally known as the Millennium Wheel or the Millennium Eye. At the time it was the largest ferris wheel in the world, it is now only the largest ferris wheel in Europe.
The tallest building in the United Kingdom and the European Union. It was completed in July of 2012 and is the residence of many restaurants, bars and even a hotel.
"What hasn't taken place here?" might be a better question. The Tower of London has variably served as an armoury, a treasury, a menagerie, the home of the Royal Mint, a public record office and the home of the Crown Jewels of England. It was originally built in 1078 by William the Conqueror, following the Norman conquest of England. It was originally resented and held as a symbol of oppression.
St. Paul Catherdral
Situated at the highest point in London, Ludgate Hill, St' Paul's Cathedral is the second largest church in the UK and one of London's most recognisable sights. It was originally constructed in 1697 by Sir Christopher Wren as part of the rebuilding project following the Great Fire of London. The cathedral is dedicated to St. Paul the Apostle.
Built by Sir George Downing in 1680, Downing Street is the heart of British politics. The Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer both reside on the street. The street is understandably inaccessible to the public, but can be viewed from Whitehall.
Our royal family's primary residence. Originally erected as a large townhouse for the use of the Duke of Buckingham, the townhouse was acquired in 1761 by King George III and quickly transformed into a palace fit for a king.
A titan feat of Gothic architecture, built in 960, with many additions over the years. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of British monarchs have taken place right here.
Trafalger Square
The home of political demonstrations, contemporary art and of course Nelson's Column. Trafalgar Square was named as such to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar. The site was once known as Charing Cross and was the original site of the King's Mews.
Classic Routemaster Bus
Our large fleet of vehicles is comprised entirely of 1960's Routemaster double-deckers. These gorgeous vintage buses are a wonderful reminder of London's rich transport history. Lovingly restored in our signature 'midnight-black' livery, finished with antique lampshades and plush red velvet curtains.
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The Alsco 300 Marks Custer's fourth NASCAR Xfinity Series start at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway.
In three NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Charlotte, Custer has earned three top-10s and one top-five. His average Xfinity Series finish at Charlotte is 5.6.
Custer is competing for his fourth consecutive top-10 at Charlotte and eighth of the season.
He has one win, two poles, nine top-five finishes, 28 top-10s and has led 350 laps in 48 career Xfinity Series starts.
Custer's best finish in the eight Xfinity Series races run this season is his fourth-place result at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.
Custer is fifth in the Xfinity Series driver standings with 299 points, 57 behind leader Elliot Sadler.
Custer has earned two pole awards, seven top-10s, one top-five and has led 48 laps thus far in 2018.
In 17 Xfinity Series starts and nine NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at 1.5-mile ovals, Custer has one win, six top-five finishes and 15 top-10s.
In 2017, Custer led the Xfinity Series with 422 points at mile-and-a-half tracks.
You have finished fourth, sixth and seventh at Charlotte in the Xfinity Series. What is it going to take to pull off a win?
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What is a lap around Charlotte Motor Speedway like?
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Q: $ f(x) = f(x + 1), \, \forall x \in \mathbb{R} \land \displaystyle \lim_{x \to \infty} f(x) = L \Rightarrow f(x) = L, \forall x \in \mathbb{R}$ I want to prove that $ f $ is continuous $\,  \land f(x) = f(x + 1), \, \forall x \in \mathbb{R} \land \displaystyle \lim_{x \to \infty} f(x) = L \Rightarrow f(x) = L, \forall x \in \mathbb{R}$, is my proof valid?
Assume $ \exists x \in \mathbb{R} $ such that $ f\left(x\right) \neq L $. Choose $ \epsilon = \left|f\left(x\right) - L\right| \neq 0 $, because the absolute value function is a metric. Therefore, $ \exists N \gt 0 : \forall z \gt N, \left|f\left(z\right) - L\right| \lt \epsilon $. Choose $ z = x + \left|\lceil Nx \rceil\right| \gt N \Rightarrow \left|f\left(z\right) - L\right| =  \left|f\left(x\right) - L \right| \lt \epsilon$ - contradiction.

A: Let $x \in \mathbb{R}$. We have for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$,
$$ f(x) = f(x+n).$$
Therefore, since $\lim_{x \to \infty} f(x) = L$, we have,
$$f(x) = \lim_{n \to \infty} f(x+n) = L.$$
The continuity condition of $f$ is not required to prove this problem, however it's obviously continuous because it's a constant function.

A: You're approach is good, but you need to be a little more careful on picking $z$, because $$
x + |\lceil N x\rceil| > N
$$
does not hold for general $x$ (for example, suppose $x=0$). Your goal is to find some integer $m$ such that $x+m> N$. There are lots of ways to get there explicitly, but perhaps the easiest is to rearrange your goal to $m > N-x$. From here, you can obviously just make $m = \lceil N-x\rceil$ and it works.


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I have never been a 'lecture' teacher, but I did too much taking. I heard from so many people, that we need to give less information and let questions develop instead of looking for one answer. I call it the 'Dan Meyer effect' @ddmeyer. He suggested we taking a problem out of a textbook and deleting all of the unnecessary information, and the question that we were guiding them to answer. Second, I was inspired by Peter Liljedahl @pgliljedahl and Alex Overwijk @AlexOverwijk  to start with a rich task and let students work at vertical surfaces (search Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces). It is important that the task does not have information that results in a single answer.
Dan Meyer says you can always add (information), but you cannot subtract.
My best classroom magical moments were when I sent my students to vertical whiteboards and posed an introductory task with limited information. Once you add information to a task, you guide student down a road you have chosen for them. When I started being tight with the information, students (and I) learned way more about the task and the mathematics. I also learned more about how students learned. Not all students approach problems in the same way, and often there are better ways of approaching a task than the way I would have guided them.
This past year, I started many days by sending students to the whiteboards with partners and posed a task. The discussions about the task and where they went from the little information I gave them, amazed me on a daily basis. I learned more from them then they learned from me. We need to set up scenarios for our students that give them the autonomy to be successful without us guiding them down OUR path.
We need to be able to stand back, make observations and facilitate the learning, so that our students can solve problems on their own.
Teachers need to be facilitators of learning, not lecturers.
I have been teaching long enough to have made every mistake possible, so I am not judging anyone in this blog. It is not too late to change.
It is this time of the year, when I get frustrated with meaningless grading. After two weeks completed, my students are setting the tone for their level of academic acceptance. For those students that are not off to a good start, I want to fix the problem before it becomes a norm.
My first step is to visit with the students I am concerned about. Since I do not have a strong rapport with them yet, this is just a casual visit. My next step is to check on their historical grades. Unless a previous teacher used Standards Based Grading (or something similar), often all I get from a previous report is what a student (or parent) accepts as their minimum grade.
My third step is to check on their current progress in their other courses. This is where it truly shakes me. I hope my students know what 100% means. Unfortunately, most of my students have more than 100% in at least one course. Again, don't get me wrong. I have offered extra credit in the past to get "parent notification" returned or something similar. I often see 200% or higher on my student grades at this point. Whoa, I got off topic.
Since I was converted to Objective Based Grading, I see the ridiculousness of extra credit, based on bringing supplies or behavioral practices. I had to see and hear about Standards Based Grading for about three years before I implemented what I call Objective Based Grading. Since being converted, I am flabbergasted at what little my past grading practices reported.
What does that even mean?????? Even if you put the title of the chapter on that grade (Chapter 2 Polynomials), it still has very little meaning. How much of that grade is based on assignments, which could be anyone's work (or with huge amount of outside help). And don't get me started on extra credit again… OK, confession: I sometimes give extra points on an in-class project when a student demonstrated mathematical understanding beyond what was expected. You can even put a standard in your grading, that is based on something other than mathematical understanding, and I believe that is acceptable, if it is not a huge part of a final grade. The problem occurs when a mathematical standard has a grade influenced by behavior or unrelated extra credit.
If a student's grade were based on assessments (with integrity), and broke down into standards or objectives, they may have meaning.
If grade report had metrics assigned to topics such as these, an observer would know how a student performed at that point in time, on those objectives. Now that I have colleagues that are reporting grades with meaning, I can look back at a student's previous course and see what math topics they excelled in and with what topics they struggled.
Now grade reporting has meaning. My apologies to all my previous students and parents that just "received" a standard letter grade, claiming that it was that simple.
It seems that over time, it always took me three or four times of hearing a great idea before I implemented it. If you do not already have grades with meaning, please speed the process up and make the change. Do some research, find something you can justify within your school system and jump in. At the very minimum, please break your individual assessment grade (Chapter 2 Test) into multiple grades with meaningful titles.
I use a grading rubric on each objective on an assessment and put multiple grades in the grade program each time my students take an assessment. For the skeptics and the teachers that worry that this is time-consuming, using this rubric to grade assessments is much faster for me than traditional grading. I need to plug my reporting into a traditional system and my parents and students want a nice neat percent (because that has meaning for them), so I like the 10 point rubric.
Here are links to my grading rubric (it may not be perfect but improves every year) and several examples of objectives used by @jwbrackney and myself.
Two years ago I came back from TMC15 and had a clear vision on what I needed to do in my classroom. Here is my blog from then: At this point in my life I know these things.
After teaching 35 years, I really evaluated what I was doing and how it worked with the current students. I had updated many of my class activities but was far from where I needed to be. Here I am two years later and here is the report on how I did on my beliefs.
VRG – Most days last year I greeted each student with a random card that assigned them a seat in a group of three. The greeting was valuable and the students familiarity with each other paid huge dividends. The collaboration as they were learning was also valuable. I will continue to do this.
VNPS – Immediately after I returned from TMC15 I started planning whiteboards on every available wall in my classroom. I also pushed my math colleagues to do the same. Most of the math classrooms in my high school now have whiteboards everywhere. I used VNPS on a regular basis the past two years. Students work together at the VNPS and the conversations are amazing. VNPS ARE A MUST IN EVERY MATH CLASSROOM!
Last year I implemented Standards Based Grading (SBG) in my Algebra 1 and Honors Algebra 2 classes. My grade reports went from meaningless to reporting strengths and weaknesses of my students. I also opened my assessments to retakes and the true purpose of what we are doing in our schools. If learning is our goal, we must give multiple opportunities to learn. SBG might seem like a big change, so you can call it Objective Based Grading and just change the names of your assessment to the objectives they are assessing. Instead of one grade, each of my assessments have 4-5 grades with objective names. Here is how each objective is scored on my assessments. SBG IS AN ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED CHANGE, IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY DOING IT.
Desmos and Desmos Activities have changed how my students and I look at learning mathematics. The process of learning is so much more efficient when you use the right tools. As a Desmos Fellow, I learned how to build Desmos Activities that are purposeful and reach all levels of students. DESMOS HAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO CHANGE HOW MATHEMATICS IS STUDIED BY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
I would like to apologize to the over 3500 students that had to sit through their first day of the year listening to me read rules and procedures. I know by the end of the first day they couldn't remember which rules went with which class and wanted to poke their eyes out. The past two years I made sure that I was doing activities the first week that helped students understand what learning looked and felt like. I made sure it was an activity that was math related and students were learning about each other and I was learning about them. My favorites are Noah's Arc, The Taxman and Sum 31 Card Challenge. And, Name Tents from @saravdwerf are a must for the first week. These are ideas I got from various people at TMC and the Twitter community.
I also attended TMC16 and TMC17, which generated all kinds of other things I need to think about and implement when they are needed. All the ideas expressed here have kept me young and my classroom fresh. Thank you all that have contributed to these changes.
I am still working on journaling in my classroom. I am going to make this my #1TMCThing. I know it is a great thing, I just need to work out the details. My plan is to do this electronically with either Google Classroom or some other electronic form.
I learned early on with cell phones, that when you ask a student to hand you their phone, it very often becomes confrontational. A cell phone is a very personal item for some people.
To avoid the confrontation I created a "distraction box" and lumped cell phones in with the many other distraction that students bring to class. These items have changed over time, but include "fast food" toys, bouncy balls, Rubics cubes, bobble heads, magic cards, and the hot item now are the fidget cubes and fidget spinners.
A distraction could be a distraction to the individual student, the other students or even a distraction to me. On the first day of the year I explain to my students that if I make eye contact with them and point to the distraction box, they have a choice to make. If they smile and put the item in the box, they can take the item out of the box on the way out of the room. If they throw a fit and put the distraction in the box, they can have it back at the end of the day. If they refuse to put the distraction in the box, they go to the office with the distraction.
On the first day of the year we even practice smiling while we put an item in the box. The interaction is always kept very light and the students really are cooperative. It has been a few years since an interaction actually became confrontational, because I am not asking them to put the item in my hand. I even have students sometimes put their cell phone in the box on the way in the door because they know they are going to have trouble staying focused.
This distraction box concept really has changed the atmosphere of my room. Students understand what a distraction is and why we need to limit distractions. We even joke sometimes because the box isn't big enough to put "Billie" in the box.
I have not published a video of me riding my bike since week 10. This is now week 20, still practicing about 10 minutes each day. I have not made noticeable progress in the last 10 weeks. I can concentrate and ride it confidently, but when I lose concentration I have to put my foot down. I will continue to practice each day, and am hoping that my brain takes over the balancing soon.
I have several students practicing now. I have one student (Caleb) that first tried on Monday and spent about 20 minutes each day this past week. His progress is about the same as mine at 10 weeks. It must be the "young" mind and his determination. Here is a link to the video of him on Friday after 5 days of riding.
Some students still think it is going to be easy and they would just need to ride it for a while. After a few tries, they appreciated the difficulty. After the second day, Caleb told me that he had way more respect for me now. Up to that point I think many students just thing I am crazy with a backwards bike.
I was very much at a loss of words. I said that I was glad that it made him happy and continued to ride down the hall. That conversation keeps rolling around in my brain. I woke up this morning and thought about all the unexpected results of the many things we do as a person and especially as a teacher. We sometimes never know who we have contact with and influence in a positive or negative way.
When I was younger my Dad always told me that we should greet everyone with a smile, and wave at them when we pass them as we drive. He said that we might be the reason that person has a very good day or a bad day, just based on that single interaction.
I have heard from many of my former students and it is always interesting what they remember or say about our personal interaction (besides the mathematics). Most things they tell me are things that I thought very little about at the time.
Greet the people you see today with a smile and a compliment. You may never know how it changed their day.
One more year is almost in the past and I want to reflect on what I have done differently and what/who changed my teaching profession for the better.
This was the third year for me using Twitter, the second year of TMC and the first year of being a Desmos Fellow. I bring that up because there were many things that shaped me as a math teacher over the years, but these are three things that are currently guiding me in my profession.
Twitter: I started teaching 36+ years ago in a small high school as the only math teacher and struggled to find mentors. The state of Montana has been constantly struggling to get enough teachers in the rural areas, and then supporting them with mentor programs because of the distance to other schools. Now I teach in a larger school with 12 great math teachers in the same hall. We still rely on innovative ideas from the Internet. My single biggest source of new ideas is my Twitter community. That community started with #mtbos and @tmathc. The amazing part of my teaching career, started trying to find someone locally to collaborate with and I have recently collaborated with people literally around the world via Twitter on math techniques and lessons.
Twitter Math Camp: Early in my Twitter life I discovered a group that was meeting during the summer to make connections with each other via Twitter and an annual meeting. I followed their tweets that first year and became determined that I would be at the next summer meeting, no matter what it took. I attended TMC15 with a colleague and brought home more ideas than I could carry. Besides attending morning sessions on Desmos, I brought home ideas about VNPS (vertical non-permanent surfaces) and VRG (visual random grouping) from the amazing Alex Overwijk @alexoverwijk. These two ideas changed the way that I taught. I implemented VNPS as soon as my classes started in the fall. Not only did it change how I taught, but the majority of my math colleagues in my building now also use VNPS on a regular basis. If you are not familiar with VNPS, research now and put it into practice ASAP. The amount of formative assessing I can do, and the student collaboration that takes place during VNPS is clearly superior to anything that I have ever done in my classroom. I now greet my students at the door and give them a random card to assign seats in groups of three. This is called VRG because students know two things, they are assigned randomly rather than some form of teacher manipulation and their partners are just for that day. I tried this mid-year last year and was not as successful. Starting at the beginning of the year, students haven't already formed many opinions about their classmates and get to know a lot of student early in the year. I attended TMC16 and will be at TMC17!
Desmos: If you teach anything that involves graphing, you MUST use Desmos. Between the graphing tool for graphing and discovery, to the classroom activities that you can use, it will change the way you look at math and working in your classroom. If you haven't seen Desmos or didn't get the Desmos bug, go there NOW! desmos.com and/or teacher.desmos.com. I also have had the great fortune to be invited to be a part of an amazing group called the Desmos Fellowship. The great ideas just keep flowing from the creative Desmos Team and the fellowship group. Desmos gave me the opportunity to personally meet all these amazing people in November at the Desmos headquarters. These two groups are changing the way math is taught and how we look at math education.
Name Tents: These are not your usual name tent and you MUST do this to start your next year. Once again with great influence from TMC and @saravdwerd my colleagues and I used Name tents during the first week, with amazing results. Click on the link above for more information.
M Cubed: This is a local beginning to create a community like TMC. Thanks to@HilaryRisser we had the first annual event in Montana and I hope many to follow. Here is this past year's link.
Standards Based Grading: I actually use Objective Based Grading, but with the same philosophy. I used it in my Algebra 1 classes this past Fall and will incorporate it in my Honors Algebra 2 classes this Spring.
It has been a really great year and next year will surely be better because of the wonderful math communities that allow me to live in their world! Thank you!


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Wonderful "collage" of photos! Thank you, Tracey for sharing with Eric so we could see them.
Beautiful and I am sure it must have been thrilling to be there seeing the light show and be at finish line of the tour de France! Well done Tracey and thank you!
my family are "Le Tour" followers.....everyday.....for 3 weeks....and 21 stages.....and this was a spectacular way to celebrate 100 years of cycling in France.....done with style!!!
Merci, Tracey! A wonderful collage.
Ooh such a lovely post, Tracey - and Eric!
When watching this on TV on Sunday night, I thought "Eric's going to be annoyed that he missed all this" but thanks to Tracey you didn't!
The special celebrations were for the 100th birthday of the Tour.
No one does a light show like the Parisians. Very obliging of Stacie not Tracey to let you borrow these—and good for her for fulfilling her dream!


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Kennebec County maintenance manager sexually assaulted female inmate assigned to work for him, police allege in documents
James Saucier, 58, of Belgrade, was arrested last week on three counts of gross sexual assault in connection with the case, and the alleged victim told authorities she wasn't the first incarcerated female he had assaulted.
By Keith EdwardsKennebec Journal
The old Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta on March 18, 2020. A county employee who works in the building has been charged with three counts of gross sexual assault of a female inmate under his supervision. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal file Buy this Photo
AUGUSTA — James Saucier is alleged to have raped a woman in the custody of the Kennebec County jail assigned to work for him, and that woman says she heard he sexually assaulted other inmates at the county jail too, according to an affidavit filed by Augusta police.
James Saucier
Saucier, Kennebec County's maintenance manager, was arrested last week on three counts of gross sexual assault in connection with the allegations involving the woman.
Saucier, 58, of Belgrade, allegedly sexually assaulted the woman, who was working as a "trusty" under his supervision on three occasions, between February and March 0f 2020, the affidavit states.
Trusties are people in jail who are allowed to do maintenance work. First, they are allowed to work inside, and later can be authorized to work outside the Kennebec County Correctional Facility, with the supervision of correctional staff and a maintenance supervisor, also classified as a supervisor of the trusties. In this case, Saucier was classified as a supervisor of the trusties, the affidavit states.
"What do you say to somebody who is in authority above you," the woman told police, according to the affidavit. She told police she was "going with the flow" while thinking to herself, "Do I argue with him and lose my job"?
According to the alleged victim, Saucier initiated the assaults in his office, located in the basement of the former Kennebec County courthouse building at 95 State St. in Augusta. The woman first told a jail corrections officer about the allegations.
He is alleged to have sexually assaulted other females in the jail who previously worked for him, according to the victim's statements in the police affidavit filed by Detective Michael Unterkoefler.
The woman in the Augusta police affidavit told authorities the first assault took place in Saucier's office. The victim told Augusta Police that Saucier, while she was in his office, asked if he could touch her. She said that in her head she was thinking, "Do I fight this, do I not fight this. Do I just put on a façade. And I did." She told Augusta police she didn't say yes or no when Saucier asked if he could touch her.
Kennebec County facilities manager charged in sexual assault case
About a week after that, the victim told police, she went to his basement office and Saucier proceeded to sexually assault her. The woman told police that on her second meeting with Saucier, when she first went to work for him, he asked her in his office and said, "You want to jump my bones, don't you." She told police that's not what she was thinking and was shocked by the comment. But, she said as a person who was in jail and reliant upon Saucier for her trusty job, she didn't know how to react.
The woman told police she felt numb and, though she said she wasn't ever threatened by Saucier, she wondered, "If she said no, would I still have been OK."
The victim described a similar incident in a third rape alleged in the affidavit, about a week after the second.
The criminal complaint alleges the incidents took place between Feb. 15, 2020, and March 1, 2020, and indicated Saucier had supervisory or disciplinary authority over the female inmate.
Peter Marchesi, the county's attorney, to whom County Administrator Robert Devlin referred questions about the case, said people should allow the legal process to play out.
"At this point these are nothing more than accusations and this individual is entitled to a presumption of innocence unless the state proves its case otherwise," Marchesi said Wednesday. "I'd encourage folks to let the process run its course."
The female inmate also told police she had heard, from both another inmate and from Saucier himself, that he had previously had sex with other inmates.
It's not clear from the affidavit whether those additional allegations are under investigation or those other inmates were interviewed. Augusta Police Sgt. Jesse Brann said Wednesday the department could not comment on the case, or whether police are investigating the additional allegations, any further than what was already included in the affidavit, because the case is "still open and ongoing."
When interviewed by police, Saucier "continually denied having any sexual relations with any female trusties and was adamant that the accusations were false," the affidavit states. "Saucier stated, 'It doesn't matter. If I say that something happened, I'm still just as guilty because I'm in a position of power.' Saucier advised he had nothing to say because he didn't do anything. Saucier continued to deny the allegations for the remainder of the interview."
Saucier turned himself in to the police station on Thursday last week and was released after posting $1,000 cash bail. Bail conditions include that Saucier has no contact with the alleged victim or any people incarcerated at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility.
Michael Madigan, an assistant district attorney who is expected to prosecute the case, said in court documents the state was not aware of any prior criminal convictions for Saucier.
The charges against Saucier are Class B felony charges, punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.
The Kennebec County government has an annual budget of $13.6 million that is supported through a county assessment on municipalities and supports the costs of running operations such as the jail in Augusta. The county has about 170 employees.
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Marchesi, asked if the county was doing an internal review of the matter, said the county planned to let the criminal justice process run its course and, depending on the outcome, an internal review was a possibility.
Augusta police, executing a search warrant April 8, 2020, in Saucier's office, seized multiple electronic devices, including computer equipment, and submitted it to the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Taskforce for a forensic analysis. That analysis produced 39 images from Saucier's office, including images the affidavit says show the assaults taking place.
Saucier, who has worked for Kennebec County since 1986, has been put on leave from his county job, according to Devlin, the county administrator. Marchesi wasn't sure of the date Saucier was put on leave but said it was as soon as the county was made aware the allegations were made and there was an investigation.
"We don't know if these allegations are true or not," Marchesi said. "But if they're true, these are not the kinds of things you need to tell people not to do. You don't have to tell somebody that you don't rob a bank."
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12 October 2017, Guadalajara - The first-ever roadmap to combat animal tuberculosis (bovine TB) and its transmission to humans, referred to as zoonotic TB, most often through consumption of contaminated untreated meat or dairy products from diseased animals, calls for close collaboration between those working to improve human and animal health. It is built on a One Health approach, addressing health risks across sectors.
The Roadmap for Zoonotic TB was launched today at the 48th Union World Conference on Lung Health taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico this week. Four partners in health, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) have joined forces to develop the roadmap and address the major health and economic impact of this disease.
New data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over 140,000 people fall ill and more than 12,000 people lose their lives each year to zoonotic TB - mostly in the African and the South-East Asian regions.
"We have made progress towards ending TB, yet to a large extent people with zoonotic TB are left behind. The priorities outlined in this roadmap highlight the need for multisectoral action to tackle this neglected form of TB and achieve the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and WHO's End TB Strategy," said Mario Raviglione, Director of the WHO Global TB Programme. "Together we can save lives and secure livelihoods".
"This multidisciplinary roadmap represents a milestone in the fight against TB in both people and animals," said Paula I Fujiwara, Scientific Director, The Union. "Better technologies, better science and better governance for affected communities bearing the bovine TB burden in poorer rural areas must become the new mantra if we are to get on the path to eliminating TB absolutely everywhere".
"We must recognise the interdependence of the health of people and animals in the fight against TB. Specifically, bovine TB, caused by Mycobacterium bovis, affects cattle, threatens people's livelihoods and results in major economic and trade barriers, as well as posing a major risk to food safety and human health," said Berhe Tekola, Director of the FAO Animal Production and Health Division.
4. Develop strategies to improve food safety.
7. Increase awareness of zoonotic TB, engage key public and private stakeholders and establish effective intersectoral collaboration.
Many of these recommended interventions for controlling bovine and zoonotic TB will also bring substantial benefits for the prevention of other zoonotic and food-borne diseases, for example caused by Brucella.
Matthew Stone, OIE Deputy Director General, International Standards and Science, noted: "Preventing and controlling bovine TB at its animal source is crucial to avoid its transmission to humans, improve food safety and protect the livelihood of many rural communities. To this aim, the implementation of strategies based on international standards and a cross-sectorial approach will enable improved surveillance and diagnosis of the disease in animals and consequently reduce the risks for humans".
Wealthier countries are affected as well. In the U.S., more than $200 million were required in emergency funding between 2000 and 2008 to respond to bovine TB outbreaks. Wildlife can also be infected, serving as a reservoir of infection for livestock and people. This can potentially threaten wildlife conservation efforts.
The roadmap is a critical call for action to energize the response and the resources urgently needed to tackle zoonotic and bovine TB.
Cattle is by far the most susceptible livestock to Bovine TB.
Addressing research gaps in zoonotic and bovine TB including epidemiology, diagnostic tools and vaccines will help improve the evidence base.


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Lamb Of God Debuts 'Routes' Video
Posted on May 29, 2020 by philspicks
Courtesy: Epic Records
Lamb of God debuted the video for its latest single this week.
The band debuted the video for its new single 'Routes' Friday. The song is the fourth single from the band's forthcoming self-titled record, which is scheduled for release June 19 through Epic Records.
The video features a variety of images related to the oil industry, such as oil derricks, factories and images of smoke around the Earth. The imagery is tied into the sociopolitical commentary in the song's lyrics.
Front man Randy Blythe said in a recent interview, the song was crafted following a personal experience that he had in North Dakota.
"I went to Standing Rock because I had heard reports of violence committed on the peaceful protestors there by both state law enforcement and private security contractors, and this violence was not reported in mainstream media for the most part," he said. "I went to bring supplies and support these people, who were trying to protect their water, and thereby protect everyone, as everything in the natural world is protected. I was there a week, made some great friends, and learned a lot. It was a very profound experience in my life, and I knew one day I would write a song about it."
Testament front man Chuck Billy, who is of Pomo Native American descent, added his vocal talent to the song.
Billy talked about taking taking part in the song's creation with his own comments.
"It was a great honor as a proud Pomo Native American to be asked by LAMB OF GOD to do some guest vocals on this song," he said. "The No DAPL movement by the indigenous people of this country was a historic event. Being able to lend my voice to represent the Native American people, complementing Randy's storytelling and lyrics, is something really special to me. I'm glad this movement was put in a musical message, and I am extremely happy to have been a part of it."
Blythe said the decision to add Billy to the song was intentional.
"My experience, although my own, was tempered and shaped by the hundreds of years of brutal oppression of Native peoples in our country," says Blythe. "So, it was imperative for me to have a Native voice represented on the song, and Chuck Billy was happy to be that voice. At the end, there is a call and response section – Chuck calls and I respond. This is intentional. Musically, it is symbolic of my experience there. A native voice leads, bringing forth positive energy and calling to the people to unite, and I reply, providing support. That was my physical experience, and it is reflected in the song."
Lamb of God debuted the album's third single 'New Colossal Hate' last month. That song and this latest offering are just two of the lyrically heavy songs featured in Lamb of God. The record also takes on the issue of school shootings in the song 'Reality Bath' and the opioid crisis in the song 'On the Hook.'
'Memento Mori' and the album's lead single, 'Checkmate' were released in March and February respectively.
Lamb of God was produced by Josh Wilbur (Soulfly, Hatebreed, Megadeth, Gojira), and features guest appearances from the likes of Hatebreed front man Jamey Jasta and Testament front man Chuck Billy. The album's track listing is noted below.
Lamb Of God tracklisting:
1. Memento Mori
2. Checkmate
3. Gears
4. Reality Bath
5. New Colossal Hate
6. Resurrection Man
7. Poison Dream (feat. Jamey Jasta)
8. Routes (feat. Chuck Billy)
9. Bloodshot Eyes
10. On The Hook
Pre-orders are open now for Lamb of God. The announcement was made recently that the album's release date has been pushed back to June 19 as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 impact.
More information on Lamb of God's upcoming live dates, its new album, single, news and more is available online now at:
Website: http://www.lamb-of-god.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lambofgod
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lambofgod
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Summoning Bill Clinton and Paula Jones on the path to a DWI victory | Jon Katz, P.C.
Recently, a Maryland prosecutor left me a voicemail asking my consent to continue our drunk driving trial date because the main police officer was on paternity leave, saying that police department policy was for officers not to testify while on paternity/maternity leave. That struck me as fanciful, at the very least, when considering that such parental leave can take months and thus would threaten speedy trial rights if judges routinely trials around paternity and maternity leave.
Moreover, one knows months in advance that parental leave is around the corner, when considering that even prematurely-born children take several months to be born. I asked the prosecutor how long the officer had been on paternity leave — to counter his late notice to me the day before trial about paternity leave — and the prosecutor did not know.
In 1997, a unanimous Supreme Court rejected Bill Clinton's argument to defer the Paula Jones litigation until his presidential term ended. Clinton v. Jones, 580 U.S. 681 (1997). Seeing that Clinton had such weighty matters on his presidential plate, clearly a police officer is no more entitled to have litigation deferred for parental leave than Clinton was for handling affairs of state.
When I raised Clinton v. Jones in arguing against the prosecutor's postponement request, the judge chuckled and asked whether Clinton involved parental leave. Of course Clinton did not involve parental leave. Nevertheless, the judge denied a postponement, noting such factors as our case's advancing age and the prosecutor's prior continuance (over my objection) for the same officer's alleged illness.
Before the prosecutor presented his oral continuance motion to the judge, a colleague opined that many judges are reluctant to deny prosecutorial continuances on drunk driving cases, out of concern for public safety. Hopefully that is not true. Prosecutors, not judges, are solely responsible for being prepared for trial.
After the judge denied the prosecutor's continuance request, the prosecutor proceeded forward that same day with the trial. putting on one sole witness, who says he saw my client in his rearview mirror before being rearended by my client. The prosecutor told the judge in opening that he was not sure whether the witness would have information to prove the drunk driving allegation, and would explore that on the witness stand. Prosecutors should check such matters before starting trial, but I was more than happy to have a DWI acquittal around the corner, rather than to have the prosecutor dismiss the drunk driving charges only to risk my client's being recharged for DWI (but if there was a recharge, I would have argued to dismiss on speedy trial grounds).
Although the judge convicted my client for the non-jailable moving violation of failure to control speed to avoid a collision, he acquitted my client of the drunk driving charges. For my client, that was a great result.
ADDENDUM: As an aside, I briefly worked at the same law firm (I was there nearly two years before becoming my own boss in 1998) with Joe Cammarata, who with Gil Davis (arguing before the Supreme Court) won Clinton v. Jones in the Supreme Court, before withdrawing from the case and at some point being replaced by the Rutherford Institute. Joe, a likable man, is still at that same law firm (primarily representing injury victims), where television reporters occasionally came to interview him on the Paula Jones case after his representation of her had terminated.


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Q: Matching Duplicate values with unique attributes in a horizontal excel spreadsheet Hopefully someone has had my problem before.  I'm in the process of building an Excel model that sorts the prices that a certain product was sold for and the sales associated with that price. One spreadsheet houses the data and another sorts that data by sales and then matches the price that it sold for.
The problem is that there are cases where the number of sales are the same but the prices are different.  In these cases, the first price is duplicated by the when the number of sales are the same. See below for a visual. I've looked tirelessly for a solution but because the formula needs to be designed horizontal
This sales volume sorting formula =IFERROR(LARGE('2016 Data Tab '!$B3:$BY3,{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76}),"")
this formula matches the price with the sales. This is where I'm having the problem =IFERROR(INDEX(DataTableLanes16,$A3*$C$1,MATCH('2016 Input Lanes '!C3,'2016 Data Tab '!$A3:$BY3,0)),"")
See the pictures below:
This is where the data is housed:

This is where the data is sorted by sales:

Thanks in advance for your assistance.
James

A: It is certainly possible to just sort the data.  Excel can sort left to right.
If you MUST use formulas, you need to calculate the rank of each sales number in a manner that accounts for duplicates.
You can add a "helper row".  Name it SalesRank
You can then use this formula in (as in the screenshot), B4
B4: =RANK(B3,Sales,0)+COUNTIF($B$3:B3,B3)-1

and fill right
For the desired results, we first list the sales in descending order:
B9: =LARGE(Sales,COLUMNS($A:A))

and fill right
And then, for the associated prices:
B10:  =INDEX(Price,1,MATCH(COLUMNS($A:A),SalesRank,0))

In the above formulas:
| Price         | Refers to:    | =Sheet3!$B$2:$K$2     |
| Sales         | Refers to:    | =Sheet3!$B$3:$K$3     |
| SalesRank     | Refers to:    | =Sheet3!$B$4:$K$4     |


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