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Day 2's Connection 2013 Tackles Individual and Corporate Health
The second day of Connection 2013 highlighted personal as well as denominational health and organizational realignment, and keynote speakers Henry Cloud and John Bevere brought timely messages to leaders.
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May 30, 2013 / News
The second day of Connection 2013 became Foursquare's annual check-up appointment, with an emphasis on personal and corporate physical and spiritual health. The fullest day of the week's schedule included heart checks and a progress report on organizational alignment.
Around 40 people turned out for the first event of what would be a 14-hour day, a question-and-answer session with Foursquare board members that covered issues including church planting, camp ministry and finances.
At the following morning session, President Glenn Burris Jr. announced that 20 town hall meetings are to be held across the country as part of the denomination's ongoing review and reordering of its structure, intended wherever possible to push ministry responsibility and opportunity down from the corporate office to the local church level.
To be staged over the next year as part of the Reimagining Foursquare process begun three years ago, the town hall gatherings will present research findings and provide an opportunity for local pastors and church members to weigh in on how the denomination needs to reposition itself for effective mission in a changing culture. The deliberations are "going to help us refine and really focus on the things that are most important to accelerate the gospel, the church, to the world," Glenn affirmed.
Several members of Glenn's Presidential Task Force leading the review took part in a panel discussion about the implications of the changes with regards to diversity, church planting and multiplication.
One of them, Northwest District Supervisor Dave Veach, presented information showing that "the sky is not falling" as he said many fear. More churches had been planted in the U.S. last year—4,000—than at any time in history, of which 43 were Foursquare.
Almost half of the 1,399 Foursquare churches planted in the last 15 years are still going, and all those that had been started have seen $59 million returned to the denomination, a 429 percent return on investment, Dave said. Continuing the positive reports, General Supervisor Tammy Dunahoo said that 182 church plants were due to start in the coming year.
Two keynote guest speakers made a big impact. In the morning, psychologist and author Dr. Henry Cloud urged leaders to consider how their personal issues might affect their leadership. They should focus on the areas they believe God has called them to, be prepared for difficult but "necessary endings" of things that may have seen their day, and ensure they have close relationships to help them endure through tough times, he asserted.
Closing a dynamic evening session, John Bevere brought almost everyone in the meeting hall to their feet in response to his call to repentance for failing to honor others the way God intended. In a powerful message, he observed that churches in the U.S. do not see the miracles that occur in other parts of the world because those bringing God's Word are often not honored properly.
The morning session also spotlighted individual health, with Terry Miller, lead pastor of Hope Chapel (Orange Coast Foursquare Church) in Costa Mesa, Calif., speaking on the importance of self-care for leaders. A video documented how Corri Graves, the sister of convention worship leader Marc Wymore, worship leader at LightHouse Church (Newbury Park Foursquare Church) in Newbury Park, Calif., had stepped forward to donate a kidney when his worsening diabetes required a transplant.
Relational health was championed in several presentations:
David and Cindy Grasso, co-pastors of Life Fellowship (Charlestown Foursquare Church) in Charlestown, N.H., spoke about how they had intentionally parented their five daughters, all of whom have grown to love and serve God.
Tammy Sevcov, associate pastor at The Rock (Anaheim Foursquare Church) in Anaheim, Calif., encouraged churches to view singles as more than just those "who need to get married," and singles themselves to pursue their individual calling in God.
General Supervisor Tammy Dunahoo prayed for Foursquare leaders' families at the end of a discussion with Robby Booth, director of Center for Spiritual Renewal (CSR) West, and Chuck Shoemake, director of CSR East, about pressures and issues facing leaders.
The afternoon included a business session that set aside time for local pastors to ask questions, and for executives to provide information on recent and future decisions.
Foursquare Missions International (FMI) was also on the day's agenda, with an impassioned appeal from FMI Director Jim Scott for more missionary candidates. He also led prayer for new missionaries Steve and Kim Cecil, who are going to Russia with their three children, and Travis and Alexis Mielonen, who are headed to Poland with their two children.
More than 3,000 people are registered for this year's convention, themed "Engage: Learn. Live. Lead." The gathering at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., ends May 30.
Don't miss anything that Connection 2013 has to offer! Order the Foursquare Connection 2013 Experience Kit at a special rate of $149 (a $300 value). The kit includes all the speakers' messages, video updates from the week's events and more. Order online now.
Day 1 – Connection 2013 Engages Thousands in Florida
Day 3 – Connection 2013 Looks to Future in Multi-Generational Service
Highlights From Connection 2013: "Engage: Learn. Live. Lead."
By: Andy Butcher, a freelance writer living in the Orlando, Fla., area
center for spiritual renewal, church growth, church health, church planting, foursquare connection 2013, foursquare missions international, pastoral care, stage 4--movements, target 1, target 2, target 3, target 4, target 5
Bill Shepson is a credentialed minister and freelance editor living in Sacramento, Calif.


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Juan Obando
Perpetual Nirvana
MassArt Foundation Fellowship - Work in progress, 2018
Perpetual Nirvana is a live composing and performing multimedia installation in which a complex computer program attempts to continuously create and play new songs in the style of the 1990s band Nirvana. The piece uses Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning systems that study and analyze large sets of data in order to create algorithms for the continuous creation of text, instrumental and vocal tracks.
The project is being developed using cloud computing and coded on Python and Google Magenta. The final program runs on Apple Mac computers operating an Ableton Live-based virtual synthesizer built on samples from the original recordings of the Nevermind (1991) album.
Perpetual Nirvana is supported by a grant from the MassArt Foundation (Boston, MA, USA).
Working samples from automated sessions performed by the program and its instruments
It is worth noting that in the above sample, for previewing purposes, the transitions between riffs and song parts is very quick. In live experiments, the instruments jam for longer periods until finally locking into a groove, attempting to sustain it, and then working on creating afollowing part, and so on.
Tentative Installation View
4 audio channels, floating screen for rear projection, custom furniture.
Possible activations and institutional events
Collaboration with local radio for the broadcasting of the live piece
•	Creation of a radio station broadcasting 24 hours (or during closing hours)
•	Merchandise/prints with lyrics generated by the system
•	Closing event with the release of a limited edition vinyl with selections from the exhibition
Sketchbook and Notes
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The Truth About Dave Bautista's Relationship History
By Maria Scinto/Updated: Jan. 10, 2022 9:20 am EST
While many people know Dave Bautista best as that really big dude who plays Drax in the "Guardians Of The Galaxy" film series, as well as the really big dude from "Escape Plan 2," "My Spy," "Stuber," "Riddick," or a bunch of other movies, before he broke into acting he first found fame in the wrestling ring. In fact, this former WWE superstar was a fixture in the squared circle for over 20 years (via LiveAbout), and while The Sun reports that he was dropped from the 2021 roster of Hall of Fame inductees, this may well be because WWE intends to award him their highest honor next year in front of an even larger audience.
Fame, as they say, has its privileges, and chief among them is the fact that few celebrities, Bautista included, are ever short of potential romantic partners. While Bautista may be without a lady friend at the present time, he's had a lengthy string of partners in his past and we doubt it take too long for him to find yet another special someone.
The first Mrs. Bautista now works in marketing
Dave Bautista himself is of mixed Greek and Filipino descent, and CelebCritics says that his first wife, Glenda, is also a Filipino-American whose parents were both born in the Philippines. The couple married in 1990 and later that year welcomed their first daughter, Keilani. Daughter number two, Athena, came along in 1992. They divorced in 1998 after 8 years of marriage, just as Bautista's wrestling career was starting to take off.
Although Glenda didn't ever get to experience much time in the spotlight as a celebrity plus-one, she's a very successful woman in her own right. She holds an MBA and is currently working as a Senior Director in Ad Products at Hearst Publishing after previously occupying high-level positions at companies including iHeart media, AdPrime Media, and AOL. She remarried in 2014 to a man named Chris Baker whose LinkedIn bio lists him as a creative director at Zen Studios. According to Glenda's Facebook page, she now uses the hyphenated last name of Bautista-Baker. While we don't know to what extent Glenda and Dave Bautista are still in touch, they do share grandkids in common, since Keilani has two sons named Aiden and Jacob.
Bautista supported his second wife through a cancer diagnosis
Bautista didn't wait too long before tying the knot again as he married his second wife Angie in the same year that he and Glenda divorced. A few years after they married, Angie was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Her husband stood by her as she went through treatment, and Facts Ninja says he used his growing fame to raise finds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA). A video he filmed to promote this cause was released in 2010 (via YouTube), several years after the couple split.
The marriage broke up in 2006, supposedly due to Bautista's dalliance with a WWF diva. The year after they divorced, though, two things happened that brought the couple back together as friends, although they never rekindled the romance. 2007 saw the birth of the couple's son, Oliver, as well as the publication of Bautista's autobiography, "Batista Unleashed" (for some reason, the WWE chose to drop the "u" from his last name to give him his ring name). Bautista must have had nothing but good things to say about his recent ex in that book, since after she read it, the two reportedly felt closer than they'd had in years. Post-divorce, Angie and Oliver have pretty much kept themselves to themselves, but she's apparently still doing well and was last reported to be working as a fitness supporter.
Bautista's dated a number of fellow wrestlers
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According to The Sportster, Bautista was all about the office romance after his second divorce, as he dated a bunch of women who also wrestled for WWF/WWE. He may have started dating diva Melina Perez while still married to Angie, and he was definitely an item with Rebecca DiPietro, a former Playboy model who briefly turned wrestler in 2006. Apparently their relationship didn't last much longer than her in-ring career, since Bautista soon returned to Perez before moving on in 2008 to the higher-profile diva Kelly Kelly (now known as Barbie Blank). 2009 saw Bautista dating yet another diva, the Canadian Rosa Mendes. It's also rumored that he had flings with Layla El, Taryn Terrell, and Shelly Martinez before finally settling down (temporarily) with wife #3.
After his third marriage broke up, Bautista returned to form, dating fellow WWE star Dana Brooke. While the two flirted online to the extent where WWE even created a storyline around their romance, Brooke told Forbes that because they were both so busy, their offline relationship kind of fizzled out and she's now happily coupled with UFC star Ulysses Diaz. Still, she says, she and Bautista remain "great, great friends" and he's now pals with Diaz as well.
Bautista's third wife is also an entertainer
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Dave Bautista married for the third (and the last, at least as of the time of writing) time in 2015 to a professional pole dancer named Sarah Jade whom he'd apparently been dating for a few years prior to their formalizing the union. According to Players Bio, Jade was born in 1987, which makes her 18 years younger than her husband.
The Sportster reports that Jade continued to pursue her profession throughout the marriage, being named Miss Pole Dance America in 2016 as well as continuing to operate Buttercup Pole Dance, the studio she opened in 2011. Although the Bautistas separated in 2019 for reasons best known to themselves, evidently they have yet to finalize the divorce. It appears Jade hasn't taken it too hard, though. She's posted a number of Instagram photos with a new man, and her pole dance studio seems to be thriving as it now employs 9 instructors in addition to lead instructor and owner Jade. As her website says, "10 years later, I still wake up excited to go to work!"


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Q: BxSlider white space I am new to html/css/javascript and am trying to add an image slider using BxSlider to my website. I am having an issue when the slider expands to a certain size it starts adding a white edge. Is this because the images have reached their maximum width? Or do I need to change something in the code?
My images and slider are in a div with id of wrapper. The css is:
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Thanks!

A: Although you have not included enough information to simply answer yes/no to your question (ie. dimensions of the source images and the containing element), I would say that you are right.
A quick test on bxSlider homepage - increasing the width of div.home-slider-wrapper above 1000px (which is width of their source images) caused a white border on the right. See annotated screenshot.
Try changing CSS for the images from max-width: 100% to width: 100% if it works for you (removes the white border at the cost of proportional stretching the images).

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The Most Anthony Bourdain-ish Quotes from Anthony Bourdain's New Show
By Lauren BullSep 4th, 2015, 1:19 pm
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We're now four installments deep into the Anthony Bourdain/Balvenie Scotch video series Raw Craft, a whisky-driven enterprise showcasing artisans and craftsmen across this great land: Two partners make hand-crafted cast iron skillets in Syracuse. One man designs $15,000 saxophones in New Orleans. Another spent 15 years learning to stitch and tailor suits. He makes only 10 to 15 per year.
And then there's Bourdain himself. Not sure if it's the Balvenie, the jiu jitsu, or what, but dude has never looked better. He's tanned, slimmed, quieter. As he observes the artists at work, one starts to imagine that he's ripped down his record-collaged walls and replaced them with needlepoint canvases. He hasn't lost his edge, necessarily, but the edge is from Etsy and it reads "D r e a m e r." He seems…humbled. And how could you not be in the presence of a man who turns meteorites into knives?
Of course, we still get some of that hallmark lyrical language. These are the best Bourdain quotes thus far:
Episode 1: "Borough Furnace" (Cast iron skillets)
"I'm Anthony Bourdain, and this is Raw Craft."
(First ep, just a warm-up, people.)
Episode 2: "Frank Shattuck" (Hand-stitched suits)
"For me, it's about showing up every day and sucking a little less at something. That's enormously satisfying to me."
"You know, sometimes when you get the opportunity to do it right — to take the slow, painstaking way — the customer doesn't even get it always. Maybe they don't know everything that went into creating this thing, to making this thing. But you know what? I always do. And when you do a plate of food right, there is this moment where it sits there in the slide before it goes out to the dining room, and it's a moment of satisfaction. I don't need them to come back into the kitchen and say, 'Oh that was really great,' or 'I really get what you did there.' I know. I know."
Episode 3: "Steve Goodson" (Saxophones)
(Holding the mouthpiece of a saxophone) "This is the connector. If you're gonna put this into a metaphysical descriptive — connecting lungs to fingers, human to device, the gateway from the soul. I should write your ad copy, if you had ad copy."
(Listening to the saxophone) "Even I can tell the difference, and I fell asleep next to a Marshall Stack at an Oyster Cult concert back in 1979, so my hearing is seriously damaged."
Episode 4: "Bob Kramer" (Forged knives)
"You know, if somebody stabbed you to death with that knife — and that would be wrong, I hasten to say — that knife's so beautiful, you couldn't help but say, 'Wow, that's a really beautiful knife.'"
Here is Episode 4, for your viewing pleasure.
Lauren Bull
Lauren is a writer and editor living in Jersey City.
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Still looking for a place to bget married in June 2013. Advice?? Has anyone gotten married at The Royal Playa del Carmen?
What type of wedding are you wanting? A resort wedding perhaps at an all-inclusive, or a smaller more private romantic location? Also, will children be attending?
I'm getting married at The Royal June 24, 2013.
As a wedding planner in the Riviera Maya, If you are looking for hotel closer to town, that is family friendly then try PlayaCar Palace, has an amazing beach and beautiful grounds. Prices are so affordable too.
Feel Free to ask us anything and we will be happy to help.
One great thing about the Royal is its very central location! Being right downtown will give you and your guests access to all the town has to offer and makes it super easy to book any outside services you may want. For some more advice on your planning process check out CHOOSING A RESORT from our website!
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I got married there one week ago! Here's my review - maybe it will help you decide? We had a fabulous time - you can't beat the location (I highly recommend staying in Playa over just along the Riviera - gives your guests a lot more to do and see). Also, the resort is beautiful, and although I got a little tired of the food, all-inclusive is so much easier for a group, and it has the best I have had at any!
Dare to be different... Why not an off resort wedding? there are so many options, you can get married in a lovely garden in the heart of Playa, in a cenote tucked away in the jungle or at a secluded beach club! There are so many different ways to say I do in the Riviera. Here a few photos for you to get inspired. I know many brides worry about Mexico and violence, but i have lived here for 17 years and my teen age daughter is as safe as she would be in Chicago or Houston... or maybe more! The most important thing is that you choose what inspires You. Get as much info as you can... that is the secret to have a great wedding!
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Our intestines are home to trillions of bacteria that help us to maintain a healthy immune system. Each of the many species living in our gut performs a different function, and so is restricted to specific areas. Confined, they're not perceived as invaders. But when containment fails, bacteria can spread to our flesh and organs. What were 'good' bacteria are now perceived as 'bad', triggering an immune response that could turn into chronic inflammation. Here we see Alcaligenes bacteria (green-dyed dots) inside a collection of specialist 'surveillance' cells in the small intestine of a mouse. That's where they should be. In mice with depleted reserves of immune cells called ILCs, however, the bacteria can spread into the liver and spleen. So these ILCs play a key role in selective containment, a discovery that could lead to new ways to treat chronic inflammatory diseases in humans.


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Those of you familiar with the language of addiction will know that I am not comparing domiciles that fail building codes with those that do not.
A trap house refers to a drug den. An abandoned property where addicts go to buy and use drugs for days on end. Think squalor. Think bug infested mattresses. Think quiet desperation. Think death.
A safe house is also a place for drug use. However you can not buy or visibly take drugs within. But you are expected to be actively high when you visit. Inside you are given the opportunity to swap out dirty needles for clean. And you may ride out your high in an upright chair instead of slumped on a dirty street curb. But most importantly: in a safe house you will not die. Nurses are present to monitor breathing, administer narcan, and call ambulances.
A Boston safe house opened in April after receiving support from the medical community, those who care for the homeless, Mayor Walsh and Governor Baker. Safe houses, or "safe injection facilities," already operate in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Spain.
The immediate goal is to curb the alarming uptick in deaths; especially among the young. On a recent trip to a town office building I found the bathrooms locked. The secretary explained it was to "keep the addicts out." My daughter's former boyfriend overdosed in a Dunkin Donuts bathroom. Afterwards he chose Burger King stalls. The reason? He had just scored in the parking lot. The newspapers are full of stories of addicts being apprehended inside their own cars in public parking lots, under trees in local parks or tucked down public city alleyways. It is hard to understand an addicts sense of urgency. It can not be compared to the Friday night joy of buying a bottle of wine, bringing it home, opening it up to breathe, and then swirling it in the glass. There is a sense of immediacy that most of us will never know.
Therein lies the problem. What will prompt an addict to walk to a safe house to ride out their high when they score blocks or miles away? If curbing the number of deaths from opiates is the goal, then heroin users will have to be allowed to use their drugs in the safe house – or right outside. Death from heroin, or fentanyl-laced heroin, occurs almost immediately. The drug is potent enough to shut down breathing within the first few minutes.
Of course we can't allow safe houses to become "shooting galleries." Or can we? Sometimes it seems like the most humane option… especially when you witness first hand the places where addicts live. Even more so when you find your own child in them. I ultimately feared finding my daughter expired on a street corner, behind a dumpster, or in a motel. I didn't want her last moments to be spent cold, unloved, hungry, or abused. It wasn't an irrational fear… it was only a matter of time. I considered bringing her home, knowing she was not ready for change, but wanting her to have the warmth of her bed and food in her belly. I was ready to wave the white flag even if she was not.
Could a safe house have been that sort of place for my daughter?
But safe houses do not allow you to sleep in them. And they do not feed you. They are not shelters without rules, or over indulgent mommys. In the end they could not have allayed my fears.
The only other North American safe house (a true safe injection facility) exists in Quebec. A medical study by The Lancet showed that thousands of lives have been saved: overdoses stopped, the spread of HIV/Aids minimized, counseling and detox services accepted. It is working, despite the usual NIMBY complaints.
Hopefully lives will be saved here in Boston. There is nothing more upsetting than stepping over an addict on the wintery streets of Albany and Mass Ave and "continuing on your way." Now at least you can lead them to a warm, comfortable room where a counselor can ask them if they want help. Can offer them water. Can look them in the eye and take their blood pressure. A small amount of decency can be provided.
Time will tell. My only hope is that we have some hard science around the outcomes. No more moralizing on the one hand, or fear based preventive measures on the other. Since 1980 addiction has been classified as a disease. To a certain extent it angers me that we have come to this. Would we be considering safe houses if we had provided better, more efficient, longterm, quality care earlier to this population? I don't know. But I guess we have to start where we are. And I can't help but embrace a concept I would never have considered years ago.
< Previous Partying with the Sober Folk.
thank you for reading, Tones.


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Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): Hoyt Radio Tower is the tallest structure of Colorado and belongs to world's tallest structures.
Hoyt Radio Tower allows transmissions toward the area of Denver for radio corporations which have no license for the Denver area. It is the property of Denver Radio Tower Company, a subsidiary of Nogales Investors.


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package lexical

// http://www.ncfta.ca/papers/emailforensics.pdf
import (
	"math"
	"strings"
)

type Analysis struct {
	corpus                          string
	tokenArray                      []string
	CharacterCount                  int
	RatioOfDigitsToN                float64
	RatioOfLettersToN               float64
	RatioOfUppercaseLettersToN      float64
	RatioOfSpacesToN                float64
	RatioOfTabsToN                  float64
	OccurrencesOfAlphabets          map[rune]float64
	OccurrencesOfSpecialCharachters map[rune]float64
	TokenCount                      int
	AverageSentenceLength           int
	AverageTokenLength              float64
	RationOfCharachtersInWordsToN   float64
	RatioOfShortWordsToT            float64
}

var RatioOfDigitsToNAvg float64
var RatioOfLettersToNAvg float64
var RatioOfUppercaseLettersToNAvg float64
var RatioOfSpacesToNAvg float64
var RatioOfTabsToNAvg float64
var AverageTokenLengthAvg float64

func square(difference float64) float64 {
	return difference * difference
}
func squareInt(difference int) float64 {
	return math.Pow(float64(difference), float64(difference))
}

func Similarities(first, second Analysis) float64 {
	bignumber := square((first.RatioOfDigitsToN-second.RatioOfDigitsToN)/RatioOfDigitsToNAvg) +
		square((first.RatioOfLettersToN-second.RatioOfLettersToN)/RatioOfLettersToNAvg) +
		square((first.RatioOfUppercaseLettersToN-second.RatioOfUppercaseLettersToN)/RatioOfUppercaseLettersToNAvg) +
		square((first.RatioOfSpacesToN-second.RatioOfSpacesToN)/RatioOfSpacesToNAvg) +
		square((first.AverageTokenLength-second.AverageTokenLength)/AverageTokenLengthAvg)
	return bignumber
}

func (a *Analysis) New(corpus string) {
	a.corpus = corpus

	a.characterCount()
	a.ratioOfDigitsToN()
	a.ratioOfLettersToN()
	a.ratioOfUppercaseLettersToN()
	a.ratioOfSpacesToN()
	a.ratioOfTabsToN()
	a.occurrencesOfAlphabets()
	a.occurrencesOfSpecialCharachters()
	a.tokenCount()
	a.averageSentenceLength()
	a.averageTokenLength()
	a.rationOfCharachtersInWordsToN()
	a.ratioOfShortWordsToT()

}

func (a *Analysis) characterCount() {
	a.CharacterCount = len(a.corpus)
}

func (a *Analysis) ratioOfDigitsToN() {
	a.RatioOfDigitsToN = ratioOfThingToN(
		a.corpus,
		"0123456789",
		a.CharacterCount,
	)
}
func (a *Analysis) ratioOfLettersToN() {
	a.RatioOfLettersToN = ratioOfThingToN(
		a.corpus,
		"qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm",
		a.CharacterCount,
	)
}
func (a *Analysis) ratioOfUppercaseLettersToN() {
	a.RatioOfUppercaseLettersToN = ratioOfThingToN(
		a.corpus,
		"QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM",
		a.CharacterCount,
	)
}
func (a *Analysis) ratioOfSpacesToN() {
	a.RatioOfSpacesToN = ratioOfThingToN(
		a.corpus,
		" ",
		a.CharacterCount,
	)
}
func (a *Analysis) ratioOfTabsToN() {
	a.RatioOfTabsToN = ratioOfThingToN(
		a.corpus,
		"\t",
		a.CharacterCount,
	)
}
func (a *Analysis) occurrencesOfAlphabets() {

}

func (a *Analysis) occurrencesOfSpecialCharachters() {

}

func (a *Analysis) tokenCount() {
	a.tokenArray = strings.Split(a.corpus, " ")
	a.TokenCount = len(a.tokenArray)
}

func (a *Analysis) averageSentenceLength() {

}

func (a *Analysis) averageTokenLength() {
	var total float64 = 0
	for _, value := range a.tokenArray {
		total += float64(len(value))
	}
	a.AverageTokenLength = total / float64(len(a.tokenArray))
}

func (a *Analysis) rationOfCharachtersInWordsToN() {

}

func (a *Analysis) ratioOfShortWordsToT() {

}

func ratioOfThingToN(corpus, thing string, nLength int) (ratio float64) {
	var count float64
	digitMap := make(map[rune]bool)
	for _, value := range thing {
		digitMap[value] = true
	}
	for _, value := range corpus {
		if digitMap[value] == true {
			count = count + 1
		}
	}
	f := float64(nLength)
	ratio = count / f
	return
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: LDAP integration with activiti I want to configure ldap with activiti engine,I followed the activiti user guide
but I'm not sure it is working so to test it I want to get all users from Active Directory, can any one help me ?
I'm using activiti 5.21.0 version and java
this is my config file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd">

  <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.SimpleDriverDataSource">
    <property name="driverClass" value="org.h2.Driver" />
    <property name="url" value="jdbc:h2:mem:activiti;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=1000" />
    <property name="username" value="sa" />
    <property name="password" value="" />
  </bean>

  <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
  </bean>

  <bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
    <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" />
    <property name="jobExecutorActivate" value="false" />

     <property name="configurators">
          <list>
              <bean class="org.activiti.ldap.LDAPConfigurator">

                <!-- Server connection params -->
                <property name="server" value="ldap://localhost" />
                <property name="port" value="10389" />
                <property name="user" value="uid=admin, ou=users, o=activiti" />
                <property name="password" value="pass" />

                <!-- Query params -->
                <property name="baseDn" value="o=activiti" />
                <property name="queryUserByUserId" value="((objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(uid={0}))" />
                <property name="queryUserByFullNameLike" value="((objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(|({0}=*{1}*)({2}=*{3}*)))" />
                <property name="queryGroupsForUser" value="((objectClass=groupOfUniqueNames)(uniqueMember={0}))" />

                <!-- Attribute config -->
                <property name="userIdAttribute" value="uid" />
                <property name="userFirstNameAttribute" value="cn" />
                <property name="userLastNameAttribute" value="sn" />
                <property name="userEmailAttribute" value="mail" />

                <property name="groupIdAttribute" value="cn" />
                <property name="groupNameAttribute" value="cn" />

              </bean>
          </list>
        </property>
  </bean>

  <bean id="processEngine" class="org.activiti.spring.ProcessEngineFactoryBean">
    <property name="processEngineConfiguration" ref="processEngineConfiguration" />
  </bean>

  <bean id="repositoryService" factory-bean="processEngine" factory-method="getRepositoryService" />
  <bean id="runtimeService" factory-bean="processEngine" factory-method="getRuntimeService" />
  <bean id="taskService" factory-bean="processEngine" factory-method="getTaskService" />
  <bean id="historyService" factory-bean="processEngine" factory-method="getHistoryService" />
  <bean id="managementService" factory-bean="processEngine" factory-method="getManagementService" />

</beans>

A: If your target LDAP is Active Directory as you suggest, then this line is almost certainly incorrect.
<property name="user" value="uid=admin, ou=users, o=activiti" />

Active Directory base DN is usually in the format of dc=domain,dc=com whereas eDirectory of often rooted with an Organization object.
The uid=admin node suggests that you are taking this from an example of talking to an OpenLDAP style directory. Default naming in AD is cn=Username (Often cn=First Last in fact).


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VooV Indoor London
By Jessica Alici,
March 14, 2018 in Electronica
Jessica Alici
Voov Indoor London ! ! !
20/04/18 : : 23:00-06:00
Bloc. Autumn Street, Bow, London E3 2TT
For the very first time we are bringing the magic of VooV Festival to London for a one-night spectacular. VooV Festival is one of the leading psychedelic festivals.... Based in Putlitz, Germany, it has been wowing audiences of thousands for over 25 years with it's unique production, decorations, custom 360° sound system and mind-blowing laser show.
For our London event we are combining the famous elements of Voov Festival indoors, with an immersive psychedelic environment, hypnotic visuals and the best psychedelic trance music available.
.: LINEUP :.
RINKADINK (SA)
https://www.facebook.com/rinkadink.net
https://soundcloud.com/rinkadink
DICKSTER (UK)
https://www.facebook.com/dj.dicktrevor
https://soundcloud.com/dicktrevor
NIKKI S (AUS)
https://www.facebook.com/NikkiSOfficial/
https://soundcloud.com/djnikkis
M-THEORY (IT)
https://www.facebook.com/mtheoryuk/
https://soundcloud.com/psygemini
HAMISH (GB)
https://www.facebook.com/djhamish
http://mixcloud.com/hamishdj
LIQUID ROSS (GB)
https://www.facebook.com/djliquidross/
MILES FROM ANYWHERE (GB)
https://m.soundcloud.com/milesfromanywhere
.: Information and links :.
Tickets are available via the following outlets:
Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1073687
Access All Areas: TBC
Astral Circus: TBC
Performers, stall owners and anyone interested in bringing their skills and colour to the event please get in touch.
www.voov-festival.de
www.facebook.com/voovfestival
www.facebook.com/furthurevents
www.fm-booking.com
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Board directors flex their muscles
Alec Foege
Smashburger and Mooyah are two burger franchises looking to grow in the New York market. They hope to beef up their ranks, like Five Guys, Goodburger and a host of others in the city
New York's high rent and the tight credit market have made it popular to launch franchise businesses that operate from owners' homes—dog-walking and pet-sitting services have very low overhead.
Childhood education franchises have been expanding recently. Kumon and Mathnasium are two tutoring companies that have appeared in New York.
Russo's Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen wants to open in New York. Anthony Russo, the founder, is a native of Paterson, N.J., but grew his New York-style pizza business in Houston.
Ten frozen-yogurt franchisers attended the expo. Among them was New York-based 16 Handles, which expects to have 40 locations up and down the East Coast by the end of the year and double that by the end of 2013, including outlets in all five boroughs.
A few weeks ago, after a dramatic bout of public wrangling with Sotheby's, activist investor Dan Loeb won a seat on the board of the storied auction house for himself, as well as two seats for allies. Mr. Loeb had demanded the ouster of CEO Bill Ruprecht, blasting his generous pay package. Now the two men are sitting at the same board table.
In early May, Sotheby's publicly made amends with Mr. Loeb, who runs a Manhattan-based hedge fund called Third Point. But combat over issues, including the auction house's bids to enter the Asian and contemporary-art markets, seems likely to persist, even if it plays out behind closed doors.
Mr. Loeb's appointment highlights a trend at many public companies: the rise of directors. Along with achieving a higher profile in the media, they are getting paid more and taking a more active role in company management.
The average pay for the 122 directors serving on the 10 highest-paid boards in New York City was $630,608 in 2013, according to data prepared for Crain's by Equilar. The highest-paid board member in the city, P. Roy Vagelos, the former CEO of Merck who sits on the board of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, was paid $17.8 million, mostly in stock options and almost three and a half times more than the next highest-paid board member, Joel Klein. Mr. Klein, a former New York City schools chancellor and member of the 21st Century Fox board, was paid $4.8 million, though the company's proxy reports the compensation was for his role as executive vice president, office of the chairman, and chief executive officer of Amplify, a subsidiary of News Corp. Formerly part of News Corp., 21st Century Fox became a separately traded company in June 2013, and Mr. Klein is no longer a member of the spinoff's board. When Mr. Vagelos' pay is excluded, the areawide average drops to $488,563.
"Directors have become more qualified and more informed," said John Wood, vice chairman at Chicago-based Heidrick & Struggles and a member of the executive-search firm's chief executives and board of directors practice. "That results in a dialogue that challenges the notion of the imperial CEO."
Directors' influence has been building for a decade. Many have gained power and pay in exchange for political influence or deep management expertise in a particular area.
"If you go back to Enron, Tyco and WorldCom, [those situations] pointed to accountability," said Peter Gleason, managing director and CFO at the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Corporate Directors, or NACD. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 "put a big focus on the board overseeing financial statements and the audit committee," he said. And the Dodd-Frank bill, signed by President Barack Obama in 2010, shone a spotlight on compensation committees.
Mr. Gleason said it's the more subtle outsiders who often have the most meaningful influence on corporate boards. As an example, Ralph Whitworth of San Diego-based Relational Investors quietly helped rescue Atlanta-based Home Depot in 2007 "by bringing analysis to the table that the directors hadn't had before, and it helped them move forward," said Mr. Gleason.
New York's top-paid CEOs
Bump in pay
The rise of directors' power has been accompanied by a jump in their pay. Many directors get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for attending a handful of meetings and doing intermittent research. Finance and biotech companies in New York have especially rich packages.
Directors at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Tarrytown, N.Y., earn in excess of $1.4 million each in cash fees and stock options for their part-time service. That board is the highest paid in the New York area.
At Summit, N.J.-based biotech company Celgene, a director's average compensation comes to more than $800,000 in cash, stock and options, and at New York financial giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, director pay can top $500,000.
Median director pay at publicly traded companies rose between 4% and 6% in 2013, with an 11% increase in median director compensation for companies with annual revenue between $500 million and $1 billion, according to the NACD. The most recent annual increases are in line with those of previous years.
Most directors of public companies are already financially successful enough that, in theory, the mid-six-figure salaries they earn should not be prime motivators.
In some cases, hedge funds have attempted to insert dissident board members and have offered those directors bonuses in addition to their compensation from the companies they serve. For example, Elliott Management successfully placed three of five candidates it recommended on Hess' board in May 2013.
Most directors typically must attend seven meetings per year, according to the NACD. Serving on various board committees, such as audit, governance and strategic planning, requires additional hours to conduct research, digest analyses and take votes. There also are increased professional risks accompanying the role of director.
Although the number of in-person meetings is fairly small, Mr. Gleason pointed out that "you have to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
Clarence Otis Jr., the embattled chairman and CEO of Darden Restaurants, owner of Red Lobster and Olive Garden, has come under fire for his attendance at 76 board meetings last year for companies other than his own. Meanwhile, Mr. Otis' plan to sell Red Lobster to a private-equity firm for $2.1 billion has enraged activist investors, who feel it is undervalued. Not surprisingly, those investors now plan to push for seats on the Darden board to prevent a similar sale in the future.
'Personal judgment'
Gary Lutin, chairman of the Shareholder Forum, a nonpartisan, independent creator of programs designed to inform corporate shareholders, cringes when he hears tales of directors becoming more deeply involved in company strategy. "Directors have started getting statistical," he said. "What they really need is personal judgment and responsibility."
Whether a higher-paid, more informed and more powerful board makes a big difference to the value of a company—or even basic issues of governance—is an open question.
When Credit Suisse, which has a large investment bank based in Manhattan, recently faced criminal charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice that it assisted some of its customers in evading American taxes for decades, this concern was brought to the fore. Although the bank has pleaded guilty, the board apparently never considered removing Credit Suisse's CEO, Brady Dougan, from his post.
Credit Suisse's directors, who include Sebastian Thrun, CEO of online university Udacity, and Iris Bohnet, a professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, are paid from $250,000 to $1.4 million annually.
Heidrick & Struggles' Mr. Wood advised CEOs to be open to the new power players. "The attitude should be, 'If something's not right, tell me about it,' " he said. "That's actually good for shareholders, and that's more important than whether it's good for CEOs."
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As an author and former teacher, I like to encourage teachers, students and writers. I created this proofreading printable to help. It explains the differences between revisions and edits.
Too often, writers (especially student writers) tend to proofread everything all at once. Instead, it's recommended (and effective) to revise the text to make it a better story at a different time than editing for proper grammar. Trying to do it all at once leads to distractions. Trust me.
A couple years ago at a writing conference, some other writers and I were discussing proofreading. One of my writer friends (a teacher) introduced me to the acronyms CUPS and ARMS.
This is not my own idea, but I think it's helpful to have a visual representation. So I made this free proofreading printable.
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One of the most immediately discernible aspects of this novel is its use of footnotes. At first the footnotes appear to offer little more than what "traditional" footnotes offer, but DeFrain has stated that they are intended to both create competing narratives and reflect certain aspects of watching an NBA game on television. Does the addition of footnotes succeed in either endeavor and how and where do you see that happening?
As with most road novels a sense of place figures prominently in the narrative. And yet as Brian moves from one place (Michigan) to another (Utah), he seems to pine proportionally for the place he's not in. How does this shape Brian's character and does it reflect on any kind national character trait?
Randy has been described by writer John Dufresne as "a one-armed Mormon Lone Ranger." How is that an apt comparison for Randy and what does his missing arm contribute to our sense of who he is?
The opening paragraph is said to be an homage to two of the greatest "road novels" of all time (Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Jack Kerouac's On the Road). If you're familiar with those works, consider how the writer weaves those influences into the opening and then discuss what effect that might have on the novel.
Why does Brian end up agreeing to take Randy with him on such a long drive when he clearly has immediate apprehension about spending any time at all with such a person?
Throughout the novel Brian is pulled by polarities of his own invention. He is clearly serious about his interest in Rhoda and yet he is "haunted" by a flame from years ago. He has pushed away his religion, his family and his home state, and yet he still feels tied to and defined by all of them. Is Brian's sense of being always caught in the middle of things his own, peculiar problem or is it a more general and necessary part of defining who we are?
The much talked-about ending is as ambiguous as it could be? First discuss what you think happens after the last page and then discuss whether or not you feel the ending is satisfactory and appropriate.
Randy's character is sketched in partially through moments like where he gets called by another name. What do you think you know about Randy and is he "a good guy"?
The LDS Church, like every larger religious organization, faces continued scrutiny for its past and present. Is the novel fair in its portrayal of Mormons and Mormonism?
As Brian moves toward his former life, Utah, he ironically moves closer to a commitment to Rhoda. What role do Connie and Suzanne play in moderating his transition?


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Why this year's flu season could be a doozy
Although we're not yet feeling fall temperatures in the Washington, D.C., area, it seems the cold and flu season already is upon us. Several people in our office, myself included, have been battling coughs and colds this week, lending an unwelcome reminder that flu season is on the way.
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But this year's flu season is on track to present some unique challenges. Here are three things you need to know—and ways to keep healthy this flu season.
1. Health officials are wary of a particularly virulent flu season
HHS Secretary Alex Azar and other U.S. health officials this week called on U.S. residents to get their flu shots—and to get them early—because data suggests the United States could face a particularly virulent flu season that peaks earlier than usual.
U.S. health officials typically look to Australia for hints about our upcoming flu season, because Australia's flu season occurs during our summer months. Officials track which strains of flu spread throughout Australia, as well as how many people contract the flu and how the season ebbs and flows.
And the data coming out of Australia isn't promising.
According to The Hill's Marty Johnson, confirmed flu cases in Australia "have historically peaked … between August and September, but this year the peak came in July." Johnson notes that, as of last week, Australia had confirmed 272,146 flu cases, "making it the worst flu season in Australia's history."
As such, U.S. health officials are concerned we could see an early flu season here, as well—and it's possible we're already seeing it. While CDC considers Oct. 1 to be the official start to the U.S. flu season, California officials reported two flu-related deaths in September, and other areas in the United States are reporting flu cases.
In response, Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Axios' Eileen Drage O'Reilly that U.S. residents should "[g]et the [flu] vaccine early." In fact, CDC is recommending everyone 6 months and older get a flu vaccine by the end of October.
2. The flu vaccine might offer limited protection this season
Experts also stress that getting the flu vaccine is important, even if a given year's vaccine is not fully effective, which analyses suggest is likely to be the case this year.
STAT News' Helen Branswell noted that flu experts met just last week to select which flu strains should be included in vaccines for the upcoming flu seasons in the world's Southern Hemisphere—and their selections suggest the Northern Hemisphere's vaccines for this flu season already might be out of date.
Branswell explains, "The strain selection committee concluded the H3N2 and B/Victoria viruses needed to be updated because the ones used in the Northern Hemisphere vaccine didn't match the strains of those viruses that are now dominant."
Put another way, the strains in our flu vaccine for this season don't match the strains that have been dominantly circulating, meaning the vaccine likely won't provide great protection.
Still, that doesn't mean you should skip the vaccine. Scott Hensley, an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, told Branswell that flu vaccines "often protect against severe disease even when … mismatched." Further, Hensley said it's still too soon to tell which virus strains will be dominant in the United States. "There are many ways that this flu season may pan out," he said.
3. Many people don't plan on getting vaccinated against the flu
Despite experts' and officials' calls for U.S. residents to get vaccinated against the flu, close to half of U.S. adults don't plan on doing so, according to a poll recently published by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
The poll found that although 60% of respondents said being vaccinated was the best way to prevent flu-related hospitalizations and deaths, just 52% of respondents said they plan to get vaccinated this seasons, while 18% said they were unsure of whether they'd get vaccinated.
Research has shown at least 70% of people need to be vaccinated against the flu for to achieve herd immunity in a given community. Experts say herd immunity protects individuals who cannot get the vaccine for medical reasons from falling ill with the flu, meaning low vaccination rates could leave more people at risk this year.
But perhaps even more striking, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases poll found that about 25% of respondents who are at higher risk of experiencing flu-related complications, such as the elderly and individuals with existing medical conditions, said they're not planning to get vaccinated this season.
What can you do to protect yourself?
In addition to getting vaccinated, experts say there are other steps individuals can take to protect themselves against the flu. For instance, influenza epidemiologist Danuta Skowronski told Branswell that individuals should avoid contact with others who are sick, and quickly seek treatment with antiviral drugs if they believe they have contracted the flu.
According to CDC, it also doesn't hurt to stock up on hand sanitizer and other disinfectant cleaners, and to stay home when you're feeling under the weather.
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Welcome to Middle School
ACADEMICS | ARTS | BEYOND THE CLASSROOM | HIGH SCHOOL PLACEMENT
Build a Bridge to the Future
The middle grades are the launching point of an adolescent's personal and academic trajectory. Our focus on the development of both cognitive and non-cognitive skills in young adolescents positions our students for future success. Here middle school students feel confident to be themselves and stretch themselves. They take pride in knowing that younger students look up to them, and they are excited to explore opportunities for leadership, and observe how their actions make a difference. With each passing year, our middle schoolers expand their dreams, hone their abilities, and prepare to embark on a lifetime of realizing their potential.
For students who came to Belmont Day earlier, grades six through eight provide a culminating experience for their grammar school journey. Students joining us during the middle school years find friends quickly in our strong, welcoming community. By the end of eighth grade at Belmont Day, students know themselves better than they ever thought possible. They're able to speak with confidence in front of an audience; to present their knowledge and opinions eloquently. They're better able to lead, to collaborate, to express their own thoughts, and to listen to those of others. They are ready to seek out an ideal high school and are prepared and inspired to go on and make their ambitions a reality.
We welcome students and families from many cities and towns including Arlington, Cambridge, Medford, Lexington, Lincoln, Newton, Waltham, Watertown, Winchester, and Woburn. Contact us to learn more about our private middle school program.
Message from the Middle School Head
Welcome to the middle school at Belmont Day! Here, you will find our students actively engaged in shaping and advancing their own development. Every day they immerse themselves in the exciting journey through their adolescent years. Their minds are in the moment, experiencing joy and doing hard work, with the long-term goal of preparing for high school and their futures as lifelong learners and leaders.
Middle school is all about trying things on. At Belmont Day, we encourage students to try on new pieces of their identity, whether it be in the classroom, on the sports field, through a new artistic endeavor, or any other of the many opportunities they enjoy in their school day. They feel safe to take those essential and calculated risks—intellectually, socially, and emotionally—that serve as the cornerstones of growing up. As they explore their interests, our core values—excellence, responsibility, honesty, caring, respect, and joy—guide everything they do, from daily interactions with one another, to defining their goals for the future.
Along this journey, Belmont Day students are supported and challenged by expert faculty who carefully consider the diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences of our students to inform curriculum and guide programming. Our program is designed to be student-centered, responsive, and aimed at developing the whole child. As they graduate, Belmont Day alumni take on high school both sturdy and inspired. They are equipped with excellent academic skills, plus the compassion, drive, and integrity to work to better the world around them.
Because words cannot do justice to the energy, focus, and accomplishment that are evident every day, we invite you to visit us and see it in action!
Liz Gray
Middle School Head
Be Immersed in Learning
Middle school students don't merely study a topic at Belmont Day; they dive into it and explore it from every angle. They complete a unique independent project related to human rights and share it on Freedom Night. They apply Spanish vocabulary and cultural learning to create grocery lists that could be used in Puerto Rico. They discover the inner workings of mathematical algorithms and conduct chemistry experiments. They build robots and solar cars and design objects for a 3D printer. Throughout every subject, they apply critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
The curricular program for the middle school is a cohesive extension of the lower school curriculum, joining traditional skill acquisition with creative hands-on project assignments that are authentic and meaningful. Faculty also teach students explicit strategies for writing, organizing, studying, and tackling assessments. Exploring these topics helps students understand themselves better as learners and feel supported in pursuit of excellence.
A Big Picture Approach to Teaching
Belmont Day teachers constantly collaborate to weave subjects together, giving learning richness, context, and a pulse. Students might find themselves making art that ties in with the history they're studying. Or they might tackle a writing project along with others in the school. Opportunities abound for connecting STEAM subjects—science, technology, engineering, art, and math. The assignments here are varied, purposeful, challenging, and motivate students to explore new concepts in fascinating ways.
Be an Expert: Capstone
Imagine sitting in a large room full of teachers, students, and other parents when your eighth grader walks up to the front. For the next half-hour, your child gives a dynamic presentation of information and insights about an area of expertise. Your child presents with poise and gracefully answers follow-up questions posed by members of the audience. Belmont Day makes this vision a reality through the Capstone Project.
Beginning in the spring of seventh grade, each student begins to hone in on a research question that inspires them. Possibilities for topics are infinite. What is most important is that the questions ignite a curiosity that each individual will pursue with diligence, creativity, and enthusiasm. Throughout their eighth grade year, students write a substantive research paper and develop an independent project to reflect their growing knowledge. Finally, students craft an oral presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session, that they deliver to an audience of peers, teachers, and parents.
Throughout this process, students are supported by regular one-on-one meetings with Capstone mentors. Depending on the project, a mentor might be a teacher, the school nurse, business manager, or chef. The role has been described as "part shepherd and part cheerleader." It's just one part of a support system that ensures that students meet their demanding project goals.
There is no overestimating the importance, the thrill, or the transformative powers of Capstone. Our eighth graders feel tremendous pride in knowing that they can identify a topic of intrinsic interest to themselves and develop it into a body of expertise worthy of sharing with others. Designing and implementing a Capstone provides the self-assurance, self-confidence, public speaking, and research skills that will serve students the rest of their academic lives.
A Unique Expression of Confidence and Character
Just visit Belmont Day, and you'll understand: art is alive here. The hallways are filled with evidence of our students being bold, remarkable, and inspiring in the art studio, woodworking studio, music room, and the Palandjian Arts Center. Every year students challenge themselves to grow as artists who appreciate the creative process and share their talents with others.
Sixth grade students attend music, theater arts, art, and woodworking classes throughout the year. Each semester, seventh and eighth students choose from almost three dozen arts electives, including printmaking, a cappella, 3D-modeling, clock building, and devised theater. Every year, the sixth grade class presents a dramatic production on Freedom Night, while seventh and eight graders may choose to participate in a spring musical or play.
View the latest Arts Gallery
Community & Relationships
Our Strong Community Builds Leaders
Middle school is a time when you develop your identity. Doing that in a supportive community is a gift. Belmont Day's strong community is the deliberate result of extensive planning and effort by faculty and staff. Outside of class, our middle school students have a myriad of opportunities to practice their leadership skills on athletic teams, in the arts, and through cross-graded and school-wide activities. The non-cognitive skills built in these arenas are vital for future success.
In sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, students are organized into advisory groups. Led by faculty advisors, these groups meet throughout the week to discuss a variety of topics important to adolescents in their lives both in and out of school. The advisor plays an important role as student advocate for both academic and social-emotional issues and serves as a parent liaison. Advisors also run, along with students, the parent-teacher-student conferences in October and March.
Wellness and Choices Curricula
Middle school is not an easy time. So much in life is changing. The challenges to be faced and questions to be answered can be daunting. The health and wellness curriculum helps middle school students confront and understand many of these complex issues. In sixth grade, students learn about being a community member, maintaining healthy friendships, and explore the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty. The Choices curriculum for seventh and eighth graders centers on making good choices in life and putting your best self forward. Students work with a team of four faculty members to explore such issues as: friendship, inclusiveness, LGBTQ+ topics, drugs, and adolescence. Interviewing and preparing for high school and on-demand writing are also covered.
Belmont Day School values presence, intentionality, thoughtfulness, and engagement. It is evident not only in our core values but in the ways people interact in the classrooms, hallways, and playing fields of our campus. Mindfulness is a tool that helps us ground these values in action and reflection. Belmont Day has partnered with WholeSchool Mindfulness to help integrate this essential skill and promote well-being in our community.
Mindfulness is woven into our growth, development, and belonging curriculum. Students engage in practices that help them hone their attention, learn how to respond proactively rather than reactively, and discover clarity and compassion in their relationships with themselves, others, and the world. Advisories periodically schedule additional practice opportunities that can be playful and purposeful for students to expand their toolkits. And athletics teams find the grounding they need on game day with breathing exercises.
At Belmont Day, we teach students to "take responsibility for themselves, each other, and the world around them." In addition to our annual Community Service Day held in May, students in every grade engage in community service activities throughout the school year.
Recent activities undertaken by our middle school students have included:
trail maintenance and animal care at Mass Audubon's Habitat Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary in Belmont
Charles River trail cleanup with Waltham Land Trust
food preparation in the kitchen at Community Servings
Cross-Graded Partnerships
Younger students look up to our middle schoolers, whose community is broadened through partnerships for cross-graded activities. Middle schoolers gain so much from these alliances as they rise to the responsibility of nurturing, encouraging, and inspiring their younger partners.
Ensembles Program
The arts are integral to Belmont Day, embedded in the academic program, and valued by the community. In addition to their classroom experience, students are offered the opportunity to participate in musical ensembles, which provide the experience of learning, practicing, and performing in a small group. The lower school and middle school choruses and the guitar, orchestra, wind, modern band, and world drumming ensembles meet once a week, either before or after school.
Learn more about Ensembles
Middle School Meeting
Once a week, middle school students gather as a community to share information and engage in activities geared toward building a strong middle school community. Students are also divided into smaller, cross-graded groups—led by one or more eighth graders—which participate together in a variety of activities throughout the year.
Orientation Trips
Each year, within the first several weeks of school, class bonds are forged through off-campus orientation activities. Sixth grade has a 3-day experience at Thompson Island Outward Bound. Seventh grade spends time at Cardigan Mountain in New Hampshire hiking, engaging in outdoor education, and strengthening group dynamics. Eighth grade students engage in adventure-based leadership development activities at Project Adventure.
Middle School Clubs
Choice and Exploration
Model U.N., literary and art magazine, and pop knitting—these are some of the clubs options available for middle schoolers. Comprised of mixed-grade groups, middle school clubs meet weekly and are led by faculty and staff who have expertise in or share a passion for a particular topic or activity. Clubs provide students with an opportunity to make choices—middle schoolers choose two club offerings to participate in each year. The diverse and exciting clubs at Belmont Day include:
Literary and Art Magazine
Model U.N.
Games and Cards
Pop Knitting
Games Around the World
Postcard Club
Middle School Greening and Sustainability
Environmental Mission Statement
Belmont Day School is committed to educating and encouraging all members of our school community to be responsible, respectful, and caring stewards of the environment. We will strive to teach and implement environmental best practices that will create a sustainable school environment and to develop life-long skills that will prepare our members to make responsible environmental choices to sustain our local and global communities.
Belmont Day Garden — See How They Grow
The community garden at Belmont Day serves as an excellent teacher. It helps demonstrate lessons about the cycles of agriculture. Beyond that, students learn firsthand that the most gratifying achievements require planning, knowledge, commitment, effort, and patience.
We grow organic vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs. Students contribute to the effort, along with staff and parent volunteers. Our produce is not only used in our lunches but is donated to a food pantry and used in meals prepared for shelters. We use the garden across virtually all subjects and connect with academic curricula in many grade levels. A large pollinator garden, located directly alongside the vegetable garden, is filled with flowering plants and fruit trees to attract native pollinators such as bumblebees and other insects, butterflies, bats, and birds. Two Warre beehives feature observation windows and a design that allows bees to draw out their own honeycomb. Students help to maintain the hives and harvest the honey. The gardens and beehives serve as a lovely metaphor for our school, demonstrating that together, with attentiveness and industry, caring, and collaboration, we can achieve impressive results.
Classroom and lunchroom composting
Student energy conservation patrol
School-wide recycling
Eliminating the use of bottled water
Vehicle idling awareness campaign
Farm-to-school program
Environmental community service opportunities for families
Belmont Day Graduates Move Up
Belmont Day graduates go on to the high schools of their choosing, including day and boarding independent schools, faith-based schools, and local public schools.
Beginning at the end of seventh grade, representatives from various high schools visit Belmont Day and our students start to explore their options. In eighth grade we guide students to consider a variety of strong-fit schools, coach them on interviews, prepare them for essay writing, and help them develop compelling applications.
Our eighth graders are enthusiastic and active participants in this process. They feel the confidence that can only come from already being seen as a leader in their classrooms and community. The cumulative effect of their Belmont Day journey—encompassing academics, athletics, arts, community service and the Capstone project—is that they feel well-prepared and excited for the next challenge.
Meanwhile, we regularly hear from secondary schools how much they enjoy enrolling Belmont Day students. Our graduates are enthusiastic learners who contribute in classrooms and throughout the community. They often become athletic team captains, stand out in the arts, and serve as leaders of clubs and campus activities.
The Class of 2022 will attend:
Beaver Country Day School
Belmont High School (2)
Boston Arts Academy
Boston College High School
Boston University Academy
Brimmer and May School (2)
Brooks School (2)
Buckingham Browne and Nichols School
Cambridge Rindge and Latin (4)
Cambridge School of Weston (2)
Catholic Memorial High School
Chapel Hill Chauncy Hall School
Commonwealth School (3)
Concord Academy (6)
Dana Hall School
Gann Academy
Groton School
Kimball Union Academy
Middlesex School
Noble and Greenough School
Northfield Mount Hermon School
Phillips Andover Academy
Pike School
Somerville High School
Winchester High School
Sarah Merrill,
Director of High School Placement


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Brian Yuzna's Society: more than just extreme effects and '80s sheen
Written by Becky Darke
In 1985, Brian Yuzna produced Re-Animator, with the late great Stuart Gordon in the director's chair, but Yuzna soon realised that it's the director who receives the credit and who holds a lot of the power behind whether movies get made. So Yuzna had a plan: he'd pitch Bride of Re-Animator and when the studio agreed, he'd make a deal to direct not one, but two movies. He cannily made the call to first direct Society (1989) – which he wasn't sure people would necessarily 'get' – and then he'd make his sure-bet sequel (going on to direct Bride in 1990).
Now, Yuzna's risky debut is a popular cult movie in its own right and one of the most memorable body horror films of all time.
Society gives us Billy Warlock playing a Beverly Hills teen from a wealthy family. He's destined for great things yet between basketball practice and making out with his girlfriend, he's seeing a therapist for paranoia. Soon we can't help but see that his fears aren't all in his head, and nothing here is what it seems at first glance.
Scares-wise, Yuzna gives us a movie that wears its horror pedigree on its sleeve. This is body horror at its purest, and we know what we're in for from the start – roiling, oozing bodies beneath the opening credits, soundtracked by what sounds like some kind of Fascist nursery rhyme. But there's more here for fans of the genre; at times, Society delves into slasher and psychological thriller territory, and even shares some themes with folk horror.
As this is 1980s Beverly Hills, the action isn't confined to dank dungeons or even run-of-the-mill suburbs. It's all bright sunshine, beaches and convertibles, and when we do go inside, we're surrounded by luxurious Argento-esque interiors.
The film impressively balances horror with comedy, and displays an almost childish sense of humour. There are fart noises and an excellent money-shot with some suntan lotion. Even the body horror is so extreme and unreal you can't take it entirely seriously.
Behind the creatures is special effects legend Screaming Mad George, and he draws deep on his surrealist influences to create grotesque bodies that sweat and bulge and meld together, distorting and stretching in fantastical ways.
Yuzna's inspiration came from werewolf films like John Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Joe Dante's The Howling (1981), and he worked with the effects team to create fleshy transformations using revolutionary plastics and synthetic flesh. Over thirty years later, a few parts may look a little ropey, but on the whole it holds up and the creations are so extreme and utterly bizarre that it's always a fun, brilliant spectacle.
The film descends into absolute debauchery and nightmarish depravity but when things get wild, you can't tear your eyes away.
What makes Society great is that it's more than just extreme effects and '80s sheen. It's a film that looks at paranoia, gaslighting, teenage alienation, trust and family truths, elitism and corruption, and the horror of feeling unsafe in your own home. Yuzna wanted the film to ask: what's the line between what outwardly appears to be a respectable life and people's true desires? And in this, it's entirely successful.
The pace does slow towards the end – even Yuzna admits it's kind of clunky – but it's the moments that push boundaries that are important. Plus it ends with a finale you'll never forget. Society is an incredible film that needs to be seen to be believed.
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Faith Presbyterian is involved in many Community events.
Arts in the park is a yearly event in downtown Blue Ridge. Artists and vendors from the surrounding area bring arts and crafts for sale.
Fire and Ice is one of the first events of each year in downtown Blue Ridge. Vendors compete against one another for having the best tasting chili. Judges are the many visitors that come each year to this event.
Faith Presbyterian always has a booth giving out free food and water.


Red Berry/Cherry are identical as fas as we can make out. The trusses of fruit look the same and the taste/size are again so similar that we have decided they are one and the same cultivar.
Red Berry/Cherry is a lovely sweet cherry tomato. An early/mid ripening, indeterminate, regular leafed plant has trusses of up to 50 sweet tasting fruit mean that this is a prolific cropper with good spacing between the trusses which means there are only a few trusses on the plant. Usually one of the first tomatoes in our gardens. Compares well with other small cherry tomatoes such as Christmas Grapes and crops slightly earlier (just after Bloody Butcher which is usually first). A classic simple red cherry tomato and a good start to the tomato year.
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HomeNEWSSyed Adil becomes second Kashmiri to crack ISS exam
Syed Adil becomes second Kashmiri to crack ISS exam
J&K Student Alerts December 29, 2022 0
Credits parents, teachers for his success
Baramulla, Dec 29 : 26-year-old Syed Adil Zahoor from Hajibal village of Baramulla has become the second Kashmiri in the last three decades to crack the Indian Statistical Service (ISS) exam held by the UPSC.
Adil, currently serving in the Block Development Office Qaziabad as Accounts Assistant, has cracked the prestigious examination in his first attempt.
He told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that he is happy to crack this examination and gave credit for his success to his teachers at University of Kashmir and to his parents who guided and supported him.
"One must learn to overcome challenges and believe in himself besides follow dreams with dedication and hard work as these things are key to success in any field," he said.
Adil with Master's degree in statistics from University of Kashmir completed his secondary education at Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Baramulla before pursuing his bachelors in Arts from Government Degree College Boys in Baramulla and later joined boys college Baramulla.
"I qualified Junior Research Fellowship in 2020 followed by Accounts Assistant examination conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board in 2021," he said.
"I have faced many challenges in my life including the lack of access to mobile network, road connectivity besides financial issues as father is working in the private sector at a meagre salary", he added.
His father Zahoor Ahmad said that parents must encourage their children and support them to face challenges in their life. "They will definitely shine in their fields," he added.
The first Kashmiri who passed the ISS examination is Haji Altaf who is now holding the Deputy Director General position and cracked this exam around 3 decades ago—(KNO)


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Home Industry Insurance Abu Dhabi's Daman partners with NAS to enhance its insurance services
Abu Dhabi's Daman partners with NAS to enhance its insurance services
Tue, 26 Apr, 2022 By Arya M Nair, Intern Reporter
The National Health Insurance Company – Daman has signed a strategic partnership with NAS Administration Services (NAS), an Abu Dhabi-based leading insurance operations management and services company.
The strategic partnership comes as part of Daman's efforts to enhance its proposition and provide increased solutions to its existing and prospective customers in Dubai and other Emirates.
Hamad Al Mehyas
CEO – Daman
"Our partnership with NAS will contribute to realizing our strategy of enhancing the services and value we provide to our customers across the UAE while ensuring we continue to offer the best operational infrastructure to support our customers whatever their needs maybe."
"It is important to us that all our clients enjoy an exceptional experience when purchasing and using their Daman policy which is why we have chosen to partner with NAS. They have a track record of effective policy administration, and customer service and share with us a commitment to digital innovation as a means to continually improve customer experience," added Mr. Al Mehyas.
Mr. Umair Nizami, Chief Executive Officer of NAS Neuron Health Services, said that "We are pleased to partner with the UAE's leading health insurance company, Daman, in our mission to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for the citizens and residents of the UAE. Together, with Daman's capable team, we look forward to further enhancing patient experience, and increasing their peace of mind, by leveraging our exceptional talent and technology."
In 2021, ADQ signed a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining 20 percent ownership of Daman, from Germany-based Munich Re, one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance.
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