Albanian: Betohem se do t'i bindem Kushtetutës dhe ligjeve të vendit, do të respektoj të drejtat dhe liritë e shtetasve, do të mbroj pavarësinë e Republikës së Shqipërisë dhe do t'i shërbej interesit të përgjithshëm dhe përparimit të Popullit Shqiptar. Zoti më ndihmoftë!
English: I swear that I will obey to the Constitution and laws of the country, that I will respect the rights and freedoms of citizens, protect the independence of the Republic of Albania, and I will serve the general interest and the progress of the Albanian people. So help me God!
Indirect presidential elections were held in Albania on 20 and 27 June, 8, 11, 14, and 20 July, the sixth such elections since the collapse of the communist regime in 1991.
The President of Albania is elected through a secret vote and without debate by the Parliament of Albania by a majority of three-fifths majority of all its members. The Constitution of Albania sets a limit to a maximum of two terms in office. When this majority is not reached in the first round of voting, a second round takes place within seven days. If such a majority is still not reached, a third round must take place within a further period of seven days. If even in the first three rounds no candidate has attained the necessary majority, a further two rounds must be held within seven days, with the majority needed to win being reduced to an absolute majority (50% + 1 vote) vote of the total members of the Parliament. If after five rounds of voting no candidate has attained the necessary majority outlined for each round of voting in the Parliament, the Parliament will be dissolved and a general election must occur within 60 days.
Indirect presidential elections were held in Albania on 19, 20, 27 and 28 April 2017, the eighth such elections since the collapse of the communist regime in 1991. In the first through third round, no candidates were proposed and no vote took place in the Parliament of Albania. In the fourth round, the incumbent Chairperson and then-Prime Minister of Albania, Ilir Meta was elected as the eighth President of Albania with almost 87 votes.The Opposition of Albania did not take part in the election, due to the general boycott of the Parliament announced during the 2017 opposition protest.
The President of Albania is elected through a secret vote and without debate by the Parliament of Albania by a majority of three-fifths majority of all its members. The Constitution of Albania sets a limit to a maximum of two terms in office. When this majority is not reached in the first round of voting, a second round takes place within seven days. If such a majority is still not reached, a third round must take place within a further period of seven days. If even in the first three rounds no candidate has attained the necessary majority, a further two rounds must be held within seven days, with the majority needed to win being reduced to an absolute majority or 50% +1 vote of the total Members of the Parliament. If after five rounds of voting no candidate has attained the necessary majority outlined for each round of voting in the Parliament, the Parliament will be dissolved and a general election must occur within 60 days.
Alfred Spiro Moisiu (Albanian: [alˈfrɛd spi'rɔ ˈmɔisiu] (listen); born 1 December 1929) is a former Albanian general, diplomat and politician. He served as President of Albania from 2002 to 2007.
He is the eldest son of famed Albanian Army general, Spiro Moisiu.
Bamir Myrteza Topi (Albanian: [baˈmiɾ ˈtɔpi] (listen); born 24 April 1957) is an Albanian diplomat and politician. He served as President of Albania from 2007 to 2012.
Namely, Topi was also the honorary President of Albanian football club, KF Tirana from 2005 to 2007. In September 2012, Topi became the leader of the New Democratic Spirit party.
Bujar Nishani (Albanian pronunciation: [bujaɾ ni'ʃani]; born 29 September 1964) is an Albanian politician. He served as President of Albania from 24 July 2012 to 24 July 2017.
Before his election as President, Nishani held a number of governmental and diplomatic positions. Namely, he served as Minister of Justice from 2009 to 2011, and as the Minister of Internal Affairs from 2011 to 2012. The Parliament of Albania elected Nishani as President with a simple majority of 73 votes out of 140 members, without consensus from the opposition.
Civil awards and decorations of Albania are awards and decorations that have been bestowed in Albania since its declaration of independence in 1912.
The Albanian Commander of the Naval Force (Albanian: Komandant i Forcës Detare) is the leader of the country's navy. The Commander of the Naval Force is appointed by the President of Albania and serves under the Minister of Defence.The current commander, Major General Ylber Dogjani, was appointed on 13 October 2015. General Dogjani previously served as director of Albania's Military Intelligence Service, the SHIU.
The First Lady of Albania (Albanian: Zonja e Parë) is the unofficial title of the spouse of the sitting President of Albania.
Ilir Meta (Albanian pronunciation: [iliɾ mɛta]; born 24 March 1969) is an Albanian diplomat and politician who has been serving as President of Albania since 24 July 2017. Previously he served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2002, and at age 30 he is to date the youngest person to have been Prime Minister in Albanian history. Meta also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2003 and again from 2009 to 2010. He was Chairman of the Parliament of Albania from 2013 to 2017. Meta also held positions as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Trade, and Energy. Prior to that, he held the Chairmanship of the Parliamentary Commission of European Integration. Meta founded the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI) in 2004.
On 28 April 2017, he was elected as President of Albania, receiving 87 votes from the 140 Members of Parliament.
The Judiciary of Albania interprets and applies the law of Albania. Albania's judicial system is a civil law system divided between courts with regular civil and criminal jurisdiction and administrative courts. Albanian law is codified and based on the French law. It is governed by the High Council of Justice (Këshilli i Lartë i Drejtësisë), and its management is aided by the office of the President of Albania, the Ministry of Justice, and the various courts chairpersons.
The judiciary is defined under the Constitution (Kushtetuta) and Law with a hierarchical structure, with the Constitutional Court (Gjykata Kushtetuese) and the Supreme Court (Gjykata e Lartë) at the apex. The District Courts (Gjykatat e Rrethit Gjyqësor) are the primary trial courts, and the Courts of Appeal (Gjykatat e Apelit) are the primary appellate courts.
The judiciary faces many problems and a widespread lack of confidence but is making progress in recent times. There have been serious violations of the accepted separation of powers doctrine, systematic attempts to undermine trials, problems with access to justice, problems with court infrastructure and financial support, and corruption. But the 2016 Judicial System Reform aims to reform the system and bring upon a fairer and more efficient administration, a strengthening of the rule of law, the vetting and cleansing of the system of corrupt judges, etc.
The Order of Skanderbeg or the "George Kastrioti Skanderbeg" Order (Albanian: Urdhri "Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu") is a high honorary state decoration that is currently given in Albania to Albanian and foreign citizens that have made an important contribution to the defence, reinforcement and development of the Republic of Albania.The name refers to Skanderbeg, who is the national hero of the Albanian people. The Order of Skanderbeg is granted by the President of Albania. It should not be confused with the royal Order of Skanderbeg, which is a dynastic order bestowed by the Albanian royal family.
The Presidential Office (Albanian: Presidenca) houses the Office of the President of Albania and is the principal workplace of the President. It consists of the immediate staff of the president, as well as support staff reporting to the president. It is located in the capital city of Tirana.The Presidential Office Building was constructed at first to house the Embassy of the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of Albania, and served for that purpose until 1961, when the both countries ceased their diplomatic relations. The discovery of dynamite at the embassy in 1951, as part of an attempted bombing, led to a violent crackdown by the Government of Albania of the time.
Following the disintegration of the communist regime in Albania, the building was used for the purpose to house the Office of the President of Albania, having been used for this purpose uninterrupted up to this day.
The Presidential Palace (Albanian: Pallati presidencial), formerly the Royal Palace (Albanian: Pallati mbretëror) and popularly known as the Palace of Brigades (Albanian: Pallati i Brigadave), is the official residence of the president of Albania. The Palace was commissioned by King Zog I of Albania to serve as his main official residence.
In 1945, it ceased to serve as a royal residence because the monarchist regime was substituted by a Communist-ruled government. Since 1946, it has been used by the government of Albania for holding official ceremonies and state receptions. In 2013, the Palace became an official residence once again, when President Bujar Nishani and his family moved into a reconstructed villa inside the grounds of the Palace.Architecturally, the Palace belongs to a rationalism style. It is unique in its genre, not only in the country but in the wider sphere of fascist architecture, including in Italy itself. Its bas-reliefs were covered with drapes in the 1970s during the cultural revolution, but not destroyed. Nevertheless, the Palace as a whole is in dire need of restoration. A description of the then new (and unfinished) Royal Palace appeared in the issue of Life dated 22 May 1939.
Rexhep Qemal Meidani (listen ; born on 17 August 1944) is an Albanian physics professor, diplomat and politician. Meidani was the 3rd President of Albania to be elected after the first multi-party elections in 1991.
Sali Berisha , (Albanian pronunciation: [saˈli bɛˈɾiʃa]; born 15 October 1944) is an Albanian cardiologist and conservative politician who served as the second President of Albania from 1992 to 1997 and Prime Minister from 2005 to 2013. He was also the leader of the Democratic Party of Albania twice, from 1991 to 1992 and then again from 1997 to 2013. To date, Berisha is the longest-serving democratically elected leader and the only Prime Minister to serve two full terms since the end of Communism.
Skënder Gjinushi (born 24 December 1949 in Vlorë, Albania) is an Albanian politician. He graduated from the University of Tirana with a degree in Mathematics. He is the current leader of the Social Democratic Party of Albania. He has been a member of the Albanian Parliament since 1992 and since then some of his positions have included being the minister of education and Chairman of the Parliament of Albania from July 24, 1997 to September 4, 2001. For a few hours, he was the acting President of Albania on July 24, 1997.


Do you know how to use your Inner Guidance?
I am always reading… new and interesting things. I often say that I am a sponge!
The topics vary greatly! business to self help to metaphysical. I very much enjoy the emotional, physical, intellectual journey that I can take when reading.
I came across a very interesting book called "Inner Guidance Development". I definitely felt this good was for people that had newly decided to open themselves up to metaphysical "stuff".
card reading, numerology, meditation, out-of-body experiences, dowsing, Edgar Cayce, auras).
You might also choose to investigate various philosophies or religions such as Buddhism or Wicca.
Most people will find they have an interest in receiving readings.
wow wow… that so describes the reading I have been doing.
There is a lot of introductory information for someone starting down the learning path. Very simple to ready and to start your personal practice.
The area that was a big "aha" for me was the "Inner Guidance Sanctuary". I talk all the time about creating a sanctuary in the physical world, but I didn't realize the importance of creating one in the spiritual world. I have always had one, a beautiful meadow with wild flowers and a big oak three to seat under, I called it my "happy place". But more then just creating a place to "hide" from the physical world, your inner sanctuary needs to be a place for personal growth and guidance this is what struck home to me!
I thought that you might also enjoying reading this book. If you are new it is a great place to start, if you have been studying for awhile it is a nice refresher of the basics.


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Clinical predictors of depression treatment outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease
Robert M. Carney, Kenneth E. Freedland, Brian C. Steinmeyer, Eugene H. Rubin, Michael W. Rich
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Objectives Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) who respond to treatment for depression are at lower risk of mortality than are nonresponders. This study sought to determine whether variables that have been shown to predict both depression treatment outcomes in psychiatric patients and cardiac events in patients with CHD, also predict poor response to depression treatment in patients with CHD. Methods One hundred fifty-seven patients with stable CHD who met the DSM-IV criteria for a major depressive episode were treated with cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for 16 weeks, either alone or in combination with an antidepressant. Results The mean Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) score was 30.2 ± 8.5 at baseline and 8.5 ± 7.8 at 16 weeks. Over 50% of the participants were in remission (HAM-D-17 score ≤ 7) at the end of treatment. Of the hypothesized predictors, severe depression at baseline (p = 0.02), stressful life events during the first (p = 0.03) and last (p < 0.0001) 8 weeks of treatment, and the completion of CBT homework assignments (p = 0.001) predicted depression outcomes. History of prior episodes, anxiety symptoms, antidepressant therapy at study enrollment, and medical hospitalizations or emergency department visits during treatment did not predict treatment outcome. Conclusions Patients who are under considerable stress do not respond as well to evidence-based treatments for depression as do patients with less stress. If future studies support these findings, more work will be needed to better address stressful life events in patients who may otherwise remain at high risk for mortality and medical morbidity following depression treatment.
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Carney, R. M., Freedland, K. E., Steinmeyer, B. C., Rubin, E. H., & Rich, M. W. (2016). Clinical predictors of depression treatment outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 88, 36-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.07.011
Carney, Robert M. ; Freedland, Kenneth E. ; Steinmeyer, Brian C. ; Rubin, Eugene H. ; Rich, Michael W. / Clinical predictors of depression treatment outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease. In: Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2016 ; Vol. 88. pp. 36-41.
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I attended a very timely and informative luncheon last Friday thanks to the American Chamber of Commerce Singapore. The keynote was by 20-year consulting veteran Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, who is the author of "How Women Mean Business, A Step by Step Guide to Profiting from Gender Balances Business" and co-author of "Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution". Joining Avivah on the panel was Gwynne Master, Head of Banks for Asia Global Transaction Sales, Su-Yen Wong, senior partner and managing director of Mercer ASEAN, and Michael Zink, Country Head and Country Officer for Citi Singapore where they talked about how corporations need to get serious about women in business to be profitable, particularly in Asia.
Entitled "Pyramids to Pomegranates", Avivah spoke about how women excel in today's corporations that are highly matrixed because of our innate ability to make meaningful networks and collaborate more so than men who traditionally command as individual leaders.
She shared compelling stats that demonstrated that companies need to take women in leadership positions and their development seriously, and that companies need to spend more time and put more focus on selling to women, because we are officially a majority, NOT a minority in the marketplace. And that's not just in terms of population, but as part of the educated workforce (60%), a majority of consumers (80%) that spend a whopping US$13 trillion, more than China and India's GDP combined, making women a true force to be reckoned with.
One of the most resonating points for me was how for women to really be heard and make a difference we need to leverage women networks outside our businesses, not just inside. I see a massive opportunity to help build these networks for female entrepreneurs across Asia Pacific & Japan where today's companies are not yet considering women in their advertising, marketing and public relations.
In the US, you can see this change already happening as some companies are embracing women customers – these include Buick, Jack Daniels and Wells Fargo – who are all doing smart campaigns for female professionals. It's time for companies to take Asian women as seriously by engaging them on their own turf through targeted campaigns.
To find out more about how women stack up, stats-wise, check out the World Economic Forum's Gender report.


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Dr. John Paulson is the new partner and full time veterinarian of Value Pet Clinic in Shoreline.
Over the past 20 years as a veterinarian he built a very successful practice in Silverdale, Washington, with an interest in orthopedic surgery, soft tissue surgery, and preventive care.
I am delighted to bring this experience and high level of client service to Shoreline and look forward to earning your trust in providing individualized and compassionate care for your cherished pets. As your veterinarian I am committed to always working hard for good outcomes and providing honest medical explanation.
The clinic is evolving into a full-service neighborhood veterinary practice and the name will become Shoreline Central Animal Hospital.
But rest assured! Despite the name change, our hospital will continue to deliver the same quality of medical care and economic VALUE you have grown accustomed to.
In 2019 services will be expanded to improve the delivery of high quality veterinary care.
Dr. Paulson says, Thank you again for entrusting us with the care of your cherished pets and look forward to meeting you in person. I hope you will give us the opportunity to earn or re-earn your trust.


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Mike Brocken became one of the first few Doctoral students to emerge in the 1990s, from the University of Liverpool's Institute of Popular Music. He has spent more than a quarter of a century teaching, supervising, and external examining the academic study of popular music. Whilst at Liverpool Hope University he created and taught the world's first (and thus far only) MA degree concerning the Beatles: The Beatles, Popular Music and Society.
During this time, he was also able to re-launch one of Liverpool's oldest independent labels (Mayfield) and to begin a radio career on BBC Radio Merseyside. After initially leaving the BBC in 2007, Mike was invited to return in 2014 to present their flagship programme Folkscene: the longest-running specialist music show in British broadcasting history (which he continues to do to this day). As a member of the BBC Radio Merseyside team he was awarded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2017.
Dr Brocken has been published widely on a variety of popular music topics, ranging from the British folk revival to biographies of Burt Bacharach and Joe Flannery to Beatles tourism in Liverpool; however he is perhaps best known for his ground-breaking book concerning previously 'hidden' popular music scenes in post-WWII Liverpool: Other Voices (Ashgate, Routledge). His latest text (co-written with Jeff Daniels, 2018) concerns another of Liverpool's 'partially hidden' histories: that of Black Liverpudlian jazz pioneer Gordon Stretton (Lexington Press).
A Liverpudlian by birth, Mike is married to Chris and lives in Prestatyn, North Wales.
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Following the mid-1990s publication of my MA thesis concerning cover versions played and recorded by the Beatles (a small independent monograph published as a limited edition with the assistance of Natasha Gay at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool) and its later re-publication in the US academic journal Popular Music & Society, I tended to follow two particular research strands of interest, one of which was related to my doctoral studies: the varying histories of UK folk and traditional music scenes, and the other (the one which led to the aforementioned MA dissertation) partially-hidden histories of popular music in Liverpool. By the turn of the century I was pleased to discover that my interests were shared, not only by other popular music academics but also by leading academic editors for UK publishing houses.
For example, soon after conferment of my PhD in 1998 I was approached by Professor Ian Inglis for a piece concerning the gay Liverpool popular music entrepreneur Joe Flannery for Ian's Beatles reader The Beatles, Popular Music & Society to be published by MacMillan. Professor Michael Talbot requested a chapter concerning the British folk music media and industry for his edited volume for Liverpool University Press: The Business of Music, and Heidi Bishop of Ashgate Books asked me for an entire volume based upon my PhD research of the British Folk Revival. In the latter case, I had already allowed parts of the PhD to be electronically 'published' by Rod Stradling's Musical Traditions website, but Rod kindly removed the work from the site so that editing and publishing with Ashgate might begin.
By early 2003 Ashgate had published The British Folk Revival. This text appeared the same year as my work for Chrome Dreams concerning the life and times of one of my musical heroes Burt Bacharach: effectively the first biography of Burt ever to be published. Both texts received mostly positive reviews, and both sold quite well (indeed, I think the Ashgate volume has remained in print ever since – although it is now in serious need of an update!).
Certain elements of my PhD were edited out of the Ashgate volume because it was an extremely long thesis and chapters had to be merged for publication. I had also included the world's first discography of Topic Records and Heidi informed me that they wanted this to be included in the published text – an early experience for me of hard editing and the peer review process. Frustratingly, although paper copies do still exist of the original thesis (for example, I have two), electronic copies do not (even if they had, they would exist on floppy disk).
So, following what was for me quite a momentous year, self-confidence grew, and my two primary research strands continued. From 2004 to the present day I have continued to write from within these chosen spheres of research concerning:
a. The city of Liverpool's odd relationship with popular music (e.g. the sounds of slavery, hidden popular music scenes from pre-and post-WWII Liverpool, Joe Flannery, Percy Phillips, and most recently alongside Jeff Daniels, the Black Liverpudlian 'Jazzer' Gordon Stretton …
b. Folk and traditional music issues and figures such as Rolf Gardiner, the song 'Rock Island Line', folk broadcaster Geoff Speed's radio archive (since Geoff's sad passing in 2019 now in the hands of a sound archivist, I'm very pleased to say), Cliff Hall of the Spinners, and more recently gender issues within the British Folk Revival …
Additionally in more recent years I have also concerned myself with Liverpool's built environment and its relationship with popular music 'scenes', the, at times, tortuous history of Beatles tourism (which has helped to re-energise Liverpool socially and economically), together with an article or two concerning the Master of Arts degree programme 'The Beatles, Popular Music & Society', which I instigated, ran and taught with great success at Liverpool Hope University between 2007 and 2019, creating, in the process, almost 100 Masters graduates. I even found time to research the 'partly hidden' history of Liverpool City rugby league football club (which was great fun) and this work was published in 2008.
Throughout this long and (it is fair to say) prolific period of writing, certain chapters, essays, and reviews etc. did not, as suggested previously, make 'the final cut'. Therefore my friend and former colleague at Liverpool Hope University Ian Percy thought that it might be interesting to launch an 'Unpublished Brocken' section on his excellent website, a place where one might peruse, for example, a chapter that was not published owing to its subject matter not quite matching a 'parent' book's theme, or an article written for an online journal that might now be defunct; perhaps even a chapter from a short-run series, which has now sold-out and/or will not be re-published, etc.
Alongside Ian's superb music and the work from the other artists, academics and researchers mentioned on this site, perhaps we might offer further evidence that (as one of my texts was entitled) 'Other Voices' are always at work in and around the city of Liverpool.
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She Will Move Soon
Thanks to all readers who responded to my post about the gift card. All I would add is that if you did take advantage of the offer and don't get a followup on whether the lead was valid, let me know. You know where to find me. :-)
On June 10, my wife expressed a desire to talk. She said that a couple weeks prior, she had put down a waiting list deposit with the apartment complex she had been eyeing. Earlier that day, the office called her to let her know that a unit was coming up for move-in in August, and they needed an answer before the end of business on Wednesday. She said she wanted to say "yes" to the opening because she was tired of living in limbo.
We talked about the cost. The biggest issue I had was that the rent was about $25 more than what we currently pay for a mortgage. I said I was puzzled by her decision to move because of all the possessions in the house, most were things she wanted and bought. The room decor and paint were all her preferences, too. Of the two of us, I was the one who needed less space and could live on less.
She restated that she didn't want to have to deal with the upkeep up the house. She said she also wanted to move over that way so that she could be closer to both her old best friend and the preschool mom friends. Her old best friend just moved over to a newer subdivision on the far southeast side of town. Moving to that location would allow her to get the kids enrolled in the neighboring township's school system, and would ensure that her kids and her preschool moms friends' kids would be in the same school.
I said that I had recalculated the numbers for child support using the state's calculator website. With my current pay, her pay, me covering the kids health insurance, and her having a lion's share of the overnight stays, it came out to $275/week. The only number missing from that value was child care expenses. If I bumped up the number about $50/week and combined that with her own income, the rent would be right around 1/3 of her net pay.
She said she knew she was going to have to sacrifice on her own, but she said she refused to live in a bad apartment complex, and there weren't that many rentals over in the township. I asked whether she thought it was impossible for her to build a network of friends over here in the local township, and she said it had taken her three years to build the preschool mom friends' network, and she didn't want to have to start over.
During the conversation, she brought up the idea of cashing in the 401(k), something I have opposed consistently because of the penalties involved. She said we should use the money to pay off non-mortgage debt so that we have a clean slate. I said that we needed to talk to a financial counselor to figure out whether there is a better way to meet our goals.
She called the next day to tell them she was taking the apartment. In a way I feel relieved because the holding pattern we have been in is finally about to break, but I am also anxious on whether she can truly make both ends meet, not because she doesn't make enough, but rather because I don't fully believe she can discipline herself to do it.
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Q: Word embedding algorithms in terms of performance I'm trying to embed roughly 60 million phrases into a vector space, then calculate the cosine similarity between them. I've been using sklearn's CountVectorizer with a custom built tokenizer function that produces unigrams and bigrams. Turns out that to get meaningful representations, I have to allow for a tremendous number of columns, linear in the number of rows. This leads to incredibly sparse matrices and is killing performance. It wouldn't be so bad if there were only around 10,000 columns, which I think is pretty reasonable for word embeddings.
I'm thinking of trying to use Google's word2vec because I'm pretty sure it produces much lower dimensional and more dense embeddings. But before that, are there any other embeddings that might warrant a look at first? The key requirement would be being able to scale around 60 million phrases (rows).
I'm pretty new to the field of word embeddings so any advice would help.
I should also add that I'm already using singular value decomposition to improve performance.

A: There's been some work recently on dynamically assigning word2vec (skip gram) dimension using Boltzmann machines. Check out this paper:
"Infinite dimensional word embeddings" -Nalsnick, Ravi
The basic idea is to let your training set dictate the dimensionality of your word2vec model, which is penalized by a regularization term that's related to the dimension size.
The above paper does this for words, and I'd be curious to see how well this performs with phrases.


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10/16/18 Menendez or Hugin? Time to Choose.
1. Recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocate the US embassy there.
2. Change war strategy and defeat ISIS.
3. Give tax cuts to middle-class Americans.
4. Pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.
5. Reverse Obama's executive orders.
6. Stop over-regulation and jump-start the economy.
7. Draw North Korea to the table for talks and rein them in.
8. Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
9. Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
10. Impose a 10% repatriation tax to bring jobs back to America.
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After the live telecast of Survivor Philippines Palau Finale episode, we all stayed at GMA for the taping of Reunion Special that will serve as Survivor Philippines' closing telecast for the fans.
The Castway Banners together with the fans waiting for the taping of Reunion special.
Maya looking good on that dress while Shaun smiling on the camera while carrying his daughter.
Justine's Tita (center back) together with friends and other relatives.
Getting Cozy with Nanay Zita (Season 1).
Survivors now dressed to impress.
The valiant camera crew, still awake after a day of work.
Paolo while reading the script.
Lining up for the roll call.
Jef, Echo, Justine and Tara trying their best to fight getting sleepy.
Myka and Troy before taping a special segment.
Meeting the raketista - Charles.
And here are clips of the unused closing segment for the reunion special.
Watch the Reunion special tonight, November 15 in SNBO, only in GMA 7.


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Adrienne & Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat Announce They're Expecting Twin BOYS!
Like Tiny & T.I., Adrienne and Chris Bosh also had a big announcement on Christmas.
The couple announced the fact they were expecting twins in October.
They told PEOPLE that twins run in the family.
The couple are parents to 1-year old daughter Dylan Skye and 3-year old son Jackson.
Bosh has a 6-year old daughter Trinity with ex-girlfriend Allison Mathis, who the Boshes also parent.
Congrats on an impending Fuller House!


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March 5, 2019 • Censorship, Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent, Specialist Journalism • by Damian Radcliffe and Payton Bruni
Reporting On The Middle East: Three Things Journalists Need To Know
Being a journalist in – or reporting on – the Middle East brings with it many challenges. One key issue, for journalists and news consumers alike, is the relative lack of media freedom, and freedom of expression, in the region....
May 25, 2016 • Digital News, Short stories • by Caroline Lees
How Connectivity And YouTube Are Changing International Reporting
Internet connectivity, YouTube and amateur footage from citizen journalists have helped to create a new form of journalism that has enhanced international reporting, especially of the current conflict in Syria, according to Lindsey Hilsum,...
November 9, 2015 • Recent, Research • by EJO
Research: How Europe's Newspapers Reported The Migration Crisis
Western European newspapers became significantly more sympathetic towards migrants and refugees immediately after photographs of a drowned boy on a Turkish beach were published at the beginning of September, but within one week most had...
February 1, 2013 • Press Freedom • by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Under Scrutiny
"Reporters Without Borders" has once again published its annual Press Freedom Index. According to the ranking, Finland remains the global "front runner," followed by the Netherlands, Norway, and Luxembourg. In the European Union,...
December 11, 2012 • Press Freedom • by Philip Di Salvo
Internet Blackout:
Who Will Be the Next Syria?
Syrian officials recently shut down Internet access throughout the country for several days, a common tactic for nations attempting to inhibit internal and external communication. According to new research, sixty-one additional countries...
Lifestyle Journalism Dictates Consumption
Transitional Media, East Central Europe
What Happened to Headlines?
Paid News on Tablets? Not For Students
Hyperlocal Media in Albania


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Navrachana University Go Back
Navrachana University was established through the Gujarat Private Universities Act, 2009 with the intent to offer superior education that befits the high educational standards of the Navrachana Educational Society in Vadodara. The University has embarked on a new educational paradigm that lays simultaneous emphasis on disciplinary education, inter-disciplinary education, professional education and general education. This paradigm is facilitated by the University's unitary character and offers comprehensive learning and helps develop T-Shape students who have a breadth of knowledge though general and inter-disciplinary education and a depth of knowledge though focused disciplinary education.
There are five important aspects that direct the new educational paradigm at Navrachana University:
Professional education must prepare students with strong disciplinary insights needed to address the challenges confronting the professional community and inculcate a sense of lifelong learning to be successful and excel overtime.
Offer interdisciplinary education that cross-fertilize learning with new ideas from desperate disciplines so collision at the fringes raise appropriate questions and create innovation.
General education must inform students about the issues that arise in their lives, personally, professionally, and socially and help them to be reflective about their beliefs and choices, and their presuppositions and motivations.
Make the process of learning more effective through exposure into real working conditions by practically applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom.
Invite students to work on "messy", seemingly intractable problems through a focus on social entrepreneurship and address pressing problems in our immediate community. Disciplinary-specific entrepreneurship is being developed to create job creators who will create opportunities for themselves and for others.
Five schools make up the Navrachana University:
School of Liberal Studies and Education offers: BA(Journalism & Mass Communication), BEd., MSW and PhD.
School of Science offers: BSc., BSc-Data Science, BSc-MSc Integrated(Biomedical), MSc(Chemistry), and MSc(Life Science)
School of Environmental Design and Architecture offers: Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Design (Interior) and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture & Design.
School of Engineering and Technology offers: Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology)
School of Business and Law offers: BBA, BBA-LLB, BCA and MBA.
All Educational Programs follow modular, semester-wise curricula and allow taking courses that cut across program boundaries. The unitary character allows the University to innovate new educational and pedagogic models grounded in interdisciplinary thinking and capitalize on the shared infrastructural and educational resources to achieve a rich academic and life experience.
Navrachana Education Society
The Navrachana Education Society (NES) is a registered Charitable Trust established in 1965. It is headed by a Board of Trustees comprising of educationists, philanthropists and administrators. With more than 50 Years of Excellence in Education, the Society is acclaimed for its achievements – for having imparted through its Institutions, quality education for over five decades. Navrachana Education Society is professionally managed by an Executive Committee, vastly experienced in administration and modern-day education management.
Institutions of Navrachana Education Society
Navrachana School – Sama CBSE
Navrachana Vidyani Vidyalaya – Sama
Navrachana International School – Bhayali
Navprerna
Navkaushalya – Savitaben Amin Institute for Girls and Women
Eklavya Model Residential School (Vejalpur) – GSEB
Navrachana Sports Academy
Navrachana Language Academy
Navrachana University wins ASSOCHAM's Best Innovative University 2017 Award
On March 25, at the Global Industry & Academic Excellence Awards 2017 held at Ahmedabad, the Navrachana University bagged the Best Innovative University of the Year 2017 Award. The Awards ceremony was organized by ASSOCHAM India and GR Foundation, on the occasion of the International Conference on ICT for Intelligent Systems being organized in Ahmedabad. The Award was received by Smt. Tejal Amin, Chairperson, Navrachana Education Society, Prof. Abir Mullick, Provost, Navrachana University, and Shri Rajesh Talati, Registrar, Navrachana University. Established in 2009, the young Navrachana University has already made a mark for excellence in academics and innovation in teaching and learning processes.
Navrachana University bags No.3 position in Gujarat for 2019– EducationWorld
In June 2018, at the EW India Higher Education Rankings Awards 2018-19 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Palace Road, Bangalore, Navrachana University received the award for the being No.3 Private University in Gujarat.
This is the 4th consecutive year to get the 3rd Rank under Private Universities in Gujarat.
For the past six years, EducationWorld has been publishing its annual EW India Higher Education Rankings with Centre for Forecasting & Research(C fore) — the well-known Delhi-based market research and opinion polls agency. EW rank India's most high-profile higher education institutions on 11 parameters of education excellence — faculty competence, research & innovation, placement, industry interface etc. [NUV 3rd Best Private University in Gujarat by Education World]
Navrachana University ranked as the 3rd Best Private University in Gujarat by Education World. The Award was received by Dr. Nilay Yajnik, Provost, Navrachana University at Bangalore.
Navrachana University
Broad and encompassing education to help students gain appropriate knowledge.
Vasna Bhayli Road, Vadodara -391 410 Gujarat, India
Mon - Sat 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
nuv@nuv.ac.in
General Enquiry: 91-265-2617000, 100 Admission Enquiry: 91-9737071700, 01
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Is Mattern & Associates Coming to a Town Near You?
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CNN's Anderson Cooper Claims, Without Evidence, 'Other Networks' Are 'Promoting Civil War'
CNN host Anderson Cooper used the occasion of his little-watched program to insinuate that other networks — which generally means Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News — are "promoting" another "civil war" while they "relish the idea of the destruction of society," though as usual, his claims were long on hyperbole and short on substance.
"There's a lot of people, who throw around the term civil war, and some on podcasts seem to kind of relish the idea of the destruction of society," said Cooper. "The very people who are, kind, of promoting that here, on podcasts, right now — and other networks — who probably have not done service, and have not seen it for themselves."
Chatting with his pals in the Democratic Party, CNN's Anderson Cooper claims "other networks" aka Fox News "relish the idea of sparking another civil war. pic.twitter.com/i0z1cuJTdV
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 7, 2022
The host made his claims during a Thursday evening marathon program special, "January 6: One Year Later," which featured a conga line of Democratic elected officials including Reps. Jason Crow (Colo.) and Ruben Gallego (Arizona).
"You two … have seen what civil wars look like up close," Cooper said to Rep. Crow, a former Army Ranger who served three terms in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Gallego, who served as an infantryman with the U.S. Marines in Iraq. "You both have seen up close, through the window of a Humvee, and out on the streets, what happens when a society collapses."
The Daily Wire notes:
The host — whom CNN has increasingly tried to promote as its central anchor since the departure of its top-rated anchor, Chris Cuomo, last year — did not specify which television networks or podcasts "relish" or are "promoting" the taking up of arms to overthrow the U.S. government. A scan of the transcripts of Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News Network turns up no incitements to violently seize power in the U.S. Capitol, while showing many condemnations of politically motivated violence.
Yet Cooper forecast that these unnamed malefactors "will be swept up in [the forthcoming civil war] and destroyed, as well as everybody else. I mean, that is not anything anybody should even talk about, or wish, ever think about happening."
"Absolutely not," Gallego responded.
But neither he nor any of the other panelists pushed back on Cooper's unsubstantiated claims. And in fact, if anyone has been calling for violence over the past year or so, it's been Democrats:
— Then-Sen. Kamala Harris, when she was vying to become Joe Biden's running mate, called for protests and riots to continue during the summer and fall of 2020.
"They're not going to stop. They're not going to stop," she told him. "This is a movement, I'm telling you. They're not gonna stop. And everyone beware because they're not gonna stop. They're not gonna stop before Election Day and they're not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that. They're not gonna let up and they should not," she told late-night host Steven Colbert in June 2020 as entire city blocks were being destroyed, stores were being looted, and police officers attacked.
— Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) has, on several occasions, incited violence against the then-Trump administration and Republicans, as well as residents of Minneapolis ahead of what was a murder verdict in former police officer Derek Chauvin's trial.
Inciting Americans to attack others is the very definition of civil conflict, which can lead to outright war.
The Daily Wire noted further:
Despite the lack of specificity, Cooper spent much of this week warning CNN of an impending civil war. On Tuesday, he interviewed Barbara F. Walter of the University of California at San Diego and author of the forthcoming book "How Civil Wars Start: And How To Stop Them."
"In the civil wars you looked at, how do civil wars get started? And how close do you think is the United States?" he asked.
"Over the last five years, I've been watching what's happening here in my own country, and one of the things that I've seen is that these same factors are emerging here in the United States — and they're emerging at a surprisingly fast rate," she said.
"What factors are you talking about? What specifically do you look at?" Cooper asked. "What are the parallels?
"So, we don't look at individual cases," Walter noted further, saying that her research revolved entirely around a "predictive model" that is computer-generated.
She finally noted there is a loss of "democracy" and a rise in instability that occurs when societies "broke down along racial, ethnic and religious lines; formed political parties along those lines; and then tried to capture power, to exclude everyone else."
She didn't mention, however, the Democratic left's pushing of the highly divisive and racist Black Lives Matter and critical race theory narratives, both of which serve to balkanize Americans along those very lines.
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Finding just the right tiny planters for your succulents can be tough, so why not make some yourself? Our little pots have interesting faceted sides that add a touch of angular geometry to your décor.
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Aus Govt To Discuss Lifting COVID-19 Restrictions On May 8
By OMMCOM NEWS On May 1, 2020
Canberra: The Australian government is set to discuss and review of the first phase of removing the baseline COVID-19 restrictions on May 8, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.
The National Cabinet, which comprises the Prime Minister, state and territory leaders, was due to consider easing restrictions at a meeting later than that date, but Morrison said the meeting has been brought forward because of Australia's success in preventing the spread of COVID-19, reports Xinhua news agency.
"Australians have earned an early mark through the work that they have done," Morrison told reporters following a virtual National Cabinet meeting on Friday afternoon.
"That decision will now be made next Friday (May 8), and we'll be meeting twice over the course of the next week to ensure that we work through the many things that have to be resolved in order to make those decisions."
Leaders attending Friday's virtual meeting were briefed by the Treasury on economic impact that restrictions were having on Australia's economy.
"We need to restart our economy, we need to restart our society," Morrison said.
He said that Australia is currently on track to meet 11 of the 15 criteria for easing restrictions but urged Australians to continue downloading the government's COVIDSafe tracing app.
More than 3.5 million people have downloaded the app since it was launched on Sunday evening but the health department has previously said that in order for it to be effective at least 10 million people should install it.
"There are currently over three and a half million downloads and registrations, of the COVIDSafe app, but there needs to be millions more. The coronavirus is still out there. Our numbers may be low but it's still out there."
So far, some restrictions were being lifted on a state-by-state basis rather than nationally.
Northern Territory (NT) Chief Minister Michael Gunner on Thursday revealed the plan to lift most restrictions in the NT, which has had only 27 confirmed cases of COVID-19, by June 5.
Steven Marshall, premier of South Australia (SA), on Thursday night followed by committing to a significant easing of restrictions within three weeks.
SA has had nine consecutive days without a new confirmed case of the virus and Marshall said that the state could return to normal life as early as May 21.
Brendan Murphy, Australia's chief medical officer, confirmed on Friday afternoon that more than 570,000 tests have been conducted nationally.
He said that health authorities will soon begin sample testing the public in an attempt to identify asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19.
As on Friday, there were 6,762 confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia, with 92 deaths.
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Thanks to community engagement and design planning completed in partnership with The Trust for Public Land, the playground is fast on its way, with expected completion in summer 2019.
Charlotte's Blueberry Park has long been a popular spot for picking blueberries, but residents have expressed hope for a children's play area to make the park more inviting.
Thanks to community engagement and design planning completed in partnership with The Trust for Public Land, the playground is fast on its way, with expected completion in summer 2019. The playground, situated next to a community garden that Metro Parks recently installed, will have slides, a small climbing structure, balance beams, music play and more. An elevated lookout will let children see over the blueberry bushes. Subdued colors will help the play area blend in with its surroundings. This project was possible thanks to a generous grant from Kaiser Permanente.
The 20-acre park, named after longtime advocate Charlotte Valbert, was Berg's Blueberry Farm from 1952 to 1968. Today it includes more than 3,000 bushes representing five varieties of blueberries, all free for the picking by any visitors. The park serves more than 3,600 residents within a 10-minute walk, including more than 900 children.
Learn more about the park, and learn how to volunteer to take care of it online at www.metroparkstacoma.org/charlottes-blueberry-park.


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Setting — and Achieving — Financial Goals
Ben Steverman, BusinessWeek, September 4, 2007
A/dropcap]fter age 45, many folks get serious about saving and investing as big-ticket items, such as retirement and tuition, loom ahead. But, as we live our busy lives, it can be tough to find time to ask ourselves a vital question: What do we really want to do with our hard-earned wealth?
Retire early? Renovate the kitchen? Put the kids through school? Buy that vacation home?
All of the above if you're lucky. But for most of us, the money is limited, so we must set priorities. We asked financial planners for wise advice on how to set goals, and, most important, how to stick with them.
Setting the Right Goals for You
The first step, advisers say, is to figure out just what you want from your money. This is more difficult than you might think. "Most people will say, 'I want to retire as soon as possible,'" says Steven Medland, a partner with TABR Capital Management in Orange County, Calif. But, "they haven't really thought about what that means." Depending on your goals, retirement can mean anything from the quiet, simple life to expensive world travels to a second or third career.
Michael Franks, a financial adviser at Hogan Financial Management in Milwaukee, sometimes asks his clients a lot of "why" questions, like "an inquisitive toddler." It's an exercise designed to find out what really is motivating them. Why do you want to retire early? Perhaps you want to retire not because you want to spend all day on the golf course, but because you hate your current job. "It's not that you want to retire early," Franks says. "You just want to do something different."
Setting the right goals is crucial. Medland has met clients who retired in their 50s only to decide they felt unfulfilled. "They have enough money, but they're not happy," he says.
Once you know your own goals, don't forget to discuss them with the people closest to you. Especially your spouse. A couple might "think they're on the same page, but until they verbalize it, they might not realize they have different priorities," Medland says. If both members of a couple aren't getting what they want, it can cause big problems for spending and saving. "Whoever opens the credit-card statement sees the things they didn't buy first," says Indianapolis-based financial planner Susan Elser.
Examining Your Spending Habits
Putting together a spending wish list can be fun, but it's also important to distinguish pie-in-the-sky daydreams from what's actually possible for you.
First, figure out how much you can reasonably save for your goals. It may be more than you think. Elser recommends calculating exactly where your money is going. "A lot of what fills people's budgets is unintentional," she says. People can make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and spend it all without really noticing where it's going. They eat out, go on nice vacations, and buy gifts, housekeeping services, club memberships, new cars, and clothes.
"Clients are usually surprised at how much cash they waste each month on items that aren't accomplishing any of their top goals," she says. The key is deciding what you really want, vs. what you're merely used to having. Eliminating some or all of your unintentional purchases can free up money for real priorities.
Picking and Choosing
Second, make some calculations. Somehow — using a calculator, a software program, or a consultation with a financial planner — decide how much you can save and how much you'll need to accomplish your goals. You want to upgrade the kitchen, but are you willing to delay retirement to do that? "Make sure all the information is on the table," says Franks, of Hogan Financial Management.
A planner's job is to "tell (clients) their options and alternatives," says Mark Rylance, a financial planner at RS Crum in Newport, Calif. "If you really want this," he tells them, "this is what you have to do."
Sticking to the Plan
Once you spend some time thinking about what you want, how do you stay focused on your real priorities? Financial planners have several pieces of advice:
— Write it down. Simply putting your goals on paper is a first step. New Jersey-based planner Jeremy Portnoff recommends setting particular dates — month, day, and year — for each goal. "It makes a goal more tangible," he says. Other planners recommend setting financial policies, rules that you will follow if particular situations arise.
— Make it automatic. Rylance recommends setting up automatic payments that divert money from each paycheck toward particular goals. If saving for your goals comes off the top, you often learn to live on less. "They're tricking themselves to save," he says.
— Check on yourself. Regularly sit down and review, perhaps with a spouse or a planner, whether you're on track. Elser recommends a planning session like this four times a year.
— Get started. Sometimes people get discouraged by the immensity of their goals. So instead they do nothing. "At least start something," Rylance says. Even if it will only get you "halfway to the goal, start it."
— Reward yourself, but also think long-term. Frank Boucher, a financial planner in Reston, Va., recommends allocating funds to all your top goals, but aggressively funding the cheapest one first. Accomplishing your first goal will give you the psychological lift necessary to keep saving, he says. However, it's important not to sacrifice your long-term goals for short-term priorities. Just because a priority comes first chronologically doesn't mean it's more important to you. Don't neglect retirement planning because you want a new kitchen in a couple years. Boucher recommends focusing first on the fundamentals: Maintain an emergency fund and the right levels of insurance, stay out of credit-card debt, and save for retirement. After those goals are accomplished, feel free to dream.
"Within reason, we can attain all of our goals," Boucher says. "We just can't do them all at once."


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Chiddes is een gemeente in het Franse departement Nièvre (regio Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) en telt 329 inwoners (2009). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Château-Chinon (Ville).

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De oppervlakte van Chiddes bedraagt 25,3 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 12,6 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Over the next few days, weeks, months and years, a lot will be written about the life and times of Marion Barry, Jr., who passed away this morning in Washington, DC at the age of 78. As a native Washingtonian who grew up in the city and lived in the city as an adult, I am familiar with the politics in this town.
Many people will write and tell stories about Marion Barry. I met Marion Barry a couple of times at public functions. I did not know him, but I feel comfortable saying that Marion Barry was arguably the most powerful local politician of his generation. He arrived in this town in 1965 and made an immediate connection with the community. He was a community activist, he served on the School Board and later in life, he became a household name as the mayor of the most powerful city in the world. Barry had a high-profile personal life and his drug arrest which was captured on video showing him smoking crack cocaine gave him international notoriety.
I am fortunate to get invited to a variety of functions in this town. I was present at one of Marion Barry's last public appearances two months ago at Ben's Chili Bowl restaurant in downtown DC. Ben's was hosting a booking signing for Barry's recently published book, "Mayor for Life." I videotaped the former mayor addressing the crowd outside of Ben's. Barry was frail but his voice was strong. In recent years he suffered from a variety of health problems including diabetes, prostate cancer and kidney ailments. In the video below Marion Barry talked about his recovery from his health challenges, his love for the city of Washington and how you should live your life while here on earth.
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Christy Carlson Romano reveals struggles with depression, binge-drinking, self-harm
Former Disney star Christy Carlson Romano wants to "throw a wrench" at her "perfect" image.
The actress, who became a household name with her role as perfectionist Ren Stevens on Even Stevens, has opened up about her struggles with depression, self-harm, and binge-drinking in a moving essay for Teen Vogue.
"While many witnessed my costar Shia LaBeouf struggle publicly, I have largely suffered in silence," she writes. "I am not a victim, but I have never been perfect or pulled together as my reputation or the successes of my young adulthood might suggest. During a period of time in my life, I grappled with depression, drinking, and more, desperate to find fixes for how I felt."
Romano, who also voiced the titular animated heroine in Kim Possible and appeared in a slew of Disney Channel original movies, goes on to detail her experience as a child actor. "I became that precocious theater kid, a confusing mix of sheltered and overexposed to the public," Romano says. "While I was adept at change and very driven in my art form, I was delayed in some developmental milestones that one often has in their preteen years that adequately inform their early adulthood and help them make the right decisions during hard times."
She writes that "nothing could have prepared" her for "fame and the responsibilities that came with being on television screens everywhere," and eventually having a normal college life became her "greatest fantasy."
"I was told that leaving Hollywood right after Even Stevens would ruin my career," she says. "In retrospect, it probably did. But in my heart, I was running away from the responsibility of fame and toward a glamorized fantasy of adolescence."
However, college life was not what she thought it would be, and she eventually "ran from school and back into the arms of the New York theater community." This, too, didn't quite work out the way that she hoped. Romano says she was "highly criticized" for her youth, and as a result she worked even harder to prove herself.
"I became a bit harder-edged, binge-drank more at loud nightclubs, and started to accept the transient natures of love, sex, and friendship. Growing up, I entertained thousands of families only to feel completely lonely," she admits. "People were as replaceable as they had deemed me to be. Imposter syndrome had stiff competition against my self-hatred at that point.
"Then I began to flirt with other methods of self-destruction," she continues. "I tried to scratch my skin with my fingernail because I was too scared to use a knife. I chickened out and honestly felt like I had failed some important race to win the trophy for 'most tragic, beautiful girl.'"
The actress says it took 10 years of struggling with "all of my relationships, alcohol usage, and career path," but eventually she went back to school, where she met her husband in a screenwriting class. "It sounds super cheesy, but I rewrote the end of my script in that class when I fell in love," she explains. "In many ways, my husband's adolescent struggles were worse than mine and he ended up joining the military to find guidance. I had an empowering realization that famous people aren't unique."
Romano, who now has two daughters, says she is happy to share that she hasn't had a drink since before her first pregnancy, and she plans on continuing to abstain "so that I can continue to make clear-headed decisions that keep me on the right path." She adds that she feels in control of her career now, and is set to debut a new cooking series on YouTube titled Christy's Kitchen Throwback on June 27.
She concludes her essay with a bit of advice. "Anyone reading this, or anyone who decides to go into the entertainment business (including my daughters, should that time come), know this: having a clear understanding of your personal value helps to positively shape everything you do," she writes. "If you don't, if you aren't careful, you just might end up getting what everyone else wishes for but wondering what you want yourself."
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Q: How to start countdown for 8 hour in formula field after calculated Now ()-CreatedDate I am getting result after one minute  in formula field like this   0 Days 0 Hours -479 Minutes.
I need result like this    0 Days 7 Hours -59 Minutes.
This is my formula but it's not working properly
TEXT( FLOOR(Now() - CreatedDate))  & " Days " &TEXT(
ROUND(MOD((Now() - CreatedDate)*24,24),0) )  &" Hours " &
TEXT(ROUND(MOD((Now() - CreatedDate)*1440,60),0)-480
) &" Minutes "

Please if you have any solution thanks in advance.

A: I think this will work, put other boundary condition if that apply.
IF(FLOOR( (NOW()- CreatedDate)) > 0,TEXT( FLOOR( (NOW()- CreatedDate)) ) & " days ", "")
& TEXT(7 - FLOOR( MOD( (NOW()- CreatedDate)* 24, 24 ) ) ) & " hours "
& TEXT( 59 - ROUND( MOD( (NOW()- CreatedDate)* 24 * 60, 60 ), 0 ) ) & " minutes "

Created Date is : 7/2/2017 10:38 AM
Current Time is : 7/2/2017 2:53 PM
So, elapsed time is from Created Date: 4 hours and 15 minutes
Formula output: 3 hours 45 minutes

(All times are EST)


The Political Economy of the Provincial North, ed. By Greg Poelzer, Ken Coates and Heather Exner-Pirot (Submitted to UBC Press in 2013).
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"Tourism Shaped by War: The Unusual Evolution of Tourism in the Far Northwest of North America," in Richard Butler and Wantanee Suntikul, eds., Tourism and War (London: Routledge, 2012), with W.R. Morrison.
"The New North in Canadian History and Historiography," History Compass, no. 6 (2008). With William R. Morrison.
"Founding of the University of Northern British Columbia," The Northern Review, no. 27, 4/20 (Fall 2007).
The Road, Constructing the Alaska Highway (Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication, 2007). With Andrew Hunter and Catherine Crowston.
Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon Territory. (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishing, 1988). Second Edition (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005). With W.R. Morrison.
Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004). With W.R. Morrison.
An Apostle of the North: Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002). Revised Edition, with a substantial introduction. With W.R. Morrison.
"Border Crossings: The Boundary in the History and Historiography of the Pacific Northwest," in Ken Coates and John Findlay, eds., Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).
Northern Visions: The History and Historiography of the Canadian North (Broadview Press, 2001). With Kerry Abel.
The Canadian Encyclopedia (first and second editions), numerous articles on the Canadian North.
The Klondike Gold Rush in International Perspective (Whitehorse: Northern Review, 1999). With Colin Coates.
"Reading the North: CIHM and Human History North of 60," Facsimile no. 20 (November 1998).
"William Carpenter Bompas," in Michael Clarke, ed., Canada: Portraits of Faith (Chilliwack: Reel to Real Ministries, 1998).
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"Writing the North," in Sherrill Grace, ed., Essays in Canadian Writing (1997). With W.R. Morrison.
The Historiography of the Northern Provinces (Thunder Bay: Centre for Northern Studies, 1996). With W.R. Morrison.
"Upsetting the Rhythms: The Federal Government and the Evolution of Native Life in the Yukon Territory, 1945-1970," in Dacks and Coates, eds., Northern Communities: The Prospects for Empowerment (Edmonton: Boreal Institute, 1988). Reprinted in Ken Coates and Robin Fisher, eds., Out of the Background, 2nd Edition (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1996).
Robert Campbell (1808-1894), John Bell (1796-1868), and James Green Stewart (1825-1881), in Richard Davis, Lobsticks and Stone Cairns (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1996).
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"Preface," in Tappan Adney, The Klondike Stampede, reprinted edition (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1994).
Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defence Projects, 1942-1946 (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1994). With W.R. Morrison.
"Soldier-Workers: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942-1946,"Pacific Historical Review, 1993. With W.R. Morrison.
"The Army of Occupation: Americans in the Canadian Northwest During World War II," Journal of the West, Vol. 32, no. 4 (October 1993). With W.R. Morrison.
The Alaska Highway in World War II: The U.S. Army of Occupation in Canada's Northwest. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), also published in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992). With W.R. Morrison.
"Controlling the Army of Occupation: Law Enforcement and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942-1946," Law For The Elephant, Law For The Beaver: Essays in the Legal History of the North American West (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1992). With W.R. Morrison.
The Forgotten North: A History of Canada's Provincial Norths (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Publishers, 1992). With W.R. Morrison.
"The Integration and Reintegration of the Yukon River Basin: Reflections on the History of the Yukon-Alaska Boundary," Locus: An Historical Journal of Regional Perspectives (1992). With David McCrady and W.R. Morrison.
"Towards a Methodology of Disasters: The Case of the Princess Sophia," in Ray Browne et al., eds. Digging into Popular Culture: Theories and Methodologies in Archaeology, Anthropology and Other Fields (Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1991). With W.R. Morrison.
"Scientific Knowledge and Northern Megaprojects: the Role of Academics and Scientists in the Construction of the Alaska Highway and Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Projects," The Role of Circumpolar Universities in Northern Development (Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 1991). With W. R. Morrison.
The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down With Her (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990). Revised U.S. edition. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1991). With W.R. Morrison.
North to Alaska: Fifty Years in the World's Most Remarkable Highway (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1991).
For the Purposes of Dominion: Essays on Government and the Canadian North in Honour of Morris Zaslow (Toronto: Captus Press, 1989). With W.R. Morrison.
"On the Move: Reflections on the Impact of Non-Native Transciency on the Yukon Territory, in Arctic Institute of North America," Old Pathways and New Directions: Towards a Sustainable Future (Calgary: Arctic Institute of North America, 1989), pp. 1-14.
Interpreting the Canadian North: Selected Readings (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1989). With W.R. Morrison.
The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1985).
"The Civilian Highway: Public Works Canada and the Alaska Highway, 1964-83," in K. Coates, ed., The Alaska Highway (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1985).
"The Alaska Highway and the Indians of the Southern Yukon, 1942-50: A Study of Native Adaptation to Northern Development," in ibid.
Canada's Colonies: A History of the Yukon and Northwest Territories (Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 1985).


Ngabo, Gilbert. "Female-only hackathon to inspire girls in tech." Metro News. November 17, 2016.
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Jeffery, Meghan. "Meet Natalie Panek: Rocker Scientist and Advocate for Women in STEM." Women of Influence. October 13th, 2016.
Bach, Deborah. "Study Examines Why Some STEM Fields Have Fewer Women Than Others." Lab Manager. October 13th, 2016.
Rae, Kate. "Why girls need STEM and STEM needs girls." Today's Parent. October 3rd, 2016.
Pringle, Ramona. "Battling a culture of sexism: Why diversity is essential in the tech sector." CBC News. October 3rd, 2016.
Eisen, Hailey. "Aspiring Astronaut Natalie Panek on #WomenInSTEM." Women of Influence. September 6th, 2016.
Battersby, Sarah-Joyce. "'Women of NASA' Lego set proposal gains steam." Our Perth. August 4th, 2016.
Clancy, Claire. "Researchers use robotics to improve mobility for children with physical disabilities." Edmonton Journal. August 4th, 2016.
Sevunts, Levon. "Canadian Space Agency seeks more female applicants." Radio Canada International. July 27th, 2016.
Brunhuber, Kim. "E3 highlights surge in female game designers." CBC News. June 19th, 2016.
Dizikes, Peter. "Why Do Women Leave Engineering?" Lab Manager. June 15th, 2016.
"UBC's 'robot kindergarten' trains droids of the future." UBC News. May 26, 2016. Dr. Elizabeth Croft interviewed.
"Engineer yogi releases breath device." UBC News. May 25, 2016.
"For smarter teams, add diversity." The Globe and Mail, content from Engineering in Canada. May 19, 2016. Dr. Elizabeth Croft interviewed.
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Located in Barry County (north of Delton and southwest of Hastings), 530-acre Wall Lake is just a short 45-minute drive from Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, and just over an hour from its northwestern neighbor, Grand Rapids, making it the perfect slice of paradise nestled between some of West Michigan's finest destinations.
Many Wall Lake residents enjoy life on picturesque Beechwood Point, a peninsula that protrudes to the center of the lake, making its 5-mile shoreline home to over 300 gorgeous retreats. Whether you're part of the Wall Lake Yacht Club or even the Wall Lake "Ladies of the Lake" group, you'll feel fully-welcomed and right at home despite the large size of this 530-acre lake!