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Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez (left) and Maasin City Mayor Nacional Mercado (center) take their oath of office as newly- elected officers of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) in Malacañang Palace, August 6, 2019. (Contributed photo)
TACLOBAN CITY-Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez and Maasin City Mayor Nacional Mercado were elected as officers of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP).
Gomez was elected as public relations officer (PRO) while Mercado was named as the regional representative for Eastern Visayas (Region 8), serving seven cities in the region.
Both mayors are serving on their second terms.
Mercado said one of their concerns as city mayors is on how much internal revenue allocation (IRA) should local government units (LGUs) receive.
"We have to make resolutions or reconsiderations/appeal for national line agencies like to fast-track the implementation of the bigger share of IRA's from Supreme Court decision Mandanas vs Ochoa and other more concerns," said Mercado.
The Maasin city mayor added that the Department of Budget and Management should implement the high court's decision the soonest possible time.
In its decision, the High Court said that LGUs should get a bigger share from the IRA.
It also cited Article X, Section 6 of the Philippine Constitution, which provided three mandates: (1) the LGUs shall have a just share in the national taxes; (2) the just share shall be determined by law; and (3) the just share shall be automatically released to the LGUs.
President Rodrigo Duterte administered the mass oath-taking of the newly elected officers of the LCP, along with the Liga ng mga Barangay (LNB) at the Reception Hall of Malacañang Palace on August 6, 2019.
Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia was elected as the national president of the LCP. (RONALD O. REYES)
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Consolida scleroclada és una espècie que pertany a la família de les ranunculàcies.

Descripció
Consolida scleroclada és una planta herbàcia anual que fa entre de 30 a 50 cm, generalment adpresa i canescent, de vegades amb una mica de pèls glandulars grocs, estesos, o glabres, sovint rígidament ramificat. Les seves fulles són laciniades lineals i lanceolades. Les seves flors són de color espígol. La seva corol·la està formada per cinc lòbuls, els lòbuls intermedis són àmpliament triangulars, aguts, lleugerament més curts en el lòbul superior, els lòbuls laterals són ovats, obtusos, separats dels lòbuls intermedis per un sinus estret, l'esperó és curt i l'àpex és circumvolucinadament involut. Els seus fol·licles són semiobovats, de 6-9 x 2-3 mm, arrodonits a l'àpex o subgibós, bruscament rostrat. Variable en l'angle de ramificació i en el gruix de les seves branques.

Es poden reconèixer dues variants a Turquia:
 Consolida scleroclada var. escleroclada: Tija puberosa amb pèls glandulars estesos, branques robustes i rígides.
 Consolida scleroclada var. rigida: Tiges adpreses i puberoses, glandulars, branques rígides o primes.

Distribució i hàbitat
Consolida scleroclada creix a Turquia, a l'oest de Síria i el desert sirià.

El seu període de floració és estre els mesos de juny i juliol.

Taxonomia
Consolida scleroclada va ser descrita per Rudolf Schrödinger i publicat a Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 27: 44, a l'any 1913.

Etimologia
Veure:Consolida

scleroclada: epítet
Sinonímia
 Delphinium sclerocladum Boiss.
 Delphinium anthoroideum var. sclerocladum (Boiss.) Boiss
 Aconitella scleroclada (Boiss.) Soják
 Aconitopsis scleroclada (Boiss.) Kem.-Nath.

Referències

Enllaços externs
Imatge de Consolida scleroclada

Scleroclada

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Can Context Extraction replace Sentiment Analysis?
Sentiment analysis is hard. Most of the systems on the market will clock anywhere around 55-65% for unseen data, even though they might be 85%+ accurate in their cross-validations.
At this juncture, it's important to realize that sentiment analysis is critical for any system monitoring customer reviews or social media posts. Hardly had the business world caught up with a sentence level sentiment analysis, we are now moving to aspect level sentiment analysis - more directed & granular, adding to the complexity. The question is this - can we do something to augment our sentiment analysis?
For the past few months, I have been using context and relationship extraction to augment sentiment analysis. I treat them as important meta-information to use either as learning features and/or augmented information for my customers.
To aid in extracting these information, I have created and modified own generic lexical parser, relationship extractor and a topic model. I take help of DBpedia API to extract entities.
Does context before sentiment make sense?
Ideally, the above sentence denotes a negative sentiment. While some APIs might identify it correctly, some may still end up tagging it neutral/positive. However, if you create a model to feed in your context, or at the very least provide them as additional information to the user (either as tooltips/export), this can augment sentiment analysis in a big way.
- Some topics will almost always have a negative sentiment.
- Troubled entities will generate negative news.
With the ferocity of new data being generated everyday, it's either not useful to always use standard datasets (like IMDb or polarity datasets) for training sentiment models, or too expensive to create your own training sets.
For some, these assumptions may seem naive - but it has worked in more than once for multiple NLP projects I worked on - either increasing model accuracy or being a validation layer for analysis. Intuitively, adding contextual information to your corpus makes sense.
I would be very interested to know your thoughts on my assumptions and overall process flow. Context Analysis can augment, if not replace, sentiment analysis.
Would you have a worked out example to share?
I agree with you. But I try to find higher level conceptual categories that can guide my sentiment analysis and generate positive, neutral, of negative rankings based on the relationships among concepts. How do I find these concepts? The old fashioned way. And a way overlooked in today's frenetic rush to data mining and supervised learning.
I couple my sentiment analysis to the Roget's thesaurus. There is a free 1911 version although you have to write your own parser (not an easy task). Even the 1911 version contains a huge set of concepts, sub-concepts and super-concepts. Then you can let a client's SME group extend the thesaurus. By combining a thesaurus with sentiment analysis it is possible to compare tokens in the NLP tree parse to higher semantic concepts. Hence you can let the syntax and grammar graph use the thesaurus to automatically generate topics and semantic concepts with a wider and often more "intuitive" coverage.
I fail to see how your example sentence "ideally denotes a negative sentiment." In the context of tactical or strategic military readiness it denotes a positive sentiment. The mere fact that the topic is war does not make it a negative sentiment. In any case, a broader and less biased or emotionally charged classification might be military, homeland security, defense posture, preparedness, etc.
In my experience in building a wide spectrum of sentiment analysis systems in areas such as politics, sports, energy, and target marketing I have yet to find topics that almost always have a negative sentiment. Even "he killed the man with two shots to the head" can be a positive sentiment if the shooter was saving the lives of his family, if a soldier killed a suicide bomber, if a kidnapper was about to kill a hostage. This is a violent action, to be sure, but the sentiment, in terms of the contextual objective function, can be positive.
Thanks for your comment Earl.
What you pointed out is exactly my point - Sentiment Analysis is too subjective and fraught with bias for it to be deadly accurate on unseen data - everyone has an individual view. For example, AlchemyAPI, TextBlob and my model pointed tagged it as negative, positive and negative respectively.
Ideally, I use these additional features as feature inputs for my model, to reduce errors and take 'external' help to arrive at a sentiment. Topic classification is a different problem altogether, you can define broad/granular categories, provided you have enough training data to validate a model.


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David Raby writes: Ending corruption and impunity is central to AMLO's "4T" Transformation of Mexico, and he has set a clear example from the beginning, insisting that "You clean out corruption as you sweep the stairs: starting from the top". Halving his own presidential salary and those of his entire ministerial team, and urging all high-ranking public officials to do the same, was just the beginning of an ongoing crusade against greed and privilege.
In the same vein he has insisted that no-one is above the law, and not only did he succeed in getting legal approval for a public vote on possible prosecution of corrupt ex-presidents, he has now persuaded a reluctant legislature to pass a constitutional reform eliminating immunity from prosecution for sitting presidents, starting with himself.
AMLO has repeatedly proclaimed his respect for the autonomy of the justice system, starting at the top with the appointment of a highly respected independent legal expert, Alejandro Gertz Manero, as Fiscal General (Attorney-General). But prosecutions for financial and administrative wrongdoing or human rights violations are complex and time-consuming, and many Mexicans are naturally impatient to see results. Moreover, the entire justice system – like the public administration as a whole – needs reform. It is as the President says rather like "pushing an elephant".
Also crucial to the Transformation project is insistence on sovereignty and self-determination for all nations: a key principle of foreign policy with support for progressive governments in Latin America, and above all in the defence of Mexico's own sovereignty and freedom from interference.
AMLO and his Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard have sought to cultivate cooperative but sovereign relations in all fields, including justice, with the US (and other relevant partners such as Canada and Spain). It is not surprising that some of the most important suspects wanted on charges of corruption in previous Mexican administrations have been arrested abroad: Genaro García Luna (ex-president Calderón's head of public security) in New York, Emilio Lozoya (head of PEMEX under ex-president Enrique Peña Nieto) in Spain, and César Duarte (former Governor of Chihuahua) in Florida. But both García Luna and Duarte are US residents and therefore subject to both US and Mexican jurisdiction, while Lozoya was arrested via Interpol on a Mexican warrant and subsequently extradited back to Mexico.
The Cienfuegos Case
Much more controversial, and sensitive for Mexico, was the arrest on October 15th at Los Angeles airport of General (retired) Salvador Cienfuegos, former head of the Mexican army, on narcotics charges. Cienfuegos is not a US resident and apparently has no financial interests there, and arrived with his family as a tourist when he was suddenly arrested.
The initial reaction of many – including quite a few supporters of AMLO and the 4T Transformation – was to assume that the General was guilty and that the Mexican Government would accept the situation. They could not have been more mistaken.
There was no immediate public comment from the Mexican authorities, but in private they immediately expressed to the US Ambassador their discontent at the lack of prior consultation. Then on October 28th Mexico sent a diplomatic note on the subject, and two days later they received a communication from the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) with a 732-page file of legal documents.
Foreign Secretary Ebrard had a further conversation with US Attorney-General William Barr, and in mid-November there was a joint declaration reaffirming existing arrangements on judicial cooperation. On November 18th a US judge in New York (where the General had been taken under custody) agreed to drop charges in order for the accused to be transferred to Mexico for further investigation and possible trial in his own country.
There was of course speculation on both sides of the border that AMLO might be giving in to pressure from the Mexican military and abandoning his pledge to end impunity. But both the President and Ebrard were emphatic in saying that no-one, including the General, is above the law, and that criminal investigation of individual officers does not affect civil-military relations as a whole or the importance of the Armed Forces for the Transformation project. The Mexican Fiscal General will now take charge of the investigation.
The ramifications of this are profound. More than ever, Mexico is proclaiming its judicial sovereignty, and it has scored a notable victory in persuading the US to back down. It would be ingenuous to assume that US prosecutions of Mexican officials, even when based on sound legal grounds as in the García Luna case, have an altruistic motivation.
It is remarkable that the 732-page DEA file on Cienfuegos goes all the way back to 2013, yet no action was taken until now. As pointed out in a trenchant article by John M Ackerman, "Espionage by US authorities against Cienfuegos since 2013 was never intended to struggle against corruption or combat drug trafficking. These two issues are of no concern to the US so long as foreign governments maintain blind obedience to Washington."1 Rather such intelligence gathering would be aimed at obtaining compromising information with which to blackmail Mexico.
Ackerman points out that the US could have taken action against Cienfuegos during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto who was his boss, but they had no interest in doing so given the corrupt servility of the PRI President to Washington. The decision to arrest the General this year, without any prior warning, was surely aimed at reasserting control over Mexico now that AMLO is taking measures to reclaim sovereignty.
Indeed, the issue of sovereignty has been made very explicit, not only in the successful Mexican demand for the return of Cienfuegos but in other declarations by Ebrard. In response to a journalist's question about the possible presence of DEA officers in Mexico, the Foreign Secretary declared that any US agent must respect Mexican law and could not therefore bear arms.2 This is being followed up by a legislative proposal in the Mexican Congress to regulate the activities of all foreign agents, which has already prompted a critical response from US Attorney-General William Barr who says it will "make cooperation more difficult" and favour organised crime.3 The chequered role of the DEA and other US agencies in favouring organised crime when it suits them, going back at least to the Iran-Contra affair, is not of course considered by Barr.
Domestic Justice Reform
Domestically also AMLO's quest for justice continues to advance despite many obstacles. Mexican Attorney-General Gertz Manero has now formalised a case against Calderón's Security Chief García Luna and a request for his extradition has been filed with US authorities, in another indication of Mexico's determination to take responsibility for its own dirty linen.
Most important, a Constitutional Reform of the Federal Justice System has just been approved by both houses of the Mexican Congress.4 The product of two years' work, it was prepared by justice department officials and then accepted by AMLO who of course had expressed his desire for such a reform ever since his inauguration (or before). Respecting judicial autonomy as far as possible (always a fine line to tread), the President did not interfere in the process other than to indicate that it must promote impartiality and professionalism, combat corruption and nepotism and guarantee equal access to justice.
Arturo Zaldívar, President of the Supreme Court, indicates that the reform will place human rights at the centre of all judicial decisions. The judicial career will be professionalised as never before: all judges must have attended a reformed Judicial College and be appointed by public examination (oposición), and not by politicians as often used to happen. There must also be gender parity in the profession.
Similar measures will improve the legal aid system; in Zaldívar's words "We will reach all corners of the country to provide legal defence and advice of the highest quality to the marginalised, the poor and abandoned so that the poorest will not be the only ones who lose in the justice system."
These are noble words; the hard task will be to put them into practice. It will take time and determination, but certainly the new system of judicial training and appointments should make a real difference.
In the meantime AMLO's commitment to justice is constantly demonstrated by specific decisions announced in his morning press conferences. November 25th was the International Day to Combat Violence Against Women, and AMLO brought along several women directors of relevant programmes to report directly to the public. Leading the team was Home Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero who spoke passionately about efforts to combat femicide and domestic abuse.5 She also pointed out the need to overcome corruption, bureaucratic inertia and legal obscurantism in the justice system: far too many judges relied on legal technicalities which only served to prevent authentic justice.
AMLO declared his agreement with this: the much-proclaimed "Rule of Law" should not mean just formal legality but the "Rule of Justice". He has taken a clear stand on a number of individual cases of flagrant injustice which have been brought to his attention. A particularly moving case is that of a young man in Sinaloa framed by corrupt authorities on drugs and illegal weapons charges, and jailed for years despite new evidence in his favour and confirmation that he had been tortured; the case was brought to the press conference on December 10th (Human Rights Day) by his mother, a local journalist, who was at her wits' end. AMLO declared he would immediately grant a pardon if he could; the very next day the young man was released, and the mother, overcome with emotion, came to thank the President.6
Of course such individual decisions do not change the system, and most aggrieved parties cannot get to the press conferences. But there are signs that attitudes are changing in the justice system and the entire public administration. As well as the judicial reform already mentioned, there are several initiatives in other departments that have legal and judicial implications. For example, the Fiscal Investigations Unit (UIF by its Spanish initials) of the Finance Ministry, under its outstanding Director Santiago Nieto, has been working tirelessly to expose financial wrongdoing and has greatly increased the number of bank accounts blocked or suspended for fraud or money-laundering;7 it works closely with the Fiscalía to bring prosecutions. Similarly the Secretary of Public Administration, Irma Eréndira Sandoval, has been working with great diligence to uncover malpractice by civil servants and refer them to the justice system.
AMLO constantly announces decisions which help to "push the elephant" of government in the right direction. Thus on December 7th he announced the appointment of women to five key positions: Economy Minister, Head of the Bank of Mexico, Federal Treasurer, Director of the National Statistical Office and Director of Merchant Marine.8 The wheels of justice, and of public administration, may move slowly, but they are moving, and if AMLO can really change the justice system his Transformation will indeed be a success. Moreover real justice, and real transformation, can only achieved if the country can demonstrate its sovereignty and independence. Relations with the "Colossus of the North" must be based on mutual acceptance and respect.
A History Fraught with Conflict
Mexico's relationship with the US has been problematic ever since independence in the early 19th century and the war of 1846-48 which deprived it of more than half its territory, from Texas to California and including several other states. A pattern of intimidation and actual military invasion continued down to the early 20th century and contributed to a deep-rooted Mexican distrust, even if good relations prevailed at times.
Recent weeks have witnessed two significant anniversaries: November 20th marked 110 years since the formal beginning of the great Mexican revolution, and December 1st saw the completion of two years since AMLO's inauguration. Although celebrations were low-key due to Covid-19 restrictions, the President emphasised his achievements in office and also made clear the importance of the revolution for Mexico and Latin America.
AMLO claims that the essential foundations of his 4T Transformation have now been laid. With an impressive array of social programmes based on the principle "For the Good of All, First the Poor", with a reassertion of the role of the state and the public sector, with the principle of official modesty and frugality (Austeridad Republicana), with a systematic campaign to end corruption and impunity, with investment in a wide range of public works and an independent foreign policy based on national sovereignty and respect for the self-determination of all nations, the achievements are remarkable. Much remains to be done, but AMLO's impact is clear if only from the growing hysteria of the opposition and the hostility of the media, both national and international.
As for the 1910-20 Mexican revolution, even in Latin America it is little understood, partly because it occurred well before the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions or the Chilean Popular Unity, let alone Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and other more recent upheavals. Also the lack of a vanguard party or socialist programme has led to a certain condescension on the part of the orthodox left (who ought to know better since neither Cuba, Nicaragua nor Venezuela followed the prescribed rulebook). But the Mexican revolutionary forces led by Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Villa, Alvaro Obregón and others numbered in the tens of thousands and were "the greatest popular armies in the history of Latin America, bearing dreams and injustices and transformation with their actions"9 The result also, while lacking in a number of ways, was a profound renewal of the second most populous country in the region.
The 1910 uprising brought to an end the 34-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, one of the first and greatest examples of neocolonial exploitation of a formally independent nation (since most of Africa and Asia were then actual colonies of European powers). Under Díaz foreign capital – primarily from the US and Britain – took control of mines and plantations on a huge scale and built railways to ship out the products. Indigenous communities lost more land than even in colonial times, rural workers were subjected to debt slavery and urban workers in mines, railways and factories were denied all rights and repressed by force.
A call to arms by a wealthy democratic idealist, Francisco I Madero, would lead to successful mass revolt, and despite much factional conflict and bloodshed Mexico achieved a new progressive Constitution in 1917. The following decades would bring a vast agrarian reform (the first in Latin America), a rural public education programme (also without precedent in the region), an advanced labour code and the 1938 oil nationalisation (described at the time as Mexico's second independence).
AMLO has repeatedly referred to the Porfiriato – the 34-year Díaz dictatorship – as a precedent for the 36 years of neoliberalism that preceded his own victory in 2018. The corruption, the inequality and the sellout to foreign interests were indeed very similar. US interests were predominant in financing the Díaz regime, and when in 1913 Mexican conservatives organised a brutal coup against the democratic President Madero, US Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson was directly involved in the coup, something of which AMLO has reminded his audience on several occasions.
After this, US intervention in the armed conflicts of the revolution was limited and in no way decisive: they occupied the port of Veracruz for six months in 1914 (paradoxically tending to favour the revolutionaries fighting the coup regime), and in 1916 General Pershing led a futile punitive expedition chasing around the mountains of Chihuahua in retaliation for a raid on a US border town by Pancho Villa.
Washington refrained from further intervention, and the reforming Mexican governments of the 1920s and 1930s were able to negotiate differences without conflict. A key factor in this was that the major socialising reforms (land redistribution, support for labour and the oil expropriation) carried out by the great President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) coincided with the administration of Franklin D Roosevelt with his New Deal and Good Neighbor Policy. FDR was without doubt the most progressive US President of the 20th century and was also preoccupied with the rise of fascism in Europe. Again, AMLO has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Cárdenas, "the president who showed most love for the common people".
It is no accident that from the 1940s onwards the post-revolutionary Mexican regime became more conservative, more pro-capitalist and more corrupt. The one-party rule of the PRI, based on patronage and astute manipulation of the revolutionary legacy, was tolerated by Washington until the global neoliberal wave initiated with Thatcher and Reagan swept Mexico along into what AMLO calls "Neo-Porfirismo", the modern equivalent of the privatising, plutocratic and corrupt Díaz dictatorship.
To achieve justice – social, economic and legal – after 1910 required a decade of armed struggle in which hundreds of thousands died in Mexico's third great transformation (the first being Independence from Spain and the second, the Liberal Reform of the 1850s-1860s). AMLO's aim is to achieve justice once again with a Fourth Transformation, but one which is to be peaceful and democratic: an extraordinary challenge requiring exceptional political skill, mass popular support and a relationship with Washington based on respect, restraint, and sovereignty.
David L Raby is a writer, political activist and retired academic living in Norwich (UK). Professor Emeritus in Latin American History, University of Toronto, and former Senior Fellow in Latin American History, University of Liverpool. Former City Councillor in Norwich. Executive member, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign; Chair, Norwich-El Viejo (Nicaragua) Twinning Link. He can be reached at david.raby@hotmail.com and on Twitter @DLRaby.
1 John M Ackerman, "El Retorno de Cienfuegos", La Jornada, lunes 23 nov 2020: www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/politica/2020/11/23/el-retorno-de-cienfuegos-john-m-ackerman-2236.html Translation mine.
2 Conferencia de Prensa Matutina, 18/11/2020.
3 www.jornada.com.mx/notas/2020/12/11/mundo/procurador-de-eu-alerta-que-regular-agentes-en-mexico-beneficia-al-crimen/
4 Arturo Zaldívar, "La Reforma Constitucional a la Justicia Federal", Milenio, 08/12/2020, www.milenio.com/opinion/arturo-zaldivar/los-derechos-hoy/la-reforma-constitucional-a-la-justicia-federal
6 Conferencias de Prensa Matutina, 10 y 11/12/2020.
9 Jesús Ramírez Cuevas (Communications Coordinator of the Mexican Government), twitter.com/JesusRCuevas/status/1329823344057729028, 20/11/2020.
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Ronald Michael Behagen (né le  à New York, New York) est un ancien joueur américain de basket-ball.

Biographie
Pivot de 2,06 m issu du lycée "DeWitt Clinton" à New York, Behagen intégra l'université du Minnesota. Il avait parmi ses coéquipiers le futur Baseball Hall-of-Famer Dave Winfield. À la fin de sa carrière universitaire en 1973, Behagen joua sept saisons en NBA sous les couleurs des Kings de Kansas City, du Jazz de La Nouvelle-Orléans, des Hawks d'Atlanta, des Rockets de Houston, des Pacers de l'Indiana, des Pistons de Détroit, des Knicks de New York et des Bullets de Washington, puis en Italie pour l'équipe de Antonini Siena. Il fut nommé dans la NBA All-Rookie Team en 1974. Lors de sa carrière NBA, il réalisa des moyennes de 10.3 points et 7.0 rebonds par match.

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Le , Behagen fut impliqué dans l'un des plus graves altercations de l'histoire du basket-ball universitaire quand lui et certains de ses coéquipiers s'en prirent au joueur de l'université d'État de l'Ohio Luke Witte. Au milieu de ce qui était un match très physique, le joueur de Minnesota Clyde Turner commit une faute flagrante sur Witte lors d'une tentative de layup, assommant Witte qui retomba sur le parquet. Corky Taylor de Minnesota se pencha pour aider Witte à se relever, mais mit un coup de genou à Witte dans l'aine. Une mêlée entre les joueurs s'ensuivit et Behagen sortit du banc pour frapper Witte à la tête, le laissant inconscient. L'entraîneur d'Ohio State Fred Taylor décrivant cet acte comme : . Behagen et Corky Taylor furent suspendus pour le reste de la saison, bien que Witte ne déposa pas de plainte contre eux.

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Naissance en janvier 1951
Joueur américain de basket-ball
Joueur de basket-ball des Golden Gophers du Minnesota
Joueur drafté par les Kings de Kansas City
Joueur des Kings de Kansas City
Joueur du Jazz de La Nouvelle-Orléans
Joueur des Hawks d'Atlanta
Joueur des Rockets de Houston
Joueur des Pacers de l'Indiana
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import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.CamelContextAware;
import org.apache.camel.ErrorHandlerFactory;
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Interstate rivalry set aside to honor devoted KU alumnus
Posted on Oct 19, 2015 in Alumni News and News
Few Jayhawks would appreciate being surrounded by a pack of tigers at a sports event, let alone on a daily basis at work. Reuben Shelton, a St. Louis attorney and immediate past-president of the Missouri Bar, is used to it. Not only does he accept his fate, he happily makes the most of it.
"Everywhere I go, I tell people I'm a Jayhawk," says Shelton, j'78, who frequently speaks to large audiences of Mizzou-loving attorneys. "All over the state—from Cape Girardeau to Brookfield. Everywhere."
Given Shelton's diehard dedication to his alma mater—a particularly brave undertaking in Tiger territory—it was only fitting that the bar would find a special way to honor its outgoing president at its recent annual meeting in St. Louis. The organization enlisted the KU Alumni Association to write a humorous, Jayhawk-themed resolution for Shelton, one that would applaud his crimson-and-blue commitment in the rival school's domain.
Sebrina Barrett, executive director of the bar, presented the resolution. A Mizzou graduate, she worked closely with Shelton during his tenure as president and knew she had to do it right. "I just thought, 'I can't do this unless I truly get into it and put on a Kansas T-shirt,'" she recalls. "I wasn't even sure whether I could find one in Columbia where I live, but I did."
When the time came, Barrett put on the KU T-shirt and began reading the resolution, much to the surprise and delight of the nearly 40 Missouri fans in the room.
"Everybody in the room was just dying," says Shelton. "It was so funny because Sebrina is a dyed-in-the-wool tiger."
Although it may have pained her to wear KU colors that day, Barrett was happy to honor the man who's done so much for the bar during his presidency. "Reuben leaves behind a tremendous legacy of inclusion," she says. "He believes everybody should have a seat at the table. This was a lighthearted way for me to show a willingness to do that, and to embrace Reuben's culture and personality."
—Heather Biele
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Home Consumer Electronics & Appliances Samsung to Declare Important Business Expansion on July 9
The expansion is most likely aimed to strengthen Samsung's hold in the market as the electronics giant stays the biggest smartphone seller in India
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South Korean electronics giant who continues to be India's largest smartphone seller and maker – Samsung, is all set to declare a significant business expansion on July 9, 2018. This move is expected to further establish the company's success story and mark in India.
The last expansion happened in June 2017 with the announcement of Rs 4,915 crore investment
Samsung India announced on July 4 that it will announce a big On July 4, during a highly secured environment at its Noida centre, Samsung India announced their plan to introduce a significant business expansion on July 9. An invite confirmed that H.C. Hong, President and CEO, Samsung India will be present at the expansion event on the specified date.
The last business expansion that the company announced was in June 2017 when it declared Rs 4,915 crore investment in expanding its Noida hub that is the manufacturing centre of Samsung's smartphones, refrigerators and flat panel televisions.
Hong said, "On the back of the 'Digital India' movement led by millions of young Indians, we are witnessing a rise in adoption of electronic devices, smart appliances and mobile phones."
The govt believes Samsung will help them attain US$ 1 trillion digital economy by 2020
Samsung had experienced a growth of 27 per cent the in the mobile sector for the financial year 2016-17, which saw the brand touch Rs 34,300 crore mark. According to the German research firm GK, Samsung India has maintained consistency in the first quarter of 2018 as it has already become the leader in the smartphone sector with 49.2 per cent shares in the market.
In fact, their success has made Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Union Minister of Law and Justice of India, to believe that Samsung has the capability to take the government's mission to attain US$ 1 trillion digital economy by 2020.
GFK also reported that in the financial year of 2017-18 (April 2017-March 2018), Samsung has achieved 55.2 per cent market share in the Rs 40,000 and above segment of smartphones. Additionally, the fever of FIFA World Cup 2018 has also romped up TV sales – a market of Rs 500 billion with Samsung India having 30 per cent share in it. Prior to the kick-off of the world's most-viewed sporting event, the company launched six new ultra-high definition (UHD) TV models including its flagship OLED TV and Make for India 'Concert' TV series therefore, taking their total TV offerings to 16. This move further cements Samsung's hold in the Indian electronics market and sets their mission of grabbing the top spot in the TV sector in the upcoming four to five months.
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My story is about passion. I started out as a teacher because I loved working with students, and I wanted to make the difference that my former coaches made in my life. My life has taken a turn from that, but the passion in improving the educational experience is still there. Now it's about coding
I started my career in Prince William County, Virginia because I chased a girl. I spent the previous summer as an intern in Washington DC, and I was lucky enough to meet the women who would become my wife. That first job at CD Hylton High School was all about teaching and coaching. I was just like any first year teacher, I wasn't good, but my passion for it made me want to get better.
In 2007, it was time to move closer to family. We had our first child, and we wanted to raise her with help. It was time to go back to Cobb County Schools in Georgia, and I got hired on as a teacher at Wheeler High School. It also meant I got my first MacBook as they were an option for teacher devices. This opened up a world of creativity to me. I could now make movies, websites, and more, and my passion for it made me start to pine for a place that would let students do it.
In 2011, I found that place. I made the move to North Atlanta High School in Atlanta Public Schools because they had the technology resources that let me be different. They had the resources that would let my students create and make, and my classroom took off from there. By the end of my time there, we were running my high school social studies class as a historical newsroom with personalized assignments and creation projects.
This evolution of my technology in my classroom though led to a new passion: sharing it with others. I had a wonderful administrator at the time who encouraged me to get out and share and I started that journey off at the GAETC conference in 2012. I loved it so much that I asked a national level presenter how to get that going in my life, and she said it's all about just going as many places as possible. From 2012 to 2014, I did that but was a little limited by the fact I had to continue to be in the classroom. I wanted to do more, so in 2014 I joined KSU iTeach.
KSU iTeach is a group of instructional technology specialist that work with schools. I started with them helping with a personalized learning initiative in Fulton County schools, but it soon ballooned into working with multiple school districts and even being a founder of a Maker Bus. I also got to go out and continue to speak which has given me some amazing experiences and some incredible friends.
I loved iTeach, but by 2014 I was looking for my next challenge. Advancing in the education world only really offered three options: a school admin, a district admin, and a company. I did not want to be a school admin because with athletic duties that schedule is almost worse than coaching (no offense my admin friends, but you know what I am talking about ), and I also did not want to be in a district because I did not just want to be a cog in the wheel. I wanted to make a real difference and have a say. That's why I chose Tynker.
I was lucky enough to meet an executive from the company in June of 2018, and things just snowballed from there. Tynker gives me the chance to make a difference in both educators and students lives by teaching them a new school that everyone needs: coding. It's a company that has the ideal of making built in, and it was just a natural fit. It's where I find myself today, and I love every day that I get to support teachers!


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Food Fight: Inside the Battle for Market Basket
last posted March 15, 2016, 9:19 p.m.
A friend of mine from high school is a documentary filmmaker and asked me a couple of months ago if I'd sign on as a producer when I offered some ideas on how he could deal with some of the problems he had been faced with in putting it together. The first thing I offered to do was produce a theatrical trailer for the film, which I did and has pulled in something north of 16k views in the few weeks since its release. It can be viewed here:
So I'm doing more than just cutting the trailer on this film now, I'm cutting the entire film.
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We had hired a "professional editor" who has worked with Ken Burn's Florentine Films. While I was going to stick around to help with the edit on some level, the "pro" was going to do the rough cut and probably the first pass on the finish.
The "pro" editor burned 2 weeks just transcoding the footage so that it could be used in his Avid, which meant a total pain in the ass for us. We decided that the finished cut should be done in Premiere. He wanted to use something called "script sync" which helps you to use text search to find the exact entry point to dialog in an interview without having to watch, scrub through or use logs to determine where a given line of dialog is. This plan essentially failed for a number of reasons, and by the end of the six weeks he handed us back an almost completely unusable rough that cost us time and money. What was worse, you could tell that he had almost no emotional investment or effort into the story. Most of it was strung together based on notes we provided him with. He made virtually no attempt to craft anything in the way of a story.
I began picking at the edit in late August/early September. I managed to cut the first three sections of the film in pretty short order. We were on our way to a finished cut that we could review with a team.
We managed in late September to get a work in process screening of the 14 or so completed minutes we had of the film. We screened first at a small festival in Newburyport Mass. The theater of about 200 seats was completely packed - standing room only. The audience reactions during the screening were spot on what we were hoping them to be. More than one person in the audience who had been close to the story said that it made them cry. They laughed when we hoped they would as well which was nice.
In October, we screened at the New Hampshire Film Festival in a theater where a little less than half of the 900 seats were filled. This time, we added a new section to the mix for a total of three and a running time of over 25 minutes. Again, the reactions were simply amazing. The film looked incredible, and sounded good too.
We have been working with one of the authors on the book: We Are Market Basket, Dan Korschun for some time now.
Dan was interviewed for, and will appear heavily in our film. It's been amazing to see how perfectly the story we're telling reflects what he's written about, so it's been an amazing experience.
We've done a number of public speaking and promotional events with him including a one hour show on New Hampshire Public Radio.
Timeline of the segment I'm currently working on. I watched a video where Walter Murch discussed his work on his first feature documentary, Particle Fever, a film I've not watched yet. In that video however, I was relieved to find that the process that he followed for his first foray into feature docs is not that dissimilar to the one that Jay and I are using on Food Fight. His process is essentially that he and the director work on and build scenes together. The two watch what takes shape and find the story together, even though my guess is that Walter is for the most part in control of shaping the film. It's a very similar process Jay and I have coined, "tell, shape, refine."
I was trying to work out the other day exactly how much footage we have to work with on the project. Based on various sources I found to determine how much the roughly 9TB of footage I have translates to, I came up with about 150 hours give or take, and that varies depending on the codecs used. Given that about 1/3 of the footage was shot on DSLR which stores more on disk per hour due to the compression of the H264 codec, it's probably closer to 200 or more hours.
If this were shot on film, which weighs about one pound for every minute, assuming you're using 35mm stock, and assuming the lower 150 hour figure, that equates to about 4.5 tons of physical film we'd have to sort through and move around!
The cameras used to shoot the film were:
Canon C100 - Used as the master shot for most of the interviews and some b-roll.
Canon 5d Mk III - location b roll and alt angle for interviews.
Sony EX-3 - Primarily run and gun location b roll and on the fly (OTF) interviews.
The very excellent criteria that Walter Murch uses when analyzing a cut:
Emotion: 51% Is it true to the emotion of the moment?
Story: 23% Does it advanced the story?
Rhythm: 10% Does it occur at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and "right"?
Eye-Trace: 7% Does it acknowledge eye-trace (the concern with the location and movement of the audience's focus of interest within the frame?
Two-dimensional Plane of Screen: 5% Does it respect "planarity" (the grammar of three dimensions transposed by photography to two)?
Three-dimensional Space of Action: 4% Does it respect three-dimensional continuity of the actual space of where people are in the room and in relation to one another?
The only thing that I'd add to this is does it tell you something about the characters or what motivates them? Which I suppose could be a part of 1 or 2.
Having guidelines like this I think are key to making sure that the narrative doesn't go off the rails within the context of a scene and that it remains visually interesting.
I mentioned in a previous thought, the method that we're using to cut the film is a process we've coined "tell, shape, refine". I'll try and explain that here.
With scripted film, you have a script that you can work from as an editor even before you get a frame of footage to work on. You can set up a board that describes the main scenes or even use the story boards to plan your edit in combination with the actual script. You may even be fortunate enough to have built some ideas on how things will look in your head even before you get the film.
With a documentary, the challenges are immense. Not only do you not have a script to work from initially, you may end up with a shooting ratio of something like 500:1 or 500 hours of video to paw through for every hour you cut.
Epic documentaries like those that you see on PBS or netflix for that matter with a known outcome can follow something very closely resembling a script, and the more well funded the project, the better the resources to do the research and build a script.
With this project, hundreds of hours were shot "in the moment". Jay had no idea of knowing what the outcome would be until the company either survived, was sold or went under.
Wrangling all of that footage, understanding its context and trying to come up with a way to tell the story before the Kickstarter supporters came after us with pitch forks and torches, proved extremely challenging.
What I suggested that we do in this case, because it's really just the two of us working on the edit, is a process that I referred to as "tell, shape, refine".
Since Jay has an encyclopedic knowledge of both the story and what he shot, I asked that he first define the major scenes and the themes they need to cover. His next task as director was to tell each scene by performing string outs of interview sound bytes in a timeline that I could ingest later. He then needs to go through the footage library and string out all of the footage that I might need to cover the interview/narrative portion of the story. Doing this, I'll end up with two timelines for each segment; one that contains all of the interview sound bites relevant to that scene, the other containing the b roll or coverage I may need.
These timeline string outs may be as long as an hour to two hours in length, but the idea is for him to just get me the best material to tell that part of the story and not concern himself with cleaning it up.
I then take these string outs and shape them into a scene that will get all of the major points across in a manner that reflects the voice we've decided to use for the film.
We then go back over the shaping that I've done and refine the sections together with him advising me on shot selection or adjusting interview talking points. The two of us work on it together until we're both satisfied with the narrative and coverage.
The process has worked amazingly well and now that we've hit our stride results in about 15 minutes of mostly completed film each week.
I finally got to watch the Walter Murch documentary "Particle Fever" over the weekend. I didn't watch all of it, but it's a fascinating doc. The thing that was really watching it for was to see how the master edits a doc. What I found was, it's not that dissimilar in terms of style points than what I've been doing. Someone with a more refined eye might beg to differ, but from where I sat, the techniques I've been using follow his teachings pretty well.
A great example is the way that he uses b roll to transition from one segment or concept to the next. I've known for a while about the concept of "pre rolling" a section or providing set up for it. What I mean by this is having four to five shots that set a mood and shift the viewer's attention away from what they've just watched into a new location, area or concept. This is something I've been doing with Food Fight all along, which was great to see. At some point I'll post an example of this from the film.
There are so many documentaries that you could do around this topic. I'm sure that we'll take heat for not covering this aspect or that aspect, but when we looked at all the amazing, incredibly rich footage that we had to work with, there was only one story to tell. That story quite simply is the story of the twenty five thousand associates and two million customers; the stakeholders in this incredible company who made this improbable story happen. I'm at a loss for words sometimes at the amount of amazing coverage of this saga I have at my disposal to tell this story. Just incredible...
Just got hold of critical internal emails and text conversations that happened with the team that actually architected the rebellion, and brought the company to its knees. We're using the same animation company that does work on Eldarion's explainer videos to do the graphical treatments of stuff like this. Combine this with the incredible footage library I have on virtually every aspect of the story, and the film just keeps getting richer and richer content wise.
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For the visual look of the film, we've decided to go with a slightly desaturated look whenever we cut back to b roll that was shot during the actual event. The idea is to provide the viewer with a visual queue that they've gone back in time.
With the efforts of the last week, we're now at just over 80 minutes of mostly completed film. The pace seems to be quickening to a certain extent, mostly I think due to the fact that I've become extremely familiar with the entire footage library now. I now know exactly where to go for what I need if it can't be found in one of the string out timelines Jay has provided me with.
We now have a date for the first official screening of the film. It will be screened publicly for the first time on Saturday, February 27th at 7:00 PM at the Portsmouth Music Hall in Portsmouth NH.
The last ten days have been a little horrifying in terms of the work required to get the film done. 16 hour days have pretty much been the norm.
created Jan. 15, 2016, 2:53 a.m.
We're in the home stretch with only about two and a half full sequences to go before we'll have a cut that's complete enough to watch to see how it all fits together.
Doing the editing, musical direction, post production supervision as well as writing all of the narration copy has been more physically and emotionally draining than I ever imagined it would be. The advantage of it is that I'm really giving the film its voice on multiple levels.
My concern is the amount of rework that may be required once we start reviewing the film in its entirety. The sections seem really good and the flow is wonderful for a lot of it, but questions arose last week on how we keep the viewer oriented to the timeline of the story as we move through it. There are some non-sequential things happening, with minimal narration.
We made the decision to make sure we frame everything up front; where the story took place, how many weeks it was, we've got some things presented in animated timelines that at least show the progression of events that lead up to the bulk of the story. The other technique we're using are what I refer to as "way points" or little title text elements we drop in at the start of the scene to let you know the date of the event you're about to watch. The film doesn't jump around a lot, but it does enough where if you don't have these little cairns to show you where the path is, you could get lost.
I've had no less than three dreams in the past week where I'm an actual Market Basket employee, which I think scares me in a way that tells me I'm way too occupied with this.
The extreme level of concentration and emotional engagement required on this sometimes leaves me so drained at the end of the day, I can't remember falling asleep at night or even exactly when I got to bed. I can see the end on the horizon though for the current level of intense work, and I'm happy about that. As much as I love film, I don't see myself taking something like this on again in the near future - at least being responsible for so much of the film.
Tickets go on sale for the February screening this week. I'm both excited and scared as hell at the prospect of nearly a thousand people packing into a theater to see this for the first time. I am confident that the screening will be sold out - maybe even well in advance. There is that much anticipation. The nearly 600 kickstarter supporters alone are likely to consume a good chunk of the seats. The area stores in the seacoast alone could account for the balance of the tickets, that says nothing of the 200+ supporters we seem to have at the Market Basket home office in Tewksbury Mass. The media will almost certainly be there in force as well. It's easy to be excited and scared out of my mind all at once about this. While I'm not directing, I have a pretty major hand in bringing this thing to life and providing it with a voice. It wasn't at all how I imagined I'd get into the theater with a feature length film, but it is the story of a lifetime to get involved with, and I couldn't be happier to have a hand in it, but I was not prepared for how frightening so much of this can be at times. A lot is on the line....
Just once I think it would be cool to sit and watch someone work with film on a Steenbeck for a day.
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The opening turned out to be pretty amazing. The first night, we sold 825 tickets which was the maximum for the theater we were in. It turned out to be the first time in the history of that theater that they had completely sold out for a movie. The second night which was a Sunday, we sold 560 tickets.
The crowd reactions both nights were just incredible. Granted, we were playing to a pretty biased crowd - most of the people both nights were either associates or customers who followed the drama throughout, but it was still extremely satisfying to know that we'd hit the right notes and emotions, and that people were reacting pretty much as we'd hoped they would.
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We were accepted into the Boston International Film Festival on the basis of a partial cut.
I should probably be pretty pleased that the first feature I've ever worked on was accepted to the first festival it was submitted to on the basis of a partial cut. I really think that much of that has to do with the fact that this is a well known local story that will be playing to a hometown crowd. Still, I'm very excited to be a part of this festival and can't wait to see it screen before an audience again.
The film is running long by probably 15 or 20 minutes, so there's work to do in getting it ready for the next screening in Boston.
Thankfully, the hard work is done and what lies ahead is trivial by comparison.


Happy 1st official Monday in December!! Is anyone else dancing with excitement?! I'm not going to lie, I am totally missing the colder weather right now. All of you living through that climate is probably giving me the side eye, haha but it makes this time feel so much more magical!! But I guess I'll just have to set our AC to 64 and put on a sweater and some slippers to get my fix of that for now.
Now, today's post is NOT about cold weather 🙂 Today, I am sharing 5 things I am absolutely loving right now! Sooo let's hop right in!
Holiday Starbucks drinks! I'm not going to lie, I did indulge in these (probably a little too much…aka going every morning for a week haha) when they first came out for the season… but now that it's actually the Christmas season, they are such a fun treat! My current favorite: Peppermint Mocha (hot)! What's yours?!
This Target PJ set! The one I have is the shorts (because it's still 80 degrees here almost daily) but they do come in the long sleeve set as well. If you know of the luxury sleepwear brand Eberjey, commonly found at Nordstrom, these are the EXACT same material and feeling at a fraction of the price! Super cozy and I've even gotten compliments from William!
Living Proof Full Dry Volume Blast – Ok ladies…. this stuff is INSANE! I officially never want to live without this product. I have had the same bottle for over a year now, my mom had gotten me a shampoo set from Living Proof and it came with it free. The first few times I used it, I was not a fan because I had no idea what it was supposed to do. When I saw another blogger talk about it she mentioned how to use it and well… the rest is history! This magical bottle gives you volume like NO OTHER! I have finer hair and am recovering from a lot of hair damage (post coming soon, I promise!!) and it has always been hard for me to achieve long-lasting volume, well… until this miracle product! I style my hair as usual and then take the top layer of my hair, lift that up and spray this near the root. If my hair is curled, I will spray this up at the bottom of my styled hair and it will give me that bit bouncy hair I long for. I will include a before and after photo from Nordstrom's site so you can get an idea! Moral of the story – L.O.V.E. this stuff! It would make a great gift or stocking stuffer for your girlfriend, mama or daughter in law!
Finally, I am doing GIVEAWAYS each week until Christmas! The first one is up on my Instagram (@MrsRebeccaWright) be sure to go follow me and enter for a chance to win!!


Dear artists, participants, volunteers, and audience members!
Now that the dust has had a chance to settle on Verses Festival of Words 2018, we hope that you have had some time to unwind and let your experience sink in.
We cannot thank the artists enough for their contributions to this year's festivities (which we are being told was one of our best festivals yet). The passion and exemplary displays of literary craft that artists brought to festival stages, audiences, and workshops, has left an indelible impact on our beloved community.
We are also deeply grateful for everyone who attended the showcases, workshops, national poetry slam bouts, community stage events, and community conversations. Your presence, attention, participation, support, enthusiasm and love for the spoken word, and what we are all experiencing, learning, and enjoying together, are what makes this all worthwhile.
We would love to know more about your experience as a festival participant, whether you were an artist, volunteer, organizer, or audience member. If you have a few minutes to fill out our festival feedback survey, we would be so grateful. With your help and thoughtful suggestions we continue to do better at bringing community together in celebration of the spoken word and literary arts year after year.
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The U.S.D.A. came out with its quarterly grain stocks report on Monday, September 30th and showed the market that there is apparently more corn and soybeans out there than everyone was expecting but slightly less wheat that pre-report trade estimates. Specifically, the U.S.D.A. reported that corn inventories were 823.6 million bushels, well above pre-report estimates of 688 million bushels but still down 17 per cent from inventories a year ago. Soybean stocks were also down 17 per cent from a year ago, as the numbers came in at 141 million bushels, again, well above trade expectations of 125 million bushels.
As for wheat, total U.S. wheat stocks were seen down 12 per cent year over year to 1.855 billion bushels. Moreover, the U.S.D.A. cut spring wheat acres by 5.1 per cent. Of most relevance to Western Canadian producers is that fact that the large majority of this decline has come in the northern American states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. Collectively, these states hold 70 million bushels of wheat less than they did at this time last year, with South Dakota seeing the biggest decline at 27.6 per cent to 70.97 million bushels. As for durum, total U.S. durum inventories are down 2.4 per cent year-over-year to 66.78 million bushels.
Getting the crop off continues to be priority number one but the recent precipitation hitting the Prairies sporadically has been untimely. While temperatures are continuing to creep towards zero, the consensus remains that there's a big wheat and canola crop coming off, but with the rainfall, the quality of that crop intuitively comes into question. This could also affect further winter cereals seeding, a problem that is currently being seen in Ukraine where the president of the Ukraine Farmers Association said that grain exports from the Black Sea country may have to be restricted due to the large amount of land likely to go unseeded this fall. Particularly, over seven million acres of land could go unplanted, including close to five million acres of winter wheat!
Other factors helping the upside support argument for wheat are Chinese demand the average lower protein seen here in Canada. Down Unda, the Aussie wheat harvest is underway as producers in the northern regions are hitting the fields. With harvest going in so many places at once, the slightest noise (i.e. frosts in Argentina) could bump the market higher for a short while but doesn't change the longterm fundamentals too much (big global crop). This being said, it's been widely circulated that we may have hit the top in terms of agricultural prosperity here in North America.
Other global crop crises have allowed Canadian producers to reap the benefits of it via better margins. However, as we've seen this year, grain prices over revert to the mean and as stocks are replenished (or at least inch higher) globally, the re-balance of supply and demand at lower prices is inevitable. One has to be honest with themselves to know the good times can't last forever. The best one can do is, as my grandfather used to say, expect the unexpected and prepare for the day times get a little tougher.
Brennan Turner is originally from Foam Lake, SK, where his family started farming the land in the 1920s. After completing his degree in economics from Yale University and then playing some pro hockey, Mr. Turner spent some time working in finance before starting FarmLead.com, a risk-free, transparent online grain marketplace. His weekly column is a summary of his free, daily market note, the FarmLead Breakfast Brief. He can be reached via email (b.turner@farmlead.com) or phone (1-855-332-7653).


BTS, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, reported that 10 the large airlines reported an operating profit margin as a group in each of the last four quarters, although the margin has declined in each of the last two quarters. As a group, they posted a profit of $228 million with losses reported by American Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy, United Airlines, which was in the process of merging with Continental Airlines, and AirTran Airways, which was in the process of merging with Southwest Airlines (Table 1). These 10 airlines carried 79.8 percent of U.S. airlines scheduled service passengers in the first quarter of 2012. See Airline Financial Data Press Releases for historic data.Friday, July 6, 2012 - The largest scheduled passenger airlines reported a 0.7 percent profit margin in the first quarter of 2012, up from the 0.5 percent loss in the first quarter of 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportations EmEdjimurjE (BTS) reported today in a release of preliminary data (Table 1).
As part of their first-quarter revenue, all U.S. passenger airlines collected $816 million in baggage fees and $631 million from reservation change fees from January through March 2012.
Baggage fees and reservation change fees are the only ancillary fees paid by passengers that are reported to BTS as separate items. Other fees, such as revenue from seating assignments and on-board sales of food, beverages, pillows, blankets, and entertainment are reported in a different category with other items and cannot be identified separately.
The press release includes these tables for the 10 top carriers: Table 2, Unit Costs; Table 3, Unit Revenues; Table 4, Passenger Revenue Yield.
Additional airline financial data can be found on the BTS website, including numbers for other individual low-cost and regional airlines reported on previous BTS quarterly financial press releases. and can be found on these . numbers are available on these . See the BTS for more detailed data.
Data are compiled from quarterly financial and monthly traffic reports filed with BTS by commercial air carriers. Financial and traffic data are preliminary and include data received by BTS as of June 28. Revised carrier data and late data filings will be made available monthly on TranStats on the Monday following the second Tuesday of the month. Data are subject to revision.
The data released today is missing reports from these scheduled passenger airlines: ExpressJet Airlines, which is in the process of filing updated data, and Comair, which has not yet filed its report.
** United Airlines and Continental Airlines began reporting jointly in 1Q 2012. Previous quarter numbers are for United only. For Continental financials through 4Q 2011, see BTS Airline Financials Data press releases.
*** ExpressJet Airlines and Atlantic Southeast Airlines began reporting jointly in 1Q 2012. Previous quarter numbers are for ExpressJet only. For Atlantic Southeast financials through 4Q 2011, see BTS Airline Financials Data press releases.
N/A: ExpressJet Airlines is in the process of filing updated data.


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Problem behaviors such as aggression and destructive behavior are the primary reason why pet dogs are relinquished to animal shelters. These behaviors often pose a risk to humans as well as to other animals. Two factors believed to influence the occurrence of problem behaviors include dog owners' attitudes and owner use of training methods. In this study, dog owners were recruited to participate in an online survey. Survey items included questions about their own dog's behavior, their attitudes towards different kinds of training techniques and approaches to dog management, and questions about the kinds of training methods that they used. Positive owner attitude towards the use of positive punishment techniques significantly predicted owner reports of more dog behavior problems, and fewer good dog behaviors. Anthropomorphic attitudes significantly predicted more problem behavior. Owners' use of positive punishment methods also significantly predicted problem behavior, while use of positive reinforcement significantly predicted more good-dog behaviors. Results add to evidence suggesting the use of positive punishment contributes to problem behaviors in pet dogs and that the use of positive reinforcement may be useful in reducing problem behavior. Further, anthropomorphic attitudes and owners approving of positive punishment may contribute to the development of problems behaviors. Problem behaviors may develop from use of punishment due to decreased welfare and increased stress; anthropomorphic attitudes contribute to problem behaviors by predicting owners' use of punishment. Positive reinforcement may increase welfare in animal and thus account for the lack of correlation with problem behavior.


To hear Carnegie Mellon's Illah Nourbakhsh tell it, things are downright petrifying. "Air pollution across the U.S. is killing more people than prostate cancer, AIDS and breast cancer put together," he says.
That comes as news to a lot of folks. On beautiful days, when compared to the Darkness at Noon photos from pre-1945, when burning soft coal was de rigueur throughout the Ohio Valley–Pittsburgh is a veritable Garden of Eden. Except it's not.
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In this lesson, you'll hone in on your identity as a recording artist: who are you, and what are you meaning to convey through your music? You'll work on refining your vision and intention for the recordings you'll make employing these skills, and record and post a "work tape" of a new piece of music.
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a certain genre, you might wind up getting more clients from that particular genre.
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They're really happy to be there in your presence and working on this project.
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hang than someone who is perhaps great at what they do but they're a real jerk.
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And you're asking people to go out there and kind of lay their emotions bare.
can be a really important thing for your identity as a producer.
part of what attracts artists to want to work with you.
Then think about the skills that you bring to the table.
Your musical chops, first off.
Are you really good at playing?
Do you play on the projects that you work on?
Are you really good at writing and or arranging?
Can you help the artist strengthen their material or even finish their material?
Are you really a programmer?
Do you know your way around an Ableton Live?
Are you really great at sound design?
Can you make great sounds?
that can do those kinds of things.
Obviously listening is super important.
You've gotta be a good listener to be a good producer.
players and singers to give the best performances that they can possibly give.
Then of course there's technical skills, audio engineering skills, for instance.
do you have someone else that you call on to do that?
all those things are a very integral part of a lot of recording projects.
Do you do that yourself or do you farm that out to somebody?
And then also mixing and mastering.
a few people who are actually able to pull it off, to be kind of a one stop shop.
then you even do the mixing and the mastering.
their entire lives to be a great mixer, a great mastering engineer.
people who can kind of do it all can find a lot of work.
when you're hearing something over and over and over again.
you've gotta have some strategies to keeping that objectivity.
we talked about your vibe and all that.
professional skill that you bring to this is attention to detail.
to being able to find everything, to cleaning up the takes.
Getting the whole project done.
they don't even know what the steps are.
great follow through to really get the the project completed can be hugely important.
So take a little bit of time to think about who are you as a producer?
what are you offering artists if they come to you to have you produce their record?
potential clients that you might want to work with.
comment on your colleagues' postings as well.
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HomeEducationTennessee Students Compete for Honors at District History Day Contests
Tennessee Students Compete for Honors at District History Day Contests
Austin Peay State University to play host to North Middle District Contest
Nashville, TN – Beginning next week, students from across the state will demonstrate their research abilities, knowledge and creativity in the world's leading program for history education.
The district level competitions for Tennessee History Day are scheduled to take place from February 22nd through March 24th in Greeneville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Murfreesboro, and Memphis. In the competitions, students in grades six through 12 will present history-themed projects in a variety of formats – including museum-style exhibits, papers, web sites, documentaries and even live performances. Judges are university professors, high school teachers, museum curators, archivists and other public historians.
The winners at the district competitions will be eligible to participate in the statewide competition, which will be held at the Legislative Plaza in Nashville on April 21. Winners in the statewide competition advance to the National History Day finals, which will be held in College Park, Maryland in June.
Nationwide, more than half a million students are expected to participate in some level of History Day competition, including 5,000 from Tennessee.
In June 2011 at the National History Day competition, Lauren Collins, a student at White Pine School in Jefferson County, took first place in the Junior Individual Documentary category for Eminent Domain: Private Tragedies for the Public Good. Lauren became Tennessee's first national gold medal winner.
Tennessee History Day is organized by the Tennessee Historical Society and sponsored at the state level by the Tennessee Department of State, Humanities Tennessee and the Tennessee General Assembly. This year's theme is Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History. Students are asked to examine how social, cultural, or political movements have been a force for change.
Local sponsors for the district competitions include the departments of history at the University of Memphis, Middle Tennessee State University, Austin Peay State University, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville as well as the East Tennessee Historical Society. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's School of Education and Department of History and Tusculum College's Museum Studies Program and the Andrew Johnson Heritage Association will also serve as hosts for district competitions.
"The Department of State has enjoyed a great partnership with Tennessee History Day over the last three years," Secretary of State Tre Hargett said. "It is inspiring to watch some of our best and brightest students demonstrate the skills that will help them lead our great state in the future."
Michael Cleghorn, a veteran History Day teacher at West Creek Middle School in Clarksville, echoes Secretary Hargett's enthusiasm for the program. "NHD allows students to go beyond the historical facts and dates. It allows students to explore various aspects of history that often go unanswered in the classroom. Questions [are asked] that stimulate personal learning and offer in depth research opportunities [to] motivate students to become life-long learners.
Most students begin preparing for the competition soon after the school year begins. Their teachers will brainstorm with them to choose topics and provide them with the guidelines for entering the competition. Students may decide to enter as individuals or as groups.
National History Day's impact goes well beyond the students who participate. Thousands of parents also get involved, making it a family affair. It also provides teachers with a unique teaching method.
Sharron Thompson, a homeschool teacher in Knoxville, agrees with this assessment of National History Day. "As I began homeschool education, of my children I struggled to incorporate [hands-on teaching techniques with] effective learning in the social studies curriculum. Then I was introduced to NHD. Now my students learn history as active participants through research and presentation." Her students have benefited from participating in the program, and they will enthusiastically attest, "Now I feel like I am really learning and it's a lot of fun."
Vanessa Lutton is the media specialist at Bellevue Middle School in Nashville and has also used the History Day program to teach invaluable research skills. "It's an excellent venue for teachers to be able to teach a lot of different skills such as compiling research information, developing a professional presentation format and learning to write bibliographies," said Lutton. "All of these things that it teaches can be taken into high school, college and the work place."
Since 1974, National History Day has grown from a Cleveland, Ohio, competition with about 100 students to a national academic program.
For more information about the History Day program in Tennessee, including details about the district competitions, or the program's state-level sponsor, the Tennessee Historical Society, visit The Tennessee History Day Web Site, or contact Jennifer C. Core at 615.741.8934 or by email at historyday@tennesseehistory.org
About Tennessee History Day
Tennessee History Day
History Day is not just a day, but every day! National History Day is a year-long curriculum enhancement program that engages students in grades 6-12 in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics.
Students produce dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries, websites, and research papers based on research related to an annual theme. These projects are then evaluated at local, state, and national competitions. Tennessee History Day is open to all public, private, and homeschooled students.
All students compete in district History Day competitions before being eligible to compete at the Tennessee History Day State Competition. Winners of the State competition, held at Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville are eligible to compete in National History Day, at the University of Maryland in mid-June.
Have questions? Email your state coordinator, Jennifer C. Core, at History Day.
More details about the times and locations of the district competitions are available at http://www.tennesseehistory.org/historyday.htm or by calling(615.741.8934.
Wed. Feb. 22, 2012 North Middle Austin Peay State University, Department of History Clarksville
Fri. Feb. 24, 2012 Middle Middle Tennessee State University, Department of History Murfreesboro
Mon. Mar. 5, 2012 East University of Tennessee, Department of History and East Tennessee Historical Society Knoxville
Sat., Mar. 10, 2012 Southeast University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, School of Education adn Department of History Chattanooga
Tues. Mar. 20, 2012 Northeast Tusculum College, Museum Studies Program and Andrew Johnson Heritage Association Greeneville
Sat. Mar. 24, 2012 West University of Memphis, Department of History Memphis
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17 kids from 8 to 11 will participate to a 3-day course on 2 topics : germs and insects. To explore the germ topic, the childrens will do a several day scientific experiment to discover what a germ is, in which conditions it grows, the existance of good and bad germs and, with observations on the INM scanning electron microscope, what forms it has. For the insect topic, the kids will search little bugs in their natural location, then learn to recognize the insects amoung them, what roles they have, which ones are protected and why, and will try entomophagy.
At the end of the course, during a snack with their parents, each children will present an insect he/she will have constructed, imaginary or not, and explain its role. They will all leave with their insect, their laboratory book and a participation certificate.
In parallel, 4 adolescents from 12 to 15 will work on a common project of creation of a scientific stop motion film they will also present at the end of the course.


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Saint-Julien-sur-Cher ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Loir-et-Cher in der Region Centre-Val de Loire. Sie gehört zum Arrondissement Romorantin-Lanthenay und zum Kanton Selles-sur-Cher.

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Saint-Julien-sur-Cher liegt etwa 22 Kilometer westnordwestlich von Vierzon. Umgeben wird Saint-Julien-sur-Cher von den Nachbargemeinden Villefranche-sur-Cher im Norden, Langon-sur-Cher im Osten und Nordosten, Saint-Loup im Südosten sowie La Chapelle-Montmartin im Süden und Westen.

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 Kirche aus dem 12. Jahrhundert, heutiger Bau weitgehend aus dem 16./17. Jahrhundert
 Zisterzienserkloster Notre-Dame, 1144 gegründet

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