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Boeing says it has to 're-earn' public's trust after crashes
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press
This Aug. 15, 2019, file photo shows dozens of grounded Boeing 737 MAX airplanes crowd a parking area adjacent to Boeing Field in Seattle. Boeing is settling more of the roughly 150 lawsuits filed by families of passengers killed in two crashes of the 737 Max jet. A Seattle law firm said Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, it settled four cases involving passengers on the Lion Air Max that crashed off the coast of Indonesia in October 2018. On Thursday, a judge approved settlements of nine other cases.(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A senior Boeing executive said Saturday the company knows it has to re-earn the public's trust as it works to win approval from U.S. regulators to get its grounded 737 Max jets flying again after crashes that killed 346 people.
Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said the company's "number one focus remains safely returning the Max."
Chicago-based Boeing has spent the past year making changes to flight software that played a role in crashes of two of its 737 Max jets.
Deal said the company knows it has "to restore the confidence of our customers and the flying public in Boeing."
"We know we got to re-earn that trust," Deal said.
Deal, whose division oversees the jet, spoke to reporters in Dubai ahead of the biennial Dubai Airshow, which starts Sunday and is expected to produce major deals between commercial and military manufacturers and Mideast buyers.
Boeing has customers in the region financially impacted by the grounding of the 737 Max, including budget carrier Flydubai, which has more than a dozen of the jets in its fleet and more on order. Boeing is working to compensate both its customers and the families of victims who died in the crashes.
Internal Boeing documents have revealed that before the crashes company employees had raised concerns about the automated flight-control system that played a part in pushing the planes' noses down until the jets plummeted, as well as the hectic pace of airplane production at Boeing.
Boeing began working on updating the plane's flight software shortly after last year's Oct. 29 crash of a Lion Air jet off the coast of Indonesia. After the second crash — an Ethiopian Airlines Max that went down near Addis Ababa after takeoff on March 10 – the plane was grounded around the world.
In questioning before U.S. senators last month, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg acknowledged the company "made mistakes, and we got some things wrong."
Boeing has settled dozens of lawsuits filed by families of passengers killed in the two crashes. Terms of the settlements are being kept confidential at Boeing's insistence, according to lawyers.
"The number one goal here is safely returning, and the FAA and the regulators around the world will pace the schedule… and we're fully supportive of that approach," Deal told reporters in Dubai.
The company expects Federal Aviation Administration approval in January for a new pilot-training program around the changes, which would let U.S. airlines resume using the plane early next year, though it could take longer for regulators in other countries to approve the changes. The FAA, meanwhile, has not laid out a timetable for approving Boeing's changes.
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A: It looks like the above will hold when $ I - KP = I - PK= I$, which will imply that $KP = PK = 0$.
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The Premier of Ontario visits a mosque, revealing much about our society
Larry Kummer, Editor	Society & gender	 22 February 2017 22 February 2017
Summary: Small incidents in the news often reveal hidden but large trends in society, if we examine them carefully. Such as a recent visit by Ontario's Premier to a local mosque. Her political allies cheer; her political foes laugh and mock. But it tells us so much more. {Also, see yesterday's post: Trump points to Sweden's problems with migrants. Then they riot, again.}
Kathleen O'Day Wynne, Premier of Ontario.
Kathleen O'Day Wynne is the first female premier of Ontario and the first openly gay head of government in Canada (see Wikipedia). To build bridges with the local Christian community, she visited a fundamentalist church — and followed the appropriate Scriptural guidance. She sat quietly, head covered — even going beyond the Paul's advice, to sit in the back of the church.
"Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head — it is the same as having her head shaved." (1 Corinthians 11 4:5.)
"Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church." (1 Corinthians 14 34:35.)
"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet." (1 Timothy 2 11:12.)
Of course, this is impossible. If Premier Wynne visited a church and was asked to sit quietly, head covered, her tirade would have blown the roof off. But, as most readers know, she visited a Toronto mosque on January 30, the day after six died during an attack at a Quebec mosque — and, as the Toronto Sun reported, she obeyed.
"While the men prayed, she sat patiently in the back corner of the mosque waiting to {speak}."
Wynne's choice of Imam Wael Shehab's mosque was piquant, or perhaps ironic, given his statements about women like herself.
"As quoted in the CIJ News in 2015 …Imam Wael Shehab said "homosexuality is a sinful act in Islam … I'd cite the following fatwa of Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the Fiqh Council of North America:
'We should consider them people who get themselves engaged in a sinful act. We should deal with them in the same way we deal with any people who are involved in alcoholics, gambling or adultery. We should have deep repugnance to their acts and we must remind and warn them.'
"If they persist he said 'we should certainly avoid those people.'"
It is easy to mock the Premier for this episode, most notably for inconsistent application of her values — and hypocrisy. But there is a kind of logic that in a world of strong, independent women, women's preferences shift to prefer extreme strength of character in men — even if it is outright misogynist. That is a key lesson of Game. Perhaps Imam Wael Shehab knew this by cultural instinct. Trump demonstrated his understanding of this in the election, with women's votes giving him a microscopic margin of victory (the 85 thousand votes in key states that won the electoral college).
Life on the streets provides daily examples, as shown in this funny but exaggerated and misogynist video. The slowly spreading understanding of this among men is the kind of event that changes the course of nations. It is like lead in Rome's water, a poison unseen and beyond their understanding — but with powerful effects rippling throughout their society.
About Dr. Wael Shehab
Dr. Wael Shehab has a PhD in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University. He is currently the Imam of the Downtown Toronto Masjid in Canada. For more about Islam's view of women see his answer to the question "Are women inferior?", and his video "Islam and the Role of Women".
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Dana Bowman (@TheDanaBowman) says:
I don't understand the "game" connection here. I will admit to unfamiliarity with the fine details of the situation, but this seems like a demonstration of respect on the part of Wynne to the Muslim community shortly after the killing of their co-religionists, not something sexual.
The quote from Shehab doesn't seem much different from "love the sinner, hate the sin" among a lot of Christians, either. There's a certain irony there, of course, but we all operate in multiple spheres simultaneously.
(1) Game is a form of gender dynamics (ways in which men and women interact). It is not sexual, although obtaining sex can be one of the goals for which it is applied (the same can be said of war).
(2) "The quote from Shehab doesn't seem much different from "love the sinner, hate the sin" among a lot of Christians"
Yes, both Islam and Christianity have a substantial overlap. The quotes I gave from the New Testament about women similar in some respects to those of Islam. As for homosexulaity, there are Islamic authorities who said things similar to Leviticus 20:13 — "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them." But that's not my point.
(3) "There's a certain irony there, of course, but we all operate in multiple spheres simultaneously."
You can't be missing the relevant point, which I stated quite explicitly. She would never have acted so deferentially to a Christian leader who wanted her to follow Paul's precepts in a church.
The short version: Game is a set of methods by which betas can emulate alphas. It has become valuable for millennial-era men since the combination of women's later age of marriage plus unconstrained behavior (i.e., few family or other social controls) has unleashed the full force of hypergamy (desire for high-status men). Like all "short versions", this is a simplification — but captures the essential elements.
OK, I see what you're saying. I have mostly encountered the topic discussed – and encountered it once or twice in the field, so to speak – as "These are the manipulative tricks that will get you the sex you are owed." Sometimes down to specific routines!
I can see how it can be generalized outwards, of course, and I'm sure it does work at least some of the time. The analogy just didn't seem to carry to a socio-religio-political situation very well.
Don't confused methods with ends. Game is a method, just as war is a method. They can be applied to achieve noble, ignoble, routine, or trivial goals.
Yes, I was just thinking that if people use "game" as a way to build confidence and their own approaches to life, that's all to the good– and would probably be pretty hard to tell from an external perspective, too.
"I was just thinking that if people use "game" as a way to build confidence and their own approaches to life"
That's only a tiny fraction of Game. The majority of it is understanding what women want — which is quite dark these days — and providing it.
Hilary Ostrov (aka hro001) says:
Larry, just a point of order here … Wynne's title – and that of all her counterparts in other Canadian provinces – is "Premier". Prime Minister is reserved for, well, the one and only "Prime Minister", currently a know-nothing twit who has good hair – and who's very fond of selfies. When he's unscripted, he utters more self-serving balderdash than Obama.
It's perhaps also worth noting that Imam Wael Shehab is even less favourably inclined towards Jews than he is towards women of any persuasion. See Toronto Sun columnist, Joe Warmington's:column for details, but here's a quote to ponder:
"O Allah! Give victory to Islam and raise the standing of the Muslims and humiliate the polytheism and polytheists … Infidels and the atheists and destroy anyone who killed Muslims. Count their number; slay them one by one and spare not one of them, O Allah! Purify Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews."
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/02/21/double-standard-surrounds-m-103-motion
When this became public, the Imam showed his Western style "political" mastery by claiming that he was quoted "out of context". Amazing, eh?!
Hilary,
(1) Thanks for the correction! Fixed! Every day I learn something.
(2) The Imaan's remarks about "filth of the Jews"
That's interesting. As mentioned in the post, the Toronto Sun article about the Premier's visit cited the Iman's remarks in 2015 about homosexuality. I didn't include his rebuttal, which was the same as when confronted about his anti-semitism (he relies on what works):
"They are taken out of context," he told me gently. "They are not my views. My views are clear on my Facebook page. We stand for freedom, equality and justice for all. I support for human rights for all."
"Life on the streets provides daily examples, as shown in this funny but exaggerated and misogynist video. The slowly spreading understanding of this among men is the kind of event that changes the course of nations. It is like lead in Rome's water, a poison unseen and beyond their understanding — but with powerful effects rippling throughout their society.,"
The course of Nations(this one in particular)
….powerful effects rippling…
Terrific Post. Short but quite a snapshot into much of what is playing out today in the West and even more so in NA. I find the comments to be perfectly reinforcing of the Post, in and of themselves.
Her tirade would have blown the roof off, no kidding!
GAA video is exaggerated? Ah, maybe and just barely, if at the edges. Mansplaining at its best per Girls.
Was sent a recent piece from MEDIUM by a 36 year old women. Strong, independent, angry, determined, talented, successful, single, professionally successful and a very unhappy women. It was a Rant by a similar women who recently was trying to curb her alcohol consumption. The writer was certain that Society had coopted "Feminisim" and she and all her friends were always socializing together with a Martini glass or Wine glass in their hands because of that. And that was a problem. She had a vague sense ….but it was society's fault that caused their dismay and such. And she hinted maybe it was another Women who betrayed them!
I think the photo of the Premier shows her with her shoes off, too!
Hi Breton,
B> Terrific Post. Short but quite a snapshot into much of what is playing out today in the West and even more so in NA.
Agree! Concept density is very high. The line between PC and respectful become both blurred and contrasted.
B> I think the photo of the Premier shows her with her shoes off, too!
I take my shoes off when I go into a mosque, I decline to take communion where it's closed, I wash before approaching a Shinto shrine, and I wear a yarmulke when I stand in front of the Western Wall, etc., and in all cases stay in back if it would distract from the worship of the faithful. But the situation is that of a private observer and I have the luxury of simple respect. When a public figure goes into a similar situation, it gets interpreted as a statement, and rather than the rules of curiosity, exploration, or respect, must inevitably be focused through the lens of opportunistic PC (thus the thought experiment of jumping through a similar hoop at a synagogue, church, or shrine).
That said, I find the composition of the picture interesting as propaganda (in the narrow sense of making a statement) in that it's the Premier alone, covered and unshod, in the back of the room rather than covered and unshod, but sharing a laugh with the Imam and others at the mosque (wasn't there but not hard to imagine that being possible).
Without wanting to sound alarmist, it seems individual/human rights, multiculturalism, and religious dogma cannot coexist indefinitely without coming into conflict.
"When a public figure goes into a similar situation, it gets interpreted as a statement"
I give her a pass on the statement. More interesting, imo, is that she was deferential in a mosque when I'm certain she wouldn't be in a church. Asymmetries like that are usually significant windows into a persons's core values.
As Allan Bloom said in Closing of the American Mind, Western culture is all about paired dualities — which are in perpetual tension. Human values and multiculturalism, secular and sacred sources of knowledge & values, church and state. There are no answers, and even balance is difficult to maintain.

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The Advocate is Louisiana's largest daily newspaper. Based in Baton Rouge, it serves the southern portion of the state, including Baton Rouge and Lafayette. A separate edition for New Orleans, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, is published. It also publishes weekly entertainment magazines: Red in Baton Rouge and Lafayette, and Beaucoup in New Orleans.
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Morning daily newspaper
Owner(s)
Georges Media
Dan Shea
Peter Kovacs
10705 Rieger Road
98,000 (weekday)
125,000 Sunday (March 2013)[citation needed]
The oldest ancestor of the modern paper was the Democratic Advocate, an anti-Whig, pro-Democrat periodical established in 1842.[citation needed]
Another newspaper, the Louisiana Capitolian, was established in 1868 and soon merged with the then-named Weekly Advocate. By 1889 the paper was being published daily. In 1904, a new owner, William Hamilton, renamed it The Baton Rouge Times and later The State-Times, a paper with emphasis on local news.[1]
In 1909, The State-Times was acquired by Capital City Press, a company newly founded by Charles P. Manship Sr. and James Edmonds. Manship purchased his partner's interest in 1912. In 1925, he also began publishing The Morning Advocate to focus on national news. The Manship family[2][better source needed] went on to become an influential force in Baton Rouge, later adding radio station WJBO[citation needed] and television station WBRZ-TV.[2]
The State-Times, an afternoon publication, ceased in October 1991. The Advocate remains the sole descendant of the original 1842 paper. The Manship family's Capital City Press company continued to own and operate The Advocate until 2013.
Handing out free copies of the New Orleans edition in the New Orleans Central Business District, October 2012
On October 1, 2012, under the Manships, The Advocate began printing and distributing a daily New Orleans edition. This was due to a perceived gap in the market[3] that materialized when New Orleans' longtime daily paper, The Times-Picayune, announced it would cut back its print publication to only three days a week.[4][5]
In March 2013, New Orleans businessman John Georges signed a letter of intent to purchase The Advocate.[6] Georges and his wife Dathel bought the newspaper through a holding company, Georges Media, on April 30, 2013.[7] The newspaper's circulation in 2013 was 98,000 (daily) and 125,000 (Sunday) as a result of its entry into and 20,000 subscriptions in the New Orleans market.[citation needed][needs update]
The Advocate relaunched its New Orleans edition August 18, 2013, as The New Orleans Advocate and later added The Acadiana Advocate, a third edition serving Lafayette and the Acadiana region.[citation needed]
On April 9, 2018 the holding company for The New Orleans Advocate purchased the New Orleans weekly Gambit and bestofneworleans.com.[8][9]
In 2019, The Advocate won its first Pulitzer Prize, in the Local Reporting category, "For a damning portrayal of the state's discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused's guilt."[10] The Advocate's reporting highlighted how the state's non-unanimous jury law—one of only two in the country, with the other being in Oregon[11]—contributed to racial disparities in incarceration and sentencing.[12] Due in part to a voter-education campaign based on The Advocate's reporting, Louisiana voters approved an amendment to the state constitution requiring unanimous jury verdicts on November 6, 2018.[13][14][15]
In May 2019, The Advocate announced that the Georges had purchased its New Orleans competitor, The Times-Picayune, and planned to merge the two papers and their websites into a new newspaper in June 2019.[16][17] Like The Advocate, the combined newspaper will publish a print edition seven days a week.[16][17] The Advocate's Baton Rouge edition was unaffected. The merged paper, carrying the mastheads of both The Times-Picayune and The New Orleans Advocate, began publication on July 1. [18]
David William Thomas, a Louisiana State University journalism professor, published a small Baton Rouge newspaper in the early 1920s, which was acquired by The Advocate. He then published papers in Hammond, and Minden, where he was elected mayor in 1936.
From 1949 to her death in 1970, Margaret Dixon was The Advocate's first woman managing editor. Veteran journalist Kenneth L. Dixon (no relation to Margaret) also worked there.
Advocate main office in Baton Rouge, 2012
Ed Cullen's "Attic Salt" column was a feature in the paper. His book Letter in a Woodpile collected some of his Morning Advocate and NPR selections.
In 2007, the newspaper lost three of its key staff with the deaths of Capitol Bureau Chief John LaPlante, health reporter and author of "The Patient Person" columns Laurie Smith Anderson and environmental writer Michael P. Dunne. LaPlante died in Texas in a drowning accident, and Anderson and Dunne succumbed to cancer.
In 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Handelsman returned to Louisiana to join The Advocate as a cartoonist and animator, and columnist James Gill moved to The Advocate from the Times-Picayune.
^ "The Advocate History". theadvocate.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
^ a b "History of the Manship family", manshiptheatre.org. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
^ Murphy, Paul. "The Advocate overwhelmed with subscribers, leaving some waiting on papers Archived October 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine." WWLTV. October 5, 2012. Retrieved on October 10, 2012.
^ Hagey, Keach (May 24, 2012). "Times-Picayune of New Orleans No Longer a Daily". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
^ Mirkinson, Jack (May 24, 2012). "New Orleans Times-Picayune Faces Deep Cuts, Will End Daily Publication". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
^ "Georges signs letter of intent to buy The Advocate". The Advocate (Louisiana). March 25, 2013. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
^ "John Georges hands Advocate publisher's reins to Dan Shea". theadvocate.com. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
^ Advocate staff (April 9, 2018). "'A perfect fit': Advocate purchases Gambit weekly, bestofneworleans.com". The New Orleans Advocate. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
^ Gambit staff (April 9, 2018). "The Advocate purchases Gambit and BestofNewOrleans.com". bestofneworleans.com. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
^ "The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local Reporting: Staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La". www.pulitzer.org. April 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
^ Wilson, Conrad (April 10, 2019). "Oregon Court Of Appeals Ruling Upholds State's Nonunanimous Juries". www.opb.org. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
^ Advocate Staff (April 15, 2019). "The Advocate wins first Pulitzer Prize for series that helped change Louisiana's split-jury law". The Advocate. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
^ Advocate Staff. "Tilting the scales series: Everything to know about Louisiana's controversial 10-2 jury law". The Advocate. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
^ Simerman, John; Russell, Gordon (November 7, 2018). "From ACLU to NRA: Campaign for unanimous juries targeted Louisiana voters across the spectrum". The Advocate. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
^ Simerman, John (May 14, 2018). "'It's time': Louisiana House backs letting voters decide on controversial jury verdict law". The Advocate. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
^ a b The Associated Press (2019-05-02). "Louisiana's The Advocate purchasing The Times-Picayune". ABC News. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
^ a b Advocate staff (2019-05-02). "Times-Picayune, nola.com bought by Advocate's Dathel and John Georges to ensure 'strong' news company". The Advocate. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
^ Kovacs, Peter (June 30, 2019). "A new day for The Times-Picayune and New Orleans Advocate: A letter from the editor to our readers". NOLA.com. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
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Agents, don't fear the big franchises
Being part of an indie brokerage has its upsides, but several agents Tuesday said that going with franchises ultimately benefited their bottom lines
Jim Dalrymple II
by Jim Dalrymple II
Being part of an indie brokerage has its upsides, but several agents Tuesday said that going with franchises ultimately benefited their bottom lines.
Five years ago, Jaime Hensley came to a crossroads.
Hensley said Tuesday during a panel at Inman Connect Las Vegas that she was running a Texas brokerage at the time, but when her partner decided to retire she began looking for new brands to work with. Ultimately, she settled on ERA, and that decision has proven to be exceedingly profitable: the size of Hensley's brokerage has doubled since then, and she now owns a title company to boot.
Jaime Hensley
"It's the best decision I've ever made," Hensley, who today is the president of American Real Estate ERA Powered, concluded. "I wouldn't have a title company today had I not affiliated."
Hensley was part of a panel of real estate leaders who all touted the benefits of joining franchises. Such companies obviously have plenty of name recognition, but Hensley said that in her case she didn't actually realize all of the benefits that they offer until she joined ERA, which is a part of industry giant Realogy.
"I didn't really know what I didn't know," she said. "A lot of agents that I started having conversations with would have never come to me as an independent."
Charis Moreno
Charis Moreno, a Los Angeles-based vice president of sales at NextHome, compared working with a major brand to a marriage. Sometimes things are really good, in other words, and sometimes it's a struggle.
But she also told the packed room Tuesday that affiliating can provide access to more resources. Larger companies can also leverage their size to gain advantages in the market. And, Moreno added, when a real estate professional finds the right brand, things just click.
"It gives a sense of belonging," she said. "You have a little more confidence."
Greg Fox
Greg Fox, the owner of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Alliance in Kansas, described a similar feeling. He said during the panel Tuesday that he has experience with multiple franchises, but when he finally joined Better Homes and Gardens "it truly became a partnership rather than a dictatorship."
For agents and brokers looking to chart a similar course and find the right franchise for them, Fox advised looking for a company that can plug whatever "holes" a brokerage might already have.
"There's no reason to partner up with somebody who mimics everything you do," he explained.
Though all the panelists stressed that affiliating was the right decision in their specific cases, they also said that the benefits have ultimately been significant for them.
"The value proposition just increased immensely for us," Hensley concluded. "It's a big decision but immediately I knew it was the best decision for me."
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Constantin Pecqueur (ur. 1801 w Arleux, zm. 1887 w Taverny) – francuski socjalista utopijny, ekonomista.

Postulował m.in. kolektywizację własności. W 1837 opublikował Economie sociale, która inspirowała w późniejszym czasie Karola Marksa. Korespondował z George Sand i Louisem Blankiem. Propagował idee głoszone przez Henriego de Saint-Simona. Zasiadał też w Komisji Luksemburskiej.

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Abderrahmen Messaoud Debbih est un joueur algérien de volley-ball, né le  à Aïn M'lila (Algérie).

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Men's Fashion: The Barong Tagalog of The Philippines
By: Ocean KaileePosted on February 28, 2022 April 7, 2022
The Barong Tagalog is the national dress of the Philippines for men. It is a long-sleeved formal shirt designed for men with special embroidery that reflects the Filipino culture. The Barong Tagalog and the infamous Maria Clara gown, which owe its name from Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere (Noli Me Tangere Buod), combine elements from the pre-colonial native Filipino and colonial Spanish clothing styles. It is traditionally made with pure textiles made from piña or abacá; although in modern times, cheaper materials such as silk, ramie, or polyester are also used. It is used on special occasions in the Philippines.
It is an attire common to Filipino culture. Usually worn in formal and semi-formal gatherings. It is worn unbuttoned and over an undershirt. Usually partnered with belted trousers and formal shoes. The Baro't saya or the Maria Clara outfit is the feminine equal of the Barong Tagalog. The Barong Tagalog was also referred to as camisa fuera or outer shirt in Filipino Spanish.
Barong Tagalog as a National Dress
Even though "Barong Tagalog" practically means " Tagalog attire ", the "Tagalog" on the name doesn't mean that it had been a kind of outfit unique to the Tagalog, as opposed to other Filipino cultural groups. The Barong Tagalog and its counterpart, the and baro 't saya for women, were donned widely amongst lowlanders who were Christianized in the Philippines through the Spanish colonial time. Rather, the Barong Tagalog was given to differentiate clothing as native (therefore "Tagalog", ex. Indio ) rather than the styles of clothes put on by Europeans and various foreign nationalities.
The traditional Barong Tagalog (Barong) is possibly the most common classic apparel of the Philippines among men. It has appreciated tremendous recognition as the distinguished outfit donned on extremely important occasions, specifically wedding ceremonies. At the same time, the traditional outfit has also been used by Presidents, various other world frontrunners, as well as Hollywood personalities.
The Barong Tagalog Today
Recently, Filipino men have handed down the Filipino clothing for the traditional western suit. Nonetheless, there is no question the sartorial achievement of the Barong Tagalog, which generally looks finest in its purest kind – transparent and cream-colored with hand embroidery in jusi or piña.
The literature of Visitacion dela Torres – The Barong Tagalog: The Philippines National Wear – shows how Filipinos were colonized as many variations of the barong had been introduced. The book describes various styles of men's dresses even before the Spanish arrived.
Through time, the Barong Tagalog has evolved. When the Philippines gained its independence, the barong has slowly changed to adapt a more flamboyant style to show freedom. The Barong Tagalog today features more colors and elaborate designs but hasn't lost its embroidered designs.
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Exciting news for Miloš Karadaglić this week as Aranjuez is No.1 in the Billboard Traditional Classical Albums chart and No.2 in the overall Classical Albums chart, in its second week of release!
Miloš' summer U.S. appearances include recent concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a solo recital at the Ravinia Festival, and a special WQXR Greene Space radio broadcast in New York City, jointly broadcast on Chicago's WFMT. Miloš performs with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl on August 5th, and his only U.S. appearance with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center in New York on August 14th.
For a full list of tour dates visit his website here!


When you're choosing a pallet manufactured from wood, it's vital that you understand the benefits of using heat treated pallets. Heat treatment is essential in order to comply with ISPM15 requirements, which prevent the transfer of pesticides and infestation during the exportation process. However, there are also other advantages to using wooden pallets that have been heattreated, including enhanced sterilisation, durability and weather resistance. At Associated Pallets, we can supply heattreated pallets, and we also offer heattreatment services for your wooden packaging.
In order for the heattreatment process to be efficient, it needs to be carried out correctly. The timber that is being used must first be debarked, as just the core is required for pallet production. The wood must then reach a temperature of at least 56 C or 132.8 F. Heating the wood to this temperature will remove a large amount of the moisture, which would otherwise result in the pallet rotting. The heattreatment process also increases the weather resistance of the pallet. When the pallet has been correctly treated and dried, it will be marked with the ISPM stamp as well as the country of origin.
The International Phytosanitary Standard for Wood Packaging, otherwise known as ISPM15, requires that all wooden forms of packaging, including pallets, are heattreated before they're used for shipping. The standard has been adopted by all the members of the European Union and 14 other countries globally, but it does not apply to plastic pallets. The main reason for this requirement is to minimise the risk of infestation. The spread of insects and other pests from overseas can have a significant impact on the local environment. Insect contamination can even result in illnesses for those who handle the pallets. Increasing sterilisation levels is another benefit of heat treating wooden pallets. Plastic pallets are easier to clean thoroughly between uses than wooden ones are. A wood pallet is at increased risk of developing bacteria and mould, especially if it is not stored correctly, due to the levels of moisture in it. However, pallets that have been heattreated will have had some of this removed, decreasing the risk of bacteria and mould developing.


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The Bikes Of Wrath
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Date: Wed, May 8, 2019 7:00PM
Where: Rialto White Rock
1732 Johnston Road (152 Street), White Rock, BC, V4B 1L3, Canada
You are invited to a special one night screening of THE BIKES OF WRATH in White Rock. Classification: PG, coarse language, nudity.
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Producer: Cameron Ford & Charlie Turnbull
Director: Cameron Ford & Charlie Turnbull
Five Australians attempt to cycle 2600kms from Oklahoma to California in honour of the westward migration undertaken by 'The Grapes of Wrath's' Joad family. Through chance encounters with everyday Americans, the cyclists expand on the novel's core themes of migration, inequality and the perceived land of opportunity. The group explores whether America has progressed since the book was written, discussing the wealth gap, immigration and the American Dream. The fascinating people they meet along the way reveal the enduring strength of human spirit despite the inequality and disenfranchisement which runs as deep today, as it did in Steinbeck's seminal novel. The Bikes of Wrath is a unique, funny and insightful documentary filled with adventure, literature, music, and human connection.


Down the avenues and alleyways.
We're the Miller's. Hoboken Hollow. Legends of the Fall. 6mm.
To kill a mocking bird. Sacajewea. Anything by Laurie Graham.
Going to concerts and spontanaiity.
Walking the great wall of China. African safari. Both of which I'll be doing next year.
To do the best I can for others and myself. To never look back, I'm not going that way.
Someone who is sensitive, tall with a bit of upholstery on the body. Easy going, considerate and true to himself and others. Bullshitters and liars need not apply.
A walk along a beach watching a sunset and having the stamina to stay awake and watch the sunrise again.


Chicago has one of the greatest food scenes in the entire country. We have numerous events that celebrate this fact (including Wing Fest, Taco Fest, Bacon Fest, Lobster Fest, Donut Fest, Rib Fest, Burger Fest, Sausage Fest, Hot Sauce Fest, Oyster Fest, and Hot Dog Fest to name a few). Yet while Chicago may be one of the greatest culinary cities in the United States, it is THE GREATEST pizza city. To celebrate this fact, Old Style's Pizza Summit was created. The event is a gathering of some of the most iconic and legit pizza establishments that both hold down the pizza scene and push it further.
To start, we began calling some of our favorite pizza establishments to invite them to be a part of the inaugural Pizza Summit. We called upon the classics first, which included Gino's East. Gino's East is one of the most iconic pizza establishments in Chicago, with a storied and delicious history. We also asked to the one man who embodies all things pizza and party, Andrew W.K., to give the inaugural keynote address. To round it our we brought our friends Empty Bottle Presents, Pizza Club Chicago, Malort and 1833 into the mix to maximize awesomeness.
Check out Old Style's Pizza Finder , powered by Pizza Club Chicago and The Uprising Creative, for some choice Chicago pizza establishments which includes Gino's East.
Chicago's first Pizza Summit is shaping up to be one for the books, and we are excited to have our friends over at Gino's East join in the festivities!


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Turning to Suskind
Yesterday I wrote about the Bruce Bartlett quotes that open the New York Times Magazine's cover story on Bush's faith. Today I'm writing about the rest of that story, by Ron Suskind. In short, it's a mess.
Suskind's central examples don't demonstrate what he thinks it does. He tells a story about how Bush, in conversation with Rep. Tom Lantos, confused Sweden and Switzerland, said that the former was a neutral power without an army. When Lantos tried to correct him, Bush persisted in his belief—and only in a later meeting conceded that he had been wrong. Now this is certainly an embarrassing story, and perhaps a disturbing one. But it does not show that Bush is a man of arrogant certainties who relies on his faith rather than on facts and refuses to reconsider his views. It shows that he is a man who sometimes has his facts wrong and will briefly persist in error. I have known very, very intelligent people, whose theological views and psychologies are quite different from those of the president, who have had similar conversations.
Suskind talks a lot about Bush's relationship with Jim Wallis, the left-wing evangelical writer. Bush at first was warm to him, but then lost interest when Wallis explained that he had to lead a fight against poverty around the world to win the war on terrorism. Does this show that Bush is uncomfortable with intellectual challenge? I should think it shows him to be unwilling to waste time with people who give him daft advice.
An anonymous Bush aide tells Suskind, hubristically, that Suskind belongs to a "reality-based community" that comments on the world while the administration goes about changing reality. Later, he quotes Mark McKinnon, Bush's ad guy. McKinnon is saying that Suskind thinks Bush is an idiot. "[Y]ou do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read the New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. . . . They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!" Suskind adds, "In this instance, the final 'you,' of course, meant the entire reality-based community."
It did? McKinnon hasn't, "of course," said anything to echo the anonymous aide's comments. His remark seems to be suggesting that a handle on reality—or at least the realities of American life—is precisely what the New York Times and its peers lack. This is just liberal self-congratulation.
As is the article as a whole. Bush may very well have too much certainty, and too little empiricism. He seems, for example, to have jumped rather alarmingly quickly from the idea that all people have a God-given right to be free to the conclusion that all peoples are capable of exercising that freedom immediately. But when Suskind concludes by quoting Wallis on how true faith never yields "easy certainty," you wish that he had done a little bit less catering to the easy certainties of the typical Times reader.


UrbGen was created by Nigel Robb.
Use the control panel to set the parameters for your city.
Hit 'update' to generate and display a new city.
UrbGen is procedural, not random - the same settings will always generate the same city.
You can download a Wavefront.obj file of the currently displayed model using 'exportOBJ'.
You can also download a text file containing the actual parameters of the currently displayed city by hitting 'exportParams'. This can then be used with the UrbGen library (see below) to generate this city in your code.
Use the left mouse button to rotate the model, the right mouse button to move it, and the scroll wheel (or two fingers on a trackpad) to zoom in or out.
You can use the web app to see how changing these values affects the layout of a city. As mentioned above, you can also use the web app to save a set of values. Any undefined parameters will be randomised.
These are suggested values; UrbGen will not restrict you setting values outside these ranges, but the results will be unpredictable.
See the documentation for a description of a city's structure, including all methods and fields.
three.js is a popular library for creating and displaying animated 3D graphics in a web browser. UrbGen provides a helper method to convert your city into a three.js geometry.
You can now use this geometry to create a three.Mesh.
For more information on using UrbGen, see the full documentation.


"Saddle your hoss before cussin' the boss" is a Texas-type saying that has appeared on signs since at least 2003. The Saltgrass Steak House restaurants have such a sign in the bar area.
The restaurant itself was a sight to see...adorned on the walls were stuffed "animals" - bobcats, foxes, etc. signs that read "Saddle your hoss before cussin' the boss" and about fifty stuffed and fake chickens everywhere!


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Following is a list of United States presidential candidates by number of votes received. Elections have tended to have more participation in each successive election, due to the increasing population of the United States, and, in some instances, expansion of the right to vote to larger segments of society. Prior to the election of 1824, most states did not have a popular vote. In the election of 1824, only 18 of the 24 states held a popular vote, but by the election of 1828, 22 of the 24 states held a popular vote. Minor candidates are excluded if they received fewer than 100,000 votes, or less than .1% of the vote in their election year.

List of presidential candidates by votes in one election

List of presidential candidates by lifetime votes
The following list indicates lifetime votes received across multiple elections in which the candidate was the nominee of a political party or was otherwise on a presidential ballot. It does include write-in votes that may have been received by candidates in elections in which they were not candidates.

See also
 List of people who received an electoral vote in the United States Electoral College
 List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin
 List of United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote
 List of United States presidential candidates by number of primary votes received

Notes

References

Lists of candidates for President of the United States


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Q: Chrome SameSite Cookies if you work with SameSite cookie attribute and set it to strict and the server return a http error code like 404 or 500 an error message is displayed in chrome. So far so good. But if then the user refresh the page (F5 or reload button) while the 404 error message is displayed the cookies are not send with the GET request.
Is this the normal behavior? Tested it with FF 71 and the strict cookies are sent.


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Home » TV & Movies » 'The Carol Burnett Show': The Real Reason Lyle Waggoner Left the Show
'The Carol Burnett Show': The Real Reason Lyle Waggoner Left the Show
The Carol Burnett Show brought plenty of comedy to primetime television screens between 1967 and 1978. The show, starring Carol Burnett, provided a series of comedic sketches (similar in format to Saturday Night Live!), with some recurring and others one-time only.
During the show's run, a few cast members came and went, including Lyle Waggoner, who appeared in the show's first seven seasons. But what was the reason for his departure?
'The Carol Burnett Show' had only a few staple cast members
Though the show ran for more than a decade, the core list of cast members hardly changed — and it wasn't a very big list. Of course, Carol Burnett was the star. Burnett had been in TV for several years before the show launched; she'd been mentored by Lucille Ball, and her sense of humor helped her pioneer women in TV. The Carol Burnett Show was the first of its kind to be hosted by a woman and named after its female host.
The show's other cast members included Vicki Lawrence, whose sense of humor and acting abilities helped her make a massive name for herself on the show. She remained a cast member through the series' entire run. Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Tim Conway, and Dick Van Dyke also starred on the show, though some of their runs lasted longer than others. Waggoner, who was a series regular when the show premiered, ended up leaving after seven seasons.
Waggoner left because he thought there were better opportunities out there
Lyle Waggoner didn't initially set out to star in a sketch comedy show. Waggoner had been acting for several years when he landed a spot on the show, but he had recently just lost another coveted role. Waggoner wanted to play Batman in the upcoming film but lost out to Adam West, which prompted him to audition for other opportunities.
Though Waggoner enjoyed his time on the show, he always wanted to do more with his career. And after seven seasons, he decided that there were bigger and better things out there for him. Waggoner left the show with the hope of advancing his career, though that ship never fully sailed. He landed a role in Wonder Woman shortly after, but he didn't build much of a reputation beyond The Carol Burnett Show. In March 2020, Waggoner died of cancer at 84.
Tim Conway took Waggoner's place
When Waggoner left, nobody was immediately hired to take his place. Tim Conway, who had made guest appearances on the show throughout all of its seasons, was eventually given a permanent spot on the show as Waggoner's replacement for the show's duration.
After 10 seasons, another cast member left: Harvey Korman. Korman left the show in favor of his own series, though there were also rumors Burnett fired him because he was rude to guest stars. Korman's replacement, Dick Van Dyke, didn't mesh well with the audience or the show. Though Van Dyke was generally a well-liked actor, he never quite found his place and left the show after only three months of filming.
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I knew I didn't like this book (that so many people seemed to like at a conference I was at in Helsinki this year), but now I have even MORE good reasons to dislike it!!
Instead, you should read THIS book: "Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It is, I think, one of my most favourite books ever. Read it, feel good about yourself, embrace your creativity, enjoy!


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I rent a four-bed apartment in Stoliv (Boka Kotorska) in just a few meters from the sea. The apartment has bathroom and kitchen, 2 large terraces with sea view, TV, stove, washer, from 30 to 35e per day to rent the whole apartment.
The apartment is located on the ground floor, basement. It consists of two bedrooms, one is a double bed and one with two single beds, side by side. It has a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom, air conditioning, tv.
Slightly larger unit, 35m2 in size, suitable for three adults or three adults + one child, offers bedroom, en-suite bathroom with shower cabin, terrace and kitchenette. Room is equipped with air conditioning and cable TV. For your convenience, dining table is set outside. Exceptionally large terrace, about 25m2 in size, gives unforgettable experience of breathtaking views and sun tanning all day long. Please, note that kitchenette is shared with neighboring unit.


Every week Dawn Brierley and myself will be sharing with your our experiences with reading Robert Holden's new book Loveability. Join us in a loving communion of spiritual unfolding and endless amounts of love.
I have just finished reading Part 1 (of Loveability by Robert Holden PH.D, Published by Hay House) in the holiest place in my life – the bath tub, which in itself is rather lovely because taking a soak is the one way in which I show love to myself, it's where I simply am All that I AM – flaws an' all!
As I read the words from chapter 5: Live your Love my whole being screamed an almighty "YES!" that when heard by the Universe must have sounded cosmically orgasmic! Reading Robert's declaration that upon his initial reading of my Go-To-Text, 'A Course in Miracles' he rarely got to the end of a page without wondering what on earth he had just read, (ACIM can leave you feeling confused if it's purely digested with the mind) I resonated with his truth in saying that ACIM had a habit of disengaging the intellect (causing the confusion).
Don't you just love that disengaging process? All seems calms, perfect, whole and complete. The distinct lack of mindless egoist chatter makes for a healthier mine that can finally love – Love on life, Love on Self, Love on God and Love on YOU. Blissful Perfection!
My own journey of pressing that 'mute' button has developed to a stage that I now know that my Go-To-Tools are easily accessible wherever I am – be it in a queue purchasing those must have heels, latest coral weave handbag or even sat at my desk studying financial planning tools and goal setting schedules with clients! My disengaging process begins with the mental practice of Bhakti Yoga (Something Robert discusses briefly in Loveability), whereby I chant devotional mantras to the Universal – God – Presence. I chant the Ganesha Mantra, Lakshmi Mantra and even the more simplistic Om~Chanting.
Robert speaks of his first spiritual teacher Avanti Kumar who led him to his journey to India, Buddhist Monks and then to forming a lifelong LOVE friendship with Tom Carpenter. My soul smiled as I read about his journey. His ability to love and allow love into his life meant that he allowed his eternal loveliness to be accessible by all these people. He was far from ever 'truly' alone on his journey.
So love within, I am making wonderful progress on my journey, I even feel my heart opening to love once more and I feel the closeness of my Twin Flame drawing nearer as the hours pass by. I can relate to Robert's journey as right now I take this 'Loveability Journey', I may not be trekking across India, but I am on a journey of Loveability with a dear Soul Brother & Friend; George, the "G" to my "D" (making us "The D&G of Spirituality", so I know that I am not alone. I am safe, I am love, I am home and I am my Self.
Identify with Love, and you are Safe. Identify with Love, and you are Home. Identify with Love, and find your Self.
As any spiritual junkie would know most metaphysical and spiritual books dwell on the concept of love. The very purpose of spirituality is to help us awaken to our inherent connection to God, Source, Spirit or any name that you wish to give to the pure-positive, all-loving, infinite intelligence that flows through every single piece of consciousness in our universe. In other words, all kinds of spiritual concepts and modalities are alternative ways of attuning ourselves to who we really are: Love. With this in mind I expected that Robert Holden's Loveability would be exactly what its description said; A meditation of Love. Another account of a concept that, despite the power it held was starting to become a New Age catch phrase that no longer enthused or challenged me in any way. However, I was up for a pleasant surprise.
Settling in for my daily reading session at Starbucks I perfunctorily turned to the first chapter and begun reading. Sentence after sentence I found myself becoming absorbed in the pages and allowed the energy of love that seemed to be literally exuding from the pages to envelop me and fill me up with ecstasy. Even though the anecdotes were simple and the concepts were familiar, there was something about the way things were conveyed that made everything seem more magical. Robert Holden's unique clarity and affable simplicity of his prose manages to successfully meld spiritual concepts with down-to-earth humour and life experiences that everyone can relate to.
A particular example Robert uses to explain our loving ontology is that of babies. Have you ever seen a depressed baby? Have you ever witnessed a baby holding a grudge against another human being? Everything about little babies is pure and loving, in fact no matter any physical abnormalities or characteristics, all babies pretty much look the same. In Robert's own words, "when you really pay attention to babies, you notice that their bodies are still in soft focus. They are barely physical. Their soul dances lightly across the body. They are pure energy. They are a vibration of love." This simple yet powerful example unfolds everything there is to know about love.
When you come to realize that we all used to be loving little babies; pure, positive and unconditionally loving, then you are enlightened to the truth of who you really are and all the masks, pretences, resentment and petty human concerns fall into the shadows. This subtle shift in perception was powerful enough to catapult me into enlightenment once again and shock me out of nonchalance, rekindling my passion for spirituality and my diligence towards finding authenticity in a world of illusion. It's needless to say that I read the whole of part one in one sitting, and the only resistance I had in finishing the book in a day was the pact I've made with Dawn to read a part of it every week.


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Medical technology: diabetes retinal screening through deep learning
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), a complication of the retina brought about by diabetes, is one of the most frequent reasons for vision loss in European adults between 25 and 60 years of age. When detected early, treatment can effectively reduce or prevent vision loss. To date however, national screening programs have been available in only a few countries and even then, they are costly.
As part of the FED4SAE innovation measure supported by fortiss, Ubotica Technologies emerged as the winner of an open call and has developed a deep learning-based solution for detecting the presence of DR indicators in retinal images. These DR indicators can be made recognizable with the help of special retina and fundus cameras.
By employing the neural network dependability kit (NNDK) software developed by fortiss, researchers were able to improve the deep learning model so that it can be directly utilized in a fundus camera. The solution was developed to help ophthalmologists consistently and precisely assess and diagnose DR. For this purpose, and with the help of NNDK, the solution also supplies information regarding the foundation on which the assessment was made.
The goal of the development was to create a working prototype that demonstrates the classification of retinal fundus images for the presence of DR indicators. Due to their data-managed approach however, the inherent uncertainties of machine learning algorithms restrict integration into this type of classification system, especially in such a safety-critical application.
The major challenges in employing artificial intelligence-based (AI) solutions involve on the one hand the ability to make statements regarding the reliability of artificial neural network (ANN) decisions with respect to robustness, interpretability and accuracy, and on the other the continuous monitoring of the neural network decisions.
Neural networks are artificial networks made up of many small units (neurons) featuring a high degree of connectivity. The individual neurons are adaptive, which means the network is able to learn. Neural networks have been utilized on a large scale in recent years in a wide range of applications such as autonomous driving, or in production for image recognition, object detection and perception, and also for decision making. The issue is that these adaptive components are difficult to test with conventional methods. For the ANN-supported classification of medical images in particular, it's important to determine the robustness of ANNs with respect to noisy or even maliciously manipulated sensor data. Since there is no proven method for the development of reliable neural networks, there is also a significant demand for diverse metrics suitable for measuring important reliability characteristics.
Using 35,000 freely-available, pre-classified retinal images, Ubotica trained a deep learning-based neural network for DR indication. The technical solution utilizes the
Intel Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit (VPU), an electronic processor unit that can be directly integrated into the fundus camera. The VPU first pre-processes the retinal images with its integrated image filter functions. The trained neural network is then utilized to screen the retinal image for DR indicators. NNDK is employed in the development of the neural network to assess its performance with various metrics, and thus to further improve the model.
NNDK, a fortiss-developed open source toolbox for supporting safety engineering and a better understanding of neural networks, aids the verification, test case generation and calculation of metrics for neural networks. The platform relies on formal methods for modeling and rigorously testing computer systems in order to verify the accuracy of safety critical systems and to argue for the quality of neural networks. This allows the development of neural networks that are more robust, reliable, interpretable and trustworthy.
The key functions of the NNDK software include:
a formal argumentation machine for ensuring that the generalization does not lead to undesired behavior
novel reliability metrics for indicating the sufficient elimination of uncertainties in the product life cycle
runtime monitoring for arguing whether a neural network decision is supported during operation through previous similarities in the training data
In the development of the DR detection system, the NNDK reliability metrics and its support for runtime monitoring played a special role. With the help of a special metric for calculating the neuron coverage, the size of the neural network could be reduced by 74 percent for example - without significantly influencing its accuracy when classifying the retinal images - thus significantly accelerating calculation of the classification results.
Furthermore, the runtime monitoring function was employed to show the user of the camera the training images that most closely match the analyzed image. This allows the person examining the images to perform an additional independent review of the decision made by the AI technology, thus supplementing the in-line DR detection with one verifiable AI element.
The solution that was developed is not aimed at replacing medical experts with the screening of the retinal fundus images, rather to support the role of the examining physician through the creation of an initial classification. What's also crucial is that fortiss added an explanation component for medical professionals, which reinforces trust in the decision made by the AI technology. The software thus helps ophthalmologists precisely and consistently assess and diagnose DR.
Ubotica is working together with retina camera manufacturers and the Irish public health service to establish the solution on the market. The function in the NNDK software that monitors the decisions made by the ANNs offers a significant advantage for solution integrators. The utilization of Ubotica's technology will considerably improve the efficiency of the cameras, as well as the ophthalmologist's approach.
Ubotica Technologies is small-to-medium Irish enterprise that specializes in AI solutions for edge-based computer vision applications. The company maintains development centers at several European locations that collaborate with research centers to spur innovations for the target markets. The primary target markets include aerospace, high-speed motion tracking and medical image analysis.
Ubotica emerged as an open call winner within the framework of the FED4SAE initiative (Federated Cyber-physical Digital Innovation Hubs for the Smart Anything Everywhere initiative), a program that offers European start-ups and small-to-medium enterprises access to leading technology sources, expertise and industrial platforms, in addition to well-connected business infrastructures and regional innovation centers.
Dr. Holger Pfeifer
Competence field manager Software Dependability
fortiss GmbH
Landesforschungsinstitut des Freistaats Bayern
für softwareintensive Systeme
E-Mail: pfeifer[at]fortiss.org
16.11.2021 Vision in the European Focus Vision Research and Ophthalmology


A car this fancy is best enjoyed with music at high volume, preferably in a residential area!
The Supra can go from 0 to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds. Not as fast as a Ferrari F8 Tributo, but faster than a Jaguar F-Type Coupé.
The Supra won't be the fastest car around. It will only reach a top speed of 155 mph. But this is ok because sometimes the desire to look good outweighs the urge to drive fast…sometimes.
Toyota participates in racing through TOYOTA GAZOO Racing to test the performance and limits of their vehicles. They take their vehicles on 5 continent drives, and through rough terrains. Even the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, Akio Toyoda, gets behind the wheel.
It's annoying to drive cars with steering wheels that are too heavy. A driver has be feel like their in control, so a wheel cannot feel too flimsy. It has to be sturdy enough that people can drive with confidence, but not so sturdy that it feels like tightening a large industrial value.
You'll be able to choose between red, silver, black, yellow, dark grey, blue, and white for the exterior colors. For the interior, you'll be able to choose the color of the seats, steering wheel, and the center console.
When you've had to wait 21 years for the new generation of a car, it sure does build the excitement the closer you get to the next release date.


Former Canadian Olympian Kelly Stefanyshyn, the operations director for the 2016 World Short Course Swimming Championships, was honored with the first plunge in the temporary pool being used to host next week's championships.
Stefanyshyn represented Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics where she was a part of Canada's 6th-place 400 free relay and finished 8th in the 200 back individually. She also won two World Short Course Championship medals at the 1999 event in Hong Kong: silver in the 100 back and bronze in the 200 back.
Final preparations of the two-week transformation are underway in the days before championships that run from December 6th-11th. The pool, filled with 1300 tonnes of water, is built on top of the hockey rink traditionally home to the Windsor Spitfires of the minor league Ontario Hockey League.
The last steps in the process include hiding the last of the hockey logos and installing the timing system.


A sibling to Koultoura, KLTR is serving up quality coffee with hearty brunch fare in Central Jakarta that complement well with work meetings.
Brunch is, more and more, becoming a popular fixation in Jakarta. If you're a brunch enthusiast, thank your lucky stars that there's no lack of establishments within the city to help you with that. For years, Koultoura Coffee in West Jakarta has been a dependable family-friendly neighbourhood coffee shop for the residents nearby. And now, it has branched out to Central Jakarta with a new look, vibe and even name.
The shortening of name to just KLTR reflects the establishment's aim in setting the second addition apart from its main branch. The Brooklyn-inspired interior, with red brick walls and soft jazz music playing in the background, is certainly a one hundred and eighty degrees turn from Koultoura's cutesy appeal.
Food wise, KLTR focuses on hearty brunch fare that keep you sated easily. For example, the fluffy aerated egg in Full Breakfasts is the obvious choice when it comes to a no-brainer pick. Then there's also Bulgogi Sandwich served with homemade kimchi and the recommended French Toast with Maple Pork Bacon that suit those with big appetites.
Over here, KLTR often attracts young professionals who often drop by for a coffee and brunch to go with their meeting. Don't be surprised to see diners pitching business ideas or proposals over their meal. Things may take a serious turn with all the business talks but KLTR easily dispels that over at the coffee bar, where barista prepares coffee and pour them right in front of diner like a mixologist, while engaging in friendly conversation at the same time.
With an atmosphere that is both earnest and laidback, there's little wonder why KLTR is quickly getting the attention they deserved. Coupled with quality coffee that they've been consistently serving, it won't be long before KLTR steps out of Koultoura's shadow.


Debra Sue Smith, 64, of Florence Ave. Williamsburg, passed away on Saturday, July 21, 2018 at the Corbin Nursing Home.
She was born on June 26, 1954 in Cincinnati, OH to the late Floyd Coldiron and Marie (Barger) Coldiron.
She is survived by her children, Christopher Smith (Christy), Angela Harrison and Stacy Pals (Wade) all of Williamsburg; seven grandchildren, Isaac Smith, Tyler Smith, Briana Hurst, Katelynn Harrison, Emily Leach, Makenna Leach and Avery Pals; two great-grandchildren, Paisley Adams and Madison Hurst; two sisters, Nancy Eshenbaugh of Youngstown, OH and Janet Carter of New Market, TN; brother, Doug Coldiron of Cincinnati, OH; several nieces and nephews; and a host of other family and friends to mourn her passing.
The funeral service was held Monday, July 23, at the Croley Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Wilbur Huddleston officiating.


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By Alan Ward | Thu 4th May 2017 - 10:15 am
With more and more people relying on the private rented sector for their housing, the Liberal Democrats will be looking to develop a workable policy that supports tenants and encourages good landlords.
Last year Caroline Pidgeon from the Greater London Assembly published startling research. It showed that in the whole of 2015/16, just 411 landlords had been prosecuted across the capital, with a quarter of all boroughs not prosecuting any landlord at all. This is despite there being over 400 regulations governing the sector.
This highlights that the problem of tackling bad landlords is in large part due to regulations not being properly enforced, rather than a lack of rules in general.
The RLA, in its election manifesto, is calling for long term funding for council enforcement supported by the new civil penalties they can charge criminal landlords under the Housing and Planning Act.
In 2014, Lord Shipley quoted a report produced for the RLA, which noted that "too much resource goes into regulating good landlords and too little in tackling bad landlords." He was right. We need to be smarter in tackling the crooks who have no place in a modern rental market.
To enable councils to focus on rooting out the bad landlords there should be a system of co-regulation. This would enable the majority of good landlords to self-regulate, with independent dispute resolution to protect tenants. Local authorities can then identify and chase after those not registered.
We all want to see longer letting terms which give tenants more security. One of the deterrents to this is that landlords are faced with the prospect of an average of 43 weeks to repossess a property where a tenant is not paying their rent or is committing anti-social behaviour.
We need to address the long, expensive court processes that landlords and tenants face in seeking to uphold their rights. The RLA is calling for the establishment of new, specialist housing courts. Tenants could use them to ensure their contractual rights are enforced where landlords are not meeting them, and landlords could use them to more quickly regain possession of their properties where tenants are not behaving or are failing to pay their rent. This will help to give landlords the confidence they need to provide longer term tenancies and allow tenants to obtain their rights without relying on local authorities.
The manifestos for this election need to recognise the private rental market as a key part of tackling the housing crisis, with the majority of good landlords being partners, rather than scape goats.
We can then work with the next government to address the biggest issue, which is the shortage of rented accommodation in many areas which drives up rents and reduces choices for tenants. The RLA has a suite of policies to boost supply including bringing smaller plots of unused public sector land and empty properties into use for private rental homes, coupled with positive taxation policies that promote growth. We hope that they can be supported by the Liberal Democrats.
* Alan Ward is Chairman of the Residential Landlords Association. It tweets @RLA_News. Its manifesto for the private rented sector is available on its website.
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David 4th May '17 - 12:12pm
Interesting article. You may want to define RLA a bit higher up – took me a while to work it out.
P. J. 4th May '17 - 1:13pm
Thank you Alan.
We need to get away form the evil landlord, poor oppressed and mistreated tenant stereotype. Bad landlords need to be brought to heel and driven out. Good landlords need to be supported against bad tenants. Unfortunately the legislation and constant tinkering in this area has led to the good landlords being driven out instead. I would be interested to know where you stand on tenant fees. 'RLA = Residential Landlords Association' to save others the time.
David Raw 4th May '17 - 2:23pm
Tinkering with 'the market' is not the answer. There needs to be a massive expansion of Council housing, something all governments have failed to do over the last sixty years.
expats 4th May '17 - 2:55pm
David Raw 4th May '17 – 2:23pm……Tinkering with 'the market' is not the answer. There needs to be a massive expansion of Council housing, something all governments have failed to do over the last sixty years……
Agreed…Council housing with NO RIGHT TO BUY…. Corbyn has promised 500,000 over 5 years… will he do it; who knows, but it is a policy worth getting behind instead of LDV's constant, broad brush, "Labour's weird policies"…
Lorenzo Cherin 4th May '17 - 4:33pm
Yes a massive expansion of council housing.
But why not have a radical policy of true homes for ownership for all.
The Tories just talk about it and rely on the market
Labour merely tinker with it
We could have an extension of the rent to buy idea, to mean, not no right to buy, in housing associations, or council houses,currently a policy that makes sense due to complete lack of supply, but lets have ownership for tenants , not buy and sell, stay and own.
I lost my house
I rent
Lousy
Demoralising!
Lorenzo Cherin, How do you stop "Buy to Sell" in council house when the "Right to Buy" exists?
Several friends of mine paid for the house, at a massive discount, their parents lived in….Parents die; children inherit house; sell house…Whatever they get for the house is pure profit; they don't care what happens to it after that….House becomes 'buy to let' at Landlord (not council) rent…
Thatcher's political 'swizz' is a major cause of the housing shortage…How can councils afford to build houses when, due to long council tenancy in another property, the tenant can buy it at a massive discount?
The concept of council homes was twofold…1) A home for those who could not afford to buy or pay private sector rents…2) A home for families who would save for their own property when the house would revert to the council and the cycle continue…
A Social Liberal 4th May '17 - 7:51pm
A Lib Dem housing policy should include the following points.
*Reducing HA and council rents back to one which covers maintenance and repairs, with levels of central government grants returning to pre austerity levels. Typically social rents used to be 55-60%
*Bring back a fair rents scheme so that private landlords cannot carry on ripping off government and tenants.
*Begin a massive social house building scheme.
*Stop councils building housing to sell
*End right to buy
RLA Policy 5th May '17 - 4:40pm
Thank you for these comments. The RLA recognises the need for more housing of all tenures, including council and housing association. We believe that, given appropriate support and policies, private landlords can help address the housing crisis by boosting the supply of new homes to rent, and help housebuilders bring forward development.
The sector is also mature enough to self-regulate, freeing up resources for local councils to target the minority of criminal operators who plague the sector, and drive them out of business.
Cllr Ron Tindall 7th May '17 - 10:15am
The only long-term solution to bad housing is to build 300,000 homes a year and it cannot be left just to the market. We have to support major increases in council building for both rent and sale.
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The Government of Nunavut's former chief coroner is suing the territory for $1 million in damages, alleging she was fired after fighting back against senior bureaucrats who prevented her from doing her job.
The lawsuit was filed by a lawyer representing Padma Suramala with the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit on June 22.
Padma Suramala is seen in Rankin Inlet in 2017 during a coroner's inquest. Suramala is suing the territory for wrongful termination and is seeking $1 million in damages.
The 11-page statement of claim alleged government officials meddled with and pressured the coroner's investigations, suppressed numerous reports, prevented her from attending the death scene of a police shooting and harassed the coroner since "as early as" 2016.
The conduct of the Department of Justice "was unfair, malicious, unethical, unlawful, high-handed, arbitrary and callous," the statement alleged.
According to the statement, a deputy minister with the department, William MacKay, "prohibited" the coroner from releasing a public report on domestic violence, prompted by Nunavut's high rate of intimate partner violence, the statement said. The report included risk factors for such deaths and recommendations to prevent similar deaths.
The report was eventually tabled in the Nunavut Legislature by MLA Adam Arreak Lightstone on June 7, 2018, the seventh anniversary of the death of his sister and her two children at the hands of her common-law partner who then killed himself. The MLA received the report in 2016 as he was a member of the family whose tragedy was included in the five-year investigation.
Nunavut has one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence in Canada, according to Statistics Canada. Its capital, Iqaluit, recorded the second-highest rate of violence against women among Canadian communities between 2008 and 2015, according to StatsCan numbers analyzed by Discourse Media.
Nunavut's Department of Justice is the sole defendant named in the lawsuit.
The Department of Justice said in an email it could not comment on the specifics of the statement of claim at this time, however the government will be filing a statement of defence in due course.
The response "also represents the response of Deputy Minister William MacKay," the Department of Justice spokesperson said.
Suramala began work with the government in 2005 as a registered nurse, eventually rising to chief coroner in 2010 — a position she held until her termination on April 25 of this year, according to the statement of claim.
The departments of Health and Justice regularly denied the chief coroner timely access to health records in the course of her death investigations.
Health department protocol requires the chief coroner to obtain a warrant from a justice of the peace in order to access health records, the statement said. But an independent audit conducted in 2017 by former Saskatchewan chief coroner Kent Stewart said the coroner should have access to the records without a warrant. Legal counsel for the chief coroner's office, Sheldon Toner, said the current Nunavut Coroner's Act did not require Suramala to obtain a warrant.
"One of the necessary steps prior to conducting an autopsy is for the coroner to obtain a copy of the deceased's medical records," according to the statement of claim.
In early 2018, the departments of Health and Justice rejected this finding, according to the statement of claim.
On Feb. 5, the government suspended Suramala "pending investigation into the allegations of misconduct." Suramala was not told of any specific allegations but was told the investigation was "nondisciplinary in nature," according to the statement of claim.
On Feb. 13, the government told Suramala she was being investigated for unapproved outside employment with the YWCA in Iqaluit, which runs the local women's shelter, and for obtaining medical records without a warrant.
The government held a "fact-finding investigation" into the allegations, including interviewing Suramala. The chief coroner "did not have the right to be accompanied by legal counsel" during the investigation, Nunavut's director of legal and constitutional law, Adrienne Silk, is alleged to have told Suramala. This is despite the Department of Justice enlisting its own lawyer to conduct the investigation, the statement of claim said.
On April 25, Suramala received a termination letter that said she breached government policy "regarding outside activity" and had not followed the direction of her supervisors when accessing medical records without a warrant.
The statement alleged the government failed to follow its own disciplinary policies when it did not provide Suramala with a chance to respond to the allegations, did not give her fair warning and denied her access to legal representation.
The statement alleges $1 million in damages and special damages to be determined at trial.
Correction — June 27, 2018: This article has been edited from a previous version that incorrectly referred to Nunavut's Department of Justice as a plaintiff in the lawsuit.


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There are different programs that can be written to develop such programs, PASCAL, JAVA. VISUAL BASIC, and C++ etc. But I will be making use of PHP, Database (MySQL) they are both working with Apache server (Xamp). The Software design used Macromedia Dreamweaver, firework, flash, and switchmax.
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Q: i is not defined for loop in react project Does anyone have any idea why i is not defined in this loop? i cannot figure it out...
I'm trying to paginate through the pages of data received from an api and gather it all into one array and store it in state, but my for loop doesn't seem to be working because of the error: "i is not defined"
how else should i go about this???
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    fetch(`https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/`)
      .then(res => res.json())
      .then(data => {
        let characters = data.results;
        const totalPages = data.info.pages;
        if (totalPages > 1) {
          for (i = 2; i <= totalPages; i++) {
            let page = i;
            fetch(`https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/?page=${i}`)
              .then(res => res.json())
              .then(data => {
                characters = characters.concat(data.results);
                if (page === totalPages) {
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A: You can create a for loop like you have done above
 for (i = 2; i <= totalPages; i++) {
     //perform loop
 }

However this generates a variable i in the global namespace and this is generally speaking a bad idea.
therefore you should initialise i before using it like so:
 for (let i = 2; i <= totalPages; i++) {
     //perform loop
 }

Therefore ECMA decided to have a mode where this (and my other features that would cause undesirable side effects would instead throw an error).
see more here https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_strict.asp
As your app is in use-strict mode it will be throwing the error "i is not defined"
Remember to initialize any variable before using it!

Couple things you should know about let and var

*

*var and let can change their value and const cannot change its value

*var can be accessible anywhere in function but let and const can only be accessible inside the block where they are declared.

A: Because i is not defined. You need a var or let in front of i to define a new variable.
for(let i = 2; i <= totalPages; i++ )

A: - for (i = 2; i <= totalPages; i++) {
+ for (let i = 2; i <= totalPages; i++) {


Several people have been found dead inside a business in Mandan, North Dakota, according to police.
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Police were seen outside a business called RJR Maintenance and Management.
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Title Guns : who should have them? / edited by David B. Kopel.
Physical description 475 p.,  p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents Introduction / David B. Kopel -- 1. Arms and the Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal / Mary Zeiss Stange -- 2. Background Checks and Waiting Periods / David B. Kopel -- 3. The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration / Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond -- 4. "Assault Weapons" / David B. Kopel -- 5. Bad Medicine: Doctors and Guns / Don B. Kates, Henry E. Schaffer, John K. Lattimer, George B. Murray and Edwin H. Cassem -- 6. Children and Guns / David B. Kopel -- 7. Conclusion / David B. Kopel.
Summary The increasing amount of violence in the United States in recent years has led to measures to control gun purchases and limit their availability. Against the arguments of gun-control lobbyists, who want to further decrease the number of weapons, or even ban guns altogether, are the voices of those who contend that gun bans are unrealistic solutions to crime, and serve only to deny a valid form of self-defense to law-abiding citizens. Going beyond the emotional appeals and stilted rhetoric on gun control, Guns: Who Should Have Them? tackles the problems in a straightforward, intelligent manner. Each chapter in this powerful volume, written by leading experts in law, criminology, medicine, psychiatry, and feminist studies, addresses a major issue in the gun-control debate.
The conclusions of this carefully detailed and superbly argued study are difficult to deny: "gun control" is a red herring that has been deflecting attention from the true causes of crime, namely, the breakdown of the family; failed social welfare programs; and increasing hopelessness among male youths, especially in our troubled inner cities.
Other author Kopel, David B.
Subject Gun control -- United States.


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Looking for Alaska releases their new single, 'Home'
For release4th September 2020, pre-save here
'Home' is a calming, intimate indie acoustic song, which reflects upon a cosy and isolated feeling, also illuminating the warm musicianship (and love) between Amy Maynard and Aaron Gott.
It is the second single from the upcoming album 'Light and Shadow' due to drop late 2020. Home depicts the raw emotional vocals, sultry acoustics, and creates a nostalgic/lost vibe, but finding the comfort of "home" in your significant other. The song features haunting violin work by Pascal Roggen (Albi & The Wolves, Shez Raja) and beautiful minimalist production from Ben Edwards of The Sitting Room.
LFA new single 'Home', is accompanied by a stunning music video directed by VNZMA award winner Chris Lane of Big Kid Films (Winner of the best music video for "Inside Out" by Avalanche City 2016). Shot on location at a stunning tiny house in Raglan, New Zealand. The video perfectly captures the essence of finding a home in your 'other half'.
The authentic (LFA) duo, have a headline tour in Aotearoa, the excitement of new single releases, as well as their first appearance in the USA to perform at Salmonfest in Alaska, which unfortunately has been postponed to the following year.
LFA's sophomore self-titled album was released in 2016. It was nominated for best debut album at the NZ Taite music awards in 2017 and spent 12 weeks on the NZ album charts, peaking at number 9 on the NZ charts. The album has received over 100,000 streams on Spotify and has seen LFA complete 2 headline tours of NZ, tour internationally in Europe and Australia, at home at the Auckland Folk Festival, Whare Flat Folk Festival, TSB Festival of Lights and Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival.
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