String art is a technique for the creation of visual artwork where images emerge from a set of strings that are spanned between pins. Now, at TU Vienna this work can be delegated to a robot—an example of a complex task that digital fabrication can solve.
The basic idea of string art is simple: hooks distributed on a frame are connected by strings back and forth until they fuse to a perceptible image. That way, very interesting geometric patterns can be created—indeed, true experts even manage to create portraits. Traditionally, artists craft such images manually in a highly sophisticated and tedious design process which requires experience and a steady hand.
At TU Vienna, this kind of creation of artistic images has now been automated: the computer calculates the optimal thread path from an arbitrary given image and an industrial robot then takes over the job of arranging the thread.
"From a scientific point of view, this is a very interesting problem because it is particularly difficult to solve," says Przemyslaw Musialski from the Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Geometry at TU Vienna. In general, a picture cannot be exactly reproduced in this way—after all, the thread method cannot be used to set individual pixels, but only to draw continuous lines. It is therefore necessary to find the best possible approximation.
This is a challenge: the number of different ways to span a thread between a larger number of hooks is astronomical. It is completely impossible to try all conceivable variants. "This task belongs to the so-called NP-hard problems," says Musialski. "This is the class of computing problems that cannot be solved accurately by computers in a reasonable amount of time."
To create the image, a circular frame with 256 hooks is used. "Our calculations have shown that increasing the number of hooks any further improves the final result only marginally," says Przemyslaw Musialski. The thread may be stretched from the right or left side of each hook to the right or left side of any other hook. This way, even with only about 30 threadlines, there are more possible variants than there are atoms in the observable universe—and in order to reproduce a recognizable picture, a much larger number is required. Therefore, it was a great challenge to find an algorithm to compute a path for the thread to reproduce a given image as accurately as possible.
However, the mathematical solution to the problem was not enough for the research team. The goal was to produce true "string art" in a fully automated manner. A high-precision industrial robot was used to span a single long thread across 256 hooks in order to create circular string art images with a diameter of 63cm. Even the industrial robot cannot complete this task in a jiffy: Depending on the image, the production takes 2-5 hours and requires between 2 and 6 kilometers of thread.
The research team is part of the Center for Geometry and Computational Design at TU Vienna and it was supported by Peter Wonka's research group at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. "Even though our robot produces pretty pictures, our work is of course not an art project," says Przemyslaw Musialski. "Ultimately, we want to show how particularly difficult technical problems can be solved. In the string art project, we work with methods that will play an important role in digital fabrication in the future."


She was originally known as Star-Spangled Kid II, but took the identity of Stargirl when she was presented with the Cosmic Rod by Starman VII, Jack Knight.
Courtney Whitmore found Sylvester Pemberton's gear in her stepfather's belongings and donned the costume in order to annoy him as partial revenge for marrying her mother and supposedly forcing the family to move from Los Angeles to Blue Valley, Nebraska. Dugan, a skilled mechanic, designed and built S.T.R.I.P.E., a Powered Armor which he rides in to accompany and protect her.
As well as her relationships with Atom Smasher and Captain Marvel, Courtney is the object of a crush held by Jakeem Thunder. She has also been stalked by Solomon Grundy who was at one point obsessed with her.
Eventually, she joined the Justice Society of America and, after being given Starman's (Jack Knight's) cosmic rod/staff, changed her identity to Stargirl. Courtney has appeared in most issues of JSA and it was in these pages that her little sister Patricia Dugan was born.
Stargirl is one of the more powerful members of the JSA, thanks to her cosmic rod and converter belt. She has developed from a bit of a brat to a well-rounded heroine. She is best friends with Hawkgirl and is also close to Power Girl, whom Courtney considers a role model of sorts. As well, she has started to befriend the new Supergirl, Kara Zor-El. Early in her superhero career, Courtney was invited to join Young Justice; she declined, since she was already a member of the JSA, but she remained a reserve member. Courtney often trusts and stands up for those whom other members of the team seemingly distrust, such as Atom Smasher, or Brainwave. She has also developed good leadership skills and courage, often throwing herself directly into harm's way. She can also be quite violently effective when angered. After Courtney's family was killed by Per Degaton's Forces (incident later erased from history) she utilized the rod to disintegrate all of the attackers.
Despite a glimpse into the future, which showed an adult Starwoman married to Albert Rothstein (a.k.a. fellow JSA member Atom Smasher), Courtney briefly dated another JSA member, Captain Marvel, who in actuality is a teenage boy named Billy Batson. However, Captain Marvel was, by all appearances to those not knowing Billy's secret, an adult, and the seemingly pedophiliaic relationship between Marvel and Stargirl drew the attention of JSA members Jakeem Thunder and Jay Garrick, the original Flash. After being confronted by Garrick over the issue, Marvel chose to leave the JSA - and Courtney - instead of telling the team his secret. Marvel has recently reappeared in the JSA and revealed he can't give his identity due to the wisdom of Solomon blocking him.
Courtney's family was murdered by agents of Per Degaton. She traveled with the rest of the JSA back to 1951. The time-traveling adventure featured the newest versions of classic JSA members meeting and fighting alongside the originals to try to save her family and the future. While there, she found herself forced to work with Atom Smasher again, for the first time since he defected to Black Adam's rival team. Following this, she apparently forgave him, but Atom Smasher was then nearly murdered by The Spectre. Though Atom Smasher was saved, the events clearly revealed the depth of feeling she has for him. She was quite relieved to return after this time-traveling adventure to see that her family was still alive.
Recently Atom Smasher was tried and convicted for actions he took while working for Black Adam, during a TV appearance Courtney stated that even though he was in prison she would "Wait for him"
During the Infinite Crisis, Courtney was approached by the Shade, who told her of the final demise of her biological father. The tragedy, and the witnessing of the love between Liberty Belle and Jesse Quick, a love even stronger than their strained family bond, led her to rethink her family life. She discovered that she couldn't hate her biological father, even for being an absentee, a slacker and even a supervillain thug, but learned from the tragedy to accept Pat Dugan as the first true paternal figure in her life.
While other members of the Justice Society were phased from the main Earth to the new Earth-Two, Whitmore along with teammates Mister Terrific and Doctor Mid-Nite remained, revealing that they would not have been native to Earth-Two.
Stargirl survived the Crisis largely intact, and has begun attending college. She has changed her equipment: her rod now compresses to a small cylinder, and when she activates it, her costume and belt appear while the rod grows to full size. She has started to take driving lessons from Mr. Terrific.
Courtney is involved with the new JSA helping to find the new Starman and is apparently somewhat of a hero figure for Cyclone. In preview art for Issue 3, Courtney and Maxine Hunkel are seen picking out Maxine's new costume. During this Courtney notes that calling yourself the anything Kid apparently leads to people treating you like a six-year old.
None, average human without her weapons.
Stargirl possesses the strength level of a girl who age, size and weight who engages in intensive regular exercise.
In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Chaos at the Earth's Core", Supergirl and Stargirl were portrayed as rivals, although by the end of the episode, the two appeared to start to form a friendship.
Stargirl, who was previously called Star-Spangled Kid, is Courtney Whitmore, stepdaughter of Pat Dugan. The character was created by Geoff Johns, who is said to have based her personality on that of his sister who tragically died in TWA Flight 800. Johns is an avid fan of Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew and Courtney's original outfit was quite similar to Zoo Crew member Yankee Poodle's.
Stargirl is still a teenager.
Stargirl has dated Captain Marvel.
Stargirl has dated Atom Smasher.
Stargirl is one of the few characters in the DC Universe who wears braces on her teeth.
This article uses material from the "Courtney Whitmore (New Earth)" article on the DC Comics wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.


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Get Inspired: Here's a Woman Who Beat The Odds [Happy Women's Day]
Every year on women's day, we try talking about the glass ceiling in the corporate world or sexism in the world of male dominated programmers. Most of these posts turn out to be about people born of privilege. Not to belittle their achievement or struggle, but it's easier for them to break boundaries. Then there are those who haven't been so fortunate in life and yet, have managed to become successful through sheer grit and hard work. This year, we bring you the story of Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla, a woman who has shown extraordinary courage in the face of adversities. Happy Women's Day!
Meet Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla – India's Fastest Athlete on Wheels
Malathi Holla is no ordinary woman. At 55, she has succeeded where many in her condition would have given up. An international para athlete from India, she is familiar in the sporting world. She has won over 300 medals, an Arjuna award and the Padma Shri awards.
Polio struck Malathi when she was a year old. She was given electric shock treatment for two years to strengthen her body. While her upper body was strengthened with the treatment, the same could not be said for her legs.
Malathi was one of four children. Her father was a hotelier in Bangalore. He shifted her to the Ishwari Prasad Dattatreya orthopedic facility in Chennai where she lived for 15 years. During the 15 years, she had undergone 32 surgeries.
Malathi Krishnamutrthy Holla (Image: Mangalorean.com)
At the centre, she stayed with a group of children with conditions akin to hers. She realised that most of the children at the facility were all alone. She soon decided that she wanted an alternative to medicine, that would take away her pain. This was when she picked sports to fill the gap in her life.
She took up sport to do something different in life. Being different herself, she knew that this was the only way to set an example of the difference. Her father too encouraged her in this, asking her to come out of her shell and take her place in the real world.
But when did sports really happen for her?
It was when she moved back to Bangalore that she decided to take a shot at the national games. She landed a gold and two silver medals for the effort. She also landed a job at the Syndicate bank, where she works at to this day.
Following the event, she decided to pursue sports at an increased pace. 100 and 200 meter wheelchair races, shot put, discus and javelin throwing were her sports of choice.
But she did not get where she is without hard work. Malathi's typical day starts at 4:30 am when she begins her swimming classes. She then works at the Syndicate bank, before heading for practice to the stadium till 7 pm.
Apart from her national and international recognition, she has also given back to society. Both feats, which few able people complete. She has started the Mathru Foundation in Bangalore – a shelter that teaches and helps physically disabled people overcome their situations.
Currently over 17 children are housed at the Mathru foundation. The main focus is on polio victims from rural India. The Mathru foundation is housed in Marathalli. The children of the Mathru house get surgeries free of cost owing to certain philanthropic doctors.
Nationally and internationally, Malathi has to her name 157 gold, 18 silver and 8 bronze medals. And she's still going. Known as the champion of champions by the international community, she is the fastest Indian wheelchair athlete from India. On July 8, 2009, she launched her first authorised biography called 'A Different Spirit'.
Punching above your weight
In 1981, when Malathi was unwell and wanted to participate in a competition. She convinced her family to let her compete. Unfortunately, there were no other competitors in her category and was asked to withdraw. But she didn't give up and convinced them to allow her to compete with men! "Participation was important for me. I said I'm not running for the prize," she says. She competed with 8 men in that 100 meter race and won! "Physical strength is not the only thing that matters," she says.
It's your world, ask
After 32 surgeries, at the age of 16, when Malathi came to Bangalore to join college. It was tough for her to manage classes and deal with the people who'd treat her differently. Her classes were on the third floor and she had a tough time with the stairs. "The circumstances made me a handicap. But I couldn't give up," she says. After a pep talk from her father, she went and talked to the principal. And to her surprise, all her classes were shifted to the ground floor! "That was a turning point in my life," she recalled in a recent talk.
Always a fighter
Malathi was not the one to come back empty handed from competitions. Small victories gave her confidence and each time she won, it gave her more confidence. She also found that sports gave her satisfaction and pleasure. "I decided to continue on that path," she recalled. Now she is at a stage that she can't leave sports behind even if she wants to.
Her motto in life? "One should not become a slave to circumstances: After all, we create circumstances." [Tweet this]

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News Aug 26, 2004
They Promised!
Candidates Pledge Undying Support for the Arts
by Scott Moore
Last Thursday, the Mercury kicked off "You Promised!," its series of townhall meetings for local candidates. Held in front of a packed room of 200 attendees at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, the first in the three-part series focused entirely on the candidates' pledges to bolster Portland's arts. The instructions were simple: Each candidate--mayoral candidates Jim Francesconi and Tom Potter, and city council candidates Sam Adams and Nick Fish--was asked to prepare five specific plans he would implement during his first year in office.
Francesconi talked about loosening zoning requirements to allow more live/work space, and then drew a surprise round of applause for saying that he would change the sign code to once again allow murals.
Potter brought up converting Centennial Mills, an abandoned city-owned building on the westside riverfront, into an arts center. He went on to talk somewhat elusively about making arts a "core value" for the city.
Adams provided the most detailed plan of the evening, putting forward specific ideas about funding sources and where that money should be directed. The anchor of his argument was a pledge to locate $15 million from private and public sources for the arts over five years.
"That is what we need to do to prevent Portland from becoming a has-been arts and culture city," he said.
Fish's list included supporting school art programs, setting up artist sanctuaries in industrial areas, and creating affordable housing (since artists are, as a rule, really, really poor).
The mayoral candidates differed the most. Potter emerged as the candidate pushing for large capital projects. Along with championing Centennial Mills, Potter also said he would help PSU build and develop a performing arts center to replace their current Cold War-era auditorium.
Meanwhile, Francesconi spent much of his energy describing the nitty-gritty details. One audience member took him to task, saying we should start by dreaming big, then figure out the details later. Francesconi stood his ground.
"The concern is spending that kind of money [$60 million on Centennial Mills] and then having to maintain it at a time when our [existing] facilities are struggling," he said.
The next "You Promised!" townhall will focus on environmental issues and park usage. Again, each candidate will provide five pledges. It will be held on Thursday, September 9, outdoors at the Mt Tabor Amphitheater, 6:30 pm.
Promises for Arts & Culture
Adams' promises:
- $15 million in five years for arts funding
- Deriving arts funding from conveyance of street easements and workplace matching contributions, and develop specific endowment funds (i.e., for independent film and video producers)
- Public and private partnerships to build 100 new affordable live/work rental spaces
- Develop arts as a tourism magnet
Potter's promises:
- Consider Centennial Mill as an arts center
- Promote arts and culture as a core value
- Increase "Percent for Arts" to 2%
- New performing arts center for PSU
- Dedicated funding sources
Fish's promises:
- Restore the ArtCard program
- Preserve Central Eastside as an Industrial Sanctuary
- Help PSU create an "urban design" school
- Work to expand affordable housing
Francesconi's promises:
- Loosen zoning requirements to allow more flex space for artists
- Provide more economic development loans to artists
- Place artists on city commissions
- Support the film and video industry by offering free use of city facilities and one-stop permitting
- Change the sign code to allow for murals
and the winner of the "you promised!" arts and culture forum is…
GOLD: Sam Adams The most specific and passionate.
SILVER: Nick Fish Strong ideas, but watered them down with "engaging" anecdotes.
BRONZE: Jim Francesconi Knows his stuff and roots his ideas in realistic terms, but still scares small children with his hyperactivity and depresses adults with his pessimism.
TIN: Tom Potter Seemed to be asleep most of the evening. When he did talk, he told us what we wanted to hear, but not necessarily what we needed to hear--specifics.


But he has defended an officer who appeared to be sporting a Nazi tattoo.
Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police President John McNesby made the statement Thursday during a rally held by and in support of police, according to NBC Philadelphia. The "Back the Blue" rally was in response to a protest the week before by members of Black Lives Matter held outside the house of Officer Ryan Pownall, who fatally shot David Jones in June.
Pownall, a 12-year veteran, shot Jones in the back as he fled from a traffic stop. Police said Jones was armed with a gun. This marks the second time Pownall has shot a black man in the back as he was fleeing. In 2010, he shot Carnell Williams-Carney who ran from cops while having an illegal gun on him.
An activist with the city's Black Lives Matter chapter, Asa Khalif, told NBC Philadelphia he and other members were only exercising their First Amendment right.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office is still investigating the fatal shooting.
While Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called the tattoo "incredibly offensive," McNesby had other thoughts.


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Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | June 6, 2006
Coalition Letter Opposing SIRA
A broad coalition has now sent a letter [PDF] to Reps. Lamar Smith and Howard Berman opposing SIRA. The signatories are:
BellSouth Corporation
Bonneville International Corp.
Computer & Communications Industry Association
Consumer Project on...
Deeplinks Blog by Fred von Lohmann | June 6, 2006
Yes, Slashdotters, SIRA Really Is Bad
After our post about and call to stop the Section 115 Reform Act, some people have pointed to the Copyright Office's preliminary report and asked us to clarify why the bill's language making incidental copies license-able is a bad thing.
As we said in our...
Season of Bad Laws, Part 4: Music Services Sell Out Fair Use
According to our DC sources, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property is planning on marking up and expediting a not-yet-introduced bill entitled the Section 115 Reform Act (aka SIRA) this coming Wednesday, June 7 (UPDATE: now Thursday, June 8). Why the rush?...
Appeals Court Corrects Dangerous Web Privacy Ruling
Judges Agree with EFF Brief in DirecTV Case San Francisco - The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has corrected a dangerous lower court ruling that threatened Internet privacy. In doing so, it preserved the privacy of password-protected websites as well as the right to read public sites. The decision followed...
EFF Victory: New Decision Protects Privacy of Password-Protected Websites
Today, the Eleventh Circuit's issued a decision in Snow v. DirecTV and preserved the legal protections for actually private websites while protecting your right to read public websites. EFF had filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting this ruling.The case involved a lawsuit against DirecTV for accessing the public website...
Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | May 31, 2006
Schneier on NSA Spying: "We're Giving Up Privacy Without Getting any Security in Return"
In today's Star Tribune, renowned computer security expert Bruce Schneier explains in plain language why the NSA spying program is a remarkably ineffective way to identify potential threats. He hypothesizes an "unrealistically accurate system" for data mining personal information and demonstrates that it would generate billions of false alarms...
Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | May 30, 2006
Announcing Line Noise: the EFF Podcast
We've had many requests recently for an audio summary of EFF news. While we thought that dictating all the motions and filings, press releases, newsletters and blog postings that we file every month might make for an exciting six hour commute, audience research indicated that might...
EFF Wins Apple Appeal
A California state appeals court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) petition on behalf of three online journalists today, holding that the online journalists have the same right to protect the confidentiality of their sources as offline reporters do. Here's the Court's summary:Apple Computer, Inc. (Apple),...
Huge Win for Online Journalists' Source Protection
EFF Arguments Secure Reporters' Privilege for Internet News Gatherers San Jose - A California state appeals court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) petition on behalf of three online journalists Friday, holding that the online journalists have the same right to protect the confidentiality of their sources...
Key Portions of Critical Documents Unsealed in AT&T Surveillance Case
Technician Describes Secret NSA Room at AT&ampT Facility San Francisco - AT&ampT has set up a secret, secure room for the NSA in at least one of the company's facilities -- a room into which AT&ampT has been diverting its customers' emails and other Internet communications in bulk -- according...
The Battle for Your Digital Media Devices
With so many tech mandate proposals and DRM restrictions being introduced, it's all too easy to miss how they fit together. A digital radio mandate here, an analog hole plug there, add in a little HDCP on video outputs for bad measure, and so on --...
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Customers Will Get Compensation for Flawed Copy-Protection New York - A U.S. District Court judge in New York gave final approval Monday to a settlement for music fans who purchased Sony BMG music CDs containing flawed copy protection programs. "This settlement gets music fans what they thought they were buying...
Internet Test-Taking Patent Draws Official Suspicion
EFF Wins Second Reexamination from Patent Office San Francisco - At the request of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) will reexamine a controversial patent for online test-taking from Test.com. The reexamination order is the second granted in just two months after petitions from...


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Countdown to Big Brother 3
Reality TV fans in Nigeria are keenly awaiting the return of the reality TV show that started the genre, Big Brother, the third season of which launches tomorrow.
Ebuka Obi-Uchendu
Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) will kick off on January 28 with 12 contestants. It will air 24 hours daily on MultiChoice's pay TV platform DSTV channel 198 and DTT service GOtv channel 29.
Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, a housemate from the first season in 2006, is the host of the highly anticipated show, which has an SUV and N45 million of prizes for the winners.
"Without a doubt, this promises to be the most exciting edition of the Big Brother franchise on the African continent," commented Martin Mabutho, general manager, sales and marketing for MultiChoice Nigeria.
"The last edition of Big Brother Naija was incredibly successful and we see just how much the show continues to resonate with fans in Nigeria and around the continent," he added.
"We can hardly wait for Sunday, and we guarantee not only that our viewers will enjoy the premiere show, but that they will stay tuned for three months until the show's finale when the winner is revealed."
Excitement for the third season has been stoked not only by the auditions held around the country but also the airing of reunion episodes featuring housemates from the previous season in 2017.
The BBNaija reunion show premiered on Saturday, January 20 and continues to air daily on DSTV channel 198 and GOtv channel 29 until tonight. Highlights of previous episodes have also been aired.
The third season of BBNaija airs from tomorrow at 7pm.
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SSEI Navigation
Current Implementation Work
Context and Vision
In the first phase of our implementation strategy, efforts were focused primarily on working with the divisions to conduct extensive requirements gathering, identifying and standardizing over 50 business processes across different administrative functions, and creating positions to oversee functions from a university-wide view.
Here follows a summary of key achievements during our first phase of implementation:
Career Services: adoption of common platform, shift in focus to Integrative Learning and Life Design
The team worked with colleagues across all nine schools and our colleagues on the University Information Systems (UIS) team to select and launch Handshake, a platform connecting prospective employers with Hopkins talent, across all nine schools. In tandem with Handshake, we also launched an employer engagement platform, to help career services staff across the university enterprise cultivate and maintain relationships with prospective and current employers. Jean-Amiel Jourdan, director of Global Careers at the Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a key player on the career services working group, had this to say about his experience using the employer engagement platform:
As part of implementation efforts to improve the student experience, JHU hired Vice Provost Farouk Dey, whose vision extends beyond advocating for career services at JHU. Provost Dey is leading efforts to transform Hopkins into an environment wherein students of all levels across the divisions can more closely connect higher education with their life aspirations. Learn more about these efforts at Integrative Learning and Life Design.
Recruitment and Admissions: adoption of common platform for graduate admissions; shift to shared governance across all schools' vice deans
Recruitment and admissions was identified as another area of early prioritization during the assessment phase. During the first phase of implementation, the SSEI stood up a graduate admissions working group comprised of staff across the nine different schools at JHU, to gather detailed requirements and extensively vet vendors. Their work resulted in the selection of Slate as the common graduate admissions system across the university enterprise. The primary goal of selecting this common platform is to ensure a more consistent user-friendly experience for students, as well as the faculty and staff on the administrative side of the graduate admissions selection process.
(For staff and faculty looking for assistance with the transition to Slate, the SSEI and UIS team has prepared a tutorial and support resources site).
Registration: university-wide Registrar, common calendar, course catalog and other digital resources for students
During the first phase of implementation, work focused on streamlining processes and coordinating policies across the nine different divisions of JHU. Some of these policies include:
creating a position for and hiring JHU's inaugural university-wide Registrar
implementing a consolidated academic calendar, reducing the number of calendars from 24 to 2
implementing a university-wide digital course catalog
integrating homegrown technology (e.g. semester.ly, a tool developed by JHU students) to create a seamless digital course registration process
enabling expanded access for students to retrieve key documents and credentialing online
Access to these resources, as well as progress updates on other key projects in the registration workspace, can be found on the University Registrar site.
Financial Aid: increased compliance with federal aid regulations, document management, deploying financial literacy and support tools
Work in the area of Financial Aid has focused on aligning systems and ensuring compliance with federal aid regulations. Tom McDermott was hired as Assistant Vice Provost for Student Financial Services; in this university-wide role, Tom has led efforts to design and implement financial aid foundational shared services and strengthen the university's compliance related performance. Much of the work in this area focused on streamlining document management (via a platform called OnBase), along with assessment and adoption of other tools to assist with greater compliance performance and student service delivery. Some of these tools include AskJay, a financial aid chatbot, as well as expanded access to financial literacy tools across all divisions.
Student Accounts: Director of Student Accounts, dedicated third-party payer team, digital document management
Efforts in this area centered on streamlining manual paper-based processes, enhancing the use of existing technologies, and redeploying existing resources in a more efficient manner to better serve students. Heather Vetzner, the inaugural university Director of Student Accounts, was hired to oversee this function across all divisions. A dedicated third-party payer team was created to support students who utilize third-party sponsors for all or part of their tuition payments.
As with Financial Aid, all Student Accounts offices now have foundational access to OnBase, converting paper-based processes into a digital format for document management. Heather is continuing to work with colleagues across the divisions to review and refine other student accounts processes, policies and workflows. In addition to building cohesion across the divisions, she is working with the functional leads of Financial Aid and Registration to increase collaboration and coordination across these key student support offices.


The selection of the counselor staff is the most important choice that we as directors make. No camp, regardless of its facilities and equipment, can function without the backbone of an outstanding staff. Our cabin counselors must have completed at least one year of college, be competent in their teaching field, and have an understanding of and interest in children. They are chosen for their maturity, experience, enthusiasm, personal values, and proclivity for fun.
Although many of our staff are highly accomplished and accredited in their areas of expertise, their primary focus is upon the role and responsibility of cabin-counseling. Overall, the staff-camper ratio is approximately one to three; the average counselor age is in the mid-twenties. Furthermore, thanks to our counselor training program our counselor group includes many former campers; even among those staff who were not campers the rate of return is very high.
To ensure that our staff grow as leaders we conduct pre-camp training and continuing education during the sessions. This training creates a community capable of providing guidance to children. A patient and responsive counselor can have a strong influence and build meaningful relationships with campers; an entire community of collaborative and competent staff can yield these same results on a larger scale. We therefore place great emphasis upon the counselor's personal habits and values and how they integrate into a group environment.
Check out our 2018 Summer Staff!


In addition to our featured merchants, there are an additional 80 vendors inside the Houston Farmers Market of varying sizes offering a wide variety of merchandise to accommodate any of your culinary needs. In addition to produce, baked goods, meat, herbs and spices, and even restaurants, vendors can help supply your kitchen with the correct tools and utensils to make your delicious creations. Look forward to this exciting culinary experience at the Houston Farmers Market in 2020.


Monday night congressional negotiators reached what they called "an agreement in principle" for funding for a U-S southern border barrier. The deal includes more than $1.3 billion for physical barriers on the U-S Mexico border. The funding would cover about 55 miles of border.
Negotiators sent the agreement to President Trump.


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The President's Role with American Businesses
by Jake MacAulay / on December 6, 2016 at 9:12 pm /
Recently President elect Donald Trump has taken to Twitter and made some bold statements such as:
"The U.S. is going to substantially reduce taxes and regulations on businesses, but any business that leaves our country for another country, fires its employees, builds a new factory or plant in the other country, and then thinks it will sell its product back into the U.S. without retribution or consequence, is WRONG! There will be a tax on our soon to be strong border of 35% for these companies wanting to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc., back across the border. This tax will make leaving financially difficult, but these companies are able to move between all 50 states, with no tax or tariff being charged. Please be forewarned prior to making a very expensive mistake! THE UNITED STATES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS."
So, is Mr. Trump exceeding the Constitutional authority he will soon have as President of the United States?
I must first establish the premise that as the Chief Executive, the president does not run our country, nor is he the primary authority in our Constitutional Republic or of American businesses. The office of the president's few and defined powers are written clearly and succinctly in Article Two of the United States Constitution. These powers include the duties to:
Pardon offenses
Be the Commander in Chief of Army and Navy, as well as state militias when called into federal service ONLY when a war has been officially declared by Congress
Make treaties with the concurrence of 2/3 of Senators
Give a State of the Union address
Recommend, but not introduce, legislation to Congress
Convene emergency session of Congress
Receive foreign ambassadors
Commission all federal officers
Faithfully execute all laws of the United States made by Congress.
Understanding the nature and the limits of the authorities and powers granted to the Executive Branch of the federal government by the Constitution is very liberating unless you countenance tyranny.
Because the Constitution specifically forbids preferential treatment in Article 1, Sec. 9, stating, "no titles of nobility shall be granted by the United States", the president cannot create immunities that favor one socioeconomic group over another. In the time of our founders, the entire federal government budget survived on tariffs only, where certain businesses and/or individuals importing foreign goods paid a tariff at a level determined by congress, not the President.
Therefore the constitutional solution for this topic is for the President elect to equally draw back the regulatory powers that he and his administration have on all businesses in America. Next he should eliminate unconstitutional agencies that illegally assume authority over American businesses.
Finally, if the 16th Amendment was properly ratified as some believe it was, then all business taxes in America should be rolled back and rather than taxing businesses manufacturing off shore and bringing products back in, a 35% tariff should be assessed by Congress to those products. This will truly give the American work force the advantage when bidding for the work and ultimately keep jobs here.
God-ordained Constitutional authority can always be used lawfully to accomplish the general welfare of Americans. It is when individuals in America blur the lines, speak to quickly, and don't pay attention to their words and actions that American liberties are threatened.
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On Saturday the 27th of January 2018, the Kursalon Vienna will once again host the annual Johann Strauss Ball. Always a highlight of the Vienna Ball Season, this year's event promises to be even more special: the Kursalon Vienna will be celebrating its sesquicentennial. To commemorate this anniversary, the theme for the evening will be "150 years of Kursalon Vienna", offering music lovers, and all who admire Viennese culture, a night of fine food, dancing, glorious melodies and a whole lot more.
A cornerstone of the city's cultural life, the historic Kursalon Vienna is indelibly linked to the name of the world-famous "Waltz King", Johann Strauss, the Younger, who performed there regularly in the nineteenth century. This year the Kursalon Vienna opens its doors at 6:00 p.m to admit guests to its exquisite surroundings. A delicious three-course dinner is served between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Dinner is followed at 9:00 p.m. by the Opening Ceremony that marks the official start of the Johann Strauss Ball. The professional dancers of the Rueff Dance School take to the floor in a spectacle that recreates the elegance and grace of old Vienna. Musical accompaniment for the dancing is provided by the Salonorchester Alt Wien, an ensemble whose musicians are considered to be amongst the very best interpreters of the Viennese musical tradition.
The Waltz Workshop, an ever-popular feature of the Johann Strauss Ball, gives those attending the opportunity to learn a little more about the secrets of the waltz, along with other dances, from professional experts in the Kursalon's inspirational setting.
Throughout the ball, guests will also enjoy several special anniversary tributes and surprises. One already scheduled is an appearance by the prestigious Vienna Boys' Choir – a fitting acknowledgement of the Kursalon's statement as one of Vienna's premier music venues, delivered by world-class performers.
One of the evening's most eagerly anticipated moments is the Midnight Quadrille, a traditional Viennese set piece which is fun to watch and even more fun to take part in. The important elements are a crowded dance floor, a lively pace, slightly chaotic instructions and lots of humour.
Guests are encouraged to reserve a little energy for later on in the evening too. At this point, the live music moves into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to keep everyone in the party mood, with hits from the 1980s to the present day.
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Q: Consume latest value from a topic for each keys I have a Kafka producer which is producing messages at high rate (message key is let us say a username and value is his current score in a game). The Kafka consumer is relatively slow in processing the consumed messages. Here my requirement is to show most up-to-date score and avoid showing stale data, with the tradeoff that some scores may never be shown.
Essentially for each of the username, I may have hundreds of messages in the same partition, but I always want to read the latest one.
A crude solution which has been implemented was like this: The producer sends just a key as each message and actual value is written to a database, which is shared with the consumer. The consumer reads each key from the queue and value from the database. Here the goal to read always the latest value is achieved by producer overwriting the value in the database -- so consumer which is in fact reading a given key will actually consume the latest value. But this solution has some drawbacks due to high number of reads and updates (slow, race conditions etc.)
I am looking for a more natural way of solving this in kafka or kafka streams where I can somehow define get latest value for a key from the stream of data for each key. Thanks!

A: Below code helped
KStreamBuilder builder = new KStreamBuilder();
KTable<String, String> dataTable = builder.table("input-topic");
dataTable.toStream().foreach((key, message) -> client.post(message));
KafkaStreams streams = new KafkaStreams(builder, config);
streams.start();

What makes this possible in practice is in-memory compaction of incoming stream (details explained here). We could control the pressure using the parameters cache.max.bytes.buffering and commit.interval.ms

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A couple pages for Burnout Paradise: Big Surf Island went live early, giving up the game's price and list of achievements and trophies.
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James Quinn says a trade war could lead to higher prices for consumers.
Currently, there are no new duties on retail items such as apparel and electronics.
Quinn says consumers have benefited from the past trade policies with China that have resulted in lower prices.
A long-term trade war would hurt consumers with high prices, former Tiffany & Co. President James Quinn told CNBC.
"If it's a long-term trade war, it becomes a tax on the consumer," Quinn, who served as president of the luxury jeweler from 2003 until his retirement in 2012, said Monday on "Closing Bell." He joined the company in 1986.
"Those costs will be passed along to the consumer, and it will certainly hurt purchases at the retail level because things will become more expensive," Quinn said.
The Trump administration first proposed tariffs in March to fix what President Donald Trump deemed unfair trading practices. Most recently, the U.S. imposed levies on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods. Beijing responded with tariffs of its own and accused the U.S. of causing the "largest trade war in economic history."
So far, the Trump administration has placed no new duties on retail items such as apparel and electronics — something market watchers have awaited in fear.
"China [is] still a huge manufacturer for apparel and shoes," Quinn pointed out. "Inevitably, if that's going to be a long-term addition to costs, it's going to show up in consumer prices."
Still, the market rallied Monday with all three indices closing positive and fears of trade wars waning.
While the outcome of the tariffs is still unclear, Quinn said U.S. consumers have benefited from the long-standing trade agreements with China and the multitude of products imported at reduced prices.
"We haven't played real hardball yet with the trade violations in China," he said. "If this is an opening gambit to address those things, then it could be a very positive outcome. But it's not clear — at least not to me — that there is an overall strategy to addressing the real trade conflict."


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Political Journalism / UK — Comments Off on Politicians and Twitter: not the apocalypse
Politicians and Twitter: not the apocalypse
Political commentator Steve Richards argued in the Independent yesterday that "political leadership is impossible in the age of social media". He gave a gripping tweet-by-tweet account of how Jeremy Corbyn's attempt to impose his will on the Labour Party of Syrian airstrikes had been undone by dissent spread on Twitter.
Richards concluded that the leadership of political parties, as previously understood, can no longer be done then parties will change shape. This is quite the wrong lesson to draw.
The Labour Party is in a neurotic mess and it would be in one if Corbyn had been elected its leader in the age of the quill pen. The party's membership is out of line with a significant segment of its MPs. Until one of these bodies brings the other into line, the mess, the rebellions and the tweets will not stop.
Communications media have changed often, switching the conditions and context in which politicians operate and requiring new skills in the armoury of anyone intending to lead. Come to that, political parties have changed across time as the gains to be made by bossing MPs have grown.
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I propose an international embargo on the cliché "risks fuelling"
It was the front page of The Times which made me snap. Yesterday the paper's Political Editor was reporting the start of the Labour Party conference.
Ed Balls had called for the next mobile phone licence tax windfall to be spent on new houses. This call, the story went on, "risks fuelling Tory claims that, by prioritising more spending over reducing debt, Mr Balls has failed to learn the lessons of the past." Put less archly and more plainly, the writer means that this claim will probably be made by Tories.
I've no reason to doubt it. But the over-use of the "risks fuelling" formula is starting to drive me nuts. It's hardly the only tired and hackneyed phrase of its type in use in newspapers now. Cliché aren't new.
It's also unfair to single out The Times. For the simple reason that everyone is doing it, all over the world. People are fuelling risks every hour of the day. Just google the phrase if you don't believe me. French magazines publishing cartoons of the Prophet, Norway's oil development assistance, oil in Sudan, the Prime Minister and Barclays Bank – just now they were all risking fuelling something or other. That was just the first page of my search. Hardly surprising that oil often risks fuelling.
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The Leveson Inquiry pre-positioning: editors a bit confused
The printing of naked photos of Prince Harry by The Sun exposed nothing very interesting about the prince but it did dislodge some very muddled thinking about the future of newspapers.
The short-term future for newspaper editors is dominated by the Leveson Inquiry, due to report in the autumn. The Inquiry's chairman has been sending provisional summaries of his views to editors and they don't like what they read, claiming that it hints at statute-backed press regulation. The government sounds wary. The opposition Labour Party is sitting on the fence on that issue, preparing to jump off on whatever side will cause the government most trouble, while keeping as much attention as they can muster on the issue of media plurality and ownership. These are all pre-publication manoeuvres. Nobody yet knows what Leveson thinks and positions will be amended or even abandoned when his views become clear.
The Prince Harry pictures gave editors a chance to rehearse their defences, which came in two varieties. The first is a broad press freedom argument which asks for licence to disclose anything which they deem interesting and which is within the law (and maybe a few things which aren't). As a defence in court – prosecutions of News of the World journalists for phone-hacking and related offences are churning through the system in parallel to the Leveson Inquiry – this is unlikely to work (see this from the HuffPo by one of those arrested). We might christen this the "spacious elbow room" argument; popular papers need space to do what they do and to survive. A tincture of anti-establishment language is usually thrown in. Hence the ex-editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie:
"I'm unsure why the establishment hate newspapers so much but what I'd like to see is editors get off their knees and start pushing back against these curtailments in what will eventually, I promise you, lead to the closure of newspapers".
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Even in the Labour Party leadership race there is humour
The British Labour Party's leadership contest, now coming to a close, has been on the most dour and feeble such runoffs in living memory. Nothing I had read about it was even intriguing, let alone exciting or funny.
Very unpromising material for a comedian, you might think. You'd be wrong. See this column by Mark Steel.


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present lives that's often not true.
they have such a bad habit, they must shake it off IN THEIR OWN INTEREST.
of postulates; we find some sets very useful and others quite useless.
one way or another, we come down to the real world.
topological spaces, just as an instance.


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News: Rotherham barbershop back in business
By Tom Austen
A Rotherham barbershop has been backed for putting its customers first during a recent coronavirus scare.
Rothbiz reported last week that Cutthroats, which is based on the High Street in Rotherham town centre, moved quickly to close down the shop and carry out a deep clean after receiving a call from a customer who had tested positive for the COVID-19 virus that had been in for an appointment.
After being advised to isolate for 48 hours, the popular barbers was open again on Thursday, working extra hours to rearrange extra appointments. Customers and neighbouring business have shown support and customers repaid the local lads by all turning up for appointments for the Thursday reopening.
Posting on social media, Cutthroats said: "Just wanted to say guys that the show of support yesterday was outstanding.
"Tom was mega busy and you all took time out to see how he was, even if it was just ringing the shop to see how we were doing and surprisingly you all turned up for your appointments (no offence but we thought some of you would flap it).
"We are still working extra hours to rearrange extra appointments but there's only so many hours in the day unfortunately. We will be working extra hours every day until we can do them all.
"Also we know we keep saying it but the support from the majority of you guys has been unreal, some of you do really care about us and our little town and we can't thank you enough."
In the Government's recent budget the Chancellor pledged to do whatever it takes to support the economy through the disruption caused by COVID-19 with a £12 billion package of targeted measures. It included a £5 billion emergency response fund to support the NHS and other public services, £40m of new funding for rapid research into COVID-19 and a commitment of up to £150m to the International Monetary Fund's Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust.
The government said that it will launch a new, temporary Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, delivered by the British Business Bank, to support businesses to access bank lending and overdrafts. On the same day, the Bank of England also announced an emergency cut in interest rates.
Business rates for shops, cinemas, restaurants and music venues in England with a rateable value below £51,000 have also been suspended for a year.
To support people affected, the Chancellor announced the government would be extending Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) for all those who are advised to self-isolate and their carers – even if they haven't yet presented with symptoms. Statutory Sick Pay costs for businesses with fewer than 250 employees will be met by the government in full for up to 14 days.
Rishi Sunak also set out plans to support the self-employed, those earning below the Lower Earnings Limit of £118 per week and a new £500m Hardship Fund to directly support vulnerable people.
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Beating within him like his own pulse, Kerans felt the powerful mesmeric pull of the baying reptiles, and stepped out into the lake, whose waters now seemed an extension of his own blood stream.
Feeling the brass compass which weighed down his pocket, Kerans said : "So you're frightened that the increased temperature and radiation are alerting similar IRM's in our own minds ?"
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Petraeus: Ground Forces Needed in Syria to Defeat ISIS
By Nicholas Ballasy 2015-11-12T00:44:23
Gen. David Petraeus said the United States has to have a ground force in Syria if its goal is to defeat the Islamic State.
"I think that the limiting factor all along in Syria has been the absence of a Sunni Arab moderate force that we could support. The fact is, I don't care what your objective is in Syria, if your objective is that Bashar must go, you have to have a Sunni Arab force that's going to get him to go," the former CIA director said at the Brookings Institution during a discussion about Michael O'Hanlon's book The Future of Land Warfare.
"If your objective is to get to the diplomatic table, and we're there now, to a degree, you have to have a military context. There is no military solution, as everyone is fond of saying. There is a military context that has to be established without which no one is going to go to the negotiating table, or at least they won't negotiate seriously. And by the way, if you want to degrade and defeat the Islamic State and the al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Khorasan Group, the al-Qaeda element sent there for establishment of a cell in Northern Syria, you're going to have to have a ground force."
Despite his emphasis on the need for ground forces, Petraeus said the U.S. military is able to do a lot with air capabilities.
"It's very, very important to note that our capabilities now are just so vastly greater than when we did the fight to Baghdad. The armada of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft that we have over the skies in Iraq and Syria is just breathtaking," he said.
Petraeus, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, also said there are currently not enough Special Forces.
"There's special operation forces writ large, and I'm talking now about both so-called black special operations, the special mission units, publicly known as Delta Seal Team Six and the Rangers, for over the last decade under JSOC control, conducting targeted, precise, counter-terrorist operations, as many as 10 to 15 per night on average during the surge in Iraq, and just about that during the surge in Afghanistan as well, and there's never enough of those, frankly, and there certainly aren't enough of the …Green Beret Special Forces," he said.
"The Seals and the Marines that can conduct those missions, as well, and did so very skillfully in Afghanistan, there's just never enough of them – and I know because I tried to find every single one in the inventory, and tried to get them into Iraq, Afghanistan or the greater Central Command area. So number one, even in steady state times, we end up having to augment them quite considerably, or literally, use conventional forces to perform missions that under ideal circumstances, you would use Green Berets again, or Seals or Marines," he added.
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Curcumin is the primary active ingredient in turmeric. Turmeric is a yellow-orange spice well known as a prominent ingredient in Indian cuisine and yellow mustard, but it also offers potent therapeutic benefits. Curcumin is the pigment responsible for both turmeric's brilliant golden color and many of its health benefits. Curcumin soothes irritated tissue, is a potent antioxidant, supports wound healing, resists harmful organisms, and helps maintain health in the gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and immune systems.
Oxidative stress is an imbalance between the body's production of harmful free radicals and its ability to counteract their adverse effects. Antioxidants help restore this balance by inhibiting the oxidation of other molecules, allowing your body's natural healing mechanisms to repair the damage.
Scientists have dedicated much research to turmeric's relationship with cancer. Animal and in vitro studies that have evaluated curcumin and several types of cancers, including prostate, breast, skin, and colon cancer. Those inquiries are exploratory and more research is needed.
Growing turmeric is easy, but it takes about a year to harvest. Unless you're in a tropical climate, you'll need to grow it indoors. Turmeric doesn't propagate by seeds. Instead, Look for fresh turmeric root at a local nursery (non-organic grocery store varieties may be treated with growth-inhibiting chemicals) and plant a cutting.
Turmeric prefers well-drained soil and full sun. You should see sprouts 3-6 weeks after planting. Your turmeric root should be ready for harvest after 8-10 months. You'll need to start a new plant each year. You can save some of the rhizomes for next year's crop.
Global Healing Center offers a liquid turmeric extract and we're exceptionally proud of it. We use only the highest quality organic turmeric suspended in a gentle and safe vegetable glycerin base; this supplement contains no alcohol, fillers, or unwanted additives. The feedback we've received is incredible.
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Braun, Lesley, and Marc Cohen. "Herbs and Natural Supplements: An Evidence-Based Guide: Volume 2." Australia, Churchill Livingstone, 21 Nov. 2014. Print.
Wongcharoen, W., and A. Phrommintikul. "The Protective Role of Curcumin in Cardiovascular Diseases." International Journal of Cardiology., vol. 133, no. 2, 24 Feb. 2009, pp. 145–51. Accessed 4 Jan. 2017.
Rivera-Espinoza, Yadira, and Pablo Muriel. "Pharmacological Actions of Curcumin in Liver Diseases or Damage." Liver International, vol. 29, no. 10, Nov. 2009, pp. 1457–1466.
Kuo, J.J., et al. "Positive Effect of Curcumin on Inflammation and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Obese Mice with Liver Steatosis." International Journal of Molecular Medicine., vol. 30, no. 3, 4 July 2012, pp. 673–9. Accessed 4 Jan. 2017.
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Latinx art in the United States has been historically underrepresented in, if not ignored by, major educational and art institutions, and scholarly publications. For the past 50 years or so, however, Latinx art has been featured in community centers and galleries around the country, as well as by more localized, community-oriented museums, such as El Museo del Barrio in New York City (founded in 1969) or the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago (founded in 1982; now, the National Museum of Mexican Art). It has only been in the last three decades or so that Chicano art history courses have been offered at colleges and universities, and more recently, that Chicanx/Latinx art has been actively collected by major museums and exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, such as the well-received Chicano art show, "Bridges in Times of Walls/Puentes en época de muros" at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum in Mexico City.
Over the past 10 years, U.S. Latinx art has been undergoing a process of re-evaluation resulting in significant developments, such as the hire of the first curator of Latino Art at the American Art Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the founding of a new museum of Chicano art in Riverside, California featuring the collection of comedian/actor, Cheech Marin. Organizations, such as the Ford Foundation, have also been channeling funds into cultivating interest in Latinx art, exemplified by the U.S. Latinx Art Forums the Ford has been organizing nationwide in cities, like Santa Fe, New Mexico. Similarly, Latinx art conferences are being organized around the country, such as, the ongoing Latino Art Now conferences and the Latinx Art Sessions recently held at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The coeval emergence of scholarly publications, such as the U.S. Latinx Art Forum Newsletter and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, a new journal produced at UCLA, reflects the traction that Latinx art is building among academics, curators, collectors, and interested members of the public.
Most of the activity revolving around the production, collecting, and study of Latinx art has been logically concentrated in those areas of the country with significant Latinx populations, such as New York, Florida, the Southwest, and the West coast. In spring 2019, the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This year's theme is, "Indigenous Knowledge for Resistance, Love, and Land: Lecciones for our Children, for our Future." Recognizing these developments and desiring to, both, contribute to ongoing conversations about the status of Latinx art in the U.S. and focusing attention on Latinx artists, the next issue of Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas will focus on the theme: "U.S. Latinx Art, Then, Now, and Tomorrow." The Hemisphere editorial committee seeks scholarly essays that present interdisciplinary research on the work of Latinx artists in the United States from any period starting in the 18th century through the present, from any region of the country, and in any form and medium. Our hope is to identify and feature new research based in creative approaches drawn from the increasingly overlapping fields of art history, visual and material culture studies, gender studies, queer studies, social activism and politics, and others.
-Multi-generation, non-immigrant Latinx communities in the U.S.
-Completed works by M.A. and Ph.D. students, including essays (20–30 pages in length) and reviews or interviews (5–10 pages in length) will be considered for publication in Volume 12 of Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas via a peer review process.
-Submissions in English, Spanish, and/or Portuguese are acceptable.
-Each submission must be emailed by March 8, 2019 to hmsphr@unm.edu, and should be accompanied by a cover letter that prominently notes the title of the essay, the field of study to which it pertains, as well as a CV that includes the author's status (e.g. M.A., Ph.D. Student, or Ph.D. Candidate), department, and institution name and location. Authors will be notified in April of the status of their submission.
-Journal contributors receive 5 complimentary copies of the journal. Additionally, authors of essays published in Hemisphere will be invited to participate in a symposium in fall 2019 at the University of New Mexico, where they will have the opportunity to present their work.


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Install
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To use this project follow these steps:

#. Requirements
#. Create your working environment
#. Install Django
#. Install additional dependencies
#. Adding you local config settings as ENV
#. Set up DB

Requirements
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* Computer
* A OS preferably a linux dist
* Python (you get this for free when you run linux :) )
* Git

Working Environment
===================

You have several options in setting up your working environment.  We recommend
using virtualenv to seperate the dependencies of your project from your system's
python environment.  If on Linux or Mac OS X, you can also use virtualenvwrapper to help manage multiple virtualenvs across different projects.

Virtualenv Only
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First, make sure you are using virtualenv (http://www.virtualenv.org). Once
that's installed, create your virtualenv::

    $ virtualenv --distribute agda-dev

You will also need to ensure that the virtualenv has the project directory
added to the path. Adding the project directory will allow `django-admin.py` to
be able to change settings using the `--settings` flag.

Virtualenv with virtualenvwrapper
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In Linux and Mac OSX, you can install virtualenvwrapper (http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/),
which will take care of managing your virtual environments and adding the
project path to the `site-directory` for you::

    $ mkdir agda
    $ mkvirtualenv -a agda agda-dev
    $ cd agda && add2virtualenv `pwd`

Installation of Dependencies
=============================

Depending on where you are installing dependencies:

In development::

    $ pip install -r requirements/local.txt

For production::

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt

*note: We install production requirements this way because many Platforms as a
Services expect a requirements.txt file in the root of projects.*

Adding you local config settings as ENV
=======================================

In virtualenv file::

    $ ~/home/.virtualenv/agda-dev/bin/activate

add something like this.::

    export AGDA_SECRET_KEY='Cryptographically complex string.'
    export AGDA_DB_USER='mydbuser'
    export AGDA_DB_PASS='my db password'

    #Depending on the setting you want to run local for dev, production for production server
    export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=agda.settings.local
    #For lazy persons
    cd /path/to/src/agda

There is also a export skel file you can use to copy to your bin/activate or copy to any other place and source from bin/activate or by hand.
Please see to that the activate file is secured on a multi user machine.

Set up DB
============

For now we are running mysql as db backend.
Set it up as your system recommend.
Add a db and add user and set password.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


We've made it so easy to get Windows 10 in Parallels Desktop®. Here is the easiest the fastest way of getting Windows 10 running on your Mac with Parallels Desktop, even if you do not have a license for Windows 10. You can now purchase and download Microsoft Windows directly from the Parallels Desktop installation with a few simple clicks!
If you select "Install Windows," this will begin a download of Microsoft Windows 10 automatically.
This will bring up the Installation Assistant that will walk you through creating a new virtual machine.
In Figure B , "Get Windows 10 from Microsoft" is selected. Once you hit "Continue," you will be directed to a new screen that allows you to choose which version of Windows 10 you'd like to purchase. See Figure C below.
In Figure C, you have an option to purchase Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro edition directly from the Microsoft store.
If you already have a Windows 10 license key, you can download Windows 10 as a virtual machine and enter in the license key directly into the virtual machine to complete set up. In Figure B, you're able to select "Download Windows 10." Selecting this option and pressing "Continue" will prompt you to the download page for Windows 10, as seen below in Figure D.
After you select "Install Windows," your download will begin. This download time is dependent on your internet connection, so it could take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple hours.
After entering the Windows 10 license key, you will have full access to the Microsoft Windows operating system to meet your needs. The Windows 10 OS will show up in your Control Center as a virtual machine.
In the above Figure F, you can click to start your virtual machine and run Windows on Mac without rebooting.
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Q: How to find out what process are eating all memory Im using SUSE, i have 31GB of memory Mem:  31908592k total, 31429632k used,   478960k free,    12176k buffers   How do I find out what process are eating up all my memory.

A: Looks like you're running free, looking at the first line, and freaking out.  That's OK; a lot of people do that.
Ignore the first line of output from free.  Really.  Linux is very aggressive about caching data from disk, even including "swapped out" virtual memory pages, in RAM and all that cached data is counted as "used" in free's first line, even though it can be made available again in a microsecond (or less, these days) if needed.
You need to be looking at the second line of output from free, the one labeled -/+ buffers/cache:.  That's the line which will tell you how much memory is actually tied up by running programs, ignoring what's being used for the moment by buffers and cache.
For example, my machine currently shows:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3083924    2177300     906624          0     461344     837008
-/+ buffers/cache:     878948    2204976
Swap:      4000148          0    4000148

Although there are only 906624 bytes of RAM sitting completely unused at the moment, there are an additional 461344 bytes of buffers and 837008 bytes of cached data which can be made available more-or-less instantly if something more important (i.e., just about anything) needs the memory, giving me a total of 2204976 bytes actually available to me.

A: Run top, then press ShiftO, then N, then finally Enter. Press Q when you want to exit.
And don't forget, "Linux ate my RAM!".

A: Use the top command. It shows a list of all processes running, sorted by those which are using the most CPU by default.  If you hit shiftM it will change to sort by memory usage instead.  You'll see the top memory offenders at the top of the list.


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Patricia (Trish) Callon is Senior Vice-President and General Counsel, Sun Life Financial Canada. Appointed to this role in 2014, Trish is responsible for the legal affairs of the Company's Canadian businesses and leads the legal team that supports those businesses.
Trish's legal experience spans private practice, in-house and regulatory roles across all major financial services sectors. Her career began at Blake Cassels & Graydon, LLP followed by in-house roles at Sun Life and Seaboard Life (now part of Industrial Alliance). She joined CIBC in 1998 where she rose to Vice-President and Associate General Counsel, Wealth Management and in 2005 moved to the Ontario Securities Commission where she led policy development for segregated and mutual fund disclosure. From 2009, Trish was Chief Legal Officer and Director, Stakeholder Outreach and Communications at the Canadian Securities Transition Office, the organization that is working with participating governments to create a new common capital markets regulator for Canada.
Trish has served on several corporate and community boards, including Meridian Credit Union, Toronto Hydro Corporation and the MicroSkills Community Development Centre. In 2013, Trish was awarded Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 – Corporate Directors Award.
Trish earned her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario along with an Honours B.A. in French Language and Literature.