The MiXto SX® is the latest technology in micro fractional CO2 laser skin resurfacing which can be used on all skin types for laser skin treatments. The MiXto technology allows for a variety of uses and allows maximal benefits consistent with minimal discomfort, minimal anesthesia and minimal recovery. It treats many disorders associated with skin aging stimulating the formation of new skin collagen, tightening of the skin and removal of the signs of aging.
» New collagen production for up to one year following treatment.
CO2 is a Carbon Dioxide laser that has been used for more than 25 years in the aesthetic industry for treatment of conditions such as fine and deep wrinkles, scars of various origin, uneven pigmentation and dilated pores. When the CO2 beam of light comes in contact with the epidermis it heats and vaporizes the skin tissue, instantly removing the superficial layers of the skin, scars and wrinkles while smoothing out the surface of the skin. The skin remodeling occurs with new skin and collagen growth. MiXto stands for the mixture between CO2 energy and fractional resurfacing, and the SX stands for surgical, because the laser can also be used to make a very clean incision without bleeding.
The MiXto SX® gives the Physician more control to regulate the depth of penetration and the amount of heat delivered by the beam. The high speed scanner, driven by a patent-pending algorithm divides the treatment area into four quadrants, or "fractions", and skips the beam from quadrant to quadrant so that each strike is separated by the longest possible interval. This process is repeated until the entire area is treated. Dividing energy this way allows maximum time for thermal cooling of the tissue, less pain for the patient and faster recovery! Compared to traditional resurfacing of the past this is a big step in technology for both the patient and the physician!
The MiXto SX® delivers more results in a 45-60 minute treatment than competitors can accomplish in 3 treatments with less discomfort, downtime and cost.
For most patients we apply topical anesthetic and oral tylenol so they are able to drive themselves home. The discomfort is similar to bad sunburn.
Erythema (redness of skin): the laser-treated areas have a distinctive redness representing increased blood flow due to the growth of the superficial tissue and collagen. It will gradually fade during the first few days. Inflammation (swelling): Treatment with the MiXto SX® System presents a minimal amount of swelling that can last up to 24 hours. Hyperpigmentation (tanning): This is presented after the third day of the procedure but then begins to shed and reveal younger healthy looking skin. A personal interview and clinical examination will be conducted to obtain relevant facts about your medical and dermatologic history, and any medications you are currently taking or have taken in the past. If you are prone to cold sores, you need to ask your doctor for an antiviral prescription before the treatment. Fractional Treatment with the MiXto SX® has been proven safe for the face, neck, chest and hands.
Typical downtime is 4-5 days, but can be longer (7-10 days) depending on how aggressive the treatment is.
The patient is red and can be swollen the next day. On the second, third and fourth day the patient is peeling and can experience a little itchiness typical to a sunburn.
There are three separate groups the MiXto SX® applies to; the younger patient with severe acne scars, the middle-aged patient with wrinkles and age spots and the older patient with wrinkles, age spots and pre-cancerous lesions.


Advice from experts about selling scrap gold jewellery in the UK and elsewhere. Don't get ripped off.
Either weigh your gold items (in grams) or get somebody with a suitable weighing scale to do it for you. It could be worth asking a friendly local jeweller to do this for you (offer to pay).
Know the gold content (purity in carats (cts.) or as a percentage. Pure gold is 24 carat, therefore 9 ct is 9/24 = 37.5% pure.
Look Up the Spot Gold Price in pounds (if you are in the UK).
Work out the intrinsic (theoretical) value. (Aren't you glad you paid attention during maths lessons in school?). Some other websites will do this for you, we have not got around to adding this facility to ours yet.
The proportion of the intrinsic value you are offered will vary from less than 10% upwards.
Most buyers will tell you a price, possibly approximate. Avoid any who cannot or will not.
You will probably get a better price if you have everything sorted, weighed and clearly labelled.
If posting gold scrap, send a list and keep a copy. Making a photocopy or taking a photograph of the lot is also sensible.
Beware! Some dealers advertise to pay 10% to 30% more than the actual value or similar misleading and dishonest claims.
Some of the biggest advertisers are the worst payers.
Many of the newly sprung up buyers are "Cowboys".
Some of the "post your gold to us" operators are very new, and use sharp practices.
Some scrap by post companies will take 28 days to return your gold if you decide not to sell.
Some postal gold companies will charge for things like removing a watch movement (we heard £10 from one source), and they are often not capable of putting it back if you decide not to sell.
If you only know the weight in ounces, don't forget that gold is weighed in troy ounces, not normal avoirdupois ounces. See our "Weights" page.
If posting gold, make sure you know who you have sent it to. Some buyers do not enclose their address details when sending your cheque (to make it harder for you to request its return in time).
Beware of doorstep buyers (knocker boys). If you have any suspicions, contact your neighbourhood watch coordinator or your local police.
Jewellery Parties. You will probably only get 75% of the intrinsic value at the most, as the party host, buyer, and others get commission and bonuses out of the proceeds. You may feel under an obligation to sell there and then, and may not be able to shop around. You may also have drunk too much wine!
Try to deal with somebody straightforward who will tell you important information such as how much per gram they pay.
We try to make our buying policies as transparent as possible, including general advice pages like this one.


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Q: Removed Python Anaconda - Python No Longer Working? I'm on Mac Mavericks. I installed and then removed Anaconda version of Python. I was hoping this would default to the system version (2.7.6), but it is not. Typing Python at the command line now does not create the console.
Here is my bash file:
[[ -s "$HOME/.profile" ]] && source "$HOME/.profile" # Load the default .profile

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*
source /Users/user/.rvm/scripts/rvm
source /Users/user/.rvm/scripts/rvm

# added by Anaconda 1.9.1 installer
export PATH="/Users/user/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

# Setting PATH for Python 3.4
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

alias python="python3"

A: As Peter noted, the issue is most likely your python=python3 alias, as Mac OS X does not come with Python 3. If you want to use Python 3, you'll need to install Anaconda and create a Python 3 environment, or install Miniconda (see http://continuum.io/blog/anaconda-python-3), or you can install Python 3 from python.org.

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Decompression Therapy in Iselin, NJ: The 3D ActiveTrac combines traction, decompression and 3D movement all in one device. The machine allows for Dr. Cawley to position the patient's body perfectly for treatment and address the problems that are unique to each injury.
The 3D ActiveTrac compression table has specific positioning which takes the pressure off structures in the back and neck that are causing pain. Patients report of less pain and more mobility after just a single treatment. The therapy is non-invasive and allows Dr. Cawley to provide effective treatment without the need of surgery.


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We are delighted to announce the launch of The Arts Society Victoria. Our brand new society will hold evening lectures at 7pm on the first Tuesday of most months in the wonderful hall of The Grey Coat Hospital School, Greycoat Place, London, SW1P 2DY. We will begin with our inaugural lecture at 7pm on Tuesday, 6th November 2018 where Leslie Primo, one of our most popular accredited lecturers, will explore the influence of foreign artists on British Art is his talk 'Foreigners in London 1520-1677: the artists who changed the course of British Art'. Doors will be open from 6.30pm with wine and soft drinks available before and after the lecture.
We welcome new members and are a friendly, inviting society. As a member you will enjoy ten evening lectures a year running from November to October (lectures will not be held in January or August of each year). We meet on the first Tuesday of the month with the exception of June when we will meet on the second Tuesday. If you are interested in joining please contact the Membership Secretary or download the application form (details for both are below). If you have a general enquiry and would like to be involved please contact the Chairman, Mary Attwood, at victoria@theartssociety.org or telephone 07752 298 113. We welcome your feedback and suggestions and look forward to meeting you.
Handel remains one of the most important composers that England ever nurtured. Not only did his music have direct influence on his musical contemporaries, but his larger-than-life personality had a profound effect on the literary, visual and decorative arts as well.
A door is not a door "when it's ajar"; so when is a cupboard not a cupboard and why were tills in rather than on counters? How did the chest with drawers become the chest of drawers and where do 'withdrawing' cupboards fit into all this?
Antony's parents were Roland Penrose, the curator and biographer of Picasso, and Lee Miller, the photographer. Picasso painted her portrait six times and she photographed him more than 1,000 times and her images illustrate Antony's entertaining and amusing account of life around Picasso.


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Total funding goal: $5,000
Total funding to date: $5,000
Remaining goal: $0
Total Donors: 36
DiscoverHope Fund
DiscoverHope creates dignified solutions for women in poverty through our Microcredit Plus Model. By combining loans with learning, we provide access to credit as well as access to knowledge. www.lendhope.org
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Project start date: 01/20/2012
Project completion date: 02/17/2012
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Celebrating the Joy of Motherhood in Cajamarca, Peru with a Fiesta!
Mother�s Day is always a big event at DiscoverHope! 97% of the women we serve are mothers (or grandmothers) and May 13 is a revered Peruvian holiday. Family members from near and far will gather at Mom�s house on Sunday afternoon for a big shared feast. Often the first born child will begin the meal with a tribute toast to mom, thanking her and expressing the family�s adoration. And afterwards �View More
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To complement the microcredit component that DiscoverHope funds, we seek to offer approximately 300 educational trainings each year to maximize women's entrepreneurial, financial, and personal goals. In 2011, we doubled in size! We now have 21 village banks serving 216 families, and we provided 725 classes, workshops and individual coaching sessions, far surpassing our original goal of 300. All while maintaining our unprecedented 100% loan payback rate. This project would continue to provide a range of trainings to these women over the course of the year that would be organized by our on-site program manager, indigenous staff and teachers. Trainings are always determined based on the requests and needs of loan recipients because we work from the roots up, beginning with the dreams and desires of the women we serve: historically these trainings include business, finance, literacy, health ed., computer, artisan, culinary and husbandry skills development. DiscoverHope is able to provide these trainings to village banks located both centrally within the city of Cajamarca at our HOPEHouse, a women's development center, as well as to the village banks spread out in the rural communities where transportation is limited or not feasible. For more information, visit www.lendhope.org
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$25 - Help us meet our $2500 match to fund a village bank for 1 year
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$250 - Provide 2 women with loans and business support
$500 - Provide 10 women with crochet instruction
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Peru, the fourth most populous country in South America, is bordered by Ecuador and Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, and the Pacific Ocean. With 29 million inhabitants, 76 percent live in urban areas. The largest city is Lima, home to more than 8 million people. The World Bank Group notes that Peru has a poverty rate of 51 percent, with 18 percent living on less than $1 a day and 37 percent living on less than $2 a day. UNICEF reports that the average annual income per capita is $2,360.
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Providing microcredit for women has proven to be a vital tool for alleviating poverty.� The Microcredit Summit Campaign explains that women are often responsible for the upbringing of the world's children; the worldwide goal is to ensure that 175 million of the world's poorest families receive credit for self-employment by 2015. Women manage household finances in most of the developing world; as more cash and assets get into the hands of women, most of these earnings get into the mouths, medicine, and schoolbooks of their children (www.microcreditsummit.org).
To complement the microcredit component that DiscoverHope will fund, we seek to offer approximately 300 educational trainings at $25/training to maximize women's entrepreneurial, financial, and personal goals. The project would provide a range of trainings to these women over the course of the year that would be organized by our on-site program manager, local site staff, and local teachers. Trainings are always determined based on the requests and needs of loan recipients because we work from the roots up, beginning with the dreams and desires of the women we serve: historically these trainings include business, finance, literacy, health ed., computer, artisan, culinary and husbandry skills development.� DiscoverHope provides rural village classes out in the communities, but in 2009 DiscoverHope also opened the doors of the HopeHouse, a women's development center in Cajamarca, Peru where the women centrally gather to attend trainings.
Project timeline/Intended Impacts:
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Generate and track new income and savings based on knowledge learned in classes
Send children to school due to increased income
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Gather and report qualitative feedback For evaluation example, see http://discoverhopefund.org/eval
DiscoverHope is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide opportunities for women in poverty to create their own prosperity through microcredit and educational training.� Visit www.lendhope.org
By gaining access to capital and new knowledge through our program, women who are historically denied credit and education build upon our support to create their own businesses, lift their families out of poverty, and shape their own destinies. Our model establishes microcredit as the "fishing pole" and provides training to "teach a person to fish."� In this way, DiscoverHope seeks to create an entrepreneurial framework for women in poverty to actively participate in their own economic advancement, personal empowerment, and life transformation. We believe in the resourcefulness and intelligence of our women, and thus, they guide ALL collective decisions about their capacity building as we know THEY know best what they need.�
DiscoverHope currently works in communities surrounding the city of Cajamarca, Peru. Cajamarca is 530 miles northeast of Lima and is situated in the remote mountains of the Northern Andes highlighted by undeveloped access routes.� The surrounding Cajamarca province is considered the 3rd most poverty stricken area of Peru, with more than 80% of the indigenous population below the poverty line.�In the city of Cajamarca and surrounding villages, the people face considerable challenges including:
Lack of public health systems (37% without potable water, 25% without latrine, 68% without electricity)
Lack of education infrastructure (28% of women reported illiterate)
High level of child malnutrition (43% of infants reported malnourished)
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To learn more about our MicroCredit PLUS model, visit http://discoverhopefund.org/what-we-do/our-goals
For our 2010 Annual Report, see http://discoverhopefund.org/eval

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KRISTINA HONE
Kristina Hone is an Australian born Singer, Songwriter, Executive Music Producer and Recording Artist from Melbourne.
Having always had a love for music from an early age, Kristina decided to pursue her talents. She trained in Classical and Pop vocal techniques, studying VCE music performance and theory. Kristina began active involvement in vocal competitions, choir and music performances as lead singer.
It was not until after leaving school that she was able to fully explore her musical style. Kristina often felt vocal training placed too strong an emphasis on technical perfection at the expense of losing connection with the song.
Vocal trainers suggested she would be well suited for Opera due to her voice type and vocal range (Coloratura Soprano, 5 octaves and whistle register). While this instilled her with the confidence to follow her dreams, ultimately her love for RnB/Soul music was much stronger as it allowed her the freedom to experiment with different vocal styling. During a long period of social isolation due to illness, Kristina found solace immersing herself in singing and songwriting.
Having finally found "her sound" she was able to pour her heart and soul into her music, letting the emotions speak. Up until this point she felt like she had been overly encouraged by vocal trainers to stick to singing songs that fit her vocal range at the expense of losing connection with the songs. RnB/Soul music enabled her to channel all of her experiences into something tangible to which others could relate.
A natural gravitation toward RnB/Soul music ensued but this time she says it felt "totally different". She realised when listening to a lot of the pioneer soul singers that not only was she able to utilise her vocal power and range to sing the songs, for the first time she connected deeply to them. It was the perfect outlet during a challenging time.
Kristina is heavily involved in the entire process of music production from songwriting, music composition and the recording process, providing full control over the end product of her songs. Kristina has independently released a self titled debut EP and multiple singles. Her latest song, I Need Your Love is available now.
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Can Oklahoma pull an Ohio State in CFB Playoff?
Last season, Ohio State was ranked 16th in the first College Football Playoff poll, but climbed into the Final Four and wound up winning a national title.
A fourth seed, the Buckeyes upset top seed Alabama in the semifinal game in New Orleans and beat second seed Oregon in the championship game in Arlington, Texas.
Oklahoma is on a similar journey.
The Sooners were 15th in the first playoff poll this season, but like Ohio State, made the playoff as a fourth seed. They were third in the poll, but Michigan State leaped them and Iowa after its dramatic 16-13 win over the Hawkeyes in the Big Ten title game.
Still, Oklahoma is in, but can they duplicate Ohio State's playoff run? Not sure, but the Sooners have a difference maker in Baker Mayfield. Anytime you have a quarterback like that, you can win a championship.
The Sooners have extra motivation to beat Clemson in the semifinal game in Miami after losing by 34 points to the Tigers in last year's Orlando Citrus Bowl.
Another thing the Sooners have in their favor is they've played one less game than everyone else in the playoff. Some would argue one less game shouldn't matter, but watch this topic emerge if Oklahoma finds a way to win the whole thing.
The other Power 5 conferences could call out the Big 12 for not having a conference championship game, but a year ago, it probably cost TCU or Baylor a spot in the playoff.
See, conference championship games give teams an extra shot to show the playoff selection committee they should be in the playoffs. That's what Ohio State did in waxing Wisconsin last season and it worked.
Baylor was fifth and TCU dropped from third to sixth.
Michigan State benefitted from its conference championship win and moved up two spots from fifth to third. Not sure how rewarding it is to have to play Alabama in the semifinals, but Oklahoma avoided playing the most talented team in the playoff.
Like Ohio State last season, Oklahoma made a steep climb into the playoff. Can they take advantage of it like the Buckeyes?


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Q: Multiple choice lookup field does not render on edit form I have, for the last few years, used a field called "Enabled" and a calculated field which returns the value of the Title field if Enabled is true. If Enabled is false, it returns an empty string (""). This is the formula for that field:
=IF([Enabled],[Title],"")

This allows the administrators of the site to temporarily enable/disable options from displaying in the new and edit form of a list which references those items in a multiple-choice lookup column with out-of-the-box functionality instead of using code. This has worked for many years, but all of a sudden, after the user-facing list (not the lookup list) has had thousands and thousands of items, this is causing issues.
On the display form, the disabled items in a lookup field used to not appear while the enabled items would still show. Now, the disabled items are displayed as numbers showing the corresponding lookup ID.
On the edit form, if a user had previously selected an item in a lookup and that item has now been disabled (blank), the item would fall off the list of selected results and not be available in the list of selections. Now, the entire selection candidate and results for the lookup field are not rendered. I inspected the HTML for the form, and there is literally nothing on that row other than the initial table cell with the field name.
This type of functionality (blanking out a field used in a lookup selection in order to hide it) still works on other lists and other sites. How can I narrow down what it suddenly causing this issue on this one list?


Remember Tetris, the video game of the early 90s? If you ever played it for a long period of time, you may have experienced a crazy phenomenon where you saw falling neon-colored blocks when you closed your eyes or fell asleep at night.
Many people are eager to be happier, but don't know where to start. Studies show that one of the most effective ways to increase your happiness is incredibly simple: showing gratitude. Being grateful is proven to fight stress, boost the immune system, help you sleep better, and improve your overall life satisfaction.
But where do you start? Like establishing any other healthy habit, gratitude is something that can be practiced on a daily basis so that it eventually becomes second nature. Your brain will get "stuck" in a pattern of optimism.
Take the "no complaining" challenge: Complaining is a really ingrained behavior in many people. The bus is late, the office temperature is too hot or too cold, your computer is malfunctioning… life is full of daily frustrations.
But what you say has a lasting effect on your brain and outlook, and complaining definitely keeps you stuck in a negative mindset. Try a challenge where you stop complaining, completely. It's a lot harder than it sounds! First aim for one week and then try for a full month to really make this a lasting habit. Enlist family and friends so you can hold each other accountable and all reap the benefits!
Keep a daily gratitude journal: A gratitude journal is a quick and effective way to start feeling more positive immediately. It's simple: list three things at the beginning and end of your day that you're grateful for. In the morning, this will help to wake you up and clear negative space away so you can embrace your day. At night, focusing on what you're grateful for (instead of worrying about things) will put your mind in a calm space so you can fall asleep peacefully.
Empirical studies show that people who keep gratitude journals are more optimistic, spend more time exercising, have fewer symptoms of physical illness, are more likely to make progress towards achieving their goals, and are more likely to help others.
Write a gratitude letter: We all have people in our lives to whom we owe a debt of gratitude – a mom, a spouse, an old friend. Write a letter expressing how thankful you are to them and all they've done for you. The process of reflection will bring awareness and help you feel more satisfied in your relationship – you don't even have to send it to reap the benefits. It also doesn't necessarily have to be someone you know personally but someone who has made your life better.
Aim to do this once a week for 15-20 minutes. The process will help turn you into a "glass half-full" kind of person!
If you don't notice an immediate difference in your happiness, don't fret. It takes a bit of time for behaviors to become habits; you'll start to notice the shift around the three-week mark. Small practices like this can last months or even years, so get out that journal and get going!
Do you need more gratitude in your life? Which of these practices will you start with?


[SOLVED] i5-4440S Can I go over its listed ram speeds?
I read the data sheet and it says in a field called "Memory types" that it supports : 1333/1600 DDR3 ram. I was thinking of overclocking my HyperX fury 8G stick to 2400. Can I do that? Or would it make the system unstable since the rated speeds are 1600, I don't know if they're the max possible speeds for the CPU.
It all depends on your motherboard and it's chipset. If it has a Z87 or Z97 chipset, then you can overclock your RAM as long as it is able to support the higher speeds. If on the other hand it has another chipset, then I'm afraid that memory overclocking isn't supported on your system.
Therefore in order to overclock the RAM you have to have a capable motherboard (with the appropriate chipset) and a capable RAM (over 1600 MHz). Now if you have a motherboard that allows RAM overclocking but you also have a low speed RAM, you can still try to overclock it but stability isn't guaranteed over its rated frequency. Good luck.
I have an Asus H81M-V3 motherboard, would it support ram overclocking?
No, I'm afraid that you can't overclock the RAM with that motherboard. However you aren't missing much since memory overclocking wοn't give you back a large performance boost. Haswell CPUs (like your i5) don't need fast RAM in order to reach the their maximum performance. As long as your RAM is set at 1600, you'll be fine. Having said that there was a case back then where you were able to get more performance from RAM overclocking but that also involved CPU overclocking and as I've already said you can't do any of them with your CPU/motherboard combo. Good luck.
No, I'm afraid that you can't overclock the RAM with that motherboard. However you aren't missing much since memory overclocking want give you back a large performance boost. Haswell CPUs (like your i5) don't need fast RAM in order to reach the their maximum performance. As long as your RAM is set at 1600, you'll be fine. Having said that there was a case back then where you were able to get more performance from RAM overclocking but that also involved CPU overclocking and as I've already said you can't do any of them with your CPU/motherboard combo. Good luck.
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Head, shoulders, knees, and…elbows. The impact of high-impact.
As Coloradans and sports enthusiasts we know that the benefits of living in this beautiful state outweigh the negatives…wait, who are we kidding? What negatives? Colorado is the perfect setting for just about every sport in the book. Many of our most beloved sports are considered high-impact sports, though; such as running, football, basketball, soccer, tennis, etc. Any sport where there is increased impact on the joints and in the spine can be considered "high-impact". Some common high-impact sports injuries can include knee injuries, sprains, strains, joint dislocations, ligament injuries, and neck and spine injuries.
Building strength and mobility in our joints, muscles and spine can lead to a healthy, active life. High-impact critics used to think that athletes of high-impact sports are ruining their joints and were on the decline of overall health. However, many recent studies show our bodies adapt and build stronger joints based on the type of physical activity we endure: and as we can clearly see with our own eyes, humans living an active lifestyle live longer and healthier lives, plain and simple. Sometimes, though, injuries do happen; and as our bodies get older healing and preventing injury become a bit more complex. Whether you are recovering from an injury, simply trying to prevent future injury, or wanting to enhance your overall performance, you absolutely need a chiropractor to support your athleticism.
As athletes, most of us have the unified goal of staying moving, staying active, and staying healthy. It is likely you would find a chiropractor in the call logs of most professional athletes: many well-known athletes accredit their chiropractors for assisting in their overall wellness, health, and performance. So before you think twice and second guess the impact on your body from your beloved sport; talk to a chiropractor. Chiropractic services are non-invasive, drug-free, and will support your already active, healthy lifestyle. Chiropractors can offer a variety of pain management therapies to keep you on the road, field, or court.
Overall wellness and longevity are generally the focus of athletic chiropractic services and building a relationship with a chiropractor will not only keep you moving, but it is perhaps the smartest investment into your overall health that an athlete can make. We all have heard, 'a body in motion, stays in motion', let's keep our lifestyle impactful and our joints and spines healthy so we can stay in motion for as long as possible.


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In a reply to my Oct. 8 blog, the concept that the government is not a business was raised. In a big picture sense, that may be true.
But I might suggest that in the sprit of "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, there's a good chance it's a duck," I suggest that our government is a business.
The government certainly has many of the same functions of a business. And, as such, it needs to be properly managed. That is where we are falling short right now. Management is falling down on the job.
In my shop, as in just about any successful business, management never has a knock down, drag out fight in front of the employees. The leaders don't have their little temper tantrums in public. That all happens behind closed doors. Seeing your boss in a hissy fit, arguing angrily with the shop manager is not the kind of thing that inspires confidence in the employees. Nor does it do anything for their comfort level. It is counter productive and any sane manager would avoid it.
This, in my mind, is the biggest failure of the current administration. It seems to have lost touch with the art of politics, very similar to the art of management. It's a lesson for us on how not to run a business.


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Councilmembers O'Farrell and Cedillo Rally City in Support for Comprehensive Changes to L.A. River
Councilmembers O'Farrell and Cedillo Rally City in Support for Comprehensive Changes to L.A. River | KCET
It has taken almost seven years to complete, but a complex study on revitalizing the Los Angeles River, conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will soon be available to the public. With it comes the possibility of making real change to the city's historic waterway system, including removal of concrete and restoration of riparian ecosystems in key sections.
"Under the concrete, the river is smiling and it's about to give a victorious laugh," said Lewis MacAdams, co-founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR), which has been working behind the scenes to complete the study.
In a rally organized by the offices of Councilman Mitch O'Farrell and Gil Cedillo, the city's water advocates and city officials gathered to show their support for Alternative 20 of the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Feasibility Study or ARBOR study (or "Alternative with Restoration Benefits and Opportunities for Revitalization"). "We want the river to become part of the culture of Los Angeles," said O'Farrell. "We want L.A. to be known as one of the great river cities."
In attendance also was Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez, who would take on the task of securing the budgets for the approved alternative. "This may not be as large as the Sacramento Delta or the Mississippi river, but it gave birth to one of the greatest cities in the country," said Gomez.
Alternative 20, priced at $1.06 billion, proposes restoration to Verdugo Wash, Arroyo Seco Confluence, and Taylor Yard Bowtie parcel. It also proposes channel modifications and terracing in multiple locations along the river. The option represents the most ambitious plans for changing the Los Angeles River. It also carries the highest price tag. The projected cost of the proposed projects would be split 50-50 between the city and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The cost for Alternative 13, the cheapest of available options at $444 million, would be split between the city and USACE 70-30, with the city bearing the bigger brunt.
The price tag is why city officials think Alternative 13 has become the USACE's expected preferred alternative, which shouldn't be the case. "I'm not an ecologist. I'm a people person," said Alexander Robinson, director of the Landscape Morphologies Lab at the University of Southern California in a separate conversation. "But it's clear that we have to change the river itself, and we have to think about how that would affect generations of people who will live with the river and the ecological benefit of changing the river in the long-term. If we don't do this right, the river would continue to be this blight and that would be terrible."
O'Farrell makes a good argument when he points out, "If the federal government can spend $2 billion every day during the Iraq war era, then they should be able to spend $1 billion for the Los Angeles River." A resolution declaring the city's preference for Alternative 20 will be voted upon today by the Los Angeles City Council and is expected to pass unanimously.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has moved the release date of the study further in the calendar year to September 20, said to City Engineer Gary Lee Moore. Its publication would signal the start of the public comment period, where residents could voice their support for the different alternatives.
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I am a writer and as a writer I follow through on becoming better every day. As sure as the sun rises one must put effort and devotion into play in order to progress. Doing nothing allows one to stand still and a body at rest does not become a writer. I finished the Eric Van Lustbader book I was reading and now am reading Bernard Cornwell "Agincourt". Mr. Cornwell has written and published so many books that if fills two pages in this book I am reading. He is quite accomplished and I am sure has practice more than many of us. Nevertheless that does not discourage me but encourages me for I believe that I too will have many books published and will follow in his and many other authors footsteps.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Senegal forward Sadio Mane and Poland captain Robert Lewandowski starred for their clubs. Now they'll have a chance to come through for their countries when they meet in the World Cup on Tuesday night.
Some players win titles for both, such as Cristiano Ronaldo. Others struggle to lead their national teams to the top, such as Lionel Messi.
"Sadio has something absolutely unique, because he's unpredictable," Senegal coach Aliou Cisse said Monday through an interpreter. "Nobody is really able to mark him or to stop him. He's really great. At any point he can make the difference with a dribble, with a pass, whatever."
Now 26, Mane made his professional debut with Metz in 2012, moved to Red Bull Salzburg later that year and to Southampton in 2014. He had the fastest hat trick in Premier League history when he got three goals in a 176-second span against Aston Villa in May 2015, and he transferred to Liverpool in June 2016. Mane became one of the league's top players, scoring 13 Premier League goals in his first season, then getting 10 in the league and 10 more in the Champions League in 2017-18.
He has 14 goals in 49 games for Senegal, back in the World Cup for the time since its debut in 2002.
Lewandowski, who turns 30 in August, started his professional career with Znicz Pruszkow in 2006, moved to Lech Poznan two years later and to Borussia Dortmund in 2010.
After scoring 103 goals in 187 matches for Dortmund, the striker signed with Bayern Munich and has won four straight Bundesliga titles while scoring 106 goals in 126 games — 151 in 195 in all competitions. He can score in a flurry — he had five in a nine-minute span against Wolfsburg in February.
For Poland, Lewandowski has 55 goals in 95 international appearances, including a European-leading 16 in 2018 World Cup qualifying, one more than Ronaldo scored for Portugal.
"I believe that scale if the size of talent of Lewandowski is immense, supported by a lot of work," Poland coach Adam Nawalka said through an interpreter. "I believe that Robert Lewandowski could set an example to other players how to run a career."
A winner of the first matchup between the nations would have a good chance to advance from a group that includes Colombia and Japan.
Under Nawalka, who played for his nation at the 1982 World Cup, Poland has risen from 76th in the FIFA rankings in 2013 to eighth — one shy of the nation's high set last year.
Poland finished third in the 1974 World Cup with Grzegorz Lato and in 1982 with Zbigniew Boniek. It was knocked out in the round of 16 in 1986, then didn't qualify until 2002, when it lost its first two games and already was eliminated before beating the U.S. in its group stage finale. The Poles lost their first two games again in 2006 before a meaningless match against Costa Rica and hadn't been back since.
Senegal, a former French colony that gained independence in 1960, debuted in the World Cup with a shocking victory: 1-0 over defending champion France in the 2002 opener. The West African nation advanced to the quarterfinals before a 1-0 extra time loss to Turkey.
After upsetting France in Seoul, South Korea, on a goal by Papa Bouba Diop, thousands of people danced in the streets of Dakar after the 1:30 a.m. final whistle and President Abdoulaye Wade declared a national holiday. Diop ran to the corner flag after scoring, took off his jersey and put it on the field and formed a circle with teammates to dance around the garb.
Before the start of training at Spartak Stadium on Monday, Senegal's players formed a circle, danced and sang.
"The dreams that we had when we are kids that is becoming true," current captain Cheikhou Kouyate said. "So we'll have to enjoy and give this joy as well to the Senegalese people."
Cisse captained Senegal's 2002 team. Nawalka played for Poland from 1977-1980.
Poland has won only one of its seven previous World Cup openers, 3-2 over Argentina in 1974, and hasn't advanced past the first round since 1986.
"We're ready as we are seated here," said midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski, who could make his 100th international appearance.


LONDON — Watford captain Troy Deeney was targeted with racial abuse on social media after scoring in the FA Cup semifinal win over Wolverhampton.
Deeney's stoppage-time penalty at Wembley Stadium sent the game into extra time, where Watford sealed a 3-2 victory on Sunday.
Alongside the Premier League's "No room for racism" logo, Deeney wrote on Instagram on Monday that he had been forced to block comments from his posts after receiving abuse from "small minded people" on the platform.
"To me this isn't a game, when you racially abuse my family or myself I have to take measures to prevent young people seeing these comments and thinking that it's acceptable," Deeney wrote.
"To win the game would hurt them even more," Sterling said. "They're only trying to get you down. If you walk off they win, to score or win would be better."


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UPDATE: Game still on, for now, after Bruins and Sabres cancel morning skates due to COVID
By Angelina.Berube Updated Mar 18, 2021, 5:37pm EDT
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Update: After an uncertain morning, tonight's Bruins game against the Sabres looks like it will go on as scheduled. The Bruins provided an update via their Twitter with the news.
UPDATE: After further testing and contact tracing, as of now, tonight's game against the Buffalo Sabres will go on as scheduled.
— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) March 18, 2021
The Sabres also posted the same update, both with the key phrasing, "as of now."
The confusion and rumblings started after the Bruins announced this morning that their morning skate had been canceled due to one of the players entering the NHL's COVID-19 protocols.
UPDATE: Today's pregame skate at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, NY has been cancelled due to a Bruins player entering the league's COVID-19 protocols.
That came after the Sabres also canceled their pregame skate due to a team staff member entering the same protocols.
The Sabres canceled their morning skate in response to a hockey staff member entering Covid protocols.
No determination has been made about the game tonight against the Bruins.https://t.co/Bae3NpRjJe
— Lance Lysowski (@LLysowski) March 18, 2021
Shortly thereafter, John Shannon of Sportsnet tweeted that the game had been postponed, only to then say it hadn't officially been postponed and the game was still on.
As you may remember, the Sabres shut their facilities down in February when they had several players placed on the COVID-19 list, resulting in the postponement of six games, including two with the Bruins.
At this point, it is fair to say that the universe does not want the Bruins to play the Sabres.
The B's recently had a few COVID-19 scares of their own, but both ended up being false positives.
Better safe than sorry, especially for a team like Buffalo, who's already been hit pretty hard by all of this.
We'll keep you posted if the status of tonight's game changes.
5:30 Update:
Sean Kuraly will not be playing in tonight's game due to COVID protocols.


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LGBTQI + migrants: a systematic review and conceptual framework of health, safety and wellbeing during migration - Yarwood V, Checchi F, Lau K, Zimmerman C.
The health and safety of LGBTQI+ migrants or migrants who are of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (SOGIE) remains an under-studied area, particularly for the period during transit from their place of origin to destination. This sys... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Employers must not let their guard down, says UNISON
With UK nations set to remove some or all COVID-19 restrictions in the coming days and weeks, UNISON is urging employers not to let their guard down, but to continue to comply with health and safety legislation, including their duties to identify and reduce risks for their employees. The legislation lays out requirements that employers, among other things, regularly review risk assessments, consult with union health and safety representatives and be ready to put additional measures in place. There are also duties on employers, under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, which require them to ensure:...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 20, 2022 Category: Food Science Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article News Covid-19 health and safety Source Type: news
Positive feedback via descriptive comments for improved safety inspection responsiveness and compliance - Box M, Paye C, Gallardo-Williams MT.
The format of feedback can have a significant impact on the outcome of an evaluation. Checklists, a common tool in health and safety inspections, have limited potential to change practices and habits between utilizations because implicitly they are finite ... (Source: SafetyLit)
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We developed, validated, and tested a tool in Mexico to assess the management of student and teacher health and safety, environmental protection, and community safety in high school science laboratories. Schools require such an instrument in order to captu... (Source: SafetyLit)
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Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment (VCOD) in England – UNISON Branch advice
Background In late 2021, new regulations were agreed by parliament making it unlawful for an employer delivering Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated activities, to deploy an unvaccinated worker in a face-to-face role from 1st April 2022. There are some limited medical exemptions within the regulations. Vaccinated is defined as a "complete course of a Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved COVID-19 vaccine". This does not currently include the booster jab. The 3rd of February 2022 is the last date for workers to get their 1st dose to be fully vaccinated in time for when the regulations t...
Source: UNISON Health care news - January 17, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Cleopatra Parthenoglou Tags: Article Source Type: news
Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for pregnant employees, DHSC and Health and Safety Executive (updated 14th January 2022)
Advice for pregnant employees on risk assessments in the workplace and occupational health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. 14 January 2022Updated to provide additional guidance to pregnant employees and employers of women who are 26 weeks pregnant and beyond, and details on JCVI advice that pregnant women are more at risk of severe COVID-19 disease. 14 December 2021Updated to reflect the government announcement to move to Plan B. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
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Global Women's Health Index: pathways to a health future for women
The Hologic Global Women ' s Health Index is a multiyear, globally comparative survey of women ' s health. It aims to fill the critical gap in knowledge about the health and wellbeing of the world ' s women and girls, and further to identify what is needed to help them live longer, safer and healthier lives. The findings in this report come from the the first year of this survey, and are based on interviews conducted with more than 120,000 women and men aged 15 and older in 116 countries and territories. The results focus primarily on women ' s answers, and serve as a baseline of their knowledge, attitudes and behaviours r...
Personality and responses to Covid-19 health and safety prevention - O'Brien CA, Tourigny L, Manser Payne EH.
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City 's Office of Community Health and Safety adds three social workers
On Tuesday, Mayor Bill Peduto and the Office of Community Health and Safety announced that it has added three community social workers to its team. The social workers will be focusing on crisis co-response, as well as mental and behavioral health resource connections in partnership with Pittsburgh's Bureaus of Fire and Emergency Medical Services. Anmol Baxi, MSW, joins the office from UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, where Baxi serviced as a clinical social worker. Baxi worked with outpatient clients… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
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ZACH Theatre cancels remaining 'A Christmas Carol' shows
ZACH Theatre said Tuesday it 's canceling all remaining performances of "A Christmas Carol" through Jan. 2. The theatre said "rigorous testing protocols" revealed several breakthrough cases of Covid-19 within the staff and crew of the show. "Our paramount concern is for the health and safety of our artists and audie nces," ZACH Theatre Director of Marketing and Communications Drew Nebrig said in a statement. "It does, regrettably, put us in the position of making the hard decision to cancel… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
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COVID-19 Spreads to 89 Cruise Ships, Prompting a U.S. CDC Investigation
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Protection identified 89 cruise ships with COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, nearly all of which have met the threshold for a formal investigation. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal urged cruise companies and health agencies to stop ships from sailing, saying they are "repeating recent history as petri dishes of Covid-19 infection." Operators such as Carnival Corp. have implemented safeguards including mandatory masking and proof of vaccination, but the fast-spreading omicron variant has triggered an increasing number of infections and reports of ships being turned away at ...
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NBA Amends COVID-19 Protocols, Reduces Isolation Time to 6 Days After Positive Test
In the midst of a leaguewide COVID-19 outbreak, the NBA made adjustments to its health and safety protocols Monday. Per The Athletic's #outbreak #nbaamendscovid (Source: Reuters: Health)
Safety management paradigms: CoViD-19 employee well-being impact on occupational health and safety performance - Muhammad Ajmal ASNI, Asia Munir ABAAM.
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Occupational health and safety performance in high-rise building projects in Pakistan: a systematic literature review - Lakhiar MT, Lakhiar MT, Abdullah AH.
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Q: My images won't display on Safari with website Netlify.app I'm building a portfolio website and I'm trying to add images to "see my works" section of my website.
i have 3 images --> image-1, image-2 and image-3. these works fine at my own computer but when i try to display my site in mobile, images won't display.
see my temporary website
see the "Some examples of pages that I have done" section of page.
Screenshot from my phone.
this is the html for each image:

Project Title

        See Live

See images I use on my website
More HTML and CSS :

img {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

.portfolio h2 {
    margin: 2em;
    font-size: 2em;
    padding: 10vh 0;
    border-bottom: solid 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}

.port-item {
    position: relative;
}
.port-desc {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
    width: 100%;
    height: 10rem;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
}
.port-desc p{
    margin-bottom: .5em;
    font-size: 1.8em;
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 600px) {
    .port-items {
        display: grid;
        grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(15em,1fr));
    }

}
@media only screen and (min-width: 1000px) {
    .port-item {
        overflow: hidden;
    }
    .port-desc {
        transform: translateY(100%);
        transition: transform .4s ease;
    }
    .port-item:hover .port-desc {
        transform: translateY(0);

}
}

Some examples of pages that I have done

Project Title

                    See Live

Project Title

                    See Live

Project Title

                    See Live

Note: my index.html and images folder are in the same folder.
My folders

A: try this  it will work

A: Your Hero Image shows and the url is ../images/intro.jpg but all your figure images have ./images/intro.jpg
does that make a difference?

A: Following our discussion in comment, as your images folder is in the same folder with your file, you are supposed to write it without the first / so as follow :

If you must change the path of your image, think about clearing the cache of your browser.
You get more information about the rules to manage path here: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_filepaths.asp
Your result:
EDIT
After my research it seems that images are not shown on safari because of a bug between netlify.app and Safari, please check this link:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/658613
So normaly, it should not be a problem if you would deploy a true website.
Best regards,


The state of artificial intelligence (AI) in smart homes nowadays might be likened to a smart, but moody teenager: It's starting to hit its stride and discover its talents. But it doesn't really feel like answering any questions about what it's up to and would really rather be left alone, OK?
William Yeoh, assistant professor of computer science & engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, is working to help smart home AI to grow up.
The National Science Foundation awarded Yeoh a $300,000 grant to assist in developing smart home AI algorithms that can determine what a user wants by both asking questions and making smart guesses, and then plan and schedule accordingly. Beyond being smart, the system needs to be able to communicate; to explain why it is proposing the schedule it proposed to the user.
These challenges rely heavily on communication. And like that moody teen, communication is not currently one of AI's strengths.
"So far, a lot of AI is successful in isolation," Yeoh said.
The first step in this project is figuring out what the user actually wants: The temperature to be 70 degrees when she gets home, the car fully charged by 8 a.m., and so on. And it must decipher what the user doesn't want: The air conditioner set at full-blast all day long, or the car to charge during peak hours.
An AI system could meticulously and continuously ask a user for every one of her preferences. But because that is not possible (or would be, at the least, extremely annoying), the research sets out to determine, "Without bothering users too much, how many questions should we ask them and what should those questions be?" Yeoh noted in his grant application. The reason for asking: to make the smartest possible decisions when the user has not supplied specific information.
Once the parameters and constraints are set, and the system has all of the available information it's going to have, it devises a schedule that honors the user's preferences, and maximizes the user's comfort, while minimizing energy usage.
The system's job won't be done, however, once the parameters are set and the scheduling is done; it still needs to work on its communication skills.
Communication is a two-way street. Not only does Yeoh want to develop smart home systems that a user can tell what to do, he also thinks that the system should be able to explain itself to the user.
If she could simply ask the system what happened, however, she would realize that in an attempt to save energy, the system has been turning off the lights in the basement every day after a certain time, because (via sensors, perhaps) it knows that she rarely goes downstairs in the evening.
Yeoh's project is developing the tools to give users the ability to ask those questions, vocally or by turning to a visual interface designed to give users access to a host of information, from details about specific devices to a broader view of energy consumption.
Having access to that information will allow the user to more narrowly tailor her settings, working with the system instead of simply having to accept its settings. After all, there are lots of variables for a smart home AI system to take into account if it's monitoring the temperature, locking the doors, charging a vehicle, preheating the oven, and monitoring a security system — all while trying to conserve energy usage.


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Homepage > Brittany Murphy
Was an American actress and singer. Born in New Jersey, Murphy moved to Los Angeles at the age of 14 with her mother Sharon, in the hopes of landing acting roles. She quickly landed spots in commercials and guest starring roles on television, and appeared as a series regular on two short-lived family sitcoms, Drexell's Class and Almost Home. But it wasn't until 1995 that Murphy became something of a household name, winning the role of the "tragically unhip" new girl Tai in the era-defining teen classic Clueless. Following the film's breakout success, Murphy embarked on a string of scene-stealing character roles, as quirky head-cases in films like Drop Dead Gorgeous and Riding in Cars with Boys, or as mentally disturbed young women in films including Freeway and the Oscar-winning drama Girl, Interrupted. She also nabbed a lucrative starring role in the long-running animated comedy King of the Hill, which ran from 1997 to 2010. In 2001, Murphy broke out as a leading lady with a memorable role in the Michael Douglas thriller Don't Say a Word, before bagging the female lead in the critically-acclaimed box office smash 8 Mile. Soon after, Murphy grew in-demand as a comedy star, appearing alongside Ashton Kutcher in Just Married, and headlining comedies Uptown Girls and Little Black Book. She also stole scenes in Robert Rodriguez's comic book adaptation Sin City, and supplied the voice for singing penguin Gloria in Happy Feet. She also set in motion a singing career of her own, finally capitalising on the vocal chops that had in 2000 landed her the highly-coveted role of Janis Joplin in an ultimately aborted biopic of the tragic singer. Faster Kill Pussycat, her collaboration with DJ Paul Oakenfold, became an international hit on the dance charts. In late 2005, Murphy was dropped by her management at ICM, on the heels of tabloid rumors about her shifting weight and accusations of drug use. Murphy's publicists had, earlier in the year, released a statement to the media denying all claims. But the behind-the-scenes chaos soured Murphy's reputation within the industry, and she would go on to struggle professionally. Later films included the low-budget thrillers Deadline and Something Wicked, and SyFy TV movie Megafault, produced by schlock maestros The Asylum. Hopes of a mainstream comeback were also dashed when she was replaced in Happy Feet Two by the singer Pink, while a supporting role in The Expendables was written out at script stage. It was during this time that Murphy married film producer Simon Monjack, despite warnings from industry figures about his background. In 2009, Murphy was fired from the set of the supernatural thriller The Caller. Less than a month later, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a "medical request" at the home Murphy shared with Monjack and her mother. Murphy had reportedly collapsed, and despite attempts to resuscitate her at the scene, she was pronounced dead upon arrival at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Murphy was found to have died from pneumonia, anaemia and multiple prescription drug intoxication. Despite the findings, Murphy's father, Angelo Bertolotti, continues to fight for a new investigation into her passing.
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Presser Points: Belichick - 'Nobody's better prepared than Tom'
Fridays are usually reserved for some last-minute details related to the upcoming opponent, or some in-depth football chats that focus more on history rather than the here and now.
This week was a bit different.
Bill Belichick fielded some questions regarding his relationship with Tom Brady, which obviously stemmed from a recent Boston Globe report indicating there may be some hard feelings in the wake of the coach's decision to revoke some privileges for Brady's guru and close friend Alex Guerrero.
On Wednesday, Belichick indicated each year is different when it comes to working with individual players and teams. On Friday he was asked how his relationship with Brady has changed this season.
"Different teams. Different players. I mean, he is great to work with," Belichick said. "Nobody's better prepared than Tom. Obviously always ready to go, always on top of it. Really takes coaching well. Got a lot of good ideas. But each year's different. Our team's different. Our players are different. Our opponents are different. Every week's different."
Later Belichick was asked if the Guerrero situation had changed any working dynamics among the principles, and not surprisingly he was unwilling to address the specifics of the Globe's account.
"This is another with no sources, right? I'm not gonna get into that because there are none mentioned," he said.
"Look we have a lot of people that work for our team outside of the team," he said. "There's different relationships, different situations with dozens of other people. So I'm not going to go through it case by case on what everybody does and so forth. That would be impossible to do. Not going to do it."
Belichick was willing to discuss his team's actual training staff, which includes strength and conditioning coach Moses Cabrera.
"He's been great," Belichick said. "Does a great job. Our team's in good condition. They're strong. They're in condition. Train well. I think he gets the most out of them."
The focus eventually turned back to football and the Bills, and Belichick took some question on first-year Buffalo boss Sean McDermott.
New blood –Perhaps Belichick greatest strength is his ability to scout and prepare for an opponent, and that includes the coach. But with a new coach like McDermott, that task becomes more difficult.
Belichick was what can be learned by watching film.
"I think just as a composite – a lot of times you don't know exactly who's doing what – but you just see what the team does and that's what you prepare for," Belichick said. "So, whether it's a quarterback, an offensive coordinator, a head coach, the offensive line coach in the running game … and take the same people on defense and special teams – coordinators, head coach, specialists, signal caller, key guys. However it all comes out, the bottom line for you is that's how it comes out.
"So, the inner workings of who actually does what, sets up what, who's call is it and so forth, doesn't matter as much to us as what the final result is of what we have to defend or what we have to deal with. So, that's really what we try to identify is how they play certain situations, what their strategy is or what they're going to present to us that we have to deal with.
"I think Sean's done a great job up there, yeah. I mean, absolutely. They play well every week. They've had a couple, like we all have, games that haven't gone the way you want it to go. The team has bounced right back. They're competitive in all three phases of the game for 60 minutes pretty much every week. They play consistently, they're tough, they make very few mistakes."
Eye for an eye –Everyone remembers the ugly incident that took place at the end of the first meeting between the team. Bills rookie corner Tre'Davious White picked off a Tom Brady pass and Rob Gronkowski delivered a late hit to the prone corner, earning a one-game suspension in the process.
One of the storylines this week is the potential for the Bills to seek retribution, but Belichick is more focused on looking ahead than reliving the moment.
"I don't believe and our team doesn't believe in living in the past," he said. "So, we can go back and look at a million things that have happened in every game. That's not really important to us. What's important to us is this game and our preparation for this game and our performance in this game. So, that's what we're all focused on. That's what we will be focused on.
"Our concern is about going out there and playing our best. Coaching our best and playing our best, that's what we're all focused on. So, that's what we're going to try to do."
Young leader –David Andrews is in his first year as a team captain and Belichick was asked about his leadership role on the team.
"Really good," he began. "He has a natural position of leadership at center. That's a high-communication position coordinating the offensive line calls or identifying the defense that our opponents are in – the front or who's who, who's a linebacker, who's a defensive lineman, how do we want to treat certain players in different looks. He does a good job in all that communication.
"Then his off-the-field leadership as a captain I think has been very good this year. We've had those type of players before, those second-year captains like Devin [McCourty], like Jerod [Mayo] – David's a third-year captain – Duron [Harmon], again, kind of a younger captain. It's a little different for those guys. But you see those guys grow, and in time, I'm sure they will become like what many of our more experienced captains have become. David does a good job. He connects well with all the players – offense, defense, linemen, backs, coaching staff. He gets along well with everybody, and that's a good quality to have."
Presser Points: Ramping up toward the regular season
Notes on the short turnaround, shifting preparation, Phillip Dorsett and Sony Michel.
Presser Points: Highlighting strong performances from the youngsters
Belichick on Winovich, Cowart, Wynn and the short week of preparation for Carolina
Presser Points: Belichick knows there's a long way to go
Impressive preseason win over the Lions still leaves Pats with plenty to work on
5 points from TB12's twelve minutes with the media
Tom Brady met the media following the final mandatory minicamp practice on Thursday. This will likely be the last time we hear from the 41-year-old quarterback until mid-training camp. Here are the five takeaways from the twelve minutes TB12 spent answering questions.
Presser Points: Belichick - 'Easy to see why Rams are here'
Bill Belichick had plenty of complimentary things to say about the Rams when discussing the upcoming Super Bowl.
Presser Points 1/22: Turning attention to Rams
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, and defensive line coach Brendan Daly took time this afternoon to field several questions on a conference call with reporters.
Presser Points – Brady: 'The more film I watch, the less nervous I get'
New England QB explains how preparation eases his nerves in big games.
Presser Points: Belichick - 'There's an anxiety' before every game
Bill Belichick may be the league's longest-tenure coach but he still gets nervous before every game.
Presser Points – Brady: Underdog status shows 'what people think about what our chances are'
Patriots quarterback answers questions about New England's trip to Kansas City for the AFC title game.
Presser Points: Belichick - 'It's an honor to play in this game'
Bill Belichick expressed plenty of excitement in discussing the upcoming AFC title game in Kansas City.
Presser Points: Belichick - Chiefs are a dominant team
Bill Belichick talked about how Andy Reid's Chiefs have dominated over the past several years during his conference call on Tuesday.
Presser Points: Patriots looking to finish
Bill Belichick felt his team played well in the first three quarters against the Chargers.


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## 1. Supervised Learning of Universal Sentence Representation from Natural Language Inference
@Facebook AI Research

Sentence Embedding

Sentence U and Sentence V mean the same?

BiLSTM Max pooling

Word embedding as input to produce general purpose sentence embedding

SkipThought/FastSent

Evolution of embedding per epoch so that capture more information.

Linaire classifier instead of big MLP

## 2.Learning weakly supervised multimodal phoneme embeddings
@ENS

Obejctif: Model children's language learning process

McGurk Effect

Blue Lips dataset(blue to find mouth easier)
Audio-visual speech corpus
16 French speakers

FFT => Obtain energy per freq

classifier to track mouth

Same network
two words => same/not

Mono audio
Mono videa
Mono concatenation

Multi

Eval:
1. ABX Task
Within Speaker Test
Across Speaker Test

2. Parralisme
s->t (con..)
t->d (voice)

Q: Multi-task?

## 3. Generative Models

### GAN in domains

KL Divergence:
Train the generator by minimizing the distance of distribution of real data and the generated data

CNN+GAN secrets:
Batch Norm: to stablize the training and help backprop
Stride conv
=> DCGAN

### VAE
sample in the middle prevent backprop

less perf than GAN
1. shape of P(z) => Normal distribution (true latent variable)
2. suboptimal loss

### VAE-GAN competitive, not better

each dimension of z become meaningful
eg. black hair, bold, etc.

### infoGAN

GAN can be used as modules

### IAN
semi-supervised

### CycleGAN
Map unpaired images

## 4. CNTK
@Microsoft Machine Intelligence and Perception

Distrubuted Kernel instead of extension
Project Malmo
Reinforcement L
Imitation L

Simulation realistic


The 2014-15 budget agreement (read our initial analysis here) includes a number of investments and policy changes that will help alleviate economic hardship among California's lowest-income residents, who suffered disproportionately during the recession and who have continued to be left behind in the economic recovery. However, given the magnitude and breadth of the cuts made to California's core public services and systems — cuts which low-income families and children bore the brunt of even as the state's poverty rate reached nearly 25 percent — much bolder action is needed to set California on a path toward more broadly shared prosperity. Here's a quick assessment of how well the budget package addresses the needs of low-income Californians at a time when poverty and long-term unemployment remain high.
Increases the maximum grant for CalWORKs, which provides modest cash assistance and job-related services to low-income families with children, by 5 percent effective April 1, 2015. This increase, together with the 5 percent increase that took effect March 1, will restore most of the grant cuts made since 2008-09 and will help very-low-income parents with children make ends meet as they search for work or build skills to broaden their employment options.
Dedicates funds to help families participating in CalWORKs to obtain safe, affordable, and stable housing. This assistance is extremely important given that the maximum monthly CalWORKs grant for a family of three doesn't even cover the average cost of a studio apartment priced at "fair market rent" in California.
Prevents a substantial reduction in CalFresh food assistance benefits that was slated to occur under recent changes in federal law. As we pointed out in a blog post earlier this year, more than 300,000 households would have lost an average of $62 per month in food assistance absent state action — a cut equal to nearly one-third of the average CalFresh household's benefits.
Expands eligibility for CalFresh by taking advantage of a federal option called "broad-based categorical eligibility." In a prior blog post, we detailed how this policy change would remove a significant barrier to food assistance access primarily for low-income working families who spend much of their incomes on necessities like child care and housing and thus have little left over for food.
Lifts the lifetime ban that prevents parents with certain drug felony convictions from receiving CalFresh food assistance and CalWORKs income support, job-related services, and child care. This change could benefit thousands of low-income children whose parents are currently prohibited from participating in these programs.
Provides funding to restore 13,000 child care and preschool "slots" for California children and includes provisions that would make these programs more affordable for some families. Watch for an upcoming blog post for more detail on these policy changes.
Does not fully address low-income families' critical need for affordable, high-quality child care and preschool. The budget agreement restores only a fraction of the 110,000 child care and preschool slots eliminated since 2007-08. With potentially close to 200,000 children on waiting lists for slots, this level of investment doesn't come close to meeting existing demand.
Does not reinstate the statutory cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for CalWORKs grants that was eliminated in 2010-11. Without an annual COLA, CalWORKs grants have been gradually losing purchasing power, making it harder for families to afford basic necessities. Moreover, the grant increase included in the new budget agreement doesn't go far enough to help low-income families with children escape poverty. Even after the increase takes effect, the maximum monthly grant for a family of three will be about $700 — equal to just 43 percent of the poverty line, well below the deep-poverty cut-off of half the poverty line.
Does not restore grant cuts or reinstate the annual COLA for the SSI/SSP Program, which provides modest cash assistance to 1.3 million low-income seniors and people with disabilities. Policymakers eliminated the COLA in 2010-11 after suspending it several times in prior years and reducing the state's portion of the grant to the minimum level allowed under federal law. The amount of assistance individuals lose each month due these cuts is equivalent to more than three weeks of groceries – a significant loss, particularly given that SSI/SSP participants are not eligible for CalFresh.
Does not restore a 10 percent cut to payments for certain Medi-Cal providers that began to be implemented late last year. Maintaining this cut not only reduces the amount of federal Medicaid funds that flow into the state, but also could discourage some health care providers from participating in Medi-Cal, thus potentially impeding access to care for millions of low-income Californians as enrollment rises.
Does not restore a reduction in the total hours of care that In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) consumers can receive. IHSS helps more than 450,000 low-income seniors and people with disabilities remain safely in their own homes, preventing the need for more costly out-of-home care. IHSS consumers were hit with an 8 percent across-the-board cut in total hours effective July 2013, and this reduction is scheduled to scale back to 7 percent effective July 1, 2014. The budget agreement leaves this cut in place.
With the highest poverty rate in the nation, California has much work to do to expand economic opportunity. This work is critical: our state's future prosperity will be largely determined by the extent to which we invest in families, children, and communities today. Fortunately, with state revenues projected to continue their rebound, California should be well positioned to make those investments. We'll look to policymakers to take advantage of this opportunity and present bolder strategies for leading our state toward long-term economic growth and more broadly shared prosperity. As debates on poverty and economic opportunity unfold in coming weeks and months, watch for additional CBP commentary and analysis on the key policy choices facing our state and what they mean for low-income families.
Advocates from around the state are coming to Sacramento this week to raise awareness of hunger in California. On Wednesday, Hunger Action Day, a select committee will examine how inadequate nutrition can be detrimental to children's development and discuss policies to prevent hunger early in life.
This issue is particularly timely given the sharp increase in recent years in the number of people facing hunger or the threat of hunger. The share of US households considered "food insecure" — unable to regularly afford nutritionally adequate meals — reached an all-time high in the wake of the Great Recession as millions of workers lost their jobs and struggled to feed their families on reduced incomes. Food insecurity increased in nearly every state during the downturn, but California saw the fourth-largest jump, and between 2010 and 2012, an average of nearly one in six of the state's households faced hunger or the threat of hunger. An astounding 25 percent of California's children lived in households that were unable to afford sufficient food at some point in 2010, up from 17 percent of children in 2006.
The recent rise in food insecurity is cause for concern, but our nation's past efforts to reduce hunger show that it's possible to reverse this trend. In the 1960s, before food assistance was widely available, it was common for children in impoverished communities to show signs of severe malnourishment — such as distended bellies or wasting — that today are typically associated with extreme poverty in developing nations. In fact, just two generations ago, some infants born to very-low-income families in the US would die of hunger. Today such tragedies are rare in our nation thanks to the creation and expansion of food assistance programs. The nation's largest program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, known as CalFresh in California) can be credited with largely eliminating severe hunger and malnutrition in the US.
Research shows that SNAP not only reduces hunger, but also it functions like an immunization, protecting young children from illness. It also cuts children's odds of being underweight and at risk of developmental delays. And SNAP's benefits appear to last into adulthood. A recent academic paper found that children from disadvantaged families who had access to food assistance early in life were significantly less likely to suffer from serious, chronic health conditions as adults. Furthermore, the girls in these families were better able to support themselves as adults: they generally achieved higher levels of education, had higher earnings, and were less likely to need public assistance as adults.
Food assistance also is one of the most powerful tools for reducing poverty. By boosting families' food budgets and thus freeing up income for other necessities, SNAP lifted 4.7 million people nationwide — including 2.1 million children — above the poverty line in 2011. CalFresh kept nearly 800,000 Californians out of poverty that year, including 380,000 children — effectively cutting the child poverty rate by about 4 percentage points.
California's policymakers can reduce hunger and poverty even more by expanding food assistance to additional families. Currently, California ties with Wyoming for the lowest SNAP participation rate. Estimates suggest that 3.2 million Californians are eligible for the program but are not enrolled. If every eligible Californian participated, millions of state residents would be better able to afford sufficient food and many would be lifted out of poverty. What's more, because CalFresh is 100-percent federally funded, maximizing program participation would draw an estimated $3.5 billion in additional federal food assistance benefits into the state, providing a significant boost to California's economy as well as its families.
State policymakers should be commended for taking a number of important steps in recent years to boost participation in CalFresh, but there are additional actions they could take to further increase enrollment. For example, California could establish a stakeholder advisory committee to identify and recommend effective strategies to improve statewide CalFresh participation, service, and performance.
California could also expand so-called "categorical eligibility," a simplified enrollment process intended to boost participation in CalFresh. Legislation signed into law last year established categorical eligibility for households with individuals enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state's health care program for low-income Californians. Specifically, this legislation enables households who have a connection to Medi-Cal and whose gross incomes somewhat exceed the CalFresh eligibility requirement — falling between 130 percent and 200 percent of the poverty line — to qualify for CalFresh as long as they meet the program's net income test, meaning that their incomes, after subtracting certain expenses such as child care, remain at or below the poverty line. (For a family of three, 130 percent to 200 percent of the poverty line corresponds to an annual income of between about $24,000 and $38,000.) As a next step, the Legislature could approve the Governor's recent proposal, included in his revised budget, to broaden categorical eligibility to all households — not just those with a connection to Medi-Cal — whose incomes meet these requirements. This proposal would remove a significant barrier to CalFresh enrollment primarily for low-income working families who spend much of their incomes on necessities like child care and housing and thus have little left over for food.
In addition to boosting CalFresh participation, policymakers could take action to prevent a pending reduction in food assistance benefits. Recent changes in federal law imposed restrictions on state "Heat and Eat" policies, which boost SNAP benefits for families who also participate in a federal energy assistance program. Absent state action, these restrictions are expected to result in a significant loss of CalFresh benefits — $62 in federal funds per month, on average, for hundreds of thousands of California households. (To put this cut in perspective, the average CalFresh household receives just $200 of food assistance per month.) California policymakers could prevent this substantial cut by adopting the Governor's recent budget proposal to increase state funding for energy assistance by the amount needed to comply with the new federal requirements. While implementing this proposal would cost the state $10 million, it would prevent California from losing $300 million in federal funds — a substantial bang for the buck.
Boosting participation in food assistance programs is especially critical now given California's severe drought, which is expected to cause food prices to rise, making it harder for low-income Californians to feed their families. Research suggests that a mere $10 increase in weekly food costs can significantly boost the share of households facing hunger of the threat of hunger.
Moreover, the emergency food providers that many families turn to when they can't afford enough to eat are anticipating significant challenges ahead. If the drought causes food supplies to drop, food banks expect that they'll run out of food before serving all of their clients, particularly if demand for their services increases due to higher food prices. Already many food banks have reported increased demand for assistance due to recent cuts to SNAP benefits.
Increasing CalFresh participation has always been a policy win-win given its potential to substantially reduce hunger and poverty while boosting the state's economy. But with food prices likely to rise in the near future, the case for taking prompt action has never been stronger.
There is a growing awareness among policymakers and the public of the serious challenges of high poverty and widening income inequality, both in California and nationally. At the CBP's annual conference on March 6 in Sacramento, our luncheon plenary will have an expert panel discussing what poverty and inequality mean for California and its communities, as well as the kinds of policy choices that could combat financial hardship and help workers and their families climb the economic ladder.
Sasha Abramsky, author of The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives, selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2013.
Sylvia Allegretto, co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of several landmark studies on employment, earnings, and wealth trends.
Vanessa Aramayo, director of the California Partnership and one of our state's leading voices for policy change that addresses root causes of poverty.
Don't miss this chance to hear insights on — and get your questions answered about — how California can take real steps toward making a bright economic future possible for all.
Register today for our 2014 conference, Raising the Bar: How Smart Policy Choices Can Create Shared Prosperity in California. Be sure to register by February 13 — less than two weeks away — to take advantage of the early-bird discount.
Today, members of the California Legislature will meet in Budget Conference Committee to continue resolving differences between the Senate and Assembly's versions of the 2013-14 state budget. One important item up for discussion is the size of monthly grants for families in the CalWORKs Program, which provides cash assistance to low-income families along with welfare-to-work services to help parents find jobs and overcome barriers to employment.
The Senate and the Brown Administration have proposed keeping the CalWORKs grant frozen at its current level, while the Assembly has proposed a phased-in increase that would raise the maximum grant to 50 percent of the federal poverty line over a five-year period, starting with a 12 percent increase January 1, 2014.
After years of steady decline in the purchasing power of the CalWORKs grant, followed by sharp cuts to the grant in recent years, the $638 maximum aid payment for a family of three is currently equal to about 39 percent of the poverty line, well below the "deep poverty" cutoff of 50 percent. To put things in perspective, today's cash grant is roughly the same, in actual dollars, as the maximum grant in 1987. The critical difference is that back then, the value of that dollar amount was equal to about 80 percent of the poverty line — or double the percentage today.
The fact that so many of the state's children experience this daily hardship is deeply troubling in and of itself. But child poverty's effects extend far beyond individual households. Since children who grow up in poverty are likely to have lower earnings, less education, and poorer health as adults, poverty affects all Californians who care about a strong workforce and a robust tax base for the state.
Augmenting the CalWORKs grant would help address poverty in California by lifting the household income of CalWORKs participants, who make up a large share of the state's low-income families. Such an increase would directly benefit the more than 1 million children in CalWORKs households. Depending on how the change is implemented, the 12 percent increase in the CalWORKs grant that the Assembly proposes for 2013-14 could bring the maximum grant for a family of three from its current $638 level up to about $714 a month — still below where it was 10 years ago. This change, though modest, would be a step in the right direction after years of repeated cuts to the CalWORKs grant.