Miley's Kim K joke just made our day!
To be honest, vitamins are the last thing I expected to see Miley pumping into her veins, but better this than anything else being offered to the young, rich and famous these days. Never one to miss an provocative photo opp, Miley's shared dramatic imagery of herself with a syringe in her arm, but admitted she was merely sampling the latest celeb health fad of injecting vits. My only hope is that impressionable fans don't try to emulate this without the assistance of a medical professional – using and sharing needles can be fatal, even with vitamins!


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"Last year (the U.S. women's soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men's team and were paid almost four times less."
— The Other 98% on Thursday, March 31st, 2016 in a Facebook image
Facebook post exaggerates discrepancy between US men's and women's soccer teams
By Lauren Carroll on Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 at 4:07 p.m.
Five players from the reigning World Cup champion women's soccer team have filed a federal wage complaint against the U.S. Soccer Federation, claiming they are underpaid. (Reuters)
Despite bringing in more money than their male counterparts, the U.S. women's national soccer team is paid a lot less, according to a claim spreading around social media.
"Five All-Star Women's World Cup Champions just sued the U.S. Soccer Federation for pay equity," reads an image posted on Facebook by The Other 98 Percent, a liberal advocacy group. "Last year, they generated $20 (million) more than the men's team and were paid almost four times less."
Five members of the U.S. women's national soccer team, the reigning world champions, have indeed filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that deals with employment discrimination, claiming the U.S. Soccer Federation pays them less than members on the male team. This comes amid a dispute between U.S. Soccer and the women's team over their collective bargaining agreement.
The Other 98 Percent's claim — that the women's soccer team made $20 million more for U.S. Soccer than the men yet were paid four times less — comes from news reports about the equal pay complaint, filed by players Carli Lloyd, Hope Solo, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and Becky Sauerbrunn.
The complaint itself does not claim either of these figures. Instead, it says more generally that the women's team has generated significant revenue and that women's national team members "have been paid and continue to be paid substantially less than (men's national team) players." So we wanted to see if these numbers in The Other 98 Percent's graphic add up.
While the women's team is projected to have brought in more revenue than the men's team for the 2016 fiscal year, it's not nearly as large a gap as The Other 98 Percent's image claims.
Last year, U.S. Soccer projected the men's and women's teams together would bring in about $24 million, and they ended up taking in about double that amount, according to financial documents released by the federation earlier this year.
The women's team brought in slightly more of that revenue: $26.8 million, including $3.2 million in World Cup revenue. The men brought in revenues totaling $21 million. But that's a difference of about $5.8 million, nowhere close to the $20 million cited in the graphic. (It's worth noting that expenses exceeded revenue for the women's World Cup, so that particular event resulted in net losses rather than profit for U.S. Soccer.)
In its report, the federation cited both teams' successes in contributing to the budget-busting revenue, but it singled out the women's team for its World Cup win and the nine-game victory tour that followed.
For the upcoming year, the federation predicts the women's team will bring in about $17.6 million in revenue, resulting in a net profit. The men's team, on the other hand, is expected to bring in about half of that, $9 million, and end up with net losses.
While the women's team championship win was a leading factor in raising U.S. Soccer revenue beyond expectations, they brought in about $5.8 million more than the men's team, not $20 million.
The women's team players' complaint against U.S. Soccer highlights some perceived disparities in pay. But there's no way to easily compare the women with the men because their compensation agreements are drastically different. For example, women earn a $72,000 base salary and benefits like health insurance, while men are paid on a per-game basis and do not receive a salary or benefits.
But here are a few of the examples that the complaint raises:
Both teams play 20 exhibition games each year. Female players earn $1,350 for winning an exhibition game, while male players win $5,000 if they lose and up to $17,625 if they win, depending on the opponent's ranking.
For making the World Cup roster, female players earned $15,000 each, while male players made $68,750 each in their World Cup year.
For winning the World Cup, the women earned $2 million to split among the players. For losing in the round of 16, the men earned $9 million. (This bonus is determined by FIFA, the international soccer governing body, not U.S. Soccer.)
When traveling, the men's team receives approximately 25 percent more per diem cash than the women's team.
Players earn a bonus per ticket sold at their games. For women, that bonus is $1.20 per ticket, while it is $1.50 per ticket for the men.
As to whether all of this amounts to women players earning one-fourth what male players do — that's hard to say because compensation varies by player and year-to-year, depending on how many games they play and at what level of competition.
Website FiveThirtyEight conducted its own analysis of the federation's financial documents, comparing the compensation of two male players to two female players of similar seniority in their respective World Cup years. FiveThirtyEight found that given those conditions, the men made almost twice as much as the women.
The FiveThirtyEight analysis concluded that women's team players Lloyd and Solo likely made about $240,000 in 2015, the year they won the World Cup. But men's team players Clint Dempsey and Tim Howard made $428,000 and $399,000, respectively, in 2014 when they competed — but did not go very far — in the men's World Cup tournament.
For what it's worth, the lawyer representing the five women, Jeffrey Kessler, has said that depending on the match, the women might be paid 28 percent to 65 percent less than the men.
A U.S. Soccer spokesman told us that when comparing compensation and revenue for the men's team and the women's team needs to be looked at over a course of four or eight years cumulatively instead of just one year, as a small window does not provide the entire picture — since men and women play the signature tournament, the World Cup, in different years.
An image shared by The Other 98 Percent said "Last year (the U.S. women's soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men's team and were paid almost four times less."
The women's soccer team had a much more successful season on the pitch than the men's team last year, and as a result they brought in a lot more revenue. But that gap is closer to $5.8 million, not $20 million.
And while there seem to be compensation disparities among the women and men, it's hard to pin down exactly how big that disparity is because the way women and men are paid is so different, and it also varies by match and by player. We couldn't find a clear example of female players being paid one-fourth the amount their male counterparts earn.
While there might be legitimate issues concerning the revenue and compensation ratio among the men's and women's soccer teams, this graphic uses numbers that are way off. We rate the statement Mostly False.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 at 4:07 p.m.
Researched by: Lauren Carroll, Linda Qiu
Edited by: Katie Sanders
Subjects: Income, Sports, Women
EEOC complaint, filed March 29, 2016
EEOC complaint, Exhibit 2, March 29, 2016
U.S. Soccer, proposed budget FY '17, Feb. 27, 2016
ESPN, "U.S. women's team files wage-discrimination action vs. U.S. Soccer," April 1, 2016
FiveThirtyEight, "Women Earn The Glory While Men Earn The Money In U.S. Soccer," March 31, 2016
PBS, "Data: How does the U.S. women's soccer team pay compare to the men?" March 31, 2016
New York Times, "How Much Less Are Female Soccer Players Paid?" March 31, 2016
NPR, "U.S. Women's Soccer Team Members File Federal Equal-Pay Complaint," March 31, 2016
AP, "Things to know about the US women's soccer team's complaint," April 1, 2016
Philadelphia Inquirer, "Details of U.S. Soccer's budget for national teams, NWSL ," March 7, 2016
Facebook interview, Other 98 Percent founding member Andy Menconi, April 4, 2016
Phone interview, U.S. Soccer spokesman Neil Buethe, April 5, 2016
Phone interview, Philadelphia Inquirer soccer reporter Jonathan Tennenwald, April 5, 2016
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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
Title: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
Subject: French Revolutionary Wars, Battle of Höchst (1795), Army of the Danube, French Revolutionary Army, Battle of Wattignies
Collection: 1762 Births, 1833 Deaths, Council of Five Hundred Members, Counts Jourdan, French Commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, French Military Personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars, French Republican Military Leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, Marshals of France, Members of the Council of Five Hundred, Military Leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars, Peers of France, People from Limoges, Recipients of the Order of the Holy Spirit
29 April 1762 (1762-04-29)
Limoges, France
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Battle of Fleurus (1794)
Battle of Amberg (1796)
Battle of Würzburg (1796)
Battle of Ostrach (1799)
Battle of Stockach (1799)
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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Comte Jourdan (29 April 1762 – 23 November 1833), enlisted as a private in the French royal army and rose to command armies during the French Revolutionary Wars. Emperor Napoleon I of France named him a Marshal of France in 1804 and he also fought in the Napoleonic Wars. After 1815, he became reconciled to the Bourbon Restoration. He was one of the most successful commanders of the French Revolutionary Army.
War of the First Coalition 2
War of the Second Coalition 3
Napoleonic Wars and later life 4
Footnotes 5
Born at Limoges, France into a surgeon's family, he enlisted in the French royal army in early 1778 when he was not quite sixteen. Assigned to the Regiment of Auxerrois, he participated in the ill-fated assault at the Siege of Savannah on 9 October 1779 during the American War of Independence. After service in the West Indies, he returned home in 1782 sick with a fever. Bouts of illness (possibly malaria) troubled him for the rest of his life. In 1784 he was discharged from the army and set up a haberdashery business in Limoges. He married a dressmaker in 1788 and the couple had five daughters.[1]
War of the First Coalition
Battle of Fleurus, won by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Austrian forces led by the princes of Coburg and Orange on 26 June 1794.
When the National Assembly asked for volunteers, Jourdan was elected Chef de bataillon of the 2nd Haute-Vienne Battalion. He led his troops in the French victory at the Battle of Jemappes on 6 November 1792 and in the defeat at the Battle of Neerwinden on 18 March 1793. Jourdan's leadership skills were noticed and led to his promotion to general of brigade on 27 May 1793 and to general of division two months later. On 8 September, he led his division at the Battle of Hondschoote, in which he was wounded in the chest. On 22 September he was named to lead the Army of the North.[2] Three of his predecessors, Nicolas Luckner, Adam Philippe, comte de Custine, and Jean Nicolas Houchard were under arrest and later executed by guillotine.
His first assignment was to relieve Jacques Ferrand's 20,000-man garrison of Maubeuge which was besieged by an Austrian-Dutch army commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg. The Committee of Public Safety felt that this mission was so important that it dispatched Lazare Carnot to oversee the operation. Jourdan defeated Coburg on 15–16 October at the Battle of Wattignies and broke the siege. Carnot claimed that it was his own intervention that won the victory. Historian Michael Glover writes that the first day's attack was a failure because of Carnot's interference, while the second day's success resulted from Jourdan using his own tactical judgment. In any case, only Carnot's account reached Paris.[3]
On 10 January 1794, after refusing to carry out an impossible order, Jourdan was hauled before the Committee of Public Safety. Carnot presented Jourdan's arrest warrant, which was signed by Maximilien de Robespierre, Bertrand Barère, and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois. Jourdan was saved from certain execution when an eyewitness, Representative-on-mission Ernest Joseph Duquesnoy rose and contradicted Carnot's version of events at Wattignies. Spared from arrest, Jourdan was nevertheless dismissed from the army and sent home.[4]
The government soon recalled Jourdan to lead the Army of the Moselle. In May, he was ordered north with the left wing of the Army of the Moselle. This force was combined with the Army of the Ardennes and the right wing of the Army of the North to form an army which did not officially become the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse until 29 June 1794. With 70,000 soldiers of the new army, Jourdan laid siege to Charleroi on 12 June. An 41,000-man Austrian-Dutch army under William V, Prince of Orange defeated the French at the Battle of Lambusart on 16 June and drove them south of the Sambre River. Casualties numbered 3,000 for each army.[5] Undeterred, Jourdan immediately marched on Namur to the east-northeast of Charleroi. Instead of attacking Namur, he suddenly swung west and appeared to the north of Charleroi. After a brief siege, the 3,000-man Austrian garrison of Charleroi surrendered on 25 June.[6] Military strategist B. H. Liddell Hart cited Jourdan's maneuver as an example of the Indirect approach, even though it was probably inadvertent on the French general's part.[7] Too late to save Charlerloi, Coburg's 46,000-strong army attacked Jourdan's 75,000 French on 26 June. The Battle of Fleurus proved to be a strategic French victory when Coburg called off his attacks and retreated.[8] During the action, the Allied attacks pushed back both French flanks, but Jourdan stubbornly fought it out and was saved when François Joseph Lefebvre's division held its ground in the center.[9]
After Fleurus, the Allied position in the Austrian Netherlands collapsed. The Austrian army evacuated Belgium and the Dutch Republic was extinguished by the advancing French armies in 1795. On 7 June 1795, Jourdan's army concluded the long but successful Siege of Luxembourg.[10] Operations east of the Rhine were less successful that year, with the French capturing, then losing Mannheim.[11]
In the Rhine Campaign of 1796 Jourdan's Army of Sambre-et-Meuse formed the left wing of the advance into Bavaria. The whole of the French forces were ordered to advance on Vienna, Jourdan on the extreme left and Jean Victor Marie Moreau in the centre by the Danube valley, Napoleon Bonaparte on the right in Italy. The campaign began brilliantly, the Austrians under the Archduke Charles being driven back by Moreau and Jourdan almost to the Austrian frontier. But the archduke, slipping away from Moreau, threw his whole weight on Jourdan, who was defeated at the Battle of Amberg in August. Jourdan failed to retrieve the situation at the Battle of Würzburg and was forced over the Rhine after the Battle of Limburg, which cost the life of François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers. Moreau had to fall back in turn, and the operations of the year in Germany were a failure. The chief cause of defeat was the plan of campaign imposed upon the generals by their government. Jourdan was nevertheless made the scapegoat and was not employed for two years. In those years he became prominent as a politician and above all as the framer of the famous conscription law of 1798, which came to be known as the Jourdan Law.[12]
War of the Second Coalition
When the war was renewed in 1799, Jourdan was at the head of the army on the Rhine, but again underwent defeat at the hands of the Archduke Charles at the battles of Ostrach and Stockach in late March. Disappointed and broken in health, he handed over command to André Masséna. He resumed his political duties, and was a prominent opponent of the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, after which he was expelled from the Council of the Five Hundred. Soon, however, he became formally reconciled to the new régime, and accepted from Napoleon fresh military and civil employment. In 1800 he became inspector-general of cavalry and infantry and representative of French interests in the Cisalpine Republic.[12]
Napoleonic Wars and later life
In 1804, Napoleon appointed Jourdan a marshal of France. He remained in the newly created Kingdom of Italy until 1806, when Joseph Bonaparte, whom his brother made king of Naples in that year, selected Jourdan as his military adviser. He followed Joseph into Spain in 1808; but Joseph's throne had to be maintained by the French army, and throughout the Peninsular War the other marshals, who depended directly upon Napoleon, paid little heed either to Joseph or to Jourdan.[12] Jourdan was blamed for the defeat at the Battle of Talavera in 1809 and replaced by Marshal Nicolas Soult. He was reinstated as Joseph's chief of staff in September 1811, but given few troops.[13] After the disastrous French defeat at the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812, Joseph and Jourdan were forced to abandon Madrid and retreat to Valencia. Joining with Soult's army, which evacuated Andalusia, the French were able to recapture Madrid during the Siege of Burgos campaign and push Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese army back to Portugal.
The following year, Wellington advanced again with a large, well-organized army. Repeatedly outmaneuvering the French, the Anglo-Allied army forced Joseph and Jourdan to fight at the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June 1813. After the decisive French defeat, which resulted in the permanent loss of Spain, Jourdan held no important command up to the fall of the Empire. He adhered to the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, and though he rejoined Napoleon in the Hundred Days and commanded a minor army, he submitted to the Bourbons again after the Battle of Waterloo. Greatly to his credit, Jourdan refused to be a member of the court which sentenced Marshal Michel Ney to death. He was made a count, a peer of France in 1819, and governor of Grenoble in 1816. In politics he was a prominent opponent of the royalist reactionaries and supported the revolution of 1830. After this event he held the portfolio of foreign affairs for a few days, and then became governor of the Invalides, where his last years were spent. Jourdan died in Paris on 23 November 1833 and was buried in Les Invalides.[12]
While in exile on Saint Helena, Napoleon admitted,
I certainly used that man very ill ... I have learned with pleasure that since my fall he invariably acted in the best manner. He has thus afforded an example of that praiseworthy elevation of mind which distinguishes men one from another. Jourdan is a true patriot; and that is the answer to many things that have been said of him.[14]
Jourdan wrote Opérations de l'armée du Danube (1799); Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire sur la campagne de 1796 (1819); and unpublished personal memoirs.[12]
^ Glover-Chandler, p 158
^ Glover-Chandler, pp 160–161
^ Smith, pp 84–85
^ Liddell-Hart, p 97
^ Smith, p 103
^ Smith, pp 104–107
^ a b c d e Brittanica, Jourdan
^ Glover-Chandler, p 164-165
Glover, Michael. "Jourdan: The True Patriot". Chandler, David (ed.). Napoleon's Marshals. New York: Macmillan, 1987. ISBN 0-02-905930-5
Liddell-Hart, B. H. Strategy. NY: Praeger Publishers, 1967.
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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan at Find-A-Grave
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Humble, Richard Napoleon's Peninsular marshals;: A reassessment Taplinger Pub., 1975, ISBN 0-8008-5465-9.
Macdonell, A. G. Napoleon and His Marshals Prion, 1997, ISBN 1-85375-222-3.
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Does Avatar's Political Agenda Matter?
When the buzz about Avatar first got rolling, it was all about whether James Cameron had somehow "reinvented" filmmaking. Now that everyone's seen...
Andrew Price
When the buzz about Avatar first got rolling, it was all about whether James Cameron had somehow "reinvented" filmmaking. Now that everyone's seen the movie, and we all pretty much agree that the 3-D format was spectacular, and it's firmly lodged in box office history, a debate about the political agenda of the movie is raging in the blogosphere.The first volleys came from conservative commentators. At Big Hollywood, John Nolte sayscriticizes the movie's embrace of what he calls the "White Messiah" narrative:
Would it be totally annoying to point out that the whole White Messiah fable, especially as Cameron applies it, is kind of offensive? It rests on the stereotype that white people are rationalist and technocratic while colonial victims are spiritual and athletic. It rests on the assumption that nonwhites need the White Messiah to lead their crusades. It rests on the assumption that illiteracy is the path to grace.
At The Weekly Standard John Podhoretz rails against the film for "its mindless worship of a nature-loving tribe and the tribe's adorable pagan rituals, its hatred of the military and American institutions, and the notion that to be human is just way uncool..." Ross Douthat calls Avatar "Cameron's long apologia for pantheism-a faith that equates God with Nature, and calls humanity into religious communion with the natural world." And he doesn't mean that as a compliment.Oh, and the Vatican doesn't like it either, for basically the same reason: It "gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature." If you want more, search the National Review Online for "avatar." I hope you have Monday off.Now there are responses to the conservative assault from the Los Angeles Times and from Slate.Some of the complaints are about the movie's plausibility. Podhoretz's piece harps on the ridiculousness of the "fiber-optic cables coming out of their patooties" as if we weren't searching for "unobtanium" on another planet that also somehow happened to evolve Earth-like trees and sentient bipeds. If he needs more fodder for columns, I'd point him to the entire genres of science fiction and fantasy.But the criticisms are motivated by what people see as the film's pernicious message. And they stretch the facts of the film to paint it as an allegory. Johns Nolte and Podhoretz both focus on the "anti-military" message. But the soldiers in Avatar are mercenaries, working for a corporation. You could argue the film has an "anti-military-industrial complex" message, perhaps, but Avatar doesn't paint the military, per se, in a bad light. David Brooks says the movie promotes the idea that illiteracy is the path to grace. But the Na'vi seemed much more linguistically gifted than the humans in the movie. They learned English quickly. Jake Sully, on the other hand, needed a translator when he wanted to rally the troops at the end of the film.Where these critics see deliberate allegory, I see uninspired storytelling. The movie's morality is black-and-white, sure, but that means it's a simplistic script, not insidious propaganda. They're taking the political message of the movie more seriously, I suspect, than Cameron did himself.But here's the real question: What are the stakes? I can't imagine the voter who would change his or her opinion about cap-and-trade legislation or the justification for the war in Afghanistan or the ethics of private security firms based on Avatar. Are any Roman Catholics going to switch to Gaia worship because Home Tree seems nicer than Giovanni Ribisi's headquarters? There might be a few 10-year olds who start considering these issues thanks to Avatar, but I think we can safely assume that by the time they're 18 other influences will outweigh this movie in shaping their political identities.I don't think Cameron set out to make "an apologia for pantheism"; he set out to make a spectacle that would look cool in 3-D glasses and hung it on a hackneyed story with an "environmental conscience" because green is in right now. But even if the movie were propaganda, it would still be a far cry from effective propaganda.


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Many clients come to us through word of mouth, but other major referral sources include the local school systems, Somerset County Probation and Court, DYFS, and various other agencies.
We were established in 1960 as a result of the merging of two older agencies—The Community Service Society of Bound Brook, founded in 1908 as the Welfare Society, and the Family Counseling Service of Somerset Hills, established in 1940. Over the years (see our timeline) our specific services changed as the needs of our community changed, but they were always rooted in health and welfare. Despite those service changes, our core mission has remained the same.


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#ifndef THIRD_PARTY_TENSORFLOW_CONTRIB_QUANTIZATION_KERNELS_REFERENCE_GEMM_H_
#define THIRD_PARTY_TENSORFLOW_CONTRIB_QUANTIZATION_KERNELS_REFERENCE_GEMM_H_

// This is an unoptimized but debuggable implementation of the GEMM matrix
// multiply function, used to compare to faster but more opaque versions, or
// for bit depths or argument combinations that aren't supported by optimized
// code.
// It assumes the row-major convention used by TensorFlow, and implements
// C = A * B, like the standard BLAS GEMM interface. If the tranpose flags are
// true, then the relevant matrix is treated as stored in column-major order.

namespace tensorflow {
template <class T1, class T2, class T3>
void ReferenceGemm(bool transpose_a, bool transpose_b, bool transpose_c,
                   size_t m, size_t n, size_t k, const T1* a, int32 offset_a,
                   size_t lda, const T2* b, int32 offset_b, size_t ldb, T3* c,
                   int32 shift_c, int32 offset_c, int32 mult_c, size_t ldc) {
  int a_i_stride;
  int a_l_stride;
  if (transpose_a) {
    a_i_stride = 1;
    a_l_stride = lda;
  } else {
    a_i_stride = lda;
    a_l_stride = 1;
  }
  int b_j_stride;
  int b_l_stride;
  if (transpose_b) {
    b_j_stride = ldb;
    b_l_stride = 1;
  } else {
    b_j_stride = 1;
    b_l_stride = ldb;
  }
  int c_i_stride;
  int c_j_stride;
  if (transpose_c) {
    c_i_stride = 1;
    c_j_stride = ldc;
  } else {
    c_i_stride = ldc;
    c_j_stride = 1;
  }

  const int32 highest = static_cast<int32>(Eigen::NumTraits<T3>::highest());
  const int32 lowest = static_cast<int32>(Eigen::NumTraits<T3>::lowest());
  const int32 rounding = (shift_c < 1) ? 0 : (1 << (shift_c - 1));

  int i, j, l;
  for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
    for (i = 0; i < m; i++) {
      int32 total = 0;
      for (l = 0; l < k; l++) {
        const size_t a_index = ((i * a_i_stride) + (l * a_l_stride));
        const int32 a_value = static_cast<int32>(a[a_index]) - offset_a;
        const size_t b_index = ((j * b_j_stride) + (l * b_l_stride));
        const int32 b_value = static_cast<int32>(b[b_index]) - offset_b;
        total += (a_value * b_value);
      }
      const size_t c_index = ((i * c_i_stride) + (j * c_j_stride));
      int32_t output = ((((total + offset_c) * mult_c) + rounding) >> shift_c);
      if (output > highest) {
        output = highest;
      }
      if (output < lowest) {
        output = lowest;
      }
      c[c_index] = static_cast<T3>(output);
    }
  }
}
}  // namespace tensorflow

#endif  // THIRD_PARTY_TENSORFLOW_CONTRIB_QUANTIZATION_KERNELS_REFERENCE_GEMM_H_

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The National SkillsUSA Championships competition was held in Louisville, KY, last June, and HEIDENHAIN's ACU-RITE brand was a sponsor and donor to the cause. The SkillsUSA Championships are competitive events showcasing the best career and technical education students in the nation.
At this annual competition, held in conjunction with the National Leadership and Skills Conference, both high school and college students compete in various machining categories to showcase their skills. Prizes are awarded.
As part of the CNC Milling Specialist competition, ACU-RITE donated two FitBits to be given to the first-place winners at each school level, as well as two ACU-RITE 2-axis digital readout kits that were awarded to their respective schools.
"These students are some of the future manufacturing leaders of America, and we are proud to support their efforts," explained Tom LaRocca, HEIDENHAIN Product Specialist.


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Scammers and cyber-attackers have found a cost-effective, time-saving way get their hands on your personal information – through email. One of the most common things to be on the lookout for is phishing. Phishing can occur over email when a scammer uses fraudulent messages to get you to share personal information (Social Security numbers, banking information, account passwords, etc.). Email can be dangerous for another reason – attachments or random links in emails can contain malware, and opening or clicking on them lets the attackers past any defenses you might have.
Luckily for you (and not so luckily for fraudsters), there are a few simple things you can do to keep your information safe and your computer system secure. Stop these attacks before they get to your machine!
Think password security. Use strong and unique passwords for every site, and change the important ones regularly. Help maintain your sanity by keeping your complex (random!) passwords in a safe place like a password manager, and don't share your password with anyone. This will help keep cybercriminals from accessing your account and using it for their evil purposes.
Remain skeptical. Don't open attachments from anyone you don't know, and watch out for suspicious links inside an email regardless who sent it. If you receive an email that appears to come from someone you know (or from an institution you're familiar with, like a bank) and asks for money or information – stay skeptical. Call that person or institution at a trusted phone number (not one provided in the email!) before opening attachments or sending even benign information.
Keep private information private! It's easy for someone to read an email – even if they weren't the original recipient of the message. Emails can be forwarded and passed along to others without you knowing about it, and if a scammer was able to access your account, they could search through your "sent" box for something to use against you or your friends and coworkers.


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The 2012 BMW M3 Convertible lives up to the BMW's reputation in regards to reliability, comfort and safety. Being one of the variants of the Regensburg-based German manufacturer, it comes complete with high-tech features that make driving it a dream come true, whether you are after a luxury or sports car. This is a vehicle that offers a little something for everyone. The BMW M3 Convertible is powered by a 4.0-liter V-8 engine that produces 414 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque, so there is plenty of power there to go head-to-head with many sports care on the market. In fact, this swift engine can accelerate this convertible from zero to 60 mph in only 4.6 seconds! You can expect to feel a little of that power at the pump though as it only returns 13 mpg in the city and 20 mpg on the highway.
Fast and flashy, the fourth generation M3 Convertible also features a sophisticated braking system that works perfectly, regardless of weather conditions. When braking power on this vehicle was tested, it was able to stop from 60 mph in only 100 feet. That is about the best you are going to find on the market, across many classes! With an impressive combination of an appealing interior and exterior, backed by unmatched power and a wide array of features, the BMW M3 convertible is arguably at the top of the list in the sports convertible class.
The BMW M3 Convertible's powerful engine features a variable inlet and outlet valve timing and individual throttle assemblies that help produce race car performance. The M3 has a BMW range-beating redline at 8400 rpm allowing it high revving and quick acceleration off the line. This rear wheel drive machine features a high tech and highly efficient power transmission. Those who prefer to be in a little more control of performance will be thrilled to learn that BMW offers a 6-speed manual transmission standard, so you are not forced to opt for an automatic.
The ride is what you would expect from BMW, smooth and responsive. The four-wheel independent suspension ensures that all passengers do not feel every bump in the road, however the backseat is a little cramped for adults to get comfortable for long rides. It also offers three driving modes to choose from, including Comfort, Normal and Sport so if you are after a smoother ride in the city, you can choose Comfort. Then, when you want to have a little fun take corners aggressively on winding roads, you will switch it into Sport.
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Just assume you are in your home; suddenly, due to the violence and hatred instilled in people based on the worldly greed of power, conflicts arise within the community that lead to mass murder and a massacre of the innocent. In fact, this is what we see in many parts of the world, particularly in Syria, Iraq, Myanmar, Sudan, Libya and elsewhere. This ruthlessness aims at destroying people by targeting innocent women, men and children.
So, when that persecution comes at your door, the only solution is flight from that insecurity to save your lives. You would take whoever could come with you having hopes for finding a secure shelter for your loved ones. Yes, in those circumstances, you would become a refugee or an internally displaced person, and this would not be an arbitrary decision, but the only way out of a dire situation that would only bring death and misery.
And this is what we see in Libya; thousands of refugees and migrants have fled from their homeland and crossed the borders of the country to look for a better life with hopes for safety, income and a future. These are refugees from Eritrea, Iraq, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan and Syria, and since 2011 there are an increasing number of people who have sought protection in Libya; some of them have special needs as they have encountered savagery in their countries and had to leave behind their families and all their belongings. As of April 2014, a total of 9,240 refugees and 26,298 asylum seekers were registered with the UNHCR in Libya and still, a significant number of migrants continue to enter the country using irregular channels. Yet they are in a conundrum right now as the violence in the country is escalating.
In the past months, due to clashes which have disrupted social integrity and security, most diplomats as well as foreign workers in Libya have evacuated the country through assistance from their governments or employers. But there are tens of thousands of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in Libya who are in the hands of people smugglers that promise them a route for escape in return of at least $1,000.
Migrants are moved across Libya's Sahara Desert by gangs and at the coast they are handed over to agents who find them boats from smugglers. Even during the time of Gaddafi, Libya was already a hub for the human trafficking trade. For asylum seekers who flee persecution in their countries, Libya is like a point of departure with hopes to cross the Mediterranean to reach southern Italy and from there, safe passage to other cities in Europe. The number of boats now departing Libya for Europe has increased from about five a day prior to the current conflict to 15 a day. Now, thousands of people – mainly sub-Saharan Africans – are trying to escape war in their adopted homeland Libya by getting on overcrowded and leaking boats. Many of the passengers perish during the journey, and over 1,000 people have died in the Mediterranean this year alone. Others arrive exhausted from the high seas journey and according to estimates, one out of ten people die during the sea journey from Libya. Those migrants and asylum seekers who have to remain in Libya because they cannot afford to pay smugglers to get them on boats are vulnerable to the threat of violence, kidnapping and arrest. These are the tens of thousands of migrant construction workers, service staff, care-givers and employees that have found no means of escape and stay in Libya despite the bloody conflict. Even though some make their choice to stay and work, others are willing to leave but they receive no assistance from their consulates or support from their employers. Migrant workers have also been part of the ongoing conflict and have been subjected to kidnappings, physical and sexual violence. They are not only at risk of grave security threats, but they can also find no way out of the conflict zone or passage to a safe shelter. Almost 37,000 migrants are registered with the UNHCR's offices in Tripoli and Benghazi, and they are living in badly destroyed areas but are unable to leave to safer areas due to the ongoing clashes.
Trying to reach the land on old and rickety boats, the refugees on the Libyan coast often cannot achieve their goal. The refugees in many parts of the world still suffer from this tragedy.
Internally displaced persons is another concern in Libya as 550,000 people were displaced during the revolution: Even if the large majority have been able to return to their homes, some 59,425 people still face a situation of displacement waiting for their homes to be repaired or rebuilt. They are kept in detention centers in extremely poor conditions that are overcrowded; food and medical assistance are inadequate, and there is serious lack of sanitation. There are political reasons for their displacement, since many were forced to desert their towns and villages because of their perceived support for Gaddafi and alleged crimes committed during the conflict; different armed groups hold them as prisoners and subject them to ill treatment and exploitation for labor.
Another issue standing in the face of the internally displaced persons and migrants is discrimination even if many of them have lived in Libya for several years and established homes; their situation is similar to the refugees. Owing to their settlement and ties, they would like to remain in Libya, but they face increased risk to their personal and family security in an atmosphere of fear. At the end of the day, refugees and migrants live in very difficult or dire situations throughout Libya, persecuted either by armed militias or criminal gangs and smugglers.
Hence, there is an urgent requirement for law and order to be established in the country as different groups are committing a wide variety of crimes in Libya, but these are not being investigated or prosecuted properly because of a lack of a stable judiciary system. The Libyan people should take the major role of acting in unison to establish peace in order to overcome this and the many other crises currently afflicting their country. Libya will not return to any semblance of stability until unity is achieved first.
There are two options available to a part of the people in Libya. They will either live with the challenges of the climate of violence or begin an arduous journey as a refugee.


"We will work to develop sustainable food systems that are inclusive, resilient, safe and diverse"
Lima, Peru, won 2018 Milan Pact Awards with Challenging Environment. Recent impacts of severe weather, earthquake and drought have brought the sustainability of the food system and the food security of Lima to a priority level. Under the leadership of the City of Lima's Economic Development Management department, a comprehensive approach to food system governance in a large city was launched.The legal framework include policies at the city level but also aligns with the National Food Security Strategy for Peru and with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for food security and nutrition (SDG 2), work and economic growth (SDG 8), sustainable cities (SDG 11) and responsible production and consumption (SDG 12).
each of the city's 25 urban districts with neigbhouring rural production districts in order to provide healthy food at affordable prices for public meal service while providing a good income for farmers.
Torino, Italy, won 2018 Milan Pact Awards Special Mention in the category Food Waste. the Urban Agriculture programme that aims at tackling food insecurity through the creation micro gardens in low income neighbourhoods. So far, the programme has spread to 24 districts within the city and reached 15,000 beneficiaries.


Focus: Do You Focus On What You Can't Control?
In today's world it is highly unlikely that one will have trouble finding something to focus on. No matter where they look or where they, there is going to be something to place their attention on. And at times this will mean that their time and energy is being used wisely and at other times, it won't.
If this is something that takes place now and then, it probably won't have much of an impact on one's life. We all need to be distracted from time to time and to engage in some kind of escapism. And yet, if this was to become a way of life, then it is going to cause one to waste a lot of time and energy.
So instead of one being able to move forward and to progress, they are going to end up staying where they are or they might even end up going backwards.
If one is in a position where they are around people who can remind them of what matters, then one will be able to get back on track before their life gets out of hand. And when this support is not there, one is not going to have anyone around to remind them of what matters and their life could then spiral out of control.
The senses are easily engaged and this means that one will have to exercise their self control. This is why it will be important for someone to get in touch with truly matters and to keep this in mind if they ever allow themselves to be distracted.
Once one is aware of what matters, they can do what they need to do in order to make it a reality; this is going to include short term as well as long term plans. However, ones point of power is over their own actions and not over other people's actions.
Of course, one can influence others and other people will play a part in one being able to fulfil their own needs and wants. But at the same time, other people have their own free will and the right to do what they choose.
So all the time one's point of focus is on what they can do, they are in a place of power and are able to make the changes they need to move forward. And yet, when one places their point of focus on external sources that they have no control over, they are no longer in a place of power or able to make the changes they need to make.
It is often said that while one can't control what happens, they can't control how they respond to what happens. And this shows how important it is for one to focus on what they can control and not on what they can't control.
When one is purely focused on what they can't control or change, not only is it going to waste their time and energy, it is also going to cause them to have a disempowering perspective. One can end up believing that they have no control over their life and that other people have all the control.
Not only is this perspective disempowering, it is also inaccurate. Even though one does have control over their life, they will only realise this is they let go of their need to control the uncontrollable or to change the unchangeable.
And if one is caught up in what is going on 'out there', this way of seeing life might be normal. There is then the chance that one hasn't even thought about how different their life could be and how much more control they could have if only they changed their outlook and point of focus.
To change this could cause one to feel uncomfortable and this is because it has become familiar. But while it may be familiar, it is having a detrimental effect on one's life. And so even though it may feel uncomfortable in the beginning, the tension will soon subside.
Through focusing on what one can control and change, when something doesn't go to plan or one comes up against some kind of obstacle, one will no longer need to feel powerless and that there is nothing they can do. Their focus and therefore their time and energy, will enable them to move forward.
If one finds it hard to focus, it might be necessary for them to seek the assistance of a friend or some kind of coach. With their assistance, one can bring their attention back to what matters.
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Paul spent a portion of his life actively persecuting the Church because he felt they were polluting the singular truth of God he understood as a faithful Jew.
Then he saw the light.
After that, Paul would spend the rest of his life being persecuted for the Church.
Always, in the midst of his reports about the persecutions he was facing, he was able to point others toward Christ.
His earthly suffering, Paul says, is merely a reminder of the greater suffering of Jesus. He saw his worst moments as a chance to tell anyone who would listen about how Jesus, perfect as he was, took the world's sins onto himself and died for our sake.
The man who once thought Christianity was an atrocity and didn't believe there was a place in salvation for anyone outside the Jewish faith now went to the ends of the earth to tell the world that Christ had died for them.
When I meditate on Paul's life and think about how extreme his turn-around was, I wonder who it is in my life that I am shutting out of the promise of salvation. Who, if I had the authority of Paul, would I chase down and lock in chains?
More importantly, who is it that Jesus is speaking to me about? If I were to have a Damascus Road moment and be consumed by the light of heaven… If I could hear the voice of the Savior speaking directly to me, what part of the Body of Christ would I be accused of harming?
And how far would I be willing to go to share the Good News with them?
Who do you wish you could shut out of the Kingdom of Heaven? Who is Jesus calling you to go to? Where is God calling you to go? What is the most drastic turn-around you've made after encountering Jesus?


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Blini on a Budget
Food & Drink Health Holidays Russia File
by Alexandra Curtis
Blini may not be great for the waistline, but they are excellent for the soul. Elly Fairytale | pexels.com
Maslenitsa, which ended March 14, is generally not a holiday celebrated by those considering their weight. With a name that literally translates to "butter week," it's perhaps a dieter's worst nightmare.
But for most Russians, it is a wonderful time that is celebrated principally by eating lots and lots of thin pancakes (which in Russian are called blini). However, this year the chief nutritionist at the Moscow Department of Health, Antonina Starodubova, is encouraging Russians to limit themselves for the sake of their own health.
Starodubova recommends that a healthy adult of average weight consume no more than 150-200 grams of pancakes. According to Lenta News, this equates to about three or four paltry blini, depending on the amount and variety of fillings added.
But even with such a modest portion size in mind, Starodubova still emphasizes the fact that this is a dish with a very high amount of sugar and calories. To reduce this, she explains that you can make the same recipe with a reduced about of butter, sugar, or even use a whole-grain variety of flour.
Last year, the government also encouraged citizens to show some restraint during the pre-lenten holiday, and so we are doubtful if the recommendation stuck this time around either. We here at Russian Life appreciate the advice, but we'll keep the butter in "butter week," thank you very much. That's the point, isn't it?
After all, it's pretty tame, as Russian food goes.
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