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Former first lady of Nevada an example of life after divorce
When a person is considering divorce after being in a marriage for a long time, it may feel like the biggest and heaviest decision of their life. When a couple spend many years together, they not only share finances and children, but also friends, interests, and even personal quirks. The comfort of a marriage, no matter how bad it is, sometimes keeps people together because of the fear of the unknown.
If Las Vegas residents are feeling held back by these types of fears, they can take example from a former Nevada first lady who shows us that there is life after divorce, and a quite happy one at that. Dawn Gibbons was married to former Gov. Jim Gibbons, who served from 2007 to 2011 as the 28th governor of Nevada. The two were married for 24 years.
According to reports, the couple divorced in 2010 in what some call a 'messy' divorce. It was the first divorce of a sitting governor in the history of the state.
Their divorce was obviously very public and possibly that much more difficult to go through. Nonetheless, with time couples move on and are often able to find happiness in other relationships or activities. That seems to be the case with Dawn, who got engaged last week on Valentine's Day. Her new beau reportedly proposed to her on the holiday at a Tiffany & Co. store. The two met through mutual friends and started dating last March.
Divorce is undoubtedly difficult and often emotionally draining. It leaves some people feeling worried about the future in terms of love and finances. But as this story shows, even the most public and messy divorce can be overcome and may lead to a happy future.
Source: KTNV, "Former Nev. First lady Dawn Gibbons to re-marry," Feb. 19, 2013
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Why I Love Galicia in November
While there's probably no one here in Galicia who is excited for the changing of the seasons and all of the miserable rain and bone-chilling cold they bring, there's something really special about November here in northwest Spain that made me really look forward to the month this school year. It may not replace that warm fuzzy feeling I get from spending Thanksgiving with the family (and Mom's cooking!), but Galicia in November is still a festive month that makes fall a just plain nice time to be around in this part of the country.
Huesitos de Santos
November begins with the annual Tódolos Santos holiday. The Catholic Church has got a saint for every day of the year, but November 1st is the day to honor all of the saints. This feast day is also when Spaniards traditionally get together with their families to visit the graves of their loved ones and leave flowers. Because of this, cemeteries and mausoleums are busy places on the Día dos Defuntos or "Day of the Dead." I don't have any deceased relatives buried in Spain, so naturally my favorite thing about this holiday are seasonal pastries called huesos de Santos ("Saints' bones"), little marzipan tubes with flavored "marrow" filling, such as egg yolk, chocolate, almond, or strawberry.
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During fall, castañas (chestnuts) fall to the ground and make traipsing beneath chestnut trees a poky and dangerous endeavor, for sharp, spiky husks protect clusters of brown, glossy chestnuts. In November, Galicians go around soutos (chestnut groves) picking up these nuts to roast directly over a fire or to boil to use in a stew or to make various desserts.
Historically, the chestnut was the main source of carbohydrates in the region until corn and potatoes from the Americas were introduced centuries ago. However, Galicians still consume chestnuts today in huge quantities, and the Magosto festival held in mid-November celebrates this important nut. Wander through the streets of the old town in Santiago and you're sure to find someone manning a miniature train engine with chestnuts roasting away. A couple euros can buy you a newspaper-roll of warm castañas!
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By mid-October, the winter rains are already in full swing, but Galicians look forward to the feast day of San Martiño (St. Martin), as November 11th often heralds an Indian summer, or a "period of unseasonably warm, dry weather that sometimes occurs in autumn in the Northern Hemisphere" (thanks, Wikipedia). In the Galician language, they like to rhyme a lot, so they call it "o veranciño de San Martiño"—"St. Martin's little summer." Last year, we were lucky enough to have one of these and it didn't rain for FIVE WEEKS straight. The weather forecast doesn't look nearly as promising for this November; however, we can't complain as we had a high pressure system of Saharan dust hovering over the region for several weeks in October.
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Finally, as in most places in the northern hemisphere with temperate climates, November is harvest time for all the thousands of tiny family farms that dot the Galician landscape. The most commonly-harvested crop is yellow corn—millo in Galician—which farmers leave out to dry or hang up beneath their roofs before storing in their granite hórreo corncribs to keep the critters away. While folks grow corn predominately to use as livestock feed, it's nothing out of the ordinary to grind up the corn to make flour, and with it pan de millo or cornbread.
If it's cold enough outside, the annual pig slaughter also happens in November. Spaniards love their pork, and they eat nearly every part of the animal, from loin to ribs to ears, trotters, and face. I haven't attended a mata do porco here yet, although I have a (vegetarian!) friend who did go to one last year…it sounded pretty brutal. The Galician language has a little rhyme about the pig slaughter that I like: "A todo porquiño lle chega o seu San Martiño," which literally means "Every piggie's got their own St. Martin's Day coming," but more loosely means "You'll get what's coming to you." Watch out!
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A stalwart among Bengali writers, Ashapurna Debi (1909-95) was one of those rare authors able to render the voice of an entire culture, to capture its nuances and most abiding traditions with startling precision and formidable insight.
Each of the twenty-one stories in Matchbox, carefully selected from Ashapurna Debi's extensive body of work and brilliantly translated from Bengali to retain the original flavour of the language and Debi's style, highlights the tensions inherent in a society of close-knit and interdependent families.
In 'Poddolota's Dream', a young girl returns to the scene of a harrowing childhood, magnanimous and victorious for reasons quite her own; in 'Grieving for Oneself', a midnight scare shows an ailing man precisely how he fits into the world he has worked his life to build; in 'Glass Beads Diamonds', a woman attends a wedding reception at her estranged in-laws', bearing a gift that has cost her far too much. In other stories, a family rues an unexpected disappearance of one of their own, two friends come to terms with a lost friendship, and a couple's relationship is interrupted by the sudden appearance of an old flame.
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Learning Mandarin can benefit Māori and business – Professor Margaret Mutu
It's Chinese language week. Auckland University Professor Margaret Mutu says learning Mandarin can benefit Māori and business. Professor Margaret Mutu says, "If we want to trade with China, the most important thing is to build relationships with them and that means being able to have conversations with them." More than thirty two thousand New Zealand children were learning a Chinese language in 2015. Tze Louis Ngā-Tai says it would benefit both Māori and Chinese to learn each other's languages.
"When you know a person's language you know their culture, so for Māori, if they know Chinese, they will be able to easily express what they are wanting from a business and vice versa and they'll be able to understand certain concepts that you can't really translate into English."
For the past three years Ngāti Kahu have travelled to China for business, and usually they take a translator with them, but Professor Mutu says it'd be better to engage directly with their trade partner. "It would be much better if we of Ngāti Kahu could speak and understand Mandarin and the Chinese speak and understand te reo Māori, that's what we want."
Tze Louis Ngā-Tai says, "I think it's awesome to learn Chinese and Māori so that we can really connect." Today marks the first day of the third annual New Zealand Chinese Language week.


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By ForeverCarefree,
June 16, 2019 in General Chelsea FC
Ballack & Blu 1,658
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Yoda to the masses
I love Frank to pieces, but all of a sudden he seems bereft of ideas, shake your back room staff around, Morris might of been good with the kids, but it aint helping us and Frank, i don't think i have watched a game and thought, yep we are at it
West Brom was a steal of a point, and with the possession in the first half against the Spuds we should of buried them, he has some credit in the bank, but i fear for him, i really do, Remember Robbie and Carlo, Roman doesn't do Sentiment
Valerie 12,322
Only one 23
1 minute ago, Ballack & Blu said:
I agree with you on the backroom staff thing: I'm firmly in favour of having devil's advocates around a leader. Of course, I say this without knowing how Lampard and his staff interact, or how Lampard deals with people trying to get a dissenting opinion across.
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mm24 53
Can't wait for saturday to see if Frank starts Callum or not. He'll probably just go with Mount and Werner on the wings coming up with some excuse that CHO is tired after playing 100 minutes in the last two games combined lol
For me, he needs to do something about the midfield as Kante, Kovacic and Jorginho are just not the players that like and can go forward with the ball in regards to both passing and running with it. Kovacic dribbles past two players and has tons of space in front of him and he just passes the ball back.Zero bravery to impact the game.
If I was Frank I would do everything in my power to try and get RLC back to form. If he could play like he did in that 18/19 season before the injury he would instantly become our best midfielder because the guy has everything.
Edited September 30, 2020 by mm24
JM7 2,735
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15 minutes ago, mm24 said:
Can't wait for saturday to see if Frank starts Callum or not. He'll probably just go with Mount and .
RLC was fantastic under Sarri. It's shame about the injury. I'm a big fan but he just hasn't shown enough since he's been back. He really needs to start taking his chances
6 minutes ago, JM7 said:
He needs games.You cant take your chances if you play once every 5,6 games. Look at Callum. He got to play 2 games in a row and is already looking much, much better and more confident.
Kovacic, Jorginho and Kante are playing most of our games in the last year in that midfield and they arent getting any better and it's not like we light up the sky with them in the team. I don't think we would have done any worse in these 5 games if RLC played over Jorginho or Kovacic.
Montessori 17
i´m not judging him until we are a few weeks in to having a full healthy squad
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1 hour ago, Ballack & Blu said:
He has brought in a new coach a few weeks ago so he obviously sees there's a problem that needs fixing, but any difference won't happen overnight.
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Zeta 12,870
Let's wait until around Christmas time and see how the squad is performing when we have all our players back fit (hopefully) and the new players have had more time to gel in.
dkw, yorkleyblue, Cone and 2 others
Has there been an improvement since last season, on what i've seen know there hasn't, a 50% first team restructuring, is a very 'Ballsy' thing to do, and granted it needs time to bed in.
Ziyech, were needed, if he gets Rice, how will he shoehorn all his assets in, if he plays 4,4,3 and the front 3 are Pulisic, Werner, Ziyech, you pick the midfield 3?
Slojo 5,865
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The sentiment on this forum has got quite depressing now, a lot of people have lost faith. Yesterday was the worst I've seen it when it came to Frank.
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abister1 272
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Really amazed to read people say things like Frank delivering a BPL or CL.
What incredulity. Before the fan boys deflect with a point about RDM, where is he today in the managerial world? Or even right after that coup.
If it happens, it won't be by his design and No, I'm not speaking from two sides of my mouth.
Even a managerial great like Pep felt he heat after his first season at City and you think Lamps will just sail through unnoticed? Oh boy, is he getting dropped like a hot potato once it's apparent he'll never be the manager he's hyped up to be.
Getting all he's asked/asking for only makes it amplified. I wish him the best but have seen a few worrying things. I said it years ago and was vilified but the spat he had with Bielsa says a lot about the man, and if a holistic view is taken, its plain to see what's clear as day.
coco 14,071
4 hours ago, opinionsarelike said:
I am not one of the revisionists in regards to Sarri. Think he's a very good coach, think he did a great job here; but given the way the relationship with particularly the match going fans got rough, he had to move on. That's life.
Lampard was the correct hiring at the correct time. He did a very good job last year, albeit some of it due to the fact that he wasn't Sarri (One Of Us TM). This is not that different to what Di Matteo did after Villas-Boas was here. I will say one thing as well, the players we've gotten now wouldn't be here if Lampard didn't sell his project well to Marina and Roman. Sarri, who wasn't interested, nor Conte, who has the charm of a spoiled toddler, wouldn't get Roman to buy him anything other than the bare necessities. This is a great ability to have as a coach.
Unfortunately, and this is my opinion, that's his by a country mile best attribute; he's a good talker. He says the right things at the right time. However, it's time to put the money where the mouth is. Never mind trolls on Twitter or here, Roman will demand improvements, and improvements rapidly. The excuses will only carry him to a certain point, and if he gets Declan Rice (still think he's completely mediocre and will have a career likened to Scott Parker, where he'll eventually find his role in a Spurs-like team) i think he has to deliver one of BPL or CL this or next season.
Yup totally, bar the last line, he doesn't have to win either PL or CL this season or next, but he has to be competing at the top levels in those competitions, still be in the PL chase come Springtime, and make the last 4-8 in the CL. If Roman is expecting us to win either in the next 2 years it's not realistic, yes we all want us to achieve that, but come on, lets get back to competing at the top first.
Spiller86 and Amputechture
The sad thing I find about Sarri and Conte is that they are obviously world class coaches. They know how to build a team and get it functioning and winning. The sad thing is that they are both very poor politicians. Unfortunately it's not enough to be a good coach these days.
Let's hope Frank is not all talk and can back it up. He's always been a smooth talker.
Edited September 30, 2020 by JM7
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Let me declare straight up that I didn't think he should have been given the job last season. He was too raw and had won nothing bar a playoff semi over Leeds.
He turned out to be an inspired choice last season despite the awful defence. We had Chelsea back and a new crop of youngsters to cheer for. Albeit with zero expectations.
Now we get to see what he is all about. We've built him a squad that can compete when they are all on the park. It's incredibly hard to integrate a squad and get them playing well together (especially now with no preseason and games every two seconds) so I don't think anyone would rightfully expect us to be winning things.
I think most of us do want to see progress and solutions to the problems that plagued us last season. We're not seeing them just yet.
I want him to succeed partially because I think a lot of the youngsters progress will hault if we get in another big foreign manager under pressure to win something. So for all of us we need to hold steady right now and see how he can integrate the squad and progress the way we play. I think we'll know by the end of the season whether he is our man for the long term or not.
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24 minutes ago, Spiller86 said:
I agree with it all apart from the last bit. The youngsters who have already proven to be valuable members of the squad will carry on being such under a new manager, it's the one's that are still awaiting their promotion that will potentially miss out.
Anyway lets hope it doesn't come to that.
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Frank needs to rip his tactics book and properly assess the team.
We don't get the basics right but Frank tries to play an intricate fluid system when no chemistry has been created yet. All we get now is sideways and backwards passing, this is a young team but it's not adventurous at all
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When you sign a manager, you automatically look at their history and what they've won. You then look at their formation and their team identity.
When Frank signed, a lot of Derby fans were complimentary however often slated his in game changes, random formations and strange subs. There was a lot of comments saying he changed formation between home games and away games.
Now whilst that may look like preparation, it does not provide continuity and a settled formation/team. Players look lost whilst defending at Chelsea. It's really difficult to look at Chelsea and know which formation and team Lampard is going to pick. We do not have a style, a formation or a settled 11. It's worrying that the best summer we have had in years is going to be wasted by players shoved all over the pitch and random changes to formations.
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I have to add to this season's goals (less conceded goals, better finishing, more points on table) that Frank finally finds his formation and his core of players. There is a clear correlation between the success in a league with the fixed starting 11 and formation.
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I would love to see some of you aficionados try the job for a month, maybe then you might realise it's easy to pretend you know what your'e on talking about, something else all together when you have to walk the walk.
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2 hours ago, coco said:
True, but it would be good to have a settled side and formation for consistency purposes, because we clearly lack that at this moment in time. I am confident with Pulisic and Ziyech coming into the squad, Werner up top and Havertz playing behind the him that we can be a pretty potent team.
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I think the thing I fear the most is that if we've got everybody back and fit and we're still struggling. The reasons why last season was so hard for Lamps are the same reasons why he was given a break at that time.
If we're still having the same problems this season, there won't be any escaping that. I love Frank but he needs to show significant improvement. In that sense it's a pity we lost the last FA Cup final and got knocked out of Carabao Cup this time around because winning a trophy does wonders for a manager in a new team, especially someone as young and inexperienced as Lamps. Unless we win the FA Cup next May, we'll go trophyless for the second season in a row, and even if he's still around there'll be real doubts whether he's the real deal or just someone who got lucky due to his special status within the organization.
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Sometimes you need to stick to your guns even if things aren't going well. Once everyone is back and healthy Lampard really should stick to his vision and to the formation he would mostly want to use, even if we do lack some consistency in our results. The only way to gain that consistency that we didn't have last season is to keep pushing for the same gameplan and same vision.
After all isn't that what Sarri did? We sucked at basics but Sarri never changed his style of play and in time we managed to make it work, Sarri only applied a false 9 against Man City and maybe in some other particular games but he was sure that his football should work and it really did work in due time. Lampard should do the same, keep the high press and let everyone know that they need to keep working hard.
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In terms of being under pressure Lampard was always going to have pressure this season. Regardless of signings and what not.
The owner and the club are never going to be satisfied with being in the mix for top 4 for several years in a row. So Lampard will need to prove that he can take this team to the next level. We have had an less than convincing start, everyone knows that and Lampard more then anyone.
He thrived off pressure as a player though and i think he'll prove to do the same as our manager. We had a rough start last season too with only two wins out of our first eight games. We'll come good, we are still struggling with match-fitness and patterns of play in general but it's not done with the flick of a switch with no pre-season. Close to half the XI is entirely new to the league and with no pre-season it was always going to be difficult.
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If we look at our lineups for the 3 PL fixtures I don't believe Lampard has changed the personnel all that much and has been consistent, between the Brighton and Liverpool fixture he made 1 change & I am pretty sure we all were unanimously behind that change and that was Kova for RLC. Moving forward to the West Brom game he made 3 changes out of which I think 2 may have been forced, Thiago for Zouma; I think Zouma may have had a knock or some personal reason as he wasn't even in the squad & Kepa had to be removed after the Liverpool debacle. Tammy probably earned his spot after the showing in the League cup but that was one he wasn't forced to make.
I think the idea that he is chopping and changing consistently is a little exaggerated due to the midweek fixtures but he has to make those changes as players cannot just come into a new season and start playing a game every 3/4 days.
I think it would be difficult for any manager right now with our current predicament. I know most teams are in the same boat though. I get that he's already had a season and he has to deliver, but these are very strange circumstances we are facing at the moment, got to give him the time he needs to get through it all first.
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Q: Keras 'plot_model' shows wrong graph for nested models (Autoencoder) When I create an autoencoder architecture with multiple inputs and outputs, the plot_model graph does not show up as expected (problems highlighted in red).
I assume the first issue occurs because I use encoder.inputs for the autoencoder. However, creating new input layers for the autoencoder results in an error for me (graph disconnected).
The problem is likely on my side and not a bug in Keras, so hopefully someone with more experience can guide me in the right direction.
ps. I can't just use a single autoencoder model, which would avoid this problem, because the same encoder and decoder models are additionally used in a GAN setting. (implementation is currently working with single inputs and slicing, but I'd really like to switch to multi inputs cause it feels way cleaner)
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from tensorflow.keras.layers import *
from tensorflow.keras.models import Model
from tensorflow.keras.utils import plot_model

# Config encoder
state_inputs = Input(shape=7, name="encoder_state_inputs")
action_inputs = Input(shape=4, name="encoder_action_inputs")
encoder_layer = Dense(11, activation=LeakyReLU(alpha=0.2), name=f"encoder_layer")
classification_layer = Dense(4, activation="softmax", name=f"classification")
latent_layer = Dense(5, activation=LeakyReLU(alpha=0.2), name="latent_space")

# Build encoder
x = concatenate([state_inputs, action_inputs])
x = encoder_layer(x)
classifier = classification_layer(x)
latent = latent_layer(x)
encoder = Model([state_inputs, action_inputs], [classifier, latent], name="encoder")
plot_model(encoder, "encoder.png")

# Config decoder
classifier_inputs = Input(shape=4, name="classifier_inputs")
latent_inputs = Input(shape=5, name="latent_inputs")
decoder_layer = Dense(11, activation=LeakyReLU(alpha=0.2), name=f"decoder_layer")
state_reconstruction_layer = Dense(7, activation="softmax", name=f"state_reconstruction")
action_reconstruction_layer = Dense(4, activation="softmax", name=f"action_reconstruction")

# Build decoder
x = concatenate([classifier_inputs, latent_inputs])
x = decoder_layer(x)
state_reconstruction = state_reconstruction_layer(x)
action_reconstruction = action_reconstruction_layer(x)
decoder = Model([classifier_inputs, latent_inputs], [state_reconstruction, action_reconstruction], name="decoder")
plot_model(decoder, "decoder.png")

# Build autoencoder
encoded = encoder(encoder.inputs)
decoded = decoder(encoded)
autoencoder = Model(encoder.inputs, outputs=[classifier, decoded], name="autoencoder")

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A: I was able to prevent the first problem by adding two input layers to the autoencoder.
The second problem (multiple outputs just connecting to one input) seems to be a known bug: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/42101


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A new 'high performance' or 'Super Computer' launched on Nov 30, during climate change week, will help produce the 'Big Data' Caribbean small island states (SIDS) need to accurately project and mitigate the effects of climate change on the region.
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Launched in the midst of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) meeting at the Regional Headquarters of The UWI, the Scientific Platform for Applied Research and Knowledge Sharing or SPARKS as it is called, was acquired as part of the Investment Plan for the five-year Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR). SPARKS not only provides much needed computing capacity for climate researchers at The UWI; it also plugs a gaping hole.
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"Climate research and downscaling methods will no longer be limited by the available hardware and software," he said.
SPARKS is filling the research gap that prevented regional scientists from making more of the kinds of credible long term climate projections which their counter parts in the developed world are able to produce easily and quickly. So when the IPPC produces its next global assessment report there will be much more information from the Caribbean, making SPARKS a critical tool in the regional fight against climate change.
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Aside, Jamaica and The UWI, Mona are now way ahead of their counterparts in the English-speaking Caribbean and on par with some of the leading institutions in the developed world. This improvement in computing capacity is an asset for attracting more high-level staff and students from outside the region. "This significantly opens up the research capabilities of the University to include research computing – an area we have not delved in on a wide scale in the past as the processing of big data could only be done with partners overseas," Professor Taylor said.
Before SPARKS, the University's data processing capacity restricted climate researchers to a single data run at a time, each taking up to six months; there was limited storage and no redundancy. "If anything went wrong, we simply had to start over," Jay Campbell, research fellow with the Climate Studies Group at Mona told the distinguished guests at the launch.
In an interview, he noted that aside from the usual specifications, of the computer that sits in Mona Information Technology Services (MITS) building, SPARKS has a capacity equivalent to more of 5,000 CDs and is expandable; it is also able to complete a run that usually takes six months in just over two days.
Aside from its importance to crunching climate data for the IPPC reports, SPARKS will provide support for countless research ranging from the social sciences to botany and mathematics. It is set to revolutionise the DNA sequencing, medicinal, biological and other data driven research now being undertaken at the UWI. And with the impending start of the Mona's clinical trials of medical marijuana products, Taylor believes the super computer will make for a more exciting time for UWI researchers.
More importantly, UWI climate researchers agree that a supercomputer will pull in additional revenues, and bring together the foremost agencies at the forefront of the regional climate fight.
SPARKS, the result of a partnership between Dell and Fujitsu is valued at US$742,376 or and is funded by Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through its US$10.39 million grant funding to implement the PPCR). The project is managed through Mona Office for Research and Innovation.
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While the name Jhoanna Alba — or her self-named custom design house, ALBA: Bespoke Clothing — might not immediately ring a bell, they're actually as well-known as Burberry or Tom Ford, if you're in the A-list pro-sports circle, at least. In business for over 20 years, Alba has created custom pieces for athletically talented — and fashion-recognized — football and basketball luminaries, including NBA All-Star (and Anna Wintour's BFF) Russell Westbrook, MVP and philanthropist Steph Curry and all around legend, Magic Johnson. (Seriously, just look at her Instagram to see some of the best-dressed and highest-scoring athletes in the biz.) And as of November, Alba is officially in the bespoke womenswear business.
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The designer and entrepreneur has actually been creating custom womenswear here and there since the mid-'90s, when she designed suiting for WNBA players like Lisa Leslie and Rebecca Lobo — plus, the athletes' wives, mothers and daughters have been requesting special pieces regularly since the start of her business. But due to the high demand for menswear, especially among high-profile male athletes (and continuous number of draft hopefuls), Alba ended up focusing on menswear.
Alba's clientele also expanded to notables in entertainment, including Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a football player-turned-financial-manager on HBO's "Ballers" and writer, producer and actress Lena Waithe. The latter recently made history as the first African-American female to win an Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy for her work on the very excellent "Thanksgiving" episode of Aziz Ansari's "Master of None." Oh, and Waithe accepted her award — with one of the most moving and inspiring acceptance speeches ever — wearing a custom-designed gold leaf-printed tuxedo by Alba.
Aziz Ansari and Lena Waithe, in Alba, at the 2017 Emmy Awards. Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
See, Waithe's stylist Tiffany Hasbourne is also a costume designer on "Ballers," so she knew whom to call on the Thursday night before the Emmy Awards on Sunday. "That Friday morning Lena came in, she picked out what she wanted to wear and we had it delivered to her house on Saturday and she wore it on Sunday — and won the Emmy," said Alba, over the phone, while stuck in traffic on her way to Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner's home for a fitting. ("I'm doing his wedding," she explained.)
Essentially, Waithe's fast-tracked — and very photographed — custom suiting offered audiences a timely sneak peek into Alba's upcoming diversified custom line. In the works for at least two years, the officially launched Alba: Bespoke Clothing womenswear collection keeps with the DNA of her successful menswear business. "It's really trying to incorporate the client: the look of your legacy, their culture, how they want their brand to be perceived," said Alba.
Taking her longtime male clientele as examples, Oklahoma Thunder point guard Westbrook, whom Alba has been dressing since his rookie year, opts for "minimalist" and "very classic" suiting aesthetic for noteworthy events, like his wedding and black-tie awards ceremonies. "But then you have clients that are a little more open to different things, like his old teammate, [now Indiana Pacers shooting guard] Victor Oladipo, he lets me create whatever I want. So, I'll design something really just outrageous and then he just rolls with it," she said. Another notable moment: In 2016, she collaborated with Steph Curry's stylist on a very chic blue velvet tux that the superstar point guard wore to accept his ESPY Award.
Steph Curry, in an Alba custom tux, at the 2016 ESPY Awards. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
To fully personalize suiting and other pieces for her clients, Alba will often visit their homes and analyze closet contents to "see what's missing and fill in the blanks." They'll have a dialogue back and forth to formulate the final collection, which will also often celebrate a client's heritage and culture. For instance, she collaborated with with Congolese-Spanish Toronto Raptors power forward Serge Ibaka on Avec Class x Alba, a line of African print-inspired shirts.
The fully customization process is the same for the Alba womenswear offerings, which start with "timeless and classic" silhouettes, including a blazer, pencil skirt, wide-leg trousers and high-waisted cigarette pants. The client then selects the fabrics that speak to them. Like Alba's menswear, the ordering process is straightforward with "wardrobe packages," which essentially comes out a bundle of versatile pieces, starting at three pieces for $5,000.
"So, you're getting three suits for $5,000, but you're really getting eight to nine to 10 different combinations, once you mix and match the different pieces," she explained. The collection is tailor-made and fit for each person, and Alba is happy to make tweaks to certain details, per client preferences. "If there's are minor things they want to incorporate into their looks and we're able to facilitate then we're able to do that," said Alba, while recalling the time she added a detachable peplum on a tuxedo jacket for a client.
While Alba and her team did push Waithe's suit through production in a quick 48 hours, the usual turnaround time for a custom piece is about two weeks. Having the Alba: Bespoke Clothing showroom and production facility located across the street from each other in downtown Los Angeles keeps the design and delivery process accessible and nimble for demanding clientele. While Alba does incorporate fabric from around the world — for example, textiles from Italy or Ghana for a player collaboration — most of the sourcing is done in Los Angeles, supporting the local Garment District. The family-owned business employs six designers and design assistants, plus 45 tailors.
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"My mother runs everything because I'm usually out on the field. She runs production, accounting, the whole nine," said Alba, who earlier switched to the other line to answer a call from the big boss. ("It's my mom. She's blowing up my phone!")
While taking orders for her new womenswear line, Alba is keeping busy for the holiday season, too: designing coordinating outfits for Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Corey Brewer, his wife Monique and three-year-old son Sebastian (aw), as well as dressing Stevie Wonder for his annual Full of Toys Benefit Concert. Plus, considering that Waithe is debuting a new Chicago-set series, "The Chi" on Showtime and joining the cast of Netflix's "Dear White People," she'll need quite a few more options for the red carpet and all that.
"We'll be doing a lot of things with her in the future and we're working on that as we speak," hinted Alba. Stay tuned.
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Washington, DC – Human rights defenders, medics, students and others targeted by the Bahraini government in its crackdown on pro-democracy efforts continue to face detention and harassment despite growing calls for their release. On Dec. 21, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called for the unconditional release of all Bahraini detainees imprisoned after a military trial. Human Rights First notes that the Bahraini government has failed to comply with that request and, in fact, is taking steps to delay the appeals of those accused. "Yesterday, a group of students from the University of Bahrain who were sentenced to 15 years each by the military court had their appeal hearing postponed until March. Five of them remain in Bahrain's Jaw Prison," said Human Rights First's Brian Dooley. "Their case and others like it make clear that Bahrain's leaders are ignoring key calls for reform issued by Commissioner Pillay and even the Kingdon's own Bassiouni Commission." In addition to the students, the Bahrain regime continues to contest the appeals of others sentenced by the military court, including 20 medics who appear to have been prosecuted for treating injured protestors and telling the media about the nature and extent of injuries. Dr. Nada Dhaif is one of the medics sentenced to 15 years after an unfair trial in military court. Though she is out of detention while she awaits her next court hearing on January 9, Dr. Dhaif was summoned by the police for a four-hour interrogation on December 25. During that interrogation, she was warned to keep a low profile, an apparent government response to her decision to speak with the media and human rights organizations about how she and others were tortured in detention. Dr. Dhaif told Dooley, "I am being targeted for telling the world the continuing truth about Bahrain. Members of my family are also being harassed by the regime. I have only ever advocated peaceful reform but am being threatened for my human rights advocacy." Local human rights activists also report ongoing concerns about treatment in custody. Hassan Oun, aged 18, was rearrested today after speaking to a local human rights organization. During previous interrogations, Oun said he was raped by a security officer. That officer later called Oun after his release and threatened to rearrest him and rape him until he died. According to Maryam Al Khawaja of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, Oun was recently arrested again in what seems to be revenge against him for speaking to their center.
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Our good friends at Quo Vardis Trust (QVT) are on another mission to raise money for Animal Therapy Services. QVT are a mental health charity providing supported housing in South East London and ADO have been partnering with the organisation for about 5 years now. As all housing charities are finding it harder to raise sufficient funding to provide activities and programmes for their residents, especially as London Borough funding has been severely cut, they are having to think outside the box to raise revenue to meet their obligations.
Following last year's endeavours at the Tough Mudder, QVT are returning to the challenge, and in greater numbers. Nine brave people will be running to raise money on behalf of QVT, with the added comedy value for spectators witnessing our CEO, Ingrid, and Head of Finance, Steve, covered head to toe in mud!!!
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DUKE NUKEM FOREVER REVIEW – "AS BAD AS YOU REMEMBER"
February 3, 2016 October 2, 2016 / Joel Franey
With the news that Duke Nukem 3D has just turned 20, it seems timely that I should be reviewing… The far later entry, Duke Nukem Forever. After all, what can be said about the former that isn't enormously obvious from the first ten minutes of gameplay or the occasional glance at a screenshot? Monsters look like cardboard cut-outs on lazy susans, the game allows you to kick people like a can-can dancer and it's so nineties gaming that it's almost self-explanatory.
But the 2011 revival of the classic franchise provides an interesting talking point. Duke Nukem Forever was in on-and-off development for over a decade before it was finally released to the public, and promptly shat on by most of those who played it. But when I looked at it recently I couldn't help but notice that the Steam reviews seemed a lot more generous than I remembered everybody being five years ago. Mostly positive, eh? Could it be that the sense of wounded betrayal and disappointment in the audience at the time had all gone to taint our perceptions of this game, to the point where we felt the need to judge it more harshly? It wouldn't be the first time that hype and an epic legacy had pushed the audience to demand unrealistic standards from something.
So I booted up DNF for the first time the other day, and turned it back off several hours later, feeling slightly ill at what I'd experienced. No, we were right the first time. This is an appalling waste of matter that deserves only to be buried far beneath the earth.
The campaign starts with a re-tread of the final boss fight of the previous game, with our beefy, brainless hero Duke beating up a one-eyed monster with only his gigantic balls of steel, alien rocket launcher and space-hopper sharp wit. Well, that's not entirely true. The game actually starts with a first-person look at Duke pissing in a urinal, which I now suspect to be a subtle warning from a noble developer who was trying to get people to stop then and there.
But regardless, Duke defeats Cyclops-Steve after a very boring fight where you basically do nothing but strafe and hold down the right trigger; before we then cut to Duke twelve years later, having failed to age a day or even change outfits, living in a personalised skyscraper filled with his various accolades and being given a blowjob (thankfully off-screen) by two squeaky-voiced blow-up dolls in schoolgirl outfits alleging to be human woman.
So right away we see several problems. The terrifyingly misogynistic attitude gets worse as the game goes on (more on that later), but Duke himself is fairly loathsome from the word go. He's callous, arrogant, cocky, aggressive, stupid and one-dimensional, but frustratingly nobody seems to realise it because he's just so inherently great at everything he does. His walls are covered in tacky gold statues of himself, giant awards he's won for his ability to wear sunglasses indoors without bumping into things, and various framed newspaper covers of him being generally fantastic. Odd that nobody realised the errors in his character here. Aside from the fact that anybody who lives in a tower stylised around himself and wrote a book entitled "Why I'm So Great" is always going to be kind of revolting, it has to be said that Mister Nukem having no personality or human flaws besides "I rule, you suck" made me end up rooting for the aliens at first.
Duke's enemies are almost as deformed and evil as he is. I wonder if there's potential for a romantic sub-plot in the next game?
And the general story is no better. The aforementioned E.T.s show up and begin causing general havoc, so it's up to Duke to save the day because… Actually, why is it only us? Fate, I suppose, or did Duke just threaten to flex to death anybody who stopped him being the main character?
The game also makes stabs at comedy every now and then, in the sense that it tries to stab the concept to death where it stands. Which was your least favourite joke? Was it Duke living on floor sixty-nine of the tower, or the fact that you can spend over-long animations punching an enemy in the testicles or slapping breasts growing out of a wall?
Perhaps the most awkward of these jokes were DNF's pathetic attempts to undermine other shooter franchises. One bloke moans about having to help some whiner find his missing wife, just before Duke Nukem himself turns down the green Masterchief helmet with the phrase "power armour is for pussies." Yeah, what moron would want developed character motivation or a hero that doesn't spit bile with every line? I'm not saying Gears Of War or Halo were impeachable, but they were a damn site better than this pile of sputum, which makes mocking them even more embarrassing. At one point early on, an electronic door asks you to find a keycard, at which point Duke rolls his eyes and just wrenches it open with his freakishly-muscular hands, ho-ho-ho. But five minutes later we're being made to find three power cells to open another door with no irony whatsoever. I feel this game is obeying the letter and not the spirit of the law, you know what I mean?
And of course there's the sexist angle. Sure, watching all the women basically get reduced to cock-hungry bimbos is pretty miserable to see, but even from those depths the game finds a way to spiral downwards. Maybe I'm just becoming a crotchety old fool who can't keep up with the drugs and rap music of today, but I doubt I'm alone on this – seeing the supposed "hero" quip about dozens of women getting raped by aliens and fatally exploding when the newly hatched larvae burst out of their bodies? That made me feel physically sick, and incredibly angry. It was like watching Ridley Scott's Alien, if Scott had been an unhinged lunatic who found the body mutilation all very funny. And if that wasn't all, the game encourages you to gun down other imprisoned, enemy-pregnant women before they can birth the monsters and put you in peril. So we literally have a game mechanic made out of shooting defenceless women put in the most hideous situation ever thought of. Fucking Christ.
I do wonder exactly what was going through the writers' heads when they wrote this. The scribblings of a psychopath with a basement full of dead hookers would seem rational compared to that awful scene, which, by the way, was what caused me to turn it off for the first time. I couldn't stomach any more in one playthrough, which is pretty noteworthy if nothing else.
There were some pictures to illustrate how horrific the scenes were, but I couldn't quite bring myself to submit you all to them. Here's a nice, colourful picture of the game Rocket League instead.
So Duke Nukem Forever's story is a splatter of infected diarrhoea on the bathroom wall of modern culture, but what about the gameplay?
Well, it's not as bad as the plot – mainly because nothing could be, besides mass genocide – but it's boring at best and eye-rolling at worst. For twelve years of planning, it seems strange that they thought of sod-all that could make this game worth playing. Perhaps what made the finger-raising at other franchises so odd is the fact that Duke has almost nothing to throw in their faces. No equivalent of the Gravity Gun, the skyrail system or the Bulletstorm whip, no vehicles that I didn't dread getting into, no superpowers, no interesting gadgets, nothing. Hell, if anything it feels like it's been compromised to the games of today, with cover-shooting, two weapons slots, turrets that overheat and health that regenerates. Duke Nukem Forever, you can't make fun of modern games, you BECAME one of them, and one of the worst games going at that.
Which isn't to say that there's no signs of life. Every now and then this dead horse twitches a little, though goes limp again straight after. I vaguely approved of the interactivity of the environment, and the fact that certain actions, like looking in the mirror, can increase your ego (read health) bar. It's a clever little feature, though some of these actions take way too long and ruin the pacing. The snooker table was the worst one, because you have to knock every ball into the holes with a really unwieldy control system and no way to alter the power of your shots, and if you pot the white ball just once, you have to restart the whole thing.
Duke Nukem Forever's reactive environment provides many opportunities to remind yourself of what you already know. Here's something I made earlier.
There's also the occasional puzzle, by which I mean a really obvious thing that you do to continue, with a solution that is clear the moment all the pieces are in place. It's funny I mentioned the Gravity gun, because a lot of them do have the tinge of a cut-price Half-Life 2 to them, what with the use of physics and environmental objects. There's also the occasional bit of precision platforming and sequences where Duke gets shrunk to the size of an action figure, but they don't do anything worth mentioning and are forgotten about the second they're over.
But whether you're fighting charging pigmen or generic alien figures with lasers, you'll notice the difficulty curve resembles a rollercoaster designed by Escher. For most of the game it's insultingly easy, as all weapons seem equally overpowered and ammo is lying around everywhere like it's a Texan Christmas. Most of the single-use power-ups I found I didn't end up trying, as I was doing fine without them.
But every now and then you have to fight a boss, which is where the challenge spikes unpredictably and with no real reason. Not because it's hard, just unfair design. The alien queen, encountered on my second session, was the most annoying example of this. You can't hurt her with anything other than explosives, there's no cover to take shelter and she has all the cheapest attacks going – summoning smaller enemies who hold you in place, attacks that knock you on your arse, and one of the game's many technical faults means you can't hurt her when she's performing certain attack animations. It also didn't help that the frame rate dropped whenever I tried to do anything more elaborate than shoot one bullet at a stationary enemy, but let it not be said that the NPCs aren't trying to do their part. Many of them have gone without textures to help the less fortunate, presumably donating them to enemies in other, better games. Oh, and at one point I was meant to be trapped inside a small construction site shack for an exciting, claustrophobic experience, but glitched outside by just walking at the wall, watching with bemusement as the enemy smashed their way into an empty structure.
I'm not one to care about graphics much, and yet I still find myself fairly depressed by this.
I could go on with the list I made of the thousand annoyances and offensive ideas to be found here, like the overlong rail-shooter scene or the fact that the night-vision blinds you every time you turn it on, but I'm going to take a step back and try to see the overall problem, because suddenly it became very clear to me when I saw another game in my Steam library.
Do you remember in my Wolfenstein review when I said that The New Order feels like the best of both modern and old shooters combined? Well, Duke Nukem Forever feels the worst of them. From the old generation we have the horrible hero, plot and attitudes, whereas from the modern era we have dull, linear gameplay that's either insultingly easy or unfair by design. And with this kind of cross-breeding you can only get something really misshapen at the end, kind of like Duke's steroid-infused torso.
Thus what we have here is a game designed by a team with the apparent attitude of a badly-raised thirteen-year old boy, appealing to a diminished market from the 1990s and managing to be generally horrible to play on top of all that. So yes – we were right the first time. Kind of makes you wonder why the rights to the franchise have been so hotly contested recently, but whatever – I don't think anybody will be going near the next game after this debacle.
It goes without saying that there's nothing really praiseworthy about Duke Nukem Forever, but it's rare that a game manages to go the other way and become actively loathsome. Failing on a technical, design and narrative level, the story of this detestable jock and his constant need to stand in the way of good taste makes me staggered that this was a game with any time put into it at all, let alone twelve years.
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These are just some of the words that describe how I used to feel.
As a former food addict and serial dieter, I lived my life ruled by food, diets and calories. I feared food, eating out, social events, getting fatter and never being free of this trap.
No matter how much I starved myself, counted calories or exercised the weight I battled to lose and more kept coming back to me like a boomerang. I was full of self loathing!
I was doomed to be fat forever! Or so I thought…….
Fast forward 20 years or so and I could not feel more free and relaxed around food and drink. No longer do I endure the war in my head over what I should and shouldn't eat. When you know better, you do better right?
So how did I set about changing things?
Firstly I had to work on my identity and my surroundings. I saw and thought of myself and lazy and fat. I had tried hating myself and fighting with my body to get thin. But the more I fought, the more tired I got and further I got from reaching my goal. I had to remove the foods that I struggled so hard to not eat (beige processed foods) and replace them with foods that would both nourish me and keep me satisfied. I consumed diet and cookery books learning basic nutrition and cooking skills.
I started seeing myself with new eyes believing that I deserved to be happy now and not later. Once I started to think and feel differently about myself, made small and regular baby steps things slowly started getting a little bit easier.
Instead of trying to punish myself, I wanted to nourish my body and learn about nutrition and as I started to feel healthier the momentum picked up. I was on my journey and I was loving it!
I am a simple girl and like to keep things simple. I discovered that beige, dead processed foods were central to my food addiction. When I cut them out….. I was free and suddenly I was in the driving seat of my body fat!
Loving my new emerging body and outward glow.
After 10 years of successfully teaching these methods to clients, friends and family I created #BanishtheBeige and the 'No Beige Diet' to help others find an easy way to sustainable, enjoyable and healthy fat loss. Over the last few years I have seen some incredible results with clients who simply swapped out the beige!
So what is the No Beige Diet?
In a pistachio nutshell, it's low beige, starchy carbs replaced with ample green fibrous vegetable carbs, lean proteins and healthy fats. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
As a nation, we have become #beigewashed! It has become the norm to consume vast amounts of beige foods all day long.
Beige and refined starchy carbs are the main driver of Insulin, an important growth hormone which is essential for human health but when it is stimulated too often and in large amounts it can create havoc within our finely tuned metabolism. In excess it will encourage fat storage. Other lifestyle factors will exacerbate this process such as excess stress (poor sleep, poor diet, illness, lack of exercise) so it's important to address these too.
Diet is the one of the biggest rocks to tackle first. Why you might ask? Because we interact with food on such a large scale every single day. Just by balancing our blood sugar levels with better food choices, you will start to enjoy more energy and so will be more motivated to move more and handle stress better.
Basically almost all foods that come in some form of packaging and do no resemble any type of real food. If it has more than one ingredient, it's highly likely it fits the 'beige' category.
You might be thinking that's all your favourite foods gone?
It might seem hard to get your head around if you have spent most of your life avoiding fat and counting calories. But I can assure you that your body is happy to processes natural food and will respond with a balanced metabolism and efficient hunger, energy and appetite management.
Still unsure? Then join our community and I will guide you. (click here). This is ideal for anyone who gets overwhelmed with too much information or simply has had enough of the battle with the bulge. My mission is to help people to have fun and create their very own diet that is easy and enjoyable to follow!
There are so many wonderful real food recipes available on the net or in the ever growing #BanishtheBeige support community (click here).
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Rebel weekend video previews
POSTED Mar 16, 2012 By Unknown
It's another exciting racing on the Triple Crown trail, as the road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands winds through Hot Springs, Arkansas, for the $500,000 Rebel Stakes.
However, another big race on the docket is an $80,000 allowance race on Friday at Gulfstream featuring the three-year-old debuts of undefeated graded stakes winner Gemologist and Currency Swap.
I discussed these two races with Triple Crown Insider and have one strong opinion: that Currency Swap will defeat Gemologist at what I figure will be overlaid odds on my selection (3-to-2 seems more than fair).
I'm less bullish on the Rebel because it's the precarious situation where the most likely winner (Secret Circle) will be overbet, and the other two I could make a case for (Cyber Secret and Scatman) might be overbet as well.
I don't anticipate the win pool to offer any value even with horses like Sabercat and Najjaar figuring to be underlays along with Secret Circle, but the exacta could if you share my opinion that Sabercat and Najjaar will be overbet in all pools. Even if Secret Circle is overvalued to win, he could still key some nice exotics with Cyber Secret or Scatman underneath.
Toga the Tout agrees with me on Secret Circle being the most likely winner, but goes off course from me to tab his underneath horses.
The Rebel is race nine in the 23-race Triple Crown SHOWdown series at TwinSpires.com, and 17 players still alive for the $1-million bonus by having selected eight consecutive show horses to date. Even if you're not alive for the $1-million, though, there is still a chance to win a share of a $10,000 prize pool that will go to those who make successful show bets on each of the Triple Crown races.
Triple Crown Insider


The classic Lunch and Learn presentation is a great way for manufacturers of building products to educate architects on new products and engage in more personal conversations not permitted by other forms of marketing to architects.
We prefer virtual lunch and learn presentations over traditional in-person presentations. Architects expect a free lunch, so we indulge their quirky tastes with local catering in exchange for their participation in a 20 minute highly focused webinar presentation follow by a conversation.
The free lunch gets the architects to pay attention and the webinar format allows for the participation of seasoned product experts who keep the architects asking question.
As marketers of building materials products we struggle to understand the minds of architects. When they need product information or design support we have their persistent and undivided attention. When they don't need us cold calls are avoided, print advertising is ignored, email blasts are deleted, and trade show displays are mostly visited by sales people. Marketing to architects in the present day is frustrating. However, food still works.
If you are willing to buy lunch, architects will make time for you. This quid pro quo still works today and with a few modifications a virtual lunch and learn presentation can be a highly effective and economical way to sell building materials products to architects.
Many building material manufacturers have abandoned lunch and learn presentations in favor of educational webinars, and this is a big mistake. The traditional lunch and learn is expensive involving travel and catering costs and you need someone with enough knowledge and experience to give the presentation and answer questions.
This is not always possible with new and complicated products as local reps might not feel comfortable giving such a technical presentation. Sending a company expert all over the USA to give one lunch and learn per day will get very expensive.
A virtual lunch and learn combines the personal interaction and guaranteed attention of the in-person lunch and learn with the simplicity and economy of a webinar.
Our next blog post will discuss the best practices for virtual lunch and learn presentations.


Not having a creative bone in my body, I needed help from a professional. An old colleague referred me to Cheryl …and am I ever glad she did! My firm needed an identity, a logo and all that goes with it – from business cards, note pads, stationary and envelopes…to usage in the digital world of web sites, Twitter, LinkedIn and other internet applications. From the start, Cheryl understood my vision and created beautiful work. I couldn't be more pleased with the results. I would recommend Cheryl to anyone, anywhere.
We get to know our client's business through researching their target audience, competitors and discovering their personal preferences.
After our initial presentation of concepts, one or more designs are refined in detail and include a full color exploration.
Once the design is approved a suite of digital files are created for use in print collateral, social media badges and signage.


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Mazda to Debut 30th Anniversary MX-5 Miata at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show
Mazda is providing nothing but mystery and excitement with this blurry teaser image
The 2019 Chicago Auto Show is just around the corner, with the press getting a sneak peek on Feb.7-8 before the general public arrives on the weekend. During those media days, Mazda plans to unveil the 30th anniversary MX-5 Miata.
Up For Discussion: Mazda announces the return of rotary engines
A brief history of the Mazda Miata
It makes perfect sense that the new Miata is being unveiled in Chicago, as it made its original debut at the auto show in 1989. The Miata was in the works for quite some time before it was known worldwide. When Motor Trend journalist Bob Hall met former Mazda president Kenichi Yamamoto in 1976, he casually mentioned that the automaker should create an inexpensive roadster. In 1981, Hall became a product planner for Mazda and got the go-ahead from Yamamoto in 1982 to follow up on his roadster idea, which was codenamed Duo 101.
After a ton of research, multiple designs, and even an internal competition, the Miata was finally ready for its debut in 1989. The very first MX-5 Miata — which had a starting price tag of $14,000 — housed a 1.6-liter inline four-cylinder engine, mated to a five-speed manual transmission, under its hood.
Introducing the 1989 Mazda MX-5 Miata
Photo: Francigf
Special editions over the years
The world has seen quite a few special edition Miatas over the years. From unique design aspects to upgraded mechanical components, the Miata has undergone some interesting changes. One of the most recent editions that made headlines was a concept Mazda originally debuted at the 2015 SEMA show but brought back to SEMA in 2017. The White-Ether-painted Mazda MX-5 Miata Speedster was lighter the second time around, with a digital display, spec Miata Sport and Grand Touring brakes, and a lithium battery.
Want to Know More? 2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata features and specs
What to expect during the reveal
Not much has been divulged in the form of design details about the special edition Miata save for a blurry teaser image on Mazda's website. Along with a countdown and the tagline, "A homecoming three decades in the making," all Mazda is revealing is that there will be 3,000 models sold globally and only 500 sold in the U.S. If you're interested in nabbing one of these limited vehicles, you better pay attention and catch the live stream of the event at the Chicago Auto Show on Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 11:30 a.m. CST.


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Marinate the beef cubes with all the ingredients listed under 'for marination'. Let it stand for 15 minutes.
Pressure cook the marinated beef till it is done. (No need to add any water as the water content in the beef is enough to get it cooked).
Heat oil in a large pan and splutter the mustard seeds. Add onion, curry leaves and saute till the onion starts to brown. Add the cooked beef, garam masala and pepper powder, stir well until the gravy is completely dry and becomes dark in color.
Serve with rice, chapathi, appam etc.
Came out well, first time using crushed fennel, very tasty…good compliment from husband too.


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Jerzy Wilkin
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We mourn the loss of Professor Jerzy Wilkin, the Director of the American Studies Center from 1990 to 1992 and founder of the American Studies Masters Program at the ASC. He passed away on January 10, 2023, at the age of 75.
Professor Jerzy Wilkin was born on May 25, 1947 in Lwówek Śląski. In 1970 he graduated from the Faculty of Political Economy at the University of Warsaw, and in 1976 he obtained the degree of doctor of economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He obtained habilitation in economic sciences in 1985 and nine years later, in 1994, he was awarded the title of professor of economic sciences. Professor Wilkin was involved in institutional economics, political economy and public economics, and was the author of about four hundred scientific publications on, among other things, rural development and agriculture, the relationship between the state and the economy, or the methodology of economics and philosophy of science.
For many years, Professor was associated with the University of Warsaw, first as Dean of the Faculty of Economics, then as Director of the American Studies Center from 1990 to 1992, during which time he launched the MA Studies program. From 1996 to 2014, he served as Head of the Department of Political Economics. In the 2010s he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a distinguished faculty member of the Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he headed the Department of European Integration, founded at his initiative.
Professor Wilkin was given an honorary doctorate by three universities: Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), University of Warmia and Mazury, and University of Białystok. He was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Golden Cross of Merit for his outstanding achievements in scientific research.
We offer our deep condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. His legacy will remain with us.
Erasmus annoucements
Applications for Erasmus+ 2023/2024 are now open!
As an ASC student, you may spend up to two semesters in one study-cycle studying abroad. Apply for Erasmus+ until February 26!
Year 2022/2023
January 25: Meeting with the authors of "Pieśni Grozy: Straszne, mordercze i tajemnicze polskie pieśni ludowe"
Meet the authors of the book "Pieśni Grozy: Straszne, mordercze i tajemnicze polskie pieśni ludowe." We are going to talk about how folklore still inspires artists, the process of creating illustrations and publications, and how folk art can be used in contemporary art.
February 24: American Leadership in the war in Ukraine: Indonesian Perspective
Leadership Research Group has a pleasure of inviting all scholars and students to a conversation on the non-Western perspective on the war in Ukraine. Our guest will be Agastya Wardhana from Airlangga University and he will speak about the American leadership in the war in Ukraine from an Indonesian perspective.
Blue Book traineeship programme
Apply for a 5-month paid Blue Book traineeships at the European Commission starting in October 2023.
January 19: Covid and a History of Racialized Asian Bodies in the US
Anti-Asian racism has been on the rise since the covid pandemic began. This talk by Selma Bidlingmaier examines the historical moments in US history that shaped the ideas that fuel anti-Asian racism. It focuses specifically on 19th Century scientific racism, coolie labor and the making of the white working class, and the 20th Century myth of the model minority.


Looks like fun. Might try it. I'll link with you if I do.
oh please do…I love doing poetry forms, although sometimes they turn out silly…I'm a great believer in fun and playful writing as well as serious stuff. We need more laughing and less sadness. 🙂 Happy 2017 to you!