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Students at Questar III's Rensselaer Educational Center in Troy were honored at the school's annual awards night Wednesday, June 6 at Rensselaer City School District. The event recognized students' for their hard work and dedication to their studies during the 2017-2018 school year.
This year, 37 students were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society for the first time, seven were inducted for the second year, and one student was inducted as a third-year member. In total, 15 students were awarded scholarships totaling $6,500, including the $2,500 2018 Keith Tremblay Motorhead Memorial Scholarship, in honor of 2012 REC Graduation Keith Tremblay, who passed away last June.
We spoke with Keith's parents after the ceremony:
Congratulations to all our students on the completion of another successful year!
See more photos on our Facebook page, and see the full list of award and scholarship winners below.
National Technical Honor Society:
Three–Year Member
Andrew Eggers, Introduction to Foods II, New Lebanon
Two–Year Members
Breanna Brundige, Construction Technology II, Berlin
Kayla Denue, Criminal Justice II, New Lebanon
Matthew Dickson, Information Technology II, Hoosic Valley
Mikayla DiLorenzo, Cosmetology II, Brunswick
Karla Koch, Criminal Justice II, Hoosic Valley
Sean Wheeler, Information Technology II, Averill Park
Kyle Woodard, Information Technology II, Hoosic Valley
First-Year Members
Mackenzie Adams, Certified Nursing Assistant, Lansingburgh
Kyana Aguirre, Criminal Justice I, Lansingburgh
John Baerga, Culinary Arts II, Troy
Abigale Baez, Criminal Justice II, Lansingburgh
Korey Brock, HVAC I, Brunswick
Jasmine Brown, Criminal Justice II, Lansingburgh
Michael Capasso, Criminal Justice II, Hoosic Valley
Jacob Charest, Introduction to Foods I, Brunswick
Brion Daby, Information Technology I, Berlin
Stevie Deming, Culinary Arts I, Hoosic Valley
Mackenzy Ferra, Culinary Arts II, Averill Park
Peter Flick, HVAC II, Averill Park
Megan Gilbert, Certified Nursing Assistant, Brunswick
Sean Gillan, Information Technology II, Rensselaer
Jacob Goodermote, Automotive Technology I, Berlin
Calvin Gourrier-Gamble, Criminal Justice II, Lansingburgh
Amanda Hyson, Cosmetology II, Averill Park
Joshua Kluck, Criminal Justice II, Berlin
Ryan Kronau, Culinary Arts II, Averill Park
Ashley LaBreck, Certified Nursing Assistant, East Greenbush
Brigham Logue, Automotive Technology I, Hoosic Valley
Anthony Marshall, HVAC I, Brunswick
Katie Mason, Career Exploration, Troy
Rhonda McBride, Criminal Justice, Schodack
Joshua Morra, Criminal Justice I, Averill Park
Alexia Moskov, Criminal Justice I, Averill Park
Zachary Moskov, Information Technology I, Averill Park
Joyce-Ann Peckham, Criminal Justice II, Hoosic Valley
Ryan Reardon, HVAC I, Brunswick
Julia Rivers, Certified Nursing Assistant, Troy
Karyssa Shord, Certified Nursing Assistant, Schodack
Aaron Sislowski, Information Technology II, Lansingburgh
Gracie Snyder, Culinary Arts I, Brunswick
Collin St Pierre, Information Technology I, Averill Park
Jy'Quan Stewart, Career Exploration, Rensselaer
Oryonnah Vaughan, Certified Nursing Assistant, Lansingburgh
Mallory Wood, Certified Nursing Assistant, Averill Park
Special Recognition
William Morehouse Scholarship
Joseph Hurd, HVAC II, East Greenbush
Blue Shield Scholarship
Mallory Wood, Certified Nursing Assistant, Averill Park
Samuel Nelson Scholarship
Karyssa Shord, Certified Nursing Assistant, Schodack
Skills USA State Winner
Julia Rivers, 1st Place, Nurse Assisting, Troy
Skills USA Regional Competitors
Amberleigh Davis, 4th Place, Internetworking, Lansingburgh
Mikayla DiLorenzo, 2nd Place, Cosmetology Senior, Brunswick
ShiAnn Faluszczak, 3rd Place, Job Skills Demo, Brunswick
Gianna Green, 5th Place, Cosmetology Junior, East Greenbush
Austain LeDuc, 5th Place, Internetworking, Averill Park
Julia Rivers, 3rd Place, Nurse Assisting, Troy
Meaghen Spaulding, 4th Place, Cosmetology Senior, East Greenbush
Jackson Ostwald, 3rd Place, Food Prep Assistant Basic, East Greenbush
Rensselaer Educational Center Scholarships
Kayla Denue, Criminal Justice, New Lebanon
Peter Flick, HVAC, Averill Park
Ashley LaBreck, CNA, East Greenbush
Zachary Pawlows, HVAC, New Lebanon
Julia Rivers, CNA, Troy
Alexandria Woelfersheim, Criminal Justice, Hoosic Valley
NYS SkillsUSA Area III Scholarship
Julia Rivers, CNA, Troy
NYS Association of School Business Officials Scholarship
Julia Rivers, CNA, Troy
The Madison Stern Memorial Culinary Scholarship
Alivia King, Culinary Arts, Troy
The Anthony & Josephine DeFazio Culinary Scholarship
Paige Palmer, Culinary Arts II, Brunswick
The National Technical Honor Society Jon H. Poteat Scholarship
Karla Koch, Criminal Justice II, Hoosic Valley
The 2018 Keith Tremblay Motorhead Memorial Scholarship
Cameron Canfield, Automotive Technology II, Lansingburgh
Career & Technical Education and Career Studies Awards:
HVAC/R II – Mr. Ramirez
Peter Flick, Achievement, Averill Park
Zachary Pawlows, Craftsmanship, New Lebanon
Joseph Hurd, Most Improved, East Greenbush
HVAC/R I – Mr. Ramirez
Korey Brock, Achievement, Brunswick
Jacob Gregory, Craftsmanship, East Greenbush
Joseph Martin, Most Improved, Troy
Introduction to Food Service II – Mrs. Nescot
Bryanna Venson, Achievement, Lansingburgh
Andrew Eggers, Craftsmanship, New Lebanon
Alisha Harris, Most Improved, Brunswick
Introduction to Food Service I – Mrs. Nescot
Matthew Spain, Achievement, Lansingburgh
Vincent Olmeda, Craftsmanship, Brunswick
Jacob Charest, Most Improved, Brunswick
Hospitality & Lodging – Ms. Haase
Micquan Myrick, Achievement, Albany
Qwayvell Lebron, Craftsmanship, Adult
Da-Shawn Jones-Richardson, Most Improved, Lansingburgh
Culinary Arts II – Chef Ottati
Mackenzy Ferra, Achievement, Averill Park
Ryan Kronau, Craftsmanship, Averill Park
Paige Palmer, Most Improved, Brunswick
Culinary Arts I – Chef Ottati
Siquel Downs, Achievement, Troy
Stevie Deming, Craftsmanship, Hoosic Valley
Gracie Snyder, Most Improved, East Greenbush
Criminal Justice II – Mrs. Gillett
Abigale Baez, Most Improved, Lansingburgh
Jasmine Brown, Most Improved, Lansingburgh
Joshua Kluck, Most Improved, Berlin
Criminal Justice I – Mrs. Gillett
Alexis Moskov, Achievement, Averill Park
Michael Capasso, Achievement, Hoosic Valley
Rhonda McBride, Achievement, Schodack
Cosmetology II – Mrs. Baron
Amanda Hyson, Achievement, Averill Park
Mikayla DiLorenzo, Craftsmanship, Tamarac
Anna-Faith DeGiorgio, Most Improved, Hoosic Valley
Cosmetology I – Mrs. Baron
Marissa Lenartz, Achievement, East Greenbush
Gianna Green, Craftsmanship, East Greenbush
India Harrison, Most Improved, Troy
Construction Technology II – Mr. McGillycuddy
Breanna Brundige, Achievement, Berlin
Geovanny Cruz-Cruz, Craftsmanship, Schodack
Patrick Hall, Most Improved, Berlin
Construction Technology I – Mr. McGillycuddy
Caleb Walean, Achievement, East Greenbush
Shelbey Phillips, Craftsmanship, Berlin
Codi Genthner, Most Improved, Lansingburgh
Certified Nursing Assistant – Mrs. Shader
Ashley LaBreck, Achievement, East Greenbush
Oryonnah Vaughan, Achievement, Lansingburgh
Julia Rivers, Craftsmanship, Troy
Mallory Wood, Craftsmanship, Averill Park
Career Exploration – Mr. Mahony
Jy'Quan Stewart, Achievement, Rensselaer
Katie Mason, Craftsmanship, Troy
Angela Bass, Most Improved, Lansingburgh
Aviation Maintenance Technology II – Mr. Mahony
Destiney Lavenia-Watson, Achievement, Berlin
Tyler Keller, Craftsmanship, East Greenbush
Gabriella Nusbaum, Most Improved, East Greenbush
Automotive Technology II – Mr. Daigle
Cameron Canfield, Achievement, Lansingburgh
Steven Mallory, Craftsmanship, New Lebanon
Wyatt LeVan, Most Improved, Brunswick
Automotive Technology I – Mr. Daigle
Jacob Goodermote, Achievement, Berlin
Dustin Hoag, Craftsmanship, Berlin
Andrew Sears, Most Improved, New Lebanon
Automotive Services AM – Mr. Biette
Shelby McCabe, Achievement, East Greenbush
Cody Domey, Most Improved, Lansingburgh
Automotive Services I – Mr. Biette
Kyle Sharpe, Craftsmanship, Hoosic Valley
Academy for Information Technology II – Mr. Cappelli
Kyle Woodard, Achievement, Hoosic Valley
Sean Gillan, Craftsmanship, Rensselaer
Matthew Dickson, Craftsmanship, Hoosic Valley
Academy for Information Technology I – Mr. Cappelli
Zachary Moskov, Achievement, Averill Park
Brion Daby, Craftsmanship, Berlin
Collin St. Pierre, Craftsmanship, Averill Park

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Although NASA's attempt to return a manned mission to the moon at this point is cancelled due to a reduced budget, NASA's Charlie Bolden announced that they are looking beyond the moon to Mars. Proposed NASA budgets provide for robotic exploration of the moon, Mars, and nearby asteroids. Bolden pointed out that such missions are necessary precursors to any manned exploration.
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Mars, Not The Moon, For NASAFebruary 3, 2010
Significant Amounts of Water Found on MoonNovember 13, 2009
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The LCROSS impact last month uncovered what NASA states is a significant amount of water on the moon. The impact itself uncovered approximately 25 gallons of visible water. The water was viewed in two ways. The first method used the near-infrared spectrometer on LCROSS. The second used the ultraviolet spectrometer on LCROSS. This discovery could fuel a resurgance of interest in the moon. The discovery of water also increases the ease of a setting up a permanent base on the moon. For more information, see Wired.
LCROSS Captured Lunar PlumeOctober 19, 2009
While at first it was thought that no debris plume was created by the LCROSS impact on October 9, the first images of that plume have been released by NASA taken by LCROSS. The plume was approximately 1 mile high and the crater created by the impact is approximately 17 miles across. Before the actual impact, NASA had estimated that the plume would be 6 miles high. For more information, see ScienceNews.
Water Found on Mars & MoonSeptember 25, 2009
Two different missions have found evidence of water on the moon and on Mars. These findings may make it easier for future human colonies at both locations. NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission, detected small amounts of water on the surface of the moon.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to find 99% pure water ice on the surface of Mars far away from the poles. This ice suggests that there are huge subsurface ice sheets on Mars extending from the poles halfway to the equator. The ice was spotted in debris from five recent meteorite strikes in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It took approximately 200 days to melt, which points to the water's purity. For more information on these discoveries, see The Space Shot on CNet News.
LRO Sheds Light On The MoonSeptember 23, 2009
After months of calibration, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is providing lots of interesting new insights into the moon. Scientists had expected that the permanently shadowed craters would hold signs of hydrogen, a indicator of ice deposits. In a surprise, the LRO has found evidence of hydrogen both inside & outside the craters with some craters having no hydrogen at all.
The LRO also found that these permanently shadowed craters are the coldest places in the solar systems. Readings show that temperatures in these craters never rise above 33 kelvin or minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit. For more information, see the NASA website.
NASA & the Future of Human Space FlightSeptember 10, 2009
The White House panel of independent space experts released their recommendations this week. According to the panel, NASA's plans for returning to the moon as a means of preparing for journeying to Mars simply will not work. The reason is simple: money. NASA needs to spend approximately $3 billion more per year to achieve human spaceflight.
The panel gave President Obama several options concerning a variety of issues for NASA. In 2004, President George W. Bush proposed returning to the moon by 2020. To pay for returning to the moon, he planned on retiring the shuttle in 2010 and shutting down the International Space Station in 2015. These deadlines are unworkable, according to the panel
All those deadlines have to change, the panel said. It proposed continuing to use the shuttle until 2011. It also termed shutting down the ISS "unwise" and argued its life should be extended. The panel also strongly encouraged including other countries and private for-profit firms in further space exploration. The panel also emphasized exploring easier to reach near-Earth objects such as asteroids or the moons of Mars before returning to the moon. For more information on the panel's report, see ScienceNews.
Chandrayaan-1 Satellite AbandonedAugust 31, 2009
India's space agency lost communications with its Chandrayaan-1 satellite on Saturday and decided on Monday to abandon it as lost. Chandrayaan-1 was India's only satellite orbiting the moon. The satellite had been orbit nearly a year. Its mission was to compile 3-D maps of the moon's surface and to study the chemical composition of the moon, looking for traces of water ice. While the original mission was to last 2 years, officials said that 95% of the mission had already been completed. For more information, see CNN.


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Thursday 26th February 2015
So, there you have it. Last night sees the 35th annual Brit Awards show, and as each year passes we're given a night that doesn't pass through without leaving a trail of star moments that will forever shine down in British music history. That is of course if Vine has anything to do with it, then you're bound to end up becoming a 6-second clip, to be imprinted on to the digital timelines of the entire web-surfing universe, forever. Here are 5 moments that summed up The Brit Awards 2015 for me:
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Kanye West
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Ant and Dec
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Taylor Swift and Paloma Faith
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Taylor Swift also won her first Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist. She announced that she has been coming to England and playing shows for 8 years, and she wouldn't be up there without one of her best friends (Ed Sheeran) who took her to pubs and showed her how to make a cup of tea. It has to be said that she has done extrememly well for herself over the years, starting out as a country bumpkin to then moulding herself in to a pop chart dominator, she is now one of the world's biggest selling artists.
Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran
Looking at the nominations ahead of the evening, it looked as though there would be a battle on our hands between Sam and Ed as they were both up for a handful of awards each. However, they both came away with 2 awards. You can't say any fairer than that as they are two deserving artists who have had a highly successful 2014. Ed Sheeran had the biggest selling album of the year with 'X' as well as being the most streamed musician, whilst Sam Smith was the only artists of 2014 to sell over a million copies of his album in the UK and US.
British Male Solo Artist – Ed Sheeran
British Female Solo Artist – Paloma Faith
British Group – Royal Blood
British Breakthrough Act – Sam Smith
British Single – Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
British Album of the Year – Ed Sheeran – X
British Artist Video of the Year – One Direction – You and I
Global Success Award – Sam Smith
International Male Solo Artist – Pharrell Williams
International Female Solo Artist – Taylor Swift
International Group – Foo Fighters
Critics Choice Award – James Bay


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T.J., 18 May 2007 @ 9:01am
Sigh...Great, just when I thought there was a sliver of hope that maybe they would give up and fix their business models, the exact opposite happens.
mastmaker, 18 May 2007 @ 9:01amI am all for extension of copyright act.
I have recently traced 52 surviving descendents of homer and 139 surviving ones of Bible (both old and new testaments) and formed 'Grand Copyright Alliance'. We are going to lobby for retroactive extension of copyright to 4000 years. We have determined that the world owes us around 200 trillion dollars and change. Think of what a lobbying force WE will be!
And the story about the 'Second Grand Copyright Alliance' of descendents of Authors of Apocrypha suing Catholic church for non-inclusion in the bible is.......well....apocryphal.
BillDivX, 18 May 2007 @ 9:05am
This could actually be a GOOD thing...Remember, a wounded animal will fight hardest when it senses it is about to die.
James, 18 May 2007 @ 9:14am
WhateverThey can gang together, put content in as many chains and restrict it any way they want, pass laws blah ..blah ..blah, it won't do them any good if people simply stop buying their crap.
Oooops and guess what? That is exactly what is happening. Music (CD) sales year over year drop. DOH!!
Remember if you buy their cripple-wear infected crap you are supporting their position.
Wait them out.
techsyn, 18 May 2007 @ 9:35am
Think ownership and taxes.I for one think that when I buy something and pay a tax for it I own it. However these companies wish to take away what fair rights I have, and restrict what I can do with the material I thought I owned.
If these companies want to assert their ownership passed the point of sale, and restrict my fair use rights, then the only conclusion I can see is I would be only paying for the right to view or use the material which the companies still own.
If they retain ownership of anything I purchase, then I don't see why I should have to pay a tax of any kind the material purchased, or a better way to say that would be rent. And if they retain ownership of any and material, then all that material should be considered assets to them and treated as such. Unless they show a depreciated value to the material they rent out, each item an individual rents is added to the overall value of the item as an asset and taxes should be figured and paid by the companies accordingly.
Example: Lets take a look at a single song. The number of copies really doesn't matter, just the total of value of the rented song. Lets say the value of that one single song asset is one million dollars, so then that company that owns that song would have to figure taxes on that one million dollars. They would also need to figure out how long they wish that song has at a particular level of value on an individual basis, basically how much it is rented (paid) for by consumers. They would also need to figure out how to depreciate the overall value of the song as a total asset. Basically how to reduce the total value of the asset over time to reduce the amount of taxes they would have to pay.
Basically what I'm saying is, if they want to retain complete ownership of any item rather than just let copyright laws work they way they were setup to begin with, then they need to pay the taxes on the assets they own, keeping in mind that the more sold means a growing asset value.
Anonymous Coward, 18 May 2007 @ 10:02am
Re: Think ownership and taxes.I sometimes believe that model should be applied to software as well. If I buy Microsoft Office, I should be allowed to install it on all of my computers. It is redundant to buy 2 copies for my laptop and desktop when I can only use one at a time.
Alex Kasperavicius, 18 May 2007 @ 10:38am
Re: Re: Think ownership and taxes.You *are* allowed to install MS Office on more than one machine (e.g. your home machine and latop) as long as you are the only one using the program. Read the license agreement carefully and you'll see that is so.
ehrichweiss, 18 May 2007 @ 10:48am
Re: Re: Re: Think ownership and taxes.well the license might *say* you have this "privilege" but the software itself will complain during the activation and/or update process and request reactivation on at least one of the machines. And I'm not using one of the "no activation" cracks like some people might though it does encourage me to use such a crack to be certain.
techsyn, 18 May 2007 @ 11:16am
Re: Re: Think ownership and taxes.In my opinion, an license that infringes on fair use rights should be signed before any money is exchanged and then the tax is placed on who owns the material. If you purchase a license you are not purchasing the material, just the right to use the material. Thus the company should have to pay the taxes for the material it licensed.
Steven, 18 May 2007 @ 10:54am
Re: Think ownership and taxes.There is a bit of a flaw in your logic (at least for the US). Taxes are not paid on assets. Taxes are paid (somewhat) on income. It doesn't matter if you sell something, or rent it, you pay based on revenue not based on the amount of stuff you own.
So whether they claim to sell you a CD or rent to you the music on the CD has no effect on taxes.
techsyn, 18 May 2007 @ 11:11am
Re: Re: Think ownership and taxes.Your right, I worded that wrong.
The point is still valid in that the income becomes an asset for the duration of the copyright. In other words the company can treat the income in two ways. 1) Pay the taxes on the income for the year it comes in or 2) Pay less tax on the income in an incremental way throughout the life of the copyright. With the second method when the copyright is at its end the material becomes public. Also with the second method, copyrights shouldn't be allowed to be extended.
Missing, 18 May 2007 @ 11:35am
Re: Re: Think ownership and taxes.That depends on the state you are registered (reside) in.
Many states have property taxes, and I think having intelectual property taxes fits too. After all, they are claiming thatpiracy is theft of property, so let the SOBs be taxed for EVERY COPY!! If it means a few new laws in every state about intelectual property, then so be it. Most IP holders will not be drasticly affected if they owed $.05 for every copy out there (think books), but music owners......
glitch, 18 May 2007 @ 10:33am
that would be nice to seethe major players paying taxes on ALL the copyrights they hold. there are a lot of older albums, yes vinyl, that i would like to get on cd....but the copyright owners [labels] have decided it wasnt going to let that happen. i say tax them based on what they own, not what they allow to be published.
as far as software, i think it is different from music. i have been using open office for years. my computer useage has changed, and i am finding alternatives that will suit me just fine [tho maybe not for others]. At present i am still using XP and have no intention on going to Vista.
i love the term "big" to describe industrieswhen you call an industry "big" it instantly becomes a cohesive and nefarius.
in that vein, i posit that "big copyright" can lobby all it wants but it will always lack the time, talent, and sheer numbers that "big piracy" has.
Steve, 18 May 2007 @ 12:19pm
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Re: Good point. Mind if I syndicate your article?With my own ads? Don't worry. I'll have a link back to your site.
Please do. It only helps us.
We've covered this in detail before: http://www.techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20070412/183135#c612
Laura, 18 May 2007 @ 12:48pm
With these guys, fair use is definitely....
Fluffy McNutter, 18 May 2007 @ 8:44pm
Eee Gads!It's horrible to see businesses banning together to smack the customer around. In the past two centuries, we've lost too many rights and privelidges for the sake of greed and profit.
After 180 years, and four generations, I think it's about time to pack up and head back home... To Europe!
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A BOURNEMOUTH nurse has hit out at cosmetic company Lush after she was refused service for trying to buy too many items.
Cynthia Wang, 43, said she was left upset and confused after the manager told her she was not allowed to bulk buy their products.
The hospital nurse, who has lived in England for 13 years, wanted to buy around 30 soaps and shampoos to take back to China as gifts for friends and family members.
But when she visited the Old Christchurch Road shop last Monday, she was told she could only buy 10 items per visit. She returned the following day to try and buy another 10 but was told she could only have two.
Cynthia said she then tried to clarify the company's policy with the manager and claims she was told she could only buy 10 items every two months.
Lush have stood by their actions and said their policy is in place to protect their brand and stop any resale of their products, particularly in China where products sold at markets can be seized and tested on animals.
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Cynthia, who lives in Bournemouth town centre, said: "I go back to China quite often and often take back Lush products, along with those from the Body Shop and Clarks, because these are things you cannot buy over there.
"This is never happened before and there is nothing on display explaining their policy. It is a joke and it is so unfair. It felt very personal.
"I feel like I am being discriminated against because I love Lush and my friends love Lush. I have done nothing wrong, how dare they make out that I have?"
Hilary Jones, ethics director at Lush, said: "Like so many other brands, we have a no resale policy so if we think someone's buying multiples of something our staff are empowered to say no."
She said this was to protect their brand, to ensure goods were sold in optimum condition but also to prevent any of their products being tested on animals.
"We have particular concerns about products being sold in China because the Government there has the right to take products being offered for sale and test them themselves.
"The one red line in the sand for us is animal testing, we won't risk that under any circumstances. It would undermine everything we stand for if our products were tested on animals by a third party."


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- CS109 Data Science: Such an excellent course! It is a general yet quite advanced course that introduced to students a lot of topics in data science including web scraping, statistical inference, machine learning (regression, regularization, classification, SVM, decision trees, ensemble methods), Bayesian statistics, big data (MapReduce, Spark) and visualization (Tableau). Homeworks from previous years are available for practice.
- The Analytics Edge on Edx: Strongly recommended if anyone wants to learn R programming! Filled with case studies and tons of exercises for practice.
- Data Science Specialization on Coursera: Not recommended for starters. A good course introducing all the concepts in data science, yet not enough exercises and some of the courses are difficult to follow without some background. There is this excellent R markdown course note for this specialization by Xing everyone should check out if planning to start this specialization.
- Introduction to Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani
- Machine learning by Andrew Ng on Cousera: One of the best courses ever! He explains machine learning concepts in such an elegant way, and easy to understand. It would be better if this course is taught in Python though. I know Octave is excellent in matrix manipulation and more research oriented, but I'm not sure if I will be using it ever.
- Machine Learning Specialization on Coursera: Great course! It is taught by two amazon professors. In the first course of this specialization, they explain all the concepts (regression, classification, clustering and recommendation system) in a light way. There's not much hard core algorithm yet, and it will be coming up in the following courses according to their agenda.
- Completed:
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- Machine Learning Yearning by Andrew Ng
- Model-Based Machine Learning
- Applied Predictive Modeling
- Doing Bayesian Data Analysis
- Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio
- Hadley Wickham – R for Data Science, Advanced R, R packages
- https://bookdown.org/
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- CPSC 540 Machine Learning by Nando de Freitas UBC
- Recorded tutorial videos from major python conferences such as Scipy, Pycon, Pydata (strongly recommended). Check out my Youtube playlists, especially:
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Ayrshire police are treating the deaths as unexplained and are asking anyone with information that may assist the police enquiry to contact them through the 101 telephone number.
The bodies of the men, aged 25 and 28, were found at a house in Kirkland Street, Maybole at around 8pm on Monday.
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According to Karch's medical records, security guards notified police after Karch received disturbing phone calls and visits from parents and students, some of whom threatened to "break his other leg" or worse, if he didn't keep quiet about the accident. Hospital staff had to move him to a secure room where they monitored visitors.For the record, the Karch family has retained an attorney, mainly for help wading through legal forms. She has not sued -- not yet.
Callers and visitors told Karch they would "make sure his other leg got blown off," and that "there would be retaliation" if the family cooperated in an investigation that could end the cannon tradition, said Mary Bissel, Karch's mother. "That's when I kind of got a little upset," Karch said.
The threats also included mention the family would be "banned from the town," Bissell said. She's been warned not to talk to a lawyer, or reporters.
Karch is a member of the ROTC. He knows how to pack a cannon, and a retired Marine supervised the preparations. As far as we know, Karch did nothing wrong, save for expecting a little sympathy. One get-well card suggested students were more concerned about the destroyed cannon than Karch's mangled leg:
"Football wouldn't be the same without the big boom at kickoff," wrote one student in a get-well card.Even as Karch recovers, well-wishers are hard to find.
Since his discharge from the hospital on Oct. 23, Karch has had only three visitors -- two of them [from the ROTC]. And despite invitations to school friends, not a single person other than family attended his 16th birthday celebration in November, Bissell said.No doubt Karch has wondered at times why that cannon didn't kill him outright instead of leaving him in loneliness. But he has no time to mourn.
The persistent hostility, and loss of friendships, make him sad, but he's trying not to dwell on it.Surely Karch's soon-to-be comrades in the military will give him the sense of respect and honor. He's earned a Purple Heart even before stepping on the battlefield, unlike the football field where Snohomish High School played on even as Karch was carried off in an ambulance.
He's working hard during weekly physical and occupational therapy sessions, hoping to regain enough function to qualify for the military.
If he had died instantly, would they have even called a time-out?
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7890604293949783916.post5422481354239711610..comments2019-10-06T01:53:48.674-05:00Comments on Low-Carb for You: Ghrelin, the Hunger HormoneStargazeyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7890604293949783916.post-28036407691008843262010-01-21T21:46:39.808-06:002010-01-21T21:46:39.808-06:00I hear you anne h. Even when I know the hunger sig...I hear you anne h. Even when I know the hunger signal is for something else, I still have a hard time ignoring it. But if we keep working at it, progress will happen eventually. :-)

Thanks for the encouragement, Coach Jeff!Stargazeyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7890604293949783916.post-500703496036199252010-01-21T21:28:01.665-06:002010-01-21T21:28:01.665-06:00You've confirmed my suspicion that ghrelin is ...You've confirmed my suspicion that ghrelin is a likely dead-end in terms of fighting obesity. Keep up the good - enjoying your blog!Coach Jeffhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7890604293949783916.post-16002929624600209872010-01-20T08:30:17.471-06:002010-01-20T08:30:17.471-06:00I don't get hungry on LC... until I stray ever...I don't get hungry on LC...
until I stray ever-so slightly close to my 30 gram "cut-off" for carbs.
Perhaps another key is learning to re-interpret what those signals mean...hunger, or thoughts of ANY type, actually!anne hhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7890604293949783916.post-70929115005551009322010-01-19T23:20:40.360-06:002010-01-19T23:20:40.360-06:00Ghrelin production as a learned behavior may be tr...Ghrelin production as a learned behavior may be true (though I don't have any data on it either way). I remember Lex Rooker commenting in  his journal that he would get hungry just before his single meal of the day. That struck me as odd at the time, but perhaps an anticipatory spike in ghrelin would explain it.Stargazeyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7890604293949783916.post-14921805592119210712010-01-19T22:10:22.635-06:002010-01-19T22:10:22.635-06:00Ghrelin production must be a learned behavior. I n...Ghrelin production must be a learned behavior. I never eat breakfast so I only have two periods of hunger: 11AM and 5PM. I eat a very low carb diet so I suppose that has something to do with it as I am not getting any hunger urges from an insulin drop.Jakehttps://email@example.com


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Continued canopy fit and structure
July 14, 2016 – Once I had the canopy sikaflexed, I continued working on the next steps.
I glued the edges of the canopy into the side skirts, so I had to rivet the skirts to the frame. I countersunk the holes and installed the blind rivets called for in the plans.
I tried the fit of the canopy in the fuselage. Since the canopy spread a little bit, like everybody finds out will happen, I had some rubbing when the canopy rolled back and forth. I figured out that if I moved the tracks slightly outboard, it helped a whole lot. I had two issues with this, however:
- I had already drilled the tracks for screws,
- The aft holes in the tracks were as far outboard as they could go, since they would interfere with the longerons.
I found that if I moved the forward ends of the tracks outboard, it worked very well. So I decided to commit to that. I repositioned the tracks about 1/8″ or so outboard at the forward ends, and redrilled. I filled the existing holes in the tracks with double-flush rivets. Now this does go against the manual where it states that the tracks should be parallel, but I'm happy with how the canopy rolls.
So, lessons learned:
- I'd read where people said the frame should be bent in about 3/4″ past what the manual calls for. I agree with that.
- I shouldn't have drilled the side tracks until this point.
Here's the fit of the canopy so far. The side skirts stick about a little bit from the side of the fuselage, but the braces should help pull them in a bit.
I started drilling the inner brace angles for the side skirts.
They need lightening holes drilled to 1 1/4″. I used a 1 3/16″ hole saw, and I think the holes came out perfectly.
Slots are then cut off of each lightening hole to the lower side. This allows the brace to follow the curve of the square tube of the canopy frame.
I laid out the rivet holes where the brace angles attach to the frame, and drilled them.
Next I need to get some help to drill the brace angles to the side skirts.
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Feeding Geese
We had some bread left over that was still perfectly good, but we couldn't eat it all ourselves. So this week mom suggested we go and feed the Alpaca's. So we put on our coats, scarves and boots & headed to the park nearby Pale Rose cottage to feed them....
But for some reason they did not like to eat our bread. Preferred the grass... The geese sharing the Alpaca's home were curious as to what we where offering though. Came running towards us when they realised it was food. So we got takers for the left over bread after all :)
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i have felt reluctant most of this year, a slow drawn out almost no, that has left me sure of only one thing: that i want 2019 to feel more like my mom felt here… "oh this is the most beautiful place in the world, take a picture of me here at this most beautiful place in the world please!"
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2017 broke my heart. 2018 stretched it… and my wish for 2019 is heart honey. yes heart honey, honey… i see a confronting amount of work ahead of me, but i feel ready finally to face it head on. i believe this will be a most pivotal year for me, i will be cutting back significantly on socializing and retreating happily to my cave for creative time and scaffold building. it's time to put my foot down, my stake in the ground, ya know those things people say 😉 yes those things… it's time for me to make my very own heart honey.
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Saudi Arabia on UN's Status of Women PanelPosted: May 16, 2017 Filed under: Civil Rights, Slavery, United Nations | Tags: Get US Out!, Saudi Arabia, UN Commission on the Status of Women, United Nations, women 2 Comments
Saudi Arabia on UN's Status of Women Panel
by JBS President Emeritus John F. McManus
Guess who won a seat on the UN's Commission on the Status of Women? This is the Commission dedicated exclusively "to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women." Does the answer leap out at you when you find that the new appointee ranks 141st of the 144 nations rated by the World Economic Forum in its 2016 Global Gender Gap report? OK, quiz over. The answer is Saudi Arabia.).
The Saudi Kingdom is so dismissive of the rights of women that it's the only country worldwide where woman can't drive an automobile. In addition, every woman must have a male guardian who alone can approve her schooling, career, and travel, even to obtain health care. Her guardian is typically her father or her husband, but it could even be her underage son.
Only last month, a 24-year-old Saudi woman sought to flee a forced marriage by going to the Philippines in hopes of getting to Australia. She was held and then turned over to two male relatives for the trip back to Saudi Arabia where she will be dealt with. In the recent past, a Saudi princess won asylum in England when a British court granted her immigration status because she had produced a child with a man outside the reach of Saudi detectives. She was very fortunate.
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer commented, "Electing Saudi Arabia to protect women's rights is like making an arsonist the town fire chief." He called the election "a black day for women's rights and for all human rights." Add to all of this the fact that the vote to welcome the Saudi Kingdom for a seat on this UN panel was done in secrecy. Few know who approved such an appointment. Saudi Arabia will begin its four-year membership on the Commission in 2018.
One has to wonder what's going on here. Has the UN lost its collective sanity? Why choose a country so obviously at odds with the stated purpose of the Commission?
We don't know the answers to these questions. But consider the UN's steady growth in power over all nations and all humans. None of this buildup toward world government is affected by the appointment. It may even cause many to dismiss the UN as a major global power that is not to be taken seriously. Critics of the world body's powerful commissions, departments, offices, and missions will easily be led to believe that this appointment of an obvious abuser of women's rights shows how inept the entire UN truly is.
If that's why Saudi Arabia will get a place on this UN Commission, the UN has won by painting itself as a bumbling entity that threatens no one. Meanwhile, UN progress toward its goal of unchallenged rule over all of mankind continues.
Sensible lovers of freedom in America and elsewhere must continue to call for breaking the UN's tightening grip on the planet. Americans who want the U.S. out of the UN are encouraged to continue spreading the whole truth about the world body. Let the cry to Get US out! grow louder and reach many more. Let an abuser of women's rights proceed to have a seat on the Women's Rights Commission. But don't anyone forget what else must become more widely known about the United Nations itself. Educational tools telling the whole truth about the UN are available at shopjbs.org or call 1-800-342-6491.
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"There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should, therefore, be our chief study. We should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal."
— Instructions found in the personal papers
of Illuminist Baron Bassus, 1787
"In order to build a great socialist society, it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join productive activity…. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of socialist transformation of society as a whole."
— Mao Tse-Tung, 1955
And what is "Equality of the Genders"? It is Communism, pure and simple.
The founding of the UN was a black day for every one in whole world. GET US OUT!


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BEIJING — The youngest son of Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party leader who is expected to be tried on a wide range of criminal charges, has released a statement defending his father as "upright in his beliefs and devoted to duty."
It was the most explicit public defense that the son, Bo Guagua, 24, who graduated this year from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has made since a sordid political scandal broke in the spring involving the entire Bo family.
On Friday evening, the Communist Party announced that the elder Bo had been expelled from the party and would face criminal prosecution. The announcement, which was published by Xinhua, the state news agency, had a long list of accusations against Mr. Bo, including taking bribes, abusing power and carrying on affairs with a number of women.
In his brief statement, posted Saturday evening on Tumblr, the younger Bo wrote: "Personally, it is hard for me to believe the allegations that were announced against my father, because they contradict everything I have come to know about him throughout my life. Although the policies my father enacted are open to debate, the father I know is upright in his beliefs and devoted to duty."
The statement continued: "He has always taught me to be my own person and to have concern for causes greater than ourselves. I have tried to follow his advice. At this point, I expect the legal process to follow its normal course, and I will await the result."
Mr. Bo confirmed in an e-mail that the statement was authentic, but declined to comment further.
He is believed to be living in the United States while his father and mother have been under detention in Beijing. The scandal broke last spring, several weeks after a former police chief in Chongqing, the municipality run by Bo Xilai, told American diplomats of his suspicions that Mr. Bo's mother, Gu Kailai, had killed a British business associate, Neil Heywood, last year. In March, the party removed Bo Xilai from his post in Chongqing and suspended him from the Politburo the next month.
Ms. Gu was convicted in August of Mr. Heywood's murder and given a commuted death sentence, which means she is likely to serve a lengthy prison term instead. Her son has made very few public statements during the scandal.Continue reading the main story
In April, Mr. Bo gave a statement to the Harvard Crimson and an interview to The New York Times, in which he rebutted a story that he had driven a red Ferrari last year to pick up a daughter of Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the American ambassador to China at the time, from the ambassador's residence for a date.
Mr. Bo is in the third generation of an aristocratic Communist Party family and has enjoyed the privileges that come with that life. He attended the elite Harrow School in Britain, which Mr. Heywood had also attended years earlier, and earned an undergraduate degree from Oxford University. Mr. Bo has played polo and driven a Porsche in Cambridge, Mass.
Mr. Bo was mentioned in the trials of Ms. Gu and Wang Lijun, the former Chongqing police chief, according to spectators in the court. They recounted that officials in the first trial said that Mr. Heywood detained Mr. Bo in a home in Britain and wrote him an e-mail threatening to "destroy" Mr. Bo if he did not give millions of pounds to Mr. Heywood to make up for a failed business venture.Continue reading the main story


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