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Baloth Woodcrasher Magic The Gathering Card
Casting Cost:
Card Type: Creature - Beast
Card Text: Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Baloth Woodcrasher gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.
Flavor Text: Its insatiable hunger quickly depletes a region of prey. It must migrate from place to place to feed its massive bulk.
Artist(s): Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai: (Commander, Commander 2013, Zendikar)
Power/Tough: 4/4
Rarity: Uncommon: (Commander, Commander 2013, Zendikar)
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Basically get as much mana as you can and pump it into your Ant Queens and your big monsters and get a Hellkite Charger on the feild to attack twice and end the game twice as fast. Have to warn you, if you don't shuffle well enough, you will get the same cards or no mana and you're screwed.
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The cards in \"sideboard\" are actually in my deck, trying to figure out a way to get my deck down closer to 60, i believe it\'s at about 68 right now
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The Lie That's Killing People
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-licensed Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. The government's guideline (which really wants to save money) does not recommend this exercise, where as the urologist's guidelines (who reap the benefits of aggressive screening) do recommend prostate cancer tumor screening.
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Woutrina Smith of UC Davis has been named one of the leaders of the UC Global Health Institute's new Center of Expertise on Planetary Health. The center has two co-directors: Smith, associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine; and David Lopez-Carr, professor of geography and director of the Human-Environment Dynamics Lab at UC Santa Barbara.
The institute's centers of excellence are charged with developing and leading UC-wide education programs, targeted multicampus research endeavors, and sustainable international partnerships for implementing programs and interventions to improve health globally and in California.
The Global Health Institute also announced renewed funding for another center and changed its name from the Center of Expertise on Women's Health and Empowerment, to the Center of Expertise on Women's Health, Gender and Empowerment. Its co-directors are UC Berkeley's Ndola Prata, professor of population and family planning, and maternal child health, and director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability; and UCLA's Dallas Swendeman, assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, and co-director of the Global Center for Children and Families Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services.
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On the opposite side of Academic Listening, which is trying to improve and get the highest score, Realistic Listening here means that you just focus on listening and understanding the person you are talking to. This can become a real problem because not everyone has the opportunity to learn listening skills in an academic way and they just need to make a good conversation with others. So these below tips will help you improve your listening skills in real life.
Understand in English. Do not try so hard to translate words into Vietnamese
This is quite a terrible mistake but very common in English listening. When listening, many people try to translate certain messages into Vietnamese but the more you try, the more difficult it gets to understand.
The information which comes from listening is constantly, meanwhile, translation requires a "delay" in getting – processing the information, which leads to a consequence of missing information or something worse. Translating is a complex brain process, so if you can't directly understand, get used to the way they say instead of trying to translate.
You don't have to understand every word
Imagine that you are at a party, everyone around you is singing, dancing, the music is louder and louder. Suddenly, you see a friend of yours and start talking. The fact is you and your friend are "screaming" to each other because of the noisy sounds around.
"Hey! Can you hear me?"
"What?! Say it louder!"
Do you hear every single word that your friend say to you? Absolutely not. But can you still understand and continue the conversation? That I can assure you! Because in Vietnamese, we have the ability to define which information is the most valuable and you only need to have a grasp of that information to fully understand the dialog. The only thing you have to do is to apply that same method to English.
Take this sentence for example:
….. weather … …. hot …. ….., I ….. …. ….. swimming ….. .
Forget all the … that you have no idea about but still understand through the remaining words like weather, hot, I, swimming; which only takes place of 31% in the sentence.
Just like that, in English, you don't have to listen and understand 100% every word spoken out to get the meaning of the sentence. Especially, when having a conversation with native speakers, you may feel like they speak so fast but actually, only those UNNECESSARY WORDS be "fast".
Improve your vocabulary
When you lack vocabularies, no matter how much you listen, how hard you try, your listening skill will not improve.
Listening in English to get used to the sounds, how to distinguish them and improve vocab to know the meanings and define them. These two jobs need to happen constantly at the same time.
So, you have to improve your vocabulary, not only learning by heart but also applying them to real-life situations.
Focus on pronunciation
Being good at Listening means that you can differentiate between different sounds. Wrong pronunciation can lead to misunderstanding.
Two of the most common reasons are: not getting rules of pronunciation and learning words without pronunciations.
Don't be scared to get some "communications"
Another reason for people that have not been good at listening is that they have no "output". Many people are afraid of speaking, which leads to missing the chances to talk and communicate with others. Listening or reading is the act of receiving information (input), speaking and writing are the acts of processing and exporting (output).
So, when listening in English without communications, you will lose your motivation to be better at it, even practicing listening as much as possible will also become less effective.
Besides that, when listening through communication activities, the brain will have to use more to receive and process information, which definitely helps your skills improve.
2. Academic Listening
Beside Listening in real life situation, Academic Listening plays an important role especially with people who want to earn a certificate in English like IELTS or TOEIC.
So, we will give you some useful tips to help improve your English as well as your results in these tests.
Practice IELTS test at home
– Use listening tests from CAMBRIDGE books ( from the 7th ) for recent updates.
– Spend 2 hours per test to check the answers and make full use of the transcript.
– Learn new vocabularies from transcript including pronunciation, meaning, circumstance…
– Get used to of the pronunciation from the audio.
– Do the test without the transcript then check it.
Remember to make use of the transcript and learn new vocabularies
And also pay attention to the audio and the pronunciation.
Create the habit of listening to English 15 minutes daily
This can be very useful for busy people who don't have much free time. You can practice while driving to work/school, taking public transportation, exercising or doing homework…
You can visit these sites with audio/text to practice:
– VOA Special English
– BBC Six-minute English
– Ello.org
14 Top tips for IELTS Listening Test
– "Write no more than 3 words". You have to read the instructions carefully and follow them.
– Get used to British English (Because for the listening section, you will be listening to British accents. Sometimes, you might hear Australian or Canadian accents, you might hear a range, but most of the accents will be British. So, it's very important to familiarize with listening to British accents). Like the BBC news.
– British Vocab (It's good to know some British expressions, some British words like lorry and truck). Using the website www.engvid.com
– Spelling counts (when you write down your answer, you have to spell something out so you need to be careful with the spelling. Practice spelling and learn spelling rules).
– Focus on the plurals, singulars and listen carefully (cat vs. cats).
– Practice tests (The more you do, the better and better your mark will be).
– Try prediction (Look ahead on the test so you can predict what the next answer is going to be and your chance of getting that answer right will go up).
– Write and listen at the same time (Listen to BBC, get used to writing quickly while listening).
– Be aware of changes: "It's 2078. No, I'm sorry. It's 4078".
– Listening to groups of numbers – phone numbers (Get used to listening to large groups of numbers in sequence).
– Discriminate "13 vs. 30" (the trick here is, for "thirteen", the stress is on "teen", so you might hear it louder and stronger than the rest. Same for "thirty" when the stress is now on "thir").
– Handwriting must be clear (if they can't read what you write, you're not going to get the marks for your answer even if it's correct. Practice writing, start off slowly and then work on speed).
– Spelling double (name: T-a-t-t-o-l-l with "double T").
– Then we will have you some websites that will be extremely useful to help you with your listening skill:
We hope that this small report about our research has helped you with some advice on improving your Listening skill.
Thank you for reading and hope you will achieve your goals soon.
ET Team
From Specialist Department
We are the English Trainer Team, majoring in Research and Development. We are in charge of offering fundamental English training sessions which provide you with effective English learning methods. Besides, you can gain more insight into learning English through our online posts.
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Dr. Brian Clement of Hippocrates Institute, discusses chemical exposure and breast Cancer. 4 decades of research comes down to this! A must watch truth about breast cancer and chemical exposure.
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** SOPHIE DAHL ** has admitted that, as well as modelling, writing and acting, she has another, rather less legal, string to her bow. "People might be surprised to know that I am a good burglar," she said recently. Keen to dispel rumours that the 23-year-old supe has been putting her light fingers to good use, however, her rep was quick to shrug off the notion. "It would be safe to assume that Sophie was joking," he told the Daily Express. Sophie, who decided against playing her mother's love rival, ** Ursula Andress**, in the film about the life of ** Peter Sellers**, will take up a cameo role next year in the £35 million film of her grandfather ** Roald Dahl**'s book, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. (August 5 2003, AM)
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Many schools encourage parents to pack healthy options for their children's lunches and snacks, and we are all for it. But when that encouragement turns into over-the-top policing and shaming, it can make one want to reach for the nearest chocolate bar — both to stress-eat and to put in our kid's lunch out of spite. Because for moms and dads, it can be tough sending kids the "right" foods, what with all the allergies and restrictions and rules to remember.
But raisins? That's crossing some sort of line, isn't it?
Well, that's what happened to a mother in Australia, who was stunned to get a note from her daughter's teachers, stating they found the raisins she sent unacceptable.
The mom first shared the note on a closed Facebook group, but was permitted to post it by another mom. "Please help us to encourage nutritious eating habits in children. Our healthy eating policy asks you to provide healthy and nutritious snacks for your child to eat at kindy," the note read. "The sultanas packed for your child today are unacceptable at kindy due to its high sugar content."
What the hell? RAISINS?! Unless they're covered in chocolate (mmmm), then we don't see the problem. Also, the letter clearly states that dried fruit is acceptable. And of course the sugar content is high; it's a fruit! But it's a natural sugar. Gah!
More than ever, teachers and lunch monitors are hyper-aware of what children and students are eating but unless it's extreme or there's an allergy about which to be concerned, shouldn't the main objective by schools be that the kids get fed? If a kid gets veggies or fruit (dried or fresh) or a string of cheese, is it so awful for there to be a couple of cookies or crackers or popcorn with it? More importantly, shouldn't the parents be the ones who decides what their child should or shouldn't eat?
We understand that no teacher wants to deal with a sugar monster, sure, but a handful of raisins? That's where we draw the line.


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Monday, 7 December 2009
Christmas Flower
Christmas is coming so fast, so i think next year i will start making my cards in January
Here is another parchment one i finished off at the weekend.
I painted the flower with inks and embossed from the back to give it light and shade
Whilsts blog hoping i came across a challenge that this card fits perfectly,so i have entered it into the Saturday spotlight Challenge
9 comments:
- Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...
What a stunning holiday flower creation!! I just love your coloring and all the texture paired with the layout. Gorgeous work!! Thanks for playing with us at Sat. Spotlight!
- 7 December 2009 at 17:30
- Lexi said...
sighhhhhhhhhhh!! Georgie i do wish i could do this i still haven't found time to try but i will honest lol
Absolutely gorgeous as always my lovely :D
- 7 December 2009 at 18:22
- jackiescrafts said...
What a gorgeous card Georgie
Jackie x
- 7 December 2009 at 19:05
- Shell Shearer Swinscoe said...
Georgie hun...that is stunning, love it...
good luck in the challange
hugs shell xx
- 8 December 2009 at 12:13
- Tracey said...
Such a pretty & elegant card Georgie. I know what you mean about Christmas coming fast & I'm with you I think I'll start in Jan too lol
- 9 December 2009 at 13:36
- Anonymous said...
Oh wow!! This is very pretty!! Love the white on white and all the texture!! Love your flower image too!! Thanks for playing along with us at Saturday Spotlight!! HUGS
- 9 December 2009 at 16:40
- Jessica G. said...
The white is the perfect backdrop to make this gorgeous flower really pop! Beautiful use of texture in the border, too. Thanks for playing in this week's Spotlight challenge!!
- 11 December 2009 at 01:08
- Alison said...
Georgie it's fab
good luck
Alison xx
- 12 December 2009 at 14:26
- scn said...
really is beautiful Georgie
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Eastern Sierra Exploration – Another Chalking Epic
Eastern Sierra Exploration
On my continuing quest to chalk all 50 states on the fly, my wife Janice and I took a little trip out west to explore the eastern Sierra Nevadas. Here are the wave tops:
Dates: 9-17 August
Species caught: brook trout, rainbow trout, brown trout, and GOLDEN TROUT!
States Chalked: CA and NV
Water Fished: offshore San Diego, Lower Owens, Bishop Creek, Buckeye Creek, East Walker, Robinson Creek, Truckee River, and San Joaquin River. All chalked!
Road miles covered: 1100
Bottom line: it was an incredible trip. The scenery was breath taking. The water was beautiful. The weather was perfect. All rivers produced and we were able to pick up some Sierra Nevada natives – Golden Trout. They rival our brook trout in their beauty and eagerness to take a fly and were definitely the highlight of the trip.
The details (scroll on by if you have a short attention span and just want to get to the images):
If I could do it all over again, I would've went on this trip in the late fall/early winter. From talking to the various guides and shops out there, CA and NV are in the grips of a bad drought. Without any perspective on this, it was hard for me to judge but the catching wasn't great and we tried everything from dredging to dries – the fish really made us work for it. BUT, hindsight is 20/20 and we still had a great time – no trip is ever perfect. Besides, it seems like the dog days of summer are pretty painful across the country as it relates to fishing so I'm very pleased with what we were able to accomplish.
Although the catching wasn't great, every creek produced. Some wild, some native, and some stocked. I find both states' conservation methods interesting. I'll probably write about this double edged sword in a separate piece but it seems both states stock profusely where the waters don't require it and much of this stocked water is put and take. All the water is beautiful and could sustain wild populations of trout if managed properly but I'm guessing the states' position is that stocking brings large numbers of people to the mountains thereby protecting the lands and maintaining a steady flow of revenue.
There are pros and cons to this methodology for conservation. Unfortunately, the avid fly angler is at the brunt of the cons – but I'll save that for another time. Still, I was a bit stunned to be standing at the headwaters of a pristine creek near Bishop, CA, surrounded by bait dunkers. We broke contact quickly and moved downstream in search of wild fish – and found some.
The budget for the trip was very affordable – we stayed in a hotel in San Diego and Reno (first and last days of the trip) and camped enroute. It's so dry in this part of the country that you never really feel dirty so 5 days without showering didn't create a problem (nothing a quick dive in a creek couldn't solve). We also kept the costs down by cooking our food at the camp site and eating out sporadically if something uniquely local caught our eyes so we didn't miss out on the regional culture. We weren't disappointed.
Other costs included the flight (Southwest was super cheap), rental car (I'll never use Avis again), gas, guide fees, and a small amount of gear purchased from Walmart when we arrived in Cali – mainly a cheap cooler, propane, lighter fluid, and food we could cook along the way. Buying some stuff on the ground saved us from having to pack a lot on the front/back end and incurring baggage fees at the airport. Plus – a trip into a Walmart always provides an interesting look at a small segment of the local population.
As a quick aside: I always hire guides for half day trips on these types of benders – for a few reasons. 1. You get local knowledge from a pro, 2. You save time by getting on the best water right away – which may ultimately save you money as well since the time you spend searching on your own could cost you a day, 3. You get to meet someone new with whom you can, exchange stories, maybe make plans for the future, and most importantly, learn something new. Number 2 is debatable as some might retort that finding the primo water on your own is what makes trips exciting. Sure – if you have a lot of time, that's true and an important part of a trip. Don't get me wrong – most of the chalking on this trip came from unguided exploration but points 1 and 3 definitely came true as well.
Instead of the usual plastering of photos, we decided to play with a movie app on the iPhone that we think captures the trip quite well. Maybe some day I'll invest in some high quality camera equipment but until then….If you're a photographer or an individual that's interested in filming some interesting fly fishing adventures, drop us a line – we have pages of potential itineraries waiting for execution.
WARNING: fish porn will not follow. Like I said before, the catching was slow and just didn't lend itself to taking a lot of fish-in-hand shots. Besides, we have enough big trout shots in our albums – new species and natives are more important these days (yeah – that's what we're telling ourselves because no hogs came to hand). Enjoy and please share! Oh – I love planning these types of benders so if you need some assistance, drop me a line.
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The "Thing" About it is…Everyone Should have a Passion – What's Life Without One?
Everyone should have a "thing." Some"thing" to look forward to. What's life without one? – Nate Carr on pursuing his life's passion.
I'm in my late 30's now and becoming increasingly prone to making life observations. Maybe it's because of my recent transition from military service. Maybe it's because I'm married and have a child as do most of my friends and siblings with whom I talk about these things regularly. Whatever the reason for the uptick in my ramblings, being in your late 30s to early 40s seems about the right age for some intense introspection. You've lived long enough to be an expert at a thing or two, you likely have a family, probably made a little money, and there's a good chance you own a few big things. Unfortunately, you are also likely to find yourself in a rut after a few, "I wish I could have…," conversations over drinks with friends. I am beginning to see why mid-life crises seem almost inevitable for a huge portion of the population – few people have something to look forward to.
My parents had me when they were young – early 20s – and as I grew up I recognized that they were younger than most of my friends parents by a wide margin (I make this observation because I am trying to build up an excuse for why I never listened to their advice). Once this observation took flight in my head, I may have thought their experiences lacked worldliness and made a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what they recommended. OK, that's total bulls*&t, I was just like every other teenager when it comes to taking the advice of your parents. "What's the worst thing that could happen? They'd be right? So be it then…I'll come out smarter and better rounded having experienced the flaws in my decision making first hand." Textbook teenage insanity. BUT, I didn't disregard everything. One nugget my father passed on was to, "always have something to look forward to."
For some reason that stuck – literally – he wrote it on a 3×5 card and stuck it to my refrigerator in my first apartment after college. That 3×5 card landed on at least another half-dozen refrigerators over the next decade before it was lost after one of my many moves (well, I thought it was lost until I let my wife proofread this and she pulled it out of a drawer). Losing it wasn't a problem though, the idea was firmly ingrained in my way of life – one should pursue a passion, passionately. Such a passion will drive plans for the future, make you want to improve, and become somewhat of an advocate that just has to teach others and educate them on all the fun they're missing.
So, there's two strands to follow here. What do you do if you don't have a passion and how can you keep things engaging if you already have a passion? If you're lucky enough to already have a passion, I hope you can relate to everything written so far and what will follow. However, you're really not my target audience for this writing so I'll get this out of the way really quick. Remember, "Always have something to look forward to?" At minimum, I schedule two epic trips per year. By epic, I mean at least 6 days off to somewhere I've never been, likely off the grid, to experience something new. These trips usually take place in the late spring and fall. I also plan at least one weekend getaway per month with friends and family. Somewhere close that's not logistically and financially taxing works best. The next level is getting something one the weekly schedule – I'm thinking bowling or pool. Something casual on the surface but breeds competition you can ultimately laugh at after being humiliated.
What if you don't have a passion? It's not too late but I am trying to figure out if a passion chooses you or if you choose it. Either way, if you don't have one, start experimenting with various activities. Fly fishing is one you should start off with, although I am a bit biased on the subject. Nevertheless, fly fishing is one of those activities that allows for limitless travel, constant learning, and pursuit until senile or immobile. In other words, a lifetime of things to look forward to. Whatever activity grabs you and causes you to obsess about it is something worth pursuing passionately (I'm almost biting my tongue writing this – I AM NOT ADVOCATING FOR ILLICIT ACTIVITIES). Just put yourself into a position to have an experience that could be the one to suck you in and give you a new lease on life.
How can you make that happen? Go back two paragraphs. Start throwing things on a calendar and commit to them. I had a boss a few years ago that I really respected who said, "Things get real when you put them on your schedule – BE BOLD AND PICK A DATE!" Great advice. Fill your schedule up – I guarantee there a few fly fishing guides around that can help you out. Once you hook up, you're hooked.
Brookdog Fishing Report – 20160717-20160724
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20160717 – 20160724
Overall Situation Update: The Wavetops
There was a glimmer of hope at the beginning of the week when the temperatures were low and there was some rain in the forecast but the end of the week and the weekend changed all that. Hot air temps continued and the rain didn't come. Temperature readings on the upper and lower river were in the high 70's as of this writing and the inland creeks are mere trickles. What does this mean? It's too hot to fish for muskies for risk of killing them. Bass are deeper and harder to find (at least in the river they are). Carp are off the flats. It is too risky to fish for trout in most of the inland creeks for fear of killing the fish.
Bottom line: please lay off the muskies until the water temps get back into the low 70s, get your deep water game going for smallies, and stay off the trout creeks until we get some rain – a lot more rain. Now's the time to scout out new water and prepare for the cooler weather and rain that's bound to come. We've managed to scrape up a few smallies on every trip but 3-5 is a banner day at this point. Relief may be on the horizon – we just got a little rain and there is more in the forecast. We'll be paying a lot of attention to this.
This Past Week's Events:
In an attempt to network and explore a little bit, Ryan and his family visited the Finger Lakes Museum at Keuka Lake and linked up with Natalie Payne, the museum's Executive Director. Although development is in its infancy, the Finger Lakes Museum will be an informative tourist attraction in the region that, "inspires, educates, and entertains," while providing, "a place where centuries of cultural and natural history come to life." Natalie Payne and her team of dedicated volunteers are off to a strong start toward accomplishing this goal.
As part of their fundraising efforts and public awareness campaign, the museum has been hosting eco tours of Keuka Lake. Ryan took part on one of these tours and walked away eager to learn more and visit the area again. If you are looking for a quick family get away of the non-fishing sort, take the quick 2-hour drive out to Keuka Lake and go on one of these eco tours. The town of Pan Yan is a nice place to stay and you're sure to have a good time.
Of course, some fishing on occurred on Kauka Lake as well. Surface temps on Keuka Lake were near 80 so it was a bit sluggish. Besides, with the family on board swimming in the bath water aside the boat, focused fishing was an exercise in futility – good times nonetheless. The Finger Lakes region offers immense promise for this upcoming fall. We're looking forward to scratching the surface in the upcoming months.
We also had the opportunity to participate in the Rushford Lake Conservation Club Youth Fly Fishing Clinic with our friends, Nick Sagnibene (of Adventure Bound on the Fly), Ryan Welch, Chris Lee, Chris Garcea, Steve Wascher, and Peter Zaffram among others. This was a great opportunity to introduce the passion of fly fishing to the next generation of anglers. From tying knots, to casting instruction, to entomology and fishing regulations classes, the kids got a good dose of what our crazy world is all about. It was a great time and we encourage all local anglers to follow Rushford Lake Conservation Club on Facebook to remain abreast of ways to help preserve our fisheries and anglers for years to come.
We spent the remaining days of the week in the upper and lower Niagara River. The lower produce nothing (didn't even move a fish) and there was still a fair amount of floating moss around – enough to aggravate you every few casts. The upper river didn't produce much either but we managed to land a couple on every trip. We've seen decent numbers of smallies and freshwater drum on every drift but they are trying our patience – hook ups are hard to come by.
Same as last week – please keep away from them until we get some serious rain and cooler temps. We've heard some reports of tricos hatches – right on time for those guys but with water levels as low as they are and temperatures as high as they are, we're going to stay away until conditions improve.
Niagara River – Smallmouth bass, Musky, and Carp
Wind continues to be the challenge by mid-day – as well as high temperatures. This past weekend was chaotic as well. There were MANY pleasure boaters out and the raft "flotilla" from Niawanda Park added to the chaos. If you are going to fish the Upper River or Lake Erie, get out EARLY.
Smallmouth Bass: the smallie bite on the fly continues to be slow but nice fish are coming out of every outing. We continued to use fast sinking lines and flies that imitate goby minnows and crawfish. A slow and deep retrieve over rocky bottom at depths between 8-15ft produced fish. We've been seeing numerous smallies close to Lake Erie and in Lake Erie. The trick is getting down deep and staying there.
Muskellunge: The water has been too warm to fish for muskies for fear of killing them once caught. However, there has not been a trip yet where at least two muskies didn't show themselves. Most of the time, these fish emerge from nowhere and follow the boat for a bit – taunting us. WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE! And when the temps drop, we're coming for you!
Common Carp: no change from last week. If you want to pursue these guys, go south. Friends of ours have been picking them up on some of the warm water rivers south of Buffalo.
Conclusion: At this point, you might be thinking that it's pretty rough out there for a fly angler right now – and you'd be right. So be it though, hitting the water is better than staying home and you still have the opportunity to learn something every time you're out. Banner days are ahead! In the interim, keep grinding away and keep your line wet. If you live in Western New York, you have a penchant for delayed gratification – add these dog days of summer to your list of markers for great things to come.
Here is Natalie Payne's contact info:
Natalie Payne
Executive Director
Finger Lakes Museum
Keuka Park, NY 14478
[email protected]
A Mad Devil With a Dull Spirit – Fishing Envy
"Chances are that when someone is hating on you, it's not about you at all. It's about them. It's their fear, their envy, their boredom, and their insecurity." – unknown – but I found it on the internet and liked it
Picture this – you're on a river with a buddy banging banks with streamers and both of you are catching fish at about the same clip. As the day progresses, you both hit the afternoon lull that typically happens when the sun is high and the sky is clear. Your fishing buddy is about a hundred yards downstream from you when suddenly you hear a loud shout, a bent rod, and what you perceive to be intense focus – you know that stance – slightly off balance due to adrenaline and shaky knees, both hands on the rod, eyes fixed. I don't know about you but when I see this happen I usually sprint over (I fall A LOT so there's often a trip and some banged up knees or elbows in the process), assist in landing the fish in whatever way I can, and help snap hero shots afterward. I do all of this instinctively but until somewhat recently, there was always a feeling of jealousy that came with it. "Where's my beast?" "We're using the same fly and fishing the same water for @u$ks sake!" Sure, I suppose that's only human nature but I've noticed that those jealous feelings don't pop up nearly as much these days…Why?
We've written about haters before (see Fisherman Immortalized) and this isn't haterish behavior I'm talking about. Every human is inclined to get jealous from time to time, especially when your main hobby or passion is an activity that lends itself very well to bragging, showing off, and in turn, listening to others brag and watching them show off. That little bit of envy can be a good thing if it makes you pay more attention to what the other guy/gal is doing well and helps you sharpen your game. However, when jealousy has the opposite effect – like some bitterness toward the other person or an inability to genuinely compliment the other guy on a job well done – it's time to check yourself because you're not having nearly as much fun fishing as you could be. I'm not going to lie– I've definitely felt that way to some degree on a number of occasions over the years and somehow checked myself without purposefully setting out to change the way I act. I think this is how it went down…
I believe it all began when I set out to catch a musky on the fly. All of the guys who brought fly fishing for musky into the mainstream (i.e. Brad Bohen from Musky Country Outfitters and Blane Chocklett from Blane Chocklett Fly Fishing) will tell you that it's a team sport. When it takes thousands of casts to catch one fish, the boat gets stoked to see it caught and to behold its toothy gnarliness. At least, that's what I was led to believe going into targeting them for the first time. However, that wasn't really the case – I was jealous of other guys in the boat when they hoisted big fish and was frustrated with many challenges of repetedly casting to no avail. That all changed after I caught a few and it finally sunk in that catching a fish like a musky (permit, bonefish, west coast steelies, and Atlantic salmon to name a few probably fit into this category as well) is so difficult and so improbable, especially compared to other game fish, that it is truly a special thing when an angler brings one to hand. At some point, not all that long ago, I began to appreciate this and it changed the experience of fishing for me.
I became fully conscious of this change last season as I reviewed the numerous pics my buddy Nate sent me of him holding large musky and trout caught on the fly. At the time, I was stranded in North Carolina awaiting my discharge from the USMC and didn't have the time or ability to fish – the schedule was too tight and my means too limited – so I had to live vicariously through him for a few months. I've always admired his ability to catch fish over the years but for the first time I felt truly proud of what he accomplished without a hint of envy. One time, while I was reviewing the latest email of his exploits, my wife looked over my shoulder and said, "Doesn't it drive you crazy to see him catch all those fish with you stranded down here?" I replied in earnest, "No." There's always something to learn while you are on the water about how to catch more and bigger fish and you can learn a lot more when you're with someone that can teach you a thing or two. If you don't get too distracted, take a moment to learn something new about yourself too – that knowledge is often more rewarding.
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You May Surprise Yourself
"Sunrise, open my eyes, no surprise." The Notorious B.I.G. refers to his time in Belize in the track, "Breaking Old Habits"
I'm about 1 week away from my 20 year high school reunion and it has me reflecting a little bit. There are many strands swimming around the old duder's head these days – what's next, how have my peers fared over the years, am I a good father and husband, will I ever be satisfied by my quest to capture fish around the country, etc.? One question that recently started nagging me is, "When did I become a creature of habit?" Over the past 5 years or so, I've prided myself on avoiding this trend that is so prominent among my fellow adults and found that most times, when I challenged conventional paradigms, I was profoundly rewarded for doing so.
I hope that nobody takes offense to what I'm about to say but I think both men and women can relate to this. When I was a teenager, I had one goal that I'm willing to bet all teenage guys have shared since the dawn of the human race – to hook up with as many girls as possible. Long-term commitments, although convenient, never appealed/worked for me. I had to have as many experiences as possible. Sure, there were some routines back then: I had to wake up for school and go to my classes but when I got home at the end of the school day and especially over the weekends, anything was on the table – adventure and experimentation was the key. More times than not, this quest (some might have perceived it as self-destructive but I believed what didn't kill me gave me some great stories to tell) yielded some fond memories. I'm not saying this is true for me but I've heard many people say that high school was the best time of their life. Damn – that sucks! Worst-case scenario, that period of your life represented only 1/15th of your time on this planet.
I digress – my drive for experimentation and exploration continued throughout college but slowed down a bit my senior year when I committed to joining the Marine Corps. I guess this is when I officially became an adult. Fast forward a little bit – I blinked my eyes and 2 wars, numerous deployments, my marriage, and my daughter appeared when I opened them. How the hell did that happen? ROUTINES! I'm not bashing all habits and routines as they are essential for survival in today's society but breaking them from time to time will open your eyes a lot earlier, help you realize balance, and lead to personal growth. Whatever you do, please don't take this as another older guy (hell, I'm only 38) trying to pass on a BIG life lesson. Give me a second; let me tie this in to fishing.
How many of you routinely fish the same beats/float the same water every time you go out? How many of you always go to those holes you know have fish? How many of you do the same fishing trip every year? How many times have you driven past a body of water and asked yourself if it fished well but pushed forward to your planned destination? I'm willing to bet most of you will answer in the affirmative – YOU ALWAYS DO? Why? Because your time is limited and you want to do what you know will work – to have that convenient feeling of escape. What are you missing? Are you really escaping when you trade one set of habits for another?
Breaking habits is a lot harder than it sounds. I received specialized military training for 2 years that taught me to identify habits and understand how they influence decision making in an organization and I still have problems breaking them. Nevertheless, it's somewhat unsettling to think that at one point in our lives, we were completely comfortable with change – we thrived in the chaos of our youth. Yet, as adults with means and goals, we fear chaos and fall back to our comfort zone. Yeah, many of us have families and we have certain habits and/or routines that we believe will keep drama at bay. However, how many of them ACTUALLY do? Carrying this question forward to our passion for fly fishing: if fly fishing is our escape (or our career – for all the guides out there), should it follow the same patterns we follow in daily life?
I'm not bringing this up to brag, merely to make a point: I just chalked up my 25th state and 180th River. What I've realized in all my travels is that every place has its own nuances, patterns, and beauty. All require some sort of adaptation and demand experimentation until you figure it out. You also meet new people and pick up new techniques. In doing so, you try flies you normally wouldn't try. You tie many knots. You cover a lot of water. You see, hear, and smell new things. You become good at adapting to your surroundings. Moreover, when you get in your car to drive home or you arrive at the airport for your flight back – you are a better angler. Another benefit is that you'd be surprised how easy it is to get away from the indigenous/local anglers as they are typically creatures of habit.
The biggest edge we anglers have over the vast majority of the rest of the world is that we have a passion we dedicate a significant portion of our life to – we have a way to escape our daily routines. Yet, for some reason, so many of us just pick up a new set of routines during these escapes. I'm not proposing you throw all your habits in the trash – just that you become aware of them and how some may be holding you back. Maybe I'll never be satisfied by my pursuits, my longing to explore, and my desire to experience new things but that's a gamble I'm willing to take. Are you? Surprise yourself once in awhile!


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There is something I always find a bit exciting. That is peeping into the inner writer through reading his works. It took a while before I got that, but soon enough I noticed that you could sense the nature of the writer from what he puts out for the world to read. No, it does not mean horror writers are horrible or man size horrors. I do know one or two horror fans that are very gentle and sensitive but try to write out the horror of what life has given them. It is a concept of their frustration. I remember reading the novel of some of my favorite authors and learning a bit of their inner thoughts about the society they observe.
I use writing as a healing process, sometimes as a control measure. I asked my youngest daughter going through the agony of broken romance to write it out of her system. It took a while before she agreed I was making sense but when she finally wrote a small piece, she was alarmed at how murderous she felt. I advised that she should accept she was never going to push such thoughts into the public domain but she could see how badly she had been affected by the wretch.
Pushing such thoughts into the public domain? What do I mean really? It is like this. I think we affect others with what we put out and at a higher level we are bound to the effects of what we write. The human word is a grace from the creator and sets in motion thoughts, words and deeds that we are linked to by the laws of nature. I am not writing a religious piece.
Let me share an experience, I have been writing since the mid 1970s and I remember one piece I wrote for a radio drama series as a radio producer. I had written about vengeance and had some radio actors going through the scripts. It had to do with the anger of a young man whose father was left to die in the rain by a hit and run driver. Fair I felt in the understanding I had that the young man was entitled to exact his own vengeance knowing that justice was a matter of money in my country.
I stopped the production the next day when I actually drove to the next town and came across a hit and run old man who had been left in the rain to die. I was stunned, shocked and miserable for days. Did I sense the story in advance? My skin was goose bumped for days and I shivered remembering I had described in detail how that had happened. I stopped the production because in my writing the grieving son had embarked on a vengeance trip of the drivers at the garage in a desperate search for the hit and run driver who had killed his father.
I didn't know the son of the real old man I found later, but I did not want to be held for such murderous thoughts I had written. I learned that day, the power of the word, what it creates, hey, we call it creative writing. So I guess I just didn't want to create such in the minds of people. Later on in life I did write about murders, the pain of the victim's close ones and the attempt to find closure. I always worried about the job. You could not start saying writing has a job hazard do you?
The point of this conversation is this? Writers do leave a trail of their inner self behind in the stories they write. I know one author who wrote Guardians of the sky realms, Gerry Huntman. He wrote a very sensitive sci-fi fantasy about young adults and the concepts of building the right emotions in these young minds. Chivalry, loyalty, courage and dignity. Standing up against evil, I suspected from his writings the type of parent he was likely to be and learnt over time his sense of fierce loyalty to people he calls his friends. It was a peep into the inner man.
There is Merle Burbaugh, very young man in his late sixties or thereabouts and his books tease you to be up and upright, but he writes as if he is self- conscious about being nice. What am I trying to say today? That consciously or otherwise, writers leave bits of their inner world view in what they write. How they see things, I am not even thinking of psychoanalyzing writers. I am as crazy as the next writer I think and would take umbrage at such a suggestion.
We do have egos you know, some pea sized, while some could be gozzilla sized. I tend to use people I know as characters in my stories. It is easier to build a character when you have a definite picture of the person in your head. Some characters do approach you. Like the old woman who simply popped in my head one afternoon as I was trying to reconstruct a poem. I was too surprised and listened in to what she was telling me.
When you write, do you immediately think you have a best seller? I am kind of curious like I can go into the mind of J.K. Rowling and ask her that. Do writers write because they want to be best sellers? Hey, would you call Shakespeare a best- selling author now? Was that what he was thinking when he wrote or what was the name of that fellow who told the story of that sleepy man? I mean the one who slept and slept and woke up to see the world has changed. Yes Rip Van Winkle.
I am sometimes scared by the rate at which I can't remember names, for right now some names just teases the edge of my memory and slips away into the edge of the forest. I find it a bit exciting just chatting with you. Not much harm in that is there? The worst that could possibly happen is a yawn and you might flip the page, but you got as far as here waiting for me to make some sense.
I won, for you see, this is my own version of our conversation.


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It's Time for an Americans' March | Another Moment for Public Protest Has Arrived.
By David Leonhardt, Opinion Columnist
On Nov. 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump's election, Obamacare looked to be doomed. Millions of Americans, it seemed, were going to lose their health insurance.
Trump had campaigned on a promise to repeal the law, as had many other Republicans, and their party was about to control every branch of the federal government. All Republicans had to do was pass a law that Trump would sign. Democrats had no way to stop it.
Or at least they had no way to stop it using only the inside game of politics — congressional hearings, committee votes, presidential vetoes and so on.
Fortunately, some progressives understood that politics isn't only an inside game. The outside game — of public protest and grass-roots lobbying — matters, too.
Even before Trump took office, activists began planning a strategy to make repeal as politically painful as possible. On the day after Trump's inauguration, some four million Americans took to the streets for Women's Marches (which obviously were about much more than repeal). In the months that followed, groups like Indivisible organized people to attend town halls, visit Capitol Hill and inundate members of Congress with phone calls. The efforts transformed the debate. Obamacare repeal was no longer a bloodless legislative matter, in which public opinion was measured merely with poll results and pundit analysis. The story became rawer, more human and much harder for politicians and ordinary citizens to ignore.
In the end, just enough Republican senators responded to the pressure, and Obamacare survived. The outside game had changed the math of the inside game.
The impeachment inquiry has reached the stage when it needs an outside game. We all know where the inside game is likely to lead: House Democrats will impeach Trump; Senate Republicans will acquit him; and he will claim vindication. But Trump's presidency has become too dire for Americans to accept that outcome without trying to change it.
Consider what happened last week alone. Trump created a foreign-policy disaster in Turkey and Syria, for no apparent reason, while multiple administration officials testified that he views diplomacy largely as a way to advance his personal interests. His attitude, evidently, is: America, c'est moi. Even more so than a month ago, Trump is a national emergency, flagrantly violating his oath of office and daring the country to stop him.
Yet the chances of removing him appear as dim as Obamacare's chances of survival did on Nov. 9, 2016. Trump even has plausible paths to re-election, some of which involve again losing the popular vote.
L.A. Kauffman, a historian of protest movements, has said that effective ones often throw "a monkey wrench into a process that was otherwise going to just unfold smoothly." That's the role that an outside game can now play in the impeachment saga.
It can wake up more Americans to the gravity of the situation. It can mobilize progressives to work as hard as they did during the 2018 midterms. It can confront congressional Republicans with their cowardice.
Do you remember the images showing throngs of people taking to the streets for the Women's March? The size of the crowds, especially compared with Trump's inauguration, reinforced the fact that most Americans rejected Trumpism. The marches also helped inspire the so-called resistance movement, which in turn created a network of dedicated activists, as the social scientists Lara Putnam and Theda Skocpol have pointed out.
And do you remember the viral moments from the save-Obamacare movement, like the disability-rights activists visiting Congress or the citizens speaking up at town halls? Jessi Bohon, a teacher in central Tennessee, created one of those moments by connecting the fight to her Christian faith. It was one of many ways that ordinary people held up for a vision of America as decent and communal as Trump is vulgar and selfish.
"Protests work," as Kauffman has said — not always, of course, but often "when groups are willing to be bold in their tactics and persistent in their approach within the broad discipline of non-violent action." As Vox's Matthew Yglesias wrote last week, public protest "serves as a powerful signal to the rest of society that something extraordinary is happening." If anything, protest may be more important than in the past, because the elite institutions that helped bring down Richard Nixon, like political parties and the national media, are weaker today.
So it's time for a sequel to that first Women's March — an Americans' March, in which millions of people peacefully take to the streets to say that President Trump must go. And it's time for a more intense grass-roots campaign directed at his congressional enablers, one that conjures the respectful intensity of the save-Obamacare campaign. Even if the Senate still acquits Trump, a new protest movement can help galvanize people to defeat him, and his enablers, next year.
The country is in crisis. Right now, that crisis feels all too normal.
Hear, hear!
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Aloe vera contains at least 200 biologically active, naturally occurring components that include enzymes, polysaccharides, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.
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Aloe Vera is packed with minerals that include:
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Want to know the pivotal point for having a good network marketing system?
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I'll explain further…
See, there are 2 categories of people out here in the world:
Planning a good start and planning your approach in the multi-level industry requires you to fully understand which of those 2 you are.
Now, some don't know the major difference between those personality types, so I'm going to list out some of the good qualities and some of the struggles each of them have.
As you read through the descriptions here, you'll see how each type needs the other type, and each type has somewhat of a shortcut (in their own way) to making it big in a good network marketing system.
They just need to overcome the struggles to really succeed.
Although the extrovert may seem like they've got it all together, they don't. You'd be surprised just how shallow some of their relationships and acquaintances are, once you get to know them. They DO typically have the "gift of gab" and can be very talented at talking to lots of people in the offline world. What they struggle with is the follow up and building any of those relationships very deep. Keep this in mind, as they may be signing up lots of people, but those people don't remain with them very long.
Although the introvert may not socialize with and talk to as many people, they love to build deep relationships and have a 1×1 with those that choose to remain friends and colleagues with them. This is good for the introvert, because in a good network marketing system having sponsors and upline that care personally for you and want to help you can benefit you greatly.
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- Wednesday November 29th, 2017 :: 09:27 a.m. CST
HCSO PRESS CONFERENCE: Harris County Murder Fugitive On US Marshals Most Wanted List CAPTURED
HARRIS COUNTY, TX – Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez and US Marshal Gary Blankinship to host a press conference today to announce the capture of HCSO Murder Fugitive William Joseph Greer.
William Joseph Greer was charged in the December 2006 murder of his girlfriend, Tammy Marie Esquivel.
Investigators will provide details of his capture and arrest at today's press conference.
WHERE: 1200 Baker St, Houston, TX 77002 – Media Room
WHEN: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 – 1:30 PM
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A new hotel on the island of Sal
Holiday company, Thomas Cook is currently building two new hotels in Cape Verde, on the island of Sal. The new hotels are expected to start receiving guests in the 2017/2018 winter season. The New Horizons Resort will comprise two hotels representing two of the Thomas Cook brands; one managed by Sunprime Hotels and the other by Sunwing Hotels, which is aimed at families. The complex is expected to cost around 80m Euros and will create a total of some 600 rooms. Thomas Cook clearly believe in the future of Cape Verde as a destination as they are also considering developing in Boa Vista.


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Sunday was the annual Big Canoe Concert on the Green featuring the Jazz Guardians from Fort MacPherson. The concert takes place on the green overlooking Lake Sconti near the Big Canoe Clubhouse where residents and their guests bring picnic dinners. Every year during this event, I sit on the grass listening to great music, look out over the lake and think about how fortunate I am to live in this beautiful part of the world. Unfortunately, a thunderstorm interrupted the concert midway but there is always next year. As always, we are always appreciative of the very talented Jazz Guardians.
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Hello, and welcome to Pocket Change Lifestyle! Pocket Change Lifestyle is not just a blog or a website about personal finance, but a chronicle of our family's journey to financial independence (and some accountability too!). But, unlike many others in the financial independence world, we're not there yet and we're pretty far off. Yes, you read that right, we're not financially independent… yet. I'm Mr. Pocket Change, and I along with my wife, Mrs. Pocket Change, are taking steps towards financial independence. We hope to share our journey in hopes of not only exceeding our goal but helping others along the way.
We can all agree that knowledge is power. Learning new skills and sharing life experiences is certainly worth doing. We're here to share our bit of knowledge about finances and our journey with you in hopes that we can learn together as we walk down this road.
"Ipsa scientia potestas est" ('knowledge itself is power) – Sir Francis Bacon
"Capable is he who is wise" – Ferdowsi
"A wise man is strong, and a man of knowledge enhances his might" – Proverbs 24:5
My wife and I don't make $90,000 a year as software engineers (kudos to those that are!), we didn't inherit thousands of dollars to invest in real estate, and we don't even (yet) have Bachelor's degrees. We're not best-selling authors, amazing salespeople, or super geniuses.
We're an ordinary couple who desire to get out of the rat race and not be slaves to the 9-5 job for the next 40 years. We hope to enjoy traveling, spending time with family and friends, and to ultimately take back our financial freedom from the norm. We hope to be that couple who can pass on our lessons learned (and mistakes to avoid) for the benefit of others.
Our overall goal = Reach Financial Independence. We'll deep dive into this later and flesh out specifics, but for now, that's where you and I are headed.
Here are a few questions to ask yourself as we get started:
Do you feel the strain of the 9-5 career, and aren't sure how to get out? Would you rather work for the next 30-40 years at various jobs EVEN if it means a huge house or fancy car, or work towards financial independence that doesn't rely on a job and be free to pursue your enjoyments in less than 30-40 years?
It's time to take a financial inventory of your life, and walk down the path to financial independence with us!


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Hotstar is using machine learning in order to provide a personalized experience to its users. It calculates the total watch time per user per month. This helps to derive algorithms which are specific to every user and their preferences. Machine Learning models are also used to deal with the diversity of users across regions.
Star India is betting extensively on Hotstar with IPL matches as the largest online streaming platform is gaining momentum with movies, television shows, original series etc.
In the beginning, Hotstar intended to stream Cricket World Cup on its mobile application. Later as it expanded it increased its content to 35,000 hours with options of eight different languages in entertainment, movie, and sports.
In the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, it garnered 340 million views across all the matches and over 200 million views during the Indian Premier League Season 8. It has over 100 advertisers and more than 100 million downloads. And a bulk of Hotstar's revenue is generated through advertisements.
In the inaugural week of IPL 2018, Hotstar reached a record of 82.4 million viewers, with over 22 percent of the tournament's overall viewership. Star told that IPL viewership on Hotstar had a growth of 76 percent over the last year.
Hotstar leveraged Akamai Technologies, the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform for their global streaming.
This cloud delivery platform delivers ninety-five exabytes of data, ingest 2.5 exabytes of data per annum, and interact with over 1.3 billion client devices per day.
This helps the machine learning engines to automatically improve reliability, performance, and security.
It also integrates with web and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, video delivery, analytics and reporting solutions which helps in delivering superior experiences.
Hotstar relies on Akamai's solutions to cater to the vertical growth in demand, especially during IPL. Auto-scaling is one such method that the company believes may not always prove to be a useful strategy.
If the legacy backend fails to scale beyond a point, it makes them difficult to accept newer customers on the platform.
Machine Learning is applied by Hotstar to achieve greater customer engagement like Personalised experience. It calculates the total watch time per user per month.
This helps to derive algorithms which are specific to every user and their preferences. Machine Learning models are also used to deal with the diversity of users across regions.
Local collaborative filtering models to deal with regional users need to be deployed on the top of global recommendation models.
Modeling strategies such as latent semantic index, clustering or deep learning generate personalized ads and content feeds.
These also include identifying correct data, translation between business and analytics, keep pace with the rapidly evolving industry, customer centricity and expanding analytics skill sets.
Hotstar also uses real-time stream data platform, Knol for data exchange. The app collects huge amounts of data (around 10 TB) every day including ad impressions, behavioral clickstream data, customer support data etc. for solving business problems.
The Machine Learning team of Hotstar is working on various POCs to better understand the future demand and needs.
Some of the POCs they are currently engaged in is machine translation for subtitles, audio-to-text conversion, Video processing-compression, objects detection, scene classification and a way to define similarity between movies using Word2vec.
The research team is finding algorithms to automate feature generation. For this, they are exploring Autoencoders and Deep Learning algorithms which will help in the future expansion.
IPL 2018 might just turn out to be the breakthrough India was looking for in live sports streaming!
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A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Rufaswap is a simple permuted picture puzzle app where the challenge is to restore the picture elements to their proper place. Two elements are selected with cursor clicks to initiate a swap. User controls the level of difficulty by choosing the number of slices.
Works on windows(mswin32), Macs running OS-X and PCs running GNU/Linux.
Simply unzip and run. If the binary executables do not run on your system then follow the build instructions below...
Click download now to get access to the following files:
sw18jan20.7z 52 MB
Development log
- Now Supports Windows (mswin32)Nov 04, 2017
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