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Sizzling action on hot summer night at Speedway
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A hot summer night set the stage for sizzling racing action at Brighton Speedway Saturday.
Race fans packed the stands as 20 Southern Ontario Sprints dialed in for a second season appearance. The crowd was also treated to a thrilling Kart Klub Demo with 11 members showing off strong driving skills.
Turner takes two-in-a-row at Brighton
Coming off an opening night win at Brighton, Cory Turner was determined to park his No. 13 again.
On the first time by, the 2018 champ slid into the lead and never looked back throughout the entire 25-lap Sprint feature. No, 91 Ryan Turner and No. 22s Shawn Sliter went door-to-door as No. 10 Mitch Brown and No. 1-10 Jake Brown gunned it close behind. Lapped traffic slowed the pace allowing Mitch Brown to take advantage and sling shot his way into second but it wasn't enough to catch Turner as he sailed to victory lane. Mitch Brown took second, Ryan Turner third, Sliter fourth and Jake Brown fifth. No. 1 Holly Porter was victorious in a sprint dash for cash.
Rayner checks out to capture third win
Hungry to secure his third win of the season, No. 55 Bradley Rayner bit down on the inside and snapped up the lead from his third starting position on lap 5 of the 30-lap Vanderlaan Building Products feature.
Rayner was hooked up as he took off leaving the pack in his dust as they pushed hard to catch up. A caution with five laps to go couldn't stop Rayner from putting the hammer down and parking it. No. 7 Adam Nayler earned second, No. 57 Charlie Sandercock third, No. 29 Phil Potts fourth and No. 98 Craig Graham fifth.
Mutton makes it rain checkers
No. 1 Shawn Gregory looked like he was well on his way to securing his first season win as he dominated the first half of the 30- lap Bainer's OilGARD Canadian Modified ABC Triple Crown Race 2.
A caution on lap 16 slowed and reset the field allowing No. 39 Jonah Mutton to take the advantage from the high side. Mutton stomped on the gas as Gregory, No. 14 Brandt Graham and No. 99 Linc Brown went 3-wide in his rear view. It didn't take long for No. 87 Andrew Hennessy to shoot up from his 11th starting position adding more muscle to the mix. Mutton and Hennessy went wire-to-wire for 10 laps in a battle to the finish line with the 39 machine snagging his first win of the season. Hennessy scored second, Graham third, Brown fourth and No. 48 Derrick Greig fifth.
Checkers fly for Flieler and Severin
It only took No. 11 Adam Flieler two laps to move up from his 4th starting position to take the lead in the 15-lap Bill John's Comp 4 main event. Even as multiple cautions slowed the pace, Flieler never lost his cool as No. 44 Tommy Bailey and No. 43 Devon Kippen tried to intimidate him from behind. Flieler flew to victory lane with Bailey in second, No. 43 Devon Kippen third, No. 13 Joel Dempster fourth and No. 19 Jordan Baldwin fifth. No. 12 Caleb Severin was strong and consistent to victory lane capturing his first mini-stock feature win. 14m Matthew Moore placed second and No. 7 Anthony Rinaldi third.
Coming next Saturday, July 13th Campbellford Chrysler and Greig Truck & Trailer presents the OSCAAR Hot Rods, Gord's Water Vantastics, Bainer's OilGARD Anti Rust Canadian Modifieds, Brighton Automotive Thunder Stocks, Bill's Johns Comp 4/Mini Stocks and Wall of Fame Inductions at 6:20 p.m. Front gates open at 5p.m., Hot Laps begin at 6p.m. and the green flag drops at 7p.m. Grandstand Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for youths and seniors, $3 for children 7 to 12 and a Family Pass is $25.00.
June 6th Top 5 Race Results
Vanderlaan Building Products Late Model Division
1st. No. 55 Brad Rayner; 2nd. No. 7 Adam Nayler; 3rd. No. 57 Charlie Sandercock; 4th. No. 29 Phil Potts; 5th. No. 98 Craig Graham
Bainer's OilGARD Anti Rust Canadian Modified Division
1st. No. 39 Jonah Mutton;; 2nd. No. 87 Andrew Hennessy; 3rd. No. 14 Brandt Graham; 4th. No. 99 Linc Brown; 5th. No. 49 Derek Greig
Bill's Johns Comp 4 Division
1st. No. 11 Adam Flieler; 2nd. No. 44 Tommy Bailey; 3rd. No. 43 Devon Kippen; 4th. No. 13 Joel Dempster; 5th. No. 19 Jordan Baldwin
Bill's Johns Mini Stock Division
1st. No. 12 Caleb Severin; 2nd. No. 14 Matthew Moore; 3rd. No. 7 Anthony Rinaldi
Brighton Speedway is a 1/3-mile clay stock car racing oval located on the shores of Lake Ontario in Brighton. The speedway hosts five weekly stock car divisions on Saturday nights from May to September.
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But what if you would like to keep those options open? And what happens if you want to begin showing your Drent before his/her health clearances can be performed? It is up to your breeder to sign off on the paperwork to revoke the limited status of the registration. First off, your breeder should take an honest look at the dog and evaluate its conformation, possibly even ask a fellow breeder to offer an opinion. In the end, if it is decided your Drent could have a possible show career, then the breeder may endorse the paperwork. But don't be surprised if your breeder requires to be made a co-owner, at least for the short term. Making the breeder a co-owner still allows the breeder to comply with the Code of Ethics, and retain control over breeding, as all of the future litter registration paperwork will also require the co-owners signature in order to be valid and have the offspring registered with the AKC. Another option that might be offered by your breeder is to have preliminary hip and elbow screening done through OFA. Though these results are not final and cannot be used to satisfy the requirements for breeding per the bylaws, they can be used to identify any developing issues early on.
When it comes to making your Drent available for the DPCNA's breeding program, this too is something you will want to discuss with your breeder. Easy and inexpensive markers to knock out in the early stages are having a DPCNA e-Conformation conducted, obtaining an AKC CGC title, and maybe leaning forward and having his eyes run through the OFA CAER process. At this point, if the markers are looking good, you may be encouraged to press forward with having an OFA exam of the dog's hips and elbows completed. Lifting the Limited Registration becomes an appropriate course of action when the documents with passing scores are shared with your breeder.
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In late April the WISE team added a multimedia presentation to the site explaining the overall mission, including some basic concepts of why infrared is important, the previous infrared mission compared to WISE (the previous one happened in 1983 and had a resolution of 62 pixels compared to WISE which has 4 million) asteroid hunting, the discovery of brown dwarf stars, etc. It doesn't include any recent news so those following the mission closely won't find anything new, but it is a good link to send someone who hasn't heard of the mission before.
It also includes this part on possible (probably) planetary systems around brown dwarfs, mentioning that "in fact, the first planetary system that humans ever reach is likely to be around a brown dwarf discovered by WISE."
On that note, it may be important to refer to brown dwarfs as brown dwarf stars as much as possible, even though technically they are sub-stellar objects (fusing deuterium and sometimes lithium, but not hydrogen). The reason why is that names and titles really do matter in astronomy and space exploration. When Ceres was first discovered it was considered to be a planet and was even given a planetary symbol, but then later on it was reclassified as an asteroid. Then what happened? Everybody forgot about Ceres. After all, it was just an asteroid. Missions were sent out to the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter again, Saturn again, Venus and Mars again and again and again and again, but no missions were ever sent to Ceres, not until Dawn launched a few years back (it will arrive there in 2015). Had Ceres been considered a planet all this time (and yes, a dwarf planet is a kind of planet) it's safe to say it would have been given higher priority, certainly at least one mission or at least a flyby before now.


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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
patio lighting...
22 comments:
- Nita Stacy said...
Oh...I love your pillows! I have been collecting lanterns on sale last year and this year and have several for both the front and back of the house. I'll be showing soon. I bought some at TJ Maxx and Marshalls last year.
- June 19, 2013 at 1:04 AM
- Kim said...
Love your pillows and the lanterns. I am so yearning to get outside and just enjoy the outside space!! I think we are coming out of the rain!! xo
- June 19, 2013 at 5:11 AM
- Julia@Cuckoo4Design said...
I love all the lighting. I also bought some solar lighting from Ikea for under the bushes and I'm also a tiki torch girl.
- June 19, 2013 at 5:18 AM
- Linda {Calling it Home} said...
What a bummer that you have to bring them back. I have always wanted to wrap a tree with white lights (trunk and branches). I am not sure how to do this because the tree will grow and the truck will get thicker? Wouldn't the strands break?
- June 19, 2013 at 5:25 AM
- Lisa @ Shine Your Light said...
I love the dual lantern you got - too bad they're not going to work. I'm sure you'll find something else! I have been ogling some solar lights for my back garden where my path is. I love the idea of little lights illuminating the way to the deck.
- June 19, 2013 at 5:43 AM
- Andrea said...
Love your lanterns and I hope you can find something similar that will work for you. I'm going to check out that orb DIY. I think that might work for my back porch. Once again, thanks for the inspiration.
- June 19, 2013 at 5:57 AM
- stephanie at Stephanie Kraus Designs said...
Wish I could hang a light on my deck but need to install a pergola first! Right now I use battery-operated incoor?outdoor candles in lanterns. But I love all of your DIY!
- June 19, 2013 at 6:02 AM
- Unknown said...
I have lanterns, and solar lanterns which I love. I think little white strand lights are just about the cure for everything! LOVE love.
Have a great day!
- June 19, 2013 at 6:49 AM
- Calypso In The Country said...
Sometimes I light candles when we eat dinner on my deck but I love the idea of the little lights on the boxwood!
- June 19, 2013 at 6:56 AM
- Shirley@Housepitality Designs said...
Love these...I have a pergola and I really need to take advantage of the lattice work above to hang some of these great outdoor lighting items...love the lights in the boxwoods...
- June 19, 2013 at 7:15 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh, I love the lighted boxwoods. What a glowing sanctuary you've created. Thanks for sharing!
- June 19, 2013 at 8:02 AM
- Leslie said...
So pretty Pam. Love the lanterns.. I agree, this set would be tough to clean. I've broken glass lanterns trying to clean them so I'm careful what I buy. Al Fresco is the way to go in the summertime.
- June 19, 2013 at 8:42 AM
- Dwellings by DeVore said...
We are sprucing up our patio this week and I can't wait to get some lighting out there, makes such a huge difference!
- June 19, 2013 at 9:10 AM
- Vel Criste said...
love all the ideas Pam! I saw something interesting on pinterest the other day - glow-in the dark spray paint on some rocks and planters and viola, uniqe 'ighting' for you back yard! I'm seriously considering trying it out! :-)
- June 19, 2013 at 10:03 AM
- Patty Day @Pattys Epiphanies said...
We hung a lantern where "regular" folks instal fans! That's me............not NORMAL!
- June 19, 2013 at 11:19 AM
- Kelly @ A Swell Place to Dwell said...
And now I have the 'patio lanterns' song running through my head :) I so wish it would stop raining here so we could spend some time outside...at this point I'd be happy sitting in the glow from the kitchen window.
- June 19, 2013 at 12:53 PM
- High Cotton Style said...
I just put some up...temporarily! I plan to do a post once it's completely finished!
- June 19, 2013 at 1:54 PM
- Simply Modern Home said...
Your patio looks beautiful. Love the colors you've chosen! I'm fairly new to blogging (5 months) and really enjoy reading yours. Thanks for the inspiration!
- June 19, 2013 at 3:04 PM
- Unknown said...
Sadly I don't even have a patio - yet! These are wonderful lighting ideas - hope to steal a few some day!!!
- June 19, 2013 at 5:18 PM
- Unknown said...
These lighting ideas could really brighten up everyone's day, Pam. Especially those lanterns. But the big winner for me is your first photo. They are strategically crafted to enhance the look of your patio.
- June 20, 2013 at 8:42 AM
- erica said...
My backyard is a complete mess. When I moved into the house the previous owners had the house is good shape, but the yard is a pit. I'm currently working on "cheering up" small sections and will definitely be taking some of these light ideas into consideration. xx
- June 20, 2013 at 11:46 AM
- Unknown said...
i love this post.LED energy saving light has long service life: LED lights is through a semiconductor chip light-emitting , no glass bulb, not afraid of vibration, invulnerability to breakage and life span of up to fifty thousand hours. With normal bulb production (using the time 1000 hours), is that it life span 50 times; And normal energy-saving lamp is 8000 hours, it is more than six times. Super longest is obviously.
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The EU coordinated risk assessment on 5G security appears to be agreeing with the US on its opinions of Huawei posing a threat. The report [download PDF] dropped no specific mention of Huawei or China, but hinted strongly by claiming that "threats posed by states or state-backed actors are perceived to be of highest relevance".
The European Commission and Finland also said the following in a joint statement:
"Among the various potential actors, non-EU states or state-backed are considered as the most serious ones and the most likely to target 5G networks.
"In this context of increased exposure to attacks facilitated by suppliers, the risk profile of individual suppliers will become particularly important, including the likelihood of the supplier being subject to interference from a non-EU country."
Huawei still hopeful
Huawei has said that it wants to work with its European partners on 5G network security.
"This exercise is an important step towards developing a common approach to cybersecurity and delivering safe networks for the 5G era," a Huawei spokesman said.
In response to the report, he went on to say, "We are pleased to note that the EU delivered on its commitment to take an evidence-based approach, thoroughly analysing risks rather than targeting specific countries or actors."
It appears that the company is still hopeful that the EU won't act without valid evidence to do so. Whereas the US and a number of countries seem more happy to label Huawei as a security threat without the evidence to support it.
And despite the report's findings, EU countries remains split. The UK is leaning towards an exclusion, possibly due to being a close US ally. On the other hand, Germany wants all 5G suppliers to prove that they are trustworthy, providing Huawei with the chance to make a case for its technology.
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Wanting all the worked Dallasite I can get, I commissioned Kidd Rocks Lapidary in Michigan to make me some of their fantastic silver groove-wrapped cabochons out of material I collected.
I highly recommend working with Kidd Rocks Lapidary. The owner, Chuck, is a fantastic tumbler and makes a wide variety of elegant wrapped cabs. I sent some high-grade Dallasite his way and here's what he came up with. Enjoy the show.
And here's a far worse picture, complete with my dirty hand, but one I took right out of the box when they arrived:
Nicely packaged and I like them even more in person than in the pictures. I was never huge on circular cabochons before but now I love them. My favourite is the white one, I wasn't sure Dallasite with that coloration could be cabbed well, as it seemed like softer material.
I highly recommend Chuck and Kidd Rocks. They turned these cabs around within a week and did a very nice job. Check them out on Facebook and Etsy.


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Good news everyone – I have drawn a line on .410b and I have sent the build out for a few people to look over before I release it! I will also film the LP later tonight (I have to work tonight – on my b-day no less!) so look for that to be posted by tomorrow.
There are a TON of improvements in this version. Frankly, if you're been playing .400 or less, you are going to need to relearn a lot of things. Among the major additions, without a complete changelog:
- Totally revamped UI, including detailed event/alert UI
- Military system added (armies and garrisons for now) that affect happiness, security, and can put down riots ruthlessly if needed 🙂
- Revamped character system, added the pressure/persuasion system
- Revamped intel system, split between domestic intel (allows you to know more info about your people on a planet) and political intel (allows you to know more about specific characters and conduct black ops)
- Expanded help/tooltip system
- Balanced to be much less punishing as far as materials and food shortages go
- Character alliances are now in the game (think political parties)
- Characters now have opinions of everyone above and below them in their 'chain of command' that affects their mood when you take action against/for someone in that chain
- Characters now have jealousy ratings for everyone else in the game – this will drive their want/wish when that system is introduced
I will be posting some new screen shots tonight as well. I know that I promised that this would be out in November or December, but I have this bad habit of adding more and more stuff and getting distracted from my goals, so I've started writing down what I want to get done each day and it's made a world of difference! (Yes, it's a hobby and yes it's free but still). Thank you all for your patience and hopefully everyone will get to play the new build in the next few days!!


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November is that lovely time when the fall activities and festivities are still going on but things are beginning to give way to that wonderful winter holiday season. There are lots of unique ways to get out and enjoy the changing season with your kids this month – here are 3 fun ways to enjoy some fun things to do with the kids in Chicago this November!
- Take the Kids to the 40th Annual Day of the Dead Celebration
As your kids may have seen in the great movie Coco, Dia de Muertos is a joyous event that celebrates and honors life and the memories of loved ones who have died. One of the longest-running events in the city celebrates its 40th annual Day of the Dead celebration this year, hosted by the SGA Youth & Family Services, and will be held in Dvorak Park. Music, face painting, art activities including a giant chalk mural, hot chocolate and Mexican sweet bread will all be happening, and there will be an afternoon procession that has hand-pushed carts and ofrendas, as well as large puppets. Grab your walking shoes and the kids, wear some muertos inspired attire, and you can even bring your own mobile ofrenda to partake in this unique event.
- Bring the Grandparents to the Chicago Toy & Game Week
Chicago Toy & Game (ChiTAG) Week is North America's largest toy and game fair that is open to the public. The fair brings some of the very best toys and games from all around the world right here to Chicago. Children can meet great characters, play in tournaments, build towers, meet characters, take part in the Young Inventor Challenge, Frozen II Scavenger Hunt, and more! You can get a sneak peek of what toys and games will be hot this year, and give them a demo before the Black Friday deals hit. There will also be a Gator Golf Putting Station, the "World's Largest Kid-Powered Rocket Debut", a Yo-Yo Championship featuring contestants from around the country, and photo ops with characters from Star Wars. For the adults, there will be a beer garden featuring Popular Adult and Party Games, and grandparents who attend with children with a purchased ticket get in free on November 24th!
- Take the Family to the Chicago Christmas Tree Lighting at Millennium Park
This year's Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony will take place at 6p on Friday, November 22, 2019, at Millennium Park's Wrigley Square. Great entertainment will make for a fun night for the whole family. Jonathan Butler, a Grammy Award-winning artist from Cape Town, South Africa, will perform, after having recently released his second Christmas. Cielito Lindo, the modern Latino Mariachi band made up of 9 family members of the Lucero family who are passionate about inspiring families like yours to come together to enjoy great music, creativity and culture, will put on a lively performance of some traditional music of Mexico. And finally, rag doll Eleanor and the elves from Eleanor's Very Merry Christmas Wish – The Musical will put on a great show before a special guest appearance by Santa and Mrs. Claus. A night with the family not to be missed!
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Whether you're on a break from classes yourself or are just enjoying not having to wake up and take the kids to school, it's easy to overdo the sleeping in during the summer months. But letting your usual sleep schedule slip over the summer can have major impacts on your health and well-being. An out-of-whack schedule means getting less sleep, feeling less rested, and missing out on tons of summer fun. Not to mention it makes getting back into school-mode in the fall that much more difficult!
So don't give in to the temptation to sleep the summer away. Try these tricks for maintaining your usual sleep schedule through the vacation season!
Make Changes Gradually
Of course, it's not realistic to expect that everyone will be up and at-em by 7 on the dot every morning, or ready for bed by 8. So take some time to see what a realistic schedule looks like for your family. Maybe bedtime and wakeup call are both pushed an hour later, and maybe lunchtime will have to fall at a different time than it would when the kids were in class. Small changes are fine, but let everyone ease into them gradually.
During the first week or two, make adjustments to the family schedule in 10-minute increments until your routine falls into a more sustainable timeframe. Sudden adjustments to routine are the quickest way to mess up your internal clock and make sleeping soundly more difficult.
Keep Electronics Off Limits
If cell phones and other electronics aren't allowed in bedrooms on weeknights, they shouldn't be allowed in the summer either. The blue light that screens give off disrupts melatonin production, and can ruin even the best-maintained sleep schedule. And if you and the kids get in the habit of spending late nights on the computer over the summer, chances are you'll struggle to break that habit when school starts. If you stay disciplined about nighttime electronic use, making sure phones and computers are off an hour before bed, you'll stay sleeping that much better all through the year.
Limit Late-Night Snacks
The same goes for the nighttime munchies. Without the structure of school keeping mealtimes on track, it's easy to push dinner off until later at night or to start snacking in the evenings. But eating just before bed can ruin your appetite for the next day and cause problems like indigestion and insomnia. Your last meal of the day should be no less than 2 hours before bedtime, to give your body plenty of time to digest and shift into bedtime mode.
Stay Active
Sluggishness is one of the biggest enemies of a good night's sleep—without getting your blood pumping during the day, you'll be left with tons of extra energy at the end of the day. If the kids are used to running around at recess but stay parked on the couch during summer afternoons, chances are their sleep will suffer. And if you go on a jog every morning before school starts, don't stop for summer's sake! Plan activities to get the whole family active during the day and your sleep schedule will stay on track.
There's nothing wrong with a lazy summer day every now and again, but sticking to a regular sleep schedule between now and autumn will help you make the most of the season. Of course, you can't count on getting a good night's rest without the right mattress to support you. Stop by our store and check out our selection to keep you sleeping soundly all year round!


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ctv::update.views("Cluster") installs all packages that are not yet installed and up-to-date. See the CRAN Task View Initiative for more details.
This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages that can be used for finding groups in data and modeling unobserved cross-sectional heterogeneity. Many packages provide functionality for more than one of the topics listed below, the section headings are mainly meant as quick starting points rather than as an ultimate categorization. Except for packages stats and cluster (which essentially ship with base R and hence are part of every R installation), each package is listed only once.
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hclust() from package stats and
agnes() from cluster are the primary functions for agglomerative hierarchical clustering, function
diana() can be used for divisive hierarchical clustering. Faster alternatives to
hclust() are provided by the packages fastcluster and flashClust.
dendrogram() from package stats and associated methods can be used for improved visualization for cluster dendrograms.
plot() function, one can produce dendrograms that are prototype-labeled and are therefore easier to interpret.
kmeans() from package stats provides several algorithms for computing partitions with respect to Euclidean distance.
pam() from package cluster implements partitioning around medoids and can work with arbitrary distances. Function
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Take sanctuary this January from the blustering winter blues at the Bushwick Starr Theater, located just steps off the Jefferson L stop. This month the Starr is hosting a special series with the Target Margin Theater (TMT) inspired by the literary prowess of Gertrude Stein. Curated by TMT Artistic Producer John Del Gaudio, over 75 artists will contribute to seven original pieces and three special events. Performances during The TMT Stein Lab: When this you see remember me begin January 9 and run through February 7.
The TMT Lab has enlisted the talents of over 1,000 theater artists since 1993. TMT curates each season's Lab under an overarching theme. Luck for all the literary junkies out there, Gertrude Stein takes center stage this season. Check out a detailed list of upcoming events on their website.
Here are my top choices for the month:
A Nice Story or We Get It, Gertrude
Thursday 1/22 – Saturday 1/31 at 9:30pmLead Artist: Megan Hill with Estelle Bajou, Gardiner Comfort, Kaaron Briscoe Minefree, and Amy Staats
From the description on the TMT website, A Nice Story sounds like a theatrical trip: "Too much information. No common sense. A mysterious assemblage. Famous friends. A dance that looks like a dance but is not a dance. Maybe a cello. Maybe a laugh. Maybe a maybe a maybe a maybe. Wake a question. Eat an answer. Rinse. Repeat. That's the answer."
Double Feature: She Counts Her Dresses and Stein-Drag
Thursday 1/29 – Saturday 2/7 at 7:30pmLead Artist She Counts Her Dresses: Nikki Calonge with Wendy Yang Bailey, Mike deAngelis, Mike Mikos, Eh-Den Perlove and Jay Ryan.
Lead Artist Stein-Drag: Aaron Ethan Green with Avi Glickstein, Charlie Nicholson, Clayton Dean Smith, James Tison, and Nicole Wood
She Counts Her Dresses is inspired by the illustrations of Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire and celebrates Gertrude Stein's depiction of this real-life couple through the compulsion to travel and dance. Miss Furr and Miss Skeene demand that the audience "read with us, be gay with us, be regularly gay with us, and to sing until we can be proud of tomorrow."
In Stein-Drag, love notes exchanged between Mr. Cuddle-Wuddle and Baby Precious, otherwise known as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, provide the building blocks for this whirlwind drag romp.
The Bushwick Starr is located at 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Tickets for the above shows are $15 at www.bushwickstarr.org. To RSVP to free events, send an email to [email protected]


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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Tova Friedman hid among corpses at Auschwitz amid the chaos of the extermination camp's final days.
Just 6 years old at the time, the Poland-born Friedman was instructed by her mother to lie absolutely still in a bed at a camp hospital, next to the body of a young woman who had just died. As German forces preparing to flee the scene of their genocide went from bed to bed shooting anyone still alive, Friedman barely breathed under a blanket and went unnoticed.
Days later, on Jan. 27, 1945, she was among the thousands of prisoners who survived to greet the Soviet troops who liberated the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Now 82, Friedman had hoped to mark Wednesday's anniversary by taking her eight grandchildren to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, which is under the custodianship of the Polish state. The coronavirus pandemic prevented the trip.
So instead, Friedman will be alone at home in Highland Park, New Jersey, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yet a message of warning from her about the rise of hatred will be part of a virtual observance organized by the World Jewish Congress.
Across Europe, the victims were remembered and honored in various ways.
In Austria and Slovakia, hundreds of survivors were offered their first doses of a vaccine against the coronavirus in a gesture both symbolic and truly lifesaving given the threat of the virus to older adults. In Israel, some 900 Holocaust survivors died from COVID-19 out of the 5,300 who were infected last year, the country's Central Bureau of Statistics reported said Tuesday.
Pope Francis warned from the Vatican that distorted ideologies can "end up destroying a people and humanity." Meanwhile, Luxembourg signed a deal agreeing to pay reparations and to restitute dormant bank accounts, insurance policies and looted art to Holocaust survivors.
Institutions around the world, including the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum in Poland, Yad Vashem in Israel and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. have online events planned. The presidents of Israel, Germany and Poland were among those planning to deliver remarks of remembrance and warning.
The online nature of this year's commemorations is a sharp contrast to how Friedman spent the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation last year, when she gathered under a huge tent with other survivors and dozens of European leaders at the site of the former camp. It was one of the last large international gatherings before the pandemic forced the cancellation of most large gatherings.
Many Holocaust survivors in the United States, Israel and elsewhere find themselves in a state of previously unimaginable isolation due to the pandemic. Friedman lost her husband last March and said she feels acutely alone now.
But survivors like her also have found new connections over Zoom: World Jewish Congress leader Ronald Lauder has organized video meetings for survivors and their children and grandchildren during the pandemic.
More than 1.1 million people were murdered by the German Nazis and their henchmen at Auschwitz, the most notorious site in a network of camps and ghettos aimed at the destruction of Europe's Jews. The vast majority of those killed at Auschwitz were Jews, but others, including Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war, were also killed in large numbers.
In all, about 6 million European Jews and millions of other people were killed by the Germans and their collaborators. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an acknowledgement of Auschwitz's iconic status.
Israel, which today counts 197,000 Holocaust survivors, officially marks its Holocaust remembrance day in the spring. But events will also be held Wednesday by survivors' organizations and remembrance groups across the country, many of them held virtually or without members of the public in attendance.
While commemorations have moved online for the first time, one constant is the drive of survivors to tell their stories as words of caution.
Rose Schindler, a 91-year-old survivor of Auschwitz who was originally from Czechoslovakia but now lives in San Diego, California, has been speaking to school groups about her experience for 50 years. Her story, and that of her late husband, Max, also a survivor, is also told in a book, "Two Who Survived: Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust."
After Schindler was transported to Auschwitz in 1944, she was selected more than once for immediate death in the gas chambers. She survived by escaping each time and joining work details.
The horrors she experienced of Auschwitz — the mass murder of her parents and four of her seven siblings, the hunger, being shaven, lice infestations — are difficult to convey, but she keeps speaking to groups, over past months only by Zoom.
"We have to tell our stories so it doesn't happen again," Schindler told The Associated Press on Monday in a Zoom call from her home. "It is unbelievable what we went through, and the whole world was silent as this was going on."
Friedman says she believes it is her role to "sound the alarm" about rising anti-Semitism and other hatred in the world, otherwise "another tragedy may happen."
That hatred, she said, was on clear view when a mob inspired by former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Some insurrectionists wore clothes with anti-Semitic messages like "Camp Auschwitz" and ""6MWE," which stands for "6 million wasn't enough."
"It was utterly shocking and I couldn't believe it. And I don't know what part of America feels like that. I hope it's a very small and isolated group and not a pervasive feeling," Friedman said Monday.
Still, the mob violence could not shake her belief in the essential goodness of America and most Americans.
"It's a country of freedom. It's a country that took me in," Friedman said.
In her recorded message that will be broadcast Wednesday, Friedman said she compares the virus of hatred in the world to COVID-19. She said the world today is witnessing "a virus of anti-Semitism, of racism, and if you don't stop the virus, it's going to kill humanity."


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Judaism is mostly a rationalist tradition that embraces free will, critical thinking, and the importance of the intellect. Most endeavors that mandate irrational and overly chancy behavior are forbidden by the Jewish tradition. Gambling is one of the prevalent modern activities that may make for fun sport in moderation, but when treated as a primary source of income it borders on the irrational.
The rabbis taught that a gambler cannot be considered a valid legal witness (Sanhedrin 24b-25a) and that his gambling is either considered theft or as a lack of commitment to doing real work. The Rambam teaches that even those types of gambling that do not create great harm and are not strictly forbidden by law should be avoided because they produce no benefit to society and is a waste of time (Hilchot Gezeilah v'Aveida 6:1).
I recently made the case against gambling and I also made the case for why we should not rely upon "signs" to make life decisions. But the problem today continues to get worse. Consider these numbers from the National Council on Problem Gambling:
- About 50 million people around the world participate in online gambling at least once a month, and 6 to 9 million Americans have had a gambling problem at some point in their lives.
- Addicts typically have a gambling debt twice their yearly income.
- More than 313,000 people called the National Council on Problem Gambling's hotline number last year, the highest yearly number on record.
- When problem gamblers finally seek help or treatment, three quarters have already committed embezzlement or other types of fraud to finance their habit, and almost half have attempted or seriously contemplated suicide.
Research also appears to show a correlation between the degree of gambling addiction and tobacco use and nicotine dependency, illustrating a relationship between different kinds of addiction.
Gambling in the United States has traditionally been an illegal activity, and crime organizations earned a great deal of money from it, especially after Prohibition ended. However, spurred by organized crime in the second half of the last century, gambling casinos began to proliferate, especially in Las Vegas, which is still the casino capital of America. In spite of the continuing economic stagnation of the past few years, in 2012 the major casinos on the Las Vegas strip had a gross income exceeding $6.2 billion.
The legal gambling industry exploded in the last quarter of the last century, increasing in value from $17 billion in 1974 to $482 billion in 1994. By the end of the century, gambling was taking in more money than the film, cruise ship, recording music, amusement park, and spectator sport industries combined. Today, gambling interests contribute heavily to state political candidates (most regulation of the industry takes place at the state level), further expanding their influence. In the meantime, organized crime has migrated from the open involvement in casinos to Internet gambling, where they have set up foreign websites to preserve the inflow of gambling revenue. In the futile pursuit of easy money, nearly 20 percent of pathological gamblers eventually declare bankruptcy due to their addiction.
Today, the overwhelming majority of gambling revenue comes from state lotteries. In 2010, Americans spent more than $50 billion on lottery tickets. The titan of lotteries is the Powerball game, played in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. When the jackpot grows to hundreds of millions of dollars, the media flock to publicize the story, filling people's minds with the prospect of winning more money than an ancient king. However, in addition to the jackpot being slightly more than half the the jackpot listed (for example, $230 million is the cash the winner would take home from an announced $400 million jackpot), the odds of winning the Grand Prize in the Powerball game are 1 in 175,223,510; there are few things you can name that a player has less of a chance of winning than Powerball. The government plays off the dreams of the poor by furthering impoverishing the vulnerable when they consistently purchase lottery tickets. The Week reported that "Americans spent 50.4 billion on state lottery tickets and video kiosks in 2009. Households with take-home incomes of less than $13,000 spent on average of $645 a year on lottery tickets – about 9 percent of their income. Eleven states raise more from lotteries than from corporate taxes," (Salon.com). Some have shown how the government preys upon the vulnerable poor with the lottery and how the lottery is really another form of regressive tax.
The Jewish tradition values hard work, not relying upon luck. In fact, the rabbis stipulate that people may not rely upon miracles but must operate in the rational world, working hard to achieve results. The gambling industry is not one that we should seek to support (beyond perhaps moderate occasional sports gambling for those who find rare, controlled, and modest enjoyment in it). In a time when many in our community have been blessed with financial resources, we should make sure to use those resources to take care of our families and communities. To throw it away irrationally is to reject many Jewish values, and to engender a deeply unhealthy habit.
The Torah mandates "You shall be holy," (Leviticus 19:2) and that we must affect society for the good. We must work to remove the potency of this negative force that pulls many below ground (financially and emotionally). The power and corruption of the gambling industry must be exposed and we must educate others to value work, healthy forms of leisure, and to trust in rational approaches to improving their lots.
Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz is the Executive Director of the Valley Beit Midrash, the Founder & President of Uri L'Tzedek, the Founder and CEO of The Shamayim V'Aretz Institute and the author of "Jewish Ethics & Social Justice: A Guide for the 21st Century." Newsweek named Rav Shmuly one of the top 50 rabbis in America."


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There is no way to happiness,
happiness is the way.
You should be happy right in the here and now.
There is no way to enlightenment.
Enlightenment should be right here and right now.
The moment when you come back to yourself, mind and body together,
fully present, fully alive, that is already enlightenment.
You are no longer a sleepwalker.
You are no longer in a dream.
You are fully alive.
You are awake.
Enlightenment is there.
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International Aid ShopAugust 16, 2017
The International Aid Trust Shop
The International Aid Trust shop offers, in these times of struggle and financial difficulties, a helping hand in the form of aid to both the local communities at home and aboard. The IAT is an outreach living church with a shop in Mill Hill, Blackburn, supported by both Christian and non-Christians who reach out to the community to offer a listening ear. Aid is donated in the form of clothing and furniture and good quality goods that meet the needs of the local community at charity shop prices. The community is in a deprived area and is made up of predominately white working class families who are either in low paid employment or in receipt of benefits. Despite there being a community centre a few doors down, the locals see the shop as being a focal point to meet and catch up.
I always knew deep down there was still a community spirit within Mill Hill and that this spirit was alive and well in these times of struggle. For this project, I set out to find what I thought had disappeared amongst the austerity backlash and the aftermath of the Brexit outcome. Meandering the streets and alleyways of this proud community I found this spirit within a small second-hand charity shop. I set out to photograph the people who used the shop on a daily basis not just to buy items or give them away to people more unfortunate than themselves, but to also use it as a meeting point to catch up on the local gossip. I feel through these images that the spirit of human kindness and a togetherness is still evident in this community today despite what is happening else where in these times of difficulty.


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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Schools out for Summer
What am I talking about? school
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Congrats on getting out! I live in Philadelphia and we still have a couple weeks (we start back in September though). Enjoy the break while it lasts! :)
- Friday, June 12, 2009
- Emily said...
Hi Susan and thanks for the comment! I'm certainly enjoying it so far. Hang in there, your summer will be here before you know it! :o)
- Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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So knowing how much water we have left is usually pretty important.
This part of the trailer is thick plastic which cuts like butter, however behind the plastic are 2 very expensive to replace water tanks.
Luckily during the final tank repair I crawled under the trailer with the tech and we mapped out the exact location to cut to avoid the tanks and gain access to the sensor.
The existing sensor was clearly broken, I imagine the first tank repair broke off the outside of the sensor.
I didn't get any pictures of that.
After getting the tank sensor installed I had to run through the calibration process which is a lot more involved than it should be.
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Porsche 718 GTS 2020.
Review Porsche 718 GTS (Cayman and Boxster) — the price and characteristics of fast cars.
Porsche 718 series in 2016 was unsuccessful. At that time, the developers installed on the Cayman (coupe) and Boxster (roadster) failed (in terms of sales) 2.5-liter turbo engines.
In the summer of 2019, the manufacturer rehabilitated and released premium versions of the line with 4.0-liter aspirated and everything went like clockwork.
In 2020, Porsche will roll out another variation of the 718s, this time in the GTS series. Taught by bitter experience, the Germans will again abandon the turbine in favor of the 6-cylinder opposites. What comes of this, below.
Fresh Cayman and Boxster got the same boxer aspirated with 6 cylinders and 4 liters similar to last year's GT4 and Spyder. Nevertheless, the power characteristics were somewhat «bolted».
If last year's news could boast a return of 420 hp, then Cayman and Boxster give out 20 hp. smaller. The cutoff at revs also suffered — 7800 rpm, compared to 8000.
The difference in dynamics was not critical. The maximum speed of GT4 and Spyder was 300 km / h, with new products 293. Acceleration to hundreds of 4.4 versus 4.5 seconds, respectively.
You can also recall that before the installation of turbo engines, in 2014 the GTS line showed 330 hp. So the increase in power in new products is more than substantial.
In terms of technology, the main difference between Cayman and Boxster in the 2020 model year was the lack of a PDK robot.
Instead, Porsche will offer a non-alternative 6-speed manual transmission, which proved to be excellent in tests on a mountain road.
In conclusion of this section, it is worth noting that in comparison with 2019, the new coupes and roadsters do not demonstrate anything innovative.
If in 2016 Cayman and Boxster rolled back, then in 2020 they only return to their previous level with tiny successes in terms of dynamics.
To be honest, Porsche is not a fan of changing the body. And the new Cayman and Boxster are living proof of this. In principle, no one has anything against it. Although each line still has its own characteristics.
So, the GTS differs from its counterparts in the presence of the line symbols on the wings and stern, and the decor is designed in black — the mesh parts of the front bumper body kit, fog optics, the side air intake and the entire rear dimensions block are painted.
Also in tone is the lower rear bumper block, in which there was a place for two niches for large round exhaust tips.
Like it or not, Porsche is a luxury car, which means that the internal filling is appropriate here, especially since we are talking about the Germans.
The steering wheel, individual parts of the torpedo, seats, the central tunnel and door cards are trimmed with premium Alcantara leather, and the front panel has a carbon trim.
Depending on the chosen interior design, customers can have a red line and a different dashboard design. GTS logos by default on all head restraints.
In terms of equipment, Cayman and Boxster are packaged with integrated multimedia with a 7-inch screen, advanced navigation, racing functionality, voice control and a premium speaker system from BOSE.
Price and sales start date
Sales of the Porsche 718 GTS in native Germany will begin in March 2020. Cayman and Boxster will also come to us, but only in the middle of summer.
The price tag for the basic configuration for Russia has already been announced. New from 400 hp on board will cost 5.86 million for the coupe and 5.93 million rubles for the roadster.


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Following is the list of trading holidays on NSE and BSE for 2020. On these days, the NSE and BSE are not open, i.e. you cannot trade, or buy/sell equity on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and/or Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on the following days.
India Stock Market Holiday List- 2020
|February 19, 2020 (Wednesday)
|March 10,2020 (Tuesday)
|April 02, 2020 (Thursday)
|Ram Navami
|April 06, 2020 (Monday)
|Mahavir Jayanti
|April 10, 2020 (Friday)
|Good Friday
|April 14, 2020 (Tuesday)
|Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti
|May 01, 2020 (Friday)
|Maharashtra Day
|May 25, 2020 (Monday)
|Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan Id)
|October 02, 2020 (Friday)
|Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti
|November 16, 2020 (Monday)
|Diwali Balipratipada
|November 30, 2020 (Monday)
|Gurunanak Jayanti
|December 25, 2020 (Friday)
Muharat Trading Date for 2020
- Muhurat trading is the auspicious stock market trading for an hour on Diwali (Deepawali). It is a symbolic and old ritual, that has been retained and observed for ages, by the trading community. As Diwali also marks the beginning of the New Year, it is believed that muhurat trading on this day brings wealth and prosperity throughout the year.
- Muhurat Trading on Diwali- Laxmi Pujan shall be held on November 14, 2020 (Saturday).


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Futon mattresses with springs are becoming more and more popular these days. Although, they're mostly used in Japanese beds, American markets have caught-up with this type of mattress and now offer innerspring futons to US consumers.
Although memory foam mattress, latex or air mattresses are more popular, because they provide much more comfort, some people still prefer Western-style futon mattresses with springs. Even in Japan, Western-style futons are becoming increasingly popular, because they're softer and provide better body support than original Japanese futons.
First, let's see what innerspring mattress is made of…
Innerspring futon mattress is usually constructed of many springs and multiple foam layers. Each of these parts is important and will affect your night's sleep. So it's suggested to pay attention to these components when buying an innerspring mattress for yourself or someone else.
Futon Spring Mattress Cover Layers
Usually, futons are covered in cotton. But they can also contain wool or polyester. So the covering layer staple can be natural or synthetic.
Natural is usually more expensive to produce, so the cost of a futon is higher. Synthetic innerspring futon mattress may not be preferred by some people, because of possible toxins and health risks. But the price can be lower. Most common synthetic material used in creating futon or innerspring mattress covers are latex or polyester.
You should of course see for yourself what's better for you. Is it your health? Or is it your money? Actually, you should not save money at the expense of your health. So in such case, it's recommended to spend more money on innerspring futon mattress that's made of natural fiber, than risk your health with some synthetic futons.
Inner-Spring Futon Coils
Coils are just as important, or maybe even more important, than top layers of innerspring futon. There are different mattresses on the market. Some have higher number of coils, others use less coils in a mattress. Naturally, you would assume that the more coils there are, the better the mattress would be. However, that's not necessarily true. Here's why:
These days, it doesn't matter how many coils there are used in the innerspring futon mattress. It's all about the system of the coils that is used in the mattress.
Most mattresses come with 300 to 800 coils or so. Of course, it all depends on the size of the mattress. The bigger the mattress, the more coils there are. So it is considered that if the mattress has more coils, it will provide better support and will be more comfortable to sleep on. But you should take into consideration that there are different types of coils. A futon mattress with springs may have about 300 coils, but provide the same amount of comfort if the size of those coils is larger than normal.
Another myth is that the firmer the futon, the better support it will give. Earlier, most doctors said that you should get a firm mattress. It's because sleeping on firmer mattress will result in less backaches and will keep your back straight.
These were the days when we had to adjust to the mattress. Now it's different. Mattresses have to adjust to our bodies. The problem was that some statistics said that majority of people slept on their backs. So doctors recommended to sleep on back or tummy to keep your back straight.
But these days, statistics are different. Most of us sleep on side. And people don't want to change their habits. So mattresses have to adjust to our habits and sleeping positions. That's why firmer futon spring mattresses aren't good.
When you sleep on a side, your head and spinal column are not in comfortable position, so you experience aches. In such case, softer futons are much better. They'll adjust to your curvatures much better and you'll be able to have a more comfortable sleep during the night.
In Conclusion
Let's wrap it up and see what are the most important points you should look at, before buying an innerspring futon mattress. First of all, you should choose quality spring futon. Natural staple is better for your health than synthetic, so you should choose natural fiber instead.
Second, don't consider a mattress bad, just because it has fewer coils than the others. A structure of coils is more important. Besides, larger coils, but fewer in number, can give you just as much comfort as 600 or 800 smaller coils in a mattress.


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There is a widely acknowledged research and training gap that exists between neuroscientists and physical scientists/engineers. Of particularly importance is the gap between "tool-builders" and "tool-users", where the tools in question range from advanced imaging techniques, to sample manipulation techniques such as microfluidics, to nanomaterials. Effective methods development requires a robust feedback loop between the "tool-builders" and "tool-users".
The Training Program in Neuroengineering is based at McGill University and is the realization of the vision of renowned neuroscientist David Colman (1949-2011). Dr. Colman had a deep understanding of the problem of merging concepts in experimental neurosciences, nanomaterials, biophysics, and engineering. The Neuroengineering CREATE trainee is someone who will be able to work in the languages and practices of neurosciences, physical sciences/engineering, and device engineering. The program's long-term goal is to produce a cohort of trainees with a unique set of skills that bridge the physical and neurosciences.
A number of program elements are provided that we feel are essential to a trainee being able to develop a broad understanding of the context of the problem of neuroengineering, as well as the professional skills they will need to make an impact in the field. These elements include a series of professional practice/skills development presentations, short courses to bridge knowledge gaps in this interdisciplinary field, as well as short courses focused on new tools/techniques. The opportunity to participate in three-week international exchanges rounds out the Neuroengineering trainee's experience.


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Pell Grant Software2018-03-30
To use for a Pell grant, a pupil might want to full and submit a FAFSA, which stands for Free Software for Federal Pupil Support. There are three alternative ways to submit the FAFSA type. The coed could have the shape mailed to them or obtain it from the web site, full it and ship it again by mail. The coed can also full and submit the applying on line by way of the Training Division's official web site. Candidates are inspired to use by the web site as it's the most handy possibility. The FAFSA web site may be very person pleasant and really informative. On the web site, candidates will be capable to acquire helpful and legitimate info reminiscent of how you can full the FAFSA type, how the Pell grants are computed and the eligibility standards. Candidates are additionally in a position to get assist from representatives if they've any doubts or questions. If the scholars are unable to finish the shape in a single sitting, the shape will be saved and retrieved later. When the shape is accomplished, each the coed and the dad and mom would wish to signal it electronically. The processing time takes a median of two to three weeks. College students will be capable to examine the standing of their utility from the identical web site. As the applying for the Pell grant is processed base on a primary come first serve foundation, it's advisable for college kids to submit their varieties early and earlier than the deadline. The deadline for the yr 2012 is June 30th. College students will even must submit the required paperwork reminiscent of social safety numbers, financial institution statements, earnings tax returns and tutorial certificates. The Pell grant is a wants foundation grant and subsequently, it calculates the coed's monetary wants through the use of a typical method known as the Anticipated Household Contribution (EFC). It's subsequently vital for the coed and the household to offer correct proof of their earnings tax returns. The EFC will even decide the precise quantity that shall be granted to the eligible pupil. The Pell grant is most useful to college students from low earnings households. It's not a mortgage and there's no want for it to be repaid. As everyone knows, the price of larger schooling is on the rise. The typical value in a non-public faculty is near $30,000 each year and averaging at $10,000 for public schools and universities. College students from decrease earnings households subsequently have nice problem attending larger schooling with out the assistance of the Pell grant.


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ZARD-80 Fi-Buster : A Buster Pink Story
It is one year after a war against the Gigantica Empire's witch sisters named Merguna and Surlia. Members of the Fi-Busters have grown up, and each member is busily participating their each field. But Saki Uesugi as the Buster-Pink is bearing loneliness because she actually wants to meet other members and to hang around. So she tries to be busy with only working as a nurse day by day. Such a day, Saki overhears a doctor's story about one little girl named Mika. The little girl cannot take the plunge to accept a very difficult surgery. Saki encourages the little girl and persuades her to accept the surgery. However, Marcon is known as the incarnation of a coral in the Gigantica Empire and appears there. Saki transforms herself into the Buster-Pink and fights against Marcon in order to protect Mika. But the Buster-Pink cannot handle the fight against Marcon by herself and tries to contact with the Buster-Red for help. But at that moment both of the Buster-Pink and Mika are sent into a different dimension space called the Torture-Zone. In addition to that they're chased by hunters in the Torture-Zone, and Mika is taken away as a hostage. As the result the Pink is captured and she has to bear monomaniac torture by Marcon while she is worrying about Mika's safety. But Mika is being turned into a coral statue. In order to rescue the much younger and weaker existence than the Pink-Buster, now she stands up and take action by herself!! Here is a spin-off work of the Explosive Tits Warriors that fans deadly desire!


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The power of ORM is in the Related Models Query
But there are some problem at the filter part. I cannot make it work.
But at lest I can make it work on the normal query.
var query = {
"where": {"id": "1234567890abcedf"},
include: ['Photos','Comments','Owner',{owner:'profile'}]
Above query will get the Data who id is 1234567890abcedf and also its Medias, Comments,Owner and Owner's Profile Data
You can use a single query to get all the related model and related relate model.
This is cool. Save me a lot of Async code.


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Facilitating deep learning techniques with HPECBlog
October 31, 2016
The long-sought era of machine learning in finally at hand. The potential benefit to the warfighter of deep learning techniques both enormous and profound. With defense systems trending towards greater application autonomy, deep learning techniques too complex to implement with more traditional processing technologies can now help to significantly drive advancements in on-platform processing of streaming signal or image data. These techniques are proving useful for pattern recognition tasks such as natural language processing and image feature detection, producing highly reliable autonomous decisions based on huge data sets.
Accelerating deep learning's application for defense systems are available technologies -- the number crunching capabilities of the latest very large FPGAs, power-efficient graphics processor units (GPUs), and advanced SIMD [single instruction, multiple data] processing units tied to flexible multi-core processors. By surpassing processing limitations that would have once made deep learning architectures impractical for any sort of real-time application, deep learning algorithms can be readily satisfied today even in size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained systems by the advancements delivered from new high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) platforms. Further definition of how deep learning algorithms can be applied to solve an application's particular problem is an ongoing challenge. Therefore, technology suppliers must be able to tailor and refine HPEC-based platforms so that they can be easily adapted to the needs of deep learning applications.
Understanding the basics of how deep learning works helps illustrate its positive force for the warfighter. Applications can "learn" by taking any signal (an observation) gathered by a variety of sensors (image, sound, GPS position, radar, etc.), and represent it in an abstract way, or as features such as shapes, corners, patterns, and more. These abstractions are made up of deep neural nets (DNNs, or dozens of levels of processing layers). Each layer processes data based on a particular type of feature and provides the result to the next layer. Results can be impressive and sometimes better than human-handcrafted solutions, optimizing applications such as face recognition, image registration, natural language processing, and fraud detection.
Because the network must be "trained," significant computation must be applied, where information is weighted and optimized numerous times in order to reduce potential for errors. As a result, the learning phase is typically performed in datacenters operating non-stop. Each training result is a snapshot. In a [military-aerospace] setting, these snapshots would then be deployed on the actual embedded HPEC system for testing. The process repeats continuously, with the expectation that each snapshot will respond better than the previous one.
It is possible to build modular HPEC systems optimized for deep learning applications with readily available processing-intensive platforms based on the Intel Xeon Processor D-1540 (Broadwell DE). These systems fully utilize their eight cores, with each core having two AVX2 units, to simultaneously process eight floating point FMA (fused multiply/accumulate) operations. In other words, eight cores can perform 128 floating point operations with each clock cycle. The Intel Xeon Phi co-processors increase this further. Offering 72 cores, each with two AVX-512 units processing 16 FMA operations per clock each, for a total of 2304 FMA operations. Another plus is that Intel architecture ensures binary compatibility with each subsequent generation of 64-bit processors, effectively protecting software investments from any future incompatibilities.
In addition, OpenCL is coming on strong, quickly becoming the go-to standard for heterogeneous computing. Its rich and expressive API manages data flow and computational objects, and helps ensure portability of source code over different platforms like GPUs, CPUs, and FPGAs. VPX-based boards and platforms add value as well, helping accommodate the widest range of applications by delivering high-speed/low-latency communication via the backplane with PCIe Gen3 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet links.
Fueled by today's powerful and feature-rich HPEC platforms, deep learning applications can easily sift through huge data streams from the military's large signal and image processing systems. Consider the impact of this technology for applications that must continually search for either signals or targets of interest. Deep learning can be the answer for proactively hunting threats and autonomously deploying active protection systems. Enabled by HPEC platforms and driven by the need for smart autonomy in defense systems, deep learning techniques are likely to play an important new role in the military's future operations strategy.


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There is nothing quite like movies under the stars. As the nights get warm people think about setting up a big screen movie rig in the backyard. But the two big questions are -- what projector is right for this? And what about the screen?
Picking the Projector
There is no such thing as a "backyard projector." But there are dozens of models that will work perfectly fine for outside movies. You can find the best projector for your needs by searching the Projector Database with the key criteria that describe your ideal projector. Go to the Database, and enter each of the parameters that you care about, and you'll get a list of the models that work for you.
When searching the Projector Database, here are the key things to think about:
- Resolution. The best resolution format for today's movies is 1920x1080, because that is the standard HD format you get on Netflix, Blu-ray, and all HD movie sources. Another format that works just as well is 1920x1200, or what they call WUXGA. Projectors with this format will play standard HD movies at full resolution without any scaling. There are many 1920x1080 projectors in the $700 to $1000 price range, so you don't need to spend a lot. If that is still too much, you can get lower resolution projectors that will work almost as well in either 1280x800 or 1280x720 resolution. They are cheaper, but won't be quite as sharp. Enter your desired Resolution into the Database sort.
- Portability. You don't want to leave a projector outside very long, so portability is a big deal. You can get projectors that weigh less than ten pounds and are easy to set up and take down. But if you don't care about weight, you can get more sophisticated home theater projectors that weigh up to 15 or 20 lbs. If you care about weight, you can enter the desired weight range into the Database.
- Brightness. Get a projector that is at least 2000 lumens and maybe up to 3000 or even 4000 lumens depending on how big your screen is and how much ambient light you expect to have from home and yard lighting. The brightest ones will cost a bit more, so your budget will be a factor. Enter the desired lumen output range into the Database.
- Throw distance. You need to know where your projector needs to be placed given the size of your screen. If you are setting up a screen on one side of your pool and the projector on the other, and your pool is 15 feet wide, you will need a projector that can hit your screen from at least 15 feet. Enter your screen size and desired throw distance into the Database.
- On-board Audio. For temporary set ups outside it often helps to have audio speakers on the projector itself. Most portables come with some audio but the volume and quality can vary considerably. Projectors can come with single 2-watt speakers up to dual stereo speakers at 20-watts each. Check the audio on the various products's spec sheets, but be aware that the numbers do not always correlate to quality. We've heard 5W speakers that are louder and clearer than 10W speakers. Consult your projector reseller for details.
- MHL. For outdoor portable use, having MHL wireless capability is often a bonus. Most of the new portable video projectors have HDMI with at least one port MHL enabled, but check the specs to make sure it's there unless you want to use an HDMI cable to get the video signal into the projector.
- Price. You can select a price range if you want. Enter that into the Database
After entering all of these sort criteria into the Database you will end up with a list of projectors that meet ALL of your desired criteria. If there are no projectors listed, that means there are NO projectors on the market that meet ALL of your criteria, and you need to adjust your inputs until it begins to give you models that do.
Picking a Screen
Though you can use a bedsheet or the side of a house for a reflection surface, the best picture quality will be realized with the use of a portable projection screen that you can set up and take down without too much trouble. There are many suppliers of pop-up portable screens that work for temporary outdoor deployment. The key factors are (1) portability, (2) ease of set up and take down, (3) ease of anchoring for stability in the breeze, and (4) price.
We've had good luck with the VApex portable screen from Visual Apex. It is extremely compact, but it assembles into a full metal frame rig with stands in less than ten minutes. They also supply an ingenious portable projector stand that assembles in less than five minutes.
The Elite Yard Master is also a popular option. It is more complex and takes somewhat longer to assemble than the VApex, but it comes in a wider selection of sizes.
There are many suppliers of these screens, and in general the best sources for these are the online projector resellers such as...
These professional resellers not only stock various models but offer projectors and screens bundled for outdoor set ups, helping you to save money on the total package. These professional online resellers have customer service personnel that can help you tailor a solution to your budget.
In the end, setting up an outdoor movie night is a piece of cake with the right equipment. Check our your projector and screen options today, and you can be in the backyard theater business by next week.


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If you decided to buy a bike for your kids you should learn how it differs from an adult one. Size is the most important feature to get right when buying your child a new bike. If a bike is too big or too small, it's going to be difficult and potentially dangerous for your child to ride.
Those who want to be fit, who want to travel and to save money – three-in-one – cycling is the best idea! Grab your friends – and you'll get a wonderful company and amazing impressions! Your rides will take you outdoors to rarely explored scenery.
Trials and mountain-biking legend Martyn Ashton has launched the Global Cycling Network to deliver Road Bike Party 3, the first complete film in the series since Ashton's 2013 accident which left him paralysed from the waist down.


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Children's Agricultural Literacy Wing
With the help of Redbox Workshop of Chicago, we are developing a one-of-a-kind children's wing where the young and young-at-heart learn the story of agriculture through interactive exhibits and gross motor play. We've raised $2 million of the $4.3 million we need to bring this project to reality. There are corporate and individual sponsorship opportunities available. Check out the new AgWorks look book or watch the video below to learn more.
We are developing a first-class museum facility that teaches our community the importance of agriculture in our every day lives. This is done through a growing list of interactive exhibits where museum visitors can see, hear and experience life on the farm.
History of the FiberMax Center for Discovery
On April 13, 2012, the American Museum of Agriculture opened the doors of its new facility, the Alton Brazell Exhibit Hall, at 1121 Canyon Lake Drive. Over forty years ago, a handful of Lubbock civic leaders, including Alton Brazell, recognized the region's agricultural heritage was slipping away. In 1969, the Lubbock County Commissioners' Court gave Brazell the authority to begin collecting machinery that was a part of the technical transformation that took place on South Plains' farms. The tractors, combines, plows, drills and thousands of other farm-related artifacts became a part of the Lubbock County Historical Collection.
In 2001, a non-profit group was organized to assume responsibility of and administration of the Lubbock County Historical Collection and incorporated as the American Museum of Agriculture. In 2003, the museum finalized contract agreements with the City of Lubbock to lease a beautiful 24.87-acre tract on the east side of downtown adjacent to Mackenzie Park. This prime site afforded ample space for expansion and a stunning view of the downtown skyline. The site allows the museum to interpret and showcase its tremendous collection in both outdoor and indoor settings and provides for the development of historic farm structures.
In 2008, the museum finalized contract agreements with the City of Lubbock by meeting and exceeding the City's goal of raising $1 million toward the building project. The City granted the Museum a 50-year lease on the land with a 49-year option to renew. In 2009, MWM Architects of Lubbock were contracted to develop a master plan, site plan and building plan for the Museum's new facility. In April of 2011 Lee Lewis Construction broke ground on Phase I of the new facility. Phase II, which includes the main exhibit hall, Plains Cotton Growers Conference Center, a catering kitchen and outdoor patio, was completed in April of 2014. The conference center has been a popular and beautiful venue for local civic groups, conventions, weddings and other gatherings, hosting over 25,000 people since opening.
The museum continues to evolve and serves as a living memorial to the thousands of farm families that were pioneers in agriculture. Lubbock County, The City of Lubbock and the people that live on the South Plains owe a tremendous debt to agriculture. It was primarily agriculture that transformed Lubbock from a tiny ranch trade village to a thriving metropolis of more than 230,000 people. It was agriculture that made Lubbock and the surrounding counties the leading region for cotton production in the nation.


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Five Reasons Anti-Evolution Measures are a Bad Idea
In 1925, John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, was put on trial in Tennessee for having the audacity to teach evolution to his students. In the 21st century, teachers don't have to worry about being arrested for teaching this fundamental topic in science, and the Supreme Court declared teaching creationism unconstitutional in 1987, but that hasn't stopped state legislators around the country from trying to enact laws that encourage the teaching of alternative theories or protect teachers who do so. The latest attempt, in Tennessee, looks like it might actually become law. But here are five reasons why it shouldn't:
1 ) Evolution is the basis for all biology. Without it, much of biology and modern medicine just doesn't make sense. There's general agreement that good science education is needed to produce a populace capable of handling our increasingly technological future. Evolution has to be part of that, but sadly, it rarely is. A recent poll of high school biology teachers found that only 28 percent consistently teach evolution.
2 ) Teaching unscientific "alternatives" only confuses students. "There is virtually no scientific controversy among the overwhelming majority of researchers on the core facts of...evolution," Alan Leshner, executive publisher of Science, wrote recently to two Tennessee legislators. "Asserting that there are significant scientific controversies about the overall nature of when there are none will only confuse students, not enlighten them."
3 ) Science-based industries might conclude the state is anti-science. Florida is considering its own law to require "critical analysis" of evolution, which could open the door to unscientific theories being presented in the classroom. In response to the measure, the Florida Academy of Sciences issued a statement noting that the measure would "undermine the reputation of our state and adversely affect our economic future as we try to attract new high tech and biomedical jobs to Florida."
4 ) Anti-evolution theories aren't science and don't belong in a science classroom. Whether you call it creationism, creation science or intelligent design, it isn't science and shouldn't be taught alongside scientific theories. I could see the story of creation being taught in a history class, while studying the creation mythologies of various world cultures, but anything else is promoting religion and is unconstitutional in a public school.
5 ) If it goes to court, the anti-evolution side will lose, potentially costing a school district or state a lot of money. Case in point: Dover, Pennsylvania. The Dover Area School District was sued by parents after it mandated the teaching of intelligent design. The district lost, spectacularly (pdf), and paid more than $1 million in legal fees. Defending the teaching of anti-evolution theories now could potentially cost millions more.


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You don't need Valentine's Day to tell someone you love them. You show them how much you love 'em every single day.
Surprising your loved ones with a DIY video that shows your mutual good old memories never fails to make their day! Who doesn't love surprises, especially when it's a sweet one?
If you're creating a video for the one you love, be it your other half, family or friend, hopefully this set of 8 "Share the Love" templates will be of great help.
And did I say they're FREE? Yes, you've heard it right! These customisable templates are now available for you to download here:
- - 8 free templates
- - 4K Resolution
- - Easy to add pictures/videos through dropzones, change colors, fonts and many more
- - Compatible with Motion 5.3 and FCP 5.3
- - Music not included
It's super duper easy to customise these templates in FCP. Simply follow the following steps:
- - Step 1: Navigate the "Share the Love" template into Movies - Motion Templates - Generators
- - Step 2: Open FCPX, under Generators, you'll be able to see the template
- - Step 3: Drag and drop a template of your preference to your timeline to customise.
Here are the fonts I have used in this project:
- - Valentine
- - Hoobie
- - Mark My Words
- - Amulhed
- - Lost in Wild
- - Century Gothic Regular & Bold
- - Bromello
If you're looking for beautiful and romantic fonts for your project, Creative Market is the good place to go. Here are some of their delicate fonts:
These fonts can be found HERE.
On a weekly basis, Creative Market will take 6 of their premium goods and make them free with a limited time. So make sure you check them out for amazingly well-designed stuff. 😉 I have been collecting their freebies for a while now. When I need some bits and bobs for my personal project, I would usually browse my collection, and their freebies come very handy at times!
This week they're giving away 20 Vintage Logos and Badges, a set of Romance Watercolour Clipart, Real Stones font, hand-drawn icons and many more. Click HERE to see more of their freebies this week.
Are you a font fanatic? Do you know any delicate and beautiful font that is perfect for a romance-themed project? Please do share with us in the comment section below!