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Happy weekend guys! Even if it's not a good weekend for me because I have to study hard I have a new spring-ish look to show you :D I'm wearing a new gorgeous jumpsuit with the perfect burgundy color and a delicate flower print, I'm always a big fan of dresses with flower prints and it's my first jumpsuit like this ever! It has a huge neckline so you can wear it in a bit more casual way with a top under it like I did, or if you're brave enough with a gorgeous bralette, I have to try this combination too! The rest of the look is quite basic 'cause I wanted the romper to stand out, but I had to add one more flower detail with my tights I got some years ago in Tokyo, they're still one of my favorites! Lately I'm also using my new Peach palette by Too Faced and I'm so in love with the quality and the warm shades!


text: Peter Skomoroch wrote: > This reminds me of a similar issue I had. What approaches do you take for > large dense matrix multiplication in MPI, when the matrices are too large to > fit into cluster memory? If I hack up something to cache intermediate Hi Peter: > results to disk, the IO seems to drag everything to a halt and I'm looking > for a better solution. I'd like to use some libraries like PETSc, but how Disk memory has a latency of 10^-3 seconds or so, and a bandwidth of from 10^7 to 10^8 bytes/second. Compare that to physical ram. Latencies of 10^-7 seconds or less, and bandwidths of 10^9 to 10^10 seconds. If you are going to do disk IO, pay that latency cost once for many pages, not once per page with seeks. Just like with other streaming calculations, you likely need to do some sort of double buffering. That said, disk IO is not really the answer. > would you work around memory limitations like this (short of building a > bigger cluster)? 20+ years ago I worked on a large dense Markov matrix calculation where after computing the relevant matrix elements and using them in the calculation, I would throw them away. It was cheaper (less time consuming) than spilling them to disk and then trying to recover them later. Then again, this was an IBM 3090 VF 180 ... so ... Since you are doing matrix multiplication, I might suggest looking at the Golub and Van Loan bible on Matrix Computations for some ideas. That said, Matrix multiplications are decomposable. If you can reconstruct matrix elements easily (more quickly than storage/retrieval) this might be a good method. Or if you can decompose it far enough, or if the problem has some sort of essential symmetry you can exploit in the matrix structure, this could help. Symmetries not only imply conservation laws, they tend to reduce storage requirements. Out of curiousity, what size matrices are you using? I know some of the structural folks can, with large enough DoF problems hit 10^8 or so on a side. Not dense (usually with specific banded structure). And that brings up another possibility. If you can perform various transforms on your matrix to get it into a well known form (banded, ...) this could make multiplications go much faster. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615

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Vail Mountain, CO (March 2, 2013) Shaun White and Kelly Clark won halfpipe titles at the 31st annual Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships presented by MINI in sunny Vail Mountain, taking home $45,000 each as well as a legendary US Open halfpipe title.
Today's momentous first US Open at Vail exceeded all expectations, with the best snowboarders in the world treating a record-breaking crowd to some of the most progressive riding in the history of the sport.
Coming off of his 6th consecutive X Games win, Shaun White put together an unbeatable second run at the US Open with a top score of 95.58, earning him his fifth US Open men's halfpipe victory – in addition to his two US Open men's slopestyle titles. His winning trick combination included a backside air, frontside 1080 double cork stalefish grab, Cab 1080 double cork melon grab, frontside 540 stalefish grab, backside 1260 double McTwist mute grab, to a frontside 1260 double cork stalefish grab. Shaun also claimed the top five highest trick scores of the day.
"It was incredible to get my fifth US Open halfpipe title in Vail, and hands down, this is the best pipe of the year," said Shaun White. "I'm pretty happy to end my season with a win at the US Open."
Fourteen-year-old phenom Ayumu Hirano secured second place at the US Open with his game-changing style, earning a score of 87.40. Today, Ayumu also became the World Snowboard Tour Halfpipe Champion for 2013, earning a place in snowboard history as the youngest rider ever to claim this honorable title. Louie Vito rounded out the podium in third with an overall score of 79.58.
The women's competition was equally as impressive, with Kelly Clark taking an early lead and earning an unprecedented sixth US Open halfpipe championship title. Kelly's huge winning run scored an 84.45 and included a frontside 1080 indy grab, Cab 720 mute grab, lien air, backside 540 mute grab to a frontside 720 stalefish grab. Kelly made snowboarding history in so many ways today: she now has the most halfpipe titles in US Open history, she earned her third World Snowboard Tour title, and most impressively, she now can claim 61 halfpipe wins – the most for any rider, male or female in snowboarding history.
"Being the winningest US Open champ is such an honor, it's a big win for me today, especially since I grew up going to this event and it inspired me to be a snowboarder," said Kelly Clark.
The remaining two female podium spots switched up constantly throughout the halfpipe finals. When it was all said and done, Olympic gold medalist Hannah Teter landed in second with a score of 82.13 and Arielle Gold, who had the highest scoring trick of the contest with her frontside 900 mute grab, took third place with a score of 80.88.
Additionally, the $3,000 Nokia Rookie Award for halfpipe was presented today to Chloe Kim and Taylor Gold, who both earned the award through a combination of their standings on the World Snowboard Points List, individual competition results and progressive riding.
If you missed any of the action from the 31st annual Burton US Open, check your local listings to watch re-airings from Vail on Universal Sports and NBC Sports Network, plus original coverage, additional airings, run replays, full webcasts, broadcast schedules and more on www.Burton.com/USO. And remember to follow our line at facebook.com/burtonsnowboards, #BurtonUSOpen, twitter.com/burtonsnowboard and @burtonsnowboard on Instagram.
Men's Halfpipe Final Results:
1. Shaun White USA, BURTON, 95.58 – $45,000
2. Ayumu Hirano JPN, BURTON, 87.40 – $20,000
3. Louie Vito USA, RED BULL, 79.58 – $10,000
Women's Halfpipe Final Results:
1. Kelly Clark USA, BURTON, 84.45 – $45,000
2. Hannah Teter USA, BURTON, 82.13 – $20,000
3. Arielle Gold USA, BURTON, 80.88 – $10,000
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Full competition results can be found on www.burton.com/uso.
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A huge thank you to the the following partners for their support of the 31st edition of the Burton US Open: MINI, Vail Resorts, Mountain Dew®, Town of Vail, Nokia, Paul Mitchell, 3M™ Thinsulate™ Insulation, GoPro, G-SHOCK, Shiseido, Matador, Clif, Transworld, Snowboarder, Analog, anon. and the World Snowboard Tour.
About Burton
In 1977, Jake Burton Carpenter founded Burton Snowboards out of his Vermont barn and has dedicated his life to snowboarding ever since. Burton has played a pivotal role in growing snowboarding from a backyard hobby to a world-class sport by creating groundbreaking products, supporting a team of top snowboarders and pushing resorts to allow snowboarding. Today, Burton designs and manufactures industry-leading products for snowboarding and the snowboard lifestyle, including snowboards, boots, bindings, outerwear and layering as well as year-round apparel, packs/bags and accessories. Privately held and owned by Jake and his wife, Burton President Donna Carpenter, Burton's headquarters are in Burlington, Vermont with offices in Austria, Japan, Australia and California. For more information, visit www.burton.com. Follow our line at: facebook.com/burtonsnowboards, twitter.com/burtonsnowboard and @burtonsnowboard on Instagram.
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About Vail Mountain
Celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout the 2012-2013 season and coveted as the largest ski resort in the United States with more than 5,200 acres of skiable terrain and seven legendary Back Bowls spanning seven miles, Vail is an extraordinary winter vacation destination. Under blue skies more than 300 days each year and with more groomed terrain than anywhere on the planet, families reconnect and celebrate here from year to year and generation to generation. The vacation experience is world class, from the Vail Ski & Snowboard School to the events, activities and festivals, the shops and spas, abundant culinary experiences and luxurious accommodations. Coupled with the vision inherent in the spirit of Vail's founders, and a modern day commitment to excellence in all aspects of guest service and operations, Vail can still credibly lay claim to being a resort like nothing on earth www.vail.com.


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SEBI has given the no objection to the reappointment
GN Bureau | August 30, 2017
Ashishkumar Chauhan has been reappointed managing director and CEO of the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) for a further period of 5 years from November 2017 to November 2022.
Abright yellow van with figures of children playing with a whirligig, a Newton's cradle, a magnetic compass rolls into the Government Higher Primary School in Kittaganahalli, on the outskirts of Bengaluru. Students in the playground leave what they are doing and mill about it in excitement. For they
Not many children dream of starting an idyllic school of their own when they grow up. But Ramji Raghavan, founder of the Agastya International Foundation – which fosters the creative learning of science in stude
While the entire nation is agog with political grapevine, political parties are weighing on all options to lure voters by touching upon issues that impact their lives. Several parties, including the BJP and the Congress have released their manifestos while many are about to join the bandwagon. The
Urmila Matondkar joined the Congress party and within just two months into politics, the actor is already surrounded by controversies – from being accused of making anti-Hindu comments to inappropriate poll campaigning. Fielded against BJP's Gopal Shetty in the Mumbai North constituency, Ma
Dressed in white shirt and pants, three time Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) corporator Manoj Kotak is now contesting from Mumbai north-east constituency. Kotak, representing BJP in the BMC, is ready to rally around Ward 125 in Ghatkopar east area. It's about 7:30 pm on a hot April e
Sunil Bhatt, a Gujarat-based professional, has completed what is possibly the first PhD thesis on prime minister Narendra Modi. The thesis, titled 'Leadership, Governance and Development: A case study of Shri Narendra Modi', has been accepted at the Veer Narmad South Gujarat Universit


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The 'Do-Little' Congress heads home
Congress is leaving town for a five-week recess after failing to address one of the most serious issues facing the nation: the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Republican leaders in the House were able to recover from an embarrassing setback by passing border legislation late Friday full of political red meat for their conservative base, including revisions to a 2008 anti-trafficking law and more money for the National Guard.
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Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and his GOP colleagues also passed — over bitter Democratic objections — a bill to rein in President Barack Obama's program to shield undocumented immigrants from deportations.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama: 'We tortured some folks')
But the House bills have no chance of becoming law. The Senate has already adjourned for the month, and Obama blasted the GOP proposals hours before House lawmakers cast their vote.
In the final days of the summer session of Congress, lawmakers reached a deal to overhaul the scandal-plagued Department of Veterans Affairs, provide aid to Israel and prevent highway construction projects from halting.
Yet the failure of members from both parties in the House and Senate to send a border bill to Obama's desk served as the latest example of the apparent inability of Congress to come together on legislation addressing thorny national issues.
A narrowly divided House approved the border bill 223-189 late Friday after GOP leaders abruptly pulled their original measure from the floor on Thursday when it became clear it lacked sufficient support from the party's own rank and file. House Republicans, determined to pass a border crisis package before leaving for the August recess, worked through the night to revise the bill and switch several opponents in favor of the measure — a redemption of sorts for the new Republican leadership.
(Also on POLITICO: Fla. judge: Redraw congressional map now)
"The House has just passed a responsible bill to address the humanitarian crisis at our southern border," Boehner said. "It will help secure our border and ensure the safe and swift return of these children to their home countries. If President Obama needs these resources, he will urge Senate Democrats to put politics aside, come back to work, and approve our bill."
Later on Friday, the Republican-led chamber voted 216-192 on a separate measure to gut a 2012 Obama administration program – created without the blessing of Congress — that has protected from deportation hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who grew up in the United States. One member voted present.
House Republicans relentlessly criticized the Democratic-controlled Senate for leaving Washington without having passed its own measure — a $2.7 billion package that was killed during a Thursday procedural vote. But the two chambers were on dramatically opposite tracks for weeks, and it was never likely that Congress would reach a solution before the congressional recess.
(Also on POLITICO: Why Cantor really resigned)
Republicans also seized on muddled messages from the Obama administration about whether it supported changes to the 2008 anti-trafficking law that came under the microscope with the influx of unaccompanied migrant children, primarily from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. GOP lawmakers overwhelmingly supported such revisions and made it a condition of approving any additional funding for Obama, who initially asked for $3.7 billion to deal with the crisis.
The border supplemental measure that ultimately passed the House — outlined to GOP lawmakers Friday morning — uses revised language from Texas Rep. John Carter, Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt and Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston tightening a 2008 trafficking law that, in practice, made it more difficult to deport unaccompanied children from countries other than Canada and Mexico.
The bill is more costly than the legislation that had to be yanked from the floor Thursday. The latest version sends $35 million to Southern governors to pay for the National Guard units involved in responding to the crisis, boosting the price tag to $694 million — still a far cry from Obama's request. It is still fully offset by spending cuts, GOP sources said.
Those changes seemed to build support for the package among House Republicans.
"I'm so proud of our team," said Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas). "We didn't have it quite right [on Thursday], and you know sometimes when people don't have it quite right, they quit. I think what Republicans showed the American people is that we are not quitting on this problem."
The fight over the Republican immigration measures provoked strong emotions on both sides of the aisle. As lawmakers debated the the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals measure Friday evening, the House sergeant-at-arms was on the floor to ensure lawmakers behaved in the chamber, according to members.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and GOP Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania got into a heated exchange on the floor after Marino chastised her for failing to pass immigration reform during her tenure as speaker. Once Marino was finished speaking, Pelosi raced over to the junior Republican and was pointing at him, clearly upset over his comments.


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Getting Over LeBron: Cavaliers get Sessions from T-Wolves for West
The Cleveland Cavaliers completed their first post- LeBron James personnel move on Monday night, trading troubled guard Delonte West and point guard Sebastian Telfair to the Minnesota Timberwolves for point guard Ramon Sessions, 7-footer Ryan Hollins and a future second-round pick.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: The wait is over.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have finally completed their first transaction in the post LeBron James era, sending Sebastian Telfair and Delonte West to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Ryan Hollins, Ramon Sessions, and a future second round draft pick.
After losing James on national television, the Cavaliers came close, but failed to sign Matt Barnes and Kyle Lowry.
They got their man in Sessions, a young combo guard who will fit Coach Byron Scott's up-tempo system next to fellow combo guard Mo Williams.
Sessions, the Timberwolves' big free agent signing last summer, became the odd man out when the club signed signed Luke Ridnour to a four year pact last week.
He'll have something to prove with the Cavaliers. He'll play well.
Hollins is a long, athletic big man. As a former track star, he can rebound, defend, and block shots; however, he's raw offensively.
Meanwhile, the Timberwolves have already announced they'll waive West and pocket the salary cap savings. Telfair will serve as Ridnour's back-up while starter Jonny Flynn recovers from hip surgery.
--Oly Sandor.
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Andrew Griffiths needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 480 designs submitted by 110 freelance designers.
Misty Mountain Farms
Misty Mountain Farms is a subsidiary of Mungalli Creek Dairy, a boutique organic and biodynamic dairy farm based in the fertile Atherton Tablelands (http://www.athertontablelands.com.au) region of North Queensland, Australia.
Mungalli Creek Dairy manufactures and sells a range of certified biodynamic dairy products including milk, yoghurt and soft cheese.
We are establishing the new Misty Mountain Farms brand and range of products to compliment the existing Mungalli Creek Dairy products. The main point of difference is that Mungalli Creek Dairy products are all organic and biodynamic, whereas Misty Mountain Farm's products are not. They are all natural and certainly of a much higher standard than mass produced dairy products.
Mungalli Creek Dairy products will be the premium priced products, Misty Mountain Farms will be priced just below this but above mainstream, mass produced dairy products.
The Misty Mountain Farm products will predominantly be sold to residents who live within the local region (a radius of approximately 500 kilometres), and there is a strong local loyalty.
The Misty Mountain Farm products will predominantly be sold to residents who live within the local region (a radius of approximately 500 kilometres), and there is a strong local loyalty.
Buyers are generally female (mom shopping for the family), who are health conscious and not as price driven as other consumers. Consumers will be discerning, health conscious, family orientated, loyal and local.
We have no preconceived ideas regarding the look and feel of the Misty Mountain logo, however the fact that it will be used on food packaging needs to considered and there must be some degree of versatility to use the logo in various formats and styles.
We want the brand to show the wholesome, rich and high quality nature of the products we sell. Clearly some play around the theme of the Misty Mountain is a logical association.
We are currently planning to use the tag, "PURE GOODNESS".
The main consideration for this logo is that it needs to be distinctive on packaging as it has to stand out in the very competitive retail environment of supermarket shelves.
The logo will be applied to a range of packaging – including 1 litre and 2 litre plastic milk bottles, 200g & 500 gram round yoghurt containers and others (to get an idea of the style of packaging please visit the current Mungalli Creek Dairy Website - http://www.mungallicreekdairy.com.au/
Please note packaging will evolve over time to include other tub and bottle styles. The Brand may also be used in the longer term on other farm products of a non-dairy nature.
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BlackAdder is an application development environment that allows professional and hobbyist programmers alike to produce complex applications for the Windows and Linux platforms. BlackAdder brings together the Python programming language, the Ruby development language (Ruby is temporarily removed until the Qt bindings are updated to Qt3, currently in progress), the Qt graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, ODBC database connectivity and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that includes an editor, a GUI designer, a debugger and an interactive Python interpreter. (A Ruby interpreter, debugger and ODBC support for Ruby are not yet available.) BlackAdder gives the programmer, in a single package, all they need to develop sophisticated applications.


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Gamma Grey is soft and playful, a little bit serious but very sexy. A sell out!
SoL are for ending waste and embracing taste with their beautiful hand-blown glass cups designed to keep the heat in and the nasties out. They're sustainable, safe to use and look after our environment.
SoL have created these cups to meet an important and growing demand – it's portable, sustainable, reusable, aesthetically pleasing and can be used with minimal hassle so you can enjoy your coffee or tea with zero concern for your health.
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Syamappala needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 105 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
We are accomplished IT Professionals based out of San Francisco, CA, USA and India with cumulative experience of 50+ years with an excellent trackrecord of incubating and building businesses. We are working with a prestigious research labs in the US to develop and commercialize the collage, slideshows and video summaries technologies and make them available on emerging platforms such as Web 2.0, iPhone/Andriod mobile phones and Facebook.
1) Worldwide Internet and Mobile consumers (Gen X and Gen Yers) that would like to create and share media across Web, TV, Mobile and Facebook platforms.
2) Business customers in countries like India that would like to use rimeo.tv platform to launch job search, online marketplace, elearning etc services
We need an excellent website design that dazzle and entice online users to easily upload photos and videos, organize them, create collages, slideshows (mix of photos, videos and music) and video summaries and share them with friends online, on TV, Youtube or Facebook. They should be able to order Print copies, Photobooks, DVD etc.
Please design 5 web pages. " rimeo.tv-ContentOrganization-AnExample.pdf" file provides the details. Logo design is a plus.
Attached pdf files - 1) rimeo.pdf, 2) rimeo.tv-ContentOrganization-AnExample.pdf should give an idea of what we are trying to offer and how we expect the content to be organized.
Collage will inherit the look and feel, collage creation technology from http://www.sgcollage.com.
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Is the World Turning a Corner on High Food Prices?
If you Google the latest headlines, you will see plenty about the high price of food. Globally, however, average prices for major food commodities actually are 11% lower than a year ago, according to the latest edition of the World Bank's quarterly Food Price Watch. Does this mean the world is out of the danger zone on high food prices? Economist José Cuesta sheds light on the issue.
Food prices have been falling globally since August 2012. Have we turned the corner on the food crisis?
It's true we've seen prices declining in a sustained way, but we're still only 18% away from that historic peak in 2012. The reasons prices increased in the first place – such as growing demand for food and weather concerns – are still issues, and probably will be in the future.I don't think that we have turned any corner. Prices seem to be less volatile, and that's good news. But that doesn't mean the level of prices hasn't continued to be high; they are still high.


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In all seriousness, the Marlin is a great rifle, too. I own a Model 60, one of the best rifles ever made.
Brownings are nice, but in terms of quality AND accuarcy AND ruggedness, it's hard to beat the Marlin.
Pretty cool! If it were me, I'd be heading to the taxidermist with the critter. But, if you do decide to eat it, I'm guessing it would probably taste like Whooping Crane.
noname, I'm gonna start calling you Mikey... from the old Life cereal commercials. "Give it to Mikey. He'll eat anything!"
Hey, the chicks dig it!
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All Xbox One Racing Games- In this advanced era, of course everyone has felt the ease in various ways. One of them is ease when driving a car. With the presence of an automatic transmission car there are many people who feel helped. Because the automatic transmission car is easier to drive compared to a manual transmission car. However, do you know that each car that has both automatic and manual transmission has its own advantages and disadvantages.
In addition to seeing the prices set by the seller of the buyer, especially the buyer must pay attention to what fuel is used by the car to be purchased. In this matic or manual car, the fuel used is fuel oil so that fuel itself becomes one of the things that need to be considered. So how to differentiate the use of fuel on automatic and manual cars, that is, if many manual cars say that a manual car is economical compared to a car that has a mechanical engine.
First check what is the cause of waste, the manual motorized car is often said to be economical because the driver always adjusts to what he needs such as using engine speed and using a clutch, if you want to move gears the brakes are low. Whereas the automatic car cannot be adjusted like a manual car so it tends to experience irregular rotation.-All Xbox One Racing Games


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The French Studies Colloquium at Hope College will present the address "On Being a Global Mobility and Immigration Specialist" by 2004 graduate Anne Stevens on Monday, April 1, at 4 p.m. in room 135 of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The lecture is part of the series "Life after Hope," delivered each spring by a Hope graduate with a French major.
Stevens, who majored in business management and French, began her
international career after graduation by accepting a post as an English teaching assistant within France's education system. Upon her return to the United States, she moved to Chicago, Ill., and joined the French high technology multinational, SAFRAN, in 2006 as an expatriate administrator for North and Latin Americas for nearly two years.
In part due to her French language and cross-cultural skills, she was sought out in 2008 to manage the United States operations for a start-up joint venture, Servi Doryl USA, a French manufacturer and French-Canadian distributor, until late 2009.
To continue her interest in migration of people across borders, she relocated to Belgium in 2010 and completed an M.A. in migration studies with the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies. Returning to Chicago in 2011, Stevens worked at SIRVA Relocation as a global assignment consultant, and since July 2012, she has been with Mondelēz International (formerly Kraft Foods) as a senior international assignment analyst, North and Latin America expatriate populations, while also contributing to Global Mobility initiatives.
Stevens also currently sits as 1st violin in several Chicago area community orchestras, and previous orchestra experience has included performances throughout France, Belgium and China.
The Martha Miller Center for Global Communication is located at 257 Columbia Ave., at the corner of Columbia Avenue and 10th Street.


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Competition is a main driver of growth. It plays a fundamental role in defending and strengthening the internal market. The maintenance of a system of free and undistorted competition is one of the basic principles of the EU.
The EU's policy in respect of State aids seeks to ensure
- free competition,
- an efficient allocation of resources and
- a well-functioning internal market,
whilst respecting the international commitments of the EU.
The EU's State aid rules are enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). Article 107 of the TFEU defines what constitutes State aid and spells out that State aid in principles is prohibited. It further lays down those grounds on which aid may be considered to be compatible with the internal market. Article 108 of the TFEU sets out the main procedural principles governing the action to ensure Member States' compliance with the substantive State aid rules.
>> Go to the consolidated version of the TFEU
State aid rules in the agricultural sector are based on three different principles:
- They follow the general principles of competition policy.
- They have to be coherent and consistent with the EU's common agricultural and rural development policies.
- The new rules take into account the EU`s international commitments.
>> More info on State aid in general and on State aid in the agricultural sector
>> More info on the legal instruments
These legal instruments were revised in the course of the years 2012 to 2014. The current Agricultural Block Exemption Regulation ("ABER") and Community Guidelines for State aid in the agriculture and forestry sector ("GL") apply as from 1 July 2014. The new agricultural de minimis Regulation, applicable since 1 January 2014, was amended in February 2019.
Search for a State aid case
All State aid cases that have been the object of a Commission decision since 1 January 2000 are available in the Commission's competition case database, including information on block exemption cases registered by the Commission. It does not include information on on-going cases for which no decision has yet been taken.
>> Search for a case in the database
The treatment at Commission level of the specific cases related to State aids in the agricultural sector is under the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.
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The ARCHOS Diamond Omega relies on a giant screen of 5,73" in the new format 17:9 for a total immersion in your videos and games. Ultra bright, you can display all your content even in direct sun. Its IPS display combined with its FHD + resolution offer spectacular detail and color. To go even further in style, the ARCHOS Diamond Omega's screen has an ultra-compact 'Borderless' screen allowing you to hold its 5,73" screen in a 5.2" phone format. The display surface of the front panel thus covers more than 85% of the mobile!
The combination of the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835 processor with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage provides the highest level of performance in the world of smartphones. The first mobile processor engraved in 10 nanometers, the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835 allows the ARCHOS Diamond Omega to achieve seamless fluidity, breathtaking performance graphics and high-energy efficiency. With 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM, this feeling of freedom of action is accentuated: don't hesitate to launch as many applications as you want and switch from one to the other instantly. In addition, thanks the 128GB internal storage in UFS 2.1, download, take pictures and shoot 4K without limits.
Born for photography, the ARCHOS Diamond Omega has no less than 4 cameras: 2 at the back and 2 at the front. The 12MP (sony IMX362 Dual Pix) main back sensor opens at f1.8 to capture the maximum amount of light and allows you to take high-quality photos day and night. The second sensor of 23MP (Sony IMX 318) opens to f2.0 and allows to obtain a zoom x2 without loss. The combination of the two sensors offers many options including the famous portrait mode with a beautiful bokeh effect. You can also get this nice effect with the 5MP front dual sensor. Indeed, these sensors can work together and apply a very aesthetic background blur, which will give a new dimension to your selfies.
The ARCHOS Diamond Omega embarks the fast charging technology from Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0. This allows your device to charge 50% in only 20 minutes! And if you are really in a hurry, 5 minutes of charging will give you 5h of standby power. Quick Charge 3.0 also ensures that your device does not heat up during the charging process.
This latest version of the Nubia user interface relies on Android 7.1 Nougat and offers many improvements to the user's experience. For example, it is now possible to bring up a new context menu when you press the icon of an application. It's the end of the day and you're afraid of running out of battery? Then activate the new NeoPower 3.0 power saving mode. Even more efficient, this mode allows you to gain up to 3h extra battery.
Certain video and audio* bitrates, resolutions, and/or file variations may not be compatible.
MPEG-4 ASP@L5 AVI (MPEG-4: ISO standard by Moving Picture Experts Group; AVI: audio/video file container by Microsoft) without GMC and Quarter.
Does not read AAC protected files.
Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. Test run with low backlight.
Compatible recieving device required for DNLA and WiFi display
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U.S. Hispanic Country of Origin Counts for Nation, Top 30 Metropolitan Areas
I. Overview
Hispanics of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin or descent remain the nation's three largest Hispanic country-of-origin groups, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. However, while the relative position of these three groups has remained unchanged since 2000, the next four Hispanic sub-groups grew faster during the decade.
Hispanics of Salvadoran origin, the fourth largest Hispanic country-of-origin group grew by 152% since 2000. The Dominican population grew by 85%, the Guatemalan population by 180% and the Colombian population by 93%. Meanwhile, the Cuban and Puerto Rican populations grow more slowly—44% and 36% respectively (Ennis, Ríos-Vargas and Albert, 2011).1
Country of origin is based on self-described family ancestry or place of birth in response to questions in the Census Bureau's American Community Survey and on the 2010 Census form. It is not necessarily the same as place of birth, nor is it indicative of immigrant or citizenship status. For example, a U.S. citizen born in Los Angeles of Mexican immigrant parents or grandparents may (or may not) identify his or her country of origin as Mexico. Likewise, some immigrants born in Mexico may identify another country as their origin depending on the place of birth of their ancestors.
The 2010 Decennial Census counted 50.5 million Hispanics. Among them, there were 31.8 million Mexican-origin Hispanics–the largest Hispanic country-of-origin group. They are followed by Puerto Rican origin Hispanics, who number 4.6 million in the U.S. and make up 9.2% of all Hispanics. Next are Cubans at 1.8 million or 3.5%, Salvadorans at 1.6 million or 3.3% and Dominicans at 1.4 million or 2.8%.
Census 2010 also revealed that there are now more than one million Guatemalan-origin Hispanics in the U.S. Together, Hispanic-origin populations with more than one million people comprise nine-in-ten (90.7%) of the nation's Hispanics.
This report is accompanied by national level profiles containing geographic, demographic and economic details for the 10 largest Hispanic country-of-origin sub-groups. These profiles are based on the 2009 American Community Survey and include details such as the share foreign born, citizenship rates, household income and levels of educational attainment for each group. The report is also accompanied by two interactive graphics, one ranking the top 10 country-of-origin sub-groups on a number of characteristics, and another showing the country-of-origin sub-groups within the nation's 30 metropolitan areas with the largest Hispanic populations.
About the Data
The data for this report come from the 2010 Census and the 2009 American Community Survey. The 2010 Census provides information on population counts, including those by country of origin. The 2009 American Community Survey was used to extract detailed demographic and economic information on each of the top 10 country-of-origin groups.
- Real growth rates are likely smaller as Census 2000 counts of Dominican, Central and South American origin Hispanics were low, possibly due to changes in the wording of the Hispanic origin question. In both 1990 and 2000, the census form's Hispanic origin question provided check boxes for those who identified as Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Mexican/Mexican-American/Chicano. For those who wanted to identify as part of another Hispanic origin group, a check box was provided along with a box to write in the respondent's self-identified country of origin. However, the caption for the "other" origin check box and the direction for the write-in box changed. In 1990, the check box caption read "other Spanish/Hispanic," with the direction for the write-in box stating "Print one group, for example, Argentinean, Colombian, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Spaniard, and so on" (Lapham, 1992). On the Census 2000 form, the check box caption read "other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino" with the write-in box instruction being "Print group" with no country-of-origin examples provided (Guzman, 2001). Subsequently, the counts of Dominican, Central and South American origin Hispanics from Census 2000 were lower than expected while the number of Hispanics who said their origin was "other" was higher. Subsequent analysis by the Census Bureau found that population estimates for these groups were substantially higher than their Census 2000 counts. In the case of Salvadorans, for example, the population was estimated to be 60% larger than the count reported by the 2000 Census (Suro, 2002). In 2010, the wording of the Hispanic origin question on the Census form was changed—it offered country-of-origin examples for the write-in box. ↩


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The stencils you use for printing are only as good as the coating procedures you follow to produce them. Here you
By KIWO Technical Support Department
Another common cause of residue on the screen that can show up in the emulsion coating is water and other chemicals that hide in the profile of retensionable frames. Generally this problem is at its worst when the screen is dried in the upright position. Water and contaminants trapped in the profile run down the screen after degreasing. The contamination dries on the screen and later interferes with a good bond between the fabric and the emulsion. For this reason, always give retensionable frames a good wipe after degreasing and store them parallel to the floor when drying.
Don't abrade
Abrading mesh scratches the surface of the threads, which aids in stencil adhesion but is usually only required when using indirect stencils. One reason not to abrade mesh is that you may decrease the ink-transfer efficiency of the final printing screen. Because the surface area of the thread is effectively larger, the ink clings to the threads for the same reasons capillary film clings better. This may result in less ink from the mesh transferring to the substrate. Another reason to avoid abrading the mesh is that it will likely cause more ghost haze and stains to remain in the mesh after reclaiming, also due to the increased surface area.
Stencil parameters
The stencil's main function is to allow for accurate reproduction of the image from the film positive (or from the image rendered by a computer-to-screen imaging system). The quality of the stencil pertains to how effectively it bridges the mesh and the amount of resolution and edge definition it provides after exposure. These abilities vary dramatically for any given emulsion because of several factors related to coating and exposure, as well as the chemical characteristics of the emulsion.
One of the main functions of the stencil is to create a gasket with the material being printed. Among the reasons why capillary stencil films are popular is because their uniform surface leads to a good gasket right off the roll. With proper control during coating, direct emulsions also can be used to create similarly smooth stencils.
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Escape the Tech Bubble: Volunteer
I recently spent a week being a camp counselor for a group of 10- and 11-year-olds at Camp Okizu. The mission of Okizu is to provide peer support, respite, mentoring and recreational programs to meet the needs of all members of families affected by childhood cancer. Okizu offers week-long camps to children with cancer, as well as their siblings, in addition to weekend "family camps" that serve as occasions where parents can come together and share their experiences caring for a child with cancer.
I first heard about Okizu when I was working at Salesforce. Salesforce has a fantastic culture of volunteering. As part of its on-boarding process, new hires must do volunteer work. We were sent to repaint walls in a halfway house, but painting a dirty wall just wasn't doing it for me. I wanted to get involved personally – offer more of myself than just my time. Over dinner, a coworker mentioned Camp Okizu's mission. I was hooked. I loved camp, and now I get to spend a week in the Sierra Foothills helping kids, and sleeping under the stars? Sign me up.
A camp counselor's job is all about being a supportive figure for the kids in your cabin. You're responsible for them about 20 hours each day, making sure they brush their teeth, get to their activities on time and are safe and emotionally secure. The No. 1 rule for the counselors is "Put the kids first." For campers it's "Have Fun!"
Being a camp counselor appears radically different from my job as a product manager at Rackspace, but has a lot of similarities: you need to provide organization, stability and consistency. You need to get the product to market on time. Most of all, you need to be a calming figure that allows people to have fun, productive and feel safe. Volunteering helps me get outside of my own head, and see my work and environment from a different perspective.
Spending time volunteering gets you outside of the tech bubble. That time outside allows you to consider not just the utility behind your product, but how your work influences society as a whole. When I'm at Camp Okizu, in between helping kids get their shoes on, or teaching archery, I'm also doing my part to make sure that the youngsters are emotionally strong and have the social skills to collaborate in our increasingly competitive workplace.
Volunteering isn't just giving to the community, it can be incredibly rewarding to you in your career, social life and emotional wellbeing. Knowing that I've spent one of the 52 weeks this year helping families suffering with cancer helps me connect with people and adds depth and meaning to my life.
I'm proud to be at a company that is committed to community. Rack Gives Backoffers grants for arts and culture, especially as they relate to establishing a creative class of citizens. It also works within Rackspace to ensure that every employee has paid volunteering time for worthy causes. It's part of what makes this a special place to work.
If you're interested in volunteering at Camp Okizu, you can find an application on theorganization's website or email me for more information.


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Here's another recipe from my new book I'd like to share, and this is just the perfect time for it. Aren't we all thinking about holiday baking these days? Ok, if you're in Northern California you must be thinking freezing weather too - you've heard all the complaints on twitter I'm sure - so, what better than baking for an excuse to turn on your oven and warm up the house?
It will also be fun to do something slightly different than the usual sugar or gingerbread cookies, don't you agree? I highly recommend these Alfajores, two buttery, crumbly cookies hugging the sweet dulce de leche (a sort of caramelized milk jam), your friends and relative will appreciate the novelty. You may have to teach them how to say the name, al-fa-ho-res, but once they bite into these addictively delicious cookies, they won't mind one bit.
Don't let the fact that these cookies are so deliciously delicate - they seem to crumble under too intense a gaze - deter you. While being made, the dough is so easy to work with it feels like Play-doh.
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Piper's Pastoral Accountability
Hearts can harden fast. The writer of Hebrews drives this point home: "But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called 'today,' that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin" (3:13).
So for pastors—and for all of us—yearly or quarterly or perhaps even monthly accountability is dangerously rare. The hardness that creates "an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God" (Heb. 3:12) can happen in a day.
John Piper and the other pastors of Bethlehem Baptist Church know this, and so, among their other strategies for sanctification, they hold each other accountable with a simple questionnaire (PDF) that they each fill out weekly. It addresses issues from days off to diet, personal devotions to pornography.
They would all agree that filling out the form is not what matters; what's important is the heart behind it—the desire to be pure and holy.
I think they would also all agree, however, that committing to answer these simple and straightforward questions each week is an invaluable tool in the fight of faith.


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I quit WoW early last June. I re-subbed to WAR for a month or so and pretty much quit playing MMOs until January when I started playing EVE. Which I've since quit and I've started playing Darkfall.
So what did I do between July and January?
Mostly Facebook Games. So it's with that perspective that I wanted to write about my take on Facebook games and why the world is not ending.
Accessibility of Browser based games
One of the most powerful reasons that Facebook games are popular is because they are BROWSER based games. GDC raised the profile of these games recently on the blogosphere and I've been reading a lot impressions about why Facebook games are / are not the future.
While the Browser nature of these games gets a brief mention, it's often overlooked. Stop doing that. It's important to understanding why these game "work" and are popular.
The fact that these games run in Browsers makes them widely accessible to anyone who has a computer or access to the internet. You can play them on a cell phone, at the Library, on even your Mom's computer.
And most importantly, it means you have access at work.
I can't think of anyone who could get away with playing WoW at work. Yet, with a Facebook game, a person can log in for 15-20 minutes three or four times a day without anyone noticing.
And likely, your boss won't even be the wiser for it.
Taking a break at Work
Zynga, unethical bastards that they are, noticed a trend in games like Mafia Wars. Usage dropped over the weekend when people weren't at work. People didn't feel the need to log in when it wasn't part of the work week.
Now think about that for a moment. A browser based game means a game that can be played during working hours. BUT, the gameplay wasn't compelling enough that it could keep people as interested during non-work hours.
In other words, what these Facebook games largely tap into is "fuck around" time at work. It's not really competing with off-hour entertainment time.
Warcraft, Team Fortress, or pretty much any other game that's not "safe for work" competes with our leisure time (not "at work" time). This is the time that I could be otherwise spending reading a book, watching TV, bar hopping, or whatever else I enjoy when I'm not at work.
Facebook during Happy Hour? I think not.
Zynga also noticed that games (like Farmville) which had "timers" did compel people to check back during non-work hours. The timer amounts to a penalty if the player doesn't log back in to harvest crops that will spoil.
In short, the only way to get people to play these games during leisure hours is to build in these types of motivators. Chris Hecker had this now e-famous quote on the topic:
Extrinsic motivators will lead you towards dull tasks, and you're totally [cornering] yourself into designing shitty games that you have to pay people to play with reward structures.Chris's fear here is that devs will just opt-out for the simplest thing that gets people to continue to keep logging back on. I'm not so sure about that.
I have to say that for me personally, logging in to check on a crappy game during my quality leisure time wore thin pretty quickly. I couldn't sustain it and it's one factor that led me to quitting these games.
In my mind, these games just don't compete with MMOs because they aren't competing for my leisure time. They are competing for "fuck around" time in the workplace. A drain on productivity? Perhaps? A threat to my leisure time gaming? Unlikely.
I'll be much more interested to see what happens when some quality games (like Sid Meir's Civilization) show up on Facebook.
Social Networking gets too much credit
I would argue that the Browser accessibility is, in fact, the single most important trait of these games. Moreso, in many ways, than the Social Networking aspect which gets all the credit.
While I'll not deny the power of Social Networks, I think it's important to point out that Facebook and these games enjoy a very synergistic effect. In other words, do people come back to Facebook in order to Network or in order to play Games?
The truth is both reasons. There is a synergy between the Social Network and Game that keeps people coming back because one reinforces the other. We play a Game because our Social Network is playing. However, we also Social Network because we can do so through playing Games.
Here to stay, but not here to ruin your day
We need to accept that the online gaming market is growing into a much more mainstream market. That's not a bad thing.
As I wrote above, these games don't compete at the same level for the quality of our time like Warcraft or any other MMO. Mainstream users are just not going to be (on average) spending 15 hours of liesure time on these games. They are mostly going to spend time at them while at work or while the kids are at school and then spend evenings doing some other leisure activity.
Liesure activities which may include better quality games.


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Mehran Sahami
Professor (Teaching) of Computer Science
Gates Building, Room 180
sahami at cs.stanford.edu
|My office hours for Spring 2018-19 are Mondays 3:00-5:00pm in Gates 180 (except for April 15 and 29 when I will be away at workshops).
Previously, I worked for several years as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany. Prior to working at Epiphany, I completed my PhD in the Computer Science Department at Stanford. I was also an undergrad at Stanford and I loved it so much that I didn't want to leave.
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with family, playing the guitar, going on outdoor excursions, and sleeping (which seems to be getting rarer and rarer these days). I also continue to maintain a foot in the start-up world by serving on advisory boards to various companies.
Ashok Srivastava (NASA) and I published a book entitled "Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications." The book is available from Amazon.


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The Day the Earth Stood Still Movie Review (2 Stars)
Movie Review by Michael Phillips
Keanu Reeves & Jennifer Connelly
In one eye and out the other, the sullen remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" airlifts certain story details straight from its source material.
For example, the robot known as Gort resembles the metallic, helmet-headed being of the 1951 original, only he's taller and has better muscle tone, suggesting the occasional intergalactic workout.
That's about it for visual links to director Robert Wise's film (his best, in any genre), which remains one of the great science fiction tales of its era.
A sneaky, subversive Red Menace parable; an unfashionably pacifist statement underpinning a gripping documentary-style yarn; and haunting proof that composer Bernard Herrmann really knew how to deploy a theremin.
Updating the Edmund H. North original, fledgling writer David Scarpa sets up Earth's sins as more climate-based than warfare-based.
This is "An Inconvenient Truth" with a firmer deadline.
Klaatu, the advanced being from another world who assumes human form, has traveled with Gort to issue a warning to Earth's leaders: Either treat your planet with more care or prepare for mass extinction.
Keanu Reeves plays Klaatu, confining his usual two-and-a-half-note vocal range to half that.
"The decision is made," he deadpans. "The process has begun." Why do aliens favor such passive sentence construction?
In the right vehicle -- "Speed," or the first "Matrix" -- Reeves brings an otherworldly serenity under pressure to the material at hand. Here, though, you wonder: Did Reeves and director Scott Derrickson ever consider not going the obvious route with this fellow? In the Wise version, Michael Rennie's Klaatu was deceptively human, a cultured, sophisticated thinker.
He was better than human.
Reeves, by contrast, portrays Klaatu like an actor playing a being from another world, with robotic line readings and an impassive air. It's a logical approach, but one with little spark or surprise. Klaatu is a blank, and all around him, the flying spheres and "Mummy"-inspired digital swirls of schmutz are strictly routine.
Oddly, it's the human-only interactions that work.
Jennifer Connolly's Princeton scientist, brought in by the U.S. government to deal with the Klaatu problem, connects nicely with Jaden Smith, who plays her stepson. (The boy's father was killed in Iraq; in the original film, the equivalent character's husband was a casualty of Anzio.) It's gratifying to see veteran character actor James Hong in a non-comic cameo, that of a veteran alien visitor to Earth, long since assimilated. Likewise, John Cleese's Dr. Barnhardt (Sam Jaffe in the original) lends a quiet dignity to a film lacking in distinction, visual distinction most of all.
Only briefly does this "Day" tip out of tedium and into camp. Cleese pleads with Connolly at one point to persuade Klaatu to give humankind another shot. "Change his mind, not with reason, but with yourself," he says. For a second there, it sounds as if we're in for a steamy outtake from "The Hot Spot."
MPAA rating: PG-13 (for some sci-fi disaster images and violence).
Running time: 1:43.
Starring: Keanu Reeves (Klaatu); Jennifer Connelly (Dr. Helen Benson); Jaden Smith (Jacob Benson); John Cleese (Prof. Barnhardt); Jon Hamm (Michael Granier); Kathy Bates (Regina Jackson).
Directed by Scott Derrickson; written by David Scarpa, based on the 1951 film; photographed by David Tattersall; edited by Wayne Wahrman; music by Tyler Bates; visual effects supervised by Jeffrey A. Okun; produced by Erwin Stoff, Gregory Goodman and Paul Harris Boardman. A 20th Century Fox release.
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AKRON, Ohio (MCT) – University of Akron student Chris Meta sent cell phone photos of the brindle-colored Plott hound to his wife, hoping she would agree to take the dog into their pack that already includes three mixed-breed dogs.
Meta, of Youngstown, Ohio, was stoically standing up to pressure from fellow law school friends advising him to throw caution to the wind and just take the dog home. He said the decision was "on the fence right now" as he held the coonhound's leash while snapping shots of the dog named Ohana.
"I need to walk away right now," he said. "The last thing I need to hear is, 'No, honey,'" as a response, he said.
A dozen or so puppies and older dogs arrived near West Hall in the law school complex on the University of Akron campus on a recent morning with the express purpose of visiting with students as they walked to classes.
The ploy worked. Crowds of students were drawn to the animals as if by magnets.
The intent of the event, sponsored by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, a national student organization dedicated to animal advocacy through the creation of humane laws, was a way to help students de-stress as finals week begins, said Elisa Wood, a second-year law student and vice president of the campus organization. It also helped bring awareness to SALDF, she said.
"Preparation for finals is a very intense time and is very stressful. The dogs remind them there is a world outside of law school," said Wood, originally from Dayton, Ohio.
Many of the 25 or so students in SALDF count volunteering with homeless animals as a way to fulfill an annual pro bono requirement for law school. They work as handlers for animals at weekend adoption events for Paws and Prayers pet rescue, the group that provided the animals.
John Chapman, a Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, city prosecutor and a University of Akron law school graduate, has remained an ardent volunteer with the rescue group, specializing in the placement of puppies.
"One hundred and four puppies have stayed at my house and have gone on to happy homes," he said.
He teams up in the effort with a coonhound named Holly who teaches the puppies that it's not OK to bite, he said.
As students and faculty advisers played Frisbee with border collie Jake and tug-of-war with a boxer named Max, others sat on the ground inside a small fenced-in area where a family of black collie-mix puppies entertained them with their antics.
SALDF adviser Ann Schiavone, who helped arrange for the puppy meet-and-greet with students, said it was a great way to bring attention to the 3-year-old organization.
"Everyone has different opinions on animal laws, but we are all united in our love of animals," Schiavone said.


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