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Join Doug Rose for an in-depth discussion in this video Use a DSLC, part of Learning Data Science: Using Agile Methodology.
- You've seen how difficult it is to get data science teams working within a project management framework. Traditional projects rely on scope, cost, and schedule. Data science is about experiments and exploration. It's a challenge to tie down a defined scope. It's also a problem to use traditional project management language. Teams won't usually be able to find clear success criteria. It's not like a typical project. You can't plan the work and then work the plan. You won't necessarily have a set of clear objectives.
Most of your team's experiments will just be dead ends. Just because traditional project management doesn't fit your team it doesn't mean that you have to work in chaos. The absence of a plan doesn't mean the absence of intent or value. Remember that data science increases organizational knowledge. New insights can decrease the time-to-market, create new revenue, avoid costs, and even build good will. You might not know how you can get there but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't start working.
When you want to work differently, you have to use a different life cycle. A life cycle is a series of steps you take when you're approaching a challenge. There are two common types that you'll likely run into in large organizations. The first is the software development life cycle, or SDLC. This life cycle has six phases, plan, analyze, design, code, test, and deploy.
It's typically called the waterfall model. That's because each of the phases has to complete for the next begins. You plan the software and analyze the requirements. Then you create the basic designs and start your coding. Once the code is complete, you'll have your quality assurance people step in and test your software. Once it passes all the tests, then it's deployed for people to use. The second life cycle you'll likely see is the cross industry standard process for data mining, or CRISP-DM.
This process model is used for data instead of software. It's a little bit more flexible than the rigid waterfall model. It also has six phases. Business understanding, data understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluation, and deployment. What both of these life cycles have in common is that they're designed for big bang delivery. You spend a big chunk of your time either in the planning and analyze phase or in the business understanding phase.
The goal is to gather up as much information as you can before you get started, then you deliver it all in one big bang. Not much is communicated in terms of final deliverables before the final deployment phase. That's not necessarily the best approach when you're working in data science. Remember that data science is experimental and exploratory. Your team will use an empirical approach to try and understand the data. The idea is that you don't fully understand what you need until you start working.
Imagine a typical data science project. Let's say that your data science team is identifying typical customer behavior before they decide to leave you for a competitor. Sometimes this is called the customer's churn rate. Your data science team might be able to clearly state their intent, they want to see what a customer does before they leave, then they want to create a model to predict when someone might leave. What they won't be able to do is plan out the details of their work. Maybe they'll find their best models by looking through social network data.
They could get their best insights from their own sales data. There could be a promotion that your competitor offers that becomes unusually successful. The point is they won't know until they start looking. Your team will spend too much of their time planning if they're forced to use the SDLC or the CRISP-DM process. They won't be able to apply what they've learned while still working. That's because they're forced to plan out their work before they even begin modeling or coding. Remember that a defined process like the SDLC or the CRISP-DM requires that most of the work is understood.
If you make a mistake, you have to deal with change requests in the SDLC or a reevaluation in CRISP-DM. If you want your data science team to be flexible and exploratory, then you can't apply these life cycles. Instead, you should look for a more lightweight approach to delivering insights, that way you'll have structure but at the same time have the flexibility to adapt to new ideas.
This course shows how to structure your work within a two-week sprint. See how to work within a data science life cycle (DSLC)—a methodology for cycling through questions, research, and reporting every two weeks. Explore key practices to help your team break down the work so it fits within a two-week sprint. Learn how to use tools like question boards to encourage discussion and find essential questions. And most importantly, learn how to grow your team's shared knowledge and avoid common pitfalls.
- Defining data science success
- Determining project challenges and criteria for success
- Using a DSLC
- Iterating through DSLC sprints
- Creating a question board
- Breaking down your work
- Adding to organizational knowledge
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2013 Mid-Autumn Festival Shaolin Style!
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most important annual event in the Chinese culture. What can be better than to celebrate with family and friends of STQI? Enjoy these photos 🙂
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News Book | Written by Martin Unsworth 24/05/2017
Fulci Book Re-issue Smashes Funding Target in Hours
One of the most revered and collectable non-fiction books from recent times is Stephen Thrower's Beyond Terror. A look at the work of Italian goremeister Lucio Fulci, it sold out of its first print many years ago and copies sell for ridiculous amounts (when you can find them). Now fans can pre-order a new luxurious imprint through an Indiegogo campaign run by publishers Fab Press and the initial response has been amazing.
Not only is the book revamped, it's been totally revised and expanded and - exclusive to the crowdfunded release - a new chapter featuring an interview with the director from 1994. As well as new images and writing (and we're not talking a little - there are 128 extra pages, 80,000 more words, and 350 more images), the book will be encased in a fabulous 'Book of Eibon' (fans will understand) and come with a DVD of Fulci trailers, collected for the first time. Other perks offered include a fabulous T-shirt, as well as signed posters and even a bonus copy of Thrower's other Fab Press hit Nightmare USA. This edition of Beyond Terror will not be reprinted in this format, and any subsequent traditionally-released editions will be missing the extra interview chapter and the DVD and Eibon case.
The Indiegogo campaign was launched on May 24th just after midday, and by 5 pm had raised over 250% of its target, which shows not only the passion Fulci fans still have for his work but how much people want this luscious-looking book!
The campaign lasts for 35 days, finishing on June 28th so there is still time to secure your copy.
Exclusive to the Beyond Terror Special Edition
• Exclusive Feature 1) — LUCIO FULCI TRAILER SHOW — a full-length DVD featuring a re-mastered collection of every known Lucio Fulci movie trailer, produced exclusively for FAB Press by Nucleus Films' Marc Morris. All trailers are in English except where foreign language was the only option, and for all of those, we have produced brand new specially commissioned English subtitles! This DVD is NTSC format, no region coding, so it can be played wherever you are in the world.
• Exclusive Feature 2) — EIBON COLLECTOR'S BOX PACKAGING — the book and DVD will be housed together in a custom-designed heavy-duty presentation box reminiscent of the Book of Eibon from The Beyond, complete with silk pull-ribbon to lift the book from the box, textured cover and magnetic closure flap.
• Exclusive Feature 3) — BONUS CHAPTER — an extensive interview with Lucio Fulci... This new pressing of Beyond Terror will include a final chapter that will only ever be included in the Special Edition — it will NOT be in any future high street or trade edition, neither will it be in any edition offered for sale online anywhere else except direct from the FAB Press Indiegogo page… When Lucio Fulci visited the UK in 1994 as a film festival special guest, he was interviewed by renowned horror journalist John Martin. For the first time ever John has allowed that entire conversation to be published completely uncut, accompanied by rare behind the scenes and personal photographs of Fulci at work and at leisure.
• Exclusive Feature 4) — THE BEYOND WRAPAROUND BOOK JACKET — Special Edition books will be complete with the trade edition Zombie Flesh Eaters cover design, but they will ALSO include the original cover design from the 1999 hardback and 2003 paperback editions included as an additional bonus dust jacket...
Don't miss out on this fantastic book - pre-order yours at Indiegogo.
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DAY THREE – 18th May – Over the top
Pat, dressed suitably in Marian Blue, stands beside the Vierge d'Orisson.
La Vierge d'Orisson stands at the Pic d'Orisson, at the impressive altitude of 1,100m. High enough - considering Ireland's highest mountain, Carrantuohill is 50m lower at 1,050m or 3,414 feet.
Dan, Pat and I spent some time as this lovely peaceful venue and prayed for those who had asked for our prayers, and even for some who hadn't. That's Christianity for you...
We were tempted to have our lunch at Col de Lepoeder – 4km inside the Spanish border and the highest point on the camino at 1,450m. But we manfully pushed on for another 10 minutes. Once inside Spain we were very impressed. There were signs and way marks every hundred metres, or so it seemed. It reminded us of travelling from the 'Republic' to the North in the good old/bad old days. We remembered the immediate improvement you felt in road surfaces when you left the South for the North. In the sixties the North was full of marvelous temptations including a far wider range of Cadbury's chocolate and other luxuries denied us in the South.
Hunger eventually won out and we sat down to lunch in a forest clearing just ahead of the descent into Roncesvalles. People dealt with the sandwiches we had received in Orisson in very different ways - as were to subsequently learn.


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This was his admission that his organisation had failed to confront the too-big-to-fail banks, at a tremendous cost to society.
Nothing sport can do can spark a global financial crisis, but in its own small way football has its equivalents today. The 11-month-long disciplinary process that finally resulted in John Terry's apology on Thursday for his racist remark towards Anton Ferdinand caused the game to suffer terribly.
The head of its regulator, the Football Association chairman, David Bernstein, said as much in The Daily Telegraph on Friday. "The reputation of English football has been damaged," he wrote.
Yet like the FSA and banking, much of the mess might have been made by the FA's own failed regulatory structures and a refusal to confront the cosy relationships it has with the individuals and entities it governs.
Many in the game could not understand why the FA delayed its disciplinary proceedings against Terry until after the former England captain's criminal trial. Finally Bernstein sought to explain it here yesterday, saying the FA was "asked to respect both the police investigation and, later, the Crown Prosecution [Service]'s criminal proceedings."
So I asked the CPS why it had asked for the proceedings to be deferred. It turns out it had not.
"When the allegations against John Terry first came to light, the Football Association asked the CPS for its view on whether or not any action by the Association should be halted until the end of criminal proceedings," a CPS spokesman told me.
"We put forward our views about possible risk and prejudice but we did not give any instructions either way. The decision to allow criminal proceedings to take precedence was one taken by the FA alone."
The FA was under no obligation to delay. The risk of prejudice was minimal. There was no jury in Terry's trial as it would be heard by Howard Riddle, the chief magistrate and a senior district judge, and a judge is legally considered impervious to outside influence.
He would not have regarded an FA finding against Terry, on the balance of probabilities, relevant to his proceedings, which were judged against the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt. Indeed, when last year Salman Butt, Mohamed Asif and Mohamed Amir faced a trial for spot-fixing at Lords in 2010, they did so after the International Cricket Council had already found them guilty. That was before a jury trial — meaning the risk of prejudice was far greater — yet Mr Justice Cooke decided criminal proceedings could subsequently go ahead without risk to justice.
Still the FA chose to delay and it is clear now that this decision chimed with Chelsea's desired timetable. In his written reasons for Terry's four-game ban for his racist remark, Craig Moore QC, who headed the Independent Regulatory Commission, noted: "Application was also made by Chelsea for the disciplinary proceedings to be stayed until after the criminal case had concluded."
There was a happy corollary for the FA. The delay — further lengthened by the defence's successful application to the criminal court for the hearing to be pushed back — made Terry available for Euro 2012. The criminal trial's timetabling was not a matter for the FA to decide but it certainly took advantage. The England manager, Roy Hodgson, duly picked him.
Heather Rabbatts, the FA's independent nonexecutive director, warned last week how her organisation must be conscious of the "perception" of its regulatory decisions. How are we to perceive a decision to respond to the request of Chelsea alone, impliedly out of "respect" for the CPS?
A regulator should not have a commercial interest in the market it regulates. It was this intrinsic conflict of interest at Fifa that led Bernstein to take courageously to the stage at last year's congress, chiding the world governing body over the corruption allegations surrounding the 2018 and 2022 World Cup voting.
Yet the commercial success of the FA is tied to the success of the England team. Terry recognised this when he sought to retaliate against the regulator with international retirement.
The conflict of interest informs our perception of other regulatory decisions. In his IRC judgement Moore recorded how David Barnard, Chelsea's club secretary, gave a signed witness statement corroborating Ashley Cole's "evolving" evidence 10 months after the FA interviewed the England left-back.
"The Commission [has] very real concerns about the accuracy of Mr. Barnard's recollections, and the motivation for the assertions," wrote Moore in words that seemed to invite a new disciplinary process against the Chelsea man. The FA, this time, has chosen to reject that implicit request.
"That was the view of the commission and the QC and his written reasons," said an FA spokesman. "We won't pursue any further action against any witnesses in the hearing. We don't consider it merited on the facts of the case."
Barnard is a member of the FA's highly influential international committee. His club, Chelsea, are reigning European champions and have won three Premier League titles and four FA Cups in the past 10 years.
Perhaps like the banks before them, they are too big to fail. Until the responsibility for regulation is separated out and placed in the hands of a wholly independent body impervious to influence and conflicts of interest, English football faces a systemic risk.


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A listing for a Wii U version of Ghosts has been discovered.
Surprising? Not at all....
hopefully Wii u will actually get dlc this time...
Well look... A hater disagreed with your comment that Call of Duty Ghosts on the Wii U should get DLC. Surprise, surprise!!!
lmao haters will hate. Seriously whats wrong with adding dlc to a game they released dlc for on other consoles
@hduce I believe some just disagree for the hell of it. You'll notice even the most sensible and sane comment will still have 1 disagree
Cool.pretty graphics plus Wii remote controls are a winning combination.
Ghost has good graphics? Look buddy this game looks horrible in comparison to Battlefield 4 and Kill zone Shadow fall. Motorola RAZR i
Are you insane? The dogs look more realistic in COD Ghosts than real dogs and when people see the Cats DLC it's going to blow minds.
What I meant was, with the original Wii,I had to choose between better controls or better graphics. With Wii U, I can have both.
wrong cover art.. http://static.fjcdn.com/lar...
Yeah really.. But it should be an Xbox cover not PS3....
I looking forward to playing this.
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It's a shame that the good children have to suffer just because of a few bad apples. That's what my elementary school teachers used to say when keeping the whole class after school. The same thing applies to today's bank stocks.
Many lenders went off a cliff by greedily gorging themselves on subprime loan spreads, and now the markets are punishing the responsible banks as well. Perhaps most conspicuous in this unjustly victimized group is US Bancorp
US Bancorp is one of the largest and most profitable banks in the country. While the average return on equity for the banking industry as a whole is 10% and falling, USB boasts an astounding return on equity of more than 20% and rising. In addition, USB has significantly reduced its mortgage exposure and the credit quality of its loans has actually improved over the past quarter, while that of many banks has deteriorated. Just Tuesday, US Bancorp increased its dividend from $1.60 to $1.70.
Most importantly, Berkshire Hathaway's
What does all this mean? We are in an environment where three-year CDs are paying around 4% on average. Where can one earn a decent return in this uncertain market without having their head handed to them? With USB, you can earn 5% with a fundamentally solid bank while you wait for the market to realize it's been oversold. True, there may be more dark days ahead for the market and banks stocks in particular. But isn't that value investing? You buy when the market fears more bad news ahead. You may have to wait for USB to rise, but you're being paid to wait -- to the tune of 5%.
In baseball, there's a time to bunt and a time to swing for the fences. Today's volatile and uncertain market says bunt. And what better way to do so than with a solid company that pays you more than CDs or Treasuries while you wait to realize a profit on the stock price? USB is an easy choice. But, as Warren Buffett says, "there seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things look difficult."
For related Foolishness:
US Bancorp is a Motley Fool Income Investor selection. Berkshire Hathaway is both an Inside Value and a Stock Advisor recommendation.
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Travel & Hospitality Report: CX Investment Priorities
The Travel & Hospitality industry continues to evolve in a world that becomes more connected by the day. But this high speed evolution is not without challenges, in particular from disruptive competition and OTAs reducing direct bookings and hitting the bottom line.
To stay ahead of the fierce competition, heads of business are now more than ever realizing that they must transform their businesses to be customer-ready, and not just customer-first.But what specific investments are currently being made to ensure a great CX strategy? What's the best way to roll such strategies out across the business?How can CX Directors be sure they are utilizing the right partners to secure direct bookings?
These are the questions the Customer Experience Exchange for Travel & Hospitality have asked senior CX executives from the likes of Hyatt, IHG, , Walt Disney Resorts, Delta Airlines, Air Canada, Travelzoo, Accor Hotels, Cathay Pacific and many more, who shared their biggest CX challenges as well as details of the solutions and services they are planning to invest in to support their CX strategy!
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Half Nelson
Anyone seen this? I enjoyed it, but can't help but wish there was more in it about his background and why he went off the rails, what went wrong with his ex and if that was the main reason at all. Was it supposed to be ambiguous? The music compliments it well though, thoughts?
Broken social scene...
I think I liked the way that it didn't explain how he got addicted, there was no shove it down your throat moralising and reasoning. Need/want to watch it again, there's a feel about the film which i love.


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After graduating from Cardiff University in 2004 with a degree in Accounting, Owen was eligible for all nine exemptions from the ACCA Fundamentals papers and went to work at Sunjuice as a Management Accountant.
"I wanted a career where I could use my problem solving abilities to help people breakdown complex issues and make good decisions. Accountancy seemed a great opportunity to achieve this. It proved to be something I really enjoy, and something I'm pretty good at."
Owen joined global defence company BAE Systems five years later, in an effort to build a career with a company that had the means to provide all kinds of development opportunities.
"I had several opportunities to partner with other departments, often on secondment, and was lucky enough to travel across the world to participate in BAE Systems' global future leader's programme – easily the best opportunity I have had to date to work with colleagues across cultures and businesses sectors."
Owen is proud of ACCA's reputation, and chose the qualification because of the variety that it offers students and members. "I chose ACCA because I'm someone who enjoys variety in everything I do.
"I enjoy the freedom to be involved in a spectrum of different projects and roles at any one point in time. ACCA gives you that freedom. Not being pigeonholed as a Management Accountant or a Financial Accountant, an ACCA qualified candidate is one who is capable in every kind of financial environment."
Outside of work, Owen loves to travel. Two years ago, he took a group of school kids from the South Wales Valleys to Tanga, Tanzania – where they helped build a house for a widow, gave out goats to villagers and ran lessons and soccer schools in a couple of the local schools.


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There's a tweet from Diario Ole in Argentina that Rafa Benitez is ready to make an offer for Independiente left-back Nicolas Tagliafico, with the deal being only hours away from being completed.
We'll have to wait to see if that's true but time is certainly running out quickly in this transfer window.
We had been linked with the once capped Argentine International over the last week or so, and his signing would mean that there is real competition at left back for local lad Paul Dummett, who is out injured with a hamstring injury at the moment.
In fact, we were reported last Saturday to have bid €4M for the player.
With the failure of Sadio Haidara and Achraf Lazaar to mount any kind of challenge to Dummett, the Argentine who turns 25 tomorrow could now have a decent chance of nailing down the left-back position this season.
Tagliafico is well regarded in Argentina and has been in good form for Independiente last season and has had European clubs interested in signing him.
Nicolas Tagliafico – hours away from signing Argentine left-back?
But with time running out Newcastle will need to complete this deal soon, and for less than £4M, this looks like an excellent signing for us.
That's especially true with the loan move of Kenedy now looking a bit doubtful after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain turned down a move to Chelsea from Arsenal.
Nicolas was born in Buenos Aires, and he's played in the youth teams of the Argentine national side at the U15, U17, and U20 levels.
And he was impressive for the Argentina national U20 team at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia, which was eventually won by Brazil.
He seems to be a talented young player.
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Two new signings and two new loans looming
First the loans
According to the Telegraphh – Kenedy from Chelsea is back on the cards
Andrea Ranocchia the Inter defender who was on loan at Hull for the last
six months of 2016/17 says he would like more time in England – NUFC
being one of his suitors.
The signings will be
A goalie , which one – gawd knows
According to the Italian football oracle Alfredo Pedulla , last night we offered
Sampdoria €20 million – double what they paid Anderlecht last summer.
Better the devil you know??? So you'd rather have a proven liar that has let us down time and time again and has no intention of delivering any kind of success than a group of investors looking to maximise profits by making us a team ready to compete at the top. Do you think Everton fans would swap Mike Ashley for their consortium. Blackpool or Blackburn fans might sleep on it while thinking of a swap with theirs.
Would he get a work permit with just one cap.
or does he have some duel country thing going on.
Italian ?
Need to be careful, they often get fixed up with one or two caps to beef up their CV and attract better deals.
At 25 why has he not moved to Europe sooner and why only one cap.
View this as another strange one in the Lazaar, Gamez mould.
What's the real motivation behind it.


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Agostina Puppo, Giulia Cesi, Elena Marrocco, Alberto Auricchio; Retinal transduction profiles by high capacity viral vectors. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):3326.
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Retinal gene therapy with adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors is safe and effective in humans. However, the limited cargo capacity of AAV prevents their use for therapy of those inherited retinopathies (IRs) due to mutations in large (>5 kb) genes. Viral vectors derived from Adenovirus (Ad), Lentivirus (LV) and Herpesvirus (HV) can package large transgenic DNA sequences but do not target efficiently retinal photoreceptor (PRs) where the majority of genes responsible for IRs are expressed. Here we aimed at the identification of Ad, LV and HV vectors with high PRs tropism and transduction efficiency.
We have evaluated the murine PR transduction efficacy of vectors derived from 16 different Ad serotypes, 7 LV pseudotypes, and from one bovine HV. All vectors expressed either EGFP or lacZ under the control of the ubiquitous CMV promoter. After subretinal delivery, fluorescent microscopy and X-gal staining of retinal cryosections was used to compare expression efficiency and cell type specificity. Vectors that showed potential for enhanced PR transduction were additionally tested using the PR specific Rho promoter.
The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) was transduced with almost all the vectors tested. LV-GP64 outperformed the most studied LV-VSVG in transducing PRs although transduction was confined to a restricted area. More extensive PR transduction than with LV was found with Ad1-, Ad2- and Ad5/F35++ -Rho-EGFP, although none significantly outperformed the canonical Ad5.
The high-capacity vectors tested have overall similar PR transduction ability than the canonical Ad5 or LV-VSVG and none matched the extent of PR transduction of AAV2/8, a highly effective AAV serotype for PR targeting. The larger size of the high-capacity particles we have investigated compared to AAV2/8 might cause a limited diffusion in the subretinal space where hindrance may be exerted by anatomical barriers as the inter-photoreceptor matrix or the outer limiting membrane. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. [282085] and from Fondazione Telethon Grant n. TGM11MT1.
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Last weekend, the Nevada Women's Film Festival was held mainly at Origen Museum at Springs Preserve, with a panel, screening and afterparty at Downtown's Eclipse Theaters. Not only does the festival feature women's accomplishments in the film industry, it also highlights films that fairly represent women. Case and point: the Q&A session with Ana Lily Amirpour following the screening of her film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.
Both writer and director of the film, her 2014 directorial debut, Amirpour has been credited with creating the first Iranian Vampire Western. The title's girl (we never learn her name) played by Sheila Vand is actually a vampire vigilante. She wears a chador throughout the film—a typical garment Muslim women wear that exposes only their face—which serves as a visual staple not unlike Dracula's dramatic cape. Filmed in Bakersfield and other parts of California, the film is in Farsi with English subtitles. And if making an Iranian Vampire Western isn't already going out on a limb, the movie is also in black-and-white.
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On top of that, Girl touches on pieces of Iranian and Muslim culture—which also does not get fair representation in Hollywood. The film seems to play on gender and cultural boundaries, and critics have picked up on that.
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Her answer disarmed me. And that was refreshing. She rejected a label that generously has been attached to her by not only feminist media outlets but also by film critics in general. I certainly find some of the film's themes lend themselves to feminist and multicultural interpretations. But, as Amirpour stressed, these themes are not so much political statements as they are the product of her creative mind, its countless influences and the biases and interpretations that each individual takes to the screen.
NWFF aims to support fair representation of women in film, which comes in as many forms as there are women. To explain that, Amirpour revisited a reference from the film: "It's like that song, 'Hello,' by Lionel Richie. I fucking love that song. Do I know who he wrote it about? No. Do I need to? No; it's mine, and mine alone. Because once a piece of art exists, it's yours. You're right … everybody's right. It's there for you, and it no longer is for me."


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Diana Chen: professional complainer, tattle-tale, snitch?
If I want to peek into the future, all I really need is a glimpse into the past. In the past, she could be considered a professional complainer, very similar to that of a spoiled kid who suffered from Only Child Syndrome. Her people skills are somewhat lacking, and that happens to be a big part of the job: constantly interacting with the public, the bosses, and the staff. DLSE probationary supervisor glitch#1-she arrives to the Santa Ana office, and it's not a week before she's complaining and fabricating incidents to support her complaints against another DLSE employee. It turns out that there was a witness that contradicted Diana Chen's version to the point where it appeared that Diana Chen had lied to make her complaint more valid. Diana's boss, Susan Nakagama, makes sure that her fingerprints are not on anything perceived with accountability, so Diana's fabrication will not be addressed. Words cannot express how this directly affects the office where Diana Chen now works, and how this indirectly affects the People of California.
DLSE probationary supervisor glitch#2-with no caseload and no real requirement to resolve the public's concerns, supervisor Diana Chen fails to take command of a rapidly deteriorating situation at Santa Ana's front counter yesterday. A female started complaining to one of Diana Chen's staff, then the same female started yelling at one of the clerks, then the same female started yelling at a different BOFE employee. During the entire time that this one person yelled, complained, and tore through at least 3 civil servants, Diana Chen just stood about ten feet away and watched it all unravel. She never bothered to assist her staff, she never bothered to intercede and assist in resolving the complaint, and she never bothered to try to resolve & address the one making the complaint. In fact, when she thought she might be dragged into that drama, she promptly left and could not be found.
This is how a probationary supervisor acts; this is her real-time example of putting her "best foot forward," to demonstrate that she's worthy of the promotion. This is the state standard, as this was their selection to make, and boy did they make it. At the day-to-day operational level, it is the public (and the people that share the same office floor) that ultimately bear the brunt of management's decisions; in this case, the decision to promote Diana Chen: someone who is equally qualified in her conflict resolution skills as she is in her co-worker communication skills.


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Even a Chicken Could Obtain Lasik SurgeryIf you make the effort to read any one of the message boards or chatroom on the net about Lasik surgical procedure, you will question just how anybody can obtain the nerve to arrange a Lasik procedure, and why in the world they would certainly want it. The different Lasik centers sound anywhere from impersonal to something similar to Dr. Frankenstein's lab, and the Lasik treatment itself appears, well, surreal. It looks like the only individuals that would certainly obtain Lasik are those with such poor vision that they can not rise without their glasses on.
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After a few years, I think I was an almost excellent Lasik customer, as my eyes now have 20/20 vision and also have remained stable long after the Lasik procedure. I claim that if you are an excellent candidate for a Lasik vision improvement procedure, get hold of that teddy bear and go on in.
If you take the time to read any of the message boards or chat rooms on the Web regarding Lasik surgical treatment, you will question exactly how anybody might obtain the nerve to set up a Lasik procedure, and why on earth they would desire it. The numerous Lasik centers audio anywhere from impersonal to something similar to Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, as well as the Lasik procedure itself sounds, well, unique. OK, practically Lasik does NOT use a scalpel but rather a "microkeratome blade", however it is still a sharp things approaching my eye as component of the Lasik procedure. I determined to arrange my Lasik treatment with the one that had the finest track document, as well as coincidentally took the most time to clarify everything concerning Lasik to me.


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Norwich police say a vehicle they were in pursuit of crashed into a utility pole around 10:15 Sunday night in the area of Laurel Hill. One man was taken to the hospital with non-life threating injures. Police had Laurel Hill closed from Water Street to Summer Street but now one lane is open. Officials with Norwich Public Utilities say the pole belongs to Frontier Communications and currently 900 customers are without power. Officials said the pole needs to be replaced so about 900 people will be without power while repairs are made.  Work is not expected to be completed until noon.
New London firefighters battled a fire this morning at 21 Steward Street. An ambulance was requested for one victim, who was injured. The extent of the victim's injuries were not clear. There has been no word on what may have caused the fire or where it started.
The Westerly Water Company is being criticized for not telling Pawcatuck residents about a chemical problem that resulted in residents of an Elm Ridge Road home complaining that their shower water was burning their skin. Stonington First Selectmen Rob Simmons said the water company never sent out a statement on the town's emergency alert system after a teenage girl first noticed the problem while taking a shower early Friday night. Her father also felt the burning sensation. Both declined medical treatment. So far, there's been no response from Westerly officials about Simmons' complaint.
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The so-called "new iPad" may have taken center stage during today's big Apple event in San Francisco, but the Cupertino electronics giant also unveiled some exciting new apps and updates for the world's favorite tablet. Below, a quick rundown of what's new app-wise for iPad users.
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Now that the iPad has the same excellent camera as the iPhone 4S, the device is sure to become an home movie-maker's dream device. The biggest update to the new version of iMovie is the "Hollywood-style" Trailers feature. With the new Theater view mode, users can add one of nine new templates, with names like "Fairy Tale" and "Superhero" to their home-trailers. Trailers also features customizable graphics, and professional-grade soundtracks. User-made trailers can be shared online via YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook, and can be streamed to Apple TV in 1080p (assuming you have the new Apple TV) over AirPlay.
The new version of iWork is made to take full advantage of the new iPad's high-resolution Retina display. Upgrades include 3D charts, as well as landscape mode support for iPhone and iPod touch devices.
Finally, Apple has added a new Jam Session feature to GarageBand, which allows up to four people to wirelessly connect their iOS devices to play and record music as a group. According to the press release, Jam Sessions also "automatically synchronizes the tempo, key and chords" of all connected Touch instruments to make the mix go smoothly. In addition, Apple has added Smart Strings, a new Touch instrument that "allows you to play an entire string orchestra with just one finger" (what that means, exactly, we're not yet sure). And the new Note Editor allows users to fine-tune their recordings. GarageBand songs can be automatically uploaded to iCloud, and ported to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud.
iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand all cost $4.99; iWork components (Keynote, Pages, Numbers) cost $9.99 each. All available from the iTunes App Store.


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May 12, 2018, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM @ Ken Baxter Community Center
Spread the love to all the mothers in your life with unique, one-of-a-kind handmade and homegrown items at Mother Lovin' Market. Vendor wares include bath and body items; clothing, accessories and jewelry; and home and garden items. There will even be items for your kids and pets. Spoil yourself and your loved ones while supporting area artisans. Event is free to attend.
May 12, 2018, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM @ Marysville Opera House
Get ready for this one-of-a-kind evening! Incorporating the best aspects of a popular dueling pianos experience, their high-energy performance includes classic show-stopping numbers as well as fresh new hits. From Broadway songs to rock'n'roll they'll have you singing and cheering all night long! Make this an extra special evening out and celebrate Mother's Day with your special Mom!
General Admission seating. Purchase tickets at marysvillewa.gov (sign up for classes) or in the Jennings Park office at 6915 Armar Road. Doors open at 6:45pm. Beer, wine and refreshment available for purchase. Tickets sold at the door the day of the event if available.


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Is this skywalk or hawkers' zone?
Hawkers encroaching upon roads, footpaths and the skywalk in Turbhe have become a nuisance for pedestrians. While hawkers on the roads cause traffic congestion, encroachments on the skywalk have left little space for commuters to walk on.
Turbhe Naka is the worst affected with over 100 hawkers occupying footpaths and roads.
"Vendors sell vegetables, fruits, cloth and utensils among others on the roadside," said Nizam Shaikh, a social worker.
"No action has been taken against illegal hawkers. There are allegations that the business is carried on with tacit support of some officials," said Shaikh.
"The Turbhe-Mahape Road sees a stream of heavy vehicles heading to and fro the industrial area. While the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has constructed a concrete road, only one lane is available for traffic," said Mahesh Dhotre, a resident.
"The skywalk constructed by the NMMC to prevent accidents too has been taken over by the hawkers," said Dhotre.
"Many robberies have taken place on the skywalk and despite Hawkers sell goods on the Turbhe skywalk, leaving little space for commuters to walk.
repeated complaints, the police have not taken action," said Jaya Parade, a commuter.
Tanuja Katre, a commuter, said, "I prefer not to take the skywalk after 5.30 pm as it turns into a mini market. After 7pm, it is not safe as ruffians pass lewd comments."
Hawkers claimed they are backed by some "civic officials".
"We pay Rs500 to an NMMC officer (name withheld) every month to allow us to sell goods on the flyover," said a hawker on condition of anonymity.
"When the anti-encroachment squad conducts eviction drive
on the skywalk, we have to pay Rs3,000 to Rs4,000 to the officials to take our goods back," he said.
Turbhe ward officer Bharat Dhande clarified that the person named by vendors worked for a contractor and was not an NMMC employee.
"The person named by the vendors is not our employee. He works for one of the contractors. We will look into the issue and take immediate action," said Dhande.
"We have been conducted regular eviction drives, but the hawkers keep coming back," he said.


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Millennium Residence @ Sukhumvit Soi 16 & 18, Fully furnished 1 bedroom apartment with 68 m2 of living space located on the 32nd floor at Millennium Residence Sukhumvit. The view from all rooms are spectacular with full glass windows from floor to ceiling that gives a superb, unblocked city view out over Bangkok's skyline. The bedroom is furnished with a king size bed, drawer, 40" LCD TV. The bedroom also has a walk in wardrobe and an en-suite bathroom with rain shower and bath tub. The bathroom is nicely tiled and luxurious.
The living room offers the same fantastic view and has a comfortable 3 seater european sofa,
The kitchen is beautiful and fully equipped with cabinets, microwave, water boiler and appliance such as stove, fridge.
The floor is high quality beach wood which add a lot of light and gives a spacious and modern feel.
All furniture and decoration has been thoughtfully selected to give a modern and functional feel without any compromises on quality, full set of kitchenware and bedding etc, etc…
This is a very beautiful apartment offering an extraordinary living standard!
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Dedicated parking for one car is included.
Rate 45.000 THB / month.


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Hi all
I have an InfoPath 2007 form, which is web enabled and deployed to Forms Server 2007.
On the form I have a button. What I want to happen when the button is pressed is this:
1. My custom code behind should be executed. The custom code calls an external aseembly (common to ALL my InfoPath forms) which has a method that includes a dataconnection.Execute which will submit the form.
2. Close the form IF the submit went well.
Currently, I have a code behind and a rule on the button. What I am trying to get working is that the code behind sets a status flag on the form to "Success" and then executes the data connection. If an exception is thrown, I set the status flag to something
else ("Failed") and rethrow the exception. In the rule of the button I then check this status field in the condition of the rule and if it is set to Success I close the form. What happens is, that the form is not closed uppon succesfully execution of the data
connection. I am not sure in what order the code is run; Is the rule fired first or is the .NET code behind? It appears that the .NET code IS fired... and if the form was closed in the rule, then I wouldn't expect that to happen. So that means the rule is
fired last. On the other hand the value set in one of the fields is not present upon validation of the condition of the rule, so tha
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Hi i create a print view brower enabled form in Infopath 2007 with header and footer. In Infopath works fine. Margin was ok, header and footter to. But then i try to print this browser the margin, header and footer it changes to default setting of
browser ? I try also create a print button in form with VS 2008 code, but method :
this.print(); not working.
It is possible to print the "print view" in browser as the same like in Infopath 2007? Does anyone have the code how to create a print button in C# on browser enabled form?
I would like to know it was possible to switch views when opening a form depending on where the form has been submitted.
I am submitting my form to library A and library B and want to be able to open it in view 1 in library A and in view 2 in library B.
Is there a way to set some url conditions in the open behavior rules?
Thanks a lot!
Please Help! I've created an Infopath form and wanted to deploy the form as browser enabled to WSS 3.0? What are the different options I can do this? If i cannot use a form then i would like to create a custom list with all the form fields but the
user should be able to enter information in the list and he should see only the information related to him. I don't want to give access of the whole list to each and every user. Only the administrator should be able to see the whole list. The form was actually
a user access request form.
Any help and suggestions is appreciated.
I've been trying to figure this out all afternoon but my google-fu seems to be failing me. I'm setting up a page with a fairly large form, which has one field that is going to require some kind of popup page that will allow the user to perform a lookup. At the moment I'm only prototyping the page so I'm actually only attempting to a the button up to fire an alert when the button is clicked instead of generating a lookup screen. However it seems that no matter what I do the button causes the form to submit.
I remember one of the very first ASP .NET beginner videos I ever watched went through configuring a button to perform actions without submitting, but I can't seem to figure out which one it was.
Hello friends,
I have created infopath form using Visual Studio 2008
Form have 3 dropdowns and one repeating table which is bound by Datasource ( List from sharepoint ).
whenever i select appropritae values from drop down, Repeating table gets bound as datasource for dropdown and repeating table are same.
I have done conditional formating for repeating table using repeating table properties.
My Question:
Now i included one submit button and i want when i click submit button it will check DropDown Values and if appropriate record matching these values found it will fill repeating table
How i achive this ? as i dont find how to bind repeating table on submit button.
Please help if anyone have answer.
Thanks and Regards,
Kapil Bhosale.
Hi all,
I'm new to ajax and not sure if it's necessarily the technology I need to accompolish what I'm looking to do. What I'd like to have is a simple two textbox and button form that let's the user submit some credentials (not for logging in) but instead to verify their identity for other purposes. I would label the button as "Continue" and assuming it passes through, the form would update with some new data entry controls that would allow them to submit some final information. I thought perhaps ajax would be a nice way to do this since I wouldn't need to create a second continuation page from the first to display a new form. However, I'm unsure how it's possible to update the form in the first place to look different. Or is there perhaps a cleaner way to do this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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Today we toured Cinque Terre, north of Tuscany. The Cinque Terra is an area containing five historic seaside villages. They are frequently photographed so you may be already familiar with them.
We boarded our Oceania Cruise ship late yesterday and woke up in the Port of Livorno, one of Italy's largest seaports and one of the largest in the entire Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the Ligurian Sea in the north-western part of Tuscany.
The Bus Ride North
Then we boarded a tour bus and drove north out of Livorna. On the way, we passed the largest American base in Italy, and we could see the Italian Apennine Alps in the distance.
Along the way was a commercial umbrella pine forest, and the guide said that this is the region where the story of Pinocchio originated. Pinocchio means pine and the little boy was made of pine from the umbrella tree. There are also commercial poplar tree forests here, as well.
For the second time, I saw hunters in a field. I guess these two are hunting the wild boars.
On our bus ride north with the sea to our left and the mountains to our right, we passed from the Tuscany region into another region, the Liguria. There are provinces within the regions. These provinces are like our counties.
Liguria is a smaller crescent-shaped region in northwest Italy. Its Mediterranean coastline is known as the Italian Riviera. The five fishing villages of the Cinque Terre, as well as Portofino and Santa Margherita Ligure, are located here. We sail to Portofino tomorrow.
We drove very near the Italian Apennine Alps. What looked like snow in the distance turned out to be white marble quarries. Our guide said that they have been getting the marble from these mountains for thousands of years. We passed the Carrera marble quarries and marble yards.
We drove through La Spezia to enter the Cinque Terre which is also a national park, much like our state parks. La Spezia is a port city with buildings with apartments on top and their businesses down below. It is a big Italian Naval Base, too. We drove up a mountain with views of the city down below, a mountain we have to cross to get to the Cinque Terre.
Le Cinque Terre
The Cinque Terre is a region of five picturesque villages on the sea. They are built on terraces.
They are unique because for centuries they could only be accessed by the sea and because of their unique way of cultivating vineyards.
Manarola was the first village we visited. We drove down from the mountain to the edge of this village which clings to a cliff face by the sea. We parked on its upper edge and walked down into the village.
It is mostly a pedestrian village with very few cars. In fact, there was an entrance with a bar that did not let cars enter into the village.
The Cinque Terra is a UNESCO site, a proclaimed heritage of mankind, because of the way in which they grew their grapevines here. It is unique because the farmers have built their vineyards on terraces up on the cliffs overlooking the sea for generations.
The five villages are all built on rivers, though this one seemed more like a stream. We walked beside it down into the village.
From the parking lot, we took a wide sidewalk down into the village. This sidewalk runs from village to village. For example, it is five hours to get to the next Cinque Terre village, but today we can do it in a few minutes by train.
This would be a great place to come and hike from village to village.
We walked through Manarola down to the port where we caught a ferry.
We passed the village of Corniglia on our way to Vernazza. We only visited three of the five villages today.
Vernazza was truly beautiful, and it may be our favorite of the three we saw. It is known for its tower-like buildings and narrow alleyways
After touring Vernazza we took another ferry to Montarosa.
In Montarosa, an unspoilt medieval city, we had almost two hours to hang out including lunch on our own.
We stopped at a little restaurant called the Da Aldo Tigelle and had lunch, a wonderful seafood pasta, which included different varieties of seafood with a very good sauce that was just right for sopping with bread. I love their rustic bread. The little octopus staring up at me from between the pasta? Not so much. I hid him so I wouldn't have to look at him.
Afterwards, we walked all over the city. There are little if any cars as it is another pedestrian city. I did notice several boys who had backpacks with their wet swimming trunks hanging off the back as if they had been hiking through the area and decided to go for a swim. We caught a train which we took back out of the Cinque Terre.
What a wonderful life here.


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2018 Consumer Products Industry Outlook
Newer approaches and bolder moves in consumer goods
As consumers prosper from stable US and global economies, the consumer products industry will reinterpret traditional levers to fuel growth in a hyper-competitive market.
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- Globalization drives growth
- Paths to innovation
- Growth through M&A
- Digital technologies and applications
The drive toward consumer products company differentiation in 2018
The ability of companies in the consumer products industry to quickly adapt, innovate, and differentiate themselves in the marketplace is often essential to success and driving brand growth.
According to Deloitte Insights' United States Economic Forecast, the US economy is likely to continue to grow at a moderate 2.0 to 2.5 percent rate in 2018. A key source of strength is consumers, who have benefitted from strong labor, rising incomes, record low unemployment, and low inflation. Households are enjoying growing wealth and consumer confidence remains elevated despite uncertainty in the political and economic policymaking areas.
Companies in the consumer products industry are developing newer and bolder strategies to execute traditional levers against a backdrop of a more stable US and worldwide economy. Among the latest trends are:
- Globalization. Companies in the consumer products industry will strive to strategically capitalize on growth in emerging markets, and seek opportunities to acquire or partner with companies to enable access to consumers, leverage market solutions, and in some cases, access sources of raw material.
- Innovation. Companies in the consumer products industry have traditionally looked to innovate as a source of growth and will try newer and bolder strategies in 2018. Expect many to take an agile approach to developing, testing, and iterating innovative ideas compared to traditional, highly structured, more time-consuming testing methods.
- M&A activity. Companies in the consumer products industry are often increasingly looking to expand across geographies and reach out to markets that can drive both sales and profitability.
- Digitization. Companies in the consumer products industry are aligning technology in creative and efficient ways to optimize customer engagement and influence the consumers' path to purchase.
Read the 2018 Consumer Products Industry Outlook to learn more.
Take a look back at previous years' reports:
2017 Consumer Products Industry Outlook report and infographic
2016 Consumer Products Industry Outlook report
Achieving globalization to drive differentiation and growth
Expanding into global markets is one avenue US-based consumer products companies can pursue to drive growth and brand differentiation. Companies in the consumer products industry could benefit from considering ways in which they can strategically capitalize on the growth in emerging markets and identify opportunities to partner or acquire successful businesses in these markets, thereby having access to their consumers.
- Emerging markets represent an opportunity for growth. Facing issues of weak demand and increased competition in North America across consumer products company categories, many US companies anticipate growth opportunities from outside the United States.
- Achieving globalization through partnerships. One approach is through partnerships between US companies and local brands. Such partnerships potentially help US-based companies adapt their products to the needs of a specific market.
- Realizing the potential of global markets by tapping into consumer insights. Companies in the consumer products industry could gain a foothold in the marketplace by developing deep insights about consumers in the emerging markets they wish to enter.
Explore demographic trends in emerging markets.
Newer, bolder paths to innovation
While many consumer products companies have looked to innovation as a source of growth, what's changing is how companies are pursuing innovation. In addition to following traditional new product development cycles, many companies in the consumer products industry are experimenting with new approaches, such as innovation through:
- Venture capital-styled incubators
- Crowdsourcing and partnering with consumers
- Renovation of previously successful products
- Continued focus on health and wellness/good-for-you products
Learn how consumer goods companies can think differently about innovation.
M&A—An inorganic path to globalization and innovation
Looking ahead, the uptick in consumer products M&A activity is likely to continue in 2018. The steady growth in the US economy is driving up the jobs rate and the rise in consumer spending, albeit gradual, can provide a conducive platform to consolidation.
Activity will likely be driven by one of the two viewpoints:
- Acquisitions for growth and differentiation
- Divestitures to become leaner organizations focused on core brands and profitability
Explore opportunities for M&A in the consumer products industry.
Digitization continues to drive differentiation through efficiency and creativity
Digital technologies and applications have a wide influence on many consumer products companies, from interacting with consumers to operations and procurement. In some organizations, the company's digital strategy is increasingly becoming part of its overall business strategy.
Many could benefit from continually investing in digital technologies to deepen customer engagement and enhance the consumers' path to purchase. Investing in digital technologies could also benefit companies in the consumer products industry by driving efficiency in supply chain. Trends in digitization—and their potential benefits include:
- Promoting real-time customer engagement
- Promoting e-commerce
- Blockchain applications
Learn how consumer products companies can digitize the entire path to purchase.
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In today's rapidly evolving marketplace environment, key business issues are converging with impacts felt across multiple industry sectors. What are the key trends, challenges, and opportunities that may affect your business and influence your strategy? Look for more perspectives and insights from some of Deloitte's forward thinkers.
Discover more Industry Outlooks.
The grocery digital divide
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How the industry can prepare and adapt