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AAcoin has conducted irregular repurchase of AAT and AMM on October 19, with the transaction fee of 5% and the transaction fee of 40%. The repurchase data is as follows:
AAT repurchase amount: 0.000007 BTC, repurchase price: about 0.000001335 BTC, repurchase amount: 5.371 pieces.
AMM repurchase amount: 0.000057 BTC, repurchase unit price: about 0.000000153 BTC, repurchase amount: 374.344 pieces.
The AAT, AMM repurchase destroy links: https://etherscan.io/address/0x43B974dfF9FAD6be58938e1eaF8c98C43598e464#tokentxns (you can check on October 20th afternoon)
AAcoin team
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Remodeling your home can be both exhilarating and overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be expensive. Instead of scouring DIY home projects on Pinterest, consider picking one room to focus on and create a budget. Kyle and I decided to upgrade our half-bath first because it was the smallest space in our home. Check out the eight simple upgrades we did to completely transform our … [Read more...] about 8 Upgrades for A Bathroom Remodel on a Budget
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I'm not an audiophile or anything, but Kyle bought me a record player for Valentine's Day one year and I think it's the neatest thing ever. He bought me a few Ellie Goulding albums to start my collection, but it's been growing ever since. One day, I was changing the record and I realized that the beautiful album artwork was going to waste because it was in a storage cube. So I … [Read more...] about Vinyl Record Album Frame Collage
Make A New Candle with Leftover Wax
I love candles. There's literally a candle in every single room in my house because it feels cozy when I light them. However, there's always a little bit of wax left at the bottom of the jar after the wick has burned away. I decided to reuse the wax and create new candles with it! It only takes a few minutes and the process makes your home smell wonderful :)This post contains … [Read more...] about Make A New Candle with Leftover Wax
The Best Push Pin Travel Map to Display All Your Adventures
I was using shadow boxes to display mementos I collected from everywhere I traveled, but there are so many things that you really can't see much of anything. Luckily, I found this cool website that sells customized push pin travel maps! It's basically a map stretched over cork board and framed. Simple enough that they even offer a cheap DIY version! But I'm lazy. So I opted for … [Read more...] about The Best Push Pin Travel Map to Display All Your Adventures


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The Tim Daugherty (Jazz) Group performed last night to a full house at Campbell Steele Gallery in Marion, Iowa. The group played original and contemporary jazz music as Tim Daugherty celebrated his final day of Master's Degree finals at the University of Iowa (UI). In fulfillment of Tim's master's project, he wrote a musical score which […]Read more


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Benefits Of The Amazonite Point
An Amazonite point is an excellent option for someone who is wanting to balance their divine feminine and masculine energies. Being in touch with both your feminine and masculine sides helps you get where you need to go in life. Let's go over some examples of this. As a women, masculine energy can help you be more competitive and get a promotion at work. If you're a man, feminine/nurturing energy can give you a deeper connection to your children.
An Amazonite point also balances the personality. Having a balanced personality can help with many things. It can help with low self-esteem, insecurities, dependency issues, and much more. Balancing your personality can be extremely helpful for people who suffer from psychological disorders.
If you are someone who is trying to get in touch with your intuitive side, an amazonite point is an excellent option for you. It promotes intuitiveness, which can help you make essential decisions in your everyday life. Intuition is commonly known as the "gut feeling" that people get about specific choices or actions. In many ways, it is your consciousness' way of communicating with you.
Amazonite also promotes the cleansing and healing of the throat chakra, heart chakra, and the third eye chakra. The throat chakra is very important for things like communication, expression, the realization of your purpose in life, and connection to the etheric realm. The heart chakra promotes love, healthy relationships, compassion, transformation, healthy grieving, and forgiveness. The third-eye chakra promotes vision, intuition, perception, wisdom, and inspiration. It also aligns the aura leaving you feeling refreshed. If you find yourself missing any of these qualities, I recommend meditation with an amazonite point and doing some chakra healing.
Amazonite points are also known for removing negative energy and blockages. This is very helpful for living a positive life. It is also helpful for physical health. If you have blockages, it can cause problems with the way your energy moves, which, since we're made out of energy, can cause health problems. It also has a soothing energy that can make you feel at peace with yourself and the world.
Another fantastic thing about an amazonite point is its ability to protects against electromagnetic smog. Electromagnetic smog comes from the various types of electromagnetic fields our technology puts out. The more technology you have in one location, the more smog you will have. This electromagnetic smog has the ability to negatively impact our energy, which can cause us to get sick. The side effects of electromagnetic pollution include headaches, anxiety, depression, nausea, and fatigue. If these symptoms sound familiar to you, this might be the perfect option for your home or office. Place it in the area and let the crystal do the rest.
Amazonite points are also known to help with emotional trauma. Emotional trauma can cause many negative impacts on people. Some of those negative things are as follows: denial, shock, confusion, anger, mood swings, irritability, anxiety, guilt, shame, fear, feeling disconnected, and withdrawing from others. If you know that you suffer from emotional trauma amazonite can be a wonderful tool to use to heal your wounds.
It also promotes a worry and fear-free mind. If you are known as the person who is always worrying or stressed that something might go wrong, amazonite could be your go-to tool. Meditating with it can help chase away those emotions and help you live a more a more positive life. Just getting rid of unneeded worrying and fear can take a massive weight off of your shoulders and help you take the risks needed to achieve your goals.


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Our new line-up of Quadro GPUs – the K5200, K4200, K2200 and K620 – will be on display in Europe for the first time at the IBC conference in Amsterdam, Sept. 12-16. And they're arriving just in time.
That's because media professionals are working with a new generation of cameras. Offering higher resolution and more flexibility, this new gear is amazing stuff.
But with better resolution comes the need for more processing power. To work with raw camera footage and retain the highest quality throughout the workflow, it's necessary to process, or debayer, the files. That already requires a lot of horsepower. Upping the resolution from HD to 4K or even 6K makes the challenge even greater.
Increasing the pixels more than 9x over HD demands all the horsepower and memory you can get. While that used to require specialized hardware, today you can add a new NVIDIA Quadro K5200 and you're ready to go.
With up to twice the application performance and data-handling capacity, and larger GPU memory, the next-gen Quadro series is at the center of modern workflows.
At IBC, we'll be showing off a host of cutting-edge workflow technologies including:
- GPU final-frame rendering with Chaos Group's V-Ray RT 3.0 and the CG animated short film CONSTRUCT, leveraging the power of NVIDIA GPUs.
- A prototype of Dolby Laboratories' Enhanced Dynamic Range display. It supports 20x the brightness of standard displays. This demo features The Foundry's NUKE STUDIO for creating startling high-range content.
- A unique virtual camera demonstration of a filmmaker, tablet in hand, walking through a live-action set. The NVIDIA Tegra K1-powered tablet moves through Autodesk Maya scenes rendered by Chaos V-Ray RT.
- [0x1]'s Iray for Maya harnessing the power of a local workstation and remote NVIDIA Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) to demo performance that scales linearly across appliances.
- NVIDIA GRID vGPU technology with Adobe Creative Cloud and Autodesk 3D applications. See how you can offload graphics processing from the CPU to the GPU in virtualized environments.
At IBC, we'll also be featuring the new HP Z840 Workstation series with the Quadro K5200 and the ultra-high-performance CADnetwork Workstation W60 using four Quadro K6000 GPUs.
IBC attendees will also be among the first to see a game-changer for the industry – the newly shipping NVIDIA VCA. It's a scalable, network-attached GPU rendering appliance. It gets its exceptional performance from eight high-end NVIDIA GPUs. Supporting NVIDIA Iray natively, NVIDIA VCA also enables Autodesk 3ds Max through Chaos Group's V-Ray RT.
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Sleeps 26 | 11 Bedrooms | Reviews
Accommodation Summary: Cottage sleeps 26 West Midlands, Heart of England.
Key Holiday Home Information:Family-Friendly.
Nearest Airport and Railway Station: Nearest railway station Worcester, 10 miles. Nearest airport Birmingham 28 miles..
Nearest city or town: Worcester, approximately 10 miles away.
Type of self-catering holiday: Self-catering 2 or 3 night weekend break. Or weekly rental..
Short Breaks and weekend breaks: 2 or 3 night weekend break
Rosemore Grange is situated on the Worcestershire/Herefordshire boarders and is the ideal property for families or large groups looking for a relaxing break, a celebration or reunion. With space to accommodate 20 people with 9 bedrooms, and also additional accommodation is offered in The Coach House which can sleep 6. Great facilities and well decorated rooms as well as fantastic features such as an open fire and woodstove.
Entertainment and/or Leisure Facilities on Offer: Games Room
Flexible changeover day: No
Recommended Attractions near Whitbourne: The historic towns of Worcester and Hereford with their many attractions are nearby. The larger cities of Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol are all within an hours drive. The race courses at Worcester and Cheltenham are within easy reach, as are other sporting attractions such as cricket and rugby. For car enthusiasts the Shelsley Walsh Hill climb runs regularly through the summer months and for those who enjoy the outdoors the Malvern Hills are close by.
Good places to visit near Whitbourne: The historice towns of Worcester, Hereford, Ludlow and Ledbury.More about the Location:
Good places to eat near Whitbourne: There are many places to eat in Worcester. More locally The talbot at Knightwick serves excellent food using locally produced produce and also brews its own beer.
Short Breaks: Yes, minimum 2 nights
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The Literary Salon - Naoko Abe
Fri 19 July 2019
Cherry Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved the Blossoms For Japan
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Naoko Abe is a Japanese journalist living in London. She was the first political writer to cover the prime minister's office, the foreign ministry and the defence ministry at one of Japan's largest newspapers. Cherry Ingram is a portrait of an unknown Englishman and amateur botanist whose legacy can be seen all around us. A story of Britain and Japan in the 20th century and how a delicate blossom was threatened by a warlike ideology.
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Soon, your phone's cracked screen may have its own healing factor.
Scientists from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside have developed a self-healing material that has potential applications for phone screens, artificial muscles, and more.
The concept isn't exactly new. In late 2013, the LG G Flex came out with a self-healing back that automatically repaired scratches and other wear and tear in a matter of minutes. The Flex's material was non-conductive, so it couldn't be used on screens. Read more…
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Scott Baio has long been one of the strongest supporters for Donald Trump, and he's been the butt of a lot of jokes for his commitment to the president. And like a lot of Trump supporters, he has declared that he will no longer support Nordstrom after the company announced that they were removing Ivanka Trump's clothing line from their stores, tweeting out his disavowal for the company.
RELATED: Trevor Noah asks "what's the actual truth" in the age of Trump and discovers that facts are elusive
Left-leaning late night host Trevor Noah jumped on the bait and shot a tweet back at Baio, tweeting that Nordstom will have to "find another cashier." Baio has been out of the spotlight since the '80s, when he starred in a number of successful sitcoms.
RELATED: Trevor Noah skewers Donald Trump's wild tweeting, but he blames someone surprising
Baio fired back at Noah, declaring him un-American and demanding that he shut his "pie-hole."
Nordstrom has stated on several occasions that their decision to remove Ivanka Trump's brand from their stores was based on the poor sales of the line, not on her father's policies. After Trump tweeted an attack at the department store, their stock fell briefly before settling 4.1 percent higher at the closing bell.


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Petrolia's Lay Pirate varsity volleyball team split matches over the last week, earning a win over Chillicothe before taking a loss to Archer City.
The Lady Pirates defeated Chillicothe in three set, 25-6, 25-15, 25-12.
Freshman Brooklyn Bunch led the Lady Pirates with four kills.
Petrolia fell to Archer City in three sets Tuesday, 15-25, 20-25, 12-25.
Brittney Ablia scored 10 kills and two aces in the match, and had five digs. Shelby Alexander finished with five kills and Sidney Mobley had six digs.
The Lady Pirates are 17-9 for the season and 6-3 in district play.


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Following on from a very successful show in 2019, the Southwest Care Exhibition 2020 is set to be bigger and better with a strong focus on INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY and SIGNPOSTING in the sector.
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As a tech-savvy child, I was always fascinated by animations, graphics, photography and videography. Attending a few weddings as a child, I was fascinated by the skill and focus of the videographers on hire. But as I grew up, I was surprised to learn that wedding videographers don't seem to earn as much as true cinematographers in the filmmaking field.
Luckily for them, I think the industry's tune is changing a bit. Maybe because the wedding video approach has changed too?
Today's cinematographic videographers are making exciting wedding films rather than just recording bland wedding videos. They are using the latest, most advanced audio and video equipment to capture Hollywood quality videos with crisp audio.
With the advent of the tapeless, digital format, the young and upcoming videographers are pushing boundaries in all corners of the industry. Some of the popular forms, wedding couples are hiring videographer are Cinematic, Short Form, Documentary, and Storytelling that involves high-quality audios and videos.
This type of wedding videography style copies the filters, angles and transitions of movies. I love using this style combined with storytelling or short form. It is such a beautiful way to capture every emotion of a wedding day. Popular hallmarks of cinematic wedding videos are aerial shots, moving voice overs, using slow motion etc.
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This is another type of wedding videography styles, combined with one of the other four. This style has a short highlight video which is 3-5 minutes long. There are many videography companies that offer highlight video along with raw footage or full feature video of the wedding. This style focuses on three major segments- getting the ready, ceremony and the reception. It is easy to share with friends and acquaintances who are not able to attend your wedding. However, not all videographers work on this for form, so may sure to ask before you hire one.
This is another popular wedding videography style in trend. This style relies on voice-over audio in order to narrate the couple story and the wedding day. However, some videographers use music, text or maybe a combination of these to create a wedding video focused on their love story. When combined with cinematic wedding videography style, storytelling will engage everyone who watches it.
These styles of wedding videography may not as polished as cinematic videos. Videographers who are work in the wedding documentary prefer unplanned and raw moments of the wedding. When combined with storytelling, it can create a unique effect and make your documentary even more memorable.
When it comes to filming a wedding, videographers are bringing more creativity and thoughtfulness into their approach, which raises their value in the entire industry. Shooting an important, emotional and once-in-a-lifetime event can be the most stressful and difficult things to do, yet many filmmakers are tackling it with style, grace and ingenuity while raising the bar for this industry as a whole.


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Trying to find and decide on a topic can often be complicated and frustrating. Your professor may provide a general topic on which to base your assignment but often you will be required to focus on some aspect of that topic.e to edit.
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- Course material: Refer to your assignment for general topic guidance; review course notes and textbooks.
- Brainstorming: take the general topic and create a concept map. From there you may find some aspect of the topic you would like to explore.
- Try to pick a topic that is broad enough to find plenty of research materials, but narrow enough to handle in the length of paper you have been assigned. You can then gradually narrow it down to a specific aspect of that topic that interests you, such as focusing on a particular place, person(s), event, and/or time.
- Consider discussing your specific topic ideas with your teacher or one of our librarians.
- Choose an interesting topic. You'll have more motivation to do a research assignment if there is genuine interest in the topic. If the research assignment is unrestricted, relate the topic to some personal experience or issue of personal relevance. If you have no personal interest in the assigned topic, pick an aspect of the topic you are curious to know more about.
After choosing a topic, you will need to locate sources that give basic background information about the subject. Finding background information at the beginning of your research is especially important if you are unfamiliar with the subject area, or not sure from what angle to approach your topic. Some of the information that a background search can provide includes:
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Bridges that will never be burned
International educational cooperation in the context of economic and political constraints was discussed on the sidelines of the Gaidar forum. Representatives of the diplomatic corps and the academic community talked about international educational cooperation in the context of economic and political constraints. The discussion was moderated by Igor Bartsits, Director of the Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service, RANEPA. The list of speakers and experts of the discussion included representatives of international and cultural cooperation of Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
"There are areas that are developing between Russia and the world, regardless of the political agenda. The sphere of education, science and culture should develop without regard to the political situation," Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy said. He particularly stressed the thesis of Russia's readiness and openness to any cooperation in the framework of education and culture. According to him, the cooperation is carried out as a grassroots initiative, but there is a great need for it at the highest political levels.
This is facilitated by the implementation of programs of two projects - the National project "Science" and the Federal project of export of education. The goals outlined in them include the need to ensure the attractiveness of working in the Russian Federation for Russian and foreign scientists and young promising researchers; to create an advanced infrastructure for research and development; and to implement innovations, including the creation and development of a network of unique megascience facilities; the increase in the number of foreign citizens studying at higher education institutions and scientific organizations by at least two times, the implementation of a set of measures to ensure the employment opportunities in the Russian Federation for the best of them.
"I believe that there are no and there should be no restrictions in the field of science and education... In my opinion, in our dynamic world, there are not so many bridges between countries that are never burned by wise politicians. They include education, science and culture," First Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Grigory Trubnikov said, noting the effectiveness of instruments of international cooperation.
To date, about 25 international organizations and initiatives, 15 intergovernmental commissions and 10 bilateral working groups on science, education and humanitarian cooperation are operating with the participation of the Russian Federation. According to the First Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education, it is planned to increase the number of foreign citizens studying in Russian universities up to 425 thousand people by 2024. At the moment, 309 thousand foreign students study at Russian universities. Among the leading countries whose citizens study in Russia are Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, the BRICS countries.
As explained by the First Deputy Minister, foreign students will be attracted through the development of networks of universities, as well as through new forms of education, in particular through online courses and training programs. "We can be proud of the network universities and branches of the largest Russian universities abroad. They include network universities of the BRICS, SCO and others", Grigory Trubnikov said.
Among other important aspects of education and science, to which the Ministry pays great attention, is the recognition of foreign diplomas and scientific degrees, along with the presence of national universities in international rankings. "This is changing the culture and way of working in Russian universities. Universities should strategically focus on attracting foreign students and researchers, develop cooperation with scientists of various countries," Grigory Trubnikov explained.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Italian Republic to the Russian Federation Pasquale Terraciano noted that the sphere of culture, science and education becomes the basis for the normalization of international relations. "Terrorist attacks and the presence of ISIS (banned in Russia) in Syria did not stop Russia from liberating Palmyra and other monuments of international heritage... And the performance of a symphony orchestra was a message to the world that global values will never be destroyed. And this message was made with the help of culture," Pasquale Terraciano said.
Speaking about cultural diplomacy, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Italy noted that the world community should be tolerant and open, but at the same time, in a good sense, able to protect its traditions, religious, cultural, historical and national features.
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Russian Federation Renee Jones-Bos confirmed the importance of academic mobility in the modern world. "Academic mobility is a key element of international cooperation... Today, more than 12,000 foreign students from Russia study in the Netherlands, and this is the largest number of students from Russia who have ever studied in the Netherlands. These people are returning to Russia and serve as a real bridge for building and strengthening relations between the countries," Renee Jones-Bos said.
At the end of the panel discussion, the First Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Grigory Trubnikov formulated a paradigm of the need for open international cooperation "with good pragmatism for the country, so as not to lose its historical, religious, cultural and linguistic traditions and features", but at the same time capable of enriching through educational, cultural and scientific exchange.
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10th Gaidar Forum Organizers:
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA);
The Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (Gaidar Institute);
The Association of Innovative Regions of Russia (AIRR).
The general partners of the Gaidar Forum are Gazprom and Gazprombank; strategic partners include Prosveshcheniye publishing house, Coca-Cola, Pharmstandard group, ACIG Group of Companies, the Russian Textbook Corporation, SANOFI, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Russian Railways, MSD, and Mastercard; EY, Cisco and Russian Direct Investment Fund are partners. This discussion's partners are Philips, Cherkizovo and RVC.
The general information partners of the Gaidar Forum include the Rossiya 24 TV channel, Forbes global media company, RBC and TASS news agencies. The official information agency is Rossiya Segodnya. The general radio partner is Business FM. The strategic information partners are Kommersant Publishers, the RT TV channel, Interfax and Gazeta.RU. The main information partners are Profil weekly, FederalPress news agency, and Invest Foresight online magazine. The international information partners are Sputnik and Cision. Other media partners include PRIME news agency, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, RNS news agency, Radio Ekho Moskvy, News.Ru, Polit.ru, Parlamentskaya Gazeta, the PRO BUSINESS TV channel, Strategia magazine, AK&M, BRICS, Ekonomika i Zhizn weekly, National Banking Journal, Expert Tatarstan magazine, the Smart Country information platform, Financial One, Naans Media, and the Public Administration scientific political journal.
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The group stage at the ESL Pro League Time of year Six Finals has concluded. While the top team in Group B shouldn't arrive as a surprise, a few of the other results were definitely unexpected.
After going 1-1 on Wednesday, SK bounced back again today and rolled over Ninjas in Pyjamas, NRG Esports, and Misfits. Their own 4-1 record put them at the top of Group W. OpTic Gaming implemented up the Brazilian squad in the group standings with a 3-2 document, while Misfits surprised many by finishing in the third spot—above NRG, NiP, and North.
Today's games were relatively easy for the defending BLAST Pro Series champions. The very first match against NiP on Overpass saw every SK player finish with over the 1 . 00 ranking, while only one NiP player, Fredrik "REZ" Sterner, finished above a 1 . 00. The following game against NRG was nearly identical to the NiP game, as SK rolled over the NA team with a final score of 16-9. And the final match of the day was a rather quick 16-7 on Cache against Misfits to complete a perfect time two.
Despite SK's performance, it was not unexpected in the least. That which was unexpected was the actual disappearance of NiP and especially North, a team playing in their home country of Denmark for this event. North's sole succeed was a 16-11 triumph against OpTic on Overpass. Valdemar "valde" Bjørn Vangså had been the standout player in that win, finishing with a 27-12 scoreline.
While NiP and North faded, Misfits and OpTic stood up and required the second and third places in Group B. OpTic's practice definitely yielded great results as the team stood strong on every map which they played, with their only loss coming in a 30-round dogfight against NiP on Wednesday. The team actually CSGO Ak47 Skins handed SK their own only loss of the actual group stage having a 16-14 result on Mirage.
Misfits, led by former Cloud9 player Sean Gares, took the final Group B playoff spot after taking out each of the three bottom groups in the group. The actual team's 2-1 document Tuesday put them in a good spot to clinch a playoff berth, but the team didn't lock this in until these days when they defeated NiP Gaming 16-13 on Overpass for their third win of the group stage.
Due to grabbing the top seed in the group, SK has a bye for the very first round of the playoffs. They will play the actual winner of HellRaisers vs . Misfits, which will be played at 1: 50pm ET on Dec. 8. And the other first-round matchup, OpTic and Fnatic will face off at 10am ET on the same day to find out who will face Group A top seed, FaZe Clan.
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1. Re: Modelling customer and a factGianni Ceresa Aug 27, 2017 3:08 PM (in response to Sunny86)1 person found this helpful
Your customers doesn't have any hierarchy structure, it's a flat list with just an ID, a name and a country.
And I guess a customer acting as "parent" for a loan can also be the customer acting as "group" or "customer" for another load.
That's why you probably don't have an hierarchy in your customer table, because it isn't really one.
You can't really have a single customer object but with 3 different joins, except if instead of 3 aliases for customers you create 3 aliases for loans and your model is a kind of 3 fact tables with 1 dimension.
It all depends on what kind of analysis you want to do, but in a way or another the join between 2 objects is unique ....
2. Re: Modelling customer and a factThomas Dodds Aug 28, 2017 12:31 PM (in response to Sunny86)1 person found this helpful
+1 to Gianni Ceresa
in essence you have the option (or both):
Alias the dimension ...
customer.ID = Loans.custID
Alias the fact ...
CustomerLoans.custID = Customer.ID
ParentLoans.ParentID = Customer.ID
GroupLoans.GroupID = Customer.ID
- with aliased dimension you can choose discreet loanID and see all the parties involved with it (Customer, Parent & Group)
- with aliased fact you can chose a discreet customerID and see all the loans that they are involved with (Customer, Parent & Group)


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Senator Charles Grassley has been reviewing the current farm aid bailout due to the tariffs imposed on U. S. farm products. Grassley has continually shown concern over the current state of agricultural trade and is looking for a resolution to the current crisis.
Grassley also serves as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is looking at the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the U. S. Supreme Court.
Grassley recently spoke with reporters on these issues in our Sunday Talk.


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To provide a gallery that can become a showing place for art created in New Mexico. Art dedicated to preserving the beauty of this wonderful state.
A place where art collectors can purchase original works, a site where the average art lover can find beautiful and affordable prints of this beautiful state we call the Land of Enchantment!


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This sinister item functions much like a robe of useful items for the serious necromancer. It appears to be an unremarkable robe, but a character who dons it notes that it is adorned with small embroidered figures representing undead creatures. Only the wearer of the robe can see the embroidery, recognize them for the creatures they become, and detach them. One figure can be detached each round. Detaching a figure causes it to become an actual undead creature (see the list below). The skeleton or zombie is not under the control of the wearer of the robe, but may be subsequently commanded, rebuked, turned, or destroyed. A newly created robe of bones always has two embroidered figures of each of the following undead:
- Human skeleton
- Wolf skeleton
- Heavy horse skeleton
- Fast goblin zombie
- Tough human zombie
- Plague ogre zombie
the embroidery becomes useless after 1 use.
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When I think of bakeries, the last thing on my mind is finding a high tech, navigation friendly e-commerce site. Actually, bakeries and technological innovation almost never go hand in hand in my mind. In Toronto, it is lucky to find a bakery with a website. I just assume that start up capital is allocated elsewhere than building an online presence.
All my doubts vanished when I discovered Parisian boulangerie, Piolane. I was blown away by their website. Not only is the Poilane site interactive (you get to go into the store and select breads from the shelf and place it in your virtual basket), it is also filled with games, information, quotes, a reading list and it is easy to navigate. There are several mainstream retail e-commerce sites that are not even this good. The only question that is left is do they ship to Canada?
Keeping on the topic of Poilane, with a bit more digging online, I found a Poilane butter cookie recipe that was posted on Dorie Greenspan's blog. The cookies look tasty and I am going to try out the recipe this weekend.
Here is a picture of the cookies, called Punishment Cookies. Go to the Poilane website to see why- an endearing little story behind the name.
I was researching the origins of the Punitions to explain it to my husband when I stumbled upon your blog. Punitions are always on my list of cookies to give out at Christmas…I made a batch this morning actually for a (very) late cookie swap. I can almost smell them!
Actually I grew up with them as I am from France and since we were in the South visiting my grandparents living outside of Paris fairly regularly, my grandmother would always take us to "big city" bakeries so I could drool (probably where I got the pastry bug too) and she would always get a bag of these. I fill mine with a simple chocolate ganache and my husband calls them "Oreo on French crack" 🙂


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Yo Stella, if U think I'm afraid of U
Grace, if U so much as think I can't do the do
Girl, if U dream I came 2 jerk around
U'd better wake up and release it!
Party people in the crib get hyped
Let's get this party funkin' right!
Come on! {x2}
(yeah) {repeat throughout song}
(Release it)
Listen 2 me now, release it
Come, come, come on, release it!
Whose crib is this?
My crib!
Whose wine U drinkin'?
Who asked your ugly ass what time it was?
We doing fine!
Take it all off!
Bass - I need the funk in my face
I can't stand tight asses in my place
Let's get hype, y'all - Release it!
(Release it)
What time it is?
(Time 2 get sleazy up in here)
Mary Sweet Mother Jesus! Mmm! {sample from "The Walk"}
(Talk that talk, Morris)
Oh Stella, I know U came alone
Cuz ain't just any man qualified 2 take U home
No I'm not a man, Jerome!
He's an adventure
Oh - somebody slap me!
I don't know
Party people in the crib get hyped {x2}
Release it - yes!
(Release it)
Jerome! (Yo?) When this solo's through
Jerome! (Morris?) Find me a Stella to rap 2 (Yes!)
Whose beat is this?
My beat!
Whose horns are these blowing?
Aw, who asked your dumb ass how to catch a groove?
We doing the do
Jerome! (Yes?)
Whose Stella is this? (My Stella) {x2}
Then what's she doing over here with me? (Uhh, uhh)
What's she doing over here with me?
Who told U that women like men with no money? (Pfft... right!)
Release it, boy!
Go'n Stella, dance!
Say man, back up, give me some room!
Shake it like a peckerwood!
(Release it!)
Over and over and over and over and over
Your girlfriends told ya that I'm the rover
But I'm here 2 scold ya
That if U live alone
Then we can bone!
Gimme a number 2 phone - U grown!
And I am so
If U say no, instead of cryin', I'll keep tryin' (Cryin', tryin')
Until U're dyin' 2 have me 4 your own (Dyin')
So peep Stella, peep Stella
If U think that I'm afraid of U (Do it, MD!)
If U think that I'm afraid of U (Rap 2 her!)
If U think that I can't do the do (Yeah, papa!)
If U think that I can't do the do (Wooo!)
If U think I came 2 jerk around (Go'n say it!)
U better wake up, Stella (Wake up!)
This is my town!
(Release it)
Man, let them drums kick
Let's get the hell out of here! (Let's do it, yo)
(Release it)
Motherfucker, get yo ass out of my way - hahahaha!
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Cacao Rose Sound Ceremony @ One Life Yoga Studio Stoke Newington
An intimate, heart opening ceremony working with the medicines of Cacao, Rose and Crystal Bowls, to encourage love, compassion and self acceptance.
Rose medicine helps us dissolve the layers of protection that we've built up around our hearts and teaches us that there's great strength in allowing ourselves to be vulnerable. She teaches us about self-acceptance and self-love so that we can be fully in our hearts in the world.
Cacao encourages us to loosen the grips around our heart and disperse any energetic blockages we may be carrying. She helps us to surrender up that which no longer serves to create space for the new.
During the ceremony you'll be bathed in the divine frequencies of Crystal Tones Alchemy Bowls which emit a powerful, pure resonance that instantly soothes the system and calms the mind. The tones produced by the bowls are not just heard by the ear but can also be felt in the body, with certain tones affecting the energy centers (chakras) to restore, heal and balance the system. You'll also experience the soothing sounds of lap harp, harmonic chimes and various percussive instruments.
Together we will drink ceremonial grade cacao from the Peruvian Andes infused with Rose. I will lead you on a short meditation before you set off on a sound journey with the plants as your guides. There is nothing for you to do but surrender and receive.
Comforting rose tea and (semi ;) healthy biscuits will be provided after the ceremony as we enjoy some grounding, integration time together.
Please bring water and a blanket for extra cosiness. I look forward to sharing these magic medicines with you.
- Cacao contains theobromine which stimulates the system much in the same way as caffeine can. If you have a sensitivity to caffeine then please consult with me and we will discuss if you can still participate and have a very low dosage.
- Cacao can react with anti depressants causing headaches so please let me know if you are on any medication before booking.
- Cacao is fine during pregnancy but please do let me know if you are pregnant so I can give you a smaller dose : )
It is my intention to guide you through sound and cacao as a tool for self healing and I encourage you to seek professional advice should any content unearth past traumas. With gratitude and respect.
At least 48 hours notice is required in order to receive a refund for this event. There will be no refunds after this time.
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I'm preparing for my coming overseas trip at the mo where I feel blessed to go on a mission to return to photograph some of my favourite animals. This is the 18th year of running my Borneo orangutan fundraising trips which is where I'll start this journey.
Tanjung Puting National park is home to over 4000 orangutans along with a huge array of other wildlife …
… including one of my favourite primate species – Proboscis monkeys.
From Borneo I head to Sulawesi to return to Lembeh and the best muck diving in the world. As an added bonus, Tangkoko National park is close be where Crested Macaques are regularly seen.
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This is a what to do with left-over chili recipe. Now I'm not one to use pre-made mixes except this one. It is pretty much as if you made it from scratch. But if you don't want to use the mix just use a half recipe for corn bread.
left-over chili
1 box of Jiffy corn muffin mix
shredded cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to about 350 degrees.
In an appropriately sized casserole dish or pie plate put the chili. At this point you could warm the chili up a bit in the microwave. That helps in the cooking.
Mix up the Jiffy cornbread and spread it over the chili.
Top with a bunch of shredded cheddar cheese.
Bake for about 20-25 minutes.
Just be careful not to burn it.
Can be topped with sour cream and salsa.
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Dr Finbarr Livesey tribute
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies & Fellow of Magdalene College
As this tribute is posted, we know that many different people will be feeling immense sadness at the untimely loss of our friend and colleague Dr Finbarr Livesey who died of cancer on 2nd September 2019.
Yet grief is also a collective experience, and is alleviated a little if we recognise the uniqueness and achievements of the person we have lost. And it is in that spirit that this tribute seeks to honour Finbarr and celebrate the gifts he brought to his colleagues, his students, and to the world of public policy scholarship.
It is hard to come to terms with Finbarr passing away in part because he was a larger-than-life figure. To start with, there was his voice. It had both a timbre and volume that filled not just a single room but resonated through an entire building. As he jokingly reflected on many occasions, he would have made a hopeless secret agent because he could never say anything without everyone hearing within a mile radius.
And what a wonderful voice it was. Full of life, humour and intelligence – and occasional outrage at the state of the world. His students will no doubt remember that voice fondly – even when it was being used to explain a finer point about statistical methods.
Finbarr was integral to the development of the M.Phil in Public Policy (MPP) programme at Cambridge University which started in 2013. He served first as its deputy director, working with the inaugural head Professor David Howarth, and then became director himself when the programme was in its infancy, playing a foundational role as it became one of the leading programmes of its kind within the UK, and indeed globally. Its distinctive composition and signature features – teaching students high-level statistics as well as policy analysis, political science and ethics, requiring them to complete a work placement, and ensuring that entrants were in possession of professional experience as well as outstanding academic credentials – reflected his own thinking about the skill-set of a twenty-first century policy-maker. And Finbarr gave himself entirely to the programme's mission and ethos. He loved working with students, debating public policy questions, and testing theories about how policy works. His own training at the Kennedy School infused the thinking vision which he brought to the MPP.
This is a legacy that will not fade. It is carried forward by every alumnus of the MPP programme – past and future – who is applying the skills they were taught at Cambridge in governments and organisations in different parts of the world.
Finbarr was also a fine scholar. Most recently, he completed a major monograph – From Global to Local: The Making of Things and the End of Globalisation. This advanced an original and important argument, showing that economic globalisation does not inevitably lead to things being made elsewhere, because technological changes tend gradually to restore the rationale for local manufacturing. The book showcases the huge breadth of knowledge and expertise which he brought to his research. His final publication was a working paper he published with the Bennett Institute which offers a fascinating analysis of the potential for publicly owned genomic databases linked to health records.
Before joining POLIS Finbarr had worked for a number years at the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge, where he also completed his doctorate on value chains. He remained deeply interested in the challenges posed by technological transformation and considered public policy not just in its technical senses, but also in terms of the economic and political forces which shaped and limited its development.
Finbarr was above all things a devoted colleague and friend. He loved working in POLIS and engaging with academics from the various disciplinary fields within it. He will be greatly missed by colleagues here, and at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy which he was delighted to see come to fruition, having himself been an active proponent of a major inter-disciplinary centre of this kind at Cambridge.
None of us will forget his ready smile, infectious enthusiasm, booming corridor greetings, and readiness to offer support and lend a hand. These qualities underlie the many memories of him that we shall cherish.
We are grateful to have had the chance to know Finbarr as friend and colleague. He made an enormous contribution to public policy at Cambridge and to POLIS, and his endeavours will not be forgotten.
Our heartfelt condolences go to Finbarr's family.
Dennis Grube and Michael Kenny
University of Cambridge
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Deeply saddened to hear this news, heartfelt condolences to the family.
Such sad news. Please accept my heartfelt condolences. Sylvana Tomaselli
I thought of Finbarr as a mentor and a friend, he was incredibly kind to me when I first came to the department as a somewhat confused PhD student. A constant source of encouragement and advice, he seemed to like my ideas, gave me confidence and was just a lovely, decent, kind man. I was dismayed when I found out he was ill, and have missed his advice over these months. I will continue to miss him. My sincere condolences to his wife and children, I cannot imagine their loss.
Finbarr's quickfire wit, and his booming laughter - often, it felt, rattling the foundations of the building - made him an instant hit among all the staff and students here. His dedication to developing the MPP was fantastic to see.
Finbarr was a wonderful, wise, warm and welcoming presence in POLIS. He will be missed in so many ways. My heartfelt condolences to his family and close friends. Lawrence
Beautifully captured. Takes me back to our policy days with Fin that he filled with all that you describe. True, the legacy will not fade. Heartfelt condolences to Fin's family and friends.
When we started down the Public Policy path there was a great deal of uncertainty and too much work for too few hands. Finbarr put his shoulder to the wheel without hesitation and despite his own need for time to write and to pursue his career needs he made the key contribution to getting the new programme going. He was a simply a huge asset in every respect, and a pleasure to be with. My deepest sympathy to Finbarr's wife and family.
Thank you for this wonderful tribute. As a colleague his laughter, spark, and warmth were unmatched and helped overcome plenty of stressful situations. His commitment to students and to improving public policy was an inspiration. This is a great loss for the MPP and Cambridge as a whole. My deepest condolences to his family.
Finbarr's sharp intellect, joyful sense of humour and humane convictions will be sorely missed by us all. My very deepest condolences to Charlotte, their children and wider family. Jude
This is a great lost for the academia and the MPP in particular. I had the opportunity to meet Finbarr and his commitment to his profession and the students was laudable. He will be very much missed in POLIS and the MPP. My deepest condolences to his wife, children and all his beloved ones.
This is a terrible loss, first and foremost to Finbarr's family and friends, but also our department. As the tribute on this page perfectly captures, Finbarr was a great colleague who made the department a nicer and better place to work in. His contributions to the MPP programme and POLIS more broadly were invaluable, and we will greatly miss him.
A beautifully written tribute to a man who was always larger than life. He will be greatly missed on the MPP programme and in POLIS
He not only had a great mind, but also a very big heart. He spoke so lovingly of his children and family, and he will be forever in the minds and hearts of all those whose paths he crossed.
Thank you for being a wonderful supervisor, you will always be so dearly missed.
Finbarr was my PhD supervisor, and his gracious and welcoming correspondence helped me make the decision to come to Cambridge. He was an unfailingly kind and encouraging mentor, and always ready to apply his formidable intellect and boundless curiosity to difficult problems.
I will miss what ought to have been decades more of his scholarship and friendship. My heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
Finbarr welcomed me so warmly to POLIS when I arrived in 2018, even though he was already unwell. My heart goes out to his family and friends. He'll be very much missed.
I was greatly saddened to hear that we have lost Finbarr. Out of the professors and mentors I have had at Cambridge, he was one of the few that left a lasting mark on my life and in many ways determined who I am today. Finbarr taught me stuff that I use to this today at work and elsewhere. He was an inspiration as a mentor and a teacher, and someone I would aspire to become like. I am so glad that I knew him, and hope that I can honour the memory of him by following his advice and his example. My deep condolences to Finbarr's family and all those who loved and respected him.


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This example was tweeted by Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Fact checking site Politifact posted an analysis of these statistics and rated it "pants on fire."
Jayda Fransen, Deputy Leader of Britain First, an ultranationalist hate group, tweeted a video with the caption: "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" This video was one of three posted to portray Muslims as violent and dangerous. President Trump retweeted this video the following morning.
The Washington Post (2017 Nov 29) reported "According to Dutch police, both teenagers were arrested May 13, 2017, after the video surfaced on Dumpert, a Dutch video-sharing site the day before. Neither the police nor news reports identified either teenager as a Muslim or as an immigrant." The Netherlands Embassy responded to Trump's retweet with "Facts do matter. The perpetrator of the violent act in this video was born and raised in the Netherlands..."
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trump's retweeting of the Britain First videos, saying "that whether the inflammatory videos are real or not, 'the threat is real.'"
The Seattle Tribune is a fake news site, modeled to look like a legitimate news website. The fake story of an Idaho mother sentenced to prison for breastfeeding continues to be shared on Facebook. Politifact's analysis describes the many falsehoods of the article, including the mugshot, a woman arrested in Arizona.
Since 2003, Natural News has been dealing in conspiracy theories, particularly around vaccines.
This article demonstrates the common technique of adding multiple links to appear as though the news story is presenting evidence from outside sources, but the links take the reader to other articles on the Natural News site, or other suspicious sites such as cdc.news or medicine.news.


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Naciiba Benetria Milambo, a Lusaka Resident says she takes it as a privilege to have been born from a good and honourable polygamous family.
Benetria a trained Journalist adds that she feels sorry for people despising her for her birth background.
She made the remarks on her facebook page Wednesday morning after someone teased her of having been born from a polygamous family.
Below is her post in full:
Somebody teased me for having been born from a polygamous family…I felt very sorry for this individual because for me…Polygamy is all I have experienced and I have never complained because I have been privileged to be born of a good and honourable family.
It does not matter that my mother was the first wife but my father had his reasons for choosing this lifestyle and my mother approved it…My father has no regrets and we even joke about it and laugh it off. For us it is normal. It is our anatomy. It is our story.
Today, if you asked me if I should choose what family structure to be born from, I would not choose because that is my father's duty. THIS IS HOW IT WAS MEANT TO BE.
My duty is to choose my own lifestyle today…I love all my 22 siblings and my 6 or 8 mothers….We know some of you characters even go out with married people…destroying families.
My father chose his women carefully, not from beauty but he knew they were adding value to his family. He then made them honourable women. We know some of you characters who just sleep with other people's children and infect them with AIDS and then dump them. All of you who look down on me because I was born from a polygamous family or because I come from a certain part of the country… GO HANG YOURSELVES OR THROW YOURSELVES IN THE RIVER!!! I am content with who I am and that I will not change…Have a nice day!


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LD across early childhood - BioMedical Approaches & Treatment • Kenneth R. Pugh, PhD • President and Director of Research, • Haskins Laboratories, and • Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine
Perhaps the most practical, near-term synergy between education and cognitive neuroscience …is in the service of predicting reading difficulty and then offering intervention to avoid reading failure. John Gabrielli, Science 17 July, 2009
Language Reading and Brain • Spoken language is a biological specialization but written language is largely a cultural invention. Moreover, spoken language is mastered naturally in almost all people, without direct instruction: • but reading is difficult and reading failure occurs in large numbers of children across all written languages. • No brain specialization for reading. • Implication: Literacy acquisition is a major challenge to brain plasticity.
Reading Disability: Behavioral phenotype • Phonological deficits are nearly universal, but what is the underlying cause? • Proposals include sensory deficits, compromised neural systems for language, metalinguistic deficits, attentional deficits. • ** It is possible that there are multiple sub-types, with different pathways but a common end-state (phonological processing deficit). • Neurobiological (brain) research may help address this heterogeneity.
Potential roles for neuroscience of reading disability • Neurobiological measures provide mediating levels of analysis between gene and behavioral phenotype. Also constraint on computational models. 2) Sensitivity: A potentially deeper account of individual differences in either typical or atypical development and individual differences in optimal intervention strategies for at-risk children. What works for whom. 3) Early detection of "biomarkers" predictive of risk for atypical development.
The Neurobiology of Reading Disability • Genetics: • A) heritability (co-twin) studies establish a genetic involvement in RD • B) A number of molecular-genetic investigations (e.g., Fisher & DeFries, 2002) have reported linkages between reading-related processes and regions on chromosomes 2, 3, 6, 15, and 18. These studies are at an early stage thus far. • Multiple genes likely. • **Gene/environment interaction shapes cognitive development.
The Neurobiology of Reading Disability • Brain anatomy in RD: • 1) Early post-mortum studies implicate subtle neuronal abnormalities (ectopias) in LH language zones (Galaburda). • 2) Recent structural MR studies reveal reduced grey matter density in reading-related temporo-parietal regions (Brambati). • 3) New research examining cortico-cortico pathways with MRI/DTI, suggest white matter tract anomalies (Klingberg, McCandliss), between reading related subsystems.
The Language Brain • Damage/lesion studies • Broca's area: Thought to be specialized for speech production, grammar • Wernicke's area: Thought to be specialized for speech comprehension, semantics • Implication for reading: skilled reading circuits must support efficient communication between visual areas and these Left Hemisphere language zones
The Neurobiology of Reading Disability • Functional brain imaging: • 1) two major classes of techniques: electrophysiological (EEG; MEG) and hemodynamic (fMRI, PET). • The former give information on timing of brain activity while the latter provide information on localization.Need both!
Reading Language and Brain • Q) What are the underlying neurobiological mechanisms associated with the development of reading skill? • Q) What are the neurobiological underpinnings of reading disability (RD)? • Q) How does training and remediation modify brain organization for printed language in children and adolescents with RD?
Auditory vs Visual Sentence Task common print(red) speech(blue) RH on left side Constable, Pugh et al. (2004)
SMG/STG AG OT/ VWFA IFG MTG/ITG Updated view: The Reading Network (Pugh et al., 2005) • Hypothesized Role of component circuits • 'Phonological' • IFG • SMG/STG • 'Semantic' • MTG/ITG • AG • Putative 'Visual word form Area' • "Skill Zone" is phonologically and morphologically tuned
Temporoparietal Anterior Occipitotemporal Left Hemisphere Reading Disability • Frequent finding: A large number of studies indicate that RD readers tend to under-activate both LH temporoparietal and LH ventral (occipitotemporal) regions during reading- and language tasks; this has been seen in several languages to date (Paulesu et al., 2001). • RH and frontal compensatory shift in RD often reported
TD & RD Reading Children (Temple et al., 2003) Normal Readers Frontal & Temporo-parietal Frontal but NO Temporo-parietal Dyslexic Readers
Summary of findings in RD • RD children and adolescents fail to coherently engage left hemisphere (LH) temporoparietal and occipitotemporal regions robustly during reading. • Additionally, recent structural neuroimaging studies reveal differences in both grey matter density and white matter connectivity in these LH regions.
Next steps in establishing a neurobiological account • It is critical that we move beyond identification of structural and functional neuro-phenotypes in RD toward learning models focused on how and why brain differences impede literacy skill acquisition. Focus on how to facilitate learning and plasticity. • A gene-brain-behavior account will be key to understanding individual differences and eventually tailoring treatment to the brain. • Treatment studies are key to understanding potential to change brain in RD children.
Increases in reading skill are associated with increased specialization of ventral LH areas for print Plasticity and Remediation in Reading Development Temporoparietal Anterior Occipitotemporal
RD readers do not tend to show this neurodevelopmental trend. • Trajectory is rightward and frontward. • Question: Does remediation normalize this trajectory? Temporoparietal Anterior Occipitotemporal
Remediation in RD • Are these under-engaged LH systems fundamentally disrupted, or does observed de-activation reflect an unstable but potentially "trainable" state? • Can remediation focused on training up phonemic awareness (PA) skills modulate the neurocognitive risk profile in beginning reading.
Testing effects of intensive phonological remediation in RD in emergent readers • Overview: In collaboration with Dr. Benita Blachman (Syracuse University) we examined neurobiological changes associated with a nine month intervention emphasizing phonemic awareness, alphabet principle, and vocabulary development in young children (Shaywitz et al., 2004). • 3 Groups: NI (N = 28); RD control (N =12), RD Treatment (N = 32). Each group scanned at baseline (average age = 6.5), one year later (post-treatment), and for the RD Treatment Group at one year follow up. • (see Simos et al.,2002 Temple et al.,2003 for similar findings with different phonological training protocols)
Training • 50 min tutoring, 5 days per week, 9 months (105 hours total) • 5 step plan (unscripted) & individualized • Letter-sound associations • Phoneme manipulation • Reading words • Reading text • Assessment
Key behavioral result: Reliable improvement on a battery of reading-related tests for the treatment relative to the control RD group (Blachman et al., 2005) after nine months of intensive evidence based training. • Effects stable at one year follow up.
Treatment Group: Year 3 (follow-up) minus Year 1 (Pre-Treatment)
Temple et al. (2003): fMRI Data L. Inferior frontal and L. temporo-parietal activation Some L.inferior frontal but no L. temporo-parietal activation Increases in L.inferior frontal and L. temporo-parietal activation and right hemisphere comologues
We thus have evidence that appropriate training has a normalizing effect on the neurobiological trajectory in emergent in a large percentage of "at risk" readers. • Plasticity can be strong even in struggling beginning readers. LH posterior system appears to be unstable but trainable in young at risk readers.
Conclusions • Early language development is key to later reading success. • RD has been associated with a variety of functional and structural brain differences to date. Left hemisphere problems are frequently implicated. • We need integrative neural models that predict reading acquisition; longitudinal research to establish key gene-brain-behavior links. • Early and intense remediation can promote good brain development in a large number of reading disabled childre, but we need to learn more about the brains of treatment resistors.
Collaborators • Haskins Laboratories: Einar Mencl, Rebecca Sandak, Stephen Frost, Dina Moore, Nicole Landi, Leonard Katz, Jay Rueckl, Jim Magnuson, Donald Shankweiler, Jun Ren Lee, Carol Fowler, Alvin Liberman • Yale Reading Center: Ken Pugh (Director),Gina Della Porta, Eleanor Tejada, Kelley Delaney, Ashley Zennis, Priya Pugh, • Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention: Bennett Shaywitz, Sally Shaywitz, Karen Marchione, John, Holahan, Jack Fletcher • Yale University/Diagnostic Radiology: John Gore, Todd Constable, Robert Fulbright, Doug Rothman, Graeme Mason, Pawel Skudlarski, Cheryl Lacadie • Yale University/Psychiatry: Leslie Jacobsen • Yale Child Study Center: Elena Grigorenko


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Self Love Starter Course
Self Love Isn't Selfish. It's Learning to Love and Accept Yourself Without Guilt or Shame and Living in the Light Instead of Small and Unseen and It Starts Here
Understand Your Energy and How it Works With the Universe
When you understand how energy and the Universe work together, you'll understand how to create an entire lifestyle of Self Love, Higher Energetic Frequencies and how to sustain it even when life throws a few curve balls.
Self Love 101, Chakra Intervention, 21 Day Action Work and More
This course is getting down to the fundamentals of Self Love on a spiritual level and teaching you to connect with a higher energy frequency.
Self Love is about embracing the sacred being that you already are. It's the energy frequency that draws together all the right pieces of your life, and opens the path for your dreams
Program Details
"I was able to start breaking free from from the behaviors that were causing me and my loved ones pain
I was really stuck in many negative patterns of behavior such as blame, rage and feeling like a victim. Marcy told me things about myself and my past that no one else could have ever known. Once I realized the truth of what she shared, I was able to start breaking free from from the behaviors that were causing me and my loved ones pain.
I was able to shift my beliefs, perspectives and behaviors as I started to shift my heart. I was given concrete tools as well as visual imagary to help me apply her lessons to my daily life, to heal from my past and to start co-creating a beautiful, magical future for myself."
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Tweeting the Twilight Zone
If there's one thread that unites the many different characters that populate the fifth dimension, it's the unexpected.
An ordinary drive? A typical day at work? Guess again. You suddenly veer down a very different path.
I had that experience recently. Just as the New Year's Eve marathon was getting underway, a serious family matter came up out of the blue. So after welcoming hundreds of new followers to my Twitter page, I tweeted for only one out of the following three days.
I certainly expected to throttle down after two days of high-intensity updates, but 48+ hours of radio silence wasn't the plan.
When I signed off at the end of the marathon, I said things would be back to a "normal" schedule starting the next day. So much for THAT plan.
But it occurred to me that new followers might be wondering what normal is when it comes to my Twitter page. Basically, it's a series of quotes and facts drawn from the works of Rod Serling. They're primarily from The Twilight Zone, of course, but also from Night Gallery and Serling's movies, books and other TV shows.
In short, if it's related to Serling in almost any way, you'll see it on my page. And on a typical day, you'll see me doing it periodically throughout the day (roughly once an hour).
There's no staff. It's just one man, with a full-time job that has nothing to do with Rod Serling, using Twitter as an outlet for
an obsession a serious hobby.
How do I decide what to quote and when? On most days, you'll find me defaulting to the "anniversary" episode for that day. I'll highlight the one that aired on that day in, say, 1962, and follow it up with quotes and facts from that episode (and a few other unrelated ones thrown in for good measure).
On anniversary-less days, it's more or less random. Or I might focus on a common theme. Either way, of course, the goal is to entertain — both myself and you.
There are two rules I set for myself early on, and you'll find that I'm religious in my observance of them:
- If a quote or fact has been used in the last several months, I won't reuse it, except for a very specific reason (such as a marathon or a special event). I hate "quote accounts" that recycle the same item too frequently, so you won't catch ME doing it (at least not deliberately).
- I edit quotes for length only. This one is absolutely inviolate. I often have to shorten a quote to make it fit, but I never, EVER change the wording. If I can't edit it for length and make it fit, I refuse to rewrite it, even a little bit.
When space permits, I add the season and episode number for those who want to look up the episodes. For example, #S3E14 means it's the 14th episode of Season 3, or "Five Characters in Search of an Exit."
TZ fans often comment how much they enjoy the marathons and wish they could occur more frequently. My Twitter page is a modest attempt to do just that. We may not be able to watch The Twilight Zone non-stop, but that doesn't mean we can't have it in our timelines 365 days a year.
I hope 2014 brings us many opportunities to enjoy the best television show of all time — and to celebrate all things Serling. Here's a toast … to that "signpost up ahead."
Photos courtesy of Wendy Brydge. For a daily dose of Serling, you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest. You can also get email notifications of future posts by entering your address under "Follow S&S Via Email" on the upper left-hand side of this post. WordPress followers, just hit "follow" at the top of the page.
Hope to see you in some corner of the fifth dimension soon!
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Audit Firms in Dubai – Monitoring the economic growth
The audit firms in Dubai are witnessing a far more increasing trend among the businessmen to get their books audited than before. The business owner understands the importance of ensuring that the books are scrutinized by professional chartered accountants in Dubai. This not only ensures that their accounts are perfectly maintained but they help in complying with producing the audit report to the various parties like banks, parent co, franchiser company, etc.
Growth in economy fueling growth of auditors in UAE
The growth of Dubai in the recent years made businessmen invest massive sum of money into their business. In order to keep a tab on this investment the accounting becomes necessary. And to ensure that the accounts are perfectly maintained audit firms in Dubai is of a great help.
Further when there is more transparency in the financial statements the investor's confidence gets a boost and hence more investment flows again back to the economy. Dubai host offices of many multinational companies and in order for the companies to ensure comparable and credible financial statement are received for the holding company audit becomes very important. Thus the auditors indirectly help to bring in more money into the country and helping in the economic growth.
Financing decision assistance by auditors in Dubai
In order for the business houses to raise cheaper financial facility, the company needs to submit the audited financial statements to the financial institutions. With more money at the disposal of the company the chances for the expansion are numerous. With more expansion the growth at macro level is even more impressive. The chartered accountants in UAE moreover assist the company with occasionally guiding the better financing opportunities available in the region.
The audit and management firms help the company's to make efficient use of their resources and thus help the whole economy to reap its reward.
Audit Firms in Dubai not only provides statutory audit but a wide variety of other types of audit including internal audit, due diligence audit, operational audit, etc. The Emirates Chartered Accountants Group is among the leading audit firm in UAE providing quality services to the clients. For further details contact "email@example.com"


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Monday, August 23, 2010
Time to return to reality......
David will be getting ready to go back to university soon, for his final year. I need to chase lawyers, and other real stuff like taxing cars and paying bills. But thinking of that side of my life can wait. I am not home yet.
You see, for a few short weeks, I am a person here. I am not useless. I can help around the home. I make a difference, even if it is a small one. My family value what I can do. Because of the way this house is designed, with wide passages, and stairs, and big rooms, and stairs which are shallow and easy to manage, I can cope more easily. The garden is huge and level. I can go for walks, because there are well maintained paths everywhere with plenty of benches if I need to rest and places to stop for coffee. There are also many people walking, so I never worry. There is a free bus service around the village, and the bus sinks lower when it stops, so it is easy to get on and off.
Everyone goes walking with leki poles, so I don't feel different. I look normal. If I need a doctor, there is an excellent one just down the road. There is a physiotherapist directly opposite. There is a swimming pool (indoor and outdoor) nearby.
Here, I am just me. Not the slightly broken me, who cannot do anything much any more. So add the mountains to the mix and it all seems to work. We even have a shopping trolley thing to pull along, as so many people do here. Again, it is normal, and not something slightly eccentric.
I started writing this last night, and the "tomorrow" is now "today" and the pile of stuff is growing in the garage. But the packing of the car can wait till the morning. David and I drove up to the little waterfall early this morning, and spent a wonderful hour there in the forest. No-one else was around, and it was just perfect. Sitting on the rocks, and watching the water cascade down the mountain into the little stream....... and the sun came out and turned the water into liquid gold.
It was hard to leave.
How I long for the time when the hospital thing will be over and I will be in a postion to never have to label myself as disabled, or dented or broken. You know, when dealing with officialdom, you have to focus so much on what you can't do instead of what you can do, or what you make yourself do, and it is so foreign to me, and it makes me seriously uncomfortable. I want to just focus on the me I have become and see where life takes me. So yes, the lawyers go straight to the top of the list. When I get home.
So I am sad to leave. I am sad because here I feel whole. Not defective. Sure, I pay the price for walking in the forests and up on the mountains. But it is worth every pain killer, and every sleepless night.
My body may moan, but my spirit soars. My soul is filled with joy. I feel free.
5 comments:
- Vee said...
If ever you had written the perfect reasons for relocating, you have in this post. May there be a way...
- 3:41 pm
- someone else said...
I got the same feeling reading this. You stated a very strong case for being there. I hope your dreams come true some day soon.
- 4:26 pm
- Lisa Marie said...
Dearest Linds, Please re-read paragraphs 3, 4 & 5 again. I think in them you will find your answer ;)
You LOVE it there! Maybe that is where you should be....Just a thought
Have a super day!
- 4:28 pm
- Dawn said...
Distance-wise it's like moving a state or two away here in the US - very doable - do it!
- 7:45 pm
- Crystal said...
It's hard when Missy, Andrew and Ann are not close and David is at school in another place. I can sense some thoughts about change in this post. My only advice is to really take care of you, my friend. Savour these hours and drive carefully! I have enjoyed every post and every picture that you have shared from Switzerland.
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Your taste of life in Paris and France!
Drawings from the House Hunters International taping by Fixer, Jeremie Garcin
The Ideas of March
Monday, March 9, 2020 • Paris, France
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Right about now, normally around March 15th, I'd be replanting my geraniums, but not this year. The hearty plants survived well throughout the winter and continued to bloom, which can only be explained by rising temperatures...climate change.
With the onset of higher temperatures, I asked an expert to come over to assess the viability of installing central air conditioning in my apartment. Almost immediately, with one look at the "garde manger"* in the kitchen window that sits on a "courette"**, shook his head and sadly said, "Non, madame. Ce n'est pas possible." Ugh. This means that if I want to AC the apartment, I'm relegated to using portable units and have a vent cut into the window for the evacuation.
Every year I've avoided it, as the AC units simply aren't very elegant, nor have I wanted to cut a hole in the window...but I've succumbed to the idea now that I've seen the geraniums survive the winter...it's a sign that if I don't bite the bullet and prepare for the worst, I'll be very, very unhappy this coming summer if it gets as hot as it was last year.
* A "garde manger" is a food pantry that exists in many older buildings in Paris. It sits outside the kitchen window, and was a clever method of keeping foods cool, just by exposing them to the outdoor temperature. With refrigerators, their usefulness declined, but they often make a perfect place to hide a compressor from the sight of the neighbors!
** A "courette" is a small courtyard, but in this case, it's really just an air shaft.
I've stopped giving the "bises" (kissing on both cheeks) or even shaking hands, and am washing my hands even more than usual with the Coronavirus hitting too close to home. It's a relatively simple thing to do to prevent contracting the deadly virus, but the habit for the French to NOT kiss at every occasion isn't so easy. I'm learning that it's not so easy to stop touching my face. Just becoming conscious of it helps, but clearly I'm not the only one with this problem — in fact even the New York Times has recently written about it.
Living in a city where we are in the public every day, touching things like Métro poles, door knobs, or even the fork and knife on the table of a restaurant, makes us more susceptible to unwanted germs. I've never been germaphobic in the past (like Donald Trump), but maybe it's time to start.
The Times article gives us four tricks to stop the habit of touching our faces, but becoming aware of how often you do that is the first step towards success. And having clean hands is essential. When I was on the train back to Paris Wednesday, there was a maintenance man going through the cars cleaning the buttons that open the doors. I suspect we'll be seeing more of that and hand sanitizer sales are sure to rise, along with disinfectant spray!
I'm in the midst of taping House Hunters International episode #43 as I write this...the third this year, with others on the horizon. This is a couple who met in the camera department of FNAC — she's from Atlanta, Georgia and a fashion designer with her own special handbag collection. At the Marché aux Puces here in Paris, where she buys antique fabrics for her products, she had her phone stolen and needed something with which she could take photos. He was the sales person and within moments, he fell in love with his customer. Two months later they were married. She moved to France and the rest is history that we'll be talking about on the show.
Speaking of fashion, my biggest challenge taping the shows is...wardrobe. What to wear, what to wear!? There's an image to uphold! And that means never wearing the same thing twice and making sure it follows the rules of good camera etiquette as well as being memorable or impressive. (I'd never want to be considered "boring" on camera.) The camera hates white, patterns that vibrate, clothing that "rustles" and we're not allowed to show off any logos. The directors also prefer we stay away from black or too much jewelry that clinks.
My favorite clothing to wear on the shows is made by "Desigual." The name, in Spanish means "unequal" or "uneven" and that says it all. Headquartered in Barcelona, Desigual's designs are characterized by patchworks, intense prints, graffiti art, asymmetry and bright colors...all things right up my alley. Besides the fun and colorful design, I am a fan of the great way their garments wash and wear (I have to wear the same outfit three days in a row and that means washing in between) and coordinate so that my closet ends up to be a mix and match bonanza.
No, I am not being paid by Desigual to admit to this! I'm just that big of a fan.
I'm not the only one unhappy with her handling of the city. Motorists are at the top of the list as a result of her aggressive campaign to pedestrianize the city by massively reconstructing the roads to accommodate bike lanes (8,000 projects were in full force at once!). These efforts meant to reduce pollution actually resulted in the reverse — ozone levels heightened. My personal complaint goes beyond the traffic problems, to the way she has handled the housing issues and there is no doubt that the city is dirtier than I've ever seen it. Crime was up by more than 10 percent last year, on top of it all.
Hidalgo's biggest rival this time around is conservative Rachida Dati (a former justice minister under ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy), representing the Republican party. Analysts have said that Dati has a good chance of "bringing the French right back from the dead in the City of Lights." (France24.com) She wasn't as much in the lead a few weeks ago as she is now, now that President Macron's La République En Marche (LREM) lost his best candidate, Benjamin Griveaux — who dropped out of the race after an explicitly "personal" video tape came to the public's attention.
Dati's message is about pro-business policies and is talking a lot about housing issues, plus a tough on crime approach. It's a traditional message for the right. Macron's replacement for Griveaux is Agnès Buzyn, the third woman vying for the important political position. She was a health professional before turning to politics and with the Coronavirus looming over our heads, that might prove to be useful.
Even if Madame Hidalgo should lose this campaign, we can be assured that at least a woman will be in charge in the City of Light!
A la prochaine...
Adrian Leeds
(wearing Desigual on a HHI Episode)
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Parakeet on a Pole coloring page
Sitting Parakeet Two Parakeets
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There are numerous approaches to software development that have been used over the years. Traditionally, there has been a division into two competing methodologies, Waterfall vs. Agile.
The Waterfall methodology is largely a sequential method to developing software, where requirements are documented first, followed by the development, testing, and go-live phases of the project. Typically, end-users are the last ones to try out the software, and oftentimes there is a gap between what was delivered and what the user expected to receive. Discovering these gaps late in the process is a risk to project timelines.
The Agile methodology utilizes an iterative approach to software development, delivering smaller features and functions to the end-users on a more frequent basis. This allows for more frequent trials of the software and feedback to the development team, allowing the developers to more quickly address any issues or gaps in functionality.
Scrum is one of several variants of Agile, and is a lightweight process framework used to manage complex product development. The Scrum framework consists of Scrum teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Scrum is simple to understand, but difficult to master.
It can be challenging for teams to start working in an Agile/Scrum approach if they are used to doing their software development projects in a Waterfall manner. Scrum teams are self-organizing and are largely self-managing, which can be a quantum leap for organizations that are used to more tightly managed projects and development teams. There is new terminology used to describe Scrum activities, and it takes time to get used to the language of Scrum and understand the overall process. During Sprint Planning, project work is organized into time-boxed Sprints, which are typically 2-4 weeks in duration. Development teams meet in a 15-minute Daily Scrum to update each other on what they accomplished yesterday, what they plan to work on today, and call out any impediments to progress. Once a Sprint is complete, there is a Sprint Review with the development team presenting their work to the end-users, allowing the opportunity to try out the newly developed software and provide feedback to the team. Furthermore, the development team conducts a Sprint Retrospective at the end of each Sprint to review what worked well, what didn't, and how they can work better together in future Sprints.
Having recently transitioned from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum, there are some key lessons that I have learned.
- First, Agile/Scrum is transformational in the way that software development teams work together, and it is important to have organizational buy-in and support from the top.
- The approach will likely be new to many members of your team, be prepared to fail fast and learn often. Newly-formed Scrums teams need time to learn how best to work together, and early Sprints are typically less productive. Over time, teams become more productive through improvements made coming out of the Sprint Retrospectives.
- Getting your team members educated in the Scrum framework ahead of time will help greatly in understanding the new terminology, and as a result they will become more comfortable, sooner.
- It is also important to have a knowledgeable Scrum Master working with your development team. A Scrum Master works directly with each team to help remove roadblocks to progress, and coaches the team on how to approach their work using the Scrum framework. They are formally trained and certified in the Scrum framework, and serve as an invaluable resource to help your team work together successfully in the context of Scrum.
While the initial learning curve may seem steep, over time the Scrum team becomes more empowered and accountable to each other, while at the same time providing working software more frequently to their business users. A definite win-win situation!


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The HMinfo Research Library contains an in-depth collection of materials on home modifications and related subjects.
The Research Library does not lend books and other items. Under special circumstances, requests to use the library may be made by emailing .
People buying, building or altering a home should consider the possibility of accidents arising from the design and location of the building and its site. Houses should be designed not only for adults but with the expectation that children can use them just as easily and safely and that they will not be tempted to investigate potentially harmful objects.
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SUN-AIR adds domestic Düsseldorf service
- SUN-AIR introduced a new domestic link between Friedrichshafen (FDH) and Düsseldorf (DUS) on 4 June. It will operate 11 weekly frequencies on the 447-kilometre connection. This includes double-daily flights on weekdays and one rotation on Sundays. The airline will deploy its Dornier 328 Jets on this airport pair and faces no direct competition. OAG schedules show that this is the only route the British Airways franchise partner currently offers from Friedrichshafen. It also connects Düsseldorf with Billund. See how Friedrichshafen Airport's FTWA compares to others from around the world.