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Source: Connecticut provost to lead University of Missouri
KANSAS CITY - A University of Connecticut provost is about to be named president of the University of Missouri, nearly a year after the Columbia campus was roiled by protests over administrators' handling of racial and other issues on the Columbia campus, a person familiar with the search told The Associated Press on Monday.
The person said the university system's governor board is expected to finalize the appointment of Mun Y. Choi. The person insisted on anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly ahead of an announcement scheduled for Wednesday in Jefferson City.
The governing Board of Curators met in closed session Monday morning.
Choi, 52, has been provost at the University of Connecticut since 2012. He would replace Tim Wolfe, who resigned in November 2015 along with Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, in response to the protests, which included a hunger strike by one student and the football team threatening not to play a game if the administration did not respond to students' complaints.
Former Deputy Chancellor Mike Middleton has been interim president since then.
The university also was strongly criticized by state lawmakers, who threatened funding cuts and closer scrutiny of the system's budget. Others were angry after assistant professor Melissa Click was not immediately fired for confronting a student photographer and videographer during the protests. After months of contention, Click was dismissed from the university in February.
State Rep. Caleb Rowden, a Republican from Columbia, said having "somebody consistent there at the top helm, that will be able to move forward with some stability and certainty, I think that was really important." Rowden praised the efforts of Middleton and interim chancellor Hank Foley to speak with key lawmakers at the Capitol last legislative session and said he hopes the next president continues that effort.
"Most of these issues, time and stability are about the only things that can heal them," Rowden said. "There's not a lot of shortcuts here, as far as some of the tension. You've just got to engage."
Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, of University City, said the next president should be "inclusive of different cultures and ways of thinking." She recommended he read through a list of demands from Concerned Student 1950, the group that led the protests last year, to start a good relationship with students.
Scott Holste, a spokesman for Gov. Jay Nixon, who appointed the Board of Curators, declined to comment Monday about the appointment.
Choi joined the University of Connecticut in 2008 as dean of engineering and professor of mechanical engineering. Before that, he was department head of mechanical engineering and associate dean for research at Drexel University. From 1994 to 2000, he was a faculty member in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Illinois. He earned his master's and doctorate in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University.
Professor Ben Trachtenberg, president of the University of Missouri faculty council, said he was pleased that Choi has an academic background. Wolfe came to the university from a software company. His predecessor, Gary Forsee, was CEO of Sprint Corp.
"That is something the faculty has said repeatedly: that it was important for the next president to have a deep knowledge of how a university works," Trachtenberg said. "Obviously, someone who has bene a provost and has done other academic work has gained an affinity for the academic mission. I'm looking forward to meeting him."
Associated Press reporter Summer Ballentine in Jefferson City contributed to this report.


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The S&P 500 broke out to new highs last week, as did emerging markets.
That's good news for Momentum Trader Alert, and this week's recommendation, Altaba Inc. (AABA), is one of these breakout stocks.
Altaba is the successor to Yahoo, which stopped trading last month after Verizon bought the company, excluding the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan holdings. Today, what is left is a closed-end investment management company which has assets that include investments in China's Alibaba (BABA), Yahoo Japan and other cash and marketable securities. Shares of Alibaba are valued at about $33.7 billion, while Yahoo Japan is valued at $7.7 billion. Altaba also holds $12 billion in cash, marketable debts and other assets.
Altaba Inc. (AABA) versus the S&P 500 year to date.
Momentum Trader Alert Analysis
Buy Altaba Inc. (AABA) at market today and place your stop at $51.50.
If you want to play the options, I recommend the AABA October $55 calls (AABA171020C00055000), which last traded at $4.40 and expire on Oct. 20.
Portfolio Update
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- Movie Director: Sajid-Farhad
- Cast and Crew: Akshay Kumar, Tamannaah, Sonu Sood, Mithun Chakraborty
- Releasing Date: August 8, 2014
- Music Composers: Sachin-Jigar
- Lyricist: Mayur Puri, Priya Panchaal, Ashish Pandit, Manoj Yadav
- Production House: Tips Industries Limited
- Fun Fact: The dog used in the movie, whose actual name is Junior – The Wonder Dog, was credited ahead of the main lead Akshay Kumar.
- Why it Made News: The song 'Johnny Johnny' taken from the old nursery rhyme became a hit instantly because of its new and funny lyrics that made it a great party song.
Movie Synopsis:
Akhil is a failed and miserable guy who one day learns that he is the son of a rich diamond merchant named Panna Laal Johari, and he and his mother were abandoned. He is the heir to 3000 crore rupees and when he goes to claim that, he finds that the whole empire is inherited to a dog named Entertainment. Akhil learns that his father's property will go to anyone who can prove he is the son of Panna Lal Johari. In an attempt to win the property, Akhil acts as a caretaker of the dog and tries to kill it with the help of his friend, but all the efforts go in vain.


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I think this altered image came out interesting. The original was found in last Decembers pic file to play with today. In this new month I haven't yet taken any new pics. I'm hardly even getting out the door until after sundown this week-
The weather guy on tv said today's sunset will be the earliest of the year, TG! The days will get shorter until the 21st, but the sunrise will be later instead of the sunset earlier. Still, I seem to only see the sun these days at sunrise n sunset out my kitchen window. This was taken out that same window. For some reason I chose not to post the pic last year, even tho I do really like it.
Here's that very simplified form n color effect again.
I've started wearing long johns to work this week, it's getting that cold here. We might even be getting some snow flurries the next few days. Maybe I'll take pics of the neighbors junk in the yard with snow on it... If I can get out there before dark, that is.
Oh well, at least I can see pretty stuff n sunshine on ESR today. It's about time for those icicles too!
Here comes another few nights of work....
Yes, this is actually post number 750 of the original ESR!


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Have you ever wondered if visually impaired people could use the iPad? Well, thanks to this concept, they might be able to do so, hopefully cheaper than those braille displays that are available (some of them can cost up to $10,000).
Designed by Jayson D'Alessandro, the Omnifer is a concept iPad case design that's meant to make the iPad usable for the visually impaired, thanks to a built-in braille display.
The braille display would cover up about half of the touchscreen's surface area when in use. But the clever dual-hinge design would allow it to swing around to the back of the iPad when not in use.
Unfortunately at this time, it's not easy to make tablets and smartphones easily usable by the visually impaired. Hopefully, prices for these boards and displays will go down to allow them to be used more frequently.
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Via PJ Doland, you really cannot make this stuff up:
Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of "French narrative theory" that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors, who she says papered over the harassment, as well as a confessional exposé, which she promises will "name names."
Ms. Venkatesan lectured in freshman composition, intended to introduce undergraduates to the rigors of expository argument. "My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful," she told Tyler Brace of the Dartmouth Review. "They'd argue with your ideas." This caused "subversiveness," a principle English professors usually favor.
I think this and the Smith incident I wrote about below are both cases where in the background you've got something akin to the Foucauldian idea of power/knowledge, warped and applied in a way that I'd guess would have appalled Foucault himself. The basic idea, which I'm going to horribly bastardize, is that social power is exerted not just through obvious physical or economic coercion, but also in the ways information is categorized and used. One sense in which this is true is that a state's ability to control a population is a function of the information (stat-istics) it can gather; another is that public discourse is conditioned by a framework that necessarily exists outside the discourse itself. Who gets to count as an "expert" whose views must be taken seriously? What forms of difference are expressions of a dissenting opinion, and which are treated as mere symptoms of a pathology? (Troublesome kids are now sometimes classified as suffering from "oppositional defiance disorder.")
There's obviously something to this notion, though Prof. Venkatesan's professional specialty appears to be taking it to autoparodic extremes. Often, though, we see the idea deployed to argue, in effect, that speech is (often? always?) just coercion by other means; the traditional liberal distinction between speech and action is illusory. Speech that serves to marginalize a disfavored group, or to rationalize their unequal status, is therefore just disguised violence, and silencing the speaker just a form of self defense.
I doubt anyone will be surprised to learn that I think this is a pernicious and self-defeating line of argument. Truth has always been a powerful weapon in the arsenal of the oppressed; treating "truth" as nothing more than a weapon, however, saps it of that power.
Update: Oh dear… the face of harassment, from a Dartmouth Review interview:
Priya Venkatesan: One of the things that she did, this is also really interesting, was that she would always ask me how to spell things. That was her thing. She would say how to do you spell this? How to you spell that? I mean—what am I supposed to do?—so I would tell her. One time Tom Cormen was sitting in the class, and she asked me, how many T's are in Gattaca. This was the kind of question she was asking, "how many T's are in Gattaca?," and I was about to answer her and Tom Cormen pre-empted me, "two t's." I'll leave you to interpret it.
TDR: No. No, I don't understand that.
PV: I have to tell you: it means tenure track.
TDR: Oh, okay.
PV: Because I wasn't tenured track.
TDR: Oh, okay, yes.
PV: They were trying to intimate that I wasn't ready for tenure track.
TDR: Yes, okay, I didn't realize that's what that meant.


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"It is our choices Harry that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore
Very often in my career I have been in situations where I watch normally talented and capable people make decisions that leave me wondering what went wrong. Often, it isn't a matter of talent or skill, it's professional judgement. I was reminded of this again watching Harry Potter this past weekend. It truly does not matter if you have all the talent in the world, if you lack the judgement of what to do and when to do it, you will be lost. So how will you know when you've made an error in judgement? How can we continue to support people so that such errors or lapses are minimized?
Leaders on all sides know that we have significant succession/talent promotion issues. A key factor in the health of our organizations is how we nurture, grow and sustain the talent of our staff whether they are classroom leaders, school leaders, or district leaders. What advice can we give on how to support those around us so that they can grow, feel fulfilled in their daily work, and continue to contribute to the organization? How do we help cultivate not only talented leaders, but those who make critical professional judgements that are sound and enacted with grace?
Here are some thoughts and some things we've put in place in Vancouver to support school-based leaders who are trying to seek higher positions. Regardless of this context, I feel that the advice below is sound in a variety of situations whether it's nurturing district leaders or supporting teachers or other staff every day:
1) Get to know the people with whom you work.
- You cannot possibly support, nurture and promote talent development if you don't know those with whom you are working. If you value those who you wish to support, then you need to make an effort to connect with them.
- One simple example we've used in Vancouver is a vice-principal seminar series. This is a four part dinner series through the year where we provide case-study examples to current vice-principals, provide tools to debrief/analyze situations, and then sit with them and problem solve. The real goal – getting to know our VP's – they are our next principals. A simple structure, a simple goal – meeting our VP's, listening to them think, interact and learn. It's been a great start.
2) Give constructive and precise feedback.
- Meeting with people and telling them to "just keep doing what you're doing" and their time will come for a promotion is not really supporting anyone. It leaves the candidates feeling uncertain of why they were not selected for a job (if just off an interview) or it gives the impression that their time will indeed come when, in my experience, "just keep doing what you're doing" rarely ends up in success the next time around.
- Recently, we have changed our interview debriefing processes to provide more precise feedback. Honestly, I have to say that this has been hard in some cases. Some candidates have heard tough messages. I try to live the philosophy that you have to care enough to confront. Not confront as in seeking conflict but confront the reality of what can be said about you. I believe that people are worthy of the truth and somehow you have to find a way to tell them honestly the areas in need of support/attention so that they can improve. When you tell someone what they need to improve, be precise, tell them exactly the behaviours or skills you would like to see improved, give them an example and then ask them if they understand. At first when things like this are shared, you have to spend the time to ensure they take a moment to let emotion get out of the way, then they can truly listen to the meaning behind your words. Let them defend, let them second guess you, they are working through it. They may need time to hear things that are points of significant improvement. If you care enough, you'll find the way to deliver the message in a supportive way.
3) Ask questions when you see/hear judgements that cause you concern
- Sometimes, when you hear things said or see things done that you don't agree with or you don't feel fit with the organization's beliefs, then you simply don't say anything. Perhaps you question to judgement of someone in an action or comment. You let it "slide by" and wonder quietly about it yourself. Perhaps you "tuck this away" for a later date to consider in another context. A suggestion here is that when someone says or does something that doesn't sit right with you – ask them about it. Sometimes the comment or action is taken out of context, not fully explained or there is another reason. But taking the time to challenge things that seem to be poor in judgment is not only the right thing to do; it is ultimately supportive of individuals.
- There is also another reason to question and clarify – what if they're right – and you are not? While we all would probably like to know we're always right – not likely. When you challenge someone else's view of the world to clarify, justify, elaborate, then truly you have an opportunity to share, clarify, and justify your own views. I am not suggesting this is an argument or debate opportunity – I am suggesting it's about listening, sharing, and clarifying. If someone's comment or judgement isn't in line with what you expect or what you believe as an organization and if they are not called on it in some way – how are they to know that what they said or did isn't exactly right? People aren't mind readers, they need to know when something isn't right. These questions and quiet challenges to understand more can truly be done in a way that doesn't put anyone on the spot. It can be done professionally and as support. You do it when the timing is right. You use your judgement. You come from a place of caring.
I started this thread on professional judgement and its importance. As a leader yourself, you use judgement on a daily basis and hopefully you use it to get to know the people with whom you work, given them constructive feedback on their skills, talents and abilities and you let them know when something isn't just right.
As I've stated before, schools are more like organisms than they are mechanisms. They need care and attention, a little light and nourishment from time to time. Using your own professional judgement and support, you can help people within an organization feel supported and encouraged. Being a critical friend to those with whom we work is of central importance to organizational growth. Spend a moment a day helping others improve. Get to know your staff, give feedback that is precise and also don't be afraid to question people on behaviours/comments that just don't seem right. In the end, it really is about supporting those with whom we work and the organization that we serve. If we all want public education to flourish, that begins with getting the most out of all of us within.
Just like Dumbledore said, while we may all like to believe that talent is everything, the reality is that all the talent in the world won't get you out of a mess if your judgement isn't sound. Sound judgement takes practice, it takes critical friends, and it takes the ability to learn from mistakes.
It's really just Praxis – a philosphy in action.


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The Woodlands is surrounded by small towns and somewhat rural areas, and the influx of people to the area is causing the entire region to develop. A case in point is Umami, a newish Korean restaurant located in Magnolia, which is the town to the immediate northwest of the Woodlands.
Located in a nondescript strip center on Highway 1488, from the street Umami looks like a generically disappointing Chinese buffet. But a tip from a trusted friend (Thanks, Michael) sent us to check out the Korean cuisine offered by this family-run place.
Pulling into the center, we were greeted by a behemoth of a sign, which we later found out was left over from a previous incarnation of the restaurant. It's big, it's brash, and it doesn't bode well for what's inside.
One thing the sign accurately coveys is the size of the restaurant. It's big, taking up the entire building. Heading inside, we walked through a small foyer into the restaurant proper, and were surprised by what we found.
The decidedly upscale interior is warm and inviting, and a total surprise based on the exterior of the restaurant. We were looking forward to see if the food followed this trend. We asked the server what he recommended, and he immediately suggested the bulgogi bento box, a cross-cultural combination of the Korean beef dish juxtaposed into a typical Japanese lunch combination.
What quickly appeared was a nice portion of flavorful, thinly sliced beef, marinated and seasoned gently in the traditional style. The beef was very tender and fresh; this is one of the better versions of bulgogi we've found away from Long Point road. The fried rice had a nice savory bite to it, and the de rigueur California roll was a bit better than expected.
All in all, we were pleasantly surprised by Umami. The ambiance far exceeds the low expectations set by the outside of the establishment, and the very good Korean food will earn it a regular spot on our Asian food rotation.
Umami | 6960 Fm 1488, Magnolia, TX 77354 | (832) 934-2649 | umamigrillandsushi.com


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Note: This post was written in 2014. We've written more content with new research since then, including Improve Customer Experience in Retail Stores With New Technologies.
Attendees of this year's Super Bowl had the opportunity to stroll down Broadway in midtown Manhattan before the big game and receive personalized, location-specific shopping alerts. These alerts are made possible by mobile-enabled foot traffic technology, which retailers around the country are increasingly using as a way to better understand customer behavior and boost sales.
This technology works by communicating with the unique mobile device IDs smartphones give off when they recognize a store's WiFi or Bluetooth network. By tracking the movement of a customer's phone, this technology can gather data on how its owner moves around a particular location.
Retailers use this technology to determine peak traffic behaviors, conversion rates and dwell times in the stores. This data can be used to plan and re-configure store layouts and merchandise displays in order to better attract shoppers, and studies have shown that using this data strategically can boost sales and customer loyalty.
Some solutions work off stores' existing WiFi networks, while others require their own specific gear (such as WiFi or Bluetooth controllers) to be placed in or near the store. Others are becoming increasingly sophisticated—Hugo Boss, for example, is using heat sensors to help figure out how to arrange products in its high-end clothing stores.
So, what benefits can your business realize from this technology? Here are four ways retailers can use the data these solutions collect to boost sales.
Identify the Cause of Best and Worst-Performing Stores
One of the biggest benefits this technology offers is the ability to figure out the root cause behind sales variations across different stores. In other words, is your best-performing store generating more sales simply because it's in a location that receives higher traffic, or because of the way it displays merchandise?
Comparing the differences in sales volume is one way to better understand this. One youth-oriented clothing retailer, for example, used this technology to analyze average shop times across their stores. It found that, in the highest-performing stores, customers shopped for an average of 34 minutes and spent $60, while customers in the lowest-performing stores shopped for only 22 minutes and spent just $40 (see graph below).
Average visitor shop time in a clothing retailer's high vs low-performing stores
After analyzing the data further, the retailer tested a variety of incentives to keep shoppers engaged in lower-performing stores. As a result, the company boosted average shop times in lagging stores by five to seven minutes, which resulted in an additional $25 million in annual sales.
Use Results to Bolster Other In-Store Efforts
This technology can also be used in conjunction with other forms of in-store advertising. Take the State of Vermont Welcome Centers, a collection of 16 storefronts located on major highways near well-known Vermont tourist destinations that receive over 4 million annual visitors.
"The centers are like museums of local Vermont handicrafts," says Al Levy, who was CEO of Route802, a Vermont-based digital media company that shuttered its offices in September of 2015. "They're designed to promote Vermont businesses and locally-grown products, such as coffee."
To better understand visitor flow and increase the sale of these local products, the centers began working with Route802. A WiFi network was installed and integrated with Swarm, a mobile foot traffic analytics software program Route802 partnered with. This network was connected to digital TV advertising displays, which show visitors ads designed to keep them engaged so they spend more time in the centers.
Swarm data was collected from smartphone users and used to produce reports on dwell times and visitor traffic patterns. "We found dwell times range from six to 15 minutes, depending on circumstances," Levy says.
"We adjust our digital signage according to the dwell times of the population in the centers, and can be more intelligent about what shows up on the monitors. The key is having the right mix of sales, good content and a viable store footprint to make it work."
The digital signs now deliver a variety of content that includes travel advisory messages, local event information and Amber Alerts that can be updated instantly. The signs also host HD video and static advertising for nearby Vermont businesses.
Additionally, Route802 applied the knowledge gained from this experience to tracking data collected from new WiFi networks installed in other shopping districts, such as downtown Burlington.
Segment Your Store Into Discrete Zones for Better Analysis
Some mobile-enabled foot traffic solutions can track the movements of customers down to a few feet. This is especially helpful if you're trying to figure out where to place particular displays or whether it makes sense to offer certain merchandise in a particular location.
One big box retailer, for example, found that 60 percent of all customer traffic was occurring in just 30 percent of the store. It adjusted where it placed promotional signage and its most profitable brands in order to drive traffic to the other 70 percent.
A dashboard in iInside shows a department store zone traffic report
Another grocery chain found that the back corner of one store was getting less than a few tenths of one percent of total store traffic. The company used this data to perform a complete store redesign last fall intended to drive customers to this back area. As a result, traffic in this location increased to more than 2 percent of total store traffic, and traffic spread more evenly throughout the entire store.
The dashboard in Euclid Express (a mobile-enabled foot traffic analytics solution) shows a breakdown of visitor devices and visit duration
Improve Conversion Rates With A/B Testing
Some vendors that offer mobile-enabled foot traffic technology feature A/B testing as part of their dashboards. This means that you can test two variations, such as displaying the same item in two different store aisles and measuring which location sells more.
Jason Buck, vice president of marketing for The Cellular Connection, is conducting a series of A/B tests to refine the company's store layouts of high-margin accessories, such as chargers and headsets. These tests found that these items sold in much greater numbers when they moved them from the back of the store to the front.
Another retailer in New York City is using A/B testing to figure out how to motivate shoppers to climb to its upper floors, which mobile-enabled foot traffic revealed were seeing far less customers. The retailer is currently testing and measuring incentives to attract customers upstairs, such as handing out free coffee and special discount coupons near the escalators.


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Dear Folwell Families,
I am happy to report that I have returned to work on a limited basis. I'll be back in the office when the Folwell Office reopens August 14. I am looking forward to another fantastic year with the Folwell Community! Thank you for all of your kind words and thoughts during my time of recovery.
I am also writing to provide an update on previous emails I sent you regarding water issues at Folwell Elementary.
We have been working with the District's Health and Safety and Operations Departments to remediate and solve the water issue at Folwell.
Currently several areas are being painted throughout the building. The maintenance team is working hard to deep clean the entire building. Rooms 114 and 116 are being repaired, updated and painted. Floors are being repaired or replaced in those learning areas, as well. The computer lab floor is being polished and the walls are being repaired. Room 109, the former conference room, is being transformed into a staff work room.
The IEA (Institute for Environmental Assessment) continues to monitor the air quality in our building to ensure that our learning spaces are safe.
There will also be some projects and enhancements outside of our building. Phase one will begin soon and end before the end of July. Trees, shrubbery and electrical boxes will be removed along the north end of the building, on 6th Street and 15th Avenue. There will be digging near door #6 to improve and replace drain tile. Pipes will be installed to improve water flow. The lawn and landscaping will be graded to improve drainage and direct it away from the building. An application will be applied to the outside of the building to prevent seepage. There will be an additional phase that will begin after the initial phase is completed.
We appreciate your understanding and patience during this time.
Please be sure to subscribe to the Folwell blog (www.folwell.info) by entering your email address. This is how updates will be provided in the future and throughout the upcoming school year.
Wendy J. Moritz


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Yep. Easy.
We can't do it.
The guild's been farming Black Temple for months and most of the usual roster is rocking at least 3 or 4 pieces of Tier 6 -- yet the vast majority of our Supremus fights end with more than half the raid taking a dirt nap. We've reached the point where even this is still usually a one-shot, but it's more than a little disturbing. How can you one-shot Illidan with 24 people still alive...and somehow fail to steamroll the giant McLootLoot?
To be fair, it's not just raids. I've seen players break out in a cold sweat over Talon King Ikiss on heroic Sethekk (which always confused me; the great secret of the fight consists of tanking him in the doorway). Others cite Grandmaster Vorpil, the event before the second boss in Blood Furnace when you don't have a Paladin tank, or Warbringer O'mrogg on heroic Shattered Halls (actually, all of Shattered Halls can pretty much bite me. I hate tanking that place). My own personal nemesis is Vexallus on heroic Magisters' Terrace. I've even taken a group with two mages and a rogue in T5/T6 here and wiped 3 times. What gives?


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Manufacturers have advanced their technology portfolio while entering a new era of technology. This era has emerged with major technology advancements, such as Nanotechnology, for the benefit of the consumers. Nanotechnology can reduce the size of the molecule dimensions and tolerances to less than 100 nm and reduce the size of the product without affecting its performance. This technology will help to massively increase manufacturing production at significantly reduced costs. This technology has a variety of applications ranging from nano-medicine, oil & gas extraction, to the reduction of chip size, making the mobile devices sleeker. Many governments believe that this technology will bring a new era of productivity and wealth, which is reflected in the way investments towards nanotechnology R&D have risen during the past decade.
The global nanotechnology market is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 17% during the forecast period, 2018-2024. The top three applications of nanotechnology are electronics, energy, and biomedical, which account for over 70% share of the global nanotechnology market. A separate budget is also allocated by the US government every year towards the research of the technology, which could lead to technical breakthroughs in the future.
Nanotechnology has contributed to major advances in computing and electronics, leading to faster, smaller, and more portable systems that can manage and store a larger amount of information. With the help of this technology, the chipset size is getting reduced, without affecting the performance of a device.
E.g., A chipset is made of several transistors, and more the number of transistors, higher will be the processing, thus increasing the efficiency. A smaller chipset size will make the device sleek, while the higher number of transistors will make it more efficient and faster. The use of nanomaterial in sensors has significantly increased the accuracy and sensitivity of the devices to the extent that a small amount of the desired material can be detected at short notice.
The technology has had a positive impact on society, government, and business, with improved productivity and close monitoring of nearly every aspect within these segments. IBM, TSMC, AMD, Intel, and other competitors are working aggressively towards miniaturization of the chipsets and are planning to bring down the size to 3 nm by 2022 as compared to 5 nm in 2019.
Nanotechnology will be helpful not only to manufacturers or consumers, it will also help the government in maintaining peace within the society. It will be used in medical science to cure many diseases, in electronics, by reducing the size on the internal components and improving the performance, and in many other aspects, which are described in the below whitepaper.
By Jaydeep with contributions by Pramod Kolhapur and Kiran Nandavarapu
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Rhode Island College is located in Providence, Rhode Island and is a public college. Rhode Island College is a four year college and offers Bachelor's Degrees, Master's Degrees, Doctoral Degrees, and a number of different programs and courses.
Rhode Island College is in a relatively urban area (in or near a city), which may be something you prefer if you like a city lifestyle as a student.
Rhode Island College does not have a rolling admission policy, and you will want to make sure that you get your application in before May 1.
Rhode Island College is relatively smaller in size with an enrollment of only 8,871 students.
Rhode Island College accepts about 74% of its applicants on average, and 35% of the students receive some sort of financial aid for college at Rhode Island College.
If you are looking for more information on financial aid at Rhode Island College, you can may want to contact James Hanbury, who is the Director of Student Financial Aid at Rhode Island College. You may also qualify for scholarships for college in Rhode Island to attend Rhode Island College or grants for college in Rhode Island to attend Rhode Island College.
You may also need to take one or more of the following tests to qualify for admission at Rhode Island College:
If you are interested in joining the Army ROTC, Rhode Island College does have an ROTC Army program that is available for attending students.
If you have taken some advanced placement courses with an applicable test, or obtained credit from an other college, you may be eligible to transfer that credit to Rhode Island College.
Rhode Island College offers the following extracurricular activities to its students:
- Choral Groups
- Concert Band
- Dance
- Drama
- Jazz Band
- Literary Magazine
- Music Ensembles
- Music Theater
- Pep Band
- Radio Station
- Sports
- TV Station
- Yearbook
Don't forget to study for the SAT, because the average SAT score for students that are entering Rhode Island College is 980.
Do a lot of students come from out of state to attend Rhode Island College? Well, about 14% of the student body at Rhode Island College comes from outside the state of Rhode Island.


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By E. Ralph Hostetter |
Friday, 17 April 2009 10:44 AM EDT
America's satellite capability to spot areas down to the size of a pirate's chest could provide the opportunity to belay the pirates bedeviling ships off the coast of Somalia.
Piracy on the seas surrounding Somalia has been a threat to international shipping since the beginning of Somalia's civil war in the early 1990s.
But it has escalated of late, including the incident in the Gulf of Arden in early April in which Maersk Alabama was captured, along with its crew. Capt. Richard Phillips offered himself as hostage on the condition that his crew were allowed to go free.
Four of the pirates took Phillips and fled in one of the ship's covered lifeboats. One pirate, who had been injured, was persuaded to board the Bainbridge for medical attention.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy parachuted three Navy SEALs into the sea close to the USS Bainbridge, where they were taken aboard. Three SEALS snipers, equipped with night goggles, took their position on the destroyer's stern.
When they observed, through a window of the covered lifeboat, one of the pirates pointing a gun at the captain's back while the two others had their heads and shoulders exposed, the three sharpshooters simultaneously fired single shots into each pirate's head.
The SEALs then rescued Phillips.
The Maersk Alabama had joined an increasing number of piracy victims. During the past year, Somalian pirates have attacked 111 ships, 42 of which were hijacked. Pirates still are holding 17 of the attacked ships and more than 300 hostages from a dozen or more countries.
Somalia's state of anarchy allows the piracy to continue unfettered. The country's geography, with its thousand-plus mile coastline on both sides of the Gulf of Aden with very little population, lends itself to acts of piracy. About 20,000 ships a year pass through on voyages to and from the Suez Canal.
Holding ships and their crews for ransom has proved very profitable. Kenya's foreign minister said Somalian pirates received more than $150 million in the 12 months before November 2008, according to Wikipedia.
Most of the Somalian pirates range in age from 20 to 35 and are principally from an area on the northeastern Horn of Africa known as Puntland. They are organized into at least five pirate gangs totaling about 1,000 men, according to the East African Seafarers Association.
They should be no match for the United states. The Bainbridge's success in rescuing Phillips provides a good argument for the United States to go one step further to police the Gulf of Aden, which covers an area the size of Texas. The extended coastline of Aden, covering more than 1,000 miles, offers many opportunities for the pirates to operate from hidden lairs.
America's pinpoint satellite capability would allow tracking the pirates to those hiding places. Then unmanned aircraft, or drones, could surgically remove the lairs around the Gulf of Aden and restore security to international shipping in that area.
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One hundred push-ups without stopping. Can you do it?
Well, it's time to give yourself a pep talk and follow the programme below to get you there.
Cranking out 100 straight push-ups is a true measuring stick of relative strength and muscular endurance. You would think the guy that could hit the century mark would be an overflowing mound of muscle. To the contrary, that push-up machine is likely as lean as a runner.
Ron Cooper is the perfect example. The American has broke 11 different Guinness World Records, including nine push-up and pull-up records. The former middle distance runner recently crushed 91 bare-knuckle push-ups at an event in New York City put on by Reebok aimed at taking down several fitness records. A day later in Boston, Cooper (a financial planner with two daughters) won a pull-up competition hosted by Michelob to earn a trip to Super Bowl LI. He did 56 pull-ups in 96 seconds.
Cooper said he's been chasing records for five years, ever since he saw caught Guinness World Records week on television and decided, "I could do that." He trains every day, focusing on push-ups two days, pull-ups two days adding in a day for training legs and another for handstand push-ups. Cooper doesn't slouch on cardio either.
"I also do some type of hard cardio twice a week such as Airdyne, bike intervals, jump roping or running intervals," he said. "I do easy cardio four days a week for a half (hour) or so, which is typically riding a stationary bike at a modest effort.
For Cooper, his training is aimed specifically for his goals, which are basically calisthenics sprints, usually to hit a max one-minute effort. For you though, Cooper recommended two hard push-up specific training days each week.
His push-up workouts on the other hand, seem like push-up marathons, even if they only range between 15-30 minutes. To him, they mimic middle-distance running workouts similar, in theory, to the kind he did as a runner at Boston University. For example, Cooper will attack 8 sets of 50 with a 60-second rest in between. Another day he'll go for 16 sets of 25 with 30 seconds rest. When he's in a rush, he may bunch in 400 reps for time, which he said can take 11 or 12 minutes.
"The number of push-ups should be modified to someone's fitness level, then adjusted upward as fitness level increases," Cooper said. "So for some it might be 25-50 push ups to start, even on bent knees or hands elevated on a bench or table or kitchen counter if need be. For others it might be starting with 100 to 200 reps for time and building from there."
By now you should be convinced you need this in your life. I've taken a slightly different tact but let me show you how to do it.
Perfecting Your Form
First things first, get your form right.
We're not talking about some sort of bastardised kipping pull-up version of a push-up here. Do the reps the way they need to be done.
Each rep requires:
- The elbows tucked at 90 degrees
- Alignment of your cervical spine to your tailbone (a straight back)
- Full reps each time. Your chest to the ground at the bottom (or damn near close)
You want your elbows tucked at your sides and your hand position tight and underneath your shoulders. Not high and wide.
Secondly, keep your core muscles flexed and don't sag in the middle or dip your lower back. Some call this "caterpillering." It places the posterior elements of the spine at risk.
By keeping your hips low and hinging at the lumbar spine, a lower percentage of body weight is being lifted since much of the body is hanging toward the floor, thereby making the exercise easier and putting increased strain on your lower back. We don't want that.
Third, people cut the movement short and perform half-reps, working their elbow joints more than their chest. The bottom position of the push-ups involves a higher percentage of body weight than the top position, which makes the bottom more difficult. (Thanks, Captain Obvious).
You don't want to cheat yourself to 100 reps. Perfect your form and reap the rewards.
Your 14-Day Training Plan To 100 Push-ups
You're going to hammer your chest three times per week and put all other muscle groups in maintenance mode to allow for this extra work.
You'll do push-ups each chest workout while adding accessory work to really force your chest to grow, working up to as much as 35 sets (total work for the week).
Here's how you setup the workouts each week:
- Day 1 - Chest
- Day 2 - Full body (except chest)
- Day 3 - Off
- Day 4 - Chest
- Day 5 - Full body (except chest)
- Day 6 - Chest
- Day 7 – Off
Week 1
Day 1 (9 sets)
Exercise – Sets x Reps
- Push-ups – 3 x 15-20
- Floor Bench Press – 3 x 6-12
- Dumbbell Flies with band resistance – 3 x 8-12
Day 2 (12 sets)
- Push-ups with feet elevated – 6 x 15-20
- Floor Bench Press – 3 x 6-12
- Bench Press with twist – 3 x 10
Day 3 (15 sets)
- Push-ups (try one-handed for the last two) – 6 x 15-20
- Bench Press with pause – 3 x 6-9
- Dumbbell Flies with band – 3 x 8-12
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Week 2
Day 1 (12 sets)
- Push-ups with band resistance – 6 x 15-20
- Bench Press – 3 x 6-8
- Hex Press – 3 x 8-12
Day 2 (15 sets)
- Push-ups – 3 x 20-30
- Incline Bench Press – 5 x 6-8 (add weight each set)
- Hex Press – 5 x 8-12
Day 3 (100 Rep Test)
- Push-ups – 1 x 100 (or max effort)
- Push-ups – 2 x Max effort
You can download the 100 Rep Chest Challenge workout program to your PC or smartphone by clicking the link.
What If You Fail?
Test your push-up rep goal against what you started with, and see if you've made progress.
If you can't hit 100 reps in succession yet, return to your regular workload for chest and re-test the 100 rep challenge in two weeks. You may be surprised at your results!
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Incredible skiing in France…
Sitting in the foothills of Mont Blanc, Chamonix is heralded as a mecca for skiers, snowboarders and free riders.
In Chamonix, there is a wide variation in slopes, from beginner-friendly slopes in Les Houches, all the way up to the Vallée Blanche descent from the Aiguille du Midi. Chamonix ski holidays can be enjoyed through the along the valley, because although Chamonix is the main town, ski areas of Les Houches, Les Grands-Montets, Argentière and Balme - Le Tour/Vallorcine are just a bus ride away. This is the ideal resort for those looking for a short break, or a resort with a short transfer as it is one of the closest ski resorts to Geneva airport . If you are an advanced skier or snowboarder this is the resort for you.
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What to expect…
Chamonix has something to offer everyone, from non-skiers to advanced skiers. For beginners, Les Houches ski area is perfect, with gentle greens and blues, building towards reds and blacks as your confidence grows. For those looking for glacier skiing and more challenging runs, Les Grand Montets is ideal. If you want to try something extremely challenging and exhilarating, then book a guide who will take you down the 22km Vallée Blanche run.
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"The Chamonix valley is a must-see destination for anyone looking quintessential alpine charm with an edge. For advanced skiers, the famous 20km off-piste run the Vallée Blanche, is a must. The ski season for Chamonix ski holidays runs from early December to mid-April".
Although it has a reputation for steep runs and extreme off-piste terrain, the Chamonix Valley has 155kms of piste with runs that cater for all abilities.
In addition to Chamonix main town, there are a number of small villages in the area that are encompassed under the Chamonix Valley title, these include Argentière, Les Houches, Les Bossons and many more. The main town it pedestrianised predominantly meaning that you can enjoy meandering through the town and sampling all that Chamonix has to offer. There is a shuttle bus that connects Chamonix with the surrounding villages and ski areas.
Chamonix has 4 main ski areas; Balme-Le Tour/Vallorcine, Les Grand Montets, Brévent-Flégère, and Les Houches-St Gervais. All are connected by local bus services and stretch the full length of the valley. The top of the Chamonix valley includes high altitude ski areas such as Les Grand Montets (1235m - 3300m) which features some of the greatest height losses in the world. There are 3 main slopes as well as world-renowned off-piste areas. For those who enjoy freestyle skiing, there is a snow park and boardercross in Loghan. Other ski areas at the top of the valley include Vallorcine/Le Tour and Argentière. These are fantastic for everyone from beginners to intermediates and advanced skiers with an array of black runs that will challenge even the most fearless of skiers and well as plenty of cruisy blues and greens to those just getting their ski legs.
In the middle of the valley, you'll find Brévent-Flégère ski areas, these are on the sunny side of Chamonix. The town is split by the L'Arve river, on one side is the gondola which takes you to the peak of the Aiguille du Midi, where you can begin your descent down the Vallée Blanche. The other side of the town you will find the Brévent cable car. The Brévent ski area features a freestyle area with 5 rails and is connected to Flégère by a cable car. Flégère has a new area called 'Explore Your Limits' which includes a 500m slope with 150m height loss complete with speedometers so you can show your friends how fast you were skiing when you return home. You can also access Flégère from the village of Les Praz.
For those looking for more of a village feel and lower altitude skiing, Les Houches is a family friendly village, just a 10-minute bus ride from the centre of Chamonix. Complete with its own bakery and chocolatier in the centre of the village there are 55km of slopes which wind through the forests, with a similar feel to Austria. Les Houches is a fantastic area for beginners and intermediates. If you want to challenge yourself, Les Houches is home to La Verte and the Kandahar, World Cup Downhill runs.
As you head beyond the village of Argentière, towards the Swiss border you reach the small village of Le Tour, where you will find a ski area linked with the village of Vallorcine. This is a great ski area for beginners and intermediates looking for gentle tree-lined slopes, open bowls and fantastic views.
Located at the far end of the Chamonix valley, Balme-Le Tour-Vallorcine is the ideal resort for leisurely intermediate skiers looking for good pistes without the heights of the Grand Montets. The slopes are similar to that of Les Houches but at the opposite end of the valley, right on the border with Switzerland. There are 29km of slopes of offer, with 13 lifts to transport winter sports enthusiast up and across the mountain. The skiable area sits between 1453m and 2270m.
The slopes include plenty of cruisy blues and greens. Domaine du Balme is great for beginners with three drag lifts that make up the Vormaine area, perfect for those who are new to skiing and snowboarding. This is very similar to the Les Houches nursery slopes at the other end of the valley. As you progress, or if you are travelling as a family the back-side of Le Tour offers plenty of off-piste opportunities and is a favourite with snowboarders. There is a great off-piste section which runs through the trees all the way down to the train station in Vallorcine. You can jump on the train into Chamonix for a few après drinks after a day on the slopes too. There are some fantastic views from Charamillon area where you can enjoy the wider slopes that overlook the Chamonix valley, while the Vallorcine side of the pistes are lined with trees and provide great shelter when the weather turns.
The Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix was established in 1821 and at that time was the first mountain guide company in the world, assisting the Victorian travellers of the day in their mountain expeditions.
Should you wish to explore the wider ski area, the Mont Blanc Unlimited pass covers all of the above as well as Megève, St Gervais, Verbier (Switzerland) and Courmayeur (Italy). Having a car is definitely useful if you do not want to ski in multiple areas. Although this is not essential as there is a free ski bus that links all the resorts.
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CHAMONIX vILLAGE
With the Mont Blanc towering behind as a backdrop, skiers are attracted by the challenging terrain and breath-taking glacial scenery of Chamonix.
Chamonix is a vibrant town, with over 70 bars and restaurants there is always somewhere to enjoy a coffee and a French pastry, and you're spoiled for choice with options of where to stay, from small boutique hotels through to 5* luxury. For those who enjoy shopping, Chamonix in recent years has developed its selection of shops, with a balance of high-end boutiques, and handcrafted artisan products. As you walk through the main street you will walk by some of the best delicatessens that the French Alps have to offer.
A short 10-minute drive in any direction will take you to beautiful little villages such as, Les Houches, and Argentiere. Filled with bakeries and artisan stalls, you will be sure to find a product you love. The farmers market in Chamonix takes place on a Saturday morning, be sure to arrive early to see the full range of produce on offer.
With 165 restaurants for choosing, guests at Chamonix are spoilt for choice.
Each of the villages surrounding Chamonix has a decent selection of bars and restaurants, though most will be found around Chamonix's main high street.
Chamonix is a melting pot of Italian, French and Swiss cuisine due to its location. Speaking of melting, enjoy a sumptuous fondue at La Boccalatte. Aim to arrive before 8 pm to ensure that you can get a table.
La Caleche is a beautiful alpine restaurant in the centre of Chamonix, perfect for families. If you visit on a Tuesday evening you may be serenaded by folk singers. For haute cuisine visit La Maison Carrier, their high-quality service only accentuates the fantastic array of steaks and classic French wine. If you'd like to enjoy a drink with the locals visit Bistrot des Sports, the oldest bistro in Chamonix.
The Rider Café & Le Spot Restaurant, located at the mid station of the Grands Montets is perfect for a quick lunch, but its more attractive feature is its beautiful views of the Chamonix Valley and Mont Blanc.
There is an abundance of restaurants on the mountain. If you are skiing in Les Houches and you are on the Prarion pistes, La Cha restaurant can be found at the bottom of the Chamois blue run. This family-owned restaurant is split over two floors and now features an outdoor seating area with views of the St Gervais valley.
At the top of the Prarion piste is La Prarion restaurant, with its curved balcony seating area, you have panoramic views of Mont Blanc. Enjoy a warm bowl of French Onion soup or a mug of delicious chocolat chaud.
If you are looking for a more vibrant and exciting night, then why not try out the Chambre Neuf, a bar which hosts live bands and table. Here, happy hour starts at 8pm!
In addition to being one of the world's premier skiing destinations, Chamonix's reputation also extends to its nightlife and après scene. As a large resort, there is a bar for everyone, with endless choice of beverages or atmospheres, allowing guests to relax at the end of an exciting day on the slopes.
As one of the liveliest and most popular bars for après, Chambre Neuf is a place which you do not want to miss! With live bands on a regular basis, guests are dancing on the tables at happy hour, and the party scene evolves as the night goes on. Happy hour is offered at 8pm with cocktails and shots on for 2 for 1. For a more traditional bar setting, Micro Brasserie de Chamonix offers real ales, a variety of hearty beers and great live entertainment.
Whereas, L'Amesia nightclub offers a wild night, with internationally renowned DJs and a mixture of House, Electro and R'n'B played from 1am until dawn each night.
At 3840m the Aiguille du Midi is the highest cable car in the world, and even if you are a non-skiers, the gorgeous overlooking views are worth the ride!
One of the most popular attractions in Chamonix is The Void, a glass structure that is suspended on the edge of the Aiguille du Midi. This can be reached by Europe's highest cable car, reaching an astonishing 3,842m. This is also the starting point for those looking to take on the 22km Vallée Blanche. This is the most famous off-piste descent in the world and takes on average 3-5 hours to complete once you leave base in Chamonix village.
Other activities that are popular on Chamonix ski holidays include fat bikes (thick tyre mountain bikes), parapenting and ice climbing. For those who enjoy viewing the slopes from above, Chamonix is famous for its stunning vistas. Parapenting is not for the faint hearted as it requires running off the edge of a cliff with your instructor strapped to your back, but once you are airborne you will be amazed by the beauty of the French Alps.
For those looking for more water-based activities, you will find a number of rafting and canyoning businesses in Chamonix that will take help you navigate your way down the River Arve safely.
A visit to the Alpine Museum, which displays the history about Mont Blanc mountaineering, winter sports & culture, brilliant for a poor weather day or non-skiers!
Due to its location, Chamonix is perfect for non-skiers. You can enjoy all that the village has to offer, whether it be discovering the boutiques on the high street, or sampling local produce at a local artisan produce store.
If you want to explore the local area, there are organised tours that can take you to a number of towns and cities. From Chamonix, you can visit Italy, via the Mont Blanc tunnel. Enjoy freshly baked pizza in Courmayeur or try the best fondue in Martinique, Switzerland.
If you enjoy history and culture, the city of Annecy, just 45 minutes from Chamonix, and often regarded as the 'Venice of the Alps', is worth a visit. Walk the historic streets, and take in the amazing views of Lake Annecy. There is also a 12th-century prison in the centre of the town that is worth visiting.
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There are parts of Chamonix that are profoundly challenging to even the most proficient skiers!
Chamonix is renowned for its extensive steep terrain and deep snow in the higher altitude resorts. If you want to take on the Vallée Blanche is it advised that you book a guide, the terrain can be treacherous due to its glacial formation. There is an array of terrain that is great if you are looking to take on some ski touring with skins.
Grands Montets offers stunning views of the Mont Blanc Massif. The Bochard gondola provides access to a challenging red which winds back to Lognan and a black to either the Plan Jordan or Retour Pendant chairlift. At Le Brévent there is more than meets the eye. Deceptively it looks more like a beginner/intermediate ski area but there are a number of challenging runs that can be very steep and icy in the shadows. There are off-piste options should you decide to make your own path down the mountain. Flégère is connected by a cable car to Le Brévent, here you will find a handful of challenging runs including a tricky black run that takes you back into the town (snow permitting).
For intermediate skiers, stick to Les Houches and Balme depending on which ski area you prefer. Le Prarion (Les Houches) sits at around 1900m and is the training ground for the French national ski team. It is also home to the Men's World Cup downhill slope, the Kandahar. This is a fantastic red that leads into a black and runs back into the village (snow permitting). If you want to take on the Women's World Cup downhill slope head to the Bellevue ski area, this black can be quite icy so consider trying it after lunch rather than first thing in the morning.
The Balme ski area above Le Tour has excellent steeper, shady runs and at the lower end of the ski area, you'll find a lot more tree-lined slopes. The other areas have some blue and red runs. Grands Montets has a decent area of blues at mid-mountain level. There is quite a jump between blues and reds here, so ensure that you are confident before progressing.
Most lifts are cable cars, gondolas and chairs, giving perfect access for snowboarders!
Chamonix is a haven for advanced snowboarders who want to tackle the steep and wild terrain, especially popular areas include the Grands Montets. This does have a knock-on effect, you will find that these areas tend to be crowded peak season so expect to queue for the lifts. The terrain is not best suited for beginners but is excellent for those who enjoy all-mountain riding. If you are a beginner stick to the Balme or Les Houches ski areas. If you are an advanced snowboarder or use a split board, and you want to take on the Vallée Blanche, be warned that there are multiple flat areas where you might have to scoot a for a while. There are some fantastic off-piste areas in Vallorcine/Le Tour which boarders love, you can find your way back down to the train station in Vallorcine where you can head into Chamonix for a few drinks after a day on the slopes.
Why not visit the local market before or after skiing? The local market is every Saturday morning from 8am.
Chamonix ski holidays are a fantastic option for those looking for a short break or a resort with a short transfer. Chamonix is one of the closest ski resorts to Geneva airport , just a 1-hour drive from Chamonix, with multiple flights from the UK daily it means that you can spend more time on the slopes and less time on the roads. Chamonix has a population of 10,000 but the capacity to accommodate 60,000 people in peak season. There are multiple self-catering apartments which are ideal for those looking to stay 3 or 4 nights, Chamonix town centre has an array of small supermarkets, bars and restaurants which are always full after a day on the slopes.
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Here's our map of Chamonix showing you the key hotels, chalets and apartments as well as some of the main points of interest.


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The NLP group of AI lab. in Ehime University studies the following research topics.
- HPSG Parsing
- Grammar Theory
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Distributed Representations
- Symbol Grounding
- POS tagging
- Textual Entailment Recognition
- Sentiment Analysis
- Machine Translation
- Automatic Summarization
- Grammatical Error Correction
HPSG Parsing
This group is studying parsing technologies for Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). HPSG is one of linguistic grammar theories for syntactic phrase structures, and is known as the most sophisticated grammar theory as well as Generative Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG), Lexical Function Grammar (LFG) and Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). HPSG is one of lexicalized grammars, which explain linguistic phenomena elegantly with a small number of grammar rules (phrase structure rules and lexical rules) and a number of complex lexical entries. In HPSG, grammar rules, lexical entries and parse trees are defined with feature structures, which are labeled graph structures. Unification of feature structures provides linguistic constraints and phrase structures. This group studies how to develop HPSG grammars and how to achieve efficiency and higher accuracy in HPSG parsing.
Followings are the research topics for HPSG parsing in our group.
- Corpus-oriented grammar development for HPSG: HPSG can provide precise syntactic analyses for sentences, but was once considered a rubbish, useless grammar theory because manually-developed HPSGs could not provide syntactic analyses for the sentences in the real-world, such as newspaper sentences. This is mainly because manually-developed lexical entries were not sufficient to describe linguistic phenomena in the real-world. We proposed a new grammar development methodology, which we call "corpus-oriented grammar development." In our methodology, lexical entries are inductively acquired from Penn Treebank, which is the most famous corpus annotated with CFG parse trees. By converting CFG parse trees in Penn Treebank to HPSG parse trees, consistent lexical entries can be acquired from the HPSG parse trees. The developed HPSG grammar is called "HPSG treebank grammar." The HPSG treebank grammar is robust enough to analyse newspapers or bio-medical papers.
- HPSG parsing with a supertagger: This group studies probabilistic HPSG models with a supertagger for fast and accurate parsing. A supertagger is a probabilistic model for selecting lexical entries with word and POS n-gram features. Recently, supertagging has become well known to drastically improve parsing accuracy and speed in CCG, HPSG and CDG parsing. We proposed a conditional random fields for HPSG in which the supertagger is introduced as its reference distribution. This model properly incorporates the supertagging probabilities into parse tree's probabilistic model, and achieved speed-ups (around 2.4 times faster) and higher accuracy (up from 86.3% to 88.8%).
- Deterministic shift-reduce parsing for HPSG: Many parsing techniques assume the use of a packed parse forest to enable efficient and accurate parsing. However, they suffer from an inherent problem that derives from the restriction of locality in the packed parse forest. Deterministic parsing is one solution that can achieve simple and fast parsing without the mechanisms of the packed parse forest by accurately choosing search paths. We proposed new deterministic shift-reduce parsing and its variants for unification-based grammars. Deterministic parsing cannot simply be applied to unification-based grammar parsing, which often fails because of its hard constraints. Therefore, this is developed by using default unification, which almost always succeeds in unification by overwriting inconsistent constraints in grammars.
- Japanese HPSG parsing with case analysis: Japanese dependency parsing has already been studied by several NLP groups. However, Japanese dependency parsing generally gives us only word dependencies without case labels. It is insufficient for the use of other applications because post-positional particles in Japanese are ambiguous and the surface cases cannot be identified with only word dependencies. For example, suppose that a sentence "太郎(Taro) は(wa-PP) 花子(Hanako) が (ga-PP) 好きだ(love)" is given. We understand that "太郎(Taro)" and "花子(Hanako)" depend "好きだ(love)," but the agent and object of "好きだ(love)" are ambiguous (We can interpret the sentence as both "Taro loves Hanako" and "Hanako loves Taro.") Analyzing the cases of predicate's arguments is called case analysis. Currently, we are investigating Japanese HPSG parsing with case analysis.
Grammar Theory
This group studies grammar theories. The followings are research topics for grammar theories in our group.
- Left-corner transform for Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) trees: Generally, parsing requires 2-dimensional arrays for analyzing ambiguous packed parse trees, which consumes memory and time. CCG has special grammar rules which can delay grammar rule applications, and consequently can change the form of parse trees. We are investigating left-corner transform of CCG trees, which convert the arbitrary CCG trees to the form of linear chains. We hope that this enables us fast and memory-efficient incremental parsing for CCG.
- Argument cluster coordination in HPSG: Generally, it is difficult to understand a sentence "He gave a teacher an apple and a policeman a flower" because "gave" seems to subcategorize coordinated arguments "a teacher an apple" and "a policeman a flower". The coordinated arguments are called argument cluster, and this linguistic phenomena is called argument cluster coordination. We are investigating the argument cluster coordination in HPSG.
Machine Learning
In 90s, manually-annotated large corpora were developed in the filed of NLP, and then parameters in NLP systems are automatically learned from the annotated corpora using the techniques developed in the field of machine learning. Currently, many NLP researchers directly investigate the techniques of machine learning to develop precision NLP systems rather than using machine learning techniques as a black box tool. Machine learning is a fundamental technology for many researches in artificial intelligence.
Followings are the research topics for machine learning in our group.
- Online feature selection based on ℓ1-regularized logistic regression: Finding features for classifiers is one of the most important concerns in various fields for improving classifier prediction performance. Online grafting is one solution for finding useful features from an extremely large feature set. Given a sequence of features, online grafting selects or discards each feature in the sequence of features one at a time. Online grafting is preferable in that it incrementally selects features, and it is defined as an optimization problem based on ℓ1-regularized logistic regression. However, its learning is inefficient due to frequent parameter optimization. We proposed two improved methods, in terms of efficiency, for online grafting that approximate original online grafting by testing multiple features simultaneously. The experiments have shown that our methods significantly improved efficiency of online grafting. Though our methods are approximation techniques, deterioration of prediction performance was negligibly small.
Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
As is well known, deep learning is intensively studied in AI all over the world. Deep learning is a sub-field of machine learning which studies learning technologies for deep neural networks. Deep learning attracts many researchers because it achieved significant results in image recognition due to efficient online learning, abstraction by pre-training and generalization by drop-out. Deep neural networks can learn features automatically. For example, in the case of face recognition, primitive factors such as lines are learned in the first layer, then face parts are learned in the next layer, and finally faces are learned in the final layer. Therefore, deep learning is considered to have high abilities of abstraction. We also hope that deep learning can contribute to learning abstracted language representations and enables high precision natural language processing.
Followings are the research topics for deep learning in our group.
- Deep learning for sentiment analysis
- Distributed representations
- Symbol grounding
Distributed Representations
Since word2vec was released in public, many NLP researchers started studying learning for distributed representations. Distributed representations are dense low-dimensional real-vectors for representing language elements such as words and phrases. word2vec is a tool for acquiring distributed representations for words. word2vec attracts many NLP researchers because word2vec enables calculation of word-word relations by summation and subtraction, for example, (vector for `king') – (vector for `man') + (vector for `woman') is close to (vector for `queen').
Followings are the research topics for distributed representations in our group.
- Distributed representations for verb-object pairs by using word2vec
Symbol Grounding
Ordinary natural language processing presupposes only models for symbolic relations, and the relations between symbols and the real-world are ignored for a long time. This problem is called the symbol grounding problem, and is recently studied by many researchers in the fields of image recognition and natural language processing. Especially, caption generation from images and image retrieval by natural languages are intensively studied.
Followings are the research topics for symbol grounding in our group.
- Symbol grounding for natural language processing
Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging
Analyzing part-of-speeches (POSs) in a sentence is called POS tagging. For example, given a sentence "I have a pen.", a POS tagger outputs "I/PRONOUN have/VERB a/ARTICLE pen/NOUN ./PERIOD". POS tagging is considered as one of the most fundamental and important tasks in NLP. This group is also investigating POS tagging.
- Active learning and Self-learning
- Virtual sample generation
- Dirichlet prior smoothing
- Multi-task learning
Textual Entailment Recognition
Given two sentences, answering whether entailment relations holds or not between the two sentences is called textual entailment recognition. This task is similar to proving logical entailment relations, e.g., "(P⇒Q)∧(Q⇒R)" entails "P⇒R". In textual entailment recognition, texts are given instead of logical formulas. Many NLP researchers consider that accurate text entailment recognition could contribute to achieving intelligent QA systems. This group studied Markov logic networks for textual entailment recognition.
Sentiment Analysis
Analyzing reputations for some commercial products is called sentiment analysis. Given a review for some product, a sentiment analyzer infers the review points for the product (e.g., good/bad, 1-to-5 stars). This group is also investigating sentiment analysis, using Rakuten data.
Machine Translation
Machine translation is a sub-field of NLP that investigates techniques for translating one language to another language automatically. Machine translation is studied by many research groups in NLP, and is one of the biggest research fields in NLP. This group is investigating Japanese-English and English-Japanese machine translation. Japanese is an idiosyncratic language in the world, and therefore machine translation between Japanese and other European languages is more difficult than those between European-European languages. The quality of machine translation from English to Japanese becomes as good as other European languages thanks to recent studies of pre-ordering of English using parsing analyses. However, the quality of machine translation from Japanese to English is still low. This group investigates the following research topics for machine translation.
- Pre-ordering of Japanese-English machine translation
- Domain adaptation using sampling
Automatic Summarization
Automatic summarization is the methods for automatically generating summaries of documents. Given a document and the maximum length of summaries, the goal of automatic summarization is to make a summary that contains the information of the original document as much as possible within the maximum length. It is known that automatic summarization methods based on Integer Linear Programming (ILP) achieve high accuracy, using the maximum length of summaries as a constraint in ILP. Our group is investigating automatic summarization methods based on ILP without using the maximum length of summaries.
Grammatical Error Correction
Grammatical error correction is a task of NLP in which systems aim to automatically find/correct the grammatical errors in a document. Recently, annotated corpora for grammatical error correction, such as Konan JIEM Learner Corpus and NUCLE corpus, become available, and many NLP groups are intensively investigating grammatical error correction. Our group is also investigating grammatical error correction using logistic regression.


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Chemistry:Hexatriynyl radical
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The hexatriynyl radical, C6H, is an organic radical molecule consisting of a chain of six carbon atoms terminated by a hydrogen.
The unpaired electron is located at the opposite end to the hydrogen atom, as indicated. Both experimental work and computer simulations on this species was done in the early 1990s.[1][2]
Synthesis of the radical
The radical can be synthesized by photolysis. Two different examples involve
- Argon gas and 1,3-butadiene in a mole ratio of 1500:1
- Argon gas and acetylene in a mole ratio of 100:1
Hexatriyne anion
In 2006 the negatively charged hexatriyne anion of this molecule, C6H−, was the first negatively charged ion to be discovered to exist in the interstellar medium, using the Green Bank Telescope.[3] Negative ions were thought to be unstable in this environment due to the prevalence of ultraviolet light, which dislodges extra electrons such as this.
Synthesis of the anion
The laboratory synthesis starts from acetylene C2H2. The reaction takes place within a DC discharge at reduced pressure in a mixture with 15% argon. The product is observed by millimeter-wave spectroscopy.
Analogous species
The two species C4H− and C8H− have also been detected.
- ↑ Doyle, T.J.; L.N. Shen; C.M.L. Rittby; W.R.M. Graham (November 1, 1991). "A C≡C stretching vibration of the C6H (hexatriynyl) radical in Ar at 10 K". Journal of Chemical Physics 95 (9): 6224–6228. doi:10.1063/1.461568. Bibcode: 1991JChPh..95.6224D.
- ↑ Liu, R.; X. Zhou; P. Pulay (July 15, 1992). "Ab initio study of the geometry, stretching, vibrations, and assignment of the observed frequencies of the ground state C6H (hexatriynyl) radical". Journal of Chemical Physics 97 (2): 1602–1605. doi:10.1063/1.463236. Bibcode: 1992JChPh..97.1602L.
- ↑ McCarthy, M. C.; C. A. Gottlieb; H. Gupta; P. Thaddeus (December 1, 2006). "Laboratory and Astronomical Identification of the Negative Molecular Ion C6H−". The Astrophysical Journal 652 (2): L141–L144. doi:10.1086/510238. Bibcode: 2006ApJ...652L.141M.
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