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Mayor Parker pushes effort to fight Houston's blight
Mayor moving to curb blight
Responsibility for cracking down on weed-choked lots, junk cars on lawns and illegal dumping has been passed from city department to city department over the years, and that suggests it has not been a high enough priority, Mayor Annise Parker said.
"It's been a stepchild," Parker said.
So, she is giving the blight team, currently called Inspections and Public Service, yet another new boss. But this time it gets a promotion, too.
The proposal is slated for consideration by City Council today.
The mayor wants it to have department status by corralling it with several smaller offices that work on gang prevention, assist people with disabilities, coordinate city efforts with schools and more.
"We for years have said that we're a city of neighborhoods and we care about neighborhoods. Well, budgets don't lie. And we have shortchanged neighborhoods," Parker said.
The new department would not get more money than already is spent on its component parts, but it would bring together the city employees already doing the block-by-block work on quality-of-life issues. The idea is that with the offices combined into one department, it can do more with the same amount of stretched city dollars, reduced duplication, better communication and coordination from above.
The focus of the new department, Parker said, will be solving problems, not just issuing citations.
Appropriate responses
"Sometimes the person whose property that is the target is somebody who just doesn't care. Sometimes the property is owned by somebody who just doesn't know. And sometimes it's owned by somebody who is not any longer capable of doing what they need to do in order to be a good neighbor," Parker said.
By having the office that handles citizen complaints in regular communication with the neighborhood services team that writes up violators, the city can figure out which kind of case it has on its hands and respond appropriately.
As an example, Parker said, consider the case of an elderly woman whose weedy lot draws complaints from neighbors. Instead of posting repeated violation notices on her door, she said, a department that takes a nuanced, multifaceted approach to problem-solving can try to connect her with services to help her with yard maintenance. That kind of coordination is less likely among separate offices not in regular communication.
Neighborhood leaders offer mixed reviews of City Hall's current responsiveness.
'Stepchild' reputation
Tomaro Bell, who represents the MacGregor neighborhood and serves as vice president of the Super Neighborhood Alliance that brings together community leaders from across the city, also used the phrase "stepchild" in describing Inspections and Public Service. The citizens' first and only line of defense for noncriminal violations is a depleted division of city government, she said.
City leaders say they want input, she said, but, "Every time we show up, we find out we're on the menu."
Jana Coachman of the Fort Bend/Houston Super Neighborhood said, "I think they're doing what they can. It's up to the citizens" to take a more active role in communicating neighborhood needs to City Hall.
"We are supportive of the notion of the creation of the Department of Neighborhoods," Super Neighborhood Alliance President David Robinson said. "The concern is that neighborhoods are not being given a seat at the table for understanding how it's being designed."
Marching orders
City Hall's outreach to the neighborhoods still has its limits. Robinson said he was not even informed that creation of a Department of Neighborhoods was on last week's agenda until after the meeting.
"I don't know if it's better, but I understand the direction," Councilman James Rodriguez said.
The mayor appointed Catherine Flowers to lead neighborhood services in January and would install her as director of the new department. While Flowers would have marching orders to improve response to citizen complaints, how she does it is something she will be tasked with figuring out once she gets her new title.
"If it doesn't result in noticeable changes, I'm going to be extremely disappointed. I believe this is something the city has needed for a very long time," Parker said.


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Before the Dolphins faced the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, it was reported that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross was seriously considering taking a sledgehammer to the entire front office and coaching staff. The rumored house-cleaning included the firing of VP Mike Tannenbaum, head coach Adam Gase, and pretty much anyone else associated with the two.
Everyone was on notice. Sunday was the last chance the current Dolphins regime had to prove there was a reason to think they have the ship sailing in the right direction.
After the Dolphins once again were embarrassing inept on offense and lost one of the most boring games in NFL history to a putrid Jacksonville Jaguars team 17-7, it seems the temperature on Tannenbaum and Gase's seats went from simmer to
Maybe to you, it seems possible Ross didn't see it that way, though. Maybe he doesn't take a single loss in December that hard. He probably wasn't even there on Sunday, right?
Wrong. He was there. And as the game's final moments ticked down, the CBS cameras gave everyone a window into his thoughts. Ross was visibly over it. CBS caught him looking horribly disappointed. And right next to him sat Tannenbaum, appearing as if he knows he needs to update his Linkedin account ASAP.
...hello darkness my old friend... pic.twitter.com/KChL6JAvb3— 7 Sports Xtra (@7SportsXtra) December 23, 2018
Goodbye, Mike Tannenbaum. pic.twitter.com/fleDJGXluf— Pablo The Champ (@pabloknows) December 23, 2018
Yeah. Don't be surprised if you see a mystery Miami Dolphins job opening pop up on Indeed tonight — even though it's Christmas eve. From the look of Stephen Ross, this seems to be a wrap for Adam Gase and Mike Tannenbaum. As it should be. Their time here has been nothing short of a disaster. A familiar mediocrity disaster, for Dolphins fans.
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The game started off fine. Really, it did. The Dolphins scored quickly. A drive of nearly 80 yards ended with a Tannehill shovel pass to running back Brandon Bolden. The Dolphins were up 7-0.
Then the rest of the game happened. Or should we say nothing happened, but the game continued in earnest? The Dolphins didn't score again unless you consider Ryan Tannehill throwing an interception to a Jaguars player, who returned it for a touchdown. And that sealed the Dolphins fate.
And now, the Dolphins go home until, fittingly, they all are required by NFL rules to travel to frigid Buffalo to play a football game next weekend literally no one — not even their families — gives a single flying shit about.
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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a nice New Year. Tracey and I planned on treating it just like any other night and getting some much needed rest. It was my night to stay up with Colby so I crashed on the couch. Colby was due to eat around 11:00 so I stayed up when Tracey went to bed thinking that he'd wake up around 10:30.....but that didn't happen. Finally around 11:30 he woke and took his sweet time taking a bottle. I guess he was anxious to ring in the new year. So he and I sat on the couch watching Dick Clark and the rest of the crew on TV. It was kinda neat to be awake with him at midnight. I told him it was the new year and gave him a kiss on the forehead. He looked up at me and burped. A good sign I guess.
I can't tell you how good it is not to have to run over to the hospital every day. It's been almost a week now since Colby's been home and I'd say just within the last day or so Tracey and I have started to fall back into our old groove again and man does that feel good! I did some grocery shopping yesterday. I love grocery shopping! ....good, I'm such a metro! Then today Tracey and I had some coffee together, chatted for a bit and we both started our day. I worked form the couch for a bit. She took care of Colby. Then I started doing some laundry and made some great French Onion Soup from a recipe in Cooking Light. I love that magazine! Now that we're home we'll be cooking more and I look forward to that.
So it feels really good to be home-based again. Sure, the sleep part is tough, but we'll get used to it and over time he'll sleep a little more each night.
He still hasn't pooped. It's been a day and 1/2 now. We called the nurse again this morning and she said that as long as he doesn't show signs of distress and there's no hardening in his belly, then all should be OK. But if he hasn't done anything by the end of today, we're going to call the doctor and see what he has to say.
Tomorrow we start back into our work schedules again. Luckily my work slows considerably during the holidays. People are thinking about spending money....not investing it. So I've already got appointments booked through January and that should get us off to a good start. Tracey has been able to get most of her Wednesdays and Thursdays off for the month of January and that will be nice for you.
Tomorrow I'm off to eastern CT for an appointment, then back to bring Colby to his neurosurgeon follow up appointment. Tomorrow just happens to be one of the Wednesday Tracey couldn't get off from work. The doctor will be looking at Colby's head to see if the spinal tap they did last week seems to have done the trick for now or if the fluid has come back to pre-spinal tap amounts. We feel his soft spots every day and they haven't been firm so we're hoping all will go well.
I'm going to snap some pictures of our little man today and will probably post them later. I hope everyone has a great start to their new year!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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What a wonderful way to start the new year. And I'd say that burp was definitely a good start!! (any gas he's letting out is gas he won't be screaming about.)
I hope his appointment goes well and he gets smiles and cheers from the doctor.
- January 1, 2008 at 4:16 PM
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Evangeline Lilly Is Not Pleased With This Lady Mag's Focus On Her Butt
You know all those magazine covers you see next to you when you're checking out at the grocery store? Well, turns out some stars on those covers aren't necessarily pleased with how they're being portrayed. Such is the case with Evangeline Lilly's Women's Health cover, which she called out on Conan Wednesday night.
Lilly's making the rounds promoting her role as Tauriel in The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, and along the way this included both her cover on the women's magazine (which you can see here) and her appearance on Conan. She used the latter to talk about the former. Why? Because the former plastered a big arrow on its cover pointing to her derriere and declared it the "BEST. BUTT. EVER."
Asked if this was a cover concept that she was informed of ahead of time, she responded with a resounding "NO!"
Do you think I would have done the shoot if they said, 'Oh, by the way, we're gonna say 'Best Butt Ever!' and put a big arrow to your behind.' You know, every woman is after a kind of classy image. I didn't want T&A on my cover. It's a women's magazine, not Maxim.
This, sadly, does not seem like a rare occurrence — we do, after all, live in a world of photoshop nightmares and an over-focus on women's side boob.


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Have you ever had the feeling like you don't belong? You are from another time or place? Looking back and looking around me I know I am a misfit. It doesn't matter where I am or who I'm with or even what I'm doing, I've just always had the feeling that I don't belong.
I think my first awareness of this came at the age of 13 when I first moved to Jordan. It didn't matter what school I was in, which cousins I played with, what activity I was doing. I never quite fit in. My first set of friends in Jordan were from high school. We met in that first week of school where everybody knew everybody and nobody knew us. The six of us banded together through our differences, our weirdness, our stories and together we became friends despite all that. We accepted each other despite not liking each other at first. Today my longest standing relationship is with those friends. We still have our fundamental differences but when we get together we are still accepting of each other and enjoy each other's company. I truly believe to this day we are a band of misfits trying to navigate our way through the world.
But moving to the present that feeling of being on the periphery has never really gone away. Even amongst friends and surrounded by people I consider close, many a time I feel I am an observer, standing in the corner watching, observing, but not partaking. Not one for cliques or groups, always inside but on the outside. A misfit.
I guess I have resigned myself to the fact I will always be a misfit, at work, at home, with friends, in cliques, in clubs… amongst the girls, and amongst the boys. It may mean going it alone a lot and maybe even being lonely. But the flip side of that is that I have stronger personal bonds with individuals rather than groups. It's the way I am and I don't really think I mind being a misfit. Its like that toy the ball with different shaped holes in it and you have blocks or pieces in different shapes that you need to fit through the right shape to get in. Well the thing is my shape keeps changing. I am never a square, triangle or circle .And yes it means I am on the outside most of the time, but at least I am not penned in with all the other shapes that fit through the hole. Trapped inside a cage of norms, customs and beliefs. I am an ever changing shape that will not fit in, I just may fit ever now and then.


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Basic Set Theory
The text introduces all main subjects of "naive" (nonaxiomatic) set theory: functions, cardinalities, ordered and well-ordered sets, transfinite induction and its applications, ordinals, and operations on ordinals. Included are discussions and proofs of the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem, Cantor's diagonal method, Zorn's Lemma, Zermelo's Theorem, and Hamel bases. With over 150 problems, the book is a complete and accessible introduction to the subject.
In this note we interpret Voevodsky's Univalence Axiom in the language of (abstract) model categories. We then show that any posetal locally Cartesian closed model category Qt in which the mapping Hom(w)(Z B;C) : Qt --> Sets is functorial in Z and represented in Qt satises our homotopy version of the Univalence Axiom, albeit in a rather trivial way. This work was motivated by a question reported in [Gar11], asking for a model of the Univalence Axiom not equivalent to the standard one.
We construct a model category (in the sense of Quillen) for set theory, starting from two arbitrary, but natural, conventions. It is the simplest category satisfying our conventions and modelling the notions of niteness, countability and innite equi-cardinality. We argue that from the homotopy theoretic point of view our construction is essentially automatic following basic existing methods, and so is (almost all) the verication that the construction works.
We use the posetal model category to introduce homotopy-theoretic intu- itions to set theory. Our main observation is that the homotopy invariant version of cardinality is the covering number of Shelah's PCF theory, and that other combinatorial objects, such as Shelah's revised power function - the cardinal function featuring in Shelah's revised GCH theorem | can be obtained using similar tools. We include a small \dictionary" for set theory in QtNaamen, hoping it will help in nding more meaningful homotopy-theoretic intuitions in set theory.
In the monography we consider theoretic and methodic origins of fundamental notions in the theory of functions of real variable. The text is designed for future and active school math teachers.
A model for organizing cargo transportation between two node stations connected by a railway line which contains a certain number of intermediate stations is considered. The movement of cargo is in one direction. Such a situation may occur, for example, if one of the node stations is located in a region which produce raw material for manufacturing industry located in another region, and there is another node station. The organization of freight traffic is performed by means of a number of technologies. These technologies determine the rules for taking on cargo at the initial node station, the rules of interaction between neighboring stations, as well as the rule of distribution of cargo to the final node stations. The process of cargo transportation is followed by the set rule of control. For such a model, one must determine possible modes of cargo transportation and describe their properties. This model is described by a finite-dimensional system of differential equations with nonlocal linear restrictions. The class of the solution satisfying nonlocal linear restrictions is extremely narrow. It results in the need for the "correct" extension of solutions of a system of differential equations to a class of quasi-solutions having the distinctive feature of gaps in a countable number of points. It was possible numerically using the Runge–Kutta method of the fourth order to build these quasi-solutions and determine their rate of growth. Let us note that in the technical plan the main complexity consisted in obtaining quasi-solutions satisfying the nonlocal linear restrictions. Furthermore, we investigated the dependence of quasi-solutions and, in particular, sizes of gaps (jumps) of solutions on a number of parameters of the model characterizing a rule of control, technologies for transportation of cargo and intensity of giving of cargo on a node station.
This proceedings publication is a compilation of selected contributions from the "Third International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems" which took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville, February 16–18, 2011. The purpose of this conference was to bring together scientists and engineers from industry, government, and academia in order to exchange new discoveries and results in a broad range of topics relevant to the theory and practice of dynamics of information systems. Dynamics of Information Systems: Mathematical Foundation presents state-of-the art research and is intended for graduate students and researchers interested in some of the most recent discoveries in information theory and dynamical systems. Scientists in other disciplines may also benefit from the applications of new developments to their own area of study.


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Third day of vacation, redness and itching occur on the neck: the benign summer light eruption, allergic fairly common among young women, even dull skin. Should be discontinued exposure and consult a doctor. It will advise the application of corticosteroid ointment and absorption of an anti-histamine. Relief is fast, but for eight days we must remain covered. And then protect with a cream screen IP 20.
Sea, mountain, should change SPF?
Higher up in altitude, there are many more UVB (4% every 300 m). It is therefore necessary to use a high protection factor (SPF 25, Summer 3000 m). Similarly, the closer to the equator, the more there's UVB (five times higher in the tropics than in France). Clearly, if you catch a sunburn in France in two hours, thirty minutes will suffice in the tropics. We must reduce the exposure time and increase the degree of protection (IP 25 in the tropics). Consider also the reflection of the rays. The edge of the sea, the sand and water, it is stronger than in the countryside. UVB, the most harmful penetrate slightly into the skin but are responsible for sunburn. UVA, less dangerous at the time, go into the deeper layers of the skin and accelerate skin aging. Visible rays, that is to say light, have no particular effect on the skin. Infrared heat only, but combined with UVB, they can also cause sunburn cruel.
Less ozone, less protection
There is much talk of the decline of the ozone layer in the atmosphere that filters the sun's most harmful. If the observations of researchers over the past ten years, do not allow to draw definite conclusions, one wonders however if the passage of these rays is not the basis of the current spate of sun allergies and even some cancers skin.
With clear skin, you should make a cross on tan?
Reason says yes, but how boring to always be reasonable! So as to limit the risks. Like it or not, we will never abolish this injustice redheads and blondes very white skin have a solar capital lower than brunettes. Fortunately for them, containing a solar tanning can cheat causing a nice tan anyway, without having to expose themselves unnecessarily hours. Anyway take sunbathing in homeopathic doses. The first three days, five minutes with a 20-screen index. The next eight days, ten minutes with a 15 index. Finally, the rest of your holiday, a half-hour of sunshine, with an index 10.
Tan faster, is it risky?
Many brands offer solar products containing dynamiters tanning. They provide the substances needed to make melanin, natural color of our skin. Others rely on the essence of citrus. Now associated with filters perfectly mastered, these sunscreens do not pose a risk. Thanks to them, a week is sufficient to acquire for normal skin complexion honey.
Acne Cesaro: Some steps to take?
Often irritating, local treatment against acne remove any sebum, thus the natural protection of the skin. It is then highly sensitive to wind, sun. In addition, some treatments can be photo sensitizers. Therefore, the first fine days, dermatologists advise a different therapy, more compatible with the sun. But treated or not, we must moisturize and protect skin with acne a non-greasy, a high index (15 minimum).
As for Cesaro, it must also be careful. This is especially the infra-red heat dilates the blood vessels which already apparent. Also, it is better not to seek the sun at all costs, even if it camouflages redness and use a special sunscreen containing anti infrared filters.
Can we continue applying a wrinkle cream with vitamin A acid?
No, because vitamin A acid is photo sensitizing and weakens the skin. We might then sunburns and brown spots. We must stop the application from a month before.
After collagen injections or cosmetic surgery, there's there risks?
Three days after injections of collagen, n there's no problem to put in the sun, as this practice is not photo sensitizing. However, after a cosmetic surgery everything is different. The skin has suffered some sort of trauma. We must give him time to recover by applying the scars or until they are practically visible, sunblock, preferably stick.
How to avoid the nasty brown spots?
These spots have several origins. On the face, they are often a consequence of hormones in large quantities during pregnancy or oral contraceptives. The rest of the body, other leaders are most of the time, some antibiotics, untreated perfumes, etc. Should also beware of sunburn by applying sunscreen with high. If you are expecting a baby, do not expose yourself too long, even though the face is protected by a special cream sunblock.
Children, regardless of how solar age?
On a baby less than a year, it is not recommended to apply a cosmetic containing chemical filters. So do not leave in direct sunlight. Not too long sheltered under an umbrella: it would still receive 20% of the reflected rays. The child's skin is fragile, especially up to 9 years, since its natural protection system is not yet very efficient. Even playing in the water or on the beach, there is a significant exposure to sunburn. Do not hesitate to give him often suntan lotion, sunscreen or index 10 minimum, preferably waterproof, with mineral filters. After two hours of play in the sun, put on her T-shirt. Do not worry, there will be enough sun to have taken the dose of vitamin D needed for its growth since it takes only 15 minutes per day.


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I can talk more about this in a bit, but in a nutshell, I've been asked to write a piece for a magazine. I just got the contract, and lord knows I understand TV writer contracts, but I've never dealt with a freelance contract for a magazine.
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Mangaluru, Mar 25, 2017: Six months after Mangaluru found a berth in the Smart Cities Mission, a steep increase in banned flex, plastic buntings and banners in the city recently.
State government, through a notification on March 11 last year, banned them among other plastic products. Flex hoardings of political leaders, including that of Mayor Kavita Sanil and Deputy Mayor Rajaneesh, members of temple management committees, Yakshagana programmes, religious events in the central business district area, are mocking the "smartness" of the city, say some civil society members.
Cleanliness or Swachh Bharat does not mean only stopping open defecation and roadside dumping of garbage and keep the roads clean. Posters of many types are a latest addition to the defacement of public places in the city. They have come up everywhere. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor themselves were not keen to get flex hoardings, congratulating them, removed.
Activists said that the lethargy of the city corporation has resulted in the mushrooming of such flex hoardings and banners in the city. When the hoardings and banners speak themselves as to is responsible the corporation could easily fine them. But there is no will. As there is no fear of fine or any legal action people have continued to deface public places. The MCC, corporation could identify the persons putting up such hoardings. There was also a plastic mafia behind it, he alleged.
"The corporation often evicts street vendors but why not banned flexes," he questioned. The corporation should keep the drive continuous against banned flexes. On the other hand though the government has also banned plastic bags, plastic plates, plastic cups, plastic spoons, cling film and plastic sheets for spreading on dinning table, irrespective of thickness they were widely being used in the city without the fear of legal action.
Action from April 1 : The MCC, Mangaluru City Corporation will remove all kinds of banned flex hoardings and banners in the city from April 1, according to Mayor Kavita Sanil. However there will be exemption to such materials related to religious events as this is the season of religious events, she said. The Mayor was evasive on why the corporation should wait till April 1 to remove them.
|Comments on this Article
|William Fernades, nanthor
|Sat, March-25-2017, 2:22
|Just sticking posters , hoardings and banners.
|Mithun Acharya, Bengaluru
|Fri, March-24-2017, 11:34
|The hoarding should be banned displaying as it become hurdle, many have the habit of reading the posters when they ride vehicle ,which is dangerous .


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I thought it might be interesting to post what a typical weekly menu in the Grow household looks like, so here it goes. This is what we have planned for next week:
This is, of course, Meatless Monday, and also our first day back from our LA vacation, so we will be having stir fry using whatever vegetables I have leftover in the fridge, which is quite a lot at this point. Broccoli, peppers, spinach, and snap peas are definitely in order, served in a soy-ginger sauce over brown rice. Dessert will be the best of the season, strawberry rhubarb crisp, with fresh, sun-ripened strawberries from the stand on Jefferson Boulevard.
I've actually been trying to go mostly meatless lately. Tonight I want to try a Japanese dish called Otsu, which is basically soba noodles with cucumbers and fried tofu, tossed with a soy sauce and sesame oil dressing. Got the recipe from 101 Cookbooks, a hugely popular blog focusing mostly on healthy whole foods.
Cinco de Mayo, which means I'll be heading to Whole Foods to get a cut of pork (they only ell humanely raised pork, which is a must) for Carnitas! I'm gonna cook it in the slow cooker all day, then have a fiesta that night!
I'm tired by Thursday, so I'll be going with something simple. I know I have leftover Chicken Sausage in the freezer, so I'll saute that up with some bell peppers and olive oil and serve over whole wheat pasta with a mixed greens salad.
Friday: I'm completely exhausted by Friday, so we usually do our date night here, often opting for Thai food.
Saturday: Usually it's spontaneous and somewhat laid-back. We're attending a Yelp ball at the Sterling Hotel (a perk of being an Elite Yelper) with food served from various local restaurants (for free! Yay!).
Sunday: Dinner with my family, who live 10 minutes away. This usually means comfort food prepared by my mom and dessert brought by me. However, this Sunday will be Mother's Day, so I will supervise my little brother and sister as they attempt to make spaghetti with meat sauce, green salad and a crusty loaf of warmed and buttered bread.
I'm thinking I might get a pie from the infamous, elusive Real Pie Company for dessert, as I'm now on the owner Kira's exclusive underground e-mail list. Since she's a stay-at-home mom now, she offers one type of pie each week and alerts fans by e-mail. Then, you have to order your pie and pick it up at the Corti Brothers the next Friday. This week's offering was an apple, quince and wild bluberry galette. Can you say delish?!


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Minimum Variance Portfolio
Suppose there are N stocks in the investmentable universe and we have a fully invested portfolio investing 100% of the capital. The Covariance matrix is denoted as ∑. We are interested in finding the portfolio with minimum variance. An investor choosing this portfolio is only concerned about the risk of the portfolio. Denoting a vector of ones by i=(1,….,1)^' , we have the following optimization problem:
$$Minimize \frac{1}{2}w'∑w$$
$$Subject to : w' .i = w_1 + w_2 +……+ w_N =1$$
I would like to solve above problem using Lagrangian multipliers.


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The Bangladesh parliament recently passed the Textile Bill that was introduced in June 2018 by State Minister for jute and textiles Mirza Azam. The government wants to achieve higher numbers by streamlining multiple processes for market leaders in the textile industry as the country's apparel sector grew from $28.2 bn in 2016 to $29.33 bn in 2017.
Bangladesh total exports earned $36.67 bn for fiscal 2017-18. The textile industry contributes approximately three-fourths of the country's total exports with the readymade garment (RMG) sector as the major contributor, according to a report. The bill has a lot of amendments to earlier laws, including a one-stop service provision for companies that want to set up industries. This may raise investment in the RMG sector.


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First of all, I must admit that life is full of opportunities if you can only seize it. You don't have to blame the government or be involved in any illegal jobs to have a decent life. All you need is to be creative. Like those guys in "Pre-Employment Screening" industry. With so many fraudsters carrying their fake degrees around, sooner or later, you can bet someone will knock on your door and ask for your services. This is what has happened today. Pre-Employment Screening companies are on the rise and we already have one here in Malaysia. Soon, there will be many more.
I spent many years in HR. However, I never had to deal with this problem. Lucky me, I guess. But bosses today have to be extra careful when selecting their prospective employee(s). Otherwise, they will end up employing a con man (or woman) in their office. When that happen, they will be considered lucky if these people are only incompetent in their job because some of them could be crooks waiting for the right moment to do mischief at the office or a legal suit waiting to happen.
Now, let us see how bad the problem is here in Malaysia. July this year, police was reported to have question 40 individuals over bogus degrees and certificates bought through a company in Klang Valley. There are more than 500 high-profile individuals suspected of having committed similar fraud [Source: NST].
Well, that's what I got for "googling" the internet for 10 seconds. There should be more report on this, I believe. I also found a report about a man living on RM7,000 pm salary as a lecturer and RM15,000 p/m as a government consultant using fake degree. Wah! So clever! Though so not seteruk like in Korea, where they caught a former GANGSTER with fake background working as language instructor. The guy was former member of Korean American gangs, had served time in the US for crimes such as second degree murder, kidnapping or rape, and was deported to Korea.
If those universities and government agencies can be tricked by them, what do you think they can do to your company? Would you hire a Pre-Employment Screening company to do the checking like THIS ONE? Or do you just do your own checking every time somebody applies a post at your company? Maybe small company ok lah kan? The turnover is quite low but if your company has expanded or you are the head of HR Department of a big public listed company, would you turn to them for help?
Note: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has developed a "Quick Response" (QR) to enable employers to detect fake UTM degrees [Source: NST lagi…]
– Would You Pay For Pre-Employment Screening Company's Services?


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13:05, Monday 27 June 2011,
You probably haven't heard of Gina Rinehart — the 57-year-old Australian widow — but you'll know the people her wealth is set to eclipse.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Carlos Sim are currently rated as the richest people alive by Forbes magazine, while Lakshmi Mittal is the UK's richest person and sixth-richest overall.
But Rinehart is about to leapfrog them all to the top of the list - and become the first woman to ever hold the number one spot.
Where her money's come from
Rinehart was a recently widowed mother of four in her 30s when she inherited her father's debt-laden mining firm. But she wasn't new to the business world.
She had been groomed to inherit the family firm from the age of 12 and, since taking over, has quietly gone about making it one of the world's biggest operations.
In the last year alone her fortune has more than doubled to £6 billion — making her the richest person in Australia. But that is just the start.
An investigation by US banking giant Citigroup into her new mining operations showed her wealth is only just beginning to blossom, and could increase tenfold in the next few years.
"If Rinehart was a company listed on the ASX [Australia Stock Exchange] and valued using the same 11-times price-to-earnings ratio as her partner, Rio Tinto, she would be worth $30 billion (£19 billion), putting her in the top 10 of the Forbes rich list," calculated Australian business site SmartCompany.
"Rinehart, however, has three more mines on the way, and potentially more in the exploration phase.
"If Rinehart's three new projects … match the performance of Hope Downs, and if mineral prices stay high (two big assumptions) it is possible to see Rinehart's portfolio of coal and iron ore production spinning off annual profits approaching $10 billion.
"If those best guesses prove to be correct, Rinehart is heading for a personal net worth valuation of more than $100 billion (£63 billion)."


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Tips to buy the perfect vortex tubes
If you are a part of an industry or a business that finds Tips to buy the perfect vortex tubes productivity then it is only a matter of time when you would need to buy to buy them in bulk. Regardless whether one needs these machines in bulk or only a few it is necessary to make sure that they are well functioning and purchased from the right place. This can be a little tricky as many might not have the idea of what is the best place to purchase. The best method might be to purchase online and these are a few tips that will lead you to the perfect seller
- Buy from the manufacturer– it is always the best thing to buy the vortex tubes from the manufacturer itself. This makes it trustable as they will be directly responsible for the product and it will also be of a better quality than when bought from a mediator. It also saves a lot of money because the number of sellers in between the manufacturer and the buyer will increase the price for their own profits.
- Trained staff- When buying vortex tubes, especially online make sure to check for proper staff. If any problem arises a good staff is ready to handle such situations like professionals. Trained staff members also make sure of proper installation and are available for aid at all times.
- Environment aware- At the time when taking care of our planet sis most important, it is but the responsibility of the manufacturers to be aware of the hazardous material used in the making of the tubes that may leave a permanent mark on our planet. A good place to purchase the vortex tubes would be with someone who makes sure that all the material used are completely recyclable and hence cause no harm to the environment.
- Variety- A good seller always has all the varieties of products that might be needed for one when buying. The lack of variety shows that the seller is not fully ready to handle the needs of the one purchasing the products. Different parts of the vortex tubes such as air knifes, air conveyors and air wipes along with other tools like panels should be easily available on a good online selling site. Each of the products should also have variety in them that gives the purchaser the chance to choose according to need.
A good online site to purchase also provided a guarantee and an option of replacement. They are always willing to provide help and any type of customer service when needed. Keeping the above points in mind one can easily find the best person to purchase Vortex tube from.


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PM Daily Market Commentary – 6/12/2018
Gold fell -4.90 [-0.38%] to 1299.60 on moderate volume, while silver fell -0.07 [-0.41%] on moderate volume also. The buck rose +0.26%, which accounts for a good-sized chunk of the fall in PM.
FOMC started its meeting today, but it was overshadowed by the Trump-KJU summit in Singapore. From "little rocket man" to "the man loves his country" in 9 months.
Gold generally moved lower today, with a big spike down at 8:20 am that was eventually bought, but apart from that bounce, gold looked relatively weak. Candle print was a neutral-looking high wave, and gold forecaster plunged -0.27 to -0.22, which is a sell signal for gold. There has been a lot of chop in the last few weeks – forecaster hasn't been too helpful since there really hasn't been a trend. Still, gold is now in a downtrend in all 3 timeframes, and it is now below the 9 MA.
That said – it is my observation that gold tends to drop going into FOMC meetings. We may be seeing that play out.
COMEX GC open interest rose 3,083 contracts.
Rate rise chances (June 2018) remains at 96%.
Silver more or less tracked gold, bottoming out around 8:20 am, bouncing back and recovering all of its losses, only to fade into the close. Print was a neutral spinning top, and forecaster jumped +0.23 to +0.44. For some reason, today's dip was positive for the forecaster.
COMEX SI open interest fell by 2,232 contracts today.
The gold/silver ratio rose +0.03 to 76.97. That's neutral.
Miners moved lower, with GDX off -0.27% on very light volume, while GDXJ dropped -0.51% on moderately heavy volume. XAU actually moved higher (+0.23%) but the forecaster fell -0.05 to +0.20. That's still an uptrend, but not a very strong one.
The GDXJ:GDX ratio moved up, and so did the GDX:$GOLD ratio. That's bullish.
Platinum fell -0.52%, palladium dropped -0.04%, while copper moved down -0.18%. If platinum is any sort of tell for the rest of PM, it looks as though it may just tip over and re-test the 880 lows. Palladium and especially copper still look fairly strong.
The dollar rallied +0.24 [+0.26%] to 93.43. That was a 4-candle swing low for the buck, and the forecaster jumped +0.50 to +0.20, which is a buy signal for DX. The buck is now back above its 9 MA. Weekly and monthly remain in uptrends, although both timeframes show that the upside momentum is slowing.
Crude edged down -0.08 [-0.12%] to 65.95. Crude tried to rally today but failed, making a new high to 66.70 before losing all its gains and then some by end of day. While the doji candle looked neutral, the forecaster wasn't happy, dropping -0.16 to -0.05, which is a sell signal for crude. The API report looked bearish (crude: -0.7m, gasoline: +2.3m, distillates: +2.1m), and that report took crude down about 25 cents when it came out at 4:30 pm. Other possibly-bearish influences were reports that Russia, Saudi Arabia,and the US all increased oil production.
SPX rose +4.85 [+0.17%] to 2786.85. That's a new high for SPX, and the spinning top is a bullish continuation, but SPX forecaster fell -0.18 to +0.46. That's still an uptrend, but one that is slowing somewhat. Utilities led the market higher (XLU:+1.15%) while energy did worst (XLE:-0.76%). It was a mixed sector map today.
VIX fell -0.01 to 12.34.
TLT rose +0.03%, essentially going nowhere. TY actually fell, losing -0.06%. The 10-year yield was unchanged at 2.96%. TY remains in a downtrend in both daily and weekly timeframes, but the monthly is right on the edge – right at neutral.
JNK rose +0.11%; that's 6 days up of the last 7 sessions. JNK is slowly moving higher. Very slowly.
CRB rose +0.38%; only 2 of 5 sectors rose, led by agriculture (+2.30%). As it has for a while now, CRB remains below the 50 MA, but in a longer term uptrend.
Not much happened today – the markets were relatively quiet. Perhaps the most interesting market-moving news was the increase in crude production from Russia and Saudi Arabia.
As I mentioned, FOMC announcement is tomorrow at 2pm, with a press conference at 2:30. The Fed will almost certainly raise rates another 25 bp, but the focus will be on how many more increases we can expect going forward.
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Friday, June 17, 2016 9:22 pm
Justice H.A. Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday convicted Frank Emem and sentenced him to ten (10) years imprisonment for internet-related offenses.
The judge found him guilty of 2-counts of obtaining money by false pretences brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment on each count, without an option of fine The sentences are to run concurrently from the day of his arrest( 6 March, 2013). The Judge also ordered him to pay the sum of Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N2,500,000) in restitution to the victim.
Emem was arrested for defrauding a Chinese: Wang Xin of Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N2, 500, 000). The convict cloned the e-mail account of Vhelbherg International Limited and sent mails to Wang Xin, a client of the company, demanding for the said sum.The money was then paid into the Diamond bank account of the convict.
One of the count reads, that you Frank Emeh and Peter Njoku (now at large) on or about December 2012 in Port Harcourt within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: obtain money by false pretence from Sinopec Changjiang Engineering Services Limited by using a false e-mail address firstname.lastname@example.com to communicate with him making him believe that you are one of his client and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8 (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act.


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Due to the measures taken with regard to the COVID-19 virus, all bookings until 1 June will be mutually transferred to a new date.
Group day out in the heart of Limburg
Central Limburg offers plenty of opportunities for a lively, adventurous and fun day out full of activities for groups of all sizes. Choose a standard package deal for groups or have a day's programme tailor-made for you. There's no shortage of possibilities!
The Tourist Information Office (VVV) for Central Limburg offers standard package deals for groups and specific tailor-made package deals to suit your group that can be put together with your input. It's convenient because you don't have to look everything up yourself. A number of the Tourist Information Office for Central Limburg's partners also offer package deals for groups that you can book directly with them.
Tailor-made group outings from the Tourist Information Office (VVV)
The list below contains all the tailor-made group outings that can be arranged by the Tourist Information Office (VVV).
They include the full range of tailor-made package group deals from VVV partners and package deals for groups that can be further customised. You can discuss and book them at the Tourist Information Office (VVV) for Central Limburg. That means you can express all your wishes and ask questions at one central point. The Tourist Information Office (VVV) for Central Limburg will then prepare a tailor-made programme on the basis of your wishes. We can also provide a guide from the Tourist Information Office, if you so wish.


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From the village of Mercurey in the Cote Chalonnaise, Francois Raquillet is a family owned domaine for 11 generations.
Tasting Note
This 1er cru has intense red fruit aromas which are beautifully balanced with an underlying backbone of spicy tobacco, mineral notes and cocoa bean. A wine that can be cellared.


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inspiration board + playlist
June 7, 2017
summer is approaching, and with the season come the numerous adventures. with friends, warm weather, no curfew, long and starry nights, everything feels like a dream. something i love about summer are roadtrips. getting my head out the window and letting the wind mess with my hair and loose clothing is a feeling i can't … More inspiration board + playlist


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Behind a great game by Brendan Sullivan, who had two goals, Cape Cod defeated Maine, 7-0.
Sullivan\'s tallies came at 5:14 into the second period to make the score 1-0 Cape Cod and 16:30 into the second to make the score 3-0 Cape Cod.
Cape Cod\'s offense rang up 45 shots on Maine\'s net. Cape Cod surpassed its usual scoring output this season. This season, Cape Cod averages 4.2 goals per contest.
Cape Cod also got points from Steven Mathews, who also tallied one goal and two assists to lead the team in points. Cape Cod also had goals scored by Maxime Dordet, who had two and James Brosnan and Mike Jessman, who scored one goal each. More assists for Cape Cod came via Chuck Costello, who had two and Zack Goodman, Dylan Legarie, Aaron Deady, Chris Lovell, Chris ODonnell, Karl-Eric Demers, Eric Szeker, and Mitchell Eldridge, who each chipped in one.
Maine\'s offense operated below its season average. Maine averages 2.2 goals per game.
Cape Cod\'s Anton Zemba stopped 20 shots out of the 20 that he faced. Cape Cod totaled 11 minutes in penalty time with three minors and one major and went 1-for-2 on the power play. Robson Stewart rejected 38 shots on goal for Maine. Maine totaled 11 minutes in penalty time with three minors and one major and went 0-for-2 on the power play.