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(Note: This interview was conducted on April 26, 2015)
Beachhead: First of all, I would like to ask you how you think things are progressing with Samuel?
Cleo Battle: In what respect?
BH: Well, overall. Do you feel like the case is going well, that there is enough evidence to succeed and therefore change lives not only for Samuel but for people like Samuel?
Battle: As far as the evidence in the case, I think it's more than enough to prove that he was unjustly targeted, abused, beaten, and degraded. That his humanity was stripped away from him with that incident occurring in front of onlookers, innocent bystanders who they themselves were outraged at what was occurring. Yeah, there's more than enough evidence for him to seek justice and
receive justice.
BH: I have to agree with you. My husband and I were going for a walk and we were at the part where people were yelling at the police. I've never felt so much outrage, personally, on incidents in Venice. You definitely could see that something had just happened that was very — to me — scary. Secondly, I know that Nazareth Haysbert (Samuel's lawyer) said Samuel had a long road ahead as far
as his recovery from the four years of abuse. I was wondering if you could also comment just as a sister on how you feel about that because it is not just a one time incident.
Battle: I can tell you that prior to my brother being brutalized by the LAPD — he is still a peace loving, God fearing person– however, the happy go lucky brother that I knew growing up into his adulthood and prior to all of these incidents occurring — he has been changed forever. If I'm able to recover him at all, there will still be damage psychologically from what has occurred. It's as simple as that. He does not trust anyone, certainly not the government. I don't know what to say beyond that. His trust in humankind has been damaged, has been changed because of this.
BH: That's awful. So, in your mind, because it has that kind of effect where you can't really reverse the damage, for you personally what would be the best results that you would like to see happen on a federal level? From your point of view, going through this experience, how can this benefit people even if it doesn't benefit Samuel?
Battle: Well, what I think that what we need to have in America is a national conversation on the people with the least amount of power. How we treat those who don't have power. The downtrodden. The helpless. The ones dependent on a society that is suppose to be a democracy. That is suppose to care about its citizenry. We in America are always talking about being proponents for democracy all over the world, but we deny that same sense of democracy and level of care to our own citizens. That has to change. We, in America, are currently in a downward spiral due to our lack of care of the least in our society. In America, we are only as strong as our weakest link. So, when we choose to abuse, degrade, and dehumanize that weakest link, we are, in effect, destroying the very fabric of our own society and what it does is create lawlessness. And you can see that all over America now. We have a problem with terrorists. We are creating our own terrorists in America because we have a lack of concern for the citizenry in our own nation. So, it has to change. I'm retired from the Air Force. I fought for my country. I defended my country. I've lived over seas and seen what lawlessness can do first hand. We have to change. America has to wake up. It's time. You know, we need everyone. If Los Angeles were to experience a catastrophic earthquake right now, I can assure you that every person living here would need everyone willing to reach out and help. That is the kind of brother I have. And when you have taken away his humanity and caused him to fear, then you have taken away your own safety.
BH: Absolutely. That is absolutely true. I fully agree with you. In what capacity did you serve and when were the years you served?
Battle: Twenty years in the United States Air Force. I'm a financial manager. I lived in Germany for a good part of that twenty years — eight years solid, straight. I was there when the Berlin wall came down. You know, I experienced terrorism first hand over there with a bombing at the airbase where I worked, directly across the street a bomb blew up and killed multiple Americans. I was there. I know what terrorism looks like.
BH: Wow, that's amazing. Thank you for all your service. I'm sure as a woman, too, you have stories about that. Yes, I think that gives you a definite insight into things that a regular citizen might not have. Do you feel like many activists that the police have been overly militarized deliberately in this country?
Battle: Absolutely. I can assure you, I can tell you first hand. With us being over there in the Middle East and us disengaging ourselves from the conflicts over there in an attempt to — you have a lot of security forces that went over to the Middle East that defended our country. Those same service men and women are coming back to America with their own issues of PTSD. But they are separating, retiring, and being hired as police officers. You have people in the forces, in the police forces of America, that have their own issues. They are treating American citizens as though they are combatants. We're not, you know. There needs to be more training, there needs to be more screening, there needs to be more engagement at every level. The equipment that was sent over to the Middle East is making its way back. It's making its way back to the smallest cities and towns here in America, not just in large cities like LAPD in Los Angeles. I live in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. We have our own MRAP's, the military vehicles that are used in enemy situations. Those
kinds of weaponry are not necessary. What are we arming ourselves against here in America?
BH: It makes you wonder. And then what you brought up about the PTSD, that seems to be something that has to be supported more too when service men and women come back and are actually treated properly for it.
Battle: In America, we have a problem with the mental health system already. I hope that from Sam's case, it will be a watershed event, hopefully, for all mentally ill, especially the homeless, but for anybody mentally ill. We need to have a national conversation. And it needs to start today.
BH: Thank you.
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From the darkness there came a dim light, as I opened my eyes. I was surrounded by molten fire. I lay on the ground staring up at the blood red sky. How had I gotten here, I thought as I tried to sit up. Then another thought crossed my mind followed by a title wave of other questions. Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here? How did I get here? Before I had time to ponder these questions I heard a roar from beside me. My head snapped around to feel the hot breath of a giant black wolf on my face, his fur as dark as the darkest night. I jumped back expecting to be attacked, it hurt my entire body as I moved, but the beast just walked up and sat down beside me. As I sat waiting for my strength to return a new question came to me. Where did this giant beast come from and why was it following me. I looked into the eyes of this beast. They glowed as bright and as red as the depths of hell itself. As the time pasted I still could not bring myself to get up off the warm stone ground. While I lay there staring at this beast I remembered a long past story of a hell beast named Cerberus and from that day on that is the name by which my lone companion answered. I drifted off, laying my head on Cerberus. What came next I may never be able to explain. As I began to dream I was surrounded on all sides by walls of fire and attacked by a creature of shadow and darkness. He who possessed no corporeal form. There was no way for me to fight. Helpless I sat and looked at it with terror in my eyes, as I was consumed by its darkness. The fire slowly faded until only darkness remained. I slowly awoke again. Now I was no longer tired, I felt a force inside me, it felt evil but the strength it allowed me seemed unending. As I stood I looked back into the eyes of Cerberus. His name may have been far more accurate then I would have ever dreamed. Is this thing inside me an evil from another plane? I may never know, but from that point on I have gone by the name Hades. Living as a hunter, walking in the shadows, with one goal. To find out whom I was. If this evil inside me was the only way to find my past I would have to accept it and learn to control it.
I rose up and my great journey began.
-this is the story of Hades, once an elf like all others. Now a wondering soul. Looking in the shadows for his own past, he has been reborn filled with the power of the nether realm and followed by his companion Cerberus.
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Here is page 91 of Hazardous Tales #5 in progress. I don't love drawing cars--and I have trouble with horses, but boy, do I love drawing carriages! Figure that one out.
The subject matter of book #5 is still somewhat under wraps. This book comes out next spring, so we'll have a subject and cover reveal later this fall. I don't think there are any giveaway clues in this image, other than the fact there will be a carriage in it.
I am deep, deep into this book right now. I have 37 pages to draw and color in the next sixteen days. This is the real grind. I've been working on the book all summer long, but here, in the final weeks, is when the crunch really hits. I'm now in full reverse sleep mode (work through the night, sleep from 8am to 3pm--while the kids are at school). It's a silly schedule. But it works for comics crunch time.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced the permanent appointment of its first associate director for laboratory science and safety, the agency's latest step in addressing a string of safety breaches.
The appointment of Stephan Monroe, PhD, who was named as the acting associate director for laboratory science and safety in May, marks the first time the agency's top lab administrator has reported directly to the CDC director.
Creation of a single point person for lab safety accountability first surfaced in a series of steps the CDC announced in July 2014 in the wake an anthrax incident the month before at one of its labs. At around the same time, the CDC revealed that a lab sample unintentionally cross-contaminated with highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza had been shipped to a US Department of Agriculture lab.
Problems at other federal facilities have kept lab safety issue in the headlines. Last summer, decades-old smallpox samples that were found to contain live virus were found abandoned in a Food and Drug Administration lab on the National Institutes of Health campus, and more recently, investigations by USA Today detailed problems at Department of Defense labs, including the shipment of live Bacillus anthracis samples—the bacterium that causes anthrax—to dozens of outside labs over the past decade.
At the end of 2014, the CDC said the search for a chief of lab safety was under way, and that CDC microbiologist Leslie Dauphin, PhD, had been appointed to oversee the task until the position was permanently filled.
Monroe, who replaced Dauphin in May, takes on the task at a time when high-profile lab safety problems have been swept up in the gain-of-function research debate and garnered the attention of Congress.
Patterns, people, practices
In an announcement today, the CDC said Monroe will spearhead lab safety and science initiatives across the agency and will coordinate critical lab policies and operations. The statement said his leadership and research background make him an ideal choice for the position.
Most recently, Monroe had been deputy director of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. He had also led the CDC's Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and its Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases. He was a lab scientist for 17 years, when he played a key role in classifying astroviruses and developing and implementing real-time polymerase chain reaction assays to detect and characterize noroviruses.
In the CDC statement, Monroe said his three main priorities over the next 60 days focus on "patterns, people, and practices." For example, he said his office will examine lab incidents at the CDC to identify any common themes that have a broader impact on lab safety. He added that the agency will recruit and retain the best people to fill key roles in the new office and that a high priority is to identify best practices in lab science and safety that can be used throughout the agency.
The CDC said Monroe has already instituted several new measures in his acting role, including gathering lab leaders across Department of Health and Human Services agencies, holding a forum for CDC lab staff on rapid incident notification, and rolling out a pilot project involving an electronic tablet-based checklist for procedure documentation and quality management.
Pulpit to promote lab work
Monroe told CIDRAP News that he took on the position, not only to ensure quality and safety for all CDC lab operations, but also to have a lab voice represented at the highest level of the agency. "This is the first time there's been a dedicated lab position in the office of the director," he said. "It's a pulpit for me to advocate for the importance of lab work."
He said there will always be some inherent risk with lab work, but each procedure will be scrutinized to ensure that it's done in the safest manner possible, such as with nonpathogenic strains, when possible. Monroe noted that steps have already been taken to simplify incident reporting so that bench scientists don't need to guess how to handle them and that supervisors clearly know whom to notify.
Monroe said one of his goals is to get employees to also report all incidents, including small ones, as well as "near-misses," which will help guide lab policies across all CDC labs. Also, he said his job is to ensure that safety policies are known and followed with a high level of consistency at all of the CDC's 150 labs, which employ 2,000 scientists.
Other specifics he mentioned include updating lab safety training procedures, forging collaborations with other government labs to examine the root causes of safety problems, and adding new scrutiny and review of pathogen inactivation procedures.
Assembling an office staff that shares a passion for lab safety and lab work will help build a stronger CDC culture of lab safety, Monroe said. One of the external committee's findings was that the CDC needs its own branded culture of lab safety.
Though changing the culture will take time, he said he's optimistic, with strong commitment to lab safety coming from the top and enhanced empowerment coming from the lab staff ranks.
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Things We Didn't Like
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Things We Liked
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Things We Didn't Like
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Things We Liked
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Things We Didn't Like
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Things We Liked
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Things We Didn't Like
- The pouch is relatively small
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Things We Liked
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Things We Didn't Like
- Paint comes off easily
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Things We Liked
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Things We Didn't Like
- Small storage pouch
3. Trademark Innovations Garden Kneeler
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Things We Liked
- Made of strong steel legs
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- Foldable design
- No assembly needed
- Padded for maximum comfort
Things We Didn't Like
- Lacks pockets
2. Step2 Garden Kneeler Seat
This Step2 Garden Kneeler is designed with a comfortable cushion that makes your gardening experience pleasant. With this garden kneeler, you'll be able to relax your knee thanks to its durable and sturdy construction. You can use this seat when planting, weeding, and trimming. This Step2 Garden Kneeler is a true blessing in disguise for the heavy activity gardeners.
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Things We Liked
- Suitable for those who don't like metal-frame models
- Durable and sturdy
- Easy to grip handles
- Easy to use
- Guarantees your money back
Things We Didn't Like
- Subpar cushioning
1. Outsunny Folding Garden Kneeler
Outsunny Folding kneeler has proved to be the best accessory for your garden. It's designed with an ergonomic design that helps in preventing your knees from getting sore. With this garden tool, you will get comfort and be able to stand and sit with ease when working on your garden. It's suitable for those with arthritis and back pain issues. This garden kneeler gives you that maximum support you're looking.
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Things We Liked
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- Lightweight
Things We Didn't Like
- Thin foam
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Voice browser is an app capable to understand and synthesize the speech.
As speech recognition technology added accuracy and ease of use, the promise of Conversational Computing Corporation (Redmond, Washington) to finally liberate Internet users from the mouse and keyboard becomes more and more real.
Use free sample research papers on Voice browser to learn that in an effort to bring that day closer Conversay (another popular company name) is about to present Conversay Voice Surfer – an optional application for the Internet Explorer by Microsoft, which will allow to surf the Web, using some voice commands.
First to be released beta Voice Browser, which is a modernized Conversay Web 3.2 – a desktop application that runs as an IE add-on. The main improvement will be a toolbar with voice level indicator – a horizontal strip along its length indicates the volume of the voice commands, and the color – the quality of their identification.
Voice Browser allows you to translate to speech almost any link to Web-page – whether it is
represented by a flag drop-down list, image, logo or button, because, as explained by manufacturers,
Conversay software connects to a numbered voice-activated tag for each link.
The command Read me the links, based on the Conversay proprietary technology of speech synthesis, lets you preview links without looking at the screen. As for working with Voice Browser it is enough to be able to speak and perceive speech, the manufacturer assures that work with this product does not require any training.
In May, the company plans to release an upgraded application developer kit for voice browser that lets you embed them in the audio recording format WAV. By the end of the year is expected a Voice Browser version for wireless devices.
Many believe that the Voice Browser will be useful for people with various disabilities or those who do not have extensive experience with the computer.
And absolutely everyone agrees that a speech interface should find wide application in the workplace.
IT system architect from Gannett Co. newspaper group (Arlington, Virginia) and eWeek corporate partner Gary Gunnerson is thrilled with the possibilities offered by apps such as Voice Browser: "Speech Recognition is a technology that is still too new, but it certainly becomes a part of everyday life even in your lifetime. For human beings it is a natural way to communicate."
In early March Conversay announced another improvement of its product – Conversation Server. This platform provides an interface with a voice information content via the telephone line network. According to the manufacturer, in version 1.6 there is the notification system for the personal communications service by means of SMS support, the support of speech recognition and synthesis in German and additional audio playback controls; In addition, the developers have increased control over the accuracy of speech recognition and synthesis.
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Freedom to be yourself.
That freedom is what attracted the duo to each other when they were students at Southwest Atlanta's storied Benjamin E. Mays High School. Roaming the same hallways that produced all four members of Goodie Mob decades before them, Earthgang first met each other during an emergency evacuation. After seeing that they had similar tastes in music ranging from Madonna to Madlib, their relationship blossomed from casual conversations about rap to forming a group of their own. But before they even recorded their first project together, they already found themselves hitting the road as they each enrolled at prestigious HBCU Hampton University in Virginia. Though both of them attended the college on academic scholarships with Dot majoring in Psychology and Venus studying to be an architect, they found themselves using the campus as their recording studio.
The work paid off as Earthgang's first two projects, 2010's The Better Party and 2011's Mad Men landed them shows on both ends of the country at the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival and Stanford University's Blackfest. Their follow-up mixtape Good News, backed by energetic live shows, boosted their profile in Atlanta's congested indie rap scene, but it was their ambitious 2012 debut album Shallow Graves For Toys that captured nationwide attention and peaked at #11 on the Billboard Emerging Artists chart. The wide-ranging project displayed their ability to create with acoustic folk singers like Marian Mereba as well as chest-thumping declarations with producers 808 Mafia (Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka Flame) with Noisey calling it "one of the most well thought-out releases of the year."
"Our projects are more conceptual than just making songs," insists Doctur Dot, whose handle is based off his childhood nickname "Doc," which he earned for always seeming to have answers for everything. "We are making ourselves vulnerable to the world through our music. Most people don't allow themselves to do that."
"We set out to make the best music that feels the best to us," adds Johnny Venus, whose name derives from his astrological sign Libra, but challenges the common perception of the symbol by making it asexual. "It's a natural synergy for us. We don't just try to make explosions happen."
Earthgang's most recent offering Torba did just that as they showcased their versatility alongside the likes of both Mac Miller and OG Maco over production that ranged from hazy to urgent. That release, coupled with successful tours opening for Ab Soul and Fashawn, Earthgang took another step towards becoming one of the most unique voices in Hip Hop today. Their upcoming album Strays With Rabies (released through their Spillage Village imprint) aims to put their evolving songwriting skills at the forefront after already proving their rap skills to be far above average.
With a lyrical spectrum that has graduated from "hoping your mama lose her temper" on Mad Men to "seeing the whole world with my eyes closed" on Torba, Earthgang is rapidly growing into a musical force that will liberate listeners from all walks of life. Hopefully, your mind will be free enough to hear the call.


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Black and White School Supplies
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This post is sponsored by Michaels! For the last 3 years I have been a proud member of the Michaels Makers!
We are right in the middle of summer friends!
With that said, back to school is right around the corner for us ( about a month away!) so today I'm sharing some fun personalized items for your kids back to school swag!
I remember getting ready for back to school with shopping and picking out all the cutest folders, notebooks and pencil holders.This month for the Michaels Makers Challenge we were asked to do just that! Personalize some school supplies ♥ Since I'm no longer in school, I used the cutest little one to help me pick some things out for her school supplies and chose a black and white theme to go along with it!
Easy Washi Tape Upgrade
Washi Tape is in every crafters arsenal. If you have a blank folder use washi tape in different patterns and sizes to decorate the front and backs of your otherwise blank folder!
On this white folder I used the tape vertically instead of horizontally!
To personalize the folder I added the cute and simple letters that I found in the dollar section at Michaels. We also grabbed some in gold!
Pom Pom and Tassels
To jazz up notebooks I used a pom pom and tassel trim. I simply used hot glue to adhere to the trim and pressed down firmly. Next I continued with a contrasting pom pom trim and finally finished it off with some glitter washi tape.
For added personality I used another set of monogram stickers from the dollar section and used it to form a traditional monogram for the notebook! I think it turned out cute.
Florals and Monograms
I found this cool see through folder and my local office supply store and decided it would be a great way to add some pattern to her back to school supplies. So I simply added some scrapbook paper to the see through pocket…
then added some washi tape to the bind and finished off with a sweet monogram on the corner.
From crystals to pom -poms to tassels & patches, Michaels has everything you need to bling out Back To School! Looking for even more inspiration? Make sure you visit Michaels' blog, The Glue String, to see the rest of the Michaels Makers' DIY projects!


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Bath Time with 10 Kids
Bath time with kids. Something so seemingly easy, yet so dang hard!We're coming out of survival mode so for a while out of necessity, we only bathed our kids once a week. Now we bath them every few days, usually at night except Sundays, and are getting down a good routine. It only takes us 15 minutes if we're in a hurry or up to an hour if we've got time and they want to play.
We have two bathrooms upstairs with shower tubs that we use when bathing our kids. The kids split up in groups of 2 or 3, depending on who they are playing with at the moment, and hop into a tub. I'll usually start the bath and stay in the room and watch over the youngest kids, anyone under 3, and help those kids wash themselves. Once I get the littles out and dressed from one tub I'll head over to the other and see if they need any help washing themselves. Once everyone in the tub is washed and has played for 5-10 minutes, depending on how much time we have, they'll get out and the rest of the kids will get in. We usually do 3 rounds of 2 or 3 in the tub with one or two taking showers before or after the baths. I bath our little babies in the kitchen sink until they are big enough to sit in the tub without me worrying they'll tip over backwards.
My top 3 tips for bath time are:
- Try having "fun baths" where you put in bubbles, often I'll put a little dish soap, and just let them play. They are getting clean and not even knowing it because they're having fun!
- Don't buy bath toys, those rubber duckys can get gross. I let them play with their regular toys instead, cars and Legos are great for this. Just rinse them off after they get out and let them dry!
- Clean the bathroom while your kids are taking a bath, you're in there anyway might as well wash down the sink, toilet, and floor while you're waiting!


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Do Over.
The talk was entertaining and inspiring, but it hit me as Jon was speaking that he was the reason I started illustrating this blog. Not because of my love of crayons. Not because I had always wanted to draw pictures. I did it because he told me my photos sucked.
Well, maybe he didn't use that exact phrase, but he did point out there was a quality issue.
After the release of his book Quitter, Jon did a giveaway for blog reviews. He probably said some really nice things in his review of randomcathy.com, but the one that stuck at me the most was the negative one about the pictures. And to make things worse, he visited on a week when the images were really abysmal. He recommended that I come up with a photography style and may have even referenced Pioneer Woman.
I'm in marketing.
I know what it takes to get amazing photography. (And I also knew that I didn't have the time or resources to pull that off on my own. )
However, I did have a box of crayons. So I pulled them out and started drawing.
I told myself that even bad drawings could be "a thing." And to ensure I didn't overthink it, I never let myself spend more than 10 minutes on an image. (Most of the time I wrap it in 5. )
These days, I draw with electronic crayons. (It saves the time it takes to scan.) And over the past few years I've developed a style of imagery that I own.
So, Mr. Acuff. Thanks for coming to Dallas and inspiring a room full of people to build Career Savings Accounts. And most of all, thank you for telling me in 2011 that my photos sucked.
Sidebar about Susie-the-Straight-Man--a new character to this blog--Susie and I met through the mentor-protegee program of SMPS--a professional organization for marketers in our industry. The cool thing about the program is that we connect on a regular basis to talk about the big goals. Susie is both an artist (comedy writer) and marketer, and since Jon Acuff particularly gets "artists with day jobs," the Do Over book is our assignment this year.
Sidebar about the image: there is something meta about creating a picture that sucks of someone who told you your pictures suck.


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Luis Milán
Luis Milán
Luis Milán (ca. 1500-c. 1561) was the earliest Spanish composer to publish a collection of secular music.
Luis Milán was born of noble parents at Valencia and presumably died there. His Libro de música de vihuela de mano; Intitulado El Maestro (1535/1536) was the first of the seven vihuela tablature books published in 16th-century Spain. He also published two other books: a book on parlor games for gallants and their ladies to play, Libro de motes de damas y caualleros; Intitulado el juego de mandar (1535), and El Cortesano (1561; The Courtier), an imitation of Baldassare Castiglione's popular etiquette book, Il Cortegiano (1528).
Like the other Spanish vihuela tablatures, El Maestro purports to be a self-instructing manual, easy pieces filling book I, hard ones book II. But unlike the others, it contains no transcriptions of other masters' works, and the top line of the six horizontal lines in the tablature refers to the highest-pitched course rather than the lowest. Dedicated to the Portuguese king João III, El Maestro is the only Spanish tablature that contains any Portuguese songs. In addition it includes six villancicos (polyphonic songs) and four romances in Spanish and six Italian sonetos. Although free of religious pieces, El Maestro does end with an elaborate explanation of the church modes in polyphonic music.
Forty fantasias, four tentos (alternately called fantasias, a word which for Milán means simply "product of the imagination"), and six pavanes interlard the vocal music in El Maestro. Alternate settings of ten of the vocal pieces allow the singer to improvise long virtuoso runs between lines of the text. Milán's pavanes, especially those on Italian lines, are the most transcribed and performed Spanish vihuela music of the Golden Age.
Milán's El Cortesano (dedicated to Philip II) pictures life a generation earlier at the Valencian court of Germaine de Foix and her third husband, Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria. In retrospect, Milán sees himself as arbiter elegantiarum at their polyglot court, where nearly everyone was a poetaster idling his time in hunts, biting repartee, jests, masquerades, and amorous escapades. Juan Fernández de Heredia, his defeated rival in one such escapade (described in El Cortesano, 1874 ed.), was the most famous Valencian poet of the time. In return for the snipings scattered through every day of the six into which El Cortesanois divided, Fernández de Heredia advised Milán to stick with the only art of which he was a master, vihuela playing (Obras, 1955 ed.). Dance pieces were his forte, not singing, and as a teacher Milán was guilty of neglect or even cruelty, claimed Fernández de Heredia.
Further Reading
Milán's El Maestro has been edited and translated by Charles Jacobs (1971) and has also been published in modern notation in an Italian edition (1965). Milán is discussed in John M. Ward, The Vihuela de Mano and Its Music, 1536-1576, New York University Ph.D. dissertation (1953). □


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The training was conducted as a focus group discussion with the community as resource persons, while the officials and other stakeholders as participants. Moreover, the training aimed to establish a direct discussion and sharing platform without distances between the community and officials.
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The program was the first to provide an immersible platform between government officials and communities, with the latter being the resource persons. In the future, development of an empathy-based leadership character is expected to become the basis for policy-making that is more realistic and properly aligned with the people's needs.
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Welcome to the latest in a series of exclusive interviews on Siliconrepublic.com, where IT leaders share their thoughts on technology trends and strategy. Ian Winham is executive vice-president at Ricoh Europe, holding the roles of CIO and CFO.
His remit also includes legal and procurement activities across Ricoh Europe. He is currently sponsoring the design, build and deployment of Ricoh's IT infrastructure, which will see the deployment of standardised processes and systems across all of its operations in EMEA.
What is your role within the Ricoh Europe organisation?
I'm executive vice-president, CFO and CIO, responsible for all of our European operations which cover 20 operating companies across Europe which turn over just over 400bn Japanese yen. We have 17,000 employees and sadly I reckon I've got more devices than employees: 19,000 devices from desktop and laptop and a similar number of mobile devices.
So does that mean you're looking actively at a 'bring-your-own-device' policy?
At this stage we've not moved into BYOD. I recognise that the trend is certainly for people to be more mobile and I know we've done some intelligence work with the EIU, but I think at the moment, from my perspective, is making sure I can give a quality of service to our staff and I need to be persuaded.
How would BYOD negatively affect IT's ability to deliver quality of service to the business?
I've been doing a lot of benchmarking with my peers and I think there's always going to be a category of user that's going to need immediate help. I think the second bit is, you need to establish some collaborative ways of work – a group of people collaborating to fix issues.
I'm not saying it's something we will ignore but at this stage in our journey there is a quality and procurement advantage from staying consistent. We have a major process re-engineering project around Europe so that we give better service to our customers and better experience to our staff and I'd rather focus on that than on the tools.
How would you describe your approach to the CIO role?
I think the most important aspect of my job is seeing everything as a process and a business lead rather than coming at it from an IT lead. Fundamentally, you've got to have a good business driver before you come at it with some new technology.
Ricoh is moving very actively towards the cloud. Can you tell us a little more about that?
Certainly if I look at the business case that drove us into the private cloud, it was looking at how our business was structured. We had to improve our environmental footprint, and obviously there's a financial business case that underpins that.
Secondly, how do we deliver what the business needs in terms of ability to access our platforms from wherever they are, and thirdly, how can I deliver better solutions to our customers? One example is allowing e-invoicing from an accounts payable and accounts receivable perspective.
Why have you chosen a private cloud, and would you ever consider using public cloud services?
I wanted to make sure we could address security, compliance and all the areas attached to that. Ricoh has an ISO27001 security certification and rather than that just applying to our data centres, we've applied it to every location we have. With that degree of respect for security and recognising all challenges of where does data sit and where it's going to, the best fit was a private cloud.
Your own background is from the financial rather than the technical side. Do you think that gives you a different perspective on the CIO role?
I think I'm very fortunate in that I think my focus is representing the business. The relevance of IT is in supporting the business in what it tries to achieve.
Probably I have a greater focus on the business case and benefits realisation. If I link it back to our cloud journey, one of the key things is the key performance indicators: what are the cost benefits we've realised and what are the customer applications we can deliver? The real benefit has come from having that business focus.
My job is about looking at the best way of looking at technology to add value. It's not just about technology.
Does that create any problems when you're talking with technology guys in your organisation?
I don't think I need a new dictionary for talking to my IT team: we all work well together and it's a value-added process. The big change I'm beginning to see in our IT organisation is the sort of skill sets we need to help our customers.
One of the challenges I set my team is: if we deliver a solution internally, how could we market that solution externally? I'm always pushing them to look at a broader church.
So do you agree with the view that IT needs to focus more on 'marketing' itself better in order to be seen as a real contributor to the business?
I'm always wary of marketing success because it's one of those self-fulfilling prophesies at the end of the day. My view is you've got to consult all areas of business, understand what the strategic direction is and look at how you're going to support those guys.
I think there's an element not necessarily about marketing but communications skills because we don't want the business looking at IT as geeks who will fix things in the background. You've got to help the guys understand technology and the benefit they're trying to get.
With changes such as cloud coming along, do you foresee your own role changing?
I think there's always going to be a role for a business-led CIO; whether the C stands for cloud or chief in the future I'm not sure. To understand where data sits, how it's managed, and how we support the business in accessing that data, I think the CIO has a huge responsibility.
Given Ricoh's background, I want to ask you about printing and documents: do you think they tend to be overlooked in many organisations?
I think document process optimisation – which is what I really regard our skills as, these days – is a space that is overlooked by a lot of businesses and potentially by a lot of CIOs because at the heart of every transaction there is a document at some point in time.
I was looking at some research from IDC recently, where something like 35pc of respondents said they had compliance breaches because of a lack of control of document processes. I think, looking at those document processes, how you can improve control and make them more efficient is absolutely crucial.
What we're seeing is, when we work with customers, we can improve the speed with which they can access data. One customer reduced document search time from four minutes to 30 seconds per document. When you think about the amount of documents going through an organisation, that's invaluable.


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Here's why the Papal Mass needed a ticketing system: Security.
Those restrictions for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway meant the World Meeting of Families needed to create a ticketed section for the best seats to see Pope Francis deliver his outdoor mass.
World Meeting of Families Executive Director Donna Crilley Farrell fielded questions today about why, just three weeks before the massive Papal visit, everyone suddenly learned that a large swath of the Parkway will be only for ticket-holders — and the only way to get a ticket is to be a member of a local Catholic parish.
Farrell refused on several occasions to say how many tickets are being distributed for the large part of the Parkway — from the Art Museum to 20th Street — and also wouldn't answer questions about why the information surrounding ticketing was released just three weeks prior to the event.
She did say that the World Meeting of Families had no idea the Secret Service was going to release its map yesterday that outlined the "ticketed area." Indeed, organizers hadn't planned to release information about ticketing until after Labor Day.
"We're sorry, I'm sorry (that) people are concerned," Farrell said. "We hear the concerns and we understand. (But) the vast majority of the Parkway really is open, and they can come. We care about it."
Farrell did make two announcements regarding accessibility: One is that, in addition to the unknown number of tickets being passed out to church members, there will be an additional 30,000 tickets available to the public for the Papal mass and the Saturday event at Independence Hall that will be distributed "on a first come, first served" basis. The tickets will be available online, with a maximum of four tickets per person. More details will come later on.
Farrell also noted that even if your view for the Papal mass looks like this because you didn't get a coveted ticket, there will be two additional opportunities to get a glimpse of the Pontiff. He'll be a part of two "parades" that will take place: one is Saturday, and the Pope will drive up the Parkway and around City Hall. The second parade, to take place Sunday, is still being worked out in terms of a route and logistics.
The announcements from the World Meeting of Families came from Farrell — who addressed media alone and without a noticeably absent Mayor Michael Nutter — just minutes after Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association Ed Grose addressed media. He said hotels have fielded cancellations in light of the most recent mass restrictions, and said: "When you introduce ticketing this late in the game, it's just not fair."
Farrell, who resisted the notion that it will be difficult to see the Papal mass from a solid five blocks away, said on several occasions that 85 percent of the Parkway is open to the public. However, when measured based on square footage, the Parkway would have to stretch to Columbus Boulevard in Pennsport for the ticketed area to only take up 15 percent of the Parkway.
When asked by a reporter at the press conference today how officials were coming up with that number, Farrell dodged, saying only: "we look at everything with the city and the event producer, and when we look at the area that's ticketed, that's what we come to based on projections for the event."
"We are all focused and energized and ready to execute a spectacular event," Farrell said. "And there are so many pieces to this, and we understand why people would be concerned. And we take those concerns so seriously. But we really believe that, in the end, this is all going to come together."


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When is one more too many? (N = N+1)
I've recently started to wonder if I may have at some point become a collector maniac. Don't get me wrong I'm not likely to feature on one of those documentaries about the hoarders with an house piled high with old magazines and box loads of junk.
However I do have a particular weakness when it comes to buying trainers and shoes, averaging a new pair of either discipline every other week or sometimes I purchase in multiples if I cant make my mind up. I guess its a by product of being in the footwear business for all of my working life at various levels. The latter years have always encompassed being in the position whereby I pick up one pair too many of wear trials or having spent a few days studying the shops or a shoe fair its inevitable that it will result in another pair or two being added to the collection.
A few months ago not counting footwear for specific sports, eg football trainers boots, hiking shoes or numerous mountain bike or road bike shoes my collection was standing at 110 pairs. Feeling rather bad with this first world problem I picked of my least favourite 10 pairs in reasonable condition and took them to the charity shop. However I fear since then they have been replaced with interest.
On the subject of bikes, I have nowhere near as many however they do take up more space, cost a lot more and most importantly I don't pick up any freebies through work. However most people would consider the six I do have to be excessive, I would argue of course that each one as a specific function or speciality.
I am not writing this by way of a confession or gloating over my empire of shoes but instead I want to pose the question when is one more just too many? Does the formula that is regularly rolled out on the cycling forums I frequent really ring true (maybe its been my inspiration) which is N (need) equals Need plus one, N=N+1). What methods do people employ to constrain their collecting habits


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During the early morning of December 17, 1896 Adelaide Herrmann suddenly found herself not the co-star of the Herrmann the Great touring show but simply as the widow Herrmann. Her husband, Alexander Herrmann, had reigned supreme as America's foremost magician for many years and she had lived a life of luxury. Now, just forty-three years of age, Adelaide needed to make a living and magic was all she had known throughout her adult life. Immediately following Alexander's death she cabled her nephew in France instructing him to sail for America. Leon Herrmann was already an accomplished magician and perhaps even more important, he looked like his uncle with a black mustache and goatee.
This new iteration of The Herrmann the Great show toured America for three seasons but a clash of temperaments finally doomed the enterprise. Leon further antagonized his aunt by retaining the title Herrmann the Great, which he used for his own full-evening show.
Another nephew, Felix Kretschmann, the son of Adelaide's sister, decided that he too would become a magician. He purchased enough of Alexander's magic equipment, costumes, and curtains from Adelaide to produce an act, grew the required goatee and mustache, and then, much to his aunt's chagrin, legally changed his name to Felix Herrmann. Taking this as an affront to her deceased husband, Adelaide never forgave Felix to the point that she removed his name from her will.
Adelaide carried on as a magician, a domain that was inhabited almost exclusively by men. During her long career she appeared at the Wintergarten in Berlin, the Folies-Bergere in Paris, and the Hippodrome Theatre in London. As a star in American vaudeville her career extended far longer than any other member of the Herrmann dynasty of magicians. She appeared before the public for more than half a century, retiring at age seventy-six.
Egyptian Hall Museum is the oldest private magic museum in America, started in 1895 by W.W. Durbin and later nurtured for nearly fifty years by David Price of Brentwood, Tennessee. Mike Caveney and George Daily acquired the museum in 2000 and today Mike curates the collection in Pasadena, California. Mike Caveney is a well known magician, historian, writer and publisher of books on the history and practice of magic. His historical works include biographies on The Great Leon, Servais Le Roy, Harry Kellar and Charles Carter. For Taschen Books he co-wrote a massive tome called MAGIC 1400s–1950, which has been translated into six languages.


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The Sex Lives of Slugs—and Other Mysteries of the Animal Kingdom
Looking at and wondering about our fellow creatures is a good first step toward saving them, says author.
Simon Barnes is one of Britain's best-loved sportswriters. He's also a passionate wildlife enthusiast and conservationist. His new book, Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom, is his deeply researched, often hilarious, compendium of stories about the weird and wonderful creatures that surround us—the ones few of us notice.
Talking from his home in the marshes of Norfolk, England, he explains the difference between sport and wildlife, why hunting wasps shook Darwin's belief in a benign creator, and how the mating habits of slugs make Fifty Shades of Grey pale by comparison.
Your book opens with the words "endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved." How do they frame the narrative?
It's the final sentence of Charles Darwin's great work of 1859, On the Origin of Species, the book that changed the way the world thinks, that changed the way humankind looks at itself and its place in the world and God.
It's one of the biggest sentences from one of the biggest books ever written, and my concept for this book was that I wanted to write something that encompassed every single one of those endless forms. In order to try to give it some shape, I framed it with that sentence. The book then ends with the opening part of that sentence. It shows that life is not something that begins and ends. It's something that endlessly renews itself.
Tell us about the sex lives of slugs.
[Laughs] Slugs were one of the things that inspired me to write this book. I was writing a newspaper story, trying to find an animal that was basically unattractive to humans, but as you look closer becomes fascinating. As soon as I started reading about the sex lives of slugs, I was absolutely entranced. Who could not be? Not only do they do it by means of slime, often hanging from a rope of slime as if they were doing it on a trapeze, they also have complex copulatory rituals.
Slugs start as hermaphrodites, so they'll be both male and female. One courting ritual will often involve two slugs circling around each other, each waving its penis. The penis, relative to body size, is quite massive, about half the size of the body. So they circle around, waving a giant penis overhead, then mutually enter each other and fertilize each other in a process that will go on for hours and hours.
When it's all done, they then have to break it off, and this, alas, is not always a mere metaphor. Sometimes the penis, which is corkscrew shaped, will be reluctant to come out, whereupon one of the slugs will kindly perform the favor-you may cross your legs at this point—of nibbling it up. It's called apophallation.
The nibbled-off slug will then slither away, hermaphrodite no longer, to live the rest of her life as a female.
The evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson predicts that by the end of this century half of all species will have gone extinct. But the massive threat to wildlife only gets a brief mention in your book. Why?
I wanted the book to be a celebration of what we have—about how the animal kingdom has come about, and what riches there are in it. What the great Ed Wilson says is unduckably true, and it's a hard truth to have to deal with. But I have a theory that when it comes to conservation, optimism does you no great service any more than blanket pessimism. There's no point in saying, The world is destroyed; we're all doomed. Equally, there's no point saying it's going to be all right. What matters is that you decide to fight on the right side. If people can look at our fellow creatures in the world, and wonder at them, then that is a good first step towards thinking about saving them.
Tell us about your work with the World Land Trust.
It's been a great adventure. The World Land Trust is a charity that works close to where I live in the east of England. They finance land purchases but don't actually own any land. They buy land on behalf of highly motivated, cash-strapped NGOs, mostly in the developing world. I've been able to visit and write about fantastic projects in Belize, Paraguay, Brazil, and India. I'm recently back from Armenia, where I've been working on a project that's attempting to save the leopard that still hangs on at the rim of Europe. Before that I was in Borneo attempting to save the orangutans.
It's been a deeply enriching thing to do, and it shows that a comparatively small-scale organization can make a considerable difference, if the money is used with style and purpose—and is administered on the ground by crash-hot conservationists.
Darwin was troubled by wasps. You call them "the express route to the problem of evil." Unpack that idea for us.
Darwin once suggested that he could work as a devil's chaplain and list all the creatures that we humans find morally repugnant. The wasps Darwin had in mind were hunting wasps. You can look at them, if you like, as devoted mothers. What these devoted mothers do is lay an egg and bury it. But instead of just leaving it to fend for itself, they go out and catch small creatures, generally small spiders, and bring them to the nest and leave them there.
They don't just leave them there dead, though. They would rot and be no good to the grub when it finally hatched. They anesthetize them, so your grub hatches out to find it's inside a living larder—a row of seven or eight still living spiders, on which it will gorge and eventually develop into a fully-fledged hunting wasp itself.
There are an awful lot of creatures that are very difficult to explain if you want to believe in a benign creator. The great David Attenborough is sometimes asked how come he doesn't believe in God when there are wondrous things like orchids and hummingbirds. He always replies: How about the small boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa with a worm boring into his eye that's going to make him blind?
Were you always drawn to nature? Or is it a passion of your mature years?
When I was a boy, I was absolutely mad about the stuff. I read nothing but books about animals, some fiction like The Jungle Book, books on bird identification and dinosaurs. I was absolutely mad for it. But I never learned how to appreciate the wild world. I always wanted to, but I was never really shown how.
Then, just after I'd turned 30, I went to one of the national parks in Sri Lanka. The park was set around a lake. It was a drowned forest, and on every tree, like fruit, there were these pygmy cormorants, thousands upon thousands of them. It was like taking a motorboat straight into Rubens's "Garden of Eden."
It was one of those Damascene moments, except it wasn't a conversion. I was already converted. It was saying, Why have you not spent all your life looking at stuff like this, when you knew all along that this was what you love more than anything else in the world? And I said, You bet—from now on this is what I do. This is what I am.
As well as being a wildlife enthusiast, you were a renowned sportswriter for the London Times. Are sport and wildlife mutually exclusive—or complementary—pursuits?
It's like my two heroes, the novelist James Joyce and Darwin. They're complementary. If you're writing about sports, you're writing about human beings. But instead of in politics or business, when everyone is trying to cover up the entire time, an athlete in competition is stark naked in front of you. So if you want to write about people, sport gives you a better opportunity than anything else. And that's something I always reveled in, and absolutely loved writing about.
But I felt that writing wasn't complete if I also wasn't writing about wildlife. Not because sport isn't enough. But because humanity isn't enough. People occasionally ask me which I like best. It's pretty easy to answer. If sport was abolished overnight, then I expect I'd manage to find some other way of writing about humanity. But if wildlife was abolished overnight—a far more likely possibility—I don't think I'd want to live.
In the index, you list numerous words associated with animals, from metamorphosis to instinct to reproduction. One word that matters more than any other to us humans is not there. Is love an exclusively human emotion?
I think that's my next book, perhaps. It is the most important thing. "The word known to all men," Joyce writes in Ulysses. And one of the things observers of animal behavior shy away from. I remember a story about a Ph.D. student whose observations about animals included words like friendship and affection. His supervisor always changed this to proximity. Eventually, the student concluded that the closest the professor had probably come to love in his life was proximity. [Laughs]
It's a dangerous question. On the other hand, it would be reckless and stupid to say that love as we understand it cannot exist between nonhuman animals. I've been present at the birth of a human on two occasions, and on each occasion the arrival of the individual was greeted with love both by myself and by my wife.
I've also attended the birth of a foal. In fact, I helped with the delivery process. And I've never seen such an extraordinary moment of bonding. When the foal first appeared, the mare, who was down on the ground, looked over her shoulder to where I was at the back end hauling the damn thing out. The expression in her eyes, and this is not imaginary, was something I'd not seen before. She gave this low chuckle, the come-hither chuckle. There was something much more than proximity going on there.
Tell us about your other daily interactions with the natural world.
I live in the county of Norfolk, in the east of England. Out the back, at which I am staring now, we have about four acres of marshland on a floodplain, which I manage entirely for wildlife. They own it, but I have the privilege of being able to walk out on it or sit down and see what turns up. I did that at dawn in May. An otter swam past, fishing hard. Didn't even notice I was there—and I was only six feet (two meters) away. I also keep horses, which is sort of the nonhuman world more than the expressly wild world. Though one of the reasons we have horses that are "lively" is that we like to keep a little bit of the wildness in them.
The book ends with a plea for the continued "dissolving of the animal-human boundary." Explain what you mean by that—and why it's important.
I think it's important to understand the world and who we are by understanding that we are animals. We don't come from animals. We are animals. We breathe, we eat, we defecate, we copulate, we give birth, just the same as our fellow mammals. We may be able to boss the Earth around by our power and technology. But we're not separate from the rest of the animal kingdom. We're kin to it, as it is kin to us.
We're all part of the same planet, "its endless forms most beautiful." At least I hope and pray that they are endless.
Simon Worrall curates Book Talk. Follow him on Twitter or at simonworrallauthor.com.
Photographs (from left to right) by National Geographic Creative photographers Michael Nichols, Chris Johns, Robert S. Oakes, Anne B. Keiser, James P. Blair, Paul Zahl, Joseph H. Bailer, Sam Abell, Paul Zahl, George F. Mobley, Michael Nichols, Bianca Lavies, Bruce Dale, Paul Zahl (2), Joe Scherschel, Sam Abell, and Robert F. Sisson and Donald McBain


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Remember how the Denver Broncos were going to draft Marcell Dareus because it was a great fit for the team? But then a few days before the draft Von Miller's name emerged as the possible (and then actual) selection. Well, for the last couple of weeks there have been two names associated with the Colorado Rockies and the 2011 MLB Draft: C.J. Cron and Kolten Wong.
One needs just to look through this stream to find out that those two have been named to the Rockies more than any other players. Add Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein to the list for Cron:
It's very rare to hear one name connected so often with a team drafting so late in the first round, but that's the case with Cron and the Rockies. He can't run, can't throw, and can't field, but he's also the college bat most likely to hit in the middle of a big league lineup.
Goldstein will have his final mock draft available on Monday, the day of the first round. It seems unlikely that he will change from his Cron selection
But this seems like such a sure pick that is can't possibly happen. Or even Wong for that matter. What if a team owner comes in and demands a "safe bat" like Cron in the mid-teens? Or what about high school arm falling to the Rockies at No. 20? Find out June 6.


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He Wang, Tom Kelly, and their PGR students meet every Friday afternoon for the Machine Learning in 3D reading group. In each meeting, one person presents a cutting edge machine learning paper from any field. It is an opportunity to share knowledge and practice academic communication skills.
This page contains the contents of the past meetings (links to slides and meeting notes) and information of the upcoming meetings.
Presenter: Jialin
Date: 31st Jan
He: original GAN can hardly learn the mixture of 2 distributions well.
Jialin: U-net concatenates left to the right at the same layer.
Tom: these connections maintain spatial resolution.
He: why weight of two ways is not a learnable parameter?
Jialin: Always fix the earlier layers when train the new layers.
He: Now that use means why calculate stand deviation?
Tom: Low resolution determines features.
Presenter: Zheyan
Date 7th Feb
1 How to do convolution for dimension 0-3 tensors.
2 The overall convolution filter for a rank n tensor is a rank 2n tensor and why decompose it.
3 Some methods to decompose filters for n dimensions tensors.
Presenter: Dody
Date 15th Feb
After the presentation please try to give your opinion on the paper!Contents:
TempoGAN projects the low resolution simulation result to high resolution result. Compared with past CNN, this module take 3 frames in time series as input.
Why there is dimension inconsistency?
Some region of TempoGAN result is worse than baseline. It is hard to say which result is better.
It is better to present one paper with more details than 2 papers.
Presenter: Feixiang
The words are embedded into ID format.
What is the training time?
The encoder and classifier are trained individually.
How to separate speech information and left words information.
Is there evidence that shows disentangle really works?
In the video there is minor change other than the mouse and bleezing eyes.
Presenter: Baiyi
This is CycleGAN, networks used for creating dataset.
Constraint GAN means difficulty in training.
Possible build two datasets, with and without makeup.
The purpose of attack: avoid recognition, update defense system.
Presenter: Deshan
Main content:
The difference of knit and woven and the reason to do yarn level simulation.
What are the Lagrangian and Euler DoFs.
The contact plane is used to compute contact force.
What is visco-elastic property.
After presentation everyone please try to give some opinion on the paper.
Presenter: Yunfeng
Presenter: Xue
Paper: GAN Compression -Efficient Architectures for interactive Conditional GANs.
Presenter: Jialin
Traditional GAN conditional GAN and Pix2Pix GAN.
Previous methods to reduce calculation
Validation to choose proper student NN.
Decouple training and search.
Presentor: Zheyan
Flow control and active control background, it is hard to design active control.
experiment setting.
Reinforcement algorithms. The output of ANN is the distribution of control strategy. Optimization loss is the long term performance. The samplle strategy number increase over time and seems training expense continues to grow.
Presenter : Dody
Can we use ML to accelerate hypeelastic simulation?
Traditional Reduce order method use PCA.
How to integrate autoencoder.
Why do not use autoencoder alone but with PCA?
What does J means?
Presentor: Feixiang
Presenter: Deshan
Concepts of discretization, implicit Euler , collision detection and responce
It usually need labor work to adjust the simulation parameters. The work aims automatically adjust parameters.
Dynamic and Continuous collision dectection, QR decomposion
Derivatives of the physics solve. Constrains, KKT condition.
Presenter: Jialin
After the presentation please try to give your opinion on the paper!Traditional image blending.
Combine MVS and IBR.
Deep Blending, 4 challenges in old methods.
Two offline pipeline, one online.
3D geometry reconstruction.
DNN architecture.
Rendering algorithm.
Two novel training loss.
After the presentation please try to give your opinion on the paper!
Presenter: Zheyan
MeshingNet by Zheyan
The question asked in the presentation:
The comments on every slide:
2nd slide: To make the figures with less information/To make it a bit simpler.
3rd slides: What data are you actually training on? Use a real mesh instead of simplified mesh.
4th slide: what does 3000 mean?
6th slide: It needs motivation: how should it affect the mesh? Need examples.
7th slide: what's the baseline?
10th slide: make it look 3d.
11th slide: Why do the result by CZ have colour?
by Yunfeng
Paper link:Query-Efficient Hard-label Black-box Attack:An Optimization-based Approach
After the presentation please try to give your opinion on the paper!
Presenter: Yunfeng
Presenter: Dody Dharma
Paper link:
Presenter: Feixiang
Learning to Measure the Static Friction Coefficient in Cloth Contact
This research proposes a vision-based deep neural network for estimating cloth/substrate dry friction coefficient. It uses synthetic datasets to train the neural network model which, however, is capable of estimating dry friction coefficient of real cloth. This is realised by accurately recover the cloth dynamics related to the dry friction coefficient. Moreover, this research introduces Conditional Friction Model which is optimised for extracting the information related with dry friction coefficient.
Jialin presents:PULSE: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration of Generative Models
The back ground is to obtain HD images from low resolution. Pulse ensures the quality of the super resolution image while tradition methods lead to blurring, they only compare HR and LR images. Traditional MSE neglect detail such as texture so that they are smoothed out. To get rid it people increase distance between SR and HR or use perceptual loss.
This paper has new paradigm and use novel method including Gaussian domain search.
PULSE may illuminate some biases inherent in StyleGAN.
CVPR video/paper for discussion:Unsupervised Learning of Probably Symmetric Deformable 3D Objects from Images in the Wild
Zheyan present:Dynamic Fluid Surface Reconstruction Using Deep Neural Network
CVPR video for discussion:
Dody will present:BSP-Net: Generating Compact Meshes via Binary Space Partitioning
CVPR video/paper for discussion:Learning Long-term Visual Dynamics, Xiaolong Wang.
Deshan presents:Use the Force, Luke! Learning to Predict Physical Forces by Simulating Effects
Looking this video:VIBE: Video Inference for Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation (CVPR 2020)
Feixiang presents:Skeleton-Aware Networks for Deep Motion Retargeting
Looking this video:Self-supervised Learning of Interpretable Keypoints from Unlabelled Videos - CVPR 2020 oral
Jialin presents:Contrastive Learning for Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation
Zheyan presents:Neural Cages for Detail-Preserving 3D Deformations
Deshan presents:RAFT: Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow
Dody talked on graph_CNN and how this technique may help our research.Graph Neural Networks in Particle Physics
Feixiang presents:
Jialin presents:
Zheyan Zhang presents.Attention Is All You Need
Presenter: Dody
Presenter: Feixiang
Ricardo Luna Gutierrez
presentsInformation-theoretic Task Selection for Meta-Reinforcement Learning
Recent works on human motion classification attack
By He
By Dody
by Feixiang
Markus presents:Neural Temporal Adaptive Sampling and Denoising
Jialin present:Semantic Photo Manipulation with a Generative Image Prior
Shaun present:
the field of my research with an overview of the problem and the current state of research surrounding it
He Wang present:Efficient Transformers: A Survey
Tom present:Generative Layout Modeling using Constraint Graphs
Baiyi present:Editing in Style: Uncovering the Local Semantics of GANs
Maria present:
Zheyan present:Machine learning–accelerated computational fluid dynamics
zheyan present:
Finite element with machine learning
Maria present:DeepM&Mnet: Inferring the electroconvection multiphysics fields based on operator approximation by neural networks
Jiangbei present:Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners
Maria present:Understanding and mitigating gradient pathologies in physics-informed neural networks
Shaun present:Spectral images based environmental sound classification using CNN with meaningful data augmentation
Mou Li present:Analyzing Inverse Problems with Invertible Neural Networks
Usman present:
Feixiang present:Prototypical contrast and reverse prediction: Unsupervised skeleton based action recognition
Feixiang present:Spatio-Temporal Gating-Adjacency GCN for Human Motion Prediction


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