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Among 5 analysts covering Navios Maritime Acquisition (NYSE:NNA), 2 have Buy rating, 1 Sell and 2 Hold. On Friday, August 11 the stock rating was downgraded by Citigroup to "Neutral". Navios Maritime Acquisition now has an average rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $1.63. Cs Mckee L P holds 0.04% of its portfolio in Navios Maritime Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE:NAP) for 64,900 shares. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the stock.
Sio Capital Management Llc decreased Glaxosmithkline Plc (Call) (GSK) stake by 11.59% reported in 2017Q3 SEC filing. The Sio Capital Management Llc holds 100,000 shares with $4.06 million value, down from 113,113 last quarter. Infinera Corporation now has $1.04B valuation. The company's stock had a trading volume of 143,381 shares. About 265,485 shares traded. General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) has declined 4.46% since January 11, 2017 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 16.01% the S&P500.
Investors sentiment decreased to 0.69 in 2017 Q3. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.60, a current ratio of 1.39 and a quick ratio of 1.39. 10 funds opened positions while 14 raised stakes. Envestnet Asset accumulated 0% or 8,149 shares. Evercore Wealth Mngmt Limited Liability Com holds 0% or 1,700 shares in its portfolio. Cs Mckee Lp owns 64,900 shares or 0.04% of their USA portfolio. Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors Ltd Liability Partnership Ma has invested 0% in Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Janney Capital Limited reported 898,727 shares. Bnp Paribas Arbitrage Sa accumulated 0% or 6,286 shares. 286,854 are owned by California Pub Employees Retirement System. (NYSE:WSM) for 6,965 shares. Rhumbline Advisers invested in 0% or 87,169 shares. Regency Ctrs Corp (NYSE:REG) was reduced too. Therefore 55% are positive. GlaxoSmithKline had 26 analyst reports since September 8, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. Robert W. Baird maintained the stock with "Outperform" rating in Thursday, March 17 report. The firm earned "Hold" rating on Thursday, July 27 by Stifel Nicolaus. The market capitalization of the company is $6.59 Million. On Monday, June 12 the stock rating was maintained by Oppenheimer with "Hold". The firm has "Market Perform" rating by Bernstein given on Monday, April 4. William Blair maintained the stock with "Buy" rating in Tuesday, August 25 report. The stock has "Hold" rating by Stifel Nicolaus on Thursday, August 31. The rating was maintained by Citigroup with "Buy" on Friday, August 19.
The stock increased 0.21% or $0.02 during the last trading session, reaching $9.51. About 465,132 shares traded or 35.65% up from the average.
The stock of Navios Maritime Partners L.P. (NYSE:NMM) is a huge mover today! It has underperformed by 20.87% the S&P500.
Investors sentiment decreased to 0.88 in Q3 2017. Its down 0.41, from 1.61 in 2017Q2. It fall, as 10 investors sold Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation shares while 20 reduced holdings. Virtu Fincl Ltd Company invested in 14,510 shares. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Navios Maritime Acquisition from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 18th. The North Carolina-based Bank Of America Corp De has invested 0% in the stock. Barclays Pcl owns 0% invested in Navios Maritime Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE:NAP) for 99 shares. Aldebaran Finance invested in 3.7% or 221,677 shares. After $0.85 actual EPS reported by GlaxoSmithKline plc for the previous quarter, Wall Street now forecasts -24.71% negative EPS growth. Advisory Incorporated invested 0.19% of its portfolio in Navios Maritime Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE:NAP).
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News for the Hospitality Executive
IHG to Develop the 249-room Holiday Inn Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof in Germany
March 21, 2013 - IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), one of the world's leading hotel companies, today announced the signing of the Holiday Inn Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, one of the first Holiday Inns in Germany to feature the brand's new 'Open Lobby' concept.
The 249-room property is due to open in early 2015 and will operate under a managed contract in partnership with UBM. Union Investment acquired the project development for its open-ended real estate fund 'UniImmo: Deutschland'. The hotel is ideally located for business and leisure travellers, who will find themselves walking distance from the city's business district and historic town centre, 1.5km from the trade fair market and only 500m from the Frankfurt central railway station.
IHG's Vice President Development Germany, Martin Bowen said:
"Frankfurt is Germany's major trade fair city and this hotel will help meet the demands of the city's many business and trade fair guests. The new 'Open Lobby' concept is designed specifically with busy travellers like them in mind - research shows that our guests want to be comfortable, relaxed and cared for on the road, and all in a familiar environment that takes care of their everyday needs. The Open Lobby is more than a hotel bar, restaurant or lounge – it combines all the existing public spaces into one open, cohesive space. It gives guests options whether they're looking to eat, relax, work, or have fun.
"We have 57* Holiday Inn brand family hotels (Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express) in Germany, and the brand is an important growth driver for us here. With over 3,400 hotels* worldwide, the brand is the most widely recognised lodging brand in the world. Every year 100 million people stay at a Holiday Inn brand family hotel around the world - they know they can expect a consistent, refreshed experience wherever they are."
The 'Open Lobby' concept combines front desk, lobby, business centre, restaurant and bar into a cohesive, open design with a residential feel. The dining area will include a new food and beverage offer, a bar with peninsulas where guests can enjoy breakfast or eat throughout the day and a chef station. Food will be available 24/7 and guests will have the advantage of free Wi-Fi.
IHG has 69* hotels in Germany, of which 57 belong to the Holiday Inn brand family. The company has 19* hotels in the pipeline in Germany. UBM have partnered with IHG on numerous occasions, and currently have management contracts for the InterContinental Warsaw, Crowne Plaza Amsterdam and Crowne Plaza St Petersburg Airport.
*As at IHG Full Year results 2012
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global organization with nine hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites®, EVEN™ Hotels and HUALUXE™ Hotels & Resorts. IHG also manages Priority Club® Rewards, the world's first and largest hotel loyalty program with over 71 million members worldwide.
IHG franchises, leases, manages or owns over 4,600 hotels and more than 675,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories. With more than 1,000 hotels in its development pipeline, IHG expects to recruit around 90,000 people into additional roles across its estate over the next few years.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.
Visit www.ihg.com for hotel information and reservations and www.priorityclub.com for more on Priority Club Rewards. For our latest news, visit www.ihg.com/media, www.twitter.com/ihg, www.facebook.com/ihg or www.youtube.com/ihgplc.
Contact IHG on:
Americas: +1 800 621 0555
Europe: +44 (0)871 942 9292
Asia, Middle East and Africa: +1 800 009 200 (toll free from Australia)
or +61 2 99269889 (landline)
|Also See:
110-room Holiday Inn Express Romulus/Detroit Metro Airport Opens in
Michigan Following Multimillion Dollar Renovation / March 2013
120-room Holiday Inn Express Veracruz Boca del Rio Opens in Veracruz,
Mexico; The New-Build Hotel Opens Following a $10 Million Investment by
Grupo Hotelero Latinoamérica / March 2013
184-room Holiday Inn Express Philadelphia E - Penn's Landing Opens in
Pennsylvania Following a $4 Million Renovation and Conversion; The
Hotel is Owned by Delaware Waterfront Associates and Managed by Growth
Properties Hospitality Management / March 2013
Signs MDA to Develop 15 New Holiday Inn Express Hotels in Russia by
2019; Agreement with Regional Hotel Chain (RHC), a Portfolio Company of
VIY Management (VIYM) will Introduce the Brand to the Region /
March 2013
and Owner, Hotelaria Agisol Ltda, to Develop the 102-room Holiday Inn
Express Marilia in Brazil; A Late 2014 Opening is Planned /
February 2013
277-room Holiday Inn Express Phuket Patong Beach Central Opens on
Phuket Island in Thailand / February 2013
141-room Holiday Inn Express Philadelphia NE - Bensalem Opens in
Pennsylvania Following Extensive Renovation / January 2013
101-room Holiday Inn Express Querétaro Opens in Mexico; Owned
and Managed by Hotelera Queretana, S.A. de C.V / January 2013
62-room Holiday Inn Express Princeton Southeast Opens in New Jersey;
The Hotel is Owned by Princeton Three Hospitality Group and Managed by
GF Management / January 2013
70-room Holiday Inn Express Pittsburgh East - Munhall Opens in
Pennsylvania Owned and Managed by the Forza Group / January 2013
Signs Franchise Agreement with Arcadia Hotel Hotelbetriebs GmbH
Stuttgart to Develop Five Holiday Inn Express Hotels in Germany and
Austria / December 2012
India Hotels and IHG Open the 173-room Holiday Inn Express Ahmedabad,
the First of the Brand in India; Opening General Manager, Ranganath
Budumooru / November 2012
Opens Three Holiday Inn Express Conversions in the UK; The Hotels in
Braintree, Shrewsbury and Birmingham will be Managed by Kew Green /
November 2012
in Joint Venture with Duet India Hotels Group to Develop 19 Holiday Inn
Express Hotels Across India, Adding 3,300 Rooms to IHG's Current India
Development Pipeline / April 2011


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Indian Railways introduces OCR Kiosk Machines for quick printing of tickets booked through UTS Mobile App for suburban commuters
RPF make women commuters queue up before boarding local trains
Western Railway installs 161 water vending machines
Mumbai stampede aftermath: Goyal crack the whip on railways
Track renewal, elimination of unmanned crossings priority for Indian Railways: Piyush Goyal
For quick and easy printing of tickets booked by suburban train commuters through mobile app, the Railways has installed 44 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) kiosk machines at different stations in Mumbai, officials said today.
While the CR has installed 24 OCR kiosks, the WR has put in place 20 such kiosks at different stations, they said.
"With a view to reduce the queues at the booking counters and ATVMs (Automatic Ticket Vending Machines) and to provide an alternative to get the suburban train tickets, the Central Railway as well as the Western Railway have installed 44 OCR kiosks at different suburban stations in Mumbai," a senior railway official said.
According to chief public relations officer of Central Railway, Sunil Udasi, this is an enhanced feature of mobile ticketing, which will facilitate the passengers to print tickets through 24 OCR kiosks at suburban stations.
"This facility will help commuters save time and get tickets on the move easily avoiding queue at stations," he added.
"The CR has installed four OCR kiosks at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and five each at Ghatkopar, Thane, Dombivli and Kalyan stations," Udasi said.
The WR has installed one OCR at Churchgate, six at Dadar, three at Bandra, five each at Andheri and Borivali stations and process to install another five such points at Churchgate is on.
"These OCRs will facilitate the passengers get the printout of tickets booked through UTS mobile app and will also reduce the queues at booking counters/ATVM machines, thereby promoting transactions through UTS mobile app," chief PRO of WR, Ravinder Bhakar, said.
"Presently, passengers have to feed their mobile number and booking ID received on their mobiles, in the ATVMs to get their tickets printed or get it through UTS counter. This new facility will also reduce the time of printing of tickets as the machine will simply read the SMS and print tickets immediately.
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Speculations are doing rounds that, Pawan Kalyan might play the lead role in Telugu remake of Salman Khan's latest Blockbuster film Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
Buzz says, Producer Dil Raju is showing interest in remaking Bajrangi Bhaijaan with Pawan Kalyan reprising Salman Khan's role . Raju is making efforts to grab remake rights of the film .
It further says, The movie will be co-produced by 'RockLine' Venkatesh and directed by Gabbar singh fame Harish Shankar. However, It has become a habit to link every super hit film with Pawan Kalyan. Unless some kind of official announcement is made , such buzz cannot be entertained . If it indeed happens, it will be interesting to see who reprises Salman Khan's role.
while Pawan Kalyan is also busy with his project, Sadaar ,which is a sequel to his superhit film Gabbar Singh .


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Dortmund's Bartra doing 'much better' after wrist surgery
(Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra said he is "doing much better" after suffering a wrist and arm injury when the team bus was attacked with explosives on Tuesday shortly before the start of the Champions League clash with AS Monaco.
Bartra, who joined Dortmund for 8 million euros ($8.49 million) from Barcelona at the start of the season, was operated on for a broken wrist and shrapnel in his arm.
"Hello everybody! As you can see I am doing much better," the 26-year-old Spanish international wrote on Instagram.
The accompanying photo showed Bartra bandaged up most of his right arm and around his left wrist. He was giving the thumbs-up sign.
"Thank you everybody for all your support and your messages! All my strength to my team mates, supporters and fans and to @bvb09 for tonight's match!"
The match is rescheduled for later on Wednesday at Dortmund's Signa Iduna Park.
($1 = 0.9423 euros)
(Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)


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Postgraduate students – we've got workshops for you!Posted: March 19, 2013 Filed under: Campus Libraries, General news, Research, Training and workshops | Tags: Academic Skills Workshops, library, Library resources, Postgraduate workshops, workshops Comments Off on Postgraduate students – we've got workshops for you!
Hey, Postgrad students – we've got some workshops for you!
We've got a bunch of workshops that are specifically designed for postgraduate students. In these workshops you can learn:
- How to effectively search for relevant scholarly articles
- How to develop an argument and write academically
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For more information on these workshops, visit the workshops and training webpage on the library website.
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To determine the effect of adiponectin on the coronary no-reflow (NR) injury in rats with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), 80 male SD rats were fed with high-sugar and high-fat diet to build T2DM model. Rats received vehicle or Adiponectin (APN) in the last week and then were subjected to myocardial ischemia reperfusion (MI/R) injury. Endothelium dependent vasorelaxation of thoracic aorta was significantly decreased and serum levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1), intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) were obviously increased in T2DM rats compared with that in the rats without T2DM. Serum APN was positively correlated with the endothelium dependent vasorelaxation, but negatively correlated with serum level of ET-1. Treatment with APN improved T2DM-induced endothelium dependent vasorelaxation, recovered cardiac function, decreased NR size, and the levels of ET-1, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1. Hypoadiponectinemia was related with the aggravation of coronary NR in T2DM rats. APN could alleviate the coronary NR injury in T2DM rats by protecting endothelium and improving microcirculation.
- coronary no reflow
- adiponectin
- type 2 diabetes mellitus
- endothelial cell
- microcirculation
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Adding a sub or maybe 2 to a '98 F150 Supercab
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Anyone got any ideas ? I'm stuck, the rear seat doesn't move, is steel bottomed and the cushions flip over for a metal shelf in the back. I seriously want some low end in this flippin truck but my brain is out of ideas to add some bass. If anyone has an idea of how to get a sub or two into the cab of this particular truck, do chime in.
Living room: Samsung UN55KU7000 4K UHD HDR 55 inch TV, Marantz CD6004, Pro-Ject Debut Carbon, Parasound zPhono, Mac Mini, Oppo BDP-93, XBox One S 2Tb, Kenwood DPX792BH car deck for radio purposes, Marantz SR5010 AVR, Parasound HCA-1200II, Front SDA 2 modded with Larrys Rings and RD0-194-1 tweeters, Rear Onkyo SKF-4800 Towers, Center CSiA6, BOOM Tannoy TS2.12 Sub, Audioquest Evergreen interconnects just about everywhere except from AVR to amp, MIT Terminator 4, MIT AVT3 speaker cables with extra terminals covered up Monitor 5 Jr+ in the wings for a center channel.


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Uninstall pd-pdp
To remove just pd-pdp package itself from Debian 9 (Stretch) execute on terminal:
sudo apt-get remove pd-pdp
Uninstall pd-pdp and it's dependent packages
To remove the pd-pdp package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from Debian Stretch.
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove pd-pdp
Purging pd-pdp
If you also want to delete configuration and/or data files of pd-pdp from Debian Stretch then this will work:
sudo apt-get purge pd-pdp
To delete configuration and/or data files of pd-pdp and it's dependencies from Debian Stretch then execute:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove pd-pdp
More information about apt-get remove
Advanced Package Tool, or APT, is a free software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. APT simplifies the process of managing software on Unix-like computer systems by automating the retrieval, configuration and installation of software packages, either from precompiled files or by compiling source code.
apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's "back-end" to other tools using the APT library.
apt-get remove is identical to install except that packages are removed instead of installed. Note that removing a package leaves its configuration files on the system. If a plus sign is appended to the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be installed instead of removed.
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I was impressed to learn of a new ad campaign that New York City is running directed at young girls. Meant to tackle issues of self-esteem and body image, the posters depict girls of many different races, ages and sizes, engaged in a variety of activities. They're accompanied by variants on the slogan, "I'm a girl. I'm smart, a leader, adventurous, friendly, funny. I'm beautiful the way I am."
The diversity of representation in the ads is clearly unusual; the depiction of . The girls are portrayed as dynamic, multivalent individuals. In contrast to many representations of little girls in advertisements, these girls aren't hyperfeminized; they aren't wearing tutus and playing house. These girls, in short, can grow up to be anything. The ads' text refers to the girls' many attributes. They aren't exclusively valued for their appearances, an issue John Berger discusses in "Ways of Seeing:" women are typically regarded as exclusively ornamental, not instrumental. In this campaign, their intangible qualities and abilities are emphasized.
Or so it seems. In each ad, the dominant sentence–in a large font, below the rest of the slogan–is "I'm beautiful the way I am." This is meant, of course, to refer both to "inner beauty" and to the affirmation of beauty across various body types and races. But should this be the takeaway? Is it enough to expand the definition of beauty, if only to continue insisting that women embody it? This campaign does well to broaden how "beauty" is construed, but it still shouldn't be a determining factor in how we affirm girls' worth. Girls should be affirmed as smart, as leaders, as adventurous, friendly and funny. They should be reminded that their worth doesn't depend on how beautiful they are. They should be reminded that they don't exist to be looked at.
Works Cited: Berger, John. "Ways of Seeing." From Jones, Amelia, ed. "The Feminist & Visual Culture Reader." New York, Routledge: 2003.


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(iPhone shot from Sunday Worship @ Vine)
(Currently Listening to: "Heading for Nowhere" by: Jets Overhead)
1. "All Creatures of our God and King" :David Crowder version
Welcome/Scripture/Prayer – Kenny Ellis
2. "Sing, Sing, Sing" by: Chris Tomlin
3. "How Great Thou Art" :Charlie Hall version
4. "Stand in Awe" by: Jeremy Riddle
Message: Pastor Mike
Prayer Experience – Kenny Ellis
Mens Retreat shout out
5. "Nothing with out You" by: Bebo Norman
Closing & Benediction – Pastor Mike
Sunday started kinda crazy for me with set up and a very last minute musician change up. That all worked out very well thankfully because Leo got out of bed to come rehearse with us. Thank you, thank you, thank you Leo! Because I was worn out from set up and the switch up musically it took me awhile to get relaxed and focused. By the time the band met in the greenroom for prayer I was spent. But that simple by needed time with the band in the back really helped. I love the people I get to lead with on Sundays. The first 2 songs on Sunday had about 3 people singing on for some reason. It was really quiet for some reason. Finally on "How Great Thou Art" I could hear people singing and on "Stand in Awe", even though I kept messing up a line in the song the church really began to lift their voices. That was a great moment to hear everyone cry out those words to God. Very nice. And such a great song. It's one of my favorites right now. Pastor Mike's message was great, the prayer experience was good that Kenny lead. And at the end the Bebo Norman's song went pretty well to I thought. I really loved hearing the church sing those words too. That's the song I was most excited about doing on Sunday. Great words that fit perfectly with Pastor Mikes message. After Church we had small group at our house which is always huge blessing. Amazing food, kids running all over the house playing, great discussion on the mornings message and great time of prayer for each other. Can't get much better. I love it.
So this is where I get honest which is what this blog is supposed to be for me. On Sundays I run around way to much. I barely ever get to fully focus on what I'm there to do until right before we start the service. I know that's most of us who are leading worship or are in any form of ministry on Sundays. I'm just tired and ready for a break. I am going on vacation this coming Saturday so I will be getting a Sunday off and some needed rest. I have a hard time not being there on Sundays. I'm wondering if there are any others out there like that. I have a hard time letting all control over everybody else. Mostly because on the small things I don't have allot of help with. That would be sound set up. Which creates more stress when I'm running rehearsal with the band and my focus has to shift from rehearsal to fixing sound issues. I need more sound men who love to do sound or just care about it. I have 1 person right now who is a great guy but just 1 person. It's been suggested to have the band set everything up but I really don't want the band to have to show up @ 6:30/7am to set up all the sound equipment. I want the band fresh and focused when they get there at 8:30am on Sundays. Which is what they do. I don't have any worries about leaving the leadership duties to the band. They are very professional and mature and I could be gone for whatever reason and the music portion of our worship @ Vine would go on strong. My musicians have grown into a strong leading band. I love seeing that and have great peace in their abilities and friendships. Anyways, I'm not sure what my fix is if there is one yet. Any ideas out there from anyone? Can't wait for Saturday morning!
ps. I ran my 3rd 5k on Saturday and creamed my last personal record which was excited. Not sure why I run. I can't stand it when I'm doing it. ha. I know it's because my wife is running and because of my good friend Kevin. He paced me on saturday and that's really why I did as well as I did. And because of that I got my first medal! Yeah! 2nd place in my age group. 🙂 It was a neat feeling and it benefited First Baptists at the Mall's summer camps. Pretty cool.
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One of Charlotte�s icons of the civil rights era is Dorothy Counts-Scoggins. Jennifer met her writing a story for the alumni magazine. She lives near the campus. Jennifer took a water fitness class with her.
At age 15, Dorothy was the first African-American to attempt to attend the all-white Harding High School. She had to run a gauntlet of jeering protesters who swore and spit and threw things at her as she walked through the door.
Photographer Douglas Martin won the 1957 World Press Photo of the Year with an image of Counts being mocked by a crowd on her first day of school.
Although she befriended two white girls, they soon drew back because of harassment from other classmates. After four days of extensive harassment � which included a smashed family car and having her locker ransacked � her father decided to take her out of the school.
At a press conference, he said: "It is with compassion for our native land and love for our daughter Dorothy that we withdraw her as a student at Harding High School. As long as we felt she could be protected from bodily injury and insults within the school�s walls and upon the school premises, we were willing to grant her desire to study at Harding." Obviously, that was no longer the case.
The family moved to Pennsylvania, where Dorothy attended an integrated school in Philadelphia. She later earned a degree from Johnson C. Smith University and has spent her professional career working in Charlotte in child care resources.
In 2008, Harding High School awarded Counts an honorary diploma. In 2010, the school�s library was renamed in honor of her � an honor rarely bestowed upon living persons.
In an article by Jennifer called "Alumni Memories of the March on Washington," Dorothy says, "I did not attend the march as I was returning to Charlotte from working in New York all summer. I did watch it on television and was chilled to see that so many people of all races joined together to hear Dr. King and fight for a cause that was long overdue. Also, I am aware that some of my classmates joined in that cause.
"Dr. King was such a powerful man and could move mountains. It saddens me now that all the work that he and others did has taken a back seat, and we are not moving forward after 50 years. I still have the "Dream" for my children and grandchildren."
Dorothy must had taken some comfort that, earlier this year, a young black man named Kwasi Enin was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools.
�Arnold Koch is a regular columnist for the Melrose Free Press.
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From Carol Nansel, Shenandoah Co. 4-H Agent:
The Virginia 4-H/Dominican Republic Program has two "at-large" openings available for interested high school age 4-H members to join the group from Shenandoah and Alleghany counties on the program this year. The 4-H group will travel to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, during the week of July 17-24, 2018 to conduct a 4-H Day Camp in partnership with Dominican teens, conduct Service Projects in the local villages and experience the local food and culture. This program is in its thirteenth year under the leadership of 4-H Agents Carol Nansel and Christine Hodges.
At least two Virginia 4-H members will be selected for this program based on an application and a reference letter from their 4-H agent. Spanish language skills are nice to have, but not required. Teens who have 4-H camp counselor skills are encouraged to apply. If additional openings are available, more than two Virginia 4-H'ers may be selected to participate.
For more information, and to read blogs from previous years participants, go to this webpage: https://shenandoah.ext.vt.edu/programs/4h-international.html Click on Dominican Republic Program.
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If you have specific questions about the program, feel free to contact me, or Christine Hodges (Alleghany Co.).
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Going on vacation doesn't always mean going to a sunny beach somewhere exotic and relaxing on the sand. Many people instead choose to go places with great cultural artifacts or famous tourist attractions. There are thousands of different examples all around the world, but the vast majority of vacationers tend to focus on just the select few that have held something of a monopoly over the public's imagination for generations.
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Leaning Tower Of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is definitely one of the most overrated tourist attraction in the world. This shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, though, if you really think about it as just a bell tower that is leaning slightly to its side. It's possible to recreate the same experience in almost any city in the world that has a bell tower by just tilting your head. The only unique thing that the Leaning Tower of Pisa offers is that you can pretend that you are holding the structure up in a photograph. Even this redeeming quality is diminishing, though, as the tower is actually straightening out.
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By Thomas A. Reppetto
Postwar the United States observed few adjustments to legislation enforcement in a single hundred years. The little identified San Francisco revolt of August 1945 introduced the violent occasions of the subsequent part century. many of the equipment remained unchanged until eventually the 1953 kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease in Kansas urban, Missouri, that shook the country.
The Nineteen Sixties have been ruled through civil rights struggles and significant riots. Watts, Detroit, and Newark validated how neighborhood police departments have been not able to deal with the problems that engulfed these cities.
The anti-war protest on the 1968 Chicago Democratic conference is critical to this narrative because the writer was once accountable for conference defense. The police division used to be break up on the way to care for the protestors: a big revelation of this booklet. the writer additionally became down a proposal to develop into a part of a unit later often called the "plumbers" made to him in my view by means of legal professional common John Mitchell.
The Seventies and '80s are the bottom issues in sleek American legislations enforcement until eventually the emergence of "zero tolerance" by way of big apple Commissioner William Bratton and Mayor Rudy Giuliani. 9-11 adjustments the panorama with the hot concentrate on counter terror and new demanding situations to legislation enforcement.
Thomas Reppetto started as a police officer, emerging to Commander of Detectives within the Chicago Police division. In 1970 he obtained a PhD in public management from the Harvard tuition of presidency. He taught on the John Jay collage of town collage of recent York and have become dean of graduate stories, then vp. he's retired and lives within the long island urban zone.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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Name: Sharmada Sivaram (16 years)
School: Carmel Convent School, New Delhi
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" is Author Khaled Hosseini's second novel. Khaled Hosseini is an American novelist and physician originally from Afghanistan. The book follows the story of two native women of Afghanistan-Mariam and Laila, whose lives are entwined. Their heartrending story is set against a background of the main events in Afghanistan's history over the past three decades, from the Soviet invasion to the US-led War against Taliban.
The plot is intricately laid out and has multifaceted themes. It is a journey of oppression and hope, of sacrifice, of endurance, of love. The story explores the deep bond shared by the protagonists, captures the plight of women-their struggle to be in control of their lives.
Mariam is an illegitimate child of a rich movie theater owner, Jalil, and grows up in a hut outside of the city of Herat with her mother. After her mother commits suicide, her father marries her off at the age of fifteen to a much older, troubled and bitter shoe maker Rasheed. Rasheed treats Mariam with ill-disguised repugnance, subjecting her to scorn and ridicule. This attitude of his toward her deepens once it is apparent that she cannot bear him a child.
Laila, the novel's other heroine, is raised to appreciate education and to dream to fulfill her potential. When a rocket lands on her house and kills her parents, her life is shattered. Her boyfriend Tariq has already left Kabul with his family. She is an orphan with no friends or resources. Laila is then taken in by Mariam and Rasheed. When she discovers that she is pregnant with Tariq's child and learns that Tariq has supposedly died from injuries sustained in a rocket attack, she agrees to marry Rasheed, convinced that she and her baby will never survive alone in Kabul.
Initially, Mariam eyes Laila as her enemy, charging her of stealing her husband. But the birth of Laila's daughter Aziza leads Mariam to soften and the two form a tie as strong as as those between a mother and daughter, finding consolation in each other. The bond they share is so simple, so natural. They become allies and shield each other from Rasheed's rages.
When Laila and Mariam plan to run away with Aziza, the plan goes futile. They are faced with Rasheed's bitter revenge. Later, Laila reunites with Tariq and leaves with him to Pakistan, along with her children Aziza and Zalmai. Mariam kills Rasheed with a shovel, confesses and is executed.
The tale is most certainly gripping. Hosseini makes Afghanistan's history and culture quite engaging. It gives us a deep insight to life in a part of this world that is primarily associated with terror and conflict. What makes it more real is that these specific historical events did in fact take place. The characters are complex and can be drawn from life. There were women who led this life, who endured such agony. While the subjects of the novel are complex and heavy, reading Hosseini's novel is simple and easy enough. The down side is that it isn't a happy book. Melancholia looms through most part, although hope is a companion. The novel does bring out the uncomfortable and agonizing truth outright. The narrative pertaining to the anguishing experience under Taliban's rule brings out the suffering the women, especially, go through. Although the events seem painful, the author makes them readable. Personally, the story went straight to my heart, being a woman. It sensitizes those who have only ever heard of the ongoings in Afghanistan on news bulletins, to the suffering of an entire nation.
In the end, it is another story of day-to-day life. Yet, it is different, stirring. It reaches out to you and makes you believe that, there is, after all, hope.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, reviewed by Sharmada Sivaram
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Hallmark hit a homerun with this sweet romance movie but then when dont they? Take an over pretective and hard working single mom and her teenage son and mix in a desire of that mom to grow closer to her son. She takes a step wayoutside her comfort zone of the city and books them a get away on at a camping lodge. Mix in a single father and his teen daughter who is also having issues and put them next door to each other. The sparks fly yet in a way that is all Hallmark.
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Google DeepMind, Blizzard Use StarCraft 2 For AI Research; What About Other Games?
Tech giant Google is teaming up with gaming publisher Blizzard to improve artificial intelligence (AI) through one of its games: StarCraft. However, it seems other games may fit the "teaching" bill as well.
According to Google, Blizzard announced in the annual BlizzCon that it will release tools that will allow third parties to teach AI how to play their hit game StarCraft 2. This is in collaboration with Google's DeepMind project, and the tools will be using the DeepMind platform.
The DeepMind team said StarCraft is an "interesting platform" to develop current research on AI. The gameplay itself may be a useful environment to simulate the "messiness" of the real world.
However, aside from StarCraft, there appears to be other games that AI systems may use to "teach" itself. Although an RTS may be a considerably good platform, other genres can help gauge certain aspects of an AI's program.
The nature of StarCraft as a real-time strategy (RTS) game is what makes it a hit among players. The game involves interconnected layers of decisions as players have to decide the effective use of resources, which buildings to make, and which units to build. There is also a separate piece of thinking when combat is being considered.
While there's a significant amount of research to AI's applications in games such as chess or go, StarCraft and its compatriots make a better simulation in the real world. This even tackles problems computers encounter real time such as logistics.
According tot Fortune, insights while playing StarCraft can help generate solutions for computers that are facing immense challenges.
However, other games offer nearly the same amount of intensity and require the same amount of problem-solving. Examples of these are massive online battle arenas (MOBAs) such as League of Legends and DoTA. Unlike StarCraft, the games require the usage of a single character through a massive campaign against other "heroes."
While the latter requires immense resource and unit management, MOBAs demand anticipation of team members and assumption of roles as well. This time it's not just you versus an opponent, it's a team versus a team. It will completely change the way AIs interact with each other.
StarCraft's "messiness" is even emphasized with the "fog of war" that is only unveiled when units cross this. Players then have to predict the decisions of their enemies while planning their own. This is not faced when AI challenge players to Go as the board is visible at once.
StarCraft's endgame is also a factor in consideration, as everything happens in real time instead of turns. This is extremely helpful for computer agents as they have more processing power than the human brain.
However, it appears these AI will have to work within the same limitations as human players - somewhat. AI players will still have to control the camera to learn about the conditions of the game and even execute mouse "clicks" within the "limits of human dexterity."
If an AI may also want to test its limits within human movement, it can also try playing first-person shooters (FPSs). It has the same amount of "human limitation" that playing StarCraft may offer, but only in a limited environment. The AI will have to assess its environment quickly and avoid dangers in its way with covers and hiding. The rather immense selection of "weapons" will also help AI determine the best "tools" depending on the situation and the environment. This means the randomness with opponents and game styles will opt the AI to try to adjust to its environment as best it could.
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Beginning at 6:30 am, I knew it was gonna be a bad day. I woke up 10 minutes late and scurried out the door to the bus. Even though I flashed my card as I always do, it didn't read and as I walked toward a seat on the back of the bus, the bus driver was asking me to come back up. I was in my own barely awake world and that, combined with having John Legend singing in my ears, meant I didn't hear the driver. Suddenly some man told me that the bus driver was calling for me. The bus was waiting on me. I felt like an idiot. When I walked back to my seat and the bus got on his way, some woman in the middle of the bus handed me my hat which I had apparently dropped. I just wanted to go back to bed.
At the gym, I was breaking in my new sneakers which led to some bleeding on the back of my right ankle. The outfit I brought to wear for work just wasn't feeling right. I was fidgeting all day. I kept getting overheated, fanning myself off and on throughout the day. I had to run an errand at lunchtime, and the shoes I was wearing were KILLING my ankles. As soon as I sat down at my desk again, the shoes came off. Work itself was slow so I just played around all afternoon, which was probably the best part of my Wednesday.
Then came the easels. The easels were the straw that broke this camel's back - literally. You see, I am going to a Career Fair tomorrow for my company and was the designated person for the easels. We place these around our table with posters/signage about our company. I had to get four or five. And these easels are the most cumbersome things to carry. They are heavy. They are put together like tent poles, so the pieces keep unbending and sliding all over the place. They would not stay together. They kept falling on the ground. Since I had to look at some apartments after work, I left the Career Fair materials at my desk and would come back for them after doing the apartment thing. It wasn't even out of my way. Easier said then done. When I returned to my desk, I attempted to corral the easels under my arms. This was on top of the tote bag I had slung over my left shoulder and the plastic bag full of cereal in my right hand (this plastic bag later broke, of course). So I managed to make it to the elevator. Some poor girl had to help me pick up the easels since they fell on the ground before I got to the lobby. How was I supposed to get on the bus with these things?
Checking out of the building was more of the same. Easels collapsing on the ground and me looking ridiculous. I went outside to wait for the bus, but as I stood on the street desperately squeezing the easels under my arms, I knew there was no way I was going to make it all the way home via public transport with these damn things. So I went back inside. The man at the security desk suggested that I ask the mailroom to bundle up the easels so that they would be easier to carry.
(Timecheck - 7:30 pm)
The mailroom was empty. Very few employees finishing up many tasks at the end of the day. My easel-bundling request was not on the top of their priorities. But I waited patiently until they were ready. Even packaged up, there was no way I could take these on the bus. Imagine two cardboard boxes the size of golf bags. No Way.
I brought them up to my desk. I would make the car stop at the office before leaving for the Career Fair. Someone would help me carry these. And I vowed never to volunteer for easel duty again.
I finally left work. I got on the bus without my cardboard burdens. And I made it home at 8:30.
At least I had Project Runway to watch tonight.


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We are at a defining moment in the effort to avert the threat of climate catastrophe. President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord has put the United States on the wrong side of history. With renewed urgency, CLF is escalating our work to develop legally binding climate laws, like the one we helped create and enforce here in Massachusetts, in every New England state.
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President Trump's EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, is on a crusade to pollute our air by rolling back important rules that keep New England – and the rest of the U.S. – safe from dangerous emissions. But in his rush to shut down important rules that protect our air, water, and health, Pruitt has started cutting…
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Last night, residents of the central Massachusetts town of Southbridge delivered a major and unexpected blow to Casella Waste when they voted overwhelmingly to reject plans to expand the town's landfill, which the company has operated for about fourteen years.
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On Monday night, more than 100 people from the south-central Massachusetts towns of Sturbridge, Charlton, and Southbridge turned out for an emergency meeting of the Sturbridge Board of Health. They came to express their anger to the Regional Director of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) that the 19 home wells in the Sturbridge neighborhood…
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Old Glory Proudly Flown or Not
American patriotism and flying the flag is quite common in many parts of the U.S. So says an article attributed to Agency France Press:
"Old Glory" as the US flag is affectionately called, can be seen in abundance through the year in the American heartland and the South, and to a lesser extent in cities like New York and Los Angeles.
Abundance is certainly not what I would characteristically describe in Los Angeles. I'm sad to say that my conservative community of Simi Valley, adjacent to LA, runs hot and cold on the subject. I was generally disappointed this Fourth of July with the lack of residential display in the city. But, the Los Angeles area, as liberal as it is, is miles ahead of San Francisco, Berkeley and Santa Cruz. In those locales, patriotism is anathema to their way of life.
South of Santa Cruz, a small group of lost souls gathered to burn the American flag, and in Berkeley a planned event failed to materialize at People's Park.
About 25 revelers celebrated their freedom of speech and welcomed the Fourth of July on Monday night with the "2nd Annual Old Time American Flag Burn."
Around a burn barrel at Seabright State Beach…
There are rural areas between San Francisco and Santa Cruz which are traditionally truly patriotic. Half Moon Bay comes to mind. But, even that town is subject to gentrification and the artistic influence, which inevitably leads to a more un-patriotic crowd.
I will soon be making an annual pilgrimage to San Francisco, and I will be flying my American flag off the rear of my Harley Davidson motorcycle. I am proud to do so even though there will not be many others like me. There are many good and conservative people in the area and I will be there for a good charity cause, but I will be deep in the belly of the political enemy. It is an enemy that does not care much for America. Ungrateful and self-absorbed explains a lot. I won't disparage because the excesses of the area are not representative of the country. The AFP article concludes with:
"Global public opinion surveys regularly put Americans at the top of the patriotism index," Galston told AFP. "The US flag is the visible symbol of that strong entiment... Even our national anthem is about the flag."