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DELHI: Panic, fear-mongering and conjectures. Just a few words that describe what's been happening around the country after what some are calling the 'fateful announcement' on the night of 8th November. With this move, the government intended to wipe out 'black' or unaccounted money from the country. But no one including those who made this decision could have predicted the outcome. Real estate, the sector alleged to be the reservoir of black money, has been severely impacted. Most property transactions so far involved a cash component aka black money which could amount to as much as 30% to 50% of the total cost of the home. But thanks to demonetisation, that trend may have come to an end, with real estate transactions across the country coming to a halt. In such a situation, home buyers are predictably waiting for property prices to fall.
Also read- Property Prices In Delhi-NCR To Fall Thanks To Demonetisation
Also read- Will Demonetisation Cause Mumbai's Property Prices To Fall?
However, India's biggest developers are sticking to their guns and are dismissing all talk of prices crashing. Here is what they have to say.
"NO BETTER TIME TO BUY" – Brotin Banerjee, MD & CEO of TATA Housing
"There has been an unwarranted fear mongering with regards to the impact of currency demonetization on the real estate industry. One can understand that a certain segment will feel the pinch – but the greater impact of this move will be the wind given to the aspirations of thousands of home buyers who firstly, have a fierce desire to buy their first home and secondly, have the utmost faith in real estate as an asset class. Even before this announcement, the primary housing market was being driven by easy access to home loans. The housing credit market has been growing at a CAGR of approximately 19 percent. Demonetization, coupled with the implementation of RERA will make the buying process for consumers more transparent. With this move, the government has done right by the consumer and there has never been a better time to buy your dream home."
"EXPECT A BOOST IN SALES" – Rajeev Talwar, CEO of DLF
"While transactions in the sector are likely to go down in the short run as the currency matrix undergoes a massive change, the organized sector will surely benefit on the back of higher compliance with tax laws and regulation. The primary market is largely driven by reputed developers and thus, it is unlikely to get affected as they deal through transparent banking channels. The impact will be seen more in Tier II and Tier III towns, where the proportion of unaccounted money in both primary and secondary sales is higher. The demonetization move will also help reduce expectation of unrealistic pricing in the market and boost sales in the medium to long run."
"MORE PEOPLE WILL INVEST IN REAL ESTATE" – Niranjan Hiranandani, Co-Founder & MD of the Hiranandani Group
"There will be much more interest to invest in real estate. Suppose you have invested your money into real estate rather than keeping it in currency signed by Mr. Raghuram Rajan or Mr. Urjit Patel, at least you can be sure that real estate will pay, even if the promise to pay on the currency note is dishonored. Overall if the whole world is going to go through deflation that means India will go through deflation and that also means prices will come down. But then everything else will come down, interest rates will come down. If overall demand comes down than real estate will come down."
"SALES WILL PICK UP BY FEBRUARY" – Suresh Krishn, President of CREDAI – Chennai
"There won't be any impact in the Chennai real estate market. I am really surprised seeing many people writing about how 20-30% of the prices will come down. But let me explain the Chennai market. 80% of the flats are less than a Crore and for all these most of them use home loans as they want to avail the income tax benefits. So there is no cash transaction in 80% of sales. In the luxury segment, yes cash element is involved. Yes that will be affected. Tier II and III cities, where majority of transactions are via cash, will be impacted. But I believe this is a temporary phenomenon. In another 2 months everything will normalise. Sales will come down definitely 20-30%. By February with the Budget we will be able to know what the price index will be like."
These statements coming from some of the biggest players in the market establish one thing for sure- that there will be downward pressure on the property prices. But don't expect prices to crash. Experts believe that developers with the financial might will continue to hold on to inventory along with bailing out cash-strapped players to avoid a free fall in prices. We all will be waiting and watching in anticipation.
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A new landmark agreement for Women in Sport has been reached in Norway where the country's football association will now pay Men and Women players the same financial compensation for representing their country.
The amount paid into the pool for the Women's national teams will almost double from 3.1 million Norwegian Krona to 6 million. Around 20 percent of the amount is being contributed by the Men's team from the players pool they have into which money paid for commercial endorsements is paid.
"Norway is a country where equal standing is very important for us, so I think it is good for the country and for the sport," said Joachim Walltin of the Norwegian Players Union speaking to Irish Journalist Philip O'Connor in Stockholm over the weekend.
Equality in sport is becoming ever more of a 'hot button' topic with Irish players securing better terms earlier this year, the same happening in the United States in April and Denmark having to cancel an international friendly against European Champions the Netherlands only last month in a dispute over payments.
Rob Hartnett of Sport for Business will Chair a major discussion on Diversity in Sport at the One-Zero Conference taking place in Dublin on October 17th. US Soccer Star Hope Solo will also be one of the Keynote Speakers at the event.
National team winger Caroline Graham Hansen took to Instagram to thank her male colleagues for their donation.
"Thank you for making this step for female athletes. For showing equality and helping us all, making it a bit easier, to chase our dreams," she wrote alongside a picture of the men's side.
Sport is one of the few areas where such a wide disparity exists between the respect afforded to Men and Women in terms of profile, media coverage, and support.
The gap is shrinking however and that is being driven by a greater understanding among the general population of the amount of work that goes into preparing to play at the highest level.
Last month a new record attendance for a Women's sporting fixture was achieved at Croke Park when over 46,000 attended the Final of the TG4 All Ireland Ladies Football Final. This was the largest attendance anywhere in the world this year for a Women's fixture and TV audiences were also up substantially.
Tomorrow morning Sport for Business will launch a new Mentoring Network linking Women in Business with Women in Sport to create new support structures which will accelerate the momentum behind Women;s sport here in Ireland.
The active involvement of the Norwegian Men's team in the agreement reached in that country is an example of how those in a position to make an impact can do so for the greater good.
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What a nice, complex arrangement. The combination of immediate attraction plus patience plus persistence was beautifully orchestrated. And then the vocals come from out of nowhere, a gift for the ears of those lucky enough to get to hear them. As a listener and a fan of the genre, I was seriously impressed by the piece. SERIOUSLY. They say you only have one chance to make a good first impression and I usually agree with that. Luckily for me, that didn't hold true for this song and I'll tell you why: I got three first impressions. A) as the review page came up, I thought "8:01??? Who do these guys think they are?" Bad first impression. B) The low horn/groan, I thought "Okay, they're slow and patient. Nice sound, and maybe they need 8:01 to get through it all. Okay first impression. C) Drums kick in within seconds and I'm thinking "YEAH! These guys don't %#&@ around!" Great first impression. Then they carried that feeling for another eight minutes continually adding more and more great experiences for me, each one carrying it's own weight and leaving me wanting more. Anonymous / neoclubber.com
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I personally don't see the point in hiring a girl with an fairly good voice to sing meaningless lyrics to a song wich doesn't do enough to stand out amongst the other 7000 or so songs of similar style to be released this year. Maybe if i was in the same mind frame as the key demographic for this song so either drunk, high or just a sheep to the burberry generation i would like it. but to me i can't honestly see anything that stands out. sorry to say this but i think you... this song happend to be heard by completly the wrong person. Anonymous / neoclubber.com


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What did you like best about The Clockwork Rocket? What did you like least?
As with other works by Egan, it's an excellent exploration of scientific ideas & "what if" physics thought-experiments in story form.
What other book might you compare The Clockwork Rocket to and why?
Other work by Egan? Otherwise Egan's works are difficult to find direct comparisons for.
How could the performance have been better?
The narrator has an extremely monotonous pattern to his speech. Nearly all non-dialog is spoken in the exact same pattern of intonation and emphasis on words & phrases. As though he decided that every 4th work would have higher intonation & emphasis, no matter it's actual use or importance in the sentence. Dialog isn't much better, with character voices that sound almost universally to be whining or sad.
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The novel's theme is also a familiar one: The triumphant of applied science and nobility of those who practice it's careful pursuit. Egan even pays homage to history's persecuted and martyred scientists by including a dash of this to the 'Orthogonal' civilization he's created. In his world, however, the selfless scientists manage to escape their adversaries and found a society of their own, where all injustices are banished and the whole community labor together for the common good and a grand project to rescue their planet. Great care is given to the details of each discovery and the particulars of the plot are largely devised in service to this exposition. I feel the story would have been more engaging and the characters more relatable if these narrative priorities could be reversed. I also would have enjoyed more interpersonal conflict and greater moral ambiguity in the characters, who all felt a little too single-minded and one dimensional (no mathematical connotation intended). Yalda particularly, is a bit too righteous, and would have been much more interesting with some dramatic flaw or dark angle. Her one social handicap is an unavoidable accident of nature, completely a faultless situation, that makes her subsequent sufferings at the hands of the unenlightened seem in parallel to historical figures like Alan Turing and other victimized minorities. The story ends with moderate abruptness, although not exactly a cliffhanger, and the largest question tensely unanswered in anticipation of the follow-up novel(s). However on its own, it still stands suitably complete, and will satisfy the reader.
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Fiat's new flagship Argo is once again spotted while testing on international speedway in Brazil. Fiat will unveil the Argo model in Brazil this month but few renders of Fiat Argo are now creating quite a buzz. Fiat Argo was seen with black covers at front and also at rear. The spy shots were captured and the full images of Argo not seen yet.
This new Fiat Argo will replace the existing Fiat Punto and even the Palio. The latest Fiat Argo can be called as mini-sedan and gives a descent hatchback look. Fiat Argo will be available in three different trims: Essence, Attractive and Sporting. Fiat is also looking forward to implement three different engines in the new Argo. The three trims are categorized as base model, mid-tier and top end.
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Over the next couple of weeks, The Gourmet Belle is going a 'little bit British' in celebration of the 2012 London Olympics.
So, let's leap out of the blocks with a recipe for Britain's favourite traditional dish, Sunday Roast with all the Trimmings!
To ensure this Sunday lunch is a gold medal winner, I have taken inspiration from the 'elite athletes' of the gastronomic world (i.e. the ubiquitous celebrity chefs) and constructed a roast meal that has been adapted from the recipes of some of Britain's culinary luminaries.
So set the family up for some Olympic viewing this weekend with this celebrity-chef-inspired, traditional Sunday roast lunch (it is also great for warming the body and soul against our southern hemisphere winter).
Serves: 4
Timing: For best results, take the beef out of the fridge about 2 hours before cooking (to allow it to come up to room temperature) and prepare the Yorkshire pudding batter and place in the fridge to chill (better yet, prepare it first thing in the morning and leave to chill all day). After that, total prep and cooking (and resting) time will take just over two hours.
Some equipment you'll need: Lots of large saucepans (with lids), a 12-hole muffin pan, 2 large roasting pans, whisk, thick oven gloves, carving knife.
Roast Beef and Onion Gravy
(adapted from a recipe by Gordon Ramsay)
Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Egg Free
Whether you love him or hate him, it can't be denied that Gordon Ramsay knows how to cook a side of beef (his beef carpaccio – although not exactly 'cooked' – is still one of the best dishes I have ever had the privilege of eating).
This recipe uses a rib of beef on the bone. Beef on the bone is great as the bone acts as a conductor of heat and gives the roast extra flavour.
- Roast Beef
- 1.2-1.5kg rib of beef, on the bone (keeping the layer of fat intact)
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Onion Gravy
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 sprigs thyme
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 red onions, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 can of crushed, or finely diced, tomatoes
- 1/2 bottle of red wine (about 350ml)
- 1.25 litres (wheat-free) beef stock
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Method follows further down the page.
Yorkshire Puddings
(adapted from a recipe by James Martin)
Named for England's eponymous county, Yorkshire puddings originally served as fillers before the main course at times when portions of beef were perhaps a little meagre. The resourcefulness went even further as the dripping from the roasting meat would be used to cook the Yorkie batter to create the bread-like pudding. Today, Yorkshire puddings are usually eaten with the main meal and used to mop up the lashings of gravy usually served with roast beef.
These puddings are often frustratingly difficult to execute well (but, please don't let that discourage you!). A good Yorkie is distinguished by its lightness, crispness and 'puffed up' height. For me, the perfect Yorkie has all of these features, but also a slightly stodgy centre so that it can soak up my gravy.
I love James Martin's recipe because, most importantly, it works a treat and he is a proud Yorkshire lad who claims to use his mum's old family recipe (and who can, or would be game enough to, argue with a Tyke when it comes to a Yorkie pud?).
- 225g plain flour
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 6 free-range eggs (James calls for 8!…but, both quantities have worked for me)
- 600ml milk
- 55ml beef dripping or extra light olive oil (or an oil with a high smoke point, such as rice bran oil)
Method follows further down the page.
Crunchy Roast Potatoes
(adapted from a recipe by Nigella Lawson)
Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Egg Free
I honestly couldn't tell you if this recipe resembles Nigella's anymore or not, but it was certainly inspired by her recipe for fluffy roast spuds with a deliciously crunchy golden shell. They are more like rustic potato gems and, like most of Ms Lawson's culinary creations, they a a little bit sinful…but, oh so tasty! You don't need to wait for a Sunday roast to enjoy these moreish little nuggets – serve them up at any meal!
- 600g potatoes (choose a variety such as Coliban, Desiree or Sebago), peeled and roughly chopped into triangular shapes (with sides about 3cm in length)
- 2 tablespoons rice flour
- 2 tablespoons finely ground polenta
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- sprigs of thyme
- 50ml beef dripping, duck fat or extra light olive oil (or an oil with a high smoke point, such as rice bran oil)
Method follows further down the page.
Braised Red Cabbage
(adapted from a recipe by Jamie Oliver)
Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Egg Free
This much-loved dish comes from Jamie Oliver and (surprisingly for me) it is one I have made little alteration to. It is a lovely, comforting dish all on its own, but it is also great served up alongside a Sunday roast (especially roast pork) or even duck or venison with a generous dollop sweet potato mash.
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 100g pancetta (or bacon), finely sliced
- 1 tablespoon fennel seeds, bashed
- 1 brown onion, peeled and finely sliced
- 1 sweet, red apple (such as Pink Lady or Fuji), peeled and diced
- 1/2 large red cabbage, finely sliced
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 100ml balsamic vinegar
Method follows below.
Extra Vegetables
- 3 large carrots (and/or parsnips and swede, if you fancy), peeled and cut into chunks
- Frozen peas (how ever many you fancy), tipped out of the packet ('chef' McCain's recipe is hard to stuff up!)
Method (for the full, yummy roast meal)
Yorkshire Puddings
- For best results, Yorkie pud preparation should begin a few hours before you intend to eat (or even the day before). Place the flour and a little salt and freshly ground black pepper into a bowl.
- Add the eggs, mixing in with a whisk, then gradually pour in the milk, mixing slowly to prevent lumps forming.
- Cover the bowl with cling film and chill in the fridge for at least two hours (it can sit there all day or even overnight).
Roast Beef
- The following day, allow a couple of hours before cooking to bring the beef to room temperature (you can also make and chill the Yorkshire pudding batter at this time if you weren't able to prepare it the day before).
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Season the beef with the salt and pepper and sear over high heat, in a roasting pan with a little olive oil, to brown on all sides (about 3-4 minutes on each side).
- Transfer the pan to the oven and roast for 15 minutes per 450g, if you like your meat rare, or 20 minutes per 450g for medium (or longer if you prefer it cremated…). For the amount of beef suggested in this recipe, a total cooking time of 1 hour should be sufficient (for medium) after you have seared the beef.
- While the beef is cooking, lift it out of the oven from time to time, tilt the tin and baste the meat really well with its own juices. This ensures that the flavour is concentrated and keeps everything moist and succulent. Baste the meat with the juices at least three times during cooking.
Braised Red Cabbage
- As soon as the beef goes into the oven, start cooking the cabbage.
- Heat the oil in a large pan (one that has a lid) over medium heat and add the pancetta, onion and fennel seeds.
- Cook until the onion is tender and golden, about 10 minutes.
- Add the apple, cabbage, sugar and vinegar, season with a generous amount of salt and pepper, and stir everything together well.
- Place the lid on the pan and leave to cook over a low heat for about 1 hour, checking and stirring every so often.
Roasted Potatoes and Carrots
- Once the cabbage is simmering away, place the cut potatoes and the carrots into a pan filled with cold salted water and bring to the boil.
- Par boil (partially cook) them for about 8 minutes (the potatoes should be only just tender when pierced with a skewer).
- Remove the pan from the heat and drain well.
- Remove the carrots to a separate bowl and set aside.
- Add the rice flour, polenta and salt and pepper to the pan and shake the pan well to thoroughly coat the potatoes and to 'roughen up' their surface a little (all of this will ensure your spuds are irresistibly crunchy when roasted).
- Set the pan aside to cool completely.
Onion Gravy
- We can now start on the gravy and have everything prepared before the beef is ready to come out of the oven.
- Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat and add the thyme, garlic and onions.
- Sauté the onion until it is tender, about 8-10 minutes
- Add the tomatoes and cook for a further 5 minutes, squashing them to help thicken the sauce.
- Add the wine, bring to the boil and reduce by half.
- Add the stock and bring back to the the boil.
- Reduce the heat to a simmer, add the vinegar and leave over a low heat to reduce.
The Home Stretch (finishing it all off)
- When the beef is cooked, remove from the oven and transfer to a warmed plate. Lightly covered with foil, and leave it to rest in a warm place while you continue to cook the veg, Yorkies and gravy. Resting the meat allows the juices to seep back into the flesh (and not seep out onto your plate after it is carved up). Also, as the meat relaxes it will be easier to carve.
- Increase the oven temperature to 220°C.
- In preparation to cook the potatoes and the carrots, place the oil or fat into a large roasting tray and place into the oven on the lower shelf until the oil is very hot.
- In preparation to cook the Yorkies, place one teaspoon of oil (or better still, fat from the beef roasting pan), into each of the 12 holes in a muffin tray. Place the tray into the oven on the top shelf until the oil is super hot (almost smoking).
- Using thick oven gloves, remove the potato tray from the oven (making sure you close the door so that the Yorkie pan can continue to heat up) and carefully place the coated potatoes, carrots and thyme sprigs into the oil. Place back into the oven on the lower shelf. (I should point out that carrots actually prefer a lower oven temperature. However, for the sake of co-ordinating cooking times for this roast dinner, they will be fine if you throw them in with the spuds at this higher temperature).
- Next, if it is suitably hot and smoky, very carefully remove the muffin tray from the oven and quickly fill the holes with the Yorkshire pudding batter (taken straight out of the fridge).
- Return to the oven and cook the Yorkies (and veggies) for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, check the cabbage and gravy. The cabbage should be soft and slightly sticky (and yummy).
- Pass the gravy through a sieve and add a little water, left over from the boiled potatoes and carrots, if the gravy looks like it is starting to over reduce. Check both the gravy and the cabbage for seasoning.
- After the Yorkies and the veg have been in the oven for 20 minutes, turn the oven down to 190C and cook for a further 10 minutes to set the bottom of the puddings.
- Blanche the peas in boiling water and drain in a colander.
- Carve the beef, remove the potatoes, carrots and Yorkshire Puddings from the oven, take the cabbage and gravy off the heat and plate up!
- Serve your Sunday Roast with lashings of gravy (poured over the meat and the Yorkshire Puddings), a fresh sprig of thyme, a little creamed horseradish or mustard (or both) and a well-earned pint or glass of red!
Wine Match: A good pint of ale is the perfect accompaniment to a Sunday roast lunch, however I believe a good Bordeaux blend (usually a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and a little Cabernet Franc – Australia produces a lot of these blends) is also an excellent match with this dish. The hearty roast beef softens the tannins in the Cabernet and the fruity roundness of the Merlot compliments the slightly stodgy Yorkie and the sweet and earthy herbal notes of the roasted veggies and the gravy.
Extra Tidbits: The secrets to a good Yorkie!
Eggs – lots of 'em. A seemingly crazy number of eggs is required to achieve Yorkies that are nice and rich and rise to great heights. A good rule of thumb, I am told, is to use one egg for every ounce of flour. However, I tend to think this is a tad excessive and have reduced the quantity for this recipe (sorry James!).
Use a well chilled mixture. Although some scientists would disagree, this seems to work for me. Perhaps it is the fact that it slightly slows down the cooking time and results in the slightly stodgy centre I prefer (so perhaps it is not necessary if you like your Yorkies really light and crisp all the way through…?).
Piping hot fat. Make sure the fat at the bottom of the Yorkshire Pudding pan is smoking hot before you add the batter – like, super hot; and do NOT open the oven while the Yorkies are baking!
The Change Up: Obviously, you can complement your roast meat with any of your favourite vegetables. Snuggle some whole, peeled brown onions or leeks in with the roasting meat and leave them to caramelise away (yum!). Break out the classic Cauliflower and Cheese. Steam your favourite greens, such as broccoli, asparagus or spinach and add a little butter and seasoning to serve. Whip up some creamy potato mash or wrap a thick wedge of buttery pumpkin in some foil, with a little rosemary or thyme, and throw it in the oven while the meat is cooking.
And, of course, you needn't stick to a lump of beef either. Try roasting pork (served with apple sauce or poached apples and crackling), lamb (served with mint sauce), chicken (served with gravy or mushroom and tarragon sauce) or even venison (served with red wine jus or sour cherries). The options are endless.
Enjoy your Sunday lunch and C'mon Aussie!
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Cocke County Sheriff's Department, Tennessee
End of Watch Sunday, December 24, 1933
General J. Hall
Deputy Hall was shot and killed after responding to a call of a drunk and rowdy group. After responding to the location, Deputy Hall decided to arrest one of the suspects. As he was arresting the suspect, a second suspect appeared and shot Deputy Hall in the abdomen with a shotgun. Deputy Hall died at the scene.
The suspect fled but turned himself in to authorities the next day.
Deputy Hall had served with the Cocke County Sheriff Department for five year and was survived by his wife and child.
- Age 45
- Tour 5 years
- Badge Not available
Incident Details
- Cause Gunfire
- Weapon Shotgun
- Offender Apprehended
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Your heroism and service is honored today, the 78th anniversary of your death. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer who was murdered in the the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.
Time never diminishes respect. Your memory will always be honored and revered.
Phyllis Loya
Mom of fallen California Officer Larry Lasater, Pittsburg PD, eow 4/24/05
December 25, 2011
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It's been a long week and I'm ready to get out and socialize with peeps other than at the gym.
Last night was like every other. I hauled ass home from the bus, that was of course running late. I rushed past the roomie who I'm sure thought I totally blew her off, and headed back out the door to get to Body Works + Abs. I tried this class last week at a different location, different instructor. This girl though? She rocked! She was bubbly, up beat, kept us moving the entire time, and had some good tunes. I think I'll definitely be making this class on a regular basis. Assuming my bus won't never, ever, ever, be late again.
I followed the Body Works class with a three mile run. Lucky
I loved wearing my ProCompression socks. I felt like they actually made my run easier. Is that possible? Plus, who doesn't love purple compression socks with a neon pink top? Yeah, couldn't miss me!
So, on the bus ride home last night I heard these two people talking about their weddings/engagements and I was pretty surprised at what they were saying.
One guy, one girl, both friends, low/mid 20-ish.
Girl was talking about how she had just picked their wedding date. It'll be their 2nd anniversary. She doesn't have a ring, and the guy doesn't want to get her a ring for the wedding either because they are looking at buying a house before they get married.
Guy mentioned how him and his lady have their honeymoon planned and booked, but no wedding date or location set yet. They are engaged, but he hasn't actually proposed yet. She picked out a ring, he went and put it on lay-away (the smartest thing I had heard this whole ride). He isn't going to give her the ring until it is paid off.
So, am I just completely out of it? Do people not actually get proposed to with a fancy dinner, carriage ride through the city, rose petals leading you to your honey on bended knee with a bottle of champagne chilling next to him. Or, doing what you love? Eating your traditional Wednesday night Chinese over CSI and you open your fortune cookie and there's a sparkly little engagement ring inside with a fortune that says 'Will You Marry Me'?
Do people really plan weddings before getting engaged? Skip the ring so you can buy a house? Focus on the honeymoon and not the actual wedding itself?
I like to think I'm a traditional gal. Date a guy for a couple years, spend a year planning the wedding, after getting engaged, of course. Buy a house, then head down the baby making train. In that order. I guess we'll see where this road takes me. I'm pretty darn single right now. Not a man on the horizon.


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Saturday, January 8, 2011
Instead of giving up chocolate or getting to the gym seven days a week, lawyer John Kralik decided for his 2008 New Year's resolution to simply be more thankful for the good people and things in his life.
To stick to his resolution — beyond the 36 hours it usually takes the strongest soul to pop his first Godiva or skip the treadmill — John decided to write a thank you note each day for a year to the people that mattered in his life, from his son to the barista at his local Starbucks.
When he sat down to write his first note, thanking his son for a Christmas gift, John realized he didn't have his son's address.
"I called him to get his address," and his son replied, "Gee, I need to stop by and take you to lunch." Over lunch, John's son repaid a loan of several thousand dollars. "So I wrote him another thank you note," John says, "for repaying the loan and also for taking me out to lunch."
The hand-written letters are the basis for John Kralik's new book, 365 Thank Yous — Here are his 10 Tips For Writing The Perfect Thank You Note:
1. Focus on the other person. First, find their address, and write it out yourself on the envelope. Where are they living? What did they go through to give you this gift? When is the last time you did something like that for them?
2. Think beyond material gifts. What about the person who serves you coffee every day? What about the doctor who saved your life, the Good Samaritan who found your wallet, the teacher who takes an interest in your child, the special friend who listens to you, the person who loves you.
3. Mention the gift itself, hopefully in a positive tone, so they know you got it, and are not confusing them with someone else.
4. Write a sentence or two explaining how the gift is changing or simply improving your life.
5. If the gift isn't right for you, don't ask where the gift was purchased so you can exchange it. You can get value out of any gift, if only by donating to charity.
6. Think of ways you failed to thank the person in the past and remind the recipient how important a friend they are.
7. Don't make jokes unless you know the recipient has a good sense of humor, and you are sure they will get the joke in the way that it was intended.
8. Keep the thank you short and simple on a 3" x 5" note card, minus fancy frills. That way, there's no room for anything except your gratitude. Replace thank-you e-mails with handwritten notes. With a handwritten note, a piece of you will be in the same room with the person to whom you write.
9. Try writing a first draft, perhaps in a spreadsheet. Not only will you benefit from the second draft, but you will always have a list of the most generous people in your life, and the reasons why you should be thankful for them.
10. Write a lot of thank-you notes. You'll get better.
The art of the thank you note is sometimes seen as a dying custom. With e-mail, cell phones, and other means of instant communication at our fingertips, the thought of hand-writing and mailing a card seems outdated and inconvenient. And following two years of economic struggles, environmental disasters, and other worldwide worries, it often seems difficult to find anything to be thankful for.
At the end of 2007, John Kralik would have agreed. His law firm was operating in the red, his divorce still wasn't finalized, his apartment was the size and temperature of a toaster oven, and his girlfriend had just broken up with him.
At the age of 52, it seemed as if he had nothing to be grateful for, and that he was about to start 2008 at an all-time low.
A walk through the hills on January 1, 2008 changed all that. Unhappy with both his lot in life as well as his attitude toward it, he realized that if he could somehow be thankful for the things he already had in life, perhaps the things he wanted would follow.
John Kralik's plan: send 365 thank you notes in a year, one for each day. By the time he was finished he had lost weight, ran a marathon, raised money for charities, turned his law firm around, reconnected with old friends and relatives, and gotten back together with his girlfriend.
365 THANK YOUS: The Story of How a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life (click here) is John's new book telling the incredible story behind this inspiring feat, and proving that the personal touch can sometimes make all the difference.
The project started out a bit slow (and 2 days late), but John saw the benefits almost immediately. Loans were repaid, lunches were covered, and John saw his relationship with his sons start to repair itself. Despite initially realizing that he had been spelling 'grateful' wrong his whole life (sheepishly admitting that he had hardly ever used the word), John soon became a natural at crafting concise yet meaningful notes.
Starting out with thanks for material things, he eventually began to examine his relationships with everyone from old friends to current employees, realizing how important, generous, and wonderful these people were, and how often he'd neglected to let them know.
His life didn't change overnight, and John's journey is not all positive. The summer months brought hard times for John with the collapse of one of his biggest clients, a major bank. His girlfriend broke up with him again, and his law firm was forced to change location early in the year. But through it all, he was able to take note of and appreciate the good things that he had in his life, as well as the things he had to look forward to.
With extreme honesty and a friendly, conversational tone, John tells the story of how his simple act of daily gratitude changed his life, and how losing sight of the good things in our lives can force us to only see the bad. John's story is at times heartwarming, at times heartbreaking, but always inspiring, a great example of how even small acts of appreciation can truly go a long way.
Short and simple, each thank you note reminded both John and each of his recipients about the little things they should be grateful for on a daily basis.
Listen to the full interview with John Kralik at NPR HERE or visit John's website HERE for help in coming up with your own act of thanks for 2011.
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The Anti-Farasma Temple
Lachellis's Perspective
So there we were – rolling out of the vampire crypt with all the goodies they'd been taken from travelers and villagers. The threat of the vampire clan had been vanquished by yours truly, Harrows Justice, and yes we are accepting donations and hirings – talk to Maia for details. I think our band is like a big fucking heavy rock. We take a while to get rolling – I mean we only hit every single pissing wrong outlying house before finding the right one and I'm sure the vamps got a few extra kills – but boy, when we start rolling, look out. We will go forward with heartburn and smash everything in our way. Nice to see Larisha take a hit like that too – builds character.
Back at the ranch and sacked out until noon the next day – just in time for lunch – and head down to the chow hall of the ranch. Orsini, Trina and Neolandis are already there. I check in with Trina – since I wasn't able to the night before really. Find out she's adjusting just fine to life on the run and in hiding outside the city. Turns out she had quite the adventuring background and is even something of an expert in Schauntee ways. I don't want to speak for the company – so I let Arith know and leave it at that.
We're getting good information on the path into the desert, which passes through KaraMagva and about that Derro we just killed. Second time we've messed with those three-fingered blue-skinned devil midgets. Orsini confirms that the Derro, like the ones we found with Rolf and the one in the vampire master's crypt have been a bane on Korvosa for awhile now. Mataya had some insights as well – being the only one able to read that pictograph note – it seems after failing Rolf in some way those Derro have all been kicked out.
All our meals are interrupted when Zilaro's ghost appears at the end of the table, having swiped Larisha's Harrow cards. And Zilaro starts good god damn reading – right there on the table. Don't get me wrong – I don't think Zilaro would harm us, even being a ghost and all. But I don't like ghosts. And I certainly don't like people playing with strands of fate. And when it's a ghost doing the weaving – well I'm out there. So I leave, relieve myself behind a bush and of course it's just killing me what might be on those cards.
Larisha's poring over them, like the fact the ghost just dealt herself in to a hand of Towers was no bother at all. Of course Farisma's Finest is hummana-humman this, and hummana-hummana that. All that Harrow stuff don't make much sense to me anyways about which card is positioned where. Crazy fucking rules if you ask me. But I can read pictures. And in the row for the past there's the Courtesan, obviously referring to the Queen of Whores. And then there's this circled blue lizard. Clear as day. I thought everyone realized but I had to point out that was probably the agent of ZonK'thon, whose teeth are now sitting atop the Whore Queen's crown. I mean good goddamned – you learn that all the problems of Korvosa, this weird ass demon infestation and manifestation – it all links back to some bad-assed old blue lizard – and there one shows up in the cards dealt by ghost of a dead gypsy princess – I'm not a soothsayer but even I don't need to consult a book of rules to know that's an important thing.
So Larisha's all still hummana-hummana when Zilaro waves her hands over the cards, and I swear it was like I was looking down on the palace, the ziggurat, from very high, the whole thing fit in a space no larger than the cards themselves. But I could see amazing detail of the figures moving in the image. It was some sort of historical lesson – like painted pictures being flipped in front of us but the figures were moving. First it was the Schauntee getting run out of Korvosa just in front of the Chelaxian – but the blue dragon, or some piece of him stayed behind. Then it was us getting run out of Korvosa – and still some aspect of the blue dragon there. Then it showed us traveling along our happy merry-go-fuck-me-way with an army of insect helmeted guys chasing us – Arith and I figure they were the Red Mantis assassins and we hadn't seen the last of them. Then it appeared there was an agent of ZonK'thon amongst us (I figure this would've been whip-chain girl). Of course we all in Harrows Justice see these images, but not Orsini, Neolandis or anyone else – obviously crazy travels in company – but doesn't take well to strangers. When we look up Zilaro is gone – and both Arith and I are eying the door. It's time to move on.
Still we had one more time for a harrow reading while we were saddling up the horses so I asked Larisha to deal a hand out – and I asked who was the rightful King or Queen of Korvosa – or who as the rightful power? I figure if we're fixing to put the regi in regicide with the Queen might not hurt to know who's next up – and whether we're just going to have to dance this dance all over again. The long and short of it, and with Larisha's it's always more the long than the short (I swear overhearing her prayers are night is just another reason to stay away from organized religion!) we get that yes, there is a monarch in waiting, and that's a sign of hope, and that they're actually on their way. On their way where? Oh no fucking clue from the cards there. They could be on their way on a boat, on a horse, or all metaphorical like on their way working through challenges. But the cards indicate there's a rightful ruler – and I guess I'm good with that. Higher powers working and all that.
We made haste for the exit, Arith made Trina and offer she couldn't refuse (like any woman with or without a pulse can refuse him) and all seven of us are up in the saddle off on the road to KragMava. Thrice was staying with Orsini, but I have a feeling we'll run into him again – though hopefully this time not in a bag.
Travel was mostly uneventful. I always enjoy traveling – getting outside of the city. I haven't been all that many places so each journey is usually heading somewhere new. Got a chance to talk to Mataya a bit. Put a boot in her ass though about all this hand waving and fretting about how cool Harrow's Justice is, how Harrow's Justice is the neat, how she's heard about all we've done. Hopefully I got her head straight on the notion that there is no "her" and "us". Thinking like that gets people killed. She's part of the group now – for better or worse, which come to think of it could also get her killed. Now it's just us – she's part of the team, part of the company. I also told her to find herself within the Harrows Cards – figure out a card that embodies who she is and own that image, that meaning. The people in Korvosa need something iconic to believe in, something that doesn't have a last name or a personal history – something larger than life. Like Black Jack. That's how I came on the Rabbit Prince concept. Hopefully it works for her. I also gave her a symbol for Caiden Cailyen – and told her a little bit of father's history.
I had a good long talk with Arith around the campfire one night. See the way I figure it – battle shapes a person – it's the crucible to forge your nature. Anyone can blah-blah talk chat-chat about who they are and what they're for – but until they have to test that in battle it's just talk. For me – personally – losing everything I ever held dear or valued has probably saved my life more than once. Because when it comes to battle – you have to fight like you have nothing to lose – or everything to lose. Anything less – anything in between, any hesitation or pause will get you, or someone on your side killed. When facing enemies you don't stop to count numbers, you need to move forward and engage – calculating odds is something you do when the fight is over and you can count how many bodies are lying around you. That's martial abandon – where everything you have, are and could be rests on that one exchange, that one interplay of thrust and parry, and in all that focus nothing else matters. Not tomorrow, not the day before, not what comes next. That focus on the one enemy you must kill to the exclusion of all else.
That's the difference between a soldier a warrior and a leader – it's all about purpose. A soldier is someone who wouldn't fight normally – but is trained to fight on orders. That's all the purpose there is for a soldier – the command to be follow. A warrior on the other hand issomeone who fights, purpose or no, because the fight is there. I mean, there is no grand scheme, no master plan – it's you and the brother or sister next to you in battle, and that's all that matters. That's me. Sure I'm a soldier when I was in the Guard I fought on order – and I still would if I found someone besides Arith I'd ever take orders from.
But half the time as a warrior you just start fighting and you find the purpose in the midst of a battle. Pick the biggest, baddest, ugliest, meanest, toughest, most-unlikely-to-succeed-against foe you can – pick 'em out and charge them because that's the only place you'll find a challenge worthy of testing yourself. Maybe that's why I got such a hard-on for the Queen – for taking her out. Go figure. Maybe there's something into that. Anyways Arith – he's different. He's a leader – he can define the purpose. That's why he gets to make the calls – though I'm not sure he realizes it yet. He'd make a good Marshall or General – maybe even a King. Though I'd hate to see him become Chelexian by too much exposure to the system. Being on the outside is good for him – makes him realize the consequence of his calls.
Well a few days after that talk we came upon a camp that had been attacked. Looked like some teleporting types, folks who can blink like Arith, well they came up and grabbed some travelers. Me – I'm all for a fight but I defer to Arith here – and he makes the call to go after them. We track them to the entrance of a cave. Inside is a nasty looking set of rocks, coming down from the top of the cave and up from the bottom to meet in the middle like some hideous grin. Larisha spotted a Farasma symbol to the side – fortunately for us. Apparently you have to sacrifice some blood – make it painful, to bypass the trap. Nothing that I haven't given before so that was easy enough. Just put a knife through the hand, twist a half circle and move on. Everyone else – you thought they were trying to have a contest of "who can spill the least drops". Bunch of pansies.
Now of course by this point we've had a minor theological debate on whether these folks were really Farasmian followers like you find in Korvosa, or some kind of anti-Farasma faction. It's interesting – I got two answers. Larisha was from the anti-Farasma camp – that this was some sort of heretical offshoot. Arith was more nuanced, which is surprising to hear nuance from a guy who's cape is always fluttering in the wind like he's posing. But he pointed out every religion has groups within it to 'do the dirty work', indicating he was perhaps just such a person for his God, and that these nutballs may be such a faction. It's all blah-blah hummana hummana to me – I don't care of the politics of the lobster before it goes into the pot – and these guys in the cave, they were about to meet the pot.
Having disarmed the trap we still knew it'd be hard going to get through – and chances were high the enemy was waiting on the other side. Naturally I went first. Wasn't as bad as I thought, what didn't give way crumbling around the edges I scraped through pretty well – though I put a tear in my cloak and almost lost a pouch. Once I cleared the other side three guys were waiting for me, I barely got a look before the whole world went black. And I'm not talking the black of night, where you still have the light of the moon or the stars, or even the black of a room inside where you can still sense that somewhere – nearby – there is some light. This was pitch fucking dark. Like you'd been shoved inside a bag, the bag put in a barrel, the barrel sealed and put in a box, and the box buried six feet under. And then people started hitting you with weapons.
And here I am – getting pounded on by these three goons and I can't see a damn thing. So I start hitting back. Do I know what I'm hitting? Fuck no. Does it matter? Not really. Do I know how much damage I'm doing? Fuck no. Does it matter? Again…not really. See I know what my role is – get in the thick of it and hold attention until people above my pay grade can figure out what to do. I could be knocking Arith or Mataya to the ground for all I know but I assumed they had the smarts to get out of the magical darkness. I figure as long as I can keep the three occupied, the three smarter members of the group would figure out a way to lift the darkness. I'm not too worried, I'm pretty damn sure I can outlast any Farasma-worshipping crybaby goth candy-assed fae-weave-wearing wannabe. And you know what? I was fucking right! Sure enough – the darkness lifts – and I've got two bodies around my feet. Good gear on them too – like whoever their sugar mommy was paid well – too bad I got blood all over their fancy pants. One guy gets away, disappearing into a wall where Larisha swears is another giant Farasma symbol. We hang long enough to get our breaths back, just enough time for them to set up all the defenses they'll need, and then we head in to follow them.
We come into a room with a huge encircled space on the far side, surrounded by more of those goon-guys and one evil looking bitch. The anti-Larisha as it were – figurin' they both worship Farasma. In three of us are three Cyclops – but their powder puffs. Hit hard but go down quick. And this room? The walls – covered in all the nasties you'd expect in a meat cleaning shop and some weird laboratory combined. I'm just beginning to enjoy my newfound ability to see when, of course, it all goes back again. Fortunately I've keyed in on my opponent, the anti-Larisha chick – I know she's the brains of the outfit. Even though I can't see a thing – I can sense where the enemy is. So I move forward. To engage. I have no doubt this is going to be one hell of a nut-roll. My first move out one of those Cyclops hit me back into a wall pinning me on two hooks. But I'll get off the hooks – and I'll move forward. No grand scheme – no master plan – just stick to that witch-bitch and keep hitting until I feel her bones crack and break beneath my polearm. That's the abandon.
Larisha's Prayer
Oh, Pharasma, this is very exciting! Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to do your work. So, in case you were paying attention to other things that were happening today, and I can't really imagine that you were, but just in case…. Let me tell you about today's exciting adventure. Did I already call it exciting? Well, I probably did, but it was very exciting. So…
I'm sure that you were paying attention to what happened this morning because what happened this morning could not possibly have happened without you. There we were at breakfast, planning our next step in our somewhat kinda sideways war against the Queen. We were sitting at breakfast with Orsini (wow, Orsini!) and Trina was there, and as we're discussing our trip to the Shonti lands. Orsini tells us that Trina knows a lot about the Shonti. How perfect is that? I mean, I know that Orsini knows so much more than we will ever find out. But, oh! I'm sorry, I was talking about Trina. So…
So we start talking about taking Trina with us and I wonder why we even discussed it. It was a foregone conclusion. We are going to the Shonti, Trina knows about the Shonti, Fate happens! Sometimes I wonder why you don't just strike all of us with some sort of glowing deific hammer. But then I realize that it must be hard to deal with mere mortals. And even the smart ones like River must seem pretty stupid to you.
Anyway, there we were at the table, and of course it's a great day for fate. Because there is Zolara just sitting there with us at the table as clear as anything. And here's what's cool. She's even visible to Orsini and Neolandis. So of course she deals Harrow for us, and it's all about our mission and the Queen. And then she does this really cool thing where she shows us… I don't even know what to call it! A waking vision of forces, moving across Korvosa. There is us, and the Red Mantis, and it's pretty obvious that they are trailing us and we don't have much time to find and get help from the Shonti.
But none of this is the really cool part, is it? The really cool part is when we find an abandoned camp, and it leads us to an heretical sect of your religion, who worship you through pain blood and death. I mean, what kind of nonsense is that?! It's true that you are a god of death, but that's sort of because you're against un-death. Not because we should kill people in your name….
So I did a wonderful thing and led Harrow's justice through their traps and portals until we managed to kill them all in your name. Well, not exactly killing them in your name, not like they were killing people in your name. I mean, it wasn't really done for worship of you, except that I worship you and I wasn't going to let them get away with that. I mean, you didn't like what they were doing, right? So it was good for us to kill them, right? Because if you didn't want us to kill them, you would not have let us find them. You do control that? Because otherwise I might feel really bad about encouraging my party to kill other worshipers of my God. So I hope that's what you wanted, okay? And if that's not what you wanted, then you need to let me know and I'll be really sorry, but sometimes I'm going to get it wrong. But I think this is what you wanted us to do.
It was pretty hard, though. I suppose that this is just another trial on my way to becoming what you need me to be. Sort of like putting up with Lachellis, drinking all the time and making lewd remarks.
So, after all the fighting was over, I took all of their holy symbols, and I will take them back to the mother Church, where they can be given to real worshipers of your real purpose and your real word, and not some crazy people who think that they have to hurt others in order to please you. If you really want pain as a sacrifice, I would think that you get enough of it in the medicine that we perform and in the terrible chores we have to do in putting down the dead. But you don't want that, do you?
Do you?


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Scholarships and Awards
Educator of the Year Award
Recognizing a program, teacher, or school administrator who has gone above and beyond to provide gifted students with an exceptional academic experience, CAG's Educator of the Year award honors one of our state's administrators or teachers, many of whose contributions too often go unheralded. For details and to view the winners, click here.
Friend of the Gifted Award
It takes a lot of effort to advocate for gifted education, and champions of the cause come from all walks of life, from educators, to parents, to members of the community. The CAG Friend of the Gifted award recognizes one such individual who has impacted the lives of gifted children. For details and to view the winners, click here.
The "CAG Gifted Kids' Hero" Recognition Program
This program is designed for members to recognize and thank anyone who has advocated on behalf of gifted education and/or helped to create a positive experience for gifted children in his or her classroom, school, district, home or community. For all the details and to recognize someone, click here.
Nicholas Green Award
The Connecticut Association for the Gifted participates in the National Association for Gifted Children's Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award program. This award recognizes distinguished achievement in academics, leadership, and/or the arts, in children grades 3 through 6. For all the details and to recognize someone, click here.
Fairfield County Student Scholarship Opportunities
The FCCF Greater Bridgeport Area Scholarship Program is now accepting online applications. Graduating seniors from high schools and current college students from the Greater Bridgeport Area towns of Bridgeport, Easton, Fairfield, Milford, Monroe, Shelton, Stratford, Trumbull or Westport may apply. For more information, click here.
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The Davidson Fellows Scholarships
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Palestinian News Item
PA minister of Religious Affairs glorifies murderers of Israeli hiker
Official PA TV Live - Feb. 2, 2014
Official PA TV Live broadcast an event honoring released prisoners in the Salfit District.
The event was attended by PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake, PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen and Salfit District Governor Issam Abu Bakr.
Released prisoners Fahim Sarhan, Mustafa Al-Haj and Bilal Damra were honored at the event.
PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash:
"Brothers, honored ones, who we are proud to be honored by today by honoring you, peace be upon you. All words are dwarfed when standing in the presence of such people. Those who, one day, voluntarily gave up part of their lives. And it is possible that while they were waging the battles of honor, resistance and struggle, they were prepared to give up their whole life for Palestine."
Mustafa Al-Haj
murdered Frederick Rosenfeld while he was hiking near the city of Ariel in the West Bank (June 17, 1989). He was released in August 2013 as one of 104 prisoners released by Israel, which was the PA's precondition for renewing negotiations.
Bilal Damra
was serving a life sentence for participating in the murder of Frederick Rosenfeld, who was killed while he was hiking near the city of Ariel in the West Bank (June 17, 1989). Damra was released in December 2013 as one of the 104 terrorists whom Israel agreed to release to fulfill the PA's precondition for renewing negotiations.
Fahim Sarhan
was serving a life sentence for committing an act of terrorism against Israel. PMW has been unable to verify the details of his crime. He was released in October 2011 as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas. In that deal, Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for more than 5 years.


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I am currently undertaking research in four areas: (a) 3D scene reconstruction and semantic segmentation, (b) 2D shape detection, (c) segmentation hierarchy editing and (d) visual object tracking.
3D Scene Reconstruction and Semantic Segmentation
|Collaborative Large-Scale Dense 3D Reconstruction with Online Inter-Agent Pose Optimisation
Accepted to TVCG (ISMAR Special Issue) 2018
Preprint Link
|Stuart Golodetz*, Tommaso Cavallari*, Nicholas A. Lord*, Victor A. Prisacariu, David W. Murray and Philip H. S. Torr
|Reconstructing dense, volumetric models of real-world 3D scenes is important for many tasks, but capturing large scenes can take significant time, and the risk of transient changes to the scene goes up as the capture time increases. These are good reasons to want instead to capture several smaller sub-scenes that can be joined to make the whole scene. Achieving this has traditionally been difficult: joining sub-scenes that may never have been viewed from the same angle requires a high-quality relocaliser that can cope with novel poses, and tracking drift in each sub-scene can prevent them from being joined to make a consistent overall scene. Recent advances in mobile hardware, however, have significantly improved our ability to capture medium-sized sub-scenes with little to no tracking drift. Moreover, high-quality regression forest-based relocalisers have recently been made more practical by the introduction of a method to allow them to be trained and used online. In this paper, we leverage these advances to present what to our knowledge is the first system to allow multiple users to collaborate interactively to reconstruct dense, voxel-based models of whole buildings. Using our system, an entire house or lab can be captured and reconstructed in under half an hour using only consumer-grade hardware.
|Probabilistic Object Reconstruction with Online Global Model Correction
3DV (spotlight), October 2017
|Jack Hunt, Victor A. Prisacariu, Stuart Golodetz, Tommaso Cavallari, Nicholas A. Lord and Philip H. S. Torr
|In recent years, major advances have been made in 3D scene reconstruction, with a number of approaches now able to yield dense, globally-consistent models at scale. However, much less progress has been made for objects, which can exhibit far fewer unambiguous geometric/texture cues than a full scene, and thus are much harder to track against. In this work, we present a novel probabilistic object reconstruction framework that simultaneously allows for online, implicit deformation of the object's surface to reduce tracking drift and handle loop closure events. Coupled with our probabilistic formulation is the use of a multiple sub-segment representation of the object, used to enforce global consistency, with segmentation of the object built in to the formulation. Finally, we employ a CRF framework to refine the overall segmentation, defined by a probability field over the object. We present compelling improvements over the current state-of-the-art reconstruction work and demonstrate robustness and consistency w.r.t. established dense SLAM frameworks.
|On-the-Fly Adaptation of Regression Forests for Online Camera Relocalisation
CVPR (oral), July 2017
Torr Vision Group Link, Publication Link, Preprint Link
|Tommaso Cavallari, Stuart Golodetz*, Nicholas A. Lord*, Julien Valentin, Luigi Di Stefano and Philip H. S. Torr
|Camera relocalisation is a key problem in computer vision, with applications as diverse as simultaneous localisation and mapping, virtual/augmented reality and navigation. Common techniques either match the current image against keyframes with known poses coming from a tracker, or establish 2D-to-3D correspondences between keypoints in the current image and points in the scene in order to estimate the camera pose. Recently, regression forests have become a popular alternative to establish such correspondences. They achieve accurate results, but must be trained offline on the target scene, preventing relocalisation in new environments. In this paper, we show how to circumvent this limitation by adapting a pre-trained forest to a new scene on the fly. Our adapted forests achieve relocalisation performance that is on par with that of offline forests, and our approach runs in under 150ms, making it desirable for real-time systems that require online relocalisation.
|Joint Object-Material Category Segmentation from Audio-Visual Cues
BMVC, September 2015 (Link)
|Anurag Arnab, Michael Sapienza, Stuart Golodetz, Julien Valentin, Ondrej Miksik, Shahram Izadi and Philip H. S. Torr
|It is not always possible to recognise objects and infer material properties for a scene from visual cues alone, since objects can look visually similar whilst being made of very different materials. In this paper, we therefore present an approach that augments the available dense visual cues with sparse auditory cues in order to estimate dense object and material labels. Since estimates of object class and material properties are mutually-informative, we optimise our multi-output labelling jointly using a random-field framework. We evaluate our system on a new dataset with paired visual and auditory data that we make publicly available. We demonstrate that this joint estimation of object and material labels significantly outperforms the estimation of either category in isolation.
|SemanticPaint: Interactive Segmentation and Learning of 3D Worlds
SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, August 2015
Torr Vision Group Link, Abstract Link, Conference Link, Technical Report Link
|Stuart Golodetz*, Michael Sapienza*, Julien P. C. Valentin, Vibhav Vineet, Ming-Ming Cheng, Victor A. Prisacariu, Olaf Kahler, Carl Yuheng Ren, Anurag Arnab, Stephen L. Hicks, David W. Murray, Shahram Izadi and Philip H. S. Torr
|We present a real-time, interactive system for the geometric reconstruction, object-class segmentation and learning of 3D scenes. Using our system, a user can walk into a room wearing a depth camera and a virtual reality headset, and both densely reconstruct the 3D scene and interactively segment the environment into object classes such as 'chair', 'floor' and 'table'. The user interacts physically with the real-world scene, touching objects and using voice commands to assign them appropriate labels. These user-generated labels are leveraged by an online random forest-based machine learning algorithm, which is used to predict labels for previously unseen parts of the scene. The predicted labels, together with those provided directly by the user, are incorporated into a dense 3D conditional random field model, over which we perform mean-field inference to filter out label inconsistencies. The entire pipeline runs in real time, and the user stays 'in the loop' throughout the process, receiving immediate feedback about the progress of the labelling and interacting with the scene as necessary to refine the predicted segmentation.
|Incremental Dense Semantic Stereo Fusion for Large-Scale Semantic Scene Reconstruction
ICRA, May 2015 (Link)
Robot Vision Best Paper Award – Finalist
|Vibhav Vineet*, Ondrej Miksik*, Morten Lidegaard, Matthias Niessner, Stuart Golodetz, Victor A Prisacariu, Olaf Kahler, David Murray, Shahram Izadi, Patrick Pérez and Philip H. S. Torr
|Our abilities in scene understanding, which allow us to perceive the 3D structure of our surroundings and intuitively recognise the objects we see, are things that we largely take for granted, but for robots, the task of understanding large scenes quickly remains extremely challenging. Recently, scene understanding approaches based on 3D reconstruction and semantic segmentation have become popular, but existing methods either do not scale, fail outdoors, provide only sparse reconstructions or are rather slow. In this paper, we build on a recent hash-based technique for large-scale fusion and an efficient mean-field inference algorithm for densely-connected CRFs to present what to our knowledge is the first system that can perform dense, large-scale, outdoor semantic reconstruction of a scene in (near) real time. We also present a 'semantic fusion' approach that allows us to handle dynamic objects more effectively than previous approaches. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on the KITTI dataset, and provide qualitative and quantitative results showing high-quality dense reconstruction and labelling of a number of scenes.
|The Semantic Paintbrush: Interactive 3D Mapping and Recognition in Large Outdoor Spaces
CHI, April 2015 (Link)
|Ondrej Miksik*, Vibhav Vineet*, Morten Lidegaard, Matthias Niessner, Ramprasaath Selvaraju, Stuart Golodetz, Shahram Izadi, Stephen L Hicks, Patrick Pérez and Philip H. S. Torr
|We present an augmented reality system for large scale 3D reconstruction and recognition in outdoor scenes. Unlike existing prior work, which tries to reconstruct scenes using active depth cameras, we use a purely passive stereo setup, allowing for outdoor use and extended sensing range. Our system not only produces a map of the 3D environment in real-time, it also allows the user to draw (or 'paint') with a laser pointer directly onto the reconstruction to segment the model into objects. Given these examples our system then learns to segment other parts of the 3D map during online acquisition. Unlike typical object recognition systems, ours therefore very much places the user 'in the loop' to segment particular objects of interest, rather than learning from predefined databases. The laser pointer additionally helps to 'clean up' the stereo reconstruction and final 3D map, interactively. Using our system, within minutes, a user can capture a full 3D map, segment it into objects of interest, and refine parts of the model during capture. We provide full technical details of our system to aid replication, as well as quantitative evaluation of system components. We demonstrate the possibility of using our system for helping the visually impaired navigate through spaces.
2D Shape Detection
|Straight to Shapes: Real-time Detection of Encoded Shapes
CVPR, July 2017
Torr Vision Group Link, Publication Link, Preprint Link
|Saumya Jetley*, Michael Sapienza*, Stuart Golodetz and Philip H. S. Torr
|Current object detection approaches predict bounding boxes, but these provide little instance-specific information beyond location, scale and aspect ratio. In this work, we propose to directly regress to objects' shapes in addition to their bounding boxes and categories. It is crucial to find an appropriate shape representation that is compact and decodable, and in which objects can be compared for higher-order concepts such as view similarity, pose variation and occlusion. To achieve this, we use a denoising convolutional auto-encoder to establish an embedding space, and place the decoder after a fast end-to-end network trained to regress directly to the encoded shape vectors. This yields what to the best of our knowledge is the first real-time shape prediction network, running at 35 FPS on a high-end desktop. With higher-order shape reasoning well-integrated into the network pipeline, the network shows the useful practical quality of generalising to unseen categories that are similar to the ones in the training set, something that most existing approaches fail to handle.
Segmentation Hierarchy Editing
|Simpler Editing of Graph-Based Segmentation Hierarchies using Zipping Algorithms
Pattern Recognition, October 2017
Publication Link Preprint Link Supplementary Material Link
|Stuart Golodetz, Irina Voiculescu and Stephen Cameron
|Graph-based image segmentation is popular, because graphs can naturally represent image parts and the relationships between them. Whilst many single-scale approaches exist, significant interest has been shown in segmentation hierarchies, which represent image objects at different scales. However, segmenting arbitrary images automatically remains elusive: segmentation is under-specified, with different users expecting different outcomes. Hierarchical segmentation compounds this, since it is unclear where in the hierarchy objects should appear. Users can easily edit flat segmentations to influence the outcome, but editing hierarchical segmentations is harder: indeed, many existing interactive editing techniques make only small, local hierarchy changes. In this paper, we address this by introducing 'zipping' operations for segmentation hierarchies to facilitate user interaction. We use these operations to implement algorithms for non-sibling node merging and parent switching, and perform experiments on both 2D and 3D images to show that these latter algorithms can significantly reduce the interaction burden on the user.
Visual Object Tracking
|Staple: Complementary Learners for Real-Time Tracking
CVPR, June 2016
Publication Link Preprint Link arXiv Link Project Page Link
|Luca Bertinetto, Jack Valmadre, Stuart Golodetz, Ondrej Miksik and Philip H. S. Torr
|Correlation Filter-based trackers have recently achieved excellent performance, showing great robustness to challenging situations such as motion blur and illumination changes. However, since the model that they learn depends strongly on the spatial layout of the tracked object, they are notoriously sensitive to deformation. Models based on colour statistics have complementary traits: they cope well with variation in shape, but suffer when illumination is not consistent throughout a sequence. Moreover, colour distributions alone can be insufficiently discriminative. In this paper, we show that a simple tracker combining complementary cues in a ridge regression framework can operate faster than 90 FPS and outperform not only all entries in the popular VOT14 competition, but also recent and far more sophisticated trackers according to multiple benchmarks.
|Struck: Structured Output Tracking with Kernels
TPAMI, October 2016 (accepted for publication December 2015)
Publication Link Author's Version Link Supplementary Material Link YouTube Channel
|Sam Hare*, Stuart Golodetz*, Amir Saffari*, Vibhav Vineet, Ming-Ming Cheng, Stephen L. Hicks and Philip H. S. Torr
|Adaptive tracking-by-detection methods are widely used in computer vision for tracking arbitrary objects. Current approaches treat the tracking problem as a classification task and use online learning techniques to update the object model. However, for these updates to happen one needs to convert the estimated object position into a set of labelled training examples, and it is not clear how best to perform this intermediate step. Furthermore, the objective for the classifier (label prediction) is not explicitly coupled to the objective for the tracker (estimation of object position). In this paper, we present a framework for adaptive visual object tracking based on structured output prediction. By explicitly allowing the output space to express the needs of the tracker, we avoid the need for an intermediate classification step. Our method uses a kernelised structured output support vector machine (SVM), which is learned online to provide adaptive tracking. To allow our tracker to run at high frame rates, we (a) introduce a budgeting mechanism that prevents the unbounded growth in the number of support vectors that would otherwise occur during tracking, and (b) show how to implement tracking on the GPU. Experimentally, we show that our algorithm is able to outperform state-of-the-art trackers on various benchmark videos. Additionally, we show that we can easily incorporate additional features and kernels into our framework, which results in increased tracking performance.


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Sutter Special Start Program
Sutter Women's Services
|Jacqueline Masullo consults with a pregnant patient as part of Sutter's Special Start Program.
Sutter Special Start Program offers pregnant women and their partners support for their baby with a condition that will require special care after delivery. It can be hard when you are faced with news that your baby may have special needs. Learning about conditions and treatment options can be overwhelming. It is important for you to know that you are not alone. There are many resources and dedicated team members here for you and your family.
Once your baby is diagnosed with a medical condition during your pregnancy, your doctor will refer you to the Sutter Special Start Program Coordinator. The coordinator will:
- Offer support and education on your baby's health condition.
- Refer you to the special team of health care professionals ready to prepare you and your baby for delivery and ongoing care.
- Link you with other parents who share in your same experience.
Sutter Special Start Menu of Services:
- Up to weekly support during pregnancy and postpartum
- Referral to special care pediatric clinics and other providers
- Pre- and post-pregnancy support groups
- Hospital tours, including the neonatal intensive care unit
How To Participate in the Sutter Special Start Program:
If you are delivering at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento and have been diagnosed with one of the following conditions, you are eligible for our services free of charge.
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cleft Lip/Palate
- Neural Tube Defects
- Congenital Heart Defects
- Abdominal Wall Defects
- Trisomy 18
- Trisomy 13
- Anencephaly
- Other conditions
Ask your doctor to refer you to the Sutter Special Start Program.
Contact Us
To learn more call (916) 887-4033 or fill out our form and we will contact you.


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SIP redirect server configuration
A SIP redirect server accepts SIP requests, maps the addresses in the request into zero or more new addresses and returns those addresses to the client. The redirect server does not initiate SIP requests or accept calls. As shown below, SIP clients send INVITE requests to the redirect server, which then looks up the destination address. The redirect server returns the destination address to the client. The client uses this address to send the INVITE request directly to the destination SIP client.
SIP in redirect model


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TPG Role:
David is a TPG Associate Consultant in the Retail Practice. His consulting and training work spans channels of trade and both multi-channel and pure play retailers. David also works with manufacturers at the interface with retail.
Partner Capabilities and Experience:
David brings hands on experience from Walgreens Co. where he was an inaugural member of their Leadership Development Rotational Program. David's rotations included Merchandise Planning Analyst for the Over the Counter division, Space Management Analyst, Prestige Beauty Business Lead, and Owned Brands Associate Product Development Manager. Upon completion of the rotational program David joined the Front End Services and General Merchandise division as a Category Specialist where he took on the responsibility of managing product categories such as Batteries, Memory, Computer Center, Consumer Electronics, Mobile Accessories, and Pre-Recorded Audio/Visual.
During his time with Walgreens David consistently proved his ability to increase sales, substantially reduce costs, streamline processes, and drive complex projects to successful completion.
Partner Industry Experience:
• Department and Category Management
• Analytics
• Department Reinvention
• Product Development
• Private Brands
• Joint Business Planning
• Negotiations
• Omni-Channel Marketing (SEO, SEM, Affiliate, Email, UI/UX, Personalization)
• Social Commerce (Social Media & Mobile Applications)
• Shopper Marketing
Partner Education:
David holds a B.B.A. in Marketing from The University of Iowa.


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How to Make It
In a small bowl, mix 1 tablespoon of the olive oil with 1 tablespoon of the lime juice. Stir in the molasses, honey, cracked peppercorns and cayenne.
In another small bowl, mix the remaining 1 tablespoon of lime juice with the garlic, Worcestershire sauce and mustard. Gradually whisk in the remaining 1/4 cup of olive oil and season the vinaigrette with salt and pepper.
Light a grill or heat a grill pan. Season the steak with salt and pepper and grill over high heat for 13 minutes, turning once. Brush the molasses mixture all over the steak and grill for 2 minutes longer for medium-rare meat. Transfer to a cutting board and let stand.
In a small bowl, toss the bread crumbs with the Parmigiano and season with salt and pepper. Thinly slice the flank steak across the grain. Arrange the romaine and red leaf lettuce on a platter and drizzle with the vinaigrette. Scatter the bread crumbs over the salad, top with the steak and serve.
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MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The Montgomery Cancer Center treats more than a hundred patients a day. So, a shortage of drugs used to treat those patients is cause for concern.
Dr. Stephen Davidson is a medical oncologist at the center. He's also president of the Alabama Society of Clinical Oncology. He says,"we have been aware of difficulties in getting generic pharmaceuticals for some time now."
So what is behind the shortages?. The FDA says manufacturing problems and delays are the main reasons, as well as drugs being discontinued. In a statement, the agency said most shortages involve older drugs made by fewer manufacturers and says, "these drugs often get discontinued by companies and replaced by more profitable, newer drugs. FDA continues to do all we can within our authority to resolve these shortages."
"We have not been in a bind yet where a patient needed a drug and we could not provide it, but we've been close," says Dr. Davidson.
The shortage extends to many other drugs, as well, including electrolytes used in IVs.
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