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Assefaw Gebremedhin, Papers on Automatic Differentiation
: Capitalizing on
Variables: New Algorithms for Efficient Hessian Computation via Automatic Differntiation
: M. Wang, A.H. Gebremedhin and A. Pothen
: Mathematical Programming Computation, pp 1--43, 2016.
We revisit an algorithm (called Edge Pushing (EP)) for computing Hessians using Automatic Differentiation (AD) recently proposed by Gower and Mello (2012). Here we give a new, simpler derivation for the EP algorithm based on the notion of live variables from data-flow analysis in compiler theory and redesign the algorithm with close attention to general applicability and performance. We call this algorithm LIVARH and develop an extension of LIVARH that incorporates preaccumulation to further reduce execution time--the resulting algorithm is called LIVARHACC. We engineer robust implementations for both algorithms LIVARH and LIVARHACC within ADOL-C, a widely-used operator overloading based AD software tool. Rigorous complexity analyses for the algorithms are provided, and the performance of the algorithms is evaluated using a mesh optimization application and several kinds of synthetic functions as testbeds. The results show that the new algorithms outperform state-of-the-art sparse methods (based on sparsity pattern detection, coloring, compressed matrix evaluation, and recovery) in some cases by orders of magnitude. We have made our implementation available online as open-source software and it will be included in a future release of ADOL-C.
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: ColPack: Software for Graph Coloring and Related Problems in Scientific Computing
: A.H. Gebremedhin, D. Nguyen, M.M.A. Patwary and A. Pothen
: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol 40, No 1, pp 1-31, 2013.
We present a suite of fast and effective algorithms, encapsulated in a software package called
, for a variety of graph coloring and related problems. Many of the coloring problems model partitioning needs arising in compression-based computation of Jacobian and Hessian matrices using automatic differentiation. Several of the coloring problems also find important applications in many areas outside derivative computation, including frequency assignment in wireless networks, scheduling, facility location, and concurrency discovery and data movement operations in parallel and distributed computing. The presentation in this article includes a high-level description of the various coloring algorithms within a common design framework, a detailed treatment of the theory and efficient implementation of known as well as new vertex ordering techniques upon which the coloring algorithms rely, a discussion of the package's software design, and an illustration of its usage. The article also includes an extensive experimental study of the major algorithms in the package using real-world as well as synthetically generated graphs.
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: Exploiting Sparsity in Automatic Differentiation on Multicore Architectures
: B. Letschert, K. Kulshreshtha, A. Walther, D. Nguyen, A.H. Gebremedhin and A. Pothen
: In S. Forth et al. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Algorithmic Differentiation, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 87, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-30023-3_14, 2012, Springer.
We discuss the design, implementation and performance of algorithms suitable for the efficient computation of
Jacobian and Hessian matrices using Automatic Differentiation via operator overloading on multicore architectures. The procedure for exploiting sparsity (for runtime and memory efficiency) in serial computation involves a number of steps. Using nonlinear optimization problems as test cases, we show that the algorithms involved in the various steps can be adapted to multithreaded computations.
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: Implementation of Partial Separability in a Source to Source Transformation AD Tool
: S.H.K. Narayanan, B. Norris, P. Hovland and A. Gebremedhin
: In S. Forth et al. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Algorithmic Differentiation, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 87, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-30023-3_31, 2012, Springer.
A significant number of large optimization problems exhibit structure known as
partial separability
, for example, least squares problems, where elemental functions are gathered into groups that are then squared. The sparsity of the Jacobian of a partially separable function can be exploited by computing the smaller Jacobians of the elemental functions and then assembling them into the full Jacobian. We implemented partial separability support in ADIC2 by using pragmas to identify partially separable function values, applying source transformations to subdivide the elemental gradient computations, and using the ColPack coloring toolkit to compress the sparse elemental Jacobians. We present experimental results for an elastic-plastic torsion optimization problem from the MINPACK-2 test suite.
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: Sparse Jacobian Computation using ADIC2 and ColPack
: S.H.K. Narayanan, B. Norris, P. Hovland, D. Nguyen and A. Gebremedhin
: Procedia Computer Science, 4:2115 -- 2123, 2011. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2011.
Many scientific applications benefit from the accurate and efficient computation of derivatives. Automatically generating these derivative computations from an application's source code offers a competitive alternative to other approaches, such as less accurate numerical approximations or labor-intensive analytical implementations. ADIC2 is a source transformation tool for generating code for computing the derivatives (e.g., Jacobian or Hessian) of a function given the C or C++ implementation of that function. Often the Jacobian or Hessian is sparse and presents the opportunity to greatly reduce storage and computational requirements in the automatically generated derivative computation. ColPack is a tool that compresses structurally independent columns of the Jacobian and Hessian matrices through graph coloring approaches. In this paper, we describe the integration of ColPack coloring capabilities into ADIC2, enabling accurate and efficient sparse Jacobian computations. We present performance results for a case study of a simulated moving bed chromatography application. Overall, the computation of the Jacobian by integrating ADIC2 and ColPack is approximately 40% faster than a comparable implementation that integrates ADOL-C and ColPack when the Jacobian is computed multiple times.
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: Distributed-memory Parallel Algorithms for Distance-2 Coloring and Related Problems in Derivative Computation
: D. Bozdag, U. Catalyurek, A. Gebremedhin, F. Manne, E. Boman and F. Ozgunner
: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol 32, Issue 4, pp 2418--2446, 2010.
The distance-2 graph coloring problem aims at partitioning the vertex set of a graph into the fewest sets consisting of vertices pairwise at distance greater than two from each other. Its applications include derivative computation in numerical optimization and channel assignment in radio networks. We present efficient, distributed-memory, parallel heuristic algorithms for this NP-hard problem as well as for two related problems used in the computation of Jacobians and Hessians. Parallel speedup is achieved through graph partitioning, speculative (iterative) coloring, and a BSP-like organization of parallel computation. Results from experiments conducted on a PC cluster employing up to 96 processors and using large-size real-world as well as synthetically generated test graphs show that the algorithms are scalable. In terms of quality of solution, the algorithms perform remarkably well---the number of colors used by the parallel algorithms was observed to be very close to the number used by the sequential counterparts, which in turn are quite often near optimal. Moreover, the experimental results show that the parallel distance-2 coloring algorithm compares favorably with the alternative approach of solving the distance-2 coloring problem on a graph $\G$ by first constructing the square graph $\G^2$ and then applying a parallel distance-1 coloring algorithm on $\G^2$. Implementations of the algorithms are made available via the Zoltan load-balancing library.
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: Efficient Computationof Sparse Hessians Using Coloring and Automatic Differentiation
: A. Gebremedhin, A. Pothen, A. Tarafdar, and A. Walther
: INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol 21, No 2, pp 209-223, 2009.
The computation of a sparse Hessian matrix H using automatic differentiation (AD) can be made efficient using the following four-step procedure.
Determine the
sparsity structure
of H.
Obtain a
matrix S that defines a column partition of H using a specialized
on the adjacency graph of H.
Compute the
Hessian matrix B=HS using AD.
the numerical values of the entries of H from B.
The coloring variant used in the second step depends on whether the recovery in the fourth step is
: a direct method uses
star coloring
and an indirect method uses
acyclic coloring
. In an earlier work, we had designed and implemented effective heuristic algorithms for these two NP-hard coloring problems. Recently, we integrated part of the developed software with the AD tool ADOL-C, which has recently acquired a sparsity detection capability. In this paper, we provide a detailed description and analysis of the recovery algorithms, and experimentally demonstrate the efficacy of the coloring techniques in the overall process of computing the Hessian of a given function using ADOL-C as an example of an AD tool. We also present new analytical results on star and acyclic coloring of chordal graphs. The experimental results show that sparsity exploitation via coloring yields enormous savings in runtime and makes the computation of Hessians of very large size feasible. The results also show that evaluating a Hessian via an indirect method is often faster than a direct evaluation. This speedup is achieved without compromising numerical accuracy.
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: Exploiting Sparsity in Jacobian Computation via Coloring and Automatic Differentiation:
A Case Study in a Simulated Moving Bed Process
: A. Gebremedhin, A. Pothen and A. Walther
: In C. Bischof et al. (Eds): Proc. of AD2008, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 64, pp 339-349, 2008, Springer.
Using a model from a chromatographic separation process in chemical engineering, we demonstrate that large, sparse Jacobians of fairly complex structures can be computed accurately and efficiently by using automatic differentiation (AD) in combination with a four-step procedure involving matrix
. For the detection of sparsity pattern (step 1), we employ a new operator overloading-based implementation of a technique that relies on propagation of
index domains
. To obtain the
matrix to be used for compression (step 2), we use a
distance-2 coloring
of the bipartite graph representation of the Jacobian. The compressed Jacobian is computed using the vector forward mode of AD (step 3). A simple routine is used to directly recover the entries of the Jacobian from the compressed representation (step 4). Experimental results using ADOL-C show that the runtimes of each of these steps is in complete agreement with theoretical analysis, and the total runtime is found to be only about a
times the time needed for evaluating the function itself. The alternative approach of computing the Jacobian without exploiting sparsity is infeasible.
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: New Acyclic and Star Coloring Algorithms with Applications to Hessian Computation
: A. Gebremedhin, A. Tarafdar, F. Manne, and A. Pothen
: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol 29, No 3, pp 1042--1072, 2007.
Acyclic and star coloring problems are specialized vertex coloring problems that arise in the efficient computation of Hessians using automatic differentiation or finite differencing, when both sparsity and symmetry are exploited. We present an algorithmic paradigm for finding heuristic solutions for these two NP-hard problems. The underlying common technique is the exploitation of the structure of two-colored induced subgraphs. For a graph
vertices and
edges, the time complexity of our star coloring algorithm is
O(n d_2)
, where
, a generalization of vertex degree, denotes the average number of distinct paths of length at most
edges starting at a vertex in
. The time complexity of our acyclic coloring algorithm is larger by a multiplicative factor involving the inverse of Ackermann's function. The space complexity of both algorithms is
. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first practical algorithm for the acyclic coloring problem. For the star coloring problem, our algorithm uses fewer colors and is considerably faster than a previously known
O(n d_3)
time algorithm. Computational results from experiments on various large-size test graphs demonstrate that the algorithms are fast and produce highly effective solutions. The use of these algorithms in Hessian computation is expected to reduce overall runtime drastically.
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: What Color Is Your Jacobian? Graph Coloring for Computing Derivatives
: A. Gebremedhin, F. Manne, and A. Pothen
: SIAM Review, Vol 47, No 4, pp 629--705, 2005.
Graph coloring has been employed since the 1980s to efficiently compute sparse Jacobian and Hessian matrices using either finite differences or automatic differentiation. Several coloring problems occur in this context, depending on whether the matrix is a Jacobian or a Hessian, and the specifics of the computational techniques employed. We consider eight variant vertex coloring problems here. This article begins with a gentle introduction to the problem of computing a sparse Jacobian, followed by an overview of the historical development of the research area. Then we present a unifying framework for the graph models of the variant matrix estimation problems. The framework is based upon the viewpoint that a partition of a matrix into structurally orthogonal groups of columns corresponds to distance-2 coloring an appropriate graph representation. The unified framework helps integrate earlier work and leads to fresh insights; enables the design of more efficient algorithms for many problems; leads to new algorithms for others; and eases the task of building graph models for new problems. We report computational results on two of the coloring problems to support our claims. Most of the methods for these problems treat a column or a row of a matrix as an atomic entity, and partition the columns or rows (or both). A brief review of methods that do not fit these criteria is provided. We also discuss results in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science that intersect with the topics considered here.
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The city is the capital of Azerbaijan province of Iran at the north west of Iran with an altitude of 1390m above sea level. Except for the western side, it is surrounded by mountains on every other sides and located between two rivers called Aji River and Quru River. This makes it both spectacular and enjoyable with likable climate in summer time although it is relatively cold in winter. The plain on the west leads to a water basin ending up in Urmia Lake.
There are approximately 1,618,000 people living in Tabriz and more are migrating to the city because of its fast industrialization process offering jobs to the inhabitants of other villages and towns living nearby. In terms of population, it ranks 5th city of Iran.
The face of the city has changed a lot in recent decade because of the city re-planning, further industrialization and urban developments making Tabriz an enjoyable city worth visiting.
History of Tabriz
The city has gone through lots of devastating foreign invasions as well as earthquakes. Despite all the natural and political destruction, it stands firmly and proceeds powerfully to create better future for its inhabitants in modern time and future. The name of the city has been mentioned in the documents discovered from Assyrians, first millennium B.C. Some skeletons and artifacts of the people living during that period at the northern part of the Blue Mosque, inside the city, has indicated the origin of the urbanism in this spot goes back as far as that time.
In pre-Islam period, most probably under Sassanians, Tabriz grew into a notable city and prospered until Arabs invasion in 7th century after which it was resided by the invaders. Mongols chose Maragheh as their capital city and Trabriz lost part of its importance and did not continue as the the most important city in the region. Only one of the Ilkhanid dynasty declared it as his capital city. Under other rulers of this period, as the location of the city being on the Silk Route could not be denied, it still played some major role in the politics of the time's rulers.
Timur destroyed Maragheh when he attacked Iran after Ilkhanids' era. Later Tabriz became the capital of Kara Koyunlu and Ak Koyunlu tribes ruling from that area in Iran. It gained more attention again under Safavids as another capital city of Iran. Although Safavid kings moved the capital from Tabriz later, it kept its importance because of the role it maintained in the foreign trade with Ottoman Empire, Russia, central Asia, and India.
During 19th century's Iran-Russia wars, Tabriz went through a series of disturbances. However, because of special attention of Abbs Mirza, the Qajar crown prince, the city was lucky enough to be the launching pad for several modernization processes and later it went through the same urban and military modernization processes itself.
In early 20th century, Tabriz became the center of Institutional Revolution in Iran that lead to the establishment of parliament in the country. At the time of Reza Shah, founder of Pahlavi dynasty, the entire country went under a reunification leading to regaining territorial integrity, revitalizing national identity as well as cohesion. An integrated Iran was reborn and the industrial modernization process began to take huge leaps.
During World War I, Ottomans and Russians occupied the city and during World War II, the Allied Forces did the same. In 1979 revolution, the people of Tabriz played a major role in the revolutionary developments again. At the time of Iran-Iraq war, the people living there defended the country like other provinces of Iran.
Visit Tabriz Tourist Attractions inside the City
For the travelers who want to visit Tabriz tourist attractions, there are several opportunities inside the city. These are the highlights:
House of Constitution (Mashrooteh Museum): It used to be the gathering place of the leaders of constitutional revolution in Iran during early 20th century.
Azerbaijan Museum: This is categorized among national museums showcasing the items from different eras and all over Iran in a beautiful way.
Tabriz Grand Bazaar: This is a World Heritage Site worth exploring as the largest roofed bazaar in the world that used to be on the Silk Route playing an important role as a commercial and economic center.
Jameh Mosque: This large congregational mosque is attached to the grand bazaar with fabulous brick-works from Seljuk and stucco works from Ilkhanid periods.
Blue (Kabud) Mosque: This 15th century mosque was built during Kara Kolyunlu period with dark and bright blue tiles. There is a mausoleum in the southern section of the mosque where the builder, Jahan Shah, is buried.
Ark of Tabriz (Arg e Ali Shah): This is the massive remnant of Ilkhanid mosque built like a military castle or a mosque.
Saint Mary Church: This is the oldest church inside Tabriz, which dates back to 12th century. For several years, it was the seat of the Azarbaijan Armenian Archbishop.

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Zennox Slide Scanner
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Zennox 35mm Negative USB Slide Scanner
The Zennox negative slide scanner will help inject new life into your old cherished film and slide negatives by transforming them into digital prints quickly and easily. The Zennox is a simple compact negative scanner perfect for desktop use much like the Veho usb negative scanner.
Priced around the £80 mark it also shares a similar price tag to the aforementioned Veho. Ideal for use with 35mm negatives and slide collections, the plug and play operation gives simplicity allowing you to simply connect your PC / Laptop using the supplied USB cable. It's then a simple case of using the supplied software or opting for some negative scanning software with more control. Although we are yet to try the Zennox from other reviews online the scanner is capable of clear and sharp high resolution images and the pre bundled software features automatic exposure control, fixed focus and colour balance. An ideal starter slide scanner and perfect for those looking to experiment with negative scanning without the adding cost of some of the more expensive units. Featuring a 2.0 USB connection, the film scanner is compatible with PCs using Windows XP or Vista. Measures 16.5 x 9 x 9cm.
The Zennox Slide Scanner is available from Clifford James below.
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When you're a geek and a gamer computers really excite you, which is my case too. And we like showing off. So here is mine. I will get a new PC but I don't know when I will get it. Here is the current one:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits
Processor: INTEL CORE I5-6600K 3.50GHZ 6M Cache FC-LGA14C LGA1151 Skylake
Graphic card: XFX Radeon GTR RX 480 8 GIG
Motherboard: ASUS Z170-E ATX LGA1151 Z170 Skylake DDR4 3PCI-E16 3PCI-E1 SLI Support CrossFireX USB3.1
RAM: 16 Gig DDR4 RAM
Power supply: Corsair TX650W
Monitor: 24″ inches Samsung BX2431
Speakers: 5.1 Altec Lansing 251
Mouse: SteelSeries Rival 300
Mousepad: Diablo 3 mousepad with the Witch Doctor on it
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text: Rachel List has been a member of the New York Baroque Dance Company since 1990, performing soloist roles in venues such as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Meyerson Center and the Handel Festival in Goettingen, Germany. Previously she performed nationally and internationally with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, The Vanaver Caravan, and Partridge/Benford/Dance/Music. Ms. List is the Director of the Dance Program at Hofstra University and also teaches ballet at the Peridance School in Manhattan. She has served on the faculties of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Queens College, Barnard College, the Balettakademien in Stockholm, Sweden and Danse Projektet in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ms. List has also taught master classes in Baroque dance at a variety of schools and universities including the Juilliard School (Music Division), Vassar College, Swarthmore College, Columbia University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Bard Graduate Center, and Texas Woman's University. Ms. List was the movement consultant for the Pearl Theatre Company's production of Marivaux's Double Infidelities and the choreographer for their production of Wycherly's The Gentleman Dancing Master. She also choreographed Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), The Tender Land (Copland), and Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) for the Bronx Opera Company. Ms. List created numerous works for her own company from 1985-'95 and continues to choreograph for students at Hofstra. She was the founder and director of Manchester Dance, a summer workshop in Vermont from 1987-'97 and is frequently on the faculty of the Bates Dance Festival in Maine. Ms. List holds a BA from Empire State College/SUNY and an MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee.


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SwellTech System
Introducing our new truck system for Fall 17!
The SwellTech truck system is everything the VTruck provided plus a whole lot more. Our VTruck system shocked the surf cross-training world with the first ever unlimited-freemotion trucks. The SwellTech trucks continue with this innovation and add new features that allow a rider to carve even deeper on their rail, pump faster and more efficiently, and provide more stability for smoother cutbacks and rail to rail transitions.
SwellTech Truck Design Innovations
Front Truck
The new front truck has thicker gauge external and internal springs. The thicker external
springs allow a rider to put more pressure on their front foot and drive harder into each carve, while the thicker internal springs provide more stability for smoother pumping and rail transitions. Over all, the thicker, stiffer springs provide a more upgraded and stable feel from the VTruck.
The axel is an inch wider. The wider axle allows for more grab and direction change when it comes to setting up carves. With the upgraded rail control, sharp cutbacks and roundhouses are easier to perform.
New angled riser. The front truck is now equipped with an angled riser that pushes the angle of rotation off its perpendicular axis(tilted backward). This smooths rail to rail transitions and also causes the truck to automatically drive forward as the rider pumps, making pumping more efficient. (See photos below for more innovations)
Rear Truck
The new rear truck is an inch narrower. With a narrower rear truck, and a wider front truck, the SwellTech axle widths are more identical making the rider's weight distribution more balanced. The narrower axle also allows for easier foot pushing.
Double barrel bushings. While the V-Truck, and other longboards alike, used cone bushings, the SwellTech system uses double barrel bushings which are thicker and wider than cone. The wider bushings improve stability while the thickness provides for a large range of motion; crucial for inverted carves. (See photos below for more innovations)


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Yes this is a blog about my dog, and his training, and his pictures, and his etc. etc. but I am stealing a post so that I can have a record of my own goals for 2011.
And for the record...
...Frodo would like you all to know that he thinks my goals
(and anything not revolving around him)
are boring. Duly Noted.
But since I am the one with the opposable thumbs in this relationship, here are my 2011 goals:
-Read 75 books.
-Take a cooking class
-Cook more, and be less afraid to alter the recipe!
-Be more crafty (read: learn to crochet/knit/sew/something), maybe join a group.
-Take more pictures and become a better photographer.
-Go hiking at least once a week once the weather improves.
-Start writing again (this is spurred by a person asking me a few days ago if I was ever writing another chapter to my story...my last chapter went up 2 years ago!)
-Find a job that I like going to most days, and not settling into jobs that I hate.
-Buy some new clothes! I hate clothes -.-
-ETA: I almost forgot the first goal I set! Less time on the internet, more time doing other things, especially with my dog!
I don't think any of them are unrealistic, except maybe being crafty, because I'm not crafty. At all. I have tried numerous times to learn to crochet, starting with something easy like a scarf. I mean, how can you mess up a scarf? They all turned into triangles. Mrrg.


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Wanderlusts of all ages were treated to a selection of buzz worthy brands in the newest lifestyle center in the South, Commercenter. Fashionistas, foodies and home decorating aficionados flocked to the mall on April 25 & 26, 2015 and were pleasantly surprised to discover new and unique products and delicious treats.
Having organized three trunk shows/bazaars previously, Chief Curators Theresa Leung and Claudine de Leon wanted to try something different – A free spirited event, which they haven't done before.
If you were not able to make it, here are some of the things you missed:
1. With all the bazaars happening this summer, set-up is essential to differentiate the event and to entice people to come. Curious souls at heart, the Advertising Rockstars took it upon themselves to create the perfect set-up for a bohemian-themed affair.
2. Shoppers were spoiled with FREE jewelry tattoo plus Boho-chic bracelets and headbands. They loved this activity and learned the proper way to tie their DIY bracelets too.
3. While some were busy shopping, others instantly gravitated towards the bar. The Boho Bar made its debut with models offering #LibationsForTheWanderlusts such as sangria, gin & tonic, craft beers and its signature drink — Wanderita, the boho version of Margarita!
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CopCorp Licensing has inked a slew of new licensees for tween/teen property Barcode Kitties in Portugal, France and Brazil as well as a second Barcode Kitties promo at Bembos' restaurants throughout Peru.
In Europe, Antalis has been granted the rights to produce a wide range of notebooks, sheets, ring binders and back to school items for the Portuguese market in a deal that was brokered by CPLG Iberia.
B.E.S.T. will manufacture Barcode Kitties footwear for France in a deal brokered by MJA Licensing.
In South America, Vozz Comercial de Bolsas Ltda. has been granted the rights to make and sell Barcode Kitties bags, backpacks, purses, totes, shopping bags and other items for the Brazilian market thanks to a deal brokered by ITC Licensing.
And to round out the deals, Barcode Kitties will be the subject of an upcoming Kids Meal Box Promotion for Bembos Resteraunts in Peru. Patrons purchasing a kids meal box will receive a mini plush. The deal was brokered by P&L Global Network.


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Well, looks like we won't get much help from the Golden Globes when it comes to predicting the winner of Best Actor at the Oscars. Among our 14 Oscarologists who have made predictions for the Golden Globes, all of them are backing the bid by Michael Keaton ("Birdman") for Best Actor (Comedy/Musical). Likewise, all of our Experts but one are forecasting that his main Oscars rival — Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything") — will win Best Actor (Drama) at these precursor prizes. This overwhelming support gives them leading odds of 1 to 10 and 2 to 13 respectively to prevail on Jan. 11 at the 72nd annual edition of these kudos bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.
The 13 Experts in favor of the two frontrunners are: Edward Douglas (Coming Soon), Thom Geier, Tariq Khan (Fox News), Michael Musto (Out.com), Tom O'Neil (Gold Derby), Kevin Polowy (Yahoo), Claudia Puig (USA Today), Jenelle Riley (Variety), Anne Thompson (Thompson on Hollywood/ Indiewire), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Glenn Whipp (L.A. Times), Susan Wloszczyna (RogerEbert.com) and me.
Of the other four Drama Actor nominees, David Oyelowo ("Selma") is the only one to merit the support of any of our Experts. That lone vote from Thelma Adams translates to odds of 12 to 1 to pull off an upset. Although none of the other three nominees are predicted to win by our Experts, Benedict Cumberbatch ("The Imitation Game") has slightly better odds of 33 to 1 — versus Steve Carell ("Foxcatcher") and Jake Gyllenhaal ("Nightcrawler") at 100 to 1 — because he is ranked higher overall.
UPDATED: Experts Golden Globes predictions in 14 categories
On the Comedy/Musical side, none of the other four nominees is in first place with any of our Experts. Due to overall rankings, Ralph Fiennes ("The Grand Budapest Hotel") is at 33 to 1 while Bill Murray ("St. Vincent") is at 50 to 1 and both Christoph Waltz ("Big Eyes") and Joaquin Phoenix ("Inherent Vice") are at 100 to 1.
See latest Golden Globes rankings when the Experts' predictions are combined
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text: National exposure for restaurant critic Barry Verber The top restaurant critic Barry Verber, dubbed the 'Jeremy Paxman of the dinner table' for his no-nonsense reviews Palamedes PR, the brand development specialist, has secured national exposure for Barry Verber, the restaurant critic, with a story revealing UK diners' biggest gripes. The survey-led news story has generated placements on the Mail Online – officially the world's most popular news website with more than 190million unique visitors per month – and Express.co.uk, the website of the Daily Express. The straw poll of nearly 1,000 Britons was commissioned by the London-based restaurant critic Verber and found that over-attentiveness is the most irritating practice in British restaurants – and the most likely to curb a gratuity. Caption Caption


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What's at stake for packaged-goods marketers given the political turmoil in Russia? About $25 billion in sales.
Russia accounts for less than 1% of U.S. trade broadly but for some major marketers, Russia means much more – averaging around 4% of sales for the western-based consumer packaged-goods industry as a whole by the estimates of Bernstein Research.
|% of Business from Russia
|Total Russia Sales (in billions of dollars)
|Carlsberg Group
|Avon Products
|Procter & Gamble Co.
|Coca-Cola Co.
|Source: Bernstein Research; company reports.
Russia sales for just a dozen of the biggest or most Russia-involved western CPGs totaled around $25 billion last year, based on Bernstein estimates. At least that was before a 10% depreciation in the value of the ruble vs. the dollar since the beginning of the year.
Now, rising tensions with the country call into question the value of the investments marketers made in recent years, betting on the notion that modern trade ties would trump old geopolitical rivalries. Even discounting the worst-case scenario – a war between two of the world's largest powers – there are still some bad-case possiblities, such as Russian confiscation of U.S. or European-owned assets, or U.S. restrictions on doing business with Russia akin to what has happened at various times with Iran, Iraq and North Korea.
That latter risk is probably the biggest one for marketers longer term, said Ali Dibadj, analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein. The lesser, but more immediate risk, is a hit to Russia sales that stems from the economic fallout linked to sanctions and turmoil in Russian financial markets caused by the rising tensions over Ukraine.
Results of a Bernstein survey of 800 Russian consumers fielded in late February, even before tensions escalated further in recent weeks, found 52% of Russian consumers believed their economy was getting worse, compared to 22% who felt it was getting better. Those results are considerably gloomier than sentiments in similar surveys in China, Brazil and the U.S.
The gloominess appears to have cast a shadow on local spending habits, bad news for premium brands marketed by western companies. About 70% of Russian respondents said they have traded down to buy lower-cost brands in at least one category in the past 12 months. That is a a higher proportion than the 49% trade-down rate in China; the 67% rate in Brazil and 64% in the U.S. Russia's trade-down rates were the highest among household products and lower in personal care and food.
As U.S. marketers have increased their stakes in Russia in recent years, some agencies have been following suit. WPP announced in January plans to take an 80% stake in its GroupM and JWT businesses in Russia pending regulatory approvals and to buy the remaining 20% stake in 2016. WPP said its companies in Russia have revenues of over $300 million (accounting for around 2% of global revenue) and that it employs more than 2,000 people in Russia.
Of all U.S.-based marketers, at least in packaged goods, Pepsico appears to have the biggest absolute stake in Russia, with reported annual sales of $4.9 billion, or around 8% of global sales per Bernstein. (In its filings, PepsiCo itself puts the figure at 7%). Pepsico declined to comment for this story.
Some other players have sales that make up a bigger proportion of their overall business, however, including Danish brewer Carlsberg Group with 21% of sales in Russia and Danone with 11%.
Pepsico's stake in Russia goes back further than most (aside from Germany's Siemens, which built the Russian telegraph network in 1853 under the czars and whose CEO Joe Kaeser paid a well publicized visit to Vladimir Putin last week in Moscow to pledge continued cooperation with leaders there.)
Pepsico has invested $7 billion in Russia since 2009, buying dairy and fruit-juice companies, but it actually began building its Russian business in 1959. That its Russia relationship has survived such things as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War may augur that it can survive a confrontation over Ukraine too.


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Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen sues over rock documentary
Al Jourgensen seeks an injunction to stop the distribution of a new documentary about his band Ministry. "Fix: The Ministry Movie" recounts the group's infamous 1996 SphincTour.
What's the problem? According to Noise Creep, Jourgensen claims he is owed thousands of dollars and was not given the contractually-required final-cut approval.
He told the Los Angeles Times,
The bottom line is this: it boils down to breach of contract in a lot of different ways… In any contract signed throughout the history of the filming of this, it was understood and in writing and approved and signed by everyone that I would have final cut approval of this film being shown anywhere, let alone being released. I never got that.
The film premiered last month at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival. But because of the lawsuit, it likely won't be shown anywhere else anytime soon.
As reported by the Chicago Reader, Jourgensen maintains that all showings of the film are illegal —
A March 28 letter signed by Jourgensen's attorney . . . claims that 'exhibition of [Fix] has not been authorized by Mr. Jourgensen or by Ministry and that . . . unauthorized screening of the Picture may subject [one] to legal proceedings. . . . Demand is hereby made that [the producers] immediately cease and desist from any further promotion or use of the Picture, and that [they] cancel the proposed showings of the Picture. . . . [F]ailure to comply with [these] demands . . . will very quickly result in [Jourgensen] initiating legal action . . . to protect their legal rights.' An April 6 letter from [Jourgensen's attorney] adds the claim that the paperwork for the distribution deal is forged, and that Jourgensen did not sign it—a charge the filmmakers deny.
Siouxsie hasn't seen the pleadings, but she would be willing to bet against Jourgensen. Though, it should be noted, Siouxsie is biased. She is a long-time Ministry fan and would really really really like to see this film.
Photo of Al Jourgensen from SpoiltCat.
Trailer for Fix
3 Responses to "Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen sues over rock documentary"
Love the trailer. Never trust a junkie. Could this all be publicity stunt?
May well be a publicity stunt. Trailers are awesome. Ministry were awesome till Barker left. Al J was amazing but not without the right collaborators who bring out the magic. Good luck to all of them but it would be great to see this pic released. Wish Al would relax that sphincter and let it be.
I'd really like to see the film too!


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Spurred on by changing consumer shopping habits, West Michigan grocery retailers want to make the task of shopping less of a "chore" by leveraging new technology-driven initiatives.
For its first acquisition following the transformational deal that created SpartanNash Co., the grocery retailer and distributor opted to buy a company that positioned it in a related high-growth market.
KALAMAZOO — Ernie Pang's goal to produce healthier snack foods didn't quite pan out at first.


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Ferndown Upper School came out victorious in a very close, competitive, physical game against St Peter's School the U16 Dorset County Cup Final. Both teams had excellent scores against other schools to get through to the final held at Chapel gate.
In the first fifteen minutes Ferndown pushed hard against a determined St Peters mid field and solid defence. A break away counter attack however from St Peter's mid field ended in a spectacular goal scored by Jamie Wilkinson(1-0). This took the wind out of Ferndown's sails for the rest of the half as St Peter's continually attacked the Ferndown half.
The second half started with Ferndown using the wind advantage to play long balls deep into St Peter's half. A few minutes in; Ferndown's Sam Surridge linked up with the long pass and equalised St Peters lead. Ferndown continued to challenge the mid field and play wide creating gaps in the defence, which lead to a quick second goal by Ferndown's Charlie Kendall (2-1). St Peter's rallied round and put Ferndown's mid field and defence under pressure once more. Putting Ferndown on the back foot St Peter's created an chance for Lewis Maguire to place a well – placed shot resulting a tie once more (2-2).
Late into the second half Ferndown's Matt Neale swerved his way around several defenders and crossed the ball for Sam Surridge to volley home the winning goal.
Special mention to St Peters centre backs Harry Grant, Daniel Lombard Bishop. and Ferndown's Charlie Kendall, Kieron Francis, Kieran Francis, Matt Neale, Sam Daver and Sam Surridge for outstanding play during the match.
This is the second year in a row that the players from Ferndown have lifted the County title.
The Squad
Kieran Andrews
Henry Lander
Sam Daver
Kieran Francis
Elliot Lines
Charlie Kendall (year 10)
Sam Surridge
Sean Cooper
Jordan Tatman
Matt Neale
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One man pleaded guilty Monday to attacking a dog with a machete, and two men in another case were ordered to stand trial for allegedly beating another dog to death.
Two high-profile animal abuse cases were heard in Merced Superior Court.
The defendant in the more recent case, Myron L. Pattillo, pleaded guilty to a single felony count of animal cruelty in connection with the May 1 death of a Siberian husky.
The animal was tied to a fire hydrant at Conestoga Drive and Austin Avenue and slashed repeatedly with machetes by Pattillo and, allegedly, his co-defendant Aaron W. Carney.
Pattillo, 46, however, indicated he intended to fight the other charge in the case, a single felony count of robbery. That charge stems from allegations he forcibly took the dog away from the person who was walking with it at the time.
Carney, 29, has pleaded not guilty to charges of animal cruelty and robbery. Both men appeared Monday before Judge David W. Moranda for a preliminary hearing. That hearing continues Tuesday.
Pattillo's attorney, Thomas Pfeiff, said his client wants to "take full responsibility" for animal cruelty. "But he absolutely denies he forcibly took that dog from anybody," Pfeiff said following Monday's hearing.
Two other defendants in an unrelated animal abuse case also appeared before the same judge on Monday for a preliminary hearing.
Tony Clendenin, 52, and his son Samuel Clendenin, 24, have pleaded not guilty to felony animal cruelty in connection with the Jan. 16 beating death of a neighbor's German shepherd in the backyard of the Clendenins' home on Massasso Court.
Attorneys defending the father and son argued Monday their clients were simply defending themselves from a large dog that attacked them on their own property.
"You have a large dog, a 75-pound German shepherd, that got into their yard, attacked the neighbors and they responded," defense attorney Bill Davis said. "The dog placed my client in danger."
Deputy Public Defender Paul Lyon argued that his client, the younger Clendenin, did not retreat into his home because Samuel Clendenin's 3-year-old son was inside and he feared opening the house door with the dog in the backyard. The younger Clendenin also told police the dog had bitten his foot and said a damaged boot should be considered evidence in the case.
Officer Joseph Opinski, the lead investigator in the case, testified the boot appeared to be simply worn out and said there was no evidence of bite marks, specifically noting there was no blood or saliva on the boot.
Opinski also said images taken from a surveillance camera indicated the dog was retreating from the two men and tried to hide behind some garbage cans. "It appeared the dog was running away with its tail between its legs," Opinski testified.
The officer said the video showed the Clendenins move the garbage cans and begin "poking" the dog with a stick. He said the younger Clendenin then stood on the dog's neck while his father struck the dog more than 10 times with an object.
The object in question has previously been described as a baseball bat; however, there were no references to baseball bats in court Monday.
Thomas Min, the deputy district attorney prosecuting both animal cruelty cases, said there was evidence that one of the defendants was heard to say "we finally got that" animal and made a remark about having it "stuffed and mounted." Min also said the evidence showed the dog tried to run away, was pursued and then beaten to death.
"That doesn't sound like self-defense," Min argued Monday.
The judge agreed there was enough evidence to order both men to stand trial. The Clendenins are due back in court June 25 for arraignment.
Rob Parsons: (209) 385-2482, @MercedCrimeBeat


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"Where sociologists differ from many other social researchers in researching digital media is their awareness that digital data, like any other type of data, are socially created and have a social life, a vitality, of their own. They are not the neutral products of automatic calculation, but represent deliberate decisions by those who formulate the computer algorithms that collect and manipulate these data (boyd and Crawford 2012; Cheney-Lippold 2011; Ruppert et al. 2013). The data that these devices and software produce structure our concepts of identity, embodiment, relationships, our choices and preferences and even our access to services or spaces. Without the knowledge of digital technology users, algorithms measure and sort them, deciding what choices they may be offered (Beer 2009, 2013a). Algorithms and other elements of software, therefore, are generative, a productive form of power (Lash 2007)."
(Deborah Lupton, 2013, p.4)
Deborah Lupton 'Digital Sociology: Beyond the Digital to the Sociological', Paper presented at The Australian Sociological Association 2013 Conference, Monash University, 27 November 2013.
"Physical constraints are closely related to real affordances: For example, it is not possible to move the cursor outside the screen: this is a physical constraint. Locking the mouse button when clicking is not desired would be a physical constraint. Restricting the cursor to exist only in screen locations where its position is meaningful is a physical constraint.
Logical constraints use reasoning to determine the alternatives. Thus, if we ask the user to click on five locations and only four are immediately visible, the person knows, logically, that there is one location off the screen. Logical constraints are valuable in guiding behavior. It is how the user knows to scroll down and see the rest of the page. It is how users know when they have finished a task. By making the fundamental design model visible, users can readily (logically) deduce what actions are required. Logical constraints go hand–in–hand with a good conceptual model.
Cultural constraints are conventions shared by a cultural group. The fact that the graphic on the right–hand side of a display is a 'scroll bar' and that one should move the cursor to it, hold down a mouse button, and 'drag' it downward in order to see objects located below the current visible set (thus causing the image itself to appear to move upwards) is a cultural, learned convention. The choice of action is arbitrary: there is nothing inherent in the devices or design that requires the system to act in this way. The word 'arbitrary' does not mean that any random depiction would do equally well: the current choice is an intelligent fit to human cognition, but there are alternative methods that work equally well.
A convention is a constraint in that it prohibits some activities and encourages others. Physical constraints make some actions impossible: there is no way to ignore them. Logical and cultural constraints are weaker in the sense that they can be violated or ignored, but they act as valuable aids to navigating the unknowns and complexities of everyday life. As a result, they are powerful tools for the designer. A convention is a cultural constraint, one that has evolved over time. Conventions are not arbitrary: they evolve, they require a community of practice. They are slow to be adopted, and once adopted, slow to go away. So although the word implies voluntary choice, the reality is that they are real constraints upon our behavior. Use them with respect. Violate them only with great risk."
(Donald Norman)
"This age–old conflict about social status remains at the heart of present–day struggles over the meanings of technology. On one side, defenders of technicians view technologies as creative expressions of human culture. In this view, technology is imbued with human values and strivings in all their contradictory complexity. I term this position the 'cultural' approach to technology. On the other side are those who see technological action as a narrow form of rationality that seeks only the best means for a given end. For such people, technology is something purely technical, essentially uncreative and devoid of values, subordinate to ends given by others. I call this second position the 'instrumental' conception of technology. ...
the discourse of technology favors the instrumental over the cultural. An entire tradition of philosophical critique is based on a reduction of technology to instrumental rationality. But technological enthusiasts also embrace the instrumental definition of technology. From their perspective, our modern technological civilization represents the embodiment of reason in the world, with new technologies as the vanguard of progress. Technological utopians like Kevin Kelly epitomize this instrumental perspective. In contrast, the cultural understanding of technology recognizes the creativity expressed in everything from steam engines to iPhones. But the cultural approach is definitely in the minority. This view is most common among people like me, historians of technology and other scholars who connect technological choices to specific aspects of culture and society."
(Eric Schatzberg, Rethinking Technology)
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Just in case you've never heard of Craftsy, or never taken one of their amazing classes, click here to check out the awesome free class Perfect Pizza at Home. This free class will give you an idea of how the class platform works and let you check to see if your internet streams fast enough.
Yes, all Craftsy classes are streaming video, which means you can't download them, and you do need a high speed internet connection to get the best experience. I've also personally found the classes stream more cleanly to my iPad, but that could just be the nature of the wireless in my neck of the woods.
So what have I been watching most recently from Craftsy? It's winter time and Josh and I love to make beef roasts and stews. Secrets of Slow Cooking: Mastering the Art of the Braise has been a wonderful class to watch together as we cook in the evening.
Just in case you don't eat meat, Molly also walks you through a lesson on braising vegetables so you can apply the same principles of slow cooking on low heat to potatoes, cabbage, and fennel.
I really enjoyed the lesson on preparing meat for braising and how to tie a pork shoulder. This step has always been a bit confusing and I've already used this technique on my last beef roast!
So if you're looking to learn more about slow, low heat cooking, or just simply wishing your beef roast had more flavor this winter, definitely check out Secrets of Slow Cooking this week!
Let's go cook!
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When you think of Britain, what springs to mind? Is it the inevitability of a queue, fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, a cricket match or a full English breakfast? Well, whatever your preferred and cherished British ideal, the Royal Mint has immortalised them all in a Quintessentially British A to Z.
The Mint, which has been designing British coins for over 1,100 years, has chased the alphabet to examine what makes us proud to be British, and captured each of those aspects in exquisite detail on 10p coins. The series also looks to celebrate two pivotal anniversaries in 2018: the NHS turning 70 and the Angel of the North 20.
The collection is varied, honouring not only the British food and double decker buses, but also the country's scientific and technological advancements, from the World Wide Web to Greenwich Meantime. Each design was created by the Royal Mint's team of coin designers and sent off to the Queen for approval.
To date, 2.6 million circulating 10p coins have been struck with the 26 designs and more will be created according to public demand. The coins can be purchased from the Mint's website but they can also be pursued using the Great British Coin Hunt app, which has been created to encourage the public to find the 10ps within their change.
Visit the Royal Mint's website to find out more.


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02/11/2002 Hymns [Religion]A simple DB for keeping track of hymns learned by heart (I use this for tracking which hymns my young children have successfully memorized).
02/11/2002 Instructions [Miscellaneous]Have you ever bought something that came with a tiny little sheet of paper with instructions? If you're like me, you know you'll lose that paper. Store instructions safely on this very simple DB.
02/11/2002 Safe Places [Miscellaneous]Did you ever put something in a "Safe Place", only to forget where that was? Make a note of it in this simple DB.
02/11/2002 Staples [Food and Drink]Keep track of your food items wherever they're stored, remind yourself that certain items are reserved for recipes, keep track of what you need to bring in when you go out to the garage freezer, and prevent needless purchasing of items you already have.
02/11/2002 Download Tracker [Miscellaneous]Have you uploaded several DB's onto this site? Do you like to keep track of how many times your DB's have been downloaded by others? This simple DB will help you keep track of each of your DB's individual downloads, plus a running total for them all.
02/11/2002 Autism - Behavior Patterns [Medical]Written by a mom, not a doctor. Designed to help parents track the various environmental factors that may contribute to their child's negative behaviors, as well the interventions they tried, and the child's response to those. It is hoped that this database will help parents get a handle on what triggers their child's tantrums (or other negative behaviors), to better make sense of their child, and to figure out what actually helps.


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This weeks readings were about the concept "Spacial History." Most of you guys have probably used google maps to search a location and maybe have even used the neat street-view tool to explore the surroundings. Google maps is essentially a less developed form of "Spacial History" that Jenna Hammerich and Zephyr Frank are explaining in the readings. With "Spacial History" technology, one would be able to look at a map and not only see just locations, but an immense amount of data that you would never even think of. Jenna Hammerich gives an example that a "Spacial History" map could answer the question, "Would Robert E. Lee have been able to see Union forces on the far side of the battlefield when he ordered the notorious Pickett's Charge?"
This is a link to the Stanford History Project website where a group of collaborators contribute their own projects of GIS for the world to see and other researchers to learn from. This link in particular will take you to a map titled "Salmon Flu Transmission in Salmon Aquaculture". This map is an easy-to-understand example of Spacial History. It shows not only a map, but many different graphs and statistics of the flu transmission between Chile and Norway.
This image below has pinpoints of where a certain community theater performed a particular play in Baltimore in 1980.
Overall, I believe Spacial History will is a powerful tool and we become an even more powerful tool in the future. There are so many endless possibilities and I am excited to see what people will continue to do with it. One thing that Jenna Hammerich touched on was that researchers can now create maps for past historical events and study them even more closely possibly coming up with new findings that we have never even thought of!


text: This Rock Hill NY customer had one big smile when he saw the complete installation of his new LuciGold custom Cape Cod Classic all aluminum basement bulkhead on his pride and joy vacation home. This customer had been dealing with a wooden style cellar door that he was constantly trying to keep up for over 25 years! Now he will no longer have to replace the rotten wood, the paint and the broken locks. Best of all no more heavy wooden doors falling on him!


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I'd like to tell about a theorem that has been useful for me on several occasions, that was also the first topic in a series of presentations I'm currently giving at the CMU HoTT seminar. It characterizes the reflexive graph quotients as a certain pushout, so it allows us to find new, possibly more intuitive descriptions of what certain instances of these reflexive graph quotients are. For instance, we show that the reflexive graph quotient of the indiscrete graph of a type , is the join of with itself. This allows us to use our characterization of reflexive graphs to relate Floris van Doorn's construction and Simon Boulier's construction of the propositional truncation to the `join construction' of the propositional truncation.
Recall that a reflexive graph in homotopy type theory is a triple consisting of a type of vertices, a binary type-valued relation of edges, and a proof of reflexivity . A morphism of reflexive graphs is similarly a triple consisting of a action on vertices , an action on edges , with witnessing that reflexivity is preserved.
For any type we have the discrete reflexive graph . The operation can be made into a morphism of internal models, and this blog post is about the `left adjoint' to this morphism of internal model: the reflexive graph quotients. Since we intend to be the left adjoint to , we can introduce it accordingly. The type is going to be a higher inductive type, and the constructors of are going to assemble the unit of our adjunction. Thus, we have a morphism of reflexive graphs. The induction principle for will tell us how to construct a section of a dependent type . In other words, it will tell us how to construct a lift
Since we want an adjunction, it should suffice to find a lift in the transposed diagram
Thus, we formulate the induction principle for as follows: to construct a section of , it suffices to construct a lift of in the reflexive graph model, along the indicated projection. The computation rule then says that the resulting section will satisfy . It turns out that these requirements suffice to prove the desired universal property for . On to the theorem!
Theorem 1. Let be a reflexive graph with reflexive graph quotient . Then the square
is a pushout square.
This theorem has been formalized in Coq by Simon Boulier while I visited him and Nicolas Tabareau, as part of our ongoing project on a formulation of -equivalence relations. The proof is by directly comparing cocones in the two situations. An immediate corollary is that the reflexive graph quotient of the indiscrete graph is the join , since the total space of the binary relation is just .
Recall that Van Doorn uses the indiscrete (non-reflexive) graph to construct the propositional truncation. More precisely, he shows that the sequential colimit of operations is the propositional truncation. Similarly, Boulier uses the indiscrete reflexive graphs. We can now compare these constructions to the `join construction' of the propositional truncation, where the propositional truncation is constructed as the colimit of operations of iterated join powers of a type with itself. Let us consider the subsequence , which has the same colimit. Since the join is an associative operation, it follows that the . By our observation that , it follows that this sequence is just the sequence . In other words, Boulier's approximating sequence of the propositional truncation appears as a subsequence of the approximating sequence that we get from the join-powers.
There one more observation that I'd like to make. As we've mentioned, the reflexive graph quotient is left adjoint to the discrete functor . There is also a right adjoint to , which just returns the type of vertices of a reflexive graph. Furthermore, the indiscrete functor is right adjoint. Thus, in the setting of graphs we have obtained the reflective subuniverse of mere propositions by iteratively composing the outer two of these adjoints: the right-most () followed by the left-most (). This leaves us with the question whether we get something similar in other cohesive (-)toposes. That's a question I'm currently working on with Jonas Frey. I'd love to hear insights from people who are familiar with cohesive -toposes.


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The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a grant by the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) as part of their Project Sunburst Initiative that will allow them to install one of the largest rooftop solar power systems in the state. The grant will only fund part of the overall project, the rest of which will be contributed by Washington Gas Energy Service (WGES). Under the agreement UMD will purchase the power from WGES under a twenty year contract.
The more than 2,600 solar panels of the 631 kilowatt system will be installed by Standard Solar of Rockville, and are estimated to produce 792 megawatt hours of electricity each year. The offset of greenhouse gas emissions will factor into the university's goal to someday become carbon neutral, a climate commitment they made in 2007 along with over six hundred other colleges across the country. The offsets will also be a boost to MEA's plans to acquire 20% of the state's energy from renewable sources by 2022.
UMD is already one of highest rated universities in terms of green technology in the nation, scoring an A- on the College Sustainability Report Card and making them one of the leaders in the move to lower environmental impact. It may come as no surprise that Ivy League and private universities score higher than most state colleges, most likely because those schools receive the largest endowments for such energy upgrades.
As the centers of research, knowledge, and progression, colleges should be one of the biggest supporters of sustainable advancement. Being able to test, onsite, new technology that can be shared with a large scope of organizations in the public and private sector is only one of the many reasons investing in green upgrades across American campuses.


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In Pennsylvania this November, Democratic leaders see an opportunity not only to topple Rick Santorum, the Senate's No. 3 Republican, but also to begin writing their playbook for the 2008 presidential election.
Bob Casey Jr., the state's pro-life, anti-gun control Democratic treasurer, was tapped to enter the race last year by Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Though members of the party's pro-choice base were initially unhappy, Casey's cushy lead over Santorum in most polls has emboldened pro-choice Democrats like Sen. Hillary Clinton to help him raise funds.
The youthful-looking, 46-year-old son of a popular former governor enjoys support across the state, a mishmash of urban blue-collar Democrats, socially moderate fiscal conservatives in the suburbs and religious conservatives in the exurbs. Casey received more than 3.3 million votes in his 2004 race for state treasurer — the most of any statewide candidate in Pennsylvania history.
Casey has held a double-digit lead over Santorum in most polls this year. Many Republican incumbents have seen their prospects dim along with President Bush's approval ratings, but Santorum's fate may be tied to Bush's unpopularity more than most.
"People who are dissatisfied with the president are overwhelmingly staying away from Santorum," said Chris Borick, director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion in Pennsylvania. "If there's a broader sense of misgivings about the direction of the nation and the people in charge, Santorum can't really escape that — he is a leader of the party and the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate."
"It is very important for Santorum to show people that when he wakes up in the morning he's fighting for Pennsylvania, not Bush," acknowledged John Brabender, a media consultant and senior adviser to Santorum since 1990.
Santorum gained household-name status in 2003 when, in an interview, he appeared to equate homosexuality to bestiality. He accused the media of blowing his remarks out of proportion, but since then, he has been a favorite villain among liberals and some moderates.
With overwhelming support for Casey likely in the Democratic strongholds of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and in the affluent suburbs of both cities, the national party can't be blamed for prematurely savoring a Santorum defeat. But some Democrats say they see trouble ahead in a candidate who is further right than most in the party.
"The bargain people thought they were making 14 months ago was a candidate who was personally opposed to choice but would not try to interfere with women's decisions. But now he's actually a candidate who's prepared to line up and behave like Rick Santorum," said Alan Sandals, a Philadelphia attorney who is running against Casey in the Democratic primary on Tuesday.
In a speech last year, Casey said he was in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States. Casey also defied abortion rights supporters when he backed Justice Samuel Alito's elevation to the high court. Alito had served on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals based in Philadelphia before joining the Supreme Court in January.
By tapping Casey, the Democratic leadership is taking a gamble: Remove social issues from the table and Santorum's close affiliation with Bush and reputation for being intolerant could be the senator's undoing. But the strategy spurred a minor revolt in the party's base. Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, bagged herself an endorsement from NOW after publicly considering a challenge to Casey.
While all nine Democratic women U.S. senators and other stars of the party have lent highly visible support to Casey's campaign, Sandals and fellow Casey rival Chuck Pennachio warn that an unexcited base could hand victory to Santorum.
"The message the national party and the state party have sent to Pennsylvania Democrats is: your vote doesn't count," said Pennachio, director of the history program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Pennachio said that voters he'd encountered on the campaign trail were angry that the party's presumptive candidate did not provide a starker contrast to Santorum. Indeed, liberal Web logs, no fan of Santorum, have been highly critical of Casey and the party's strategy in the state.
In fact, a Keystone poll released May 4 shows that Casey's lead over Santorum has slipped. Respondents favored Casey over Santorum 47 percent to 41 percent, compared with 50 percent to 39 percent in February.
G. Terry Madonna, director of Franklin & Marshall College's Center for Politics and Public Affairs and director of the poll, said while the results show Santorum isn't making substantial gains, Casey can't afford to put his campaign on autopilot.
"He has been on the receiving end of some third-party TV ads for six or seven weeks now on a couple issues," Madonna said. The ads portray Casey as friendly to lawyers and malpractice suits, and too busy campaigning to show up for work.
Casey has not come out strongly against those charges, a puzzling decision, Madonna said.
"He has not ratcheted up his campaign ... He is trying to get through this primary phase without exposing himself to his Democratic opponents, although they are making no headway," Madonna said.
Santorum aide Brabender said Casey can duck for now, but he won't be able to hide for long.
"Casey is being attacked constantly because he seems to be very shy about taking positions on the issues. He built up a big lead and didn't want to do anything to hurt it so he decided to run out the clock," Brabender said. "In the debates, he is not going to be able to hide from these things."
Casey declined to comment for this article.
Neither Pennachio nor Sandals has managed to crack double digits in polling or are expected to do so before Tuesday's primary.
Santorum is known as an aggressive and charismatic campaigner and debater who knows how to win the room. How Casey will fare when the campaign begins in earnest is difficult to predict.
"He is very mild-mannered, some call him dull and a little wooden," Madonna said.
"By almost any standard Santorum is seen as having more strength than Casey on those campaign characteristics," Borick agreed. "There is a concern that [Casey's] moderate tendencies might not energize enough people on the left and that they might not come out in November."
The Democratic leadership is betting that the visceral dislike many have toward Santorum plus unhappiness with Bush will be enough to entice voters to vote against the incumbent, even if it doesn't propel them for Casey. Casey also stands to scoop up the many swing voters who believe Santorum wrongly meddled in the right-to-die case of Terri Schiavo.
But political experts call that lackadaisical approach a bad strategy.
"Hatred doesn't let you win. You always have to give people a reason to vote for you," said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist with the Dewey Square Group. "You can't say any Republican up for re-election is a proxy for Bush. Democrats have to make the case that they are better than the Republicans."
In any event, Democrats will be taking plenty of notes throughout the course of the campaign and in its wake.
A Casey victory might show that "you don't necessarily have to change the party platform, but having a few [pro-life] Democrats under your so-called big umbrella might be a good strategy to get majorities in the Senate and the House," Borick said.
But how to win fiscally conservative, socially moderate voters without alienating the base is a question that has haunted Democrats since 2000, when disaffected voters backed Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, which by several analyses cost Al Gore the presidency.
"A lot of Democrats are waking up to fact that the ground is much different now. A lot of pro-choice voters are not going to come over and vote for Casey. It could keep some of them at home, and the people who do all the hard work in campaigns tend to be pro-choice," Sandals said.


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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus is still topping the chart of the best smartphones of 2014 and 2015. This year we are expecting iPhone 6s to make its grand entry somewhere in the last quarter. However, we have moved forward a bit and contemplating about the features of iPhone 7.
We are sure that iPhone 7 is going to come in the future course of time, but know not when. However, the fact remains that what feature iPhone 7 is going to sport that will help it top the chart of the best featured smartphones in the years to come.
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We are not sure whether this technology will be integrated in iPhone 7 or not. But chances of this technology to be integrated in iPhone 7 are quite high as Apple has never liked the concept of SIM card. Doing away with SIM cards will make operations using iPhone much easier.
iPhone 7 is not going to be launched before 2016 and therefore chances of this technology being integrated in the iPhone are really high. Even Apple's biggest rival Samsung is considering this line of development in its next generation phone.


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Last year, 20th Century Fox's Deadpool defied all odds and broke numerous box office records, eventually becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film of all-time. The raunchy comedy's tremendous success helped pave the way for Fox to develop more adult-orientated comic book adaptations, including this March's Logan. Said to be Hugh Jackman's final time donning the claws of Wolverine, director James Mangold's latest takes cues from gritty, character-driven Westerns and will finally truly unleash the fan-favorite mutant on the big screen. Though studio executives were wary of the approach at first, their fears have been quelled by an excellent marketing campaign that's generated much excitement.
With Logan earning a spot on many most-anticipated lists, the film is most definitely on pace to make a pretty penny at the box office when it comes out. With just two weeks to go until its theatrical premiere (as of this writing), the first opening weekend projections for Logan are now available, suggesting the audience turn out will be larger than the last time Mangold and Jackman teamed up for a Wolverine solo movie.
Per The Wrap, Logan is currently tracking at $60 million for its first three days, a higher mark than 2013's The Wolverine - which made $53.1 million during the same time frame. However, that haul would be significantly lower than X-Men Origins: Wolverine's intake of $85 million when it premiered in 2009. Still, Logan is poised to have one of the better debuts in March. Should it reach that $60 million estimate, it would be the tenth-largest opening in the month's history, an impressive accomplishment.
If these numbers seem modest to some (especially after Deadpool), there are a few factors to keep in mind. For starters, Logan is a radically different film than Deadpool, and the notion of a hard-hitting, somewhat depressing drama may not be as accessible to the masses as the humorous antics of one Wade Wilson. It's also important to remember Deadpool was an anomaly and more of an exception than the rule. The R rating, while a key selling point of Logan, is still going to be restrictive and potentially limit its overall audience. Additionally, Westerns in particular have had rough sledding at the box office of late, with few true hits to speak of over the last handful of years. Logan will receive a nice boost from the X-Men connection and Wolverine's popularity, but its genre influences and style might prevent it from rewriting the record books.
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Dianne Feinstein's "Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music (PERFORM) Act" would permanently hobble your ability to record off the radio and force webcasters to use DRM formats. PERFORM would also mess with streaming Internet radio stations. Right now, MP3 or open format Internet radio can take advantage of statutory copyright licensing to remunerate rights holders and artists. After PERFORM, all streaming music that uses statutory licensing will be required to be in a DRM-encumbered format that forbids interoperability or user-editing. Wave goodbye to MP3 streaming and to moving recorded webcasts to the portable player of your choice.
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John Sellars.com 2.0: Mediacom Sucks!
When searching the net for "Mediacom Sucks" I came upon this site. My beef with Mediacom is with their internet service (or lack thereof) in my area. I have yet to receive the speeds I have been paying for. This has been going on now for several years. After speaking with network techs with Mediacom I have an understanding of the problem and know they are working to fix it. I would switch to another high speed provider, but they are the only game in town..... and they know this! One would think the customer should get a credit on their bill for the limited service being provided. So much for what the customer thinks!! As I was writing this I recieved a call from Mediacom asking if I would like to upgrade to their "internet-Max" package with download speeds "up-to 10,000kbps". The key phrase here is "up-to". When I asked if there was a "not-less than" there was no answer from the sales rep accept to continue to throw the pitch on how much more I would enjoy the higher internet speed. Bit my tounge and said "thank-you, not at this time" and hung up. I have over 1700 internet speed-test in a database on www.testmy.net from Feb 2005 until present day and not one are up to the advertised by Mediacom. I am paying for 5000Kbps down/256Kbps up. Here is the latest...
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Karni Mata Temple, also known as the 'temple of rats', is situated at Deshnoke near Bikaner in Rajasthan. The temple is dedicated to Goddess Karni, who is believed to be the incarnation of Goddess Durga, the goddess of power. The temple is overrun with more than 20,000 rats. Devotees feed, worship and protect them. In order to keep predators away, devotees have built nets and grills. Surprisingly, these rats do not bite


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"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes by Diana Gabaldon
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In this revealing compendium, acclaimed writer Diana Gabaldon shares her invaluable lessons for creating an immersive reading experience, from evoking a mood to using the power of emotions to communicate physical intimacy.
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SUDBURY, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 29, 2009) - Mr. Greg Rickford, Member of Parliament for Kenora, on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, will announce Government of Canada support to the Sudbury YMCA Employment Services to assist local youth.
Mr. Rickford will be available for a photo op and to answer questions from the media following the announcement.
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DATE: Thursday, July 30, 2009
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PLACE: Sudbury YMCA Employment Services Resource Centre 112-10 Elm Street Sudbury, Ontario
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