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Serena And Her Baby Girl Pose For The Cover Of Vogue
Serena Williams and her baby are together on Vogue's latest cover
Never has Vogue been equal parts so fierce, and so adorable. Serena Williams graced the cover of the magazine's February issue wearing a fire red dress, and with baby girl Alexis Olympia in tow.
In the feature, the tennis champion talked about all things motherhood, and opened up about the highest highs, and the very lowest of lows that have come along with being a new parent.
"Sometimes I get really down and feel like, Man, I can't do this," she said. "It's that same negative attitude I have on the court sometimes. I guess that's just who I am. No one talks about the low moments—the pressure you feel, the incredible letdown every time you hear the baby cry. I've broken down I don't know how many times."
Williams, who is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, added that being a mother has been a childhood dream, and only *half-seriously* suggested that she won't let her daughter leave her sight until she turns 18.
"Now that I'm 36 and I look at my baby, I remember that this was also one of my goals when I was little, before tennis took over, when I was still kind of a normal girl who played with dolls," Williams said.
For those of you who are missing seeing Williams slamming tennis balls on the court, don't worry. You'll get her back soon enough.
"To be honest, there's something really attractive about the idea of moving to San Francisco and just being a mom," the athlete told Vogue. "But not yet. Maybe this goes without saying, but it needs to be said in a powerful way: I absolutely want more Grand Slams. I'm well aware of the record books, unfortunately. It's not a secret that I have my sights on 25 [Grand Slam victories]."
If you're getting all verklempt seeing Williams as a new mom — and imagining her smashing some Grand Slam records — you're not alone. The tennis star took to Instagram to share how emotional it was to appear on the cover with her daughter.
"When I first saw this @voguemagazine cover it brought tears to my eyes," Williams wrote. "All Vogue covers are special but to share this one with my beautiful daughter @olympiaohanian also the youngest Vogue cover star makes it moment I will never forget."
Oh, and while you happen to be on Williams' Instagram page, there are so, so many other mother-daughter pictures that will fill you heart with all the feelings.
*Sigh.* Let's just give all the internet awards to Serena Williams and Alexis Olympia today.
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The Coffin Dancer is America's most wanted hit-man. He's been hired by an airline owner who wants three witnesses disposed of before his trial, and has got the first, a pilot, by blowing up the whole plane. Lincoln Rhyme has the task of keeping the witnesses safe and finding the Coffin Dancer.
The second book in the Rhyme/Amelia series shows them facing a killer that is almost as smart as they are. The Coffin Dancer is an old nemesis of Lincoln Rhyme and the man he most desperately wants to catch for personal reasons as much as professional.
He is a hired killer and his next assignment is to kill two federal witnesses, who may testify against an arms dealer, and Rhymes is determined to stop him. As in The Bone Collector Amelia does the legwork and Rhymes analyses the information and decides where to look in a fight against time to keep everyone safe.
Unfortunately, not all the witnesses like to stay put and safe and it seems the killer is working with a partner so not only they have to follow the puzzling leads but they also have to control the witnesses. Deaver manages to include quite a few surprising plots twists in the action and the book really is a page-turner.
I quite liked how he developed Rhymes and Amelia's relationship, it wasn't always easy for Amelia and she was a bit lost for the a while but the end is promising.
Grade: 4/5


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Paris police have prohibited so-called freedom convoys, the French capital's prefect announced in a press release Thursday.
Inspired by ongoing protests taking place in Canada against coronavirus vaccine and mask mandates, demonstrators who oppose COVID-19 measures taken by national governments and the EU are planning to occupy cities in their vehicles.
But Paris police are taking a hard line.
"Due to the risk of public order disturbances that this gathering could cause, the Prefect of Police is issuing an order prohibiting such demonstrations from Friday, February 11, 2022 to Monday, February 14, 2022 inclusive," the police statement reads.
Transgressors could risk up to two years in jail, a €4,500 fine, and the removal of the car and driver's license if they block roads. Organizers of the banned demonstration face up to six months in jail and a €7,500 fine.
French convoys from around the country were expected to reach Paris on Friday, and — along with convoys from across Europe — will then head to Brussels on Monday.
It is unclear how many convoy demonstrators from across the 27-country bloc will reach the Belgian capital, but tens of thousands of people have spent weeks planning the February 14 protest, many using encrypted messaging services like Telegram to plan routes, share logistics support and raise funds.
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New York, Metropolitan Opera, 2012–13 Season
Opera in four acts. Libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Score by Giuseppe Verdi
Otello JOSÉ CURA
Desdemona KRASSIMIRA STOYANOVA
Jago THOMAS HAMPSON
Emilia JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO
Cassio ALEXEY DOLGOV
Roderigo EDUARDO VALDES
Lodovico ALEXANDER TSYMBALYUK
Montano STEPHEN GAERTNER
A Herald ALEXEY LAVROV
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
Conductor Alain Altinoglu
Chorus Master Donald Palumbo
Production Elijah Moshinsky
Stage Director David Kneuss
Set Designer Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer Peter J. Hall
Choreographer Eleanor Fazan
New York, 11 March 2013
Verdi's penultimate opera returned to the Metropolitan on 11 March for just three performances, after an absence of several months. (Performances last autumn featured Johan Botha, Renée Fleming, and Falk Struckmann; one of these was simulcast in HD and will be available for streaming and on DVD.) None of the three lead singers, José Cura, Krassimira Stoyanova, and Thomas Hampson, had sung these roles before in this theater, and particularly because Cura's Otello has won acclaim around the world, interest ran high.
The first two acts found the Argentine tenor anxious and evidently in a great hurry to be through with the opera altogether. While French conductor Alain Altinoglu strove vainly to keep pace with him, Cura sped ever onward; his voice sounded ragged, and his pitch proved unreliable. After the intermission, Cura recovered much of his vocal poise and showed himself far more willing to adjust his tempi to those of the conductor and of his colleagues; by the end of the evening, he delivered a musically and dramatically effective Act IV. Yet this was at best an adequate, not a first-rate Otello, a missed opportunity for New Yorkers and for Cura himself.
As a sometime conductor and stage-director, Cura may have brought his own ideas to this mid-season revival of Otello, for which rehearsal time was limited. It's unclear, for example, whether he simply forgot to strike Desdemona in Act III, Scene 2, or whether he believes that Desdemona is by this point so psychologically abused by her husband that she kneels at his command (likewise, it was unclear whether Desdemona was stunned by Otello's behavior, or whether Stoyanova was stunned by Cura's failure to hit her).
With curiously weak gestures, Cura never managed to offer much opposition to Hampson's Jago, who dominated Otello from start to finish. Though I admire the American baritone immensely, this isn't a role I'd have chosen for him, and yet the inherent elegance he brings to all his singing proved apt for the scheming character whom nobody suspects. In his smoothly shaped reading of the music, Hampson's Jago seemed the picture of nobility and reason — at least until the "Credo," pronounced with roars of rage and seething venom. Overall, however, the most satisfying performance was that of Stoyanova as Desdemona. The Bulgarian soprano's instrument is so lyrical that a listener hardly notices how powerful it is, and after all the rushed tempi in Acts I and II, the long, spinning phrases of her "Willow Song" and Ave Maria seemed especially welcome. Dramatically, she's more aggressive than many Desdemonas, and her pleading on Cassio's behalf bordered on (sweetly musical) nagging — an interesting and valid choice, if not a definitive one. Especially because of the advocacy of Domingo and of James Levine (he has conducted 82 performances of Otello at the Met, more than any other work), the Met orchestra has a great deal of experience with this score. (Other recent conductors of Otello at the Met include Valery Gergiev and, earlier this season in the performances with Botha and Fleming, Semyon Bychkov.) Much of the present performance required more damage-control than artistic expression on Antinoglu's part; it speaks well of the Met musicians that they managed to respond alertly to his cues and to deliver an otherwise reasonably coordinated, coherent performance — it's not likely that many other orchestras could do the same.
Moshinsky's production, introduced in 1994 with Plácido Domingo as the Moor, takes monumentality to its most grandiose heights. With sets by Michael Yeargan that dwarf the singers, this Cyprus is no backwater outpost. Yet as stage-directed by David Kneuss, scene changes move swiftly (at least, by Met standards) and the drama remains clear and focused. Really, only Desdemona's vast bedroom defies belief (it's a wonder Otello can even find her). But by then Verdi's music has worked its magic spell, and even the impetuous José Cura must submit to it. Photo Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera


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Cass County Government will host three public information meetings to discuss initial flood prevention activities planned for rural neighborhoods.
Additional public meetings may be scheduled as more specific flood predictions are developed.
Cass County has also opened a flood hotline for rural residents at 701-241-8000. This number will initially be answered during business hours and will expand hours as the crest nears.
For information, please contact Robert Wilson, County Administrator at (701) 241-5770.
Cass County Government is seeking volunteers to fill sandbags at the Cass County Highway Shop located at 1201 Main Avenue West in West Fargo between Wednesday, March 27th and Friday, April 5th.
Volunteers are needed both weekdays and weekends. Weekday shifts run from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. On Saturday, March 30th, volunteers are needed from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and on Sunday, March 31st from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Cass County needs between 55-60 people per shift to maximize productivity. Cass County cannot provide maximum flood protection to our rural residents without citizen involvement. We encourage businesses, civic organizations, rural subdivisions, and other groups to support this operation.
This is the only sandbag operation supporting rural Cass County. If your property has benefited from County flood protection in the past – or if you anticipate needing County flood protection - please consider assisting.
Interested volunteers should contact Cass County's volunteer coordinator, Chip Ammerman at (701) 239-6700.
For general Cass County flood-related information, please contact Robert Wilson, County Administrator at (701) 241-5770.


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Catina Gray, President | Vice President First Citizens Bank – Columbus NC.
Catina Gray serves as financial sales manager at First Citizens Bank's branch at 160 West Mills Street in Columbus, N.C.
In 2013, Gray joined First Citizens, where she helps individuals, families and business do more with their money and build value for the future. In the community, she has been active on Carolina Foothills Chamber of Commerce, serving on the Buy Local Save Local committee, as a Chamber board member and Executive board member and now as Chamber President. She has also served on the the Habitat for Humanity board.
Gray attended Spartanburg High School, Spartanburg Community College and University of South Carolina Upstate. Prior to joining First Citizens, Catina started her banking career with Carolina First later known as TD Bank.
A native of Spartanburg S.C., Gray and her husband, Brian, have one grown son and a grandson. Her husband also runs a local construction company.
About First Citizens
First Citizens Bank helps personal, business, commercial and wealth clients build financial strength that lasts.. As the largest family-controlled bank in the United States, First Citizens is continuing a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations. Its commercial banking segment brings a wide array of best-in-class lending, leasing and banking services to middle-market companies and small businesses from coast to coast.
In January 2022, parent company, First Citizens BancShares, Inc. and CIT Group Inc. merged – creating one of the top 20 U.S. financial institutions, with more than $100 billion in assets. Founded in 1898 and headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., First Citizens also operates a nationwide direct bank and a network of more than 600 branches in 22 states, many in high-growth markets. Industry specialists bring a depth of expertise that helps businesses and individuals meet their specific goals at every stage of their financial journey. First Citizens brings together personal service and powerful tools to help customers do more with their money – and make more of their future. Visit firstcitizens.com. First Citizens Bank. Forever First®
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Every Sunday, 300,000 Filipinos pitch their tents or sit on cardboard boxes in Hong Kong busiest park to spend their day off from work. (Screen grab, BBC)
In Hong Kong, where there are at least 300,000 Filipino domestic workers most of whom are women, every Sunday (their only day off) is their opportunity to go out and mingle with their kababayan. They have nowhere else to go but here, in one of Hong Kong's busiest corner.
The housing situation for Filipino workers in Hong Kong has not changed nor improved over decades. Past Philippines administrations has given lip service to their plight and they have to feign for themselves – finding accommodation in the streets for a day until they go back to work in the evening.
President Rodrigo Duterte has once again promised to look after their situation. In his 4th SONA (State of the Nation) address a couple of days ago, he vowed to start a new office for OFWs, another layer of bureaucracy added to the current POEA.
Duterte even bragged about his appointment of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) head honcho Eduardo Manalo as his special envoy to look after overseas Filipinos. Since his appointment in February 2018, we haven't heard a peep from Manalo.
Domestic workers abroad has been called the unsung heroes fro propping up the Philippine economy with their dollar remittances, in the tens of billions.
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We analyze various ways to perform abstractive text summarization on an entire collection of news articles. We specifically seek to summarize the collection of web-archived news articles relating to the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The original collection contains about 10,100 archived web pages that mostly relate to the shooting, which after pre-processing reduces to about 3,900 articles that directly relate to the shooting.
We then explore several ways to generate abstractive summaries for the collection using deep learning methods. Since current deep learning methods for abstract summarization are only capable of summarizing text at the single-article level or below, to perform summarization on our collection, we identify a set of representative articles from the collection, summarize each of those articles using our deep learning models, and then concatenate those summaries together to produce a summary for the entire collection.
To identify the representative articles to summarize we investigate various unsupervised methods to partition the space of articles into meaningful groups. We try choosing these articles by random sampling from the collection, by using topic modeling, and by sampling from clusters obtained from clustering on Doc2Vec embeddings. To summarize each individual article we explore various state of the art deep learning methods for abstractive summarization: a sequence-to-sequence model, a pointer generator network, and a reinforced extractor-abstractor network.
To evaluate the quality of our summaries we employ two methods. The first is a subjective method, where each person subjectively ranked the quality of each summary. The second is an objective method which used various ROUGE metrics to compare each summary to an independently-generated gold standard summary. We found that most ROUGE scores were pretty low overall, with only the pointer-generator network on random articles picking up a ROUGE score above 0.15. This suggests that such deep learning techniques still have a lot of room for improvement if they are to be viable for collection summarization.


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SMSL SH-9 Latest THX-888 Balanced Amplifier Announced
To pair with their latest MQA enabled SMSL SU-9 DAC, the brand has released their latest desktop-grade amplifier, the SMSL SH-9. It is a powerful amplifier with both balanced and unbalanced input and output options. The SH-9 is equipped with the certified THX-888 amplification module offering a powerful & clean amplification for your beloved headphones. It has a price tag of 289.99$, check out more details here.
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The SMSL SH-9 features a fully balanced circuit architecture. It has fully balanced input and output ports along with unbalanced ones. The device has a 4-pin XLR balanced headphone output with a 6.35mm unbalanced headphone output. It takes input through the balanced XLR ports and unbalanced RCA ports on the back of the device.
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Today, designers need to iterate over their mocks and this involves a cycle of referencing other style guides and adapting it to own use cases over a long period of time. Personal preferences and intuition cannot enable complete automation of this interface design process. One way of overcoming this problem is enabling faster design adaptation tooling. A system that designers can use to reference and adapt designs at a rapid pace.
In this research project, I explore the research design process, implementation and preliminary evaluation of a website design style transfer system called Exidesign. The system allows selection of a reference website design and a target design. The output will be a website with content and components from the source website shown in the target website's style. The referenced components of style are typography, layout and image styling.
The traditional process of designing a website begins with the brainstorming and ideation phase. This process requires the designers to reference inspiring examples and generate a creative seed for their own design. This is a time-consuming step where the designer is using cues from existing website styles to generate his/her own visual language. The reference styles might be unique in their nature of handling either navigation, typography, layout or specific element styling. To fully test this reference design with its own content, designers have to go down to the CSS and Markup code to understand the implementation.
Automatically creating entire designs can lead to conflicts with a designer's personal preferences. A controlled environment of a traditional design tool like Sketch does exercise the preferences better. But, an ideation and referencing automation process can help surface different styles with the core content remaining the same. Our tool, Exidesign, facilitates this through style transfer. The user inputs one source website and one reference website into the tool. The system then transfers content from the source website and shows it in the target website's style. The components of the website considered in the style transfer are layout, navigation, typography and images
The underlying architecture of the tool optimizes a component match between source and target designs. We use a set of visual and semantic and relationship cost features to determine a good component to component match between two given websites. The final mappings between source and target websites produced use a single layer perceptron with the trained weights to optimize the visual, structural and semantic cost.
The primary research goal of this tool is to test the system's capability to reduce time taken to ideate website designs. Unlike parametric design tooling (Jabi, 2013). Work here is for improving referencing and adaptation workflows for interface design. Second, is to explore how modularized design component references can generate good design inspirations. This is to do with the qualitative aspect of dealing with more than one references for style transfer. A qualitative evaluation of the generated design will give valuable feedback on the output design the tool generates.
Figure 1: Interface of Exidesign with controls for specifying source and target websites
Related work
Pix2Code(Beltramelli, 2017), is a system that uses convolutional neural networks to generate usable front end code from an interface screenshot. The system uses a CNN to perform unsupervised feature learning for mapping the raw input image to its feature representation. A recurrent neural network takes the textual feature description of the image to create a DSL (Domain specific language) representation. The DSL (See Figure 2) is then passed through platform specific convertors that takes the DSL representation and transform it into UI code for specific platforms. XML layout for android and swift storyboards for iOS.
Figure 2: GUI and DSL in Pix2Code
Webzeigeist (R Kumar, Satyanarayan, & Torres, 2013) is a design repository that crawls visual and semantic features of websites. The authors developed a system for mining design data of websites at a large scale. The result was a repository of 100000 web pages elements and their characteristic attributes. The data comprised of the document object model for each page along with a set of semantic and visual features that described the page. They seprarated the CSS and image assets for third-party developers to access modular components of each design through their public API. They also processed and stored the visual segmentation of the websites and calculated some derived features like page node counts, a histogram of gradients for the images etc. Beagle (Battle et al., 2018) similarly tried to crawl and label interactive visualizations in webpages. Their research contribution is to find what visualizations are prevalent in website designs as well as what category of visualization idioms best suit a given task.
Outside visual features, Lim et al tried to understand the structural semantics for the web (M. Lim et al., 2012). They used a large collection of manually labelled page elements to train a support vector machine. Using this, they were able to give render time structural semantics of any webpage. You can see the example in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Structural semantics of pages
A strong motivation for building a design tool that assists in building off from reference designs is the speed and utility it provides to novices and experts alike. Lee et.al present a qualitative study to explore whether people can realize significant value by designing through example modification (Lee, Srivastava, Kumar, Brafman, & Klemmer, 2010). They found that people preferred designs created with the aid of examples and users prefer adaptively selected examples to random ones. They also concluded that users make use of examples when creating new designs. Prior studies also reveal that users generate diverse ideas when presented with diverse examples beforehand and generate more creative ideas if shown creative examples pre-evaluation (Siangliulue, Arnold, Gajos, & Dow, 2015).
The first kind of website style transfer is user-controlled and manual. CopyStyler (Fitzgerald, Michael J., 2008) is an example of such a user-driven browser-based tool that allows novices to have two webpages side by side for copying CSS styles between them. It used a browser extension to provide an in-browser GUI. This was a manual process of selecting source and target for transferring the CSS styling. Our tool removes the need to do any such manual transfer.
Figure 4: Interface of CopyStyler
Unlike manually initiated style transfer, design tools can also suggest refinements passively. DesignScape (O'Donovan, Agarwala, & Hertzmann, 2015) is a system that aids the novice users by suggesting layout refinements in their design. The tool provides two kinds of suggestions. First, simple refinements that improve the current structure of the design. Second, changes that reposition components on the fly as the user continues to add elements to the page. In a similar vein, SUPPLE(Gajos, 2006) presents automatic interface generation for cases when device constraints and end-user characteristics are not unknown. It searches for the interface that best matches the device constraints and target user properties. The search uses a declarative description of the device characteristics and the user and device-specific cost function to generate the interface. User traces of system usage is also used to improve the interface transitions as the system matures. Another recent contribution to automatically generate interface is Brassau(Fischer, Campagna, Xu, & Lam, 2018). A design tool that converts natural voice commands into the appropriate GUI.
Instead of generating or suggesting entire interfaces, existing publicly available data can help improve portions of the entire design. Like font pairing between different sections of the document. Automatic font pairing (Jiang, Wang, Hertzmann, Jin, & Fu, 2018) through the use of a corpus of knowledge on visually pleasing font combinations helps suggest interface variations as well. Jiang et al. use k-NN and an asymmetric similarity metric to learn the visual relationships between fonts. Apart from fonts, the spatial, visual and structural attributes of all components, also play a role in deciding the importance of the design. Training a neural network on the human-annotated importance of components has shown progress in predicting the value of graphic design (Bylinskii et al., 2017). The authors claim such prediction about the order of value of different components in a design can help with automatic retargeting of layouts. (See Figure 5)
Figure 5: Heatmap of importance in a design
Use of the attributes of design components can improve browsing of example designs. Style based search(Bhardwaj, n.d.) uses recurrent neural networks to train a network on captured style attributes of web pages and then backpropagates the learned system parameters to make style based search possible. With the help of the learned parameters, the system allows for example-based querying for designs in a digital gallery. An example query being browsing webpages that have 3 columns and a big hero image. This kind of querying is not possible in traditional text-based search engines. In some situations, the organized attributes of reference design are not available in an actionable format. Like a flattened bitmap or raster screenshot. In this case, expert users, in particular, recreate the reference design in an interface designing tool, to reuse parts of the reference design in their creations. Rewire is an interactive system that allows designers to convert screenshots into usable vector designs (Swearngin et al., 2018). They convert each component in the raster screenshot into an editable vector representation. They test the system by integrating it with UI design tools and comparing it with using examples without any help. A real-time example-based help while designing can steer designers to create a visually pleasing interface. An example of such a tool is Sketchplorer (Todi, Weir, & Oulasvirta, 2016). A real-time layout optimizer that infers the designers intended action and performs local optimization to improve the final layout. It uses a predictive model of sensorimotor performance and perception to perform these optimizations.
Understanding the attributes and components which contribute to visual significance in webpage design is a complex task. This is because modern web documents have a deeply nested and complex hierarchical structure. Ply (S. Lim, Hibschman, Zhang, & O'Rourke, 2018) tries to tackle this problem by using visual relevance testing, a technique to identify the properties which have a visual effect on the page. It hides irrelevant CSS code and presents relationships between the attributes.
The most important component of style transfer in website design is the layout and structure transfer. Bricolage algorithm (Ranjitha Kumar, Talton, Ahmad, & Klemmer, 2011) uses structured- prediction to create coherent mappings between pages by training on human-generated mappings (See Figure 6). The main contribution is using ancestry and sibling relationships in computing the cost of each source-target node pair. The system directly transfers the innerHTML of the source node to the target node. This presents some rendering issues like text overflowing and visual artifacts in the positioning of content. In Exidesign, we overcome this issue by sanitizing content according to the virtual DOM constraints of the target node. We focus on text, link and image tags thereby preventing inconsistent tag matches.
Figure 6: Bricolage in action
Layout matching and inferencing in interfaces have extensive literature. Layout inferencing when components use absolute positioning can be useful if represented as a managed layout with views and components in a hierarchical structure. This makes porting of views based on different configurations easy (Ramón, Cuadrado, Molina, & Vanderdonckt, 2016). Familiariser (Todi, Jokinen, Luyten, Oulasvirta, & Fi, 2018) is a browser-based tool that reorganizes the layout of a page based on the historical pattern of interacting with different pages by a user. It uses concepts of familiarization used by the human visual system. The idea is to present to a user, a familiar-looking layout for any new design they encounter.
Figure 7: System architecture of Exidesign
System Overview
The Exidesign architecture has 3 main components to it.
- Data Collection which includes page segmentation and feature markup
- The single-layer perceptron learning stack where we reduce our visual and semantic costs.
- Reconstruction of DOM with output mappings from step 2 to transfer content between pages.
Data Markup
The node segmentation begins with puppeteer passing the window, document and root node information to our segmentation logic. Our webpage segmentation takes ideas from Block-o-Matic (Sanoja & Gancarski, 2014). The high-level working of the system is as follows. We parse the DOM tree for valid content elements, which includes a series of HTML tags that contribute to the content on a page. IMG, A, LI, DT, DD, <H1-H5>, P are example of such tags. We ignore tags like HTML, SCRIPT and LINK as they do not contribute to any visual content on screen. Tags that have the CSS property "display: none" stay hidden on the page.
Figure 8: Gallery of landing pages from lapa.ninja
Post this, we sanitize the content-container relations. This is because all modern HTML pages have deeply nested container tags that might not contribute to a content's actual container. Also, we reorganize any content that is within 40 px of each other under one parent. They get sub-contained into one logical container (See Figure 9). The logical sanitized tree is then processed in-order for attribute information. First, we filter and parse all the link nodes, then the image nodes and then all text nodes. The set of visual features we process for each node is common across the tree. The visual features include viewport coordinates, width and height, font size and font weight, font colour separated into the average R, G, B and alpha values. We use the computed style attributes in the page window information passed by Puppeteer to capture property values of a node. We use jQuery offset, and height and width functions to extract position and size information. For capturing the text nodes, we use the DOM text nodes filter as it proved much faster than manually scraping text elements. For every link node, we extracted its text content separately while parsing links and marked each link node as visited. This allowed for ignoring elements whose parents were link tags while extracting text nodes. For processing image nodes, we decided to exclude SVG path tags as comparing vector image elements to raster elements was not in the decided scope of this work. The URL to the image source was also captured by the value of the property src. The caveats to this were tags with images in the form of background-image and srcset. We handled those separately.
Figure 9: Example of the web page segmentation
Some of the structural features we captured were tag type, numerical and in page positional identifiers. For a unique reference to the element location on the page, we used their XPath reference as identifiers. XPath is a querying format representation for selecting and identifying nodes in any XML and XML-like documents. In the same vein, the XPath of their parent container is also captured. For a numerical unique identity for each node, we use an MD5 hashed output of their XPath. Each URL processed has its nodes and their attributes stored in a JSON representation in the file system. We use MongoDB for easy JSON storage.
Apart from the visual and structural attributes, we worked on an information capturing interface that collects design-related semantic features of every node (See Figure 10). The interface uses a Chrome extension that iterated through our segmented nodes. It prompted the user using our capturing interface, to categorize each element into its most fitting role on the page. After iterating, we settled on the following semantic categories. Logo, Primary Call to Action (CTA), Secondary CTA, Login, Header, Hero text, Hero image, Value proposition, Illustration, Product showcase, Navigation, Contact information, Social media, Footer link. There can be further categorization possible, but we found that the above categories best fit our initial set of landing pages processed. The capturing interface in its current state iterates through all nodes in the page sequentially. Batches and larger in-the-wild delegation can speed up this process. This kind of nuanced semantic categorization of elements helps improve the matching results of our perceptron. We understand that we can also adopt a more rule-based categorization for our nodes and decrease the mechanical effort needed. E.g. link tags in the top 1% of the page can be automatically classified as header navigation. Explicit human annotation of nodes allows for superior categorization and can contribute to much better matching of nodes while training our perceptron. The semantic taxonomy we used borrows terms from design and web development vocabulary. These terms best represent the utility and role of individual components of a webpage.
Figure 10: Information capturing inteface for semantic categorization of nodes
For training our perceptron we recorded node mappings between 20 pairs of webpages marked by a human. The criterion for selecting the annotator was a basic level of familiarity with web design. This mapping used the mapping annotation tool built using puppeteer and NodeJS. The mapping tool used puppeteer to pick any two URLs from the list on separate tabs. A red overlay marked each element. We used their top and left position and its width and height to draw the red overlay. The numerical id was also rendered on top of the boxes for easy identification. The tool iterated through all nodes on the first page and asked for a user input about the corresponding matching node on the other page. The input mechanism is a dropdown list with numerical ids and a no-match case. A mouse-driven side by side view interaction can greatly improve the process of matching nodes. We recorded the mappings as a set of node1, node2 pairs.
Learning Stack
We use all the visual, structural and semantic attributes captured for each node. We construct a feature vector for each node fn={fvisual,fstructural,fsemantic} where the TAG type is one-hot encoded. We scale the viewport position, and node size and width to be between 0 and 1. Semantic features represent the boolean indicators like isCTA, isHeroText etc. We construct a weight vector w that corresponds to each semantic feature in fn. All weights initialize with value of 0. At each epoch of the training, we match each node and its feature vector with the closest node in the target node collection. The cost metric we use is the Euclidean distance of the source node feature vector from the target node. We refer to each edge as e, corresponding to a node matched from source to target. The cost of each edge is ce=wFT-wFS, where w is the weight vector. The total cost CM of our generated mapping at each epoch of training is ∑ec where we sum up cost of each edge between source and target pages. The weights update at each stage by Wnext = Wcurr + αcurr(CHM-CM), where CHM is the total sum of edge cost in our human mappings between source and target website and αcurr is the current epoch learning rate. We chose an epoch range of 800 and averaged the learning rate in the last 10 epochs.
For implementing this perceptron, we used TensorFlow and utilized its gradient descent optimizer with a custom cost function as defined above.
Style Transfer
The output of the mapping process is a text file containing the pairs of numerical ids corresponding to the source and target website. We iterate through each pair and retrieve their content and computed styles from the MongoDB instance. The content of the text node is in the label attribute, for link nodes, the text is in label and URL is in the href attribute. For image nodes, we store the image source in the imgsrc attribute. For each pair in the computer mappings, we see the difference in tag type. If both nodes are similar tags, it's an easy content switch. For a non-image node, we overwrite source text on the target. For an image node, we carry forward the src, srcset and background-image properties. If the tags are different, e.g. a source node with a tag type as IMG and a target node with a tag type DIV. In these cases, we use the imgsrc as the background image value for the target node. To find the respective element corresponding to a node, we use the stored XPath reference to uniquely identify the element and then do the content switch. The other preprocessing, we do is render the text range that is within the bounding box of the target element so that we don't overflow the text. In cases where the text is larger than said width, we use CSS ellipsis on the text.
Style Transfer results
Figure 11: Source from baidu.com and style from www.google.com
We ran Exidesign on a testing pair of 10 websites and the example results showcase possibilities of the matching system. Figure 1 shows the simplest case of transferring the style across two popular search engine websites. The logo, top navigation links and primary call to action transfer nicely.
Figure 12: Content from www.coursera.org and style from www.udacity.com
Figure 2 shows more complex layouts. Style of udacity.com on coursera.org content. The highlights of this example are the big hero image transferred and boxed correct (See 4 in Figure 12). The logo (1) and card style links (2) also adapts nicely to the coursera logo and coursera navigation. The most interesting style transfer result is how the partner logos carried across the two websites. Two product landing pages with simple grid-based layout, one primary illustration and one block of hero text also had similar results.
Figure 13: Content from hunchads.com and style from www.advize.ai
The illustrations (See 2 in Figure 13) managed to scale and the hero text (1) transferred to its correct corresponding node on the target page. Like our second example (Figure 12) the partner logo elements also matched.
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The Los Angeles Rams announced Monday that they have placed rookie wide receiver Tutu Atwell on the Reserve/COVID-19 list.
The Rams' rookies reported to training camp yesterday. Atwell is following NFL protocols by isolating and participating in meetings remotely. He cannot practice until he is cleared.
Per agreed-upon NFL-NFLPA policy, clubs are not allowed to comment on a player's medical status other than referring to roster status. Being placed on the Reserve/COVID-19 list is for a player who either tests positive for COVID-19 or who has been in close contact with an infected person or persons.
L.A. selected Atwell with the 57th overall pick in the second round of this year's NFL Draft. He tallied 140 receptions for 2,307 yards and 21 touchdowns across 34 games in three seasons at the University of Louisville, tying for fifth in school history with 21 touchdown catches, ranking fourth with 10 100-yard receiving games, and eighth with 2,307 receiving yards.


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By James Amoh Junior
Accra, March 23, GNA – Professor Kofi Asare Opoku, the Chairman of the Governing Council, African University College of Communication (AUCC), says the polarisation of society and excessive partisanship is bane to Africa's development and "must be checked".
He said despite adopting a multi-party system form of governance, there was an urgent need for African countries, including Ghana to come up with an indigenous system, which incorporated an African form of government to ensure the progress of Africa.
"We had our own forms of government so, we must incorporate ours into the modern system otherwise the governments we establish will not be viable," Prof. Asare Opoku said in an interview with the Ghana News Agency after a public lecture at the AUCC to mark his 90th birthday.
Dubbed: "A Lesson of a Lifetime – What is past is but a small fraction of what is yet to come. The wisdom of our Ancestors", the public event was interspersed with soothing Gyil (Xylophone) instrumentation combined with Dawuro (Idiophone) performed by the Abajo ensemble.
Prof. Asare Owusu, also the Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Pan African Heritage Museum, called on political scientists to study critically the African indigenous systems to ascertain how they worked in the past "instead of living on a borrowed and non-functional system".
"Our ancestors say, borrowed water never quenches thirst," he emphasised, and said there was a need for Africans to come up with their own ideas, study them and respect their own way of life for a viable political system that would serve as models for other continents to emulate.
He reiterated that: "We cannot always continue to borrow from the West; borrowing constitutions and systems, which won't make any difference in our lives and that's part of the reasons why we're suffering".
Prof. Asare Owusu, said there was no reason for Ghana to tie itself to a two-party system while abandoning the very traditional institutions that had kept society together.
He said: "We have been intellectually lazy because it is easier to borrow than to create; but we have to show that we are capable of creating a new system – a system that suits us as Ghanaians and Africans instead of following others".
"The man who is fed on other people's food is hungry, and the man who is dressed in other people's clothes is naked," he noted and explained that Africa had to get rid of the nakedness and the hunger by creating systems that were entirely Africa's.
He said if Africa went the way it was headed, relying on others because of a seeming lack of confidence and believing that it could not do anything unless someone elsewhere came to its aid, then the "future would be bleak" with no hope.
According to him, if such misguided notions about the African were not disabused, "then we are making ourselves grass", citing the Kenyan proverb that "If you make yourself grass, goats and sheep will feed on you".
"Certainly, we are not grass, we can do more than we can think of," he noted, and said it behoved on Africa to resolve to create its own governance systems with its rich and enviable heritage.
Such heritage, he admitted could die if not utilised, adding that: "It is our collective responsibility to come up with new systems and not continue to believe that we can rely on others. We can create our own jobs without depending on others. We must abandon the idea that someone has to support us before we can stand on our feet; that defeats our purpose in life."
Professor Asare Osei said, "Our ancestors depended entirely on themselves. The reason we're unable to do the same is because we have been made to believe that we can't do anything without somebody coming to our aid. Sadly, we live in a borrowed religion, borrowed culture, borrowed food and many more. But these borrowings are suicide; they won't get us anywhere."
"After 66 years of Ghana's independence, we live on borrowed governments, borrowed language, borrowed constitutions. It is time to be truly independent and stand on our own feet as a people. Yes, we can!" he said in a doleful but reassuring tone.
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Who Is Archie Miller? His Wife, Family, Facts About The Basketball Coach
People have had many reasons to appreciate Archie Miller, but the man is probably most admired for his coaching philosophy. The Beaver County Sports Hall of Famer comes from a family that has had a passion for basketball for several decades. Beyond the basic facts in Miller's biography, let's learn more about his family and other facts.
Who Is Archie Miller?
Ryan Joseph Archie Miller, best known as the head coach of college basketball, has played the game, albeit not at a professional level. He was born on October 30, 1978, in Beaver Fall, Pennsylvania, and at the time of writing this article is the head coach of the men's basketball team Hoosiers at the University of Indiana. He assumed this position sometime in March 2017.
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Before he began coaching the Hoosiers, he was the head coach of the University of Dayton's Flyers for a long time. As head of the men's basketball team from 2011 to 2017, Archie Miller was able to turn the team's fortunes around forever. His influence was so strong that he was named Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year in 2015. Although Dayton's Flyers training program was his first chance as head coach, this was not the beginning of his coaching career.
As far as we know, he started as an assistant coach with the Hilltoppers at Western Kentucky University. That was in 2003, and soon he moved on to the Wolfpacks at North Carolina State University and then to the Sun Devils at Arizona State University, from where he moved to Ohio State. Later he served with the Wildcats of the University of Arizona from 2009 to 2011.
Archie's romance with basketball has been traced back to his high school days. It is known that his father, John Miller, coached the Blackhawk High School team and that Archie and his brother Sean Miller both played for their father. The head coach of the Hoosiers alluded to the fact that he learned most of his coaching doctrine from John.
When Archie Miller was about to transfer to college, he settled at North Carolina State University and eventually graduated from that institution with a degree in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism. Apart from that, he played for the wolf pack and was able to compile statistics that were among the top 10 in the team's history. Archie was a playmaker for the wolf pack and his performance earned him a place on the ACC Championship All-Tournament Team.
His Wife And Family
As already mentioned, the family of this coach lives for basketball. His father John Miller was a high school coach and his brother Sean is the head coach of the University of Arizona men's basketball team – the Arizona Wildcats. Like Archie, Sean has a good college career as a basketball player. From 1987 to 1992 he was an outstanding point guard for the Panthers at the University of Pittsburgh. While Sean flourished as a B-ball player in college, he achieved more as a coach. Among other accomplishments, he was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year three times.
It didn't stop at father and sons, even Archie Miller's sister Lisa Miller took the game seriously. Like her brothers, she also played Division I college basketball.
Archie's time as a basketball player in the wolf pack at NC State was to be an unforgettable time in his life. The coach met the woman we now know as his wife at the university. Records show that Morgan Nicole Cruse Miller was a member of the school's athletics team. She and Archie began dating while still in college and eventually became life partners sometime in 2003. Their union was blessed with a daughter whom they named Leah Grace, she was born in 2004.
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Facts About The Basketball Coach
1. Even though this coach is known as Archie, his real name is Ryan Joseph Miller. Archie is just a nickname that stuck. It is said that he earned the name after the American television series "All in the Family" from the 1970s. Apparently, his behavior resembled that of Archie Bunker, a character from the series.
2. According to reports, his mother is said to have said: "Oh my God! Red again?" she said when she learned that her son had been named head coach of the Hoosiers of Indiana. She was referring to the color of the team; most of the teams that have trained their sons are mostly dressed in red.
3. Like Archie, his brother Sean and her father John are the Beaver County Sports Hall of Famers.
4. Archie and his brother were on the coaching staff of the U19 World Basketball Championship in the USA. Sean was the head coach, and he brought Archie on the team to help him train the team. The brothers also trained together in Arizona.
5. Sean is the role model for Archie.


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Monday, January 21, 2002
Enjoy the experience
There is a beautiful universe all around us, and yet we often fail to truly experience it because we're too busy thinking about it and making judgments about it. Thought and judgment are certainly useful and valuable, yet it's also useful to regularly give them a rest.
Stop the noise in your mind for a moment and simply experience what is. When a thought starts to pop up, just let it go. Enjoy how it feels to drink in the beauty of your existence for a while without thinking about it or making judgments about it. Clear you mind for a moment and know the depth of serenity that comes when you have the confidence and faith to just let yourself be.
Each day you put forth an enormous amount of effort to build and maintain a life for yourself. So spend some time truly enjoying and experiencing that life. You work to make it good, so live the joy and beauty of it.
Regularly take time to enjoy and appreciate the wonderful, beautiful, miraculous fact that you're experiencing life, right here and now. The more fully you appreciate and enjoy what you have, the better it will become.
Ralph Marston
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Friday politics: How do we make police more accountable?
This week, we've been taking a look at how systemic racism affects our city, our region, and our state.
Joining KUOW's Angela King were Essex Porter, who covers government and politics for KIRO 7 News, and Sanetta Hunter, a victim's advocate with the King County Prosecutor's Office and a member of the governor's task force on police use of force.
Police use of force is a big topic right now in Seattle. Sanetta, the governor's task force just held its second meeting last night. So what are the big issues your group is tackling?
Sanetta Hunter: The task force is primarily focused on truly independent police investigations and also a focus on police prosecutions. The current system has repeatedly shown that they simply cannot police themselves. And so we're looking at ways to change that.
Your own son won a lawsuit against the Federal Way Police Department after he was placed in a chokehold. And last month, the city banned the use of chokeholds. How do you see the progress of police reform in the region?
Hunter: Well, certainly my son and and our family and others are grateful to see the city finally come around to ban those chokeholds and neck restraints, which is actually what we wanted from the very beginning.
You know, you simply just cannot ever justify putting your hands around someone's neck just because they're standing in the parking lot. And so we're encouraged by the decision and others like it and hopefully, while we realize it's a long road still ahead of us, but we are hopeful that is the beginning of some real monumental change.
Right now, the King County sheriff is elected by voters. But the County Council decided just this week to let voters decide if the position should be an appointed one. Why does this matter so much, Essex?
Porter: One of the reasons is actually accountability. It turns out that most of the voters live in parts of the county where the sheriff is not the primary police force. So it's those voters who select the sheriff that really polices somewhere else. Those places are represented by the County Council and the county executive.
So the thinking is that the unincorporated places would have a greater voice through their representatives, if the sheriff was appointed. The sheriff was appointed up until 1996.
In any discussion of systemic racism, there is one visible political element and that's representation. The Seattle City Council doesn't have a single Black member.
There's not a single Black member of the state Senate, and Washington state has never sent a Black person to Congress either to the House or the Senate. What's going on there? And how can our political system better represent our citizens?
Porter: Your question reminds me that Seattle Mayor Norm Rice ran for Congress. He was very popular mayor, but didn't win. Ran for governor, didn't advance there. But coming up, we have the primary for the 10th Congressional District race, that's the Olympia area. And there's a reasonable chance that the top two candidates to move on to November will both be Black women. So Washington may very well be poised to send a Black person to Congress.
The same systemic racism that plagues all of our endeavors can be more visible in politics. People have to continue fighting the battle to raise money to get recognition. To be elected to smaller offices and build a structure that lets you move on to higher offices. And of course, you know, it's incumbent on all politicians to represent all their constituents anyway.
This transcript was edited for length and clarity.
This story is part of a weeklong series on systemic racism in our institutions. Here are the interviews:
Race and the justice system: 3 areas to target, according to this Seattle professor
Race matters: Understanding how the Central Area was gentrified
Race is not a health risk factor. Racism is