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On 02/17/2011 01:19 PM, Justin Clift wrote: > On 18/02/2011, at 7:12 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > <snip> >> >> [note to self - it might be possible to drop the nc dependency in the >> future, once I finish my conversion from -migration exec: to -migration >> fd:, since the spec file only targets distros with new-enough qemu >> 0.12.0 or newer; nc would still be needed for qemu 0.10.0, though] > > Does your conversion affect how libvirt uses ssh for general communication? > > Pretty sure I've seen some part of libvirt (other than migration) use > nc + ssh for general communication to remote qemu (ie with qemu+ssh://). git grep '"nc"' has two hits: src/qemu/qemu_migration.c: const char *args[] = { "nc", "-U", unixfile, NULL }; Will still need to exist for qemu 0.10.x and 0.11.x (so we'd need it for RHEL 5.6, but not for Fedora or RHEL 6; we've already got other RHEL-version-related checks in the specfile to make that a conditional dependency). src/remote/remote_driver.c: cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (netcat ? netcat : "nc"); Oh wow - we need to convert remote_driver.c over to virCommand. However, that's the only other use of "nc", and it involves running nc on the remote host, not on the local host, so you _don't_ need to 'Requires: nc' just because you installed libvirt-client; rather, it seems like it should be libvirt (the server package) that should be requiring nc. In other words, I think we have a missing dependency if you install libvirt but not libvirt-client; the reality is that both packages should require nc (and libvirt-client can make the dependency conditional if I improve migration on newer qemu). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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"Fallin'" is a song by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It served as Keys' debut single from her debut album, Songs in A Minor (2001). Written and produced by Keys, it was released by J Records to radio and music video outlets in 2001. The song is generally considered her signature song.
The song attained global success, reaching number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100, and reached the top five in several countries. It also received numerous certifications around the world, and is one of the best-selling singles of 2001. In 2009, the single was named the 29th most successful song of the 2000s, on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade. Rolling Stone ranked it number sixty-two on their Top 100 Songs of the 2000s decade. "Fallin'" charted at 413 in Blender magazine's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born. It won three Grammy Awards in 2002, including Song of the Year, Best R&B Song, and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and was also nominated for Record of the Year.
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A moebius shawl, finished in 6 days.
And a new design, still has no name if anyone has any suggestions that would be great other wise it will be named something obvious like lace hat.
A moebius shawl, finished in 6 days.
And a new design, still has no name if anyone has any suggestions that would be great other wise it will be named something obvious like lace hat.
I finished my shawl today. I can't wait to show it off at knit night!
Also, when we went for a walk today, Sammie crashed and it was just so cute!
I love the yarn family singers, they always make me laugh.
My birthday wasn't very exciting this year, but it was a good day. I received a text from Ranna, a card from Britta and her fam, calls from my side of the family that I missed because I left my phone down stairs and at home while we were out.
When Eric was leaving, he gifted me with this.
8 oz of bare Blue Faced Leister roving. Amy I have something to dye when you get here.
Emma also picked out something.
I finished a project just in time for the Market on Sat.
When Eric got home we went to coldstone to use my free coupon. We took Justin alone because he and Emma had a bet that who ever got their rooms cleaned faster the other would have to buy them Ice Cream. Emma won.
We all went to wal-mart to pick up vanilla pudding for the Amish Friendship Bread, which I will be taking to knit night.
After dropping Justin off we went to Sam's club where I spent the money Britta gave me.
After Sam's club we ran over to Borders to use my birthday coupon on Eric's book. On the off chance of something good in the knitting section, I took a look. Justin's birthday money bought me this.
I have been obsessed with socks lately and what could be better!
When we got home we unloaded the car, made the Amish Freindship cakes. I doubled the recipe so I did 2 cakes instead of bread. Then we made dinner and watched Twilight. We picked that up at Sam's club too.
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Kami I need up close pictures of your wool and yarn!
Someone stop me now! I have 15 projects on the needles!
Dreary (it rained all day) and early yesterday morning, Kami, Tina and I headed up to wooltrek. We spent a full and fun day of spinning, dyeing, wool fondeling and buying. Here are the pictures of our day.
Tina if you have a picture of me and kami dyeing I would appreciate a copy. Also, I didn't get a picture of what you dyed! We have a very fun and exhausting day!
We got to play outside yesterday. Sammie attacked my tulips.


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The company has recently finished its three-year capex cycle adding over 2,000 or 30 per cent bed capacity. With this, it expects to benefit from the government's healthcare plan in the coming years and clock a two-fold jump in the operating profit before depreciation (EBIDTA) in the next three years.
Contrary to the perception of being a premium hospital, Apollo's management says that more than half of its bed capacity is in the affordable segment. With pan-India presence, one-third of its hospitals are in the tier II towns.
"We have at least 1,000 beds which we can make operational in few months. As a part of government's healthcare plan, we are ready to offer better pricing if there is clarity over payment structures," said Krishnan Akhileswaran, group CFO.
Analysts expect the demand for such hospitals to go up in the coming years due to severe lack of supply. The government's plan would need an estimated 10 lakh beds. The current combined capacity of big hospital chains accounts for over 50,000 beds. Apollo with over 8,000 beds across India is strategically well positioned.
For new bed additions, the hospital chain's utlilisation is 53 per cent leading to a total utilisation of only 65 per cent. High initial costs and fixed costs in new hospitals have impacted the overall margins in FY18. "Existing hospitals operate at nearly 21 per cent EBIDTA margin. For new hospitals, it is not more than 5-6 per cent. We expect it to improve gradually to 20-21 per cent," said Krishnan. He added that there would be no significant capex in the coming years.
In the seasonally weak December quarter, Apollo clocked 11.7 per cent margin, up 20 basis points year-on-year. With operating leverage kicking in, it is expected to increase to 14 per cent-15 per cent by 2021. This may lead to doubling of EBIDTA to almost Rs 1,500 crore from FY18 and its earnings per share to triple in three years. Based on this, the company's enterprise value is 12 times FY21 expected EBIDTA and 25 times expected earnings.


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I arrive just in time for my favorite show on tv , the show starts and I am watching but where is the remote control, I get up and look for it in the whole room, half the episode has passed and I can't find it I look outside the room during commercials I keep looking till the show is over and I still can't find the remote , why didn't I just sit and watch ? what I was going to do with the remote anyway ? .
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Diane Francis: Money laundering by foreigners is what's really destroying housing affordability in Canada
Of all the recent legal shenanigans in Ottawa, the failure to plug money laundering loopholes remains the most egregious.
Here's the problem: Canadian cities rate highly among the most desirable in the world, but also the most unaffordable. Vancouver took the top spot for unaffordability in 2017 based on the gap between low incomes and high prices, according to a global study. Toronto was the 13th most unaffordable — a major obstacle to attracting talent or head offices.
The culprit has been money laundering — by criminals, kleptocrats and tax evaders. Their favourite means of hiding money is real estate. In 2018, Ontario and B.C. imposed a 15 per cent tax on non-resident buyers, resulting in home sales falling around 40 per cent in Vancouver in January compared to the same period last year.
- Gouging the middle class must end, or the brain drain to the U.S. will continue unabated
- Foreigners are banned from buying property in New Zealand — Canada should do the same
- Legal loopholes give Canada a bad name when it comes to money laundering
In the Toronto region, the average sale price of a home in 2018 fell slightly to $787,300 from $822,681 — still excessive when taking income-to-pricing into consideration.
Much more must be done by governments. The foreign-buyer tax can be evaded easily because there are no transparency and disclosure requirements. Anti-corruption organization Transparency International offered a glimpse into the scale of foreign speculation abuse in 2015 with an analysis of Vancouver's 100 most valuable property deals. It found nearly 50 per cent of ownerships were hidden through shell companies, nominees and trusts. The same likely applies to Toronto and Montreal, where money is parked in condos that are often left vacant.
Statistics Canada says the RCMP estimates up to $15 billion of laundered money enters Canada each year. That doesn't include laundering by crooks who also bury proceeds in real estate. What governments must do, according to the latest report by the United Nation's Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is crack down on money laundering enablers in Canada — lawyers, real estate agents, notaries and developers.
"Requirements (in Canada) are inoperative toward legal counsels, legal firms and Quebec notaries," said the FATF report. "In light of these professionals' key gatekeeper role, in particular in high-risk sectors and activities such as real-estate transactions and the formation of corporations and trusts, this constitutes a serious impediment to Canada's efforts to fight money laundering (or terrorist financing)."
Naturally, vested interests claim money laundering and foreign buying are minuscule. But if true, then why did taxes on a small percentage of foreign owners in B.C. and Ontario (along with a ban on foreign buying in New Zealand) bring about price relief, mostly on luxury properties?
The disclosure of beneficial owners is a key solution. Otherwise, for example, real estate can be bought by a proxy person or company. Typically, funds come from a trust, managed by a shell company owned by another trust with an account in Luxembourg or Vanuatu, managed by a Swiss or Singaporean banker who doesn't know the owner. Such arrangements must be illegal. The U.S. Treasury Department now requires beneficial ownership disclosure.
This is what Canada must do to drive out dirty money and get prices in line:
— Create a public registry of beneficial owners, and penalties for non-disclosure;
— Lawyers, real estate agents and notaries must report suspicious owners and transactions, as is now required of banks;
— Speculation must be stopped by taxing residences that are unoccupied, which will also free up supply; and
— Where real estate prices have soared above affordable levels for locals, bans on foreign ownership should be imposed as has been done in New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Denmark, Poland and Malta, among others.
Current proposals by the NDP — to flood the market with new affordable housing — or by conservatives — to lift zoning restrictions — simply won't move the dial.
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John Summers: Has An Ottawa Lawyer Helped Sell Humans-Out to Demonic Aliens?
Today, I'm going to tell you very shocking news about a lawyer in Ottawa. His activities beg the rather alarming question on whether he's part of a group of 'Archons' identified in the above video excerpt by Alex Collier that is part of an effort to sell-out fellow humans to manipulative aliens for commercial profit.
John Lash revealed on Metahistory.org that the 'Archons' appear as "regular people" but are controlled by a collective demonic alien artificial intelligence mind matrix which has been responsible for orchestrating wars and countless human suffering on our planet Earth.
These entities are not from our universe but originate from a lower dimension that has reportedly sought to use its artificial intelligence to divide, rule, conquer and exploit spiritual-biological beings like humans who possess souls which endows us with higher dimensional consciousness.
The truly shocking activities of John Summers reveals apparent "fifth columns" in strategic positions of local police and among Judges who appear to be part of a "new slave trade" involving humans seeking to sell-out humans to the nefarious activities of Archons.
The most vulnerable members of human society which include "missing children", the homeless and the elderly are reportedly being exploited by alleged alien interests, and it appears that John Summers has aided and abetted a hostile agenda.
When Ottawa man Horace Carby-Samuels began to complain to friends and family about an "Extraterrestrial threat" his son sought to come to both his father's and his mother's rescue. Horace began to complain of aliens seeking to take control of his body through his mind.
The result of these reported alien incursions was that a normally mild-mannered Horace began to suffer from increasing apparent episodes where an alien mind would seize control of him which resulted in that alien personae inflicting sadistic abuse against his wife.
Raymond reported seeing his father eyes rolls in his head every time this apparent psychotic alien presence took over. During one of these episodes, the apparent alien that seized control of Horace held a knife to Raymond's stomach which sent his to the Emergency Room when Raymond had sought to protect his mother from the apparent abusive alien presence.
An informer revealed that Horace was being taken over by a commanding officer of an alien military command structure that sought to experience human emotions through Horace.
According to Alex Collier, the souls of humans are being "bottled-up" while aliens are seizing control of the bodies of human hosts. Horace appears to be one of the latest victims and it appears that we, as humans, have John Summers to thank in his continued efforts to "protect" Horace and Dezrin as the property of the aliens that have sought to use these two humans.
John Summers enters the picture just when Raymond sought to get help for both is father and mother who were being subjected to a violation of their human sovereignty.
Mr Summers claimed to be working for Horace Carby-Samuels in an effort to keep Raymond away from both his father and mother. But after Raymond told Mr Summers that this was not credible because his now retired father couldn't even afford a lawyer working at over $300/hr when his father was working, Mr Summers then revealed that he was "not at liberty" to say who he was being retained by.
In a similar manner that Africans used to sell fellow Africans as slaves for commercial profit, Alex Collier reveals that humans are apparently selling out other humans to the enable demonic aliens to subject humans to various sadistic experiments.
Both Horace and Dezrin Carby-Samuels appear to have been subjected to alien abduction and related experiments and it appears that at least one Ottawa lawyer's job is to ensure that these experiments continue without any further interference from humans like Raymond.
John Summers' key role in all this has been to make up a tissue of lies that would then be reinforced by fellow Archons working at Ottawa Superior Court. These include Justices Macnamara, Roger and Corthorn who together used their mutual ties to an apparent "University of Ottawa" clique to sabotage efforts by other judges to support Raymond's efforts.
When Raymond back in February 2016 obtained an Order from Justice Patrick Smith to protect his Mom from the sadistic alien personae that had seized control of his father's body, John Summers and his apparent Archon associates expedited a false flag operation against Raymond to ignore all evidence of abuse by Horace while also seeking to declare Raymond to be a "Vexatious Litigant" for seeking to reinstate Justice Patrick Smith's Order.
John Summers' published lies in court documents include fraudulent claims of Raymond "suffering from mental illness" and being "blacklisted by Ottawa Ambulance Services." These lies would then be treated as "fact" by his fellow Archons operating as Judges.
John Summers' activities is a wake-up call to all humans of how our planet is being destroyed as a result of those humans who seek to support an apparent alien agenda against other humans who seek commercial profit and power under the hegemony of demons.
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The Coast Guard stationed in Boothbay was returning from a search and rescue case when they encountered a shark crossing its bow.
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Shark sightings are rare in Maine, with one spotted off the coast of Kennebunkport in the summer of 2016. A great white was also tracked by a scientist from the University of New England off of Old Orchard Beach in September 2017, according to News Center Maine.


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Physiotherapy treatment has been shown to be clinically effective in significant improvement of Vestibular disorders:
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- 80 per cent of patients with BPPV after one treatment session
- Patients with a central cause (e.g. stroke) may show some improvement
- Use of VR in concussion, migraine, and nonspecific balance loss of the elderly may be helpful.
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I began to be jittery in the morning.
Liquor ceased to be a luxury; it became a necessity. Gradually things got worse. As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker.
If there was a Devil, he seemed the Boss Universal, He was on different footing. His roots grasped a new soil.
An all night place supplied me with a dozen glasses of Vodka. My writhing nerves were stilled at last.
Should I kill myself? No not now. Then a mental fog settled down. Vodka would fix that. So two bottles, and oblivion. The remorse, horror and hopelessness of the next morning are unforgettable, awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen - Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.
No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity. Quicksand stretched around me in all directions. I had met my match. I had been overwhelmed.
Alcohol was my master. An illness of this sort and we have come to believe it an illness involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can.
It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. We learned that we had to fully to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery.
The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. At the hospital I was separated from alcohol for the last time. Treatment seemed wise, for I showed signs of delirium tremors.
There I humbly offered myself to God, as of then I understood Him, to do with me as He would. I placed myself unreservedly under His care and direction. I admitted for the first time that of myself I was nothing; that without Him I was lost, asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me.
Never was I to pray for myself, except asking God to remove the wrath of Satan and the bondage of alcohol as my requests bore on my asking only for direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me. I would enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems.
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements. Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all.
These were revolutionary and drastic proposals, but the moment I fully accepted them, the effect was electric. There was a sense of victory, followed by such a peace and serenity as I had never know. There was utter confidence. I felt lifted up, as though the great clean wind of a mountain top blew through and through.
God comes to most men gradually, but His impact on me was sudden and profound. The day was January 19th approximately 9:03AM. I've never had an urge to drink since.
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Research opportunities abound for graduate student
By the time she was a sophomore, Mojaddidi '14 was working on understanding the potential inhibitory effects of a novel heteroarotinoid analog on breast cancer, in collaboration with a medicinal chemist from Touro University in Vallejo. As a junior, she presented her work at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Her impressive scientific resume helped her land an internship over the summer before senior year, which led to a permanent research position at Stanford University immediately after graduation.
Now enrolled in Dominican's MS in Biological Sciences program in the School of Health and Natural Sciences, this in-depth exposure to research continues as she works alongside Dominican faculty mentor, Dr. Meredith Protas, drawing on both genetics and molecular biology to study eye and pigmentation differences in a rare cave dwelling crustacean.
Mojaddidi first visited Dominican as a high school sophomore at Fremont's Kennedy High School, attending a humanities conference in Angelico Hall. The campus made a strong first impression – and one she remembered during her college search.
"The campus was beautiful," she recalls. "I knew when I started to look for colleges, that I would want to return to Dominican for a campus tour."
After touring the campus – including the new Science Center – and talking with faculty and students, Dominican rose to the top of her list.
"Everyone I met at Dominican was so friendly and welcoming. I talked with professors and really liked the sound of taking smaller classes, getting to know my teachers, and getting involved with research early on," Mojaddidi says.
As a Muslim-American, she also appreciated the University's interfaith community once she arrived on campus. "I have met students from many faiths, and have never once felt out of place at Dominican. This is a very open minded community welcoming to all."
It was her undergraduate research mentor, Dr. Maggie Louie, who encouraged Mojaddidi to enroll in Dominican's master's program. Mojaddidi had worked in the Louie lab examining the effects of novel cancer drugs on breast cancer cell growth, gaining exposure to a level of biochemistry not enjoyed by many of her high school classmates attending larger universities.
"Some of my friends who went to much larger schools are still working on their undergraduate degree. They've either not been able to get the classes they need to graduate, or they spent a couple of years just figuring out what they wanted to do because they didn't have anyone giving them advice or hands-on experience like Dominican."
Today, Mojaddidi and seven undergraduates are working in the Protas lab. While the undergraduates are learning lab protocols and assisting with experiments, Mojaddidi is creating her own protocols to study the genetic basis of eye and pigmentation differences in the isopod cave crustacean, Asellus aquaticus. She is comparing embryos of the surface dwelling animals - which have both eyes and pigmentation - with embryos of those living in darkness in the caves, lacking both eyes and pigment. The goal is to understand exactly when and how the changes between the two populations occur. Given that many of the genes and cellular pathways responsible for eye development in humans are the same in invertebrates, findings could help provide insight into eye degenerative diseases in humans.
The master's program allows her to think and work like a researcher, rather than a student.
"As an undergraduate, you expect to be told what to do and how to do it," Mojaddidi says. "In the master's program, you learn the techniques and are told what is expected, but you need to think about what you need to do to answer the questions and get the results. You get to think outside the box."
This is the second year the Protas lab has been established at Dominican. Working in a new lab provides both challenge and opportunity for Mojaddidi, who notes that "there's a lot of trial and error involved with the research." In recent months, Mojaddidi has created and then tested different protocols. This semester she has started to collaborate with researchers from UC Berkeley, who are working on another species of crustacean.
"The animals are not similar enough to depend on their protocol, but I am working with their graduate students to figure out tips on ways to approach my work."
Mojaddidi has completed her work at Stanford and is focusing on completing her master's degree. During her time there, she assisted on the statistical analysis aspect of experiments on patients that focused on the relationship between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Insulin Resistance. She had already been an author on three peer-reviewed and published articles with the research team from Stanford.
"I feel that Dominican has provided me with so many opportunities, both during my undergraduate and graduate years that I am well prepared and excited to decide on my next step, my doctorate – either MD or PhD – or both degrees."
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Data science and programming are two topics that continue to expand and evolve as computation, knowledge bases and best practices continue to improve. This makes it very difficult to keep up with all the new articles and bodies of thought. So We compiled a list of 10 articles we or other people have enjoyed in the past year or so on the topics of programming, data science and machine learning. We hope they provide you new perspective as well as practical advice.
1. Why businesses fail at machine learning
Imagine hiring a chef to build you an oven or an electrical engineer to bake bread for you. When it comes to machine learning, that's the kind of mistake I see businesses making over and over.
If you're opening a bakery, it's a great idea to hire an experienced baker well-versed in the nuances of making delicious bread and pastry. You'd also want an oven. While it's a critical tool, I bet you wouldn't charge your top pastry chef with the task of knowing how to build that oven; so why is your company focused on the equivalent for machine learning?
Are you in the business of making bread? Or making ovens?
2. R vs Python: What's The Difference?
With the massive growth in the importance of Big Data, machine learning, and data science in the software industry or software service companies, two languages have emerged as the most favourable ones for the developers. R and Python have become the two most popular and favourite languages for the data scientists and data analysts. Both of these are similar, yet, different in their ways which makes it difficult for the developers to pick one out of the two.
3. Automatic Machine Learning: Learning How to Learn
Iddo Drori, CDS Adjunct Associate Professor, Kyunghyun Cho, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Claudio Silva and Juliana Freire, Professors of Data Science, Computer Science, and Engineering, Remi Rampin, CDS Research Engineer, and Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Raoni de Paula Lourenco, Jorge Piazentin, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, contributed to the recent paper, AlphaD3M: Machine Learning Pipeline Synthesis.
4. How to effortlessly create a website for free with GitHub Pages
Do you need an online portfolio of your work for potential employers to check out but you don't know how to make a website? Do you want to create a blog or a business site but you don't know where to start? Is it possible that you just don't want to deal with (or pay for) website hosting, domain names, and everything else?
5. How I Trained an AI to Play Atari Space Invaders
By Vedant Gupta
Everyone is talking about the race between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence. When will AI fully surpass human ability and be in control of a majority of our daily lives? While humans spend their days going to school and educating themselves, what is AI doing to get an edge on the competition? AI needs to step up it's game!
6. Why Model Explainability is The Next Data Science Superpower
Some people think machine learning models are black boxes, useful for making predictions but otherwise unintelligible; but the best data scientists know techniques to extract real-world insights from any model. For any given model, these data scientists can easily answer questions like
- What features in the data did the model think are most important?
- For any single prediction from a model, how did each feature in the data affect that particular prediction
- What interactions between features have the biggest effects on a model's predictions
7. Why the Platform Model is Broken
A pandemic hit us hard a few years back. At that time, every startup was building the Airbnb for this or the Uber of that. The technology industry was convinced that startups could only be worthwhile if they looked like a Platform; if they aspired to be the next Facebook.
Off the back of the successes of juggernauts such as Airbnb, Uber, Amazon, Facebook, and eBay, our industry was shoehorning every business case into a Platform business model. It became the default. Unfortunately, this neurosis is still ingrained in our culture.
8. 4 Must Have Skills Every Data Scientist Should Learn
By Ben Rogojan
We wanted to follow up our previous piece about how to grow as a data scientist with some other skills senior data scientists should have. Our hope is to bridge the gap between business managers and technical data scientists by creating clear goals senior data scientists can aim for. Both entities have to take on very different problems. Both benefit when they are on the same page. This is why the previous post focused so highly on communication. It seems simple, but the gap between technical and business continues to grow as new technologies keep getting piled on every year. Thus, we find it important that managers and data scientists have a clear path of expectations.
9. How to Build a Reporting Dashboard using Dash and Plotly
I built the reporting dashboard as a multi-page app in order to break up the dashboard into different pages so it less overwhelming and to present data in an organized fashion. On each dashboard page, there are two data tables, a date range selector, a data download link, as well as a set of graphs below the two dashboards. I ran into several technical challenges while building the dashboard and I describe in detail how I overcame these challenges.
10. It's Only Natural: An Excessively Deep Dive Into Natural Gradient Optimization
To a first (order) approximation, all modern deep learning models are trained using gradient descent. At each step of gradient descent, your parameter values begin at some starting point, and you move them in the direction of greatest loss reduction. You do this by taking the derivative of your loss with respect to your whole vector of parameters, otherwise called the Jacobian. However, this is just the first derivative of your loss….


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MICHAEL, NORTH DAKOTA — Bill Smallwood, (Crow/Apsaalooke Nation), will be among the King of Cage event's card tonight at the Spirit Lake Casino& Resortin St. Michael, North Dakota for an epic evening of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) action entitled "Fighting Spirit."
King of Cage, one of the world's premier organizations for MMA, will be Broadcast Live in over 50 million U.S. households on MAVTV (214 Direct TV, 248 Dish Network).Check your local cable provider for cable station in your area.
Smallwood, 33, who will fight against Tony Cantrell, told Native News Online he will be fighting for more than to be on television.
"I work with kids, charities, non-profits, schools, rehabs and various other things – not to just be a televised professional athlete, but I fight to be equally a human being and to heal a lot of travesties that bring down our Native American people," commented Smallwood.
A former wrestler, who has won numerous national titles, Smallwood became a mixed martial arts contender after working in finance and marketing. A friend told him with his background in wrestling, he should become a mixed martial arts fighter.
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Each week the WHM gang force themselves to watch bad movies that were better left forgotten to fuel off-the-wall tangents, inane impressions and unabashed comedic silliness. This is a comedy podcast for movie lovers that can't help but relish pure trash.
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On this week's Summer Vacation Live, the gang chats about the best worst fan film ever made, Jason X! Why couldn't they film even one, single scene outside? How much money are these space scientists actually getting for crates of standard def DVDs? And how do all these people, 400 years in the future, know this much about Jason Voorhees? PLUS: Kane Hodder— method actor?
Jason X stars Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Potts, Lisa Ryder, Dov Tiefenbach, Chuck Campbell, Peter Mensah, and Melody Johnson; directed by James Isaac.


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Costa Rica-based online sportsbook BetCRIS has launched a new Elite Benefits loyalty program as a way of boosting its profile among online poker players. BetCRIS belongs to the Winning Poker Network (formerly Yatahay), which includes AmericasCardroom and other sportsbooks like 5Dimes and Bookmaker.eu. The six-tiered Elite Benefits program offers players a way to earn free entry into tournaments, poker vacations and various swag items. As players accumulate Benefit Points, they move up the Elite ranks, allowing them access to greater rewards. Unlike most online poker sites these days, BetCRIS utilizes the 'dealt' rake method of calculating a player's point total, which should help attract even more multi-table grinders to the site.
Meanwhile, a game of he-said/she-said has broken out between Swedish operator Moore Games and Playtech's iPoker network, on which Moore Games' poker offering formerly resided. Moore's poker site went offline on July 22, and a Moore rep named "José" subsequently posted a note on the 2+2 forum saying the site was offline due to a server problem on Playtech's end. A few days later, a poster dubbed "ISILDRppN" posted a message he claimed to have received from José, in which José said Moore couldn't get any response from iPoker, leaving everyone at Moore "so disappointed." José went on to say that if iPoker "doesn't come with a very good excuse and compensate both us and our players we will both change poker network and take legal actions." Subsequent efforts to load the Moore site produced warnings that the site may contain malicious software, suggesting some form of hacking had taken place, but these warnings are no longer present.
A week after the site first went dark, Moore Games CEO Samir Mujagic told PokerFuse.com that iPoker had suspended Moore's service without explanation. Mujagic blamed Playtech for Moore players' inability to access their deposits, which he claimed were in Playtech's possession. On Thursday, Playtech's poker chief Roei Gavish issued a statement saying iPoker had suspended Moore from the network over "a material breach" of network policy. Gavish went on to say that Playtech/iPoker "NEVER holds players' funds on its side. Payment systems are in the licensee's domain. We're making the efforts to audit our partners and ensure that players' funds are safe, but it's not in our direct possession."
Moore players can once again access their casino and sportsbook accounts, and cashouts are available from those accounts. Players can transfer their poker balances to the other accounts and then use those funds to wager and withdraw any subsequent winnings, but for now they cannot withdraw the transferred poker funds themselves.


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"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
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Photo of Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford from the Meharry Medical School Dental Class 1918. Early on, Meharry functioned as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College in Nashville for people of color. The department had it's first graduate in 1877. In 1886, the Dental Department was founded, followed by the Pharmacy Department. Cecil's other brothers also earned degrees: George Jr. was the first family member to graduate from Meharry as a Dr. of Pharmacy, Noel graduated with a degree in family medicine and Irving as a chriropodist (I Cannot Tell a Lie, Chapter 32).


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We, me…., we all have that one book that we have been waiting to write and have perhaps written most of it. You read for it. You go to the bed thinking about it. You dream about it.
Mine is set on an uninhabited island and the protagonist is an architect who designs a new settlement as a bid to create a model living plan for the earth. The concept germinated during a think tank project where a group of 89 minds, including a tiny bit of mine, gave ideas on how to create the ideal city for the 21st century.
It has taken me four years since and three chapters through to reach which I can now call a modern manifesto for living on Earth. IS it an ambitious one, I cant say, but I did have to leave a full time paying job to get time and energy to concentrate on what I feel is important to be out there.
The progress so far, the book is still to reach the benchmark of excellence. When you are attempting a science fiction, the world changes so much faster, that you need to be on your toes and tango around with the facts, faster than the change itself . This is the dance I'm trying to master. Can you hear the music?


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# Installed packages for system: base-bigarray base Bigarray library distributed with the OCaml compiler base-num base Num library distributed with the OCaml compiler base-threads base Threads library distributed with the OCaml compiler base-unix base Unix library distributed with the OCaml compiler camlp5 7.06 Preprocessor-pretty-printer of OCaml conf-m4 1 Virtual package relying on m4 coq 8.6.1 Formal proof management system. num 0 The Num library for arbitrary-precision integer and ration ocamlfind 1.8.0 A library manager for OCaml # opam file: opam-version: "2.0" maintainer: "email@example.com" homepage: "https://github.com/coq-contribs/mutual-exclusion" license: "LGPL 2.1" build: [make "-j%{jobs}%"] install: [make "install"] remove: ["rm" "-R" "%{lib}%/coq/user-contrib/MutualExclusion"] depends: [ "ocaml" "coq" {>= "8.8" & < "8.9~"} ] tags: [ "keyword: mutual exclusion" "keyword: concurrency" "keyword: Peterson's algorithm" "keyword: co-inductive types" "keyword: co-induction" "category: Computer Science/Concurrent Systems and Protocols/Correctness of specific protocols" "category: Miscellaneous/Extracted Programs/Automata and protocols" ] authors: [ "Eduardo Giménez" ] bug-reports: "https://github.com/coq-contribs/mutual-exclusion/issues" dev-repo: "git+https://github.com/coq-contribs/mutual-exclusion.git" synopsis: "A certification of Peterson's algorithm for managing mutual exclusion" description: """ This is a proof of certification of Peterson's algorithm for managing mutual exclusion. The case of two processes is treated in the directory called ``binary'' (see the README file in this directory). The case of n processes will be available soon.""" flags: light-uninstall url { src: "https://github.com/coq-contribs/mutual-exclusion/archive/v8.8.0.tar.gz" checksum: "md5=730abe94ee0f16f663b0dc77d7bd67e2" }
ruby lint.rb released opam-coq-archive/released/packages/coq-mutual-exclusion/coq-mutual-exclusion.8.8.0
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The Scalp Med Spray: What It Is and How It Works
The Scalp Med spray basically comes in 2 formulas: Vitdil-5A or Vitadil-2A. It can be used by men and women to reverse hair loss.
Millions of men and women begin to lose their hair every year. Many times the hair loss progresses because people are embarrassed and don't know what to do about it. Well, Scalp Med might just be what they're looking for. Scalp Med is a safe formula containing FDA-approved ingredients that are used to stimulate hair growth.
There are two formulas for users to purchase: Vitdil-5A or Vitadil-2A. Both of the formulas include the revolutionary, active ingredient minoxidil. The product can be used by both men and women for their hair loss needs. The medication is not a one-time solution however. The solution works as long as it is being used in the user's hair. There are even additional products in the hair line that will make hair soft, thick and healthy.
People who are just starting to lose their hair should not worry about using this product, as it's perfectly safe for them too. The maker of this product even encourages using it as early as possible so that the treatment is effective. The product effectively works by reversing hair loss so that hair grows back in faster and thicker. Each person's hair growth is different, however. Some people see their hair re-grow quickly, whereas for others, it takes a longer time to see hair growth.
The product actually works when the ingredient Panthenol-DX dissolves the abundance of sebaceous secretion that builds up at the opening of the follicle and also at the base of the shaft. This is what helps hair to grow.
This product doesn't stop at hair growth. It contains strong moisturizers that leave the scalp nourished instead of dry, irritated or itchy. Scalp Med stands out from other hair loss products because it doesn't cause any sexual side effects. The product is also patented protected to guarantee results.
One of the users of Scalp Med, Bonnie, wrote a review: Looking at the progress photo is amazing. Regrowth is amazing, my hair is denser and even darker! The difference between baseline and now is extraordinary.
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Yesterday, we lost a beloved brother in a tragic accident on a railroad bridge near Baldwin, La.Brother Joshua Crocram, BMWED AT&SFF Local Lodge 2409 member and employee for BNSF railroad, died following a fall into the Baldwin Canal on the Lafayette Subdivision. He was 26 years old. Brother Joshua had worked for BNSF for four years.
Brother Joshua fell from the bridge around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night. The St. Mary's Parish (La.) Sheriff's Office immediately responded to the call, assisted by the Franklin Fire Department, the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue Team, and the United States Coast Guard. Despite the efforts of many, Brother Joshua tragically could not be rescued in time.
The BMWED is immensely saddened by this loss. Brother Joshua was far too young and his death is felt deeply. Details of the accident are currently being investigated. It is a tragic and terrible reminder that our work is serious and often dangerous. We must remain ever-vigilant in our safety on the job, and remind ourselves of the hazards every single day.
"We will miss Brother Joshua. It is a sad day in this Brotherhood, and a sad day for the railroad," President Freddie N. Simpson said. "Brother Joshua's family and friends are in our prayers. We offer our most sincere condolences. The entire BMWED will keep our Brother in our hearts."
Brothers and Sisters, as always, we encourage you to all stay mindful of safety on the job. Though the investigation into Brother Joshua's tragic passing is not complete, please remember to go over all safety precautions when working on railroad track and bridges. A link to a comprehensive safety reminder through our FAMES program is attached below. We ask you all to take time and review this valuable information with your union brothers and sisters on the job site. We all want to eliminate these tragic events.


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Finding Experts By Using the Internet 2019
Finding Experts By Using the Internet 2019
I have just updated my white paper link compilation on Finding Experts By Using the Internet 2019. This AnswerSpot is a 22 page .pdf file (679KB) and freely available from the above URL. Finding Experts By Using the Internet is dedicated to giving you the internet sources to discover that needed expert(s) that you have been looking for. The Internet is a vast global resource of knowledge created by experts and the ability to find and contact these experts is extremely important for both academic activities as well as business and special interest needs. [Completely updated including all links validated and new links added on April 9. 20198 – 22 pages 679KB .pdf]. Additional white papers available by clicking here.
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Shame and horror fill your subconscious, and you never stop looking for ways to grant yourself the peace of the grave.
Benefit Once per day, as an immediate action, you can make yourself the target of any attack originally directed against a creature occupying an adjacent square.
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Election marks new era for house prices
The new age of austerity starts here and, inevitably, that will weigh heavily on the housing market
At the beginning of the year I predicted that house prices would end 2010 lower than they began. One third of the way through the year and I am forced to report that my prediction has, thus far, proved hopelessly misguided.
Since January average prices have increased by 3.5 per cent, according to Nationwide Building Society. If this rate of growth continues, average prices will be 15 per cent higher by Christmas, and I will look like a prize chump. In my defence, however, that is one almighty big if.
This week's election may yet prove to be the moment that the UK housing market finally showed that it, like everything else on our planet, is subject to the forces of gravity. That is not…


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IVF abroad – why this product may meet the demands of users from different countries?
Substantial number of people and couples nowadays face the complication connected with the fact they are unable to have children in traditional way. Thanks to diverse complications they find themselves in complicated situation, as they have everything to guarantee a child appropriate growth and conditions for further development, but the woman may not become pregnant. Consequently, the medicine contemporarily has developed diverse solutions that aim is to offer such people an opportunity to have their child they have always thought about.


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I like it here, in Québec. I like it very much.
There's my beautiful apartment with its big bed and hardwood floors, and my wonderful, smart, funny and indulgent roommates.
There's my neighbourhood with its dozen independent bookstores and multiple little coffee shops–including one that sells Sambi Coffee from Burundi.
There's the freelancing and teaching English that have enabled me to stitch together a living, not to mention the widening smiles on my students' faces, their posture straighter and more assured as they grasp a new sound or structure. The relief at having pulled myself out of a financial hole that kept me from sleeping.
There's Vieux-Quebec itself at dusk with the bracing wind and the view of the lights of Basse-Ville from the hills, which stretches out like an unending purple bolt of fabric sewn with multicoloured sequins, as vast and reassuring as the sea.
There are my colleagues from all over the world, 20 of them, with whom I've become closer and closer over the last few months. Piecing together a weekly radio show since September, plus planning an epic trip down the US East Coast and tolerating each other for a week in a single three-bedroom loft in Brooklyn, New York with a single shower cemented our bond. (There's no surer way to get to know someone than to travel with them, except perhaps to play "Never Have I Ever", so let's play "Never Have I Ever" in a rented flat in Washington, DC!–in whispers, to avoid freaking out the rather odd, strangely maternal 'birther' landlady any more than she already is). There are the three professors I like who compensate for the other two, well-intentioned but insufferably arrogant academics. Especially the radio show faculty advisor, a competent but slightly flaky Radio-Canada retiree who calls each of us vous but enjoys giving out fatherly advice and backslaps– and has gone to bat for us more times than all the other profs put together. Behind the crusty man-of-few-words exterior is a guy with a strong sense of justice and respect for others and their achievements, with zero condescenscion. And my other Quebec City friends– I don't have many, but friends and friends of friends from Russian and Burundian and Ottawa and British Columbia days have settled here, or at least been passing by, and we've had delightful moments.
But a month ago the department head (Thierry) put me on a list of exchange students bound for Belgium. To say I hadn't seen this coming was an understatement; I felt rather like Harry Potter who sees his own name popping out of the Goblet of Fire. I hadn't filled out any application or anything of the sort.
Of course, it's my choice. And I have been thinking about staying back. Where would the money come from? Where would I live? Here, I have work, and a place. But staying back would mean having to work on a thesis. I don't want to work on a thesis you damn fools, I want to work in a newsroom. I didn't enroll in a journalism program to contemplate the nature of media, damn it, but to find work in a newsroom. I have the possibility of working with the Agence France Presse in Dakar, Senegal this summer. But Thierry was categorical– no Belgium, no Senegal.
If I can find work freelancing and teaching here, what's to say I can't do it in Belgium? Or Senegal?
The last of the boxes shipping my stuff to Quebec from Europe just arrived yesterday. After spending a year bouncing from here to there with six shirts and a couple of bilingual dictionaries, it feels extremely odd to have an armoire and a bookshelf choked with my old stuff and a pile of thought-you-might-need-this (most of which, admittedly, I actually do need) from my family. My desk too is beginning to look like a settled person's desk, cluttered with pretty things– a beautiful painted box that my grandmother gave me, Dieudonné's bird, Nadège's drum, wooden clacking spoons that I won at an Acadian folk concert in (wait for it) Lausanne, a handpainted wooden coin bank from Russia in the shape of a smiling moon that I got at a flea market here in Sainte-Foy (and it really did bring me relative prosperity), a carved wooden elephant that I bought for seven Queen Elizabeth dollars from a Senegalese market lady in Harlem, feeling guilty about interviewing her about politics while resting immune to her earnest patter.
But mentally, part of me is already separating everything into piles. Ship home, take with me, give away, sell, leave here, I dunno yet.
I miss those days when half of what I owned could fit into a backpack. I've certainly had it up to here with scrambling, with rent panic and with being frugal to the point of losing weight. But I'm certainly more likely to get a job with newsroom experience than a thesis, at least that's what I think.
I have no lover here to worry about leaving behind (although I do have a cell phone contract to sort out). My job moves with me. And I keep hearing the voice of a faculty advisor who presented to me and others before I went on my first exchange, to Russia, way back in 2008 which seems like a century ago. "Canada will still be here when you get back."
Why wouldn't it?


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Inference and Visualization of Information Flow in the Visual Pathway Using dMRI and EEG
We propose a method to visualize information flow in the visual pathway following a visual stimulus. Our method estimates structural connections using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and functional connections using electroencephalography. First, a Bayesian network which represents the cortical regions of the brain and their connections is built from the structural connections. Next, the functional information is added as evidence into the network and the posterior probability of activation is inferred using a maximum entropy on the mean approach. Finally, projecting these posterior probabilities back onto streamlines generates a visual depiction of pathways used in the network. We first show the effect of noise in a simulated phantom dataset. We then present the results obtained from left and right visual stimuli which show expected information flow traveling from eyes to the lateral geniculate nucleus and to the visual cortex. Information flow visualization along white matter pathways has potential to explore the brain dynamics in novel ways.
This work has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ERC Advanced Grant agreement No 694665 : CoBCoM - Computational Brain Connectivity Mapping).
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In this chapter, we consider the representation of vector functions (often referred to as "vector fields") with low-order (constant and linear) polynomial basis functions on simple cells, such as triangles or quadrilateral cells in two dimensions or tetrahedrons and bricks in three dimensions. As will soon be apparent, there are multiple ways of defining vector basis functions, and therefore the approach requires some consideration. The proper representation of a function depends on what will be done with it-do we need to compute the curl of the function, for instance? If so, the representation might be different than if we need to compute the divergence of the function. We use the term curl conforming to denote the space of vector functions that maintain first-order tangential-vector continuity throughout the domain and can be differentiated via the curl operation, without producing unbounded or generalized functions (Dirac delta functions) in the process. The term divergence conforming is used to denote the complementary space of vector functions that maintain first-order normal-vector continuity throughout the domain and can therefore be differentiated via the divergence operation. (First order or C0 continuity is continuity of the function itself, but not necessarily continuity of its first derivatives.) The simple low-order polynomial vector basis functions in widespread use are either curl conforming or divergence conforming; seldom we will use functions that maintain complete continuity and belong to both the curl-conforming and divergence-conforming spaces, although it is possible to define such functions.
This paper describes an efficient implementation of a form of linear semi-infinite programming (LSIP). We look at maximizing (minimizing) a linear function over a set of constraints formed by positive trigonometric polynomials. Previous studies about LSIP are formulated using semi-definite programming (SDP), this is typically done by using the Kalman Yakubovich Popov (KYP) lemma or using a trace operation involving a Grammian matrix, which can be computationally expensive. The proposed algorithm is based on simplex method that directly solves the LSIP without any parameterization. Numerical results show that the proposed LISP algorithm is significantly more efficient than existing SDP solvers using KYP lemma and Grammian matrix, in both execution time and memory.
Given a graph G = (V, E) with a set W ⊆ V of vertices, we enumerate colorings to W such that for every two enumerated colorings c and c' the corresponding colored graphs (G, c) and (G, c') are not isomorphic. This problem has an important application in the study of isomers of chemical graphs such as generation of benzen isomers from a tree-like chemical graph structure. The number of such colorings can be computed efficiently based on Polya's theorem. However, enumerating each from the set of these colorings without using a large space is a challenging problem in general. In this paper, we propose a method for enumerating these colorings when the automorphisms of G are determined by two axial symmetries, and show that our algorithm can be implemented to run in polynomial delay and polynomial space.
Word search is a classical puzzle to search for all given words on a given assignment of letters to a rectangular grid (matrix). This problem is clearly in P. The inverse of this problem is more difficult, which asks to assign letters in a given alphabet to a matrix of given size so that every word in a given wordset can be found horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This problem is in NP; it admits a trivial polynomial-size certificate. We prove its NP-hardness. It turns out to be so even under the following restrictions: 1) the alphabet size is 2 (binary) and 2) all the words to be found are of length at most 2. These results are optimal in the sense that decreasing these bounds 2 to 1 makes the problem be trivially in P.
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Burbank, CA – An engaging evening with noted author/ actor Patrick Kilpatrick brings the voice to his Hollywood tell-all memoir, DYING FOR LIVING.
In the setting of one of the famous film and television studio towns in America, Kilpatrick will read excerpts and sign books at the Barnes & Noble Burbank Town Center.
DYING FOR LIVING: Sins & Confessions of a Hollywood Villain & Libertine Patriot, reveals the details of a volatile, yet privileged upbringing … a searing, often hilarious and scandalous literate look behind three decades of working with Hollywood's elite. Kilpatrick tells a rollicking tale that will keep you turning the pages! Book signing to follow.
Date: Friday, March 1st
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Barnes & Noble – Burbank Town Center
Address: 731 N San Fernando Blvd., Burbank, CA 91502
Phone: (818) 558-1383
One of the finest screen/television character actors of his generation, playing against a spectrum of Hollywood's leading action heroes, Patrick Kilpatrick's entertainment career has spanned more than 170 films and television shows as lead actor, producer, screen writer, director, and global entertainment teacher– from "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise to "Dark Angel" with Jessica Alba, from the largest production in Public Broadcasting history to the Los Angeles Theater Center with John Goodman and Academy Award winning British director Tony Richardson in Shakespeare's "Anthony and Cleopatra". He has appeared in over 75 hit TV shows such as "24", "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and all "CSI".
His action film villain appearances embrace a multitude of genres and an international Who's Who of directors, writers, production talent and leading men and women of the last quarter century. The Replacement Killers (1998 – director Antoine Fuqua) against Yun-Fat Chow, Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Caan in Eraser (1996 – Chuck Russell), Last Man Standing (1996 – Walter Hill), opposite Bruce Willis, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995- Geoff Murphy), opposite Steven Segal, The Presidio (1988) – Peter Hyams), opposite Sean Connery and Mark Harmon, two award-winning and highly rated original cable westerns opposite Tom Selleck, Last Stand at Saber River (1997- Elmore Leonard) and Crossfire Trail (2001), one western opposite Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw HBO's Premiere Films adaptation of Louis L'Amour's The Quick and the Dead (1987), and the ever-popular action mainstay Death Warrant (1990) opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme, as "The Sandman". He has even done battle with the largest mammal on earth in Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997).


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So we're trying to move the boys in together so that it frees up a room for all their goddamn toys – I know it's a sad day when they get a toy room and we don't, but hey, if it means that we can have the iPod going all the time in family room while Thomas gets his run on the dvd in the spare room, then I'll do it.
So, the first night S went to bed fine and when A came in 2 hours later he was so tired that he fell straight to sleep – very unusual for him. We usually enjoy at least 45 minutes of stories he tells himself as he falls asleep. Last night was their second night together and my god, it was pyjama party central. Usually S goes to sleep and stays that way (mostly) for the night but when A when to bed last night, he sprang up from his normal tummy sleeping position and the party was underway.
A thought that S would appreciate a run down of Thomas characters which S enjoyed immensly, cackling heartily at opportune times which of course just fed A's story telling fantasies. Truth be told, the stories are pretty lame, even by my poor standards. This moved onto an exchange of giggles as though they were passing a Playboy back and forward.
C and I were standing outside the door, trying to compose ourselves. C seems to think that we will all adjust to this arrangment soon and we'll have the house we're desperate for but I'm less convinced. Those two are bad for each other. The just g each other up and I can't have 2 small people not sleeping in this house (and 1 big one)). So, anyway, S kept waking intermittently hoping to get the party started again but was greeted only with A's (frighteningly) loud snores so had a whinge just to see if either C or I were up for some break dancing. Sadly we weren't.
I slept so goddamn badly. I've been trying to convince C all day for us to lug that (stupidly) massive cot back into the other room but he's determined to make this work, if only to provide us with some very engaging nightly entertainment .


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As in all things, the future promises an array of brand new ways and new understanding in the training of leadership as well as leadership development. They're critical role-changing contexts which will perform an important part in leadership development.
Several tendencies will assume major roles in the days ahead, changing perspectives and changing premises of old assumptions and general thinking.
Leadership competencies
First, leadership competencies (requirements) will still matter. However, they will change since the competitive environment adjustments.
A study indicates several critical forces will certainly shape leadership later on: 1) global competition, 2) information technology, 3) the need for rapid and versatile groups, 4) teams, and 5) differing employee requirements.
Future leaders must be familiar and water in doing business on a global basis. Globalization, in effect, will require leaders to manage more and more complex groups outside the realm of their own organizations.
There will be a lot more components involving global markets, global monetary trends, and exterior regions like the Asia Pacific rim, the actual Southern Hemisphere, etc. You will see an extensive use of the web in the marketing of products and services.
The revolution in technology has significantly altered organizational life. It has changed the ways information and knowledge are obtained and spread.
One of the most important changes is in the way people communicate. This had produced some deep ramifications in terms of effective leadership. In the future, technology may have a vast participation inside leadership development.
Leaders will have to be more knowledgeable together with technology and its utilizes. As a matter of fact, technological savvy is scheduled to become an integral factor in leadership.
Character and also integrity
The 1990s had produced some of the most blatant corporate arrogance among executives regarding certain huge corporations. (Think Enron and WorldCom.)
This had triggered as well as accelerated sentiments amongst governing board people in companies that character as well as values shall be made more prominent within the leadership business.
There's a trend among the new crop of Business owners to be self-effacing and modest. (This is in primary contrast to the self-promoting styles of well-known business leaders prior to them who was without enduring positive effects on their companies when they exited.)
Return on investment
The best pressure of authority practitioners in the future would be to demonstrate ROI (roi). Leadership development may be strategically important, however it is altogether expensive.
Todays leading-edge organizations (Pepsi, IBM J&J) happen to be quantifying the benefits of spending time and resources on authority development for years.
In the future, it is likely that authority development investments is a priority of agencies committed to this finish. However, plans are afoot to maximize ROI for leadership advancement efforts by way of efficient planning, implementation and also evaluation.
New thinking
Some time from today, the thinking would be that leadership and management development are going to be fundamentally collaborative, social and relational techniques. It shall be understood as a collective capability of all members of the business.
This kind of leadership development is more difficult to design and implement. The reason being it is in primary contrast to the well-known notion of the past years where the focus would be to train individual frontrunners.


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I will never temp again. I will never temp again. I will never temp again. That's been my mantra after every temp assignment, dating back 12 years. And that's what would run through my head during yoga class, were I to take yoga, or even own one of those mats everyone carries around with a smug look on their face. It's not that every temp experience has been negative, though many have. It's that a temp assignment feels like treading water, whereas a freelance project or full-time job feels like swimming. Both are better than unemployment, which feels like drowning.
I have another short-term temp assignment this holiday season, again courtesy of wifey's employer. The full-time receptionist is on vacation, and I am filling in. This isn't where I imagined myself after college, when I first manned a front desk, after grad school or even after my last layoff. But this is where I am. So I'm going with it, tail tucked firmly between my legs. If my dad can sell stereos with a PhD, I can answer phones with an MBA. Maybe my hypothetical future kid will repair Slurpee machines with an MD. Someone has to carry on the proud family tradition.
Getting up and getting out of the apartment made me feel like a normal person. Oh, how I missed the morning routine… waking to the talk radio voices on my 20-year-old clock radio, stumbling to the shower that doesn't drain, racing for the subway in the frigid cold. Believe it or not, I couldn't decide what to wear my first morning. All my work clothes were still in dry cleaner plastic from a year ago. Putting them on felt odd, like they didn't fit right anymore.
I was actually a little nervous that morning too, and even the night before. What if I missed a call? What if I broke the phone system? What if I tripped over my own two feet (as I often do), spilling coffee on a computer, causing it to explode and burn down the entire building? This is my wife's company, our household's main source of income. Besides, what would failure say about job prospects in my field? How could I expect to find the right job if I couldn't do this job? The question is ridiculous, of course. I'm not actively looking for receptionist work, so one has little bearing on the other. But that's how the unemployed mind works sometimes.
Answering phones has changed a little in 15 years, but mostly in the details. People still call; I still answer. Some are friendly and chatty. Some don't have time for anything, least of all pleasantries with a peon. Most fall in between, but closer to the friendly side. Here's a typical exchange (receptionist humor)…
Me: Good morning, Company X
Caller: May I please speak to So and So?
Me: May I ask who's calling?
Caller: Such and Such with Company Y
Me: One second please…
And then I transfer the call.
One difference is that people now call from cell phones, often while walking though a wind tunnel, conducting three meetings and ordering lunch. I sometimes have to wait for the caller to get around to talking to me. The calls come in waves. And when the waves of calls come, so do the messengers and visitors, ringing at the front entrance to be buzzed in. Each appears on a three-inch black-and-white security monitor next to me, looking like a perp in a police TV show. The security camera makes even old ladies and babies look like criminals, which serves them right. The busy times are late morning and mid-afternoon, usually on the hour or half hour.
The front desk is often quiet for 10 or 15 minutes at a time. This is likely because of the holidays. When not answering phones, signing for packages and pressing the door buzzer, I surf the Internet or mess around with my blog. I avoid job sites, because my monitor is out in the open and visible to passersby. We wouldn't want visitors to get the wrong idea. When the internet gets boring, as it does when my go-to sites aren't updating, I just stare out at the lobby. All the austere-looking marble reminds me of the lobby at a previous employer. That one is intimidating by design. This one is smaller and not at all intimidating. Sometimes wifey drops by to say hello.
Offices seem to be interconnected and interdependent. This office has its own internal patterns as well. People go to the bathroom, or at least pick up the key from the front desk, in waves. Busy times are generally around 11:00 and 3:00. (Bathroom key etiquette is complicated enough to deserve it's own post.) I've settled into my own patterns. Video footage airs near the elevator banks, and I respond to the voices with random goofy comments every time I walk by. I'm strapped to a desk by a phone cord all day, so I take full advantage of my free time.
Admitting to thinking about bathroom patterns and answering random voices won't help me find another full-time job. But it's nice to know I'm still capable of an honest day's work; all the unanswered job inquiries eat away at my confidence sometimes. If full-time work continues to elude me, temp work can put a little money in my pocket. It's not ideal. It's not a stepping stone to greatness. But it doesn't have to be painful either, as proven these last few weeks. Treading water is much better than drowning, even if I'd rather be swimming.