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Dave Alber's article "Getting Social at Suzhou's Night Market" appeared in Suzhou, China's Suzhou Review newspaper on May 28, 2018.
"Getting Social at Suzhou's Night Market" contains the following travel illustrations by Travel Writer Dave Alber:
• Eating with Friends at Dachengfang Guanqian Night Market (Suzhou, China)
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"Getting Social at Suzhou's Night Market"
by Dave Alber
Too often our lives can be compartmentalized by the social roles of work, school, home, or contracted into a hunched-over typing into so-called "social media". By contrast, night markets offer a great opportunity to bring people together in the real "off-line" world. Bringing different social groups together allows for people from different institutions and even different countries to get together and share experiences. Doing so, we become human beings interacting again, as opposed to "work robots" or texting appendages to cellphone masters.
The night market in Suzhou that our group chose was the Dachengfang Guanqian Night Market. It is one block west of the Temple of Mystery (Xuanmiao Temple) in Lequiao. I recommended the place because I had been there one year ago when it was much livelier; a second row of shops had been set up in the center of the road which was filled with tables and chairs, as cars were kept clear of this social space. However, now as the vendors told us, the police had told them to clear the street of tables, chairs, and vendor's stalls. Replacing them, there were now a few cars parked empty and useless in the street. These derelict cars littering the street like discarded cigarette butts, were bleak symbols of an affluent disregard for the communal space of others. It made me sad to see that human beings had lost this social space. The abandoned cars had won.
However, as we found a restaurant that was willing to set up tables and chairs outside as in this night market's heyday, our group was happy, eating street food together and enjoying hot plates of crawfish, grilled oysters, steamed clams, and barbequed meat all served with bottles of cold beer. Our group was a mixed bunch; there were people teaching at three different educational institutions, people from five nations, collectively speaking almost twenty languages. Interestingly, three of the five people from Spain were world famous graffiti artists from Madrid who were here with the curator of the local gallery, Suzhou 56 Cultural and Creative Park where this graffiti army was exhibiting their graffiti event called "Freedom World" and hosting an art party on Saturday, May 26th.
I asked those in this creative and linguistically diverse group, "Who inspires you?" for I believe that one of the best things we can talk about in life is our collective and individual inspiration, wonder, and joy. I started by giving an example, telling people that the illustrator Dave McKean seems to be able to do almost anything. His graphic novel Cages is, in my estimation, the best piece of comic art ever created. A jazz pianist at our table who plays regularly in Shanghai shared that Bill Evans inspires him. Evans was known for revolutionizing the harmonic language in jazz piano. One of the graffiti artists shared, "All of those people whose lives are a lesson for the rest of us. All of them. There are far too many people to name, whosoever they may be."
Indeed, and its an honor to be among those whom are "too many to name" sharing good food, conversation, and inspiration. Because in our city life, where our external environment is often too crowded with cars and our internal world is drawn increasingly into the tunnel-vision of a cell phone's demands, its nice to escape back into human spaces like night markets where crawfish, steamed clams, roasted oysters, and barbequed lamb become all the social media we need.
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Dave Alber is a fine artist in Suzhou, China. His Travel Art can be found at DaveAlber.com and in China at ArtAnd.cn. Suzhou 56 Cultural and Creative Park's "Freedom World" can be found on WeChat by scanning the QR code below:
Dave Alber is a Travel Painter whose illustrations have appeared most recently in That's Shanghai, Suzhou Review, Open Magazine, and Nepali Renaissance. His comic "Bedding Shanghai" was featured in the 2018 Shanghai International Literary Festival's Erotic Fiction Contest. For a limited time, Dave's art catalogue Dave Alber: Travel Art: 2018 Part 1: Intimations can be preordered for free at DaveAlber.com. Longer bio and Artist Statement here.
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I honestly never have heard a perfectly stated description of brain fog before. I have always thought that I entered into a mental decline that has yet landed. I wondered if I have early onset Alzheimers so I like the name "brain fog." That somehow seems less sinister – even though it isn't really. It is confidence sucking, totally demoralizing, long-term funny-land and I think there are very few people who suffer to the degree of which you refer and I concur.
The part about people thinking we don't care is all too true and frustrating. I sometimes call my grandkids by their sister or brother's name by mistake and they look at me like I'm definitely not "all there" while their parents think I'm just to lame to pay attention and don't realize how hurtful it is for their kids to be mixed up in Nanny's head!
As to forgetting important info, I forgot that my sister called me to tell me that her husband had cancer and would be starting chemo immediately! (You think that wasn't a hard one to explain?) There have been so many other examples but I don't especially enjoy reminiscing about them.
It was good to hear your voice though – Now I just hope I will remember it!
What a great article! I have such a hard time coping with "brain fog". I have to write down all my appts., things to do and such. It's embarrassing because I used to have a knack for remembering everything. I love the notebook idea also!
Yes, I have it so bad that I can't even write. I can't write text, like trying to write this. I used to be a halfway intelligent person but by reading my text you'd never know it. Does anyone else have trouble writing?
I do have trouble writing cursive and so I print. It' not great but better than cursive. I also have a great deal of trouble spelling! It all does make you feel kinda dumb! Sorry, but it 's true. Hope things might improve for you!
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I have a lot of trouble remembering things I have to do, so I started a WEEKLY to-do list. I always end up adding to it, but on Mondays I try to write everything down — house work, appointments, etc. I even write down my exercise and then cross it off. It really helps my sense of accomplishment and gives me the urge to do some more!
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Thomas Edison developed a system of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories – a crucial development in the modern industrialized world. Electrical engineering is another example of how engineering has had such an impact on our lives.
Edison is known for having made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps".


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How to stop snoring
Is your snoring driving your loved ones crazy? Is it waking you up multiple times every night? Instead of feeling like a zombie in the mornings from a lack of sleep, follow these tips to kick that snoring to the curb.
Change Your Sleep Position
Sometimes the position you sleep in can aggravate your snoring. You should try to elevate your head by four inches or so. That will ease your breathing and encourage your tongue and jaw to move forward. There are pillows which are specifically designed to help prevent snoring by ensuring your neck muscles aren't compacted and crimped.
Sleep on Your Side, Not Your Back
For some, sleeping on their backs should be avoided because it can cause snoring to be worse than it would be in other positions. But it can be hard to stay off your back when you're used to that position. To remind yourself not to sleep on your back, attach a tennis ball to the back of the shirt you sleep in. You can use duct tape to attach it, or sew a sock onto the back of the shirt and put the ball in the sock. Every time you try to roll onto your back, those tennis balls will remind you to switch to your side. After a few nights, you'll get used to sleeping on your side, and you'll be able to ditch those tennis balls.
Try an Anti-Snoring Mouthpiece
These mouthpieces help open your airway by bringing your lower jaw and tongue forward while you're sleeping. A bigger airway means less snoring or even no snoring at all. It can take a while to get used to sleeping with the mouthpiece in though – it resembles a mouth guard you'd use for playing sports.
Clear Your Nasal Passages
Stuffy noses can lead to a lot of snoring. If you reduce the stuffiness, you'll snore less. To fight stuffy nasal passages, rinse your sinuses with saline before you go to bed. You can also try using a Neti pot, nasal decongestant, or nasal strips to open your passages up. Taking care of any allergy symptoms you're experiencing will also help. Avoid your allergic triggers or use an allergy medication to keep those nasal passages clear.
Use a Humidifier
Dry air can lead to snoring by irritating membranes in the nose and throat. If the dry air seems to bother you, get a cool-mist humidifier and see if it solves your problem.


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Da Gardin' Cosy up after a day exploring in the beautiful lounge on the first floor with views over Lerwick harbour. The living room features sofa, chairs, LCD TV with Sky and contemporary entertainment unit, lamp, a nest of tables, floor and table lamps.
The accommodation in detail -
Access to the front door is from Reform Lane. To the left of the entrance door is a small decked area, suitable for alfresco dining on long summer evenings. On entering the property the accommodation is spread over two floors. The front door opens into a spacious hallway with access to the large modern kitchen diner, which is well appointed and includes - induction hob, eye level oven, microwave oven, dishwasher, fridge/freezer and combination washer-dryer.
Family bathroom with WC, vanity unit and double ended bath underfloor heating and heated towel rail, perfect for pampering after a day's exploring.
Also on the ground floor is the large master bedroom with views over the rooftops of Lerwick, with en-suite comprising walk-in shower, vanity & WC.
A further double and twin room are located on the first floor. All bedrooms feature quality beds and comfortable Harrison mattresses, built in wardrobes, chest and bedside cabinets. The third bathroom has a stylish vanity unit, WC, heated towel rail & walk-in shower. The bathrooms are all fully tiled with the luxury of underfloor heating. All heating, electricity, WIFI, towels and linen are included.
Free parking is available nearby on the Hillhead.
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This is just something I have been thinking about lately.
Everyone gives love and receives love in different ways. (Cue 5 love languages!)
For women, we want to be treasured. Ever since we females were youngins- we were daddy's little princesses.
Essentially, we felt "special" because we were given the role of princess.
Now, times have changed, we're older and while princess isn't a common relationship nickname, we still want to feel treasured by those who hold our affection. (Sidenote: That's also why I think that a God that pursues his bride is so awesome).
I do have one thing to add before you take a gander at the list I found on Deviant Art.
If your partner/wifey also has a chronic illness, remember to let them know that you want to be with them. Chances are, they feel like burdens, not so attractive, and like a waste of resources. I guess in a sense I got lucky because my ex was a nurse, so he was good at not freaking out when I would convulse or spasm. Instead he would hold my hand while we waited for it to end.
I'm going to write another blog on dating and chronic illness soon (if I can manage).
But anyways, as I was exploring the net I found this post which was pretty right on, and ironically it was on deviant art, in it there are some ideas you can do to make your lady feel treasured. I agree with most of this list.
(One thing that isn't on the list that I would add is: Pray for her. Pray together!)
So without further adu, here it is:
- by birth-by-silence, Oct 19, 2009, 5:31:04 PM
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2. Hold her hand at any moment, even if it's just for a second. Make her feel protected.
3. Leave her voice messages to wake up to.
4. Always tell her you love her every second of the day.
5. When she is upset, hold her tight and tell her how much she means to you.
6. Recognize the small things . . . they usually mean the most.
7. Sing to her no matter how horrible your voice is.
8. Pick her over all the other girls you hang out with.
9. Write her notes. (She loves them.)
10. Introduce her to family and friends . . . as your girlfriend.
11. Play with her hair.
12. Pick her up, tickle her, and play-wrestle with her.
13. Sit in the park and just talk to her.
14. Throw pebbles at her window in the middle of the night . . . just because you missed her.
15. Let her fall asleep in your arms.
16. Carve your names into a tree.
17. Never refuse to kiss her in public.
18. Give her piggyback rides.
19. Bring her flowers
20. Treat her the same around your friends as you do when you're alone.
21. Look her in the eyes and smile.
22. Let her take as many pictures of you as she wants.
23. Slow dance with her, even if there isn't any music playing.
24. Kiss her in the rain.
25. Love her. If you don't, you're not going to treat her like a queen. Assuming that love is in place, it is up to you to treat her well.
26. Give her a nickname that she loves and makes her feel special.
27. Treat her special! Open doors for her, give her your coat when she's cold, don't let her walk on the curb, carry her purse, etc.
28. Do something for her without her asking you to do it. Surprise her by getting a card for her for no reason. Buy her chocolate on your way back home. Drop by or give a random call telling her that you miss and love her. Understand that little things mean a lot! A love note, rose, sweet text message or things like this just to let her know you are thinking of her and care for her.
29. Make her feel like the best thing in your life. She probably is!
30. It's okay to have friends (male or female); however, if your girlfriend has a problem with the female friends you should be willing to compromise.
31. Be careful about complimenting other girls, especially if she doesn't know them. She may get jealous and angry with you.
32. Don't ever hug friends for too long, especially if you know she's not too fond of the friend. Also, don't treat your female friends like you'd treat her. She's a special part of your life, so save the cuddly stuff exclusively for her. Don't lean your head against one of your female friend's heads or nap with any of your female friends. This will only make her jealous and distrusting.
33. When people diss her, stand up for her.
34. Be her best friend. Girls can be insanely loyal; she will be yours, no question.
35. Be yourself. Don't put on a fake show of yourself.
36. When you are spending time with her, make sure she has your attention. Make sure you listen to her and talk to her. Just sitting beside her doesn't count as time together.
37. DON'T CHEAT ON HER. It may seem foolproof, but girls tell each other everything about everything. Trust me, she WILL find out and you WILL be dead (or over.)
38. Beware of every single male relative and all guy friends. Any of them would kick your ass at the drop of a hat, and a lot of them wouldn't even wait for the damn hat.
39. Every girl should eventually get THREE THINGS from her boyfriend- a stuffed animal, one of his sweatshirts, and a really pretty ring. Even if it's not a serious relationship.
40. If a guy is bothering her, it is your right to kick the shit out of him.
41. If you're talking to a female friend of yours, pull your girlfriend closer.
42. Memorize her god damn birthday. You forget her birthday and you're basically screwed for life. Make her feel like her birthday is the most special day in the world
43. DON'T give her something stupid for her birthday or Christmas or Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be expensive, but it has to be meaningful. Jewelry is always nice.
44. After you've been dating for a while, realize that they really have started to trust you. When you have a girlfriend who truly trusts you, you have a lot more responsibility, privilege and control than you would think. Be careful with it, most guys would kill for that kind of power, and it can be lost in a nanosecond.
45. Put your arms around her waist and whisper in her ears.
46. Look deep into her eyes, put both hands on her cheeks, and tell her you love her more than anything.
47. Be the best boyfriend in the world.
48. Buy or make her something special once a month to show your love.
49. When something makes her mad stay with her until she is smiling again. When she is crying wipe her tears away with your hand and hold her until she stops to let her know that you'll always be there for her
50. Look at her like she is the only woman in the world that you see.
51. Always remember the way and the date that you met.
52. Have your portrait taken together. It will be a lifetime memory of your happy relationship and it may come in handy some day in the future– when you need a photo for the newspaper engagement announcement!
53. Never talk about your ex-girlfriend in front of them.
54. Be her superman: no matter what she says or how she reacts to things, she's always going to need you. Never let her down by failing to return a call or text and making her worry.
55. If you make a promise to her about something important, keep it. Disappointment is one of the worst things that can happen to her, and when it comes from you it significantly hurts her.


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Abuse isn't just about bruises. Not all forms of abuse leave bruises where we can see them,The Definition Of Domestic Violence in 2018 . Although physical abuse is terrifying and needs to be addressed immediately there are other forms of abuse that can cause significant damage. One type of abuse that is very difficult for outsiders to detect is financial abuse. Marriage should be a partnership but when one spouse completely dominates the finances to the point that the other spouse has no control and no options financial abuse may be occurring.
What Are Signs of Potential Financial Abuse?
Every married couple handles their finances differently. In some cases one spouse handles the majority of the finances. They manage the accounts, pay the bills and deal with creditors. That does not by itself equal financial abuse.
Financial abuse occurs when one spouse is treated like an irresponsible child and Abuse Counselors Near Me . They are cut off from funds and their knowledge about the couple's finances is severely limited. Some signs of financial abuse include:
•Strict Allowances. This isn't an amount that the spouses have agreed to limit themselves to but is instead a set amount that is grudgingly handed out from one spouse to the other and is all that will be given.
Documents, documents, documents. Written evidence is incredibly strong and can range from credit card bills showing that there is a credit card but that you aren't named on it to emails from your spouse that show the financial abuse.
Other witnesses can be incredibly powerful on your behalf. Financial abuse is hard for people outside the relationship to detect. So when someone credible comes in and tells the judge that it is happening and they can see it the judge will listen and Domestic Violence Effects On Society .
The Definition Of Domestic Violence in 2018 ?
Domestic/family abuse can have many forms, including physical violence, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, intimidation, economic deprivation, and threats of violence. Abuse is typically progressive; oftentimes emotional and psychological abuse is a precursor for violent and criminal forms. According to the US Department of Justice's 2005 Family Violence Statistics report, family violence accounted for 11% of all reported and unreported violence between 1998 and 2002, totaling a staggering 3.5 million violent crimes. The report indicates 49% were crimes against spouses, 11% were sons or daughters victimized by a parent, and 41% were crimes against other family members.
Domestic violence and abuse does not discriminate, it occurs in all cultures; people of all races, ethnicities, religions, sexes and classes can be perpetrators or victims of this violence. Yet, research indicates that certain demographics and subgroups are more prominent as victims and as offenders. For example, according to the American Medical Association, as many as 1 in 3 women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime as compared to 15% of victims being men.
With family violence also comes the intergenerational cycle of violence. In 1 in 3 domestic violence incidents, the victims had children in common with the offender, and in 1 in 4 incidents, there were multiple victims. Children and youth exposed to violence are likely to develop behavioral problems, such as regressing, exhibiting out of control behavior, and other behaviors that mirror those which they were exposed. Unfortunately, this cycle produces children who may think that violence is an acceptable behavior of intimate relationships and thus, become either the abused or the abuser. An estimated 1/5 to 1/3 of teen-aged youth subject to viewing domestic violence situations experience teen dating and intimate partner violence, regularly abusing or being abused by their partners verbally, mentally, emotionally, sexually and/or physically. Hence, the average age of the abused and the abuser as it relates to juvenile domestic violence is 16. Family violence research indicates that juvenile domestic violence offenders are more likely to be male; approximately 90% of this violence is targeted towards women. If not prevented or addressed, youth continue the cycle into adulthood; 30-50% of dating relationships can exhibit the same cycle of escalating violence in their marital relationships.
This cycle must be broken. One solution is to address the significant need for family violence abuse prevention and intervention treatment specifically targeting violence and abuse saturated areas. Thankfully there are several organizations with this mission in mind as well as funding available to aid this undertaking, giving hope for domestic violence reduction in our future.
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Maya had the dream life. She had a career she loved. She married when she was mature enough to pick a partner for the right reasons. She had a partner, a son, a daughter and a lovely puppy. Add the picket fence and you could say she had it all. On the surface of course...
Beneath the surface she was struggling with the demise of a marriage due to the malicious interactions of a verbally and emotionally abusive mother in law who was going unstopped in the family. This women had such control over the men in her family, that she could say and do as she pleased, and no one would stop her from viscious behavior. Maya became the victim of emotional and verbal abuse, first from her mother in law, then her extended family members, and then ultimately from her husband. She was a highly educated women, so how could anything so serious be happening in her life?
The walls came crashing down upon Maya, when her mother in law crossed the line to not only verbally and emotionally abuse her, she repeatedly hurt her infant son too. The saddest thing about this situation, is that her mother in law "did not intentionally" verbally and emotionally abuse anyone. Even though she was the former manager of a pre-school, she did not consider that flying into a mad rage directed at Maya in front of her 2 month old son, would ultimately harm the baby.
After experiencing from Maya how bad abuse can get from an intimate family member, I have committed my life's work to spiritually healing abuse survivors, so you become the mothers, lovers, and the professionals you deserve to be. I will be publishing a series of articles called, "You're the First", that will be about how women and men have turned around difficult situations, and become highly successful in their own right. Believe in yourself, you can get anything you dream of...


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In 1994, I wrote a book called Underground Nation describing all the immoral tax avoidance going on in Canada from rich guys parking money offshore to welfare, health care, immigration, refugee and Workers Compensation rip-offs.
But the policy response was always the same: No crackdown and higher taxes to make up for losses, rooted in the myths that the vast majority of Canadians were honest and would always pay their taxes.
So the Financial Post commissioned a nationwide poll, promising confidentiality, asking Canadians if they cheated in one of the following ways: hiding income, paying cash to avoid sales taxes and/or taking undeserved entitlements. Preface to the poll was a promise of secrecy and the statement that over-taxation and under-supervision were perhaps greater immoralities.
The results were shocking and about 40 per cent of all respondents admitted to one or all three forms of cheating. Quebec and Atlantic Canada had the highest percentage of cheating, but the malady was pervasive, blamed mostly on overspending governments or on the fact that others were doing the same.
Since then, health care and other entitlements have been somewhat tightened up, but my guess is that income or sales tax cheating and aggressive avoidance, through a range of "legitimate" actions, has gotten dramatically worse. And still nothing changes.
But now the big nations -- the United States and the European Union with its tax havens -- are finally preparing to crack down on tax leakage as they struggle with debt and entitlement burdens and slow growth.
They have few choices: High profile tax evasion in Greece, Cyprus and Southern Europe has rattled the EU, as has Russia's no-tax enticement of Gerard Depardieu to its jurisdiction. Finally, steps are being taken to remove secrecy in financial centers such as Luxembourg, Ireland, Austria and even the Switzerland.
The United States is also realizing that its tough system is being eroded by international tax gamesmanship. This week, the CEO Tim Cook of America's Darling, Apple, was grilled by Congress on its clever tax avoidance schemes around the world and pilloried alongside Wall Street's greedy and parasitic sector. Britain attacked Google's and Amazon's tax games, too.
But shame won't do the job. Only an international tax regime, and rewriting of tax treaties that facilitate cheating, will.
To that end, the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is preparing a template for international tax collection to eliminate loopholes and rein in evaders that will be presented this fall to the G20.
As my poll showed in Canada, cheating is rampant. Apple testimony revealed that the company, for tax purposes, was resident of no nation in order to take advantage of the best tax deal. This, by the way, is a well-worn technique used by tax avoiders for years. As I've written many times, one of Canada's biggest business empires, the Irving group of companies in New Brunswick, is "owned" by a series of family trusts in Bermuda where there are virtually no income taxes.
Similarly, Magna Corp. founder Frank Stronach and his family dodged Canadian taxes beginning in 1994 when he became a resident of Switzerland. But he still ran the company until recently and his daughter became a Tory then Liberal cabinet minister. He now wants to be Austria's head of state.
And yet he boasted to me about leaving in 1994: "Corporate income taxes in Switzerland are negotiable. The government sat down with me and said, 'You're our customer,' and that was its attitude."
The tone at the top has been dreadful here: former Prime Minister Paul Martin's family shipping business in Barbados has been sheltered from Canadian taxes due to a favorable tax treaty between the two governments.
While Canada has been a lost cause in terms of tax reforms, the international concern builds and may finally make a difference. What may help more than any development is that, given the questionable tax behavior of America's trio of digital superstars, the United States may even agree finally to international collaboration in tax matters rather than relying on its own system, now revealed to have become exceedingly porous when it comes to corporations.
(An estimated $2-trillion of retained profits are held in tax havens by American multinationals due to tax loopholes and inadequate tax treaties.)
The OECD hopes to eliminate the use of "hybrids", or structures that arbitrage between tax jurisdictions in order to find the lowest rates. And the organization has also led calls for censure and sanctions against known tax/secrecy havens in the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Even so, the problem remains: one person's smart tax planning is another's tax evasion or one country's banking system is another's legalized money laundering instrument. Britain is a case in point, morally indignant about taxes but a haven for foreign entities, corporations and manager of the Channel Islands.
But its Prime Minister, whose father ironically made a fortune setting up tax haven structures for the wealthy, has led the call for reforms and heads the G8 this year. He spearheads a move toward transparency, possibly the best weapon to shame or catch tax cheats.
Perhaps the time has finally come for the globalization and coordination of taxation policy. But it's long overdue.
In my 2008 book, Who Owns Canada, I asked four Canadian billionaires what they thought about those who make money in Canada, leave and never pay taxes again.
Late Toronto developer Fred Degasperis, an Italian immigrant, said "Anybody successful in Canada can take their money and live six months a year plus one day and steal the money from us? No way."
Drug store magnate Jean Coutu said: "I made my money here and I owe it to the Canadian people to spend, invest and pay taxes here."
Jack Daniels, a refugee from Poland who became a successful architect and developer, said: "I would never, ever dream of doing such a thing like going offshore. It's just not right to do this to our country and its future. It's just wrong. It's awful, in fact."
And the last word goes to Seymour Schulich, Canada's foremost philanthropist: "I think you owe allegiance to the place that gave you the opportunities. Americans [individuals] pay taxes no matter where the profit was made and that's the way it should be."
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Tribune Publishing, the newspaper division of the Tribune Co. TRB, +3.04%, is anticipating operating expenses will come in lower than in 2004, Scott Smith, the president of Tribune Publishing said at the NAA Mid-Year Media Review conference in New York. "As we look at the soft revenue picture, we are committed to operating expenses remaining under last year, even with an increase in promotional spending." The Tribune is undertaking steps to lift readership, including marketing. The division expects to "substantially reduce" the year-over-year decline in circulation by the September ABC industry-wide circulation figures, he said. "Churn is declining across our papers," he said.
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- Building dimensions: 450 sq ft
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Domaine Annie-Sur-Mer
Rustic chalet with amasing view on the sea and Metis lighthouse!
Down Highway 132 and the sea, our cabins and rooms are an oasis of enchantment. During your stay in our beautiful region, you will have the opportunity to relax in a very friendly atmosphere. For over 80 years, families in Quebec and Ontario come in large numbers to relax on the shores of Métis-sur-Mer and many are those who have adopted our institution.
Since Domaine Annie-sur-Mer is for families above all, we offer a full range of accommodation to suit all budgets. Whether our comfortable rooms or our cottage VIP, you will find the accommodation that meets your needs.
In addition, only at five minutes walk, you will have access to Camping Annie's numerous amenities: heated pool, games room, playground, observation tower, forest trail and much more! Something for the whole family!
We also offer other cottages with 1, 2 or 3 rooms (2 to 7 persons per cottage)
Near this cottage
- Body of water: Golfe St-Laurent (sur l'eau)
- Golf course: Boule Rock (5 Km)
On site: heated pool, playgrounds, petanque, pitch horseshoes, kayak, observation of marine life, walking trail, observation tower.
In the neighborhoods: Métis Gardens, two golf courses, salmon fishing, Sea museum of Pointe au père, restaurants, the art road, canyon gates of hell, lelièvre karting, museum of New France and mead at the Old mill. .
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Welcome to the end of Week 4 of the Choose Your Own Adventure Quilt-Along! Today we have the instructions for Border 4.
NOTE: This is one post in a series of quilt-along posts. Start from the beginning with the first post {here}.
We are once again checking in with all our sewers on Instagram, so scroll to the bottom of this post to see how other campers are coming along.
For instructions for the previous posts, click on the links below:
- Center (Path A) – Dresden Peak
- Center (Path B) – Star Valley
- Border 1
- Round 1 (Path A) – Four Points
- Round 1 (Path B) – Cross Creek
- Cornerstone 1 – Tulip Field
- Border 2
- Round 2 (Path A) – Over the River
- Round 2 (Path B) – Pinwheel Point
- Cornerstone 2 – Star View
- Border 3
- Round 3 (Path A) – Goose Grove
- Round 3 (Path B) – Arrowhead Lake
- Cornerstone – Bow Tie Bridge
- Border 4 (this post)
If you get lost along the way, just click on the Index tab at the top of the blog to see all of the links to the QAL posts in order.
- (2) 2″ x 52.5″ strips for top/bottom borders
- (2) 2″ x 55.5″ strips for side borders
NOTE: The fabric requirements were calculated to use background fabric for this border but feel free to make this border pop with a print! Cut (6) 2″ strips of border fabric, remove selvedges, sew strips end-to-end, and subcut the long strip into the lengths listed.
Lightly starch and press your completed medallion (center block + Round 1 + Round 2 + Round 3). Square it up to 52.5″ x 52.5″.
Sew 2″ x 52.5″ strips to the top and bottom of your medallion quilt. Press.
Sew 2″ x 55.5″ strips to each side of your medallion quilt. Press seams, lightly starch, and then press the whole top one more time.
The medallion quilt should measure 55.5″ square.
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Build an Abstractive Text Summarizer in 94 Lines of Tensorflow !! (Tutorial 6)
This tutorial is the sixth one from a series of tutorials that would help you build an abstractive text summarizer using tensorflow , today we would build an abstractive text summarizer in tensorflow in an optimized way .
Today we would go through one of the most optimized models that has been built for this task , this model has been written by dongjun-Lee , this is the link to his model , I have used his model model on different datasets (in different languages) and it resulted in truly amazing results , so I would truly like to thank him for his effort
I have made multiple modifications to the model to enable it to enable it to run seamlessly on google colab (link to my model) , and i have hosted the data onto google drive (more on how to link google drive to google colab) , so no need to download neither the code , nor the data , you only need a google colab session to run the code , and copy the data from my google drive to yours (more on this) , and connect google drive to your notebook of google colab
0- Intro
0-A About Series
This is a series of tutorials that would help you build an abstractive text summarizer using tensorflow using multiple approaches , we call it abstractive as we teach the neural network to generate words not to merely copy words .
We have covered so far (code for this series can be found here)
0. Overview on the free ecosystem for deep learning (how to use google colab with google drive)
- Overview on the text summarization task and the different techniques for the task
- Data used and how it could be represented for our task (prerequisites for this tutorial)
- What is seq2seq for text summarization and why
- Mulitlayer Bidirectional LSTM/GRU
- Beam Search & Attention for text summarization
0-B About the Data Used
The data that would be used would be news and their headers , it can be found on my google drive , so you just copy it to your google drive without the need to download it (more on this)
We would represent the data using word embeddings , which is simply converting each word to a specific vector , we would create a dictionary for our words (more on this) (prerequisites for this tutorial)
0-C About the Model Used
There are different approaches for this task , they are built over a corner stone concept , and they keep on developing and building up .
Today we would start building this corner stone implementation which is a type of network called RNN , which is arranged in an Encoder/Decoder architecture called seq2seq (more on this), then we would build the seq2seq in a mulitlayer bidirectional structure , where the rnn cell would be a LSTM cell (more on this) , then we would add an attention mechanism to better interface the encoder with the decoder (more on this) , then to generate better output we use the ingenious concept of beam search (more on this)
the code for all these different approaches can be found here
so lets get started !!
Model Structure
our model can be seen to structured into different blocks these blocks are
Initialization Block :
Here we would initialize the needed tensorflow placeholders & variables , and here would define our RNN cell that would be used throughout the model
Embedding Block :
Here we would define the embedding matrix used in both the encoder & the decoder
Encoder Block :
Here we would define the multilayer bidirectional RNN (more on this) that forms the encoder part of our model , and we output the encoder state as an input to the decoder part
Decoder Block :
Here the decoder is actually portioned into 2 distinct parts
- Attention Mechanism (more on this) which is used to better interface the encoder with the decoder , this would be used in training phase
- BeamSearch (more on this) which is used to generate better output from our model , this would be used in testing phase
Loss Block :
This block would only be used in training phase , here we would apply clipping to our gradients , and we would actually run our optimizer (Adam Optimizer is used here) , and here is the place where we would apply our gradients to the optimizer.
1- Initialization Block
First we would need to import the libs that we would use
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.contrib import rnn #cell that we would use
Before Building our Model Class we need to get define some tensorflow concepts first
So we tend to define placeholders like this
X = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [None, article_max_len])
# here we define the input x as int32 , with promise to provide its # data in runtime
# we also provide its shape , where None is used for a dimension of # any size
and for the variables we tend to define them as
global_step = tf.Variable(0, trainable=False)
# a variable must be intialized ,
# and we can set it to either be trainable or not
Then lets build our Model Class
class Model(object):
def __init__(self, reversed_dict, article_max_len, summary_max_len, args, forward_only=False):
self.vocabulary_size = len(reversed_dict)
self.embedding_size = args.embedding_size
self.num_hidden = args.num_hidden
self.num_layers = args.num_layers
self.learning_rate = args.learning_rate
self.beam_width = args.beam_width
we would pass an obj called args that would actually contain multiple parameters from
- embedding size (size of word2vector)
- num_hidden (size of RNN)
- num_layers (layers of RNN) (more on this)
- Learning Rate
- BeamWidth (more on this)
- Keep Prob
we would also need to initialize the model with other paaremetrs like
- reversed dict (dict of keys , each key wich is a num points to a specific ord) (more on how to build your reversed dict)
- article_max_len & article_summary_len (max length of article sentence as input and max length of summary sentenceas output)
- Forward Only (bool value to indicate training or testing phase) (Forward Only = False → training phase)
then to continue the initalization
if not forward_only: #training phase
#keep_prob as variable in training phase
self.keep_prob = args.keep_prob
else: #testing phase
#keep_prob constant in testing phase
self.keep_prob = 1.0
#here we would use LSTM as our cell
self.cell = tf.nn.rnn_cell.BasicLSTMCell
#projection layer that would be used in decoder in both
#training and testing phase
with tf.variable_scope("decoder/projection"):
self.projection_layer = tf.layers.Dense(self.vocabulary_size, use_bias=False)
#define batch size(our data would be provided in batches)
self.batch_size = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, (), name="batch_size")
#X as input , define as length of articles
self.X = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [None, article_max_len])
self.X_len = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [None])
#define decoder (input , target , length)
#using the summary length
self.decoder_input = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [None, summary_max_len])
self.decoder_len = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [None])
self.decoder_target = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [None, summary_max_len])
#define global step beginning from zero
self.global_step = tf.Variable(0, trainable=False)
2- Embedding Block :
Here we would represent both our inputs articles that would be the embedded inputs and the decoder inputs using word2vector (more on this)
we would define our variables for embedding in a variable scope , we would name it embedding
with tf.name_scope("embedding"):
#if training ,
#and you enable args.glove variable to true
if not forward_only and args.glove:
#here we use tf.constant as we won't change it
#get_init_embedding is a function
#that returns the vector for each word in our dict
init_embeddings = tf.constant(get_init_embedding(reversed_dict, self.embedding_size), dtype=tf.float32)
else: #else random define the word2vector for testing
init_embeddings = tf.random_uniform([self.vocabulary_size, self.embedding_size], -1.0, 1.0)
self.embeddings = tf.get_variable("embeddings", initializer=init_embeddings)
#then define for both encoder input
self.encoder_emb_inp = tf.transpose(tf.nn.embedding_lookup(self.embeddings, self.X), perm=[1, 0, 2])
#and define for decoder input
self.decoder_emb_inp = tf.transpose(tf.nn.embedding_lookup(self.embeddings, self.decoder_input), perm=[1, 0, 2])
3- Encoder Block :
Here we would actually define the multilayer bidirectional lstm for the encoder part of our seq2seq (more on this) , we would define our variables here in a name scope that we would call "encoder".
Here we would use the concept of Dropout , we would use it after each cell in our architecture , it is used to randomly activate a subset of our net, and is used during training for regularization.
with tf.name_scope("encoder"):
fw_cells = [self.cell(self.num_hidden) for _ in range(self.num_layers)]
bw_cells = [self.cell(self.num_hidden) for _ in range(self.num_layers)]
fw_cells = [rnn.DropoutWrapper(cell) for cell in fw_cells]
bw_cells = [rnn.DropoutWrapper(cell) for cell in bw_cells]
Now after defining the forward and backward cells , we would need to actually connect them together to form the bidirectional structure , so we would use stack_bidirectional_dynamic_rnn , which takes all of the following parameters as its inputs
- forward cells
- Backward Cells
- Encoder emb input (input articles in word2vector format)
- X_len (length of articles)
- Using time_major = True is a bit more efficient because it avoids transposes at the beginning and end of the RNN calculation.
encoder_outputs, encoder_state_fw, encoder_state_bw = tf.contrib.rnn.stack_bidirectional_dynamic_rnn(
fw_cells, bw_cells, self.encoder_emb_inp,
sequence_length=self.X_len, time_major=True, dtype=tf.float32)
Now we would need to actually use the output from this stack_bidirectional_dynamic_rnn function , we mainly need 2 main outputs
- encoder_output (would be used in attention calculation) (more on attention)
- encoder_state (would be used for the initial state of the decoder)
so to get encoder_output we simply
self.encoder_output = tf.concat(encoder_outputs, 2)
then to get encoder_state , we would combine both (encoder_state_c) & (encoder_state_h) of both the forward & backward using LSTMStateTuple
encoder_state_c = tf.concat((encoder_state_fw[0].c, encoder_state_bw[0].c), 1)
encoder_state_h = tf.concat((encoder_state_fw[0].h, encoder_state_bw[0].h), 1)
self.encoder_state = rnn.LSTMStateTuple(c=encoder_state_c, h=encoder_state_h)
4- Decoder Block :
Here the decoder is divided into 2 parts
- Training part (to train attention model) (more on attention model)
- testing/running part (for attention & beam search) (more on beam search)
so lets first define out (name scope) & (variable scope) for both parts , we would also define a multilayer cell structure that would be also used for both parts
with tf.name_scope("decoder"), tf.variable_scope("decoder") as decoder_scope:
decoder_cell = self.cell(self.num_hidden * 2)
4.a Training Part (Attention Model)
First we need to prepare our attention structure , here we would use BahdanauAttention
encoder_output would be used inside the attention calculation (more on attention model)
attention_states = tf.transpose(self.encoder_output, [1, 0, 2])
attention_mechanism = tf.contrib.seq2seq.BahdanauAttention(
self.num_hidden * 2, attention_states, memory_sequence_length=self.X_len, normalize=True)
then we would further define the decoder cell (as from the first step in decoder , we just defined the decoder cell as a simple multilayer lstm , now we would add attention) , to do this we would use AttentionWrapper , which combines attention_mechanism with decoder cell
decoder_cell = tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper(decoder_cell, attention_mechanism, attention_layer_size=self.num_hidden * 2)
Now we would need to define the inputs to the decoder cell , this input actually comes from 2 sources (more on seq2seq)
- encoder output (used within initial step)
- decoder input (summary sentence in the training phase)
so lets first define the initial state that would come from the encoder
initial_state = decoder_cell.zero_state(dtype=tf.float32, batch_size=self.batch_size)
initial_state = initial_state.clone(cell_state=self.encoder_state)
now we would combine both the initial state with the decoder input (summary sentence) , here to use the BasicDecoder , we need to provide the decoder input through a helper , this helper would combine all of (decoder_emb_inp , decoder_len) together
helper = tf.contrib.seq2seq.TrainingHelper(self.decoder_emb_inp, self.decoder_len, time_major=True)
decoder = tf.contrib.seq2seq.BasicDecoder(decoder_cell, helper, initial_state)
outputs, _, _ = tf.contrib.seq2seq.dynamic_decode(decoder, output_time_major=True, scope=decoder_scope)
now for the last step of the training phase , we would need to define the outputs (logits)from the decoder , to be used within the loss block for training
#just use the rnn_outputs from aall the outputs
self.decoder_output = outputs.rnn_output
#then get logits , by performing a transpose on decoder output
self.logits = tf.transpose(self.projection_layer(self.decoder_output), perm=[1, 0, 2])
#then reshape the logits
self.logits_reshape = tf.concat(
[self.logits, tf.zeros([self.batch_size, summary_max_len - tf.shape(self.logits)[1], self.vocabulary_size])], axis=1)
4.b Testing/Running part (Attention & Beam search)
Here in this phase , there are 2 main goals
- divide the encoder output & encoder states & x_len (article length) to parts to actually perform the beam search methodology (more on beam search)
- build a decoder independent on decoder input , as in the testing phase we don't have the summary sentence as our input , so we would need to build the decoder in a different way than above
first lets divide encoder output & encoder states & x_len (article length) to parts to actually perform the beam search methodology , here we would use beam_width variable that was already defined above
tiled_encoder_output = tf.contrib.seq2seq.tile_batch(
tf.transpose(self.encoder_output, perm=[1, 0, 2]), multiplier=self.beam_width)
tiled_encoder_final_state = tf.contrib.seq2seq.tile_batch(self.encoder_state, multiplier=self.beam_width)
tiled_seq_len = tf.contrib.seq2seq.tile_batch(self.X_len, multiplier=self.beam_width)
then lets define the attention mechanism (just like before , but taking the tiled variables into consideration)
attention_mechanism = tf.contrib.seq2seq.BahdanauAttention(
self.num_hidden * 2, tiled_encoder_output, memory_sequence_length=tiled_seq_len, normalize=True)
decoder_cell = tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper(decoder_cell, attention_mechanism, attention_layer_size=self.num_hidden * 2)
initial_state = decoder_cell.zero_state(dtype=tf.float32, batch_size=self.batch_size * self.beam_width)
initial_state = initial_state.clone(cell_state=tiled_encoder_final_state)
then lets define our decoder , but here we would use the BeamSearchDecoder , this takes into consideration all of
- Decoder cell (previously defined)
- Embedding word2vector (defined in embedding part)
- projection layer (defined in the beginning of class)
- decoder initial state (previously defined)
- beam_width (user defined)
- start token & end token
decoder = tf.contrib.seq2seq.BeamSearchDecoder(
start_tokens=tf.fill([self.batch_size], tf.constant(2)),
output_layer=self.projection_layer )
then all what is left to do , is to define the outputs , that would actually directly reflect to the real output from the whole seq2seq architecture , as this phase is where prediction is actually computed
outputs, _, _ = tf.contrib.seq2seq.dynamic_decode(
decoder, output_time_major=True, maximum_iterations=summary_max_len, scope=decoder_scope)
self.prediction = tf.transpose(outputs.predicted_ids, perm=[1, 2, 0])
5- Loss Block :
This block is where training actually occurs , here training actually occurs through multiple steps
- calculating loss (more on loss calculation)
- calculating gradients and applying clipping on gradients (more on exploding gradients)
- applying optimizer (here we would use Adam optimizer)
First we define our name scope , and we would specify that this block would only work through the training phase
with tf.name_scope("loss"):
if not forward_only:
Second we would calculate the loss (more on loss calculation)
crossent = tf.nn.sparse_softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(
logits=self.logits_reshape, labels=self.decoder_target)
weights = tf.sequence_mask(self.decoder_len, summary_max_len, dtype=tf.float32)
self.loss = tf.reduce_sum(crossent * weights / tf.to_float(self.batch_size))
Third we would calculate our gradients , and apply clipping on gradients to solve the problem of exploding gradients (more on exploding gradients)
(from tutorial 4)
Exploding Gradients : Occurs with deep networks (i.e: networks with many layers like in our case) , when we apply back propagation, the gradients would get too large . Actually this error can be solved rather easy , using the concept of gradient clipping , which is simply setting a specific threshold , that when the gradients exceed it , we would clip it to a certain value .
params = tf.trainable_variables()
gradients = tf.gradients(self.loss, params)
clipped_gradients, _ = tf.clip_by_global_norm(gradients, 5.0)
Forth we would apply our optimizer , here we would use Adam optimizer , here we would use the previously defined learning_rate
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(self.learning_rate)
self.update = optimizer.apply_gradients(zip(clipped_gradients, params), global_step=self.global_step)
Next Time if GOD wills it , we would go through
- the code needed to divide our data into batches
- needed code to use this model for training
Then after we are done with this core model implementation , if GOD wills it , we would go other modern implementations for text summarization like
- pointer generator
- Using reinforcement learning with seq2seq
(more on different implementations for seq2seq for text summarization)
All the code for this tutorial is found as open source here .
I truly hope you have enjoyed reading this tutorial , and i hope i have made these concepts clear , all the code for this series of tutorials are found here , you can simply use google colab to run it , please review the tutorial and tell me what do you think about it , hope to see you again


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