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US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc.
334 East Lake Road #136
Palm Harbor, FL 34685
(202) 455-8776
Below is a summary of our activities and progress in 2013. U.S. wars continue and our government makes threats of new invasions. If we are going to stop the killing, we must create a culture of peace in the U.S. Please help us to identify more antiwar and peace role models to share with the nation. Send this link to our Annual Report to your family and friends and encourage them to join us in 2014 www.uspeacememorial.org/2013.htm.
Have your name permanently associated with peace. Founding Members are listed on our website www.uspeacememorial.org/Donors.htm, in our publication the US Peace Registry www.uspeacememorial.org/Registry.htm, and eventually at the National Monument we will build in Washington, DC.
Thank you to our Directors: Dr. Lucy Bradley-Springer, Dr. Charles F. Clark, and Jolyon Sasse; our Assistant Editors: Sondra G. Cadman, Barbara Gerten, Dr. Lynette J. Menezes, and Dr. Martha Friedrich; and State Coordinators: Dr. Dennis Neyman and Dick Bernard. Thanks also to Donald Martin for Bookkeeping and to Dr. Floyd W. Rudmin for bringing us Founding Members from new states. Without these incredible and dedicated volunteers, very little would have been accomplished during the year.
The US Peace Memorial Foundation is a nationwide grassroots organization dependent on volunteers. We are especially in need of editors, researchers, web designers, graphic artists, marketing specialists, fund raisers, and coordinators. See www.uspeacememorial.org/Volunteer.htm for more details. If you have the skills for one of these jobs and could donate four or more hours a month, we could certainly use your help.
At its basic core, the US Peace Memorial Foundation is all about giving people the opportunity to share their activities for peace and against war. We post examples of what you and your organizations are doing to instruct and inspire other Americans to demand an end to war. Antiwar talk among friends is cheap; actually working for peace is something that we recognize and celebrate. Your work will motivate others and more Americans will feel comfortable confronting our government, just like they did to help end the Wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. We appreciate all of you who work for peace.
New this year, follow us on Twitter @USPeaceMemorial.
As a test, we signed the Foundation up with smile.amazon.com. This allows our fellow peace activists to support us whenever they shop at Amazon.com while accessing the same products, prices, and service. Amazon will donate 0.5% of sales each quarter. If you make any Amazon purchases, please try http://smile.amazon.com/ch/20-3915218 and bookmark this site so that you always order through smile.amazon.com. Let us know what you think. Should we continue this program?
Visit us at facebook.com/USPeace. If you have attended one of our presentations you may find your photo there, ready to be tagged by you.
Some of you have purchased our STOP WARS sign www.cafepress.com/uspeacememorial.842047816. Two of our Founding Members placed the sign in front of their home, facing a National Guard Armory across the street. Visit our online store at cafepress.com/USPeaceMemorial to see US Peace Memorial T-Shirts, jackets, & other gifts for men, women, children, babies, and even pets.
During the year, many of you have created a link to USPeaceMemorial.org on your website or blog. We hope that this trend will continue.
We have spoken to several groups in 2013. If you belong to an organization that might be interested, please suggest that they invite us to speak. Previous talks have been at churches, veterans groups, associations, universities, and conferences.
Early on we set four benchmarks to achieve before going public with a national campaign. This chart shows how we are doing and where we need your help.
40 STATES REPRESENTED - 80% of our goal
We have achieved 80% of our goal to have Founding Members from all 50 states. Kansas, Arizona, and Wyoming were added during 2013. With 40 states represented (plus DC, PR and USVI) we still need Founding Members from Arkansas, Delaware, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia. Please help us find members from these states.
The five leading states in terms of Founding membership are Florida (99), Minnesota (21), California (13), Massachusetts (10) and Pennsylvania (8). Help us increase membership in your state.
251 FOUNDING MEMBERS - 25% of our goal
In 2013, we added 21 new Founding Members with 22 members making an additional contribution. We are at 25% of our goal to announce 1000 members in our initial press release. Founding Members are donors of $100 or more. Go to USPeaceMemorial.org/Donors.htm to see who these visionary leaders are. Please join them, or make your 2014 contribution today. A donation in any amount will be greatly appreciated. Anonymous donations are accepted.
140 REGISTRANTS - 14% of our goal
I can't think of a better way to end the current U.S. wars than to have more Americans speak out against them. Can you? There are a lot of ways to speak out. The US Peace Registry documents and honors what you have done. Our publication currently documents the work of 102 individuals and 38 organizations that are role models for a broad range of peace and antiwar activities. That means we have achieved 14% of our goal.
We are looking for Americans whose antiwar behavior, example, or success can be emulated by others. If you have done anything to oppose U.S. war, please submit your own bio: Individual or Organization. To see ideas of what is possible read some of the listings at www.uspeacememorial.org/Registry.htm
DONATIONS - 5% of our goal
Contributions in 2013 totaled only $7709 – about $2000 short of our modest annual budget. Please look carefully at your own situation and if you are in a position to make a charitable donation, consider the importance of moving toward a culture of peace in the U.S.
We have received $55,033 towards the $1 million benchmark we must reach before making a public announcement of our plans to build the US Peace Memorial as a national monument.
TO DONATE BY CHECK: mail your contribution to:
US Peace Memorial Foundation
334 East Lake Road Unit 136
Palm Harbor, FL 34685-2427
TO DONATE BY CREDIT CARD: www.uspeacememorial.org/Donate.htm or scroll down to the "Donate" button on our homepage www.uspeacememorial.org.
Contributions since our capital campaign began have ranged from $10 to $10,000. If you become a Founding Member or make an additional donation, you will be recognized at the level of your total contributions to date. Please make your 2014 contribution now.
The Foundation awarded its 2013 Peace Prize to Bradley (now known as Chelsea)
Manning "for conspicuous bravery, at the risk of his own freedom, above and beyond the call of duty." Manning joins previous Peace Prize recipients Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Kucinich, and Cindy Sheehan. View the details at www.uspeacememorial.org/PEACEPRIZE.htm.
Since 2005, the US Peace Memorial Foundation has directed a nationwide effort to recognize peace leadership by publishing the US Peace Registry, awarding an annual Peace Prize, and planning for the US Peace Memorial in Washington, DC. These educational projects help move the U.S. toward a culture of peace as we honor the millions of thoughtful and courageous Americans and U.S. organizations that have taken a public stand against one or more U.S. wars or who have devoted their time, energy, and other resources to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts. We celebrate these role models in hopes of inspiring other Americans to speak out against war and for peace.
We are building the US Peace Memorial one person at a time. Our Founding Members are the bricks and mortar that will make the monument -- and the cultural shift in the way our nation views those working for peace. Join us. We need you! If you haven't become a Founding Member, please do so today. If you have, please make your 2014 contribution. All donations are tax-deductible and cumulative. PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN to allow us to continue this important work. Can you donate $10, $100, or $1,000 today? Click here to donate - http://www.uspeacememorial.org/Donate.htm.
Can you volunteer? Will you send us your US Peace Registry bio?
Contact me if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions. I may be reached at email@example.com or (202) 455-8776. Thank you very much for your support.
Michael Knox, Ph.D.
US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity.
Donations to the Foundation are tax deductible to the extent provided by U.S. law.
Florida registration #: CH20094. A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.
Copyright 2014, US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc.


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Whether you call it unicorn, granny, opal, or anything in between, unnatural hair color is in, in a BIG way. Since my first tub of manic panic, I've been a huge advocate for bright, fun hair, and finding the best products to keep your color looking amazing as long as possible. Don't get me wrong; all hair color will fade, but here's the down low on what you can expect from a vivid color service with your truly.
The images above are stolen from my homegirl Ashley's Instagram, both because they are the perfect example of the fading process between two different lines, AND because she is just flipping adorable. You're welcome.
In the salon, I have two color lines that I typically reach for when created vivid or pastel tones for my guests. The first is Pravana. In the photos of Ashley, her blue based look was created with Pravana, which is a Demi permanent direct dye pigment. The first image is the day of her service, the second is 10 weeks later. You can see the whole the fading is significant, it fades on tone, and still looks gorg almost 3 months after the initial appointment. Pravana is great for clients who don't want as much commitment to their new hue, and is also offered at a lower price point in the salon.
Ashley's fiery locks in the bottom were customize colored using Elumen. Elumen is also a direct dye pigment, but is considered to be a permanent hair color. The second photo of her red is also 10 weeks after her application. !!!. You can see that the fade is almost non existent. This makes the Elumen perfect for clients who are committed to a look (and as we found out, Ash is definitely a lady in red.) Elumen also makes your hair feel AMAZING. Seriously. I once referred to it's reparative effects as "glueing ultra damaged hair back together" (side note, pastel blondes can be toned with Elumen, so get at me bloodies!). The biggest downside to Elumen is it that it can be almost too permanent, creating quite the corrective process when clients want to make a change to a lighter color, and it is also a slightly higher charge, as it is a more premium product.
With any color service, particularly these direct dyes, your color will fade over time. How fast this happens is dependent on a lot of factors; hair texture, how often you shampoo, how dark or intense the color was to begin with, even the shade you chose (pinks fade faster while blues stay forever), but hopefully this break down


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With an impressive exhibition history and a strong presence in the literature you would expect Ada Bird to be one of Aboriginal Australia's most collectable artists, if currently slightly out of fashion. Important institutions that hold her work include the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, the University of Queensland, the Holmes a Court Collection, the Kelton Foundation in Santa Monica, USA, and the Anthropology Museum, St. Lucia.
The highest price achieved for a work by Ada Bird at auction was the $27,600 paid for the Delmore provenanced Atnangkere (Awelye) 1990 that had been exhibited at the Haywood Gallery, London, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf and Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. Sold at Sotheby's in June 1999 (Lot 97) it measured 151 x 122.5 cm, and exceeded its presale estimate of $8,000-12,000 by a significant margin. Another work, currently the artists' second highest secondary market result, sold for $16,100 against an estimate of $8,000-12,000 at Sotheby's a year later (Lot128). Women's Ceremony for the Mountain Desert Lizard 1992 came from Mulga Bore Artists and was signed by Rodney Gooch on the reverse. It measured 230 x 164 cm.
Nevertheless, only five of her ten highest results exceed $10,000 and the average price of the 45 works that have sold of the 101 offered is only $3,896. This is due to the fact that many of the pieces that have been offered at public sale were not in her preferred style. She is an artist who has painted without representation. Many of her paintings have been created with poor materials and have not been executed with great care. Her ouvre is a very mixed bag that is heavily weighted with poor works and her failures at auction have been damaged by these since they first appeared in 1995.
Her best year at auction was as early as 1999 when 12 works appeared of which 7 sold for $49,350. In 2007 six of nine sold for $27,192 and in 2010 five of six sold for $20,179. New works entered her current top 10 results in 2010 and 2012 at equal 3rd and 6th places even though her first, second and forth highest results were all recorded in 1999-2000. Interestingly, it was the same work entitled Atnankere Dreaming 1997, which originally sold at Phillips International in 1999 that later achieved the identical result ($15,535) at Mossgreen auctions just over a decade later in 2010.
Her results since 2014 have been less than ideal, with only 5 works selling of the 16 on offer in that period, none of which graced her top 20.
In reality, Ada Bird is one of those artists who was prolific for a decade but created only a small number of highly collectable works overall. While collectors should keep their eyes open for the best of her paintings, on those rare occasion when they appear at sale they are unlikely to set new records over the coming years. Her more inimately executed works are the pieces that will hold, and possibly increase, in value over time. Even so, it is hard to see even the best of them pushing her records a great deal higher than her current best results.
Prominent Utopia artist Ada Bird Petyarre is the eldest of seven sisters (including Kathleen, Gloria, Violet, Myrtle and Jean), all celebrated artists who have spent most their lives in this remote and arid area 230 kilometres North East of Alice Springs. The art of Utopia rose to prominence swiftly, not least because it heralded the emerging prominence of women artists and their particular themes as a significant force in Aboriginal art. Utopia had once been a large cattle station and Ada had worked there as a young woman. In 1978, the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission returned the land to its traditional Anmatyerre and Alyawarre owners, who established small settlements throughout the 1,800 square kilometres. Ada was born at Mulga Bore (Akaye Soakage) and continued to live there amongst her large extended family, raising two daughters and four sons.
Ada Bird participated in the batik making workshops run by the adult education programme in the late 1970s. The women took to this traditional Indonesian craft with ease, reflecting their many years of 'mark-making' when painting their bodies as part of their preparation for Awelye (women's ceremonies). From the outset, Ada Bird's vibrant personality was expressed in her bright colours and fluid linear designs. Alongside the batiks of her sisters and her aunt Emily Kngwarreye, her early works on luscious silk were soon exhibited and snapped up by buyers including the celebrity collector, businessman Robert Holmes a Court. German filmmaker Wim Wenders acquired one of Ada's batiks and gave her a part in his film, Till The End of the World, that was partially shot in Central Australia.
As a senior elder of the Anmatyerre people and deeply respected for her talent and cultural role, traditional obligations and ceremony always played a large part in Ada's life, feeding directly into the graphic magnetism of her art making. The body painting of Awelye (women's ceremony) is a process that is considered as important as its end product. It has been described as a way of inhabiting the world as well as of seeing the world. Fat is rubbed onto the body so that the finger-painted lines of ochre on moving limbs shine and shimmer, particularly by fire-light. Native grasses are soaked and splashed over the skin to produce a decorative effect across breasts and body. The women paint each other according to their skin names and tribal hierarchy. They sing all the while to call the spirit ancestors to the approaching ceremony. This haptic and affective practice invokes a tangible sense of awe and involvement amongst ceremonial participants and it is this influence that infuses Ada's art making with similar qualities.
Growing confidence and skill allowed Ada to move seamlessly into acrylic painting when, in 1988-89, 'Summer Project' workshops organised by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) again made new materials available to the women at Utopia. It had become apparent that a unique style had formed, and the first major book on these artists and Ada's work was featured on the front cover of the landmark publication, Utopia Women's Painting (1989). In late 1989 the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra acquired a major canvas of hers and the addition of her works to many other major collections followed. The depictions of body painting designs relate to the fertility of the land and the abundance of bush foods, but one of Ada's most popular and compelling subjects is Arnkerrth, the Mountain Devil Lizard. This tiny desert creature is said to have created the desert by moving sand, grain by grain, since the dawn of time. It is a shared Dreaming among the Petyarre sisters and elucidates the love and responsibility the Anmatyerre people feel for their homelands. Unlike early Europeans, who were wary of the lizard's bristly spikes (hence the fearful Latin name, Moloch horridus), desert people love these creatures and often keep them as pets. Their camouflage ability to change skin patterns and colouring in keeping with their surroundings gives rise to myriad design possibilities.
In 2004 Ada died after a stroke. She left a legacy of traditional knowledge embodied in beautiful artworks known for their striking palette and pleasing, linear design. Some rare and lesser-known works are more subdued in colour, sometimes incorporating fine dotting or even small representational elements. Her works are held all over the world in public and private collections and she remains an inspiring figure of the early Aboriginal contemporary art movement.
Profile author: Sophie Baka
Edited: Adrian Newstead
Brody, Anne. 1989. Utopia Women's Painting. Australia. Robert Holmes a Court Collection.
Brody, Annemarie. 1990. Utopia : a picture story : 88 silk batiks from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection. Perth. Heytesbury Holdings Ltd. for the Robert Holmes à Court Collection.
Biddle, Jennifer Loureide . 1997. Breasts, bodies, canvas : central desert art as experience. Sydney. University of NSW Press Ltd.
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UCR Visiting Assistant Professor: Louise Potiki Bryant
DNCE 244: Special Topics in Dance Making
Whakaahua - Coming to Form - An indigenous approach to dance-making
An in-class showing open to campus.
Josie Bettman
Olana Flynn
Christina Leyva
Magnolia Yang Sao Yia
Nau mai, haere mai.
We would like to welcome you to TŪHONO, an in-class showing of solo works by graduate students Josie Bettman, Olana Flynn, Magnolia Yang Sao Yia, and Christina Leyva.
Each solo has been devised within the framework, principles and methodologies of Whakaahua Dance - an indigenous dance and somatic practice which arose out of Potiki Bryant's long-term collaboration with researcher and composer Professor Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal.
Whakaahua Dance is informed by Professor Royal's research into the historical whare tapere - Māori community houses of storytelling, dance, music, games and more. Whakaahua means to acquire form or to transform, and Whakaahua Dance draws inspiration from a central concept of the haka (dance) of the whare tapere, whereby a quality from the natural world emerges from deep within a dancer to find it's fullest expression in the performance of the dance. The Whakaahua Dance practice offers somatic exercises and techniques for creativity, healing, choreography and movement improvisation.
The name of our showing; Tūhono means to join, bond or to connect, and is an acknowledgement of the connections we've made, across cultures and nations, via the sharing of the Whakaaua Dance practice.
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In the recent appeal case of Dalsouple (2014), a French manufacturer of rubber flooring products was unable to register its own trade mark in the UK because its UK distributor had obtained a prior UK registration of the same mark and successfully opposed the French manufacturer's application.
This case highlights the risks for suppliers in allowing local distributors or agents to register trade marks in their own name. Suppliers should carefully consider creating written provisions that clearly set out the limitations on what agents and distributors may, and may not, do with the supplier's marks – or risk losing ownership of their marks.
Dalsouple UK was the UK distributor of rubber flooring products made by Dalsouple France. In 1998, Dalsouple UK obtained a UK trade mark registration for "DALSOUPLE". In 2011 Dalsouple France sought to register "DALSOUPLE" in the UK. Dalsouple UK opposed this registration on the basis of their earlier mark, which Dalsouple France in turn sought to invalidate.
In May 2014, the Hearing Officer for the Trade Mark Registry found that Dalsouple France had consented to Dalsouple UK registering the earlier mark in its own name, and was thus barred from obtaining a declaration of invalidity, and Dalsouple UK's opposition succeeded.
Dalsouple France's subsequent appeal was dismissed by the High Court in December.
Consent as an Answer to Passing Off and Bad Faith
The key grounds on which Dalsouple France had sought to invalidate Dalsouple UK's trade mark were that their application to register the trade mark was prevented under the law of passing off, in light of Dalsouple France's earlier International Trade Mark for the word "DALSOUPLE", and that the application was made in bad faith (as it was made at a time when Dalsouple UK was an agent and/or distributor of Dalsouple France's goods).
Under both EU and UK legislation, such a passing off argument cannot succeed where the party objecting to the trade mark has already consented to the mark's registration by the mark's owner. It was also common ground that consent would defeat the bad faith argument.
Consequently, both parties' cases hinged on whether or not Dalsouple France had consented to Dalsouple UK registering the UK trade mark in 1998.
The High Court's Decision
The High Court emphasised that an appeal court must be especially cautious about interfering with decisions which are essentially value judgements. As a specialist tribunal, the Trade Mark Registry's decisions should be respected unless it is quite clear it has misdirected itself in law, in this case as to the question of whether the Registry had used the correct interpretation of "consent" in reaching its decision.
The Court of Appeal decided that the interpretation of "consent" must be autonomous and uniform across different parts of the trade mark legislation. Therefore, "consent" should have the same interpretation in trade mark application cases (as in the current case) as that in the Zino Davidoff SA landmark decision, which was a parallel import case. The High Court held that:
- consent must be unequivocally demonstrated, for which an express statement of consent will normally be sufficient;
- consent does not need to be given in writing
- whether express consent has been given should be determined as a matter of fact according to the usual civil standard of proof (namely on the balance of probabilities);
- it was not necessary for the tribunal to have clear evidence of what was said, particularly if it occurred many years ago. It simply had to be determined whether it was more likely than not that consent was given taking into account the passage of time, failing memories and other relevant matters.
This case highlights the risks for suppliers of allowing its distributors or agents to register trade marks in their own name. This is quite common for suppliers who wish to save costs on trade mark registration and maintenance fees. However, by granting such consent, the supplier could irrevocably lose its exclusive rights in the mark and the distributor/agent can retain the mark even after the distributorship/agency has terminated.
It is important for both suppliers and distributors/agents to consider any explicit provisions, or prohibitions, in any distribution or agency agreements in relation to the right of distributors/agents to register the supplier's marks (including domain names) in their own name. As consent does not need to be in writing, the supplier's conduct and verbal communication with the distributor/agent will also be relevant.
Whilst this is an English judgment, the High Court's decision was reached in light of EU case law and therefore other EU national courts may adopt a similar approach. Accordingly, this decision should be borne in mind for EU-wide distribution/agency agreements as well as for those operating only within the UK.


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I was invited into the Loudermilk household last fall to document their growing little Salem and all of his adorableness (seriously though). I always feel extremely grateful when anyone asks me to photograph their families, but theres a special little place in my heart when other photographers open their homes and hearts to me and make me feel like family and thats exactly what happened here.
We played, we laughed, we ran, we carved pumpkins and we read books!


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Chaitanya Sagar explains hierarchical clustering with examples in R:
Hope now you have a better understanding of clustering algorithms than what you started with. We discussed about Divisive and Agglomerative clustering techniques and four linkage methods namely, Single, Complete, Average and Ward's method. Next, we implemented the discussed techniques in R using a numeric dataset. Note that we didn't have any categorical variable in the dataset we used. You need to treat the categorical variables in order to incorporate them into a clustering algorithm. Lastly, we discussed a couple of plots to visualise the clusters/groups formed. Note here that we have assumed value of 'k' (number of clusters) is known. However, this is not always the case. There are a number of heuristics and rules-of-thumb for picking number of clusters. A given heuristic will work better on some datasets than others. It's best to take advantage of domain knowledge to help set the number of clusters, if that's possible. Otherwise, try a variety of heuristics, and perhaps a few different values of k.
There's a lot to pick out of this post, but you're able to walk through it step by step. H/T R-Bloggers
Amanda LeClair and Michael Facemire have a new report on functional programming:
The customer-facing software development world is outgrowing stateful, object-oriented (OO) development. The bar for great, intuitive customer experience has been raised by ambient, conversation-driven user interfaces, like through Amazon Alexa. Functional programming allows enterprises to take better advantage of compute power to deliver those experiences at scale; better flexibility for delivering the right output; and a more efficient way of delivering customer value. FP also reduces regression defects in code, simplifies code creation and maintenance, and allows for greater code reuse.
Just as object-oriented programming (OOP) emerged as the solution to the limitations of procedural programming at the dawn of the internet boom in the mid-'90s, FP is emerging as the solution to the limitations of OOP today. The shift is already underway– 53% of global developers reported that at least some teams in their companies are practicing functional programming and are planning to expand their usage.
Alexey Sommer notes that functional programming has been sneaking into C# bit by bit for well over a decade:
C# 1.0 Visual Studio 2002
C# 1.1 Visual Studio 2003 – #line, pragma, xml doc comments
C# 2.0 Visual Studio 2005 – Generics, Anonymous methods, iterators/yield, static classes
C# 3.0 Visual Studio 2008 – LINQ, Lambda Expressions, Implicit typing, Extension methods
C# 4.0 Visual Studio 2010 – dynamic, Optional parameters and named arguments
C# 5.0 Visual Studio 2012 – async/await, Caller Information, some breaking changes
C# 6.0 Visual Studio 2015 – Null-conditional operators, String Interpolation
C# 7.0 Visual Studio 2017 – Tuples, Pattern matching, Local functions
I strongly believe that if you are a database developer and need to pick up a non-SQL programming language, functional languages will be a lot easier for you to get than object-oriented languages. Many of the principles line up much smoother with functional languages, as you can most clearly see with the relationship between Scala and Spark.
Koen Verbeeck touts the new SQL Server feedback site:
After years of having to deal with Connect – the feedback platform of Microsoft – it is announced a successor has been found: feedback.azure.com. It's not all about Azure, the link goes to the relevant portion of SQL Server. I'm glad for this change, as Connect could sometimes be a little … quirky. Especially the search function didn't work properly. The new feedback site is based on UserVoice and it's really easy to submit feedback. People submitting ideas for Power BI will be very familiar with the format. There are a couple of drawbacks:
You cannot specify many details (none to be exact, or you have to list them in the descriptions). OS version, SQL Server version, bitness, et cetera. On the other hand it makes the process of entering feedback a lot faster.
You cannot mark a feedback item as private so that only Microsoft can see it. This means it's not exactly the place to dump your production data to show how a bug is bugging you (haha).
I'm not sure how much of an improvement this is, but at least it does serve the Power BI team well.
Matthew Hicks shows how to use Powershell to parameterize U-SQL scripts:
You can use this feature either via Azure Cloud Shell or on a Windows machine with Azure PowerShell installed.
When submitting, simply construct a hashtable of U-SQL variable names to values and pass it in using the -ScriptParameter cmdlet parameter. The .NET type of each value in the hashtable is used when defining the variable in U-SQL.
Supported types include:
byte, sbyte, int, uint (or uint32), long, ulong (or uint64), float, double, decimal, short (or int16), ushort (or uint16), char, string, DateTime, bool, Guid, or byte[]
Read on for an example of the process.
David Fowler has a new series on building a test lab, starting with a domain controller:
One of the most useful tools to the DBA when we need to test new features, recreate a fault that we've seen in production or just want to see 'what if…?' is a test lab.
Some of you are going to be lucky enough to have a few servers kicking around or a chunk of the virtual environment that you can build a test lab in but not all of us do. In this series of posts I'm going to look at how we can build up a fully functioning test lab consisting of a domain and clustered SQL Servers on our desktop PC. Now, although I'm going to be building this environment on my desktop, the main steps will be the same if you've got separate hardware for this so may still be relevant.
So, in this series we're going to build a virtual test lab that's going to consist of a domain controller and a couple of SQL Servers in a Windows Failover Cluster, hosting an Availability Group.
Read on for a step-by-step guide using Virtualbox to build these VMs.
Alan Yu announces the December release of SQL Operations Studio:
Download SQL Operations Studio and review the Release Notes to get started.
SQL Operations Studio is a data management tool that enables you to work with SQL Server, Azure SQL DB and SQL DW from Windows, macOS and Linux. To learn more, visit our GitHub.
While it's downloading, check out the new bits and also Marek Masko's guide on SQL Operations Studio:
If you find Go to Definition feature very useful, but you would like to have a more temporary view of objects source code, then no problem! SQL Ops Studio delivers second functionality which gives you the possibility to check object definition. This time, the source code is displayed in the same editor tab.
Marek's post went up before the December release, so one big point (about not being able to see actual execution plans) is now fixed.
Ben Miller has a couple of tips when executing Powershell within SQL Agent jobs:
What you don't see is the way you have the job step succeed or fail. When using most commands in modules, you may find that errors still cause the step to fail because of the way they report the failure (some kind of throw or a Stop condition outside your control). So if you want things to fail that normally would show red on the screen but things would continue, remember that the default ErrorAction is Continue, so even though you get an error, PowerShell will just continue.
Read on for more.
Jonathan Kehayias explains how index fragmentation can potentially affect execution plans:
Index fragmentation removal and prevention has long been a part of normal database maintenance operations, not only in SQL Server, but across many platforms. Index fragmentation affects performance for a lot of reasons, and most people talk about the effects of random small blocks of I/O that can happen physically to disk based storage as something to be avoided. The general concern around index fragmentation is that it affects the performance of scans through limiting the size of read-ahead I/Os. It's based on this limited understanding of the problems that index fragmentation cause that some people have begun circulating the idea that index fragmentation doesn't matter with Solid State Storage devices (SSDs) and that you can just ignore index fragmentation going forward.
However, that is not the case for a number of reasons. This article will explain and demonstrate one of those reasons: that index fragmentation can adversely impact execution plan choice for queries. This occurs because index fragmentation generally leads to an index having more pages (these extra pages come from page split operations, as described in this post on this site), and so the use of that index is deemed to have a higher cost by SQL Server's query optimizer.
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Written by: Melissa James / Accent Modification / May 13 2017
Accent Modification is a mystery to many, including the general public, ESL Educational Community, and even some speech-language pathologists. I regularly find myself explaining accent modification and frequently asked questions. Whether you are interested in accent modification for yourself, an employer who is interested in accent "softening" for an employee, or a native English speaker curious about this speech-language pathology specialty service, then please keep reading for research-based answers on accent modification.
1. Is an accent a disorder?
No, your accent is not a disorder – it's a difference. An influential American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) provision paper in 1983 explained that "accent reduction" is not a treatment for speech impairment, rather a speech difference that can be elected by speakers of nonstandard dialects of English.
2. What makes it difficult to lose an accent?
While there are many factors that make it difficult to lose an accent, the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America published a study assessing the relationship between an individual's age while learning English and the degree of accent while speaking English.
This study did not explore the ways in which accent modification can help. Nonetheless, the authors concluded that very few participants who began learning English after the age of twenty-five spoke with a native English accent. Women who learned English near the age of ten years old were shown to acquire a native English accent naturally and were relatively quicker than the male participants.
Adversely, adult women who learned English in their twenties had more difficulty mastering the native-English accent naturally than men of a similar age. Overall, people who spoke their first language more often were slower to acquire the native-English accent.
Speaking your first language often makes it harder to master your English accent
3. Do people have difficulty understandng me?
Most people can understand a speaker with a slight accent, but it does take more effort. This was explored in The Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research when they published a study analyzing how native English listeners perceive sentences produced by non-native speakers. Overall, the authors conclude that listening to intelligible but accented speech required increased processing effort for the listener.
It takes more effort to process to accented speech
4. Why didn't I learn this in my English school/lessons?
You are not alone. Most students learning English do not receive adequate training in English accent and pronunciation. The Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Quarterly published an article that explored the ways in which ESL teachers teach pronunciation. The article suggests that most ESL education lacks sound instruction for pronunciation and highlights the need for specialized services for pronunciation and phonology for non-native speakers.
5. How can accent modification improve my life?
There are many benefits of accent modification. Since we all have different priorities, some may be more important to you that others.
Improved clarity
In 2013, The Journal of Cultural Diversity published a paper about a pilot program that aimed to reduce ethnic and minority drop-out rates in nursing education that were attributed to miscommunications. Through intervention and accent modification lessons, they found that the clarity of communication improved for all of the students involved.
Improved communication overall
In 2013, The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice published a study that assessed the efficacy of an accent reduction program provided to international medical graduates and researchers. They utilized a pre and post video evaluation to assess pronunciation, syllable and word stress, and body language/facial expressions with two independent observers. They found improvement in all areas assessed and that focused accent training was "highly effective" at improving communication skills of non-native English speakers.
Improved employability for speakers with strong accents
In 2016, The Journal of Employment Counselling published an article detailing a study that was designed to determine how ethnicity, the amount of perceived accent or dialects, and comprehensibility affect a speaker's employability. Sixty human resource professionals assessed three female "job applicants" who spoke in Spanish-influenced English, Asian-Influenced English and African American Vernacular English. The results showed that when the speaker's perceived accent or dialect was minimal, perceived ethnicity did not affect employability. However, all speakers with maximally perceived accents or dialects were given a lower employability rating. The authors concluded that, "speakers with a maximally perceived accent should consider accent or dialectical modification if their comprehensibility or prospective employability is compromised."
6. What can I do within accent modification training to improve outcomes
Be motivated and committed
The University of Tartu (Estonia) published a study that examined the effects of training on the quality of English vowels in Russian speakers. They found a correlation between high motivation and good attendance, and improvements in the quality of English vowels. Results suggest that for more profound changes in accent, a program greater than 30 hours of training is necessary.
7. How long does it take to lose an accent?
Results vary based on accent strength. It's a process that takes time.
There are many factors that need to be considered when considering how long it will take to 'lose' an accent. From a research perspective, one Estonian researcher found that programs less than 30 hours provided a good awareness of English phonology (the English sound system of pronunciation) and estimated that for profound change longer programs are required. I've seen this in my private practice as well. *Full disclosure: any cursory program that promises drastic improvements in an eight-hour workshop will likely let you down.
Now that you've read this article, you already know more about accent modification than most people. Accent Modification is an effective training strategy to soften your accent, bolster your communication clarity and improve your confidence.
I am a Toronto-based accent coach and registered speech-language pathologist. If you have any questions that were not answered in this article, please feel free to leave a comment and I will be happy to help.


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Meg Strikes AgainYup, it's an alternating Friday, so we have new goodies from Meg of Twisted fame
She's got her usual 100% merino sock-weight base in stock, so that's what she dyed this time around. Ooooh-lah-lah, it's lovely and soft and knits up smashingly beautiful! The skeins are $27 each for 480 yards of 100% merino superwash--more than enough to knit a pair of sock, especially for those of you who create what I call "Socks of Love" (men's socks for feet size 12 and up).
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I'll Never Send My Kid to Preschool. And Other Ways I've Changed My Mind.
As we perused the racks of school uniforms, I held back tears.
Wasn't I just holding our first baby tightly against my chest, breathing in her precious newborn scent? Since when did years pass by in only seconds? And since when did little navy polos and black Mary Jane's and Back to School Shopping become an integral part of my life?
I knew these days would come eventually. Babies barely leave the birth canal before society wants to know how, when, and where their parents plan to educate them.
But as I held up different sizes of pants and shirts to my daughter's four-year-old frame, I knew that while a large part of me felt sensitive to motherhood's changing seasons, the other part of me was struggling to let myself change my mind.
I'll never send her to school before Kindergarten, I used to think and say out loud.
It was part of a long list of "I'll Never" phrases about parenting I had compiled, mostly before I became a parent. See also: I'll never be strict about my kids' sleeping schedule, or I'll never let my kids eat white bread.
Now, here I am swallowing my words along with a large lump in my throat as our daughter is not only enrolled in preschool, but will be there all day for five days of the week.
It's not exactly what I would consider a gentle pendulum swing, but our complicated circumstances have led to a complicated decision. And my pride is struggling to gulp down what I formerly said out of pre-parental ignorance.
I wanted to think that even just a few years ago I was smart enough to have it all figured out – to map out my kids' lives and my choices as a parent that would get them to my desired destination. Forget the generations before me who said smart things like, "Kids don't come with a handbook. You have to figure things out as you go, and then figure things out again as your kids grow and change."
When my daughter was a baby, I wanted to write the parenting handbook. Like today's parenting culture that I contribute to, I wanted to buy into the lie that I must figure it all out right now and stick to my decisions like the sucker tangled up in my daughter's curly hair.
But now, as I place the school calendar on the fridge behind a public library magnet, I want to shatter all of the "I'll Never's" I used to believe were chiseled into fireproof concrete. I want to unclench my Mom Fists and chill out and give myself permission:
I want to give myself permission to not have every stage of parenting figured out before I get there. Right now, we have a four year old and a one year old. So, I don't want to waste my energy worrying about what school my kids will go to when they are eleven years old, or how I will discipline them when they are the age of cell phones and curfews, or how I will ensure they at least know the difference between washing a load of whites and colors. I won't worry myself to death about tomorrow's obstacles when today has enough tantrums and poopy diapers to leap over on its own.
I want to give myself permission to change my mind. If my daughter goes to preschool every day and it's not a great fit, we can reevaluate and change course as necessary. Whether it's nutrition, schedules, discipline, or education – no single parenting decision is set in stone, and no single parenting decision will be the cause of my child's success or complete ruin. Parenting involves a healthy dose of trial and error, and prayers for wisdom along with heaps of grace are great companions for what can feel like a murky journey at times.
And I want to give myself permission to stop saying "I'll never…" As if motherhood were actually that predictable. Faith and experience will continue to shape me as a mom, and will hopefully impart wisdom for decisions that maybe don't feel as certain as they used to.
We are sending our daughter to school before Kindergarten, we decided this year. And I'm so glad I was willing to change my mind.
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text: Historic forms of graffiti have helped gain understanding into the lifestyles and languages of past cultures. Errors in spelling and grammar in these graffiti offer insight into the degree of literacy in Roman times and provide clues on the pronunciation of spoken Latin. Examples are CIL IV, 7838: Vettium Firmum / aed[ilem] quactiliar[ii] [sic] rog[ant]. Here, "qu" is pronounced "co". The 83 pieces of graffiti found at CIL IV, 4706-85 are evidence of the ability to read and write at levels of society where literacy might not be expected. The graffiti appear on a peristyle which was being remodeled at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius by the architect Crescens. The graffiti were left by both the foreman and his workers. The brothel at CIL VII, 12, 18–20 contains more than 120 pieces of graffiti, some of which were the work of the prostitutes and their clients. The gladiatorial academy at CIL IV, 4397 was scrawled with graffiti left by the gladiator Celadus Crescens (Suspirium puellarum Celadus thraex: "Celadus the Thracian makes the girls sigh. ")


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Tip Tuesday // Fake Tilt Shift in Photoshop
Last Friday I walked around downtown Providence with my friend Derek. I don't really enjoy taking city photos here because it feels like every shot of this beautiful city has been take over and over a million times. So to do something a little different, I played around with tilt shift in Photoshop.
It's really easy to fake tilt shift in Photoshop. I'm starting off in Lightroom because that is where I import my photos. Adjust your settings as needed but be sure to punch up the blacks to -100 and up your saturation to your liking. I liked staying around +70. Next go down to Sharpening and slide the amount to 100, detail to 45, and adjust the masking to your specifications.
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- Kevin Reilly, the head of content for AT&T's upcoming streaming service, signaled on Monday that "Friends" may not be on Netflix much longer.
- "Sharing destination assets like that, it's not a good model to share," Reilly said during a Television Critics Association press tour.
- AT&T and Netflix struck a deal last year to keep "Friends" on Netflix through 2019, while allowing AT&T to also include the show on its own platform.
After AT&T bought Time Warner last year, forming the new WarnerMedia, it was quick to jump into the streaming war. AT&T announced in October that it would launch a streaming service this year, and the future of "Friends" on Netflix has been in doubt because of it.
WarnerMedia's new head of content for the upcoming streaming service, Kevin Reilly, signaled that the hit 1990s Warner Bros. sitcom, which has found a new audience thanks to Netflix, could eventually leave the streaming giant.
READ MORE: 'Friends' will remain on Netflix in 2019, and the streaming service is reportedly dropping $100 million for the rights
"Sharing destination assets like that, it's not a good model to share," Reilly told said during a Television Critics Association press tour on Monday. "They should be exclusive to the service."
Netflix and AT&T struck a deal last year to keep "Friends" on Netflix through 2019, while giving AT&T the freedom to also include it in its own streaming platform, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed at December's UBS Global Media and Communications Conference.
Netflix is dropping up to $100 million for the rights to "Friends," according to The New York Times, up from the $30 million is was previously paying per year.
But Reilly's comment hints that AT&T could want "Friends" all for itself, and potentially end a deal with Netflix after 2019.
"Friends" isn't the only major piece of content that AT&T is eyeing for its service.
Reilly said that it would "build on the foundational ethos" of HBO, and also include content from Cartoon Network, the CW, Adult Swim, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. He added that a beta version this year will include no original content, which will come in 2020.


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One of the scariest things a person can experience is a uniformed law enforcement officer knocking on your door with a search warrant or arrest warrant. That fear only intensifies when the uniformed officer is a member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and they are attempting to find and detain you or a loved one.
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Oct 23, 2017
Next Sunday and during that week I will be at St. Mary's Church in Bloomington, IL for their parish mission. I was asked to present a series of talks for the parishioners on the occasion of their 150th anniversary as a parish, 1867-2017. As I recall, St. Mary's has a large parish cemetery where many of their deceased members are buried. A cemetery is a fitting tribute to those men and women and children who have gone before us having lived their lives as witnesses to Christ and to His Gospel message.
During this upcoming week we commemorate All Souls Day, a memorial of special prayer for the Faithful Departed. With prayer for those who have gone before us, there is usually an accompaniment of story-telling. When families or groups of families come together to celebrate they are often moved to remember and converse about the past in order to get in touch with their common history and memories. They recall both sad and humorous events together, thus reminding them of their common heritage. Of course, the events remembered deal mainly with PERSONS, not just with happenings. We still like to recall and tell stories of our parents, grandparents, and other family members whose lives brought wisdom, wit, and warmth into our lives. As we pray "May they rest in peace," we rejoice in the many gifts they have handed on to us, gifts that today we are handing on to others who will be living long after us.
What are the gifts of our deceased parishioners that we have received? To put it briefly, the answer is their life-stories. Each of these stories is unique and special, replete with joys and sufferings; each story is a living testimony to the presence and power of God alive in their work and in their witness. The life-stories of our departed family members and friends are a part of God's saving work and enduring word among His people. God communicates with us through one another. Our fore-bearers listened to God and acted on the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Their good deeds and their spoken wisdom revealed the ongoing care of God for us, His people. The life-stories of women and men of the past reflect God's ongoing presence and saving power as He continues to be in touch with us on our life journey. These stories give us hope; they widen our vision, deepen our faith, and call forth from us a renewed commitment to live and work for the enlivening and enrichment of the world in which we now live. When Jesus proclaimed that the "reign of God is at hand," He was affirming our belief that the God who made us will always walk with us to lead and guide us to our eternal destiny. We see the reign of God in the life of Jesus. We continue to see this presence in the goodness, beauty, and truth witnessed in the HISTORY ("his-story" and "her-story") of our Faithful Departed.
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DOI: 10.14704/nq.2009.7.4.261
Remarks on the Number of Tubulin Dimers Per Neuron and Implications for Hameroff-Penrose Orch OR
Stuart Hameroff has wrongly estimated that a typical brain neuron has 107 tubulin dimers and wrongly attributed this result to Yu and Baas. In this letter we show that Hameroff's estimate is based on misunderstanding of the results provided by Yu and Baas, who actually measured the total microtubule length in a single axonal projection with length of 56 μm in a differentiating in vitro stage 3 embryonic hippocampal neuron. In order to visualize how big Hameroff's error is, we have reconstructed two of the studied by Yu and Baas embryonic hippocampal neurons with Neuromantic v1.6.3 and compared them with previously published reconstructions of adult hippocampal neurons. Correct calculations show that an adult differentiated pyramidal neuron in vivo has approximately 1.3×109 tubulin dimers incorporated in cytoskeletal microtubules. This estimate has profound implications for the Hameroff-Penrose Orch OR model, because it sets limitations on the number of quantum coherent neurons and implies that if 100% of the neuronal microtubules are quantum coherent for 25 ms then Hameroff-Penrose Orch OR conscious events should involve only 15 pyramidal neurons.
tubulin dimer; pyramidal neuron; embryonic neuron; Hameroff-Penrose; Orch OR
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Insider: If you look at what football fans need to pay attention to, the NFL and fantasy football each have their strengths. With the NFL, if you're a true fan of your hometown team, it's practically a given that you'll focus all of your attention on the NFL game on Sundays. On the other hand, fantasy football always requires ample attention from drafting your team to managing your team, including picking up free agents on a daily basis. When it comes down to the nuts and bolts, fantasy football requires more attention on a daily basis than NFL games do, therefore, I choose fantasy football to win in this scenario.
Score update: 1 – 0 in favor of fantasy football
Requirement: Mood Swings
Insider: I don't even know where to begin! NFL games are always crazy, especially the games that nobody pays any attention to. Fantasy football requires lots of attention, allowing for instant mood swings if something bad happens on game day. This is a tough decision, but I'm basing my answer on the failures of each sport. For NFL games, it's instances like 4th quarter comebacks that turn ugly in the blink of an eye, such as when Tony Romo throws an interception on what would be the game winning drive. For fantasy football, it's instances when your team is losing by 3 with only your kicker remaining and he gets 2 points and you lose by 1. I could really go either way with this one, but congrats to Tony Romo on finally scoring! I choose the NFL.
Score update: 1 – 1
Requirement: Winners and Losers
Insider: NFL games take this scenario. With 17 games a season (not including playoffs), NFL players go through a lot of pain, especially after a loss and having played a terrific game. A lot of players and coaches say that once the final whistle blows, it's time to move on to next week's opponent and forget about the loss, but I don't think players get over it that easily. With fantasy football, a loss is a loss is a loss. Depending on the week and opponent, losses against your friends can be extremely tough, especially with all the smack talking, but this is something you can get over the next day. Yes, when you lose in both the NFL and fantasy football it hurts, but looking at the bigger picture, an NFL outcome is more emotional than in fantasy football.
Score update: 2 – 1 in favor of the NFL
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Score update: 3 – 1 in favor of the NFL
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