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Year 9 project resources for Mash-Ups: Students will explore a common chord progression (I – IV – vi – V) and how different songs can be combined in a whole class setting. Students will then develop their composition skills by organising their chosen songs together into a piece in a group setting.
Mash-Up Playlist:
Mash-Up Lyrics:
'FourFiveSeconds' – Rihanna ft. Kanye West Paul McCartnery
(Count in: 1, 2, 3)
Now I'm Four Five Seconds from wildin'
And we got three more days 'til Friday
I'm just tryna make it back home by Monday, mornin'
I swear I wish somebody would tell me
Ooh thats all I want
'Skyscraper' – Demi Lovato
(Count in: 1, 2, 3)
Skies are crying, I am watching
Catching tear drops in my hands
Only silence as it's ending
Like we never had a chance
Do you have to make me feel like
There's nothing left of me?
'Mr Brightside' – The Killers
(Count in: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
Cause I'm Mr Brightside
'Shut Up and Dance' – Walk The Moon
(Count in: 1, 2, 3)
Oh don't you dare look back
Just keep your eyes on me
I said you're holding back
She said shut up and dance
'Ugly Heart' – GRL
(Count in: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Maybe I'm just crazy
Maybe I'm a fool
Maybe I don't know how to love but
Maybe I do
'Wavin' Flag' – K'naan
(Count in: 1, 2, 3, 4)
When I get older, I will be stronger,
They'll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag,
And then it goes back, and then it goes back,
And then it goes back
Mash-Up Riffs:
'Trumpets' Riff:
Yeah the trumpets they go
Do do dobedodo, do do dobedodo, do do dobedodo, do do dobedodo
Do do dobedodo, do do dobedodo, do do dobedodo, do do
'Wavin' Flag' Riff:
Woah-oh-oh-o-oh, Woa-o-o-o-oh, Woah-oh-oh-o-oh.
Mash-Up Chords:
Download the Mash-Up Chords worksheet, here.


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Raheem Sterling's blistering form in England's Euro 2020 qualifiers came as little surprise to his new Three Lions team-mate Declan Rice.
Declan Rice has claimed Raheem Sterling is "impossible to stop" after teaming up with him on international duty for England.
Rice's superb form for West Ham this season earned him a call-up to the Three Lions squad – after switching allegiance from the Republic of Ireland.
He made his debut for Gareth Southgate's side in Friday's Euro 2020 qualifier against the Czech Republic as a substitute before starting the win over Montenegro three days later.
Sterling scored four goals across those two games – including a hat-trick against the Czechs – and Rice says it came as little surprise.
When asked who the best player in training was, Rice told the Daily Mail: "I'd have to say Sterling. What he does with the ball is frightening.
"In the small-sided games, five-a-sides, if you've got him on your team you've won before you've even started! He's impossible to stop.
Loved my first week away with @England . Special way to top it off getting my full competitive debut tonight in such a great performance from all the lads. Already looking forward to the summer pic.twitter.com/ysSJuvNB6a— Declan Rice (@_DeclanRice) March 25, 2019
"He's in the leadership group now. All the lads love him. He's like Harry [Kane], always giving advice and trying to help where he can with the younger players in his position.
"I see him talking a lot with Jadon Sancho and Callum Hudson-Odoi. For them to learn off him, that's special."
West Ham open to offers for Rice
Earlier this week, Rice's club boss Manuel Pellegrini suggested that if a Premier League rival offers a "good deal" then West Ham would be prepared to sell him.
Rice, though, insists he has no plans to leave the club just yet and is "loving every minute of it".
"Growing up as a kid, when you become a professional footballer, you want to play at the highest level," he explained.
"It's normal to like people saying nice things about you but I'm really happy playing at West Ham under the manager. I've got a special connection with the fans as well. I'm loving every minute of it."

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Current industrial PCs operating on 64-bit Windows that are accompanied by a scheduler on multicore multiprocessors deliver rich user interfaces and top-notch graphics. These systems offer the hard real-time performance, precision, and prioritization required by complex industrial, medical and vision processes. However, the need for richer applications continues to set the pace for advancement in performance and integration.
Therefore, the duty of the embedded OEM is to determine how new developments should be turned into real products that meet clients' demands.Many organizations today require capabilities like high-definition video and audio, machine vision, and real-time industrial offerings like real-time connectivity, rich user interfaces, and six-axis motion control.
These capabilities can only be realized by a combination of the right hardware and software. Software is easy to improve and update compared to hardware, but you must have the right hardware environment to implement complex real-time software applications. For instance, devices like DSP, advanced graphics unit, FPGA or multicore processor that are utilized by real-time systems are integrated on a single system. Also, you can tap into the current multi-core CPUs that offer tremendous performance and power from multiple cores and clock speeds of about 3 GHz.
Average commercial IPCs offer platforms that can deliver DSP-level performance, processing, precision, and prioritization. However, with advanced CPUs, the processing can be implemented at a floating point for diverse calculations as opposed to the fixed point in DSP. Such performance diverts the focus from optimizing every instruction to fully exploiting the power of a multicore IPC.
Another major development is the adoption of a 64-bit architecture that is compatible with 32-bit architecture and offers improved performance. It offers numerous advantages due to highly integrated chips with different integrated functions, protocols and instruction sets that send obstacles to a unified software environment.
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The implementation of IntervalZero's RTX64 upgrades Windows into a fully functional RTOS that can operate entirely on x64 multicore hardware. Moreover, it offers access to 128 Gb of non-paged memory based on the actual mapped RAM size. The huge amount of available memory accommodates previously unsupported applications like high-end video editing and MRI medical imaging.
RTX64 offers a single hardware environment in the form of multicore x64 devices. It enables a single software environment that accommodates Windows with its applications, development environment and rich user interface.


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It seems that Elizabeth Warren has had a DNA analysis to "prove" that she really is of Native American heritage. The Boston Globe is covering the results thoroughly for her. I don't think the timing of all this, just three weeks before her reelection bid, has anything to do with it. Nope.
Previous to her 2012 election to the U.S. Senate, Warren finagled her position at Harvard Law School from an intensive affirmative action scheme to get more women on the faculty. According to the Daily Caller, however, Harvard wasn't too concerned about possible incompetence. In other words, Warren may have benefited primarily from the affirmative action scheme rather than qualifications. The Daily Caller:
In 1991, Rutgers Professor Phillip Schuchman reviewed Warren's co-authored 1989 book "As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America" in the pages of the Rutgers Law Review, a publication Warren once edited. Schuchman found "serious errors" which result in "grossly mistaken functions and comparisons."
Warren and her co-authors had drawn improper conclusions from "even their flawed findings," and "made their raw data unavailable" to check, he wrote. "In my opinion, the authors have engaged in repeated instances of scientific misconduct."
The work "contains so much exaggeration, so many questionable ploys, and so many incorrect statements that it would be well to check the accuracy of their raw data, as old as it is," Schuchman added.
Harvard Law School appears to have overlooked that review, in part, because of its commitment to hiring a woman professor…
"We're clearly trying to add more women to the faculty," Clark told the Harvard Law Record in March 1994.
"Clark said HLS was engaging 'affirmative action' to the extent it was working to increase the number of women considered and interviewed," wrote the Record's Greg Stohr. "He also said the Law School would be willing to hire a qualified woman, even if her area of expertise did not fit an immediate need, but he stopped short of saying the school would lower its qualification requirements for women."
Now, since when do universities lower their qualification requirements or academic standards? That never happens.
And since when do ambitious politicians lie to advance their careers, or to attain higher positions of power? Did Elizabeth Warren just make it up that she's of Native American heritage just as an excuse to check the "Minority" box on application forms, such as for admittance to the Harvard Law School faculty? Did she really have to do that, given that she knew she could already more easily be hired based on just her female status?
And, according to Legal Insurrection in 2012 when Warren was running for the U.S. Senate,
… David Bernstein discovered that in annual reports by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) from 1986-1994, Warren was listed as a minority faculty member. Since AALS bases such information solely on what faculty self-reports, the information must have come from Warren herself. The AALS directories, however, only identify whether the faculty member is "minority," not what minority status is claimed.
There seems to be some uncertainty in news reports as to whether Warren filled out the AALS forms, and if so, whether she identified as Native American, with the (Scott) Brown campaign demanding that she "come clean."
I spoke this afternoon with Alethea Harney, Warren's campaign press secretary, and confirmed several key details.
Harney acknowledged that the minority status reported by Warren to AALS was Native American, and that while Warren does not remember the precise forms, she believes there was a box or other designation to be selected for Native American.
The AALS reporting was the only time Warren self-identified as Native American as far as Warren currently is aware, according to Harney, and Warren never has joined any Native American groups, or asserted any tribal memberships.
And in a subsequent article, Legal Insurrection writes:
… Warren was listed in the (Harvard) Women's Law Journal on the list of "Women of Color in Legal Academia." Where would the student editors have come up with the idea that Warren was a "woman of color"? Certainly not from looking at her.
The Journal used the 1991-1992 AALS directory list of Minority Law Teachers — on which Warren's name appeared as we now know based on her claiming Native American status — as a starting point, then gathered other information from other sources, and then sent out confirmation letters.
That Legal Insurrection article also quotes from a Boston Globe article thus:
"But for at least six straight years during Warren's tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harvard officials and federal guidelines, those statistics are almost always based on the way employees describe themselves.
"In addition, both Harvard's guidelines and federal regulations for the statistics lay out a specific definition of Native American that Warren does not meet."
And now we're hearing via Zero Hedge that Elizabeth Warren's DNA test is really indicating that she is, supposedly, only 1/1024 percent Native American. (I thought this photo on Zero Hedge was hysterical.) So really, she's a lying fraudster, let's face it.
But speaking of outright frauds, Elizabeth Warren's "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" has itself been a fraud. She is the one who met with then-President Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010 to put this monstrosity together, along with then-Sen. Chris "Countrywide" Dodd (D-Countrywide) and then-Rep. Barney Frank (D-OneUnited, "Hot Bottom"). They were "concerned" about consumer "rights."
If Warren were serious about protecting consumer rights, she would have pressed for indicting Obama on fraud charges, given that he and his administration flunkies knowingly and repeatedly lied that people would keep their doctors or their current health care plan under ObamaCare.


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Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has confirmed that it planned to acquire U.K.-based semiconductor chipmaker ARM Holdings (ARM) in a £24.3 billion ($32 billion) cash deal.
This deal represents Softbank's biggest acquisition since the $21.3 billion buyout of U.S. telecoms company Sprint, and the biggest-ever acquisition of a European tech company.
Founded out of Cambridge, U.K., in 1990, ARM powers the processors in most of the world's smartphones, including iPhones, and with its low power-consumption and cost the company is also pushing hard into the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) industry.
ARM, originally called Advanced RISC Machines, before switching to its acronym in 1998, was a joint venture between Apple, VLSI Technology, and Acorn Computers, and was chosen by Apple for use in its Newton PDA device, which was a flop.
In the wake of Softbank's acquisition, the Tokyo-based company said that it will maintain ARM's Cambridge HQ, double its employee headcount in the U.K. over the next five years to six thousand, and retain its current partnership-based business model and senior management structure.
Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, said in a statement:
We have long admired ARM as a world-renowned and highly respected technology company that is by some distance the market-leader in its field. ARM will be an excellent strategic fit within the SoftBank group as we invest to capture the very significant opportunities provided by the "Internet of Things".
This investment also marks our strong commitment to the U.K. and the competitive advantage provided by the deep pool of science and technology talent in Cambridge. As an integral part of the transaction, we intend to at least double the number of employees employed by ARM in the UK over the next five years.
SoftBank intends to invest in ARM, support its management team, accelerate its strategy and allow it to fully realise its potential beyond what is possible as a publicly listed company. It is also intended that ARM will remain an independent business within SoftBank, and continue to be headquartered in Cambridge, U.K..
This is one of the most important acquisitions we have ever made, and I expect ARM to be a key pillar of SoftBank's growth strategy going forward.


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Belgium supports FAO in providing Early Warning Early Action assistance to vulnerable farmers in southern Madagascar
Over the past years, the population of southern Madagascar has experienced a dramatic reduction in crop production. This was mainly the result of three consecutive years of crop failure due to drought that was aggravated by the 2015/16 El Niño phenomenon. Recovery has been challenging and about 1.2 million people are currently in need of urgent early action to protect their livelihoods and reduce their food deficits.
Most of the people in southern Madagascar are subsistence farmers. They plant around November and December, and harvest between April and June. However, due to the persistent drought conditions, harvests were very poor and most households are experiencing long lean seasons and food scarcity, waiting for the next harvest to replenish their stocks.
In the effort to address the rapidly deteriorating food security situation, thanks to the Belgian contribution, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities - Early Warning Early Action, FAO is able to support around 8 400 vulnerable and food-insecure people to anticipate the cumulative effects of the long drought periods. With the provision of short-cycle seeds, small irrigation systems and technical support, including trainings on crop diversification and improved farming techniques, targeted households are expected to harvest, thus reducing the lean period with improved food availability and income.
Throughout project implementation, FAO collaborates closely with government agencies, civil society and vulnerable farming communities to reinforce their capacities to better anticipate and respond to future shocks.


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Helping to make medical research more accessible.
What it does
Combines open source software and low cost off the shelf hardware into an easily expandable system to assist medical researchers in measuring, logging and characterizing seizures and muscle spasms.
How we built it
We designed a small self powered peripheral device using an Arduino Nano to connect to the Intel 101 Central station via low energy Bluetooth to stream accelerometer data.
This central station has been designed to take the input from multiple peripheral sensors and stream them to a Raspberry Pi, which is used to create a presentation layer for all of the data obtained. The presentation layer consists of a Unity3D scene with some custom scripts to display what's happening in real time to a ragdoll human analog, as well as a NodeRed server which is used to log the data into a database, and present the real-time and historical data using a custom web dashboard.
Challenges we ran into
The major overarching challenge was our only finding out and participating in this competition with 8 days to go until the submission deadline. Living in Australia, this meant that getting components in this timeframe is fairly difficult, leading us to a constraint of "whatever we had laying around" for parts, with our solution being driven by this constraint.
We had problems with figuring out how to detect when a seizure/spasm event had taken place. On the surface this sounds like a fairly easy task - just measure the intensities of acceleration, if the intensity changes by a certain amount in a certain timeframe then it's a spasm. In practice this is much more difficult if you don't want to have a lot of false positives. This lead to us analyzing what a seizure actually looked like, and using a discrete Fourier transform on our data, looking at intensity changes in the 1 -10Hz range.
Bluetooth communication was something that neither of us had too much experience with was a major hurdle at the start. This was especially problematic with the AT-09 BLE device that the peripheral device had. Overall, there was enough information online to assist us in understanding BLE, and the particularly impressive GATT protocol.
One challenge that was a massive source of frustration came about when debugging something in the Arduino IDE. An if statement was being passed over when it shouldn't have, and neither of us could figure out why. It turns out that there is this odd "feature" of the Arduino IDE that there's no warning about errant semicolons, leading to this being something that compiles without an error.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're both proud that we managed to get a working product out in 8 days while having other work related commitments.
The entire Node Red control flow and dashboard was a significant source of pride, as it was the first time trying it out, with it being significantly more flexible and faster to get up and running than methods used in previous hackathons - this was a big advantage given the time constraints imposed on us.
While it was a very small part of the overall project, the Fourier Transform:
...was a source of pride - partly because mechanical engineering students seldom get the opportunity to explain to people why Fourier Transforms are so cool, and partly because people don't normally listen to those sorts of explanations. Being able to eliminate so many problems by applying some advanced math instead of the alternate methods of chaining if statements or creating a neural net and spending a very long time training it is really exciting.
What we learned
The Fourier Transform is the single most amazing piece of math ever invented (Hence the name of the entry). Using a (Fast) Fourier Transform on our accelerometer data solved so many problems that we were initially encountering with false positives, by constraining what we were actually analyzing to those frequencies which spasms actually occurred at.
Initially we assumed that bluetooth was just a wireless way of transmitting serial data. After being forced by this competition to look at the BLE whitepaper and some guides, we learnt the capabilities of BLE and how useful GATT is.
Learning how to stream data from an Arduino to Unity3D and displaying it on a ragdoll model to emphasise what is happening in a human like context was really interesting.
We also learnt that while it was mathematically possible to do sensor fusion by differentiating the output of the gyroscope and adding it to the accelerometer with different weightings for both, we discovered that the noise added to the signal in doing this makes it virtually unusable, so while in theory sensor fusion can alleviate some of the problems related to sensor drift and noise, differentiating a signal on such a small timescale is a very very bad idea.
What's next for Fourious Movements
For this to be truly useful, the "logger" that's attached to the person would have to be miniaturized. This can be done by replacing the individual modules with a single PCB, combining the Atmega328p-au that's the heart of the Arduino with the required boost converter, Bluetooth and accelerometer onto a smaller footprint. At the same time, replacing the rechargeable 18650 battery with non rechargeable coin batteries would drastically reduce the devices physical footprint.
The creation of additional sensors to feed into our BLE central device would be beneficial, immediately getting information from some form of pulse sensor, either through a Doppler sensor or a blood oxygenation sensor. Additionally, an Electromyography sensor would be beneficial to help get a sense of what electrical signals are being sent through the muscles at the time of the spasm.
To improve its potential benefits and reach, an opt in central database of seizures/spasms needs to be created so that a much larger sample size is obtained, allowing us to properly train a neural network using an array of low powered Intel neural compute sticks, and run the neural network on the Arduino 101s embedded neural network nodes. To see if we can determine seizures and spasms before they happen, which will be a huge benefit in figuring out how to prevent them.


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"Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Saturday promised that "explosive" congressional hearings over the Benghazi, Libya attacks are on the way.
"There are more Benghazi hearings coming, I think they're going to be explosive," Gowdy said on Fox News.
Gowdy, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the hearings are going to be "coming quickly" and seemed to hint that the public might for the first time hear from witnesses to the September assault that left four Americans dead.
"I am bound by certain measures of confidentiality, but I would tell you that you are getting very warm," Gowdy said when asked by a Fox News anchor whether witnesses could be coming forward. "[The hearings] are coming sooner rather than later."
Gowdy followed that up by saying that in a trial, "direct evidence, direct testimony by eyewitnesses is always the most compelling." He said that if there is anyone who wants to come forward, the House committee will make legal counsel available to them........"
I still have a lot of doubt that we will get the truth in what happened before and during the attack on The US consulate in Benghazi. We have a media which functions as not only a cheering section but as an effective screening force for the current administration in the White House. By their purposeful avoidance of any honest journalistic work, Obama, Hillary, and the rest have been largely free of any real criticism. Only with a media like that of our nation could Hillary dare take control of the hearing in which she was testifying; feigning indignation and changing the story to make it look like it was she and not those on the panel who understood that it was a problem that Americans were murdered during the attack. With any other administration, the media would be chasing after her like hornets rushing out of a broken nest.
If anything does come of these new hearings, I expect that we will hear more about the failures to address pre-attack requests for greater security personnel and equipment by the staff, we will also here of the strenuous efforts of the administration to make us think that the uploading onto YouTube of a movie about Mohammed incited the attack.
What we will most likely never get from the hearings is an explanation for the order requiring the command staff of AFRICOM to "stand down" and refrain from sending any supporting elements to relieve the besieged personnel in the consulate.
This has all the marks of a criminal cover-up of epic proportions. Since General Carter Ham was relieved of duty following the attack, we have heard almost nothing at all about how it came that a respected leader was sacked.
What we did get back then, although it was shrouded in an (Probably enforced) haze and cannot in any way be confirmed , was this:
The General, doing his duty, took steps to bring elements within striking and support distance to the highest Readiness Condition. Orders came down from the top to "stand down". Noting that an illegal order, be it an act or requiring an omission, is not to be followed, he instead went forward with the giving of the order for units to move. It was at this point that his second-in-command placed the General under arrest and assumed command of AFRICOM, thus leaving the victims to their fate.
The silence on this event has been deafening. I have come to believe that our Generals and Admirals have come to be so concerned with their careers and post-service jobs that they will not only shirk their duties while hiding behind the orders that have been given to them, but also may be perfectly fine with the manner in which the military has been handled by this administration.
One response to this is the most obvious; since a commander does not know everything that is going on, he may be required to refrain from taking action. In this particular case, though, this answer does not hold water. The victims were under close-in assault. There consequently would be no order to send, for example a missile, bomb, or rocket as doing so would be just as dangerous to the besieged as for the attackers; the military term is "Danger Close".
Even if it turns out that a weapon of incredible precision could have been deployed, one that could kill and drive off the attackers with little or or no danger to the victims, then the question remains - "OK, I was relieved for my failure to obey orders, but how come you let the people be murdered instead of deploying the M-such-and-such system?"
That is the question that needs to be asked but I fear it will be left to rot.
This thing has a lid on it that would survive a 1980's nuclear Armageddon scenario.
Yes, we rightly have civilian control of our military. Washington headed off our first possible coup when he nipped the Newburgh Conspiracy in the bud, thus saving us from a possible precedent that has wrecked other nations. But with civilian control or not, wrongful orders that are going to result in losses when action could have been taken are illegal by their very nature and should not be followed. We must note, though, that any military leader has roughly four options upon receiving an order
1) For the normal order - Simple, follow the order
2) For an order that is not terrible but gives one concern- I don't like this order, but I will keep my concerns to myself or maybe confide with my staff, but we will follow the order.
3) For an order that has all the marks of a foolish and/or dangerous move - This order is a mess, but we have to do it. I will be honest with my troops as they are not idiots and tell them that I need them to do their job despite the garbage sandwich that we have been dealt.
4) For an order, be it to take or desist from action when all the evidence points to the contrary - OK, we're not doing that.
Commanders must realize that in the course of their careers, they may be chosen by Fate or History to take action that may make life a little harder for them, possibly even denying them the benefit of a comfortable retirement. It's a hazard that comes with the perks of command.
That's a risk one takes upon becoming an officer, but even a troop in the ranks may have to do the same thing at his level..
I hope that I am wrong and that this thing gets blown wide open when new witnesses step forward.


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Yes, welcome fellow foodies! I think it's only fitting that I explain on my first blog post what this blog is all about. On the Foodies Corner, I'll be trying everything from fast food, to fine dining, convenience meals and more. Here is where I'll be sharing my honest and unbiased opinions while hoping you'll also share yours.
People have been telling me for years to start a blog where I critique foods and I'm finally doing it. Be sure to check out my rating scale under the menu and before you head out, don't forget to follow / subscribe. Here's to a long and last foddie friendship.
The Foodie Hunter


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A Left-Wing Activist Takes on Multiculturalism As an Absolute GoodBy AllardK
Filed Under Foreign Affairs, Latest News on Jul 14
There's a horrifying article in The National Interest by Cheryl Benard, herself a refugee activist and author who comes from a rather left-wing background, on the wave of brutal sexual assaults in Western Europe. An alarmingly high percentage of these assaults are committed by young male refugees from Afghanistan. Benard goes into a lot of detail on specific assaults against all sorts of women in Austria, a country she apparently knows well. Women who were happily going about their business in shared public spaces in broad daylight usually, and who were assaulted usually by packs of young Afghan refugees. Many of them were mothers pushing prams. Yes pushing baby carriages in the broad sunlight in a park in Austria, for example.
As an advocate for refugees, Benard is compelled to seek out an answer to this disturbing phenomenon. She methodically works through and dismisses the usual cliched reasons what we would howl in outrage if attempted as an excuse by a young white male in North America, for example: provocative behavior, cultural norms clashing, drunken mob behavior. She finds most of the excuses given in court by the perpetrators are manipulative attempts to play the judicial systems in countries like Austria, Germany, and Sweden. And they work, tragically. It is almost impossible to deport a refugee who happens to be a violent serial rapist, due to current European law.
What Cheryl Benard is forced to conclude – in what she admits was a painful process – is that these young men have a violent contempt for Western values and understand perfectly that their savage assaults will never receive a retribution that is anywhere near as cruel and damaging as their violent sex crimes themselves. They will not be repaid in kind, and they full well know this. That means that there is no disincentive for them to change their behavior. And they see themselves as almost punishers of a decadent West – especially as punishers of happily fulfilled women going about their lives. A West that is doomed to collapse under the brutality of their assaults, in their sociopathic worldview.
Further, more integrated Afghan refugees who have lived for years in Europe, most of them as successful and functional citizens, are not willing to be a bridge of communication that might allow them to give these young men an example of what they should aspire to. They either wash their hands of their more brutal compatriots or implicitly encourage their behavior.
Women in Europe are thus exposed to a danger that had been apparently conquered and vanquished decades ago. Is it going to take years of take-back-the-night type of marches, to finally get legislators in Europe to admit that the violence against women is not coming from Lutheran preachers or aging Catholic priests laying on an altar in France with their throats slit, but from refugees from Afghan and other countries that treat their women abysmally?
Diversity and multiculturalism have been claimed as an absolute good in and of itself by the cultural left (which is what the left is nowadays) for decades now. It's time they rethink this so-called truth for it is a dangerous lie. There are values far more important than mere diversity for diversity's sake. Read the constitution for a few very good examples of these values. So this truth of diversity unleavened by other redeeming values like freedom of speech and freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness, is indeed a dangerous lie, dangerous above all to women and children. Cheryl Benard's article is a much needed start by the left.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held talks on Afghanistan, the West Asian region and the Korean peninsula with the visiting U.S. National Security Adviser, Lt. General H.R. McMaster.
Lt. Gen. McMaster, the first high official of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to visit India, met Mr. Modi after completing his trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Challenge of terrorism
"Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster shared his perspective with Prime Minister on the security situation in the extended region, including in Afghanistan, West Asia and the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]. During the conversation, they exchanged views on how both countries can work together to effectively address the challenge of terrorism and to advance regional peace, security and stability," a press release from the Prime Minister's Office stated.
The meeting, however, did not yield an announcement of a date for Mr. Modi's visit to Washington. The meeting held at the Prime Minister's official residence was attended by India's National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and a few other officials. The formal meeting was preceded by a meeting between Mr. Doval and Lt. Gen. McMaster.
Earlier, the U.S. NSA and Mr. Doval held detailed discussions on India-U.S. relations, especially the security aspect of the ties, sources said. Lt. Gen. McMaster arrived here on Monday evening from Pakistan, where he met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and top officials of the Pakistan government.
The relations between India and Pakistan figured in Lt. Gen. McMaster's discussions with Mr. Sharif. The Sharif government also briefed the U.S. official about the situation in Kashmir and ties with India and Afghanistan.
During his stopover in Kabul, Lt. Gen. McMastertold an Afghan TV channel that Pakistan should deal with terror "less selectively" than it had done in the past.
Major defence partner
A U.S. Embassy statement issued after the departure of Lt. Gen. McMaster later in the day said that the bilateral talks "emphasised the importance of the U.S.-India strategic relationship and reaffirmed India's designation as a major defence partner".
The two sides discussed a range of bilateral and regional issues, including their shared interest in increasing defence and counter-terrorism cooperation, it said.


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ISLAMABAD - Inter-Services Intelligence Director General Lt-Gen Rizwan Akhtar yesterday skipped a scheduled meeting of the Senate's Committee of Whole House where he was to appear for an in-camera briefing to the lawmakers on the recent Pak-India tensions.
The senators from the opposition and treasury benches were demanding a briefing from the ISI DG on the situation arsing out of the Uri attack, atrocities committed by Indian forces in Occupied Kashmir and the latest developments on Pak-India escalations.
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani had especially called the Committee of Whole House meeting on Wednesday for the briefing following an assurance by the ISI DG that he would appear before the Senate body.
An in-camera meeting of the Committee of Whole House was held under the chair of Raza Rabbani. A lawmaker who attended the in-camera sitting said the chairman informed the house that the ISI DG would not be available at Wednesday's meeting because of his other professional commitments, so another meeting would be fixed for his briefing. He said the ISI chief had informed him about reasons for his unavailability.
Meanwhile, sources in the Senate Secretariat said ISI DG Rizwan Akhtar earlier met with the Senate chairman and both the sides discussed the situation on Pakistan-India tensions. The ISI DG asked the Senate chairman as to what kind of briefing the committee wanted from him. He also informed the chairman of the latest situation with regard to the recent escalation along the Line of Control (LoC). Even modalities had been decided for the briefing, the official sources added. However, Lt-Gen Rizwan, later, conveyed to the chairman that he would not come because of his unavailability in the capital on Wednesday.
An opposition lawmaker, wishing anonymity, confirmed the Senate chairman, at a lunch after the meeting of the Committee of Whole House, affirmed the ISI DG had met him. "We generally believe top military brass is either reluctant to face questions of lawmakers or they don't want to appear before the parliamentary committees," he said.
Mian Raza Rabbani, however, made it clear that any inference drawn from the DG's unavailability would be wrong as he had got a positive response from him. The chair also said the ISI chief could not appear for genuine reasons, the legislator said.
The Committee of Whole House yesterday discussed the report of the 13-member body on draft policy guidelines to the government for adopting a robust strategy on the latest situation developing between India and Pakistan. The report was presented before the meeting.
The report has proposed to the government to adopt an aggressive policy against India and leave its apologetic behaviour towards the neighbouring country. It has also asked the government to activate Pakistani missions abroad to tell the world about aggressive designs of India. It has also asked for a permanent appointment of foreign affairs minister because without it Kashmir issue could not be raised properly at international level.
Asking the government to activate its policy on Held Kashmir, the 13-member committee proposed to the government to form Kashmir desks at foreign missions. It has also asked the government to contact secular parties of India for border de-escalation and other issues.
In the meeting of the Whole House held last Thursday, it had been decided to form a committee to prepare draft policy guidelines. PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar, who is also one of the 13 members of the drafting committee, said the draft report had not so far been finalised and another meeting of the Whole Committee would be summoned next week.
Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Adviser to PM on Foreign Affairs and the defence secretary had briefed the committee in the meeting held on September 29 on the latest developments between India and Pakistan and the steps taken by the government in this regard.
The Senate chairman had referred the matter of Pakistan-India tensions to the Whole Committee following the demand of the lawmakers who wanted a detailed briefing from the civilian and military leadership on the issue.


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Lexus officially unveiled the RC F Coupe at the NAIAS in Detroit earlier this year. The RC F is now on display at the Jacob Javits Center in New York.
Thanks to YouTuber RealMCR12, you can enjoy the car in its full glory in a recent walkaround video.
The Japanese BMW M4 rival is powered by an all-new 5.0-liter V8 engine that develops more than 450 HP (335 kW) and 383 lb-ft (518 Nm) of torque. It is connected to an eight-speed Sports Direct Shift transmission which accelerates the model from 0 to 60 mph (0-100 km/h) in less than 4.6 seconds, before hitting a top speed of 168 mph (270 km/h).
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Good morning! I was awake early, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning just like Jimmy.
Photo of Jimmy, his handler (?), and the SP mayor last year
To be honest, I don't know what time Jimmy, Sun Prairie's groundhog, wakes up on his special day. Probably closer to sunrise. I was happy to find out that Jimmy did not see his shadow, which means an early spring. Thank you, Sun, for waiting to come out until after this very scientific event.
Apparently, Sun Prairie is the "official" groundhog capital of the world, and yet Punxsutawney stole all the glory. If you care at all, here's Sun Prairie's groundhog website.
The connection I made between Groundhog Day and my life comes from the movie with Bill Murray, who wakes up every morning on the same day. He relives the same day differently, and eventually starts to not care what he does (e.g. drives his car, accompanied by a groundhog, off a cliff). It has been a really long time since I've seen this movie, and I don't recall all the details, but it's safe to say Bill Murray's character is stuck in an uncontrollable rut.
I am in some ruts; most I like, and one I don't.
My breakfast is in a rut…and I'm loving it.
Some kind of toasted bread product, Earth Balance coconut chunky peanut butter on one slice, light cream cheese on the other, sometimes a banana, sometimes orange juice, and always my vitamins (a prenatal and 500mg of vitamin D3).
Oh, you haven't hear of this amazing peanut butter yet?
Please find the nearest store with the largest nut butter selection (for us it's Woodman's), and purchase this. It has a light coconut flavor that somehow complements the peanut flavor perfectly.
I'm in a survival, post-apocalyptic tv show rut…and I am happy with it. After bulldozing through The Walking Dead, we were at a loss. What to watch for a month until season three picks up again on Feb. 10? Brody suggested Jericho, a show about a small Kansas town who does their best to function after a handful of nuclear bombs cripple many major U.S. cities.
Just the other night, we finished season one, and it was very good. Not as addicting or consuming as The Walking Dead, but still a good dose of humans dealing with a world very different from the one we know now.
I'm in a workout rut…and I'm semi-ok with it. For the last couple months, I have been running three miles twice a week, taking BodyPump once a week, and sometimes going to yoga. When it wasn't negative a million degrees, I also get to the dog park about three times a week. Considering I am carrying a few extra pounds around in my belly, I am proud of how I've kept up with a decent exercise routine. While I don't want to shock my body by doing anything new, I could benefit from taking a step or Zumba class and maybe even jumping on the elliptical from time to time. Anyone know of any good pregnancy workout DVDs?
Lastly, I'm in a non-reading rut…and I'm not okay with this one. I'm an English teacher for pete's sake! During my first trimester, I was so tired by the time I made it to bed, I fell out of the nighttime reading habit. While Brody read or watched tv, I would pass out immediately. Now I am still quite tired at night, but not like before. With the start of a new semester, I'm not swamped in grading yet, and I have the time. I also just started a new book, The Good Soldiers by David Finkel, and I really like it so far.
Sadly, I forgot to bring my book home from school this weekend. Can blog and Real Simple reading be an okay substitute for now? I hope so,
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Cover and Concealment
When folks talk about cover and concealment, they are usually referring to utilizing some sort of cover or concealment strategy during a gun fight. Cover and concealment are two methods which can and should be used whenever a dangerous or life-threatening situation occurs.
Differences Between Cover and Concealment
Cover is anything that will protect your body from harm. There's a variety of different forms of cover which may work well in one situation, but be completely useless in another. For example, grabbing a sofa seat and placing it in front of you when an attacker with a knife is attempting to stab you may be sufficient cover to prevent the knife from reaching your body. Using the same cover when an attacker is shooting at you with a gun would not prevent the bullet from penetrating the cover and reaching your body.
Finding appropriate cover to ward off an injury is extremely important no matter what weapon is being used. Aside from being painful, injuries can cause the loss of blood, consciousness, or life. If you are injured, you are less likely able to defend yourself as effectively as you could if you were not injured.
Concealment is anything that will hide all or parts of your body from being seen. As with taking or using some form of cover, concealment also takes on a wide variety of forms which will vary in effectiveness. For example, you may be able to hide under a table and remain concealed provided the lighting is poor, the table is close to the floor, and the assailant does not look under the table. A more effective cover would be a table cloth that is thrown over the table and drapes to the floor. In this scenario, the concealment is much better unless the assailant looks under the table cloth.
Whenever you anticipate a dangerous situation is about to occur, your first option should be to remove yourself entirely from the impending danger. If you cannot immediately leave, you should consider seeking cover that will protect you in case of a confrontation or, if the circumstances are right, seek some sort of concealment that will hide you from an assailant until it is safe to leave. Ideally, locating an area the will conceal your presence and provide cover from an attacker who may be on a shooting spree would be the ideal outcome.
Cover and Concealment in the Home
Most homes provide many opportunities where occupants can hide or seek cover during a burglary or home invasion. When seeking cover or concealment within your home, look for areas you feel would provide the best cover while concealing you at the same time. Look for larger, metallic objects such as a refrigerator, washer or dryer, freezer or anything with a large amount of mass that would defer or stop a bullet from penetrating completely through the other side. Objects made of wood, such as dressers, book cases, and desks can provide a degree of cover depending on the caliber weapon being used and your relative hiding location. For example, a desk shot front to back would probably provide little cover, whereas, a desk shot from one side through to the other may provide sufficient layers of wood to stop the bullet depending on the type of wood used in the desk.
Beware of "soft" cover items, such as a sofa, chair, cabinets, and mattresses. Soft cover items are not likely to provide cover as they are too thin or made of materials which will not be conducive to stopping a bullet. A special consideration are the walls in your home, which are made from drywall; a very thin composite of paper and light plaster in which even the lowest caliber bullet will penetrate. Always try to find the most available cover that offers the greatest amount of concealment as possible. Remember, this is your home, your turf, and any place you can effectively hide and then surprise your attacker, the better.
Cover and Concealment Outside the Home
In many ways, areas providing cover and concealment are more readily available outside the home. For example, a typical city street will have junction boxes, fire hydrants, brick fences, and large mature trees. In the street the availability of parked cars are a natural place to hide behind and receive excellent cover. Other concealment items can include wood fences, mature bushes, and trash cans. Simply being aware of your surroundings could help save your life.
As in your home, you will want to avoid soft cover items and seek out the heavier, stronger, best protection option available to you. Even if your only option is a trash can--hiding behind it will temporarily remove yourself from the assailants view while you prepare your weapon, reload, or reorganize your thoughts. There's something psychological about a person who has taken cover, even behind a plastic trash can--most criminals will wait until you show yourself before they try to shoot. Eventually, they will realize they can shoot right through the trash can and hit their target, so we wouldn't recommend staying in that particular position for too long.
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The New Deadly Sins
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A little over a year ago, the BBC's Heaven and Earth Show commissioned a poll on what the British felt about the seven deadly sins.
The deadly sins, also known as capital sins or cardinal sins have been part of Catholic teachings since at least the fifth century. They are, in order of decreasing severity as determined by Pope Gregory the Great:
Pride, Envy, Anger, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, and Lust.
The BBC asked people what single sin they would add to the list if they were given a choice. The seven proposed additions in order of preference were: Cruelty, Hypocrisy, Selfishness, Wastefulness, Dishonesty, Bigotry, and Adultery.
Then respondents were asked to pick which was the worst sin out of the fourteen choices, seven old and seven new.
This resulted in a new suggested list of seven deadly sins:
- Cruelty (39%),
- Adultery (11%),
- Bigotry (8%),
- Dishonesty (7%),
- Hypocrisy (6%),
- Greed (the only holdover from the traditional list) (6%) and
- Selfishness (5%).
Now - if we consider the original list - I would suggest that the prime impact of the seven deadly sins is on the person committing the sin. These sins hurt the sinner more than someone else.
But, if we look at what those surveyed thought, most respondents saw the worst sin as one in which the prime impact was on another person.
This seems to me to be a far more sensible approach to morality. When we consider what is right and wrong, what is important is the impact on the other person.


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The Wall Street Journal interviews Jeb Bush.
What comes through when Mr. Bush is asked about education is how radical his views are. He would toss out the traditional K-to-12 scheme in favor of a credit system, like colleges have.
"It's not based on seat time," he says. "It's whether you accomplished the task. Now we're like GM in its heyday of mass production. We don't have a flourishing education system that's customized. There's a whole world out there that didn't exist 10 years ago, which is online learning. We have the ability today to customize learning so we don't cast young people aside."
This is where Sweden comes in. "The idea that somehow Sweden would be the land of innovation, where private involvement in what was considered a government activity, is quite shocking to us Americans," Mr. Bush says. "But they're way ahead of us. They have a totally voucherized system. The kids come from Baghdad, Somalia — this is in the tougher part of Stockholm — and they're learning three languages by the time they finish. . . . there's no reason we can't have that except we're stuck in the old way."
Interestingly enough, you'll notice he doesn't mention his successor on the list of current Republican governors he admires.
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Daughters of interracial parents are more likely than sons to identify as multiracial, and this is especially true for children of black-white couples, according to a new study in the February issue of the American Sociological Review.
Accepting a job below one's skill level can be severely penalizing when applying for future employment because of the perception that someone who does this is less committed or less competent, according to new research from a sociologist at The University of Texas at Austin.
A new study finds that many U.S. adults — roughly one in five — are deeply religious, know a lot about science, and support many practical uses of science and technology in everyday life, but reject scientific explanations of creation and evolution.
People who report having spiritual awareness have it vary throughout the day, rather than being constant, according to a study by University of Connecticut researchers.
Since the 1980s, leading U.S. firms have announced massive downsizing plans in the name of maximizing shareholder value, but some observers are skeptical about how serious firms are in implementing these plans. Building on political theories of corporate governance, I examine how conflicts of interest and alignment among investors, workers, and top managers affect the implementation of announced downsizing plans.
Conventional research in organizational theory highlights the role of board interlocks in facilitating business collective action. In this article, I propose that business collective action affects the evolutionary path of interlock networks. In particular, large market players' response after a collective action to the classic problem of the "exploitation" of the great by the small provides a mechanism for interlocks to evolve.
Community reactions against organizations can be driven by negative information spread through a diffusion process that is distinct from the diffusion of organizational practices. Bank panics offer a classic example of selective diffusion of negative information. Bank panics involve widespread bank runs, although a low proportion of banks experience a run. We develop theory on how organizational similarity, community similarity, and network proximity create selective diffusion paths for resistance against organizations.
Racial attachments are understood to be socially constructed and endogenous to gender, socioeconomic, and religious identities. Yet we know surprisingly little about the effect of such identities on the particular racial labels that individuals self-select. In this article, I investigate how social identities shape the racial labels chosen by biracial individuals in the United States, a rapidly growing population who have multiple labeling options.
Taking advantage of historical census records that include full first and last names, we apply a new approach to measuring the effect of cultural assimilation on economic success for the children of the last great wave of immigrants to the United States. We created a quantitative index of ethnic distinctiveness of first names and show the consequences of ethnic-sounding names for the occupational achievement of the adult children of European immigrants.
This study examines whether working with a broker increases or reduces the payment received for the last client among female sex workers. Building on research on the informal economy and sex work, we formulate a positive embeddedness hypothesis, expecting a positive association, and an exploitation hypothesis, expecting a negative association. We analyze a large survey combined with intensive interview data on female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India. These data uniquely distinguish between the amount the sex worker actually received and the amount the client paid.


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Students in the World Affairs in Foreign Films class at Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School recently finished watching "Spirited Away," a Japanese animated film. The class screens different foreign films and then studies the geography, customs, holidays and social issues associated with that country. After viewing "Spirited Away," the students made origami and tried their skills using chopsticks by picking up marshmallows and M&Ms.


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In the first Thanksgiving address given by an American President, George Washington encouraged his fellow citizens in 1789 to join him in, "acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness." Clearly demonstrating an equal grasp on the gravity and meaning of such an occasion, current U.S.
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Fiona Dermody, PhD student at the School of Computing, won Best Student Paper at the Third International Conference on Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications in Madeira, Jan 2018.
Co-written with her supervisor, Dr. Alistair Sutherland, it was entitled 'A Multimodal Positive Computing System for Public Speaking - Evaluating User Responses to Avatar and Video Speaker Representations'.
The International Conference on Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Human Computer Interaction. The conference will be structured along seventeen main tracks, covering different aspects related to Human Computer Interaction, from Theories, Models and User Evaluation, Interaction Techniques and Devices, Haptic and Multimodal Interaction, and Agents and Human Interaction. http://www.hucapp.visigrapp.org/
A link to the paper can be found here.
On Sunday 26th November, two DCU computing undergraduate teams competed in the Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC) at University of Bath in the UK as part of the World ACM ICPC competition. Together with Irish undergraduate teams from Trinity, Maynooth and Queens they competed against university teams from 60 different institutions from 10 different countries in North West Europe.
The DCU team of '-= [B]ichael [B] [B]iggins =-' won the 'Irish' title at the competition and placed an impressive 11th out of 42 UK and Irish teams, including teams from Cambridge and Oxford. The team consisted of Noah Donnelly (CPSSD3), Cian Ruane (CPSSD3) and Ciara Godwin (CASE3) solved 4 of the 12 algorithmic problems in the shortest time compared to other Irish teams and made attempts on all the problems. Overall they finished 47th out of the best 120 university teams across north Europe.
Adapt's Prof. Andy Way was recently interviewed by Silicon Republic on the MT evolution and it's application at the Adapt Centre, where Way and his team tackle language barriers that are "key challenges in enabling content to flow fluently across the globe".
"From the late '80s to about 2015, the dominant approach to MT was statistical (SMT). We needed large amounts of parallel data, ie source sentences and their human-provided translations, to build our statistical translation models, which essentially would suggest target-language words and phrases, which the model believed to be translations of the source sentence.
The last three years in MT have also seen neural MT (NMT) come to the fore. With NMT, all a research team needs is parallel data. The dominant model encodes the source sentence into a numerical vector representation, "which is in turn sent en bloc to the target-language decoder, whose job it is to generate the most likely target text from that vector".
Way explained that NMT typically outperforms SMT and could be considered the "new state of the art", citing more fluent translations and better word order as results. NMT does require much bigger training datasets, and models generally also take longer to train.
Full article: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/machine-translation-adapt-dcu
An ADAPT designed platform, DCU FUSE, was recently shortlisted for the prestigious QS Reimagine Education Award under the Ethical Leadership Category. DCU Fuse, an innovative initiative rolled out in Dublin City University earlier this year was aimed at informing the direction of the University's next strategic plan through a 24 hour public brainstorming session supported by technology developed by researchers at the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology.
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Most retirees spend their golden years tending to their garden, watching their favourite TV serials or keeping track of doctors' appointments.
But not 81-year-old Hildah Lee Hung Fong, who will go down in history as the oldest Malaysian to represent the country at the Asian Games.
Never in her wildest dreams did Lee imagine donning our national colours and marching with other athletes, but that's what she did at the recent Asian Games in Jakarta. She was representing Malaysia in bridge.
"It was a historic moment for me, especially flying the Jalur Gemilang with other athletes during the opening ceremony. It's not every day I have a chance to represent Malaysia in an international competition. It was such an exciting moment and I am honoured, especially at 81," says Lee.
Contract bridge made its Asian Games debut in Jakarta last month. It is the fourth mind sport to feature in the games after chess at Doha 2006, followed by Go and xiangqi at the Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010.
The inclusion of bridge in the games was due to the persistent efforts of South East Asia Bridge Federation president Michael Bambang Hartono and Asia Pacific Bridge Federation president Esther Sophonpanich.
Michael, the 78-year-old Indonesian billionaire, also competed in the games and won a bronze medal for his country.
"The decision making process is the same in bridge and business. You gather information and data, make a conclusion, and plan a strategy," says Michael in a news report, adding that he can spend up to eight to 10 hours playing a single game.
Lee is pleased bridge has been included in the Asian Games; 47 countries including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, United Arab Emirates and Jordan participated in the Jakarta Games.
"Bridge is rewarding as it offers social stimulation, and enhances our skills in sequencing and visualisation. It is a wonderful game which allows players to interact with others and develop their cognitive skills.
"Now that bridge is in the Asian Games, I hope it will be included in the SEA Games too," adds Lee, who learnt to play bridge from a British friend in the mid 1970s.
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Over 200 players from across Asia participated in the bridge event. They came from various backgrounds and age groups, and included railway employees, teachers, art collectors and one of Indonesia's richest tycoons.
Malaysia sent a 10-member team – the youngest participant was 22 years old while Lee was the oldest.
The team was selected from the Malaysian Contract Bridge Association (MCBA), and picked based on their risk taking ability, constructive and competitive bidding techniques and outside-the-box thinking.
The team was led by MCBA secretary David Law.
"After the Olympic Council of Malaysia submitted our names, we trained hard for six months. To polish our skills, we trained four times a week, three and a half hours per session.
"Coach Dick Shek worked hard to train us in speed, endurance and to develop a winning rhythm and style," explains Lee, who has been MCBA's treasurer for close to three decades.
This was Lee's first international bridge competition and she was in high spirits. But during the competition, she realised the Malaysian team were greenhorns in the competitive arena.
For one, Malaysia was one of the smallest teams, compared to China (24 players), Thailand (21) and Indonesia (24). She also learnt the other teams were more experienced, having competed in numerous international competitions.
"The others were competitive and fuelled with the spirit of winning. We had to quickly pull up our socks and play to our best ability.
"There were six events including men's pair, women's pair and mixed pair. With only 10 in the team, our players had to compete in many games. As such, we were mentally exhausted," she recalls.
Lee adds they had little to go on to gauge their rivals' strengths and abilities before the Games.
"I expected our team to clinch at least a bronze medal at the Asian Games.We tried our best, despite coming in last."
But, Lee isn't dampened by their performace in Jakarta. She has picked up the pieces and is already gearing up for the next Asian Games in four years.
"We have started to train extra hard to ensure we'll be ready for the next games. We are practising four times a week. We hope to groom more bridge players too."
Playing the trump card
Contract bridge, or bridge, is a trick-taking card game that uses a 52-card deck. It is usually played by four players in two competing partnerships.
It is played in clubs, tournaments, online or at home. The game was developed out of whist, a classic English trick-taking card game. Whist is played with the trump suit chosen by chance, while in bridge it is chosen by a process called "bidding".
Bridge was popular from the 1920 up to the 1970s.
Over the years, its popularity diminished, as more players opt for strategy-driven card games such as poker and gin rummy.
Playing bridge requires an alert and analytical mind, but these days many people tend to dismiss it as a sedentary game for the elderly.
Research by Stirling University, UK, has found that bridge provides its players mental stimulation and social engagement.
In a survey with 7,000 participants, researchers discovered playing bridge has a significant positive effect on their wellbeing.
It helps build competitiveness, facilitates socialising, is mentally stimulating and an enjoyable activity.
Some notable figures who continue to enjoy the game include Microsoft's Bill Gates and investor Warren Beatty. Gates has been reported to declare that "bridge is the king of all card games".
Lee says those who have experience playing other card games will find it easier to pick up bridge. Passion and interest in cards are keys to enjoying bridge, she explains.
"Prior to bridge, I played card games like gin rummy, poker and blackjack. I also love mahjong. All these games involve counting and critical thinking.
"Bridge requires similar set skills to further develop logical thinking and memory," says the former student of St Mary's School in KL.
Lee has now played bridge for more than 40 years, and is one of the gurus in Malaysia's bridge community.
For close to three decades, the certified bridge club director has been conducting games at the Royal Lake Club (RLC) and Royal Selangor Golf Club (RSGC) in Kuala Lumpur.
"Members pay between RM10 and RM20 per month to participate in games. This is an affordable sport which can be played by anyone with an interest in card games, ranging from students, working adults to retirees."
As chairman of the RLC's bridge club, Lee organises charity bridge luncheons at the club too.
Next week, RLC is organising a Bridge Congress, with players from Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
"I enjoy organising such events as it keeps me busy. Plus, it helps bring the bridge community closer together.
"I hope such gatherings will help promote bridge, especially among the younger generation. Currently, most bridge players in Malaysia are above 50 years old," says Lee, a retired insurance claims manager.
It's challenging to get youngsters interested in bridge or other card games.
"The youth are preoccupied with the Internet, Instagram and Facebook. It is good to indulge in mind thinking games (like bridge) as it allows students to improve their memory and grades.
"I hope schools will introduce bridge as part of its school syllabus," says Lee, adding that a person usually can learn the basics of bridge in about nine or 10 lessons.
Keeping her mind sharp
Besides bridge sessions, Lee also keeps her mind sharp by playing Taiwanese mahjong twice a week.
"I've been playing the game with my friends for over two decades. It's really fun as we chat while we play. We are also keeping our memory sharp," says Lee, a voracious reader who enjoys poring over story books and biographies during her free time.
She enjoys solving wordsearch puzzles too.
Lee may be in her 80s but she is still as fit as a fiddle. The secret, she says, is to keep active and keep a healthy diet.
"I have been playing golf for 53 years. I go to the gym and walk regularly.
"I am careful with my diet. I stick to three meals each day.
"It is also important to keep the mind active and have positive thoughts always."
And now Lee will also be channeling her focus and energy towards bringing home a medal in bridge in the next Asian Games in 2022.


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As we progress through the next few months, the Colorado weather gets colder and colder. There are many great things that come along with the cold weather, such as the snowfall and warm, lit fireplaces.
However, you may notice that your skin is a little less bright as the weather gets increasingly colder. Dull skin lacks luster and life and can really weigh down your confidence. Luckily, there are several ways that you can combat dull skin this winter.
Below, are three tips to incorporate into your beauty routine once the cold weather hits.
Facials are great weapons to help you fight back against dull skin. There are so many types of facials that suit a wide variety of skin types.
If your skin seems to lack fullness and hydration, then a facial may be the perfect option for you. You can look into facial treatments littleton co to find providers that are experts in moisturizing and plumping your skin to restore a healthy and bright glow.
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Both will help remove the dead skin cells that are dulling your skin, but chemical exfoliators are the best option for people with sensitive skin.
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This key bag Opera is made with a music fabric and have a bordeaux zipper closure on the top.The lining is in bordeaux color fabric.
With this key bag you protect your keys from other objects in your handbags … and you'll found always your keys!
You can use as a cosmetic case, hair accessories, coins purse . Let your imagination run.
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Sharp Coronado Hospital Visitor Information
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- Contact or visit patient
- Buy a gift
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- Eat at the cafeteria
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- Take a tour
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How to find us.
We are located at:
250 Prospect Place
Coronado, CA 92118
Get driving and parking directions.
If using public transportation, take the 901 bus to Pomona Avenue and Glorietta Place.
We also offer free transportation services for non-emergency medical appointments at most Sharp locations.
Contact or visit a patient.
Read our updated restrictions for hospital visitors.
To reach a patient's room, call 619-522-3600 and ask for the patient by name or room number.
Find the perfect gift.
From snacks to flowers, our gift shop has everything you need. Orders may be placed by phone and delivered to the patient's room on the same day.
Hours: Monday through Friday: 9 am to 3:30 pm
Phone: 619-522-3611
Location: First floor, near lobby
Thrift Shop Hours: Monday through Friday: 11 am to 3 pm
Our gift shop and thrift shop are closed on major holidays.
Send a patient an e-card.
If your loved one is staying with us, send a personalized e-card to brighten their day. Your message will be printed out and hand-delivered within one to two business days — completely free of charge.
Eat with us.
The Mindful Café, located on the first floor of the hospital, offers a variety of choices with satisfying flavors, healthy indulgences and balanced nutrition, including fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and fresh herbs and spices. View menu.
The café is open seven days a week, so you can grab a meal or snack whenever it's convenient for you.
Hours: Monday through Friday: 6:30 am to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 7 am to 2 pm
Fresh food choices are always available in our vending machines (found inside the Mindful Café).
Your pharmacy needs made easy.
Our full-service pharmacy is located in the medical office building adjacent to the hospital. You'll find disabled and timed spaces out front, with surrounding free street parking. For more information, call 619-522-3996, or send us an email.
Monday through Friday: 9 am to 6:30 pm
Take a tour.
Our friendly guest services team coordinates hospital tours throughout the week for community organizations, business groups, patients and their family members. To get started, please call 619-522-3756.
Thank a caregiver.
If you'd like to recognize a physician, nurse or caregiver who made a difference in your or your loved one's experience with Sharp, please take a moment to send a note of thanks.
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RARE 19C Antique English Equestrian Horse BRANDY Spirits Barrel IDEAL FOR LAMP
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Attributable to England (late 1800s-early 1900s) this antique Ceramic Barrel Bar -Back Dispenser is absolutely stunning.
This fantastic spirits barrel dates to the late 19th Century. It is vividly hand colored under glaze in an Equestrian scene.
This is probably the largest of the antiques spirits barrels I've had the pleasure of buying and selling.
It would be perfect converted into a lamp! In face I have two that I'm having made into lamps now.
These are relatively hard to come by as many didn't survive over the years.
Measures: 11 3/8" tall x appx 10 1/3" wide x 6 1/2" deep.
Condition: Excellent for age, no chips, no cracks and little crazing. A couple of marks here and there and wear to the gold trim at the base.
interior photos: Charles Faudree via Traditional Home converts a similar, smaller English barrel into a lamp for a bar
Last photo: Gail Clairidge converts a pair of the same kind, though different scene, into lamps for a sideboard.
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JetBlue Expands Mint Premium Flights Coast-To-Coast
Airlines & Airports Michael Schottey July 11, 2016
For air travelers looking to head across the United States in style, JetBlue has it covered.
Mint, the premium travel offering from JetBlue, is adding four new cross-country flights — the first of which is Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Los Angeles (LAX). It will be the first domestic flight from South Florida with fully reclining, lie-flat seats.
The Mint planes also feature fully enclosed private suites and a 15-inch flat screen with complimentary entertainment options.
READ MORE: JetBlue Will Pay For TSA Pre-Check For Frequent Fliers
Service by Mint includes signature cocktails, a tapas-style food menu, fresh espresso from the first purpose-built cappuccino machine for a U.S. airline, amenity kits by Birchbox, and premium desserts.
This is business class, evolved.
It's also a much cheaper option to the traditional premium air travel model. With one-way flights starting at $399 (again, for a cross country flight), this is a legitimate step-up from traditional pricing options rather than having travelers be stuck between having an uncomfortable flight or paying an incredible upcharge for relaxation.
Future expansion as currently planned involves flights into Las Vegas, Seattle, San Francisco, New York (JFK) and Boston. The hope is that JetBlue will eventually offer up to 70 or more daily Mint flights to 12 destinations between the East Coast, West Coast and Caribbean.
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E-cigarettes are popular among teens and are now the most commonly used form of tobacco among youth in the US. According to the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey, 1 in 5 high school kids and 1 in 20 middle school kids currently use e-cigarettes. In Idaho, 41% of high school students have tried an e-cigarette at least once. The Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, declared e-cigarette use among youth an epidemic and called on parents, teachers, and health professionals to act.
The Office of Drug Policy (ODP) is pleased to announce its FY20 E-Cigarette/ Vaping Education mini-grant opportunity. ODP has received funding from the Idaho Millennium Fund to implement prevention strategies and education programming that will address the use of e-cigarettes amongst Idaho youth.
|Funding Opportunity Title
|Youth E-Cigarette and Vaping Education Mini-Grant
|This application is to be used by schools and organizations with a youth focus seeking to provide education and awareness
|Eligible Applicants
|Schools and organizations with a youth focus
|Application Release Date
|9:00am (MST) September 3, 2019
|Due Date for Application
|5:00pm (MST) September 27, 2019
|Grant Recipients Notified
|October 4, 2019
|Grant Award Period
|October 4, 2019 - June 30, 2019
|Submission Requirements
|Applications must be completed and submitted online. Description of activities and budget justification are a requirement of the grant applications.
Online Application
Activities allowed under the grant should address one of the six prevention strategies identified by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Prevention strategies include information dissemination, prevention education, alternative activities, environmental, community-based processes, and problem identification and referral. Approved sample activities include but are not limited to:
- Media Campaigns, Presentations for Parents and School Staff, Community Town Hall Events
- E-Cigarette/Vaping Prevention or Awareness Curricula for Students such as Catch My Breath or the Stanford Toolkit
- Youth After-school Club Aimed at Promoting Vape-free Lifestyle
- Signage, Social Norms Marketing Campaign, Development of School E-Cigarette/Vaping Policy
- Youth Advocacy Day at Idaho Legislature or Youth Participation in Community Level Meetings
This funding may not be used for cessation or intervention programming.
Applicants assume all costs associated with the preparation of this grant application.
For more information, contact Cheryl Foster at email@example.com or (208) 854-3048.


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Sanna, Alberto (2014) Alessandro Stradella: Two-Part Sinfonias. [Audio]Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
Alessandro Stradella was one of the most talented composers of the seventeenth century. Today he is primarily known for his vocal works – cantatas, oratorios, operas – but equally exceptional are his instrumental compositions, especially those for two and three instruments. This is the first-ever period instrument recording of Stradella's complete sinfonias in two parts for a soprano and a bass instrument. With this 2-CD set I question current understandings of instrumentation and sound ideal in the late seventeenth century. I aim to demonstrate that the concept of bass as 'thorough bass' (basso continuo) is ill-suited to make sense of contemporary notions of court music as much as I attempt to revitalize the more flexible yet historically viable category of 'singing bass' (basso cantante). I argue that the ideal instrument for the over-exposed role of the singing bass was either the violoncello (violone, violoncino, violoncello) or the archlute (arciliuto), as specified in numerous publications stemming from northern and central Italy between the 1660s and the early 1700s.
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By Lilly Green "Before launching into the full spectrum of color, stand at its edge with white and black, the beginning and the end. Black and white provide a frame though which we more clearly see and understand color. Side by side on paper, the contrast between black and white calls each more fully to life." ~ Ann Pelo
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"If you like Piña Coladas, and getting caught in the rain" then you will love this Key Largo Lighthouse wedding!
Andrea and Lee have been together 6 years. This Phili couple met at a party where Andrea was dressed as Harley Quinn and Lee was the only person who knew her costume…they've been inseparable ever since! He's a Philadelphia Police Officer and she's a nurse at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. These are two extremely hard working people very dedicated to their jobs and making the world a better place. We truly appreciate what you guys do! They decided to come all the way from Philadelphia to have their dreamy Key Largo Lighthouse wedding.
It seriously was a perfect day to get married: the sun was out, a perfect Florida "spring". March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers, except there was a little twist, it was more like April flowers bring forth May showers. It decided to sprinkle a bit right before the ceremony so it was no biggie. We thought we were safe until, right as they were about to make their debut as Mr & Mrs into their reception at the Key Largo Lighthouse during their wedding, it started to pour! Thank goodness for the amazing DJ Russ for saving the day. He didn't let a little rain get in the way so, while we were all huddled under his DJ tent, he started playing "It's raining men". Everyone came out and danced, by the time the song was over, the skies cleared up and the night was amazing! It was such a fun crowd to work with, we really enjoyed Andrea and Lee's family and friends that made it one memorable Key Largo wedding!
Their first dance was just the "perfect symphony" as that's exactly what they danced to. Special shout out to Lee & Andrea's dear friends "Drew & Keturah" who flew in to sing their first dance song live.
Fun fact about Andrea and Lee: these guys love music, video games, and sports (especially football!). They had the coolest, most original Eagles wedding cake ever!
With Wedding Planner Cate Tenopir from Cate Tenopir Events,
Catering by Laura & Ted Dreaver from the Key Largo Conch House,
Decor, rentals, & flowers by Akalia Delatorre from Linens & More of the Florida Keys,
Video by Dana Lynn Photography,
Hair & Makeup by Lisa Merritt-Lee from Alluring Faces,
And Trolley Transportation getting our guests safely back to their hotels by Jeanne Harstad Austinfrom Island Time Trolley.
Huge congrats to you guys on your Key Largo wedding. Thank you for letting us be a part of your big day!


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Lamorinda Democratic Club is proud to host an evening with GEORGE LAKOFF
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12th Orinda Community Church, 6:30 pm.
UC-Berkeley Professor George Lakoff will be the Lamorinda Democratic Clubâs speaker on a special night: Thursday, November 12. Dr. Lakoff will bring his framing and linguistics expertise to âRestoring Democracy in California.â? Dr. Lakoff has submitted an initiative to bring democracy back to our state governmentâs budget process. Dr. Lakoff is well known for his recent books, which include Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate and The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain. The Club will meet at the Orinda Community Church (10 Irwin Way, Orinda). The social hour begins at 6:30 p.m., with the business meeting at 7:30 p.m., and Dr. Lakoffâs presentation at 8 p.m. Dr. Lakoff has submitted to the Attorney General's office an initiative "The California Democracy Act" which would bring democracy back to our state governmentâs budget process. The initiative is due to the Secretary of State's office to prepare for signature gathering in mid-November.
A Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Lakoff previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Visiting Professor at the Ãcole des Hautes Ãtudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1995) and at the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico (Summer, 1995).
He has been a member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society, President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association, and a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute.
Dr. Lakoff has published a multitude of articles in major scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is the author of the influential book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition, (2002). He is also the author of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About The Mind (1987) and co-author of Metaphors We Live By (1980) [with Mark Johnson], More Than Cool Reason (1989) [with Mark Turner], Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge To The Western Tradition (1999) [with Mark Johnson], Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being (2000) [with Rafael Núñez]. His most recent books include Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values, Frame the Debate (2004), Whose Freedom? (2006), and Thinking Points (2006), and The Political Mind (2008).
In addition to his teaching and research commitments, Dr. Lakoff has been on the editorial board of Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, Journal of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, Philosophical Psychology, Connection Science, and the University of Chicago Press Cognitive Linguistics Book Series.


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German Health Insurer Süddeutsche Krankenversicherung a.G. (SDK) has completed another real estate transaction as part of its new real estate acquisition strategy. International law firm Clifford Chance advised SDK on the acquisition of the office property Five Boats in Duisburg from Hannover Leasing.
The Five Boats office building in Duisburg's Inner Harbor offers around 20,000 square metres of office space and is fully let.
Clifford Chance has advised SDK on several recent real estate transactions. The team included partner Gerold Jaeger (Düsseldorf), associate Stephanie Cohen, transaction lawyer Marisol Peláez Romero (both Frankfurt, all Real Estate), partner Josef Brinkhaus (Frankfurt), counsel Dominik Thomer and associate Philipp Weiten (both Düsseldorf, all Tax).
The original press release can be found here on Clifford Chance's website.