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They bought with them a bag of music and a box of Peroni's and by the end of the show both were shattered.
The better looking half of Gigslutz played out a solid selection of hip hop, soul, funk and well rehearsed fist thumping rock n roll.
With dedications and reflections, proud new father Dave bought tears to the airwaves with the Rolling Stones She's a Rainbow for 2 week old Matillda.
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Medicare's Future: Fact, Fiction, and Folly
Posted: 9 Aug 2000
This article seeks to clarify the contemporary Medicare debate by providing, first, an historical perspective on Medicare's origin and development and, second, an understanding of the analytical damage done by an all-too-common style of Medicare policy analysis.
We have two central claims. First, we argue that the contemporary debate over Medicare reflects the program's distinctive political development, its generally low salience among the public, and the partisan rhetoric of politicians engaged in broader ideological battles. Emerging more of a political than a programmatic logic, Medicare's guiding social insurance philosophy was never fully articulated to the broader public. Moreover, its social insurance rationale has eroded over time, in part through piecemeal changes to the program. The public seems to have embraced Medicare with only a modest understanding of its functional form and remains largely ignorant of the program's real status or likely future. Moreover, the typically remote position Medicare occupies in public discourse feeds into the recurring atmosphere of crisis so easily stoked and exploited by partisans hoping to frame debate over Medicare to their ideological and electoral advantage.
Our second point is that the debate's confusions have been magnified by the lack of rigor with which many policy analysts have characterized the political context of Medicare reform. Because many policy analysts pay only cursory attention to the political analysis of Medicare's origins and recent developments, the fundamental issues at stake in the debate over Medicare's future are regularly obscured.
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Martial's Life
Throughout his epigrams, the Latin poet Martial expresses nostalgia for his hometown Bilbilis.1 Born between 39 and 41 A.D. Martial grew up in Bilbilis, which in the ancient world was a municipium in Hispania Tarraconensis, near modern Saragossa, Spain.2 Today, Calatayud, "located in a beautiful, green, almost lush area" is the closest existing town to ancient Bilbilis.3 Although he lived in a rural area, Martial's parents--thought to have been Fronto and Flacilla--were Roman citizens and could afford to give him a standard education, including knowledge of Greek and an acquaintance with Homer and Virgil.4 They named him Marcus Valerius Martialis after his birth month March.5
Martial's move to Rome shaped the nature of his poetry, the bulk of which satirizes city life. Goertz explains, "As charming as Bilbilis may have been, Rome no doubt radiated in antiquity the same allure which today characterizes New York or San Francisco". 6 Martial left Bilbilis for Rome in his early twenties (63-64 A.D.) and remained there for the next 34 to 35 years.7 He arrived when Rome was under the emperor Nero, who gave generously to the arts and to Martial's new friends and prospective supporters, Lucan and Seneca.8 Unfortunately for Martial, Lucan and all the Senecas died about one year after his arrival in Rome as a result of the Piso rebellion in 65.9 Martial disliked the idea of becoming a lawyer or school teacher; and consequently, it is "small wonder that Martial's early years in Rome were lean ones".10 According to Matthews, "He never attracted the spectacular patronage afforded to Horace or Virgil. He had instead the ordinary client's role: be part of some patron's entourage, witness documents, come to dinner and often drink lesser wine than was served at the head table, provide witty table talk, be a bought but poorly paid companion".11 As a result, Martial centers many of his epigrams around the insolent behavior of the rich and the treatment of their clients. Bovie writes, "The patron-client system affected Martial's works as it affected all the literature of the day, and while he was a cynical and astute observer of Roman society and its ills, Martial's art was tailored to flatter his patrons and to assure his protection at imperial court".12
Martial did live as a client, but his poverty should not be exaggerated. When Martial first moved to Rome, he lived in a rented attic apartment up three flights of stairs. However, he later also had a small house in the country near Nomentum that Emperor Domitian gave him,13 and Sullivan estimates that Martial had about twenty slaves divided between his apartment and country home.14 In addition, Domitian granted Martial equestrian status and gave him a town house in Rome.15 It seems that Martial scraped by during his early years in the city, but slowly gained favor, and thus money, by ingratiating himself with the emperors of the Flavian Dynasty.
Scholars know little about the twenty years between Martial's arrival in Rome and the publication of his first epigrams the liber spectaculorum in 84 or 85.16 Martial wrote the liber spectaculorum ("The book of games") in honor of the Coliseum's dedication in 80 A.D.17 After this success, Martial wrote two books, Xenia ("Gifts for guests") and Apophoreta ("Gifts for guests to take home"), which contained light, short poems that he intended for gift-givers to attach to their gifts during the Saturnalia.18 These were later appended to his collection of epigrams as Books XIII and XIV.19 Though not as accomplished as his later works, they earned Martial literary fame and spurred him on to publish Books I and II in 85 or 86. Martial released Book III in 87 or 88 while he was in France "on some semi-official tour of duty".20 The twelve books for which Martial is now famous, I - XII, appeared between 86 and 102.21
Though Martial romanticized his eventual return to Bilbilis throughout his body of epigrams, his actual retirement there proved less than satisfactory for Martial. Tired of city life and patronage duties, Martial left Rome and returned to Spain around 98. The provinciality and lack of cosmopolitan crowds seemed to have depressed Martial, and regret over leaving Rome perhaps affected his health and hastened his death," which came some four or five years thereafter, but no later than 104 A.D.22 As Bovie suggests, "Martial was better off in Rome than in Bilbilis because in Rome he found the villains and fools his art knew how to mock. In the metropolis, too, he discovered a host of readers and the two dozen friends a man is usually entitled to have. When he went back to Bilbilis and dropped out of sight, it was as one who could well afford to bask in the glow of his popularity and take pride in the laughter he had aroused" (2).23
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Judging from Martial's works and the works of his contemporaries (Tacitus, Juvenal, Pliny), the literary atmosphere in Martial's Rome did not focus on celebrating Rome's past as Virgil did in the Aeneid and as Horace did by adapting Greek metrical and rhetorical strategies for Latin use; rather, Martial and his contemporaries illuminated present, daily life with their art.24 By the time Martial reached adulthood, empire had replaced the republic, and "the ever-increasing speed of social change rendered compensatory nostalgias and conservatisms sentimental".25 "Wit, satire, and deft adjustments to realities were required, not imagination and grand poetic designs".26 Matthews explains, "Martial's moral moment is the present, and his moral yardstick the relationship between host and guest. Drama for Martial occurs not in the Forum or on the temple steps, but on the doorsill, at the table, in conversation, in bed".27 Instead of launching imaginative journeys into epic unreality, Martial hands down verdicts on real life.28
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The Epigram
Epigrams take their name from the Greek word <insert epigramma in Greek symbols> meaning "things written on".29 As early as the fifth century B.C., the Ancient Greeks inscribed them on graves, monuments, buildings, works of art, and votive offerings to explain or commemorate the person or object they described.30 Simonides composed this epigram: "Stranger passing by, tell the men of Sparta / we who lie here died obeying orders".31
Because of the general brevity of the inscriptions and their easily remembered verse, the Alexandrian Greeks began to broaden the meaning of the term "epigramma" to describe a host of short poems that covered events, occasions, people both living and dead, both real and fictitious. 32 Hellenistic Greeks extended the scope of epigram to include such topics as love, sex, and drinking.33 The Romans used epigrams to comment on nearly every aspect of life; but whereas Greek epigrams were light and often tender, the Romans began to wield the epigram as an invective tool, satirizing the world and its human inhabitants.34 It was this satirical quality of the poetry, particularly in Martial, that caused "epigram" in English to mean not only an epigraph or sepulchral inscription, but also a short, witty poem.35 In form, the epigram was "a relatively short poem which led rapidly to a sharp either poignant or telling, conclusion".36
In structure, Greek epigrams were typically written in one to five elegiac couplets though hendecasyllables and scazons remained popular with Romans.37 An exception to this, the Hellenistic Greeks usually wrote four line epigrams (i.e. two couplets). The average length of Martial's epigrams is about 7.4 lines in the twelve books that make up the core of Martial's work, but is 6.2 lines, including all 14 books in the calculation.38 Romans did not tamper much with Greek structure of epigram, but did use a significantly different type of language. Sullivan explains, "[Martial] freely introduces neologisms, colloquialisms and obscenities, Greek vocabulary, even Spanish words and place names . . . Like Catullus . . ., [Martial] roughens his poetic texture by deliberately inserting rugged lines into the smooth flow of his verse and by the playful employment of rhymes and metrical anomalies".39
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Martial's Epigrams
In his surviving 14 books (1561 poems), Martial mastered the epigram and made it his own. In doing so, he solidified the form that literature texts still refer to as epigram. Martial has influenced such great English writers as Spenser, Milton, Swift, Jonson, Byron, and Pope.40 Under Martial, what had been a light, but often sentimental poetic form, became a satirical tool used for both criticism and entertainment. As Goertz suggests, "The satirical possibilities which this new ingredient facilitated were exploited more than anyone else by Martial, who gave the epigram a shape and flavor which it has had ever since".41
In his epigrams, Martial generally maintains the brevity of previous Greek and Roman models, writing epigrams usually ranging from two lines to one page, but occasionally he writes lengthier poems. Also, like his predecessors, most often Martial uses elegiac couplets in his epigrams; less often, he uses various iambic rhythms and hexameters.42
Martial's epigrams explore a range of topics as large as life itself: patrons, clients, emperors, doctors, dinners, moochers, poisoners, poems, poets, plagiarists, prostitutes, house fires, house wives, adulterous wives, murderous husbands, false teeth, dyed beards, dyed hair, no hair, sex, lies, slaves, food, clothes, money. Martial, like Catullus, departs from the subject matter of epic--gods and goddesses, heroes and quests--and focuses on earthly, sometimes dirty, always human, everyday life.43 Matthews writes, "Vividly recognizable fellow humans trudge through the summer dust and wet winter cold to the baths, to dinners, to trysts, to lawsuits . . . [Martial] has only rhetorical interest in the gods; all the characters who matter in Martial can and will die".44 Bovie explains that Martial "steers clear of anything large, long, or grand. In a sense, then, Martial's whole art is a way of confining reality to man's perception of it, of cutting experience down to size".45
Accordingly, Martial embodies his purpose in his technique and in his language. In the same way that Martial focuses on less-grand, smaller, human subjects, he writes short poems and uses ordinary language. In English, the word "epic" has come to mean "huge, long." Martial avoids epic and turns instead to epigram, a form characterized by its brevity. Martial depends upon concise, precise language.46 Martial sets up his scene quickly, and then turns it on its head. If he uses elevated language, he does so only to create a serious scene so that he can undercut that scene with the most basic, sometimes base turn. Martial functions much the same way that Jay Leno does in his stand-up comedy routine, which always begins The Tonight Show. Leno starts his monologue in a serious vein: "Bill Clinton's in the news today . . ." However, much of the effect lies in the fact that the audience knows that this is only a sham. They await the turn that will come only a few seconds later: "he told the girls if they ever got lonely again while Hillary was away, they were welcome to come over . . . " In Book XII, epigram 77, Martial first describes a man ardently praying in the temple to Jupiter using language similar to that of epic: "while kneeling always in the lowest position, greeting Jove with many prayers in the Temple . . ." Immediately thereafter, Martial pulls the rug out from under this scenario: "he farted." Goertz remarks, "In bringing about this effect, Martial is a consummate master of language. The first part of the poem is often a straightforward statement, ingenuous and dissembling, followed by a quick turnabout".47
Though his weapon is humor, Martial's purpose is serious. He has committed himself to expressing realism through his art. Though at times, he flatters for money, he never permanently abandons his style or his focus. Goertz asserts, "If Martial's intention was to record the whole spectrum of life, he certainly succeeded".48 In attempting to portray life as it is, Martial often writes what many people would call "obscene" poetry; others even call some of this poetry "pornographic." In these poems, Martial candidly discusses flatulation, urination, feces, genitalia, etc. (Martial, of course, would not use such scientific terms). Martial does not shy away from sensitive or embarrassing topics; rather, he delights in them. In poem 6.60, Martial describes his purpose:
Rome sings, lauds, loves my little books.
Every pocket and every hand hold me.
Look! He is red. She is pale. They are stunned. He gapes. She hates.
I want this: now my songs please me.49
Such candidness has invited criticism. J. Wight Duff summarizes these views, "We are not amused". He explains, "Martial's indecency palls no less than his adulation . . . The foulest epigrams force on the reader a resilient disgust as if from some sickening contagion".50 Until the Loeb Classical Library put out their most recent version of Martial (1992), Loeb translators rendered the "wholly impossible ones only in Italian".51 Defenders of Martial argue that Martial's poetry does not truly constitute obscenity. Goertz writes, "Martial isn't really obscene anyway--how can something that makes you laugh be obscene?"52 Gary Jennings suggests that "obscene" language derives its ability to shock from its tendency "to evoke empathic identification." He further explains:
"That is, any person can hear the word 'copulate' without a blush; it is dry, technical, devoid of any striking imagery. But the word 'fuck' seems to call to mind the act itself, complete with all the attendant psychosexual repression-tensions which the act inspires in the individual--feelings of desire, repugnance, enjoyment, shame, whatever . . . there is reason to believe that the person who is truly shocked by a four-letter utterance, and who is truly vehement in his loathing of it, is probably less stable emotionally than one to whom the word is no more than an impolite word."53
Regardless of opinions about what constitutes "obscenity" and what "belongs" in the public eye, Martial does write poems that poke fun at issues that modern American audiences do not yet consider appropriate for public consumption. This does not change the fact that Martial's "dirty" poems are often his most accomplished and funniest. Bovie perhaps says it best, "I think that the obscene epigrams . . .are like a drunken friend, welcome and embarrassing".54 That describes Martial perfectly--welcome and embarrassing.
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Sahara Group & Sunrata Roy are "manipulating courts": SC
Accusing Sahara Group and its promoter Subrata Roy of "manipulating courts", Supreme Court rapped them for not refunding Rs 24,000 crore to its investors by approaching different forums of relief.
A bench comprising by Justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar slammed the group and its chief for not filing response on SEBI's contempt plea against them and also issued notice to them on the market regulator's plea to detain Roy and the two male directors - Ashok Roy Choudhary and Ravi Shankar Dubey - to get investors' money back from them.
"You are manipulating courts which is going on," the bench said when Sahara's counsel submitted that SEBI is attaching Roy's personal property despite he being not a party in the case in which apex court had passed the verdict on refunding Rs 24,000 crore.
"We are not interested in parties. If you have done this (moving HC) then it is contempt of this court. Even approaching SEBI is contempt. It is very strange that you seek extension of time from SEBI after Supreme Court's order and you file appeal after appeal," the bench said, adding "You must remedy your mistakes instead of repeating the mistakes."
Sahara group and SEBI are fighting a legal dispute over the refunding of 24,000 crore by its two companies--SIREC and SHIC--to over three crore investors.


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AMHERST, Mass. – Hitting the diamond for Senior Day and Military Appreciation Day, the Amherst College baseball team split its twinbill with Wesleyan University, falling 7-6 in a tough game one matchup before rallying in the eighth to edge their Little III rival, 5-3 in game two Saturday afternoon at Memorial Field.
With the split, Amherst moves to 16-12 overall and to 8-4 in NESCAC West action, while Wesleyan moves to 17-13 on the year and to 5-6 in league play. Amherst returns to action on Tuesday, May 2, when they travel to Brandeis for a non-conference matchup beginning at 5 p.m.
GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS: Amherst 6, Wesleyan 7
Amherst jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second behind four hits. Nick Nardone '19 tallied the first RBI of the game, powering a single to left field to plate Ariel Kenney '18 from second. Ryan Hardin '18 followed Nardone with a single of his own and moved over to second on the throw to put runners on second and third. Next at the dish, Chase Henley '19 recorded the Mammoths third consecutive single to score Nardone, before a hard hit ground ball by Severino Tocci '20 gave Amherst a 3-0 edge.
Responding in the fourth, the Cardinals deadlocked the game at 3-3. Leading off the inning with a double, Ellis Shafer crossed home a hitter later following an Amherst throwing error. Matt Jeye and Ryan Earle then notched back-to-back doubles as Will O'Sullivan and Jeye scored.
Taking their first lead of the outing in the fifth, O'Sullivan registered a bunt single with runners on second and third to score Tanner Fulkerson, before a fielder's choice by Jeye plated Jonny Corning.
The Mammoths brought their deficit to 5-4 in the bottom of the inning, as Anthony Spina '17 doubled to left field to score Tocci from third, before retaking the lead in the sixth. With the bases loaded and one out, Harry Roberson '18 ripped a single to left to make it a 6-5 game in favor of the home team.
Ryan Earle proved clutch for Wesleyan in the top of the seventh, sending a two-run homer over the right field fence with two outs to tally what stood as the game-tying and game-winning runs.
Amherst threatened to even the game in their final at bat, loading the bases with just one out, however Corning made an athletic play to lift the Cardinals to the 7-6 win, knocking down a ball just right of the second base bag to record the out and hold the game-tying run at third.
On the mound, Jackson Volle '17 (5-1) allowed 10 hits, six earned runs and struck out three in 7.0 innings in the losing effort for the Mammoths.
Tasked with the start, Ethan Rode tossed 4.2 innings, allowing eight hits, four earned runs and fanning two for Wesleyan. Earle (5-0) claimed the win on the hill, giving up three hits and two earned runs in 2.1 innings.
GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS: Amherst 5, Wesleyan 3
The Mammoths started game two strong at the dish, claiming a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Following a ground ball out, Roberson powered a triple to right center to move into scoring position before Yanni Thanopoulos '17 drove a single down the left field line to plate Roberson. Capitalizing on a single by Spina and a Cardinal error, Thanopoulos crossed home a batter later to extend Amherst's lead to two.
Getting on the scoreboard in the top of the fourth, Wesleyan racked up four hits to make it a 3-2 contest. Earle took advantage of a leadoff hit by O'Sullivan, sending a single to left to plate the Cardinals first score of the outing, before a two out double by Nick Miceli sent Danny Rose and Earle home.
After solid defense kept the sides scoreless in the fifth, sixth and seventh, Amherst rallied to log three runs in the bottom of the eight to earn the 5-3 victory.
Roberson started the two out rally for the Mammoths, singling through the left side to put runners on first and second. Next to the dish, Thanopoulos rose to the occasion and hammered a doublet o left field to plate Tocci and even the contest at 3-3. Spina proved to be the difference maker for Amherst, as he blasted a single to deep right field to score Thanopoulos and Roberson and give the home team a 5-3 advantage.
Sam Schneider '18 (1-1) tossed 4.0 innings in the start for Amherst, allowing five hits, three earned runs and whiffing two, while Wilson Taylor '19 (2-2) entered in relief and pitching 5.0 innings, allow just two hits and fanning five in the winning effort.
Starting on the mound for Wesleyan, Alec Olmstead allowed nine hits, one earned run and struck out seven in 6.0 innings. Rode (3-3) took the loss for the Cardinals, giving up three hits, three earned runs and whiffing one in 1.2 innings, while Asher Young entered to throw 0.1 innings.
- Today's game marks Senior Day for the Mammoths who will graduate six seniors following the 2017 season including: captain and centerfielder Yanni Thanopoulos, right-handed pitcher Jackson Volle, outfielder Anthony Spina, captain and left-handed pitcher Mike Castiglie, right-handed pitcher George Long and right-handed pitcher Chris Baldi. Together, this year's seniors have amassed an overall mark of 95-50 (.655 winning percentage), including a 23-13 record at Memorial Field and a 23-13 ledger against NESCAC West opponents. During that time, Amherst has made three NESCAC Championship berths, including an appearance in the Game 7 Finals, earned two NCAA national postseason at-large bids and clinched a program single-season record 30 wins in 2014. Congratulations seniors!


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A Gifted Child Checklist for Teachers
I have downloaded many books, and have been reading several books on gifted children with varying, specific focuses such as emotional intensity, underachievement, asynchronous development, and visual-spatial learners. I have a gifted teen who has experienced many of the common educational, social and emotional issues many gifted children endure so I eagerly read to find answers, help and tips.
One common thread in many of these books is the role of the teacher in a gifted child's life. An impactful and highly significant role. We've all heard many times, "A teacher can make or break a student!" Given that gifted children are complex and very often misunderstood, finding an appropriate education at a school whose staff understands giftedness is a major coup! As such, I have to admit I scoffed and rolled my eyes, maybe more than once, when I came across in several of the books I was reading the oft-stated declaration that you the parent along with your child's teacher and other school professionals can work together as a team to provide an appropriately challenging education for your gifted child. Sadly, we know this is not always true.
I am a former public school teacher who wholeheartedly supports the teaching profession, and I am also a parent of a gifted child who has been deeply hurt by teachers and school professionals who did not understand the characteristics of giftedness. I know most teachers and school professionals would willingly work cooperatively as a team with parents to make sure a student's needs were met, but if they don't recognize and understand the common gifted traits in a student, then things can go horribly astray. When a gifted child's characteristic quirks, behaviors and school performance more resemble learning disabilities, laziness, mental illness or insubordination, then the focus becomes "fixing" the child's deficiencies instead of teaching to his strengths. This is where parents and teachers often miss the boat and treat the wrong "illness" with the wrong "medicine" much to the detriment of the gifted child.
For every teacher or educational professional who is not familiar with giftedness, or holds to some of the myths of giftedness, or for those who just need a refresher on the traits of gifted children, here is my teachers' checklist of the ten basic traits of gifted learners all teachers should understand and recognize in order to optimally recognize, identify, reach and teach our gifted students.
- GIFTED STUDENTS DO NOT ALWAYS EXCEL IN SCHOOL Many gifted students are high achievers and excel in school. Their inner motivation drives them to achieve with the desired high scores and superior grades. On the other hand, many gifted students are not driven to achieve in school for many reasons – boredom, lack of a challenging curriculum, coexisting learning disabilities, they prefer learning for the sake of learning & not for high test scores, social & emotional issues and others. If you have a gifted student in your classroom who is not achieving to expectations, look for the contributing factors. I can assure you that underachievement in a gifted student is rarely if ever due to poor work ethic or laziness. Simply assuming an underachieving gifted student just needs to work harder or be more conscientious with his schoolwork is always the wrong assumption. And expecting consistent high scores and perfect grades from all gifted students can be emotionally, socially and educationally damaging to a gifted child.
- GIFTED STUDENTS OFTEN HAVE EMOTIONAL INTENSITIES Giftedness embodies a complex set of traits or characteristics. Along with higher-than-average intelligence, gifted students usually exhibit emotional intensities. They may become frustrated easily, angry for seemingly no reason, or may become upset quickly. They are passionate and intense, and they may resent being pulled away from an activity or subject of intense interest to them. This may result in an angry outburst, emotional meltdown or total disengagement in the classroom.
- GIFTED STUDENTS ARE OFTEN EXTREMELY SENSITIVE Another gifted trait many gifted students have is extreme sensitivity – whether it be emotionally or physically. An injured insect, an unfair expectation by their teacher, a funny odor, or a annoying seam in their sock can upset them enough to disrupt the class. This is a common trait for gifted individuals and does not mean they have a mental or physical disability. It does mean that teasing by a classmate, public reprimand by a teacher or other harsh emotional or physical experiences can upset a gifted student more than it does other children in your classroom. Bullying, public humiliation or public reprimand can also have a long-lasting or devastating effect on a gifted child with emotional sensitivities.
- GIFTED STUDENTS CAN HAVE LEARNING DISABILITIES A gifted student can have a coexisting learning disability or exceptionality which is referred to as twice-exceptional or 2E. Often when there is a coexisting learning disability or exceptionality, the educational focus unfortunately becomes remediating the deficiency, and there is little to no focus on the child's strengths or talents. Also, many times a student with a known learning disability is never recognized and subsequently identified as being gifted.
- GIFTED STUDENTS OFTEN STRUGGLE SOCIALLY Finding like-minded peers is often one of the most emotionally traumatic experiences in a gifted child's life. Their above-average intelligence, emotional intensities and sensitivities, and their complex topics of interest can make them stand out, in an unfortunate way, among their same-age peers, and this often results in their peers rejecting them. Gifted students are often unaware that while they excitedly converse with classmates about a highly advanced topic, they are coming across as know-it-alls or arrogant to their classmates. Due to their larger-than-average knowledge base, gifted students often correct any and all incorrect or erroneous information of their classmates as well as teachers. The gifted child is not being disrespectful; to the contrary, he is very much concerned with knowledge and information, and the correct knowledge and information is critical to them.
- GIFTED STUDENTS DEVELOP ASYNCHRONOUSLY Although a gifted student may test several grade levels ahead academically, at the same time, he may be emotionally or socially several grade levels behind. Ironically, gifted students may appear as small adults because of the advanced knowledge base they have and exhibit , but at the same time, their emotional maturity may be lower than their age-mates. Gifted students often develop emotionally, socially and intellectually asynchronously while their typical peers usually develop evenly in those domains. So, although the 13 year old gifted student in your classroom appears to act like an 18 year old, he may have the emotional capacity of an 8 year old. Just because they act like an adult does not mean we can expect them to behave like an adult.
- GIFTED STUDENTS ARE CULTURALLY, RACIALLY, AND SOCIALLY DIVERSE There is a myth that the majority of gifted students come from upper-middle class families who have the education and the means to nurture their children into giftedness. Nothing is further from the truth. Giftedness, like autism or dyslexia or ADD, is genetic. They were born gifted, not groomed to be gifted. Teachers should be knowledgeable of gifted characteristics and be able to recognize these traits in ALL children despite their cultural, socioeconomic, educational and racial backgrounds! When gifted students' unique learning needs go unmet, underachievement, delinquent behavior, depression, suicide and dropping out of school occurs. We cannot let unidentified gifted children just fall through the cracks and neglect their right to an appropriate education which they need to fulfill their potential to become successful adults.
- GIFTED STUDENTS HAVE UNIQUE LEARNING NEEDS THAT MUST BE MET Yes, gifted students have unique learning needs that MUST be met. Research studies have shown, time and again, that gifted students do not thrive educationally without an appropriate education which meets their specific needs. More specifically, it has statistically been shown that gifted students who are educated in regular classrooms without benefit of differentiation or acceleration, fail to show year-to-year educational progress at the same rate as the average student. Gifted students are literally being held back when we expect them to learn in the regular classroom.
- GIFTED STUDENTS HAVE PARENTS WHO TRULY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO RAISE A GIFTED CHILD Raising a gifted child is difficult. Parents who have a gifted child are likely stressed and a bit frazzled from the day to day experience of raising their child. When they come to school with concerns about their gifted child, these concerns are usually real. Gifted children do not have it made, and neither do their parents. Yes, most parents want to believe their child is gifted, and the parents who seem to often brag about their child's giftedness probably have a high-achieving child, not a truly gifted child. The worried parent who comes to talk to you about their gifted child is not there to brag, but likely has genuine concerns for their child because they know that true giftedness is complex and never easy.
- GIFTED STUDENTS DO NOT ALWAYS EXCEL IN SCHOOL (This bears repeating)There you have it. A checklist for teachers of ten basic traits, characteristics and issues of gifted children we all need to know and understand. Many gifted students are easy to spot, but some are not and we are letting these children slip through the cracks of our educational system which squanders their right to an appropriate education – an education which is specifically appropriate for a gifted child and his unique learning needs.


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Name: Talon Adalwolf N. Kaiser
Status: Deceased
Other Identity: Gunther, Tank
Affiliation: Vurdon (?), Martiya, Wunderbar Von Hund
Background: "When he was a boy, he had everything he could ask for. with a rich loving family, he was pampered to the fullest, having anything he wanted. Anything and Everything....except friends. Depite a lack of friends....one could say....he could say, that his childhood was a good one.
He spent his life as a young adult in the army...where he was exposed to the horrible truth.....the reality of how dark life can be....how dark life really is, was, and always will be. Comrades, Innocents, Enemies, even himselfe...all humans dying for causes and reasons which make no sense to him...why they would warrant the loss of lives. Death, Loss, Mental torture...every-single-negative-aspect, he saw and felt as his very own personal experience....every single one except love...someone who he really loved...and the heart-shattering loss of it. His adolescence was the exact opposite of his childhood.
From one extreme to another, he personally immersed himself in it. Dazed and confused of what was real. what life really was....he became broken...and remained that way. So broken that, it may not be obvious but, his self-confidence and self-esteem was in shambles that he even was prone to pretending to be someone else...pretending to be someone he's not. And so he did what he did, pretended to be someone named gunther. although he did pretend to be someone he was not...he was truly this person...and his love for ember, as gunther, as as real as can be. The love gunther gave for ember, was the most real love Talon could give her as gunther.
In his late adolescence, he was already serving in a special force in the army. During a special mission, with his closest of comrades, they were all killed in a firefight, right in front of his eyes. Needless to say, he broke even more. They captured him, experimented on him, and made him into the one thing he didn't want to be...and uncontrollable, merciless, fucked up killing machine. With all the experimentation and his connection to MJOLNIR, an overriding sense of directive took over him, a directive to follow the bidding of his captors and follow the most evil of decisions he could think up. With this in mind, he knew that he had to become himself as much as possible to fight this. He knew that Gunther's days were over and it was time to fight the greatest fight of his life as his true self....the fight for his own self.
He came back as Tank...barely himself...but there was one person who ignited his passion...the fire inside him...who started him up again...who gave him a reason to fight and still retain his true self in his darkest of times. You see, Talon thought he found what love really was...but he was only partially right...and he discovered this. This girl....this one girl....showed him what love truly is. what love could be, should be,...and sadly...would be.
He lost a lot of things...and the things that mattered to him the most...he never got back...because of his own broken-ness....his own decisions...fate."
Story: Talon left his original gang for to join Emberlynn Jeneva in Martiya. While the two had a strong connection, Talon's demons caught up to them. Talon died during the civil war.


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Have you ever noticed how negativity spirals?
You're chatting with a group of friends and one person starts talking about their crappy day, then another person chips in with, "Oh, I hate it when that happens, I had the same thing last week…." and before you know it you're all sitting there miserable, angry at the world and feeling powerless to change it?
Or maybe it's the same in the privacy of your own mind. One tiny thing sparks your annoyance, which takes you back to an argument you were having last week and then no matter what you are physically doing in the real world, on the inside you're raging. Even the nice things like walking the dog or playing with the kids become tainted by that angry dialogue. It's endlessly playing out so only you can hear it. It seems as if you're drowning in negativity.
And it's seductive, isn't it? It feels good to mentally get one over on someone else or just plain prove them wrong. Well, it might feel good for a minute but actually, it doesn't last. Negativity doesn't help you to get things done. It uses up precious time and robs you of the clarity and freedom to create something wonderful.
I Can't Concentrate!
So how do we reclaim our minds, time and productivity? Can we? It certainly sometimes feels like we are totally at the mercy of our mental chatter. There's a simple way to interrupt that downward spiral and set ourselves back on a positive, productive track. It has a few names, but for now let's call it 'Releasing'.
The first thing to do is to catch the thought or feeling – whether it's anger, anxiety, jealousy…..whatever it is.
Notice it.
And then, just give yourself permission to feel it.
Ask yourself the question, "Could I allow myself to fully feel as angry as I do about (whatever it is)?"
At this point, it's not uncommon for the mind to want to get involved and help out. It might conjure up some memories, or further dialogue on the current theme or, "This is stupid" type thoughts…..but that's okay.
Just notice that, then put your attention back on what you can feel.
And then you ask yourself, "Could I let this feeling go?"
Could you? If your answer is yes, you can move to the next question.
"If I could let it go, would I?" Would you? If so, you can move to the next question.
"When?" Now? Great. Let it go. It's gone.
Is It Really That Easy?
What happens, though, if at any point during these three questions your answer is "No"? It's a perfectly valid answer and it's better to be honest with yourself than to say yes and not mean it.
"Could I let it go?" "No". OK.
Ask yourself the question again. And again, if necessary.
Each time you ask, even though it may not feel like it, you are actually letting the negativity go. You're cultivating it, brewing it, feeling it…. and as we've already said, if we feel it then we can release it.
This may present itself at the final question, "When?" – you may find that you do want to release what you're feeling but you're not quite done with it yet and it doesn't feel like it's going to budge.
So let that take you back to the first question – "Could you?" and see if it feels any different.
When you truly have a "yes" response, move to "Would you?", again as many times as necessary to get to the last stage of "When?" You can go through this cycle for as long as you need to. Take your time. If you become frustrated, or impatient, that will just feed your negativity.
Pull Out the Roots of Negativity
When you feel like you're becoming comfortable with this process you can get a little playful and curious, and look a little deeper at this beastie and get to its root. There are three desires that drive all of our negative emotions:
The Desire For:
Ask yourself which of these desires is at the bottom of your current state? There is no right or wrong answer here.
Two people may be facing the exact same life situation and resulting emotion – let's say for example they are both angry that their partner has cheated on them, but for one person the negativity stems from a lack of approval and their partner's seeming bestowal of their approval on someone else and for the other it's a lack of security and feeling abandoned.
Recognising which of these three desires is powering the motor helps us to begin to disassociate from it. It helps us to see that the break up or the parking ticket may, on the surface, have been the catalyst but our reaction is deeper and a result of past conditioning.
To be able to name it and categorise it takes it out of our unconscious and allows us to look at it more objectively. It also teaches us a little something about ourselves and gives us the chance, at a later time, to ponder what else is malfunctioning in our lives as a result of this particular desire.
Let's recap:
Feel your feeling.
If you want to, can you narrow it down to being a desire for approval, control or security?
"Could I let this feeling go?"
"If I could let it go, would I?"
If you answer yes to all the questions, great. If at any point it's a no, go back to the top. Take your time.
So, that in a nutshell is the basis of 'releasing'. But there is something else we need to talk about, something that, if not done, will scupper your efforts and lead you to throw your hands up in frustration.
These thoughts and feelings, the ones we're dealing with that have been giving us so much trouble, these negative emotions – they 're negative. They're not nice. They're uncomfortable, and because of that we don't want to feel them, we want to stuff them down and eat or drink or do whatever our own particular brand of avoidance is, to spare ourselves the pain of going through them.
The mind tells us that this avoidance is better for us – well, maybe it's less painful in the short term but we know deep down that this is what's keeping us stuck.
So what do we do? Feel. Feel.
Instead of picking up some cake or turning on the TV to avoid that nagging emotion that won't let up, get to a quiet place and feel it.
Can you do that? Could you let it take you over? Are you able to give yourself the gift of honouring whatever it is your body and mind need you to know?
Because if you can, if you can allow it to well up and expand like a supernova, passing through every cell in your body then it will go and leave a cleaner place behind.
Its part of the survival strategy of that little voice in your head to distract you away from the fact that to feel is to let go. The voice is what keeps your issues cooking and sabotages your best efforts because it needs your negativity to stay alive.
But we can be free if we can commit to fully experiencing pain, shame and all their friends, and you might just find that they're not as big and scary as the voice told you they were. They're just feelings, and we can take control of them.
On the Go
At first, releasing might take a little time and practice to get to grips with, but pretty soon you'll be doing it walking along the street, buying the groceries or doing the dishes. It's great if you can catch a feeling as soon as it arises, and equally as good if you know there is something you need to look at and schedule time to go through the steps.
What this process is doing is retraining our minds get out of the way and allow us to fully experience our emotions, rather than pushing them away or avoiding them.
It's clearing the way for inspiration.
Everybody wants to be free and fully able to access our creative gifts – by releasing instead of holding on to our baggage and stepping out of the shadow of negativity we can get our A-game on and get some work done!
GUEST AUTHOR: Adele Ward. As a Communication in Performance Specialist based in the UK, Adele works with performers to help them be free and focused in the present moment. Her website is www.adeleward.co.uk


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"and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men and women who will be able to teach others also." 2 Timothy 2:2
Associates can expect training in three areas:
1. Bible handling
Partnering with the Cornhill Training Course in London, Associates will receive a solid foundation, covering Bible books and Biblical theology, as well as some doctrine and other aspects of Christian ministry.
Associates will also be trained in-house at CCK in small, supervised group discussions which aim to stretch you with a bespoke program that is tailored to each year group. This approach allows for critical thinking skills to be developed while studying specific Bible books in depth, and applying it to ourselves before teaching it to others.
2. Bible teaching opportunities
Each Associate, depending on their gifts and experience, will have a range of teaching opportunities: leading a small group, reading the Bible one-to-one, giving talks, teaching youth, and leading small group leader training.
3. Operational training
Serving practically is a key part of helping any church support the range of Bible teaching ministries it undertakes. Future full-time church workers will benefit from understanding the operations of behind-the-scenes church life. Operational roles for Associates include ministry team admin, setting up the building, catering for small group evenings and helping with crèche.
Christ Church has been blessed with an experienced and well-equipped staff team, which means that you will be mentored in a way that is tailored to your situation and gifts. You can expect us to provide you with:
1. Training mentor - oversees your personal journey as a Bible student and teacher
2. Ministry supervisor - most likely the ministry team leader, who will help you to serve your team well
3. Operational co-ordinator - who provides you with instructions on serving the church in practical ways


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Federal officials say they need the public's help in identifying the San Bernardino shooters' movements during a missing 18 minutes on the day of the attack.
The 18-minute time lapse between 12:59 p.m. and 1:17 p.m took place after Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook opened fire at a holiday party for Farook's county health department and before the pair died in a car chase with police on Dec. 2, Fox News reports.
Authorities said Farook first walked into the party at 8:47 a.m. and left at 10:37 a.m. after already planting a backpack full of explosives at the site. He returned with his wife roughly 19 minutes later and began shooting.
Read more: Gun Buyer in San Bernardino Attack Faces Arraignment
Federal officials do not suspect the shooting was a foreign-directed attack, nor does it seem to stem from a workplace dispute.
"This seems to be an inspired attack," FBI assistant director in charge David Bowdich said at a press conference Tuesday.
Since the shooting, authorities say they haven't been able to piece together all of the terrorists' movements.
Bowdich said officials have conducted hundreds of interviews, collected more than 500 pieces of evidence and served 29 search warrants. Investigators say they've found most of the pair's travels, but are still in the dark on 18 minutes of movement.
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LINCOLN COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA – BIOS: CURRY, William Harrison
Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
September 17, 1999
Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia. New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West
Virginia Heritage encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock. 1974
WILLIAM HARRISON CURRY, D. D. — Is a son of
Thomas and Susanna (Johnson) Curry and was born in Fayette county (now) West
Virginia April 11, 1846. He was joined in marriage in Lincoln county,
September 8, 1869 with Parthenia, daughter of Charles B and Sarah Jane
(Spurlock) Lawrence. She was born in Boone County, (now) West Virginia, April
28, 1851, and died October 8, 1883. They had nine children of whom five are
living: Alice Stella, born September 3, 1870, died November 30, 1879;
Josephine, October 6, 1871, died December 4, 1871; Cora Belle, October 4,
1872; Leonidas, September 28, 1874, died January 13, 1875; Benjamin Franklin,
October 6, 1875; Minnie Valeria, April 23, 1877; Charles Thomas, January 22,
1879; Martha Ellen, February 20, 1880, died November 12, 1882; George
Washington, March 13, 1883. Mr. Curry's parents died in 1846, when he was but
eight years old, and Mrs. Curry's father died in September 1881. The subject
of this sketch joined the Baptist Church in 1870 in which he is now an
ordained minister, and preaches the Gospel at two points, Trace Fork and
Mount Moriah. His wife became a member of the Baptist Church in 1870. W. H.
Curry enlisted in the war between the States in September 1861, serving in
Company B. 34th Battalion, Virginia Volunteer Mounted Riflemen. he was a
soldier on the Confederate side and participated in the battles at Blue
Springs, Knoxville, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Lynchburg, Martinsburg,
Piedmont, Brandy Station and Gettysburg. Dr. Curry owns about 272 acres of
fine farming land in the counties of Lincoln and Putnam on Big Creek, six
miles north of Hamlin. There is a large orchard of apple, peach and pear
trees, and a portion of the land is heavily timbered. Dr. Curry's postoffice
address is Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia.


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St Giles Orchestra premieres Tchaikovsky symphony
May 2003
St Giles Orchestra is about to give what it believes will be the first amateur performance of a rarely heard Tchaikovsky symphony in the UK. Not only did Tchaikovsky write six numbered symphonies and another entitled 'Manfred', but he started work in 1892 on a Symphony in E flat. Finding the work troublesome to compose, he decided to scrap it, even going as far as to state that he had destroyed the sketches. But the sketches were not destroyed, and they were discovered many years later by the Russian musicologist and composer Semyon Bogatyryev, who reconstructed the work from the sketches in the 1950s.
Geoffrey Bushell, St Giles Orchestra's conductor and musical director explains: "When looking to hire a set of parts for the symphony, we first searched a database of all orchestral music in UK lending libraries, and found that there was only one set. When we received the set of orchestral parts of this symphony from Liverpool Library, we noticed that it was in mint condition, with no marks of any kind in either score or parts, and had obviously never been played. The library had acquired the set in 1963, only two years after The State Music Publishers in Moscow published the full score. I was also told by John Koelsch, a Tchaikovsky enthusiast living in Wells, Nevada, USA (who had noticed the concert advertised on our website) that the first western performance was in 1962. This combination of circumstances made us think that perhaps we were about to give the first amateur performance in the UK, all of 46 years after the first performance." Geoffrey then contacted Brett Langston, biographer of Tchaikovsky and author of the two-volume Tchaikovsky Handbook, to see if any other performances were known. Brett replied "The symphony has been professionally performed by The BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2002 and by the Ulster Orchestra in the 1990s, but those are the only other British performances I know of. Because the work is so rarely heard, there must be a very good chance that your performance will be the first by an amateur orchestra in this country!"
So the St Giles Orchestra concert on Saturday 5 July (7.30 pm in St Andrews Church, Linton Road, Oxford looks like being a very special occasion. Geoffrey Bushell adds: "We like to introduce our audiences to unfamiliar works, and although they may not know the work, they nearly always say to me afterwards that they enjoyed it because it has a good tune." There are certainly plenty of tunes in the symphony, and its style is recognisably Tchaikovsky. So why not go along and listen to this unique event - it may be another 46 years before the next opportunity!


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Gains Tuning of Fuzzy Controllers Based on a Cost Function Optimization
AbstractThis paper presents a methodology for tuning the gains of fuzzy proportional-integral controllers where the concept of closed loop control system performance is explicitly taken into account. The fuzzy controller gains are found by solving a nonlinear constrained optimization problem considering the system's dynamics described by a nonlinear model and a set of constraints on the controller gains, control actions and outputs. Experimental results from a testbed show the pertinence of using the proposed tuning technique.
KeywordsFuzzy Control, Gains Tuning, Nonlinear Optimization, Constrained admissible solution
SubjectDesign of Fuzzy controllers
ConferenceControlo2012 - 10th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, July 2012
Cited by
Year 2012 : 1 citations
Lucena, Catarina Inês Marques de. "Aplicação de técnicas de controlo óptimo difuso em ambientes distribuídos." (2012).


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France is set to sell a number of warships to the United Arab Emirates, French President Emmanuel Macron announced in Abu Dhabi, during a high-profile Middle East tour that also involved a surprise stop in Saudi Arabia.
Wrapping up his two-day visit to the UAE, Macron said Thursday that the tiny Persian Gulf country would get at least two French-made Gowind navy corvettes under the deal for an undisclosed price.
Developed by French military firm Naval Group, the warships are designed for missions in littoral zones, including coastal surveillance and anti-submarine warfare.
Macron also toured a French naval base in Abu Dhabi , where he hailed the military cooperation between the two nations.
The Camp de la Paix (Peace Camp), which is located at Abu Dhabi's Port Zayed, sits across the waters of the Persian Gulf and is home to some 700 French military personnel.
A symbol of France's deepening military ties with the UAE, the naval base was inaugurated in 2009 by then French head of state Nicolas Sarkozy. The UAE reportedly funds the base's operation costs of up to $60 million a year.
"France's military capacity is at the heart of my ambitions for our country," the French president said before walking through the French frigate Jean Bart.
French military forces and aircraft are also stationed at the UAE's al-Dhafra Air Base, which houses some of the 5,000 American troops deployed to the country.
International rights group such as Human Rights Watch have censured Western nations' rush for profiting from arms sales to the UAE and other Arab countries that are key contributors to a Saudi-led war against the people of Yemen.
Macron heads to Riyadh
The French president announced later on Thursday that he was headed to Saudi Arabia to discuss the Yemen war with the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud.
"I believe it's important that we work with Saudi Arabia for the purpose of guaranteeing stability in the region and the fight against terrorism," Macron said, referring to the ongoing military aggression that has killed over 12,000 Yemeni people and destroyed much of the poverty-stricken country's infrastructure since it began in March 2015.
According to the Control Arms Coalition, France, the world's fourth weapons exporter, authorized arms licenses worth $18 billion to Saudi Arabia in 2015 — the year Riyadh launched its military campaign against Yemen — followed by the United States at $5.9 billion and Britain's $4 billion.


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Michael Saylor, founder and CEO of Microstrategy
"Turning our civilization into software driven processes"
"You might not be interested in technology but technology is interested in you"
"It is an exciting time, BI is coming out of back offices and paper reports into hands"
"Blockbuster went down and Netflix went up. Filing cabinet and paper trash bags went down but I-pads went up"
Michael's keynote was definitely one of the high point at the conference. He is a visionary and will make you think. I did hear him couple other times including partner address, examples he provide and analogies he draw are just phenomenal and as I said will make you think.
New visualizations in Microstrategy mobile includes Heat maps, calendar, time series, map network visualization, embedded pdf reader, embedded web reader, RSS widget. Among all the BI competitors, Microstrategy seems to have the biggest push for mobile and as Mike quoted about I-pad "I-pad is the first device that competed with paper".
Another discussion was on updating reports that were built long back. "Every report that was being built-in last 10-15 years is obsolete and needs to be rebuilt". And it does make sense, it is not the same business forever, things change, market change and so do KPIs and end-user requirements. Every company should have a plan to sit back in X number of years and see what are they doing, how are they doing and why are they doing it. And if does not fit in their 'current' company scope, it means, its time to rebuilt it.
Another good example that Mike quoted was of a Family credit card where one can manage finances on the go using their mobile devices and allocate different settings for credit/debit cards for family members. e.g. son can only use the card within school campus, daughter can only use allocated x $ every week, every purchase wife makes over 500$ needs approval in real-time.
One of the examples that Michael quoted is a very normal day-to-day case when you request someone or specially a sales person for a document and you hear back "I will get back to you". And what it used to 20 minutes, sending the document on email, before has now reduced to 20 seconds, point it on your mobile device and share it with contact right away does not matter if you are standing at a subway station or just met a potential client in a coffee shop.
Some of the examples Michael quoted for where mobile will be playing a big role in future were Traffic ticketing, doctor prescription and mobile payments. As he quoted "mobile transaction changes (will change) the relationship with customers"
Another good example of using mobile computing was of a bar code scanner example and retail shopping. Believe it or not that is something I have myself done, went to Bestbuy last December scanned bar code of a Toshiba laptop using barcode app and did a quick search online to find the cheapest price and see if there is any online store selling it for cheaper, it was Bestbuy itself and hence I bought it for them but think if it would have not been them, I would have used Best Buy store to find my product test it and then perform a little query on my phone and with few clicks buy the cheapest one from online retailers such as Amazon etc provided they sell it for cheaper.
But imaginations went further when Michael gave an example of a friend that walks in your door looks at your TV in your living room, likes it scans it right there, find the cheaper online store provider and have it ship it to his door next day. There would be no need to walk into store have your phone handy, scan bar code on items you like around you scan them and order online.
Sanju Bansal, COO and Co-founder of Microstrategy
Sanju Bansal, COO and co-founder of Mirostrategy presented 5 awards to different organization and individuals in different categories including Linkedin and Starbucks followed by a customer presentations. One of my favorite was the I-pad app demo presented by GAP, it was not only fully functional but aesthetically very appealing. Good part about their demo was use of pictures, if you have to select category of apparel, there will be pictures on your desktop and when you will click a picture of the model wearing a jeans, it will filter the data for jeans. It not just made the application very appealing but I bet I might be faster to scan quickly the pictures and pick what you want to select than reading through the list.
Kurt Schhgel, VP Research Gartner
"User adoption – Best measure of success". Very similar to what I heard at Sanju Bansal's Keynote and I would second this statement any day. Does not matter what technology or tool you implement, if you can make your end users work enough on it, you will never be able to achieve the final goals. That is the same reason why new tools like qlikview and tableau have been working on what they call "sticky feeling" users have with their tool and like to work on it. I hear on twitter or Linkedin every other day when a developer or end-user says, I love working on your tool. Is is not the measure of true success ?
He also recommended the book (which he had it in his hands all the time on stage): Seeing what's next. I am ordering my copy!
Jeffrey A. Bedell, CTO Microstrategy
"70% user running machines with less than 2GB RAM" under power machines, invest in memories, it is cheap now"
I would not disagree I face the similar problems with my customers when I hear problems about program being slow when they are trying to run applications on under powered machines. Just with a small investment of couple hundred bucks, lot of time and efforts can be saved.
You can also find more information on my blog on Microstrategy technology and an overview of the Microstrategy world conference.


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Spring Flours Annual Benefit to support the Celiac Disease Center
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WHAT: The University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center Spring Flours Annual Benefit
WHEN: 6:00 p.m. Friday, May 16, 2014
WHERE: Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, 301 E. North Water St., Chicago
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On May 16, 2014, the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center is hosting the annual Spring Flours gluten-free benefit. The event will feature more than 25 gluten-free tasting stations hosted by some of Chicago's best chefs and bakers, a live auction and a restaurant gift card sale.
Spring Flours is the center's major fundraiser of the year, designed to raise money to support ongoing research and treatment for patients with celiac disease.
"We are delighted to bring together the best gluten-free chefs and bakers to provide a care-free evening of food, freedom and fundraising," said Carol Shilson, Executive Director of the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center. "Those living with celiac disease can't often relax when dining out. Spring Flours makes it deliciously possible to do so. The goal of the evening is to raise funds for our important work, most notably finding a cure, but it is also gratifying to see genuine enjoyment on the faces of attendees."
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The Spider Queen Book 1 Chapter 88
The Tarkkankan continued to squeal loudly as its fleshy body squirmed on the ground. Sophie backed several steps away while keeping a careful eye on the monster.
There was something unnerving and yet familiar about this Insectoid race that cause Sophie to just observe carefully instead of attacking.
She quickly sorted out the information about this species from the inheritance given by her aunt and a contemplative expression surfaced on her face.
Tarkkakans were bred specifically for scouting and even sometimes as a delicacy for high level Insectoid races.
Their impressive tunnelling abilities allowed them to cross great distances within a short period of time.
They tracked down prey using a sensory antenna located at the top of their head to detect movement on the surface.
Poor vision and a bulky figure made them easy to outmanoeuvre once they emerged from the underground.
The Tarkkankan swung its head in Sophie's direction but made no attempts to close the distance between them.
Sophie inched closer and the creature started to crawl in the opposite direction while its flesh jiggled.
It seemed almost. scared
Sophie was not too far off the mark with that train of thought as Tarkkakans were sensitive to the presence of higher-level Insectoid races.
Sophie's scent was giving the beast a sense of bloodline suppression.
But the scent smelled.
Struck by an unexpected increase in confidence, the beast suddenly squealed and pounced towards Sophie with an unexpectedly fast burst of speed.
Its jaws opened wide and the razor-sharp teeth hidden in its maw glistened sharply in the sunlight.
If Tarkkakans could make facial expressions, then this poor creature's face would be one of horror.
Two of Sophie's spider appendages extended outwards and pierced through the impressive defense of the creature as if it were no more than paper and accurately penetrated its heart.
Sophie was not even conscious of the action as she planned on activating her movement technique and escaping.
Her spider appendages withdrew from the creature's body as the Tarkkankan collapsed unwillingly to the ground.
Sophie flicked her appendages a few times to get the greenish yellow blood off her limbs but saw that the still-beating heart was attached to one.
Sophie's eyes immediately shifted to red as an overwhelming craving for the organ engulfed her rational mind.
She wrapped her hand around the heart and carefully brought it to her mouth.
What she did next caused several observing exam administrators to throw up as the hybrid girl placed the whole heart in her mouth and swallowed it with relish.
It was actually... pretty tasty!
If Sophie had to describe the flavour, then she would say it was an odd mix between pork and beef but with an almost gooey texture.
Suddenly Sophie felt a pleasant burst of energy flowing into her dantian as the Spider Whisper Art started to circulate automatically.
Several meridians in Sophie's body began to widen as the qi strands flowed at a much faster rate than before.
The power swelled until Sophie could sense that she had broken into the third stage of the qi spirit realm.
Sophie closed her eyes and groaned softly in pleasure as the comfortable feeling gradually disappeared.
Flexing her hands, she could tell that something had changed in her body.
The Spider Whisper Art certainly had secrets and Sophie vaguely felt that she had not even come close to realizing its full potential.
Sophie shook her head to snap herself out of the daze and started to head towards Astrid and the rest.
The Tarkkakans were clearly tracking down students based on their ground movements so staying still or flying would allow them to avoid detection.
It sounded like a simple solution but very few candidates would recognise the beasts much less know to stay still.
But something was still bugging her. aren't Tarkkakans pack animals?
Only one had surfaced so where had the rest gone?
"F.u.c.k!" Sophie shouted in realization as she dashed frantically towards her roommates.
If the Tarkkakans were not targeting her then their potential victims would be Astrid and the rest of the group!
Cloud Treading Dragon!
Sophie rapidly consumed the newly formed qi in her dantian and moved quickly before it was too late.
She managed to find the trio after ten minutes of running and saw that Astrid was curiously poking a dead Tarkkankan with a stick that she had found on the ground while Rachel flew in the air and was scouting out the surrounding area.
The corpse of the beast was badly mutilated by flames which indicated that it had suffered a gruesome death in the hands of Astrid's fire spells.
Qiana had moved from inside Astrid's arms to on her back but a faint reddish tinge on her ears could still be seen.
"Hi Sophie!" Astrid waved cheerfully as she noticed the hybrid girl first. Sophie was about to reply when the rumbling noise beneath her feet caused her expression to rapidly shift.
"Astrid climb up a tree with Qiana and don't move a muscle!" Sophie yelled.
"Rachel keep flying and don't land!" she barked out two quick commands.
It was a testament to how trusting Astrid was as she immediately whispered to Qiana to hold on tight before climbing up a large tree using her claws to gain a better grip.
Sophie's warning came at the right time as the ground started to shake as hundreds of these worm-like Insectoids burst out in a frenzy.
Astrid gazed at the pinkish blobs of flesh coating every visible surface of the ground and felt her blood run cold.
She was able to defeat one of these creatures in about three minutes but could not fight against a group.
The sounds of squealing was heard from the beasts below as each of them raised their heads to try and find the lost prey.
There was clearly the lingering scent of food. but where had the food gone?
One of the more intelligent Tarkkakans attempted to scale a nearby tree but its blubbery body was unable to climb successfully.
"What are those things?" Qiana whispered in a disgusted tone.
"A species of low-level Insectoids that use those antennas to track down prey from movement," Sophie explained.
"We should be safe as they are pretty clumsy on land and they can't detect us if we don't move."


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Reginald D Hunter, Princes Hall Aldershot review - underpowered but the laughs come through | reviews, news & interviews
Reginald D Hunter, Princes Hall Aldershot review - underpowered but the laughs come through
Reginald D Hunter, Princes Hall Aldershot review - underpowered but the laughs come through
Controversialist in laid back-mood
Reginald D Hunter drops the n-bomb near the top of the show. He means no offence, he tells the audience, but it's the vernacular where he comes from in Georgia. And besides, using that word, as well as expressing some trenchant opinions about the differences between men and women, and the politics of race, has sort of become Hunter's calling card. Provocative, controversialist, whatever – as an African American living in the UK for the past 21 years, he has opinions worth listening to even if you don't share them.
The genesis for his new show, Facing the Beast, was that anniversary, as well turning 50 (and celebrating his dad's 100th) and moving in with a partner for the first time in his life. Oh, and discovering a while ago that he has a teenage daughter he previously knew nothing of. You may think that any of those things might be worth a show on its own, but while they are all referenced, none is developed beyond a sentence or two.
That's the problem with the show; there is so much promised, stories started and anecdotes begun, but which are then left hanging or concluded with a weak gag. Some set pieces even fall horribly flat, as when he asks for the house lights to go up and poses a series of questions to the women in the audience about power, attractiveness and how good they think they are as lovers. It led nowhere, and left the audience bemused as to the point of it.
His mind is telling him to be transgressive even when he's asleep
In previous shows Hunter has pushed at people's buttons with his examination of race, politics and sex. Here, though, the only controversial elements are a joke about Michael Jackson's sexual abuse of children, in which Hunter (referencing a recent documentary) poses the question of whether we should forgive geniuses for their wrongdoing, and a rather mean gag about Harry and Meghan.
There is, though, some strong material in the show, such as when he talks about sibling rivalry. He tells a deliciously cruel tale of one-upmanship with one of his brothers that would keep a psychiatrist busy for a week, involving as it does the death of their mother, but it has a sweet payoff for anyone who has witnessed parental favouritism.
Elsewhere he talks of his love of the Irish – "They're white but have no sense of entitlement" – and tells a long story about a weird dream he once had, in which he was stuck in a boat with, among others, Katie Price, Katie Hopkins and Nigel Farage. It's an interesting insight into the comic's mind, which appears to be telling him to be transgressive even when he's asleep.
Hunter is laid-back at the best of times, but this show feels underpowered and the delivery disjointed as he hops from one story to another. That said, he can recount an interesting tale and fashion a good line, and the laughs, when they come, are big.
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I am moved by a story I read today written by Matt Schudel of the Washington Post entitled "Mother Antonia, 86, lived in, transformed Mexican prison." Mother Antonia, who was born Mary Clarke in the US, died on October 17 after a later-in-life mission where she served others in need and created a group called the "Sisters of the Eleventh Hour of St. John Etudes." I love this story and adore the name she chose to help people using the metaphor as the clock nears midnight. The symbolism of the name matches the work she has done for the last 48 years of her life.
After accompanying a priest to deliver medicine and supplies to Tijuana, Mexico in 1965, she visited a prison and was moved by the plight and maltreatment of the men behind bars. With no one advocating for them, she frequented the prison more and then moved down to Tijuana to "tend to the needs of some of the most destitute and dangerous people in Mexico. She brought them medicine, bedding, clothing and food. She worked with Mexican officials to improve conditions in La Mesa and other prisons." She was a light to these men and she would kiss their hands and they would return the favor. She was held in such high regard, she diffused a prison riot with guns in 1994 by walking up to the rioters and asking them for their weapons.
What is also interesting about her life is she was married twice, had seven children and died with 11 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and 2 great, great-grandchildren. She took care of her father's business after he died, but was devoted to helping others. After her prison ministry began, she made herself into a nun and went about helping these men in need. She had no formal training and made her own nun's habit. She wore a cross made by the inmates, which also contained a Star of David in the center, "symbolic of her father's respect for Jewish people and her own sense of open-armed acceptance." She lived her life in a 10 by 10 foot cell with the walls painted pink. There is a book on her life called "The Prison Angel" by Washington Post journalists Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, which was made into a documentary film.
The way I see it is she just wanted to help those in need and help she did. Both popes and government leaders have celebrated her work. I find her mission very refreshing, especially with Pope Francis trying to restore the Catholic Church to its greater mission of helping those in need. One of my heroes is Mother Teresa, who also cared more about helping others. Mother Antonia is someone of the same cloth. Through her life, we can see how we should aspire to be. The new pope lived this mission as well and is trying to get others to see the importance of the overarching teaching of Jesus to help the "least of these."
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