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Friday, September 13, 2019
Composition Colloquium: workshop CNMAT users group (CUG)
Colloquium | September 13 | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
CNMAT users group (CUG), main room users, rear studio users, hardware and media labs users
Artificial Intelligence Unlocked
Deadline | September 13 – 15, 2019 every day | 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Law Building
Berkeley Law Executive Education, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Unlocked is a three-day executive academy consisting of lectures, panel discussions, and guest presentations from the industrys foremost educators and leaders. The program is presented by Berkeley Law Executive Education and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
Join us and earn a certificate in AI from UC Berkeley!
ImageXD 2019
Conference/Symposium | September 11 – 13, 2019 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
BIDS ImageXD (Images Across Domains) aims to 1) Foster a cross-disciplinary community of image processing experts from academia, research, and industry; 2) Develop a shared understanding of each others use of image processing data, algorithms, and software; and 3) Help our community share knowledge ... More >
Grape Vine: Brushpainting with Karen LeGault
Workshop | September 13 | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join artist, Karen LeGault, for a brush painting workshop celebrating seasonal plants in the Garden. Each month will focus on a different subject: grape vines, sunflowers, persimmon, and the pine tree.
$75, $65 members
Kavli ENSI Open House / Poster Session
Tour/Open House | September 13 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | 775 Tan Hall
Kavli ENSI
Please join us for Kavli Energy NanoScience (ENSI) open house and poster session on Friday, September 13th, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. in 775 Tan Hall.
Kavli ENSI brings together world-class scientists from a diverse set of backgrounds with a combined interest and focus on learning the fundamentals of how energy flows and can be controlled on the nanoscale, where the rules of quantum mechanics and... More >
RSVP online by August 30.
Essig Brunch Seminar-Defensive responses in Manduca sexta as a model for pain
Seminar | September 13 | 10-11 a.m. | 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Megumi Fuse, San Francisco State University
A weekly seminar series run by the Entomology Students Organization featuring local and visiting researchers presenting a wide range of entomology-related topics. Open to the public.
A Conversation with José Manuel Barroso, Former President of the EU Commission and Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize on Behalf of the EU
Panel Discussion | September 13 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
José Manuel Barroso, Former Prime Minister of Portugal, current Chairman of Goldman Sachs International; Maurice Obstfeld, Professor of Economics, Berkeley Economics; Jeroen Dewulf, Director, Institute of European Studies
Institute of European Studies, Department of Economics, Institute of International Studies, European Union Center
José Manuel Barroso, former Prime Minister of Portugal (2002-04), President of the EU Commission (2004-14), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the EU (2012), and current Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, will visit the UC Berkeley campus. In conversation with Maurice Obstfeld (Class of 1958 Professor of Economics) and Jeroen Dewulf (Director of the Institute of European... More >
The State of Europe: A Conversation with Former European Commission President José Manuel Barroso
Lecture | September 13 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, Room 310
José Manuel Barroso, Former president of the European Commission
European Union Center, Clausen Center for International Business and Policy
Please join UC Berkeley's Clausen Center for International Business and Policy and the European Union Center for a conversation with José Manuel Barroso, former president of the European Commission and former prime minister of Portugal. He also received a Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the European Union in 2012. Barroso will discuss economic and political changes and challenges facing... More >
Curators Talk: Elaine Yau on Dennis Feldman
Presentation | September 13 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Elaine Yau, who organized the exhibition Dennis Feldman: Photographs, places Feldmans work in the context of the social documentary practices of his mentors Walker Evans and Robert Frank, and focuses on Feldmans distinctive approach to mass media images of the 1970s.
Yau is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at BAMPFA. She specializes in modern art in the United States with an... More >
Higher Education Researchers Workgroup
Meeting | September 13 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Evans Hall, CSHE Conference Room, 768 | Note change in date
Center for Studies in Higher Education
The goal of this new group is to bring together qualitative and quantitative higher education researchers working on issues at Berkeley, the... More >
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Yoga for Tension and Stress Relief (BEUHS664)
Workshop | September 13 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 251 Hearst Gymnasium
Laurie Ferris
Practicing yoga can release tension in your joints, give you greater range of motion, and offer increased comfort in all aspects of your life. Learn basic yoga poses and breathing techniques to transform your practice into a moving meditation.
Optional: Join the Passport Yoga Passport Challenge and get a different stamp for each class to be entered into a drawing for a yoga prize! Please... More >
MCB Postdoc Lunch Club: "Postdoc Fellowship Applications: strategies and Institution-specific modus operandi for grant-writing success"
Social Event | September 13 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Life Sciences Addition
Jessica Tucker
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar: Symmetry and Topology of Nano Structures
Seminar | September 13 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, The Hogan Room, 521
Boubacar Kanté, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Departement, UC Berkeley
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
I will discuss how the control of the symmetries and interactions between multipoles enables the construction unique electromagnetic composites.
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 3 – December 29, 2019 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plants from around the world, learn about the vast diversity in the collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission. Advanced registration not required
Designing Exoskeletons and Prosthetic Limbs That Enhance Human Locomotor Performance
Seminar | September 13 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall
Associate Professor Steve Collins, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Abstract: Exoskeletons and active prosthetic limbs could improve mobility for tens of millions of people, but two serious challenges must first be overcome: we need ways of identifying what a device should do to benefit an individual user, and we need cheap, efficient hardware that can do it. In this talk, we will describe an approach to the design of wearable robots based on versatile emulator... More >
Revitalizing Supercapacitors with Hierarchical Porous Electrodes: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | September 13 | 2-3 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Yat Li, UC Santa Cruz, Chemistry/Biochemistry
Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
Supercapacitors (SCs) are rapidly emerging as a new class of energy storage devices that can be used in a broad range of applications. SCs distinguish from lithium ion batteries by their ability to be charged and discharged at ultrafast rates.
Carbon materials, owing to their excellent electrical conductivity, tailorability, inexpensiveness, and versatility, have been extensively studied as... More >
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: KPZ Universality and Determinantal Processes III
Seminar | September 13 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC Berkeley
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality has been rigorously verified for a number of exactly solvable models such as Hammersley-Aldous-Diaconis and exclusion processes. A key ingredient for this verification is a determinantal type representation for the correlation function. In these lectures I give an overview of the existing results and present a direct and simple proof of the determinantal... More >
MENA Salon: Iran, Israel and the US
Workshop | September 13 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Every Friday the CMES hosts an informal guided discussion of current events in the Middle East and North Africa, open to all.
In recent months, tensions between the US and Iran have escalated. The US has imposed new economic sanctions, while Iran has announced that it will deliberately violate aspects of the previously agreed upon nuclear deal. These tensions are linked, as recent news reports... More >
New Research Directions in Archaeology and Linguistic History of Hokkaido Ainu
Colloquium | September 13 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Gary Crawford, University of Toronto
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
Talk abstract coming soon.
Prof. Gary Crawford is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in archaeological botany and environmental archaeology. The field is known as palaeoethnobotany or archaeobotany. His current focus is East Asia where he is investigating the origins and intensification of agriculture. Actually, hes never strayed far from... More >
Public Policy Initiatives That Might Improve Digital Stewardship
Seminar | September 13 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Clifford Lynch
Alternate policy approaches for stewardship of some classes of cultural materials in the current world.
Rethinking America's Highway Institutions
Seminar | September 13 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Robert Poole, Reason Foundation
Institute of Transportation Studies
Reason Foundation's Robert Poole will present Rethinking America's Highway Institutions on Sept. 13, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the ITS Transportation Seminar.
In this talk, Robert Poole will suggest that the 20th century institutions that govern how we design, construct, maintain, and fund major highways are broken and in need of major revision. The... More >
Vrije uitloop | Free range: Poems by Saskia Stehouwer, Translation + Field Notes by Joel Thomas Katz, Robert Perry, and Saskia Stehouwer
Reading - Literary | September 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Saskia Stehouwer; Joel Thomas Katz; Robert Perry
Institute of European Studies, BENELUX Studies Program, Dutch Studies
The Dutch Studies department will be hosting Saskia Stehouwer, Joel Thomas Katz and Robert Perry to speak on their new book of poetry, "Vrije uitloop | Free range". Author Saskia Stehouwer is a renowned poet from the Netherlands. She studied both Dutch and English literature at the University of Amsterdam and has worked as an editor and project leader for the VU University Amsterdam. Saskia... More >
Hands On Artists' Books #17: Water Water Everywhere: artists' books about water
Social Event | September 13 | 4-6 p.m. | Wurster Hall, 210 (Env. Design Library Atrium)
Artists' books are simply books made by artists. Whether tactile or conceptual, the range in thematic content including the political, the sentimental, the instructive of the purely beautiful. Our Hands on Artists' Books events allow you to handle books from our rare book vault. For our first event of the academic year, we will have 200 books related to water and its importance for you to touch,... More >
Latinx Research Center Fall Reception
Reception | September 13 | 4-6 p.m. | Latinx Research Center
2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
John A. Pérez, Board of U.C. Regents
Latinx Faculty Association, Chicanx [& Latinx] Studies Program, Alianza (Latinx Staff Association)
Please join us on Friday, September 13th, 4-6 p.m., with special guest, Chair of the Board of U.C. Regents, John A. Pérez, in an event co-sponsored by the Latinx staff organization, Alianza, the Chicanx [& Latinx] Studies Program, and the Latinx Faculty Association.
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Film - Feature | September 13 | 4 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The second part of Bondarchuks epic adaptation opens in 1807 as Napoleon and Tsar Alexander negotiate in Tilsit. Meanwhile, far from the world of politics, young Natasha attends a grand ball, waltzes with Prince Andrei, and is soon engaged to him. However, his protracted absence leaves the emotionally volatile Natasha vulnerable. The film features a remarkable wolf-hunting sequence where... More >
Student 3-Manifold Seminar: Organizational meeting
Seminar | September 13 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Kyle Miller, UC Berkeley
This will be an organizational meeting for a student learning seminar about 3-manifolds.
For the first meeting, we will talk about Tait's conjecture that reduced alternating link diagrams have minimal crossing number, which was resolved in 1987 by Kauffman, Murasugi, and Thistlethwaite using the Jones polynomial.
Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar: Essential dimension of algebraic stacks
Seminar | September 13 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Anningzhe Gao, UC Berkeley
In this talk, I will give an introduction of the essential dimension of functors, in particular I will concentrate on the essential dimension of algebraic stacks. We will start by the basic facts of stacks (if necessary), then give the statement of the genericity theorem proved by Brosnan, Reichstein and Vistoli. As an application, we will calculate the essential dimension of the moduli stack of... More >
Music Studies Colloquium - Anna Morcom (UCLA): "Music, Exchange, and the Production of Value: A Case Study of Hindustani Music"
Colloquium | September 13 | 4:30 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall
Womxn's CommUNITY Dinner: welcome event for the UC Berkeley women's* community
Special Event | September 13 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center, Suite 220 (please enter garden side)
A welcome event for the UC Berkeley women's* community!
*We welcome all who experience life through the lens of woman in body, spirit, identity - past, present, future, and fluid.
The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus
Colloquium | September 13 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 306 Wheeler Hall
Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia Department of English and Comparative Literature
Department of English, 19th Century Colloquium, 19th Century and Beyond Townsend working group
On September 13th, there will be a discussion of pre-circulated chapters from The Drama of Celebrity with author Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University (formerly of Berkeley!).
Sponsored by the 19th Century Colloquium and the 19th Century and Beyond Townsend working group.
For a copy of the PDF, please email... More >
Facebook Tech Talk
Information Session | September 13 | 6-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In collaboration with UC Berkeley AWE, Facebook is bringing you Facebook Day! Stop by and speak with Facebook employees from our various pipelines:
Software Engineering
Data Science
Data Engineering
Production Engineering
Hardware Engineering
Technical Program Management
Performance Engineering
Find out who they are, what their teams do, and opportunities... More >
Full: Red Culebra
Performing Arts - Music | September 13 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Red Culebra is a synthesizer duet and collaboration of Bay Area electronic musicians and performance artists Guillermo Galindo and Cristobal Martinez. Inspired by their complicated post-Mexican backgrounds, Galindo and Martinez create and perform rituals based on cycles of repetition and uniformity, incorporating sound invocations, moving images, and bodily movement. They present 4 Cycles + 1, an... More >
Where Is the Friends Home?: (Khaneh-je doost kojast?),(Where Is the Friend's House?)
Film - Feature | September 13 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Inspired by a poem by Iranian philosopher Sohrab Sepehri, Where Is the Friends Home? is a beautiful picture of the life of a child in a northern Iranian villagea child for whom an afternoon becomes an odyssey into and beyond the mysteries of adult behavior. Young Ahmad feels he must return an all-important notebook to his friend, Mohammad, who will be expelled from school if he shows up one... More >
The Revivalists: with guest: Anderson East
Performing Arts - Music | September 13 | 7:30 p.m. | Hearst Greek Theatre
A remarkable thing happened to The Revivalists as they came upon their tenth anniversary as a band. The New Orleans-based septet scored a game-changing hit with Wish I Knew You, a wistful song from their third album, Men Amongst Mountains.
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
The Life and Career of Kaneji Domoto
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 19 – December 16, 2019 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
This exhibition explores the complex story behind the only American Japanese architect and landscape architect at Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian community, in Westchester County, New York in 1944.
The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020 every day | Free Speech Movement Cafe (Moffitt Library)
Library, Berkeley Language Center
Celebrates the magnificent diversity of languages that advance research, teaching, and learning at the University of California, Berkeley. It is the point of embarkation for an exciting sequential exhibit that will build on one post per week, showcasing an array of digitized works in the original language chosen by those who work with these languages on a daily basis - librarians, professors,... More >
You Are On Indian Land: There There (On the Same Page 2019): An Exhibit of Library Collections relating to the Native American community of Oakland
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 26, 2019 – January 31, 2020 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 3rd floor
Tommy Orange's debut novel, There There, is this year's On the Same Page program reading. The entire campus community is encouraged to read the book and participate in classes and events this Fall.
Oranges debut is an ambitious meditation on identity and its broken alternatives, on myth filtered through the lens of time and poverty and urban life. Its many short chapters are told through a... More >
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Pleasure, Poison, Prescription, Prayer: The Worlds of Mind-Altering Substances
Exhibit - Artifacts | March 15 – December 15, 2019 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
If you sip a cup of coffee, are you on drugs? If you try psychedelics, are you committing a crime? If you have a sweet tooth, are you a sugar addict?
Since the beginning of human existence, peoples of the world have altered their minds with countless plant-based substances. They have done so for many reasons, ranging from pleasure to health to ceremony, with effects both harmful and benign,... More >
Art Wall: Carlos Amorales
Exhibit - Painting | March 27 – October 13, 2019 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In this new commission for the BAMPFA Art Wall, entitled Ghost Demonstration, Amorales draws from the multiple histories of mural art in Mexico, the political demonstrations that occurred in Berkeley in the 1960s (as well as more recent events), and protests in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. In order to make this monumental mural, the artist used stencils of slogans from Berkeley protest... More >


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Ideas For Wedding Reception Table Decorations
If there is one thing that the thoughtful wedding designer or couple needs to capture the mood, it's having right wedding reception table decorations. When done properly, all of the guests at the wedding will, to some extent, feel the spirit of love. Having the wrong decorations will take away from that happy feeling. While table decorations are an important aspect of one's wedding reception, it's not always easy to come up with ideas for centerpieces. Sometimes all that's needed, though, are a few ideas to get the creative juices flowing.
The good news is that there is no shortage of ways available to begin generating ideas for the general look of the centerpiece. The most logical starting point is to consider any themes that the bride and groom have already chosen, and match or complement the table decorations accordingly. Such themes can run the gamut from the couple's tastes in movies, literature or sports, to ones based upon the season in which the couple are to be married. If you are lucky enough to be design around a theme, then it's fairly simple. All you have to do is break down the theme into its various elements then build your decorations from there.
If you are not fortunate enough to have a theme to go on, and have to come up with something more general, or pull the ideas from thin air, that's okay. There are still some tricks you can use to ensure that the table decorations will look good.
Virtually every wedding has a specific number of guests, give or take a few. If you know how many will be attending, then this is a good start. You can set up personalized seating cards that contain a single quoted line from your wedding vows. This is especially effective if any part of the vows were written by the happy couple themselves. Either way, it's a simple way to add a touch of class and romance at the same time.
If centerpieces will be used at the tables, they should capture the essence of the theme or symbolize the couple's love in some way. While centerpieces don't have to be carbon copies of each other, they should have the same look and fit in with each other in some way. Something as simple as sprinkling confetti or flower petals around each centerpiece can tie them all together. Maybe you're wondering why someone would spend so much time on something that's seemingly unimportant. People like to know that some care went into the planning of the big day because it shows the couple are taking their vows seriously, and you thought they were just wedding reception table decorations!
One final piece of advice: While wedding reception table decorations are important, it's even more important to have fun. Using the above tips will help you to be less stressed about the decorations, and focus more on the real reasons for the celebration, and that's two people starting a new life of happiness together.

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Oftentimes, the idea of setting up an in-office infusion center is a great on the surface, but further thought reveals multiple barriers. It never seems to be as simple as it sounds!
Many professionals worry that offering infusion therapy in-house will be a drain on resources rather than a boost to the bottom line. Here are the four most common objections to in-office infusion adoption.
1. Cost
One of the top barriers to creating an in-office infusion center is cost. Infusion drugs are incredibly expensive. According to Becker's Hospital Review, "Even the smallest Infusion Centers buying and billing infusion medications can quickly rack up an annual spend that exceeds $1,000,000 due to the expense of the infusion medications."[1]
As a result, the Infusion Center can often be the largest revenue and expense line on a practice's financials. It's a complicated business to manage. Reimbursement, specifically, is huge challenge. Offices may see many claims denied, but physicians are still on the hook for the cost of the drugs.
2. Space
Space is another common barrier. In order to offer infusions, best practice is to create a dedicated space solely used for infusion. The infusion center workflow is often very different than the practice workflow. They need different resources and systems to operate properly. This is often a concerning proposition for an office that has been operating within a specific footprint in a similar way for some time.
3. Time
Concerns about time can include the amount of time it takes to adopt to new systems and additional time added to workload as many practice administrators are already handling a full workload and more.
4. Staffing
Staffing is another barrier to entry. Infusion suites need dedicated staff to manage patients, appointments, and billing and collections, securing insurance authorizations, and managing inventory and supply stocks.
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Training session in Jefferson Feb. 5
Darkness to Light (D2L) has launched a redeveloped training program and documentary film designed to teach adults how to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Building on the longstanding success of the original Stewards of Children training, which has reached over 500,000 adults throughout the nation and world, the newest version takes a culturally relevant look at child protection.
The updated Stewards of Children documentary features a new selection of survivor stories, expert guidance, and practical advice as part of a five-step action plan to help adults protect the children in their lives. This evidence-informed training program also includes up-to-date statistics and current topics in child sexual abuse prevention, packaged into a concise, two-hour format.
Cathie Page of the Family Resource Center in Carroll is the local partner of Darkness to Light to offer Stewards of Children training to the Greene County community, available through a facilitator-led session or through a newly improved online learning platform.
The next training in Jefferson will be Thursday, Feb. 5. The training will take place at the ISU Extension office from 6:30 to 9 pm.
"This is a true milestone in the protection of our children," said D2L President and CEO Jolie Logan. "The revised training and film reflect the insights that have been revealed through more than a decade focused on this issue. Training, awareness and new policy initiatives for youth serving organizations are all helping build a culture to end child sexual abuse."


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The annual D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA was host to a slew of major announcements for movies and video games. Not only did geekdom fans have their hearty dose of Star Wars and Marvel related news, gamers around the world were treated to new information about Square Enix's highly anticipated Kingdom Hearts 3.
There was big news revealed about new worlds and abilities during their presentation. You can find out all the intricate details here on The Koalition. In this React Podcast we sit down and analyze everything revealed at the D23 Expo and what it all means for Kingdom Hearts fans. We have a special guest to help give some extra insight into the big Kingdom Hearts 3 news.
YouTuber and Kingdom Hearts fan EdoNinjaStormHD joins in on the discussion to give his thoughts on Kingdom Hearts 3 and what he wants to see from the next game in the series. We get into when we can expect more info to be given about the game and what new surprises we want to see show up in Kingdom Hearts 3.
You can watch all of EdoNinjaStormHD videos about Kingdom Hearts by visiting his YouTube channel. You can also keep up with his new content by following him on Twitter!
Do you have a world you want to see in Kingdom Hearts 3? Think Baymax will finally teach Donald how to heal Sora properly in the game? Go leave us a comment below and let your voice be heard!


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A lovely long walk today, in the Bank Holiday sunshine. This well planned walk took in yet another Cotswolds Red Lion pub (allegedly the most popular pub name in Britain). We were around halfway round our walk today, and had planned to take this pub in for lunch. It has a lovely big beer garden, but you will need to duck your head when you go inside, as there are lots of low beams. Very nice to enjoy a pint of Donnington Gold in the sunshine.
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نوع مقاله: مقاله پژوهشی
1 کارشناس ارشد - دانشکده مهندسی برق، واحد نجفآباد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، نجف آباد، اصفهان، ایران
2 استادیار - دانشکده مهندسی برق، واحد نجفآباد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، نجف آباد، ایران
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
With rapid development of digital technology, protecting information such as copyright, content ownership confirmation has become more important. In image watermarking, information of the image is inserted such that the visual quality of the image is not reduced and the receiver is able to get the required information. Some attacks such as image cropping, destroy the watermark's information. In this article, a new watermarking scheme is proposed which is robust against tough cropping. In the proposed scheme, classic Sudoku table which is a 9*9 table, has been used. One feature of Sudoku table is that Sudoku's limitations cause uniform scattering of symbols or numbers throughout the table. In the proposed scheme, Sudoku table and both watermarking approaches based on spatial domain and transform domain such as DCT and DWT are used. Lack of using of soduko solution at the stage of extraction and finding correct solution to obtain watermark, is innovation of this scheme. Robustness of watermarking against cropping attack is up to 92%, which shows good and effective performance of the proposed scheme.
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Cleaning of your MUGA court is crucial to keep the playing surface in tip top condition. Having your court professionally cleaned every 12 to 18 months is recommended to maintain the best playing surface.
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Besides sports, work, and other after-school activities and it's a wonder they get anything else done but eat. Depending on activity level, boys between 14 and 18 can require 2200-3200 calories daily (1), and will often indiscriminately hoover-up whatever is put in front of them. This voracious eating makes for a great opportunity to help your child develop good habits that will prepare him for a lifetime of healthy eating.
This is an important thing to remember! Just because your teen is engulfing everything in sight, if those are not healthy foods, he may not be adequately nourished. Calories from whole grains, lean protein, and dairy, fresh fruits, and vegetables, nuts, seeds and herbs, will contribute the nutrients he needs to support what can sometimes be astounding growth spurts. A 14-year-old freshman can start high school at 5'2" and finish his senior year a full foot taller! Since teens are adding muscle mass, bone structure, and blood volume during this time, what they eat directly impacts the quality of these body components. Iron and calcium are particularly important during growth, and these minerals are not readily available in processed junk food. So how are we to get nutritious food into adolescents who are also exerting their own will and are often not so receptive to parents' good advice? See our pointers below:
Given that boys at this stage of development are usually ravenously hungry, make sure options are available for meals and snacks that support good health. Get rid of sugary cereals, cookies, donuts, toaster tarts, salty chips and other processed foods that might be quick go-to snacks in your pantry. Instead, provide fruit and vegetables, already washed and cut up, front and center in the fridge for when he's looking for something to eat. If he's hungry, he will eat them!
Encourage breakfast that includes protein. It will help to keep your teen full until lunchtime and allow them to better focus during school. Some of our favorites:
During the week, your teenager likely eats at the school cafeteria or goes out to neighboring fast food restaurants. Remind him that salads are usually available. Adding a tomato and greens on a burger makes a good food better. Occasionally switching it up to a turkey or chicken burger could also be encouraged. Does he love pasta? Encourage him to add some veggies and grilled chicken to the penne. And pizza can be made more nutritious with spinach, peppers and other veggies. On weekends, lunch can be dinner leftovers (if you actually have some!) or a salad and sandwich.
Since it is often challenging to keep an eye on foods teens consume outside the home, it is important to make sure that in the house, delicious and nutritious options are what's readily available. Keeping it cool and not overly "sermonizing" about junk food he may be having while out of the home is wise – this is a teenager after all! Modeling healthy eating behaviors helps too, more than you might expect. Your child naturally internalizes the habits you display, and this information can wire him to make good choices when he grows up and is on his own. By creating a positive food environment at home, guiding him towards nutritious choices, and modeling good eating yourself, your teenager will grow into a healthy eater for life.
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25 January 2007
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The similarities to Jane Eyre, mentioned often in the book, Wuthering Heights, and Rebecca is comforting, and I don't think I have ever read a contemporary novel with this particular feel. Ghosts that are and are not ghosts, old dilapidated mansions, hidden cottages, twisted families, and secrets secrets secrets.
"Perhaps it's better not to have a story at all, rather than have one that keeps changing" and maybe "a weightless story is better than one that is too heavy." This problem - no story, painful story, easy story - is at the heart of this tale. The characters in the novel all must reconcile themselves to the story of their lives, no matter how painful or how lacking.
"My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadoes on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear an dcold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie." I find the views on truth fascinating in this story. The same woman in the story who writes this also explains that the truth has been eating at her all of her life and that she must tell the truth to someone, have it recorded, before she dies.
And yet, just a few pages later in the story, another character gets to the heart of this dilemma. "People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural....{but} like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic." So by writing the truth down, having her life story and the life story of those close to her, recorded, her life is preserved.
"Don't you think you can tell the truth much better with a story?" This really struck me because I believe the answer is yes. Sometimes a lie, a made up story, actually reveals more of the truth than a recounting of what actually happened. The truth of the emotions one is feeling at a particular point in time, or the truth of the lesson one has learned, may require more than the facts to translate to others.
By the end, I still don't understand the almost debilitating sense of loss the protagonist feels regarding her twin, but despite my inability to connect with that portion of the story, there is so much I can connect with that I really enjoyed the book.
Buy | Borrow | Accept | Avoid
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I have to admit that I was a little disappointed in The Thirteenth Tale. Maybe it was because of all the hype associated with the book (I seem to recall that the book actually sold better in the States than it sold in the U.K.)that led me to expect something more than the book delivered.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed the first couple of chapters a lot and thought that the book was going to deliver something really special, as promised by everything I'd read about it. But as I got deeper into the book, I started to lose interest and was relieved when I'd finished it.
But sometimes I wonder if a reader's mood is what determines his reaction to certain books; maybe this one would have struck me differently if I had picked it up in a different mood. It deserved its success, I'm sure, but you couldn't prove it by my reaction.
I enjoyed the gothic nature of the book, but as I said I was disappointed by the protagonist's story and every once in awhile the reference to reading/books and how they permeate her life was a bit annoying.ReplyDelete
I definitely think the reader's mood effects reaction, as well as interpretation. For me, I was looking for an easy read. I got that and some of the elements of the text reminded me of books I love such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, etc.
Whether the book deserved its success or not is arguable. There are so many books I felt were better which did not receive the level of acclaim this book received.


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Indian Coast Guard Recruitment 2018 Notification came for the intake of new candidates into the batch of Yantrik 01/2019 at the primary website @www.joinindiancoastguard.gov.in., where you could download the official notice or apply online from 23rd July to 1st August 2018. Read the full article to know the more details.
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Red Tape, Corruption, and Distributive Politics
21 Pages Posted: 24 Sep 2018 Last revised: 11 Oct 2018
Date Written: September 4, 2018
This paper investigates the distributive politics of red tape, the time-consuming bureaucratic hurdles and minutiae attached to the pursuit of government benefits and services. A simple model suggests that red tape has potentially progressive effects when it is utilized as a mechanism to screen out high-income individuals with high opportunity costs of time by a social welfare maximizing social planner. When implemented by a corrupt bureaucrat, however, red tape is also regressive, screening out poorer individuals who may be willing to pay but are constrained in their ability to pay the bribes required to clear red tape. This provides arbitrage opportunities for clientelist intermediaries who specialize in cutting red tape in exchange for the political loyalty of poor voters.
Keywords: Red Tape, Corruption, Distributive Politics
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Life still hasn't gotten back on track after the little Utah vacation. I returned to piles of homework and assignments that needed completed. In addition to my school work, there was a homebuilder's show in the football stadium last weekend. I volunteered to work the food stand on Friday and Sunday; money raised goes to a student who demonstrates 'academic excellence and high levels of community involvement.' On Saturday I helped with a dodgeball tournament to fund this same scholarship. Teams of 6-8 people signed up to play at $5 a person. There were around 70 people playing and everyone had a lot of fun. All prizes were solicited from local businesses. The team I was on didn't make the finals but we had a lot of fun.
Aside from the local events I had several exams to study for and papers to write. I was too busy to work at Habitat and I got behind on homework. Then Grandpa was laid up and passed away last Tuesday. I got a plane ticket and flew to PA for the weekend, dropping all plans and homework. I had to email 8 people cancelling weekend plans and postponing assignments and getting excused absences from class. I bought my plane ticket on Wednesday at noon and flew out of Phoenix at 9 AM Thursday morning. It is amazing how plans can change so quickly and smoothly. A week ago I would have never guessed I would be in Pennsylvania with all my cousins and relatives. I had a good trip and am glad that I went. I had a 12 minute flight (my shortest ever??) from Harrisburg to Philadelphia in the evening yesterday, flying low in the Cumberland Valley over towns, houses, and small farms all the way. I recognized a lot of landmarks and jobsites, etc. The flight to Phoenix was 6 hours long –much too long, I thought. It was a nice 78 degrees in Phoenix at 11 last night.
Pennsylvania was greening up and I enjoyed a warm spring day on Sunday. I took the opportunity to lay on the grass under the huge trees in the front yard and went to see the cabin, or rather the chimney, as that is all that is left of what was once a log cabin. Now I know how those chimneys I stumble across in my ramblings through the mountains come to be. There is really nothing burnable left. There are maybe five small pieces of charred wood lying here and there; everything else that is burnable or meltable is gone. The windows are puddles of glass, the potbelly stove is a melted pile of scrap metal. There is a stone foundation, a hearth, nails, and a chimney. It's how it would've wanted it to end.
So what's ahead? I have yet to open Outlook and scrutinize it, but I fear the worst –a busy week with impossible looking assignments and volunteer commitments. I am tired and groggy from a practically sleepless weekend and three days of family gatherings and church services. The remains of my doppio espresso are cold and I seem to be immune to its normally stimulating properties.
Now I must begin on the first assignment; a 10 page extended argument paper on electronic books and their benefits, problems; I also need to research and present some solutions for internet piracy of intellectual property. The thing is due Thursday morning. My mind is still blank. It will be an interesting week.


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UEFA will announce on Monday that former Manchester City and Arsenal star Samir Nasri is banned from football for a year, Marca reports.
The governing body opened an investigation against Nasri last year for a possible violation of the UEFA Anti-Doping Regulations, and an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was rejected in January.
And according to Marca, he has been handed a penalty of two years, reduced to one, that will prevent him from playing professional football.
Nasri had a brief spell at Turkish side Antalyaspor this season before his contract was torn up in the January transfer window.
Roberto Mancini's Zenit have been showing interest, but it was La Liga club Las Palmas who were close to signing him. However, the two-time Premier League winner will now be unable to join them or anyone else before 2019 when his sanctions are confirmed.


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Cousins Fadi and Zaid Masarweh opened this casual, grab-and-go eatery in 2014 serving traditional, affordable Greek fare. Since then, the duo has expanded to additional locations in Chinatown and San Jose. Ayola has earned a loyal following among the downtown lunch crowd for its generously stuffed pita sandwiches and salads. Meat is sliced fresh off the spit for gyros, and sauces and dips are made by scratch. (The addictive house sauce is meant to be slathered on everything, trust us.) Order the combo platter, which includes four choices of meze or meat, along with salad and pita.
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This film continues two trends in Hollywood. The annual historical drama quota of Keira Knightley and the long list of cuckold characters of Jason Clarke.
Synopsis: In 1946 Rachael Morgan arrives in the ruins of Hamburg to be reunited with her husband, Lewis, who is a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. As they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal. (Fox Searchlight)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke and Alexander Skarsgard
Director: James Kent
Writers: Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse
Rating: 14A (Canada)/R (United States)
Running Time: 109 mins
Directed by James Kent, The Aftermath follows the story of Rachael Morgan (Knightley), a British woman, who arrives in the ruins of Hamburg months after the war ended. She is reunited with her husband Lewis (Clarke), a British colonel entrusted with helping to rebuild the city. She is uneasy being in a hostile country. To make matters worse she is forced to share her new home with its previous owners, a German architect and widower Stefan (Skarsgard) and his daughter. With her husband's focus on saving the city, this neglected wife finds herself draw to those she once despised.
Hollywood seems to have four or five war-time films released each year, but they become more formulaic as time goes on. The Aftermath does exactly that by downplaying its stronger elements to focus on an underdeveloped and predictable storyline. The first hour of set up is beautifully done. It sets the tone of story using the backdrop of the ruins of Hamburg. British soldiers are still at conflict with the rebellious locals as Germans try to unbury the rubble of their city.
This setting mixed with the resentment of two sides needing to work together after years of war, destruction and death is a strong backbone for a post-war story. Unfortunately, this set up and themes are cast aside for the more boring and shallowly written love triangle. The story becomes tonally off with an inability to decide whether it wants to be a historical or romantic drama.
The three actors do admirably in their roles, although Skarsgard's accent wears a little thin. Clarke is the scene-stealer of this film delivering his best damaged husband role yet. He is the standard cuckold husband actor, but here the character feels more layered than others on his resume. Knightley has a few notable scenes, but it isn't anything acting wise that we haven't seen from her. Not even more Knightley nipple, which there is a lot of here, can save this story.
Overall, The Aftermath is a slow, passionless romantic drama that never hits its stride in either of its genres. While it has some decent performances, deviates from the typical war-time story and dives into some post-war themes, the shallow writing, bland characters and inconsistent tone make for a boring, forgettable affair. It seemed to enjoy having most of its impactful drama happen off-screen.
Score: 4.5/10
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How Journey Mapping Can Benefit Your Business
Customer journey mapping can be used as a strategic means to ensure that the customers' interaction with an organisation is a positive experience. The customer journey mapping process enables an organisation to evaluate the customer's experience and emotions from their perspective during every interaction with the organisation. This can provide an organisation with a comprehensive understanding of how to meaningfully improve their customer's experience and the business impact of improving their customer's journey.
Some of the benefits from customer journey mapping
Customer journey mapping assists an organisation to:
- Engage with their customers more effectively
- Create alignment across the organisation and help drive customer centric change
- Increase efficiency within the organisation
- Collaborate and communicate with other business units within the organisation to deliver an excellent experience to customers
Using customer journey maps to improve customer experience
Journey maps helps to ensure the delivery of a consistent, and high-quality customer experience, but achieving this will require the different business units of the organisation (marketing, sales, product development, information technology, human resources, etc.) to understand the customer's journey in its entirety, from the customer's perspective to create a shared understanding of their experience from the multiple teams within the organisation to create a seamless and distinct customer experience. Understanding the customer's journey by identifying all the steps involved and the multiple touch-points at every step towards achieving their goal, also exposes any potential gaps that may exist between the customer's expectations and their perceptions. Journey maps can contribute significantly to correctly identifying any underlying customer needs and particularly pain points during their interaction with an organisation. They can enable an organisation to discover customer-centric insights that may inform new opportunities to differentiate from competitors and drive business value (www.genesys.com). A good example of this is Disney's Magic Bands. In an effort to minimize their visitor's pain points to their theme parks experience, Disney introduced MagicBands in 2013. These wristbands provided visitors with access to theme park rides, pay for their meals, unlock their hotel rooms and enhance their magical experience at Disney's theme parks.
Research from annual cross-industry customer experience surveys that span a variety of sectors has consistently shown that companies that focus on providing superior customer journeys tend to perform well in the market. Delivering a unique journey experience makes it more likely that customers make repeat purchases, recommend an organisation's product or service to their family and friends, and increases customer loyalty (Nicolas Maecheler, Kevin Neher, and Robert Park, "From touch-points to journeys: Seeing the world as customers do," March 2016, www.mckinsey.com).


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"What started as an experiential agency over 10 years ago, has evolved into a global boutique consultancy that fuses psychology and technology to help organisations be more purpose lead and future proofed. Companies with a strong purpose have highly engaged employees. Engaged employees drive 147% better earnings per share. We help companies discover, define and leverage purpose as a path to profitable growth, putting experience at the centre."
"When I started this business I wanted to play in a completely different space to everyone else in the highly saturated marketing and consultancy industry. For the past 10 years, we've dedicated our days to asking better, smarter questions. We challenge the status quo and market we've grown into while always maintaining a healthy balance between purpose and profit."
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A lot of people having been asking me about the name change. The company we started back in 2009 is no longer the company we're going to be in 2019 and with our new direction in terms of our product and service offering and more importantly focus, we decided to grow up and find a name that was more suitable to the clientele we are now working with and the types of projects we will be rolling out from 2019 and beyond. 3 Blind Mice brand served us well and will definitely be shelved for anything really out the box, but like Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Pierre Cardin, we believe we can build MANCIET into a globally renowned brand.READ THE OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
We're moving into an experience age. No matter what category you're in, clients are expecting you to create curated, hyper relevant experiences. In a world that is becoming more and more digital, the human being is critical. Experience is not just about solving pain points but reigniting the desire people have for the brands we work with. Using our customer centric methodology, we set out to create customer focused experiences that do just this. As a result, we're able to solve our client's business problems fusing creativity, human behavioural psychology, technology & data in the least painful way possible.
To do this we leverage off our network of subject matter experts, suite of software solutions and archive of innovative ideation. Our goal is to make things simpler, more convenient and more personal. Because this makes you memorable.
Strategy is the cornerstone of everything we do. We offer a complete suite of services that leverage off our in depth qualitative or quantitative research so that we can guide your brand strategy. We do this so we can help you make better, strategic decisions. We help you decide between what you can do, and what you should do. All of it comes together using our methodology so that we can co-create the conditions where our strategic creativity can drive your commerce. To us strategic creativity and innovation in our industry is about finding the best solution, not just the one we can implement ourselves.
We deliver BIG ideas that help you expand and or improve your end experience. We are equally comfortable developing video content as we are engineering complex activations (and everything analog or digital in between).
We make sure all our ideas tap into human values that resonate on a cultural and personal level. It needs to be worth talking about. Or, it's just waste. We're not in the business to create something cool so we can win meaningless awards. We'd rather focus on making a real impact on the people that matter to your brand most.
Innovation is not just a noun (the end product), but a verb. It's about creating a culture of innovation -an approach, a mindset, a process- focused on solving real problems for real people. When needed we pull in the best in the biz to help you navigate the challenges we may face.
From innovation workshops, to prototyping, to testing and then production, our innovation process takes an outside / inside avenue. We use the context that surrounds a business / brand / product / idea to figure out how we make something that's truly remarkable and execute it with our world class production team.
Collaboration is the new competition. Organizations are slowly acknowledging that even their best individual efforts can't stack up against today's complex and interconnected challenges. That's where we come in. Leveraging off our network of experts, we connect, partner and collaborate with you to solve your business challenges or to create additional business opportunities.
And, when appropriate, we can activate capital raising opportunities into growth-stage ideas and businesses from our investor network. If it's worth it, and it will impact the world, we – literally – invest in the outcome.
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