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Anticipating insider threats before they happen
Online access to services and benefits are expanding rapidly through the public sector as we become more and more acclimated to "always on" services. As the online channels expand, so do the number of fraudulent users and compromised accounts. Insiders may also take advantage of easy online access to hijack legitimate services or syphon off payments and services to fraudulent accounts.
You need more than perimeter security to create a protected environment for sensitive citizen and government data and programs. The process starts with a focus on prevention measures when the user applies for access, including identity proofing that covers a broad range of data elements to verify the applicant's identity.
A strong indicator of potential fraud is a change in a person's financial situation – either unusual financial problems or living beyond their means. Unlike fraud mitigation programs that only report data periodically, best-in-class solutions interpret potential fraudulent activity patterns in real-time by monitoring suspicious activities across an entire network of financial data and other related industries — delivering scores and attributes that provide a basis for assessing the risk.
A tiered process reviews user and account information within a channel, across channels, and links data between internal and external sources. Tip-offs to fraud from internal analytics might include application anomalies, unusually usage, access from multiple locations, or data in common. Linkage of internal and external data points and analysis of that data gives agencies a new way to uncover potential fraud including insider threats.
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Women and Leadership Series: Cindy Blackstock
March 7, 2019 | By Piali Roy |
Join us on Thursday, March 14 as Dr. Cindy Blackstock speaks about the unique challenges for Indiqenous women and leadership.
Many Indigenous societies are matriarchal. Nevertheless, Indigenous women often face unique challenges to leadership. Cindy Blackstock has played such a role in changing rights in regards to the treatment of children and openly expresses the challenges faced by Indigenous women and how overcome them.
Join us Thursday, March 14 at 12:15 pm in CG-160 for the next Peterson Leadership Speaker series event with Cindy Blackstock, a Professor at McGill University and Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She will speak on "Indigenous Women in Leadership: Unique Challenges," followed by an interview with Professor Mel Cappe and a Q&A session.
When: Thursday, March 14 at 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Where: CG-160, Canadiana Gallery, 14 Queen's Park Crescent West
Register here.
About Dr. Blackstock:
A member of the Gitksan First Nation with 25 years of social work experience in child protection and indigenous children's rights. Cindy Blackstock's research interests are indigenous theory and the identification & remediation of structural inequalities affecting First Nations children, youth & families.
An author of over 50 publications & a widely sought after public speaker, Dr. Blackstock has collaborated with other Indigenous leaders to assist the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in the development and adoption of a General Comment on the Rights of Indigenous children. Recently, she also worked with Indigenous young people, UNICEF & the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to produce a youth friendly version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child. Her promotion of culturally based & evidence informed solutions has been recognized by the Nobel Women's Initiative, the Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Frontline Defenders and many others.

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The program of the upcoming exhibition at the British Museum, Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, curated by Timothy Clark, Andrew Gerstle, Akiko Yano and Aki Ishigami, will include an International Symposium (Sex art in Japan: perspectives on shunga) to be held in London (British Museum, BP Lecture Theatre) on the 4th and 5th October 2013. I have been invited to present a brief overview of the theme of my forthcoming book Erotic Japonisme (Hotei Publishing), and one of the essays in the catalogue of the exhibition.
Sex art in Japan: perspectives on shunga. An international symposium
Organised by the British Museum and SOAS, University of London. Supported by Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Japan Foundation Endowment Committee, and Japan Foundation.
Venue: British Museum, BP Lecture Theatre, admission free (seating is limited). Dates: Friday 4 & Saturday 5 October 2013.
Friday 4 October
Morning session: Laughing with Shunga
MC: Tim Clark, British Museum
10.00 Introduction: Tim Clark
10.15 Hayakawa Monta (Nichibunken): The laughter of warai-e
10.45 Joshua Mostow (Univ. of British Columbia): Making fun of the classics
11.15 Break
11.30 Kano Hiroyuki (Dōshisha Univ.): Humour in Japanese art and shunga
Discussant: Andrew Gerstle, SOAS
12.30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Women and Shunga
MC: Akiko Yano, SOAS
Panelists and topics:
14,00 Ishigami Aki (Ritsumeikan Univ.): What does shunga offer women today?
14.30 Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland): Women readers and shunga
15.00 Break
15.15 Paul Berry (Kansai Gaidai Univ.): Gender roles in early shunga painting
Discussant: Christine Guth, RCA/V&A
16.30 Finish
18.30: Special public lecture (in association with Japan400)
MC: Tim Clark, BM
SPEAKER: Timon Screech (SOAS): Shunga and the World
* Please note this is a ticketed event, £5 admission, £3 Members/concessions
Booking: Britishmuseum.org/shunga
Saturday 5 October
Morning session: Modern Legacies of Shunga
MC: Andrew Gerstle, SOAS
10.00 Henry D Smith II (Emeritus, Columbia): Shunga in the Meiji era
10.30 Kinoshita Naoyuki (Univ. of Tokyo): Shunga versus 'The Nude' in Modern Japan
11.00 Break
11.15 Ricard Bru (Barcelona City Council Culture Institute): Secret Japonisme
Discussant: Julie Peakman, Birkbeck College, Univ. of London
12.15 General discussion
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Look forward to a mouth-watering trip through a star-studded selection of the very finest songs the pop world has to offer, spanning the decades from the 1950s all the way through to the present day. Romantic ballads rub shoulders with up-tempo dancefloor-fillers in a playlist ranging from Chuck Berry through Beatles to Coldplay. It's all presented with an original twist and contemporary feel, giving a real freshness to their material.
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a new world mirrored
in the lily pond(After Monet)
oh, so pretty...
It has been said: no two snowflakes
are the same.
(I'm stuck on -snow- I guess)
__But "a new world mirrored" too,
can imply, no two sunsets
or their reflections in the pond, are the same.
__Frank, here, then, is my perception of your good work. _m
You are a poet in the truest sense possible, this is pure and lovely
Polona, Magyar & Lorraine thanks for stopping by & thanks for your kind comments...
a truly love reflection haiku
much love...
Gillena: thanks for stopping by & thanks for your kind comment...
Thanks for stopping by John...


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Toll-Free Number: Improving Your Customers' Experience
When you call an 800 number to get a service, get help, or buy a product, the company gets billed for the call. A toll-free number is a courtesy that companies have extended to their consumers for as many decades. While consumers enjoy being able to talk to a business and not paying a dime, sometimes long waiting periods to get service diminishes the cost-benefit of toll-free numbers.
The internet is full of horror stories of customers who were put on hold for hours on end. Although the lady on the other end of the line told them that their call was valuable, after 30 minutes of waiting, most people knew just how much the business valued its customers.
The end result of being on hold for countless minutes is not surprising. The consumer almost always opts for another company willing to hold up its end of the deal when the lady on the other end says "We will be with you as soon as possible."
Such incidences are so common, that there are entire companies have divisions tasked with finding out the cost of putting customers on hold. The results are frightening:
Loss of customers: Some estimates show that as a result of putting customers on hold, businesses might be losing as much as 32% in revenue. That's because customers who call businesses are often in the purchasing phase of the buying cycle.
Loss of customer loyalty: Many surveys showed that a significant percentage of customers indicated that they went for an alternative after being put on hold for an extended duration. The fact that the phone call was free did not deter them from jumping over to a competitor.
Bad reputation: Companies that tended to put customers on hold tend to develop a negative image online which affects their bottom line, especially when such unflattering information tends to go viral on social media.
Getting a Hold of Your Toll-Free Number
Even a slightly popular business with a toll-free number will have its lines tangled up by the sheer volume of calls coming in. Ever since AT&T launched the first 800 toll-free numbers in 1967, the lines have experienced considerable traffic, so much so that a number of innovations were introduced to deal with the congestion. Today there's the voice response system that asks the customer to press one for this or press two for that. But, even with all the innovations surrounding toll-free numbers, the customer is still getting frustrated. They are spending more time on the phone than they would want.
To reign in your toll-free numbers and get a hold of calls coming into your business, here are a few things you can do to make customers happy and avoid the nightmarish outcomes mentioned earlier.
1. Keep Customers Informed
While greeting customers with a friendly voice and soothing music might have worked for a while. Customers today need more than just simple assurances. Make sure anyone calling your toll free number knows approximately how long it will take to speak to a real person.
2. Leverage Emerging Technologies
Technology platforms such as Twilio are making toll free numbers a lot easier for businesses and their customers. Twilio and other platforms have incorporated toll-free numbers to handle both voice and text data. Using such platforms decreases the volume of voice data coming on the line. Your human agents free to handle voice inquiries.
These are just some of the solutions you can adopt today to allow your customers to reap the benefits of your toll-free number.


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Mizzou DL remains in serious condition with non-life-threatening injuries after car wreck
Missouri defensive lineman Harold Brantley, 21, remained in serious condition Monday morning, according to a reporter for KRCG-TV, after sustaining what were described by a university spokesman as non-life-threatening injuries in a rollover automobile accident Sunday afternoon in Columbia, Mo.
Mizzou's Harold Brantley is in Surgical Intensive Care Unit this morning. Still in serious condition, but with non-life threatening injuries
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) June 22, 2015
Tigers women's basketball player Maddie Stock, 21, also was in the 2000 Chrysler Concorde when it went off a U.S. highway approximately seven miles south of campus but suffered minor injuries. Both were transported to University Hospital by ambulance.
Neither Brantley nor Stock was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, according to the Missouri State Patrol.
KansasCity.com reported that Brantley is "the most accomplished defensive lineman" on the Tigers' depleted front entering the 2015 season after Markus Golden, Matt Hoch and Lucas Vincent exhausted their eligibility, Shane Ray declared for the NFL Draft with a year of eligibility remaining and Marcus Loud was dismissed from the team in May.
Brantley, a rising redshirt junior from Hershey, Pa., had 54 tackles, seven for losses, and also five sacks, two blocked kicks and seven quarterback hurries in 10 starts last season. He is listed on some 2015 preseason All-SEC second teams.


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At any time, more than half of U. S. residents are trying to lose weight. With overall body weight load increasing, along with the rates of diseases which may have been linked to higher weights, many people feel that dieting is their only option for good health. Unfortunately, not everyone who wants to reduce is doing it in a proper way. Weight reduction is a market well worth more than $60 million dollars in the Combined States, and far of that industry is focused on selling products rather than keeping people healthy. Below is a take a look at what you may well not find out about losing weight. md diet clinic
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Although I do love eating a Sunday Roast dinner, it's actually quite rare that I have a real craving for it. However, this Sunday, on the August Bank Holiday Weekend, it was a very wet and windy day.. ALL DAY! We had a lovely chilled and slow morning inside but as it was nearing to lunchtime,… Read More »


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The Sims Freeplay is representing a virtual world, which is created by the players. In the world, a virtual population is created, and a life cycle is working here. Life of the sims is divided into some parts. These are considered or known as the stages of life. The players are required to perform activities according to the life stage of sims. Following points are based on these stages.
It is the first stage of sims life. It begins when two sims come together in a relationship and get married. During the stage, baby get lessons related to all necessary elements such as –
- Crawling
- Walking
In the toddler stage, the sims start running. The toddlers start interacting with other sims and participating in different types of activities. They also want to visit different places like amusement parks.
Preteen stage of sims is featured similarly with the activities and characteristics of a preteen of the real world. During the stage, the preteens are taking help of adults' money and trying to fulfill their requirements. The Sims Freeplay hack of this particular stage can perform money earning activities.
Teens and preteens are not so different. There are lots of similarities in both stages. Teens are more interested in spending money on their hobbies. Similarly, the teens have more opportunities to earn and gather money. In some specific activities, the teens can take adults' assistance such as –
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The life of adults becomes more complicated as compared to the previous stages. The adults are required to think about their career. With the life stage, the hobbies of sims also changed. You can notify maturity in their hobbies and activities. In the adult stage, the sims are passing through funny and serious both types of moments.
Seniors are the last stage of the sims life cycle. In this stage of life, the sims are retired from their work. There are some other types of activities available like – gardening, quilting, bingo and bird feeding. These hobbies of old sims are beneficial in keeping them busy.


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Welcome to West Central! You have selected a school where the faculty and staff are committed to creating many new and exciting ways to enhance the academic and cultural experiences of our students. We look forward to a productive partnership with you to ensure our children can achieve their highest potential. We recognize that in order to be successful in school, our children need support from both the home and school. We know a strong partnership with you will make a great difference in your child's education.
We are glad you have become a part of the West Central Elementary family! By working together, we can work toward achieving the mission of Rome City Schools: All students will graduate from Rome High School prepared for college or work.
All of the teachers and staff at West Central Elementary look forward to helping your child achieve his or her best this school year. Here's to an AWESOME new school year as we work together to make our school a great place to work and learn each day!
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Come on a fabulous photography Colouricious Holiday in October 2019 to join professional photographer Paul Watkins take beautiful, one of a kind photographs. On this photography course, you will be taught how to take great photos, just as amazing as his, and in this stunning location of Jaipur, India, you will be able to explore the different atmosphere and culture while capturing every magical moment of it. You will see with new eyes after being inspired by many highly creative minds, including Jamie Malden, the very experienced and creative leader and organiser of the holiday, Paul Watkins and his highly talented wife.
On this holiday, you will be able to tour Jaipur in a private bus with professional tour guide. One of the most wonderful places you will see is Amber Fort – Amer is a town located 11 kilometres from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Located high on a hill, it is the principal tourist attraction in Jaipur. The town of Amer was ruled by Raja Man Singh I. Amer Fort is known for its artistic style elements. With its large ramparts and series of gates and cobbled paths, the fort overlooks Maota Lake, which is the main source of water for the Amer Palace.
Another highlight of this photography course is learning more about the wonderful Indian people – Indians are the nationals or citizens of India, the second most populous nation in the world, containing 17.50% of the world's population. "Indian" refers to nationality, rather than a particular ethnicity or language; the Indian nationality consists of dozens of regional ethno-linguistic groups, reflecting the rich and complex history of the country. Due to emigration, the Indian diaspora is present throughout the world, notably in other parts of Asia, North America, the Caribbean, Oceania, and Africa.
The demonymn Indian today applies to nationals of the Republic of India, although before the partition of India in 1947, nationals residing in the entirety of British India (including what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh) were known as Indians as well.
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A while back, I wrote an article in which I talked about NOT getting our lovely daughter (heretofore referred to as "The Girl") a cell phone and how frustrating it was that her school was emphasizing cell phone use in class (her school is a "Bring Your Own Device," or BYOD, school). This fall, my husband and I were at odds about whether or not to cave and get her a phone. We tried going the inexpensive tablet route, but in the end, the apps being used in the classroom were not compatible with The Girl's tablet. I was still on team NO CELL PHONE. Unfortunately, I was a team of one. The Husband went out and bought The Girl a phone back in October
and I am still a little bitter about my loss in that battle.
Now, several months later, we have some observations. The Girl is using her phone a lot for Google Classrooms. Apparently her teachers are using this a lot. This is something that she can do on a computer, of course, but she does this in the classroom as well as for homework on her phone.
The main thing we have seen with the phone is that she texts us about her bus. A lot. And do you know what that does to us? Increases our level of anxiety. A lot. I have to be at work before my kids are even up, so my husband is in charge in the morning. The Girl texts both my husband and I whenever there is an issue. So there I am, in my classroom, and I get a text from The Girl that reads, "The bus is late." Immediately, I start panicking. I start trying to think about how I can try to get from my school to her bus stop, and then shuttle her to school. Oh the stress!! This never happened when I was oblivious unaware of her sitting at the bus stop waiting forever without a cell phone… and she was fine. The bus shows up. I thought it was just me having these little panic attacks until The Husband came home one day and said the exact thing.
We have enjoyed having additional communication with The Girl, but we have increased anxiety with it. I wanted to see what The Girl had to say about being a cell phone owner, so I interviewed her.
Me: Why did you want a cell phone?
The Girl: I don't know. I just wanted one I guess. So I could stay connected with people, and my tablet wasn't working for BYOD. What, am I not be a good interviewee? Am I not giving you the answers you want? (Apparently I had looked at her weird at this point).
Me: Now that you have a cell phone, how have you been using it?
The Girl: To play games, BYOD, texting you guys, looking up how to do things on Minecraft…
Me: Do you think you NEEDED to have a cell phone?
The Girl: Not really – an iPad mini would have been fine, but I couldn't have texted you.
Me: But we had set you up with Skype, so…
The Girl: So… what?
Me: So… do you really need texting?
The Girl: Yes, but you and Dad don't have apple products so that's why I need it for texting because my friends don't have Skype and I want to text them.
Me: How often do you text your friends?
The Girl: I used to text them a lot but now I don't text them that often but still I text them.
Me: So… did you really need a cell phone?
The Girl: YES STOP BUGGING ME! Your questions are really annoying.
Me: See, the problem is, I am not convinced you needed a cell phone.
(What follows is pure, classic teen reasoning at its finest).
The Girl: Oh really, well. Um I needed the cellular data.
Me: Why.
The Girl: Because. Well, So I could look up the weather when I am offline. I don't know! (unlocks her phone) I am looking up reasons why I need cellular data…. (does not actually open a search engine, BTW, but we both start giggling).
Maybe when BYOD network isn't working, then I can use cellular data to use the apps I have to have?
Me: If the network isn't working, do the teachers really still make you use the apps?
The Girl: Well, no the teachers have computers we can use. But other people's phones still work, but mine doesn't work with the WiFi.
Me: Why isn't yours working with the WiFi?
The Girl: It just isn't connecting with the WiFi at school.
Me: So, basically, you don't need a phone.
The Girl: YES I DO!!! You are so annoying.
Me: Alright, thank you for this super informative interview.


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Module 1: Strategic Management of Resources (SMR)
Section A: Developing a Business Strategy
Section B: Gathering and Analyzing Internal/External Information
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Section F: Business Planning and Finance
Section G: Costing Methods and Tools
Section H: Aligning Operations Strategically
Section I: Technology and Improvement Strategies
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Module 2: Master Planning of Resources (MPR)
Section A: Demand Management Principles
Section B: Forecasting Techniques
Section C: Customer Interface Management
Section D: Sales and Operations Planning Principles
Section E: S&OP Techniques
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Section G: Master Scheduling Process Techniques
Section H: Principles of Distribution Planning
Section I: Distribution Planning Techniques
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Section A: Aggregate Inventory Management
Section B: Itemized Inventory Policy
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Section D: Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Design
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Section F: Detailed Capacity Planning
Section G: Managing and Applying CRP
Section H: Managing Projects
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Section A: Execution of Operations
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"Jeg har fået rigtig meget ud af kurset, fordi det giver et super godt overblik over hele processen og alle de elementer og discipliner, der indgår når ens supply chain for alvor skal spille. Samtidig fik jeg en opdatering i form af en global terminologi, for det er en ekstra gevinst ved at følge APICS kurserne, idet der her arbejdes konstant med at vedligeholde og videreudvikle det faglige indhold – the body of knowledge og de metoder og den terminologi, der knytter sig til. På den måde fik jeg også et SCM sprog, som er relevant og kan anvendes globalt, ikke bare inden for klassisk produktions- og fremstillingsvirksomheder, men også inden for logistik, distribution, indkøb og procesoptimeringsmetoder som for eksempel Lean, TQM og Six Sigma mv."
Morten Boesen, Direktør for Just Eat Delivery i DK og Norge
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Malene Gundestrup, Director, Inbound Supply Management, Novo Nordisk A/S
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Wout Verwoerd is an enthusiastic and professional sparring partner for companies in the field of logistics, lean thinking and supply chain management in his roles as speaker, educator, trainer, course developer, coach, consultant and project manager.
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Jan Berend Jakobs wants to deliver real organizational change and growth in complex environments where employees at all levels have to work together. This by working together with teams and lead them in such a way that it guarantees success and to develop people that surround him in the workplace or in a classroom to a higher professional level.
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Preparation to the test
When you prepare for an APICS CPIM test, there is a wide range of options that you can choose to use. The instructor sends a class code to all students, giving you access to the APICS learning environment, where you can see the answers to the assignments in the book as well as additional test questions. There is also a final test, where you can get a sense of how far you are in preparation for the exam. The instructor often also provides access to additional material and adds additional multiple choice questions. Therefore you have all the options to improve you for the test.


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According to the popular tipster Evan Blass, the Smartphone looks similar to the Moto Devices in the same range such as Moto G5, and Moto G5 Plus. Also, he says the Smartphone model name will be 'Moto X4' and not 'Moto X 2017'. The Smartphone will be launched later in this year. The device will consist of a bezel-less display with oval-shaped fingerprint sensor at the base and LED flash along with the front camera.
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Apart from this, the device will feature dual lens which includes 8MP+13MP of back Camera and 16MP of front facing the camera. The smartphone is backed by 3,000mAh of the battery. It also supports feature of Quick Charge 3.0 along with USB Type-C for charging. Moto X4 will run on the latest Android 7.1.1 Nougat. Also, the smartphone will also pass IP68 Certification, which means that the device will be water and dust resistant.
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Billy Joe's is a project we took on where the need by the management was to cover an outside bar measuring 24'x 16'. They had some challenging requests:
1st was a request for only 4 support poles so we had to use upsized 6×6 steel uprights and mount them to the bottom concrete level and not the decking area.
2nd they wanted the canopy to extend 8' past each side of the bar so they could protect their staff and clients from sun and rain.
We were able to engineer this and turn this into one of the largest free standing awnings anywhere in the area. All the framing members are made out of galvanized steel and all of the components were made at our shop by our employees. The fabric chosen was a Sunbrella #4860 (silca sesame). Billy Joe's is great place on the Newburgh waterfront to enjoy a meal with the family or a late night out with friends. While at the waterfront you will also see many of our other awning projects done for the other restaurants.


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Another bridge
Posted by Jackie on July 4, 2009
Further down the river from yesterday's bridge is its more famous and bigger neighbour the Squinty Bridge (it's called the Clyde Arc really but nobody calls it that). This picture was taken last autumn, I think they'd only just started building yesterday's bridge (which I still don't know what it's called!) then. The crane is the Finnieston Crane which has also featured here several times already.
7 Responses to "Another bridge"
July 4, 2009 at 4:45 am
the bridge series is great!
July 4, 2009 at 7:29 am
Nice view. Squinty – LOL.
That crane always amazes me.
July 4, 2009 at 8:52 am
looks pretty good
July 4, 2009 at 9:31 am
I thought it had been christened the bendy bridge?
Nice set of photos.
July 4, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I didn't notice the harlequin pattern on the arch of the bridge the last time. I like it! And really, that crane is awesome!
July 4, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I like the contrast with the industrial past. Great photo.
July 4, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Interesting and original:) It looks like a rainbow or like a half of the tennis racket:)
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Sometimes one needs to take a leap of faith in life. One Saturday morning, I took mine when I decided apprehensively to join a one-day yoga retreat to Puncak, a weekend getaway amidst a tea plantation up in the mountains. Yes, this one-day trip is one of my leap-of-faith moments! Sounds silly?? For most people, worrying about small things like going for a short trip is ridiculous and may even sound overly dramatic. However, for me with an anxiety disorder problem, a short road-trip is such a big decision to take.
One of the most challenging things that come from having anxiety disorder is agoraphobia. The intense fear of being in places or situations where escape is hard or help is unavailable is terrifying. This type of anxiety disorder makes people extremely fearful of going anywhere. Hence a short trip can be totally challenging and easily triggers a panic attack. In severe cases, people are unable to leave their homes.
The announcement for this Yogarte trip was made known to us a month prior to the event. People would be checking their schedule to see if they could make it for this short trip. I, on the other hand kept thinking if it would be worth all my effort to go. The trip to Puncak is about 2 hours drive from Jakarta and for me, two hours on the road is long enough to create creepy thoughts crawling into my mind, producing unnecessary panic attacks. I spent many torturous days battling my own fearful thoughts about this trip. One day I could be filled with such positivity and be completely convinced to go while the next day, all the worries resurfaced creating much anxiety within me. Mind you, for people like me, each thinking process is commonly followed by strong emotions and physical discomforts like short breathing, headaches and stomachaches. Just to make my final decision felt exhausting both physically and mentally.
As much as I could feel the excitement arise at the thought of mountains, pine trees, cool breeze and beautiful mist greeting me in Puncak, my mind was also filled with horrifying thoughts of tragic incidents that could occur on the road or even during the event!! As I began to doubt myself more, my mind started to present me the most convincing worst-case scenarios. I lost the battle from within and bracing myself, told my yoga teacher Lisa to count me out.
In her usual patient manner, she gently asked my reason for not wanting to go. Despite my embarrassment for sounding silly and nonsensical, I bravely told her all my fears and worries. Surprisingly she looked straight at me gently and carefully addressed each of my worries logically. How she addressed my fears allayed my anxiety, giving me a sudden surge of hope, motivation and excitement swelling from within.
Deep down I felt this trip would be a crucial moment that will aid my soul to grow and slowly overcome my anxiety disorder problem. Much to my mom's amazement, I braved myself and announced that we will be going for a one-day trip outside the city.
So there I was on the D-day, gathering with other yoga friends at 5.30 in the morning. Taking a deep breath, I braced myself before I got into a friend's car. As we were on the road, I looked outside and found myself starting to relax and enjoy the ride. The road was pretty empty and the silence of the environment comforted my heart. As I looked ahead, I could see the sunrise on the horizon. Its first ray bursting through the clouds made the sky looked majestic and beautiful. I felt serene and suddenly knew I was going to be okay.
When we arrived at the lodge 2 hours later, the cold breeze kissed my face when I got out of the car. The place was surrounded with pine trees and colorful flowers. From afar, I could hear laughter and chatter and saw some friends were already on their yoga mats. "I'm safe," I thought to myself. I'm surrounded with beautiful nature and lovely people. "But what if something terrible happens???" my worries resurfaced immediately. I said to myself nervously. "It's ok. Let it all out. Even if you feel like crying, let it be. You are in a safe place and a safe environment."
The air got colder as the clouds gathered and covered up the sun. The yoga session was about to start. Lisa instructed us to close our eyes and took deep breaths. With each breath, my mind came to the present and became still, enabling me to notice all the wonderful sensations around me. I began to notice the refreshing cold breeze, the nostalgic smell of the wet soil and the local dogs barking softly from far. With each pose, my body got warmer and before I realised it, Lisa instructed us to do a Savasana pose, which means the session was about to end.
Feeling all warm and excited, my yoga friends and I could not wait for the upcoming activities, essential oil reading and art therapy. But before that, we all gathered in a big patio, indulging ourselves with various mouth-watering breakfast buffet. Soon, the day became filled with fun yet enriching activities. Through the essential oil reading and art therapy session, I was not only learning about myself but also about others. The open talk about the 3D art we created revealed that we all have imperfections and face challenges in life differently. This heart-warming activity made me realize that I was not the only one who struggled in life. Apparently, there were many that hid their struggles behind their smiles and cheerful chatter. I walked out the art therapy room feeling enlightened yet wistful.
Time went by quickly and before you know it, it was time to go home. Because I was exhausted after a hectic day, my anxiety and unreasonable thoughts resurfaced immediately making me very nauseous. Anxiously, I took several deep breaths whilst inhaling the peppermint and other essential oils I received from the oil reading earlier on. I kept on drumming inside me to calm down and it will all pass quickly! Upon reaching home, I felt a huge wave of relief washed over me. I felt like crying and yet, at the same time proud of my achievement that I was able to get through the day without breaking down! At that moment, a surge of gratefulness filled my nerve wrecked body and made me realise how important it was I took this leap of faith to brace my problem.
There's a part in me that yearns for growth and I just need to take it one step at a time. Last but not least, I always remind myself it does not matter how slow I go, as long as I keep trying.
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In this blog, we will intuitively understand how a neural network functions and the math behind it with the help of an example. In this example, we will be using a 3-layer network (with 2 input units, 2 hidden layer units, and 2 output units). The network and parameters (or weights) can be represented as follows.
Let us say that we want to train this neural network to predict whether the market will go up or down. For this, we assign two classes Class 0 and Class 1. Here, Class 0 indicates the datapoint where the market closes down, and conversely, Class 1 indicates that the market closes up. To make this prediction, a train data(X) consisting of two features x1, and x2. Here x1 represents the correlation between the close prices and the 10- day simple moving average (SMA) of close prices, and x2 refers to the difference between the close price and the 10-day SMA.
In this example below, the datapoint belongs to the class 1. The mathematical representation of the input data is as follows:
X = [x1, x2] = [0.85,.25] y= [1]
Example with two data points:
The output of the model is categorical or a discrete number. We need to convert this output data also into a matrix form. This enables the model to predict the probability of a datapoint belonging to different classes. When we make this matrix conversion, the columns represent the classes to which that example belongs, and the rows represent each of the input examples.
In the matrix y, the first column represents class 0 and second column represents class 1. Since our example belongs to the Class 1, we have 1 in the second column, and zero in the first.
This process of converting discrete/categorical classes to logical vectors/ matrix is called One Hot Encoding. We use one hot encoding as the neural network cannot operate on label data directly. They require all input variables and output variables to be numeric.
In a neural network learning, apart from the input variable we add a bias term to every layer other than the output layer. This bias term is a constant, mostly initialized to 1. The bias enables moving the activation threshold along the x-axis.
When the bias is negative the movement is made to the right side, and when the bias is positive the movement is made to the left side. So a biased neuron should be capable of learning even such input vectors that an unbiased neuron is not able to learn. In the dataset X, to introduce this bias we add a new column denoted by ones, as shown below.
Let us visualize the neural network, with the bias included in the input layer.
The second layer in the neural network is the hidden layer, which takes the outputs of the first layer as its input. The third layer is the output layer which gives the output of the neural network.
Let us randomly initialize the weights or parameters for each of the neurons in the first layer. As you can see in the diagram we have a line connecting each of the cells in the first layer to the two neurons in the second layer. This gives us a total of 6 weights to be initialized, 3 for each neuron in the hidden layer. We represent these weights as shown below.
Here, Theta1 is the weights matrix corresponding to the first layer.
The first row in the above representation shows the weights corresponding to the first neuron in the second layer, and the second row represents the weights corresponding to the second neuron in the second layer. Now, let's do the first step of the forward propagation, by multiplying the input value for each example by their corresponding weights which is mathematically show below.
Theta1 * X
Before we go ahead and multiply, we must remember that when you do matrix multiplications, each element of the product, X*Theta, is the dot product sum of the row in the first matrix X with each of the columns of the second matrix Theta1.
When we multiply the two matrices, X and Theta1, we are expected to multiply the weights with the corresponding input example values. This means we need to transpose the matrix of example input data, X, so that the matrix will multiply each weight with the corresponding input correctly.
z2 = Theta1*Xt
Here z2 is the output after matrix multiplication, and Xt is the transpose of X.
The matrix multiplication process:
Let us say that we have applied a sigmoid activation after the input layer. Then we have to element-wise apply the sigmoid function to the elements in the z² matrix above. The sigmoid function is given by the following equation:
f(x) = 1/(1+e-x)
After the application of activation function, we are left with a 2x1 matrix as shown below.
Here a(2) represents the output of the activation layer.
These outputs of the activation layer act as the inputs for the next or the final layer, which is the output layer. Let us initialize another random weights/parameters called Theta2 for the hidden layer. Each row in Theta2 represents the weights corresponding to the two neurons in the output layer.
After initializing the weights (Theta2), we will repeat the same process that we followed for the input layer. We will add a bias term for the inputs of the previous layer. The a(2) matrix looks like this after the addition of bias vectors:
Let us see how the neural network looks like after the addition of bias unit:
Before we run our matrix multiplication to compute the final output z³, remember that before in z² calculation we had to transpose the input data a¹ to make it "line up" correctly for the matrix multiplication to result in the computations we wanted. Here, our matrices are already lined up the way we want, so there is no need to take the transpose of the a(2) matrix. To understand this clearly, ask yourself this question: "Which weights are being multiplied with what inputs?".
Now, let us perform the matrix multiplication:
z3 = Theta2*a(2)
where z3 is the output matrix before the application of an activation function.
Here for the last layer, we will be multiplying a 2x3 with a 3x1 matrix, resulting in a 2x1 matrix of output hypotheses. The mathematical computation is shown below:
After this multiplication, before getting the output in the final layer, we apply an element-wise conversion using the sigmoid function on the z² matrix.
a3 = sigmoid(z3)
Where a3 denotes the final output matrix.
The output of a sigmoid function is the probability of the given example belonging to a particular class. In the above representation, the first row represents the probability that the example belonging to Class 0 and the second row represents the probability of Class 1.
As you can see, the probability of example belonging to a Class 1 is lesser than Class 0, which is incorrect and needs to be improved.
In the next blog, we will discuss how to implement backward propagation to reduce the errors in the predictions. If you want to learn how to apply Neural Networks in trading then please check our new course Neural Networks & Deep Learning In Trading by Dr. Ernest P. Chan.
Disclaimer: All investments and trading in the stock market involve risk. Any decisions to place trades in the financial markets, including trading in stock or options or other financial instruments is a personal decision that should only be made after thorough research, including a personal risk and financial assessment and the engagement of professional assistance to the extent you believe necessary. The trading strategies or related information mentioned in this article is for informational purposes only.


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A few years ago, I was sitting in the office of my colleague and friend David Van Winkle, who was in charge of assigning our physics department's graduate teaching assistants to courses. The studio physics courses that David and I teach are particularly demanding for the teaching assistants, and not all of the teaching assistants have the personality to succeed in the studio learning environments. So it is customary for the professors teaching studio physics to get together several weeks before a semester begins, pick out graduate students who seem well-suited to teaching studio and then begin the process of recruiting them.
As David and I went through the teaching assistantship candidates, graduate student Danielle Simmons walked in, looked at David, and asked to be assigned to teach a studio physics section. The year before, I had taught a studio physics course with Danielle, a graduate of Orlando's Edgewater High School and UNC-Chapel Hill before coming to FSU to work on a Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics. It had gone remarkably well, so I turned to David and said while Danielle watched, "If you assign Danielle to my class I will kiss your feet." Danielle approved (of the teaching assignment, not the feet-kissing) and so David placed Danielle in my class (and declined the feet-kissing).
During her time with me, Danielle was way more than my ace TA – she was my classroom partner. She managed just the right balance of accessibility and firmness in responding to student questions and requests. She discerned patterns of student difficulties and came up with strategies for dealing with them on the fly in class.
Danielle was a mentor to the other graduate TA's and the undergraduate Learning Assistants (LA's) who served in my classes with her. She remembered issues that came up during laboratory exercises from the previous year and adjusted lab instructions and scoring rubrics to eliminate obstacles to learning during our weekly TA/LA training meetings.
Danielle often functioned as my handler. She frequently made very insightful suggestions about how to run the class better. I am sure that I turned a few down – I just can't remember any. She was so well plugged into student concerns and moods – which are critical to maintaining a positive learning environment in a studio-style classroom – that I often allowed her impression of a student to supersede my own.
All good things must come to an end. Danielle will be defending her dissertation this fall and (last I heard) taking a job in the private sector. I will not have her guidance and camaraderie in the classroom again.
You might wonder if a physicist who navigated so well in a classroom full of 18- and 19-year-olds had considered the possibility of moving down a few grade levels and teaching in a high school. Danielle gave that possibility some thought. Last year, when several of our physics students had dinner with the Chair of the Bay County School Board, Danielle was there. When a delegation of leaders from Danielle's home district – Orange County Public Schools – came to the FSU Physics Department this past spring and convinced a few students to start teaching careers in Central Florida, Danielle was there to listen. But in the end she was unconvinced. Danielle told me once that she might have chosen teaching over pursuing a Ph.D. after she graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with her bachelor's degree, but she didn't get the right pitch. As she approached the completion of her Ph.D. – and the six-figure salary that is surely waiting for her – it was just too late for a change in career direction.
I'm sure that the TA's with whom I work this fall will be excellent. But it's difficult to imagine any TA having the impact on students – and on me – that Danielle did.


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Monday, July 11, 2011
Quiz #407 (2011-3-02) Solution
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Solution by Tony Leukering
What an odd-looking bird. The extreme patchiness and irregularity of the white bits suggest an abnomality of plumage in this week's quiz bird -- a good time to rely on our understanding of structure and posture! And, of course, the "good" field marks that we can see.
Before heading down the solution road, I want to state that this bird is not an albino, nor is it a "partial albino," which is an impossibility. For a fuller explanation of those terms and others, one might check out the 5 December 2010 post on the Cape May blog (you will have to scroll down to the date).
The bird is standing on the ground with head held a bit above horizontal. What isn't white on the head is black and the medium-length bill is a bright orange-yellow. The upper chest has some rusty or maroon color, as do the feathers on the upper leg. The non-white bits of the upperparts are all gray and what is not white in the tail looks black. The one leg that we can see is an odd, pasty bluish-white color, but the eye that we can see is dark. The bird has a fairly long primary projection (extension of the wingtip beyond the tip of the longest tertial) and the wingtip falls beyond the tips of the uppertail coverts -- so, a fairly long wing, particularly considering that the tail is not short.
The structure and posture point to a thrush of some sort, and the overall coloration (sans the white bits) sends us to the genus Turdus. While the bill looks orange enough to be that of Rufous-backed Robin, that species does not sport our quiz bird's black head or tail, and, obviously, has a rufous back. (As an aside, why did the AOU exempt only this species and American Robin from the recent change from "Robin" to "Thrush?" Rufous-backed Robin is not even the second-most common Turdus in the ABA area! Clay-colored Thrush is and it breeds in the ABA area!) Fieldfare does have a black tail, but also exhibits a gray head and brown back, and lacks rusty on the leg feathers. Redwing has grayish-brown upperparts (including head and tail) and lacks rusty on both the upper breast and the leg feathers.
So, nothing for it but to go with what was probably the obvious answer to most. Steve Mlodinow took this picture of a piebald American Robin at Drake Lake, Boulder Co., CO, in April 2011. I will leave to the reader to determine which form of leucism is expressed in this interesting bird (see cited blog, above).
One response lacked capitalization of "robin" and another included an incorrect guess as to the condition of the bird directly in the answer; both responses were precluded from being considered correct for the competition.
Incorrect species provided as answers:
Congratulations to the 22 of 22 getting the quiz correct:
Su Snyder
Tyler Bell
Thomas Hall
Robert McNab
Al Guarente
Bryan Guarente
Chuck Carlson
Pam Myers
Joel Such
George Cresswell
Marcel Such
Ali Iyoob
Peter Wilkinson
Julie Rouse
Margie Joy
Diane Porter
Margaret Smith
Chishun Kwong
Burke Angstman
jody1310 (Please provide your full name when submitting responses to the quiz)
Kirk Huffstater
Joe Bens
Answer: American Robin
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Is it possible to change the screen resolution after fully booting the Arch Linux installation medium? I tried to add
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Here you'll be able to find information on all the latest goings on around the shopping centre!
There are SO many ways you as a retailer can get involved with Manor Walks!
The marketing team are continuously looking into ways of driving footfall and hosting different events throughout the year which we would love for more retailers to get involved in!
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Over 10 million people visit us yearly so why not promote your business in a different area in the mall to attract those who may not usually visit you regularly? Or perhaps use it to connect with customers face to face outside of the store! If you wish to have a space for promotion on the mall, please print off THIS application and bring it up to the management suite alongside your public liability insurance!
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Mike Rogerson: £200+VAToff Minimum Sole Agency Agreement Fee when selling your home / 2%+VAToff Minimum Management Fee / 2%+VAToff Minimum Tenant Find Fee when renting.
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COSTA: 10% off. Discount can not be used with Costa loyalty card or any other offers/promotions/discounts.
Nandos: 10% off.
Franks The Flooring Store: 12.5% discount on top price goods / 5% discount on sale/discounted items. Can not be used with any other offer or discount and does not apply on fittings or deliveries of goods.
The Fragrance Shop: 10% off. Discount not valid with any other offers or promotions. Valid on sale items.
Ramsdens: 10% off selected full price jewellery. Not valid with any other offer or promotion. Valid only at Ramsdens Cramlington. Proof of employment required.
Boots Opticians: 15% off glasses purchase. 15% off 1 full price pair of spectacles including 2nd pair promotion. Can not be used in conjunction with any other offer.
LollyBomb: 10% off. Full price items only.
KITCHEN: Over 20 exclusive takeaway offers on food and drink. Grab a leaflet in the café for full details.
Theworks.co.uk: 10% off. Exclusions and restrictions apply. See in store for full details before purchasing.
Select: 10% Off. Full priced items only.
Dicksons: 10% Off
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Children's Choir of Chico
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By Kerri Regan
Susan Tevis was no taller than a microphone stand when she knew she wanted to be a music teacher.
"I was in the fourth grade, and I loved how it made me feel when I was singing and playing instruments," says Tevis, the founder, conductor and artistic director of the Children's Choir of Chico. "Then when I was in seventh grade, I thought, 'This room feels really safe and good. Wouldn't that be fun to do with people?'"
Since then, Tevis has amassed nearly a half-century of teaching experience, with about 100 students enjoying classes each year. The choral music education organization is a nonprofit dedicated to making a difference in people's lives through musical excellence.
"It's an opportunity to share beautiful music with many different singers from many different age levels – from kindergartners to adult women and everybody in between," Tevis says.
Each year, she looks for an educational blend of music, including gospels, Broadway tunes, art music and songs from around the world. "We have wonderful arrangements of folk songs – that's how they learn about different parts of the world," Tevis says. "When we do a song from Ghana, they learn about the culture and why they would sing a song like that."
Children's Choir of Chico will perform quite a bit over the holidays, Tevis says, including at the Enloe Hospital Christmas tree lighting, the Downtown Chico Business Association's tree lighting and the Glorious Sounds of the Season scholarship fundraising concert presented by Chico State University.
The choir also does some traveling, and ventured to Europe last year. "In the cathedrals, when you get done singing and the sound just echoes, it's absolutely beautiful," Tevis says. "It's stimulating for you as a person, as a musician and as a performer. People over there appreciate
great music so much."
Music classes are open to children of all ages (there's even a class for infants and their caregivers), and only one choir – Bel Canto for eighth grade and above – requires auditions. "Others are just 'come and sing,'" Tevis says. She uses the Kodaly Concept – a natural progression that involves the sequential layering of skills. Over time, singers learn proper breathing techniques, proper articulation of words, critical listening, music literature, various voice characteristics and more. The concept aims to build musical literacy in all children.
Tevis earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in piano pedagogy and music education from Chico State University, and studied at the Kodaly Pedagogical Institute in Hungary. She has been an adjunct faculty member at several institutions, and is frequently invited to present workshops at regional, state and national music conferences. She founded Children's Choir of Chico in 2001.
Classes are fee-based to help cover the cost of music, instructors, insurance and the like, but some scholarships are available. Rehearsals for next year begin Jan. 4.
The Children's Choir of Chico has earned local and national recognition for music literacy, education and artistry, and received the 2009 City of Chico Mayor's Award for achievement in the arts. Tevis enjoys making the world a little bit smaller for young artists. "When they learn songs from other parts of the world, they discover that Iranian children are just like American children who are just like children from France, sitting on the grass and throwing balls to each other," she says. "It shows that children and adults have the same feelings we do – it builds people with compassion and empathy. We're building people through music."
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Mason, Richard. (1957). The World of Suzie Wong. London: Fontana/Collins, Rpt. New York: Pegasus, 1994.
Bored with his life as an estate agent in post-World War Two England, Robert Lomax went to work on a Malayan rubber plantation. Because sex with local women was prohibited, Robert's sublimation of desire took the form of painting them. Arriving in Hong Kong, he becomes impatient with the constraints of an expatriate society that consciously separates itself from the local population. The colonial divide is debilitating for his art in which he tries to express his sympathy for the local subjects he paints.
Leaving the expatriate enclaves in the best areas of colonial Hong Kong, Lomax moves into the Nam Kok Hotel in Wanchai, a district where the colony's poor jostles with the prostitutes plying their trade in the bars. The novel represents Lomax as living a life in bohemia, painting and living among locals whom he transforms into the subjects of his art. He meets and falls in love with a bar girl, Suzie Wong. The reader sees Suzie mostly through Lomax's eyes, and in many ways, his perspectives are those of an orientalist male fascinated by the female embodiment of his desires. Typical of romance, the two survives various misunderstandings and problems in their relationship, and end up marrying each other.
The novel develops some subtlety in two ways: first, Lomax's shifts between Suzie as woman and as the subject of his art, and his self-conscious musings about the similarities and differences between the two. Second, the narrative also attempts to make Suzie much more than just a cipher of Lomax's fantasy. She confronts, in one direction, the racist prejudice of Lomax's male compatriots, some of whom are her former clients and exploiters. In another direction, she is shown as the devoted mother who feels the need to keep her son a secret. Shoring up her pathos with vignettes of poverty and destitution in the streets of mid-twentieth century Wanchai, this novel of bohemia and orientalist romance also reveals a socially critical aspiration. These qualities give the novel more texture than its better-known Hollywood film adaptation. (EH)


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Tragacanth is a natural gum obtained from the dried sap of several species of Middle Eastern legumes of the genus Astragalus, including A. adscendens, A. gummifer, and A. tragacanthus. Some of these species are known collectively under the common names "goat's thorn" and "locoweed". The gum is sometimes called "shiraz gum , "gum elect" or "gum dragon". The name derives from tragos and akantha, which means in Greek "goat" and "thorn", respectively.Iran is the biggest producer of the best quality of this gum.
Gum tragacanth is a viscous, odorless, tasteless, water-soluble mixture of polysaccharides obtained from sap which is drained from the root of the plant and dried. The gum seeps from the plant in twisted ribbons or flakes which can be powdered. When added to water, tragacanth absorbs water and becomes a gel which can be stirred into a paste. The gum is used used in veg-tanned leatherworking as an edge slicking and burnishing compound and is occasionally used as a stiffener in textiles. It contains an alkaloid that has historically been used as an herbal remedy for such conditions as cough and diarrhea. As a mucilage or paste it has been used as a topical treatment for burns. It is used in pharmaceuticals and foods as an emulsifier, thickener, stabilizer, and texturant. Also, it is the traditional binder used in the making of artist's pastels, as it does not adhere to itself the same way other gums (such as gum arabic) do when dry. Gum Tragacanth is also used to make a paste used in Floral Sugarcraft to create life-like flowers on wires used as decorations for cakes. It makes a paste which dries brittle in the air and can take colourings. It enables the user to get a very fine, delicate finish to their work.
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