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The Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. announced today that the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has published research on the early impacts of the revised grading scheme for Leaving Certificate examinations which was introduced in June 2017.
The reform of the Leaving Certificate grading scheme was designed to help to reduce the pressure on students at exam time and enable them to have a broader and more rounded learning experience in their senior cycle. The implementation of these reforms is being overseen by the Transitions Reform Group, which is chaired by the Department of Education and Skills and whose membership includes representatives from across the education sector.
The revised Leaving Certificate grading scheme now has 8 grade bands whereas previously there were 14 grade bands. The smaller number of broader bands was designed to ease the pressure on students to achieve marginal gains in examinations, and encourage more substantial engagement with each subject. The new scheme also awards points to candidates who receive a mark of 30-39 % on a higher-level paper in the Leaving Certificate, equivalent to the new H7 grade, and is designed to encourage the take-up of higher-level subjects.
The research, commissioned by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment on behalf of the Transitions Reform Group, shows that overall, more students are taking higher-level subjects, especially Irish, English and Mathematics, as a result of the new grading system.
There has also been a reduction in the number of students who are randomly awarded a course in higher education as a result of the changes, the research showed. The findings also indicated that students adopted the new grading scheme without much difficulty.
However, the research also shows that this increase in the uptake of higher level subjects has led to a weakening of the overall grade profile for higher level examinations, which was an expected outcome of the reform. This is most notable in the cases of Mathematics and Irish, where the increase in the number of students taking these subjects at higher level has been accompanied by an increase in the number of students attaining lower grades. The number of students sitting higher level Mathematics rose from 28% in 2016 to 30% in 2017, while the numbers sitting higher level Irish rose from 42% in 2016 to 46% in 2017.
A further finding from the research relates to the relatively lower take-up of higher level subjects in smaller schools and in disadvantaged schools that form part of the Department's DEIS programme.
Schools in the DEIS programme didn't record the same increases in higher-level take up, widening the gap between DEIS and non-DEIS schools in term of the proportion of students taking higher-level courses, while small schools faced constraints around class sizes and their ability to offer subjects at different levels to their students.
Students in the study considered that the gap between the points awarded for higher and ordinary level papers was too wide and did not reflect the effort and workload involved at ordinary level.
Students opting to study higher level subjects were motivated by the rewards of persevering with higher level courses, with Maths being notably singled out for the bonus points awarded for those achieving over 40%. However, the research shows that this created a difficulty for some students opting to study higher level who may not have the capacity to undertake that level.
Commenting on the publication of the research, Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. said:
"I welcome the publication of this research by the ESRI and the NCCA into the revised Leaving Certificate grading system. This research provides a valuable insight into the early impacts of these changes and will help shape future policy on these important issues. We are still at an early stage of the reforms and we will need to continue to assess their impacts on students."
Selina McCoy, Associate Research Professor at the ESRI commented:
"The research points to challenges for students in making subject level decisions – with the incentives such that they feel pressure to stay with higher level, even though they may feel ill-equipped. As a consequence, time on other subjects is displaced and additional stress is created for students."
John Hammond, CEO of the NCCA said:
"The publication of research on the impact of the new Leaving Certificate grading system at this early stage is useful and timely, pointing the way towards further monitoring and research that will be needed as the changes involved bed down in the senior cycle experience. They're also noted in the context of the extensive review of senior cycle education currently being undertaken by the NCCA."
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Washington State University faces a class-action lawsuit over allegations that its negligence led to a burglary that put the names, Social Security numbers, health records and other personal data of nearly 1.2 million people at risk.
University researchers had the data on a hard drive that they kept in a safe at a downtown Olympia self-storage facility. Last April, burglars stole the safe.
The Spokesman-Review reports the lawsuit filed in King County in December consolidates several complaints that were filed separately after the confidential information was stolen. The lawsuit claims the university violated the state's Consumer Protection Act, which requires prompt disclosure of personal data leaks so victims can take steps to protect themselves.
The hard drive belonged to the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, an arm of the university that conducts long-term studies on education and career trends.
The center specializes in statistical analysis and often is hired to study topics like academic success and employment rates, Phil Weiler, the university's vice president for marketing and communication, has said. The data came from public agencies, including school districts and community colleges, he said.
Following the burglary, the university hired a security firm to determine whose data was compromised. On June 9, seven weeks after the breach was discovered, the university mailed out notification letters.
David Minnery, of Seattle, received one of those letters. He said it was unfathomable that researchers stored private information at a self-storage facility with no surveillance cameras.
"It's a joke," Minnery said of the 8-by-10-foot (2-by-3-meter) locker. "You put a little Master Lock on those things. You're storing household goods you don't have room for in your garage. It's not where you store our personal information. It just shows you how little value they placed on it."
No one has been charged in the burglary. Some of the files on the hard drive were encrypted, and some were password-protected. University officials said they have no evidence the data has been misused or accessed by a criminal.
The university is offering all potential victims a year of free credit monitoring.
Weiler said the university didn't notify potential victims more quickly because it took time to figure out who was at risk.
Most of the information on the hard drive was stored in relational databases, Weiler said in an email. "We had to associate groups of names with addresses and Social Security numbers. This took a considerable amount of time and expertise from an outside firm."
The hard drive was used to back up data stored at the research center. Using copies of that data, a security company employed a "brute force" method - basically, trial and error - to decrypt each file.
"This task alone took a number of days," Weiler said. "We also needed to print approximately 1.2 million individual letters and coordinate mailing with an outside mail house, arrange for credit monitoring for all individuals, stand up an outside call center to handle inquiries, coordinate with state agencies, develop scripts for WSU's front counter staff in the event that they received calls (and) build the website."
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After volunteering for many years at the Black Mountain Home for Children(PHFC), a residential placement for neglected,abused and abandoned children, it is apparent to us that due to nothing on their part, they end up in a bad situation.
The state human services and the foster care system are in place to assist these children until they reach the age of 18. At this point they are dropped from the system and left to their own. Most of these children have not graduated from high school having been moved from place to place without any adult support. BMHFC has built an Independent Center that can house up to 16 young adults until they graduate from college. Since the state provides no support for these young adults this project is a way to helpto do that....housing, transportation, food. Can you imagine being in college, thanksgiving comes and you have nowhere to go. BMHFC provides this place along with a caring community of supporting adults and children.
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I've been sitting in this beach chair for the last couple weeks in case you've been wondering what happened to my blog. HA. I wish.
I know it's been way too long since I've posted some fresh stuff and I just wanted to let y'all know that I'm still here! I've started a new freelance writing gig that has kept me busy as a bee and it's been a bit of a transition the last couple weeks. Now that things have settled, it's back to regularly scheduled programming at The Daily Lindsey!


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(New York) – The government of Taiwan should immediately reinstate its moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 19, the Taiwanese government executed six people who had been convicted on murder charges: Chen Tung-jung, Chen Jui-chin, Lin Chin-te, Chang Pao-hui, Li Chia-hsuan, and Chi Chun-I. The six were executed by a firing squad.
Taiwan observed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty from December 2005 to April 2010. Since then, the government of President Ma Ying-jeou has executed 21 death row inmates, including six on December 21, 2012.
"A dozen executions in Taiwan since December 2012 is a step backwards for Taiwan's justice system and Taiwan's official rhetoric in support of human rights," said Sophie Richardson, China director. "The government should reverse course and instead take prompt and decisive action toward a total abolition of capital punishment."
Human Rights Watch opposes the death penalty in all circumstances as an inherently irreversible, inhumane punishment. The government of Ma Ying-jeou has defended its use of the death penalty as a response to "history, culture and public opinion." A public opinion survey conducted in July 2012 indicated that 76.7% of Taiwanese oppose the abolition of the death penalty.
During Taiwan's "White Terror" period, which began with the imposition of martial law in May 1949 and lasted until July 1987, the government sentenced to death and executed an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people on politically motivated charges. Since the end of martial law, successive governments in Taiwan have wrestled with the legacy of these abuses and the need for compensation for victims and their families.
Recent miscarriages of justice in relation to the death penalty have also cast doubt on the policy. On April 10, 2013, a Taiwan court awarded Tw$15 million (US$500,000) to three men, Su Chien-ho, Liu Bin-lang, and Chuang Lin-hsun, wrongly convicted for a double murder in 1991. The three men spent 12 years on death row until they were freed due to evidence that police had tortured the men to extract false confessions. President Ma Ying-jeou refused to authorize their executions during his tenure as Taiwan's Minister of Justice from 1993-1996 due to his concerns about the case.
The recent spate of executions also undermines Taiwan's progress toward integrating international human rights standards into its legal system. In 2009, Taiwan ratified both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights (ICESCR).
In February 2013 an international group of independent experts, including former United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, visited Taiwan at the request of its government to review the island's ICCPR and ICESCR compliance. The group's recommendations included an intensification of "efforts towards abolition of capital punishment and, as a first and decisive step … a moratorium on executions in accordance with the respective resolutions of the UN General Assembly."
"Capital punishment is an act of cruel, pre-meditated killing sanctioned by the law," Richardson said. "Taiwan can demonstrate to the world that it's serious about its international commitment by joining with those nations that have decided to abolish the death penalty."


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The Fault In Our Stars
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Junior Board | Holiday Tea
Holiday Tea and Craft Sale
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11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Sunset Ridge Country Club in Northfield
A cherished tradition, the Holiday Tea is a celebration of the girls' dedication to the organization and an opportunity for them to share an afternoon with family and friends. Guest are treated to a high tea buffet and are invited to shop for beautiful holiday crafts and food items prepared by the girls. The holiday raffle, which features delightful themed gift baskets, adds an extra element of excitement to the day! Raffle tickets can be purchased online when making your reservation and will also be available for purchase the day of the event. All proceeds and donations benefit Rush University Medical Center.


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Why is school readiness important?
A child's first school experiences can influence the way they relate to themselves and others for the rest of life. That's why it's important to make sure that when your child begins school, they are developmentally ready to learn and participate in classroom activities. By starting kindergarten with a strong foundation, you set your child up for success for years to come.
How can I tell if my child is ready for kindergarten?
When trying to determine if your child is ready for kindergarten, consider their readiness to learn. Is your child able to communicate and listen well? Is your child able to get along well with others?
The figure below represents a list of skills that are helpful for children to have when they enter kindergarten. Keep in mind that this is the ideal kindergarten skill set, so don't worry if your child has not mastered specific skills. This is simply a guideline.
Get a printable version of the Kindergarten Readiness Guide
School Readiness Skills Begin at Home
Children have the best chance of succeeding in school when they have parental support at home. Work with your child to assess which of the above skills they have mastered and set small goals to build your child's set of skills. Using small blocks of time, focus on one or two skills at once. School readiness skills are best taught in small doses, with repetition over months, and without pressuring your child. Try to help your child develop physical and language skills in the course of regular activities. The more you talk and do with your child, the more easily his or her skills will develop naturally. So, enjoy your time together with many varied activities, environments, stimulating conversations, and lots of reading and singing!


text: The Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine's Aspiring DOctors Precollege Program is a comprehensive, four-year pipeline program targeting high school students from historically underrepresented backgrounds to foster their interest in pursuing careers in science and health. Students in the program visit the Cleveland campus each year starting in 9th grade to learn more about osteopathic medicine and other healthcare careers through participation in academic enrichment and hands-on learning activities. Lectures, hands-on clinical activities, case-based learning lessons and college/career readiness workshops will be delivered by the Heritage College, Cleveland, faculty, staff and medical students. The Cleveland campus has partnered with Warrensville Heights High School and John F. Kennedy PACT High School to deliver this program to selected high school students.


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Monday, June 27, 2016
Birthday Swap
Happy Monday! It's been a little quiet here on the blog the past week. That's because I've been super busy at home and work. We went to Atlantic City for a night for a quick getaway last Thursday. Then we had 2 birthday parties to attend this weekend. One was for one of my son's friends and the other was a 90th birthday party for my grandmother. 90 can you believe it! Our family got together at a local firehouse for some lunch. The kids had fun running around and they had an extra perk of checking out the fire trucks. My son loved it!
So my card today is a birthday card (not the one I sent to my grandmother, I sent her another one I already posted). Today's card is for a swap that I'm in with some local demos. Our theme for May was Father's Day or a masculine card. I went with a manly birthday card. I saw this layout on pinterest and thought it would work well for a guy card. You don't want to have too many frilly things on a guy card. :) I think my favorite part of this card is the paint splatters. I love this stamp from Gorgeous Grunge. I did have to do a bit of fussing cutting for this card (the candles and flames) but at least the candles are pretty easy to cut and I only had to do it for 5 cards. I also used some new in-colors on this card. I think the Dapper Denim and Emerald Envy look really nice together and look great with Smokey Slate.
I hope you like today's card. I am working on my swap for June and will have that to share in the next couple of weeks. I can't share it until all of the ladies receive it. :) But it's such a cute card, I can't wait to share it!
Thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: Build a Birthday, Gorgeous Grunge, Timeless Textures, Sprinkles of Life (Happy Birthday)
Ink: Dapper Denim, Emerald Envy, Smokey Slate, Crushed Curry
Paper: Dapper Denim, Pop of Pink DSP, Vellum
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We have a lot on our plate this week. The Interns have their assignments to complete, we're shooting around town, and I'm flying out to Phoenix on Wednesday. I'll be back in town on Friday and then on Sunday we'll be at the High Museum on Sunday for 'Family Day'. Oh – and Saturday's my birthday.
Yeah – if you can imagine, I'm looking forward to a low key birthday this year. Besides – every freakin' day is like my birthday these days.
Since we announced that we were taking on a Marketing Intern – we've gotten a few crazy looks and questions – mostly asking us… what do we think we could possibly have to offer someone as far as marketing. Aw who knows.
When I met with Sophia last week (we met on Wednesday and decided that she would start the next day on Thursday) – I think I sum'd up a core characteristic of our marketing strategy: It has to be entertaining for us. That's the reason we do anything at all. It's why we challenge ourselves with photographing things other than weddings, or families, or food – not that those aren't also entertaining – because they really are – but so are many other things.
Like Marketing.
Sure we do the regular advertising in places – [OffBeat Bride] – [APracticalWedding.com] – but then we also tackle events that we think would be fun – [High Museum] – [Scoutmob]! and one of the biggest lessons we learned early on was that doing things for 'good exposure' only works if it's actually good exposure. And that means that it has to be as useful to YOU as it is for the event organizers. We feel like we're able to get way more mileage out of various projects than others might.
But really – why would anyone want to be a marketing intern with us?
Because we're interested in trying anything. We have a small budget, a longer timeline, and experiments are fun. Sure there are lots of guerilla marketing tactics out there – but we kind of think most of them are a waste of time and energy (sticking your logo/name/website in random places?!) or they cater to a market that we're not aiming for (again – just sticking your name on a wall doesn't mean anyone will want to hire you).
We have a lot to learn, a lot of ideas to test out, and in the same way taking on Photography Interns forced us to improve and enabled us to try new crazy ideas – a Marketing Intern can only lead to… something different.


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You are hereOctober 4, 2013 | Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Immunomodulatory effects of MSCs to Aid Transplantation?
Alterations in the Cellular Immune Compartment of Patients Treated with Third-Party Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
From Stem Cells
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is often complicated by graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) mediated by the donors immune cells (Ferrara et al) and novel intervention strategies are highly sought after. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are known to have immunoregulatory properties and have been applied in clinical trials (Le Blanc et al), although few reports have shed light on the effects of MSCs on the patient's immune system (Dander et al). Now, in a study published in Stem Cells, researchers from the laboratory of Katarina Le Blanc at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden have investigated the alterations in the immune system caused by third-party (i.e. from an unrelated source) MSC treatment to aid in the design of future clinical studies and to establish novel monitoring procedures (Jitschin and Mougiakakos et al).
Patients with GVHD who received a single infusion of third-party MSCs were compared to placebo-treated GVHD patients by assessing early humoral alterations (at 7 and 30 days after MSC infusion) and cellular parameters at later stages (30, 90 and 180 days after MSC infusion). This wide-ranging "immunome"-analysis found MSC treatment to have a response which was generally associated with a reduction in GVHD. The authors found a significant decline in the cleaved and uncleaved forms of K18 (indicators of epithelial cell death and validated biomarkers for acute GVHD [Luft et al.) in the MSC-treated group, but not the placebo group, possibly reflecting the biological activity of the MSCs. T-cells, the main mediators of GVH immune reactions, were then analysed which revealed a lower proportion of HLA-DR+ CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells upon MSC treatment, representing a decrease in the late T-cell response. Levels of IFN-γ and IL-4, assessed as prototypic T-Helper 1 (TH1) and T-Helper 2 (TH2) cytokines, found a greater TH2-mediated response to MSCs and, as GVHD is considered to be a TH1-driven disease (Ferrara et al), this finding suggests that MSCs may be useful for its treatment. MSC patients also had a significantly higher CD4+/CD8+ T-cell ratio, although this declined to placebo levels by Day 180, while there was a trend toward a reduced thymic output of CD4+ T-cells in MSC-treated patients.
IL-7 and IL-15, which modulate T-cell homeostasis, are elevated in GVHD but did not correlate with observed T-cell frequency, which indicates that they were not the primary promoters of homeostatic T-cell proliferation. These cytokines may lead to the accumulation of T effector memory RA (TEMRA) CD8+ cells observed at day 180 which have been associated with the development of chronic GVHD after allo-haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (D'Asaro et al). One obviously altered cytokine was IL-2, which mediates Regulatory T cell (Treg cell) homeostasis. After MSC treatment, IL-2 increased at each time points assayed and was correlated to an increase in CD4+CD25med-hiCD127lo Treg-cells, which is associated with a reduction in GVHD (Koreth et al) and an increase in Tr1-cell, which control GVHD by promoting long-term tolerance (Andolfi et al). Pro-inflammatory TH17-cells were decreased upon MSC treatment, and promoted their reprogramming to Treg-cells, as preciously observed (Le Blanc et al). Myelopoiesis analysis after MSC treatment found that both myeloid dendritic cells and plasmacytoid dendritic cells tended to be elevated in MSC-treated patients, with low numbers being associated with increased risk of disease relapse and acute GVHD (Reddy et al) while monocyte number did not change. Lastly, natural killer (NK) cells are positively involved in the control of GVHD (Leveson-Gower et al), but MSC treated patients had a tendency for lower levels of NK cells and activated CD56bright NK-cells, while no differences in B-cell responses were observed.
The authors note that while some of these differences are in line with previous analysis from other groups and show a beneficial role for third-party MSCs, the data presented must be interpreted with caution because of the small cohorts included in the trial. However, its strengths; being a randomized, placebo-controlled single-centre study with all patients treated similarly regarding supportive care and basic immunosuppression (Ringden et al), do make this an attractive study. Overall, the induction of Treg-cells reduced TH17-cell numbers and a shift toward TH2-cell responses in response to MSC treatment confirms MSCs tolerogenic function, while the further examination of the role of IL-2 could uncover further details behind the response.
- Andolfi G et al. Enforced IL-10 expression confers type 1 regulatory T cell (Tr1) phenotype and function to human CD4(+) T Cells. Mol Ther 2012; 20: 1778–1790
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While earning his Master's Degree in Mississippi, Beau worked as a clinical intern with the Center for Marriage & Family Therapy in Jackson and with the intensive outpatient unit of Three Oaks Behavioral Health Clinic in Ridgeland. Between these two internships he logged over 525 hours of face-to-face counseling experience.
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By Goran Danilovic, Brian Mulier
On July 14 2015 the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed by the E3/EU+3 countries and Iran. The United Nations Security Council endorsed the JCPOA by enacting UN Resolution 2231 (2015). The JCPOA comprises a monitoring system, timetable and steps to be taken by Iran with regard to their Nuclear Program as well as the commitments of the United States (US) and European Union (EU) to provide relief of their current sanctions regimes against Iran.
JCPOA Implementation
The JCPOA provides for a phased implementation of the agreement as shown below. Taking into account that that the implementation process is prone to political sentiment, certain dates provided in the below matrix should be considered as estimates.
JCPOA Implementation (EU perspective)
Effects for EU business
Finalization Day
14 July 2015
NO, considering that the current EU sanctions regime remains in place.*
Adoption Day
(est.) 18 October 2015 (or earlier if agreed by E3/EU+3 and Iran)
NO, the current EU Sanctions regime remains in place. EU will enact an EU regulation, terminating and suspending all nuclear-related economic and financial EU sanctions, taking effect on Implementation Day.
Implementation Day
Expected 6 months after Adoption Day
(est.) early/mid 2016
YES, large parts of nuclear-related economic and financial EU sanctions will be terminated and suspended. Numerous UN Security Council resolutions will be terminated subject to re-imposition in the event of significant non-performance by Iran of JCPOA commitments. Specific restrictions, including restrictions regarding the transfer of proliferation sensitive goods will apply.
Transition Day
(est.) October 2023 (or earlier based on IAEA report and supporting UN Security Council)
YES, further relief of EU sanctions regime by terminating and suspending certain EU sanctions provisions still in place.
Termination Day
(est.) October 2025
YES, EU will terminate all remaining EU sanctions.
* Following the signing of the JCPOA agreement and the subsequently adopted UN Resolution 2231 (2015) endorsing the deal, the EU has enacted Regulations (EU) 2015/1327 and 2015/1328 amending and supplementing certain aspects of the EU sanctions regime in order to allow for Iran to meet its first obligations under the JCPOA as regards its nuclear program.
In addition, it is noted that EU sanctions lifted following Implementation Day of the JCPOA agreement can be reversed. UN Resolution 2231 (2015) and JCPOA provide for a so called "snap back" option which, when evoked, would reinstate the EU sanctions regime. If reinstated, the EU sanctions would not apply with retroactive effect to contracts signed between any party and Iran or Iranian individuals and entities prior to the date of its application, taking into account that these activities are consistent with the JCPOA and UN Resolution 2231 (2015) and previous UN resolutions. The "snap back" liability should be taken into account when doing business in Iran, e.g. by including anticipatory contractual provisions.
Can EU companies engage in the commercial aviation sector in Iran prior to the extensive relief of the sanctions under the JCPOA?
As illustrated above, the main EU commitments as set forth in the JCPOA have not been implemented by the EU yet. This means that, at this stage, Iran is still subject to an extensive EU sanction regime regime prohibiting a vast amount of activities, including those related to the aviation sector. Upon reaching agreement on the JCPOA, the EU did prolong the existing EU temporary sanction relief that will continue to be in force until 14 January 2016. In that regard, the EU temporary sanction relief (encompassing relief on certain provisions dealing with petrochemicals, shipping and insurance and funds transfer controls) remains the main playground drawing for doing business with Iran.
Following comments set forth in the above matrix, it can be derived that undertaking any (exploratory) activities in the aviation sector in Iran until the expected lifting of the EU sanction regime by Implementation Day in 2016 is to be handled cautiously. The foregoing means that any (exploratory) activities must be compliant with the (still) existing extensive EU sanction regime, including the earlier mentioned EU temporary sanction relief. Such compliance is to be fully substantiated by the underlying facts and circumstances of activity concerned or, in case of non-compliance, demonstrate that there was no knowledge or reasonable cause to suspect that such (exploratory) activity would infringe any of the provisions of the current EU sanction regime against Iran.
In short, exploring any activities in the aviation sector related to Iran must be weighed against the current EU Iran sanction regime (and possibly US Iran sanction regime) and undertaken in compliance therewith. For example:
(Exploratory) Activities by EU companies in Iran
Possible under EU sanction regime?
Travel to Iran.
Engage in transactions incidental to such travel.
The sale of civil commercial aircraft to and from Iran.
Initiating brokering services or negotiating a contract or transaction aimed at leasing or selling an aircraft.
Hold a general presentation marketing expertise and experience of the company.
YES - refrain from sharing in-depth knowledge / do's and don'ts.
Hold a presentation covering general topics such as:
- transfer of title/ownership
- mortgage
- registration requirements
- sale, leasing and financing transactions
- title insurance
- bank financing
- escrow agents (management, etc.)
YES provided that the information is not made available to or for the benefit of a currently sanctioned listed entity, body or individual in Iran.
TIP: start your presentation with a general remark that you will refrain from commenting on any questions on actual real-life transaction attendees may ask you including in-depth discussion or sharing of knowledge.
Discussing and sharing of technical information and/or providing technical assistance in the form of technical support related to:
- repairs
- development
- manufacture
- assembly
- testing
- maintenance
- instruction
- advice
- training
- transmission of working knowledge
- skills
- consulting services
NO, if it relates to technical information and assistance regarding military or dual-use items or items listed in the EU sanction regime.
If it does not concern a military or dual-use item or item listed in the EU sanction regime, refrain from making the information available to or for the benefit of a currently sanctioned listed entity, body or individual in Iran.
TIP: check whether the technical information contains US content and, if so, consult US Iran sanction regime provisions. Do also bear in mind that services activities are very broadly defined under the US Iran sanction regime.
Discussing potential sale of goods (e.g. aircraft parts) to be used in the commercial aviation sector.
YES, to the extent it does not concern the sale of a military or dual-use item or an item listed in the EU sanction regime or the sale to a listed person.
TIP: check whether the item to be sold contains US content and, if so, consult US Iran sanction regime provisions. Do also bear in mind that services activities are very broadly defined under the US Iran sanction regime.
Discussing potential supply of services to be provided to the commercial aviation sector.
YES, to the extent the services do not relate to a military or dual-use item or an item listed in the EU sanction regime or will be supplied to a listed person.
TIP: Bear in mind the interplay with US Iran sanction regime if the supply of services includes involvement of a US person or the supply of items with US content.
Hire local council in Iran.
YES, to the extent the envisaged activities for which council is requested do not fall foul to the EU sanction regime.
Transfer of funds involving EU persons, entities or bodies, including EU financial and credit institutions, and Iranian persons, entities or bodies, including Iranian financial and credit institutions.
YES, to the extent that the transfer of funds is not connected to an activity prohibited under the EU sanction regime.
If the transfer of funds relates to an activity not prohibited under the EU sanction regime, subsequent notification and authorization requirements exist depending on amount concerned.
TIP: Although the EU sanction regime provides for the formal possibility of transferring funds, practice has shown that EU financial and credit institutions will not process transfers of funds in relation to Iran as to avoid any exposure.
Provide or brokering insurance or re-insurance to an individual.
If an individual is acting in private capacity and is not one of the listed persons by the EU sanction regime, insurance or re-insurance, including health and travel insurance, is authorized.
Provide or brokering insurance or re-insurance to non-Iranian legal persons, entities or bodies for activities conducted in Iran.
If the activities in Iran comprise loading, unloading or safe transit of an aircraft temporarily in Iranian airspace, insurance or re-insurance is authorized.
Furthermore, bear in mind that the US sanction regime against Iran may also be applicable where among others your company is regarded as a US person or the underlying (exploratory) activity has content of US origin or involves an activity falling under the scope of the US Iran sanction regime. We do note that the US has set in place a favourable licensing policy regime through which specific authorization can be obtained in order to engage in transactions to ensure the safe operation of Iranian commercial passenger aircraft, including transactions involving Iran Air, but excluding all other sanctioned and listed Iranian airlines.
In conclusion, Iran remains a challenging place to do business as any preliminary (re-)engagement in the aviation sector in Iran is still subject to the current EU sanction regime against Iran until the expected relief in 2016. Notably, the EU sanction regime is and will be enforced by competent authorities in the EU. This means that compliance should remain on top of the agendas of businesses. In that regard manuals and screening procedures as currently in place within many EU companies must continue to be lived up to whilst contemplating and/or conducting any preliminary (exploratory) activities in the aviation sector in Iran.
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hangs within my reach.
You have only to patiently listen,
and I will teach.
Witches bane, Fairy cross,
Star-clad and Quick with Life,
I will protect you from all harm,
Evil intent or Heavenly strife.
Bride's Crown, Quickbeam
Lady of the May.
First womanly flame of Creation,
I remind you that Life is a journey…
not a destination."
For those new to the game, each poem is inspired by a Teacher found in Nature; a star, stone, animal, plant etc that holds lessons of Wisdom for us. Can you guess who is singing today?
"Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others." John Mason Brown
The Rowan refers to both the European and the American Mountain Ash, both of which belong to the Family Rosaceae (which includes Roses and Apples), Genus Sorbus. This tree can be found throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the Himalayas to the Appalachians. There are numerous legends, superstitions, and names for this Teacher across Europe; Quickbeam, Rune tree, Thor's helper, Witchbane, Dogberry, Druid's Tree, Dragon tree, and Witchwood being just a few. To quicken means to awaken, to stir with the first movements of Life, to make alive, vitalize or excite, which is exactly what this leafy Teacher can help us do. Rowans love to spark our imagination, revitalize our creativity, and encourage us to passionately embrace the new beginnings offered to us.
The distinctive red or orange berries of most varieties are an important winter food source for most birds, and Rowans are known for generously keeping fruit to feed others throughout the year. Feathered Teachers from Raven to the gentle Waxwing make excellent balancing energy for the Rowan. Blackbirds and thrushes are especially fond of their fruit.
When properly prepared the berries of the European Rowan can be made into a tart jelly said to taste much like cranberry sauce. They have also been used to make cordials and liqueurs. It is a popular choice to serve with wild game. I am not certain all varieties of Rowan can be similarly prepared, but I do know that the seeds within the Rowan's fruit are high in Prussic Acid, so should not be eaten in quantity. Rowan berries are high in vitamin C, and have been use to treat scurvy as well as sore throats, inflamed tonsils and hemorrhoids.
There are some 50- 100 different species of Rowan/Mountain Ash recognizable in gardens and woodlands across the Northern Hemisphere. Some have golden, white or pink fruits, while others have subtle in-between shades. These trees prefer to grow along the edges of forests, providing shade and shelter for trees much smaller than themselves. Ironically, those same trees often push the Rowan out by overshadowing it in later years. People who feel called by this Teacher should choose with care those to whom they give time, energy or resources.
This Teacher has a long association with the Good Folk who live Under the Hill, commonly known as Faeries. This "lady of the mountains" represents protection (especially against enchantment and the Fae), wisdom and knowledge, luck, tenacity, vitality, divination (especially of metal), communication with spirits, and location. Rowan, Oak, Ash and Thorn are the quartet of leafy Teachers most often linked with the Fae.
Yggdrasil the "World Tree" is an Ash tree (Family: Oleaceae, Genus: Fraxinus) where Odin hung for days and nights to gain wisdom over all things. The Mountain Ashes (Sorbus Americana) were given their name due to their superficial resemblance to this true Ash. Whether Old World or New though, the red-berried Rowan, or Mountain Ash, is still considered to be sacred to Thor, and is sometimes called Thor's Helper. Likely this is due to the Scandinavian tale in which Thor is fording a river on his journey to the land of the Frost Giants, and an evil magician causes the river to flood. The little Rowan bent down and provided Thor with a handhold to climb out and escape.
Of course, Thor's Finnish counterpart, Ukko, is married to Rauni, the goddess of the Rowan. It is said that the earth was barren until Rauni came down and took the form of a Rowan. Ukko struck the Rowan with his magical lightning and thus all the plants and trees of the world were brought to life. In fact, Rowan was once commonly planted in coppices as a nurse-maid to shield new saplings, furthering it's reputation as a motherly and nurturing tree.
It was thought by the Celts that the Rowan was brought by the Tuatha De Danann from the Land of Promise. In some Celtic tales the Rowan is described as the Tree of Life and it was the Rowans red berries which fed the Salmon of Wisdom rather than the Hazel nut. Dragons sometimes appear in tales to guard this magical fruit. In the tale of Diarmaid Ua Duibhne and Gainne, the Rowan's red berries appear again as food of the gods.
Red foods, like the Rowan's berries, were often considered taboo for anything other than ritual or magical endeavors, and often appear in tales as food of the gods or the Good Folk (fairies). The Scottish word for Rowan is "caorunn" and this tree can still be found in clan badges around Scottland. The clan names Mac Cairthin and MacCarthy also hold the Gaelic root word for this Teacher; MacCarthy literally being translated as "Son of the Rowan".
Some tales say that the first woman was a Rowan tree and the first man an Alder, other tales say the first man was born from Ash and the woman from Elm. A sprig of Rowan was once worn to ward off evil, enchantments of all sorts (especially Faerie), and lightning. The Norse included a plank of Rowan in the hull of their boats to protect the ship from storms, lightning, and the wrath of Ran (the Sea). Likewise throughout Ireland and the British Isle, a cross tied with red thread or sprig of Rowan was placed over the doors of a home to protect against evil magic, black spirits, misfortune and illness.
The Rowan's motherly protection and ability to nurture new life gives it close ties to livestock animals, particularly the cow. An old protection against evil magic was to hang a Rowan branch in the barn stall or tie it with red string to the horns of the cow. Rowan wood was also a popular choice for cradles as it protected the infant from all ill intent. The Rowan, also known as the Sorb Apple, with her star-like white flowers and red fruits marked with a pentacle is also associated with Goddess energy in general.
Brighid or Bride, the triple goddess of Ireland, claims this little Teacher as her own by fashioning her arrow shafts from it's wood. The Rowan is still considered to be an Imbolc tree, one of the four great yearly Sabbats involving Brighid and a time of livestock protection, birth and fertility. It's believed to be at it's strongest on May Day, the traditional time to gather Rowan wood. "Quickbeam" is another name for these trees, as these Teachers are believed to be "quick with life".
This is probably why traditionally, stakes used against vampires were made of Ash or Rowan. Rowan has also been planted in countless graveyards to both protect the dead, and to prevent ghosts arising from those violently killed or engaging in other haunting activities. Often used in basket and textile weaving, or as spear and axe handles for it's springiness. Rowan wood is also highly prized for barrel making. Forked branches of Rowan or Ash were once used as water divining rods.
Being a favored food of so many birds, the Rowan can often end up as an epiphyte in the forks of other trees, like Oak or Maple. These are still referred to as "flying rowans" and were once thought to be especially potent in protecting against evil influences, astral travel, the making of visionary brews, and flying as no evil upon earth touched it.
The name for this Teacher, "Luis", in Ogham, could be derived either from "luise" meaning "flame", or from "lus" meaning "herb". Its Proto-Indo-European root was either "leuk"- 'to shine', or "leudh"- 'to grow'. Rowan reminds us to hold tight to our beliefs, nurture the creative force whenever possible, and savor the good things in life. Even in the midst of the coldest winter, sustenance can be found. Well balanced Rowan people tend to be charming, communicative, cheerful, confident without ego, artistic, passionate, and life loving. Emotional instability, consistently choosing "harm" over "help (either through our own choices/actions, or by simply seeing that which is truly harmful to us as helpful) and stubbornly hanging on when we should forgive or forget are potential signs of unbalanced Rowan energy.
An excellent friend for those seeking better communication, strengthening of self, protection, awareness of enchantments, stronger spiritual purpose, or "quickening" of energy, visions, or abilities. The Rowan will help us to correctly determine friend from foe, good from bad, and help from harm. This Teacher has been known as the Whispering Tree that will impart all the Knowledge of the World to those that take the time to listen.
"All it has experienced, tasted, suffered:
The course of years, generations of animals,
Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and – Wind
Will pour forth each day in the song
Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly
Gesture of its gently swaying crown,
In the delicate sweet scent of resinous
Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds,
And the eternal game of lights and
Shadows it plays with itself, content." Herman Hesse
Potential Balancing Energies: Moose, wolf, bear, morel mushroom, fox, raven/crow, thrushes, waxwings, cow, pig, goat, dog, snake, horse, or dragon, water, rose, apple, snail, ant, bee, wasp, badger, rabbit/hare, deer/stag, various butterflies and moths
Key Concepts: Quickening, Knowledge, Maic, Hex-breaking, Fae energy, Protection especially against hostile magic, Communication, Creation, Inspiration,
Associated Gods/Goddesses or Mythic figures: Brigid, Aphrodite, Oengus Mac Og, Hebe, Grainne, Halys, Finn Machumail, Orpheus, Pan, Dagda, Herne, Venus, and Thor. White Ladies ~the ghostly or fae creatures


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today, i am officially back to school! yeeeey!
i started with my Makeup Artistry class today and i am so glad i am in the same batch with Sophie of Beautynomics.com (hiyah, sophie!) i came late (uh-oh) and to my relief, RB Chanco, our teacher is soooo nice! i so love the way she (yeah, i'd prefer to call he a she because she looks so damn pretty!!!) did her makeup that day. so simple and yet striking...i personally love her blush. ohmigod, what's that shade again!?
it was just a half-day class since we just had our orientation. after it, i went out with Sophie and another classmate, Leslie (hiya girl!) to buy stuffs required in the class. my wallet really went loco after spending almost P8k for stuffs (but i am not even halfway thru it yet!) but i am so happy that i am finally starting to fulfill my dreams. i've been trying to delay this because of the expenses i am having right now but i am thankful to mr. X that he told me to go and supported me by paying for my tuition and a brush set from Suesh. yay! he's always been supportive of me. he may not like the idea of me getting addicted with makeup but he surely wants me to pursue my dreams. he knows how much i love makeup and how much i dream of putting on makeup on other people. he always believe that i should do what i always wanted to do. he knows that for years now, i havent been enjoying my job that much but well...i need a job and a good-paying job at that. i give my best but he knows that i can do much better if what i would be doing is something that i really love. geeesh, he is starting to spoil me. :)
anyways, here's some of the stuffs i got for school (i got some for personal use too...can you guess what they are?) hehehe
they aint much... but geesh, it really emptied my wallet! boo-hoo! i didn't buy foundations except VOV and MAX Factor (ehem! wink wink) since i have a lot of liquid foundations at home. But i need to get dark shades of foundations soon. i am lucky i still have the bottle of MAC SF NC15 (mom's not using it anymore) and 2 bottles of medium-shades from L'oreal True Match...but still, no dark shades. Mikee of MAC suggested that i get NC35 and NC47...that's on my list now (my wallet says URGH!)
i am also thinking of getting a concealer palette from Cinema Secrets...i have one shade which i use, i can use it for school since i am trying to cut some costs but what i have is my shade...i need to have one for medium skintones and another for dark. wheW!
i don't have a brush set yet...i wish i can get all brushes from MAC (who wouldn't want that, huh!) but there's no way i can have that dream...not in a million years! also, i have no traincase yet and a tool belt. (aaghhh...i need more moolah for these!)
i am thinking of getting the traincase from Beauty Bar since it's black but it's small...but it would do. i would just have to bring what i would need for the class and not my entire stash. hehehe..
so for now, i think this bag i got for free would do:
(special thanks to Sophie for helping me accumulate the amount i need to get them!)
next on my list:
- Traincase
- Suesh 28-pc brush set
- more foundations
- tool belt
tsk tsk...this would definitely drain my wallet, but i am really serious to finish this so wish me luck!
(me so happppy!)


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A Form of Prayer, and a New Collection of Psalms,: For the Use of a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Liverpool
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adore almighty Amen art thou beseech thee bless blest boundless breath chearful Common Metre death divine dwell earth eternal everlasting evermore eyes Father fear forgive form'd give thanks glorious grateful happy hath heart heaven holy honour humble Ikies immortal JEHOVAH JESUS CHRIST joyful king kingdom Let ev'ry light lives Long Metre maker's mankind mighty LORD mind Minister mountains nations night o'er OGOD ourselves peace perfect praise the LORD praise thee Prayer Preserver proclaim Psalm raise realms of joy reigns rejoice righteousness seas shew shine Short Metre sing songs soul sov'reign spirit spread thank thee Thanksgiving thine things thou art thou hast thro thy bounty thy command thy glory thy grace thy hands thy majesty thy mercy thy name thy pow'r thy praise thy providence thy servants thy throne thy truth thy word tongue unto thee virtue voice wakeful eyes wisdom wond'rous wonders worship
32 ページ - ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfil now...
113 ページ - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
5 ページ - Jehovah's awful throne, -*-* Ye nations bow with sacred joy : Know that the Lord is God alone ; He can create and He destroy. 2 His sov'reign power, without our aid, Made us of clay and form'd us men ; And when like wand'ring sheep we stray'd, He brought us to his fold again.
163 ページ - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
95 ページ - The floods, O Lord, lift up their voice, And toss the troubled waves on high, But God above can still their noise, And make the angry sea comply.
52 ページ - And fills their mouths with good. 4 How kind are Thy compassions, Lord ! How slow Thine anger moves ! But soon He sends His pardoning word To cheer the souls He loves. 5 Creatures, with all their endless race, Thy power and praise proclaim ; But saints...
162 ページ - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
118 ページ - JOY to the world ! the Lord is come ; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing.
50 ページ - We bless Thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for Thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
26 ページ - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.


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Ogale Adventure Session
What a fun summer it's been! Hot (and sweaty at times), but I've enjoyed every moment of it – and this final Summer Adventure session was no different! Continue reading
Baby Swimmer Adventure Session
Sweet friends of ours had the nerve to move away right when having a baby, depriving us of their sweet baby amazingness. Can you believe that??? When I posted about a mini session I genuinely hoped they'd bring sweet Hudson back to town and join in on the fun – and, behold, baby swimmer session was born.
I seriously considered scheduling swimming lessons for Jack this summer. One, I was late to the game, so next year will have to do. Two, I thought the whole time "do under-one-year-olds even learn how to swim, really?" The answer to that was clearly yes. Hudson is seven months and held his breath under water – WHAT? He was kicking and playing and splashing – totally comfortable in the water!
Little man is in his ELEMENT in the water. Like, little mer-man level. Splashing, giggles and baby smiles, this session was the stuff of Summer dreams.
Maternity Adventure Session
Momma-to-be, Caitlin, reached out for a Summer Adventure Session (Maternity style) and I was like "aww, yes!!!" And THEN she was like "I love Jerrys Sno Cones." And then I was all " awww YAAASSSSSS," anybody who's pregnant in the summer has an automatic RIGHT to Jerry's at any time. Now that they've opened a second location in Cordova, I'm ALLLLLLL about it – that convenience is dangerous.
For all you non-Memphians (or Memphians who live under a rock), Jerry's Sno Cones is THE BOMB. So many flavors, so delicious, and SO summer-friendly it's ridiculous.
Sweet little Blakely got to enjoy some yummy sno cone while we took some pretty cute pictures awaiting her debut! These guys are gonna crush parenting. I have a sense about such things. Here's to the adorable Miller family!


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After setting goals and planning for the weekend, how did I fare?
1. Shop for Bancy and her kids at Maasai Market – what do kids like!? Done!
2. Call Mercy – haven't spoken to her this year – Sigh. Didn't call Mercy!
3. Attend a training and exercise boot camp at Karura forest – Arrived so late that I couldn't even participate. Took the time to walk around Karura instead. I will definately be back, didn't know Karura forest was so peaceful!
4. Arrange my spare bedroom and throw out clutter – Ahem, who put this down as my plan?
5. Eat within my calorie limits – I think I managed to do this! 🙂
6. Not eat fries or potatoes – On Friday I ate mashed potatoes, but it wasn't the weekend :-). On Sunday I ate some bhajias so I totally failed on this one.
7. Schedule my posts for September – and send an e-mail to Wa Makeri and Ciiku requesting them to help me. Anyone else want to help? Sigh. E-mail not sent. To send out sometime within 72 hours…..And Mirish will be included….
8. Keep aside dry foods that have been in storage from last year – There was NO time do to this! At all!
9. Go to Toi Market to buy clothes – Used too much money buying stuff in Toi. And also wasted too much time. Was there for about 5 hours!!
10. Walk on Sunday evening – at least 7 kms. – Walked on Saturday instead. And I walked for about 5 kilometers, in 2 sessions.
11. Read at least 2 books – Read one book, cover to cover – Theodora's Wedding. It was HILARIOUS. Read two chapters of John Grisham's The Innocent Man and a chapter of The Watchers by Mark Andrew Olsen. The Innocent Man will be read this week. The Watchers will be read while on holiday – it seems scary, Frank Perretti style!
12. Give the last shot at getting 'Oil on Water' for the book club – Didn't quite make the effort. I think I may have given up! 🙂
13. De-stress by visiting Mrs. Adrian. Maybe I should sleep over at her house on Saturday…. Hmmmm….Thinking about it…… Visited on Friday and slept over. Visited briefly on Saturday as well.
14. Respond to all my whatsapp messages – aki I am not even serious – Woi. Didn't quite finish responding to all the messages……
15. Avoid Miss. P and C – Done very very well. But thanks to Mirish, I now have a plan for when I meet them next.


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When I first told my sister that I was doing machine learning and artificial intelligence research, her response was "SKYNET???" I will admit that Skynet is a terrifying villain. An intelligence capable of using all machines for its own ends, creating Schwarzenegger cyborgs, AND capable of time-travel? Truly chilling. In fact, most depictions of artificial intelligence are negative: Any Terminator movie, Battlestar Galactica, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tron. There are some positive portrayals as well. Tron Legacy comes to mind. However, none of these portrayals are reflective of actual artificial intelligence as I understand it. So what is artificial intelligence as I understand it? Its math and procedure. That's really it. I spend a significant chunk of my day writing mathematical formulas and pseudocode on a whiteboard. Another part of my day is spent translating those formulas and pseudocode into languages that computers understand. Most of the rest is meetings, and the last small part is reading about advances in the field. That's really it.
Computers do math really well. Humans do not do math all that well. Even the best human in the world cannot do simple operations nearly as fast or as error-free as a computer can. However, humans are really good at estimating quickly. Let's say you have a field full of frogs (I guess you're a frog farmer?). Let's also say you had a frog-farming robot and a human farm-hand. You send the frog-farming robot out to count all the frogs, and you'll get back an exact number of frogs (assuming appropriate counting procedures). You send the human frog-farm-hand out to count all the frogs. It will take the human much longer and the count will probably be less accurate. If, on the other hand, you say to the robot, "Give me a rough estimate of my frogs! Go!" the robot will take longer and produce a poorer approximation than if you gave your human frog-farm-hand the same task. Artificial intelligence is a way for your robot to bridge the approximation gap. If you gave an artificially intelligent robot the frog estimating task, I cannot tell you whether the approximation would be better or worse than a human's approximation, nor could I predict whether the human or the artificially intelligent robot would be faster. It would depend on the algorithm, the task, and all sorts of other factors. I expect that, depending on the algorithm, artificial intelligence can produce either a better approximation or a faster approximation than a human, but not both.
So. We know that artificial intelligence is just math, that humans are better and faster approximators, that computers are better at exactness and that artificial intelligence allows computers to approximate better. What does all this have to do with evolution?
We are currently seeing a new type of intelligence evolving. Yes, we humans are the drivers of this evolution. However, we are discovering algorithms, math, procedures that work, but no one understands how. Much like human consciousness, we can understand the pieces, but we don't yet understand how the whole works. I think all intelligence, no matter the type, starts out like this: First there are simple solutions (swim towards the light to find food, count things if you want to know how many there are). Things get more complicated (find food AND avoid predators, estimate how many things because there are too many to count). Eventually, things get so complicated that individual, natural intelligence is insufficient and we must invent computers to handle with the parts of intelligence that we lack.
Computers are currently replacing much of what humans are accustomed to doing and that is scary for so many people. However, we are so far from the days when computers can completely replace us, if they ever can. There is so much about computers, even artificially intelligent computers, that is different from humanity. Our 'brains' are so different: made of different things, operate in different ways, focused on different problems. One day perhaps, computers and humans will more fully unite, but I don't think either side can be fully replaced.
Now we come to the question I've been asking myself for months: Could it happen the other way around? Could intelligence evolve for math first, and then develop "computers" to handle approximation and other squishy stuff? When we reach the stars, could we encounter an intelligence we see as artificial with biological "computers" to handle communicating with us?
Would we even know that the math-y intelligence was intelligence? Could we recognize an intelligence so different from our own?


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U.S. Bancorp (USB) achieved record total net revenue and earnings for 2012, largely driven by continued mortgage banking strength and increased card fees.
The company reported net income of $1.4 billion for the fourth quarter of 2012, included in the results was a previously disclosed $80 million accrual for a mortgage foreclosure-related regulatory settlement, which slightly reduced earnings to $0.03 per common share.
Strong new lending activity of $71.5 billion during the quarter was a significant highlight for USB including $39.8 billion of new and renewed commercial real estate commitments as well as $29.1 billion of mortgage and other retail loan originations.
"Growth in both of these categories demonstrates our Company's continuing ability to expand and deepen relationships with our current customer base, as well as gain new customers and market share," said chairman, president and chief executive officer Richard Davis at U.S. Bancorp.
He added, "Our fee-based businesses also realized solid growth in 2012, led by mortgage banking. With continued investments in growth initiatives and small, strategic acquisitions, these businesses remain very well positioned to continue to grow and leverage the slow, but steady, economic recovery."
Total average loans grew in the quarter over the year prior and linked quarter by 6.4% and 1.5%, respectively.
For the full year, total average loans increased by 6.9% from a year prior, accelerating growth over the 4.4% increase realized in 2011.
"Given the company's strong loan origination platform, we expect U.S. Bancorp to continue adding to its loan book," FBR Capital Markets noted in its USB update.
The $173 million, or 57.1% increase in mortgage banking revenue over the same quarter of last year was significantly due to higher origination and sales revenue as well as an increase in loan servicing revenue.
FBR reiterated its 'outperform' rating and $36 price target for USB and credits the company's solid performance to strong mortgage banking.
Mortgage production volume increased $529 million, and revenue of $467 million remained solid from the third quarter's record level.
Mortgage banking revenue now accounts 20% of fee revenue, compared with 14% from a year ago.
"Given our expectations for sustained, robust Home Affordable Refinance Program 2.0 and general refinancing volumes, constrained market capacity, demand generated by open-ended third round quantitative easing program, and less involvement from larger players, we expect mortgage banking revenue to continue to materially contribute to earnings through the middle of first half of 2013, at least," FBR analysts said.


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Thursday July 12, 2012
from Irish Times
Former Nickel Creek-er and ace mandolinist Chris Thile has found a new home with Punch Brothers, he tells Coramc Larkin.
The last time Chris Thile played Dublin, it was a solo show. It wasn't meant to be that way but just hours before their duo gig at Whelan's last September, guitarist Michael Davies had to fly back to the US for a family emergency. At that point, most musicians would have cancelled, and no one would have blamed most musicians. But Chris Thile is not most musicians.
In fact, when the news rippled through the audience that Thile would be taking the stage alone, the reaction says a lot about the mandolinist's reputation. This, whispered one well-known Irish folk musician, is going to be even better.
And so it was. For two hours, with just eight very short strings and one microphone, Thile held a packed Whelan's enthralled, moving easily between traditional bluegrass, his own gnarly originals and dazzling instrumentals that sent the jaws of all present dropping to the floor. As the evening went on, he even threw in a flawlessly executed Bach partita '" not something you hear every day in Whelans '" before calling for suggestions from the room. 'Anyone want to hear some old fiddle tunes?' he asked. Shouts came up from the knowledgeable crowd and soon Thile was reeling off classic fiddle tunes on his mandolin as if he'd been rehearsing them for months.
'That was probably one of my favourite solo shows,' he tells me. Thile is in Telluride, Colorado, where his new band, Punch Brothers, have just headlined the town's legendary bluegrass festival. 'For me, music is a very urgent thing. I need music, and it feels to me like Irish people need music too. So I feel a big kinship with Irish folks. Right away, when you kick into something, you feel an intensity. You feel listened to.'
Shucks Chris. Onstage and off, Thile is all charm and self-deprecation, but it feels genuine enough. Certainly the kinship with Irish music is real '" as a kid, he says he wore out a copy of Planxty's 1973 classic, The Well Below the Valley, and he clearly appreciates the link between the Irish tradition and his own.
But the nice guy thing is for real too. Despite the immoderate critical praise and the shelf-full of Grammys, Thile is a man who seems particularly grounded, at ease with himself and the world, a feat that is all the more impressive given that fame and adulation came to him at an age when most of us are still getting to grips with solid food.
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Two museum internship programmes in New Zealand
One of these programmes is for recent graduates, the other is for skilled professional museum personnel.
Please note that any financial support we have towards these programmes (which is not much) is only available for New Zealand-based graduates or staff - anyone interested and willing to take part from overseas will need to find their own funding.
Museum Graduate Internship Programme: MGIP Edit
This programme has been established to support graduates of Museum Studies programmes to work on projects for up to three months in regional museums (which supply a mentor) throughout New Zealand. Regional museums generally have small numbers of paid qualified staff but not enough resources to carry out all functions and often require extra support on short term projects. The qualified staff are able to act as mentors for the intern, and this is the reason why the internships are not at small voluntary museums where there are not the skilled staff able to this.
Presently New Zealand graduates are paid a small stipend to carry out three month internships. If any overseas graduates were interested and able and qualified to take up an internship, (generally students have had several placements during their degree, so require very little 'supervising'), they would need to support themselves. Museums may be able to provide in-kind assistance (eg: free accommodation) but this will depend upon the individual organisation. Generally these museums are based in small provincial towns, and a few in bigger metropolitan centres.
The reason I am gauging interest from overseas graduates is because we are receiving more demand from museums than we are able to supply to from within New Zealand.
For anyone who is a recent graduate of a Museum Studies course, or knows Museum Studies graduates who might be interested in taking part in this programme in New Zealand, please contact me for further information: email@example.com
Museum Internship & Secondment Programme - Museum Internship & Secondment Programme International: MISP - MISPI Edit
This second programme should begin its pilot phase after the end of June 2008. The aim of the programme is two-fold
- to provide professional development and leadership opportunities for skilled professional museum staff working at a high level in large organisations
- to up-skill mainly voluntary personnel at small under-resourced volunteer-run museums by sending a trained professional to work for a period of time, (this could be a few days to a few months, depending upon the needs at the small museum, combined with other factors), at the small museum. The intention is a win-win outcome, as per the bullet points above.
The expectation and hope is that the professional will be able to take up this secondment on full pay, and assist a museum on a project, and then if necessary provide ongoing mentoring as the personnel adopt and utilise their new learning in their museum. As an example, a small historical society museum may want help in planning a better visitor experience through complete reworking of exhibition/s - a skilled exhibition planner (this may be a curator, a concept developer, an interpreter,...) will work with them for a week on an exhibition plan and new thinking around how to better tell their stories. After departure of the professional, the museum volunteers will work on implementing the plan and decisions made - email and phone contact may be made regularly, the professional may return in 6 months (or not if from overseas), etc etc.. But gradually the exhibition/s and experience at the small museum change dramatically for the better and this assists it to become a more valued asset in the community and a magnet for visitors and the community, etc...
It is clear now that there is higher need at the small volunteer museums than the number of professionals throughout New Zealand potentially available to take part (we are still scoping this with the metropolitan and provincial museums which have skilled staff). Thus I am signalling an interest in working with skilled personnel who are outside of New Zealand and willing to take part in this experience.
Please note, that we do not have financial support for this programme, as the hope is that people will take part in it as a professional development and leadership opportunity and thus be supported by their organisation, (similar to when people are sent to a conference).
We are very willing to work with others who are interested in coming to New Zealand to work with our sector and would be most interested to hear from you. Please do pass this information on to others working in museums.
Any suggestions from you for ways forward and potential partnerships will be gratefully received. Certainly for anyone who is able to come here, we are able to assist you to see much of the country and meet many museum personnel and see their museums - even to give presentations on your work to a very eager and interested sector. Please also don't hesitate to look up the work of National Services Te Paerangi on the Te Papa website - you'll see we have a very varied national role - working with museums and iwi.


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You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'old shoes' tag.
…chances are I was wearing these shoes.
Those Kermit-centric Adidas were given to me by a friend as a Christmas present back in 2011. Since then, I've worn them pretty much every day. They were my meeting shoes of choice (they always sparked a conversation), and have touched the ground of eight different countries (nine, I guess, if you include the U.S.).
To be read: Over the last two-plus years, these shoes have been extremely loved.
Sadly, that love was starting to show, and a couple of holes in the soles recently sealed their fate.
So farewell, old friend! I loved slipping my feet into you.
Man, that sounds so dirty.
But wait! Is that a new pair of sweet Adidas I see approaching on the horizon?
Indeed it is!
Also, I'm not entirely saying goodbye. I kept a couple of souvenirs.
It's shoe hard… to say goodbye… to yesterday,


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Boston, MA--Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), have completed analyses of a genome-wide scan on a group of two generations of participants from the landmark Framingham Heart Study (FHS). The analyses, which examine genetic differences that potentially affect the risk for cardiovascular disease and other disorders using data collected from FHS participants, are described in a series of articles published today in the on-line open access issue of BMC Medical Genetics.
Known as the Framingham 100K genome-wide scan, the results also are freely available through the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes, or dbGaP (http://view.
"We are excited by the possibilities of genome-wide association studies in uncovering genetic components involved in cardiovascular disease and its risk factors," said lead author of the overview paper L. Adrienne Cupples, PhD, a professor of biostatistics at BUSPH.
The Framingham Heart Study is a large, longitudinal study supported by the NHLBI of the National Institutes of Health and conducted in collaboration with Boston University. The study has been the source of key research findings regarding the contribution of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking and other risk factors to the development of cardiovascular disease.
Cardiovascular diseases are major illnesses among Americans, affecting about one-third of the population and resulting in more than 870,000 deaths annually. Cardiovascular disease and its risk factors have substantial genetic contributors. FHS researchers and others have previously reported that certain traits related to heart disease, blood pressure, lipids, diabetes, and weight can be largely inherited and can be linked to or associated with specific genomic regions.
To evaluate how genetic variations contribute to these characteristics, or phenotypes, the researchers evaluated genotypes from the 100K Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping Set using DNA from 1,345 FHS participants in two generations. This genotyping technology tests subjects' DNA at 100,000 sites along the genome where people are known to commonly differ. Researchers then looked for association between the genotypes and 987 clinical "phenotype" measures, collected by the FHS over 59 years of follow up, including cardiovascular risk factors and biomarkers; cardiovascular disease; cancer; longevity and aging; and traits in the areas of lung function, sleep, neurology, and renal and endocrine function.
"It is our hope that the results from the genome-wide association study will lead to a deeper understanding of the role of common genetic variation in the development of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors," said Philip A. Wolf, MD, principal investigator of this study and a professor of neurology, research professor of medicine (epidemiology and preventive medicine) at BUSM. "Although these results should be considered hypothesis generating and need to be replicated, these papers clearly provide proof of genome-wide associations," he added.
According to the researchers, because NCBI's dbGaP Web site permits investigators to review patterns of statistical significance within the unfiltered genetic association tests across the entire human genome, researchers around the world will be able to rapidly access and potentially replicate or refute findings from the FHS 100K study or develop new hypotheses for further research.
"The NCBI web site has the added advantage of linking into dozens of other databases, thereby providing access to other relevant human and animal data. The free exchange of data will accelerate the discovery of pathways to human disease," said Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, a professor of medicine at BUSM and one of the contributing authors.
"The Framingham Heart Study 100K project has investigated hundreds of phenotypes and as such it is among the largest genome-wide association studies of its kind, representing the first set of genome-wide association findings from the FHS," notes Christopher J. O'Donnell, MD, MPH, FHS, associate director and senior advisor to the NHLBI director for genome research. "These results set the stage for the launch of a much larger and more powerful NHLBI-funded genome-wide association study in the FHS known as SHARe (SNP Health Association Resource), which will be available in the fall of 2007."
"Together, these projects will provide a number of opportunities for scientists to take advantage of the wealth of data collected by FHS over several decades in an ethically responsible way," added Daniel Levy, MD, FHS director.
"The Framingham Heart Study dataset is another example of the groundbreaking collaboration of researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health and from the NHLBI," said Karen Antman, MD, dean of BUSM and provost of Boston University Medical Campus. "Our researchers make extraordinary contributions that continuously improve the well-being of people all over the world."