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Apartments for Rent near The Carey School - 66 Rentals available
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150 West 3Rd Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94402
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100 Dartmouth Road, San Mateo, CA 94402
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112 N Bayshore Boulevard, San Mateo, CA 94401
14 Highland
14 Highland Avenue, Burlingame, CA 94010
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540 S El Camino
540 S El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94402
145 N El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94401
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1141 El Camino Real, Burlingame, CA 94010
520 E Bellevue
518, 520 E Bellevue Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401
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244 N Ellsworth Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401
3301 & 3305 Los Prados
3301, 3305 Los Prados Street, San Mateo, CA 94403
400 E Hillsdale Bolevard, San Mateo, CA 94403
The Carey School Overview
2101 Alameda De Las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403 , Tel: +1 (650) 345-8205
Type: Private Elementary School
Grades: K-5
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The Carey School Ratings & Reviews
September 04, 2015 Submitted by a parent
The Carey School is the best elementary school in the peninsula. It's curriculum, teachers and administrators are first-rate and the small community is a wonderful world for the children to grow up within. Unlike many independent schools, Carey is racially diverse, and this is one of its strengths. It's not very economically diverse but that's hard to achieve in a school like this, and the school does a good job to promote it. Our child received a stellar education without feeling any pressure. Everyday was fun and she learned a tremendous amount. I highly recommend the Carey School for all students who are bright, curious and have a desire to learn.
December 17, 2014 Submitted by a parent
My child attended from Pre-K through 2nd grade. Our experience through 1st grade was average - many times my husband and I questioned whether the value received was worth the very high tuition cost. And then in 2nd it quickly went from bad to worse. My child's teacher for 2nd grade gave the impression that he was inconvenienced by kids with different learning styles and didn't want to engage with the parents. And for a school that claims to value and celebrate the whole child - this is a disgrace. Add to it, the leadership and administration team at Carey is inept. Needless to say we did not return for 3rd grade. Some teachers in PK through 1 were great, but quality is very variable. For the price of tuition, this school rates well below average.
April 25, 2012 Submitted by a community member
I was bullied at the school and the adminstration did nothing to stop the bullies! There not good at helpings kids who have learning issues either.....in all the school stinks!
June 13, 2011 Submitted by a parent
While it may be obvious, I wanted to highlight that people with negative comments are more likely to feel compelled to come post a comment here. Carey is a wonderful school with a great community. There are always some families for whom Carey is not a good fit (no school is right for 100% of kids). But as an involved parent at this school, I can say that all of the parents I know are thrilled with the education that their children are receiving. The best advice that I can give is to come visit the school and see for yourself. You will know if it is the right place for your child.
March 15, 2011 Submitted by a parent
My child attended The Carey school for three years. I choose the school for two reasons: Good Teacher/Student ratio (each classroom has ~20 students per Teacher+Assistant), and an emphasis on Community. Unfortunately, even though each classroom has two teachers, most of them have not been good. Of the six we encountered, one was stellar and five were below average. Also the auxilliary teachers (science, art, fl, music) are all below average. Mostly due to keeping teachers on well past their prime. The other big disappiontment has been the community emphasis. Parents are not allowed to participate in the learning process, though they are required to help with many fundraising activities. Also, despite the "community" emphasis, siblings are not always invited to attend. Our second daughter who has shown signs of brilliance also has an independent streak and Carey said "No Thanks" at the last minute, which really put us in a bind. Doesn't say much for community support if you ask me. The principal has a way with words and is very flowery, but seems driven by whatever book he read last. This is irrelevant though as he and the assistant are both leaving this year (6/2011)
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San Mateo, CA Average Rental Price, October 2019 $3,302 /mo
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Apartments and homes for rent near The Carey School
Your child's education is your top priority. We know that because—well, you're looking at this page, aren't you? If you think your kid would feel right at home at The Carey School, and you are contemplating moving closer so the little rascal will never miss a class, we have some good news for you and your family. Commute will never be an issue if you pick an apartment within 5 miles of The Carey School, and that should not be hard as you can currently choose from 65 apartments for rent available in this part of San Mateo. Not familiar with rent prices in the area? The cheapest apartment near The Carey School is currently at Casa Mia Apartments, renting for $1,875 per month, but if $7,363 is still within your budget, check out the more luxurious offers at The Russell. Or just do what most other parents do and go for the middle ground—that's where you get the best value for money most of the time.
Things you should know about The Carey School
Before you start packing, make sure The Carey School is really the best option for your child. To recap, The Carey School is a well-known private K-5 school in San Mateo. It is located at 2101 Alameda De Las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403 and it is the second home of 249 students. Please note that available apartments near a given school are filtered by proximity, not by attendance zone. We advise parents to visit the schools in person and contact the admissions offices for further information on school performance and attendance zones before making a final decision.
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You can also use Nginx over Express to "secure" the private key.
Generally, all ports up to 1000 are accessible only by root user and you physically can't run something there without root rights.

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As seniors get older, it may be harder for them to continue to live in their current homes. They may not be able to walk up or down the stairs or get around their kitchen. Some tenants might have disputes with their landlords that need mediation services. Our Housing Services Program, funded by the S.F. Mayor's Office of Housing, provides information and assistance regarding housing opportunities and housing-related mediation services.
We provide information about available properties, their amenities, income requirements, rent, and occupancy. Housing comes in all sizes and forms around the San Francisco area. Although we provide the housing opportunity list, Self-Help for the Elderly does not own the properties. Units are low-income and dependent upon residents' income. They will either pay a percentage of their income amount or a set rent amount. There are a limited amount of spots, so demand is very high, but we put together a waiting list for people who are interested. Numerous meal support services are located close to the housing areas that provide meals to residents.
Seniors are also provided with mediation assistance to resolve disputes that they may have with their landlord. They will learn their rights and learn how to exercise them. They will also learn what housing discrimination looks like and how to protect themselves from it.
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The programme explores the various cultural and geopolitical characteristics of today's complex international business environment and prepares future managers to become members of the international community in this digital world.
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Just recently, Ultra Music Festival launched their brand new application for iPhones and Androids for this year's event. Unbeknownst to many, they also released phase two of the lineup as well! So far, you can only find the announcement on the application (and of course here)! Here are links to download the free application. You may recognize that you just need to update this app if you already have it from last year (at least with the iPhone).
As of currently, there is no current poster for phase 2. We will update accordingly with the poster and fix any artist mistakes as we based it off the app.


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Success Africa tours 7 Regions this Year
PlugTimes.com September 14, 2017
Having gained the reputation as the biggest summit for young entrepreneurs and leaders on the continent, SUCCESS AFRICA organisers LEC GROUP has decided to further strengthen the efforts towards transforming lives of several young people who places effort in leadership and entrepreneurship hence the move to expand the roadshow into other regions in Ghana.
In the last 10 years, Success Africa has mobilized efforts as the number one empowerment summit on the African Continent, with main focus of shaping career path of many young people, it also places emphasis on motivation and youth development through it many repute speakers drawn from various industries, who are undoubtedly distinguished as great leaders in their chosen fields.
The LEC GROUP who are also the organisers of "AFTER SCHOOL WHAT'S NEXT?" , "POSSIBILITIES CONFERENCE" and many other groundbreaking programmes in Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia has proudly contributed to impacting the lives of over 50,000 young people across the continent. The Foundation is headquartered at Accra with several branches in various regions.
This year's Success Africa being the 11th Edition with a target of 10,000 young people will run under theme, MENTORSHIP; HUB OF GREATNESS, will start on the 7th of October and end on the 14th of November 2017. Touching on the theme, Mr. Albert Kusi the CEO of LEC GROUP stated "We are fully aware of the role of Mentorship in the lives of young leaders and entrepreneurs, and as a foundation , we are concerned not only with mentorship but quality mentorship, hence a careful effort to put together this year's summit".
With a reputation for bringing on board top notch speakers, this year's speakers include Bishop Titi Ofei ( General Overseer, Pleasant Place Church), Kojo Addae-Mensah (CEO of Databank Group), Hon. Sam George, Bernard Avle, Petra Asamoah (General Manager Commercial, Media General Ghana) and the Convener who was recently named as one of 100 most influential young Africans, Mr. Albert Kusi (CEO of LEC GROUP) and host of others.
In a press statement issued by the Public Affairs Director of LEC GROUP, Mr. Dennis Appiah Larbi-Ampofo stated , " the problem in most of our institutions is matter of failed leadership, and as a company , we are poised in line with our mandate to create transformational leaders across the globe, and empower young people to be solution oriented, and this is clear in how we run our programmes, with special break out sections to be handled by experts in specific fields".
He went futher to give the schedule for the tour, which starts on 7th October, 2017 in Cape Coast, at University of Cape Coast NEC Auditorium, then the team will move to Kumasi on the 13th October,2017 at KNUST Great Hall, the tour will conitinue to the Brong Ahafo Region where it will be hosted at Eusbert Hotel, Sunyani on the 14TH October ,2017 and on 20th October in Tamale at Radach Hotel before moving to Ho on the 28th October at Ho Tech. University Auditorium, before moving finally to Accra for the GRANDE FINALLY at Central University's Trinity Hall on 4th of November 2017 with a special intervention program at WA UDS campus on the 11th November 2017.
He further encouraged young people to take the opportunity to nurture and develop their dreams during the conference, "the outcome of our conferences remains why we are Africa's number one , and we will continue to live up to the standards" he added.
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Home rental is becoming the next big thing during Super Bowl week. If you're thinking about it for your Superbowl trip, here are a few more reasons why you should consider it.
Right about now, hotels in Texas will be becoming fuller and fuller, and the costs of the available rooms will be becoming more and more expensive. If you want to save money for this Superbowl week, look into home rental. While hotels make their money by having guests stay in their rooms, people who rent their homes out will have other sauces of income. They'll be doing this so their home is always occupied while they are away, and to make some extra cash on the side. They don't need to worry about cost and no one staying there; if no one picks their house this holiday, it's no big deal. This all means that the cost will stay the same regardless of what time of the year it is, and what's going on in that area.
Home rentals will have a minimum number of people who can stay there, but instead of the 4 of a standard hotel room, it's generally 8 or 10, so the cost of accommodation will be spread over many more people. I saw one that would equate to only US$180 per person per night if the maximum 8 guests stayed.
You also don't have to worry about being charged extra for parking if you drove your car, all homes will have a garage where you can park your car. If the owner didn't take their car with them, you can park in the drive way.
A lot of people feel awkward staying in a hotel; the sheets are too tight, there's never the right food in the fridge, and you have to tip everybody, which adds up. Staying in a home rental for your Superbowl trip eliminates all of these problems. The beds will all be made to perfection, but they will not have the same rigid corners for example of a hotel. Because you're renting from a person and not a company, you can request the food that is in the shelves or refrigerator, so if you have any special dietary needs they can be attended to. People who rent their homes out for holidays mostly rely on repeat customers, so they will be quite friendly. Most will put out a fruit basket or leave a bottle of wine in the refrigerator for you, as well as other snacks.
If you've never stayed in Texas before and you choose a home rental, you can ask the home owner for their recommendations for restaurants and take away stores. You can do this in hotels, too, but they will only suggest the restaurants that they are in league with. By asking a local, you can get the truth about the places nearby.
This article is writer by Bradley Shaw, Owner of sbrentalagency.com, a site discussing several advantages of home rental for your superbowl trip.


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Cover by Gordon Ertz for The Inland Printer, June 1916.
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The Rhinoceros (after 1620) by Albrecht Dürer.
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• RIP Denise Johnson. All the obituaries mention the big names she worked with, notably New Order and Primal Scream, but being in the pool of Manchester session artists she also appeared on a couple of records by my colleagues at Savoy. Her voice is one of those you first hear on the PJ Proby cover of I'm On Fire, while with friend Rowetta she improvised her way through a Hi-NRG original (and a favourite of Anohni's), the scurrilous Shoot Yer Load.
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• Romantic Rhino (1981) by Ananda Shankar | The Lone Rhinoceros (1982) by Adrian Belew | Blastic Rhino (2000) by King Crimson
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Cover by Valentine Hugo for Contes Bizarres (1933) by Achim d'Arnim. See Hugo's interior illustrations here.
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• "Late at night, [Melville] 'turned flukes' down Oxford Street as if he were being followed by a great whale, and thought he saw 'blubber rooms' in the butcheries of the Fleet Market." Philip Hoare on Herman Melville's time in London.
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I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work, or a good carpenter chopping dovetails, or someone tying a Bimini hitch that won't slip.
Art critic Robert Hughes quoted in a review by Siri Hustvedt of The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes
• "Art, art – I couldn't give a crap about art." Oscar Wilde's nephew, Arthur Cravan, puts in another appearance at Strange Flowers.
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• Manuel Göttsching: "A lot of crazy music happened at the end of the '60s, very strange, and very curious…"
• Mixes of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 169 by Chra, and 28th November 2015 by The Séance.
• Czech Artists' Radical Book Designs of the Early 20th Century
• Ten things you might not know about Yayoi Kusama.
• More megaliths: Francis Pryor on ritual landscapes.
• Peaches gets wild in the desert: Rub (uncensored).
• Irmin Schmidt's favourite records (this week)
• Mount Etna erupts
• Rituals (1981) by Bush Tetras | Ballet For A Blue Whale (1983) by Adrian Belew | Etna (2006) by Boris & Sunn O)))
Author JohnPosted on December 6, 2015 March 26, 2016 Categories {art}, {books}, {design}, {electronica}, {film}, {horror}, {illustrators}, {music}, {occult}, {photography}, {psychedelia}, {surrealism}Tags Adrian Belew, Arthur Cravan, Boris (group), Bush Tetras, Chra (musician), Evan J Peterson, Francis Pryor, Herman Melville, Irmin Schmidt, Jean Rollin, Manuel Göttsching, Mark Valentine, Oscar Wilde, Peaches (musician), Philip Hoare, Robert Hughes, Siri Hustvedt, Strange Flowers, Sunn O))), Tarot, Tartarus Press, Tenebrous Kate, Valentine Hugo, Yayoi Kusama3 Comments on Weekend links 287
We Are The Water – Snow Drawings Project, Colorado (2014) by Sonja Hinrichsen with 50 volunteers.
• I don't do end-of-year lists but Dennis Cooper does. My thanks to Dennis once more for including this blog among his selections. Also there is Jonathan Glazer's film of Under the Skin, an adaptation of Michel Faber's novel that impressed me as the most insidiously disturbing thing I've seen since Mulholland Drive. The Guardian's film critics agreed, making it their film of the year. I'd add to Peter Bradshaw's appraisal by noting the superb score by Mica Levi, the refusal to spoon-feed the audience with explanations, and a refreshing absence of Hollywood gloss. Glazer's film, like Kill List before it, shows that mundane British streets and interiors can still be a setting for serious horror.
• Related to the above: "I like Caravan, Coil—it's very sad that they're both dead now. In fact, Peter Christopherson, who was leader of Coil, contributed a song to a CD which I made for my wife for what we believed would be her last birthday." Michel Faber talks to Hope Whitmore about Under the Skin and his new novel, The Book of Strange New Things. M. John Harrison recommends the latter on his own end-of-year list. In January Black Mass Rising will release a recording of The Art of Mirrors, Peter Christopherson's homage to Derek Jarman from 2004.
• David Bowie and band live on Musikladen in 1978: 40 minutes with Adrian Belew on squealing lead guitar, some Kurt Weill and an outstanding performance of "Heroes".
• "Realism is a literary convention – no more, no less – and is therefore as laden with artifice as any other literary convention." Tom McCarthy on realism and the real.
• Mixes of the week: The Best of the Best of the Best by TheCuriosityPipe, and Secret Thirteen Mix 138, a medley of post punk from Psyche.
• "We spent two weeks making the penises." Livin' Thing: An Oral History of Boogie Nights by Alex French and Howie Kahn.
• At Dangerous Minds: Seeing The Man Who Fell to Earth was one of the greatest experiences of Philip K. Dick's life.
• Giving Voice to Our Pagan Past and Present: Pam Grossman on Witches, Women and Pop Occulture.
• Neglected last week (and linked everywhere but still a good one): The typography of Alien.
• William Mortensen, the photographer who Ansel Adams called the Anti-Christ.
• Hear a track from analogue synthesizer virtuoso Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.
• Rick Poynor on illustrations by Bohumil Stepan for Crazy Fairy Tales.
• 12 excellent features from directors who never made another feature.
• Werner Herzog Inspirationals
• The Devil in the Hedgerow
• New Warm Skin (1980) by Simple Minds | Rapture Of The Skin (1996) by Paul Schütze | Take Me Into Your Skin (2007) by Trentemøller
Author JohnPosted on December 14, 2014 December 14, 2014 Categories {art}, {books}, {electronica}, {film}, {horror}, {illustrators}, {music}, {occult}, {photography}, {science fiction}, {typography}Tags Adrian Belew, Alex French, Ansel Adams, Bohumil Stepan, David Bowie, Dennis Cooper, Derek Jarman, Hope Whitmore, Howie Kahn, Jonathan Glazer, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Kurt Weill, M. John Harrison, Michel Faber, Pam Grossman, Paul Schütze, Peter Bradshaw, Peter Christopherson, Philip K Dick, Psyche (group), Rick Poynor, Simple Minds, Sonja Hinrichsen, The Man Who Fell to Earth, TheCuriosityPipe, Tom McCarthy, Trentemøller, Werner Herzog, William Mortensen2 Comments on Weekend links 238
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Black Cat on a Chair (1850–1860) by Andrew L Von Wittkamp.
• "A little bit of acid, lots of weed, and too much Castaneda and I was ready to move from the magical realm of Middle Earth into a world that was much stranger than any involving hairy dwarves and white wizards…" Too Much to Dream by Peter Bebergal, "a psychedelic American boyhood".
This year's Booker prize isn't about the power of the new – there's no experiment with form or strangeness of imagination. The winner may get on the bedside tables of middle England, but that's not as important as changing the way that even one person dreams.
Jeanette Winterson throws the cat among the pigeons.
• 50 Watts continues to show us things you'd be hard-pressed to find elsewhere: illustrations by TagliaMani from a new edition of Les Chants de Maldoror, and War Is a Verb, collages by Allan Kausch.
• Don't go in the swimming pool! Coilhouse directs us to Fantasy: music by French outfit DyE with a weird and nasty animation by Jérémie Périn.
• Ace album cover designer and photographic Surrealist Storm Thorgerson is having another exhibition at IG Gallery, London.
• The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon, an art and illustration archive.
• John Turturro reads a short story by Italo Calvino.
• Spaceport America by Foster + Partners.
• Your Body of Work by Olafur Eliasson.
• Wonder-Cat cures all ailments.
• Blogging Moby-Dick.
• Krazy Kat (1927) by Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix and Lang | Pussy Cat Dues (1959) by Charles Mingus | Katzenmusik 5 (1979) by Michael Rother | Big Electric Cat (1982) by Adrian Belew | Purrfect (1996) by Funki Porcini.
Author JohnPosted on October 23, 2011 February 2, 2013 Categories {animation}, {architecture}, {art}, {books}, {collage}, {design}, {drugs}, {film}, {illustrators}, {music}, {painting}, {photography}, {psychedelia}, {sculpture}, {surrealism}, {technology}Tags 50 Watts, Adrian Belew, Allan Kausch, Andrew L Von Wittkamp, Carlos Castaneda, Charles Mingus, Coilhouse, DyE (group), Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix and Lang, Funki Porcini, Herman Melville, Italo Calvino, jazz, Jeanette Winterson, Jérémie Périn, John Turturro, Lautréamont, Leo & Diane Dillon, Leo and Diane Dillon, Michael Rother, Norman Foster, Olafur Eliasson, Peter Bebergal, Storm Thorgerson, TagliaMani5 Comments on Weekend links 81


Here come the words under the video that no one reads except Mike sometimes. Mike even wrote these words the other week and wrote me off in the process. Burning me about my hair or something, but I can't remember, because there's so much to remember these days, you know? Obama and that. So much stuff. Tell you one thing I realised today and that I hope I never forget is that I hate reggae music. Sure, there's good reggae, Bobby Marls and that, but when's he bringing out a new album? It's been ages. All the rest of reggae music, like 90 per cent of it, is utter nonsense. And the lyrical content is so weak. Most reggae lyrics are about reggae itself and how good reggae is. The rest are about the fire that's going to lift you up and other vague, uninspired and obvious garble. When you're staying at a place that pumps nothing but the worst reggae you get a bit over it is all I'm saying. The good thing is that's enough words so I'm off to involuntarily listen to more reggae.


Next message: on the retronym watch: "human translation"
Such nonstandard variants as "Gore may have won the election" are quite common and have been discussed in various places.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of work documentation or analysis of the non-standard counterfactual conditional pattern woulda …woulda (alternatively would've …would've) as in "I woulda gone if I woulda known"  "I wouldn't have murdered him if he wouldn't have eaten my pizza"
in New York City English these are the normal way counter-factuality is expressed. But I only have my own anecdotal experience encountering them. A google scholar search came up pretty empty.
These and interrogative forms in indirect questions (covered ages ago by Ron Butters) are about the main non-standard structures that strike me as characteristic of White versions of NYCE besides non-standard forms found everywhere (e.g., ain't, double negatives). But I'm eager to hear of any others.
I did here a claim that NYers barely use present perfect. However, I have no evidence to this effect.


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Tommie Waheed Evans choreographs the dancers in "Aubade."
When choreographer Tommie Waheed Evans sat down with the artistic staff of the Philadelphia Orchestra, he had no idea they had already decided to hire him.
This weekend Evans and the orchestra will debut their new collaboration: a modern interpretation of Francis Poulenc's "Aubade," starring five female dancers from Philadanco, the world-renowned African-American dance troupe. For Evans – a thoroughly modern choreographer – this marks his first foray into classical music.
"This is a first of a first of a first for me. It's the first time I'm working on a classical music driven piece. It's the first time I'm working with live music, and the first time I'm working with an orchestra," says Evans.
But don't expect Balanchine-esque neo-classical movements to accompany the Orchestra this weekend. After a few fits and starts, Evans is shooting for a totally unique take on Poulenc's music. And, while the dance is inspired by the myth of Diana, he doesn't feel constrained by the idea of narrative ballet either.
"Aubade" will be presented as part of "Firebird and Cinderella," with concertos by Stravinsky and Prokofiev led by guest conductor Stephane Deneve.


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Telecom, Water Services Partially Restored In Bhubaneswar, Puri
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NEW DELHI: Telecom and water services had been partially restored in Bhubaneswar and Puri after Cyclone Fani precipitated substantial damage in Odisha. Work is on a battle footing to get returned the strong connections as early as viable, officials said on Sunday.
The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), headed by Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha, reviewed remedy measures in affected areas of Odisha, West Bengal, and Andhra Pradesh, days after the extremely intense cyclonic storm hit the eastern coast.
Mobile offerings had been restored partly in Bhubaneswar and Puri. In each of the towns, approximately 70 in line with cent water delivery can be restored by Sunday night, a home ministry authentic.
Work is on struggle footing to restore the electricity connections, the respectable said.
The Indian Railways has re-introduced 85 of the 138 canceled trains. The mainline to Bhubaneswar has started operations simultaneously as Puri will start operations in about four to five days, in keeping with a professional assertion.
Flight operations to Bhubaneswar resumed with forty-one flights working Saturday, even though the nearby airport suffered tremendous harm, it stated.
During the NCMC meeting, the Odisha authorities know that electricity and telecommunication facilities are gradually being restored inside the nation's cyclone-affected areas.
Major damages to the power transmission and distribution structures are stated in Bhubaneswar and Puri.
Odisha also requested for supply of garage water tanks.
The Cabinet Secretary directed that recuperation of energy and telecommunication facilities be accorded pinnacle priority and the Ministry of Power and the Department of Telecommunications to coordinate with the Odisha government, the statement stated.
The Union Power Ministry has moved diesel generator units of 500 KVA, 250 KVA, and one hundred twenty-five KVA potential and supplied workers gangs engaged in the restoration of power traces and towers.
Senior officers of power PSUs were stationed within the affected areas to supervise restoration operations. Neighboring states of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal had been asked to offer additional assistance to Odisha, especially within energy location, the statement said.
The Cabinet Secretary also suggested that public zone companies in strength and oil and fuel sector contribute closer to remedy efforts below their CSR investment.
The Union Ministry of Steel has made available approximately 3,500 metallic electric poles. Additional portions, as asked with the aid of Odisha, are being organized from different places. Manufacturing of additional poles is also undertaken.
About 60 in step with cent of affected telecom towers are predicted to be operational with the aid of nighttime and diesel supplies are being provided to lead them to functional the usage of DG units inside the absence of ordinary power supply and enough stocks of diesel and other fuels are to be had in Odisha, the declaration said.
The NDRF has cleared fallen bushes from a maximum of Puri, Khurda, and Bhubaneswar, and normal visitors have resumed.
The Defence Ministry, via unique delivery planes and helicopters, moved drugs and different relief material.
Naval and Coast Guard vessel near Odisha coast have sufficient water substances to be furnished to affected areas.
Reviewing the relief efforts, the Cabinet Secretary directed that officers of primary ministries and agencies work closely with the Odisha government and provide all required assistance expeditiously, the announcement stated.
Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal, participated in the NCMC meeting through video conference.
Senior officers from the ministries of Home Affairs, Defence, Civil Aviation, Railways, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Power, Telecommunications, Steel, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Health, NDMA, and NDRF also attended the assembly.
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We are pleased to shine the #healthynurse spotlight on Jeanne Harris, BSN, RN. Through an amazing fitness journey, Jeanne lost weight and is now a certified Zumba and yoga instructor.
My name is Jeanne Harris, I live in Pensacola Florida and am a Registered Nurse at Baptist Hospital 4 West, Cardiac for the last 12 years and co-chair The Health and Wellness Committee. I am so honored to have been recommended to share my fitness journey with Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™.
I am sure my fitness journey will sound a lot like most but it's as individual as we each are and yet is on a similar path. My journey began while I was studying for my BSN. With the long hours of studying, I had little time to exercise and I put on a few extra pounds. The old saying "Freshman 15" turned into the "Senior 40". I knew I had to change my life. It was time for me to shed the extra weight and focus on a healthier me.
My fitness/nutrition journey began one day at a time, one block at a time. Taking it slow, running half a block, walking half a block until I could run a full block without stopping, gasping for air. The weeks progressed, the runs got longer until I was able to participate in my first 5K. I was flying! From that point, I was hooked. Fitness became a way of life.
In 2012 I became a Certified Zumba Instructor–a program designed around dance and fitness choreographed for all ages, sizes, fitness levels and those with physical challenges. Zumba made such an impact on me; I furthered my journey and became certified in several Zumba Specialties: Zumba Gold-slower for the elderly and beginners, Zumba Toning-incorporating lightweights for added resistance, Zumba Step-a slightly higher level of cardio output encouraging endurance levels and balance, Zumba Sentao-incorporating the use of a chair and Zumba Strong-a high intensity fitness training. I became a 200-hour certified yoga teacher several years ago which allowed me to stretch and flex my body and my mind. I decided I wanted to help others on their fitness journeys and became a Beachbody coach. Becoming an instructor, teacher, and coach allows me the opportunity to encourage, motivate, and inspire others to be the best version of themselves that they can be.
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Recommendations for better management of stroke
VOL: 103, ISSUE: 29, PAGE NO: 23
Nerys Hairon
The Royal College of Physicians of London has recently published its National Sentinel Stroke Audit for 2006, which…
The Royal College of Physicians of London has recently published its National Sentinel Stroke Audit for 2006, which includes both organisational and clinical audits (Hoffman et al, 2007). The report says stroke clinicians, managers and politicians can feel proud of advances over the last 10 years but it also highlights a number of key areas where improvements need to be made, through a range of recommendations.
The Department of Health has published a consultation document on a national strategy for stroke this month, detailing its findings so far (DH, 2007). The document sets out the views of six working groups contributing to the development of the strategy (see Box p24 for main themes).
Catheterisation and incontinence
The RCP audit found that overall 29% of patients were catheterised following their stroke. Of these, 35% (about 10% of all stroke admissions) were catheterised because of urinary incontinence. The authors argue that while it is appropriate to catheterise patients in urinary retention, where the patient has been admitted with a catheter in situ or where there is a need for accurate fluid balance monitoring, urinary incontinence per se is not usually an acceptable indication.
The authors point out that catheterisation increases the risk of infection. It is an unpleasant experience for patients and prevents any attempt being made to regain continence. The 10% catheterised overall represents a small reduction in catheterisation for incontinence from 12% in 2004 but the report states that the figure remains 'unacceptably high'.
Effective management of urinary incontinence is extremely important for the patients for whom it is a distressing and disabling complication of stroke. The authors say that just over half of patients with incontinence had any evidence of a written plan to promote continence, stating this is 'appalling', and add: 'This aspect of stroke care should be given the highest priority for service development over the next year.'
The report recommends that, by the time of the 2008 audit, no patient should be catheterised without good reason and all patients should have adequate assessment for the cause of incontinence and a management plan implemented.
Some 34% of patients with atrial fibrillation were discharged on an anticoagulant, the audit found. While not all patients in atrial fibrillation will be suitable for anticoagulation (because of severe stroke, risk of falling and other contraindications), the report states this figure 'is lower than one would predict for ideal stroke management'. Use of anticoagulation has risen since 2001 but is still underused. A key action required is that all patients in atrial fibrillation should be anticoagulated unless there are clearly documented contraindications.
The National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke (Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party, 2004) recommend scanning within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms of stroke to confirm the diagnosis. The report authors said this was achieved in 42% of all patients, worse than the 59% achieved in the 2004 audit and 'unacceptably low'. They added that this round of audit differs from previous rounds in that a much greater proportion of patients were regarded as applicable, which means the standard has therefore become more stringent. Speed of access to imaging needs to be radically improved, the report recommends.
The audit found that of the patients scanned (6,559 with times of stroke and scan known) only 9% had their scan within three hours of stroke. The delay from stroke to brain scan suggests that patients who are not scanned during daytime hours on the day of admission have to wait until the next working day before the scan is performed.
The report recommends that, by 2008, all patients should have brain imaging within a maximum of 24 hours of admission.
Primary and secondary prevention
The audit found that only 9% of admitted patients were recorded as being smokers. There was evidence that most of them had been advised to quit.
Exercise after stroke is valuable as a way of improving fitness and losing weight. However, fewer than half of people who had regained the ability to walk were recorded as having been given advice about exercise.
The report says that nearly all stroke patients should receive dietary advice, particularly about salt intake, cholesterol and calories. Only 42% had any documentation to show this had been provided.
In addition, the audit found that 72% of patients were on an antihypertensive, an antithrombotic, an antiplatelet or a lipid-lowering drug before admission. The authors argue that the fact that so many patients are on antiplatelet agents and antihypertensive drugs before admission highlights an urgent need for research to ascertain whether these drugs should be stopped, continued or changed following an acute stroke.
Care planning
The report highlights that problems remain with stroke patients having timely access to speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and social workers. It warns that not only is this likely to lead to worse outcomes but also will almost certainly increase the time patients spend in hospital.
The authors assert that part of the problem is the 'persistence of policies within the NHS that attempt to provide all 'routine' care between 9am and 5pm Mondays to Fridays'. They add: 'The service needs to acknowledge that illness does not recognise days of the week or times of day.' The report also recommends greater than 90% compliance with the standards for assessment by therapists in the National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke (Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party, 2004) by the time of the next audit.
The report found that inpatient specialist care has made 'enormous progress', with increases in both the proportion of hospitals with a stroke unit (from 79% in 2004 to 91% in 2006) and the size of the units in England. Some 62% of patients in the sample were admitted to a stroke unit during their stay and 54% spent more than half of their stay in a stroke unit, both figures having gone up from 46% and 40% respectively in 2004.
The audit found that patients managed on a stroke unit had considerably better results for the key indicators than patients in other settings. They were much more likely to have a swallow screen, to have started aspirin within 48 hours, been assessed by therapists within recommended time frames and have rehabilitation goals documented.
The RCP report recommends that all trusts managing stroke patients should increase the proportion who spend the majority of their hospital stay on a stroke unit to over 80% by the time of the next audit in 2008.
The audit concluded that the late launch of a national service framework in Wales in 2006 appears to have hindered the development of specialist stroke services in the country, which the authors state need 'urgent attention'. They describe the very low rate of stroke unit provision and admission as 'unacceptable'. The authors say that Wales needs to identify systems to raise the quality of stroke care across the whole patient pathway, particularly through the development of stroke units.
In the general area of staffing and stroke care, the audit found that there remain quite large variations between hospitals in the numbers of professionals employed to deliver stroke care. Consultant nurse posts in stroke are still low in number and over a quarter of hospitals have no form of senior stroke nurse specialist.
- NICE (2007) has recently published an appraisal on alteplase for the treatment of acute ischaemic stroke. It states that alteplase is recommended for acute ischaemic stroke when used by physicians trained and experienced in the management of acute stroke. It should only be administered in centres with facilities that enable it to be used in full accordance with its marketing authorisation.
RECOMMENDATION THEMES IN THE DH CONSULTATION ON STROKE STRATEGY
- 'Time is brain' - this focuses on minimising damage done by a stroke through prompt action in the early hours and days.
- 'Life after stroke' - this looks at improving rehabilitation and support in the months and years following a stroke.
- 'Working together' - this sets out proposals for improved working across disciplines and clinical networks.
- 'Everyone's challenge' - this focuses on improving public awareness, choices in treatment and the involvement of stroke survivors in services.
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Health secretary urged to address gender pay gap in nursing
Nursing leaders have urged the government to do more to address the gender pay gap in nursing and smash the idea that it is "low-paid women's work".
Workforce plan will 'honestly' assess NHS nursing shortages
The chair of national body NHS Improvement, who is leading the development of the forthcoming workforce implementation plan, has today recognised nursing as the priority staffing group where shortages need to be assessed in the health service.
Northern Ireland nurse crisis branded 'public safety issue'
Nurse shortages in Northern Ireland are now a "public safety issue", Royal College of Nursing leaders in the country have warned, as they also seek to ramp up pressure for better pay with a potental ballot on industrial action.
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Tony Roma's Continues Strong Growth in Malaysia
New location in Melaka, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is 11th Tony Roma's in Malaysia
ORLANDO, Fla. – May 19, 2016 – Romacorp, Inc., parent company of Tony Roma's, announces the opening of its newest restaurant, located in the historic Malaysian city of Melaka. This is the 11th restaurant in Malaysia for Romacorp's franchisee, Grand Companions Sdn Bhd, which opened its first Tony Roma's in 2006 at Sunway Pyramid in Selangor, Malaysia. Grand Companions Sdn Bhd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Revenue Valley Sdn Bhd.
"We're incredibly proud of the continued success of Tony Roma's in Malaysia and excited to celebrate our 10th anniversary satisfying the cravings of our Malaysian guests for our world-famous ribs," said Stephen Judge, President and Chief Executive Officer of Romacorp, Inc. "George Ang and the Grand Companions Sdn Bhd team have built a strong brand, and the continued growth of Tony Roma's in Malaysia is a testament to their passion for the brand and commitment to creating incredible guest experiences."
The new Tony Roma's restaurant is located at Mahkota Parade, the city's premier shopping center in the heart of Melaka's historic sites and commercial business center. The restaurant is 4,326 square feet, seats nearly 150 guests, has two TVs, and has covered outdoor seating for guests to relax and enjoy the weather. The restaurant is near notable historical sites including A'Famosa Fort, St. Paul's Church, the Stadthuys, and the Melaka Sultanate Palace, making it the perfect place to take a break from sightseeing with family and friends.
"We are proud to create history once again in a city that is known for its rich heritage," said George Ang, Chief Executive Officer of Revenue Valley Sdn Bhd. "Among many things, Melaka has long been renowned for its diversity in culinary offerings, and now, patrons here can satisfy their cravings for Tony Roma's world-famous ribs right at their doorstep."
About Romacorp, Inc.
Romacorp, Inc., is the parent company of Tony Roma's restaurants, the world's largest casual dining concept specializing in ribs. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Romacorp, Inc. has more than 150 restaurant locations in more than 30 countries and is one of the most globally recognizable names in the industry. The first Tony Roma's restaurant opened more than 40 years ago in North Miami, Florida. For more information about Romacorp, Inc. and Tony Roma's, visit www.tonyromas.com.
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using Bari.Core.Build;
using Bari.Core.Build.BuilderStore;
using Bari.Core.Build.Dependencies.Protocol;
using Bari.Core.Commands.Clean;
using Bari.Core.Model.Discovery;
using Bari.Core.Model.Loader;
using Bari.Core.UI;
using Bari.Plugins.VsCore.Build;
using Bari.Plugins.VsCore.Build.BuilderStore;
using Bari.Plugins.VsCore.Model;
using Bari.Plugins.VsCore.Model.Discovery;
using Bari.Plugins.VsCore.Model.Loader;
using Bari.Plugins.VsCore.Tools.Versions;
using Bari.Plugins.VsCore.VisualStudio;
using Bari.Plugins.VsCore.VisualStudio.SolutionItems;
using Ninject;
using Ninject.Extensions.Factory;
using Ninject.Modules;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Bari.Plugins.VsCore
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The module definition of this bari plugin
    /// </summary>
    public class BariModule: NinjectModule
    {
        private static readonly log4net.ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(typeof (BariModule));

        /// <summary>
        /// Loads the module into the kernel.
        /// </summary>
        public override void Load()
        {
            log.Info("VsCore plugin loaded");

            Bind<IProjectBuilderFactory>().To<VsProjectBuilderFactory>();
            Bind<IProjectPlatformManagement>().To<DefaultProjectPlatformManagement>().InSingletonScope();
            Bind<IProjectPathManagement>().To<DefaultProjectPathManagement>().InSingletonScope();

            Bind<ISolutionItemProvider>().To<SuiteDefinitionSolutionItemProvider>();
            Bind<ISlnBuilderFactory>().ToFactory();

            Bind<ISuiteExplorer>().To<ProjectPathExplorer>();

            var parameters = Kernel.Get<IParameters>();

            if (parameters.UseMono)
                Bind<IMSBuildFactory>().To<XBuildFactory>().InSingletonScope();
            else
                Bind<IMSBuildFactory>().To<MSBuildFactory>().InSingletonScope();
            Bind<IMSBuildRunnerFactory>().ToFactory();

            Bind<IYamlProjectParametersLoader>().To<MSBuildParametersLoader>();

            Bind<IReferenceBuilder>().To<GacReferenceBuilder>().Named("gac");
            Bind<IInSolutionReferenceBuilderFactory>().ToFactory();

            var buildContextFactory = Kernel.Get<IBuildContextFactory>();
            Rebind<IBuildContextFactory>().ToConstant(
                new OptimizingBuildContextFactory(
                    buildContextFactory,
                    Kernel.Get<ICoreBuilderFactory>(),
                    Kernel.Get<IInSolutionReferenceBuilderFactory>(),
                    Kernel.GetAll<IProjectBuilderFactory>()
                )
            ).InSingletonScope();

            // Extending soft-clean behavior
            var predicates = Kernel.Get<ISoftCleanPredicates>();
            predicates.Add(path => path.EndsWith(".vshost.exe"));
            predicates.Add(path => path.EndsWith(".suo"));
            predicates.Add(path => path == "guids");

            var protocolRegistry = Kernel.Get<IDependencyFingerprintProtocolRegistry>();
            protocolRegistry.RegisterEnum(i => (CLRPlatform)i);
            protocolRegistry.RegisterEnum(i => (DebugLevel)i);
            protocolRegistry.RegisterEnum(i => (FrameworkProfile)i);
            protocolRegistry.RegisterEnum(i => (FrameworkVersion)i);
            protocolRegistry.RegisterEnum(i => (WarningLevel)i);
            protocolRegistry.RegisterEnum(i => (MSBuildVersion) i);

            // Stored sln builder
            var store = Kernel.Get<IBuilderStore>();

            var slnBuilderFactory = Kernel.Get<ISlnBuilderFactory>();
            Rebind<ISlnBuilderFactory>().ToConstant(
                new StoredSlnBuilderFactory(slnBuilderFactory, store));
            var msbuildRunnerFactory = Kernel.Get<IMSBuildRunnerFactory>();
            Rebind<IMSBuildRunnerFactory>().ToConstant(
                new StoredMSBuildRunnerFactory(msbuildRunnerFactory, store));
        }
    }
}

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BizReport : Loyalty Marketing : April 17, 2019
Expert: How loyalty programs will impact 2019
Loyalty programs have been part of retailers' marketing bags for decades, but in the digital space new options for loyalty programs appear nearly every year. There are programs that are used between brands, miles/points programs that can be redeemed for products, the list goes on. And last year, a number of big names brands - like Kohl's and Nordstrom's - revamped their programs. We asked one expert how he believes loyalty programs will impact 2019.
Traditional loyalty programs will be revamped
"Last year, we saw several retailers revamp their existing loyalty programs, and I anticipate more will follow suit this year," said Tom Caporaso, CEO, Clarus Commerce. "For example, Kohl's Rewards recently combined Kohl's Charge, Kohl's Cash, and Yes2You Rewards into one platform, Kohl's Rewards, to make the program simpler, more convenient, and bring greater value to customers. Given the average shopper is enrolled in a handful of loyalty programs, it's critical for brands and retailers to listen for customer feedback and iterate their programs accordingly to give them the benefits and experiences they desire."
More retailers will launch premium loyalty programs
"We're also seeing an increasing number of brands and retailers adopt a paid loyalty strategy, either as an added layer to an existing points system or as a standalone program. For example, brands like Lululemon, Wayfair and CVS already offer these, where customers pay a monthly or annual fee to unlock exclusive perks like VIP express checkout, private workshops, bonus products and more. Since they target a brand or retailer's top customers, marketers are realizing a paid strategy can be a key differentiator for driving long-term loyalty," said Caporaso.
Personalization will become even more critical
"As more brands and retailers revamp their loyalty programs, it's essential for them to analyze customer behavior and purchasing data to understand how to personalize the program and individual offerings for each customer. This data can be used to create custom homepages, suggest merchandise pairings and offer experiences that closely fit the shopper's interests and needs. When customers feel their preferences are recognized in their loyalty program, it helps build a deeper, more meaningful connection to the brand and builds consumer trust over time," said Caporaso.
Smart technology will help power more loyalty experiences
"As brands and retailers continue to use technology to improve their brick-and-mortar experiences, they're also starting to view it as a player in their larger strategies as well. For example, Nike holds the gold standard of this with its NYC store," said Caporaso. "The flagship engages consumers by offering advanced digital capabilities, such as the Nike App to help them discover, learn and find the products they want with ease and speed, and a Sneaker Lab where they can customize shoes and view fittings in-store. These technology offerings, coupled with white-glove service, fresh in-store design and NikePlus member-only experiences, help the brand create emotional experiences that attract customers and keep them engaged over time."
Tags: advertising, Clarus Commerce, ecommerce, loyalty marketing, loyalty marketing trends, loyalty programs, retail marketing
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http://www.bizreport.com/2019/04/expert-how-loyalty-programs-will-impact-2019.html


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J.D. University of Connecticut, 1973, with honors LL.M. Duke University, 1977.


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This AI Brought 11 of My Worst 'Seinfeld' Nightmares to Life
The Dall-E Mini is supposed to be a tool for realizing artistic visions. What happens when it gets its hands on a beloved 90's sitcom?
Shoshana Wodinsky
Screenshot: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo)
Artificial intelligence is (rightfully) lampooned for all sorts of reasons, but credit where credit is due: neural networks really know how to make some freakishly beautiful art.
Or at least, that's my opinion after seeing the recent surge of platforms like Midjourney and Google's Imagen that are designed to swallow basic strings of text—"a painting of a flower," say—and spit out such a painting right back at you. And if you haven't any of tried those, maybe you've heard of what has become the most prominent player in this space, DALL-E, which can summon pictures of anything from a hyperrealistic avocado-themed teapot to a hyperrealistic avocado-themed chair, to a painting of a dapper bunny sitting on a park bench. But access to DALL-E (and the new-and-improved DALL-E 2) is currently waitlisted, which leaves wannabe artists like myself sitting on the sidelines.
Thankfully, the art-gods (or more specifically, a Houston-based programmer named Boris Dayma) has taken pity on the unwashed masses without DALL-E access and given us the next best thing: DALL-E Mini, which you can try for yourself. As Dayma puts it, the tool is a bare-bones, open source version of its namesake, that anyone can access and run freely in their browser.
Dayma has noted in interviews that the model underlying the tool is still training, which means the results Mini gives aren't necessarily as polished as the OG DALL-E's. It also might take a minute or two for the AI to work its magic (and you might need to resubmit that request a few times), but in the end, if you tell DALL-E Mini to imagine up "a buff picture of the Duolingo owl," then yeah, the tool's going to spit that out. And if you tell it to imagine up "the night terrors someone only experiences by passing out during a multi-hour Seinfeld marathon," you get the images that follow here.
"Newman from Seinfeld with a face drawn by Rothko"
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To get the hang of using the DALL-E Mini, I wanted to try merging iconic stars from the 90's sitcom with iconic works of American art. Seinfeld might seem like a weird choice, but think about it: like any red-blooded, nostalgia-hungry millennial, I'm intimately familiar with the overall aesthetic of Jerry, Kramer, Elaine and Pals. You probably are, too. That means whenever this tool coughs up its rendition of these iconic characters, you'll know, right off the bat, how accurate or deeply deeply wrong those renditions are.
Case in point: if you're familiar with the show, the name "Newman" instantly conjures up images of an antagonistic fleshy weirdo in aviator-style glasses. The early drawings of famed Latvian-American painter Mark Rothko were dominated by similarly lumpy, fleshy figures before the artist moved onto Big Ol Blocks O Color, so I figured I'd throw these two names into the DALL-E and see what came out. All things considered, I'd say it did a pretty good job!
"Jerry Seinfeld drinking coffee in the style of Francis Bacon"
Writing about the polarizing work of Francis Bacon in for the New Yorker in 2009, art critic Peter Schjeldahl noted that the artists' entire career was based on work that "mobilized an emotion of energetic, strangely energizing despair." Given that the guy was most known for vividly disturbing paintings of screaming priests and mutilated nudes, I was curious what it might look like if Bacon turned his attention to noted standup comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
And I wish I could tell you, but the results just... don't look like the guy. They certainly look like something Bacon himself would conjure up—they all have the warped facial features faces and mostly-muted palette that are a hallmark of his work. They definitely look unsettling enough, but they just aren't Jerry, at least to this particular Seinfeld-fan.
"George Costanza with tentacles in the style of ceramic sculpture"
Satisfied that DALL-E could spit out works that both kinda did and totally did not portray the lovable stars of the hit 90's sitcom, I wanted to get a bit weird with it. How far could I tell this machine to stretch a picture of Elaine, or Kramer, or Jerry, before it started looking like someone else?
If Tentacle George is any indication, the answer is pretty damn far. Somehow, in the ceramic figurines that DALL-E produced here, it managed to catch the shapes that make George look like George (at least from the waist up). Tentacle George has tentacles, yeah, but it also has the character's rapidly receding hairline and famed drip. Even though it doesn't have much of a face, there's still the suggestion that Tentacle George wears glasses. All he needs is an iconic answering machine message and some awkward romantic flings and he'd be a dead ringer for the OG Costanza.
"Elaine Benes drinking from a lava lamp in the style of Rembrandt"
Quick disclaimer—though it depends on the contents, it's safe to say that drinking the contents of a lava lamp probably won't kill you. You will definitely have a bad time though, which is what I'm assuming Elaine is experiencing here. I'm certainly having a bad time looking at her. She might also be having a bad time because DALL-E took my request for a Rembrandt-style painting as an invitation to turn her into one of the pilgrims that the artist was so fond of painting. It's one thing to be subjected to an AI-generated reality where you're forced to reckon with the gastrointestinal consequences of your beverage choices; it's another to wear starchy, heavy, hella unflattering pilgrim garb at the same time.
"Cosmo Kramer drowning in slime in the style of de Kooning"
Right off the bat, DALL-E Mini's results aren't giving me vibes from the abstract artist Willem de Kooning—save for the one result that popped him in what looks like a literal gallery of de Kooning's work. What they are giving me is slime, and Kramer, and one picture of Kramer sinking in slime, so I'm going to consider this a win.
I mean, it's also giving me one picture of him seemingly without a head. And a bunch of him without eyes. Let's call this a win. A soft win. Maybe not a win.
"Balloon animal jerry Seinfeld"
This request, unlike its fellows, is an utter disappointment. I wanted Jerry Seinfeld immortalized in a squishy balloon form, and got... well, I'm not sure what I got. They're ostensibly balloons, but I'm not sure if we could call them "animals." They vaguely resemble the shiny dogs of Jeff Koons. There are limbs going nowhere, growths without beginning or end, and heads that just aren't heads.
"Cosmo Kramer lost in a Walmart in the style of Dali"
This one gets most of it right: there's a Kramer-esque figure in the foreground, a Walmart-esque setting in the background, and somewhat(?) Dali-ish technicolor hues decorating some of the results. Perhaps an AI's art style is already Dali-esque without the qualifier in my request. But why is Kramer in a trench coat in most of these? Why does his entire face look like it's melting now? What's up with his meaty hands? Are those hands? How is his hair still immaculate in spite of all this? Questions aside, I hope he finds whatever groceries his little Kramer heart desires.
"Seinfeld's rotting apartment in the style of Jackson Pollock"
I'm gonna give DALL-E the benefit of the doubt here. These images might look nothing like the chaotic, splattered paintings from Jackson Pollock, but it would have been tough for anyone to recreate Jerry's upper west side pad in that style. Instead, it looks like the AI chose to forego that request and spit out a pretty basic reimagining of the Seinfeld HQ. There's a bit of the diffuse light and color of Georges Seurat's Pointillism there. Then again, "pretty basic" by artificial intelligence standards means that each result kind of looks like a living room hang sesh that's been dredged up from some infernal depths that nobody was ever meant to witness.
"George Costanza at the dentist in the style of Michelangelo"
I may never stop being impressed by the DALL-E Mini's ability to somehow conjure "Costanza" via some image that's barely recognizable as human. I'm also glad that in a few results, DALL-E took pity on the guy and seemingly gave him his own dental practice instead of putting him in the dreaded dentists' chair.
"Elaine Benes encounters Satan in the style of Hieronymus Bosch"
This one's just another disappointment. I'm getting hella Bosch vibes from these results—each work has the same kind of lush, manic energy you'd get from works like The Garden of Earthly Delights. But without Elaine or Satan (or anything Elaine or Satan-adjacent), it looks like DALL-E decided to lean hard on the art-inspo while foregoing everything else I'd asked for. Sad face.
"Jerry Seinfeld's final standup"
For this one, I nixed the art-inspo because I really just wanted to see how DALL-E would interpret something finite. Telling the algo to dream up something like a fake Seinfeld stand-up set is one thing—hell, there's plenty for the machine to get trained on—but a "final" set implies something else.
DALL-E seems to understand that, and outfitted Jerry accordingly. His hair is thinning and gray now, and he's wearing a suit that's magnitudes more formal than the cheese that he'd sport during his standup sets on the show. The same way that DALL-E did its best to cobble together something couch-like in response to my request for a living room, it's doing its best to cobble something together resembling a comedy legends' last moments onstage—and at the very least, he's smiling.


At first I thought this was a silly idea for a book. Who joins a boyfriend swapping club? And for a scarf? Okay, that's a bit unfair, Brooke joins the club to boost her popularity, but it's still a silly reason to join a club that could risk your supposedly serious relationship. Anyway, I grew to like Brooke and her silliness in the end, and I even found myself hoping she'd out smart Cassie so I guess I enjoyed this in the end. Recommended for a very, very light read, if you're into YA contemporary romance.


Choosing to develop for Mono no longer means that you're also have to throw away the advantages that integrated IDEs provide. Instead, you have a wide—and growing—range of Mono IDE options.
Author's Note: This article assumes a basic understanding of the Mono platform, the C# programming language and the mechanics of the .NET framework. If you are new to Mono development, I'd suggest reading the article An Introduction to Mono Development before proceeding.
mono (when specifying the -aot command option) ngen Performs a pre-compilation of an assembly's CIL code.
While it is certainly true that you can make use of the Mono command line tools and your text editor of choice to build any sort of .NET application, raw command line tools offer little by way of developer productivity. But if you've always believed you'd have to give up the comforts of an IDE to develop for Mono, think again. This article provides a high-level survey of three Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that can facilitate the construction of Mono applications. As you can gather from Table 2, some of these tools are open source. Each targets a particular set of Mono-aware operating systems.
Table 2. Here's a sampling of Mono-aware IDEs.
Mono-aware IDE Runs on Windows? Runs on Unix \ Linux? Runs on Mac OS X? Open Source?
Author's Note: Technically it is possible to install MonoDevelop on Windows using the cygwin Unix-emulation environment; however I won't examine this topic here.
The purpose of this article is not to provide details regarding every option or feature provided by each IDE (menu choices, use of the visual designers, building custom code snippets, etc), but rather to show you the core details required to compile C# code against the Mono base class libraries and run the assembly under the Mono runtime.


Whatever your startup path may be, make sure you build something that customers want.
Do you have a business idea that, you feel, has tremendous potential. You probably gained the insight by solving a problem you once faced. Brilliant! Today's most successful companies were created because of that very type of insight.
But when you're solving your own problem or one that you feel is the pain point of a certain target audience, how do you know whether there is a large enough pool of people that face the same problems you are trying to solve?
If you're just selling a product, you're better off creating it and getting it to the market. But if you want to build a business out of it, you need a sizable market for scalability.
So the next logical question that most entrepreneurs ask themselves is this: How do I determine market demand for my startup idea?
Decipher market demand with Google.
Deciphering market demand can be as simple as looking up your idea on Google because it has most of the answers you'll need. So, how exactly can Google to help you? Start by using the Google Adwords keyword tool to quantify the number of people seeking out your business idea.
Type the keyword(s) in the search box, select the target country or countries and Google will show you the number of average local and global monthly searches. This is a really good indicator of demand.
"Market research and business planning are overrated. The best market research is putting a product out and seeing if people will buy it. The best business plan is to create something great and sell it fast," says Guy Kawasaki, a Silicon Valley author, speaker, investor and business advisor.
Writing a business plan with projections through market research is a quick way to startup doomsday. Nothing beats an actual customer using your product or service. So, how do you get to the customer when you're at the idea stage and don't want to go broke building something they might not want?
Build a minimum viable product (MVP) or a prototype. The idea is to put out something that offers the core value or your startup or solves the core problem of your customers. The MVP could be a PowerPoint slide, a dialogue box or just a landing page. This is something that you can often build it in a day or a week. A prototype can be an actual functioning product with core features. Share this with your network and gauge the response.
Create an online landing page.
You may not have a product yet, but it is still important to get customer buy-in. If this is your plan, then landing pages are a startup's best friend. Create a teaser or promotional landing page, which highlights the core proposition of your startup. Turnplay, a vinyl record playing app for iPad, illustrates a great example of a landing page that does just that.
Ask for a visitor's email addresses in return for an offer or simply to share updates about the startup as you go to market. The number of email subscribers will determine how many people are interested in your startup.
Try using Launchrock or KickoffLabs to create your landing page. To increase traffic, create a Google Adwords and Facebook marketing campaign. Point the advertisements to your new landing page to drive traffic. Use Google Search and Network Partners to spread the campaign to a larger number of people. You would much rather spend a little money to be sure your business idea is marketable, than spend a fortune building a product that customers don't want.
Leverage the power of the crowd.
Crowdfunding is an excellent platform to solicit actual buy-in for your product or service. This concept has increasingly becoming popular with the likes Kickstarter, RocketHub, and Indiegogo launching online crowdfunding platforms to bring startups looking for funding and individual donors together.
Apart from securing funding for your startup, you can also learn how many people are actually interested in your product or service. If donors are interested enough they will pledge their money. Here's a list that showcases the most funded projects on Kickstarter, as an example.
Rahul Varshneya is a startup coach and the co-founder of Arkenea, an enterprise mobility and cloud solutions provider. He writes on starting up and mobile strategy at http://rahulvarshneya.com/blog. This post originally appeared on the author's blog.