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Published on Monday 1 July 2019
Janet van den Brand's Ceres invited to the Berlinale
The documentary film Ceres by Brussels-based Dutch director Janet van den Brand has been selected for the Berlin International Film Festival (15-25 February), where it will be in competition in the Generation Kplus programme.
Ceres is an intimate portrait of four children as they experience the natural cycle of life on a farm. The film explores the world through their eyes and examines their relationship to nature and human society.
Published on Wednesday 17 January 2018
Erwin Provoost named next CEO of Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
Erwin Provoost is to become the next CEO of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), it was announced by the organisation's Board. Provoost will succeed Pierre Drouot, who was appointed CEO in 2005.
In the early 1980s he created his own company, Multimedia (later MMG), which shook up the dormant Flemish film scene with movies such as Brussels by Night (1983), Istanbul (1985) and Crazy Love (1987). Besides winning artistic acclaim, Provoost was also responsible for some of the highest grossing domestic hits in Belgium.
Published on Tuesday 4 July 2017
Flemish video artists in the spotlight at Art Cologne
This year, Germany's international art fair Art Cologne (16-19 April) shines a light on film and video work from Flanders and Brussels. Under the title 'Flanders Moving Image', work by artists such as Nicolas Provost, Johan Grimonprez and Dora García will be presented.
The curators are Professor Philippe Pirotte, rector of the University of Visual Arts, and Fabian Schöneich, curator at the Portikus exposition space in Frankfurt am Main; they offer a focused look into the artistic production of Belgium without emphasising a specific generation or theme.
Published on Monday 30 March 2015
TorinoFilmLab selects three filmmakers from Flanders
Nicolas Provost and screenwriting duo Gilles Coulier and Tom Dupont have been selected for ScriptΠtch, an advanced script development course for writers and directors of feature films organised by the TorinoFilmLab.
Every year, a maximum of 12 projects are selected for the TorinoFilmLab ScriptΠtch workshop. The Lab's workshop offers participants the opportunity to develop their screenplay under the supervision of internationally renowned experts. They subsequently get the chance to pitch the project to producers and sales agents during the final TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event.
Published on Thursday 5 February 2015
Flanders Audiovisual Fund hands out grants to six young filmmakers
The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) has announced this year's Wildcard winners: six promising young filmmakers who will each receive a grant of between €25,000 and €60,000 to develop their first professional film. Raphaël Crombez and Miwako Van Weyenberg were winners in the fiction section, with Ruben Desiere and Kwinten Gernay each receiving a documentary Wildcard. The animation grant went to Laura Vandewynckel, with Christina Stuhlberger getting the Wildcard in the filmlab section.
Since it was introduced in 2005, the Fund's competition has established itself as Belgium's prime awards programme when it comes to launching new talent. Six grants are handed out: three worth €60,000 go to one animation project and two fiction shorts; the two documentary winners each get €40,000; and the Wildcard in the filmlab section comes with a prize of €25,000.
Published on Thursday 4 December 2014
Two to Marseille
Sequenza, an experimental short film by Manon de Boer en George Van Dam is selected for the parallel programme 'La java de la source' at FIDMarseille (1-7 July), Marseille's International Film Festival which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Fanny Zaman's upcoming film Carpets is also one of 10 participating projects at FIDLab, the festival's co-production platform.
Sequenza found its way into one of the parallel sections at FIDMarseille, whith 'La java de la source' focusing on the theme of sound. For their 14-minute experimental film project, Manon de Boer and George Van Dam took Sequenza VIII for solo violin by composer Luciano Berio as a starting point.
Published on Thursday 5 June 2014
Flemish filmgoers prove that talent mattered in 2013
Belgian films made in Flanders corner the market and bring home the prizes.
'Talent Matters' is the familiar slogan for promoting Belgian films made in Flanders. And talent certainly matters for Belgian audiences, who turned out in impressive numbers for local films in 2013.
At home, almost two million moviegoers bought tickets to Flemish films in 2013 – a 17% increase on 2012. More impressively still, over three quarters of the national admissions for Belgian films were for movies made in Flanders.
Published on Saturday 17 May 2014
Provost's Tokyo Giants takes Bilbao's main prize
Nicolas Provost's short film Tokyo Giants has nabbed the main prize at Zinebi – the International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao (15-22 November). This is the second award in the space of seven days for Tokyo Giants, which also screened at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles last week.
Set in the hyper kinetic streets of Tokyo, the short film is the final chapter in Provost's Plot Point trilogy. After Plot Point (2007), for which the filmmaker shot on the streets of New York, and Stardust (2010), which was filmed in Las Vegas, he took his hidden camera to Tokyo in search of the mystery of reality.
Published on Saturday 23 November 2013
Cherry Blossoms receives Special Mention at FIDOCS Chile
The experimental short film Cherry Blossoms by An Van Dienderen received a Special Mention by the Short Film Jury at FIDOCS Chile (24 – 29 June). Cherry Blossoms has already finished screenings at festivals such as FIDMarseille earlier this month, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen last May and the Créteil International Women's Film Festival in March.
FIDOCS, the International Documentary Films Festival in Santiago, Chile, founded in 1997, plays more than 90 films during six days. Its mission is to offer people the opportunity to discover as much films as possible. FIDOCS has become one of the most important spaces for sharing and discussing documentary films in Latin America. The festival's current edition hosted three separate competitions and aimed at pushing the boundaries of the definition of documentary. Cherry Blossoms screened in the fest's International Competition section "Monsieur Guillaume", where it was awarded a Special Mention by the Jury.
Published on Tuesday 16 July 2013
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The Maquis Vallier was one of the maquis groups of resistance fighters during World War II. The maquis operated in the north of the Var département, particularly in the valley of the Verdon.

The maquis Vallier was initially part of the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR) organization, before becoming the primary structure of the Armée secrète (AS) in its zone. In 1944, it was under the authority of the comité départemental de libération.

The maquis Vallier was led by the Lieutenant Claude Vallier (Gleb Sivirine). Like many maquis in that region, the maquis Vallier did not participate directly in the liberation of its sector, but joined the Massif des Maures and the coast in August 1944 to support the Provence landings.

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 Jean-Marie Guillon, Les années de guerre dans le pays du Verdon varois, in verdon no 6, automne 2001, p 90–104 (French).
 Lieutenant Vallier-Gleb Sivirine, « Le Cahier rouge du maquis », & Claude et Jean-Michel Sivirine « L'Homme boussole », éd. Paroles, 2007.(French)

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Vince McMahon Loses $350M in One Day
Pro-wrestling juggernaut, WWE's stock plummeted more than 40% last week; with shares going from around $20 on May 15 to under $11 on May 16. The hit is said to have cost burly CEO, Vince McMahon (PeekYou profile here), over $350 Million; about a third of his fortune.
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Home of the perfect wave, Waikiki is one of the best-loved places in Hawaii to soak up the sun and sea. Head down to Waikiki Beach, a two-mile strip of powdery white sand, where you can take a dip in the turquoise waters and admire the gorgeous Hawaiian sunset.
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Set on the west coast of the Big Island (Hawaii Island), Kailua-Kona was once the playground of Hawaiian royalty. Today, it's a vibrant village and our Local Specialists will show you the dazzling white Kona Hawaii Temple and introduce you to Kona's coffee culture with a visit to a local coffee plantation.
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Dive to the depths of Maui's underwater world with a visit to the Maui Ocean Centre. We'll introduce you to the passionate conservation naturalists who will show you around the largest tropical reef aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, filled with sharks, Hawaiian green sea turtles, live Pacific coral and thousands of tropical fish.
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The USS Missouri memorial is dedicated to preserving the famous ship and her story, documenting the ship from the first launch in 1944 until today. As the site where WWII formally ended, the USS Missouri is one of the most important artifacts of the war.
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The Bishop Museum is the largest museum in Hawaii and houses the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and over 24 million natural history specimens. There's also a number of interactive displays, with planetarium shows and a Science Adventure Center.
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Built in 1882 in Honolulu, the grand Iolani Palace was once the home of Hawaii's reigning monarchs. Today it's a Natural Historic Landmark and a living restoration of Hawaiian culture where you'll discover the royal histories of King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani.
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LISTEN: New Jack White - Over and Over and Over
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source: https://youtu.be/8n0PUXewaC0
Jack White just dropped another song from his new album "Boarding House Reach", Over and Over and Over.
White has described this song as his "white whale". He's tried to record it a bunch of times, including with The White Stripes and Jay-Z. In an interview with Rolling Stone he says "I chased it and chased it, and finally, all of a sudden it worked"
Listen to Over and Over and Over here, and get ready for some huge backing vocals:
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NEW YORK – For their technical excellence, creative insights, and unswerving commitment to our clients, Berdon LLP is pleased to announce that the following professionals have been admitted to the partnership effective January 1, 2017.
Mr. Chilkowitz is Chair of Valuation Services within Berdon LLP's Litigation, Valuation and Dispute Resolution Group. Over a 20-year career, he has developed broad-based experience in valuation, damages, financial consulting, and auditing. He has particular experience in valuing closely held companies for estate and gift tax reporting, litigation matters, and transactions, and calculating damages for complex litigation matters. Mr. Chilkowitz has supported his opinions in front of the Internal Revenue Service and has testified as an expert witness in both federal and state litigation matters.
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The 20-year-old cyclist killed by a hit and run driver is being remembered as a "brilliant friend" with an infectious smile.
Daunte Thompson-Bruce was struck and killed on Ninth Line near Bethesda Sideroad in Whitchurch-Stouffville on May 22. York Regional Police responded to a call at about 6 a.m. after a passerby noticed the cyclist on the roadside. The vehicle that struck Thompson-Bruce didn't remain on scene and that's where the Seneca College student succumbed to his injuries.
His parents, Felicia Thompson and Dwayne Bruce, learned of their son's death while celebrating his younger brother's birthday. They stood together at a news conference at police headquarters on May 23 and urged the driver to come forward.
"Throughout high school, he ran track, that was his passion," Thompson said. "He always said it made him feel free." According to his LinkedIn profile, Thompson-Bruce previously worked at Dollarama and Ressor Farm Market.
A GoFundMe page was established to help cover funeral costs and raised nearly $11,000 within its first day.
Many others echoed those sentiments. "Daunte, thank you for always smiling and spreading happiness," another friend wrote.
Investigators believe Thompson-Bruce was biking south on Ninth Line between 2 and 6 a.m. when he was struck by a vehicle. According to reports, evidence collected points to the car also travelling southbound.
Police are asking anyone in the area between 2 and 6 a.m. who might have seen the cyclist or those aware of a vehicle with fresh damage to contact the Major Collision Investigation Unit at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7704; Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 1-800-222-TIPS; or leave an anonymous tip online at 1800222tips.com.


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Q: PATCH Call with $batch changeset How does the SAP NetWeaver GateWay know which row in a table to update using PATCH?
Let's say I have a form, and update the 'description' for an item, how would SAP know to update the description for the item the form is for?
The form has the KEY but this is not passed back to the PATCH call because it's not been changed...

A: The PATCH-method works by calling the GET_ENTITY-method for your entity, merging existing data with the data you want to patch, and then running the UPDATE-method that is provided with the merged data.
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Q: SharePoint List custom 'new' form: translate field labels I'm building a system that uses SharePoint lists to present forms to our website visitors, and these visitors can select a language preference for our website, so the form should be presented in that language. When I create my list, I'm specifying columns like "firstname" and "email", which of courses uses these as field labels on the form. I'd like to change "firstname" to be "Prénom" and "Adresse E-mail" when the form is viewed in French.
Is there a way that can I add C# code to a custom form for this list, so that I can locate and change the field labels?
If I had a text file (or something similar) could this be done with JavaScript instead? The preference is C#, as I already have code that gets the translations from another list, but if I have to use a non-C# method, than that might be OK.
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A: As I understand by Tag you use your custom form. If you can invoke methods into code behind you can try to use SPUtility.GetLocalizedString Method
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If you use you custom list definishion you can try to localize fields by $Resources methods.
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     Type="User" List="UserInfo" ShowField="NameWithPicture"
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A: For this answer to help you'll need to be able to access the chosen language using javascript. If the language that has been chosen by the user is in the querystring, check out this post.
By adding a Content Editor Web Part to the form and referencing an HTML file that contains the necessary javascript / jquery, the NewForm.aspx labels can be updated. If you're new to working with jQuery in SharePoint, this blog shows how to setup this solution.
You could use this JQuery selector to find the email label and set it to the French version:
$('td.ms-formlabel h3.ms-standardheader nobr:contains("email")').text('Adresse E-mail');

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La Liga Team of the Week: Alves & Alexis alongside Cristiano Ronaldo
Barcelona's much-maligned pair were back on form at the weekend as the Catalans beat Deportivo La Coruna, while the Portuguese netted a double in Real Madrid's win at Celta Vigo
Barcelona stay well clear at the top of the Primera Division after beating Deportivo La Coruna 2-0 at Camp Nou on Saturday, but Real Madrid moved second after they defeated Celta Vigo 2-1 at Balaidos and Atletico lost their perfect home record with a surprise 1-0 loss to Real Sociedad.
Here, Goal.com takes a look at the standout performers from the latest round of Liga action.
In goal, Gorka Iraizoz helped keep Valencia at bay with some fine saves as Athletic Bilbao beat Ernesto Valverde's side by a single strike at San Mames.
At the back, Dani Alves and Carles Puyol both impressed for Barcelona as the Catalans kept a clean sheet for the first time in 14 games, while the Brazilian superbly set up the first goal for Alexis Sanchez. Martin Demichelis was solid for Malaga, meanwhile, as the Andalusians claimed a point at Valladolid.
In midfield, Pedro Rios impressed for Levante against his old club Getafe but was without reward as the teams drew 0-0. Chori Dominguez led Rayo Vallecano to a fine win over Espanyol and scored the first goal for the Madrid side, while Giovani dos Santos set up both goals for Mallorca against Sevilla and Antoine Griezmann helped Real Sociedad to an unexpected victory over Atletico.
Cristiano Ronaldo was decisive with both goals for Real Madrid at Celta Vigo, while Alexis Sanchez was back on form as he set Barca on their way to a 2-0 win over Deportivo. Alejandro Alfaro was in the right place at the right time to give Mallorca all three points against his former club Sevilla with both goals and he completes this week's XI.
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Akitachi Plus is a website with tourist information on sightseeing spots, festivals, restaurants, lodging, hot springs, and other places of interest in Akita City.
In addition to Japanese, the site can be accessed in English, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Korean, and Thai.
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Senshu Park: A Japanese garden showcasing the four seasons
Spring/Cherry Blossom Festival in Senshu Park
Summer/Lotus flowers in the moat
Autumn/Autumn leaves at the front gate of Kubota Castle
Winter/The seasonal tradition "Yukitsuri" (placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow)
The trees of Senshu Park come into view after walking about 10 minutes from Akita Station. Here you will find changing scenery reflecting the seasons and the ancient and honorable history of the 200,000-goku Akita Domain. Even today the ruins of the castle that stood during the Edo period continue exist, projecting itself onto the changing seasons and the elegance of the Japanese garden.
The first lord of the Akita Domain, Satake Yoshinobu, was forced to relocate to Akita from Hitachi in 1602 after the Battle of Sekigahara. Here he built Kubota Castle the following year, making use of the natural elevation.The ruins of the castle now comprise Senshu Park. The castle was a low mountain castle with no tower and almost no stonewalls. The castle was surrounded by moat and earthwork. The water-filled moat now serves as a vestige of those early days. The Akita Domain continued for 12 generations and came to an end in 1869 with the return of the lands and people to the emperor. In the Meiji era, the grounds were transformed into a beautiful Japanese garden based on a design by landscape architect Nagaoka Yasuhei. Why not come and enjoy a stroll to view the cherry blossoms and azaleas and experience the remnants of the Edo period?
Experience history while taking a leisurely stroll
Kubota Castle's Osumiyagura Turret
Yojiro Inari Shrine
Ninomaru Square
Akita City Satake Historical Museum
Omonogashira-gobansho Guard House
Otemon (central gate) moat and Anamon (side gate) moat face Hirokoji street running from Akita Station. While harkening back to the Edo period, the moats reflect the green foliage of Senshu Park to provide a beautiful view.
Following Nakadobashi Street up the hill brings one to Ninomaru Square with its expansive lawn and gazebo. This plaza is where the lord of the Akita Domain is said to have watched Noh plays, Bon festival dancing, and other performances. It is aplace for recreation and relaxation.
Satake Historical Museum houses historical materials that introduce visitors to the workings of the feudal administration in Akita by exhibiting materials related to the Akita Domain and the Satake clan. The Satake clan, a distinguished family descended from the Minamoto clan, is one of the oldest and most prestigious in Japan. The museum serves as an excellent primer to the history of the Satake clan and the origins of this castle town.
This is the only government building that remains within Kubota Castle from the days of the feudal administration. It served as a guard post where samurai in command of a troop of foot soldiers would open and close the Ninomaru Gate (Nagasaka Gate), guard the castle, and fight fires.
There were originally eight turrets within Kubota Castle, one of which has been reproduced on a hill north of the castle proper. Osumiyagura Turret was vital to protecting the Castle, serving as a lookout point and armory. Today, it is a familiar symbol of Senshu Park, with its observation deck providing a wonderful view of the city below.
Kubota Castle's Main Gate
This was a grand main gate in a critical location that once served as the entrance to the castle proper. It has been reproduced as a two-story wooden, tile-roofed gate based on drawings and other historical documents. The gate was well protected, with a clerk's office tasked with guarding and managing the gate located to the south, and Omonogashira-gobansho Guard House Guard Station below to watch for intruders.
This shrine is dedicated to the sad legend of Yojiro the Fox. One day, a fox appeared before Sir Satake Yoshinobu, who built Kubota Castle on Mt. Shinmei, which is currently Senshu Park. The fox said to him, "I would like you to give me a place to live as the construction of your castle has displaced me. If you grant me this wish, I am sure that I can be of service to you." Sir Yoshinobu bestowed upon the fox a place near the tea garden and thereafter called him "Tea Garden Protector Yojiro." Yojiro the Fox served admirably as a messenger, able to travel to Edo and back in only 6 days, but he fell into a trap set by other messengers who had lost their jobs and was killed. The spirit of Yojiro was enshrined in Yojiro Inari Shrine by Sir Yoshinobu, who lamented his regrettable death.
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"Sen'an" is an authentic tearoom with a quiet atmosphere located in a corner of Senshu Park. It is said that the boat-shaped wash basin in the tea garden was brought back by Kato Kiyomasa after the invasion of Korea and placed in Osaka Castle, and was subsequently given to the East Satake through the kind offices of Ishida Mitsunari.
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Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
URMC / Pathology & Laboratory Medicine / Read Our Blog / April 2018
Alumni Q&A: Bronwyn Bryant, M.D. Practicing Pathology at U. Vermont
Dr. Bronwyn Bryant is one of the many UR School of Medicine and Dentistry graduates making their mark in the field of pathology.
She graduated UR with her medical degree in 2011 and went on to do her pathology residency at the University of Washington. Later, she completed two fellowships in gynecologic pathology and surgical pathology, respectively, at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Bryant is now assistant professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (specializing in gyn.) and associate program director of the pathology residency program at the University of Vermont, where she began working in August 2017.
Here, she shares more about how she entered the field and what inspires her to this day.
Does your current role allow you to do research, and if so, what are you currently working on?
My academic interests are focused on medical education. I'm currently looking at feedback and evaluation methods for our residents in their surgical pathology rotation by utilizing entrustable professional activities (EPAs).
What first sparked your interest in pathology?
Before starting medical school, I worked as a research assistant for a pathologist (Dr. Kim Boekelheide) at Brown University. I spent a lot of time in front of a microscope at this job. I enjoyed learning bits of morphology, and knew I would enjoy a career with so much microscope work.
I entered medical school thinking about pathology. I loved histology labs and helping my fellow classmates see the morphology. During my first two years of medical school, I attended the weekly autopsy case review whenever I could.
I tried to keep an open mind going into my clerkships, but after a surgical pathology elective in my third year, I was 100 percent sure I wanted to be a pathologist.
When you look back on your time here at URSMD, is there a particular person or experience that made a particular impact on you?
I remember Dr. Linda Schiffhauer presenting at the beginning of our second year Disease Processes and Therapeutics course. She was exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up to be a doctor. I quickly sought her out as a mentor to help shape my career towards academic practice and education.
I always knew I wanted to teach, and my experience in the Medical Education Pathway at UR gave me my first taste of education theory and training, which I've been developing and building on ever since.
How do you like to spend your free time outside of work?
Gardening, hiking and cross-country skiing, knitting, and cooking.
Tell us about your family.
I adopted a mutt named Nutmeg (named after nutmeg liver) during my last year in residency, and she is pure mischief and snuggles. When we moved to Michigan, she found my wonderful boyfriend, John, who is now finishing his Pathology residency at the University of Michigan.
What advice would you give up-and-coming pathology trainees looking to start their careers?
Keep an eye out for doors that open for you, as you'll never know what opportunities may come your way, where they may lead, and what you may learn from them.
First Graduates of Medical Technology Program Plan to Join URMC
Each person to graduate from URMC's first in-house clinical laboratory technology training program has tentatively accepted a job at UR Medicine Labs at Strong Memorial Hospital where the group is expected to start work this summer.
This is welcome news for the institution, and comes at a time when the number of available licensed medical technologists in New York State is critically low.
The training program was launched in 2017 after URMC ended a longtime partnership with Rochester Regional Health. The curriculum is comprehensive, including both lectures and hands-on work under one roof. Students receive instruction from technical staff and supervisors who work in the clinical labs, as well as Pathology and Laboratory Medicine faculty.
In its first year, the lab education team already views this program as a direct pipeline of licensed staff to help combat the statewide shortage. Upon their hiring, the 11 new graduates plan to work in labs including Clinical Microbiology, Automated (Chemistry) Lab, Flow Cytometry, and Toxicology.
"I am very excited by the success of our first graduating class," said Melissa Allen, director of operations for UR Medicine Labs. "This is a testament to the hard work of everyone involved from our education manager, education coordinators, bench-level trainers, faculty, staff, and students."
UR Medicine Labs supports an ever growing service region that performs testing for patients of affiliate hospitals including Strong Memorial, Highland, Strong West, FF Thompson (Canandaigua), St. James Mercy (Hornell), Noyes (Dansville), and Jones Memorial (Wellsville).
It also has more than 40 draw clinics scattered across Monroe, Genesee, Allegany, Steuben, and Livingston Counties to provide convenient options for patients.
UR Medicine Labs staff collectively performed more than 8 million patient tests in 2017 alone.
To learn more about the medical technology training program or to apply, visit their website.
Janet Sparks, Ph.D., was a Model Scientist and Mentor to Many
Her colleagues have described her as a hidden gem, a well- kept secret, and even "human dynamite." Dr. Janet Sparks, whose life ended suddenly in December 2017, had a career at URMC spanning more than three decades. Her accomplishments and legacy as both a researcher and mentor continue to impact those who had the chance to work alongside her.
Janet began her career as a medical technologist at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned bachelor's degrees in medical technology and biology and, later, her Ph.D. While she ultimately pursued basic research, having a background in the clinical labs helped shape her perspective and understanding of disease.
Janet met her future husband, Dr. Charles ("Charlie") Sparks, while she was working as a med tech at U. Penn. They were married in 1977, starting a longstanding personal and professional partnership. Both were hired onto the Pathology faculty at URMC where he worked primarily as a clinical pathologist and she ran the Sparks research lab.
The two collaborated on projects related primarily to cardiovascular diabetes. Their working relationship was built on mutual respect, explained Charlie, who says Janet was a devoted mother to their three children in addition to taking her work very seriously. Having the opportunity to work as a husband-wife team was, as he says, a privilege.
"When two people work together that closely, it could be good or bad," said Charlie. "We would only argue about science so that by the time we got home, there was no time to argue about anything else."
They continued this work after moving to Florida and split time between living there and at their longtime Pittsford home. At the time of her death (related to complications related to a myocardial infarction) the pair had a research collaboration with the University of South Florida. Janet had submitted an NIH grant that, at the time of this writing, was still awaiting approval. Charlie says he hopes to continue the work in her honor.
"I felt very good about the research we were doing and I would like to see it completed," he said.
Across the University, many former colleagues and trainees have shared their memories of Janet – describing her as kind, driven, and a dedicated scientist.
One of her many mentees over the years was Dr. Jim Corsetti. He first crossed paths with her as a resident. When she saw that he was scrambling to find time to complete research experiments, she gladly jumped in to help, volunteering her time and lab space to run experiments for him.
"There wasn't an awful lot in it for her except the satisfaction of helping somebody and getting them to a place where their career was more established," said Corsetti, who credits her with teaching him the many nuances of lipids and lipoproteins, which he continued to explore during his career.
"To degree that I've gotten good in those areas, it certainly was she that brought me there," he said. "She was so good in the lab and very generous with her time."
Janet also mentored Dr. Linda Schiffhauer during a teaching fellowship. In addition to being a role model, Schiffhauer was happy to call her a friend.
"She was a great mentor and advocate for me in so many ways when, in my career, I probably needed it the most," said Schiffhauer. "She was all that you could ever want in a mentor."
Those who knew her remember Janet's enthusiasm for nutrition and exercise. She would get up before dawn to make coffee and hit the gym before heading into work. Her energy was contagious.
"She was most passionate about her research," said Joanne Cianci, who worked in the Sparks lab for more than 20 years. "Her work was a huge part of what she was, but she cared about people and established a culture of complete trust."
Janet was very well known internationally, being listed in both Who's Who in America and the world. There will be a memorial tribute in The Journal of Lipid Research. She sat on numerous review committees, including for the NIH. She was quiet and humble which is one reason why she was better known internationally than locally.
In spite of her own skill and accomplishments, those who worked alongside Janet in the lab say she was a very hands-on instructor; a daily coach who always sought to encourage and elevate her trainees.
This quality left an impression on many, including Dr. Thuy Phung who had Janet as her PhD thesis advisor and worked in Sparks lab for four years.
Phung had never heard of Janet until she was sitting in the office of the MD/PhD director at the time. He suggested working with Janet because she was a well-hidden secret. What did he mean by that?
"He said that she was highly valuable and skillful, but not well known," said Phung. "She was talented and humble as well, which to me is a virtue."
In this way, she modeled what it meant to be a good scientist, fueled by constant curiosity, Phung explained.
"She was doing experiments even until the last days."
This story appeared in the April 2018 edition of the Pathways to Excellence Newsletter.
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News from BACP
3 February: Number of schools buying in professional mental health support for pupils doubles in three years
Number of schools buying in professional mental health support for pupils doubles in three years
Read our response to a report by the National Association of Head Teachers
The number of schools in England buying in professional mental health support for pupils has nearly doubled in three years, a new report reveals.
In 2019 two-thirds (66%) of school leaders said they provided school-based support for students' emotional and mental wellbeing, including counsellors.
This is compared to 36 per cent in 2016, according to the survey, by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).
Stepping in early
Our Children, Young People and Families lead Jo Holmes said: "It's fantastic to see that more schools are seeing the importance of school counselling – and are investing in it. By doing so they are stepping in early which can help towards the positive future mental health and wellbeing of their pupils.
"But there are still too many schools across England who are struggling to meet the mental health needs of young people.
Depleted budgets
"The government has failed to secure much-needed ring fenced funding to support schools in this important area. Instead each school is left to juggle already depleted budgets to ensure individual children and young people receive the professional counselling help they so desperately need.
"The promises in the government's green paper to improve children and young people's mental health are not enough. While 'trailblazer areas' may provide mental health support for young people, there is a still a postcode lottery in England.
Transform lives
"School counselling is not normally part of the package on offer through trailblazer scheme. But it is great to see when there are exceptions to this, for instance in Gloucester where school counselling is offered by the TIC+ service and funded through the local clinical commissioning group's Trailblazer scheme. In this example, mental health support teams refer directly into the counselling service, with no additional costs to the schools. We need this sort of system to be in place more widely across the country.
"We're calling for a funded counselling services available in every school, provided by qualified, paid counsellors who specialise in working with children and young people. This is an essential service that schools so urgently need and can transform the lives of pupils."
Read our members' experiences and your stories of how counselling can help children and young people.
"I decided to face up to my fears and go back to counselling. It took guts."
Demi, 18, talks about making the decision to return to counselling
Four in five parents would encourage their children to seek therapy if needed
We have to ensure better access to counselling for vulnerable children, says our Chair Natalie Bailey
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\section{Introduction}
Recently, neural networks have shown great potential in various fields and many promising results have been achieved in video coding. Especially for intra coding \cite{HEVCIntra}, many creative ideas have been proposed to enhance the performance of intra coding. Intra coding uses the reference pixels to predict the current block, and the residual samples calculated by original pixels minus the predicted pixels are sent to transform and quantization to obtain the compressed residual. After the inverse quantization and inverse transform process, the residual samples with distortion is obtained. The reconstructed pixels at the decoding end can thus be obtained by adding the predicted pixels and the distorted residual samples.

Many neural network-based works are carried out for the prediction \cite{FC1, FC2, FC_CONV, HIT_CNN, RNN} and filtering \cite{ARCNN, VRCNN, RHCNN, MMSN}, which are two key parts of intra coding. In neural network-based intra prediction, network structures mainly consist of convolutional layers and full connected layers \cite{FC1, FC2, FC_CONV, HIT_CNN}. Li et al. \cite{FC1, FC2} use full connected network to explore the capacity of prediction. PNNS is introduced by Dumas et al. \cite{FC_CONV} based on both fully-connected and convolutional neural networks. Cui et al. \cite{HIT_CNN} propose IPCNN, and this network directly applies CNNs to intra prediction, which achieves a good performance in intra coding as well. And Hu et al. \cite{RNN} try Progressive Spatial Recurrent Neural Network (PS-RNN) and SATD loss function, which supports variable-block-size for intra prediction.

From a perspective of reconstruction filtering, similar convolutional neural network structures can be used for tasks such as super-resolution, denoising and filtering. Dong et al. \cite{SRCNN} proposed SR-CNN for super-resolution, and they also design AR-CNN \cite{ARCNN} for compression artifacts reduction based on it. Then Dai et al. \cite{VRCNN} increased the width of AR-CNN and proposed VR-CNN to further improve the network performance. In more complex network design, Zhang et al. \cite{RHCNN} proposed an RHCNN with 3,340,000 parameters, and achieved better experimental results. And a multi-modal/multi-scale model called MMS-net \cite{MMSN} with 2,298,160 parameters is proposed by Kang et al., which shows a multi-scale CNN structure can effectively improve image reconstruction performance.

For filtering tasks, we believe that VR-CNN does not adequately extract the full characteristics of the data. Deeper features can help guide the network for better filtering. While RHCNN is a little complicated for practical applications, and relatively simpler design needs to be proposed. Therefore, we have designed a new reconstruction filtering network with 475,233 parameters, which based on the inception networks\cite{inception4}. The inception network has an excellent performance in the classification task because of its powerful feature extraction capabilities. We believe that it can also perform well in filtering tasks. Specifically, the main contributions are as follows.
\begin{figure*}[tbp]
\centering
\subfigure[The network structure of VRCNN.]{
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.62\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.58]{vrcnn_f.eps}
\end{minipage

\subfigure[The layer2 and layer3 of VRCNN.]{
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.38\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.58]{vrcnn_fb.eps}
\end{minipage

\subfigure[The network structure of our reconstruction filtering.]{
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.62\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.58]{model_f.eps}
\end{minipage

\subfigure[The improved inception block.]{
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\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.58]{model_fb.eps}
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\centering
\caption{The architecture of VR-CNN \cite{VRCNN} and our reconstruction filtering model.}\label{structure}
\end{figure*}

\begin{itemize}

\item In VR-CNN, the features extracted by two convolutional blocks of the two branches. We use the improved inception dense network to replace it so that the network has stronger feature extraction ability, which leads to a better filtering performance. After using inception filtering, we can achieve 3.07\%, 3.06\% and 3.17\% BD-rate improvement for YUV components, respectively. Moreover, the filtering network we are performing is not a frame-level but a block-level. Because block-level filtering enhance the quality of the reconstructed pixels, which directly increases the predictive performance and reduce the bit-rates of the residual in the next block.
\item We combine two learning-based methods and ensure that integrating two methods together can further improve the performance. The experimental results show that this integrating method achieves extra 2.42\% BD-rate saving for luminance component than using our reconstruction filtering model alone. It is thus found that the network has a superposition effect.
\end{itemize}

\section{Proposed Methods}
\subsection{Full-connected Network-based Intra Prediction}
For the intra prediction, originally, there are 35 modes in HEVC composed of two non-directional and 33 directional modes. Based on HEVC original modes, we append one neural network mode by using the fully-connected network in \cite{FC1, FC2}. The difference is that we apply the neural network mode at the prediction unit (PU) level. The mode signaling scheme is that one additional bin is consumed to represent whether the best mode of each PU is the neural network mode or not.
\subsection{Convolutional Network-based Reconstruction Filtering}
Like the structure of VRCNN in Fig.\ref{structure}(a), the reconstruction filtering network shown in Fig.\ref{structure}(c) consists of a pre-processed convolutional network shown in green rectangle, an intermediate inception dense network shown in orange rectangles and a post-processing convolutional network shown in the purple rectangle.

The first 64 feature maps convolutional layer with kernel size is 5x5 in VR-CNN pre-processed convolutional module (Fig.\ref{structure}(b)) is transformed into two convolutional layers of 64 feature maps with kernel size is 3x3, which helps to improve the extraction of basic features.
Compared to 2 blocks in VR-CNN, our middle part uses 12 improved inception network blocks to further extract the features. The specific structure is shown in Fig. Fig.\ref{structure}(d). Its input is the output from the front layer, and the chunk is composed of three branches, each branch has a 32 feature maps convolutional layers with kernel size is 1x1 as the first layer. In order to extract the features from different receptive fields, the two convolution layers with kernel size are 1x3 and 3x1 are connected to the first layer in one of the branches. In addition, another branch is connected to a convolution layer with a kernel size of 3x3 serially, and then connected with two convolution layers of 1x3 and 3x1 convolution kernels in parallel. Different with the original inception, we removed the pooling layer for a more compact network structure.
\begin{table*}[!tbp]
\small
  \centering
  \caption{The BD-rate results of proposed methods than HM in All-Intra and Random-Access for PCS grand challenge short videos }\label{com_pcs
  \begin{tabu}{c|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r}
    \Xhline{1.0pt}
    \multirow{3}*{Sequence}  & \multicolumn{5}{c|}{AI}& \multicolumn{5}{c}{RA} \rule{0pt}{9pt} \\
    \cline{2-11}
    ~& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{BD-rate}&\multirow{2}*{$\Delta T_{enc}$}&\multirow{2}*{$\Delta T_{dec}$}& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{BD-rate}&\multirow{2}*{$\Delta T_{enc}$}&\multirow{2}*{$\Delta T_{dec}$}  \\
    \cline{2-4}\cline{7-9}
    ~&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{Y}& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{U}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{V}&~&~&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{Y}& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{U}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{V}&~&~\\
    \hline
    01 &   -8.31\% & -14.51\% &  -13.22\%&7219\%&177661\%& -3.11\% & -8.56\% & -7.04\%&659\%&17880\% \\
    \hline
    02 &   -10.98\% & -14.27\% & -14.93\%&8449\%&233472\%&   -4.24\% & -3.82\% & -4.36\%&708\%&20839\% \\
    \hline
    03 &    -10.51\% & -5.46\% &  -14.80\%&8860\%&220486\%&   -3.65\% & -6.97\% & -3.47\%&478\%&11143\%\\
    \hline
    06 &   -11.40\% & -6.54\% & -10.00\%&8888\%&226057\%&   -2.99\% & -4.48\% & -1.57\%&584\%&11420\% \\
    \hline
    08 &  -7.91\% & -12.59\% & -12.35\%&7480\%&168358\%&   -2.11\% & -3.37\% & -3.09\%&636\%&10412\% \\
    \hline
    09 &   -8.63\% & -16.48\% & -17.29\%&6560\%&160278\%&   -2.12\% & -5.19\% & -5.46\%&623\%&11474\% \\
    \hline
    10 &    -11.40\% & -13.24\% & -13.55\%&9117\%&231279\%&   -3.24\% & -1.31\% & -2.20\%&594\%&10952\% \\
    \hline
    13 &  -12.83\% & -16.26\% & -17.77\%&7925\%&185475\%&   -7.09\% & -9.38\% & -9.74\%&540\%&10421\% \\
    \Xhline{0.8pt}
    Average & -10.24\% & -12.41\% & -14.24\%&8015\%&198322\%&   -3.57\% & -5.38\% & -4.61\%&599\%&12628\% \\
    \Xhline{1.0pt}

  \end{tabu}
\end{table*}
The last part is a post-processing convolution module that make the number of output feature maps return to the same number of the input. Because the inputs to our model have only one feature map, the last part is a convolutional layer with a kernel size of 3x3 and the number of feature maps is one.

The output of the post-processing convolution module and the reconstruction block will be added to obtain the filtered reconstruction block. Each convolutional layer except the last one is followed by an activation function "relu". And all convolutional layer padding methods use "same", which makes the input and output sizes unchanged.
The input to the designed network is 32x32 reconstructed block from HM. For a CTU with the size $64\times 64$, it can be divided into four 32x32 luminance component blocks and two 32x32 chroma component blocks with pixel format "YUV420". The output of the network is the enhanced reconstructed block. Because PSNR can reflect the performance of video coding relatively simply and effectively, we use the MSE (Mean Square Error) between enhanced reconstruction block $Y$ and the original reconstruction block $X$ as the loss function $L$ to train our network. The symbol $\Theta$ and $F$ are the parameters and outputs of our model respectively, and N is 32.
\begin{equation}\label{mse}
  L(\Theta)=\frac{1}{N^2}\sum_{i=1}^{N}\sum_{j=1}^{N}(F(Y(i,j)|\Theta)-X(i,j))^2
\end{equation}

\subsection{Block-level Filtering}
Different with the previous designs, our filter network is based on block-level rather than frame-level. After each CTU encoding is complete, the reconstruction blocks can be got on both the encoding end and the decoding end. They will be sent to the network to obtain the filtered result, thereby improve the image quality of the current block on the one hand, and provide more accurate reference pixels for the next block on the other hand. So this method can reduce the bitrates and improve the picture quality at the same time. Because our filter network is block-level, de-blocking may help to improve the edge of the block as well. Therefore it can coexist with the loop filter of the HEVC.

\section{Experimental Results}
\subsection{Experimental Setting}
The datasets we used is DIV2K \cite{DIV2K}, which consisted of 900 images with a resolution of 2k.
Because the reconstruction quality of the chrominance components is often too high, only the luminance component is used for training.
But in actual testing, chrominance components will also be tested by using our model. In order to avoid those blocks with accurate reconstruction are affected negatively by using neural network based filtering model. Different QP models are tested and finally the appropriate QPs for each target QP are selected while exporting the dataset. Specifically, we derive four datasets from different QPs to train four corresponding filtering models with different QP bands.
The deep learning framework used is Keras \cite{keras} because of its better support for TensorFlow \cite{tensorflow}. We call the freeze model of TensorFlow converted from Keras model in the actual application.
The GPUs used for training and the CPUs used for testing were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and Intel Xeon Gold 6134 at 3.20 GHz, respectively.

\subsection{Comparison with HEVC Baseline}

We use the 8 PCS grand challenge short videos to test, and the test condition includes four QPs (22 27 32 37) and two configurations (AI and RA). The test results are shown in TABLE \ref{com_pcs}. In the AI configuration, for the luminance component, we get BD-rate saving of at most 12.83\% and on average 10.24\%. BD-rate saving of 12.41\% and 14.24\%  for the chrominance component are obtained respectively. In the RA configuration, the YUV components obtain BD-rate saving on average of 3.57\% 5.38\% and 4.61\%, and the luminance component obtains at most 7.09\% BD-rate saving with sequence 13.

\begin{figure}[tbp]
\centering
\subfigure[HM Rec. 0.243bpp PSNR 37.90.]{
\begin{minipage}[t]{4.3cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=4.3cm]{hm01_2.eps}
\end{minipage

\subfigure[Enhanced. 0.231bpp PSNR 38.31.]{
\begin{minipage}[t]{4.3cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=4.3cm]{pcs01_2.eps}
\end{minipage

\centering
\caption{Comparison between original reconstruction image and enhanced reconstruction image. This image comes from the 1-st frame in sequence 01 with QP is 32.}\label{sub}
\end{figure}

For the subjective image quality evaluation of the proposed method, Fig. \ref{sub} compares the HM reconstruction image (on the left) and the enhanced image by our networks (on the right). In the face area of the blue box, we can clearly see the contouring and blocky artifacts in Fig. \ref{sub}(a). On the other hand, in Fig. \ref{sub}(b), these artifacts are well eliminated and the face is smoother and plumper. Moreover, our model provides a higher compression ratio (0.231 bpp of our models to 0.243 bpp of HM).
\begin{table*}[!tbp]
\footnotesize
  \centering
  \caption{The comparison of several filtering neural network with HM baseline in All-Intra for PCS grand challenge short videos }\label{vrcnn
  \begin{tabu}{c|r|r|r |r|r|r |r|r|r |r|r|r}
    \Xhline{1.0pt}
    \multirow{2}*{Sequence}  & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{ARCNN\cite{ARCNN}}& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{VRCNN\cite{VRCNN}}& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Ours Filter.}& \multicolumn{3}{c}{Ours All.} \rule{0pt}{9pt}  \\[1pt]
    \cline{2-13}
    ~&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{Y}& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{U}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{V}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{Y}& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{U}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{V}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{Y}& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{U}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{V}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{Y}& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{U}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{V} \\
    \hline
    01 &-2.40\%&-4.24\%&-1.95\%&-3.65\%&-10.85\%&-6.51\%&-6.06\%&-12.51\%&-9.84\%&-8.63\%&-16.77\%&-13.57\%\\
    \hline
    02 &-2.43\%&-3.70\%&-2.99\%&-4.53\%&-6.69\%&-9.71\%&-8.49\%&-12.65\%&-14.58\%&-11.81\%&-19.18\%&-18.68\%\\
    \hline
    03 &-1.71\%&-1.93\%&-2.84\%&-3.07\%&-6.80\%&-4.18\%&-5.02\%&-8.56\%&-8.81\%&-7.19\%&-13.83\%&-15.96\%\\
    \hline
    06 &-3.04\%&-3.23\%&-2.77\%&-5.70\%&-6.50\%&-5.02\%&-9.67\%&-9.33\%&-6.14\%&-10.72\%&-12.49\%&-10.46\%\\
    \hline
    08 &-2.41\%&-3.29\%&-2.01\%&-4.26\%&-4.42\%&-3.49\%&-7.17\%&-6.76\%&-6.23\%&-9.31\%&-11.10\%&-9.94\%\\
    \hline
    09 &-1.13\%&-4.05\%&-2.47\%&-1.88\%&-10.55\%&-7.07\%&-3.19\%&-10.58\%&-9.65\%&-5.33\%&-14.84\%&-14.36\%\\
    \hline
    10 &-2.67\%&-0.50\%&-4.20\%&-4.95\%&-2.55\%&-7.42\%&-8.77\%&-8.73\%&-8.67\%&-11.05\%&-12.24\%&-14.16\%\\
    \hline
    13 &-2.58\%&-7.43\%&-1.79\%&-4.61\%&-15.63\%&-11.19\%&-8.81\%&-19.34\%&-16.01\%&-12.53\%&-23.42\%&-19.16\%\\
    \Xhline{0.8pt}
    Mean BD-rate &-2.30\%&-3.55\%&-2.63\%&-4.08\%&-8.00\%&-6.82\%&-7.15\%&-11.06\%&-9.99\%&\textbf{-9.57\%}&\textbf{-15.48\%}&\textbf{-14.54\%}\\
    \Xhline{1.0pt}

  \end{tabu}
\end{table*}

\subsection{Comparison with AR-CNN and VR-CNN}

We use the same dataset to train AR-CNN and VR-CNN and test them in the same situation. More specifically, in order not to bring in the influence of neural network-based intra prediction, the neural network prediction is turned off while testing the filtering networks. At the same time, we test them based on block-level filtering which may improve the reconstruction pixels so as to explore the potential of these filtering ways. All sequences are tested for the first frame under each QP, and the experimental results are shown in TABLE \ref{vrcnn}, we can find that.
\begin{itemize}
  \item Compared with the test results of our filter model ("Our Filter." column in the TABLE \ref{vrcnn}) used alone, using our joint model ("Our All." column in the TABLE \ref{vrcnn}) achieves better performance, the BD-rate of the YUV component is reduced by 2.42\%, 4.42\%, and 4.55\%. This means our combination of intra prediction and reconstruction filtering is successful.
  \item VR-CNN and our proposed method have better performance than AR-CNN because of the diversity of their convolution kernels in different subbranches. And they could get better performance in some sequences than others, such as 13. This may be related to the dataset used for training, because our dataset is a spliced sequence of static pictures (DIV2K), and those test sequences which have better performance are relatively static to some extent.
  \item Our filtering model has a stronger feature extraction capability than VR-CNN, and achieves up to 7.15\% and on average 9.67\% BD-rate saving. AR-CNN achieves 2.30\%, 3.55\% and 2.63\% and VR-CNN achieves 4.08\%, 8.00\% and 6.82\% respectively on the three components of YUV. Compared with VR-CNN and AR-CNN, our model has better performance in all sequences and components.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Comparison with RHCNN}
In this subsection, we test the performance of our filtering model for the HEVC test sequences and compare it with RHCNN. It can be observed from the test results TABLE \ref{hmsd} that our filtering model also get results (9.70\%, 11.59\% and 13.35\% respectively on the three components of YUV) which close to the result of 8 provided sequences. And the dataset used for training doesn't overlap with the HEVC test sequences, thus further demonstrating the generalization ability of our model.
\begin{table}[tbp]
\small
  \centering
  \caption{BD-rate saving of proposed reconstruction filtering network than HM in All-Intra for HEVC test sequences}\label{hmsd
  \begin{tabular}{l|l|r|r|r}
        \Xhline{1.0pt}
    \multirow{2}*{Class} & \multirow{2}*{Sequence} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Our All.} \rule{0pt}{9pt}  \\
    \cline{3-5}
    ~&~&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{Y}&\multicolumn{1}{c|}{U}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{V}\\
    \hline
     \multirow{2}*{ClassA} & Traffic   & -11.68\%&-9.55\%&-11.51\%\\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~&PeopleOnStreet   & -11.45\%&-14.11\%&-14.00\%\\
    \hline
    \multirow{5}*{ClassB} &Kimono     & -5.97\%&-3.42\%&-3.06\% \\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~&ParkScene     & -8.65\%&-7.98\%&-7.43\% \\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~&Cactus    & -8.64\%&-10.33\%&-15.17\% \\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~&BasketballDrive     &-7.96\%&-11.56\%&-16.90\% \\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~&BQTerrace     &-6.61\%&-9.72\%&-10.92\% \\
    \hline
    \multirow{4}*{ClassC} &BasketballDrill      & -11.61\%&-16.27\%&-19.68\%\\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~  &BQMall      &-9.36\%&-11.77\%&-13.52\%\\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~  &PartyScene     & -6.08\%&-8.93\%&-9.97\% \\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~  &RaceHorses     & -6.91\%&-11.92\%&-17.54\% \\
    \hline
    \multirow{4}*{ClassD} &BasketballPass      & -9.05\%&-9.40\%&-12.48\%\\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~  &BQSquare     &-6.55\%&-5.33\%&-7.83\% \\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~  &BlowingBubbles     & -7.42\%&-11.24\%&-10.46\%\\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~  &RaceHorses  &-11.20\%&-15.11\%&-18.38\%\\
    \hline
    \multirow{6}*{ClassE} &Vidyo1 & -13.13\%&-13.85\%&-15.19\%\\
    \cline{2-5}
    ~  &Vidyo3  & -9.62\%&-7.07\%&-11.75\% \\
    \cline{2-5}
     ~  &Vidyo4   & -11.13\%&-14.72\%&-14.94\%\\
    \cline{2-5}
     ~  &FourPeople     & -14.90\%&-15.44\%&-16.76\% \\
    \cline{2-5}
     ~  &Johnny      & -12.95\%&-19.91\%&-16.10\%\\
    \cline{2-5}
     ~  &KristenAndSara    & -12.74\%&-15.73\%&-16.78\%\\
        \Xhline{0.8pt}

    \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Average} & -9.70\%&-11.59\%&-13.35\%\\
        \Xhline{1.0pt}

  \end{tabular}
\end{table}
\begin{table}[!tbp]
\small
  \centering
  \caption{Comparison of RHCNN and our reconstruction filtering network for All-Intra}\label{results
  \begin{tabular}{l|c|c|c}
    \Xhline{1.0pt}
   Sequence & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{RHCNN\cite{RHCNN}} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Our Filter. }&
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{Our All.} \rule{0pt}{10pt}     \\[2pt]

    \hline
      Traffic  & -6.10\% & -7.72\% & \textbf{-11.40\%} \\
\hline
    PeopleOnStreet   &   -5.30\% & -7.80\% & \textbf{-11.75\%}\\
    \hline
    RaceHorses &   -5.60\%  & -8.37\% & \textbf{-12.04\%}\\
    \hline
    Vidyo1 &   -7.50\%& -8.59\%&\textbf{-13.27\%}\\
\hline
   Vidyo3 &  -6.40\% & -6.61\%&\textbf{-9.68\%} \\
\hline
  Vidyo4 &  -6.20\%  & -7.53\%&\textbf{-11.49\%}\\
    \Xhline{0.8pt}
    \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Mean BD-rate}     & -6.18\%  & -7.77\%& \textbf{-11.61\%}\\
    \Xhline{1.0pt}

  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

The trainable parameters number of our filter model is 475,233. At the same time, The RHCNN with 3,340,000 trainable parameters is used as a comparison. We compare the test results provided in their paper \cite{RHCNN} with our results. It can be seen that our filter models saving 7.77\% BD-rate on average and up to 11.61\% BD-rate saving is obtained by our joint model. Both results are better than RHCNN's performance while our models have fewer parameters.
\begin{table}[!tbp]
\small
  \centering
  \caption{Comparison of the number of model parameter}\label{para
  \begin{tabular}{l|c|c|c|c}
    \Xhline{1.0pt}
   Model  & VR-CNN\cite{VRCNN}  &AR-CNN\cite{ARCNN}   & Our filter &RHCNN\cite{RHCNN}  \\
   \hline
   Number &54,512 &106,448& 475,233 &   3,340,000 \\
    \Xhline{1.0pt}

  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusion}
In this paper, a  dual learning-based method in intra coding consists of intra prediction and reconstruction filtering was proposed for video coding.Inception dense blocks, which have strong feature extraction function is used for improving VR-CNN to make it preform better in reconstruction filtering. At the same time, we changed the frame-level filtering in previous works to block-level filtering, which can help reduce the extra bitstream caused by the error of the reference pixels. For PCS grand challenge short videos test sequences, experimental results show that our networks achieve on average 10.24\% BD-rate saving for all-Intra and 3.57\% BD-rate saving for random -access.
Our model also obtains a 9.70\% BD-rate saving compared to HM-16.20 baseline for HEVC test sequences.
Finally, we compared our reconstruction filtering model with many other models, and our models achieved the best performance.
In future work, we will continue to explore the more efficient and light models to achieve better coding performance.

\section*{Acknowledgment}
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61674041, in part by Alibaba Group through Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR) Program, in part by the STCSM under Grant 16XD1400300, in part by the pioneering project of academy for engineering and technology and Fudan-CIOMP joint fund.

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61525401,the Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader under Grant 16XD1400300, the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.

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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (Nov. 29, 2018) — Milligan College will hold its fall commencement ceremony on Friday, Dec. 14, at 7 p.m. in the college's Mary B. Martin Auditorium located in Seeger Chapel. Over 100 graduates will be awarded degrees.
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La Tur was a Mexican airline that operated from 1988 until 1992 when it was taken over by TAESA.

Company history
Set up in 1988 to help develop the tourist market, La Tur began charter operations using McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft.  One year later, the Airbus A300-600 was introduced for flights to Europe and Asia. Plans were made to replace the MD-83s with Airbus A320 and Airbus A321, but the financial situation did not allow it.

By 1992, La Tur had too much capacity, and the A300 was leased out. The fall of the Mexican peso and the deregulation of Mexican air transport led to the take over by TAESA.

Fleet details
5 McDonnell Douglas MD-83
1 McDonnell Douglas MD-87
1 Airbus A300B4-620 F-ODTK
1 Airbus A300B4-622R F-ODSX

Destinations
This is a list of airports that La Tur used to fly scheduled service to before it ceased operations in 1992.

China
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Mexico
Acapulco - General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport
Cancun - Cancún International Airport
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Puerto Vallarta - Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport

Netherlands
Amsterdam - Schiphol International Airport

United States
Atlanta - William B. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
New York - John F. Kennedy International Airport

References

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Compared to Rick Scott, Bill Nelson's campaign seems average.
Nelson, along with U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and 10 other Democratic members of Florida's congressional delegation sent a letter to CMS Director Seema Verma urging her to reject a proposed amendment to a state Medicaid "waiver" that would exempt Florida from a federal requirement that gives people up to 90 days following a health problem to apply for Medicaid coverage.
The Scott administration proposed — and the Republican-led Legislature agreed — to require people to apply for Medicaid during the same month of the health event.
"Retroactive eligibility is designed to protect Medicaid beneficiaries — including seniors, pregnant women, individuals with disabilities, and parents — and their families from the steep costs of medical services and long-term care. Importantly, this protection was also designed to minimize uncompensated care costs faced by hospitals and other health care providers who take care of our neighbors and are already challenged by the state's low reimbursement rates," the letter said.
The change has become a flashpoint between Democrats and Scott.
But Mallory McManus, a spokeswoman for the Agency for Health Care Administration, issued a statement Thursday saying it is "categorically false to assert that this change impacts the care" provided to Medicaid beneficiaries.


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William H. Stillwell
9th Treasurer; Years Served: 1868–1869
Tennessee County of Residence: Gibson
Place of Birth: North Carolina
Date of Birth: August 18, 1816
Date of Death: November 24, 1896
Political Affiliation: Republican
William H. Stillwell was born in North Carolina on August 18, 1816. Treasurer Stillwell lived in North Carolina until the age of ten when he came with his father to Bedford County, Tennessee and spent his boyhood days on the family farm. At the age of twenty-one Treasurer Stillwell began studying medicine in Lexington, Kentucky and eventually transferred to the medical school in Memphis, Tennessee. Treasurer Stillwell became one of the first to graduate from the medical school in Memphis. In 1838, he began a brief clinical practice in Alabama and then moved to Gibson County, Tennessee.
Treasurer Stillwell had three marriages. In 1837, he wed Mary Gibson, who died in 1843, leaving three little daughters: Cordelia, Hannah, and Mary A. In 1845, he married Mary R. Hockaday, however she passed away in 1846. In 1850, Treasurer Stillwell married Mary Gillespie, and they had three children, named Ben G., William H., and Emily F.
In October of 1868, State Treasurer John R. Henry resigned from his position as a result of his ill health. As a result, Governor William G. Brownlow was required to appoint a Treasurer to complete the term, and he chose Treasurer Stillwell to be the 9th State Treasurer of Tennessee, who served as State Treasurer from 1868 to 1869.
After serving as the State Treasurer, he returned to live and work in Gibson County, and during the 1860s and 1870s, served as the postmaster. In 1885, Treasurer Stillwell returned to the practice of medicine. On November 24, Treasurer Stillwell died in 1896.
Reference: Gibson County: History of Tennessee (Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press, 1990); 1880 United States Federal Census; "William H. Stilwell and Mary Ann Gibson, Jan. 1837," Tennessee State Marriages, 1780 – 2002, Nashville, TN, Tennessee State Library and Archives; "William H. Stillwell and Mary R. Hockaday, Aug. 1845," Tennessee State Marriages, 1780 – 2002, Nashville, TN, Tennessee State Library and Archives; History of Tennessee; From the Earliest Times to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley and Lake Counties (Nashville: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887); "William H. Stillwell and Mary Ann Gillespie, November 26, 1850, Tennessee State Marriages, 1780 – 2002, Nashville, TN, Tennessee State Library and Archives; Message of the Governor to the General Assembly.


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Haddam selectman faces harsh criticism, condemnation for taking knee during Pledge of Allegiance
Cassandra Day
July 30, 2018 Updated: July 30, 2018 10:39 p.m.
1of46Schlag's supporters formed a long line along the driveway leading to the Haddam firehouse, where the meeting was held. A few people joined the public display in opposition, including these boys. At the Higganum green, gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst and state Sen. Art Linares, R-Westbrook, held a rally to protest her kneeling.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
2of46Haddam Selectwoman Melissa Schlag was condemned during the Board of Selectmen's meeting Monday night, as person after person spoke against her taking a knee two weeks ago when the Pledge of Allegiance was recited.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
3of46A pro-American flag rally was held Friday night near the town green, where 1,000 flags were placed on the grass. Those who attended were showing solidarity in response to Haddam Selectman Melissa Schlag's kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance July 16.Neal Perron PhotographyShow MoreShow Less
5of46Haddam Selectwoman Melissa Schlag was condemned during the Board of Selectmen's meeting Monday night, as person after person spoke against her taking a knee two weeks ago at the town meeting when the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Her supporters formed a long line along the driveway leading to the Haddam firehouse, where the meeting was held. A few people joined supporters of Schlag's at the firehouse, including these boys, and at the Higganum green, where gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst and state Sen. Art Linares, R-Westbrook, held a rally to protest her kneeling.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
10of46Haddam Selectwoman Melissa Schlag was condemned during the Board of Selectmen's meeting Monday night, as person after person spoke against her taking a knee two weeks ago at the town meeting when the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Her supporters formed a long line along the driveway leading to the Haddam firehouse, where the meeting was held. A few people joined supporters of Schlag's at the firehouse, including these boys, and at the Higganum green, where gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst and state Sen. Art Linares, R-Westbrook, held a rally to protest her kneeling.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
HADDAM — Selectman Melissa Schlag endured a blistering attack Monday night as she faced a room of nearly 300 people who filled the firehouse bay at the first selectmen's meeting since she took a knee for the Pledge of Allegiance.
The meeting was interspersed with whoops, earnest applause and even catcalls that chided those who spoke who didn't share their opinion. Several demanded Schlag resign her post.
"While the injustices stand in our country, I will kneel with both knees," Schlag said after the public comment session.
"What has developed in our town over the last five days is overwhelming hate. It's not right, and if people don't want to bring their business here or shop here, it's because of that hate they saw on Facebook and social media and 'Fox and Friends.' "
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst appeared last week on the national news program, asking for her immediate resignation.
"I have a right to free speech, to kneel. You have a right to dislike that, but please don't put words in my brain or thoughts in my brain."
Schlag, who knelt for the pledge at the July 16 meeting, said she was motivated to do so primarily by President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that same day in Helsinki, Finland.
More than 20 people, many from out of town, spoke during the public session, condemning Schlag for what they called her "disrespect" of the American flag. A few others spoke passionately about her right to free speech.
Things getting heated at BOS meeting pic.twitter.com/xzzBrTYDqv
— Cassandra Day (@cassandrasdis) July 30, 2018
Others who voiced their opinion returned to the line of speakers afterward to speak again.
Several veterans spoke at the meeting.
"I don't agree with her, and I think the reason she does it is stupid. I don't care. I did not go to Vietnam to pick and choose who gets to be better Americans — none of you earned that right," one gentleman said.
"If you don't like the flag then I'll help you pack your bags!" Says a veteran to Haddam Selectman Melissa Schlag. "When you're in the office, you respect that flag!" @Middletownpress pic.twitter.com/ijRMWXg0A1
Another said he went to elementary school in 1951, and the first thing he was taught was to respect the flag. Again in high school, he was taught the same, the Navy veteran said.
"I came home — a lot of people were burning their flags. You don't turn your back on the flag. If you don't like the flag, I'll help you pack your bags and get the heck out of here," he said.
Earlier, dozens of people who support her action, some with black duct tape over their mouths, others waving flags or holding posters that said "Mandatory patriotism is fascism #unitedforthe1st," "America, beacon of freedom," "I fought in Iraq for their right to kneel" and "My 1st Amendment = my right to kneel" joined the few who did not.
They included a trio of boys clad in the colors of the American flag with hair colored red, white and blue, bearing signs that said, " I am proud to be born in the USA" and "This family stands for the flag."
Those attending had planned a peaceful protest.
Supporters of Haddam Selectman Melissa Schlag line driveway leading to firehouse where BOS will meet at 6:30- silent protest of 100+ @Middletownpress pic.twitter.com/juG6k3Z6aW
"Our intent is to hold a peaceful, nonviolent, silent vigil to bring attention to the First Amendment rights and what encroaching upon those rights will look like," according to the Facebook event invite.
People seemed to reflect the deep division that has polarized the country about First Amendment rights.
Patrick Reardon of Haddam, an Iraq veteran, said disgust brought him to the silent protest.
"The same people that want to violently support their Second Amendment right don't care about someone's First Amendment rights," he said. "The reason I fought for this country was to defend everyone's right."
"I might not agree with you how you do it but doesn't give me right to judge you and be hostile about what you're doing," Reardon said.
Seven-tenths of a mile away, state Sen. Art Linares, R-Westbrook, whose 33rd District includes Haddam, and Herbst held a #StandForTheFlag Rally on the Higganum Green. It was held in support of the American flag and the values and sacrifices it represents, according to organizers.
Rally to protest Haddam selectman Melissa Schlag taking a knee at BOS meeting during pledge- 150 on Higganum Green as @timherbst @ArtLinares33 speaking now 1 of 2 @Middletownpress pic.twitter.com/pnUgVjbAXx
Schlag wrote a two-page letter July 20, which she posted on Facebook under the title "Dear America," justifying her position. She listed a number of other reasons for her stance in the missive.
"I don't kneel because I hate my country, I kneel because I love my country. I don't kneel to disrespect veterans or the flag, I kneel to respect what they fought so hard for," Schlag said last week.
"Without that, we have nothing, and they fought for nothing, and we've lost everything," she added.
Dan McSparran of Norwich, who stood on the Green before the meeting, is a Navy veteran who served from 1977 to 1992.
"The flag is not just a symbol. It shows who we are. There is a certain level of respect. There are untold number of individuals who have given their life to defend the flag. Although the law may allow you to burn the flag, to desecrate the flag, it doesn't make it right," McSparran said.
Rally to protest Haddam selectman Melissa Schlag taking a knee at BOS meeting during pledge- 150 on Higganum Green as @timherbst @ArtLinares33 speaking now 2 of 2 @Middletownpress pic.twitter.com/hcPmIDL6Y5
Pablo Arroyo is a member of the Haddam Republican Town Committee and former Marine combat veteran.
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By Cassandra Day
Another view: Taking a knee was soul-searching decision
By Lisa Loomis
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"The fact that one of our elected officials decided to act on her personal whim instead of representing the will of her constituency," spurred him to turn out.
"When you run for office, you run under a political affiliation. When you become elected, you represent the entire town, not just Republicans, not just Democrats. Knowing that, she took an oath — and this is not her first rodeo," Arroyo said, adding Schlag should have known she would offend at least half of her constituents.
"When you take office, you should be like lady justice, the scales of liberty on one hand, the sword on the other, and the blindfold. Instead of being blindfolded and representing everyone in town, she decided to pull the blindfold down from one eye, peek, and decide who she's going to represent," he said.
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Lynn Fritz
Mr. Fritz developed the concept of third-party logistics, and outsourced supply chains during his 30-year career as Chairman and CEO of Fritz Companies, Inc., which enabled this small San Francisco customs brokerage company to expand to 120 countries and 11,000 employees. It went public in 1992, and was sold to UPS in 2001. Mr. Fritz now leads LynnCo, a domestic third-party logistics company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
He also is the Owner and General Manager of Lynmar Estate Winery, a 100-acre property located in Sebastopol in West Sonoma County. Lynmar produces approximately 12,000 cases a year of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Lynmar owns and internally farms all of its own vineyards and produces all its wine from its gravity flow winery on the property.
He serves on the boards of the Exploratorium and the Green Music Center, as well as, Sonoma Country Day School, which his son, Adam, attends. He was formerly on the Board of Trustees of Georgetown University and Pepperdine University, and was awarded Honorary Degrees from Drexel University and Pepperdine.
He received a BA from Georgetown University, and JD from Lincoln School of Law.
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AFRICITIES
Dorah Sitole: 1953 to 2021
December 4, 2020 January 4, 2021 The African Mirror	Dorah Sitole
IT has been 40 years since Dorah Sitole walked into Canned Food Advisory Service, the marketing division of a container and packaging company called Metal Box, to interview for the position of cooking demonstrator. Her husband told her about the job opening, saying, "I don't know anyone who cooks better than you." That moment would launch her groundbreaking career in food and Sitole's new book is a reflection on this long career that has shaped the path of South African food culture.
"It's 40 years of my professional career," says Mam' D, as Dorah Sitole is affectionately known, a week after the book appeared on bookstore shelves. The doyenne of food in South Africa says that before the successful job interview in February 1980, she was simply an enthusiastic cook who enjoyed feeding her friends and family.
"When I walked into that office, I didn't think I was going to get the job because I had never done home economics at school and I didn't know that there was a career in food. But I was a good cook that liked trying out recipes and attending cooking demonstrations.
"At the time of the interview, I was a coding clerk for a market research company, which I had been doing for seven years. So I was pushing a lot of papers at my desk, which wasn't terrible work but I think I found it boring. So I took my notebook, which had all my recipes and was covered in oil because it was very well-used, and I nervously showed up for the interview. I was told that me being able to cook was enough and got the job."
Sitole was hired to host cooking classes and demonstrations for high school students and mainly Black women looking to improve their cooking using canned food. "About a month or two into doing the demonstrations, I realised that I loved it," she recalls. She continued adding to her skills and qualifications, completing a baking and a chef's course, and obtaining a diploma in public relations. "I just realised that that's where I was headed and those were the skills I thought I needed."
Undated: Dorah Sitole's beef tagine, traditionally a dish from North Africa. (Photograph supplied)
Elevating household food
Part of Sitole's immense influence has resided in her ability to take food and meals enjoyed by working and middle-class Black households, and elevate and celebrate it by showcasing it on the various platforms available to her. For many Black people, it was an affirmation that what we loved and/or what we could afford to eat was worthy of showcasing, too. That it was good, just like the cuisines and meals of other countries and communities that are elevated in food culture.
This was particularly important during apartheid and the early days of democracy, when Black people weren't considered a community worthy of being catered for. "When people spoke of South African food, it was never really food eaten in Black or township homes. We would hear about bobotie, melktert and koeksisters, but there was never any morogo or amabele," she says, referring to the curried mince dish, milk tart and sugary plaits that were given preference over wild spinach and sorghum.
Undated: The recipe for Dorah Sitole's morogo-umbido appears in her latest cookbook.(Photograph supplied)
"So I think my greatest impact was during my years at True Love, where I was able to work with brands such as Tastic, Rainbow Chicken, Snowflake and Woolworths who for many years didn't really speak to Black people."
In many ways, Sitole was the original food influencer. It is an industry that has grown in leaps and bounds since she started doing twice-a-week demo classes as True Love magazine's food editor.
A life story in food
Her new book, the third book for the acclaimed author, tells the story of her life through food.
"When I was growing up, we were always hungry. There was just no food. I also don't know if I was just born with a genetic love for food, but I really love food. I look at my grandchildren and they can eat whatever they want, whereas I never had that for the first two decades of my life. Even after I finished school and left Nigel, where my grandparents lived, to move to Dube in Soweto with my mother, there was still no food," she says.
"In Nigel, we were really just scraping, aside from a small vegetable patch that my aunt had, which meant we could have spinach in the summer. In Dube, while we could buy bread and milk, my mother was still the sole provider and so she didn't have much money. So what money there was had to stretch, and that's why on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we would have pap and the mixed legume stew that's in my book. We didn't have plenty of food, but there was something to eat. So when I started earning my own money, I started working at round 18, I began experimenting with different recipes and I started cooking more, which made me fall in love with food because finally I could eat whatever I wanted."
Undated: Freshly prepared coleslaw from Dorah Sitole: 40 Years of Iconic Food. (Photograph supplied)
Undated: Passion fruit crème brulee by Dorah Sitole. (Photograph supplied)
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