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All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend
Album: All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend
1) Runaway More Info...
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3) Running With the Wolves More Info...
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7) Through the Eyes of a Child More Info...
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12) Black Water Lilies More Info...
Steeped in gelid electronic textures, pulsing beats, and yearning modalities, Aurora's All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend also blends vivid lyrical imagery with parts fantasy and heartache for a haunting full-length debut. The 12-track album by Norwegian singer and songwriter Aurora Aksnes includes two European charters from her prior EP, 2015's Running with the Wolves. Both gray-shaded numbers about being out of place, "Runaway" and "Running with the Wolves" turn out to be the average of what the substantial LP offers rather than standouts. With a soundscape that finds danger lurking in the corners, "Runaway" has echoing water droplet effects, creeping screeches, and windswept transitions among its sparse arrangement and lyrics like "I was running far away, would I run off the world some day?" What sets Aurora apart from the field of dark, spare electro-pop (Lorde, Lykke Li) are elaborate, soaring melodies and a pure, lilting soprano that on several tracks seems presented with minimal studio tampering, an impression made more likely by the singer's reputation for live performance. While much of the album is brooding if not downright wretched -- "Murder Song" has the protagonist recounting the story of her own death, though lyrics are tempered by a club-ready mix -- it's not without moments of lightness. The rousing "Conqueror" is sweetly melodic and decidedly perkier than anything on her debut EP. A song like "I Went Too Far" has a solemn text but an uplifting, synth-swirling chorus and dance-insistent beat. One of the lasting impressions of All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, as suggested by its title, is a supernatural aura created not just by spacy electronics but by the songwriter's nature-themed lyrics that have her regularly identifying with or immersing herself in the elements ("Walking in my sleep like the naked trees"). Titles like "Black Water Lilies" and "Winter Bird" denote songs about overcoming forces both in the natural and mental realms. Still a teenager at the time of the album's release, Aurora proves to be an already skilled fashioner of dynamic, affecting pop. ~ Marcy Donelson
Paste (magazine) - "[The album] depicts a raw, real, and beautiful emotional journey with moments both of extreme power and unhindered vulnerability."
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PAPER REVIEW: "Continuous quantification of HER2 expression by microfluidic precision immunofluorescence estimates HER2 gene amplification in breast cancer." Scientific Reports, Nature.
During the last decade, the analysis of solid tumors has evolved from primarily qualitative to increasingly quantitative. The outcome of classical tests was simply to assess whether the results were positive or negative for a specific marker. However, in recent times, doctors have started to see the value in quantifying the amount of protein expression.
In this alternative approach, instead of establishing solely whether a tissue is positive or negative for a clinically relevant protein, a number between 0 and 10 (or 0 and 100) is estimated, in order to later assess its significance in a specific situation or cancer type. This context-specific way of reading the test results could be analogue to indicating that the temperature of the water is 50 ˚C, which could be hot or cold depending on the particular case: For cooking, it would be considered cold but for swimming it would be hot.
We believe Lunaphore's Fast Fluidic Exchange (FFeX) technology has the potential to open the way to truly quantifying biomarker proteins on standard tumor sections.
In order to do this, the proteins on the tissue sections are stained with other proteins attached to fluorescent antibody molecules (this is called "immunofluorescence"). Under the microscope we see how bright the tagged zone is by measuring its intensity. This number can be cross-checked with benchmark figures, just like we would compare the temperature of a water sample with the boiling and freezing point of water.
What does our data suggest?
The data uncovered in this study suggests that conventional test protocols do not provide a signal which truly correlates with the amount of biomarker protein expression on the tissue. In fact, there is a large range of protein expression that cannot be differentiated by its intensity level. In our analogy with water temperature, this would be equivalent to a thermometer which would indicate 90°C for a range from 80°C to 100°C, therefore, different tumors samples appear to be expressing a similar amount of protein levels. On the contrary, when we use our technology to carry out the same test, we were able to obtain a nuanced signal that allows us to observe the differences.
What could this change in the near future ?
Personalized precision medicine relies largely on the information gathered by testing for specific biomarkers on tissue sections. The data extracted from our research suggests that conventional tests may be masking clinically relevant protein biomarker information in the millions of tests that are carried out worldwide every year. The expansion of our technique and the integration of quantitative information in routine diagnostic workflows may signify a major leap towards the concretization of precision medicine. Such quantitative data could potentially uncover correlations that have long been hidden and increase the success of treatment response, cancer prediction and prognosis.


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Skokie, IL — The village of Skokie recently agreed to pay $875,000 to a woman seen on jail surveillance video being shoved into a cement bench face-first. The officer admitted to fracturing her face because the nonviolent woman did not look directly at the camera during her mug shot photo.
Arrested for DUI on March 10, 2013, Cassandra Feuerstein was found asleep in her vehicle at 6 a.m. when officers took her into custody. A surveillance video from the jail shows Officer Mary Escobedo ordering Feuerstein to take off her shoes and bra before processing. After complying with her orders, Feuerstein is ordered into the hallway by Officer Michael Hart to take her mug shot photo.
A few seconds later, Feuerstein calmly returned to her cell when Officer Hart sadistically shoved her from behind into a cement bench across the cell. Slamming her head into the bench, Hart caused Feuerstein to fracture a bone in her face, loosen some of her teeth, and slice a cut across her cheek. Collapsed into a fetal position, Feuerstein wept over a pool of blood as Hart took one look at her before immediately fleeing the room.
Officer Escobedo returned to give Feuerstein bandages, while another officer cradled her bleeding head in his lap. In addition to the DUI charges, Feuerstein was also charged with resisting arrest. In his police report, Hart added the resisting arrest charge because Feuerstein was not looking directly at the camera during processing.
Requiring reconstructive surgery and a titanium plate in her face, Feuerstein eventually pled guilty to DUI after the State's Attorney agreed to drop the resisting arrest charge. Feuerstein also filed a lawsuit accusing Hart of filing a false incident report to justify his use of excessive force. With the surveillance video blatantly showing that she did not act aggressively or threaten anyone's safety, Feuerstein won both a judge's ruling and a settlement agreement that together amount to an $875,000 payout.
Several months after the incident, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez charged Hart with felony aggravated battery and official misconduct. Pleading guilty to the misconduct charge, Hart was given probation with no jail time. After the village announced termination proceedings against him, Hart resigned from the department.


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Gates' Book List; 4000 Weeks; No Recession; Season of Giving
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Rose Kennedy
Happy Thanksgiving in the US – why insights going out today.
$8 million to $35 million in 4 Years – Digital Marketing Agency
InfoTrust helps giant brands such as L'Oréal, Johnson & Johnson and Nestle make better decisions using data. This ScaleUps.com article details how this Cincinatti-based firm has scaled 4x in four years after CEO Alex Yastrebenetsky attended our CEO Boot Camp in 2018 and then engaged a Scaling Up coach Marshal Martin. With four additional offices around the globe, Alex has focused on being a great place to work by applying for and winning multiple awards. Set a goal in 2023 to win more of these awards – and using our tools always impresses the judges of these awards. Please take 2-minutes to read all these unique things Alex is doing to power his firm in a very competitive space.
Season of Giving – InfoTrust Donated More Than $400k
From fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2022, the InfoTrust foundation has donated more than $400,000 to causes such as Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the anti-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad and Feeding America, which fights hunger. The company has also committed 1% of its billable time to pro bono services. How is your firm giving back to your local community (especially children's programs)?
Bill Gates Holiday Book List
This year Bill Gates shared five of his favorite books of all time, including Bono's Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story released Nov 1. This CNBC article provides nice summaries of each book – worth a minute to scan. The other four (see how many you've already read): The Inner Game of Tennis; Mendeleyev's Dream; Team of Rivals; and Stranger in a Strange Land.
TEDx -- How to Stop Fighting Against Time
This TEDx talk summarizes Oliver Burkeman's huge bestseller Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. In short, he suggests we spend too much time trying to be productive and clearing our in-box (in fact, answering more emails generates more emails!). It's time to realize you're NOT going to get everything done and, instead (surprise, surprise), be clear on the one or two most important priorities and focus on completing them, even if many other things get set aside. All our lives are short, which is a gift!! Please take 17 minutes to save you the time of reading his book!
OECD Projects Growth in 2023
Chaotic, yes. Recession, who knows! The world economy is expected to grow 3.1% in 2022 and another 2.2% in 2023 according to OECD projections in this Fortune article from yesterday. Even if global GPD dropped 5% in 2023, it would still surpass 2019 record levels. In short, if you can't find a way to make a million or a billion, the constraint is within you or your business model. Let us help you and your team unlock your full potential.
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It's the most critical decision a business owner will make in their lifetime – and over my 40 years of helping firms, I've seen owners taken advantage of time and time again – leaving tens of millions on the table. You're up against sophisticated buyers who have done hundreds of acquisitions – whereas this is often your first rodeo. And these buyers have a formula for ripping you off – and it works. Seeking help, owners find the big M&A firms, especially those specializing in your industry, are more beholden to the buyers than the sellers (they will tell you otherwise). They are not your friend in the process, just another transaction. Email me to get a white paper on what to avoid when exiting verne@scalingup.com.
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Energize and prepare for 2023 by having you and your team review the fundamentals of Scaling Up. Verne will lead a 3-hour session Dec 14 and 3 hours Dec 15 (with a 90-minute CEO-only session Dec 13). Over 80,000 firms are using our tools to scale with less drama, like the following firm which jump-started their use of our tools at a similar workshop (in person vs. virtual). For more info and to sign-up you and your team, go to this link.
Family Biz Scales from $100 million to $650 Million (Scaling Up Case Study)
This Scaleups.com article details how Master Electronics, founded in 1967, scaled significantly using our tools. This Phoenix-based firm sells products that facilitate human-machine communication. A family affair, founder Ike Nizam and his two sons Riad (President) and Jamal (CEO), first learned about Rockefeller Habits at a 3-day YPO-hosted training event in 2013. At the time $100 million, they aimed to professionalize the firm, setting a BHAG of $250 million. Less than a decade later they have crushed that goal, surpassing $650 million. Please take 2-minutes to read what worked best in driving this scale!
"Winning Loose" – Setting Priorities
Ike and his sons came up with a clever way to set priorities. Notes the article:
"To set priorities, they used the concept of "winning loose." "It's a way to rank priorities, and see if they make sense to tackle," Riad explains. "There's a scale of what is the impact from 1-10? How hard is it to execute from 1-10? The goal is to do things that are a 7 or above in impact, but a 7 and below in terms of how hard they are. That helps us prioritize the important things we are going to do. It's very, very effective."
They have also focused on hiring and supporting A-players by creating a high-performance, high-reward culture. It's the idea of having less people paid more than a bunch of people paid less. Please take 2-minutes to read the details and discuss which of their ideas you'll use to scale your firm.
Richard Branson – Keys to Focus
I just discovered this "Ask Richard" piece which appeared a year ago. Richard Branson addresses two critical questions: how to balance creative thinking (lots of ideas) and focus; and is EQ or IQ more critical? To address the first, Richard details 4 ways he focuses his efforts – please take 1-minute to scan that list in the article. What feeds that process is lots of lists. Write everything down you're thinking of (calms your brain) and then determine the next best small tasks to move the initiatives forward. This is how you accomplish a wide range of things, like Branson, during a normal day.
Richard Branson -- EQ vs. IQ
Richard's answer to the second question:
EQ vs IQ. In short, I think being emotionally intelligent is more important in every aspect of life – and this includes business. Being a good listener, finding empathy, understanding emotions, communicating effectively, treating people well, and bringing out the best is critical to success. It will also help you build a business that really understands people and solve their problems, and it will make for a happier and healthier team too.
Enough said!! The key is getting the coaching you need to master the six behaviors he lists. Hard to do it on your own. Again, please take 2-minutes to read his great reminders of focus and EQ. Thank you to Steelcase executive Bob Hendriksen for sharing.
Diligent Robotics Tackles Nurse Burnout
Technology's main role is to reduce the "administrivia/routine" of human jobs. This Fortune article details the role of robots in assisting nurses at major hospitals – delivering samples to the lab and meds to the nurse. This gives the nurse more time to focus on the patients. Vivian Chu is the founder of Austin-based Diligent Robotics – enjoy this quick article – then meet with your team to list the simple yet time-consuming aspects of your peoples' jobs – and find technologies to handle these routine tasks.
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Chaos-Proofing; Virus Proofing; Scale-Proofing; Nov 16 Webinar with Verne
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
Chaos-Proof the Business – Prepare for 2023 with Verne Harnish
Lots of forces impacting our businesses. Join me for a free 90-minute webinar where I'll share strategies for chaos-proofing your business – and preparing it to crush it in 2023 – practical and proven ideas to help you and your team scale forward. These ideas have been culled from helping over 80,000 CEOs, founders, and top executives scale up with less drama.
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Fortune 500 CEOs – How They Handle Chaotic Times
Fortune asked, this week, CEOs of major firms "how does a company protect itself against the short-term risks while driving the transformations needed to win the future?" This CEO Daily post highlights their strategies, aligned with what I'll detail next Tuesday. Some takeaways:
Focus is critical
Tend to the needs of employees
Crises are also opportunities
Please take 2-minutes to read the details for each – and use as a quick audit for your crisis preparation.
$26M to $71M (Scaling Up Case Study)
This Scaleups.com article details how Ray Bailey, after attending a CEO Boot Camp and with the help of Scaling Up Coach Mark Fenner, has scaled Lone Star Communications 3-fold the last six years. This Grand Prairie, TX-based firm supports life safety communications--helping institutions like hospitals communicate in emergencies, set schedules, etc., using one system. With a BHAG of 1,000 "rising star" employees, they are up to 285. They're using Scaling Up to unify what are now eight offices in their region, all run autonomously, unified around Core Values they set with Mark. Please take 2-minutes to read the details of Ray's story.
Rapid Virus Recovery – Nebulized H2O2
So many adults and children are coming down with the flu – starting much earlier than normal. The simplest prevention and treatment is hydrogen peroxide nebulization. This free downloadable book titled Rapid Virus Recovery by Dr. Tom Levy details the research (over 1 million downloads). Tom is on the board with me of the non-profit Riordan Clinic where we've been serving "co-learners" (our term for patients) for 47 years. Doing the peroxide nebulization treatments on a reasonably regular basis will also normalize bowel function, leaky gut, and the microbiome for very many people. I always carry a handheld nebulizer with me in my suitcase. Here is a link to the nebulizer I use and you can also order food-grade hydrogen peroxide ($9/bottle) from Amazon as well, though you can use regular H2O2 from the drugstore ($2/bottle).
COVID Numbers in Question
This article came across my email given my role as Vice Chair of the Riordan Clinic. The title says it all "Peer-Reviewed Study Confirms Fatal Flaw in PCR Testing: 42% False Discovery Rate for SARS-CoV-2 nonQ-RT-PCR Test. This means COVID-19 Vaccine Outcomes Rate Data is Unreliable and Invalid."
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It always seems impossible, until it is done.
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What's In It for Them – Released This Week
Likely the #1 biz book for 2022 (I haven't read a better book), I'm with Joe Polish this week at his 25k Genius Network event in Phoenix to celebrate the release of his new book What's in It for Them? You scale through relationships – yet connecting with people is often a painful experience for many. Thus, you miss out on crucial business opportunities (or love)! Please study this book to hone your relationship-building skills – the modern-day version of How to Win Friends and Influence People.
The Netflix of Cybersecurity (Scaling Up Case Study)
This ScaleUps.com article details how our Align/Scoreboard software and Scaling Up online training is helping Corey White scale his latest venture Cyvatar.ai. With impressive revenue growth and the disciplines from Rockefeller Habits 2.0, he's attracted $12 million in venture funding and is focused on making cybersecurity easy for firms without information security officers. Using Topgrading, he's hiring remote workers based on them having a growth vs. fixed mindset. Please take 1-minute to scan the article for more details. Then brush up on your Scaling Up, Topgrading, and other growth tools/techniques.
Winging It -- Why Leaders/Entrepreneurs Don't Plan
This Forbes article details why leaders fail to formally plan and prefer to "wing it." Specifically:
…feelings of power increase an individual's level of confidence in their own opinions and perspectives so that they view risk as less risky. This means that they often fixate on potential rewards and ignore potential downsides. This could lead them to wing it.
Failing to plan is planning to fail. At a minimum, you're leaving a lot of money and time on the table just winging it. I hope you have a time scheduled to plan for 2023 (ours is Jan 5 – 7). Let us help with coaching, training, and a tech platform for tracking your KPIs, OKRs, and Priorities that costs less than two Starbucks/day.
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Corey (above) took the Mindvalley-hosted Scaling Up course when launching his latest firm. Designed for start-ups to six-figure firms seeking to cross the $1 million mark (and qualify for EO membership), this 22-lesson mini-course (each lesson is roughly 15 minutes) is helping thousands of entrepreneurs scale their ventures. Next cohort launches Nov 6, but you can join at any time. For more info
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Q: Collision on BorderBody in Swift I'm making game in school similar to Don't touch the spikes and I would need an advice about collisions with the edges if screen in Swift. U gave set up borderBody a I need something to happen when it hits the side, even some print would be ok. The ball is reflecting, but I don't know how to make some reaction on it. I need collision on right and left separately.
BordeBody:
let borderBody = SKPhysicsBody(edgeLoopFromRect: self.frame)
    borderBody.friction = 0
    self.physicsBody = borderBody

Ball:
ball = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "ball")
    ball.name = "ball"
    ball.size = CGSize(width: screenSize.width / 4, height: screenSize.height / 7)
    ball.position = CGPoint(x: 150, y: self.frame.height / 2)
    ball.physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody(circleOfRadius: ball.frame.height / 2)
    ball.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask = PhysicsCatagory.ball
    ball.physicsBody?.collisionBitMask = PhysicsCatagory.ground
    ball.physicsBody?.contactTestBitMask = PhysicsCatagory.ground
    ball.physicsBody?.affectedByGravity = true
    ball.physicsBody?.dynamic = true
    ball.zPosition = 2
    self.addChild(ball)

Collision struct:
struct PhysicsCatagory {
static let ball : UInt32 = 0x1 << 1
static let ground : UInt32 = 0x1 << 2
static let ground2 : UInt32 = 0x1 << 3
static let obstacle : UInt32 = 0x1 << 4
}

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Between 2011 and 2041, the population for Moorabool Shire is forecast to increase by 24,589 persons (85.74% growth), at an average annual change of 2.08%.
This table summarises the population for Moorabool Shire and each of its small areas. This enables you to see how population change is affecting different parts of the LGA in different ways. Some small areas may be rapidly growing whilst others are stable or even declining in population.
Please note that population numbers in forecast.id for the 2011 base year are derived from Estimated Resident Population from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These differ from (and are usually higher than) Census counts as they factor in population missed by the Census and population overseas on Census night. They are generally considered a more accurate measure of population size than Census counts.


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Brockville is located in Ontario, Canada. The population of Brockville in 2006 was 21957 which ranked number 66 provincially and number 171 nationally in terms of population. Overall the population increased by 2.7% from the years 2001-2006. The area of Brockville covers 20.7 km2/square kilometres and has a population density of 1059 inhabitants/people per square kilometre. The map of Brockville and the nearby locations indicated below provide direct links to various recreational, sporting and leisure activities from websites, clubs, associations, parks, videos and more information sources across Brockville, Ontario.


The historic building, located in the downtown area, has apparently been overrun with rodents after a nearby structure was demolished last year.
City council members and staff say the rats are having a field day in the 91-year-old building, nesting in potted plants, gnawing at carpets and leaving droppings on several floors.
Elizabeth Greenwood, a city attorney, believes she contracted typhus last November after working in a building connected to City Hall.
"It was terrifying, I thought I was going to die and couldn't figure out what was wrong with me," she told the local CBS station.
The rat problem has gotten so bad that city council president Herb Wesson this week submitted a motion calling for a probe into "the scope of vermin and pest control issues" in the building and adjacent structures.
"Employees shouldn't have to come to work worried about rodents," Wesson told the Los Angeles Times. "I intend to do whatever it is we need" to solve the issue.
He said the problem of vermin and fleas in the rugs of his fourth-floor office had gotten so bad that he removed his staff from the art-deco building during the end-of-year holidays and ripped out all the carpeting.
He is now asking the city to consider taking out all the rugs in the 27-story building, a popular filming location used in numerous movies including "Chinatown" and "L.A. Confidential."
Questioned by AFP, the Los Angeles mayor's office said it was concerned about the rodent issue and was seeking to eradicate the critters.
"We are working with our general services department to do whatever... we need to do to make sure this doesn't continue to be an issue," spokesman Alex Comisar said.
"They are setting traps, filling borrows, treating tree wells. They are going to all of the places that these rodents tend to find refuge and they are doing what they need to do to eradicate the problem.
"We see this as a problem that is very solvable in the immediate future."
Demotic rats are the elect of California politics and an essential feature, there to stay and feeding on the unabled.


I caught the gastro virus mid-week and the benefit of being awfully sick all weekend was staying in all weekend and saving money by not going out.
Because I had gastro and couldn't leave the house, I ate through many things in the pantry which had previously been neglected, such as plain crackers and ricer vermicelli noodles. Frugal win!
Because I caught gastro, there was a lot of food wastage. I had to throw away 5 servings of slow cooked Osso Buco and 3 fruit salads I had just made the night I became sick. Better not risk becoming sick again after going through 5 days of bowel hell.
Before getting gastro, I hadn't meal prepped properly over the previous week and threw out quite a bit of food which had gone off. This included mushrooms, a punnet of strawberries, a half bag of carrots and an apple.
Good to see you thinking of being sick as a win – great positive mindset!


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A computer monitor was reported stolen three weeks after it was noticed missing. On Tuesday, Oct. 30, a staff member said it was stolen sometime between then and Oct. 9. The monitor was missing from a room in Science Hall. A search revealed the cable lock was still intact and had no signs of being tampered with.
The Office of Information Technology said they did not know where the monitor was. It is valued at $150. Anyone with information can call Public Safety at x. 5029.
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This touches my heart every time I hear it!
Since my husband, Jim, was sick Easter, we did not have our traditonal family dinner. So Wed. night we gathered for dinner. Jim brought me a beautiful yellow lily right before everyone arrived and it looked so pretty setting on the buffet. I had fun decorating the table. I found these cute little marshmallow animals at Wal-Mart and took the Happy Easter sign from the chocolate covered marshmallows Stacy gave me.
My daughter, Stacy, brought banana pudding. My daughter, Shawna, brought spinach strawberry salad. I prepared ham, potato casserole, deviled eggs, broccoli, and rolls. We had a fun time visiting and laughing after dinner. Later, I loved sitting and watching our little granddaughter pretend with the dolls and doll house. Before they left her daddy played the guitar as she danced and sang! How I wish I had taken a picture!
Easter is over but we should celebrate Jesus everyday!
My husband had been sick since Wednesday. Yesterday morning he was still sick so instead of attending church I stayed home with him. It was the first time in each of our lives that we missed going to church on Easter. It felt very odd and we missed worshipping with our church family.
Jim began to feel better in the afternoon.
First to the Lord who healed him!! Then we thank the many who offered prayers on behalf of him. We are thankful for the Internet where we could join in with another church service yesterday morning. We are so thankful for the messages and calls from friends and family. We thank our daughters and their husbands for helping us with with various things.
I am very thankful that tomorrow night the table will be set, the food prepared and we will have our family Easter dinner that we could not have yesterday.
In the midst of sickness we both felt loved and cared about!
Our granddaughter, Ashlynn Kate, is 4 today! Her birthday party will be next week but because Aunt Stephanie is in Honduras she had some gifts mailed to my house and Ashlynn was able to open them while Aunt Stephanie watched via skype! I just had to buy her a Hello Kitty balloon for today. That will be the theme of her birthday party. We had a fun morning before Mommy and Daddy took her to the park to ride her new bike! After they went to lunch she was allowed to choose a birthday cupcake for tonight.
Hello Kitty stickers and coloring book!
Play Doh Fun Factory and Play Doh!!!
Hello Kitty Umbella!! Come on rain!
HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY SWEET ASHLYNN KATE!
YOU BRING SUCH HAPPINESS TO OUR LIVES!
Today would be my wonderful Father-in-law's 93rd birthday!
I found this old picture of him doing his favorite thing which was playing the guitar.
He loved playing and singing with friends and family.
Pictured with him is Jim with our daughter Stacy and Mike, a family friend.
My daughter Stacy surprised us with a treat this morning. She made us some of her yummy chocolate and white chocolate dipped marshmallows. Notice how they are shaped like an egg. :) She made chocolate dipped ones for her dad and white chocolate dipped ones for me. She even brought some for Colette, the 6 yr. old we babysit. She gave them to us in little bags but I just had to put mine on a plate for a picture. Well, I did that after I ate one. It went well with my vanilla latte this morning!
Have you had a surprise lately that blessed you and made you feel loved?
I love the little sign and heart.
The birds perched on the nest are so cute!
that enabled us to pay off our house!
Jim returned home last week from a mission trip in Kenya.
The emphasis was medical, feeding and teaching the local pastors.
to give them to someone in need.
that they would be able to get glasses.
that they were given these glasses.
teaching and encouraging the pastors from the surrounding areas.
serve these precious people in the Name of Jesus!
Even if we can't go, we have a part, and that is to pray!!
She has been so excited for weeks because today she turned SIX!!! Yes, Colette, whom I have watched since she was 4 months old, is 6 years old today. Her mom invited me and her Mimi to go to the American Girl doll store and restaurant on Saturday. We had so much fun celebrating her birthday with lunch and dessert. Afterwards we went shopping and watched her choose some new clothes for her doll, Lia.
So sweet...the doll has a seat too.
Fun appetizers before the meal. She chose cheese fondue.
and everyone sang Happy Birthday to her.
One last picture before going home!
Lia looks so cute in her new dress and sunglasses!!
I had a balloon and a gift waiting for her after school.
Chocolate pudding with whipping cream and sprinkles!
I have a pretty bracelet that is very meaningful to me. It isn't a bracelet that could be easily replaced. Each charm was lovingly picked out for me by a family member or a friend. Each charm has meaning to me and when I wear it I remember who gave me which charm, what the charm represents, and feel loved. One day I went to put it on and could not find it. I knew the time frame of when I last saw it. I did not want my family to know that I had been careless with this precious bracelet. I prayed asking God to show me where it was. I began looking in all the places I might have put it. When it was not in these places I began to think maybe it was lost for good. This week while Jim was in Kenya I decided to start going through drawers and any place I could think that it might be. All week I looked for the bracelet, always praying as I was looking, asking God to show me where it was.In the process I cleaned out desk drawers and even a cabinet. I looked in pockets of coats and pants. There was no where else I could think to look. It was gone and I felt so sad.
I was so excited and began to shout out loudly, "Thank you Jesus! I found my bracelet!" I was so happy. I immediately called a friend that I had asked to pray that I would find it. I wanted her to rejoice with me! I found my bracelet!
to have found this precious bracelet, I thought of a couple parables from the Bible.
The Bible tells us God pursues that one that is lost and when a sinner repents, great rejoicing takes place in heaven. Wow! Just as I didn't give up looking for my bracelet He does not give up on us. Think about it...God loves us individually!!! When we repent of our sins, we receive forgiveness and God rejoices!!! I like that.
You are precious to God!


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Mayor Garcetti Announces Federal Designation, $700,000 Grant to Assist Disconnected Youth
Following selection as a Performance Partnership Pilot by the Obama Administration, City of Los Angeles will lead a new multi-agency effort to get young people back into the classroom and on the path to careers
LOS ANGELES — On October 29, 2015, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the Obama Administration has selected Los Angeles as a Performance Partnership Pilot for Disconnected Youth (P3), a designation that allows local and state governments to pilot improved ways of assisting disconnected youth with federal dollars.
Performance Partnership Pilot status gives agencies added flexibility in the use of discretionary funds across multiple federal programs. The designation comes with a $700,000 grant to fund a planning effort, led by the city's Economic & Workforce Development Department, that will bring together local and federal agencies to provide wraparound services to improve education, employment, and social outcomes for youth with a history of homelessness, chronic school absenteeism, or involvement in the criminal justice system.
"There are few things more meaningful or impactful than giving young people new opportunities to achieve and second chances to succeed," said Mayor Garcetti. "The Performance Partnership Pilot will enable L.A. to show the nation how we can strengthen service delivery to our most vulnerable youth — through stronger partnerships, and by breaking down jurisdictional boundaries."
The multi-agency partnership will map out ways to bolster collaboration between the Economic & Workforce Development Department, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Los Angeles Community College District, and Los Angeles County.
"LAUSD is proud to partner to bring essential services to the youth that need them the most," said LAUSD Board President Steve Zimmer. "Allowing increased flexibility will ensure that more young people are reached and that they are better served."
"I want to applaud Mayor Garcetti and the City for taking the lead on this important program," said Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl. "Disconnected youth will benefit greatly from the kind of supportive teams made possible through this innovative collaboration between City, County, and LAUSD."
In addition to enhancing local partnerships, six federal agencies — the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Justice Department, as well as the Corporation for National and Community Services and the Institute of Museum and Library Services — are committed to working with Los Angeles officials to align resources, provide waivers, and help identify new opportunities to improve service delivery outcomes to disconnected youth.
The effort to secure P3 status for L.A. resulted from the City's engagement with President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative. It was also supported by LA n Sync, founded by the Annenberg Foundation, which provided technical assistance in the application process and helped assemble various sectors to help pursue the opportunity.
"We are confident that this award will have a tremendously positive impact on our region's most disenfranchised youth," said Annenberg Foundation Executive Director Cindy Kennard.
(Press release courtesy of Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti)
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This original watercolour caricature by George Cruikshank sold at auction in London last week for a respectable £1,600. The picture is signed in the lower left hand corner but carries no title or date. Judging by the style of the clothing and uniforms, it is most likely to have been produced sometime during the 1820s.
The painting depicts a farcically mismatched couple walking together through the park. The young solider gazes down with inexplicable adoration on the smiling visage of a toothless, cross-eyed, old crone. The phallic presence of the solider's sword and the sagging purse carried by the old woman provide a sly hint of sexual innuendo and more earthy humour. Additional comic effect is also added by the presence of several bemused bystanders, whose reactions to the pair range from amusement, to shock and disgust.
Cruikshank was regularly turning out paintings and sketches such as this by the middle of the 1820s. Permanently cash-strapped and aware that his rising reputation had created a demand for original works, he exploited the collecting market by producing countless comic pot-boilers which served to tide him over while he waited for his next big commission from one of London's publishers. Many of these paintings played on well-worn themes of Georgian humour that would have required little effort on the part of the artist and guaranteed him a quick sale.
In this instance, Cruikshank's humour is a little to obvious for my taste and his handling of the old woman also seems needlessly cruel to modern eyes, but the painting is well-executed nonetheless and will no doubt make a welcome addition to someone's collection.
It's been a while since we looked at any transfer-printed pottery on the Printshop Window and so I thought I'd share these images of a creamware jug which came up at auction recently.
The jug was manufactured by the Cambrian Pottery Company of Swansea and is dated 1st April 1814. The design is somewhat unusual in that it is an original composition rather than a copy of an existing caricature print. It was drawn and engraved by James Brindley, an English engraver working in Swansea for a period of about five years between 1813 and 1818. Brindley produced this image and another satirical design, entitled Peace and Plenty, specifically for use in the potteries. We know Brindley was responsible for creating these two designs because his signature appears on both, although David Drakard points out that it was obliterated from later transfers, possibly because "confirmation that both the design and the engraving was not their own work was too much for the Cambrian Pottery" (Drakard, p.248).
20 stone. You see what I am reduc'd to!" (Broadly, p. 260).
Around the spout of the jug is the title Bonaparte Dethron'd and the date 1st April 1814. Napoleon was actually dethroned by the French Senate on 3rd April 1814, but it seems reasonable to assume that Brindley deliberately fudged the facts in order to link l'empereur's downfall with April Fools Day. Drakard records that this decoration was issued with and without colour and also printed in red on yellow-glaze (see example here). It was also sufficiently popular for at least one of the Cambrian Pottery's rivals to issue a copy. The design on the copies is slightly more compact, with the title being moved onto the body of the jug and replaced by a floral banding that runs around the spout. The British Museum currently has one of these copies in its collection which it erroneously attributes to the caricaturist William Elmes.
When to our joy, on yester morn, a full pound twelve-pounder – LIBERTY was born… Whilst mother MOB, that steady wet-nurse, press'd the sturdy infant to her milky breast. – Richard Alsop, 'Infant Liberty Nursed by Mother Mob', The Echo, with other Poems, N.Y., (1807), pp. 7-8.
A rare and highly unusual example of American political satire from the first decade of the nineteenth-century. The print was engraved by William Satchwell Leney (1769 – 1831), an Englishman who had emigrated to America in 1805, after a drawing by the American artist-engraver Elkanah Tisdale (1768-1835). It was published in New York in 1807 and appears to have been issued in two separate states, initially as a bookplate within The Echo, a Federalist satirical journal edited by Richard Alsop, and latterly as a separate print in its own right. It was then republished the following year in Hugginiana, a political magazine named after the outspoken New York Federalist John Huggins. This copy carries the attribution markings for The Echo and came from the initial 1807 edition.
The print's origins lie in the split that occurred in the Federalist movement following successive defeats in the presidential elections of 1800 and 1805. Disillusioned with the democratic process and locked in an increasingly bitter struggle with their Jeffersonian rivals, an outspoken group of Federalists began to call for moves to a more restrictive model of republican government. Their vision was one which was very much derived from the British model of constitutional monarchy, in which a strong executive ruled with the consent of a limited franchise drawn from the ranks of the wealthy and the educated. One of the most outspoken of their number was John Huggins, a New York barber and satirical author who put himself at the forefront of the battle with the city's Republican fraternity. In 1808 he published a collected volume of poems, articles and caricatures (which included a copy of this print) that so enraged his enemies that it moved one Republican activist to storm into Huggin's shop on Broadway and beat him with a heavy length of rope.
The imagery deployed will be familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of English political caricature in this period. The infant Liberty is being nursed on a diet of whisky and rum by the slow-witted and down-at-heel figure of Mother Mob, a prostitute whose latest customer appears to be dozing in the bed behind her. Two mean-looking republican devils in the guise of children stand next to her burning the statutes and copies of the US constitution. In the background we can see a mob tearing down a state building representing government. The print is arguably one of the most starkly conservative political satires produced in the United States during this period.
This print is currently available for sale along with a few other items of American interest. Please click HERE for more information.
Figurative Representation of the Late Catastrophe!
Surveying the listless occupants of the near-empty chamber of the House of Commons on summer evening in 1837, Benjamin Disraeli idly scribbled a note informing his wife that: "There is no news today: everything is rather flat and the room is thin as the world have [sic] gone to see the monster balloon rise from Vauxhall." The monster balloon in question was the Great Nassau, a huge hot air balloon which undertook flights from Vauxhall Gardens every evening during the summer season. The Vauxhall balloon was the biggest aircraft in existence at the time and had recently smashed the world record for the longest ever flight, travelling almost 500 miles from London to the German Duchy of Nassau in a time of 18 hours. The balloon itself was spectacle even when it was not airborne, standing 80 feet tall with a circumferance of 150 feet when inflated, it towered over the crowds of awed spectators that thronged to the gardens to see it ascend silently into the heavens each evening.
The Nassau was the brainchild of the pioneering British balloonist Charles Green (1785 – 1870). Green completed his balloon ascent in July 1821 and would undertake hundreds more during the course of a 30 year career in aviation. By the time Green retired in 1850, he had designed and built dozens of balloons of various sizes and was credited with the introduction of several innovative new features that made ballooning a safer and more efficient mode of transport. The Nassau differed from his previous creations in that it was purpose-built to undertake long range flights a greater altitudes than its predecessors.
While Green was undoubtedly a serious pilot and aeronautical engineer, he also possessed a flair for the theatrical and recognised that the public's fascination with flight provided a means of funding his experiments. By 1826 he had entered into an agreement with the proprietors of Vauxhall Gardens which resulted in him being offered a nightly slot in their programme of entertainment. His stunts included using his balloon as a floating platform from which to launch firework displays and completing an ascent while mounted on the back of a horse. He also began offering pleasure flights for groups of paying guests, with customers queuing up to pay £21 each (the equivalent of around £2,000 today) to take a short flight across London. This element of the business proved to be so lucrative that Green was able to fund the construction of the Great Nassau using the proceeds.
balloon in London large enough to be capable of lifting it off the ground. This was a fact which should have set alarm bells ringing its inventor's head.
I asked him if he felt quite comfortable, and if the practical trial bore out his calculation. Mr Cocking replied "Yes. I never felt more comfortable or more delighted in my life." Shortly afterwards Mr Cocking said "Well, now I think I shall leave you." I answered "I wish you a very Good Night and a safe descent if you are determined to make it and not use the tackle" [a rope ladder which would have allowed Cocking to climb out of his parachute and up into the car of Green's balloon]. Mr Cocking to this question made no reply other than, "Good-night Spencer, Good-night Green.
John Doyle, Figurative Representation of the Late Catastrophe!
With that he pulled the release mechanism and cast himself off into oblivion. Green had no time to consider what happened next as the balloon, suddenly freed from its heavy cargo, shot upwards like a rocket, eventually reaching a height of 15,000 feet before Green and his co-pilot Mr Spencer could bring it under control and make a safe descent. Robert Cocking and his parachute traveled in the opposite direction with even greater rapidity, dropping towards the Earth like a stone. The massive canvas and wooden superstructure of the parachute was far too heavy and simply disintegrated above Cocking's head. The basket in which the terrified inventor sat detached itself from the mangled remains of the canopy shortly before it smashed into a field in the village of Lee, eight miles south-east of Vauxhall. Although the farm labourers who rushed to Cocking's aid reported that he was still breathing when they found him, he had sustained massive head injuries and died within minutes of being pulled from the wreckage.
Despite the apparent lunacy of Robert Cocking's actions, his bravery and the public manner of his death caused an outcry of sympathy amongst fashionable Londoners. The young Queen Victoria even headed a public subscription fund to provide for the eccentric inventor's widow and children. On 31st August 1837 the episode also provided the Irish caricaturist John Doyle with the inspiration for a new plate in his long-running Political Sketches of HB series. In Figurative Representation of the Late Catastrophe!, Doyle depicts the radical MP Joseph Hume in the guise of the unfortunate Cocking. His parachute has been detached from the balloon Middlesex and as he plummets uncontrollably towards the town of Kilkenny, he cries "Now unless some friendly dunghill receives me, I am lost forever". Hume was a committed radical whose outspoken advocacy of trade unionism, democratic constitutional reform and Irish Home Rule had made thoroughly unpopular with many in the conservative upper and middle classes. When he was ousted from the constituency of Middlesex in 1837 his friend and political ally Daniel O'Connell was able to have him stand for and win the Irish constituency of Kilkenny. Doyle's print reflects the prejudices of conservative English audiences who typically viewed MPs holding Irish seats, particularly those with large numbers of Catholic voters, with disdain.


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US reveals first charges against Sam Bankman-Fried
US securities regulators have charged Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors in his recently bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the first move in an expected onslaught of criminal and civil charges following his arrest in the Bahamas late on Monday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it had charged Bankman-Fried with defrauding venture capitalists and other equity investors who pumped $1.8bn into Nassau-based FTX, the majority of whom are based in the US, since May 2019.
"We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto," said SEC chair Gary Gensler.
Bankman-Fried was arrested at his luxury penthouse in the Bahamas after US prosecutors filed criminal charges. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York said the case against the 30-year-old would be unsealed later on Tuesday morning.
While the SEC can only issue civil charges, the criminal charges against Bankman-Fried could lead to years of prison time if he is convicted.
His arrest and the criminal charges mean that US authorities intend to pursue Bankman-Fried personally after the catastrophic collapse of FTX last month. The failure of the Bahamas-based exchange, once valued at $32bn, has resulted in potential losses for millions of creditors, including retail investors, and sent shockwaves through the crypto industry.
In its own lawsuit, the SEC alleged that Bankman-Fried promoted his company to potential equity investors as a safe and reliable player in the wild west of digital assets, focusing on touting the company's sophisticated risk management. In reality, regulators said, Bankman-Fried "orchestrated a years-long fraud" to conceal "diversion of FTX customers' funds to Alameda Research", his private trading firm.
Before its collapse into bankruptcy last month, FTX had won the backing of several of the world's best-known investors including BlackRock, Temasek and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
"The alleged fraud committed by Bankman-Fried is a clarion call to crypto platforms that they need to come into compliance with our laws," Gensler said. The SEC said its investigation into FTX was ongoing.
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Replace my remote is an online service for finding lost items that are operated by remote control. The site has an important enquiry form that allows you to enter the details about your lost items. You can find your lost key or remote to important gadgets and technological inventions. We worked on the responsive design of the website by modifying its style sheet so that the site becomes easy to access and use on different devices. Along with design modifications, we also worked on developing some core functionalities in the magento site.


Having had 11 solo and many joint exhibitions in London over the past 20 years, I have developed a good reputation as an artist and a keen eye for understanding my clients' needs. I have displayed one of my sculptures in the foyer of the V&A and before that I was an animator and won many awards for my work, culminating in 2 golds at the New York Film Festival.
I am passionate about my work and when I am preparing for an exhibition I have a trance like obsession about my subject and can work for days on end with little care for sleep or rest, I am in my element. To get back into the real world, I teach and some of my pupils have been extremely successful having repeatedly achieved the best results in the country. My passion and love for the creative image is generously passed onto many generations of students. It's difficult finding the balance of my own work and working for others and so like a pendulum my life falls into different creative directions. At the moment I am on the cusp of leaping back into my own creative world, as I am giving up teaching in schools, allowing myself to commit to my own indulgences.
I am fascinated by nature and am now enamoured by the beauty of plant life. I start a painting with stark realism and thorough observational research, sometimes I have the plant in front of me and other times I use my own photography as my starting point. Some of the images are close-ups that are enlarged tenfold until they become an abstract image of natural form through unusual compositions. I try to create a lyrical beauty within these paintings, a luminosity enhanced by colour. I create an outer image of inward things. Enlarged to five foot images and then to the other extreme; the tiniest of paintings. So for the viewer the image therefore becomes distorted, they would have an experience of nature in detail, colour, pattern and form. I always challenge myself to continue to develop new concepts, experiment with new formats. Colour and composition is the key to my work and I however much I learn through my practice they is so much more to discover.
To prepare for an exhibition it takes sometimes more than a year and so I therefore create another world for myself by also concentrating on three dimensional form. I am at my best when I have the two parallel creative adventures running together as they counter act each other, the beautiful world of reality and the limitless abstract form.
I also create vibrant coloured papier mache sculptures using beautiful manmade objects discarded by our society. The sculptures are made using the Mexican papier mache techniques, I have been taught by the Leonaris family. I am interested in creating an interpretation of the natural world juxtaposing and metamorphosing with the manmade objects. Celebrating its beauty, the texture, form and meeting points of different angles that curve in various harmonies of light, shadow and luminous rich colours.
I take on commissions and can produce any required size plant life etc; I also do portraiture which you will see on the website. If you find me any work I will pay the percentage to you.
With regard my studio space I have a large room in my house at the moment. I am not interested in natural light as it changes all the time so I remove all natural light and have very strong light as I need it to be consistent as colour changes as light reflects of it. I also work with interference colours and my actual light source is very important to me.
July I have decided I shall stop teaching in schools. I shall then look for a new studio space, large room with basin and the windows will be blocked by curtains or blinds. So if you hear of a space let me know.
I am also passionate about music and listen all the time to classical music when I work, or if I feel too isolated from the world I listen to radio 4. At times being an artist I can become too lost in my creativity and forget there is a world out there. That is why I have taught in schools etc to keep me grounded in the real world. But now I do not care and all I want to do is create.
Selling my work makes me happy as I am not interested in keeping my work. My work is like a past thought a creative moment that passes. I have already moved on to my next creative moment and totally absorbed into that.
Having taught so many interesting young people to be in the creative world, I love seeing what they do how they go on developing. I am very excited for them. One of my students is on the team for designing clothes for Lady Gaga. I have many who are in the creative world.
Gillian Wearing worked for me when I had my animation studio for 3 to 4 years when she was very young and she has now won the Turner prize I am so happy for her. Daniel Greaves who also worked for me in my studio got an Oscar for animation.
The awards though mean little to me I won many gold's and prizes at many festivals when I was an animator but I was on the next exciting production and was annoyed that I had to travel to get the award, however much they wine and dine us. On the other hand without these awards we would not get work so I do also have a practical and business approach to my work.
My wish is to create forever and not to be disrupted by the day to day life. I live for my passions the creative world and get frustrated by the daily toil of travelling in London, it is time wasting. Paper work or should I say computer work with its endless requests of irrelevant questions should be removed from the world. This is what frustrates me when I teach the endless irrelevant paper work that takes up so much time that is nothing to do with teaching the child. The obsession of having to prove that you are a brilliant teacher and not the final outcome. I am a good teacher where my pupils always gain high marks A*'s and I have taught children who got the best results in the country several times. So now I leave that mad world where they do not give enough time to teach the child properly. Sorry you got me started! I am beginning to hate the schools now as they are removing more and more the arts from the curriculum and demand that the children learn English, Maths and Science more and more. So I am very worried we will only have art for the elitists, those who could afford private lessons. So I am out of that rat race, as proper rounded education is no longer the priority by the government and the schools.


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Q: Is there an f(x) such that P[f(a) >= f(b)] = a/(a+b) given a set of possible values for a and b? I need a function $f(x)$ such that given a set of values $X=\{x1, x2, ...\}$ and a function $rand()$ that returns a value between 0 and 1, $f(x)$ returns a value that increases with x such that the probability that $f(a)$ returns a value greater than $f(b)$ is based on their relative sizes: $P[f(a) \ge f(b)] = \frac{a}{a+b} \forall\ a,b\ \epsilon \ X$
Basically, I'm trying to find a more efficient way to pick a random order of items that have associated weights that determine their probability of being picked earlier. For example, if I had items A, B, and C with weights 1, 2, and 4, respectively, the current algorithm picks a random number 1-7 and picks A if it is 1, B if it is 2 or 3, and C if it is 4-7. So, A has a 1/7 chance of being 1st, B has a 2/7 chance, and C a 4/7 chance. The picked value is removed from the set, and the algorithm repeats with the smaller set.
If I could find a way to instead map these weights to a random value such that ordering them by that value gives the same distribution of selected permutations, that would be cool.

A: If I interpret your question correctly, the answer is that the exponential random variable $\xi$ (density $e^{-x}$) has the property that for two independent copies $\xi_1,\xi_2$ of $\xi$, one has $P(a\xi_1\le b\xi_2)=\int_{y_1\le ry_2}e^{-y_1-y_2}dy_1dy_2=\frac r{1+r}$ with $r=\frac ba$, which is exactly what you wanted (in the first paragraph, at least; the second paragraph problem is completely different from the first paragraph one; I hope you realize that). To convert the uniform variable into the exponential, just take the natural logarithm.
Edit: OK, since you modified the question, I'll modify the answer. The exponential distribution still works but with a twist. Suppose that your weights are $x_1,\dots,x_n$. The probability of the order $1,2,\dots,n$ with your current algorithm is $\prod_{j=1}^n\frac{x_j}{\sum_{k=j}^n x_k}$. Now take $Y_j=x_j^{-1}\xi_j$ and compute the probability that $Y_1<Y_2<\dots<Y_n$. $Y_j$ has density $p_j(t)=x_je^{-x_jt}$. So, the desired probability is $\int_{y_1<y_2<\dots<y_n}x_1x_2\dots x_ne^{-x_1y_1+x_2y_2+x_3y_3+\dots+x_ny_n}dy_1\dots dy_n$. If you now start integrating from $y_n$ down, you'll get the same expression. Thus, you can reduce your simulation to computing logarithms of $n$ uniform on $[0,1]$ random variables, dividing the resulting negative numbers by the weights and sorting.


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Its the same frame as Brendon, same motors, same props, but the controller is mounted under the frame. leaving an open area on the top to make a gear plate, to hold the battery and camera. The other diference is I am running the KKuk V4.5 software, where as Brendon is running the Minsoo Kim V1.5 The KKuK V4.5 is certainly not as refined and has a few issues during wind gusts.
Test flew it at home (20ft by 30ft space) and it went OK, the yaw controll is diferent to the Tri, thats for certain.
the Quad also makes more of a fuss when it YAWS as its changing the speed of 4 motors, the tri just subtly changes the rear prop angle.


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Esports tournament at Maryland Hall aims to push students toward STEM through video games
By Brooks DuBose
Capital Gazette |
Nov 17, 2019 | 5:02 AM
Kirby and Little Mac are locked in a tense final match of Super Smash Bros.
Evelyn Adkins, an 8th grader at Bates Middle School, controls Kirby, a bright pink alien shaped like a gumball.
Wyatt Booth, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Annapolis Middle, controls Little Mac, a short, muscled boxer with green shorts and gloves.
Evelyn, 13, puts up a valiant effort in the waning seconds of the match but Wyatt seals the victory.
He raises his arms above his head, Nintendo Switch controller in hand, and shouts, "I won!" before lowering his voice, turning to his competitors and saying, "GG, GG, everyone," online gamer speak for "good game."
Wyatt and Evelyn were two of about 30 students from Annapolis and Bates middle schools, who crowded around three computer monitors at Maryland Hall Saturday to participate in an EliteGamingLive esports tournament.
EliteGamingLive, or EGL, is an esports league tailored to K-12 students that combines the burgeoning field of esports with educational programming to help parents and educators introduce students to STEM fields, said the company's founder Kerwin Rent.
Rent roamed the playing area, during the three-hour tournament operating as a referee and reminding players of the rules: no heckling, no disrespect, shake hands before and after a match. "You build rapport by respecting them," he said.
One student asked Rent if he's ever seen a fight during a tournament. "Never," Rent told him. "Part of esports is learning how to lose."
While some students played Smash, others went head to head in NBA2K. Anthony Moore, 14, and Tayquan Johnson, 14, faced off with Tayquan coming out on top. The pair shook hands and said they would join the team if their school had one.
Rent, who has a background in desktop engineering, built the EGL online learning module with the help of researchers, professors and other education experts. It lets students explore career paths — many of which are related to gaming — such as coding, audio engineering, virtual and augmented reality, and others. The results of those lessons can be viewed by parents or educators to help direct students toward skills or experiences they never considered before.
"We don't tell kids that they should be a professional video gamer. ... Going pro for gamers can be something completely different than that," Rent said. "Every company that sells something is going to need people that engineer those experiences. These are all things that are really important in the world of gaming that people get paid a lot of money to do."
Evelyn, who also competes in acroballet, said the tournament fed into her competitiveness, adding that she's considering a STEM career path in high school.
"I want to learn how to code when I'm older," she said.
Saturday's tournament was an introduction to local students, Rent said, and he hopes it will encourage schools to establish teams.
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The league is already up and running in schools in Indianapolis, where Rent is from, as well as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, with about 5,000 total players.
Adetola Ajayi, an African American community services specialist in Mayor Gavin Buckley's office, said the event was an innovative way of using technology and education to engage community youth.
"You didn't really think the video games you are playing, there are careers behind it, from the graphics, to game concepts, to coding," Ajayi said. "There is a world of opportunity that I'm glad we get to expose these young people to."
Rent founded the company in 2011, and soon after decided to focus on K-12 students by offering them the same competitive, social and educational opportunities that are offered to students who participate in traditional sports. He moved to Arlington, Va. two years ago to bring competitive esports, which have exploded in the last few years, to the region.
"I saw a disparity of support between traditional athletes, which I was, and gamers, which I was," said Rent who played basketball and ran track, but also played Pokeman with a "secret group of friends" as he called them.
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"EGL was created so that gamer kids could feel like sports kids," he said.
As Wyatt battled his way through the Super Smash Bros. tournament bracket, stretching his shoulders and wiping sweat from his hands between matches, his mother, Kathleen Booth, stood a few feet away watching him play.
Wyatt has played several traditional sports, but none that he felt totally comfortable in, Booth said.
"This is the most excited I have ever seen him compete in something by far," she said.
"I was like finally, I can channel this into something social..." Booth said, pausing a few seconds before adding, "IRL," or in real life, the phrase often uses to differentiate between online experiences and those in the real world.
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"For me to see him so excited about something, I think that's awesome. I'm really hoping we can get it going."
Wyatt said he was expecting the tournament to be only traditional sports games like Madden, FIFA and NBA2K.
"I thought I would get deleted," Wyatt said, but once he heard Super Smash Bros. — one of his favorite games — was on the list, it changed his outlook, adding that he would join an Annapolis Middle esports team if given the chance.
For winning the Super Smash Bros. tournament, Wyatt received a medal and an official EGL jersey and Rent recorded him like any other post-game interview.
When asked how he thought he played, Wyatt responded like he had been winning esports championships for years.
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Canada announces $56 million in urgent humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan
The Government of Canada on Tuesday announced $56 million in urgent humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan. (File Photo – Embassy of Afghanistan Ottawa)
Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, announced the new aid package for the Afghan people earlier today.
"Millions of people across Afghanistan require urgent assistance and I will do everything possible to get them the help they need. I remain committed to helping the Afghan people, and I will work with experienced partners and NGOs to see what else Canada can do to help the Afghan people," Minister Sajjan said.
By working with experienced humanitarian partners, Canada can deliver much-needed assistance while ensuring this support directly reaches the most vulnerable people in Afghanistan, the Global Affairs Canada said in a statement.
The statement further added that the funding will allow Canada's humanitarian partners to provide life-saving assistance, such as emergency food and nutrition services and protection and logistics services, to ensure that humanitarian goods are dispatched and that workers continue to be able to respond to the crisis in the face of daunting challenges.
Canada will continue to work with experienced partners and NGOs to see how it can continue to support Afghans in need, the Global Affairs Canada said.
Since 2014, in addition to the funding announced today, Canada has allocated a total of $179.7 million in humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, the Global Affairs Canada said, adding that this includes $27.3 million in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan in 2021 and an additional $50 million for Afghanistan and the region announced in August 2021.
The recent upheaval in Afghanistan has exacerbated the already significant humanitarian needs there. In that country, an estimated 24 million people will need humanitarian assistance in 2022, up from 18.4 million in 2021.
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