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How is everyone mental health doing?
GrizzlyBCanada |1 pointwritten 20 hours ago ago
Yeah, I got panic attacks for the first time in my life during this lockdown back in April and May. Not fun. I've always had generalized anxiety, and I quit drinking in September 2019. I just got on Zoloft, and so far not so bad. And besides a slip-up in August, I've been 16 months sober.
hmu if you need to talk.
JB trying to sell other GMs on taking Loui
GrizzlyBCanada |15 pointswritten 2 days ago ago
Quality memeing. I'm dying.
TODAYS THE DAY!!
GrizzlyBCanada |2 pointswritten 2 days ago ago
Mason Raymond : Professional Lawyer
Images reconstructed from brain activity
If you're wondering if watching Bandersnatch, then 3 days later tripping mushrooms after staying up 48 hours due to insomnia with your girlfriend of 3 months even though you have a predisposition to anxiety and mania is a good idea, the answer is no.
TSN 'Experts' Predict North Division
As usual, lots of fans here not watching other teams and taking things very personally.
The bad blood between Motte and Gaudette continues as they touch down in Edmonton
Shows how trends come and go. I'm sure we're going to look back on the faded mushroom cut in 10 years like that.
Social Anxiety counselling/psychologist recommondations
I've had social and generalized anxiety for as long as I can remember. CBT was really good for me, I only had it for a year but it helped me think in a different way about things. It's been very tough but tomorrow I am starting Zoloft.
Excerpt from WSJ article about a Trump supporter who stormed Capitol and got arrested. The height of cognitive dissonance...
More than anything it's just sad. They are getting duped at every turn, and they double down every time.
Karens...
I have a theory that they were kinda raised by hard-ass parents who were hardened by the war and the great depression, didn't exactly grow up in ideal conditions and the boomers kinda did economically, and when the flower power movement came up the parents just didn't get it.
Being raised like that, and having bosses that were likely in the war and expected so much jaded them a bit. When the flower power movement died out, there was a lot of cynicism that carries to today. That kinda privilege, opportunity and yes, hard work jaded the shit outta them. But I think my generation that's come up thru automation, tons of immigration, there's just so much more competition. A college degree doesn't take you as far as it did back then. A lot of us look back then, when you could get a job as a bricklayer, construction laborer, janitor, etc with little training and be able to prop a household out of that. You can't really do that now, you have to get a degree, everyone else has one, and even then the market is extremely competitive so the employers don't need to put in as much effort to find someone.
I mean my dad, who worked the trades to start got hired to office work and worked his tail off, for sure, but that kind of opportunity doesn't come along anymore. Imagine going to school for a simple trade and end up making $100+k a year out of it in a completely different field. That's what he did, he's been a white-collar for as long as I've been alive.
[Sportsnet] Jack Michaels, Louie Debrusk, Gene Principe, and Bob Stauffer will comprise the SN Oilers TV broadcast crew for this season. Sportsnet appears to have parted ways with Kevin Quinn and Drew Remenda.
I can get behind that. I much prefer Shorthouse to Hughson.
Jan 11th Covid-19 Update - Dr. Bonnie Henry says there are 1,475 new cases (72 hour period), total now of 58,107; 358 hospitalized of which 72 (-3) are in ICU; 5,220 (-898) active cases; 50,541 (+2336) recovered; 59,902 vaccinated to Jan 10th; 22 additional deaths, total now of 1,010
GrizzlyBCanada |-9 pointswritten 4 days ago ago
I was gonna say, there's no way only 500 people are contracting it a day right? Like, I'm not the sharpest bulb on the block, maybe someone could provide some information on how many people are getting tested and what the positivity rate is?
I'm just waiting for that Christmas bump cause I know for a fact there's plenty of people who straight up ignored the orders.
So.. the billionaires are still the problem?
I see a lot of Libertarian-bashing, which makes total sense considering what that ideology looks like in America. While I'm slowly backing away from identifying as a Libertarian, my understanding of it is a little different. It can't really be plotted on the axis of L to R. I fall more in line with what Chomsky describes in 'On Anarchism'. Which is pretty far left, I'd suppose.
Good thing they're not brightest bulbs in the pack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine I'm not American, but if I was, I'd probably contact my local representative and try to get them to re-instate this.
Loui Eriksson Highlights (HD) Loui was fucking sick back in the day
He's been ageing. His last season with Dallas was pretty meh as well. I watched a reel of his 30-goal season in Boston and what it actually was, was a Torey Krug PP brilliance montage. St. Louis' powerplay with him and Hoffman is going to be pretty good I think this season.
Do you know the enemy?
GrizzlyBCanada |1 pointwritten 6 days ago ago
Ew. There's a big difference between American Libertarianism and acutal Libertarianism. One is just giving them the freedom to hate whoever they want for whatever reason.
Who's better Ohlund or Edler?
Funny. I've gone to a few games in my time. February 7, 2006? I forget, it was against the Blue Jackets. Ohlund gets the puck in his own end, skates through fairly casually avoiding some checks, gets in the blueline and slaps it. December 28, 2008 vs Ottawa I swear Edler scores the same exact goal.
E: The tail end of the Ohlund goal I describe is at 1:20.
Who is the least deserving and/or worst Captain in modern NHL history?
Hard to even touch those levels of shittiness. Messier gets maybe halfway there, but Corson takes the cake. There's lots of answers here about guys who were very hard workers/heart and soul guys. While odd choice for a captain, perhaps...Corson just sucked as a person.
Alcoholics of Reddit...How/when did you recognise you had a problem?
Damn that was relatable. Down to the finding women's stories more relevant to what I used to be like and the exam story, i lived that man.
Clearest view of a terrorist attempting to breach the barrier behind which the VP, VP-Elect, Senators, Congresspeople, and staffers were.
It really is funny, how the leader/inciter of the coup, is a loser who kicks his feet in the dirt pouting about how "it wasn't fair" when he lost, and the people who decide to ride or die with him expect a violent coup of a revolution to be easy and turn around and cry at any sign of resistance at all.
The media should just called a spade a spade, Trump and all these people who will die for him without him giving a second thought to them, are natural losers. Big children who have not had teachable moments in life, who have never been told "no", have been given the benefit of the doubt, who look down on others who have had hard times...I mean that's my definition of a loser.
To say that the Canucks got worse and will take a step back from last season is an incredibly bad assessment
fans were salty about this prediction as well
We'll see. I don't think there's gonna be a huge drop off or anything, but this team has loads of question marks which why I think this is the prevailing opinion of analysts. Realistically, I could see us finishing 1st or 6th and neither would surprise me.
[Szemberg] A despondent Slava Fetisov says that no single Russian player would make Team Canada at the world juniors
GrizzlyBCanada |44 pointswritten 10 days ago ago
Really makes you wonder wtf happened at the 2013 WJC, doesn't it? That might have been one of the most disappointing showings I've ever seen.
Who remembers their first Canucks game? Who were they playing and what was the final score?
GrizzlyBCanada |3 pointswritten 11 days ago ago
Was that the game Oshie peaced it to the bench to grab a stick and Daniel scored like immediately after? What a weird choice.
My first game was also against the Coyotes, first game since the lockout...October 5, 2005. I used to be obsessed with Naslund.
[Elliotte Friedman] Certainly will be more detail in morning, but there are rumblings Travis Hamonic will go to VAN on a PTO. GM Jim Benning and coach Travis Green are scheduled to speak on Sunday.
50% of us wont like hearing that but it's TRUE.
David Pastrnak on Ovechkin:"He's big, really big and heavy. The first time I stood next to him during puck drop I was like 'for fucks sake he's big'. I don't even try to hit him, I just go to bench, I saw his hit on Jagr"
GrizzlyBCanada |1 pointwritten 14 days ago ago
I would do it if I had my head up and I was just standing still. I think I could take that, if I'm skating fuck that.


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Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with 12th Gen Intel Core i5 / i7 and Microsoft SQ 3 processor with 5G announced
Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Pro 9 2-in-1 tablet PC as expected. The Surface laptop marks the company's tenth anniversary of Surface products. The newest Surface Pro 9 is built on the Intel EVO platform. For the first time, Microsoft is bringing 5G connectivity to Surface laptops with SQ3 Arm-powered processors. You could, however, choose Intel's 12th Gen Core processors for the Surface Pro 9.
The 13-inch PixelSense Flow display on the Surface Pro 9 has a 3:2 aspect ratio. The display can be refreshed at a rate of up to 120Hz. Under the display will be an HD camera, Omnisonic speakers, directional microphones, and a custom G6 chip that uses tactile signals to take inking to the next level.
The Surface Pro 9 has two processor options: a 12th-generation Intel Core processor built on the Intel EVO platform with Thunderbolt 4 or a Microsoft SQ3 powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon with 5G connectivity. With a 2nd-generation Intel Core processor, the laptop is said to offer 50% more performance than the Surface Pro 8.
Microsoft's SQ3-powered Surface Pro 9 is said to have an ultra-long battery life of up to 19 hours. Additionally, the processor will also include a new Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is capable of more than 15 trillion calculations per second.
The Surface Pro 9 features a high-quality aluminium casing in new colours. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Surface, Microsoft has collaborated with the London-based global design house "Liberty" to bring a limited-edition Surface Pro keyboard and laser-etched Surface Pro 9 with a bright blue floral pattern inspired by the Windows 11 Bloom to select markets.
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 Specifications
13-inch (2880 X 1920 pixels) PixelSense Display, 120Hz refresh rate, 267 PPI, 3:2 aspect ratio, 1200:1 contrast ratio, 10-point multi-touch, Gorilla Glass 5 protected
12th Gen Intel Core i5-1235U / Core i7-1255U processor with Intel Iris Xe GPU
2 x USB-C with USB 4.0/ Thunderbolt 4, 1 x Surface Connect port, 1 x Surface Type Cover port
10.0MP rear-facing autofocus camera with 1080p HD and 4k video,
Front-facing camera with 1080p full HD video, Dual far field studio microphones
2W stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos
Integrated storage and wireless charging for Surface Slim Pen 2 with Surface Pro Signature Keyboard
Bluetooth 5.1, Wi-Fi 6E: 802.11ax compatible
Dimensions: 287 x 209 x 9.3 mm, Weight: 879g
47.7 Wh battery with up to 15.5 hours of battery life
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with 5G Specifications
13-inch (2880 X 1920 pixels) PixelSense Display, 120Hz refresh rate, 267 PPI, 3:2 aspect ratio, 1200:1 contrast ratio, 10-point multi-touch
Microsoft SQ 3 processor with Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and Adreno 8CX Gen 3 GPU
Windows 11 Home on ARM
2 x USB-C with USB 3.2, 1 x Surface Connect port, 1 x Surface Type Cover port, 1 x nano SIM
5G-NR NSA, 4G LTE, Bluetooth 5.1, Wi-Fi 6E: 802.11ax, GPS, Glonass, Galileo and Beidou
47.7 Wh battery with up to 19 hours of battery life
The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 comes in 4 different colours known as Graphite, Platinum, Saphire and Forest. The pricing of the laptop is as follows:
Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD: $999 (Approx. Rs. 82,187)
Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD: $1099.99 (Approx. Rs. 90,495)
Intel Core i5, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD: $1399.99 (Approx. Rs. 1,15,176)
Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD: $2199.99 (Approx. Rs. 1,80,992)
Microsoft SQ 3 5G Platinum, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD: $1299.99 (Approx. Rs. 1,06,945)
Microsoft SQ 3 5G Platinum, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD: $1599.99 (Approx. Rs. 1,31,630)
It is now available to order and will roll out starting from October 25th.
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BTS reveals the truth about their love lives
When it comes to the K-pop industry, it's been well reported over the years that South Korea's pop music machine places an undue, sometimes brutal amount of burden on trainees who have dreams of fame and fortune. The fact that would-be K-pop idols willingly enter into contracts with management companies and record labels that are colloquially nicknamed "slave contracts" greatly hints at the agency and autonomy they sacrifice for the sake of a successful career in the entertainment industry.
Since the growing international recognition of K-pop acts like BTS and Blackpink have boosted the South Korean music industry's profile worldwide, numerous media outlets, like Insider, have churned out investigative deep-dives as to what the dark side of the K-pop music mill entails, including stories of grueling, non-stop 20-hour work days, dangerous food restricting, no-contact provisions for friends and family, and more, according to K-pop idol Grazy Grace. The fact that many of these stipulations are usually only lifted, slowly but surely, after K-pop idols achieve success within the industry — most often marked by an official "debut" as a star, which is mandated by the star's label and/or management team — doesn't make it any easier.
These outlets have also zeroed in on one particular restriction for wannabe K-pop stars: dating. It's a point that Esquire profiler Dave Holmes made sure to include in a recent feature for the magazine's December 2020 issue about the music phenom BTS. So what's the band's love life like?
RM says BTS' first love is the fans
When asked about the status of any romantic relationship — if at all — the seven members of BTS may or may not have in a December 2020 Esquire profile on the band, the group's resident rapper RM was quick to dissuade anyone of the notion that he, alongside bandmates Jin, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jimin, and J-Hope, have any form of an active love life to speak of. Instead, he emphasized that their number one priority is with their label, Big Hit Entertainment.
"Our company [Big Hit] started with 20 to 30 people, but now we have a company with so many employees," RM explained. "We have our fans, and we have our music. So we have a lot of things that we have to be responsible for, to safeguard. I think that's what an adult is."
Speaking more directly about the possibility of BTS' romantic relationships — or, more specifically, quashing rumors of the kind in the first place — RM then reiterated that the band's first love is the BTS Army, the nickname given to their fanbase. "Our love life — twenty-four hours, seven days a week—is with all the ARMYs all over the world," RM added.
BTS' lack of a love life is much bigger than the band
Based on RM's comments about the lack of any romantic relationships for the band, the fact that it is indeed the case is overall unsurprising for anyone with even a cursory sense of how K-pop an industry — and the stars who work to uphold it — works.
As the South China Morning Post noted in a November 2020 breakdown of the rules and restrictions that are widely placed upon K-pop idols and trainees, the prohibition against dating in any form also extends into an exhaustive list of restrictions that do their best to segregate male and female would-be stars, including allegedly barring them against having meals scheduled for the same time to prevent co-mingling and heavily forbidding access to personal cell phones. Part of this has to do with the immense pressure placed on trainees to succeed in their career of choice and to do so with as little distractions as possible — but part of it also has to do with Korean fan culture and that a possible relationship could anger a contingent of a band's fanbase.
While there have certainly been cases in the past of K-pop idols being able to circumvent the largely imposed three-year-dating ban — flouting these rules have also had an immensely negative impact on the lives of some idols out of that handful.
K-pop's industry restrictions can have tragic consequences
Out of these more tragically-inclined cases are stories like that of former girl group Kara member Goo Hara, who purportedly completed suicide in November 2019 after experiencing a series of relentless Internet harassment campaigns. As outlets like the BBC reported, many of her online attackers focused on the way in which she flouted K-pop's dating restrictions, as well as an ongoing lawsuit in which her ex-boyfriend threatened to expose a video of the two that was allegedly sexual in nature. News of her death came only weeks after the apparent suicide of Goo's best friend and K-pop idol Sulli, who received similar treatment from online detractors.
As the Los Angeles Times noted, dating restrictions can be tied to larger issues, specifically for female idols, who are typically more drastically affected by them than their male counterparts. While objectification by fans might play a huge part in relation to these restrictions, the ramifications of these restrictions also make it difficult for followers to see their idols as human beings capable of imperfection. In turn, the provisions placed upon idols can lead to feelings of alienation.
"[Idols are] not given the opportunity to formulate their own identities," Seoul National University of Science and Technology scholar Lee Jong-im told the Times. "Because they're at the center of intense attention from the public, they're never given the time to recover from and overcome emotional pain."
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Q: Bandwidth in frequency to bits/sec Sometimes I see bandwidth of e.g. ethernet cable mentioned in hertz instead of bits/sec. What does this tells about transmission rate? Can it be converted to bits/sec?
For example:
If bandwidth of some cable in hertz is 20 Mhz then can it assumed to be 20 Mbit/s?

A: A cable does not have any inherent bit transmission rate, whereas bandwidth is a measurable property.  The cable can be thought of as a low pass filter.  All cables can pass DC (f = 0Hz), but some cables have signal loss in the megaHertz range, while coaxial cable can go up to the gigaHertz range.
A cable can carry signal voltage, which is a continuous (i.e. analog) form of electrical energy.  Voltage cannot be quantized, so the cable cannot carry digital data unless that digital information is modulated (or converted) to a waveform for transmission.  The simplest modulation used for digital data is amplitude modulation, and is commonly known as digital or logic levels.  Logic levels are okay for on-board circuitry and cables of very short length.  Logic level is not used for longer transmission cables because, although trival and cheap to implement, it uses bandwidth inefficiently and is not energy balanced (consider the worst case of a long string of logical ones or zeroes).
The choice of modulation is a compromise based on the cable's bandwidth and attenuation properties and the complexity of the transmit/receiver electronics.  Modulation for digital information can employ phase as well as amplitude.  The modulation will determine the number of bits transmitted per symbol.  For instance QAM256 can transmit 8 data bits per one symbol, but requires sophisticated transceiver electronics.
Addendum

what exactly are these cycles if not the rate of bits?

Cycles of a pure sine wave (i.e. a single frequency, just the fundamental, no harmonics).
A digital data signal (using high/low logic levels) would have frequency components 10x to 100x the basic clock rate.  If you're acquainted with Fourier series, then you're aware that a square wave is equivalent to an infinite summation of sine waves of related frequencies.
Bandwidth is measured in Hertz or cycles per second.  For typical cables the bottom frequency of the band is DC or 0HZ, and the upper frequency would be the frequency of a pure sine wave of a given voltage that does not significantly attenuate (e.g. -3dB) over a given length of cable.  Signal attenuation is an intrinsic property of cable; it is usually tabulated in the cable's spec sheet as a function of frequency (pure sine wave) and length.
The transfer rate (e.g. bits per sec) is established by design specification, and is a function of (at least):

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*cable type and length,

*the capability & cost of transceiver electronics,

*connector design,

*the chosen modulation, and

*the protocol (e.g. Ethernet chooses powers of 10 (& then doubles it for full duplex), SATA chooses multiples of 1500).

For operational reliability the transfer rate actually chosen may be below the theoretical maximum rate.
A cable does not have any inherent bit transmission rate, whereas bandwidth is a measurable property.  Therefore there is no conversion formula between the two numbers.

A: They are not the same.
Bits per second refers to the rate that bits of data pass through a transmission media (cable, radio or optical channel).
The ethernet cable's hertz refers to its ability to carry high enough frequencies to faithfully reproduce a signal over the cable's length. The better the cable, the higher its frequency rating and the more bits per second of coded signal it can handle. How much will also depend on other factors such as the type of signal used to carry the data and length of cable run.

A: As Wikipedia says:

the Shannon capacity of a ... line is , with  the (linear)
  signal-to-noise ratio.

So, there need the second line characteristic: SNR for the line for the bits per second bandwidth to be able to computation.

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#81 spanky123
spanky123
The role of council is to provide strategy and oversight. Our Mayor and council think their job is to run the City. They have chosen to make this a full time job.
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#82 Belleprincess
Belleprincess
It's a double edged sword. On one hand I agree that council members are generally sjw types that flock to the position because they have an agenda...therefore we might be able to attract a different type of person to council if the pay was better. On the other hand, I agree that the current council makes this a full time job. They tackle issues that they have no business in - plastic bag ban, the ridiculous lawsuit etc. It would be like me going to work, staying late, doing things that weren't in my job description- then forcing my boss to give me a 50% wage increase. This is probably where we are headed generally anyway. Buckle your seatbelts folks
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...listen, i have managed to turn retirement (basically doing nothing) into a full-time job for crissake...
#84 davidN
davidN
Exactly. I wouldn't mind paying more ( a lot more) if we had people who weren't there for their own self aggrandization and thought things through to a logical real life conclusion. The current group of amateur social planners and failed academics "dabble" in areas they know nothing about and we are left with the aftermath of their "social" engineering.
Edited by davidN, 15 November 2019 - 07:49 PM.
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2002, 16,170 voters (31.33%)
2005, 17,015 voters (26.4%)
2008, 17,080 voters (27%)
2010, (by-election/referendum) 16,591 voters (25.95%)
2011, 17,249 voters, (26.3%)
Last by-election was 2010 where a controversial bridge spending referendum helped drive turnout to almost average levels.
Wow! 29,707 voters yielded 33.5% of eligible voters in 2018, while 16,170 yielded 31.33% in 2002.
#87 FogPub
FogPub
Population up 40-odd % over 16 years and still they keep building more condos, while adding little or no infrastructure to get any of those people efficiently from A to B other than a few separated bike lanes. Oh, and a bridge that has less capacity (due to no rail component) than the previous one.
Good job, team.
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Yes, interesting point. They killed rail and put in a bike lane.
#89 Casual Kev
Casual Kev
I'd never run for council no matter my passion in part because the wage is pathetic. Why would I stop my career and make pennies on the dollar in a high stress job? Even though the CoV isn't very populous we deal with all the economy and associated problems of a much larger city. We're the capital city, the major touristic destination, the center of commerce, the dumping grounds of the suburbs. The budget is worth hundreds of millions. So I do think the pay should reflect that.
Would I give this current council a raise, let alone a generous one? Hell no. So I'd advocate for a raise after the next election cycle. If you don't want bozos having a say on your property tax money, then don't pay them like they're bozos.
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the job would not be that stressful.
...If you don't want bozos having a say on your property tax money, then don't pay them like they're bozos.
Is there any reason to believe that increasing the wages won't just mean the same bozos get paid more in 2022?
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I believe there were at least a couple of non-bozo options in the past election; but the electorate decided they wanted leadership who would cover up sexual harrassment, make life less afforable and cause downtown to decline further.
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...the electorate decided they wanted leadership who would cover up sexual harassment, make life less affordable and cause downtown to decline further.
And I expect that same portion of the electorate will be just fine to re-elect those same folks at a higher wage.
#94 Awaiting Juno
Awaiting Juno
So if the raise goes forward do we get one of the nifty awards like tent city did? After all, having the highest paid council that is least able to stick to their mandate deserves some kind of award - maybe another Teddy is in the works.
Criteria are strict for those awards: you must, at a minimum, have provided safe haven for an organized drug gang presence, operated a bike chop shop, committed B&Es, contaminated a greenspace, and demonstrably have broken multiple bylaws. If you can't meet that standard, don't even bother applying.
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Yes, we'd still be subject to the whims of the electorate. But as the wage is right now it's genuinely a paycut for anyone who earns a bit more than minimum wage. That's not good when it comes to getting either working or professional class candidates. Without passive income or a political/self interested agenda it's a significant sacrifice to serve council before you factor in the actual job.
#97 gstc84
gstc84
Together Victoria has announced they'll be endorsing a candidate in the by-election and opened their nomination proceedings today. I unfortunately think they have a leg-up but we really need more pragmatism and balance on this council.
Presumably TV will re-animate a not-ready-for-prime-time hopeful from last election. Or a freshly-minted UVic grad.
"My achievements as a member of the UVic Student Society included successfully advocating the expansion of the hours at the student counselling office as well as getting edamame beans added to the cafeteria menu. These successes show that I am fully prepared for the challenge of being a councillor for the City of Victoria!"
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If the person is capable of sticking to a prescribed mandate, that might be an improvement. Now an ideal candidate would have launched a law suit using UVSS funds over an issue entirely outside the mandate of the UVSS....
#100 rmpeers
I can never tell what's a joke anymore.😡
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March 5, 2012 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today. For other up-to-the-minute news, check out ITI's Twitter account: @ITINewsBreaks.
MIT OpenCourseWare and Flat World Knowledge Team Up
MIT OpenCourseWare and textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge have teamed up to provide free, high-quality textbooks to learners accessing OCW's OCW Scholar courses. This is among the first collaborations between an OpenCourseWare publisher and an open textbook publisher.
Initially, three OCW Scholar courses will be paired with Flat World texts: 14.01SC Principles of Microeconomics (2012), 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology (2012), and 3.091SC Solid State Chemistry (2011). OCW Scholar courses follow OCW's original model of openly published course content—such as syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams—but are created specifically for independent learners, who typically have few additional resources available to them. The expert-authored, peer-reviewed texts from Flat World are also openly available, and provide an ideal resource for this audience.
"The combination of free access to world-class textbooks and the flexibility to modify the material exactly to our needs makes Flat World Knowledge ideal for pairing with the OCW Scholar courses," remarked MIT OpenCourseWare executive director Cecilia d'Oliveira.
Flat World Knowledge, a commercial open textbook publisher and pioneer in the open education resources movement, makes its catalog freely available online, and charges modest fees for a variety of digital and print formats. Faculty are supported with supplements, including desk copies, test banks, instructor manuals, lecture slides, and video clips.
"Our collaboration represents a new phase in the evolution of open education," said Eric Frank, president of Flat World Knowledge. "Through this innovative, financially sustainable model, learners will benefit from a complete package of premium quality material, without the barriers of cost and access."
Flat World Knowledge also supports the sustainability of MIT OpenCourseWare. A portion of sales of digital or print versions of these texts or ancillary resources goes to support OCW, and Flat World is also providing underwriting support for MIT OpenCourseWare.
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare
Baker & Taylor Agreement With Smashwords to Bring Ebooks to Blio
Baker & Taylor, Inc., a distributor of digital and physical books, together with K-NFB Reading Technology, developer of the Blio e-reading application, announced a distribution agreement with Smashwords that will bring nearly 100,000 independently published ebooks to the Blio store. Blio is the feature-rich ereading application that allows readers to experience ereading in a new way, and use their digital library across multiple devices. Smashwords is a distributor of indie (self-published) ebooks, offering a catalog of more than 100,000 original titles representing 37,000 indie authors and small presses around the world.
The agreement will also bring Smashwords ebooks to public libraries that subscribe to Baker & Taylor's new Axis360 digital media platform. Axis360, which was launched last year, has been deployed by several top public library systems in the U.S. Dozens more libraries are converting to the platform as well.
Using Blio, readers can sample and purchase Smashwords books, create digital libraries for purchased and sampled titles, publish text or YouTube video book reviews, and "favorite" their chosen authors, publishers, and titles.
Source: Baker & Taylor, Inc.
EBSCO Releases First Subscription Ebook Collection
EBSCO Publishing released its first subscription ebook collection. eBook Academic Subscription Collection supplies full-text ebooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included.
eBook Academic Subscription Collection is offered on an annual subscription basis with unlimited access to the content. Each title is offered with unlimited users allowing more users access to each title in the collection. As with all ebooks available from EBSCO, eBook Academic Subscription Collection will integrate seamlessly with all EBSCOhost content. Users will be able to search the collection on its own or side-by-side with other EBSCOhost databases.
EBSCO Publishing's senior director of ebook products, Ken Breen, says libraries can use eBook Academic Subscription Collection as the foundation of a comprehensive ebook offering. "Users gravitate towards online resources more and more each day. By introducing a large subscription offering, EBSCO's goal is to provide librarians with a foundation on which to build out their collections." Libraries can build upon that foundation by selecting Subject Sets, Featured Collections, Custom Collections, and unique title-by-title purchases from eBooks on EBSCOhost to tailor their library's overall ebook collection.
Annual subscription is the latest way EBSCO enables libraries to add ebooks to their collection. Libraries are able to purchase titles to add to their permanent collection. Forthcoming options include the ability to make titles available via Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA), to be purchased only if/when users need them and to lease titles libraries only need for a short time.
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Wiley-Blackwell Adds 44 Titles to Journal Publishing Program in 2012
In 2012 Wiley-Blackwell, the Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., will begin publishing 44 titles new to its journal program, including 16 new launches and 40 journals published in collaboration with societies or other organizations. Of the 44 titles, 28 are moving to Wiley-Blackwell from other publishers or from self-publication.
Brand new titles publishing on Wiley Online Library over the course of 2012 include Advanced Healthcare Materials, PsyCH Journal (published with the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Clinical Liver Disease (published with The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases), Food and Energy Security (a Wiley Open Access title in partnership with the Association of Applied Biologists) and the open access title Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease.
Eight of the new launches this year will be open access titles, joining six journals already in the Wiley Open Access program. Wiley Open Access is a new program of fully open access journals publishing primary research across a variety disciplines. A full list of journals is available at http://www.wileyopenaccess.com. Wiley also publishes more than 700 hybrid journals that offer OnlineOpen for authors who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article.
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Relais International Partners With OCLC to Share Data and Services
Relais International, which provides systems to support interlibrary loan and document delivery services, has signed an agreement with OCLC that will allow mutual subscribers access to WorldCat data and OCLC services through the OCLC WorldShare Platform.
Under this new partnership, Relais will use the WorldCat Search API so that library staff can search WorldCat from within Relais to retrieve holdings information. Relais will also use the WorldCat Resource Sharing API so that requests and updates can be sent to and received from the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing service.
These options for access to OCLC will be available to Relais users whose institutional holdings are visible on WorldCat.org and who subscribe to the WorldCat Resource Sharing service. Libraries that qualify for keys to the APIs will be able to activate the services within Relais.
This partnership is facilitated through the new OCLC WorldShare Platform, which enables OCLC and library partners to configure and share a wide range of applications that deliver new functionality and value for libraries and their users.
As an OCLC partner, Relais is considering using other APIs to gain access to the OCLC Policies Directory and the newly deployed Article Exchange document-sharing site.
Relais International, Inc. is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and has been selling systems to support interlibrary loan and document delivery services since 1996. Relais International assists libraries in implementing intelligent and automated methods to support the delivery of documents. Relais products range from scanning stations to fully integrated request management, scanning and delivery software suitable for single libraries and consortia.
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Latest Version of Thomson Reuters ProView E-Reader Platform Launches Globally
Thomson Reuters announced the global launch of the latest version of Thomson Reuters ProView, its professional eReader platform. Currently available in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia, and soon to launch in other regions, the new version of Thomson Reuters ProView adds power and functionality to the first e-reader platform specifically built from the ground up for professionals, allowing users to interact with ebooks in entirely new ways.
Thomson Reuters ProView is a first-of-its-kind, professional-grade platform for the delivery and use anywhere, anytime of specialized Thomson Reuters content and productivity tools, including popular legal reference books from Thomson Reuters Westlaw, Sweet & Maxwell, Carswell, and Thomson Reuters Legal, Tax & Accounting ANZ. Its advanced features, such as full-text search, secured notes and annotations, and content updating, are said to be unique in the marketplace. Live links allow U.S. users to view citations through their WestlawNext accounts. Information on ProView and its numerous legal reference and professional development titles can be found at http://thomsonreuters.com/proview.
In addition to the ProView iPad app, which is downloadable from the Apple App Store, Thomson Reuters ProView is now accessible, in certain countries, through internet browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Now those users can have the full ProView experience wherever they are working with their laptop, desktop, or iPad.
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The [Link Handler][link-handler] is a Sling Model and can be adapted either from a request or a resource. It automatically reads the context-specific configuration for the Site URLs of the [URL Handler][url-handler] based on the resource path of the current request or the path of the resource adapted from.

Example:

```java
LinkHandler linkHandler = request.adaptTo(LinkHandler.class);

// build link stored in current resource
Link link = linkHandler.get(resource).build();

// build link targeting the given content page with a different selector and extension
Link link = linkHandler.get(contentPage).selector("sel1").extension("pdf").build();

// check if link is valid and get markup
if (link.isValid()) {
  String markup = link.getMarkup();
  // ...
}
```

Alternatively you can inject the `LinkHandler` into your Sling Model using the `@Self` annotation if the model itself adapts from request or resource.

The link handler uses a "builder pattern" so you can flexibly combine the different link generation options.
See [LinkBuilder][link-builder] for all options.

### Link properties in resource

When storing a link in a resource multiple properties are used to describe the link. The properties depend on the link type implementations, these are the most important properties supported by the built-in link types:

* `linkType`: Type of links as chosen by the editor (e.g. internal, external or media)
* `linkContentRef`: Path of internal content page to link to
* `linkMediaRef`: Path of media asset (e.g. DAM asset) to link to
* `linkExternalRef`: External URL to link to
* `linkWindowTarget`: Target for window to open link in (e.g. "\_blank")

Further properties are defined in [LinkNameConstants][link-name-constants]. It is recommended to define an edit dialog that shows only the properties supported for the selected link type after choosing one.

### Using links in HTL/Sightly template

To resolve a link inside a HTL template you can use a generic Sling Model for calling the handler: [ResourceLink](apidocs/io/wcm/handler/link/ui/ResourceLink.html)

HTL template example:

```html
<sly data-sly-use.link="io.wcm.handler.link.ui.ResourceLink"/>
<a data-sly-attribute="${link.attributes}" data-sly-test="${link.valid}">
  ${properties.linkTitle}
</a>
<div class="cq-placeholder" data-emptytext="${component.title}" data-sly-test="${!link.valid}"></div>
```

In this case the anchor defined in the sightly template is used, but all attributes of the `a` element are overwritten with those returned by the link handler. This is primary the href attribute, but may contain further for defining the link target or custom metadata for user tracking.

### Configuring and tailoring the link resolving process

Optionally you can provide an OSGi service to specify in more detail the link resolving needs of your application. For this you have to extend the [LinkHandlerConfig][link-handler-config] class. Via [Context-Aware Services][sling-commons-caservices] you can make sure the SPI customization affects only resources (content pages, DAM assets) that are relevant for your application. Thus it is possible to provide different customizations for different applications running in the same AEM instance.

With this you can:

* Define which link types are supported by your application or include your own ones
* Define which markup builders are supported by your application or include your own ones
* Define custom pre- and postprocessors that are called before and after the link resolving takes place
* Implement a method which decides whether a content page is allowed to link to or not
* Implement a method which decides whether a content page is a redirect page or not

Example:

```java
@Component(service = LinkHandlerConfig.class, property = {
    ContextAwareService.PROPERTY_CONTEXT_PATH_PATTERN + "=^/content/(dam/)?myapp(/.*)?$"
})
public class LinkHandlerConfigImpl extends LinkHandlerConfig {

  private static final List<Class<? extends LinkType>> LINK_TYPES =
      ImmutableList.<Class<? extends LinkType>>of(
          InternalLinkType.class,
          InternalCrossScopeLinkType.class,
          ExternalLinkType.class,
          MediaLinkType.class
      );

  @Override
  public List<Class<? extends LinkType>> getLinkTypes() {
    return LINK_TYPES;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isRedirect(Page page) {
    String template = page.getProperties().get(NameConstants.PN_TEMPLATE, String.class);
    return StringUtils.equals(template, "/apps/sample/templates/redirect");
  }

}
```

Schematic flow of link handling process:

1. Start link handler processing
2. Detect link type, store result in link request
3. Apply preprocessors on link request
4. Resolve link using link type, store result in link request
5. Generate markup using markup builder, store result in link request
6. Apply postprocessors on link request

### Migrate components to Link Handler

If you migrate existing components that did not use the wcm.io Link Handler before, it's likely you used only one single property which contained all types of links - internal, external, DAM asset. This storage as one single property is not compatible with the Link Handler, which uses at least two property (link type and link reference), and the second property depends on the link type.

But you can configure a special "fallback mode" on the component resource by setting a property - example:

```javascript
{
  "wcmio:linkTargetUrlFallbackProperty": "linkUrl"
}
```

When this property is set, the component is also able to read link target information from the property "linkUrl" and tries to auto-detect it's type. When the component is edited using the Link Handler link dialog tab, it's read from this property as well. Once the dialog is saved the property is cleared and the new property names as used by the Link Handler are used.

[link-handler]: apidocs/io/wcm/handler/link/LinkHandler.html
[link-builder]: apidocs/io/wcm/handler/link/LinkBuilder.html
[link-name-constants]: apidocs/io/wcm/handler/link/LinkNameConstants.html
[link-handler-config]: apidocs/io/wcm/handler/link/spi/LinkHandlerConfig.html
[url-handler]: ../url/
[sling-commons-caservices]: ../../sling/commons/context-aware-services.html

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Country Singer Jake Flint, 37, Dies Hours After His Wedding
Oklahoma country music singer and songwriter Jake Flint died suddenly at age 37 after his wedding on Saturday, his publicist told The Oklahoman.
Flint died in his sleep in the hours after he exchanged vows with Brenda Flint, publicist Clif Doyal told the newspaper. The cause of death has not been determined.
"We should be going through wedding photos but instead I have to pick out clothes to bury my husband in," his wife wrote Tuesday on Facebook. "People aren't meant to feel this much pain. My heart is gone and I just really need him to come back. I can't take much more. I need him here."
On Sunday, she'd shared a video from their wedding alongside the heartbreaking caption: "I don't understand."
According to Doyal, Jake Flint was an ambassador for Oklahoma Red Dirt music and a beloved member of the country music community.
"He was a prolific songwriter, recording artist, and in-demand live performer throughout the Midwest and Southwestern U.S.," Doyal told ET in a statement. "As a testament to his kindness and humanity, he was also a tireless supporter of his fellow artists, always willing to lend a hand to help anyone who needed it."
"With his infectious smile and disarming sense of humor, he was loved by many, and I believe that, along with his music, will be his lasting legacy," he added.
Flint released his debut album, "I'm Not Okay," in 2016, followed by "Live and Not OK at Cain's Ballroom" in 2018, "Jake Flint" in 2020 and last year's "Live and Socially Distanced at Mercury Lounge." His best-known singles included "Cowtown," "Long Road Back Home" and "What's Your Name." In 2019, he was named Breakout Artist of the Year at the We Are Tulsa Music Awards.
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January 3, 2018, 11:13 AM ET
Woman Gets Shot In The Arm While Streaming Argument Over Facebook Live
"I'm not worried about that gun, b*tch!"
By Gina Tron
A 27-year-old Chicago area woman was shot in the arm while streaming on Facebook Live on Tuesday. It all began innocently enough. The victim appeared to be in a jovial mood as she walked across a parking lot of the city's South Side at around 3 PM, with her phone recording and broadcasting her steps on Facebook Live.
In that parking lot, she reportedly ran into an acquaintance, a woman who was sitting in a car. The woman appeared to be seated in the driver's seat. A few passengers were with her. Also in the car, a handgun, according to WGN9.
The victim and the woman in the driver's seat got into a verbal altercation.
"Oh, this b*tch got a gun, y'all," the victim declared in her livestream. "You got a gun. What are you going to do with it? I'm not worried about that gun, b*tch!"
Then, gunshots can be heard.
"She just shot me," the victim exclaimed. She soon after began crying.
The shooting itself isn't visible, but police have confirmed that the victim was shot in the arm. She is currently listed in stable condition.
Police are trying to find the alleged shooter. Because of the video, they think they have a good idea of who the perpetrator is. She is at-large.
There is no immediate threat to the public, according to Fox News. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi has labeled the violence a "domestic-related incident between two individuals that know each other."
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Saturday July 21, 2018 was scheduled to be the Final Firework Show at Rocky Mountain Raceways but it seems as though Mother Nature had other plans. With a little bit of rain and a whole lot of wind she alone put a stop to Saturday's firework display. But don't cry just yet, Vortex Fireworks has come to the rescue and agreed to keep the show until a future date. That date has been decided as Saturday August 18th, also known as our Kids Night Out event.
If you were one of the thousands of spectators at the Horsepower Heaven event on July 21st, 2018 hold on to your tickets and bring them back on Saturday August 18th for FREE Admission. You will redeem your ticket at the ticket booth that day and will be granted admission to the America First Credit Union Super Oval race event as well as the Third Annual Kids Night Out Bicycle Raffle AND THE FINAL FIREWORK SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN RACEWAYS.
*You must have dated tickets for July 21, 2018 and will only be able to exchange them at the ticket booth at the event on August 18, 2018.
**This exchange is for Spectator tickets only. Pit Passes are no loner valid.


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Blackburn must keep 2014 signing happy and seal fresh agreement
Toby Wilding
As the summer approaches, it isn't just buying and selling players that clubs up and down the country have to make plans for, as decisions must also be taken around those players currently at a club who are faced with the daunting uncertainty of the expiration of their contracts.
Difficult as it may seem, sometimes clubs are forced to make the tough decision to sever ties and leave a man without a club, and indeed a job.
Those calling the shots at Blackburn Rovers will therefore be relieved by the fact that the vast majority of there squad are tied to the club for another 12 months at least, although there is a decision still to be made over one high profile and long serving member of the Rovers squad.
Having been at the club since January 2014, Craig Conway has more Rovers appearances to his name than any other player currently on the club's books, sitting tantalisingly close to a double century with 198, although a calf problem is currently threatening to cruelly deny him that milestone before his contract expires at the end of the season.
That contract does however have the option of a further 12 month extension that would surely see Conway pass 200 appearances for the Lancashire side, and while it should not be taken up purely for the purposes of sentimentality, it is an option that Rovers cannot afford to turn down.
After playing little more than a bit part role in Rovers promotion from League One at the first attempt last season, many wondered whether Conway was worth keeping around for the Championship return this season, and while his opportunities have again been limited, his contributions have been immeasurable.
Conway may have made just nine starts and 19 appearances in all for Rovers in the league this season, but he has played important and outstanding parts in three of Rovers biggest wins of the season.
The first of those saw Conway recalled to put in a dominant performance on the right of midfield in a 4-2 victory over Sheffield Wednesday at the end of a three game week that had seen Rovers suffer back to back defeats to local rivals Preston and Wigan.
Then, less than half an hour into the reverse fixture against Wigan, Conway came off the bench to step into an unnatural left wing back role in place of the injured Amari'i Bell as Rovers ended a seven game losing run with a 3-0 win prevented their opponents dragging them into the relegation fight.
Just weeks later Conway put in a sterling performance just weeks later to dominate former England left back Ashley Cole as Rovers beat Derby to all but secure their Championship survival after three straight defeats that followed the Wigan win.
It is not just Conway's ability to really step up to the mark in games where Rovers need him to. Conway's experience and seniority make him a key part of the team spirit that those within the club often claim has been so important to its recent success, and with Rovers needing to strengthen in both defence and attack in the off-season, searching for a replacement for the Scottish wide man shouldn't really be high on Rovers' list of list of priorities.
At 33-years-old there can be no doubting that Conway is approaching the latter end of his career. You feel Rovers would be well served to let see out at least a little bit more of it at Ewood Park.
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Formosa Island (Paperback) Loot Price: R771
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Formosa Island is an island in the River Thames in England at Cookham Lock near Cookham, Berkshire, with two smaller adjacent islands. The island is one of the largest on the non-tidal river Thames with 50 acres (20 ha) of woodland. It can be reached by footbridge from Cookham. It is between two of the four channels in the river at Cookham, the one closest to Cookham was once the mill stream to a paper mill at Cookham. The one on the other side leads to Odney Weir. The adjacent Mill Island has the lock channel on the other side. Beyond the lock channel is Sashes Island and the channel furthest from Cookham is Hedsor Water, the original navigation channel, which was blocked by the weir in 1830 when the lock was opened, causing loss of trade to then owner Lord Boston.
Imprint: CIV
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Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences
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What Is Hollywood Regency Style?
Have you ever wondered how Hollywood regency style came to be? When it started, what styles it's related to or maybe what it looked like? Here's a short-and-sweet look at all those things and more, including how you can bring the look into your home too!
(Featured designs)
Hollywood Regency style began in the 1930s when Hollywood stars wanted to bring the glamor of their movie sets into their own homes.
According to real estate website Dirt, "set designs [of this era] emphasized pieces that showed well on camera because of their dramatic surfaces, attention to detail, contrasting of patterns and textiles, and creation of light and dark that could be captured in black and white."
Hollywood Regency design follows those same notes, bringing those details, as well as other dramatic flourishes, into more everyday spaces.
What Are Some Related Interior Design Styles?
The style is also sometimes called Hollywood Moderne because, as The Spruce notes, Hollywood Regency is an "updated take on the interiors of the 19th-century Regency Era."
According to San Antonio, Texas, architecture and interior design firm Amity Kett, the style "evokes glamorous and maximalist design, combining many elements to form richly layered looks with different textures, colors, patterns, and metallic finishes." Sounds like a lot, doesn't it?
Before we get into what Hollywood Regency is, let's look at what styles it's related to. House Beautiful explains some common focal points (and differences), "the furniture has a lot in common with mid-century in the silhouettes and clean lines, the details, such as pattern and color, are inspired by art deco".
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Who Was Influential in Hollywood Regency Decor?
Two names come up repeatedly when it comes to who the stars, and then others, turned to get the Hollywood Regency look. Dorothy Draper and William (Billy) Haines.
Dorothy Draper
Dorothy Draper was an interior designer who created the United States' first interior design firm, Dorothy Draper & Company, in 1923.
Draper's common design motifs were bold jewel tones, black-and-white floors, trellises, bamboo and palm fronds. Not dismayed by the fact that all those things in that last sentence are a whole heck of a lot, especially when put together, Draper was known to say "If it looks right, it is right." Her interior design column ran in over 50 newspapers around the United States, meaning that many American housewives heard a lot about this philosophy too.
In fact, her taste was so popular that her cabbage rose chintz fabric sold over one-million yards! The photos over in this Curbed profile show that while she did have an eye for drama, she made it work.
William (Billy) Haines
William (Billy) Haines was also influential in popularizing the Hollywood Regency style, but had a more direct line to the stars. He was one. In 1930, Haines was the United States' top-billed actor.
However, he moved from actor to interior designer when he was fired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933 for living openly with a male partner. Haines' friendship with actress and former costar Joan Crawford, cemented his new interior design career when he redid her house. And both her friends and those wanting to emulate her followed.
According to Architectural Digest, one of Haines' design hallmarks was creating low-slung furniture. Quoting client and best friend Betsy Bloomingdale, "He designed all of my pieces low to the floor. That way the people were grander, not the furniture." Haines' designs are still in production today.
Taking Inspiration from All over the World
Both Draper and Haines featured historical elements in their interior design work, which, at first, may seem unconnected. The spaces they decorated included tufted furniture, first seen in Victorian England, Chippendale furniture, 16th-century American design interpretations of an English cabinetmaker and chinoiserie elements, featuring 17th and 18th-century French imitations of Chinese design.
While tufted furniture's textural elements, Chippendale furniture's scrolls and chinoiserie's peacocks, bamboo and pagodas motifs differ visually, they all bring elegance and glamor into interior spaces.
To see both Dorothy Draper's and William Haines's styles back to back, see this post on A Beautiful Mess.
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What Holds This Style All Together?
Glamor and drama rule the Hollywood Regency look.
HGTV notes the style "focuses on making the home a showpiece for guests, and classic designers spared no shine, glitz or glamour in making that happen." And when it comes to common Hollywood Regency motifs, lacquer and mirrors were popular in making homes literally shine and dazzle.
When it comes to glamour, that also means velvet. Or in Spoonflower's case, Celosia Velvet™, something you can work into both your home and your personal style depending on your taste and budget. The feel and sheen of the fabric not only makes designs pop, it also makes for a dramatic look for home furnishings.
And in Decor Aid's round up of Hollywood Regency motifs, they note two points which make for reasons to bring some of this style into your home that "your interiors will be sure to impress all of your guests" and because you can "pamper yourself by feeling like a Hollywood star every single day."
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Build your Dream Home in Awbrey Glen. Situated at the 10th Green! The Club is currently busy with the City obtaining approval on these spectacular lots with views of the Golf Course. We are accepting Reservations now until September 15, 2017.


Tuesday will be The Grand's biggest sales day of the year, and some shows may sell out.
WAUSAU - Individual tickets will go on sale for the upcoming 2016-2017 season at The Grand theater on Tuesday.
The Grand Hall will open at 9 a.m., where tickets will be sold. The day individual tickets go on sale is typically the biggest sales day of the year, according to a press release from The Grand, and some shows may sell out quickly.
During the day, The Grand will be posting live updates of the ticket sales, via its Snapchat account, which allows user to share photos and videos. There will also be giveaways throughout the day.
Tickets will also be available online at The Grand's website http://grandtheater.org and over the phone at 715-842-0988.
Tickets went on sale to season subscribers on June 7, following the season preview party. So far, 9,400 tickets have been sold, according to Melanie Schumann, the director of marketing and development at The Grand. Broadway shows "Mamma Mia!" and "Pippin" have been two of the top sellers, but the John Altenburgh Christmas Extravaganza, The Time Jumpers featuring Vince Gill and Travis Tritt are also expected to sell quickly after Tuesday's on-sale date.


Yesterday, publisher Ziff Davis announced it will cease distribution of the paper version of PC Magazine -- but is its lone remaining print magazine, veteran game periodical Electronic Gaming Monthly, far behind?
According to a New York Times report, Ziff Davis CEO Jason Young is not confident in its continued publication, either.
Buried in the story about PC Magazine is this snippet, which doesn't feature any direct quotes from Young: "Mr. Young said the company was considering taking its other print magazine, the video-game publication Electronic Gaming Monthly, into an online-only format, but would not make a decision before the end of the year."
Young blamed PC Magazine's online move on projected losses for the magazine in 2009 due to "fewer advertisements and rising costs", according to the NYT story. It is unclear how PC Magazine and EGM ad sales and costs compare.
He also pointed out that online had been the publication's primary focus for some time now -- a situation which is potentially mirrored with EGM. Ziff Davis currently operates games-oriented site 1UP.com, which already functions as EGM online.
The magazine and website share content and writers freely. In fact, they some time ago moved to end the distinction between online and print editors, moving its editorial staff into a more generalized pool that works on both properties. EGM also currently maintains a branded presence on the 1UP website.
Earlier this year, Ziff Davis closed its last remaining non-EGM print games magazine, when it moved Games For Windows Magazine online, as a section on its 1UP website.


Post House Condominium is located in the heart of the city next to Toronto's historic first post office and George Brown College. The 22-storey building consists of 294 suites. The project successfully achieved the Toronto Green Standard Tier 2 requirements in 2015. The building showcases several green features, which promote a healthy indoor environment for residents while optimizing energy and water performance.


On the subject of Canada-Israel relations, Ambassador Lyons said, "Canada's relations with Israel are strong and growing stronger every day. We're doing a lot of work with Canada on the trade and innovation front. We're trying our best to create a stronger business framework and business environment for Canadian and Israeli entrepreneurs. Taking advantage of all the work that's been done here in Canada on the high-tech side....but also the terrific expertise that Israel has in cyber...artificial intelligence ..and so forth."
She added, "I've had my staff work with a lot of the universities across Canada." She referred to the work being done between University of Manitoba and and Hebrew University on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. "That is just one example of many, many research collaborations that are happening between Canadian and Israeli universities." She noted that Israel is working at making " those relationships even stronger" and at getting "more faculty exchanges and more students exchanges."
She also noted that Israel has great "tech know how on a number of important areas like ag tech and water management and so forth."
"Canada and Israel are working together as development partners," she explained, in such countries as the the Ukraine, Ghana, and Rwanda and "we are looking at expanding that partnership on development" .... She added that " the Canadian development brand and the Canadian know how mixed with the Israeli willingness and desire and know how...in third world countries can truly help to heal the world."
Ambassador Lyons also spoke about working on the area of communications. "I'm determined to help Canadians get a better understanding of modern day Israel and help Israelis understand Canada better. Israelis have a tendency when they look at North America, to look at the United States. That's got to change. They have to recognize how valuable Canada's relationship is and what a fantastic Jewish Canadian community that we have here that is very supportive of Israel and very engaged. So, we need to be doing a better job on communications to make sure that Canadians get the Israel of today and the potential of the partnership and vice versa with Israelis."
When asked about Israel's relationship with Saudi Arabia Ambassador Lyons noted that with Saudi Arabia and a number of other Middle Eastern countries, "relations with Israel are warming, certainly on a government to government level.Bahrain even came out recently and spoke about Israel's right to defend itself [against Iran]. We're not seeing it as much on a people to people level that we would like to see."
Regarding Israel's relationship with Egypt, Ambassador Lyons said that " the security cooperation relationship is incredible strong, the strongest in the history of the two countries. It is interesting to see the shift that is not only taking place in the Middle East, but in the larger part of the world in spite of what is happening there right now. I do believe that the world is coming to Israel like it never has before and that is true of some of its Arab neighbours as it is of South American countries, African countries and so forth that are starting to look at new partnerships with Israel. I think where we need to go is a stronger people to people relationship with some of these countries and that is going to take some time and some work."


that I arrived okay. I'm writing this from the Bridge.
though my life on earth is o'er. I'm closer to you now, than I ever was before.
Just lend a hand to pick him up, as on your way you go."
And when it's time for you to go... from that body to be free.
Remember you're not going... you're coming here to me.


MANILA—Defending champions University of the East Red Warriors made quick work of the Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles while the returning University of Sto. Tomas Tigresses ended a four-year title drought by defeating another Ateneo tennis squad to take home the UAAP Season 80 Men's and Women's tennis trophies, respectively, at the Rizal Memorial Tennis Center, Saturday.
The Red Warriors pulled off a dominant performance in a lopsided affair with the Blue Eagles after smashing their way to their second straight title and the most ever in their school history with a 3-0 victory while the Lady Tigresses moved from a 1-1 tie at the early going to hoist the championship trophy since 2014 via 3-1 triumph over the Lady Eagles.
UE and UST needed not to maximize their own twice-to-beat advantages after finishing the two Ateneo teams in seemingly identical fashion.
Reigning Most Valuable Player AJ Lim guided the Red Warriors into its second championship in all of his years in the UAAP in so far after overpowering Ateneo's Ino Canlas in two straight sets, 6-1, 6-1, while also spearheading UE in a perfect season as they have not lost a single tie in all of the nine matches that they played this season.
Lim, who has yet to lose a single match in his overall UAAP stint, was named as the league's MVP for the second straight year despite missing a few games back in the first round due to a national team call up when he played for the Philippine Davis Cup Team in Indonesia last January.
Joshua Kinaadman took care of the opening rubber match after ousting AJ Rivero in the first singles match before the tandem of Rogelio Estaño and RJ Saga weathered a first frame setback to eke out a close 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 doubles win against Luke Flores and Erj Gatdula to complete their title defense.
Meanwhile, the Tigresses withstood a gallant women's Ateneo stand after suffering an immediate setback in the first singles by dismantling the Lady Eagles with a three two-setters in the preceding rubber matches to level with the National University Lady Bulldogs' UAAP record of most titles with four.
Danica Bautista and Genevieve Caorte secured the championship trophy for the España-based squad with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Jana Pages and Carmen So in the final doubles rubber after the UST took the lead off a Monica Cruz' 6-2, 6-0 triumph against Rookie of the Year Martina Bautista in the second doubles.
The Lady Eagles started off things in Court 4 after Khrizelle Sampaton registered a remarkable 6-4, 7-5 nail-biter against Kendies Malinis, only to witness the UST in an even affair thereafter as Precian Rivera and this year's MVP Erika Manduriao took care of Jana Hernandez and Nicole Amistad, 6-4, 6-3.
The Lady Tigresses managed to win all of their seven ties this season despite missing the services of their ace player Ingrid Gonzales in the finals after being forced to retire in the last elimination tie due to a knee injury.
On the other hand, the Katipunan-based Ateneo squads both finished as first runners up in a rare occasion, highlighted by the Blue Eagles' momentous season, who after 17 years returned to the finals by coming up from an 0-2 record at the start of the tournament.


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President Trump to travel to Naples to tour Hurricane Irma damage
David Jackson
WASHINGTON – President Trump will visit the Naples area Thursday as part of his tour of Hurricane Irma damage in Florida, the White House said Wednesday.
Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said details about specific stops will be made public later.
First lady Melania Trump will accompany the president to southwestern Florida, as will Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump, eager to be seen as in charge of disaster response, also traveled twice to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
White House officials have cast both the Florida and Texas trips as part of his overall effort to build national unity in the wake of natural disasters.
"The president's action during these times demonstrate why he's a true leader who can bring the country together and get things done for the American people," Sanders said on Tuesday.


Had some fun with some curves from a picture that Charmer sent over to me – they just go this way and that, in so many fun ways… yes?
Just giving Snake a little tiny peek… It seemed like a good way to start the weekend.
We're on the road and Charmer walked up to me this morning and grinned.
I was surprised how relaxing this picture felt. Sometimes you just need to stop and chill.
Sometimes, it's interesting to see things from a different perspective.
Just a little peek of black under the red….TGIF and happy Boobday!
Thank you to Domina Jen for nominating us. We read her blog regularly and are very honored that she picked us. We don't do these very often but this nomination came from someone who we both read regularly so I thought I would put my toe in the water.
For April fools, we thought we'd share the making of a Sinful Sunday picture.


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Director - Build-to-Rent / Single Family Rental Platform Operations
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Mon, Nov 9th, 2020
Fundrise is a direct-to-consumer investment platform, unbundling services historically provided by banks and rebuilding the entire financial industry ecosystem from the ground up around individuals rather than institutions.
Fundrise was started with the simple idea to use technology to build a better financial system for the individual — lowering the costs, improving the quality, and broadening the access. After launching in 2012, the team has built an entirely new ecosystem, outside the conventional financial services industry, and in doing so eliminated the high costs and poor incentives that had become all too common with the status quo. Today, Fundrise has over a million members, 150,000 active investors, and more than $1 billion equity under management, with a many year company track record of growing +100% annually.
Technology allows us to build a better financial system, vertically integrating from the end user to the assets on a single integrated infrastructure. The result leaves behind a century of legacy systems and outdated assumptions, completely re-envisioning a financial industry that puts the investor first.
As part of a recent growth, Fundrise is launching the Home Platform to build, acquire, and operate a platform of homes across the country. The goal is to leverage technology to reinvent housing for the 21st century, designed around the concept of "home as a service", develop an operating platform that integrates into the Fundrise investment platform, and targets owning a portfolio of 25,000 homes across the country (+$5 billion of assets).
Fundrise is seeking to identify and hire a Director - Fundrise Homes Platform Operations that would build, refine, execute and manage the property operations, asset management, reporting, accounting and portfolio analytics processes within the new division of the company. The successful candidate will not only build a strong process for the Homes line, but also leverage the ongoing data gathered and property performance to refine the investment strategies and acquisition parameters as well as serve as a key connector to other departments including accounting, valuation and other real estate business lines including multifamily.
• Work as a leader with responsibility for execution, reporting and management of the single family asset portfolio.
• Coordinate the monitoring and reporting of portfolio performance as well as portfolio-driven data analytics.
• Help establish a culture of performance and operating principles for the successful implementation of those strategies.
• Assist in the scaling operation of a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of housing; provide oversight and guidance across asset management, operations, reporting, and dispositions.
• Ensure that the Home Platform is managed as efficiently and profitably as possible.
• Have a positive impact on the firm's culture, and how people work well together towards a common goal.
The Director – Fundrise Homes Platform Operations should bring extensive experience in single family or multifamily property management, asset management, and/or portfolio management. The successful candidate should possess strong business acumen, display sound judgment, possess superior leadership skills, and convey credibility both inside the firm and to the greater market. Additionally, the candidate should be passionate about working within a fast-paced, growing, and innovative platform.
• A minimum of 5 to 7+ years of relevant single family or multifamily experience.
• Successful track record of professional advancement, including time spent leading a team in the management and operation of a portfolio of assets.
• Extremely high level of conscientiousness towards work product.
• Excellent problem-solving skills applied proactively with an eye towards constant improvement.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and management skills; strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience in providing leadership to a team and bringing structure to an organization.
• Team oriented and possess a track record in developing strong relationships across a business.
• Ability to think broadly and strategically and work within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, growing environment. Demonstrates high energy, intensity, discipline, and attention to detail.
• Highly collaborative nature, being most productive working in a team environment. Capable of fitting within the Fundrise team.
• Self-guided work ethic with results-driven orientation. Superior analytical, quantitative, and technical skills.
• Strong history of academic and professional achievement. Undergraduate degree required.
The Company is prepared to pay a market competitive and performance driven compensation package.


Examine is an engineering analysis software program for underground rock structures. It includes modules for geometric modeling, surface meshing, elastic stress analysis based on the boundary element method, and data visualization/interpretation.
Examine is an engineering analysis program for underground excavations in rock. Examine was developed mainly for stress analysis, although its data visualization tools can be applied to a wide range of three-dimensional mining and civil engineering data. For example, Examine has been used to visualize microseismic datasets such as seismic velocity, source parameters, and event density.
Examine consists of three program modules: Model generates the geometry and boundary element discretization for underground openings, Compute performs the computation of stresses and displacements using the direct boundary element method, and Interpret, with 3D animation capability, visualizes the analysis results. Each of the three modules can be run independently. For example, the input data for Compute can be generated using Model or some other CAD based program. Similarly, Interpret accepts data from Compute or from some other source. Both Model and Interpret are fully interactive and menu-driven programs.
Examine v4.0 was the first iteration to be a fully-integrated windows application.
The compute engine now supports file queues and multitasking.
an information bar at the bottom of the screen.
The Skin function, which wraps a skin of boundary elements around two or more polylines. Users have the option to specify mesh density and discretization.
The Extrude function is used to generate the geometry and boundary mesh for a structure that has a uniform cross-section.
The Face function is the most versatile among the mesh generator functions; however, unlike the skin and extrude functions, Face does not generate geometry. It is simply a mesh generator, suitable for discretizing any region bounded by one or more nodelines.
AutoCAD DXF Import / Export: Examine can import DXF and export GEO files, allowing users to quickly switch between applications.
Examine provides three automatic meshing/remeshing functions: Array Mesh, Radial Mesh, and Automatic Mesh. All three functions require no user input to generate a mesh.
Examine allows users to quickly calculate the volume and surface area of an object.
Automatic Geometry Validation: The object check function is used to assure that the geometry is valid.
The Distance Measuring function is used to both locate a point in your three-dimensional modeling space and to determine a distance to some other user-defined point.
Pressure Boundary Condition: The apply traction function allows users to apply pressure or traction boundary conditions to excavations or ground surfaces. Users can specify the region of the pressure, its magnitude and direction.
The Geometry Slicer option is used to generate the intersection polyline between the current three-dimensional model and a user supplied cutting plane.
Examine is our only software solution based on the boundary element method (BEM). BEM is considered efficient for modeling faulted rock; often more efficient than the finite element method. BEM often requires less computational effort by introducing a "mesh" over the modeled surface, rather than the volume discretization required for the finite element method. By analyzing and computing only the surface area of the desired model, as opposed to the full volume, users can save time and effort when using Examine.


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EastEnders Spoilers: Dotty Wants The Arches- Can Ian Make It Happen?
British SoapsEastEnders
By Destiny Dukes	 On Mar 11, 2020
EastEnders spoilers hint at Dotty Cotton (Milly Zero) trying to get ownership of the Arches. Arches has information that she can use over Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) and she plans to use it to get Arches, however can Ian make this happen for Dotty?
EastEnders Spoilers- Ian's Revenge Backfires
Ian is hiding something from Sharon Mitchell (Letitia Dean) involving the death of her son and he is determined to keep it under wraps. However, Dotty has figured that there was more to the story and confronted him about it. As viewers know, Ian locked Denny Mitchell (Bleu Landau) in a room on the boat and when tragedy struck, he tried to let him out of the room. He was able to get him out of the room but was not able to save him from passing away that day. He was seen as the hero who tried to save Denny but in reality, his plot for revenge ended up being the reason why Denny died.
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EastEnders Spoilers- Dotty blackmails Ian
Afterward, Ian felt guilty about the incident but continued to keep it a secret. Dotty, however, had her suspicions as she had seen him arguing with Denny during while on the boat. She voiced her suspicions to Peter Beale (Dayle Hudson) who decided to confront his father but was persuaded into thinking that Dotty was wrong about the whole situation. When Dotty confronted Ian herself, Ian told her that no one would believe her over him. However, what he did not expect was for her to receive the evidence she needed to bring him down. This came in the form of a voice message sent to Dotty by Denny. In order for her not to expose the truth to everyone in the village, Dotty wants Ian to give her the Arches.
However, Ian does not own the Arches and will have to find a way to get the place from Ben Mitchell (Max Bowden) and give it to Dotty. This may not be easy for him to do since Ben is going through his own personal problems and the last thing, he will be thinking about would be the arches. However, this might serve as a benefit to Ian.
What do you think? Will Ian be able to get the Arches for Dotty? Will Dotty keep Ian's secret? Watch EastEnders from Monday and Friday at 8pm and Tuesday and Thursday at 7.30pm on BBC One to find out what happens next.
Destiny Dukes
My name is Destiny Dukes, and I first got into soaps in 2013. I started watching General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful. I felt a connection with the characters and loved the stories as well. I even became interested in older storylines from before I started watching. I eventually picked up The Young and the Restless in 2016. I love writing as well and have been writing since I was in elementary school.
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Second runners up of the "Open Innovation Challenge"
Winners of "Swiss-Re Bluemix Hackathon"
Runners-up of "Swiss-Re Bluemix Hackathon"
Let me first wish each and every one of the IIITB family a great New Year 2016!
January has been hectic with the joining of third batch of Sponsored M.Tech Program for Samsung Research (Bangalore), and a new batch of Ph.D. scholars.
IIITB is launching an Analytics program for working professionals with UpGrad Technology.
IIITB has become the Mentor Institute for IIIT Dharwad from January 28, 2016.
You will find more details in Newsletter.
Prof. Debabrata Das, Dean – Academics and R&D has received the Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) certificate on January 19. It is by nomination or by recommendation of at least two Fellows of IETE and review by a committee according to one's academic and other achievements.
Aparna Lalingkar (PH2008902) has won the Indo-Israel bilateral PostDoctoral fellowship for doing PostDoc at University of Haifa. It is awarded by the Planning and Budget Committee of the Council for Higher Education of Israel for outstanding Post-Doctoral researchers from India and China. She has won it for the academic year 2016/2017. It is for the duration of maximum three years (October 2016 to October 2019). She will be joining University of Haifa on October 1, 2016 to work with Prof. Michal Yerushalmy.
"Open Innovation Challenge" was held on January 4 at Andhra University. The competition was to come up with the best model for making Vizag smart. Students were required to present their ideas on one of the following ideas 1) Energy, 2) Food & Water, 3) Safety & Security 4) Transportation/Housing, and 5) Telecommunications, 6) Education/Entertainment. The goal was to present a functioning prototype of a simple technology, process, or design that may enhance revenues, reduce costs, recycle waste, and save time for the whole ecosystem. The judges consisted of UC Berkeley Faculty, Senior Executives of IBM, Wipro, Cisco, HCL, Tyco and Paradigm Mtuity, Inc. At the end of the day, three Open Innovation Awards representing 1st, 2nd and 3rd place were granted to the winners issued by UC Berkeley's Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation. Our students Ashish Jain (DT2015002), Masih Abhishek John (DT2015003), Prashant Aswal (DT2015004), Arnaj Das (MT2015029), Umang Luhadia (DT2015008) won the 3rd prize in the competition.
The "Swiss-Re Hackathon" was held during January 30-31. The theme for the hackathon was 'My Personal Risk Advisor'. The Team Refugees (Abhijay Arora (IMT2012049), Anubhav Bharadwaj (IMT2012006), Lijo Johnny (IMT2012023)) won the first prize with the prize money of Rs 300000.
Application (WaTBoT): An intelligent travel assistant that inspires travel. It leverages the intelligence of IBM Watson, enabling the users to interact with it via voice notes or text - ALL ON WHATSAPP! It 's made using 5 IBM Watson Services: Watson Personality Insights(from social media), Watson Tradeoff Analytics, Watson Speech to Text, Watson Natural Language Classifier and Watson Relationship Extraction. From air tickets to hotels, discuss with smart assistance from Watbot.
The orientation program for Master of Science by Research-Ph.D. 2015 - 16 Term 2 was held on January 4.
The 3rd batch of Sponsored M.Tech. for Samsung Research (Bengaluru) Engineers was started on January 6.
SPICMACAY IIITB chapter presented Carnatic Violin Concert by Sangeetha Choodamani Padma Shri Ms. A. Kanyakumari on January 6. Ms. A Kanyakumari was accompanied by H. S. Sudhindra and S. Srishyla.
Graphics-Visualization-Computing Lab (GVCL) participated in the Bangalore Vis Workshop at IISc on January 9. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair and Prof. Vijay Natarajan (IISc) organized the event.	Profs. T. K. Srikanth and Jaya attended the event with other lab members.
Lohri was celebrated on campus on January 13. As per the tradition, a bonfire was lit, students gathered around the rising flames and threw til (sesame) and peanuts into the fire.
FLAIR Program was held at IIITB during January 18 -22. IIITB conducted a training program on Moodle for teachers from Kerala as a part of the Fostering Linkages in Academic Innovation and Research (FLAIR) program, which is an initiative of the Department of Higher Education, Government of Kerala.
IIITB Innovation Center found its new physical space in the previous men's hostel, on January 18, and the new space for the center was inaugurated by Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director (IIITB).
The Seventh edition of Ramanujan Mathematics and IT 2016 (RMIT 2016) was held during January 21– 22. This year the conference saw talks by Prof. Ashish Choudhury (IIITB), Dr. Manoj Dixit (Mathworks India), Prof. Srinath Srinivasa (IIITB), Prof. C. S. Rajan (TIFR, Mumbai), and Prof. R. Thangadurai (HRI, Allahabad) on Day 1; and Dr. Swarup Kumar Mohalik (Ericsson, India), Prof. R. Balasubramanian (IMSc, Chennai), Prof. B. Ramakrishna (HRI, Allahabad), ad Dr. Radhakrishna Bettadapura (Strand Life Sciences, India).
An MoU was signed with Huawei Technologies India Private Limited on January 25 to provide "Huawei Scholarship for Excellence" to 2nd, 3rd and 4th year iMTech students. Huawei was represented by Mr. William Zhao, COO, Mr. Gilbert Millicent Nathan and Mr. Satya. IIITB was represented by Prof. Sadagopan, Director, Prof. Debabrata Das, Dean - Academics and R&D and Prof. Tricha Anjali.
The 67th Republic Day was celebrated on campus, where Prof. Chetan Parikh was the Chief Guest. Students, faculty members and staff members participated in the celebrations.
An internal workshop conducted by Prof. N. J. Rao to Faculty on National Board of Accreditation (NBA) on January 27.
The paper titled "Learning-Based Text Classifiers Using the Mahalanobis Distance for Correlated Datasets" by Noopur Srivastava and Prof. Shrisha Rao has been published in International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, vol. 3 (1), 2016, pp. 18–27. doi:10.1504/IJBDI.2016.073901.
Ambuj Mishra (MS2013002) presented his paper titled "Towards Formal Verification of Adaptive Cruise Controller using SpaceEx" co-authored with Prof. Subir K. Roy at Second IEEE International Conference onVLSI Systems, Architecture, Technology and Applications 2016 (VLSI SATA 2016) organized by Amrita University, Bengaluru on January 12. The proceedings of the conference will be published in IEEE Explore.
Pavan Kumar (MS2013013) presented his paper titled "Non-Intrusive FPGA based Profiler for Loop Execution Characterization" co-authored with Prof. Subir K Roy at Second IEEE International Conference on VLSI Systems, Architecture, Technology & Applications (VLSI SATA 2016), organized by Amrita University, Bengaluru on January 12.
Prof. V. Sridhar was a Panelist in the session on "Net Neutrality: Is it Good, Bad or Confusing for the Telecom Industry" at the 8th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) 2016, Bengaluru, January 7.
Prof. Shrisha Rao gave an invited lecture on "Services Science and Services Computing" as part of the Distinguished Researcher Seminar Series at the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur on January 8.
Prof. Sadagopan, Director attended a program on "Promote Women in Technology - Workshop" on January 19 at Intel India, Bengaluru.
Prof. V. Sridhar delivered a talk at a research seminar on "Techno Economics of Spectrum: Case of India" at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, on January 20.
Prof. V. Sridhar was a panelist in the session on "Network Neutrality Regulation Across South Asia: A Roundtable on Aspects of Differential Pricing" organized by Observer Research Foundation, IT for Change and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, January 22.
Prof. Sadagopan, Director attended as Chief Guest on the occasion of the International Customs Day celebrations by The WCO ( World Customs Organisation) on January 27 at Customs office, Queens Road, Bengaluru.
Prof. V. Sridhar was a panelist in the session on "Data Privacy", organized by Data Security Council of India (DSCI) Bengaluru Chapter, Bengaluru, January 28.
Prof. Amit Prakash delivered a guest lecture on "Public Health Management and information systems" at the Center for Public Health, NIMHANS on January 29.
Prof. T. K. Srikanth delivered a guest lecture on "IT in Healthcare", at the Center for Public Health, NIMHANS on January 29.
Prof. Meenakshi D'Souza attended Microsoft Academic Research Summit in Pune held during January 29-30. She also represented IIITB in the All India Research Board meeting of ACM at the summit.
January 11, 2016: "5g: What Can We Learn From The Previous Four Generations?" by Dr. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University and FCC.
January 28: "Building cyber competencies to master critical risks in a hyper connected world: a Swiss perspective" by Prof. Solange Ghernaouti, University of Lausanne.
January 8: Thakur College, Kandivali, East Mumbai.
January 13: Students and Faculty members from Texas A&M University, USA visited IIITB Innovation Center.
February 10: 49th Senate Meeting.


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Gilbert Buatère, aussi Giselbert Buatère, est un aventurier normand de la famille Drengot, mort à Cannes (Italie) en 1018.

Les querelles incessantes qu'il avait avec ses voisins, et les faciles exploits de ses compatriotes en Sicile le décidèrent à partir pour l'Italie avec ses quatre frères et un certain nombre d'aventuriers qui se joignirent à eux.

Arrivé en Pouille, à la tête d'environ 100 cavaliers, il entra au service de Melo de Bari, qui lui fit des offres magnifiques pour combattre les Grecs. Il accepta, et, avec sa petite troupe, il remporta sur les Grecs trois victoires consécutives ; mais enfin, écrasé par le nombre, il périt à Cannes avec presque tous ses compagnons d'armes. Son frère, Rainolfe, qui était parvenu à échapper au désastre, se réfugia auprès du prince de Capoue et fonda le comté d'Averse.

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Mercenaire normand
Italo-Normand
Décès en 1018