As a former bridesmaid myself, I feel for you ladies. You shell out a couple hundred dollars of your hard earned money on a dress you will probably never wear again, and may regret having to wear the first time, you take time off work, travel across the country (and sometimes the world), and all for the honor of trying to not be as pretty as the bride. It is a pretty thankless job which often involves a lot of grunt work and emotional triage. But it is such a huge honor that you accepted all the woes and responsibilities out of love for your friend/relative. Now, there are two big problems in your future we hope to help you overcome with grace.
Typically, either you are desperately hoping to catch the bouquet and be the next in line to play bride, or you are desperately hoping to avoid catching that thing at all costs.
1. Stand in front: most brides don't throw far enough so you may have to dive. Watch out for ten year olds who always get to stand in front because they are short. If your bride is a softball player, this rule does not apply.
2. Just tell the bride you want to catch it and maybe she will turn around and aim it right at you.
Avoiding the bouquet: This is an art-form frankly, especially if your boyfriend catches the garter and you've been together for a while but you just aren't ready to commit. We have also been to weddings where everyone avoided the bouquet and it just sat like a lump on the floor with no one willing to touch it. Definitely not cool.
1. Stand in the back behind a tall person. Then take off your heels. Short people rarely catch things in this situation.
2. Act like you are really trying for it but make your hands flat so even if you touch the bouquet it will bounce right off your hands and hopefully be caught by someone else more eager than you. You cannot catch things if you refuse to use your thumbs.
3. After deflecting the flowers, look at your hands as if you broke a nail or it bruised your finger and that way you look busy while others take "the prize".
Ok, this tradition is just plain awkward. Random girl catches the bouquet (often a ten year old girl because they stand in front and brides, as aforementioned, often throw short) and random guy catches the garter. Now guy puts completely useless garter on the leg of the victim… er… winner of the bouquet…. yay… that's not awkward at all. Seriously, why has this tradition stuck around? We don't use those garters for anything!
1. Sit in a chair. Do not, for example, sit on two groomsmen's knees. A strange man is going to be putting undergarments on your thigh. It is up to you to keep this moment from spiraling out of control. Let's say you sat on the groomsmen's knees and they get the bright idea to stand up to help the guy get the garter on your leg. Worse, let's say they aren't supporting the top half of you very well and suddenly you find yourself at standing height, lying horizontally while you show the whole wedding party your undies, including the complete stranger who is forcing an elastic band around your thigh.
2. Sit up straight and lean forward. If you lean backwards, you will flash your undies to the entire reception. But, if you lean forward, then you limit the headroom strange garter man has and he will not place the garter too close to your special places. Think defensively ladies!
3. Lift you dress up the leg in question to the height you are comfortable showing. Otherwise he may decide he has to put his head under your skirt so he can see.
If this advice hasn't made you change your mind about participating in the whole affair, and we hope it won't, be on the lookout for more Bridesmaid tips in future blogs.
On Fridays we like to highlight something new or fun for a segment we call "Fun Idea Fridays" and this week, its all about including man (and woman's) best friend in your wedding celebration – after all, they are an important part of the family.
1. Have a pet wrangler for any event your pets participate in. Including your pets in egagement sessions is becoming increasingly popular, but the number one problem is that you probably also want to take some pictures as a couple – which is nearly impossible if you don't bring another adult who can care for your pets while you focus on being photographed. If you decide to include pets in your wedding, you will also need a pet wrangler for the entire day.
2. Choose the role your pets will play wisely – your barely housebroken chihuahua may be adorable, but he won't make a good church ring bearer. Sometimes having them make an appearance in your ceremony and/or reception is all you need. Not all pets are comfortable in strange places in front of lots of strangers and you want this to be a great day for your pet as well. If you choose to make your pet a wedding attendant, have a person assist them down the aisle (on a pillow, in a wagon, or with a beautifully decorated leash). This ensures they won't get out of control (or relieve themselves on your decorations).
4. Have a rehearsal just for your pet to explore the space and practice – with lots of rewards – doing whatever you ask him to do.
5. Don't keep your pets with you the whole time. They will be overwhelmed and need a break from all the excitement.
Pets are a wonderful part of your family and if you are considering making them a part of your engagement session or wedding, remember to take your pet's needs into consideration as much as your own. After all, for some of us, pets are people too.
For taking pictures, a slightly overcast bright day is usually the perfect weather condition. If the sun is too bright, it makes the camera settings a bit of a challenge. If it is too dark and overcast, then we can't capture that pure blue sky. But a nice amount of shade on a bright day hits the spot… usually.
What we discovered with Katie and Adam's wedding, is that you don't need to depend on the weather to have a bright sunshiny wedding.
Take one sunny bride, add one sunny groom, mix them up with a crowd of fun people who adore them and, voila – you have a wedding that makes its own sunshine. If you don't believe me, just see for yourself.
Keep on making life bright and sunshiny Katie and Adam. We think you are off to a good start.


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Trump's new lawsuits against social media companies are going nowhere fast
Trump's spicy trio of lawsuits against the social media platforms that he believes wrongfully banned him have succeeded in showering the former president with a flurry of media attention, but that's likely where the story ends.
Like Trump's quixotic and ultimately empty quest to gut Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act during his presidency, the new lawsuits are all sound and fury with little legal substance to back them up.
The suits allege that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube violated Trump's First Amendment rights by booting him from their platforms, but the First Amendment is intended to protect citizens from censorship by the government — not private industry. The irony that Trump himself was the uppermost figure in the federal government at the time probably won't be lost on whoever's lap this case lands in.
In the lawsuits, which also name Twitter and Facebook chief executives Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg as well as Google CEO Sundar Pichai (Susan Wojcicki escapes notice once again!), Trump accuses the three companies of engaging in "impermissible censorship resulting from threatened legislative action, a misguided reliance upon Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and willful participation in joint activity with federal actors."
The suit claims that the tech companies colluded with "Democrat lawmakers," the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served in Trump's own government at the time.
The crux of the argument is that communication between the tech companies, members of Congress and the federal government somehow transforms Facebook, Twitter and YouTube into "state actors" — a leap of epic proportions:
Defendant Twitter's status thus rises beyond that of a private company to that of a state actor, and as such, Defendant is constrained by the First Amendment right to free speech in the censorship decisions it makes.
Trump's own Supreme Court appointee Brett Kavanaugh issued the court's opinion on a relevant case two years ago. It examined whether a nonprofit running public access television channels in New York qualified as a "state actor" that would be subject to First Amendment constraints. The court ruled that running the public access channels didn't transform the nonprofit into a government entity and that it retained a private entity's rights to make editorial decisions.
" … A private entity … who opens its property for speech by others is not transformed by that fact alone into a state actor," Justice Kavanaugh wrote in the decision.
It's not likely that a court would decide that talking to the government or being threatened by the government somehow transform Twitter, YouTube and Facebook into state actors either.
Trump vs. Section 230 (again)
First Amendment aside — and there's really not much of an argument there — social media platforms are protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a concise snippet of law that shields them from liability not just for the user-generated content they host but for the moderation decisions they make about what content to remove.
In line with Trump's obsessive disdain for tech's legal shield, the lawsuits repeatedly rail against Section 230. The suits try to argue that because Congress threatened to revoke tech's 230 protections, that forced them to ban Trump, which somehow makes social media companies part of the government and subject to First Amendment constraints.
Of course, Republican lawmakers and Trump's own administration made frequent threats about repealing Section 230, not that it changes anything because this line of argument doesn't make much sense anyway.
The suit also argues that Congress crafted Section 230 to intentionally censor speech that is otherwise protected by the First Amendment, ignoring that the law was born in 1996, well before ubiquitous social media, and for other purposes altogether.
For the four years of his presidency, Trump's social media activity — his tweets in particular — informed the events of the day, both nationally and globally. While other world leaders and political figures used social media to communicate or promote their actions, Trump's Twitter account was usually the action itself.
In the shadow of his social media bans, the former president has failed to reestablish lines of communication to the internet at large. In May, he launched a new blog, "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," but the site was taken down just a month later after it failed to attract much interest.
The handful of pro-Trump alternative social platforms are still struggling with app store content moderation requirements at odds with their extreme views on free speech, but that didn't stop Gettr, the latest, from going ahead with its own rocky launch last week.
Viewed in one light, Trump's lawsuits are a platform too, his latest method for broadcasting himself to the online world that his transgressions eventually cut him off from. In that sense, they seem to have succeeded, but in all other senses, they won't.
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The Catalyst Fund, managed by Bankable Frontier (BFA) and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase & Co, will use Machine Learning to select financial inclusion startups for pre-seed funding.
Valencia, March 9, 2016 — Telefónica Open Future_ and BigML have created one of the first automated platforms that predict the probability that a startup, even in its very early stages, will be successful. Its first client, the Catalyst Fund, will employ the PreSeries Machine Learning technology to evaluate and select early stage startups for its fintech portfolio. Machine Learning promises to complement the human side of fund management and convert it into a highly efficient process. The predictive algorithms are capable of producing a score that investors can use to qualify startups for funding. Thus, the robust data could reduce biases in the selection of startups, lower management overhead and optimize monitoring and evaluation of the investment. Learn more by visiting this blog post.
PreSeries starts accepting Beta requests on March 15, after the PAPIs Connect 2016 conference in Valencia, where the world's first startup battle will take place and in which the winner will be chosen by the algorithm alone without any human intervention -- something that has never been done before.
For Ana Segurado, Telefónica Open Future_ Global Manager, this joint venture is a win-win for entrepreneurs and investors: "Early stage investing is very complicated, and even the brightest ideas can get nowhere due to a bad execution of their business plan. In the last years, we have seen that around 80% of the startups we meet fail in the first 5 years of development. With the implementation of this innovative and must have technology we can mitigate the risk involved in investing in new business and help the startups implement a better business model to secure their future, what will lead to optimize the business environment for the whole innovation ecosystem".
Catalyst Fund is an innovative grant fund, managed by BFA (Bankable Frontier Associates) and fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, that deploys capital and advisory services to promising inclusive fintech startups to get investment ready. Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase, the fund also has the guidance of impact investors Accion, Omidyar Network, Gray Ghost Ventures and Quona Capital. The fund launched last December and will be active until end of 2018. While the Catalyst Fund and BigML collaboration will formally be announced at the PAPIs Connect conference, both parties will continue to explore ways to apply the PreSeries technology to other BFA fintech projects along with other partners.
Open Future_ is the open innovation program that embodies Telefónica´s global commitment to develop and attract talent and entrepreneurship, gathering all the open innovation activities and projects across Telefónica since 2014 into a single organization. Through social entrepreneurship and commitment to youth entrepreneurship initiatives, Think Big and Talentum; Crowdworking spaces; the Wayra accelerators and Telefónica and Amerigo Ventures investment funds, powers and invests in people, ideas and viable technology based projects at any stage of growth, openly and in connection with public and private organizations. With a portfolio of over 850 accelerated startups, more than 600 invested startups inverted and offices in 17 countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia startups, Telefónica Open Future_ helps turn innovative ideas into successful business. www.openfuture.org.
BigML is a leading Machine Learning company that helps other businesses make highly automated, data-driven decisions. BigML was founded in 2011 in Corvallis, OR, USA and made its European expansion official by opening its European headquarters in Valencia, Spain in July 2015. The company has pioneered the Machine Learning as a Service (MLAAS) wave of innovation through its consumable, programmable, and scalable software platform streamlining the creation and deployment of smart applications powered by state-of-the-art predictive models. To date, BigML has 15 patent applications, more than 25,000 customers from 120 countries and $5M in venture capital investment. In addition to commercial activities, BigML is playing an active role in promoting Machine Learning in education around the world through its rapidly expanding ambassador program thanks to active participation from top universities in diverse geographies such as North America, Europe and Africa, making real BigML's motto: "Machine Learning made beautifully simple for everyone". Please visit www.bigml.com for further details.
BFA (Bankable Frontier Associates) is a global consulting firm specializing in the development of financial services for low-income people around the world. Its approach is to seek out, create and implement solutions to the challenges faced by low-income people in managing the financial matters that underpin their lives. BFA purposefully partners with cutting-edge financial and nonfinancial institutions that touch the lives of low-income customers. In creating solutions, BFA integrates its deep expertise in customer insights, business strategy, new technology and growth-enabling policy & regulation. Founded in 2006, its clients include donors, investors, financial institutions, policymakers, insurers and payment service providers. BFA has offices in Boston, New York and Nairobi. For more information, please visit: www.bankablefrontier.com.


Negative energy and toxic relationships certainly exist in all professions, and vet school and veterinary practice is no exception. Dr. Cyndie Courtney and Seth jump into how to recognize potential problem behaviors in both yourself and your peers and how to appropriately respond to make a positive change.
Dr. Courtney is a practicing small animal associate veterinarian, co-host of the podcast The Veterinary Viewfinder, founder of TheJerkResearcher.com, recent 2015-2016 AVMA Future Leader who helped create a national program for veterinary team wellness. She speaks and publishes nationally on veterinary business topics, and her current research focus is the impact of burnout and compassion fatigue on interpersonal aggression within organizations.


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Protecting Band Trademark Rights: Three Cases
Did you ever wonder how long dormant groups like the Beatles or ABBA can continue to protect all of their trademark rights? No? Well I do. I have had this issue come up on more than one occasion and I think that we have three groups to thank when it comes to protecting bands' legacies and trademark rights: the Kingsmen, the Drifters and the Platters. All three groups have been involved in litigation regarding the use of their band names in the live performance class. It appears that so long as a band's recordings continue to be commercially available then the members of the band, or the owner of the trademark rights to the band's name can continue to protect these rights. This can be important when trying ti stop "fake" groups or trying to resolve disputes between present and former band members regarding the right to use a same.
The court in Kingsmen v. K-Tel International Ltd makes this important point:
Moreover the fact that these individuals continue to receive royalties for Kingsmen recordings flies in the face of any suggestion of intent to abandon the use of the name Kingsmen. These plaintiffs have no more abandoned their right to protect the name of the Kingsmen than have the Beatles, the Supremes or any other group that has disbanded or ceased performing and recording but continues to collect royalties for the sale of previously recorded material. We must reject defendant's contention that the name Kingsmen has been abandoned to the public domain.
The Kingsmen case has been relied upon with approval by Judge Samuel Alito in the case Marshak v. Treadwell, et al. Judge Alito cited the above-referenced section and stated that "a successful musical group does not abandon its mark unless there is proof that the owner has ceased to commercially exploit the mark's secondary meaning in the music industry." In that case the court noted that the proof of non‑use would be that the recordings of the "Drifters" were not played and the resulting royalties were not paid. In another case Herb Reed Enterprises v. Florida Entertainment Management, Inc. the court stated that "although non‑use of the mark for three consecutive years constitutes prima facie evidence of abandonment, the standard for non‑use is high. Non‑use requires "complete cessation or discontinuance of trademark use" where "use" signifies any use in commerce and includes "the placement of a mark on goods sold or transported" . Even a single instance of use is sufficient against a claim of abandonment of a mark, if such use is made in good faith.
This important distinction has also been discussed in the treatise Gilson on Trademarks. Ann Gilson La Londe writes about the above cited cases: "three cases involving disbanded musical groups found that where the groups' recordings are sold and played and group members continue to receive royalties the marks continue to be commercially exploited and thus there is no time of non‑use".
These cases provide some real guidance in working with artists who want to make sure that their trademarks are protected past their days of active performing.
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How Trump Killed the Atlantic Alliance
And How the Next President Can Restore It
By Philip H. Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro
PHILIP H. GORDON is Mary and David Boies Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2009 to 2013.
JEREMY SHAPIRO is the Research Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He served as a senior adviser in the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2009 to 2011.
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Trump, Merkel, and Macron at a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end ofWorld War I, Paris, November 2018 Benoit Tessier / REUTERS
The Atlantic alliance as we know it is dead. The end of the Cold War, the United States' growing weariness of global burdens, and a preoccupation with domestic affairs on both sides of the ocean had already weakened transatlantic bonds when the presidency of Donald Trump inflicted the deathblow.
A future U.S. administration, even one that is more sympathetic to the idea of alliances, will be unable to restore the old alliance. If a new alliance is to emerge from the ashes of the past, it must be one based on a more realistic bargain between Europe and the United States, and one that better addresses the needs of both partners. The alliance is dead; long live the alliance.
The alliance died slowly, then all at once. For the first two years of Trump's presidency, European leaders behaved like abused spouses, mistreated but afraid to leave, hoping against hope that things would improve. Faced with overwhelming evidence that Trump did not believe in the concept of alliances and viewed Europe more as a rival than a partner, they clung to the vain hope that the "adults in the room"—the experienced foreign policy advisers around Trump—would restrain the president's worst instincts. Some Americans buttressed this fantasy by imploring Europeans to pay more attention to Trump's policies than his tweets and to take comfort in the president's reassuring personnel choices, particularly that of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
There will be no transatlantic alliance under Trump.
To keep Trump on side, European leaders flattered him. British Prime Minister Theresa May held his hand and offered him a state visit. French President Emmanuel Macron pretended to be his best friend and invited him to a big military parade in Paris. German Chancellor Angela Merkel held firm on values but studiously avoided policy disputes. The President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker came to Washington and helped create the appearance of a trade victory for Trump without making


This is a great way to spice up your rice side dish. Add more or less red pepper flakes to taste. My husband thought I should have added more to my dish as it wasn't very spicy at all. I've over spiced recipes before so I didn't want to take that risk again and decided to just sprinkle the red pepper flakes in the dish instead of measuring it out. Next time I will add a little more red pepper flakes. I also already had all the pantry ingredients and was looking for a way to use my Priano Marinated Red Peppers from Aldi.
Actually, my entire recipe was made from Aldi ingredients, which helps me save money without sacrificing quality. Read more about the Top 10 Reasons I Love to Shop at Aldi. I also love this recipe because it took very little additional time to make. I omitted the onion due to my family's taste preference (which is the nice way to say they are picky eaters!) I really love that Aldi has instant brown rice because I can whip up a rice dish in 5 minutes! This one did take about 10 minutes because I cooked a few things before adding in the rice. Also, I used Aldi's vegetable stock but you can easily use your own homemade version to save even more.
Add red pepper and baby spinach.
Cook for additional 5-7 minutes until tender.
Add vegetable stock, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper.
I would have been happy for this one as my entire meal. I had already planned the other parts of the meal which include asparagus and Biotrue Challenge Sweepstakes. They look like read chicken tenders, don't they? My daughter also made us Homemade Honey Mustard. I'll be sharing her recipe soon!


These new optical chips have many bio-medical and optical-communication applications.
A breakthrough in optical microchips has been achieved by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba and the University of Southampton in the UK. They inscribed waveguides – channels for the light to flow – on a piece of polished glass, with molecules attracted to the miniature circuit once charged with oxygen.
These new optical chips have many bio-medical and optical-communication applications. One such application is a tiny spectrometer just four millimeters in size that can provide instantaneous results. The glass instantly analyzes the material's chemical properties and reveals its unique signature, which is the specific frequency the chemical resonates at when light is passed through it.
Such devices could instantly distinguish between viruses or analyze any material or detect air pollutants.
Current spectrometers are generally several orders of magnitude larger and, in the hospital setting, require a dedicated technician to move from room to room with the device. Moreover, the sample sizes required are substantial – so much so that certain delicate procedures could not be attempted until now lest they harm the patient.
BGU's Dr. Alina Karabchevsky, who was the principal investigator, and collaborator Prof. Alexey Kavokin of the University of Southampton not only miniaturized the entire detection apparatus, they also dramatically reduced the sample size of the material needed to conduct a chemical analysis and identify its signature.
Their pioneering findings were published recently in Scientific Reports. They are the first to use simple glass as the basis for such chips.
"Our new chip could be the basis for a spectrometer at the bedside of every patient in every hospital. The materials we used – glass and light – are plentiful and cheap. Just a drop of a sample placed on one of the waveguides can be analyzed at the speed of light. In fact, a single piece of glass could analyze a number of materials simultaneously," said Karabchevsky.
He added that delicate procedures such as analyzing a sample from a sick baby's lungs, where all that would be needed was a tiny sample, can now be accomplished.
Until now, such procedures required too large a sample size, putting the patient at risk. Other applications include analyzing suspected explosive materials in real time with a handheld device, she says.
"There are many new directions this work encourages us to explore – from fundamental breakthroughs in molecular harmonics excitation under evanescent radiation on a chip to actual devices such as spectrometers on a chip and doctor-in-your-pocket devices.
ROBOTS CAN LEARN BY OBSERVATION It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work simply by watching them – without being told what to look for, according to researchers at the University of Sheffield in the UK.
This could mean advances in the world of technology with machines able to predict human behavior, among other things.
The discovery takes inspiration from the work of pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, who proposed a test that a machine could pass if it behaved indistinguishably from a human. In this test, an interrogator exchanges messages with two players in a different room, one human and the other a machine.
The interrogator has to find out which of the two players is human. If they consistently fail to do so – meaning that they are no more successful than if they had chosen one player at random – the machine has passed the test and is considered to have human-level intelligence.
Dr. Roderich Gross from the UK university's automatic control and systems engineering department, said, "Our study uses the Turing test to reveal how a given system – not necessarily a human – works. In our case, we put a swarm of robots under surveillance and wanted to find out which rules caused their movements. To do so, we put a second swarm, made of learning robots, under surveillance too. The movements of all the robots were recorded, and the motion data shown to interrogators.
"Unlike in the original Turing test," he added, "our interrogators are not human but rather computer programs that learn by themselves. Their task is to distinguish between robots from either swarm. They are rewarded for correctly categorizing the motion data from the original swarm as genuine, and those from the other swarm as counterfeit.
Gross explained that the advantage of the approach, called "Turing Learning," is that humans no longer need to tell machines what to look for.
Thus Turing Learning could lead to significant advances in science and technology, he concluded.
"Scientists could use it to discover the rules governing natural or artificial systems, especially where behavior cannot be easily characterized using similarity metrics," he said.
The discovery could also be used to create algorithms that detect abnormalities in behavior – useful for the health monitoring of livestock and for the preventive maintenance of machines, cars and airplanes. Turing Learning could also be used in security applications, such as for lie detection or online identity verification.


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Huntley impressed by Gamecock defense in scrimmage
Phil Kornblut
USC had many more prospects on site Saturday for a spring scrimmage. Among the most familiar faces were RB Tank Bigsby of Hoganville, Georgia and DL Alex Huntley of Hammond. Both confirmed their visits. GamecockCentral reported Huntley's teammate, DE Jordan Burch, also attended the scrimmage.
Huntley had his mother with him on the visit, and that was one of the key reasons for the visit.
"My mom had yet to meet the new defensive line coach," Huntley said. "They hit it off really well I think. She liked him. And I was just trying to see how the defense looked today, That was a big goal for me to see how they were doing. They looked great. I thought they had a great practice today."
Huntley also talked with new defensive line coach John Scott, as well as with head coach Will Muschamp. In fact, he said he talked with all the coaches. The opportunity to play early as a freshman is big on his list of criteria when judging schools and the Gamecock coaches were sure to point out their use of freshmen last season.
"They talked about how they played the most true freshmen in the SEC," he said.
But his focus primarily was on the defense and how much that group had improved over last season.
"Today was a great visit. Just being able to see how they practice," Huntley said. "What I really like about the team is that they want to win, and I really like that. I liked the way the program has improved over the course of their careers."
Huntley has a top six of USC, Georgia, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma and Stanford. He had scheduled an official visit to Oklahoma for the spring game April 13th but a school conflict has come up and he'll have to reschedule. He said his five officials will come from that short list.
He's not sure yet if USC will get one of those officials since he's been there so often.
"I don't need to," he said, "but I might."
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I just got a new HP laptop with windows 7 home and I get excellent connection in my living room (where my desktop is located) but as soon as i go into my room i still am connected but get 'no network access'. Then in a minute or so it totally disconnects. On an older laptop that is windows XP works perfectly fine in my room. Any suggestions?
What is the manufacturer and model number of the wireless router you are using. Go to their website and see if they have a firmware update that you can apply. Read the instructions carefully and make sure you don't attempt the update over a wireless connection. Also what type of encryption are you using, try running it open for testing and see if you still have distance issues. Then try using a different level of encryption WPA, WPA2 etc. See if any of that helps. Also uncheck IPv6 in the properties of you Network Adapter, my wireless adapter won't connect at all with IPv6 enabled.


BERLIN (IDN) - The Cuba missile crisis was moving towards a peak when President John F. Kennedy proposed in May 1961 the creation of a Development Centre at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to bridge the industrialised nations and the developing world. The Centre has meanwhile developed into a forum not only for South-South but also South-North and North-South cooperation, enabling the industrialised countries "to learn from, and maybe import, some of the policy experiences of the South", says its director Mario Pezzini.
Such a forward-looking view apparently emerges from the fact that the Centre is an institution where governments, enterprises and civil society organisations informally discuss questions of common interest. Its Governing Board includes 24 of the 34 OECD countries and 18 developing and emerging economies as full members.
The OECD members of the Development Centre, established by decision of the OECD Council on October 23, 1962 are: Austria, Belgium, Chile, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
The 18 non-OECD members, comprising developing and emerging economies are: Argentina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Mauritius, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam.
Of these, countries as diverse Indonesia, Mauritius, Peru, South Africa and Thailand together with five OECD members constitute the Bureau of Ten with Germany in the Chair – offering a valuable forum for South-North cooperation in search of innovative solutions to the global challenges of development.
"At its outset, the Centre sought to help spread the strong economic growth in OECD countries of the post-war boom to the countries in the South – this was the primary goal of development work. In the last half-century, many of these countries have shown strong economic performance, on par with and even exceeding the performance of OECD countries. The magnitude of the accompanying shift in wealth is self-evident. During the 1990s, 12 developing countries achieved growth rates equivalent to double the OECD average. Over 2000-10 that number rose to 83," notes Pezzini.
Such statements by Pezzini sound logical, considering that he is the first director of the Development Centre with roots within the OECD where he held several senior management positions before joining the Centre in 2010. He was Deputy Director of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, and prior to that, Head of the Regional Policy Division, covering policy analysis on urban development, rural development, regional competitiveness and public governance.
Underlying this 'no one-size-fits-all' approach is the recognition that institutions and geography matter as much as markets. Which means that the same policy implemented in different areas, or in similar places but with different institutional frameworks, will have a different outcome.
A conversation with Pezzini during his visit to Berlin reveals his firm conviction that this situation demands a new thinking on policy-making and recommendations that reflect the context and challenges of implementation. In the light of this, the Centre serves as a vehicle for developing and disseminating tailored policy recommendations that reflect the specific assets and obstacles of a given country or region. Making reform happen is the Development Centre's objective.
The Development Centre published a landmark study in February 2014, titled Venture Philanthropy in Development: Dynamics, Challenges and Lessons in the Search for Greater Impact, undertaken by the one-year old Global Network of Foundations Working for Development (netFWD), by way of a first step towards offering an in-depth insight on how foundations working for development are evolving in their search for greater impact.
G8 Leaders acknowledged the relevance of impact investment at their 2013 Summit, resulting in the creation of a G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce. On its part, the Development Centre has been closely observing and following this movement, given the potential implications for developing countries, particularly as a large share of venture philanthropic flows and innovative business models target developing and emerging economies.
Another important report by the OECD Development Centre is the annual Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2014, which says that the region will continue to play an important role in global growth. Indonesia is projected to be the fastest-growing ASEAN-6 economy with an average annual growth rate of 6.0% in 2014-18, followed by the Philippines with 5.8%. Real GDP growth in Malaysia and Thailand is projected to increase by an annual 5.1% and 4.9% respectively, led by domestic demand, especially in infrastructure investment and private consumption. Singapore's economy is forecast to grow by 3.3%. Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam are expected to grow at a robust pace over the medium term.


Read frequently asked questions on our high quality resources.
How should I use My First Emotions with a baby under 1 year old?
With My First Emotions you can read the stories, sing the songs, play the music and introduce the puppet to even the youngest of babies. This will help you get used to talking about emotions openly with your child. There is also a selection of activities that can be used with young babies – all the activities in the Activity Book show what age they can be used from. As time goes on, your baby will take a more active role in the other activities. We've provided a number of videos on the support website showing you some baby sign language, which you can use to help ask your preverbal child what they are feeling and to show that you understand their emotions and needs. And of course the parenting guidance is valid from Day 1 – the sooner you start using the techniques, the sooner it will become second nature.
Can I use My First Emotions for a child 3 years and over?
My First Emotions is designed for use with children from birth to the age of 3, however the set is adaptable and can easily be used with older children too. You can select activities that correspond to what your child enjoys and can do, and adapt those activities to your child.
In what way does My First Emotions help with mental health?
What support is offered for parents?
The full My First Emotions set comes with a comprehensive Parent's Guide written by Dr John Lambie, Reader in Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. This essential guide explains how to recognise and deal with your child's emotions, how to validate what your child is feeling, how to handle tantrums, and much more. You also receive access to a support website containing audio files for songs and music. And we are always happy to answer your questions!
How can My First Emotions be used in a nursery setting?
As a nursery teacher, My First Emotions will help you to equip children with the tools to understand and learn how to cope with emotions, and teach children how to control their own emotions. Robbie the Rabbit can be used in circle time to explore different feelings and you will find a range of fun activities in the Activity Book. You will also have access to 10 songs, which you can use to demonstrate different emotions through performing actions while singing along with the class. Please visit our teachers page for further information.
Is My First Emotions suitable for children with learning difficulties?
While My First Emotions will help children with learning difficulties, it has not been designed for this purpose. My First Emotions is for all children from birth to three years old. Having said that, it will certainly be beneficial to children who find it difficult to communicate how they feel, or children who are unable to express their emotions.
How can I teach my child three foreign languages?
Evidence and experience shows that languages can be introduced – through real-life communication and games – either simultaneously or successively. The second option works as follows: when the child has learned to play in two languages, you can start to teach them a third language, and then a fourth.
Does the Skylark English technique work with children who are older than 3 years?
The principles of the Skylark English technique can be used up to the age of 7 or 8 years. However, the stories, topics, words and activities were chosen specially for the 0-3 age range. Having said that, we know from our customers that the set can be quite interesting for 4 to 5-year-old children.
How can I teach my child English if my own pronunciation of sounds is not correct?
Everyone pronounces sounds a little (or very) differently. Almost everyone has an accent, regional features or individual ways of pronouncing particular sounds and words, and these features can be found in English and any other language. They can be heard when a person speaks their native language or a foreign language. The vast majority of children do not have speech disorders: they learn to speak gradually, in conversation with other people. Almost all children learn, in their own time, the sounds of a language just by listening to them and communicating with others. Skylark English has been designed to help children communicate in everyday situations.
Can a 2-year-old child study two foreign languages from scratch?
Yes, they can. Just don't try to teach them as if they are in school or on a course; instead, use the words of the foreign languages in games, listen to stories and do other kinds of 'accidental study'.
Do you have any further questions on My First Emotions or Skylark English for Babies? We are here to help!


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Southside High's Hannah Mouton Makes School History With Touchdown Reception
Jude Walker Published: September 7, 2022
Rachel Mouton, Facebook
Hannah Mouton is a pretty good athlete. The Southside High junior is one of the top basketball players in the state of Louisiana.
However, it's on the football field where she has been making headlines and plays.
Now, you may have seen some female high school football players recently in the area. I know there was a kicker at Acadiana High School last year and others throughout the state.
Hannah Mouton - Wide Receiver - Southside Sharks
Submitted Photo (Rachel Mouton)
But, you see, Hannah is not a kicker -- she's a wide receiver! She started out kicking but quickly got bored with the position and urged her coaches to let her try another spot on offense.
The 16-year-old never played football before this season. She actually wanted to be a part of the team so she could spend some time on the sidelines with her older brother, Isaiah, who's a starting linebacker for the Sharks and a senior this year.
Hannah & Isaiah Mouton
Now that we've set everything up, let us show what really cool thing happened on the football field this past Tuesday night.
The Sharks junior varsity team played a game on the road against the Cecilia Bulldogs when Hannah made quite a spectacular play.
No offense to the young man who was defending Hannah, but he got "Mossed!" (Football fans know what that term means.)
In case you weren't following at home, that was a 60-yard touchdown reception by the lovely Ms. Hannah Mouton. Bam!
Back to our point earlier about young ladies playing high school football in Louisiana -- most of the time it's at a position like kicker or punter.
Hannah's mom, Rachel Mouton, tells us that her daughter may be making history, not just for her school, but in the entire state of Louisiana.
"I'm being told she's the first female in the state to play anything other than special teams (kicker/punter) in high school," Rachel told us. "But I'm not sure how to research that other than asking around."
If anyone does have knowledge of this feat, please contact us so we can pass it along to the Mouton family.
At any rate, amazing work, young lady. Keep on shining on the football field and in the classroom and we can't wait to see more of your highlight videos.
The Top 10 Biggest High School Football Stadiums in Louisiana
It's no secret that high school football is King in Louisiana, but do you know who's palace is the biggest? Based on seating capacity, these are the biggest high school stadiums in all of Louisiana!
Source: Southside High's Hannah Mouton Makes School History With Touchdown Reception
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Q: Extract relationships from a sentence in NLTK I am using NLTK to extract the relationship between a PERSON and an ORGANIZATION.
Also, I want to extract the relationship between ORGANIZATION and LOCATION.
The NLTK version is 3.2.1.
I've made use of Part-Of-Speech tagging and Named Entity Recognition (NER). Also the Parse Tree is drawn for the NER results.
But I am not able to extract the mentioned relationships from that sentence.
Here is the code:
import nltk, re
from nltk import word_tokenize

sentence = "Mark works at JPMC in London every day"
pos_tags = nltk.pos_tag(word_tokenize(sentence))            # POS tagging of the sentence
ne = nltk.ne_chunk(pos_tags)                                # Named Entity Recognition
ne.draw()                                                   # Draw the Parse Tree

IN = re.compile(r'.*\bin\b(?!\b.+ing)')
for rel1 in nltk.sem.extract_rels('PER', 'ORG', pos_tags, pattern = IN):
    print(nltk.sem.rtuple(rel1))
for rel2 in nltk.sem.extract_rels('ORG', 'LOC', pos_tags, pattern = IN):
    print(nltk.sem.rtuple(rel2))

How to extract 'Person - Organization' relationship and 'Organization - Location' relationship?

A: I think docs is not tagged pos, it should be NE.
Working code
senten = "Mark works in JPMC in London every day"
pos_tags = nltk.pos_tag(word_tokenize(senten))  # POS tagging of the sentence
ne = nltk.ne_chunk(pos_tags)  # Named Entity Recognition

chunked = nltk.ne_chunk_sents(pos_tags, binary=True)
# ne.draw()  # Draw the Parse Tree

print(pos_tags)

IN = re.compile(r'.*\bin\b(?!\b.+ing)')

for rel in nltk.sem.extract_rels('PERSON', 'ORGANIZATION', ne, corpus='ace', pattern=IN):
    print(nltk.sem.rtuple(rel))

Output
[PER: 'Mark/NNP'] 'works/VBZ in/IN' [ORG: 'JPMC/NNP']

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President Donald Trump will meet the US' partner countries on Afghanistan on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Brussels next week. An official today said, the Afghan meeting with partner countries on July 12 is part of Trump's mission to bring peace to the war- torn country. The senior administration official told reporters today during a conference call ahead of the president's trip to Europe next week.


Comfort and style go hand in hand! The Grey's Anatomy Signature 3-Pocket Asymmetrical Drape Pleat Scrub Top looks great and feels even better. With a V-neck for comfort, asymmetrical front and pleated back – the top looks exceptional. With three pockets, storage of essentials is easier than ever.


Weekly Smurfette Adult Costume Deals. Halloween Store. Incredible selection of Halloween Costumes, Halloween Decorations and more!
Being the most beautiful person in town is anyone's dream. This Smurfette costume for women will let you do just that! Become the love interest of an entire village this year as every Smurf goes out of their mind for you, however, don't limit yourself, you've got the entire party to sway this year! Our amazing outfit comes with a shirt, pants, and hat, everything you'll need to transform into the most elegant of the Smurfs. Try not to DISTRACT the other Smurfs too much This year as you flaunt your style and great looks this season.
Looking for the perfect Group costume This year? Practice your team working skills with this amazing outfit pulled out of the classic Series the Smurfs! Become one of the Little magic creatures today with one of our amazing outfits! This costume includes everything you need to start living in a Mushroom and fighting over Smurfette with a shirt, pants, hat, and mittens, to get you started on a life in the forest. Whether you're fighting with your fellow Smurfs or running away from Gaugamela, you can be sure to meet every challenge no matter how, and no matter how small you are!


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Formerly one-third of the neo-kosmische band, Emeralds, Mark McGuire has amassed an impressive discography not only with that band but also as a solo musician. Since 2007, I count nearly fifty solo releases, not even to mention ongoing or one-off collaborative projects such as Inner Tube (with Charles Berlitz) or Skyramps (with Daniel Lopatin). Yet as prolific as he is, live performances seem much less frequent. Beyond their scarcity, however, McGuire's live performances are notable for being a new and unique experience each time you see him. For instance, at a performance during 2012's Unsound Festival, he spent a good deal of the set playing bass guitar; and for last year's Big Ears Festival a majority of the performance was made up of shorter songs paired with lyrics, compared with his usual long-form instrumental jams.
McGuire's Baby's All Right set features three lengthy pieces, two of which are new and one previously released. "Noctilucence"—named for the phenomenon of summer clouds shining at night (and yes, I had to look that up)—hails from a 2014 EP of the same name released on Dead Oceans. New song and set-opener "Entity" layers shimmering guitar lines over preprogrammed beats, illustrating the type of guitar work for which McGuire is best known. And finally, "2015 Jam" begins with a sound collage underpinned by some light atmospherics that eventually develops into a throbbing beat joined by overlapping guitar solos. By far the most intense song of the evening, the crowd's sense of release at its conclusion is palpable even on the recording.
This set was recorded by Baby's FOH Rubes Harman, who provided a stereo board feed as well as a recording of the house mics. I mixed these two sources in post-production and the sound is outstanding. Enjoy!
If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Mark McGuire. Visit his Bandcamp page, like him on Facebook, and buy Noctilucence and Along the Way from Dead Oceans.


OCEANSIDE — With the SOAR initiative slated to be on the November general election ballot, opponents of the measure are readying a campaign to explain to voters why they're opposed.
Neil Nagata, owner of Nagata and Sons Farms in South Morro Hills, president of the executive board of the San Diego Farm Bureau and a member of the Keep Farming in Oceanside coalition, says that the initiative will only hurt farmers, not help them.
Agriculture usage laws change all the time and some farmers are concerned that if SOAR is approved, voters would have to approve any agri-tourism construction projects.
"If this passes, we won't be able to change anything without people voting on it," Nagata said.
There are hard-hitting arguments between the opposing sides that large land owners oppose SOAR because they wish to sell their land to developers. And gentleman hobby farmers who benefit from supplemental income support SOAR, the farming tax break they receive and rural lifestyle they enjoy.
According to Nagata, North River Farms — the nearly 1,000-home development planned for South Morro Hills — will not adversely affect his farm. "Those homes will be in the southern part of South Morro Hills, we're more in the middle, so the development won't impact us at all. We're not really focused on what's going on there. We're the innocent bystanders in all this." He said it's his understanding that the developer, Integral Communities, would be improving the roads and perhaps even building a needed bridge.
When asked about traffic congestion should the initiative fail and North River Farms is built, Nagata said: "Oceanside is not a small city, we can't live in the past," recalling that when the mirror was installed at Palomar Observatory in the late 1930s, San Diego County constructed what is now county road S6, so that the Hale Telescope could be brought onto the site. He said that all roads leading in and out of Oceanside were once just dirt and there were only a few of them.
Martinek said that he saw the video that was supposedly a paid volunteer telling voters he'd been sent by the City Council. He explained that the video wasn't clear and that the voice sounded like someone from the opposition. He said that they were unable to find the person in the video.
The Keep Farming in Oceanside group continues to reach out through social media to inform residents of the negative impacts SOAR would have on farming operations.
The Keep Farming in Oceanside website currently says: "Be Back Soon! We're Making Some Changes." There is no mention of the SOAR initiative on the home page of the San Diego Farm Bureau. The initiative in its entirety is posted on www.oceanside-soar.org.
It's all about the money. A couple of large land owners want to change the zoning of their land so they can sell it to developers or special interest groups for high density residential projects.
The SOAR Initiative, it is a simple written three page document that would be understood by most.
The only "large land owners" promoting SOAR are the rich guys with views, large swimming pools and a few avocado trees. They do not farm for a living like the rest of us farmers. Its a myth that farmers want to "develop their land" when they've been farming for generations and still are! What we don't want is to spend more of our hard earned money to get a city wide vote every time we need to repurpose a corner of our land for a B&B, a storage warehouse, or borrow money from a bank to buy seed, pay workers or pay for rising water costs. Do you think banks will loan farmers money with a 20-yr. encumbrance on our land? If you don't know the negative impact on land values it already caused in Ventura, look it up. Land owners already have to go through years of the planning commission, public meetings and the city council; now you want to cost us more money and wait up to 2 yrs. for the next election, IF we could even get enough signatures and take time away from farming. There is no open space in Morro Hills and city parkland is already protected. Maybe you'd like a law passed that will lower your property values and tie up your land for 20 years . . . or maybe you should leave our farms, homes and businesses alone.


With the USA signing deals left, right and centre with the UK, Czech Republic and Poland to site elements of its "Nuclear Missile Defence Shield" - or Son of Star Wars programme - in those respective countries; with the British parliament voting last year to replace its submarine-based Trident nuclear weapons system; and with recent US and NATO support for Georgia and the Ukraine, it should come as little surprise that Russia has announced plans to upgrade its own nuclear weapons systems, putting even more strain on the now beleaguered Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Hence, Bush, Cheney, Brown, Blair et al have managed to restart the Cold War. Well done, gentlemen.
No megaphones, no regalia, no straight-arming. Are the British People's Party and their neo-nazi allies sheep in wolves clothing, being led by Kate McDermody like lambs to the slaughter?
For the first time in ages, Tony White has bravely gone into Leeds city centre in broad daylight! 'Big T' said he felt safe with Kate McDermody's bodyguard's strong arms around him.
Download this jpeg to print posters and get them up in your workplace, pub, community centre, college, etc.
Just how bright is the plump nazi the British People's Party are bringing in to head up 'security' at their Leeds anti Hip Hop demo? Not very.
Hunt Sabs breached the 'security' at Bradford Council's main office and made an impromptu visit to the Countryside and Rights of Way office who are incharge of dealing with the Ilkley Moor shoot.
Behind the BPP's plans to return to 'street activism' with an 'anti Hip-Hop demo' in Leeds lie bizarre plans for their very own "Racial Holy War".
How should progressives respond to Europe's immigration anxieties?
Cl@ss War bookstall Richmond Sunday 28th September 10-5pm.
New/second hand, labour movement, Marxist, autonomist, anarchist, and some other collectables, badges/magazines/postcards etc will be on sale at a large organised event in Richmond, at the train station.
From issue 2 of 'No Pasaran!' the Antifa England newsletter, which can be downloaded as a ready-to-print PDF file from the Antifa website.


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 * Germany
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package com.logitags.cibet.actuator.springsecurity;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.ProviderManager;
import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication;
import org.springframework.security.core.AuthenticationException;
import org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContext;
import org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextHolder;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.logitags.cibet.context.Context;
import com.logitags.cibet.context.InternalSessionScope;
import com.logitags.cibet.core.CibetUtil;

/**
 * Default implementation of the interface
 */
@Component
// @CibetContext
public class SpringSecurityService implements ApplicationContextAware {

   private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(SpringSecurityService.class);

   private ApplicationContext context;

   /**
    * authenticates a second user while the main user is already authenticated. The authentication information for the
    * second user are not stored in the security context but in Cibet context. A second authentication is necessary for
    * the Two-man-rule actuator.
    *
    * @param auth
    *           Credentials of the second user
    * @throws AuthenticationException
    *            in case of error
    */
   public void logonSecondUser(Authentication auth) throws AuthenticationException {
      try {
         AuthenticationManager authManager = context.getBean(ProviderManager.class);
         Authentication result = authManager.authenticate(auth);
         Context.internalSessionScope().setSecondUser(result.getName());
         Context.internalSessionScope().setProperty(InternalSessionScope.SECOND_PRINCIPAL, result);
         if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            log.debug("User " + result.getName() + " is successfully authenticated");
         }
      } catch (NoSuchBeanDefinitionException e1) {
         String msg = "Failed to authenticate second user: "
               + "Failed to find a ProviderManager bean in Spring context. Configure Spring context correctly: "
               + e1.getMessage();
         log.error(msg);
         throw new RuntimeException(msg, e1);
      }
   }

   /**
    * removes the authentication credentials of the second user from Cibet context.
    */
   public void logoffSecondUser() {
      Context.internalSessionScope().setSecondUser(null);
      Context.internalSessionScope().setProperty(InternalSessionScope.SECOND_PRINCIPAL, null);
   }

   @Override
   public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ctx) throws BeansException {
      context = ctx;
   }

   /**
    * encodes the Spring SecurityContext into a Base64 String.
    *
    * @return security context
    */
   public String securityContext() {
      SecurityContext sc = SecurityContextHolder.getContext();
      try {
         byte[] bytes = CibetUtil.encode(sc);
         return Base64.encodeBase64String(bytes);
      } catch (IOException e) {
         log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
         throw new RuntimeException(e);
      }
   }

}

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Mazda has announced that they will join rivals in the motor industry in supplying an all electric vehicle platform in 2019.
The company's offering will be built on a standard ICE (internal combustion engine) platform and will take advantage of huge advances in lithium ion battery technologies that have occurred in the last few years. While rivals who entered the market early have made huge investments which includes getting battery technology to maturity Mazda's late arrival will see it as a beneficiary without having to outlay the research capital. This low investment entry also includes using the same platform as their ICE cars. To save even more on development costs they have entered into a partnership with rival Toyota and will share technology and development costs.
"It seems that Mazda is yet to take electric vehicles seriously, throwing out the old spurious arguments such as in some markets like Australia and the USA EV's are not clean because the electricity grid has a lot of fossil fuels including gas and coal"
"Obviously if you take the Tesla approach and everyone is rolling out solar on their roof then the fossil fuels over time and probably a very short time - well short of the 16 year life of an average car will mean very little as renewables solar and wind power dominate. For many home consumers that will be solar on their own roofs stored in their own batteries, powering their houses and running their cars."
There is some good news from Mazda - they do seem to be contributing something to the world of Electric Vehicles. The Demio EV (which is their work in progress) has a coil-switching motor which uniquely delivers high torque and high RPMs. This is achieved by switching the number of coils engaged with the motor dependent on the RPM count. The leads to a combination of countering inertia with powerful startup and easy light acceleration at high speed. Features that a conventional motor is not physically capable of.
"Although Mazda is taking a cautious approach they do appear to be ahead of rival Subaru who haven't yet made a serious play. We're looking forward to Mazda releasing the platform and the cultural and thinking shift that will bring in a company that still seems to think fossil fuels are the future."
Pure Electric offers solutions for going all electric and integrating electric vehicles into your lifestyle.


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La final de la Liga Europa de la UEFA 2016-17 se disputó el día 24 de mayo de 2017 en el Friends Arena de Estocolmo (Suecia).Fue la 48.ª edición del torneo y la 8.ª con su actual denominación. Los contendientes fueron el Ajax, campeón del torneo en el año 1992 y el Manchester United, que buscaba su primer título en la competición.

El Manchester United se coronó campeón del torneo al vencer 2–0 al Ajax y clasificó a la Supercopa de Europa 2017.

Partidos previos a la final

Partido

Ficha

Véase también
 Anexo: Cuarta ronda previa de la Liga Europa de la UEFA 2016-17
 Fase de grupos (Grupo A, Grupo B, Grupo C, Grupo D, Grupo E, Grupo F, Grupo G, Grupo H, Grupo I, Grupo J, Grupo K, Grupo L)
 Anexo: Dieciseisavos de final de la Liga Europa de la UEFA 2016-17
 Anexo: Octavos de final de la Liga Europa de la UEFA 2016-17
 Anexo: Cuartos de final de la Liga Europa de la UEFA 2016-17
 Anexo: Semifinales de la Liga Europa de la UEFA 2016-17
 Supercopa de Europa 2017

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial de la UEFA
 Página oficial de la UEFA Europa League

Liga Europa de la UEFA 2016-17
2016-17

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We needed a man to legitimately take our place—the birth gives us Jesus, fully human. We needed a man that had no sin whatsoever. We needed an infinite sacrifice, an infinite man and we got one!
This month, we embark on a new sermon series, CRĒDŌ – I Believe. We begin by looking at The Apostles Creed as we affirm our faith in Christ and Our God.


Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the U.S. Yesterday I saw this really cool painting of Martin Luther King, Jr. hanging in the lobby of a school. I tried to find a picture of the painting on the internet, but the best I could find was the photograph the painting was based on (above).
So the cool thing about the painting is that it was a community art project, involving the students, the faculty, and the neighbors surrounding the school. For a few days in the lobby of the school, there was a lead artist present, along with multiple shades of gray paint laid out in trays (more or less corresponding to the different shades in the original photograph). Throughout the day, people would come, place their hands palm-side down in one of the paint-filled trays, and the lead artist would show them where to place their handprints. In the end, there was this really nice painting of Martin Luther King, Jr. made from the handprints of the community. Fitting, isn't it? A community coming together to paint a portrait of a man who spent his life bringing communities together?
Have any of you seen any kind of artwork similar to this? Something that was made by a community, with its active participation?
This is going to be the only post from me today because…well…because I'm busy. lol. This is something that I've been meaning to post for a while now, but never found a good time for it because the video is about 20 minutes long. But don't let that scare you away! It's a really good, informative video that introduces you to "the story" of our stuff…where it comes from, where it goes when we're done with it, etc. Some people might stop watching it after a couple minutes because they'll think they're in school again. 😉 But I think the host does a really good job of maintaining your interest about something that can get bogged down in details and bore the heck out of people. So stick with it because I think most of us want to be aware of how our decisions affect the rest of our world and the people in it. And don't worry…it's not like a super-depressing video that's going to make you feel like crap. Unless you're from the States, like me. Hahaha! I kid, I kid. Sort of. Anyway, the point of the video is to encourage you to be more active and aware of the decisions you make when you buy stuff.
The video above is a teaser trailer for The Story of Stuff video. If you'd like to watch the whole thing, click on one of the links below.
Also, if you haven't already checked out Chloe B's introduction to Aberystwyth, Wales…what the heck are you waiting for? Her post is a few posts below this one. And keep 'em coming! We've got one about Bulgaria from Megi, and one about Quebec from MarilyneL in the queue. Whoohoo!
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday GBD!
It's like CSI for realz.
Police in Finland found a stolen car. That's not the big whoop part. The big whoop part is that the police also found a mosquito inside that car. Then they used the DNA from the blood in the mosquito to find a suspect and arrest him.
The article (it's really short).
Done in by a mosquito. Whoda thunk?
RSS? What the heck is that!?
Okay so it looks like the first subject I will begin to discuss, from the "techy-side of tabby" (some may refer to as "the dark side"), will be RSS feeds.
What the heck is an RSS feed? Well! It's a big pink ball!!! Just kidding! An RSS feed is a wonderful little tool that helps avid blog or news readers stay on top of the latest and greatest all from one single place.
Imagine a world where you want to keep up with 20 different blogs and three major news sites and four local news sites and your local animal shelter's pet list. In this world, you might have to go to 27 different sites every single day just to catch up on things. Oh wait! That's what most of us do! HEHE. Well, as you know, that's GREAT for the advertisers of the site and for the unique views/visits and click-throughs (yay business!) but really time consuming for the end-user.
4: Hover over that and you should see a list of the latest blogs.
Easy, hey? So! What if you don't have Firefox? Well, firstly you might want to ask yourself why not but then if you really don't want to get Firefox and make your web browsing experience more enjoyable, then you can use google.com as a reader as well. Do this by signing up for a google.com account and then going to http://www.google.com/reader/. Then you see a control panel with lots of options. In the top left, click "Add a subscription" and paste the following into the box that appears: http://blog.girlsbydesign.com/feed/ et voila! Now you can see the latest blog entries in your feed.
Now, getting back to "its good for unique views and click-throughs if you visit the site." That's true. So, while RSS feeds are a beautiful tool, please be sure to come back to the site and participate as often as possible!
There is one other note as well. RSS in and of itself refers to "Really Simple Syndication." Many blogs and newsites provide several different methods to syndicate their material such as ATOM (which is the same thing but just a slightly different delivery method). In this case, you can use the same two methods above to syndicate ATOM for most cases.
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Thanks Chloe for telling us about Aberystwyth!
So whaddya think guys? Isn't this so cool??
Here I am pulling a Kathy, and posting yet again!
SPOILER ALERT: 2nd part of the interview….
Tays and I have been busy in taskland trying to put together a video interview of the aaaamazing, iiiiincredible, taaaalented (I wonder how many more adjectives I can come up with before being excruciatingly obnoxious) 11-year-old singer Noellia Goodwin. Coming up with it was easy! I just thought one day "huh, wouldn't it be cool to feature Noie on GbD?"… except, well, I am in Canada. So I had to get help from my minion the fabulous Taylor Nikole. So it was settled: Taylor would be meeting up with Noie and her family to get the interview done.
She was supposed to attend Noie's recital, which she never did as she was too busy getting lost due to missing streets and impossible mapquest directions 😀 Which is okay, though, cos that means we got a special performance just for ussss u guis! Ain't that grand?! AND to top it off, the wind and the cars passing by were so jealous of the awesomeness that is GbD that they just HAD to be a part of the video!
Then after all that we just had to add subtitles to the video (you'll see why), 'cos we're nice like that…. and by "we", I mean Taylor. My involvement consisted of bugging her everyday asking about it. Meaning: I did it all. Thank you.
Without further ado, I present you…… :drum roll: THE INTERVIEW!
A representation of our sun (on the left) compared to other stars in the universe.
And last but not least, we've got Emma-Lu coming through with the following bit. I'm only including the link because there are a lot of pictures, and text corresponding with the pictures, etc….so I figured it would be easier to give you the link instead of trying to reproduce everything here. I do have a life after all. 😉 But check it out. It's pretty amazing, the sizes of everything relative to each other, and how much is out there, beyond our planet.


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Despite its name, cryptocurrency isn't just money. It could also be debt or equity and so it should be regulated and taxed in the same way as other finance.
The tokens investors get when they buy a cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin, can be used to buy into blockchain startups (businesses that use the same online ledger as cryptocurrencies). When blockchain startups issue shares in their businesses using cryptocurrency, it's called an initial coin offering. For investors, this is like any other equity investment.
Cryptocurrency can also be used to finance specific assets, like debt. So what we have is a single financial instrument that has the advantages of both debt and equity.
So startups issuing their own tokens for investment purposes should have to comply with the same rules and regulations that startups issuing more traditional instruments must comply with. Cryptocurrency investors should be taxed on the same basis as traditional investors.
Money is very often defined by its functions: a medium of exchange, a unit of account (used to represent the real value or cost of any economic item), and a store of value (that can be saved, retrieved and exchanged at a later time). The early consensus about Bitcoin among economists is that it's not money.
At best cryptocurrencies are a medium of exchange. But many economists doubted that Bitcoin, given its volatility, could ever serve as a unit of account, let alone as a store of value.
So if cryptocurrency isn't money, is has to be something else. It could be an asset of some sort.
Usually if investors acquire or sell an asset, it would be liable to tax, such as the GST. This means people using Bitcoin would be taxed twice when using it.
It would be taxed when the person buys the Bitcoin and taxed again when they used it to buy something. Luckily the federal government realised this was a bad idea and moved to repeal the double taxation of Bitcoin.
Clearly the federal government's view is that cryptocurrency is not legal tender – so don't try pay your income tax in Bitcoin anytime soon. And there are important differences between money, specifically legal tender, and cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrencies tend to strictly rules bound. How they're created, when they can be earned, how they're distributed and how many there ever can be, is all determined by rules. In fact, users like strict rules.
By contrast government controlled money is not rules bound. Government employs substantial discretion in exercising control over money. So while the US dollar has the words "In God we trust" printed on it, this system actually requires substantial trust in government.
This trust has been repaid by a substantial reduction of value over the past century. It seems that government-backed money may also be a poor unit of account and store of value.
Debt and equity are financial instruments used to raise money to finance economic activity. It is something of a puzzle to financial economists why firms use debt in some instances to raise finance while using equity in other situations.
An important 1988 paper by the 2009 economics Laureate Oliver Williamson provides a possible answer to that question. Williamson argues that debt, being a strict rules bound financial instrument, is best used to finance general assets, while equity is best used for so-called specific assets. Specific assets are those assets that cannot be cheaply or easily redeployed from their current use to alternate uses without a substantial loss of value.
As it turns out Williamson had speculated about the existence of such an instrument (that he labelled "dequity") and then rejected that instrument as being unworkable. The reason dequity was unworkable was due to opportunism – investors simply could not trust dequity issuers.
The ledger that cryptocurrencies use - the blockchain - is a actually "trustless" technology because it's decentralised. It allow users to see each other's ledgers and transactions, negating the need for a trusted third party to manage risk. Instead it relies on cryptographic verification.
With the absence of the ability for investors to game the system, cryptocurrencies are the dequity Williamson first imagined and it could become an efficient financing mechanism.
The idea of regulating or taxing cryptocurrency finance may not be to the liking of many crypto-enthusiasts who are likely to argue that traditional rules and regulations are very onerous. They are correct, of course. Yet the solution to over-regulation is not a carve-out for special interests but rather regulatory reform that reduces the burden for all business.
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But regulators should really regulate cryptocurrencies in much the same way as they do existing financial instruments. It shouldn't be given special treatment.
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It was fun while it lasted, Houston. The focus on your high-stakes mayoral runoff race drew national attention, but now that retiring state Rep. Sylvester Turner is making his way to City Hall -- even if he won in a nail biter - we're off to the next political brawl in Texas.
Next up: San Antonio. Voters in the Senate districts anchored in the Alamo City will find hotly contested primary fights that include the city's most powerful politicians. Over the weekend, state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer let everyone in on the worst kept secret in Texas politics: He will run for the Democratic nomination in Senate District 26, finding himself again in a head-to-head match with freshman Sen. Jose Menendez.
Menendez's vote for the Senate budget last session, which passed the chamber in a 30-1 vote, has been Martinez Fischer's not-so-veiled punch. Even Sunday at his announcement, Martinez Fischer went after his former House colleague on the budget vote that no doubt will be at the center of the Democratic debate for months to come.
"I doubt he bragged to our public school teachers who work in classrooms that are overcrowded and underfunded. I doubt he bragged to the parents and families who go without insurance, without Medicaid, because they can't afford the premium or the state cut their services," Martinez Fischer told his supporters at his announcement event, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
Menendez has played it cool since his election. He has declined to comment about the potential that Martinez Fischer would get in the race, and in the hours following the official announcement, the Express-News reported that he didn't have a response. Fact is, Menendez, who hasn't been in the Senate a full year, had to have known that his win earlier this year to finish the term of former Sen. Leticia Van Putte was going to afford him the shortest of victory laps.
The incumbent will be defending his seat during at the same time the most loyal Democrats in District 26 will show up to, probably, help Hillary Clinton win the state come March. Martinez Fischer's team knows that's as much of a boost to their chances of winning as is any policy discussion about the state budget, if not more.
The other San Antonio-area senator, Carlos Uresti, won't get to the next legislative session without a fight, either. His Senate District 19 includes much of south San Antonio and stretches to West Texas, near Marfa, a large swath of the state that he'll have to defend from a challenger many voters already know by name. On Monday, Helen Madla, the wife the lawmaker who once held Uresti's Senate seat, filed to run against the incumbent in the Democratic primary.
For all the jockeying in Republican circles the last weeks before the state's filing deadline, Democrats have set themselves up for a few races that could shuffle the political face of the state's longtime minority party.


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How the Coronavirus Spreads Indoors and What Can Be Done About It?
Medically reviewed by Dr. Vikram Chauhan
Medically reviewed by Dr. Vikram Chauhan on October 20, 2020
MD (Ayurveda) CEO & Founder of Planet Ayurveda & Krishna Herbal Company
Updated on October 27th, 2020
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Coronavirus is a threat that originated suddenly from somewhere and became a Pandemic within no time. It has come up like a bad dream that continued for months. The cause is unknown, but its consequences are life-threatening.
Earlier, the people and the society we're trying to find its cause so that the solution can be found. But, the cause remained unknown, and the consequences were spreading at a rapid pace. Finally, after observing the symptoms and other related things, a decision was taken by the authorities to impose Social Distancing norms in society.
As it arrived later in other countries, we already had some idea about it, which made it easy to take preventive steps. A complete lockdown for a full day was applied all over the country. The results were better; the death rate was somewhat low.
The medical authorities, WHO, and the government of various nations had taken the required decisions in their respective countries, and strict laws were imposed to stop the spread. For months, nobody was allowed to step out; observations were being done.
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Yes, it helped quietly, but as the incubation period of this virus is 4 to 14 days thus, the death rate was continuously rising. People who already had the virus or came in contact with it were unknown until they got the symptoms. Isolation centers were prepared so that the affected people can be kept separately and safely.
Home isolation was advised for those people and families who came in contact with affected individuals.
But, even after performing all these activities, the results were not as better as expected. The outcry of death continued. And then something happened that was really beyond control—the indoor spread of Coronavirus. Home isolation and social distancing also started to fail here.
Because, how can people follow social distancing inside homes?
Moreover, where the homes are small, and the families are big, it is impossible to keep them at a distance. Still, many have tried to stop the spread by using face masks, sanitizers, washing hands frequently, and staying away from the patients suffering from any acute or chronic disease.
But, it is never in favor of the community. As we never leave the patient alone.
Hence, some solutions have been found, and more are yet to be followed to reduce the spread because reducing the risk will undoubtedly result in the stop one day. For this, we need to note down the sources through which it spreads indoors.
[Also Read: How to Stay Safe from Airborne Coronavirus]
Only then can we try to stop it. In Ayurveda, a verse has described the spread of infectious diseases; the same applies to Coronavirus. Hence, we need to take care of that.
The formal and communicable diseases like leprosy, smallpox, fever, conjunctivitis get transmitted from one person to another through physical contact and relation of an affected female with a healthy male, droplet infection, sharing food, sleeping together, using patient's clothes, garlands, and other accessories.
How the Coronavirus spreads indoors?
As per our observations, the following can be the reasons:
Eating on each other's plate
Using each other's clothes
Not using face masks inside homes
Sitting together for hours
The physical intimacy of the couples
Kissing children or other family members out of love
Washing clothes together
Performing different activities together
Not being too strict when suffering from Cough or Cold
Females preparing food for all even while suffering from seasonal allergies
The above mentioned are the most common factors which can be responsible for the indoor spread of Coronavirus. So, let us work on these factors and contribute our best to reduce the spread. We will surely overcome it by being together but from a distance.
What can be done to Stop the Spread Indoors?
Do not use each other's clothes, whether it is a Handkerchief or a dress.
Avoid eating on other's plates, always use clean utensils.
Keep sanitizing home as well as the people frequently.
Be habitual of washing hands in every 30 minutes, before and after touching anything, especially face.
Keep a proper distance while sitting together at home.
Avoid sleeping together, as nobody knows if we cough or sneeze during sleep.
Sleep at a distance also to avoid breathing the air released by another person directly.
It is better to avoid physical intimacy for some time, and if it happens, be more careful and precautionary.
Try to ask each person to wash their clothes instantly after entering a home or at other times.
Keep different footwears to wear inside the home and outside. Do not take the outside footwear inside the home.
Avoid cooking food and performing activities for other family members if suffering from the symptoms of seasonal allergies like cough, cold, etc.
Wash the things well and keep them in sunlight for hours that you bring from outside, such as vegetables, fruits, etc.
Do not order any food or stuff from outside until and unless it is a need.
Prefer homemade fresh food over packaged and frozen.
[Also Read: 7 Habits We Can't Forget Even After the Pandemic is Over]
Following all the above steps can help a lot to reduce this spread of virus inside our homes. Besides this, Daily consumption of immunity-boosting herbs, in the form of capsules, tablets, and decoction, will help you fight the symptoms of Coronavirus and the ordinary seasonal flu and allergies.
Staying home can only be helpful when we follow all the preventive measures strictly. Maintaining a distance between ourselves for some time can save our lives, and neglecting it for short term pleasure can be dangerous as death. Therefore, let us control it before it is too late.
Stay Home! Stay Healthy!
Stay Connected mentally and emotionally, but away physically.
Dr. Vikram Chauhan – MD (Ayurveda) is the CEO and Founder of Planet Ayurveda and Krishna Herbal Company. He is an expert Ayurveda consultant from Chandigarh and practicing in Mohali, India.
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