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VirtuMeet
VirtuAssist
XR Guru
XR Human Anatomy
XR Steel Sculpture
AR App Development
VR App Development
MR App Development
Mr Vinod DegaCEOCEO – Mr. Vinod Dega is the visionary force that drives the strategic roadmap for HoloPundits. His enthusiasm and dynamic leadership have helped HoloPundits gain tremendous business traction in a matter of a few years.
As the founder and CEO of HoloPundits, his exemplary leadership skills work toward building a leading organization with domain expertise in AR, VR, and MR. He uses the latest technologies to help brands make a mark and augment their bottom line. He works meticulously on crafting the innovative platforms of HoloPundits and directs the technology team to achieve the best outcomes. His aim is to move AR, VR, and MR from niche technologies and go mainstream. For this, he devises various use cases on these technologies that truly add value to people's lives and drive 100 percent satisfaction.
Mr. Dega is known for setting trends that transform corporate processes and improve customer satisfaction. He is the go-to leader for the latest technologies and their best application. This places him front and center for consulting and strategy expertise in all areas of technology.
Mr. Dega's exceptional leadership skills drive innovation and inspiration across India and the U.S. His acumen in aligning the right talent with the right role to meet organizational objectives is well known. Mr. Dega practices an open channel of communication where employees across the organization can reach out to him for ideas.
Dr. Raj ReddyChairman of Advisory BoardDr. Raj Reddy is a Moza Bint Nasser University professor of computer science and robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is the chairman of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He is the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and robotics.
He is the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, he is the co-founder of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
His constant interaction with the HoloPundits team helps us to gain valuable insight on augmented reality and AI. His futuristic approach provides strategic direction to the leadership team at HoloPundits, and his rich experience in the fields of AR, AI, and robotics provides a differentiating factor to the company over its peers in the field of augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality.
The blend of enthusiasm, one-of-a-kind experience, and vast domain knowledge helps Dr. Reddy impart tactical advice to the team and helps the team stay on top as one of the leading AR, VR, and XR companies in the world.
Mr. Ronald MillerMember of Advisory BoardMr. Ronald Miller spent over 32 years in the United States Air Force achieving the rank of Lt. Colonel. During his time in the Air Force, Ronald Miller developed a logistics plan for the transportation and storage of 450 Minuteman II ICBM motors from the operational deployment to a storage facility at Camp Navajo, Arizona.
Mr. Miller received a BA in Business Management from University of Maryland and a MBA from University of North Dakota.
While serving in the United States Air Force, Ronald Miller taught graduate and undergraduate business management, leadership, human relations, and marketing courses at the University of La Verne and Chapman University.
Mr. Miller has more than 18 years of experience as a program manager for launch vehicle development, target acquisitions, and test range operations.
He led a team of 120 engineers at five geographic locations supporting the Air Force, Missile Defense Agency, and NASA. Mr. Miller provided mission assurance and independent verification and validation for over 120 flight missions with over a 99% success rate.
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This time last week I joined Katy & Seb for their wedding in Harome at The Pheasant, this was my second wedding at this venue in recent months and it's always a pleasure to work here. The venue, staff and food are all amazing, its such a great location for a relaxed intimate wedding. They broke the day up by taking a London bus ride over to Pickering to catch a Steam Train on the North Yorkshire Moors for afternoon tea. It was great working with the super talented and lovely MUA Vikki Adams on this one. Here's a few highlights from their day.


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North America > United States of America > Rocky Mountains (United States of America) > Idaho > Southwestern Idaho
Southwestern Idaho
2 Other destinations
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Southwestern Idaho is in Idaho.
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Map of Southwestern Idaho
43.613611111111-116.237777777781 Boise
44.91083-116.103062 McCall
43.136944444444-115.694444444443 Mountain Home
43.574722222222-116.563611111114 Nampa
Payette-Fruitland
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Bruneau Dunes SP, 27608 Sand Dunes Rd, Bruneau (65 miles southeast of Boise on I-84 and SR-51), ☏ +1 208 366-7919. Named for the largest sand dune in North America, the park also has camping, cabins, fishing, an observatory (open April until October), hiking, and bird watching.
Hells Canyon NRA (150 miles northwest of Boise), ☏ +1 541 523-6391. Featuring the deepest gorge in North America, refuge's 652,000 acres affords a wide variety of activities including camping, hiking, and especially white-water rafting.
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, South Ada, Canyon, and Elmore counties (20 miles south of Boise on ID-59 and Swan Falls Rd), ☏ +1 208 373-4000. The 485,000 acre refuge protects one of the world's largest concentration of nesting raptors including falcons, eagles, hawks, and owls. Come in spring and early summer to see them at their best.
Silver City (75 miles south of Boise on SR-45, SR-78, and Silver City Rd). A ghost town in the Owyhee Mountains, Silver City offers a hotel, outfitter, and gift shops. Events are held throughout the year. The roads don't open to most vehicles until spring so check conditions before leaving.
Three Island Crossing SP, 1083 Three Island Pk Dr, Glens Ferry (75 miles southeast of Boise on I-84), ☏ +1 208 366-2394. The park's location is at one of the most famous river crossings of the Oregon Trail. The park celebrates this history and also has camping, cabins, fishing and hiking.
43.5908-116.39731 Roaring Springs Waterpark. ,
43.5918-116.40122 Wahooz Family Fun Zone. - located in Meridian
Cascade Raft and Kayak, 7050 Highway 55, Horseshoe Bend (28 miles north of Boise on SR-55), ☏ +1 208 793-2221. Offers a variety of trips on the Payette River, from half to full day excursions on anything from mellow water to whitewater fun.
Snake River Wineries and Vineyards (Along the Snake River throughout southwest Idaho). Nearly 50 wineries are scattered throughout the region. An auto tour is available for tasters to sample the beverages at the vineyards and tasting rooms (except for their designated driver).
Thunder Mountain Line, 120 Mill Rd, Horseshoe Bend (28 miles north of Boise on SR-55), ☏ +1 208 331-1184. Excursion train running between Horseshoe Bend and Banks. The only one in Idaho.
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To keep the Rotary Club of Hamden strong and encourage current member enjoyment and retention and new member recruitment we have the following policies and practices relating to club service:
Membership Recruitment, Orientation, Development and Retention:
The Rotary Club of Hamden has developed a membership recruitment plan. The club's policy is to pay for the meal the first time a potential new member attends a meeting. This encourages members to invite guests to meet us and learn about our club. Members are encouraged to invite friends and potential new members. Rotary literature is available and various people speak about activities that our club is involved in.
Our club has created a new member orientation session where the basics of Rotary are explained, literature is distributed and questions are answered. The new member is informed about some of the many projects our club is involved with.
The Rotary Club of Hamden has developed and initiated a new mentor program. All new members are matched with a mentor who has been a member of our club for a longer period of time. The mentor answers questions and works with the new member to find a committee or project that interests them.
All members are encouraged to learn more about Rotary International by attending the many seminars that are available. The club pays the fee for any member that attends the District Assembly.
Members are encouraged to bring new ideas to the club. One of our newer members attended the District Assembly last year and learned about the literacy dictionary project. She did some research, presented it to the club board of directors and got approval for this wonderful program. Our feedback from the teachers and students of the schools was incredible and made us sure that the endeavor was successful.
Fellowship activities:
We hold many club fellowship activities and invite members to bring their partners and/or children to club events on several occasions. At a minimum these include the club installation dinner, adult holiday party, children's holiday party, Valentine's Day dinner, and the summer schooner ride. Family members are also encouraged to participate in fundraising events and community service projects (pancake breakfast, trash clean-up days, Habitat for Humanity work days, etc). Some members attend outside events together such as fundraisers held by other clubs and plays put on by the local high school. This past year several members traveled to New York City to see an off-Broadway play together. These friendships are important to maintaining a strong club.
The Rotary Club of Hamden also encourages members to attend district Rotary fellowship activities. This year we offered a rebate in the amount of $50 to any first time attendee at the District Conference.
At every week the club accepts "Happy Bucks" where members can contribute funds that support our club's activities and relate some happy (or sad) tidbit or a joke to the club. This has become extremely popular and serves as an excellent way for our members to learn more about each other's personal lives.
At weekly meetings our club strives to have interesting and informational speakers. The program chair person enlists the help of other members to keep topics varied and interesting. Programs have been about:
Our town (Hamden Public Library, Hamden Elder Services, Hamden Chamber of Commerce, Eli Whitney Museum)
Surrounding towns (Peabody Museum, Connecticut Minority Supplier Development Council, League of Women Voters)
Rotary (Mac Leask spoke about the Rotary Foundation, Iona Black spoke about Rotaract)
International issues and projects (water issues, Gift of Life, Albert Schweitzer Institute, European Union Expansion, China)
Club Organizational Support:
The club has a member directory that contains names, spouse (or significant other) name, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of each member. It is updated and distributed every time there is a change in membership. The directory is also available on-line to all members of the Hamden Rotary Club with a valid password.
At the beginning of the year members are assigned to various tasks and committees and the committee structure is distributed to all members.
Club Communications:
The Rotary Club of Hamden produces a biweekly newsletter called the Charm. It is a fun and informative publication containing pictures of our members and events as well as informing Rotarians about our club and Rotary in general. The newsletter is sent by e-mail to all members, hardcopy versions are mailed to those without e-mail, and current and old issues are available on the club website.
The Rotary Club of Hamden maintains a website at www.hamdenctrotary.org. The website contains a calendar of upcoming meetings and events, current and past newsletters, a photo album, a list of officers, directors and past presidents, links to other important websites, and information about our club and Rotary International.
Public Relations and Publicity for Club Events:
The Rotary Club of Hamden appoints a publicity chair person to promote our club and Rotary through publicity in local and regional newspapers at every opportunity including monthly student of the month presentations, the dictionary project, trash clean up day, Amber Alert ID sessions, and our Centennial Community Service project.
Recognition Activities:
Annually we give an award to the "Rotarian of the Year". The Rotarian receives an individual plaque as well as having their name added to a master plaque maintained by the club.
Occasionally the club gives a member a Paul Harris Fellow award for service above and beyond the call of duty. This is considered a very special honor for all of our members to receive.
THE ROTARY CLUB OF HAMDEN
Chartered on March 8, 1937
Rotary International District 7980
Club #
Hamden, Connecticut USA
About Hamden Rotary
Rotary Avenues of Services


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Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bergen-Belsen
The registered association AG Bergen-Belsen was founded in 1985 by dedicated private individuals. At the time, the Memorial consisted of just a very small exhibition and one caretaker. In 1985, the AG Bergen-Belsen began developing informational material for visitors about the history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, offering tours, holding commemorative events, and organising projects for young people. It articulated the following demands for a memorial: dignified remembrance and commemoration; qualified research, documentation and archiving covering all groups of victims, including Soviet POWs; tours; and a library, bookshop and cafeteria. Most of these demands have since been met.
The AG Bergen-Belsen views itself as a critical, independent supporter of and contributor to the work of the Foundation. The AG turned the loading platform with its historical goods wagon into a memorial site. It also promotes youth work with its "We write your names" project for schoolchildren and the creation of a "Path of Remembrance" from the loading platform to the former entrance of the camp. Find out more at ag–bergen–belsen.de
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Pizza anyone? Check out this online menu.
Waterfront Pizzaria in Peachland has a new website build by Infotel Multimedia, complete with an extensive MENU, AUTHENTIC GELATO, and SPECIALS page. This destination lakefront restaurant has the best patio in Peachland, with a very chill vacation ambiance. All Waterfront pizzas are topped with a special cheese blend, the freshest ingredients, and all-natural tomato sauce! They serve more than pizza though, check out their MENU. They are licensed and serve local Okanagan wine and cold refreshing craft beer.
Why should restaurants have an online menu?
E-commerce is increasing as Canadians embrace mobile browsing and online shopping, and that includes menu ordering, menu browsing and making reservations. If you own a restaurant and need to improve sales through online business development, we invite you to give us a call. Infotel Multimedia is the Thompson-Okanagan's leading provider of marketing, advertising and web services. Additional services include logo design, social media management, product photography and copywriting. We invite you to call us at 250-260-7776 or visit us online for more information.
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import sys
sys.path.insert(0, './lib')
from dataset import CaltechFace
from obj_evaluator import ObjectEvaluator

dset = CaltechFace('caltech-face-1999')
print ('No of images in this dataset = {:d}'.format(dset.no_images))

a = dset.annotations
#dset.visualize_annoatations()
print a[0]
print a[1]

paths = dset.image_paths
print paths[0]
print paths[1]
# LBP cascade face detector
det = ObjectEvaluator('custom_lbp_face', 'cascade')

# iterate thru all images in dataset and detect the faces.
#det.visualize_detections(paths)

det.evaluate_model(paths, a)

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Bangalore: Asia/Pacific CEOs expect productivity in their organizations to increase by 24 percent by the end of 2018, with revenue (cited by 26 percent of respondents) and profitability (15 percent) as the top two metrics of success, according to Gartner's 2017 CEO survey. However, the survey uncovers a gap between what they want to achieve and where technology investments are being made.
"Asia/Pacific CEOs want to increase profit margins while maintaining sales growth, and they expect IT to play a strong role in this," said Partha Iyengar, Vice President and Gartner Fellow. "The problem is that Asia/Pacific firms aren't moving fast enough to capitalize on this potential. Their focus on conventional technologies will likely have less of a transformative effect than more innovative technologies."
CEOs expect IT to play a strong role in fueling this profitable growth. "IT-related" appears as the second business priority after growth, reflecting the importance CEOs give IT. This continues a trend that first appeared in our 2015 survey, when IT reached the top five business priorities of CEOs. This year's ranking of no. 2 is the highest ranking IT has achieved in the last three years.
According to the survey, Asia/Pacific enterprises are slightly behind global counterparts in terms of digital business maturity, with 20 percent of Asia/Pacific CEOs describing their enterprise as "digital to the core," compared with 22 percent globally. Asia/Pacific firms are also slightly behind global counterparts in the phase of digital business they are in.
"CIOs need to take on an evangelizing role with the CEO and other business leaders about the transformative possibilities of digital business using real examples," said Iyengar. "Many business leaders still cannot describe digital business well, and need education."
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package com.backendless.examples.fileservice.filedemo;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Message;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.GridView;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import com.backendless.Backendless;
import com.backendless.BackendlessCollection;
import com.backendless.async.callback.AsyncCallback;
import com.backendless.exceptions.BackendlessFault;
import com.backendless.persistence.BackendlessDataQuery;
import com.backendless.persistence.QueryOptions;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class BrowseActivity extends Activity
{
  private static int itemWidth;
  private static ImageAdapter imageAdapter;
  private static int padding;

  public void onCreate( Bundle savedInstanceState )
  {
    super.onCreate( savedInstanceState );
    setContentView( R.layout.browse );

    padding = (int) getResources().getDimension( R.dimen.micro_padding );

    DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
    getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics( displayMetrics );
    int screenWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels;
    itemWidth = (screenWidth - (2 * (int) getResources().getDimension( R.dimen.default_margin ))) / 3;

    GridView gridView = (GridView) findViewById( R.id.gridView );
    imageAdapter = new ImageAdapter( this );
    gridView.setAdapter( imageAdapter );

    Toast.makeText( BrowseActivity.this, "Downloading images...", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();

    BackendlessDataQuery backendlessDataQuery = new BackendlessDataQuery();
    backendlessDataQuery.setQueryOptions( new QueryOptions( 100, 0, "uploaded" ) );
    Backendless.Persistence.of( ImageEntity.class ).find( backendlessDataQuery, new AsyncCallback<BackendlessCollection<ImageEntity>>()
    {
      @Override
      public void handleResponse( final BackendlessCollection<ImageEntity> response )
      {
        Toast.makeText( BrowseActivity.this, "Will add " + response.getCurrentPage().size() + " images", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();

        new Thread()
        {
          @Override
          public void run()
          {
            List<ImageEntity> imageEntities = response.getCurrentPage();

            for( ImageEntity imageEntity : imageEntities )
            {
              Message message = new Message();
              try
              {
                URL url = new URL( imageEntity.getUrl() );
                HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
                connection.setDoInput( true );
                connection.connect();
                InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
                message.obj = BitmapFactory.decodeStream( input );
              }
              catch( Exception e )
              {
                message.obj = e;
              }

              imagesHandler.sendMessage( message );
            }
          }
        }.start();
      }

      @Override
      public void handleFault( BackendlessFault fault )
      {
        Toast.makeText( BrowseActivity.this, "Make some upload first", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();
      }
    } );
  }

  private Handler imagesHandler = new Handler( new Handler.Callback()
  {
    @Override
    public boolean handleMessage( Message message )
    {
      Object result = message.obj;

      if( result instanceof Bitmap )
        imageAdapter.add( (Bitmap) result );
      else
        Toast.makeText( BrowseActivity.this, ((Exception) result).getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();

      return true;
    }
  } );

  private static class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter
  {
    private Context context;
    private List<Bitmap> images = new ArrayList<Bitmap>();

    public ImageAdapter( Context c )
    {
      context = c;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount()
    {
      return images.size();
    }

    public void add( Bitmap bitmap )
    {
      images.add( bitmap );
      notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    public Bitmap getItem( int position )
    {
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The Hobbit's Brain
ByCarl Zimmer
At 1 p.m. today I listened by phone to a press conference in Washington where scientists presented the first good look inside a Hobbit's head. The view is fascinating. While it may help clear up some mysteries, it seems to throw others wide open.
Last October, a team of Australian scientists declared that they had found a new species of hominid that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. It was short–maybe three and a half feet tall–and had a brain they estimated to be about the size of a chimp's. Its bones were found along with stone tools, suggesting that it made good use of its scant grey matter. The fossils of this remarkable hominid were discovered in a cave on the island of Flores, which gave the hominid its name: Homo floresiensis.
As soon as the news broke of the discovery, some researchers expressed grave doubts. They suggested that H. floresiensis was actually just a group of human pygmies. The fossils discovered on Flores include only a single skull, and these skeptics suggested that its small size might be the result of a genetic defect known as microcephaly. If H. floresiensis's discoverers had found another skull instead, it would likely have displayed the sort of shape you'd find on a living pygmy human.
This scientific debate quickly got eclipsed by an ugly tussle over the bones. A skeptical grand old man of Indonesian paleoanthropology, Teuku Jacob, wound up with the fossils for four months, during which time he arranged for other scientists to examine it and for some bone to be sent to Germany for DNA testing. Now he's surrendered the fossils, and it looks as if we may be able to enjoy some actual scientific discoveries about these bones, rather than a yelling match. (Those interested in a more detailed chronicle and a fair number of links to more information may want to check out my previous Hobbit posts.)
Before the Hobbit bones wound up in Jacob's safe, its discoverers had a chance to look inside its head. They enlisted the help of Dean Falk, a Florida State University paleoanthropologist who has spent years studying the interiors of hominid skulls to find clues to what their brains were like. While brains rot quickly, they leave behind marks where some of their folds and blood vessels were. And since the skull forms such a tight seal around the brain, it ends up with roughly the same shape. To get a good look at these details, Falk has helped pioneer the use of CT-scans to visualize the insides of hominid skulls.
The Hobbit skull was scanned in Jakarta at a 1-mm resolution, and the data was then processed at Washington University's medical school. Falk and her colleagues then analyzed the interior of the skull to calculate the size and shape of the brain, and then produced a three-dimension model of it.
Falk and her colleagues made a careful study of the size and shape of the Hobbit brain, and then they created three-dimensional models of the brains of other hominids. They compared it to the brains of average female humans, a female pygmy, and a microcephalic girl. (They chose females because the Hobbit skull is believed to belong to a female.) The scientists also looked at endocasts of fossil hominids. As I mentioned in my earlier posts, the discoverers of H. floresiensis suggested that it might have evolved from Homo erectus, a tall, large-brained hominid that is believed to have left Africa about 2 million years ago and spread across Asia. Falk's team looked not only at five Homo erectus skulls, but skulls of earlier hominids from Africa, such as Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus aethiopicus.
The results are being published today on Science Express, the online arm of Science magazine (a printed version will come out in a future issue). The most straightforward results are the ones that address the skeptical suggestions about a small-brained human. The Hobbit brain doesn't look anything like the brain of a microcephalic. Microcephalics have smooth brains, for example; the Hobbit has a normal convoluted surface. Microcephalic brains have a pointed top and a sloping forehead; the Hobbit brain is rounded on top and unsloped in front.
Nor does the Hobbit brain seem to belong to Homo sapiens. It is small (417 cc, which is less than a third the size of an average human brain), and lacks the distinctive shape of human brain. It is wider from ear to ear than it measures from the front to the back of the head, for example. The brains of human pygmies are indistinguishable from those of taller humans, both in size and shape.
Of all the brains that Falk and co. compared to Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus came the closest–in particular, Homo erectus skulls from Java and China. They are also unusually wide, for example. But the Hobbit brain also has some strange features that set it off from Homo erectus. In some ways it is relatively primitive. For example, at the back of the Hobbit brain there is a relatively small occipital lobe. On the other hand, Falk and her colleagues noticed some traits in Hobbit brain that are more human-like. It has more convolutions at the front, for example, than Homo erectus. The temporal lobe, where hearing, memory, and emotions are handled, is enlarged, as well as the parietal association cortex, where some sensory information is handled. Perhaps most intriguingly, a region of the frontal lobes known as Brodmann's area 10 seems to be very large in the Hobbit. It is also large in living humans, and is known to be important in planning and other complex kinds of thought.
Now, a study of single skull cannot be the last word about an entire population of hominids. But it strengthen some possible explanations for Homo floresiensis, and weaken others.
1. A few ordinary pygmies and a microcephalic: It's hard to imagine how its advocates will be able to continue promoting it. I can imagine a skeptic saying, "Well, this person suffered from an unusual form of microcephaly that the scientists didn't look at." But that would be a desperate reach.
2. An extraordinary group of Homo sapiens. Imagine that humans settled on Flores and then underwent a dramatic evolution that shrank their bodies and altered their brain structure. This explanation might account for the human-like features of the Hobbit brain.
But the time range of Hobbit fossils pretty much rules this one out. Modern populations of tall, big-brained humans are believed to have arrived in Southeast Asia about 50,000 years ago, and the oldest Hobbit bones are 95,000 years old. What's more, tools on the island suggest that hominids have been on Flores for 800,000 years.
3. Descendants of Indonesian Homo erectus. It is less of a stretch to envision a population of Homo erectus evolving into the Hobbits. After all, its brain has the strongest overall resemblance to that of Homo floresiensis. And Homo erectus have been in southeast Asia for at least 1.8 million years. Perhaps a few Homo erectus individuals were swept onto Flores hundreds of thousands of years ago and gradually evolved smaller brains.
But this scenario is odd in its own way. It would require certain parts of the Homo floresiensis brain to have enlarged (relatively speaking), even as its overall brain size was shrinking drastically. And these enlarged regions allow us humans to do some of our most abstract thinking.
4. Something completely different. Before I explain what this might be, I have to explain a major problem with explanation 3.
Scientists have found a strong relationship between a person's body weight and the percentage of their total weight made up by their brain. For a grown man of normal weight, the brain may make up just two percent of his weight. But a pygmy woman's brain may be 3% of her body weight. These different percentages are the result of how the human brain and body grow. The brain grows rapidly during childhood and reaches nearly adult size around age ten. The body, on the other hand, grows more slowly and for many more years. Pygmies are smaller than average humans because their bodies stop growing earlier, but not before their brains have reached adult size. This relationship between brain and body follows a steady curve. It is so steady that you can predict what happens to the ratio of brain to body weight as humans evolve to smaller or bigger sizes.
Scientists have also drawn a similar curve for chimpanzees and other apes, but it's noticeably different. That's because their brain growth slows down dramatically after the first couple years, while their bodies can continue to grow to large size. For any given weight, a human's brain is a higher percentage of his or her body weight than an ape's brain.
It's safe to assume that Homo erectus had its own curve. Drawing the curve isn't easy, because there are precious few skeletons of Homo erectus that include both a brain case and enough of a skeleton to estimate their body mass. Actually, there's just one, a 1.5 million year old skeleton from Kenya. Its brain and body size suggest that Homo erectus had a curve midway between apes and Homo sapiens. That's a nicely unsurprising result, because adult Homo erectus stood about as tall as living humans but only had a brain about 900 cc. (Ours are 1350.)
Now come the Hobbits. Because the scientists have both the skull and some parts of the skeleton, they can estimate both its body weight–about 50 pounds–and the percentage of its body weight made up of brain: 1.7% They plotted this value on their graph and found that it did not fall on the human curve, nor on the Homo erectus curve. Instead, it fell on the ape curve.
What this means is that if you scaled down Homo sapiens to the size of the Hobbit, its brain would be much bigger than the Hobbit's brain. And it also means that if you scaled down Homo erectus, it would also have a much larger brain than a Hobbit.
This suggests that the Hobbits actually descend from some other hominid, one with an even smaller brain than Homo erectus. How could this have happened, given that Homo erectus and Homo sapiens are the only hominids known from southeast Asia? Perhaps the Hobbits represent a major branch of hominid evolution that's been hidden from view till now.
About six million years ago, the first hominids branched off from other apes in Africa, and until about 2.5 million years ago they had brains that weren't much bigger than a chimpanzee's. One branch appears to have evolved big brain and tall bodies, and paleoanthropologists believe that this branch gave rise to Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and perhaps a few other species. Paleoanthropologists generally believed that these big-brained hominids were the only ones to leave Africa. Homo erectus moved out first, followed by successive waves of Homo, until our own species expanded out of Africa about 50,000 years ago.
But in 2002 scientists found a baffling hominid skull in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. It was 1.75 million years old, it had some resemblance to Homo erectus, but it had an amazingly small brain, measuring only 600 cc. Larger Homo erectus-like fossils have also been found at the same site, dating back to the same age, and scientists have been arguing whether they belong to the same species or to different ones. Some scientists have suggested that the tiny Georgian hominid represented a second migration out of Africa. These migrants were not Homo erectus, but perhaps belonged to an older lineage of hominids. That lineage might have included one or more of the small-brained hominids that are the oldest known species to have used stone tools (Homo habilis, or Australopithecus garhi). Michael Morwood, one of the Hobbit's discoverers who was at the press conference this afternoon, mentioned that Homo floresiensis has some Australopithecus-like traits in the lower part of its skeleton.
So here is a fascinating scenario to consider: a small-brained African hominid species expands out of Africa by 2 million years ago, bringing with it stone tools. It spreads thousands of miles across Asia, reaching Indonesia and then getting swept to Flores. It may not have undergone any significant dwarfing, since they were already small. This would change the way we think about all hominids. Being big-brained and big-bodied could no longer be considered essential requirements for spreading out of Africa. And one would have to wonder why early lineages of hominids became extinct in Africa when one branch managed to get to Flores.
So explanations 3 and 4 seem to come out strongest at the moment. Either one would mean that the Hobbit represents an amazing experiment in hominid brain evolution. They suggest that some human-like features emerged in hominids that were separated from us by two or maybe three million years of evolution. Yet their brains were mosaics, sharing features with us and with other hominids, and also had features of their own. These strange brains, Dr. Morwood argues, allowed Hobbits to do things some pretty elaborate things, such as butcher dwarf elephants or make fires. It would be wonderful to know how these strange brains were wired together, but we have to be content with their shadows. But even shadows can sometimes reveal a lot.


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Chir 2.02 Applications.
Chir 2.025 Time for completing applications and taking examination.
Chir 2.03 Form of examination; state law examination.
Chir 2.04 Unauthorized assistance or cheating on examinations.
Chir 2.07 Passing grade.
Chir 2.11 Reexamination; state law examination.
Chir 2.02 Chir 2.02 Applications. An applicant for licensure as a chiropractor shall make an application on a form prescribed by the board at least 30 days prior to the date of the next scheduled board meeting and shall also submit:
Chir 2.02 Note Note: Applications are available upon request from the Department of Safety and Professional Services, 1400 East Washington Avenue, P.O. Box 8935, Madison, Wisconsin 53708.
Chir 2.02(1) (1) The fee required under s. 440.05 (1), Stats.
Chir 2.02(3) (3) An official certified transcript sent directly to the board from a college or university or post-secondary technical college accredited by an agency approved by the United States Office of Education or its successor, or from a foreign school determined to be equivalent to an accredited college or post-secondary technical college showing completion by the applicant of a minimum of 60 credits in post-secondary academic education as specified in s. 446.02 (2), Stats.
Chir 2.02 Note Note: Accrediting bodies nationally recognized by the United States Office of Education include the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Chir 2.02(4) (4) An official certified transcript sent directly to the board from a chiropractic college accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) or by an agency approved by the United States Office of Education or its successor, or from a foreign school determined to be equivalent to an accredited college of chiropractic by the CCE or another approved accrediting agency.
Chir 2.02(5) (5) Proof of successful completion of the initial licensure examinations of the national board of chiropractic examiners.
Chir 2.02(6) (6) Applications for an initial license to practice chiropractic in this state received on or after July 1, 1998, shall include all of the following:
Chir 2.02(6)(a) (a) An official certified transcript sent directly to the board from a college or university accredited by an accrediting body listed as nationally recognized by the secretary of the federal department of education, or from a foreign school determined to be equivalent to an accredited college or university by an approved accrediting agency, stating that the applicant has graduated from that college or university with a bachelor's degree.
Chir 2.02(6)(b) (b) An official certified transcript sent directly to the board from a college of chiropractic accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) or by an agency approved by the United States Office of Education or its successor, or from a foreign school determined to be equivalent to an accredited college of chiropractic by the CCE or another approved accrediting agency, stating that the applicant has graduated from the college with the degree of doctor of chiropractic.
Chir 2.02(6)(c) (c) Evidence that the applicant has current proficiency in the use of an automated external defibrillator.
Chir 2.02 Note Note: The bachelor's degree and the doctor of chiropractic degree may be earned in either order or simultaneously, but the board may not grant a license to any applicant who does not have both degrees.
Chir 2.02 History History: Cr. Register, December, 1984, No. 348, eff. 1-1-85; am. (4), Register, May, 1986, No. 365, eff. 6-1-86; am. (4), Register, November, 1989, No. 407, eff. 12-1-89; cr. (6), Register, September, 1994, No. 465, eff. 7-1-98; am. (4), Register, September, 1995, No. 477, eff. 10-1-95; am. (intro.), (1), (3) to (6), r. (2), cr. (7), Register, September, 1999, No. 525, eff. 10-1-99; CR 03-082: am. (intro.), (3), (4), (6) (a) and (b), r. (7) Register July 2004 No. 583, eff. 8-1-04; CR 08-093: cr. (6) (c) Register October 2009 No. 646, eff. 11-1-09.
Chir 2.025 Chir 2.025 Time for completing applications and taking examination. An application is incomplete until all materials described in s. Chir 2.02 are filed with the board. All application materials described in s. Chir 2.02 shall be filed with the board within one year from the date the first item is filed. If an application is incomplete for more than one year, or if an applicant fails to take an examination within one year from the date the first item was filed, the applicant shall begin the application process anew.
Chir 2.025 History History: Cr. Register, November, 1989, No. 407, eff. 12-1-89; am. Register, June, 1993, No. 450, eff. 7-1-93; am. Register, September, 1999, No. 525, eff. 10-1-99; CR 14-068: am. Register July 2015 No. 715, eff. 8-1-15.
Chir 2.03 Chir 2.03 Form of examination; state law examination. An applicant shall pass an examination on state laws including ch. 446, Stats., and chs. Chir 1 to 13. An applicant with a disability shall be provided reasonable accommodations for completing the examination under this section.
Chir 2.03 History History: Cr. Register, December, 1984, No. 348, eff. 1-1-85, am. Register, October, 1988, No. 394, eff. 11-1-88; am. (1), (2) (intro.) and (b), Register, September, 1999, No. 525, eff. 10-1-99; CR 03-082: am. (intro.) Register July 2004 No, 583, eff. 8-1-04; CR 14-068: renum. from (1) and am., r. (2) Register July 2015 No. 715, eff. 8-1-15; correction in title made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 2., Stats., Register July 2015 No. 715; CR 18-015: am. Register August 2019 No. 764, eff. 9-1-19.
Chir 2.04 Chir 2.04 Unauthorized assistance or cheating on examinations. The board may withhold the grade, deny release of grades or deny issuance of a credential of an applicant who gives or receives unauthorized assistance during the state law examination, violates rules of conduct of an examination, or otherwise cheats or acts dishonestly respecting an examination. The board may consider this applicant for retesting at a future time.
Chir 2.04 History History: Cr. Register, December, 1984, No. 348, eff. 1-1-85; r. and recr. Register, October, 1988, No. 394, eff. 11-1-88; am. Register, September, 1999, No. 525, eff. 10-1-99; CR 03-082: am. Register July 2004 No, 583, eff. 8-1-04.
Chir 2.07 Chir 2.07 Passing grade.
Chir 2.07(1)(1) National examination. To pass the examination of the national board of chiropractic examiners, each applicant for licensure by exam shall receive a grade determined by the legislature to represent minimum competence to practice.
Chir 2.07(2) (2) State law examination. To pass the state law examination, each applicant shall receive a grade determined by the board to represent minimum competence to practice.
Chir 2.07 History History: Cr. Register, October, 1988, No. 394, eff. 11-1-88; am. (2) and (3), Register, September, 1999, No. 525, eff. 10-1-99; CR 03-082: am. (3) Register July 2004 No. 583, eff. 8-1-04; CR 14-068: am. (1), r. (3) Register July 2015 No. 715, eff. 8-1-15.
Chir 2.11 Chir 2.11 Reexamination; state law examination. An applicant who fails the state law examination shall be required to retake that examination.
Chir 2.11 History History: Cr. Register, October, 1988, No. 394, eff. 11-1-88; am. (1) and (2), Register, June, 1994, No. 462, eff. 7-1-94; am. (2) and (3), Register, September, 1999, No. 525, eff. 10-1-99; CR 03-082: am. (2) and (3) Register July 2004 No. 583, eff. 8-1-04; CR 14-068: r. (2) and (3) Register July 2015 No. 715, eff. 8-1-15; renum. from (1) under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 1., correction in title made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 2., Stats., Register July 2015 No. 715.


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Nobel trio: Suu Kyi responsible for Rohingya 'genocide'
Posted on March 4, 2018 by rohingyasgenocide — Leave a comment
Three Nobel Peace Prize laureates are urging Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, herself a Nobel laureate, to condemn the violence against Rohingya refugees or possibly face prosecution for genocide.
Three female Nobel peace laureates with Rohingya Refugees in Refugee camp in Cox's Bazar Dist.
Three female Nobel peace laureates have accused Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military of the "genocide" of Rohingya.
Shirin Ebadi of Iran, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen made the accusation during a press conference on Wednesday in Dhaka shortly after visiting Rohingya refugee camps in the southern Bangladeshi district of Cox's Bazar.
The mission of the Nobel Women's Initiative was launched so that the three Nobel laureates could witness the plight of Rohingya women in the squalid refugee camps. They urged Myanmar's defacto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the violence against Rohingya refugees or possibly face prosecution for genocide.Aung San Suu Kyi "is directly responsible for the crimes perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslims," said Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. The three called on Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, to stop the persecution of the minority group.
"Our Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, she is the chancellor of the Myanmar government, and she is silent, she did not tell the truth to the world … she should wake up and stop this genocide," said Karman, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 along with Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and her compatriot Leymah Gbowee.
"As Nobel laureates, we accuse the Myanmar government and the military of the crimes of genocide. That is why we plan to take the Myanmar government to the International Court of Justice," said Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for conflict resolution in Northern Ireland.
Desperate Rohingya refugees use home-made rafts to get to Bangladesh – UN
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh after Myanmar's military launched an offensive against suspected Rohingya militants in northern Rakhine State on August 25. The United Nations and the United States say the government's actions amount to ethnic cleansing. SOURCE: DPA NEWS AGENCY
Tags : Rohingya, Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, Asia, War & Conflict
Source : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/stop-crime-nobel-laureates-visit-rohingya-call-suu-kyi-resign-180227081719019.html
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Q: Associate "Code/Properties/Stuff" with Fields in C# without reflection. I am too indoctrinated by Javascript I am building a library to automatically create forms for Objects in the project that I am working on.
The codebase is in C#, and essentially we have a HUGE number of different objects to store information about different things.  If I send these objects to the client side as JSON, it is easy enough to programatically inspect them to generate a form for all of the properties.
The problem is that I want to be able to create a simple way of enforcing permissions and doing validation on the client side.  It needs to be done on a field by field level.
In javascript I would do this by creating a parallel object structure, which had some sort of { permissions : "someLevel", validator : someFunction } object at the nodes.  With empty nodes implying free permissions and universal validation.  This would let me simply iterate over the new object and the permissions object, run the check, and deal with the result.

Because I am overfamilar with the hammer that is javascript, this is really the only way that I can see to deal with this problem.  My first implementation thus uses reflection to let me treat objects as dictionaries, that can be programatically iterated over, and then I just have dictionaries of dictionaries of PermissionRule objects which can be compared with.
Very javascripty.  Very awkward.
Is there some better way that I can do this?  Essentially a way to associate a data set with each property, and then iterate over those properties.
Or else am I Doing It Wrong?

A: It sounds like you are describing custom attributes - i.e.
[Permissions("someLevel"), Validator("someFunction")]
public string Foo {get;set;}

This requires some reflection to read the attributes, but is quite a nice way of decorating types / members / etc. You might also look at the pre-rolled [PrincipalPermission] for security checks. Is this what you mean?
Note the above would require:
public class PermissionsAttribute : Attribute {
    private readonly string permissions;
    public string Permissions { get {return permissions;}}
    public PermissionsAttribute(string permissions) {
        this.permissions = permissions;
    }
}

(and similar for the other)
You can read them out with Attribute.GetCustomAttributes

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Why Aren't There More Maternal Deaths? A Decomposition Analysis
Posted on April 7, 2011 November 13, 2014
John A. Ross of the Futures Group and MHTF Director Ann K. Blanc recently published a decomposition analysis of maternal deaths based on data published last year by the UN and Hogan et al. The paper notes that despite an increase in female populations of 42% during the period between 1990 and 2008, the number of maternal deaths actually declined. Ross and Blanc analyze the three components (women of reproductive age; general fertility rate; and maternal mortality ratio) that are used to calculate the number of maternal deaths in order to help explain the decline:
For the developing world as a whole, and for the two major regions that account for most deaths, we follow the 1990–2008 trends to obtain the relative change in each of the three determinants. The purpose is to quantify the role of the three components in determining the number of deaths. Since the number of maternal deaths is simply the product of the number of women, the GFR, and the MMR, the effect of each can be obtained by holding the 1990 value constant to 2008 and noting the difference from the actual trend. That, together with the ratios of change, provides a picture of the role of each of the three determinants.
Additionally, they ran a similar analysis for the maternal death rate, which is the number of deaths per 1,000 women aged 15-49 per year. Ross and Blanc conclude:
The average woman's annual risk of a maternal death, the maternal death rate, fell by over half in the 18-year period examined here. Without the past decline in fertility of nearly one-third, and the decline in the MMR of over a third, the numbers of maternal deaths would have been about 44% higher, with 3.6 million more deaths between 1990 and 2008.
The decline in annual deaths from 541,000 in 1990–355,000 in 2008 has been achieved despite the growth in numbers of women. The particular contribution of the fertility decline has been to keep the absolute number of births constant; that has been overlooked in the literature of the field, but the effect is of the same magnitude as that of the decline in the MMR. There has also been an interaction between the two effects, first by averting many births on which the MMR would otherwise have acted, and second because greater contraceptive use has also helped lower the average MMR by improving the mix of births according to their risk profiles, shifting births away from high parities and older ages of mothers.
CATEGORIESCATEGORIES: Maternal Health
TOPICSTOPICS: Maternal Mortality


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Q: Finding the cause of a tab error inside a Class I was coding this simple 'Bank' program for my first exercise with classes in Python but when I run it, says:
tabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
line 45
if self.datos[x]['nombre'] == nombre and self.datos[x]['idnum'] == idnum and self.datos[x]['email'] == email:^

I understand what it means, and I took a look on my code and tried to find if there was some problem with the methods, nevertheless I couldn't understand what is causing it, I believe something about the dictionaries has something to do with it. So this is my code:
class Cliente:
    def __init__(self):
        self.datos = []

    def opciones(self):
        menu = ['1: Mostrar saldo',
                '2: Ingresar monto',
                '3: Retirar monto',
                '4: Cerrar']

        for option in range(len(menu)):
            print(option)

        opc_escoger = int(input('Escriba el número de la opción que desee: '))

        if opc_escoger == 1:
            self.mostrar()
        elif opc_escoger == 2:
            self.Ingresar()
        elif opc_escoger == 3:
            self.retirar()
        elif opc_escoger == 4:
            print('Saliendo...')
            exit()
        elif opc_escoger == 5:
            self.registrarse

        self.opciones()

    def registrarse(self):
        print('REGISTRO')
        nombre = input('Ingrese su nombre de usuario: ')
        idnum = input('Ingrese su número de documento de identificación: ')
        email = input('Ingrese su dirección de correo electrónico: ')
        self.datos.append({'nombre':nombre, 'idnum':idnum, 'email':email, 'monto': 0})

    def ingresar(self):
        print('INGRESAR')

        nombre = input('Ingrese su nombre de usuario: ')
        idnum = input('Ingrese su número de documento de identificación: ')
        email = input('Ingrese su dirección de correo electrónico: ')

        for x in range(len(self.datos)):
            if self.datos[x]['nombre'] == nombre and self.datos[x]['idnum'] == idnum and self.datos[x]['email'] == email:
                print('Dinero actual: ', self.datos[x]['monto'])
                monto = input('¿Cuál es el monto a ingresar?: ')
                self.datos[x]['monto':monto]
            else:
                print('Los datos ingresados no coinciden con los de un usuario registrado')
                self.registrarse()

#Here's some more code for the other methods, but are pretty similar to the 'ingresar' method


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2006-2007: Researcher, Institute for Business and Media Management, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany.
Education: Master degrees in organization theory and management from the Université Paris Dauphine, France, and the Växjö Universitet, Sweden.
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Morphosis' Perot Museum and Studio Gang's WMS Boathouse are among the projects to win AIA's highest honor for architecture.
The American Institute of Architects has selected 18 recipients of the 2016 Institute Honor Awards, the profession's highest recognition for works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. The 18 recipients, located throughout the world, were selected from around 500 submissions and will be honored at the AIA 2016 National Convention in Philadelphia. The winners were broken into the three categories of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Regional and Urban Design.
The following is a recap of the winning projects (descriptions and images courtesy AIA). For more images or longer descriptions of the recipients, see the AIA's report on the winning projects.
The 2016 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture jury includes: Josiah Stevenson, FAIA (Chair), Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects; José Alvarez, AIA, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple; Brad Cloepfil, AIA, Allied Works Architecture, Inc.; Roberto de Leon, AIA, De Leon & Primer Architecture Workshop; Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.; Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA, Highland Associates; Elizabeth Hallas, AIA, Anderson Hallas Architects, P.C.; Danielle Jones, AIAS Representative and Christian Zimmerman, FASLA, Prospect Park Alliance.
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners; Associate Architect: AGC Design Ltd.; Associated Architects Ltd.
Combining historical buildings from the British colonial period with an angular footbridge and a glass-wrapped modern pavilion, the Asia Society complex in Hong Kong spans eras, cultures and styles. They connected the three 19th-century buildings to an extant 1940s structure via a footbridge that cuts a sharp "V" line through the verdant setting, and inserted a new 11,000-square-foot pavilion behind the younger building. The zigzagging bridge through the greenery, covered like many walkways in traditional Chinese gardens, yields expansive views of the city.
Working with the St. Paul Saints, an independent league franchise, and the City of St. Paul, the architects slipped a 7,000-seat ballpark into a remnant site between an interstate highway, an elevated bridge, a light-rail operations facility and the historic Lowertown District on the edge of St. Paul's business core. Wherever possible, the stadium is porous, opening itself to the life of the blocks around it. The main entrance frames the termination of Fifth Street, creating a vital connection to that core via an axial view along the street to the historic St. Paul Hotel. The sleek, low ballpark offers powerful views to the surrounding structures, many of them warehouses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The 125,000-square-foot K-8 partnership school run by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is a progressive learning environment for children and a laboratory for the next generation of educators. While most elementary schools are single buildings, the School is a cluster of "containers for learning" inspired by East Baltimore's row houses, stoops, and social civic spaces. Through its intentionally porous, safe, urban plan, and the craftsmanship of light, materiality and performance, its design respects history and supports the future of education and of its neighborhood.
Situated amidst the high desert of southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, the Mariposa Land Port of Entry reimagines a border station: The public is welcomed to the U.S. by a canopy colored with reds, whites, and blues of a waving flag. Tree-lined walkways and landscape are irrigated by one million gallons of harvested rainwater. Art and poetry are integrated within the crossing experience. Vehicular processing zones guide private vehicles and commercial vehicles, carrying 40% of produce entering the U.S., to either side of a central garden "oasis", providing officers and staff a respite on site.
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science creates a new identity for Dallas' premier science museum, engaging a broad audience with multi-sensory, immersive learning environments. Rejecting the notion of museum architecture as a neutral background for exhibits, the building itself is designed as a didactic tool for demonstrating scientific principles at work. Various strategies are used throughout the building to inspire learning and comprehension, including revealing the building structure and mechanical systems, fore-fronting energy-saving and water-reuse technologies, and integrating local ecologies into the landscaping.
The four-story parking garage that serves as the Pterodactyl's podium predates it, but was built to withstand the load of an upward expansion. It has an open floor plan suited to contemporary office layouts, and much of its glass front is two stories high, providing an appealingly day-lit setting that a look at the exterior might not suggest. Because it is above many of the neighboring buildings, the west-facing main facade is exposed to sea breezes for passive cooling. Most glazing faces north, and south-facing sections are covered in standing-seam metal panels that reflect the hot sun away from the building.
Built in 1853 by architect James Renwick, Jr., St. Patrick's Cathedral has stood as a soaring icon of the spiritual life of New Yorkers. A renovation launched in 2005 touched every building surface, from the top of its 330-foot spires to the bottom, inside and out. At the same time, innovative mechanical and life-safety systems were installed, with minimal intrusion on the splendid visual pleasures of the cathedral. The work was minutely detailed, including a forensic analysis to determine the precise specifications that Renwick made for interior paint and exterior stone mortar. A new closed-loop geothermal system that will rely on below-ground temperatures to displace 240 tons of air conditioning power and participate in winter heating as well.
Set on a long, slender site on a bluff over the St. John River, the building is configured as a "Z" to provide staffers shelter from harsh winds, sleet and snow while presenting a sleek profile to visitors and passersby. The rhythmic alternation of opaque and transparent panels on the facade mimics the view between and among trees, while at the same time representing the requisite divisions between public and secure spaces that customs work demands. An exemplary outcome of the federal General Services Administration's Design Excellence Program, the Land Port of Entry skillfully couples a modern set of materials and program needs with an appreciation for regional history and landscape.
The boathouse is part of the City of Chicago's plan to open up access to the Chicago River. It comprises two separate structures, a boat storage facility and field house that form a portal to the water's edge. Inside the field house, an indoor rowing tank, workout room, and afterschool study space accommodate year-round use. Working within a modest budget, the roof form uses simple linear structural elements and bendable interior plywood panels to translate the motion of rowing into a dynamic surface. Conserving energy through passive systems and keeping 100% of rainwater out of the city's storm sewer, the project works to improve the quality of the river, supporting its ecological and recreational revival.
The 2016 AIA Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture jury includes: Rand Elliott, FAIA (Chair), Elliott + Associates Architects; Ruth Baleiko, AIA, The Miller Hull Partnership LLP; Barbara Bestor, AIA, Bestor Architecture; James Slade, AIA, Slade Architecture and Lisa Smeltzer, State of Louisiana Facility Planning & Control.
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies; Washington, D.C.
The architects created a space that is light and, thanks to a set of series of hanging staircases in a new four-story atrium, abundantly open for the free flow and spontaneous interactions that a more traditional grassy campus yields. An emphasis on light or transparent materials enhanced the brightness and conviviality that a campus center requires. It helped make the atrium the vital hub of the space, as well as to mitigate the lack of outdoor views from the two lower levels. A perforated metal wall treatment mounted four stories high on one side of the atrium is a contemporary curtain, alternating openness with opacity. In spaces that radiate out from the atrium, angular ceiling treatments and cutouts, horizontal piping in the wood paneling and some exposed utility lines create a visual sense of motion and lightness.
Two goals guided design of the Milton Academy Pritzker Science Center; make science visible and make science exciting. Floor-to-ceiling glass lines the interiors on two levels, allowing students from all grades to see activities in classrooms and dedicated "inquiry labs" where students pursue individual projects. Translucent glass zone provides privacy in front of the seminar tables, while clear glass at the lab areas emphasizes the variety of science activities. Classrooms also face the main campus green, showcasing and emphasizing the importance of science on campus.
The transformation of an abandoned century-old movie house into a highly visible, alternative performance space for San Francisco's preeminent nonprofit theater company is a major milestone in the regeneration of mid-Market Street. The redefined space incorporates intimate theaters, educational facilities, rehearsal space, and public lobby and cafe. The program is inserted within the building's shell, overlaying modern architectural and theater elements on top of the raw backdrop of the original cinema. The design creates inspiring civic theater and dramatically opens the lobby to the sidewalk, energizing the building and neighborhood.
The Windhover Contemplative Center is a spiritual retreat on the Stanford campus to promote and inspire personal renewal. Using Nathan Oliveira's Windhover paintings as a vehicle, the chapel-like center provides a refuge from daily life and a space for quiet reflection. The extended progression to the sanctuary's entry allows visitors to shed the outside world before entering. Inside, the space opens to the oak glade beyond while louvered skylights wash the paintings with natural light, unifying art, architecture and landscape. Rammed earth walls, wood surfaces, and water heighten the visitor's sensory experience acoustically, tactilely, olfactory, and visually.
The jury for the 2016 Institute Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design includes: Robert Herman, FAIA (Chair), EDA Architects; Christine Dunn, AIA, Sasaki; Mayor Nelda Martinez, City of Corpus Christi; Joel Tomei, FAIA, Joel Tomei, Architect, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C and Christine Vina, AIA, VIA Metropolitan Transit.
More than 28 percent of Arkansas children live in food-insecure situations, compared to 14.5 percent nationally. The Food City plan, which is being funded by the Clinton Global Initiative, aims to build in to Fayetteville a sustainable approach to combating hunger while permeating new development with productive green spaces. The project team envisioned a way to reduce hunger in the city by integrating a network of mid-sized agricultural sites into the urban grid as it expands. The intent is to "re-localize" food production at a scale that is larger than isolated home garden plots and smaller than the nation's current industrial scale. Future development would include not only the traditional sidewalks, parks and other public amenities, but an infrastructure that supports agriculture with spaces for growing food, distributing it, and turning waste into compost.
Smithsonian Institution South Campus Master Plan; Washington, D.C.
A comprehensive plan for enhancing the visitors' ability to flow through and among the Smithsonian Institution's South Campus museums, this project lays out a 20-year program of building updates and enhancements to 15 acres on the rim of the National Mall. The visual centerpiece of the project is a clever revamp of the garden adjacent to the Smithsonian's beloved castle, designed by James Renwick, Jr., in which the garden, which is the rooftop of below-ground museum space, comes to look like a carpet with its corners flipped up. The project also promises more openness within the castle, built in 1849 as the sole vessel of what is now the world's largest complex of museums. In particular, the castle's lavish Great Hall will be restored to its full grandeur with the removal of modern partition walls that reduce floor area by 40 percent.


Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern, New Zealand's 40th and current Prime Minister since 26 October 2017, is following the script: the name that shall not be spoken! No energy or attention there then!
22 March 2019. Stay vigilant.


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Vincent Descoeur (born 13 December 1962, in Aurillac) is a member of the National Assembly of France.  He represents the Cantal's 1st constituency, from 2007 to 2012 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement and from 2017 as a member of the Republicans.
He was a Cantal general councilor from 1987, and president of the Council from 2001 to 2017.

Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, Descoeur publicly declared his support for Michel Barnier as the Republicans' candidate.

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The Arctic Encounter and strategic partners were thrilled to co-host an event for Alaskans and Greenlanders during the 2018 Arctic Circle Assembly in October 2018 in downtown Reykjavik. The Arctic Encounter and Greenland Embassy in Washington, DC aimed to celebrate and support the shared interests and experiences of Alaska and Greenland, and develop new relationships, partnerships, and friendships for the future.
Over 90 attendees gathered at a private event space at Restaurant Reykjavik to connect on shared interests and challenges, debate solutions, and hear remarks from U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Greenland, the former President of Iceland, and others. Celebrated youth leader and musical artist, Byron Nicholai of Toksook Bay, Alaska, performed several songs for guests and Alaskan foods were shared. Friends of the Far North: Alaska & Greenland was the first of the Friends of the Far North event series hosted by the Arctic Encounter. The mission of the Arctic Encounter is to convene leaders and experts from every arena to tackle the shared interests and concerns of the United States and the global community as we look north to the Arctic.


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Paralegal: a career path to partnership or purgatory
For the driven few, this job can lead on to the peak of success. It can also be a rewarding path of its own, if your firm values the job
Linda Tsang
Thursday May 23 2019, 12.01am, The Times
Kerry Westland worked her way up from paralegal to partner at Addleshaw Goddard, a City law firm
Being a paralegal is often seen as the lowest of the low in the legal profession. A 2015 Solicitors Journal article even described it as "purgatory", as paralegals, unlike trainees, were not even considered as the "partners of tomorrow" at their law firms.
Last week the London office of the US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton was reported to have made redundant its three-strong team of paralegals due to a decreased level of demand for their services. Elsewhere, however, there has been a rapid rise of paralegals to the end-goal of partnership.
Kerry Westland, 37, was promoted this month to partner at Addleshaw Goddard, a City of London law firm, after starting as one of 11 paralegals in 2010 in the practice's transactional services


Help me celebrate by leaving your wish for 2017 in the comments so I can add it to mine when I blow out the candles on my Blog Birthday cake. Thank you and Happy New Year!
Happy Birthday! I so enjoy your wackiness. Let's see, my wish for the year: that the rights we have known and valued as Americans aren't eroded. Feels a little heavy for early in the morning on the very first day of the year, but there you have it. Happy New Year!


You are what makes Pilates look deceptively "easy". Sure there are plenty of people that could do your exercises without struggle. But could they do all the exercises before and then to yours? Could they do the transitions? People that might have the position down might struggle with the opposition of the arms and legs to hold themselves up well. People that are good with the opposition might be challenged by the balance of lifiting one leg off the ground. People that have no issue with balance and changing that through the exercise might have trouble with the transitions.
Your transitions are exercises in and of themselves. The transitions, especially into Leg Pull Down, were my least favorite as a young dancer. I could not do a push up to save my life then. Joseph Pilates did what he does best and put the hardest part of an exercise into the lead up for another hard exercise. A Push Up from a flat position on the floor is the transition into Leg Pull Front. As a teen I thought "Yay. Let me get excited about what is coming up at the end and how I'll probably never be able to do this part." Now I have practiced Pilates for over half my life. I've learned how to do Push Ups well. I see this transition as showing myself I can do the hardest part of this exercise. Or some days I need to modify. Dear Leg Pulls, you have shown me what I am really capable of.
Just like working towards Push Up, The Hermitage is one of the places in Nashville you had to earn a visit to at school. You had to be at least 8 years old. You had to be trusted to behave. Maybe it was the lead up that made me fall in love. Maybe it was the love story between Andrew and Rachel Jackson. Rachel, who never even lived in the house but is buried there. Probably it was the ghost stories. They are some of the best I've ever heard! (Check my HealthyHeatherPilates Instagram stories later and maybe I will tell one!) But dear Hermitage, you have shown me the softer and not so soft side of history. You have shown me it is important to preserve people's stories. Because that is what brings us together.


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Nottingham: Police reveal further details after stopping man who drove without insurance or a licence for more than 70 years
Police have revealed further details of an elderly motorist, who when pulled over by officers, told them he had been driving without a licence or insurance for more than 70 years.
Nottinghamshire's Bulwell, Rise Park and Highbury Vale Police said the MINI One driver, who was born in 1938, "was hard of hearing, his reactions were poor and he was very unsteady on his feet".
Even had he been "road legal", he may not have been safe to drive anyway, officers said.
They were responding to comments left by members of the public on Facebook in response to the revelation.
Officers had stopped the man near a Tesco Extra in Bulwell, on Wednesday evening.
The driver claimed he had been driving without documentation since the age of 12 and had never been stopped by police before or had an accident, officers said.
In response to the police Facebook post on the incident, one member of the public urged police to "be gentle" given his advanced years.
Replying, the police insisted they "were gentle with him".
The force added: "However, this chap was hard of hearing, his reactions were poor and he was very unsteady on his feet.
"He was potentially not safe driving now, even if he was 'road legal'."
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DatingAdvice Forum | Is he "throwing shade"? Why am I being ignored?
Is he "throwing shade"? Why am I being ignored?
I met this guy in class 6 months back. I am married and to my knowledge he is single. About midway into the semester I became separated from my husband and when that happened I noticed this guy starting to flirt with me, stare at me, blush when I would talk to him and in return I of course flirted back. He was very friendly and had eventually told me about some events on campus of which I'm sure he wanted me to attend. I did not attend those events and then about a month ago, I get a mysterious email that he posted in last semesters course about another event. I began to think he "accidently" sent this to the past semester instead of the current semester in hopes I would respond? I didn't of course as I worked things out with my husband and therefore did not want to lead things on with this guy. However, I really liked him in a friendly way so when I contacted him through an exercise app, he ignored me and took his last name off his username so perhaps I could not search him?
I saw a pic of him in which he looked as if he lost weight and was wearing an exercise tracker, so I thought I'd be encouraging and contact him as a friend that way. But I'm unsure as to why/how he's taking this? Pissed? Sad? Thinks I'm a stalker…lol?
He just doesn't want to waste his time, feels rejected.


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U Toys for Tots event helps needy children
Maggie Hessel-Mial
Andrew Jensen and Scott Heineman waited in eager anticipation outside KB Toys at the Mall of America.
Their eyes lit up as they saw the rows of toys they could choose from.
"Oh! Transformers," Jensen said to his friend while grabbing for the box.
"I'm getting this one," Heineman said back, holding many of the action figures he wanted.
This time, there was no parent around to tell them they "can't have it."
Jensen and Heineman, both University students, were responsible for picking out toys for needy boys ages 7 to 11.
They, along with 15 other University Admissions Ambassadors, participated in a Toys for Tots charity event Tuesday night, collecting toys for kids whose parents would not be able to afford gifts for the holidays.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the residence halls coordinated a penny donation contest, which left the Toys for Tots fund-raiser with considerably less funds this year, said Amanda Hotze, a senior and Ambassador coordinator.
Through penny collections, dubbed "penny wars," at four residence halls, the ambassadors raised more than $700, a sum far smaller than last year's $2,000 gathered.
Middlebrook, Centennial, Pioneer and Bailey residence halls participated in the fund-raiser. In previous years more residence halls have participated.
"It's more than I expected to get this year," Hotze said.
To help the students get more for their money, KB Toys offered a 10 percent discount for totals over $500, said assistant manager Joseph Van Dyke.
"This helps get a lot more people to help," Van Dyke said. "This will help a lot of unfortunate children who wouldn't ordinarily get presents on Christmas."
Along with helping children, the shoppers also seemed to enjoy what they were doing.
Shouts from the students about the new toys they had seen could be heard throughout the store along with their laughter.
"I'm just so excited," said Rashaun Collins, a sports management and promotions junior.
"I might just buy this for myself," Collins said while holding an action figure.
The students were divided into six groups with $100 each to spend, each assigned for a different age group and gender. Age groups ranged from 1- to 3-year-olds to 7- to 11-year-olds.
Jensen said he thought he had the best age group.
Brandi Beckom, a CLA junior, disagreed.
"We had the best age group: girls 7-11," Beckom said. "There are so many more cool toys now than when we were little."
Toys for Tots was started in 1947 by the Marine Corps Reserves. In the first year they collected 5,000 toys. In 2000 they were up to 10 million.
The Ambassadors will present their toys Tuesday to the Marine Corps collection site at KARE-TV studios.
"The Marine Corps was really excited to get our toys last year," Hotze said. "The Marine Corps presents the toys to kids later."
The Ambassador program includes approximately 50 volunteers who give tours to potential University students.
The Toys for Tots fundraiser is the final project the students work on before they are done with the job for the year, Hotze said.
"The most important thing I remember when I came to college was the tour," she said. "It has a big impact on new students' life."
Making sure children get something during the holiday season was another impact the students wanted to make.
Six hundred dollars worth of toys – ranging from Fisher Price and Winnie the Pooh to Robotic Dogs and Harry Potter – and 11 bags later, the Ambassadors left satisfied with their day's purchases.
"I should be home doing homework all night," Heineman said. "But I'd rather be at the Mall of America buying toys for kids."
Maggie Hessel-Mial welcomes comments


I've had a realisation in the gym. I'm sure my PT's been trying to tell me this for ages, and I heard him, but I didnt' get it. So here it is: when I engage my glutes, everything gets easier. It doesn't matter what exercise I'm doing, or what area of the body I'm focusing on – when my bum's clenched, everything's better. I'm sure there's exceptions to the rule, and I'm sure I'm not supposed to be doing it all the time, but for now it seems that engaged my glutes in helping to engage other back and core muscles that I struggle with otherwise. It's bringing some kind of balance to my body that I've been missing otherwise.
Last night I was doing some mid-weight clean and presses, and some bicep curls and presses. Often when doing these movements I do well for the first 6-7 reps (out of 10) but struggle for the final couple. Engaging my glutes meant that suddenly my stability increased, and although the final reps were difficult they were as hard as they'd been before.
So I'm sure this is something that the whole world knows. I'm sure I'm behind on the times, and what I'm saying is going to be pretty 'duh' for anyone reading this. But it's somewhat of a revelation for me, it's making life easier, and I'm excited to see what I can achieve now that I'm adding some of this stuff into my workouts.