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Students deliver global marketing solutions
RMIT students have travelled to Vietnam to present an integrated marketing and communications campaign to a local hand-made leather goods company.
Students attend a lecture at RMIT Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City.
The global teams celebrate after their presentations to Neyuh leather.
The Advanced Diploma of Business (Public Relations) and Advanced Diploma of Marketing and Communications students worked in teams to develop their campaign for Neyuh Leather as part of a global work integrated learning (WIL) project.
The project also included students from RMIT Vietnam and Kirkwood Community College in the United States.
The teams were given a live brief which required them to come up with a marketing campaign for Neyuh Leather so they could launch their products in the US and Australian markets.
The whole campaign was based around a new promotional strategy for the company to create brand awareness and promote their goods which are produced locally in Vietnam.
The basis of the campaign's media strategy was to use integrated marketing and communication tactics, which needed to include social media advertising.
Throughout the semester students heard from a range of guest speakers and took part in workshops to help them understand global communication protocols and the nuances of conducting online meetings and briefings.
Marketing and Communications student Sam Wales, who was part of the winning team, described the project as a once in a lifetime opportunity and the peak of his schooling to date.
"Participating in the Neyuh leather Global WIL project has been one of the best experiences in my life," he said.
"I have made new friends from across the globe and back home, and have developed skills that I can take directly into the workplace."
At the end of semester 20 students from Melbourne travelled to Vietnam to meet up with their global teammates and present their campaign to the client at the RMIT campus in Ho Chi Minh City.
Felicity Burns, Teacher, School of Vocational Business Education, said the client was impressed with the students' professionalism and ideas and will be implementing some of their recommendations in their future campaigns.
"I was very proud to see the students produce such quality work while operating in a global team and with an international client. I witnessed the challenges of this project from start to finish so just seeing the positive results made it all worthwhile," she said
"Projects like these ensure learning is practical and memorable and allow students to be proud of the skills they've developed by completing a real life project.
"This looks great on their CVs and they now have more of the global skills and graduate attributes that employers are looking for."
The winning team's concept literally brought tears to the client's eyes, in a good way.
They produced an emotional campaign based on the story behind the artisans that are trained and work with Neyuh Leather, crafting the hand-made products. Their campaign idea, "Yours Truly", became a love letter to the customer and will be rolled out across the company's packaging and promotions globally.
Huyen Nguyen, Managing Director, Neyuh Leather, said: "The students made a big impact on us. Watching their presentations was such a precious time and we look forward to applying their great ideas to our business to help make our vision come true."
Story: Ainslie Logsdon
Marketing and Advertising at RMIT
Communication and writing at RMIT
The dream team experience
Understanding the customer experience
Indonesia residency builds writing connections
Journalism students honoured in Ossie awards
Adjunct Professor Robin Hemley to conclude Present Tense 2017


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IBM selects Keio to host first quantum computing hub in Asia
A research hub that can access IBM's Q quantum computer via the cloud was opened at the Yagami campus of Keio University in Kanagawa Prefecture on Thursday. | KAZUAKI NAGATA
by Kazuaki Nagata
Keio University opened a research hub Thursday that can access IBM Corp.'s cutting-edge quantum computer system through the internet, with the aim of studying the possibilities of harnessing quantum computing.
"Research in software development for quantum computers has barely taken place; there was no real hardware system … We are going to be the first to work on it and that's the purpose of this research center," said Naoki Yamamoto, an associate professor at Keio who is an expert in quantum computing.
The new IBM Q Network Hub at the university's Yagami campus in Kanagawa Prefecture is the first of its kind in Asia. It allows researchers to use the power of IBM Q — the quantum computer at the tech giant's research center in New York.
Quantum computers could provide the ability to perform much more powerful calculations than supercomputers, and it is often said they will change the face of the industry if they are put into practical use.
But it is not yet clear what kinds of tasks would make the best use of quantum computing, so a primary goal of the Keio research center will be to identify such applications, said Kohei Ito, head of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University, during a news conference at the private university.
Conventional computers work using units called bits. Based on simple principles of electrical circuits, each bit can be either "on" or "off" — taking the value 1 or 0, respectively. But quantum computing uses units known as qubits (quantum bits) that also have a characteristic known as superposition that allows them to hold both of these values at the same time to perform calculations more quickly.
Keio's new research hub is expected to attract not only students and faculty members, but also private-sector researchers. All are expected to work together to explore the possibilities of working with the 20-qubit IBM Q, said Ito.
The university also announced it is partnering with JSR Corp., MUFG Bank Ltd., Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. to work on applications for quantum computers.
IBM chose Keio as its first Asian quantum computing hub as the university has a number of specialists in the field, said Ito, who has been researching the concept for roughly two decades. The other hubs are in the United States, U.K. and Australia.
computers, IBM, Keio University, quantum computers

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Angela and Alex's soft, romantic wedding in sunny Coronado, California featured an ivory and blush color palette with burgundy and gold accents and abundant florals and candles.
My absolute favorite (there were so many!) was probably our vows. We wrote our own, so they were very personal, and it was so special to say them in front of everyone. When we watched our footage later we realized our ceremony made the majority of our guests cry!
One of my other favorite moments, and the most unique aspect of our wedding, was that our photo and video team provided a same-day edit of our wedding day footage shown during the reception. It was so well done, and everyone loved it.
This is advice for all brides in general: don't let anyone try to make you feel bad about decisions for your day! Because it is your day. Whatever makes you happy, go for it! Whether that be the guest list, food, date, location, etc. Choose what is right for you and your future spouse. Also, don't stress out over the little things. What happens will happen and your day will still be amazing.
As for military spouses, a lot of us are planning weddings from states away. If you are able, hire a wedding planner or at the very least a day-of coordinator! Your day will be much less stressful if you do. Also, if you are planning a long-distance wedding, I recommend not trying to DIY too much. It can get very difficult to transport everything that you need.
These pictures are breathtaking! ❤ I love military weddings!


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Alexander Zwirzitz, Lauren Alteio, Daniel Sulzenbacher, Michael Atanasoff, Manuel Selg
The interest in using non-conventional yeasts to produce value-added compounds from low cost substrates, such as lignocellulosic materials, has increased in recent years. Setting out to discover novel microbial strains that can be used in biorefineries, an Issatchenkia orientalis strain was isolated from waste cooking oil (WCO) and its capability to produce ethanol from wheat straw hydrolysate (WSHL) was analyzed. As with previously isolated I. orientalis strains, WCO-isolated I. orientalis KJ27-7 is thermotolerant. It grows well at elevated temperatures up to 42 °C. Furthermore, spot drop tests showed that it is tolerant to various chemical fermentation inhibitors that are derived from the pre-treatment of lignocellulosic materials. I. orientalis KJ27-7 is particularly tolerant to acetic acid (up to 75 mM) and tolerates 10 mM formic acid, 5 mM furfural and 10 mM hydroxymethylfurfural. Important for biotechnological cellulosic ethanol production, I. orientalis KJ27-7 grows well on plates containing up to 10% ethanol and media containing up to 90% WSHL. As observed in shake flask fermentations, the specific ethanol productivity correlates with WSHL concentrations. In 90% WSHL media, I. orientalis KJ27-7 produced 10.3 g L−1 ethanol within 24 h. This corresponds to a product yield of 0.50 g g−1 glucose (97% of the theoretical maximum) and a volumetric productivity of 0.43 g L−1 h−1. Therefore, I. orientalis KJ27-7 is an efficient producer of lignocellulosic ethanol from WSHL.
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Zwirzitz, A., Alteio, L., Sulzenbacher, D., Atanasoff, M., & Selg, M. (2021). Ethanol Production from Wheat Straw Hydrolysate by Issatchenkia Orientalis Isolated from Waste Cooking Oil. Journal of Fungi, 7(2), 1-12. [121]. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7020121
Zwirzitz, Alexander ; Alteio, Lauren ; Sulzenbacher, Daniel ; Atanasoff, Michael ; Selg, Manuel. / Ethanol Production from Wheat Straw Hydrolysate by Issatchenkia Orientalis Isolated from Waste Cooking Oil. in: Journal of Fungi. 2021 ; Jahrgang 7, Nr. 2. S. 1-12.
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The wind just won't give us a frickin' break. There's no guessing what direction it's going to honk outta next. Today it's a SCA west wind, gesturing to 30 knots. Things should calm as the weekend arrives. Offshore-ing should be doable.
Get crackin' if you're signing up for the 2010 LBI Surf Fishing Classic. The hats run out quickly.
As written in my weekly column, there most likely isn't going to be a rush to the scales for the first week – unless the slammers move in, which surely could be any hour now. A slow start is prefect. Even folks like me can get lucky when it comes to essentially spinning the roulette wheel by blind casting plugs along random jetties.
The headboats went offshore and knocked the socks of tuna.
Failed mullet run remains fully failed. Hideous. That makes two losing mullet falls in succession, though last year's light showing seems like a winner compared to the current near mullet-less year.
How about those bald eagles seen perched on an Osprey Nest off High Bar Harbor? I didn't get a look at the raptors yet but wonder if it might be juveniles, progeny of the offspring of the Mullica River nesting adults, looking for some skyways to call their very own.
(That's the kinda curiosity that life is all about for folks like us.
I had seen a variety if surface swirls in there as I drove by and guessed there was quite the variety of inmates being held there by nature. I'm sure there were also some fluke buried on the bottom.
You likely noticed the fat great blue heron that incessantly hangs around that pond, engorging on easily-skewered inmates. Interestingly, great blue herons have the option of migrating south, and often opt-out, choosing to stay the winter in Jersey, despite the frigidity. I've written on breaking them out after their legs have become iced in. Talk about a war. You don't realize how tall and fast they are when striking out —even at someone trying to save their dumb frozen-in asses. Unlike foul-hooked gulls and the like, five-foot herons easily have a three-foot striking range – and often go right for the face of someone coming at them.
HOLGATE HAPPENINGS: While on the tricky topic of Holgate every changing layout of the land, the storm really wracked the entrance, more than usual. Where we had a very wide off and on area prior to the blow, there was nothing but exposed stone and concrete debris, post storm. Thankfully, the always helpful boys from public works (Long Beach Township) got at least a semblance of roadway in place. They were going to expand on that.
That area of exposed roots, past the Osprey Nest, was hideous right after the blow. It took until a couple hours post high tide to get by. The only upside is the fact those roots are not really jagged and most can be safely driven over, though there are also so buried wood pieces to watch for.
One of the most critical problems of tuna management is that the science reported by organizations such as ICAAT is subject to political maniuplation, with some countries forcing their scientists to publish political, not scientific results.
There is a two-fold problem. First is the reliability and independence of the science itself. Second is the fact that RFMO's then ignore the advice of their own scientists.
The issue is coming to a head for ICAAT at their upcoming November meeting where they will have to vote on new bluefin tuna catch limits for the Mediterannean. It is widely believed that huge amounts of illegal fishing are continuing in the Mediterannean, and that this fishing, along with quotas which continue to be set far above the overfishing level, is contributing to the rapid decline of Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks.
At the scientific meeting in September prior to the main ICAAT meeting, scientists from the various countries were unable to agree on a catch limit recommendation. Some of the scientists complained to PEW observers that they were being pressured to agree to political attempts to manipulate the data.
A follow up meeting will be held this week in Madrid. There is a distinct possibility that the scientific advisors to ICAAT still might not reach consensus on a range of catch limits that would be acceptable to maintain the bluefin stocks. If such limits are not proposed, it will give political cover to those countries trying to sabatoge tuna conservation, and will lead to more pressure for the international community to bypass ICAAT and take tuna conservation measures independently.
October 6, 2010 - While many people don't like to put a face to their meals, Nishiki Sushi in Sacramento, Calif. had been serving dancing seafood until PETA asked them to stop.
According to The Sacramento Bee , the sushi restaurant took the controversial 'dancing prawn' dish off the menu after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals contacted them, informing them that shrimp can feel pain.
After numerous customers called PETA to inform them of the treatment of the live prawns at the dining establishment, the organization stepped in, according to The Bee.
The restaurant had bathed the live prawns in cold sake before the tail was removed and then they were served live and moving.
In fact, customers were told to squeeze lemon juice on the prawns so they would 'dance' while being 'eaten alive.' But rather than dancing, PETA pointed to a study that shows that shrimp are actually writhing in pain.
AOL News reported that the owner of Nishiki, Danny Leung, told PETA he didn't know the sea creatures were feeling pain and swiftly removed the item from the menu.
The animal activists report the findings of a 2007 study from Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland which prove that prawns react to pain.
Specifically, the crustaceans acted as though they had an injured paw when acid was dabbed onto an antennae and were also affected by painkillers.
Some sushi restaurants in Japan fillet live fish down to the bone and leave the head and tail attached and serve it still moving - a practice that PETA would no doubt try to stop.
French-based Polaris has purchased Canadian start-up Ocean Nutrasciences, for an undisclosed sum.
Polaris has been working in the nutritional lipid area for about 15 years and said the acquisition provided it with added innovation potential in marine ingredients for use in, "nutraceutics, food and cosmetics".
In particular, Ocean Nutrasciences has done a lot of work taking extracts from Northern shrimp which have been found to be high in astaxanthine, amino acids and omega-3 forms EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid).
In a statement Polaris said Ocean Nutrasciences, "develops, makes, values (via clinical studies) and markets marine ingredients (shellfish, algae and fish) exempt from organic solvents".
The company had a strong, "expertise in the development of biochemical processes and state-of-the-art equipments" and its Quebec location gave it access to, "an optimal volume of strictly controlled fresh raw materials".
October 7, 2010 - The fish that once made fortunes in towns like Port Penn and Delaware City -- the Atlantic sturgeon -- is being proposed for endangered species listing along much of the Atlantic Coast, including Delaware and Chesapeake bays.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fishery Service announced Tuesday it will seek endangered species status for populations in the Chesapeake Bay, New York Bight -- which includes the Delaware River and Bay, Carolina and South Atlantic populations. The Gulf of Maine population is proposed for threatened species listing.
It is already illegal to fish for Atlantic sturgeon.
Delaware fisheries biologist Matt Fisher, who works with Atlantic sturgeon, said the listing should help address issues such as dredging, ship strikes and water quality and give more teeth to federal regulators.
Listing, if it happens, could potentially impact everything from Delaware's commercial gill-net fisheries, dredging including the Delaware River deepening project and beach renourishment projects, Fox said.
A comment period and a series of public meetings will precede a final decision.
Federal officials took a detailed look at Atlantic sturgeon populations in 2007 and concluded the population -- already small -- was at risk from accidental catches in commercial fishing, vessel strikes, poor water quality, dams and dredging.
Amid these concerns there was a bright spot for the Delaware River and Bay population last year. Fisher and a team of state biologists caught a baby sturgeon when they were sampling. The small sturgeon was a sign that the adults are still spawning and reproducing in the Delaware River and Bay.
Until Fisher's discovery, there was uncertainty about whether a spawning stock still existed. It was a critical discovery because Atlantic sturgeon spawn in the river of their own birth.
Adults can be huge -- more than 6 feet long once they are mature -- and they are slow-growing and long-lived. Because they reach sexual maturity later than many other fish species, it can take decades for a depleted population to recover.
The fish spend much of their lives in saltwater but they spawn and are born in fresh waters.
At one time, they spawned in major estuary and river systems from Labrador to Florida.
The federal survey found that the fish are now found in 35 U.S. rivers and are likely spawning in about 20 of those.
Delaware River landings peaked in 1888 at 6 million pounds. By 1901, sturgeon landings in the Delaware were 6 percent of that.


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An innovation is generally defined as "the implementation of a new or significantly improved product, good or service; a new marketing method; or a new organisational method in business practices, workplace organisation or external relations (OECD/Eurostat, 2005)". Sustainable growth is increasingly related to the capacity of economies – including regional ones - to support innovation, adapting to an ever changing and more competitive environment. Innovation, whether it relates to the development of new products, processes or organisational techniques, can help give economic operators a competitive edge. As such, the European Union places the fostering of innovation at the centre of its Europe 2020 strategy aimed at supporting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; and particularly the flagship initiative of the Innovation Union.
Innovation is not only a source of growth and competitiveness, it can also act as a tool for addressing global challenges like climate change and social issues such as inequality. The role of innovation as a dual driver of growth and sustainability is recognised by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Specifically, SDG 9 seeks to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation.
Regions play a key role in supporting innovation and implementing innovation policies. The importance of regions in innovation policy has been driven by the increased recognition that regional innovation contributes to overall national innovation performance; as well as by a shift of focus in regional development policies from supporting redistribution of wealth, to encouraging development and innovation by building on local strengths (OECD, 2011 section 1.1).
The role of regions in promoting innovation and economic development is recognised at the European-level, with the adoption of "place-based development policies". These can be defined as "long-term development strategies aimed at promoting growth and social inclusion of specific places, by means of integrated bundles of public goods and services and institutional changes, produced by local projects based on the extraction and aggregation of people's knowledge and preferences" (Barca, 2009). The EU's cohesion and regional policy for 2014-20 is the most recent example of the high priority given to regional innovation, given its importance among the thematic objectives of funding provided as part of the EU's regional development ambitions. Under the 2014-2020 EU programming period 30% of the total allocations are being used for innovation in the wider sense.
The EU has provided longstanding support to the development of regional innovation capacities by means of cross-cutting policy tools and information (e.g. Regional Innovation Monitor Plus), as well as by developing methodologies aimed at facilitating the development of regional innovation policy frameworks and strategies. The European Union has sponsored such work since the mid-nineties, in the form of RITTS (Regional Innovation and Technology Transfer Strategies), RTP (Regional Technology Plans) and RIS (Regional Innovation Strategies). More recently, the EU has encouraged the development of "smart specialisation strategies" at the regional level which "set priorities in order to build competitive advantage by developing and matching research and innovation own strengths to business needs in order to address emerging opportunities and market developments in a coherent manner, while avoiding duplication and fragmentation of efforts".


You must make bookings at least 5 minutes in advance of the time at Tattu Manchester.
Only downside is too loud background music isn't background-it intrudes. We had to ask to move from a cosy booth because a speaker was right overhead and we had to shout to each other across the table.
Would recommend as an adventure and a unique experience in Manchester.
Lovely restaurant setting but the rice, pak Choi and mink fish were bland. £120 for two people, expected better food but salmon was tasty.
Lovely place to eat. Food was of the highest quality. Great friendly service. Wasn't cheap but this is central Manchester and worth every penny.
It's not the first time I go to the restaurant for dinner, this time for a friend's birthday. The service was abdolutely horrible. We requested for the cake we brought with us to be served after the food when we ask for the dessert menu and they said that was fine they would let our waitor know. Instead, we waited 20 mins whilst the cake was sat behind us for no reason. We had to speak to reception 3 times till the cake was finally brought to the table. When it was finally brought to the table, there weren't any plates or cutlery, which we had to wait a long time for. It was such a shame as I usually love tattu and their service is usually much better, seems like they don't do well with large tables. The food was delicious but unfortunately could not compensate for the horrid service hence the rating.


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Joseph Pitts circa 1964 [detail] War: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Branch: Air Force
Unit: 99th Bomber Wing
Service Location: United States; Vietnam
The son of an army chaplain who served in World War II under General Douglas MacArthur and then became a missionary, Joseph Pitts understood early in life the value of having a mission. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1963 and became an Electronic Warfare officer, flying 116 combat missions in Vietnam. Joseph Pitts was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1996, representing Pennsylvania's Sixteenth District.
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» Vietnam War: Looking Back Part 4
Duties of an electronic war officer. (01:55) The ongoing training process. (02:26) How being alert placed demands on his family. (02:25)
His decision to leave the service. (00:47) Camaraderie among the crews. (03:00) His plane deployed as airborne artillery. (01:22)
Feedback after bombing missions. (02:17) Reacting to the antiwar movement. (01:24) His experience shaping his views on military readiness. (03:24)


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DiNardo Foundation raises money for Covid-19 relief
Dec 20th, 2020 · by Salisbury Independent · Comments: 0
Joanie DiNardo, Lilly DiNardo and Greg DiNardo in Tony Tank.
The foundation formed to honor and continue the legacy of a beloved Salisbury physician raised more than $25,000 during a recent virtually held running event.
The Ignatius DiNardo Foundation held its first Iggy DiNardo Virtual 5K in November. The event organizers were overwhelmed by the support as more than 400 people participated.
The late Dr. Iggy DiNardo.
The virtual 5K was intended to build awareness of the foundation, promote exercise and to generate donations, which could be put back into the community. The event exceeded its $10,000 goal.
"It was really amazing to see the turnout and the participation on social media, especially with it being a virtual event," said Greg DiNardo, the late doctor's son. "We were able to partner with the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore and the Vulnerable Populations Taskforce to quickly put the money raised to work at a critical time when cases are rising, especially within our vulnerable populations. The pandemic has exposed frailties and inequalities on a global scale."
DiNardo said $12,000 was immediately donated to focus on the prevention and management of Covid-19. The money was used to pay for more than 1,000 childrens masks, hundreds of pulse oximeters and thermometers, and other necessary supplies to be distributed in Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset counties.
Dr. Ignatius Loyola "Iggy" DiNardo died while en route on a family vacation on Dec. 22, 2019. A partner in the Drs. Huddleston and DiNardo internal medicine practice, he was just 62 years old.
In the past year, the foundation has also assisted several patients in need of financial assistance with medical expenses, such as emergency transportation not covered by insurance, acute rehabilitation, and allowing patients to receive treatment and medications in the comfort of their home.
"It's hard to believe that it's already been a year since our Dad passed, but we know that he is looking down and is proud of what we have created and humbled by the support we have received," said Greg DiNardo. "Most importantly, I know he's happy to know that we're doing what was most important to him, helping others."
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The State Attorney who represents Orange and Osceola Counties held a news conference Wednesday about the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.
State Attorney Aramis D. Ayala announced that law enforcement officers fired more than 180 shots at the gunman, Omar Mateen, but struck no civilians. In total, more than 400 shots combined were fired by law enforcement and Mateen.
Mateen's widow, Noor Salman, was acquitted in March of last yearon charges of lying to the FBI and helping her husband plan the attack.


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Tourcoing (French pronunciation: [tuʁkwɛ̃]) is a town in the Nord department and Nord-Pas de Calais region in France with a population of about 94,204. It is near Lille and Roubaix and there is a metro and tram line between Tourcoing and these places, which are all close to the Belgian border. There is a Napoleon III-style Hôtel de ville (Town Hall) built in 1885.
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Ginger became available for adoption after her owner entered hospice care.
About the animal: Ginger came to the shelter after her owner entered hospice care. She is housebroken, doesn't jump fences, knows how to use a doggy door and is good with other dogs and cats. She is spayed, micro-chipped, up to date on shots and de-wormed.


Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) member cooperatives accepted 20 offers of export assistance from CWT that helped them capture contracts to sell 2.048 million pounds (638 metric tons) of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, 606,271 pounds (275 metric tons) of butter and 879,645 pounds (399 metric tons) of whole milk powder. The product is contracted for delivery in Asia, Central America, the Middle East, North Africa, Oceania and South America for the period from November 2018 through April 2019.
CWT-assisted member cooperative 2018 export sales total 53.777 million pounds of American-type cheeses, 13.842 million pounds of butter (82% milkfat) and 52.823 million pounds of whole milk powder to 36 countries on five continents. These sales are the equivalent of 1.2 billion pounds of milk on a milkfat basis.


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Re: SACD fans -- some discounts
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The UK is *very* different. Always has been. Had the Beatles formed here vs.
the UK, I'm convinced they never would've gotten anywhere.
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On 02/05/07, Bob Olhsson wrote:
>> From Graeme Jaye: "... it doesn't address the questions as to where
>> to play
> and who is going to pay for it?..."
> That's the elephant in the room!
> Progressive jazz, the folk revival and the modern rock scene all began
> with rent parties that were held in musicians' or fan's homes. Fans
> created the specialty venues, record stores and independent record
> labels that evolved into what we know as the present music industry.
> The '60s through the '90s were built on top of an infrastructure that
> had been created during the 1950s. The death of Tower Records, which
> was built on the idea of combining niche record stores into a big
> store having "deep stock" really represents the death of this musical
> era. The interesting thing to me is the common belief that there is
> "mass market" music which is something that has never really been the
> case when you look closely. Today Wall Street actually believes
> concepts about the "music industry" that have always been promotional
> delusions of grandeur in the fan magazines.
There was a folk singer on BBC Radio 2 the other day, saying that when
she started out (about ten years ago) there were very few places to
play, but now there are folk venues all over Britain.
She talked of a big revival of acoustic music, and the host (who works a
lot at festivals etc) agreed.
Maybe the UK is different from the US. I think real serious music is
healthy. Big record companies pushing million-sellers are not healthy.
Their main market from now on will be reissues.
Which is where SACD comes in.


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The City of Moonee Valley is a local government area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the north-western suburbs between 3 and 13 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre, and in June 2018, the city had a population of 127,883.

History

Moonee Valley was formed in December 1994 after the merger of the City of Essendon and eastern parts of the City of Keilor.

The original council logo from 1994 was replaced in February 2010.

Exchange prefixes in the city are 937x, 837x, 933x or 833x (the latter left over from the old City of Keilor).

Features
The Moonee Valley is a culturally diverse region with a substantial residential population and various commercial set-ups and industries. It comprises the Moonee Valley Racecourse, Essendon Airport and has several shopping precincts, restaurants, parks and offices. It is well connected and easily accessible through trams and the Craigieburn train line. It is also a thriving business centre, with close to 10,000 businesses operating in the region.

Council

Wards
The City of Moonee Valley has three wards: Buckley, Myrnong and Rose Hill.

Buckley Ward comprises Essendon Fields, Essendon North, Strathmore, Aberfeldie, most of Essendon and Strathmore Heights, and parts of Moonee Ponds and Essendon West.

Myrnong Ward comprises Ascot Vale, Flemington, Travancore, most of Moonee Ponds and part of Essendon.

Rose Hill Ward comprises Avondale Heights, Keilor East, Airport West, Niddrie, most of Essendon West and part of Strathmore Heights.

Current composition
Councillors are elected from the three multi-member wards, each electing three members, for a total of nine councillors. The current council was elected in October 2020, as its composition is:

Mayors
The current Mayor is Pierce Tyson and the Deputy Mayor is Samantha Byrne. They were elected by council in October 2022 and will serve the 2022/23 year.

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Townships and localities
The 2021 census, the city had a population of 121,851 up from 116,671 in the 2016 census

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See also
 Moonee Valley Racing Club
 List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the City of Moonee Valley

References

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Germany to Allocate 120 Million Euro to Protect Refugees in 2022
The German Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the German government will allocate a total of 120 million euros for the next year, an amount aimed at protecting refugees.
"For the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the federal government has pledged 120 million euros for the next year," reads the statement published by the ministry itself, according to TheSchengen.com.
According to the report published by the agency, about 34.3 million people are asylum seekers and people who have fled to another region in order to protect themselves from war, prosecution and other similar conflicts.
The German Ministry also confirmed that Germany is the second largest donor of humanitarian aid to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This also applies to the protection and care of refugees. That is why Germany supported Refugee Relief in 2021 with a contribution of more than 400 million euros. With the German financial contribution, the refugee relief organization for example reacted quickly when the humanitarian crisis in and around Afghanistan escalated by leaps and bounds in August 2021."
Figures previously published by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) showed that a total of 71,200 people sought international protection in EU countries in September 2021, an increase of a quarter compared to August figures and the largest since November 2016.
This increase partly reflects the evacuations that followed the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August. Afghans were by far the largest group of EU+ applicants in September, with nearly double the number of applications from Syrians (9,100), who were the largest group each month for seven years until July 2021, the statement said.
In 2019, authorities in Germany reported nearly 1.5 million refugees and 309,000 asylum seekers. Such figures show that the country has taken in the largest number of refugees in Europe.
More than 5 million people sought international protection in EU countries for the period from 2015 to 2020; Nearly 40 percent of them did so in Germany.
Recently, Germany has seen an increase in the number of refugees crossing the Belarus-Poland route, all the way to East Germany.
According to an earlier report by Deutsche Welle, in August, a total of 209 people were arrested at the border, while the number rose to 1,164 in September. In October, nearly 2,000 people were identified at the country's borders.
The German authorities also announced that they will grant residence permits to nearly 2,600 citizens of Afghanistan who are facing a difficult situation.
Luxembourg Now Accepts COVID-19 Vaccination Passports Issued by Moldova, Georgia, New Zealand & Serbia
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My name is Bernadette Kamleitner. I am professor of Marketing with a focus on Consumer Behavior and head of the Institute for Marketing and Consumer research at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. What do I do? I either do things that I am fascinated about or I do things that make me question the things that I am fascinated about from very different angles. As is typical for professors at my institution I am part manager, part teacher, part public figure, and–of course–part researcher. Being at Austria's primary business school means that I can often be involved in practitioner projects and that I cannot afford ignoring the practical relevance of my research.
It is research which primarily determines my professional self-construal. At most times this is in the face of my actual time commitments. Nonetheless, it is these other commitments that add well-needed spice and constant outside reflection to the research part of my job. On top of it I feel that I owe it to my education, my institution and society to be available for transfer -in all directions.
I hold a PhD in Psychology and a PhD in Marketing and have held academic jobs in both fields. In my research agendas I fuse both sides of my academic background. I need to use the plural "agendas" because I am interested in and do research on a wide range of topics. Currently, the majority of my research concentrates on psychological ownership. I have been fascinated by the practical and theoretical power of one of the shortest possible words, MY, for years and I have been lucky to infect my team with this fascination. Research on psychological ownership asks how people come to experience objects as "mine" and how sense of ownership for an object influences cognitions, decisions and behavior. To name just a few specific topics: we have investigated psychological ownership's link to imagery as a processing mode and pre-decision experience, psychological ownership in the context of shared ownership, and the concept's link to payment methods and object characteristics. Much more is under way. We have been organizing an inspiring multi-disciplinary small conference on the topic in 2013, will soon organize a symposium on it at ICAP in Paris, and are in the process of editing a special issue in JBEE. Also watch out for a blog on the topic which we will start in late 2014.
Ever since starting with my first PhD Endnote has become invaluable to me. My data base now consists of more than 8000 sources of which I have at least read the abstracts. Since google scholar enabled the direct import into Endnote, Endnote's use has increased for me even more. I use the keyword function a lot. Apart from topical keywords I often assign the names of the people I am working with on a project. This adds a very personal and for me valuable touch to it. I know that endnote has for a couple of years lost its status as "the" referencing software but my sunk cost in the program are now so considerable that I keep my fingers crossed that it will be universally linked to references for many years to come.
There is a second program that has become invaluable to me, in particular, since I took on the job of full professor and head of institute. For the most part of the year I simply lack the time to focus on one paper for more than a few hours and yet in between tasks I get inputs and inspirations for many different projects. Keeping an overview and on the ball has become a real challenge. While I am a fast learner, I am not blessed with the best of memories. This means I have to capture ideas, sources, comments, mails etc. as soon as possible – ideally instantaneously – and to do so in a way that enables easy retrieval. If I had to open up different documents or folders for all the different projects I am working on (around 20 though many of them have been hibernating for substantial stretches of time), I simply would not manage to cope – I have tried. My solution is OneNote. I have a folder for research, teaching, admin, my team, conferences and other todos and have multiple subpages for all projects. Whenever I come across anything relevant, I just copy-paste into the ever open OneNote section. It is also a great way of keeping track of notes I take during conferences. What I love about it on top of its single-document character is that it auto-saves instantaneously and that I can draw on top of writing and pasting any type of document into it. I hope to eventually end up having a laptop with a workable touchscreen (on top of a first class keyboard and a non-reflecting screen) so that I can easily draw conceptual models and experimental designs by hand.
A chocolate powered mind residing in a body that sits in a comfortable chair with the legs resting on some foot stool or low window sill. Seriously, the mind is a demanding organ and it needs fuel to perform well. I love working in coffee shops or the open air but I never venture anywhere or even open the computer before making sure that I am surrounded by sufficient food and drink. This enables me to keep working wherever I am for as long as I feel productive. I am also not entirely beyond the paper and pen stage of my life. Whenever things get complicated I need to flash them out quickly in an easily amendable sketch. I also think that the experience of crossing out has clear conceptual advantages over deletion.
Commit yourself clearly. Apart from comfortable surroundings this is the trigger to get specific things done. Academic freedom is the bright side of the job but it throws a shadow. Except for third-party funded projects, there are hardly any deadlines. Even if there are, they have often been self-set and there are a myriad of convincing reasons (it is not even necessary to call them excuses) why these cannot be met. I find that committing towards other people, ideally collaborators, is one of the greatest pushes to cut through all the urgent things and get to the important things.
Kamleitner, B. and B. Erki (2013). Payment method and perceptions of ownership. Marketing Letters 24(1): 57-69.
The board of your association wishes you the very best for 2014: health, happiness, and scientific success.
For EADM the future looks bright. We will have the second EADM Summer School in August 2014, in Bonn – look out for more information. It promises to be inspiring and informative.
The next SPUDM will be in Budapest in 2015 – a bit of a wait but sure to be great again.
We continue to support Jon Baron's Journal of Judgment and Decision Making as our joint outlet with SJDM.
And do not forget to organise decision making workshops: funding is available! Check the website for more information.
I would like to share with the readers my thoughts about three different issues I have recently been asked to consider and express my opinion about. I believe many of us encounter these questions, and some may have very different answers. The first issue involved hiring new faculty. Candidates were considered for a job opening in my department. As is so often the case, two leading candidates emerged. One of them is doing highly interesting work, and pursuing issues that seem to me important. The other's work is somewhat less exciting, but is considered to better fit the departmental "needs". I argued in favour of the former candidate, apparently weighting the intrinsic value of theresearch over and above the matching of the candidate's interests with those of the department.
The second issue concerned a paper submitted to the journal Judgment and Decision Making, in which I serve as an associate editor. I found the paper highly interesting, as did the other members of the editorial board who read it. However, doubts were raised whether this paper should be published in a JDM journal. The paper did not examine choices, but compared evaluations of health related issues across countries and expertise levels. The decision whether to accept the paper for publication clearly rests on consideration of quality (in this case interest) vs. fit.
Finally, another problem I had to consider recently is whether to allow a student in the conflict management program I chair to take, as an elective, a class about "urban planning from the perspective of sub-populations". The class would (hopefully) be stimulating and could provide a background that is relevant to some conflict management analyses, but it is not directly related to the core of the program. The student wanted to take the class because she was very interested in the topic. I thought this was a good enough reason, and approved her request.
Needless to say, the three problems are very different in many respects. However, thinking about these three problems simultaneously, I realized they all involve weighting of two major attributes: intrinsic value and fit. Intrinsic value, in our domain, typically refers to how interesting we find the object, be it a research program, an individual paper, or a specific class. The fit is the degree to which the topic matches some pre-defined domain characteristics. More precisely, we think of the extent to which the topic is close to the prototypical exemplar of a category with fussy boundaries.
One factor that has been shown to affect attribute weighting is 'evaluability'. The easier it is to evaluate an attribute the greater the weight it carries. Perhaps due to the interdisciplinary nature and vague boundaries of our field, it seems to me that we as JDM-researchers find quality easier to evaluate than fit. This suggests that I may have assigned too much weight to quality/interest relative to fit.
Do I overweight one attribute relative to the other? A quick search of the vast literature on attribute weighting did not yield any clear conclusions. Incoherent preferences related to changes in attribute weighting are abundant. However, perhaps due to some self-serving bias, I cannot easily think of another framing in which my preferences with respect to the choices described above would have been different.


After released several new machines in the mobile phone market that the brand of the Ulefone also bring its new flagship for us with several surprises—Ulefone T1 Premium Edition that looks very beautiful with personality colors.
The back side of the machine decorates with three colors that the red and blue color plus two fine black antenna make it looks unique from the phones like the Ulefone Armor 2 and the Ulefone T1 while the front side is all black, which is the first time for the phone with such design.
As for the configuration, it equipped with Helio P25 processor, running memory for 6+128GB with16 million +500 million rear dual camera, and the front is a 13 million pixel camera with the 5.5 inches screen.
The battery capacity is not very big compared to the power series like the Ulefone T3 that it just built in 3680 mAh battery, but it supports 9V/2A fast charge that the battery life is still considerable. In addition, it is said that it is priced at $ 300, which is equivalent to about 1973 yuan. Although it is not equipped with the high equipments like the Xiaomi Mi6, its appearance with the color that has earned many people's favorite that after it is released that it must be very popular.


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World News (September 6, 2018 Edition): Russia Shrugs Off Trump's Warning, Pounds Idlib Jihadists – Psychic Nikki Haley: If There Is A Future Chemical Weapons Attack, Assad Did It – A Year After Calling Idlib "Al Qaeda's Largest Safe Haven Since 9/11," the US Govt is Trying to Save it – Russian TV Instructs Citizens How To Build Bomb Shelters For Nuclear War
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Russia Shrugs Off Trump's Warning, Pounds Idlib Jihadists https://t.co/jWLAtb7aDS pic.twitter.com/c6aIXUyX7y
— Russia Insider (@RussiaInsider) September 6, 2018
Psychic Nikki Haley: If There Is A Future Chemical Weapons Attack, Assad Did Ithttps://t.co/KudhNP3UkZ#Syria #WW3
— Infinite Unknown (@SecretNews) September 6, 2018
#Trump Saboteur Op-Ed Backfires: LA Times Calls "A Coward"; Greenwald: "Unelected Cabal"https://t.co/JUhMM85qho
#Trump Orders NYTimes To Reveal Op-Ed Source For "National Security" Purposeshttps://t.co/MqPI5YkzON
A Year After Calling Idlib "Al Qaeda's Largest Safe Haven Since 9/11," the US Govt is Trying to Save it https://t.co/vtTQF0cmfG pic.twitter.com/D1rpWXI8yG
— Blacklisted News (@BlacklistedNews) September 5, 2018
Russian TV Instructs Citizens How To Build Bomb Shelters For Nuclear Warhttps://t.co/wRdVy9XinW
— Neon Nettle (@NeonNettle) September 5, 2018
Israel says it struck over 200 Iran targets in Syria https://t.co/K6qkAExAdB pic.twitter.com/xgeDM4MG4g
#Israel's #Military Censor Removed News Report Detailing IDF Support To Anti-Assad Fightershttps://t.co/DHXL3cHcKz#Syria #Assad
US Drone War In #Africa Set To Expand In Coming Monthshttps://t.co/6ZKEsGnYGP#USA
Let me translate this for you:
France just gave a green light to the Terrorists in #Idlib to use chemical weapons. https://t.co/dm707fT7Lo
— Marcel Sardo (@marcelsardo) September 6, 2018
"Women's Underwear Trader" At ING Busted For €150 Million In Money Launderinghttps://t.co/2PpnwucHyf#Banking #Crime
And this is called spreading freedom and democracy…
U.S. Special Operations Forces Deployed to 149 Countries in 2017https://t.co/2Ow49MUQYN
44 Percent of Americans 18-27 Have Deleted the Facebook App This Year, Poll Finds https://t.co/tOupcF3uTg pic.twitter.com/6H3MJQOQmn
Lawmakers in the UK are one step closer to changing current legislation to class #misogyny as a #hatecrime offense.
READ MORE: https://t.co/DPHwdLc2Ad#hatespeech
"Informational Crime": Saudi Arabia Threatens 5 Years Jail, $800K Fine For Posting Satirehttps://t.co/4kWOpKHddI
Russia Is Covering the Upcoming Syrian Final Offensive With Far More Than Just 25 Warshipshttps://t.co/AKx7y0Uflp#Syria #Russia
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color https://t.co/NCZNLWziCg pic.twitter.com/sFUQbiyWx1
Find someone who looks at you the way Bill Clinton looks at anyone who isn't his wife pic.twitter.com/eobdKTmMgt
— Nikki (@nikkiaintshitt) September 1, 2018
Kim Jong-un lays out potential deadline for giving up nukes https://t.co/sls6GtHkNe
— RT (@RT_com) September 6, 2018
A professor at George Washington University Law School has released a report claiming that #milk is a "racist tool" that is used by "White supremacists."
READ MORE: https://t.co/jqPOeMR5e3 #MAGA #liberals
#Trump's Efforts to Break #NATO Bear First Fruit, Macron Floats European Security Deal With #Russia Insteadhttps://t.co/FW403b6fYC
How People Become Easily Controlled By Tyrants https://t.co/uHVRtHnZkS pic.twitter.com/D8wikRvdeE
Booming global stock markets swell ranks of the super rich https://t.co/UtbGGgO4AE
EU Enters "Final Stage" of Crafting Bill Forcing Big Tech Censorship https://t.co/mzPo2RzNSO pic.twitter.com/Y1BsyDDD2x
One Word Has People Convinced That Mike Pence Is Mystery Author Of Scathing NYT Op-Ed https://t.co/KH2DvaDo8x
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 6, 2018
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"Anyone with an ounce of campus mentus knows the MH17 story is a conspiracy plan gone awry, which is inextricably linked to MH70, the plane that 'blew up' over Ukraine after being mysteriously re-directed by ATC.
Here's the latest."
Briton Claims He Found Mysterious Malaysia Airlines Plane in Cambodian Junglehttps://t.co/sFNYoZ5jKn
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/07/university-of-sydney-staff-push-back-against-western-civilisation-course
University of Sydney staff push back against western civilisation course.
" Western civilization course banned?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfRW6hhTQs
40% of British Jews could leave UK under Corbyn | Jack Buckby
http://barenakedislam.com/2018/09/03/united-nations-demands-china-immediately-release-uighur-muslims-one-million-of-whom-allegedly-are-being-held-in-chinese-detention-camps/
UNITED NATIONS DEMANDS China immediately release Uighur Muslims, one million of whom allegedly are being held in Chinese detention camps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDoM4BmoDQM
The Lost City of Atlantis – Hidden in Plain Sight – Advanced Ancient Human Civilization
And the elephant is STILL in the room.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LOugk8rBkyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbqXFSGwQow&feature=em-uploademail
The Chemnitz Protests & the Lying Media
No sense whatsoever, other than the expansionist plan for the Levant.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/06/573373/US-Israel-Golan-Heights-Annexation
israeli Democracy.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/07/573460/Palestine-Israel-Occupation-Settlements-Human-Rights-Watch
Shame more Americans can't connect with this.
http://theduran.com/40-yemen-children-massacred-with-us-made-bomb-used-in-saudi-airstrike-video/
What will our Nikki have to say if the chemical attack ends up a nothing burger thanks to Russia?
http://theduran.com/russian-jets-destroy-al-nusra-targets-in-idlib-syria/
The banksters can still kick the can down the road until they' re ready, which will be as long as they're in control of events. Interesting times.
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/when-the-uss-stock-market-bubble-bursts-inevitable-disaster-will-follow_09062018
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/bankers-and-tech-executives-know-the-collapse-of-society-is-coming-and-are-feverishly-prepping-for-it_09072018
The key info in his prediction is……
Timing of when this next crisis will occur is uncertain but markets appear to be safe through the first half of 2019, he said.
Which again points to kicking the can….as long as they're in control.
Plankton, responsible for 50% of the oxygen we breathe, is in serious decline. Pollution, radiation, all man made self destructors.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6FFUmmMO4w
Who's the Threat to American Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWJGpO08n0Q&feature=em-uploademail
Nigel Farage Attacks The Left, Political Correctness In Sydney Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ROMolO2ww
Secret NAZI – ZION Agreement
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/08/egypt-sentences-75-to-death-in-rabaa-massacre-mass-trial
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/policy-berejiklian-support-stadium-plan-20180302-p4z2ku.html
'It's our policy': Berejiklian's qualified support for stadium plan.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she intends to stick to a controversial $2.5 billion policy to demolish and rebuild Sydney sporting stadiums despite mounting questions, including from within her party, about whether the plan is value for money.
The state government spent much of the past year dogged by questions over its stadium policy and its final iteration announced last October: demolishing and rebuilding both ANZ Stadium at Olympic Park and Allianz Stadium at Moore Park at a cost of about $2.5 billion.
Melbourn, Australia.
This week, former fair trading minister Matthew Mason Cox said it was difficult to justify spending so much on sporting institutions when the state's child-protection system was under-resourced and fewer than a third of children assessed as being at serious risk of harm received face-to-face assessments from social workers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6146263/Texas-Republicans-furious-proposal-states-plan-remove-heroic-Alamo-classes.html
Do NOT call the defenders of the Alamo HEROIC says Texas school board, sparking furious reaction in the Lone Star state from Governor Greg Abbott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=593fXEulwh0
He's Baaack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJen224U0o
Nigel Farage – We've Imported Terrorism Into Europe Through EU Policy And Merkel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/24/americas-big-issue-is-black-africans-killing-each-other-sebastian-gorka-says/?utm_term=.cce385011735
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-08/global-trade-hit-rare-decline-supply-chains-seize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONV3psgqnqw
Jordan Peterson on why he ONLY eats meat and nothing else W/Joe Rogan
https://www.rt.com/news/437953-idlib-syria-attack-terrorists/
https://www.rt.com/news/438008-us-strikes-syria-white-phosphorus/
https://anhinternational.org/2018/09/05/diabetes-remission-scientific-fact-but-still-unresolved/?utm_source=The+Alliance+for+Natural+Health&utm_campaign=2cd941c030-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_05_04_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aea8a87544-2cd941c030-84966341
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809101067885253-spain-cancels-sale-of-weapons-saudi-arabia-yemen-war/
Free speech in Russia? Sure.
https://www.rt.com/news/438010-pension-reform-protests-navalny-arrests/
Brexit without the exit.
https://www.rt.com/uk/438016-uk-nodeal-brexit-anarchy/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dmiur86VAAA_hkr.jpg:large
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1005191501134123014


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Q: Derivatives and integral of distribution valued functions Given a $C^1$ distribution valued function $f: \mathbb{R}^l \to \mathcal{D}'(\mathbb{R}^n)$ how does one defined its, say, j-th partial derivative? How does one define its integral over a compact set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^l$?
My best guesses are ( and I'm not yet sure these are distributions),

*

*$\langle \int_{K} f, \phi \rangle = \int_K \langle f(\lambda), \phi \rangle d\lambda $

*$\langle \frac{\partial}{\partial \lambda_j} f, \phi \rangle = \frac{\partial}{\partial \lambda_j} \langle f(\lambda), \phi \rangle$ .

Does anyone know if these are correct and/or could point to a reference giving these definitions ( the books that I have just say what it means for a distribution valued function to be continuous/differentiable, but not what the integral/ the derivatives is/are)? Many thanks!

A: This is an important conceptual question, indeed!
In both cases, what you're written as the definition/characterization of derivative and/or integral would reasonably be called a "weak" derivative/integral or other linear operator $T$, with the word "weak" in this context meaning (exactly as you put it) $TF=G$ weakly if, for every (continuous) linear functional $\lambda$, $\lambda(TF)=\lambda(G)$.
Notably, this doesn't have to be just about distributions, but does apply to many topological vector spaces ... of various types of functions and generalized functions, and mappings between, and so on. (Google "quasi-complete".)
Gelfand and Pettis showed, early in the 20th century, that in many circumstances, "weak integrals" of distributions are again distributions... so there is indeed a distribution that creates the desired effect.
L. Schwartz and A. Grothendieck proved that the same is true for derivatives of distribution-valued functions (and others...)
So, although these proofs are not trivial, they are not crazy-hard, either. They are robust. The corresponding facts seem to be taken for granted, routinely, by many people.
A fairly careful treatment of many aspects of this is in chapters 13, 14, 15 of my recent book "Modern Analysis of Automorphic Forms, by Example", freely available at http://www.math.umn.edu/~garrett/m/v/current_version.pdf (by agreement with the publisher), as well as in hardcopy and other from Cambridge University Press.
EDIT: and, to be clear, those chapters are independent of the rest, so no knowledge of number theory or automorphic forms or ... is required for that bit of "modern analysis". :)

A: That's how I would define the integral and derivative with respect to a parameter. In general the results might not be distributions, but under some conditions they are.
On the compact set $K,$ for each distribution $f(\lambda)$ there are $N_K(\lambda) \in \mathbb{N}_0$ and $C_K(\lambda)>0$ such that for every $\phi$ with support in $K$ the following inequality is valid:
$$
|\langle f(\lambda), \phi \rangle| \leq C_K(\lambda) \sum_{|\alpha|\leq N_K(\lambda)} \|\partial^\alpha \phi\|.
$$
If there exists $N_K$ such that $N_K(\lambda)\leq N_K$ for all $\lambda,$ and $\int C(\lambda) \, d\lambda < 0$ then $\int f(\lambda) \, d\lambda$ is a distribution:
$$
\left| \int \langle f(\lambda), \phi \rangle \, d\lambda \right|
\leq \int \left| \langle f(\lambda), \phi \rangle \right| \, d\lambda
\leq \int C_K(\lambda) \sum_{|\alpha|\leq N_K(\lambda)} \| \partial^\alpha \phi \| \, d\lambda
\\
\leq \int C_K(\lambda) \sum_{|\alpha|\leq N_K} \| \partial^\alpha \phi \| \, d\lambda
= \int C_K(\lambda) \, d\lambda \sum_{|\alpha|\leq N_K} \| \partial^\alpha \phi \|
.
$$
The derivative case seems more difficult, or it's just my brain being slow today.

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Marc had a gun pointed at Sandy's head, and was struggling with himself, trying not to pull the trigger. Thru her ESP, Sandy sensed the impending danger and managed to jump far enough sideways for the bullet to miss. A strange darkness took Marc over, and a savage fight ensued. Realising what had happened to the Hunter, Sandy cast a spell over him, evicting the demon from his soul. Unfortunately, this did not banish the unholy creature, and it took the combined efforts of Sandy and Marc to finally destroy it. Afterwards, our hero revealed to Sandy that he knew where Azharoth and his inner circle were living, and said that he could take her there. Sandy was overjoyed, and it only took her a few minutes to gather all her friends together. Marc wasn't sure they would be able to defeat the Prime Master of the Nethermind with only six fighters, so with much trepidation he decided to ask Colonel Cassidy for help. Unfortunately - or was it fortunately? Cassidy had left only an hour before with his CO General Hartmann; bound for an alien crash-site in northwestern Alaska.
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Malaysia's badminton diamond, Lee Chong Wei was just superb on court when he faced the energetic youngster from China, Tian Houwei in the finals of the Yonex- Sunrise Hong Kong Open Superseries. Unlike yesterday's match, Chong Wei did not allow his opponent to take the lead, instead, he made sure that he stayed focused and in both games, he led 20-15 to wrap up the match, 21/16, 21/15 in 49 minutes.
When asked on his feelings after winning his third consecutive title, the Penangite could only say one thing and that made his fans burst out laughing.
"I am just so tired and that is exactly how I'm feeling at the moment. I would also like to this time to thank my fans, my coaches for their guidance and my wife who is here with me in Hong Kong," said Chong Wei after his match.
The former world number is expected to break into the top five of the world rankings with his success today. More than that, Chong Wei can proudly say that he has defeated the top four badminton players from China in his last three tournaments. In the French Open, he prevailed against Wang Zhengming in the semifinals. Then, he went on to defeat the mighty Lin Dan and Chen Long at the China Open before coming to Hong Kong to take on Tian Houwei in the finals.
This success will surely boost his confidence level knowing that he did face some struggles in the last two months. If the Olympic silver medalist can maintain his game, there is a very high possibility of him being in the squad for the Olympics.


We are rapidly working our way through the holidays and we all know how expensive keeping the children entertained during the 6 week break can be with families spending on average £251 on activities to keep their children occupied during the school holidays, and spend an extra £138 on other outgoings such as food.
Research has shown that the average family will spend on average £2,510 during the school summer holidays, with many families heading to UK destinations. The most popular destination, with over half of British families (53%) booking a trip, is the British seaside, such as Cornwall, Devon, Blackpool and Skegness. In second place, 28% of families are heading to The Lake District, North Wales and the Scottish Highlands, and in third place, families are opting for a city break and heading to London, Birmingham and Glasgow.
For families heading abroad the average spend per person is a whopping £860 the equivalent of two months' pay after tax, based on the average wage of £26,500.
According to the Family and Childcare Trust, the average cost of childcare during the summer holidays is £125 a week in England – slightly less in both Scotland and Wales. The costs are double what most families spend on food and drink in a week.
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Houston's Hiring
Clear Creek ISD Hiring Teachers and Bus Drivers
By Jennifer Patrick on July 21, 2010 at 3:46 PM
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Clear Creek ISD is looking to fill positions such as bus drivers.
As you know, I've been working my way through the list of school districts in the Houston area to find out where they all stand in regards to hiring. I talked to Janice Scott, assistant director of Public Information at Clear Creek ISD. She said the district is still in need of two elementary and 13 secondary teachers in the critical shortage areas of math, science and special education. The starting salary for a teacher in Clear Creek ISD is $44,600 and they do offer signing bonuses and stipends in certain areas.
"We are also looking for ancillary staff members including bus drivers," said Janice. The starting hourly rate for a bus driver in Clear Creek ISD is $12.64 and the length of employment is for 183 days. Candidates must be at least 18 years of age, have a valid Texas commercial driver's license with passenger and school bus endorsement and a TEA school bus driver certification and the ability to complete required bus driver safety training.
Clear Creek ISD is comprised of 43 campuses, 37,500 students and 4,900 staff members. The district will open two new schools in the fall. For more information, visit http://www2.ccisd.net/Departments/HumanResources.aspx.
Browse more education jobs in the Houston area here.
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Last Sunday, it was Mama's (my MIL) birthday. They stay in Pasig and we're from Alabang. Meeting halfway, we decided to have dinner in BGC. I researched where to eat and found good reviews for this new restaurant, Morganfield's. It started in Malaysia and currently expanding in other countries. This is their first branch in the Philippines.
We ordered Salad, Spare ribs (Hickory Bbq and Smoked Peppercorn), Salmon and Chicken. I loved the Smoked Peppercorn Spare ribs!!! And for bill above Php 2,000, you will get free 2 Kids Meal. Sulit!
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Q: Compression by comprehension using machine learning techniques I'm an aspiring data scientist (presently just a software developer) and I've just got this (foolish?) idea.
So far (as far as I know), we've being using compression algorithms based on replacing the standard way of encoding data by a smarter one. What if we could compress data by comprehension? For example by generating a kind of abstract from which we can recover the original data.
Just think of how our minds work. By associating ideas one with another.
Can machine learning techniques learn and understand the data (and how it is represented on disk) so that it can be generated back from an abstract being generated by the algorithm?

A: Sure, but then you would have to transfer a representation of the associations and "comprehension" to the other end in order to decompress. That representation will likely be much larger than the data you were trying to compress.

A: There are actually similar ideas that are, at least to a some degree, already realized.
For instance Autoencoder allows for the compression (encoder part) and re-construction of original data (decoder part).
This technique coupled with the idea of Thought Vector which, sort of, "encodes" concept/meaning/comprehension in a single vector would result into something you have described.


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Hitler or just the bloody tyrant next door?
It was during the Bosnian War that the BBC's Martin Bell and his colleagues developed the concept of Journalism of Attachment. While war correspondents stretching back to William Howard Russell a century and a half earlier had reported the good and evil of war, it was this new generation that took sides and, effectively, became unarmed combatants on behalf of the chosen good guys.
I am, personally, not entirely comfortable with this approach since the arguments surrounding war are often complex. The future of world peace would be better served by presenting the stories dispassionately and letting the public decide. Having said that, at least the underlying morality of each situation is normative. Judeo-Christian morality, that has finally evolved into what Judeo-Christian morality was supposed to be before nasty little men spent thousands of years distorting it beyond recognition, has little difficulty identifying the rights and wrongs of war and conflict.
But when Journalism of Attachment reached the battlefield of taxation last week, moral compasses went spinning out of control.
For many of you, this will be the first sighting of the Belgian ruler
The French left-leaning newspaper Liberation ran a story about Bernard Arnault, the founder of LVMH the luxury goods group who happens to be France's richest dude. It transpired that he had applied for Belgian nationality to add to the French one that came free of charge with his birth certificate. Apart from the affront to Liberation's French sensibilities that one of France's favourite sons wants to be associated with a country that many French view as nothing more than a playground for European wars incapable even of sporting its own King (Whateverhisname is King of the Belgians – not Belgium), they smelt a tax exile in the making.
Reading the headline, I dusted off my 40 year old French textbooks to try and work out the meaning, but to no avail. The reason for this became clearer when the Economist informed its readers (I am one of them) that, allowing for poetic licence, it meant "Sod off, you rich bastard". Mr Arnault is using some of what defines him as France's wealthiest individual to sue Liberation out of existence.
Now there is nothing strange in a newspaper having a clear political philosophy and taking a stand against anyone whose actions diverge from that philosophy. Newspapers have, after all, been recognized since as far back as the 18th century as the "Fourth Estate" in parliamentary (or, more generally, democratic) systems.
What is worrying in the case of Liberation is that the self-righteous outburst is not just the statement of an opinion, it is a critical (and probably the only) component in ensuring the success of the Government's policy. Liberation has become a combatant in Francois Hollande's ill-advised war on the rich.
The French budget, unveiled last Friday, included, as expected. a provision taxing earners of over €1 million at the incredibly punitive rate of 75% – put another way, it is telling top executives to work for the Treasury who will , in turn, give them pocket money. This was a significant Hollande campaign pledge along with other Disneylike fantasies . The concept is completely unworkable because France is unable to impose a meaningful exit tax on individuals escaping to other EU countries and some of those, especially Britain, have remarkably cosy tax regimes for tax residents who are not domiciled there. The only way to stop a brain-drain is to use moral pressure. Since modern governments are not good at the morality thing (politicians are not high on the international ethics league table) and France's dominant Catholic Church is having a bit of a moral crisis of its own, it falls on left-obsessed journals like Liberation to do the Government's bidding. The big problem is that the moral issue here is anything but normative – there are widely differing views under the circumstances as to whether there is anything wrong with Mr Arnault leaving. Indeed, Freedom of Movement is one of the EU's central freedoms.
Hollande has been at pains to paint himself as Mr Normal after 5 years of Sarkozy who, it is implied, was abnormal. What the president does not seem to comprendez-vous is that, while France may be pleased to have a leader who LOOKS like a bank clerk , they do not want a leader who THINKS like a bank clerk. They like their presidents to be intelligent. Even a bit foxy.
The French President reading his watch strap
Mr Hollande seems to have had sufficient intelligence to restrict the tax hike to 2 years, but that could still be a critical 24 months when France is trying to get back on its feet. Top executives will delay coming to France (if they come at all) and some of those already there will do their utmost to leave – even if only for a few years. One weapon the French do have in their armory is their language. While monolingual Americans can strut the planet asking for a Big Mac and Fries everywhere they go, French who want to venture beyond Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco and select bits of Switzerland without resorting to their phrase books will need to head for such desirable locations as Democratic Republic of Congo and Burkina-Faso.
Perhaps the biggest irony in this story is that Bernard Arnault, as founder of LVMH, makes some of the best luggage in the world. Just as nations rarely amass weapons for peaceful purposes, would it be so strange if Mr Arnault were to consider using some of his suitcases for his personal use? In the meantime he is reported to have categorically denied that he is considering a change of fiscal residence.
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