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The Morning After: Ticketmaster wants Congress to fix its bot problem
In November, millions of Taylor Swift fans logged on to Ticketmaster to grab tickets for her 2023 tour. However, the site crashed, rendering verified users unable to purchase. Ticketmaster's parent company, Live Nation, explained that while 1.5 million people had signed up as legit customers, over 14 million hit the site when tickets went on sale – many of which were bots.
Live Nation president and CFO Joe Berchtold told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the company "learned valuable lessons" from the Swift debacle. Three senators shoehorned in Taylor Swift quotes into their statements and questions – which I loved.
Berchtold called for Congress to expand the BOTS Act to "increase enforcement." Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal reminded Berchtold there are already legal options for going after scalpers using bots to procure tickets. "You have unlimited power to go to court," Blumenthal said. "Your approach seems to be that everyone else is responsible here."
The agencies hope to demonstrate the tech as soon as 2027.
NASA is teaming up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to test a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, to use the technology for crewed missions to the red planet. The agencies hope to "demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said. "With the help of this new technology, astronauts could journey to and from deep space faster than ever – a major capability to prepare for crewed missions to Mars." There are, of course, risks involved with NTP engines, such as the possible dispersal of radioactive material in the environment should a failure occur in the atmosphere or orbit. Nevertheless, NASA says the faster transit times NTP engines can enable could lower the risk to astronauts – they could reduce travel times to Mars by up to a quarter. Nuclear thermal rockets could be at least three times more efficient than conventional chemical propulsion methods.
It has medications for 80 common health conditions.
Amazon has launched a new subscription service for customers in the US to get as many eligible medications as they need for $5 a month. The new service, called RxPass, is part of the e-commerce giant's Pharmacy business, which launched in 2020 as a two-day prescription drug delivery for Prime users. That makes RxPass a $5 add-on for Prime, which sets users back $139 a year or $15 a month in the US. Customers will need to pay $5 out of pocket, since the service does not take insurance, like Amazon Pharmacy does, for purchases outside of the program. People enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and any other government healthcare program will not be able to sign up for RxPass, either.
Fluid battles, uneven plot.
In Forspoken, you control the agile, angry Frey, slinging elemental attacks (and f-bombs) at multiple monsters before leaping off a cliff face and swinging from a molten outcrop. You keep moving, through the lands of Athia, through the adventure, because it's enjoyable and satisfying, but also because when you slow down, you start to see the cracks. Delayed twice, while the fighting system is generally solid, Forspoken
has a lot of sub-quest padding, and most of it's pretty dull.
It's optimized to run fast and efficiently on Mac hardware.
Mac users now have a native version of WhatsApp. The new app is optimized for Mac hardware and built with Mac Catalyst, so it should be faster and more efficient than the current web-wrapped Electron version. You also get a new interface with three panels to easily flip between chats, calls, archived and starred messages, while seeing contacts and interactions at a glance.
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An early impact printer that combined band printer and dot matrix technologies. It used a revolving band, but dots were on the band instead of the actual characters. Bands with different dot sizes were used to change the print speed and resolution.


The center of Jewish worship has always been the temple. But before the temple was the center of Jewish worship, it was the center of Israelite worship. The temple has always been the central focus of God's chosen people. God chose Israel to be His "firstborn among the nations," whose responsibility it was to be the salt of the earth – to take godliness, law, and ethics to the world. The tribe of Levi was designated by God as the firstborn of Israel, those who would serve in the temples, houses of God. The Aaron was appointed as the "firstborn" of the Levites, through whose line (through Zadok) would be the high priests of the Aaronic priesthood, those who would officiate in the Lord's sanctuary. Likewise, the temple sanctuary had a number of courts, from the outer to the inner, growing closer and closer to the holy center, the "Holy of Holies," where resided the Ark of the Covenant.
Although we naturally equate animal sacrifice with Israelite temple worship, animal sacrifice is not necessary for temple worship. It was a feature of the school-master Mosaic Law, meant to bring the children of Jacob to Christ. Symbolism employed in animal sacrifice, such as the laying on of hands upon the sacrificial animal, the transferring of one's sins onto the animal, and the shedding of the animal's blood all typified the Savior's atonement for us.
Although there actually were Jewish temples in other locations (Elephantine, Egypt, to name one, and in the Americas as recorded in the Book of Mormon [2 Nephi 5:16]) most of us assume that there could only be one temple for Israel, the one in Jerusalem, and certainly, as time has gone on, Jerusalem has been the only focus in looking forward to a "third temple" for the children of Israel.
The remaining western retaining wall of the mount attracts tourists and worshipers from all over the world. At the present time, although the temple mount is politically in Israel's hands, a Palestinian "Waqf" organization oversees the entire top of the mount, and Islamic mosques are the most prominent features there.
The mosque called the Dome of the Rock—which was built during the same period as the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the south, between A.D. 685 and 715— is built on top of the Foundation Stone, which is sacred to both Jews and Muslims. According to Jewish tradition, the stone is the "navel of the Earth"—the place where creation began, and the site where Abraham was poised to sacrifice Isaac. For Muslims, the stone marks the place where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to the Divine Presence [in a dream—Mohammed was never in Jerusalem].
Jews rarely mount the long walkway from the plaza of the Western Wall to the top of the mount. Researchers have not yet determined exactly where on the mount the holy temple stood, and where the Holy of Holies would have thus been situated. To step on the spot where the Holy of Holies was located would be a sacrilege. Any sort of digging or visiting or religious worship anywhere on or around the mount can inflame the passions of those who revere the place.
Every activity related to the Temple Mount causes controversy so strong it sometimes leads to violence. Indeed, a visit by Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount ignited a Palestinian uprising that lasted for years and claimed over 6,000 lives. Arab and Israeli archaeologists are suspicious of each others' temple mount research, because anything found might enhance the claims of one or the other to this precious piece of ground. While Moslems continue to consider the Dome of the Rock their third holiest site, Jews count the Temple Mount as their most holy site.
And he spake also concerning the house of Israel, and the Jerusalem from whence Lehi should come—after it should be destroyed it should be built up again, a holy city unto the Lord; wherefore, it could not be a new Jerusalem for it had been in a time of old; but it should be built up again, and become a holy city of the Lord; and it should be built unto the house of Israel—(Book of Mormon, Ether 13:5).
Mormons believe in the Holy Bible and accept all the Old and New Testament prophecies of the future of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple, wherein the temple will be rebuilt and Jerusalem become sanctified, a holy city. The Book of Mormon validates these prophecies, including the physical and spiritual regathering of Israel.
And then also cometh the Jerusalem of old; and the inhabitants thereof, blessed are they, for they have been washed in the blood of the Lamb; and they are they who were scattered and gathered in from the four quarters of the earth, and from the north countries, and are partakers of the fulfilling of the covenant which God made with their father, Abraham (Book of Mormon, Ether 13:11).
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years (Book of Mormon, 3 Nephi 24:3,4).
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Bankers appear more buttoned down than workers in other jobs, but handling your money isn't a trivial task. They want to look professional to let you know they're taking your money seriously.
The banking industry is sometimes painted as a staid, drab industry, in part because banks want to exude calm stability and not the excited frenzy that other services might seek to provoke. Banking professionals may seem a little intimidating for someone who has never set up an account before, but rest assured, they want to help you get started. When you walk into your local branch to start an account, you'll need to speak to a banker who can go through your options with you to help you find the right account to suit your needs.
After you discuss what type of account you want, one of the first things you'll want to find out is whether or not there are fees associated with the account you're interested in. Many banks offer free checking accounts, but they're usually very simple accounts. If you need a lot of features and benefits, you may end up paying a few dollars extra per month for the service. You may also need to keep a minimum balance in the account to get the extra bells and whistles.
What kinds of features are important to you? For instance, will you need a safety deposit box? Are you going to use printed checks? If so, you'll want to know how much these features are going to cost you. How about online access and bill pay? What about cashier's checks? Are they really worth the extra fee or having to keep a minimum balance?
Some banks place a restriction on the number of checks you can write per month before incurring a fee. Ask your local banker to find out what that limit is. You'll also want to know whether or not you're going to incur fees for using ATMs, especially out-of-network machines.
If you're leaning toward an interest-bearing account, you should find out how much interest the account will pay. This is especially important if you're shopping around, because this information will help you compare different banks more easily. If it's important to you to have paper copies of your cancelled checks returned, rather than scanned and uploaded online, you should determine whether that's an option, or if you have to pay extra for that benefit.
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Maybe you are the the type that has a lot of time to burn. Then this news might float your boat as Open Culture has just listed over 500 free movies for your streaming pleasure. the list might contain mostly old films but some are gems like Bruce Lee's first film with "Fists of Fury". You can take a peek at the list here. Have fun!
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/Imec adds UV sensing capabilities to its portfolio of CCD-in-CMOS-based time-delay-integration imagers
Imec adds UV sensing capabilities to its portfolio of CCD-in-CMOS-based time-delay-integration imagers
Stuttgart (Germany), November 5, 2018 — This week at Vision 2018 (November 6-8 2018), imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a high-speed UV-sensitive time-delay-integration (TDI) imager that is based on charge-coupled-device (CCD)-in-CMOS technology. The TDI imager has a quantum efficiency of more than 70% in the (near-)ultraviolet (UV) region, making it an appropriate tool for industrial machine vision, in particular inspection in semiconductor manufacturing processes. The specialty imager broadens imec's CCD-in-CMOS-based TDI imager portfolio, that is offered through various business models – ranging from full-custom design to evaluation cameras.
The new imager was fabricated using imec's TDI CCD-in-CMOS technology, that combines CCD TDI pixels and CMOS readout in one technology. This combination allows the best of both worlds to be realized on a single line-scanning imager: low-noise, highly sensitive TDI performance, and low-power, on-chip integration of fast and complex readout circuitry.
UV sensitivity is obtained by applying imec's backside illumination technology in combination with a dedicated antireflection coating. With backside illumination, light directly enters the imager from the backside, significantly enhancing the quantum efficiency of the image sensor. By adding a UV-specific antireflection coating, a high peak quantum efficiency of more than 70% is reached in the (near-)UV region of 250 – 400nm. Being sensitive to wavelengths smaller than the visible allows the imager to detect very small features – making the technology in particular attractive for semiconductor inspection applications, such as mask, wafer and particle inspection.
The TDI sensors are manufactured on 200mm wafers by using imec's CCD process module inside its 130nm CMOS process flow. This cost-effective manufacturing flow is compatible with other wafer-level post-processing techniques such as spectral filter integration for enhanced TDI performance. The resulting image sensors have a high sensitivity and speed (up to 300kHz line rate)and have a low power consumption.
Maarten Rosmeulen, program manager image sensors at imec: "With this high-speed, low-power TDI imager, we are happy to expand our range of TDI CCD-in-CMOS image sensors with UV sensing capabilities. We can now offer TDI CCD-in-CMOS image sensors with high quantum efficiencies in both the UV and visible ranges, enabling a wealth of high-end applications, including remote sensing, medical imaging and industrial machine vision."
Imec is the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education.
As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together more than 4,000 brilliant minds from over 85 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, and offices in India and Japan. In 2017, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 546 million euro. Further information on imec can be found at www.imec-int.com.
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One of the most acclaimed show of TV history, Game of Thrones is coming close to an end. The team behind the show working hard to finish up 8th and final season. Although GoT will officially end in 2019, the fans are already upset about the final season. Fortunately, the production team has given a promising update about 5 different spin-offs in different timeframes.
The first spin-off's details have started to be unveiled. Some allegations have indicating towards a White Walker prequel. According to the Belfast Telegraph, the shooting for this spin-off will start around October. The start of this spin-off was actually planned to start around 2019. Apparently, the producers have decided to bring the date forward.
The show does not have a release date at the moment. Most probably, this Game of Thrones spin-off will be aired on HBO some time over next year.


Manchester City are sweating on the fitness of Bernardo Silva ahead of Saturday's trip to West Ham. The Portuguese midfielder was sent back to his club after picking up an injury on international duty.
The 24-year-old played the full 90 minutes against Italy last week but was deemed unfit to face Poland in the Nations League game on Tuesday evening.
With Silva facing a battle to be fit to face the Hammers, the midfielder could be replaced by Ilkay Gundogan in the starting line up. The German made two substitute appearances prior to the international break after recovering from a hamstring injury.
City are still without Kevin De Bruyne (knee) and Claudio Bravo (Achilles), with Benjamin Mendy out until the New Year following knee surgery. Nicolas Otamendi is also a doubt after withdrawing from the Argentina squad with an injury to his right Achilles.
For West Ham, Andy Carroll is back in contention after recovering from an ankle injury. The striker has not played so far this season. Reports suggest that Jack Wilshere could also return to the matchday squad on Saturday. The former Arsenal midfielder hasn't played for the Hammers since having ankle surgery back in September.
Captain Mark Noble is expected to return to the starting eleven following a three-match ban. He's likely to replace Robert Snodgrass who is suspended after picking up five yellow cards.
Right-back Ryan Fredericks has been ruled out for at least three months with a shin injury while Carlos Sanchez (knee), Andriy Yarmolenko (Achilles), Manuel Lanzini (knee) and Winston Reid (knee) remain long-term injury absentees.
In terms of the bookies, City are firm favourites with both Bet365 and Betfred having them at 2/9. The best you can get for a draw is 11/2 at William Hill, while for a West Ham win, the best price is 12/1 with Betfair.


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During the brief chase, the lead patrol vehicle was struck on the driver's side by another vehicle. The officer driving the vehicle was taken to the hospital as a precaution, Aikens said.
"I imagine he's going to be OK, he was complaining of some arm pain," Aikens said.
Police haven't determined who was at fault in the accident, Aikens said.
Police arrested the suspect after they exited their vehicle and attempted to flee on foot.
"They were arrested quickly after a short chase," Aikens said.
Anderson Police are investigating the incident.


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The global spectacle that is the Olympic Games starts in Rio de Janeiro today, with the world's elite athletes descending on Brazil to showcase amazing feats of strength, endurance and speed but one thing they may not be showcasing is spectacular oral health.
A report by a team of dental researchers1 has found that sports people are at a significantly higher risk of tooth erosion than non-athletes.
The researchers found that athletes who engaged in more weekly training had more cavities than those who trained less. The study, which focused on triathletes, found their high carbohydrate consumption, including sports drinks, gels, and bars during training, lowers the mouth's pH below 5.5, which means there is more acid in the mouth and a higher risk of tooth decay and dental erosion.
Leading oral health charity, the Oral Health Foundation, is urging Olympians to take extra care of their winning smiles as they go for gold this summer.
Speaking ahead of the opening ceremony Dr Nigel Carter, CEO of the Oral Health Foundation, said: "Top athletes are putting their oral health at risk though their training regime and we are urging them to make sure they make time to look after their oral health so they can showcase their smile on a global scale.
"Following the London 2012 Olympics, research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine2discovered that more than half (55 per cent) of the athletes had tooth decay. It also revealed more than three in four athletes had gingivitis, which is an early stage of gum disease, and 15 per cent had signs of periodontitis, which is an irreversible gum infection.
"This is significant number of people and as Olympians are held up as role models by children across the globe they should make sure they look after their oral health. At the very least they should be brushing for two minutes twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste, visiting their dentist regularly and trying to limit the amount of sugary foods and drinks they consume and if this is not possible drinks plenty of water and chew sugar free chewing gum to reduce the sugars impact on the teeth."
Olympians require plenty of sugary and energy drinks across a prolonged period of time to get them through their respective sports. However, by consuming too many sports and energy drinks, athletes are at risk of dental erosion.
This is the loss of tooth enamel caused by acid attacks, a process that can be triggered by consuming fizzy drinks too often. Enamel is the hard, protective coating of the tooth, and if it is worn away, the dentine underneath becomes exposed and teeth can look discoloured and become sensitive.
Tooth decay happens when sugar reacts with the bacteria in plaque. Sugars from fizzy energy drinks stimulate the formation of acids that attack the teeth and destroy the enamel. Tooth decay causes cavities and results in the need for fillings, and can also result in tooth loss.
Dr Carter continues: "If everyday people taking part in sport, including children, are looking to copy their Olympic hero's habits, it is important to limit the amount of times they have anything acidic or sugary. Using a straw to help drinks go to the back of the mouth will help limit the amount of time a fizzy drink will be in contact with teeth. If the use of energy drinks, particularly amongst children, continues to rise, dental health problems will develop and persist well into adulthood."


This Single-Family in Reading, MA recently sold for $690,000. This Colonial style home was sold by Julie D'Arcangelo - Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.
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This Single-Family in Reading, MA recently sold for $720,000. This Colonial style home was sold by Julie Darcangelo - CENTURY 21 Commonwealth.
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"Australia" Sir Edmund Barton (Image plate from Vanity Fair)
Sir Leslie Ward
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Sir Edmund Barton GCMG KC PC (1849-1920), Australia's first prime minister, was the youngest of nine children of a well-educated woman. Captain of Sydney Grammar two years running and an outstanding student of classics at the University of Sydney, he worked as a solicitor and barrister for ten years before being elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1879. Over the next twenty years he represented four different seats, becoming speaker and attorney general in turn. Through the mid-1890s Barton was the prime mover for the federation of the Australian colonies into one Commonwealth, passionately explaining and promoting the process to the people and later, in 1900, to the British parliament. He became prime minister in 1901. During his single term in office, the Immigration Restriction Act passed, the first Australian soldiers went to the Boer War, Edward VII succeeded Queen Victoria and the High Court was established. On the way home from representing Australia at the Colonial Conference of British Empire prime ministers in 1902, he met the Pope and conversed with him in Latin - to the horror of Australian protestants. He gained honorary doctorates from Cambridge and Oxford and honorary memberships of twelve London clubs. Barton resigned from politics in 1903, to spend the rest of his life as a judge on the High Court.
Sir Leslie Ward, who signed his work 'Spy', was the most famous of the caricaturists who worked for the English magazine Vanity Fair, published weekly between 1868 and 1914.
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Sir Leslie Ward (age 51 in 1902)
The Rt. Hon Sir Edmund Barton GCMG PC KC (age 53 in 1902)
Government and leadership
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1. "The Lord Chamberlain" Earl of Hopetoun John Adrian Louis Hope (Image plate from Vanity Fair), 1900. 2. "Phil" Phil May (Image plate from Vanity Fair), 1895. 3. "New South Wales" Earl of Jersey Victor Albert George Child-Villiers (Image plate from Vanity Fair), 1890. 4. "A Squatter" Sir Samuel Wilson (Image plate from Vanity Fair), 1885. All Sir Leslie Ward.
Magazine article by Ashleigh Wadman, 2012
Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.


It's that time of the year, when nature blows your mind in the middle of Yosemite National Park.
The so-called "Firefall" is on display this week, a natural phenomenon where reflected sunlight makes Horsetail Fall light up like a glowing lava flow. It's happening right now, but it won't last long. You can join hundreds of other Firefall admirers at the park, but you'll need to hurry up.
"Before I get to my tips for photographing Yosemite National Park's Firefall, how about some background? The Firefall was made famous by Galen Rowell, who in his memoir Mountain Light detailed his scramble to photograph the Firefall when he spotted it in February 1973. Rowell's Last Light on Horsetail Fall is the first known photo of the Firefall, and endures to this day as one of the most iconic photos in landscape photography.
Your biggest concern is the weather and the water flow. What made 2017's show so amazing, he says, was a good amount of snow that year, coupled with abnormally warm weather during the event. The results made for some must-see views.
Wind, too, can help improve the effect because it can whip up the waterfall's intensity as the spray catches the fleeting sunset light.
One of his favorites shots of Firefall, he says, was taken from a clearing in the woods about a mile before the El Capitan Picnic Area.
It's recommended that you arrive at these spots at least one hour early because of the crowds.


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Bethlehem Road Murder (Michael Ohayon Series #5)
by Batya GurBatya Gur
The body of a young Yemeni woman is discovered in the attic of a Bethlehem Road house, in a Jerusalem neighborhood famous for its impenetrability to outsiders. The victim, once a beauty, is no longer lovely -- her face has been brutally smashed.
More than the usual horror greets Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon in the closed and inscrutable Baka, for an old love and an unfinished romance await him there as well. But much more is concealed beneath the surface of this gruesome homicide -- as tensions between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, hostility between Arabs and Jews, the half-century-old business of kidnapped Yemenite children, and the al Aqsa Intifada of 2000 add fuel to a terrible fire that might never be contained.
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Batya Gur (1947-2005) lived in Jerusalem, where she was a literary critic for Haaretz, Israel's most prestigious paper. She earned her master's in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she also taught literature for nearly twenty years.
Bethlehem Road Murder
A Michael Ohayon Mystery
By Gur, Batya
There comes a moment in a person's life when he fully realizes that if he does not throw himself into action, if he does not stop being afraid to gamble, and if he does not follow the urgings of his heart that have been silent for many a year -- he will never do it.
Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon did not say these things aloud, but this is exactly what he thought as he listened to the grumblings of Danny Balilty, the deputy commander of the intelligence division, who grumbled incessantly while Ohayon leaned over the corpse. He knelt to get a better look at the silk fibers that dangled from the rip in the scarf around her neck, beneath the face that had been smashed into a pulp of blood and bone.
Ada Efrati, who had called them, was waiting for them on the landing of the second floor, in front of the apartment she had bought. The moment they arrived Balilty had battered her with questions that he ultimately assured her would be pursued extensively the following day by Chief Superintendent Ohayon. He'd failed to notice the look of astonishment on Michael's face as he climbed up the twisting external stairs behind him to the second, and top, floor of the building. Even then, when he first saw her in the twilight, Balilty had looked over his shoulder and wondered about her ("Is she worth it or not? What do you say?" andwithout waiting had answered himself: "She's a tough one. She's got pretty lips, but you see those two lines near her mouth? They say: Not interested. But did you see that body on her? And those nerves she has? Nerves of steel. We've seen ordinary people after they find a body and she -- look how she stands there.").
Balilty kept up his grumbling as Dr. Solomon, the pathologist who had just come back from a monthlong special training course in the United States, leaned over the body. In intervals between murmuring to himself as he examined her, Solomon told them about the latest innovations in the field of DNA that he had brought back from America. He palpated the corpse's feet and ran a fingernail over the skin of her arm as he recited data on body temperature into the little microphone of the recording device hanging around his neck. From time to time he looked over at his balding assistant, a new immigrant from Russia who followed his superior's every move and kept wiping his damp hands on his light khaki pants.
The two people from Forensics were also on the scene. Yaffa was taking photographs from various angles around the huge water tanks between which the body sprawled.
"Get a load of this," muttered Balilty as they climbed up the creaky wooden ladder to the narrow opening that led out to the attic under the tiled roof. "There's still water here from the siege of Jerusalem in 1948."
Then Yaffa knelt down, and through a rip in her jeans peeped a bit of white skin as from close up she photographed the smashed face and then the skeletons of the pigeons and the desiccated dead cat that had been thrown on top of them. Alon from Forensics, who had been introduced to Michael as a chemistry student ("They say he's some kind of genius, a prodigy, ab-so-lute-ly brilliant," mocked Balilty skeptically; "What he wants with us, I don't know"), shook the cramps out of his legs, rolled the white chalk between his fingers and ran his hand along the yellow marking tape. It was evident that he was waiting impatiently for the pathologist to finish and allow them to mark the scene.
When the call from headquarters came in, Balilty and Michael had been in the car on their way to the Baka neighborhood to have a look at the apartment Michael had just bought. When they arrived in front of the building, just around the corner from Michael's new place, Balilty looked at the rounded balcony and at the arched windows on either side of it, and with astonishment that he concealed behind pursed lips he said: "Is this a castle, this thing? And they've bought it now? Look at the size of it." Then in the yard they floundered among wild sorrel and weeds and he pointed to a tree that spread large limbs up to the second floor and said: "That's a dead tree. It should be uprooted."
Linda, the real estate agent, whom Michael had picked up in their car so she could show Balilty the apartment he had bought, gave him a dirty look. She stopped in front of the tree and stared at Balilty. "What are you talking about? This tree is the most beautiful tree in the neighborhood. It's a wild pear that has simply shed its leaves for the winter."
But Balilty, who never liked to be corrected, hastened up the outside staircase where Ada Efrati was waiting for them at the top. Even before they reached the landing, she said in a shaky voice: "Up there on the roof, there's a woman and she ... she's ... she's dead. They smashed her face in. It's horrible ... I've never seen ... It's awful ... awful."
Balilty exchanged a few sentences with her and hurried into the apartment. He advanced through the spacious corridor into the large room from which the shaky wooden ladder led up to the space under the tile roof.
"Have you called the ambulance?" asked Michael, who hadn't meant to get into a conversation with Ada just then, but she said: "No, she's dead. I saw that right away ... I ... I've seen dead people before. We realized we had to call the police immediately."
Then, as he lowered his head to the walkie-talkie and told headquarters to send out the Forensics people and the pathologist at once, Ada Efrati said: "Michael? Is that you, Michael?" Continues...
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Israeli author Gur's outstanding police procedural, her fifth Michael Ohayon mystery (after 1998's Murder Duet), can hold its own with the best work of P.D. James. Chief Superintendent Ohayon, a restrained and understated figure who will remind many of James's Adam Dalgleish, investigates the brutal murder of an attractive young woman whose bludgeoned corpse is found by chance in the attic of a house undergoing renovation in Jerusalem's Baka neighborhood. Despite a subordinate's suspicions of a Palestinian laborer who was working on the building, Ohayon sets his team to exploring the victim's complex relationships, which include those with her employer, an older lawyer who decided for some reason to give her a valuable apartment, and her mother, an immigrant who recently began attending secret meetings. The detective's discovery that the dead woman had been probing one of the worst scandals in Israel's history suggests that she might have been silenced because some individuals implicated in that horror feared disclosure. Gur excels at creating living, breathing secondary characters, and in Ohayon she has fashioned a three-dimensional, intelligent and empathetic hero whose patience and compassion lead him to the tragic truth. This engrossing psychological study should appeal to a wide readership, not just those fascinated with the promises and paradoxes of the Jewish state. Agents, Deborah Harris and Flip Brophy. (Dec. 17) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
In Gur's Jerusalem, some Jews hate Jews more than they do Arabs. When Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon of the Special Crimes Unit finds the brutally murdered body of a once-beautiful Yemenite girl, awkward questions inevitably arise. Bleak and bitter as they are, they're not new to him. Racial hostility between the largely black Yemenites and the largely white Ashkenazim is a fact of Israeli life that has its roots in misunderstanding, mistrust, and the kind of ethnic myopia enlightened Jews would love to consign to history. Now, Zahara Bashari lies lifeless, her face smashed beyond recognition by someone who clearly hated her. But is the killing ethnic? True, she was outspoken, publicly passionate, even militant on behalf of her origins. On the other hand, the police pathologist reveals that she was four months pregnant, an argument in support of a more personal motive. Risk-taking Zahara was such a lightning rod for deep-seated emotions of every kind that Ohayon and his volatile special cops-a team that finds bickering as natural as breathing-confront a suspect list rich in possibilities. As usual, the investigation is more hit or miss than purposeful, but in the end justice is served in Ohayon's own style. Gur hasn't outgrown the usual blemishes of this series (Murder Duet, 2003, etc.): thin plotting, shaky prose, characterization that too often echoes soap opera. Even so, her Jerusalem still fascinates.
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When word comes that the Inquisition has landed in Portugal, Ester's world unalterably changes. Her grandfather reveals to her why and how their people came to hide their true identity. Ester is proud and excited when she encounters her first open Jew, a handsome boy from Salonika. But she is outraged when he tells her he doesn't consider her Jewish. Who and what is she then, and what's the point of living in danger? Even worse, her younger brother, Isaac, may have given away their secret when bullies beat him up.
No matter what else, Ester is still a Cordoba, and she will do anything to protect her family, especially Isaac. Afraid the adults aren't doing enough to conceal them from the Inquisition, Ester sneaks off to the home of Dona Gracia, the most powerful secret Jew in Lisbon. She agrees to help them. Ester is relieved until she faces the shocking consequence: her parents send her with Dona Gracia. Sailing away to an uncertain future, and leaving her beloved family behind, Ester is on her own to make sense of her parents' decision to make her go and to answer a question she never imagined she would have to ask: can she truly belong anywhere?
Who taps my shoulder as if they're hammering a stake?
"Yes, Senhora Romero, good morning." I curtsey. I wish I could run.
She has a blue wart on her chin. Her onion breath dampens my face. At least Isaac isn't with me. He might say anything.
She looks me up and down. I keep my gaze low. I can outsmart her.
"Mutton and chickpeas, Senhora." The first thing I think of.
She trapped me. What do I do? I cough while I try to think.
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Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
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I am a new user, fan of neural network. I took the course : https://www.udemy.com/data-science-deep-learning-in-python/. For me, the best way to learn something is to make some exercises. So I would like to practice neural network. Furthermore, I would like to use Tensorflow to make those exercises. Could anyone be able to suggest some great, easy exercises in this domain? In fact, I am interested by great website or tutorial, but the only thing I want is to practice. I want clear questions and features provide to complete the exercises.
Questions asking for references to learn statistical concept X are on-topic (this has been decided sometime in the past). One efficient way to learn certain statistical concepts is to do exercises, sometimes coding exercises, potentially using some specific library or programming language. Therefore I believe questions looking for exercises to learn statistical concept X with library Y should be on-topic.
I think that we should interpret this carefully and conservatively. The quoted snippet is typical of the "developer" mindset, focused entirely on a narrow praxis and largely ignorant of theory. Considering the many risks of naively and improperly applied mathematical practices to the field of statistics, it seems appropriate to make sure that people aren't just learning to operate a (possibly dangerous) machine, but also to understand why it does what it does.
If the question asks about theory or theory-aware practice, I think it's on topic. If someone has no interest in the difference between "lies, damned lies, and statistics" and just wants to learn to write code, then I suppose it's off to Stack Overflow with them.
What is our stance on questions "Where can I find an implementation of statistical algorithm X from scratch so that I can learn it"?
What to do with unnecessarily crowded-looking questions?


NAPLES, Fla. -- Arrowhead Golf Club is in a highly affluent economic climate where the price to play and the quality of the experience make for one of the better deals around. A full-service public facility, Arrowhead is a popular venue for outings as well as special leagues and junior programs.
There are 17 ponds on Arrowhead Golf Club.
Arrowhead Golf Club in Naples offers a challenging championship course that is easily accessible from Ft. Myers, Bonita Springs, and downtown Naples. The course winds through 16 sparkling lakes. Although water is a prominent presence, the hazards are often only along the perimeter.
"The service and friendly atmosphere, affordable prices and good course conditioning are what brings people here again and again," said PGA Professional Dan O'Neill. "We have a lot of repeat business."
Thus it's no surprise Arrowhead has been Voted Best Public Golf Course in southwest Florida for several years by readers of the Naples Daily News.
O'Neill admitted that two years ago, this well used public track suffered from maintenance issues. No longer.
Arrowhead, owned by a private group of investors and managed by Coral Hospitality, brought in a new course superintendent and crew and buckled down to upgrade the course and facility.
"It's really in great shape," O'Neill said. "Today you wouldn't even recognize it."
Designed by Gordon G. Lewis (1998), a highly respected architect especially known in Florida for creating solid playable courses, Arrowhead plays 6,832 yards from the tips (4,711 yards from the forwards) over a modestly rolling terrain.
Arrowhead is a pretty course as well as a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. Although there are 17 lakes or ponds on the course, water doesn't really play too big a part in your game unless you fly way off track. With few forced carries, the longest stretch over water comes on your second shot on no. 7, yet it's just 130 yards.
Some tees are elevated, but most greens can be approached by bump and run shots, and with five tee boxes, golfers will have plenty of choices.
You start out with the no. 1 handicap hole -- a 596-yard par 5.
One of the more interesting holes, no. 9 with a lake running all the way up along the left side is also a favorite of O'Neill's. With the clubhouse straight ahead, it's a fun hole to play.
"From the back, hole 15 is an unbelievable par 3 playing 243 yards," O'Neill said. Still, it's user friendly from the forwards playing just 86 yards.
Arrowhead offers a number of programs to encourage enjoyable play. For example, the club subscribes to the Tee It Forward program and offers PGA of America's five-session "Get Golf Ready" program to help new golfers get into the game.
To help build its base of new golfers, Arrowhead runs a Thursday evening golf social league for men and women. You can sign up as a single or bring a friend. The price includes nine holes, cart and a drink. Summer memberships are also affordable, giving full golfing privileges to singles and families.
After your round, the Pub is a friendly watering hole serving staples -- burgers, fries, wings, wraps, salads and Paninis, such as the "Margherita" made with mozzarella, tomatoes and pesto on Focaccia.
Whether you're a Naples resident or a visitor coming to play a few rounds, one of the great plays for the price is Arrowhead Golf Club.
For those who just want to practice, the facility features grass tees where you're hitting to targets set in a large pond. There is also a nine-hole practice green.
This course is a great choice for singles as well as buddies who want to have fun yet be challenged playing a well groomed course.


The SoFiE annual meetings rotate among three continents, America, Europe and Asia. The most recent conference was held at Aarhus University, Denmark, in 2015.
The 9th Annual SoFiE Conference will be held at City University of Hong Kong on 15-17 June 2016, hosted by the department of Economics and Finance and the Global Research Unit (GRU).
As in 2015, this year's SoFiE conference will include a Pre-Conference for junior researchers on 14 June 2016. Participants in the SoFiE annual meeting are encouraged to attend in the Pre-Conference as well.
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International Spar, the food retail giant, has signed a four-year £4m agreement to continue as the principal sponsor of the European Athletics Association.
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Former Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Justice Francis Emile Short has called for further investigations into a leaked audio recording attributed to former Deputy Communications Minister, Victoria Hammah. Though he was dodgy over what exactly should happen next, Justice Short insinuated that anti-corruption institutions must take the matter up immediately it becomes clear it is the deputy minister's voice. He was speaking on TV3's News 360 on Friday, November 8, 2013. "First of all, it is important to get voice identification," he recommended, saying it is after the "author of the tape" is confirmed that further investigations can follow. He said since government did not give any reason in relieving Ms Hammah of her post, it will be unfair for people to link her dismissal to the leaked tape. But the former CHRAJ Commissioner was emphatic that the content of the tape puts Ghana in the bad light internationally. "The statement is not a very commendable one especially coming from a deputy minister," he said. A leaked tape on Thursday had the failed-Member of Parliament aspirant for Ablekuma South Constituency discussing issues confined to government, adding until she makes $1 million, she would not quit politics.


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The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries. Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across these locations, considerably higher than the 77,000 official Covid-19 deaths reported for the same places and time periods.
If the same level of underreporting observed in these countries was happening worldwide, the global Covid-19 death toll would rise from the current official total of 201,000 to as high as 318,000. To calculate excess deaths, the FT has compared deaths from all causes in the weeks of a location's outbreak in March and April 2020 to the average for the same period between 2015 and 2019.
The total of 122,000 amounts to a 50 per cent rise in overall mortality relative to the historical average for the locations studied. In all the countries analysed except Denmark, excess deaths far outnumbered the official coronavirus death tolls. The accuracy of official death statistics from the virus is limited by how effectively a country is testing people to confirm cases. Some countries, including China, have retrospectively revised up their death tolls from the disease.
According to the FT analysis, overall deaths rose 60 per cent in Belgium, 51 per cent in Spain, 42 per cent in the Netherlands and 34 per cent in France during the pandemic compared with the same period in previous years. Some of these deaths may be the result of causes other than Covid-19, as people avoid hospitals for other ailments. But excess mortality has risen most steeply in places suffering the worst Covid-19 outbreaks, suggesting most of these deaths are directly related to the virus rather than simply side-effects of lockdowns.
David Spiegelhalter, professor of the public understanding of risk at Cambridge university, said the daily counts in the UK, for instance, were "far too low" because they only accounted for hospital deaths. "The only unbiased comparison you can make between different countries is by looking at all cause mortality . . . There are so many questions about the rise we've seen in death that have not got Covid on the death certificate, yet you feel are inevitably linked in some way to this epidemic."
The extra deaths are most pronounced in urban areas with the worst virus outbreaks, and have completely overwhelmed reporting mechanisms in some. This is especially worrying for many emerging economies, where total excess mortality is orders of magnitude higher than official coronavirus fatalities. In Ecuador's Guayas province, just 245 official Covid-related deaths were reported between March 1 and April 15, but data on total deaths show that about 10,200 more people died during this period than in a typical year — an increase of 350 per cent.
In the northern Italian region of Lombardy, the heart of Europe's worst outbreak, there are more than 13,000 excess deaths in the official statistics for the nearly 1,700 municipalities for which data is available. This is an uptick of 155 per cent on the historical average and far higher than the 4,348 reported Covid deaths in the region.
The region surrounding the Italian city of Bergamo registered the worst increase internationally with a 464 per cent rise in deaths above normal levels, followed by New York City with a 200 per cent increase, and Madrid, Spain, with a 161 per cent increase. In the Indonesian capital Jakarta, data on burials shows an increase of 1,400 relative to the historical average during the same period — 15 times the official figure of 90 Covid deaths for the same period.
The challenge is not confined to the developing world. In England and Wales, the number of fatalities in the week ending April 10 was the highest this century. The figure was 76 per cent higher than the average for the same week in the past 5 years, and the number of excess deaths was 58 per cent higher than the total number of reported Covid-deaths for the same period.
"If we want to . . . [understand] the ways different countries have responded to the surging pandemic and how [it] has affected the health of the population, the best way is to count excess deaths," said David Leon, professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Experts have warned of serious under-reporting of Covid-19 cases in residential facilities for the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to the virus. "Very few countries appear to be testing people in care homes, staff and residents, systematically," said Adelina Comas-Herrera, Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre of the London School of Economics.
Even the much higher numbers of deaths in the pandemic suggested by excess mortality statistics are likely to be conservative, as lockdowns mean that "mortality from numerous conditions such as traffic accidents and occupational injuries possibly went down," said Markéta Pechholdová, assistant professor of demography at the University of Economics, Prague.
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Wallsburg é uma cidade  localizada no estado norte-americano de Utah, no Condado de Wasatch.

Demografia
Segundo o censo norte-americano de 2000, a sua população era de 274 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 298, um aumento de 24 (8.8%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
1,3 km², dos quais 1,3 km² cobertos por terra e 0,0 km² cobertos por água.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 20 km ao redor de Wallsburg.

Ligações externas

Cidades do Utah

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