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Morocco road trip; Cafes, camels, medinas ��" and bribes?
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The dusty road to Marrakech had just started to straighten out after hours of tight curves along jagged mountains. We sped up when we spotted two policemen standing in the middle of the road by a small car. They waved us over.
We had been warned about this: Drivers being asked to pay bribes to get through random checkpoints.
The mustached man spoke little English but indicated that he wanted 5,000 dirhams, or about $600.
My boyfriend, Andrew Strickler, who was driving, balked. The officer, nervous now as he noticed we were foreign, immediately dropped the price to 3,000 and then quickly to 1,000.
Andrew started to hand over the cash as visions of foreign jail cells flashed before my eyes. I tried to make polite conversation to explain what we were doing here. I held up a copy of our Lonely Planet guide and said we were journalists. As I did, he backed off and handed back the money, one bill at a time, grinning widely.
He laughed, slapped Andrew on the shoulder and waved us on.
Ah, the Moroccan road trip.
We spent two weeks on the road in this North African country. The routes are winding, at times frighteningly so. The street signs are in Moroccan Arabic and French, languages neither one of us knows. Still, we figured that navigating the byways was the best way to experience the country.
We came to Morocco to visit friends. We made plans to meet in the southern part of the country after a few days traveling on our own.
It's fairly easy to rent a car in Morocco, and costs about the same as taking trains and buses. But driving gives you more freedom to stop along the way, and the flexibility to change your plans and linger in a location you like. Plus, all the gas stations double as small cafes where they serve strong Moroccan coffee and tea.
These cafes, along with most other locations, are filled mostly with men; women do not spend as much time in public places in this Muslim nation. Still, as long as you dress modestly - " no tank tops or short skirts - " you'll feel only mildly uncomfortable as a female out on the town. I only interacted with three Moroccan women while I was there, but the men were friendly and welcoming, though often they preferred to talk to Andrew instead of me.
Morocco is a kingdom bordering the Atlantic Ocean, just a few miles from the southern tip of Spain. We started our trip without a car, flying to Casablanca from Madrid on the budget carrier EasyJet, then heading north to Rabat, the country's capital, by train. Here we visited the medina, a word that literally translates to old city, but in Morocco also usually means a marketplace with a thick weave of shops and hawkers who sell and fix everything from cell phones to blenders to camel heads to carpets. Every city has one.
From there we took a train to Fez, home to one of the world's largest continuous car-free areas. The entire city is a narrow maze, virtually impossible to navigate on your own, especially if you have only one day. We hired a guide who walked us through the vendor-filled passageways.
One unusual sight was a tannery with a checkerboard of dye pools, hides scattered everywhere in various stages of drying. Small worker apartments lined the inner corridors. It was pouring rain, so the stench was manageable, but our guide told us stories of other tourists who were sickened by the awful smell. Owners hand out fresh mint to sniff as an antidote.
Our road trip began a day later, with a 10-hour drive southeast from Rabat to a town called Merzouga at the edge of the Sahara desert. It took about an hour to rent the tiny blue tin-can car, which cost about $300 for six days. Only stick-shift vehicles were available; travelers should know that Morocco is notorious for highway accidents, so be careful. Andrew did most of the driving the first day, and I navigated using maps and signs, which meant trying to translate from Arabic and French into English using a teeny dictionary. After a while you realize there are so few roads to get from one place to the next that it's not that difficult to intuit your way.
The landscape changed when we arrived at the Sahara. It's barren and rocky, like a moonscape, with nothing ahead or behind. In the past decade, hotels have cropped up but they're far off in the distance from the single-lane gravel road. It's best to get there before dark so you can see where you're going. You take a left near a hotel sign and head off into the sand. It looks like you're heading toward nothing but huge golden sand dunes at the edge of the world. Miles and miles of softly sculpted dunes, called Erg Chebbi, stretched out in front of us.
The hotel also offers camel trips to the desert, either overnight or at dawn. We took the shorter morning trip, for an extra $50, to watch the sunrise. Getting up at dark, we climbed onto our stinky, grumpy camels as they knelt down. The makeshift saddle had a metal handle and a few blankets. The camels walk in plodding steps; I found sitting with my legs up was easiest for balance. Our guide walked, leading the camels. After about 20 minutes the hotels disappeared and we saw nothing but desert.
Our guide stopped the camels and we got off. He warned us not to pet them. We scrambled up to the top of a dune, and while our guide walked the entire way, I was so exhausted and out of breath I could barely stand.
The silence was shocking, interrupted only by the crunching sound of the camels and the occasional growl. The sky was huge and colorful, splashed with bursts of bluish pink and blazing orange.
We then drove east to an oasis called El Khorbat in the Todra Valley. This unusual destination uses tourism as a way to help preserve a traditional fortified village, called a casbah, where dwellings are made from earth and clay. Families still live there, but there is also a museum documenting local history and various excursions. We took a long walk among palm trees and down dirt roads with a guide who spoke four languages, discussing literature and politics.
We returned the car in Marrakech. The rental company dropped us at the entrance to the medina, where we were staying at the Hotel Du Tresor. The hotel was a quiet, cool sanctuary from the rest of the medina, a wild and busy place complete with snake charmers (and snakes), psychics and hawkers of all kinds. Inside the market, we ate huge snails in broth with a toothpick (totally gross), fried sardines (delicious) and tagine with couscous (eh).
From Marrakech, we bused to the surf town Agadir to meet our friends, then drove together south to Sidi Ifni, an uncrowded beach spot with imposing red stone arches, eroded over eons by the ocean. A stay at an oceanside resort cost barely $150 for two people for two nights, including breakfast. It was the most peaceful part of the trip, and Andrew's favorite part. It's worth traveling there just to stand under the arches.
After a few days in the sun, we drove back up the coast, about 10 hours to Rabat, where deserted stretches alternated with poor towns and rich areas. One funny sight on the winding mountain roads was goats perched in the tops of small trees called Argans. They climb up to eat the seeds. We saw as many as six munching on one tree at a time. We took some pictures but they ignored us.
Before we left the country, we did some shopping. Our friends, having lived here long enough to become skilled in the art of bargaining, came with us to buy a carpet and we all acted out a part: Andrew, the moneybags tourist, me the stingy partner, and the other couple, a wizened ex-pat with his hurrying wife, who wanted to get us to dinner on time. The role of the clever, miserly carpet man was successfully played by the rug vendor.
In the end, though, we couldn't agree on a price. We overpaid $20 for some tea glasses, but we walked away without a rug.


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Exercise changes your gut microbiome for better health
A good number of separate studies have consistently shown that exercise can alter the make up of your gut microbiome and make you healthier by proving more anti-inflammatory molecules, and more cytokines producing a stronger immune system
The first evidence appeared in a 2014 study published in the journal 'Gut' where researchers had looked at the bacteria living inside Irish rugby players. A study by the Cork Microbiome Center (The Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre) in collaboration with the Irish Rugby Football Union, showed that the Irish National Rugby players had exceptional guts, when compared to not one, but two equivalent control groups. The players were all about to embark on the World Cup finals and obviously their diet was of the highest quality, with whole carbs and protein to the fore. The combination showed a gut microbiome of exceptional wide diversity.
In December 2017 Professor Jeffrey Woods and his team at the University of Illinois were claiming to be the first to show that the diversity of the gut can be enhanced by exercise alone. Although this time only using mice, their study in the journal Gut Microbes (1) found that exercise produce a gut microbiome that could provide significant health benefits, most probably through the production of Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs).
In a second stage of the study, they introduced colitis into the mice and showed those with the exercise-produced microbiomes produced higher levels of cytokines and had a far greater immune resistance and ability to produce anti-inflammatory molecules and a faster recovery.
Chris Woollams, Former Oxford University Biochemist said, "We know that exercise performs a number of functions all with health benefits – not only does it give you a stronger, more diverse and anti-inflammatory microbiome, it oxygenates the blood and produces endorphins which neutralise stress hormones such as cortisol. In fact, several studies have shown that exercise acts like a drug and can even increase survival in cancer patients."
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House Republicans, including Minority Leader Brad Jones and Assistant Minority Leader George Peterson, are working to make purchasing mace and pepper spray in easier process here in the state of Massachusetts.
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GMA leadership speaks out on the controversial labeling technology.
But the technology has been controversial, as some GMO labeling advocates have said that scanning a label isn't an adequate substitute for on-package disclosure of genetically modified ingredients. Here, we asked GMA's Jim Flannery, senior executive vice president, operations and industry collaboration, to weigh in on the goals and potential for SmartLabel as well as what it means for GMO disclosure.
JF: SmartLabel was created for today's consumers who are looking for an increasing amount of information about the products they use and consume. SmartLabel brings detailed information— beyond what is on packaging and labels—right to a consumer's fingertips. This includes nutritional information, ingredients, allergens, third-party certifications, social compliance programs, usage instructions, advisories and safe handling instructions, company/brand information and much more. This is more information than can ever fit on a package label, and it can be provided digitally to consumers.
SmartLabel is also accessible in a number of ways, making the information available any time, any place—via a mobile device, through a quick Google search, by visiting a participating company's or brand's website, or using the online SmartLabel Product Search. We are also in the process of developing an app, which will make it even easier for consumers with smartphones.
This broad range of ways to access allows consumers to learn more about products no matter where and when they want the information.
JF: SmartLabel was just announced in December 2015 and, by August, there are already more than 2,225 products using SmartLabel from a variety of different companies, including natural foods companies such as Food For Life.
The number of products will continue to grow. We project that there will be more than 34,000 products using SmartLabel by the end of 2017. This includes food, beverage, personal care, pet care and household products. In five years, we expect that total to be 60,000, which would account for more than 80 percent of food, beverage, pet care, personal care and household products that consumers buy.
Why do you think a QR (or Quick Response) code is the best vehicle to communicate this kind of information?
JF: QR codes are just one of a few ways that consumers can access the information on SmartLabel. Within our toolbox, QR codes are very versatile, easy to use and cost effective. And because they are becoming increasingly common in today's marketplace, consumers are more and more familiar with scanning them to get information.
In fact, there are hundreds of apps that read QR codes, such as Shazam, which has over 220 million downloads in the U.S., Shopsavvy with 100 million downloads, or Scanlife with nearly 80 million downloads, just to name a few. If your phone has a camera, you can read a QR code.
It's important to remember that using a QR code is just one of several tools to access the information. As noted earlier, people can also visit the smartlabel.org website, run a web search, call the 800 number on a package and, in the months to come, use the official SmartLabel app, which is currently in development.
So access to the SmartLabel information is actually very easy and it's built to be accessible whichever way a consumer is most comfortable. In the end, use of things like a QR code have little to do with barcode technology and everything to do with the value consumers get when they reach the SmartLabel landing pages.
JF: Each company participating in SmartLabel is responsible for its own product information. All information found using SmartLabel is bound by the same accuracy requirements as if it were printed on a package or label, and is subject to oversight by numerous federal agencies with authority over labeling, marketing and advertising of food and other consumer products, including the FDA, USDA and FTC.
JF: Consumers don't just want to know if a product contains an ingredient. They want to know what that ingredient is, why it is in the food, what it does and where it came from. They want to know a company's social responsibility practices and environmental practices.
One of the strengths of SmartLabel is that it has over 380 attributes across food, beverage, personal care, household and pet care products organized in a consistent format, whether the consumer is looking at a gallon of ice cream or a gallon of laundry detergent.
A great way to see what can be found on SmartLabel is to check out some of the products on smartlabel.org. For example, you can see how much information is provided about ingredients for Hellman's Mayo, including where the soybeans come from.
JF: On July 29, President Obama signed the bipartisan national legislation requiring disclosure of genetically engineered ingredients. The law allows GMO ingredients to be disclosed by a symbol or text on the package, or by scanning an electronic or digital link. In fact, companies can already disclose GMOs through SmartLabel, and almost every food product that is currently live is doing so voluntarily. GMOs are now listed in the "other information" tab on SmartLabel. USDA will be writing the rules to implement the new law, and we expect that genetically engineered ingredients will be featured even more prominently on the first page of SmartLabel landing pages.
The most prevalent concerns voiced today center around the use of QR codes. But the issue is not the technology. Getting a QR code reader and scanning the code is very easy. The real issue is, will consumers get value from the information delivered?
We believe the 380 easy-to-find and consistently organized attributes provide that value. Consumers can find out if their item contains genetically engineered ingredients, what GMOs are and even why the technology is used. If the item is non-GMO, the consumer can also learn what that means and how that brand certifies that it is non-GMO.
Concerns about the QR code are misguided. The issue we need to deliver on is the value of the information provided. And we believe we do that.


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Sprint's fraud management team, led by Helen Schallenberg-Tillhof, director of fraud management, with support and guidance from Rice and members of IT and the company's project management and compliance divisions, knew they needed a better way to quickly identify and stop fraudulent activity before customer data was exposed. By implementing a set of open source monitoring, data analysis, and search tools using Elastic Stack, Sprint was able to identify, search, monitor, and analyze data from multiple sources and formats. The anti-fraud system, which received a CIO 100 Award in IT Excellence, has completely transformed how Sprint detects and blocks fraudulent activity, Rice says.


Defender Michael Beauchamp has left Melbourne Heart to join his hometown club Sydney FC on a multi-year deal.
After spending a solitary season with last season's A-League debutants, the two-time World Cup player will link up with his new team-mates for pre-season training in July.
The move has been approved by Heart despite Beauchamp still owing one year from his current two-year contract.
The deal gives the versatile defender the option to seek short-term options abroad in between the A-League season to bolster his chances of national selection.
"I still have my sights set on furthering my Socceroos career, but my immediate priority is to play well for my new club and help with the club's goal to bring about another championship," the 23-year-old, who has played in Germany with FC Nuremberg and in the United Arab Emirates with Al Jazira, said.
He added: "The ideal situation would be to remain at Sydney FC long term and regain selection into the Socceroos squad."
"I have only heard good things about head coach (Sydney boss) Vitezslav Lavicka, so can-t wait to work under him."
Beauchamp, who made 19 appearances for the Heart, found first-team opportunities limited given the rise of youngster Michael Marrone.
"I am a Sydney boy as well and played a lot of my football here, so being back home is a bit of a thrill for me too."
Sydney coach Vitezslav Lavicka expressed delight at Beauchamp's arrival, which will bring some much-need experience and steel at the back for FC, who finished with the fourth worst goal difference last season.
"We all know he is a good player. He has a lot of international experience. He's been to two World Cups with the Socceroos and is a big, tall, strong defender," the Czech said.
"He has experience in Europe at some big clubs so he will be very valuable to us. He is an excellent character and I expect him to, and I know he will, provide us with good play and of course good leadership at the back."
Beauchamp, who has 22 international caps to his name, is likely to slot into fullback position left vacated by Byun Sung-hwan, who has departed for Newcastle Jets.


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Begum Akhtar recorded at Aiwan-e-Ghalib in Delhi singing her heart and soul out in a 1973 concert less than a year before she died. Excellent tabla and sarangi accompaniment. Musicians are unknown alas. I have finally digitized the tapes that the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) gave me years and years ago. He was totally devoted to her music and was always raving about this concert and that I had to listen to it. It was well worth the wait. In her inimitable style she sings ghazals, poems, by master Urdu poets such as Momin, Zauq, Ghalib, Dagh, Faiz, and Shakeel. A memorable performance by an unforgettable musician.
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The Embassy of the Philippines in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the Russian Federation.  Occupied since 1978, it is located on 6/8 Karmanitskiy Lane () in the Arbat District of central Moscow, a short walk from the headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and near the former home of Alexander Pushkin and the residence of the Ambassador of the United States to Russia.

History
The Philippines did not immediately open a resident embassy when diplomatic relations between the Philippines and the then-Soviet Union were established in 1976. Its first diplomatic mission in Moscow was opened on August 2, 1977, when Juan A. Ona, appointed to serve as the first minister-counsellor to the Soviet Union, operating from Room 786 of the Hotel Ukraina (today the Radisson Royal Hotel, Moscow). The Embassy continues to maintain its linkages to the hotel, as it billets its guests there.

Ona was later joined by two officers to help run the post, becoming the mission's erstwhile chargé d'affaires, and on September 30, 1977, Luis Moreno Salcedo arrived in Moscow as the first resident Philippine ambassador to the Soviet Union.

In late 1978, Soviet authorities permitted the Philippine embassy to relocate to its current premises, an L-shaped Khrushchev-era building that previously served as the embassy of South Vietnam. Today, the building houses both the mission's chancery and ambassador's residence.

Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Philippine Embassy in Moscow subsequently was accredited to Russia and eleven former Soviet republics, with jurisdiction over Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania being transferred to the Philippine Embassy in Stockholm, and jurisdiction over Moldova being transferred to the Philippine Embassy in Bucharest. Currently the embassy has jurisdiction over Russia, Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, with the other former Soviet republics under its jurisdiction being transferred to other missions.

See also
Philippines–Russia relations
Philippines–Soviet Union relations
List of diplomatic missions of the Philippines

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Official website of the Philippine Embassy in Moscow

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Many of the posts in this blog have been concerned with using MCMC based methods for Bayesian inference. These methods are typically "exact" in the sense that they have the exact posterior distribution of interest as their target equilibrium distribution, but are obviously "approximate", in that for any finite amount of computing time, we can only generate a finite sample of correlated realisations from a Markov chain that we hope is close to equilibrium.
Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods go a step further, and generate samples from a distribution which is not the true posterior distribution of interest, but a distribution which is hoped to be close to the real posterior distribution of interest. There are many variants on ABC, and I won't get around to explaining all of them in this blog. The wikipedia page on ABC is a good starting point for further reading. In this post I'll explain the most basic rejection sampling version of ABC, and in a subsequent post, I'll explain a sequential refinement, often referred to as ABC-SMC. As usual, I'll use R code to illustrate the ideas.
There is a close connection between "likelihood free" MCMC methods and those of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC). To keep things simple, consider the case of a perfectly observed system, so that there is no latent variable layer. Then there are model parameters described by a prior , and a forwards-simulation model for the data , defined by . It is clear that a simple algorithm for simulating from the desired posterior can be obtained as follows. First simulate from the joint distribution by simulating and then . This gives a sample from the joint distribution. A simple rejection algorithm which rejects the proposed pair unless matches the true data clearly gives a sample from the required posterior distribution.
3. If , keep as a sample from , otherwise reject.
This algorithm is exact, and for discrete will have a non-zero acceptance rate. However, in most interesting problems the rejection rate will be intolerably high. In particular, the acceptance rate will typically be zero for continuous valued .
The ABC "approximation" is to accept values provided that is "sufficiently close" to . In the first instance, we can formulate this as follows.
For suitable small choice of , this will closely approximate the true posterior. However, smaller choices of will lead to higher rejection rates. This will be a particular problem in the context of high-dimensional , where it is often unrealistic to expect a close match between all components of and the simulated data , even for a good choice of . In this case, it makes more sense to look for good agreement between particular aspects of , such as the mean, or variance, or auto-correlation, depending on the exact problem and context.
In the simplest case, this is done by forming a (vector of) summary statistic(s), (ideally a sufficient statistic), and accepting provided that for some suitable choice of metric and . We will return to this issue in a subsequent post.
I'll illustrate ABC in the context of parameter inference for a Markov process with an intractable transition kernel: the discrete stochastic Lotka-Volterra model. A function for simulating exact realisations from the intractable kernel is included in the smfsb CRAN package discussed in a previous post. Using pMCMC to solve the parameter inference problem is discussed in another post. It may be helpful to skim through those posts quickly to become familiar with this problem before proceeding.
So, for a given proposed set of parameters, realisations from the process can be sampled using the functions simTs and stepLV (from the smfsb package). We will use the sample data set LVperfect (from the LVdata dataset) as our "true", or "target" data, and try to find parameters for the process which are consistent with this data. A fairly minimal R script for this problem is given below.
This script should take 5-10 minutes to run on a decent laptop, and will result in histograms of the posterior marginals for the components of and . Note that I have deliberately adopted a functional programming style, making use of the lapply function for the most computationally intensive steps. The reason for this will soon become apparent. Note that rather than pre-specifying a cutoff , I've instead picked a quantile of the distance distribution. This is common practice in scenarios where the distance is difficult to have good intuition about. In fact here I've gone a step further and chosen a quantile to give a final sample of size 1000. Obviously then in this case I could have just selected out the top 1000 directly, but I wanted to illustrate the quantile based approach.
One problem with the above script is that all proposed samples are stored in memory at once. This is problematic for problems involving large numbers of samples. However, it is convenient to do simulations in large batches, both for computation of quantiles, and also for efficient parallelisation. The script below illustrates how to implement a batch parallelisation strategy for this problem. Samples are generated in batches of size 10^4, and only the best fitting samples are stored before the next batch is processed. This strategy can be used to get a good sized sample based on a more stringent acceptance criterion at the cost of addition simulation time. Note that the parallelisation code will only work with recent versions of R, and works by replacing calls to lapply with the parallel version, mclapply. You should notice an appreciable speed-up on a multicore machine.
Note that there is an additional approximation here, since the top 100 samples from each of 10 batches of simulations won't correspond exactly to the top 1000 samples overall, but given all of the other approximations going on in ABC, this one is likely to be the least of your worries.
Now, if you compare the approximate posteriors obtained here with the "true" posteriors obtained in an earlier post using pMCMC, you will see that these posteriors are really quite poor. However, this isn't a very fair comparison, since we've only done 10^5 simulations. Jacking N up to 10^7 gives the ABC posterior below.
This is a bit better, but really not great. There are two basic problems with the simplistic ABC strategy adopted here, one related to the dimensionality of the data and the other the dimensionality of the parameter space. The most basic problem that we have here is the dimensionality of the data. We have 16 (bivariate) observations, so we want our stochastic simulation to shoot at a point in a 16- or 32-dimensional space. That's a tough call. The standard way to address this problem is to reduce the dimension of the data by introducing a few carefully chosen summary statistics and then just attempting to hit those. I'll illustrate this in a subsequent post. The other problem is that often the prior and posterior over the parameters are quite different, and this problem too is exacerbated as the dimension of the parameter space increases. The standard way to deal with this is to sequentially adapt from the prior through a sequence of ABC posteriors. I'll examine this in a future post as well, once I've also posted an introduction to the use of sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers for static problems.
For further reading, I suggest browsing the reference list of the Wikipedia page for ABC. Also look through the list of software on that page. In particular, note that there is a CRAN package, abc, providing R support for ABC. There is a vignette for this package which should be sufficient to get started.
Thanks for this post. I do find the wikipedia page on ABC (also available as a PLOS article by Sunnåker and colleagues) useful, and the practical example presented there quite captivating. However both me and my students find that Wikipedia article a little confusing (I am writing this as a 'warning' to the occasional reader) as it first presents an experiment represented as a hidden Markov model, but then the whole inference seems to be based on a system observed without error (i.e. the 'gamma' parameter is ignored during the inference). Other than that it's a very good presentation.
First I would like to thank Darren Wilkinson for a very nice entry on ABC, and for refering to our topic page review on the topic. I would also like to thank Umberto for information regarding the missing value of gamma in the example in the article, and for the kind words regarding our article. However, I just happen to see this post by chance, and since the publication of the ABC review we haven't been contacted by anyone regarding the value of gamma, so we haven't had the chance to add the information about gamma until now.
Actually, we used gamma = 0.8 in the example (and not 1, which would have meant no measurement noise). However, this information somehow disappeared during the preparation of the PLoS article. To make the example as clear as possible we assumed that the value of gamma (=0.8) is known prior to the analysis, but in general gamma can of course be estimated as well for this model. We apologize that the information regarding the value of gamma was missing in the example.
Consider the sequence used in the article: AAAABAABBAAAAAABAAAA. If gamma would be (close to) one (negligible measurement noise) it would mean that the only chance for a flip would be that a true flip has occured (not caused by measurement noise). Since we have 6 (of out 21 possible) switches between A and B in the sequence, the posterior for theta would not have the highest mass close to 0 (as in the example figure), but at a larger theta value. I tried to recompute the theoretical posterior for gamma at 1, which confirms this conclusion. In principle, it is therefore possible to see that gamma cannot have been set close to 1 in the computation of the posterior. Finally, note that theta appears to have a lower value that that used to generate the sequence (0.25), mainly due to that the sequence is short in combination with fast switches from B back to A (making experimental noise more likely than true switches in the system).


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In the immediate aftermath of Ted Cruz's speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump tweeted that he'd known that Cruz would not endorse him and called it "no big deal." Two days later, after some pointed remarks from Cruz, Trump is now accusing the Texas senator of pulling a fast one.
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SHROUDS (Sudarios) is the result of multiple theoretical concerns, an infinity of technical quests, and an observation of the world from a certain context.
My decision to create this work stems from questions which have remained from previous photographic series, but are the consequences of the same process that began with my series SILENCES (Silencios, 2004), which deals with survivors of the Second World War who live in Colombia.
These questions are also to be found in DRIFTING AWAY (Río Abajo, 2007-2008), a series which deals with the victims of forced disappearance, and BY FORCE OF BLOOD (A Punta de Sangre, 2009), another series in which I examine the idea of the search for the bodies of the disappeared by their families who, in the midst of despair, find a ray of hope in the vultures that might lead them to the remains of their loved ones. To date I have received the testimonies of more than 300 victims of the violence in Colombia. They have confided intimacies of this violence to me: not only its harrowing details but the way they rebuild their lives and keep going despite what they have suffered.
Many times, with my camera, I have been a witness of the moment when people have to close their eyes as they recall the event which divided their life into two parts. The intention of the SHROUDS series is to enable the spectator to enter into and walk through these impenetrable and apparently alien worlds, when s/he observes that moment in which these women close their eyes because they find no other way to communicate the true dimension of the horror which they witnessed and the intensity of the sorrow to which they were subjected.
The women whose faces appear in SHROUDS were first-hand witnesses of acts of horror. They were forced to feel in their own flesh or in front of their own eyes that there is no difference between human beings and the most savage beasts of nature; or rather, that there is a difference and it is that we are the only species capable of mass murder and the only ones who do not adapt to our own kind.1
1. Nikolaas Timbergen, cited by Erich Fromm, Anatomía de la destructividad humana. Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1975; 2004. p. 35.
Erika Diettes is a visual artist who lives and works in Bogotá. She works mainly with photography to explore issues of memory, pain, absence and death. She has a Master's degree in Anthropology from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), with a Licenciatura in Visual Arts and Communication from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá. She has authored several essays on artistic representation in times of war, and her photographic and essayistic production has been included in various books, newspapers and journals. Her work is part of the permanent collection of several major museums and has been exhibited at the Museums of Modern Art of Bogotá, Cali, Medellín and Barranquilla, the Museum of the University of Antioquia, the National Museum of Colombia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, Centro Cultural recoleta in Buenos Aires, De Santos Gallery and Houston Museum of Art. Her most recent work, Sudarios, participated in the 2012 Fotofest Biennal, the Festival de la Luz in Buenos Aires, the Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, and the Ballarat Foto Biennale in Australia among others. Erika Diettes' photographs also have been exhibited in other spaces linked to rememoration processes developed by several victims' movements in Colombia.
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Advanced wireless 5G technology has hit the courthouse ahead of its journey to consumers' cellphones as Sprint has charged rival AT&T with misleading customers about its current offering. 5G Evolution and the 5GE indicator simply let customers know when their device is in an area where speeds up to twice as fast as standard LTE are available.
According to a report from Engadget, Sprint accuses AT&T of engaging in a "deceptive 5G E campaign" created to confuse and mislead customers into thinking they're enjoying true 5G support. I have personally already encountered AT&T customers who believe their Samsung phone now has 5G.
Last month, AT&T customers saw a "5G E" logo on their mobile devices in over 400 markets - even though they were still on a 4G network. Although users are still using 4G network, AT&T is calling it 5G Evolution, a faster version of its existing network and a first step on the road to 5G. "It also means we're the only company in the USA that can test the latest updates in real time on a standards based 5G commercial mobile network". Instead, this is AT&T's sneaky way of branding their improved 4G LTE technology, which may now be slightly faster due to carrier aggregation and 4x4 MIMO antennas.
AT&T claims the "E" in 5G E stands for "evolution", implying that the company is, at some point in the future, going to implement the next wave of wireless service. AT&T's service is not 5G-ready or capable, and they have pulled stunts like this in the past. Sprint will have to reconcile its arguments to the FCC that it can not deploy a widespread 5G network without T-Mobile while simultaneously claiming in this suit to be launching "legitimate 5G technology imminently". AT&T didn't back down after being roasted by Verizon and T-Mobile, and now it's up to a court to decide the outcome. We introduced 5G Evolution more than two years ago, clearly defining it as an evolutionary step to standards-based 5G. "Customers want and deserve to know when they are getting better speeds", AT&T said in response to the lawsuit.
Although we have to take Sprint's own carrier-commissioned survey results with a grain of salt, it says that 54 percent of consumers think that 5G E is at least the same or even better than true 5G technology.


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Basic bio: MLS 2001, 1st job 2001, 2nd job 2003, director 2009. Note fast career progression, tie that to broad experiences outside my workplaces.
My organization experiences are largely regional or affinity organizations.
All experiences made me a stronger candidate for each career progression, and gave me the skills I needed to move on. No librarian job, particularly entry level ones, give you all the skills you need or desire to further your career, so you have to seek those elsewhere. I am currently trying to decide where to serve on national level, because the most important thing for me is to find an organization that welcomes me and doesn't make me feel like I'm ramming my face into a brick wall.
You – and your library – cannot fully benefit from being a member unless you understand it.
You cannot enact change from the outside.
Your library is not representative of all libraries.
You are not representative of all librarians.
Orgs can open the door to learning about people who are not like you, and linking you to people who are like you.
I'm asked (endlessly) how I got where I am so fast : I built my skills.
Leadership skills? Volunteer to run something for your org.
Communication skills? Take on outreach for your org.
Facilitation skills? Use your voice and influence on a committee.
Project Management skills? Do ANYTHING for an org.
In short, service is good for volunteer organizations: They need you. And it's good for you, too, in ways that are vital to building, sustaining, and enjoying a career in librarianship. But not if the org makes you feel like you're ramming your face into a brick wall.
find one where you can see yourself getting involved, and then dive in. Not only will you serve the profession, but it will be one of the best professional development activities you will ever undertake for yourself. Where else will you have a chance to stretch your skills in a supportive environment where others want you to succeed?
Orgs have to be welcoming; and too true, some have become a bit moribund, perhaps a sense of entitlement simply becaue of their history. But the association/organization isn't the profession, as you've so amply shown by the list of orgs on your radar.
Librarianship is stronger for the diversity of it's professionals and its associations (although our fissiparous nature may need to be checked;-) and we need opportunities to learn from each other.
Thanks, Robyn. I think that's the key — "a supportive environment where others want you to succeed". That's what I've gotten from the organizations that have meant the most to me. That's a great distillation of something I hadn't pinned down.


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Caldwell on Ngakoue: "We want him here…"
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – He spoke with urgency, as expected.
"This is a win-now league, obviously," David Caldwell said. "We want to win this year, and we'll do the things necessary to put the best team on the field."
This was Tuesday morning. Caldwell, entering his eighth season as the Jaguars' general manager, was speaking at his annual NFL Scouting Combine press conference. As is the norm for a GM at the combine, the availability touched on what lays ahead in the coming weeks – and thoughts on the year ahead.
"All options are on the table," Caldwell said. "We feel like come September, regardless of what happens and who's on this team, we'll feel like a new and improved team."
Caldwell in the coming weeks faces one of the heavier lifts of his Jaguars tenure – the process of preparing the Jaguars' roster and salary cap for the free-agency period that begins with the March 18 start of the 2020 NFL League Year.
The Jaguars began the process this week with the decision to not pick up the option of defensive tackle Marcell Dareus, a move Caldwell confirmed Tuesday and one that gives the team significant salary-cap relief. Caldwell on Tuesday discussed that decision, also discussing the contracts of high-profile veterans such as defensive ends Calais Campbell and Yannick Ngakoue and cornerback A.J. Bouye.
"A lot of the pieces are fluid," Caldwell said.
Caldwell, speaking first at a podium and later to Jacksonville media, discussed several of those pieces Tuesday – perhaps most notably, Ngakoue.
Ngakoue, a third-round selection in the 2016 NFL Draft, is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent March 18, and Caldwell declined to discuss recent speculation about the 2017 Pro Bowl defensive end's future in Jacksonville.
If the sides can't agree to a long-term contract, the Jaguars have the option of using the franchise tag on Ngakoue – a move that restricts player movement in free agency with the player playing on a one-year contract with a salary based on the average of the highest-paid players in the NFL at his position.
The NFL's "franchise-tag window" opens Thursday and closes March 12 this year.
"There's still a process that needs to be played [out]," Caldwell said. "I think you guys know how we feel about him. We want him here. We're going to try to get him here and keep him here one way or another."
Caldwell said that approach was best "for all parties involved – and for Yannick's sake."
"I think all options are on the table," Caldwell said. "We've got to work through the process with him and see where we are."
Caldwell on Tuesday also discussed:
*Dareus. Caldwell, while confirming reports that the team had declined to pick up Dareus' option for 2020, also said: "He's still a guy that we have interested in being back at some point in time. We'll see what his mindset is and where he is from salary demands and stuff like that."
*Campbell. Campbell, a Pro Bowl selection in all three seasons since he signed with the Jaguars as an unrestricted free agent in 2017, has a year remaining on his contract at a $15 million base salary. The team could get $15 million in salary cap relief by releasing Campbell. "We love Calais," Caldwell said. "He's a tremendous player, a tremendous leader. He's recognized amongst the league as one of the leaders not only on our team but of the NFL. We feel like has a lot of football ahead of him. … We're in the business of having good football players, so we'd like to have Calais."
*Bouye. Bouye, veteran cornerback who made the Pro Bowl in 2017 – his first season with the team –has a $13 million base salary in 2020 and the team could save nearly $11.5 million by releasing him. "Those are things we're discussing with Coach Wash (defensive coordinator Todd Wash)," Caldwell said. "A.J. had a nice year last year. We'll explore all options with him. He still has a lot of football left in him – and again, another player we really like here as a person and as a guy. Obviously, you guys know the salary restrictions. Realistically, it's not as bad when you put him in line with the rest of the players in the league." Added Caldwell, "AJ is definitely an asset for us."
Caldwell called all three players – Ngakoue, Campbell and Bouye – "tremendous competitors" and "tremendous leaders," and discussed the need for younger Jaguars players to take their place should they not return next season.
"If we do happen to not have one of them, or two of them, or three of them we have to replace them somehow," Caldwell said. "We have some young guys we think can step up. … If you're a good player and you produce, you have the ability to be a good leader."
Caldwell on Tuesday also discussed running back Leonard Fournette, who will enter his fourth NFL season next season. Because Fournette was a first-round selection in the 2017 NFL Draft, the team has the option on his rookie contract for a fifth season in 2021. The team must decide this offseason whether to pick up that option, something Caldwell said will be done at a later date.
"Our reason right now is we have free agency, then we have the draft, then we have the future and fifth-year option – and any extensions and stuff like that," Caldwell said. "One step at a time for us right now – and that's free agency."
New Jaguars Head Coach Urban Meyer on the importance of the No. 1 overall selection in the 2021 NFL Draft: "Who we pick at that quarterback spot – that's going to be one of the most important decisions I've made in my lifetime, along with the partnership of our owner and general manager…"
Jaguars new Head Coach Urban Meyer made clear Friday his top priority in his new position is putting together a staff: "I have to get a great staff; not a good staff, a great staff…"
New Jaguars Head Coach Urban Meyer and Owner Shad Khan spoke to the media Friday; a day after Meyer's hiring, Khan called the three-time college football championship coach "the man we want and need…"
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Senior writer John Oehser's first 2021 mock draft: While the projected selection at No. 1 overall is unsurprising, plenty of uncertainty surrounds the team's second '21 first-round selection …
Ten Things: On to the offseason
Senior writer John Oehser's 10 things the Jaguars must do in the 2021 offseason …
Mock Draft Tracker 1.0: Expected consensus at No. 1
Jaguars.com 2021 Mock Draft tracker v1.0: Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence a consensus selection for Jaguars at No. 1 overall; opinions more varied regarding the Jaguars' second first-round selection …
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New Orleans Saints vice president/assistant general manager of pro personnel Terry Fontenot reportedly interviewed for the Jaguars' general-manager position Tuesday
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What We Learned: Season finale – and beyond
Senior writer John Oehser examines what we learned from the Jaguars' 28-14 loss to the Indianapolis Colts in the 2020 regular-season finale and the game's aftermath …


The trucking and logistics company reports lower revenue, marginally higher "net" revenue, and higher net income in the second quarter of 2016.
Data source: C.H. Robinson Worldwide 8K filing, July 27, 2016.
A slip in total Q2 2016 total revenue of 7% versus the prior year mirrors a Q1 2016 decline of 7%. Management cited lower pricing in truckload, air, and ocean services as a primary factor behind the softer numbers.
The company managed an increase of 1.7% in "net revenue" -- that is, total revenue less the cost of contracted shipment services. Net revenue margin, an important company metric derived by dividing net revenue by total revenue, improved roughly 1.5 percentage points, to 18%.
Truckload net revenue, which makes up about 55% of total net revenue, dipped 1.4% versus last year, to $329.7 million.
Truckload volumes were actually positive, gaining 3%. But by the middle of the quarter, the decline in truckload price per mile was proceeding at a slower rate than the accompanying decline in transportation costs, resulting in the negative net revenue growth.
In C.H. Robinson's second-largest transportation segment, "LTL," or Less-Than-Truckload, net revenue increased 9%, to $99.8 million, due primarily to appreciable volume expansion. Executives singled out temperature-controlled LTL services, which grew approximately 60% during the quarter, as a notable growth driver.
"Global Forwarding Services," which includes ocean, air, and custom services, increased net revenue by 2.4%, to $91.8 million. Again, the company pointed to healthy volumes undercut by lower pricing power to explain the modest net revenue advancement.
An increase of roughly 70 basis points in operating margin enabled C.H. Robinson to report higher net income despite the lower total revenue.
The company continued to generate ample cash flow during the quarter. C.H. Robinson has produced $247.3 million in operating cash flow in the first six months of 2016.
Management is maintaining cash allocations that are typical for the company so far this year. During the quarter, the organization paid out $63.6 million in dividends, and repurchased $24.9 million of its own shares, bringing year-to-date dividend and buyback totals to $127.5 million and $78.4 million, respectively. That equates to about 79% of net income, which is in the ballpark of management's plan to return 90% of net income to shareholders in 2016.
[W]e pride ourselves on maintaining great execution while we adjust to the market cycles; however, net revenue growth in truckload services is more challenging in this environment. If you look at our historical performance, we've been very consistent at delivering EPS growth that approximates or exceeds our net revenue growth. We achieve this through variable costs, productivity gains, and efficient capital management.
We continue to focus on all of these components of our business model, as we believe it's the right combination to motivate our team, serve customers and carriers more efficiently, and create shareholder value.
Very-recent trends suggest that the conditions referred to above will probably continue in the third quarter. In its investor presentation released alongside earnings, the logistics provider pointed out that, while July volumes have remained positive, total net revenue per day has declined roughly 2% during the month, setting up a "challenging" comparison for the back half of the year.
In line with Wiehoff's comments, the presentation indicated a focus on profitable growth moving forward. To that effect, shareholders looking ahead to Q3 will anticipate some compensation for a lagging top line in the form of further operating margin and net profit gains.


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Jan Greenberg is the co-author of five books on American art and architecture and the author of seven works of fiction for young readers. Her books have received many honors: ALA Notable, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Booklist Editor's Choice, IRA Teacher's Choice, Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, and Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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