I hail from Lee's Summit, Missouri and my heart and mind searches for connection all over the world. I grew up in Wisconsin and Iowa and spent my later high school days in Northern Virginia. I didn't get to form long lasting relationships until my later senior high, college, and beyond years. I am blessed with a patient and talented husband who truly loves me. We were fortunate enough to be blessed with two fantastic kids who are teaching me something every day. I always feel I am on the verge of something and at the same time mustering up the focus to take care of what's in front of me. I'm learning how effective I am at connecting the dots. I am on a journey and a continuous work in progress. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. The Holy Spirit is my encourager. I love my husband and my children. My true friends are few, but precious, and growing. Life, for me, is about learning to intentionally serve with Peace in the gray areas. Being authentic is important. Mercy is a necessity. Laughing is a blessing. And guess what? It's not about me!


When I first graduated from college, there was a Chipotle within walking distance from my office, and a Chipotle within walking distance from my apartment. So yeah, you better believe I was a regular at Chipotle. Once I learned how to, you know, cook and create a budget, my frequency lessened a bit, but overall, I am a Chipotle fan 4 life. And come July 1, I will be signing up for the new Chipotle summer rewards program, Chiptopia. Pretty soon I will be a card-carrying member of the Chipotle fan club. Literally. There is a card involved.
That's right — Chipotle is introducing a temporary, summer-only rewards program for its nearest and dearest customer. The rules are pretty simple. Go into a Chipotle (any of them, they're all participating), and sign up for a Chiptopia card for free. Receive a free bag of chips and guac for signing up (big yes). Then, start buying food.
So how does the rewards program work? There are three Chiptopia tiers: Mild, Medium, and Hot. The first four entrees bought place you in the Mild category. The fifth one you get for free. The next four entrees bought place you in the Medium category, and the ninth one is free. That ninth one also boosts you into the Hot category. Buy two more entrees, and you've won the thing. For that month, anyway.
Now, these numbers are reset to zero at the start of each month. Hit the Hot category all three months (as in, eat at Chipotle 11 times every month), and you'll win catering for 20, or a box of 20 burritos. As in, you will be KWEEN of the office/workplace/classroom/apartment/I don't know your life.
Hit the Medium level all three months (eight meals per month), and you'll win $20 of Chipotle merchandise; a three-month Mild streak will earn you an additional free meal.
Got it? Here are the stipulations. It's one entree per card per day, so you can't go in and buy the office lunch once a month. In addition, each entree has to be at least $6. It's a temporary rewards program, so this is not like an, "Eh, I'll see how I feel once it's not 90 degrees every day" kind of deal. It's a one-time thing, my sweet friends. And finally, your rewards expire after 30 days.
OK now go eat a million pounds of guac! Happy summer!


There seems to be a new generation of Indian chef/patrons who have spent time behind the stoves at London's more progressive top-end Indian restaurants and are now opening their own places showcasing a lighter approach to the food. I can think of Manoj Vasaikar's Indian Zing in Hammersmith and now Sabbir Karim at Namaaste Kitchen in Camden. Sabbir is also the owner of Salaam Namaste in Bloomsbury which has a more traditional approach.
Parkway is the main food hub in Camden. It is a pulsating thoroughfare full of restaurants, pubs and clubs.
Namaaste Kitchen sits about half-way down and the interior is an oasis of calm in brown and white after the hurly-burly of the street.
Fiona from London Unattached and I are met with freshly cooked poppadums and home-made chutneys (£!.20): Mango and pineapple , Tomato and finally a garlicky Coriander. These are some of the best I have tasted and I hope an indicator of what is to come.
While we are looking at the menu the kitchen sends out Panni Puri, little crunchy puffs of unleavened bread with a potato and spice filling and sitting on top of a deliciously sour shot of Tamarind water. In a sense the story of the restaurant's food was in this little dish; intelligent spicing, a lightness of touch and intense flavours.
For our starters we ordered Spicy Soft Shell Crab (£5.95) and Tandoori Aatish-e-Jingha (£5.50).
Deep-fried in a semolina batter and marinated in a green peppercorn and lemon sauce, the crab was tender and brilliantly flavoured with a fig and prune sauce adding spice and depth to the combination of flavours. A great dish.
Tandoori Aatish-e-Jingha was a construction of King prawns marinated in English mustard, yoghourt and spices, cooked in the Tandoor oven and served with aubergine compote and balchao sauce (a Goanese curry). The marinade managed not to overwhelm the prawns and gave them a surprising depth of flavour.
Choosing wine for rich spicy food is really hard and often I get it wrong. For this meal we went with a bottle of 2011 Musar Jeune (£21.50) from the Chateau Musar Bekaa Valley vineyards in Lebanon owned by the Hochar family. It is a mix of Viognier, Vermentino and Chardonnay with herbal and fruit notes and worked really well in context.
Pan-seared Monkfish Tail with tomatoes, lemon sauce and basmati rice (£12.95) was succulent and tasty with a tangy tomato and lemon sauce.
Sesame Baby Aubergine with mustard and curry leaf sauce (£3.50)-a squidgilly unctous curry combo that brought joy to my heart on a cold February day.
These were wiped up with a date and ginger Nan (£2.50), light and fresh from the oven.
and Fiona the Tandoori Pineapple with Coconut Sorbet (£4.50). The sorbet turned out to be ice cream but still went well with the burnt sweetness of the pineapple.
I'm really impressed with Namaste Kitchen. It really isn't necessary to go to Mayfair or Chelsea to get fantastic Indian cooking. You are better off heading for Southall, Hammersmith or now Camden. There is a self-confidence to this restaurant that shows in their approach to the food and the way it is presented. Flavours are intense but not overly hot, everything is freshly prepared, service is friendly without being creepy and the prices are very reasonable. Go!


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Julije Drohobeczky (Gany, kod Užhoroda, Ukrajina, 5. listopada 1853.  Strmac Pribićki kraj Krašića, 11. veljače 1934.), hrvatski grkokatolički biskup, politički i kulturni djelatnik, rusinske nacionalnosti, veliki hrvatski domoljub i borac za hrvatski jezik. Bio je predsjednik Hrvatskog glazbenog zavoda.

Zaredio se za svećenika 1870. godine. U Užhorodu bio je u biskupskoj kancelariji, a poslije profesorom povijesti, pedagogije i glazbe, a potom i ravnateljem učiteljske škole te urednik i suradnik mađarskog časopisa Kelet (Istok).  1891. je izabran i potvrđen za biskupa križevačke biskupije, a svečano je ustoličen 28. kolovoza 1892. u zagrebačkoj katedrali.

Biskupsku je dužnost koju je obnašao do 1917. kad se povukao. Istog je dana postavljen za naslovnog biskupa Polibota. Umro je 1934. kao biskup emeritus križevačke biskupije. Posvetio je nadbiskupa Antala Pappa i biskupa Istvána Miklósyja, a asistirao je pri posvećenju biskupa Ivana Krstitelja Krapca.

Srpski pravoslavci nisu s odobravanjem dočekali njegovo ustoličenje za biskupa, jer su mu zbog vizitacija (po Dalmaciji, Žumberku, Srijemu, Bačkoj) smatrali da time pokušava pounijatiti Srbe, a osobito su mu se velikosrbi i pravoslavni hijerarsi protivili jer se zauzimao za prava Grkokatoličke Crkve. Ustoličenju su se protivili neki političari koji su bili oko lista Obzora, a nakon vizitacija napadali su ga u listovima Srbobranu, Zastavi, Narodnom glasniku i Novom vremenu. Napade je istrpio i u Saboru (srp. zastupnik S. Popović), a razmjer napada dosegao je toliki opseg da je to bila tema njegove pastirske poslanice. Biskupske je okružnice objavio u Hrvatskoj, Balkanu i Katoličkom listu.

Problema je imao s nekatoličkim krugovima, jer je bio protivnik latiniziranja obreda u liturgiji, kao i tome što su htjeli otežati grkokatoličkim svećenicima sklapanje braka. Ustrajao je u tome da se liturgiju Grkokatoličke Crkve u južnoslavenskim krajevima uvede živi narodni jezik. Radi toga eskalirao je stvar sve do pape Lava XIII. Problema s rimokatolicima imao je zbog istarskog sela Riemanja (župa Riemanje i Log u tršćansko-koparskoj biskupiji) koje je htjelo prijeći na grčki obred radi staroslavenskog jezika u crkvi. Drohobeczky je radi toga putovao u Rim da bi to povoljno riješio.

Radio je na razvijanju glazbene kulture u Hrvatskoj, osobito je njegovao crkvenoslavensko pjevanje, te je sredio zbirku crkvenoslavenskih napjeva Venac. Bio je predsjednik Hrvatskog glazbenog zavoda od 1893. do 1919. godine, čiji je bio osnivačem.

Bio je veliki umjetnički mecena, zaslužan za raskošnu obnovu križevačke katedrale Presvetog Trojstva koja je trajala od 1895. do 1897. godine.

Osnovao je Julianum, internat za siromašnu mladež iz Zagore i Žumberka i osnovao dušobrižničke centre za Ukrajince u Srijemu, Slavoniji, Podravini i Bosni. Mnogo je radio i na unaprjeđenju stočarstva i poljodjelstva u okolici Križevaca i na biskupijskom imanju, zbog čega je upao u dug, što su političari i crkveni neistomišljenici jedva dočekali da ga maknu s mjesta biskupa.

Zaslužan je za dolazak redovnica bazilijanki u Hrvatsku; prve redovnice bile su Hrvatice koje su išle u Ukrajinu u novicijat, a poslije se vratile u Križevce gdje su nastavile djelovati.

Angažirao se je i u politici. Neprestano se sukobljavao s eksponentima velikomađarskog nacionalizma u Hrvatskoj Khuenom Héderváryjem i Istvanom Tiszom. U politici je bio neovisan, po okolnostima je bio član Hrvatsko - srpske koalicije 1906. do 1907. godine. U ime hrvatske četrdesetorice dao je izjavu o Riječkoj rezoluciji, a iz Koalicije su ga izbacili zbog nastupa koji je bio u korist Kossuthove željezničke pragmatike.
Zbog čestih nesporazuma i sukoba s političarima i crkvenim uglednicima smijenjen je 1917. godine.

Zadnje je godine života doživio i policijska saslušavanja jer su ga sumnjičili za komunizam. Bio je bez prihoda te su mu prijatelji uspjeli izboriti mirovinu, koju je koristio za pomoć siromašnima i dovršenje kuće i kapelice. Nikodim Milaš ga spominje u svojoj Autobiografiji.

Pokopan je u križevačkoj katedrali u kripti.

Izvori

Životopisi, Križevci
Životopisi, Ukrajina
Rusini u Hrvatskoj
Hrvatski grkokatolički biskupi

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Apple/Foxconn Promises — We'll See
Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dave Johnson
The "independent" audit of working conditions at Apple's Chinese manufacturing supply chain is out, and it is not good. Workers are being exploited in ways that violate human rights standards and laws, and letting them get away with this is costing us our own jobs. Apple's suppliers promise to improve conditions, make workplaces safer, stop forcing such long hours and lift wages. Foxconn even says they'll start obeying Chinese law — but not until next year! If this really does happen can China keep its competitive advantage?
By opening up so-called "free trade" we made democracy a competitive disadvantage. We just let in goods made in places where people have no say, and as a result there is no environmental protection, little worker protection, terrible working conditions, very low wages and terrible exploitation of people. So of course that undercuts goods made where people have a say, and therefore demand better. We made We, the People having a say (democracy) into a competitive disadvantage! Because we make this mistake we lost millions of jobs, tens of thousands of factories, and entire industries. We devastated out not just towns and cities, but entire regions. (See Free Trade Or Democracy, Can't Have Both.)
Free People Won't Tolerate That
A recent groundbreaking New York Times story by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work, exposed how workers are treated by Apple's suppliers. Summary: Steve Jobs told President Obama, "Those jobs aren't coming back," because factories in China have people living in crowded dorm rooms where they can be rousted in the middle of the night and made to work 12-14 hour shifts, 7 days a week, standing the whole time, for very little pay, using toxic chemicals, and all kinds of other violations of human rights. Corporations can't get "performance" and "efficiency" and "productivity" — profits — like that out of free people who have a say, so they move their operations over there and lay off workers and close factories over here. (Important note: it's not just Apple, Apple is the biggest so the company name is really shorthand for the real culprits: namely, all of them.)
The FLA Report
This NY Times story had quite an impact. Apple was worried that people's knowledge of their exploitation of workers in China might affect profits. So Apple responded by hiring the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a "labor monitoring group" that has no actual organized labor organization participation, to conduct an audit of working conditions at Apple's Chinese suppliers. The report found numerous violations of labor standards and even Chinese law. For example, the report found "numerous instances where Foxconn defied industry codes of conduct by having employees work more than 60 hours a week, and sometimes more than 11 days in a row." In addition, the report "also found that 43 percent of workers had experienced or witnessed accidents, and almost two-thirds said their compensation "does not meet their basic needs."
TPM: Apple Supplier Foxconn Violated Workers Rights, Audit Finds,
The 60-plus hour work week found at the factories is above both China's official legal maximum, 49 hours, and the maximum standard allowable by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), the organization that Apple paid to conduct what it said would be an independent audit.
… The FLA inspection also revealed that "more than 43 percent of the workers report that they have experienced or witnessed an accident," and "a considerable number of workers felt generally insecure regarding their health and safety," especially pertaining to aluminum dust, which caused an explosion at a factory in the city of Chengdu in 2011 that killed four workers and injured 77, as the New York Times reported.
Apple's Own Published Standards Violated Chinese Law!
Chinese law limits weekly work time to 49 hours but "industry code" and Apple's standards limits weekly hours to 60. That Apple's (and other companies) own published standards violate even Chinese law demonstrates they were aware they were ignoring the law and using what they could get out of the workers. It demonstrates that these companies are knowingly engaged in illegal exploitation of workers, for profit. It also demonstrates that the Chinese government has been ignoring its own laws.
HuffPo: Foxconn Apple Factories Violated Chinese Labor Laws, According To Fair Labor Association
The Washington-based Fair Labor Association says Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the Taiwanese company that runs the factories, is committing to reducing weekly work time to the legal Chinese maximum of 49 hours.
That limit is routinely ignored in factories throughout China. Auret van Heerden, the CEO of the FLA, said Hon Hai is the first company to commit to following the legal standard.
Apple's and FLA's own guidelines call for work weeks of 60 hours or less.
In a PR attempt to soften the impact of the FLA report, Apple's suppliers made promises to improve.
NY Times, Electronic Giant Vowing Reforms in China Plants,
Responding to a critical investigation of its factories, the manufacturing giant Foxconn has pledged to sharply curtail working hours and significantly increase wages inside Chinese plants making electronic products for Apple and others. The move could improve working conditions across China.
And, get this, they promise to start obeying the law — by July of next year,
Foxconn's promises include a commitment that by July of next year, no worker will labor for more than 49 hours per week — the limit set by Chinese law.
WaPo: Pledge by Apple's iPhone manufacturer in China could set off new round of wage hikes,
Foxconn, owned by Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., promised to limit hours while keeping total pay the same, effectively paying more per hour. Foxconn is one of China's biggest employers, with 1.2 million workers who also assemble products for Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
From the HuffPo story,
"The report will include new promises by Apple that stand to be just as empty as the ones made over the past 5 years," said SumOfUS.org, a coalition of trade unions and consumer groups, ahead of the release of the report.
And from the TPM story,
"For months now, SumOfUs.org members have been calling on Apple to clean up the working conditions in its supply chain in time to produce the next iPhone be the first ethical iPhone," the spokesperson told TPM, "That hasn't changed at all. Our campaign is going to continue until real workers see real improvements — and so far Apple has been all talk and no action."
We'll See
This is one of those "believe it when we see it" situations. Phrases like "lip service" come to mind. We'll see. Apple's supplier promises to start obeying the lay — by July of next year! Wow.
But here is a question: where is our government on this? American companies are breaking laws overseas, exploiting workers and violating human rights standards. They are hoarding the resulting cash offshore to avoid paying their taxes, when we have a national deficit. These actions by these companies are wiping out our jobs and communities. Where is our government on this?
Click here to see the Fair Labor Association report.
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF.
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Ecuador is scheduled to compete at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 14 July to 30 July.

Medalists

Open water swimming

Ecuador has entered seven open water swimmers

Swimming

Ecuadorian swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):

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DJ Dipika Pandey followed her passion for music and her interest to entertain the crowd. She is Djing since 8 years now. She has made the crowd groove in various locations pan India and her forte is playing a varied style of music like commercial house, progressive house, EDM, Hip-Hop, Bollywood and various others. She is one of the best DJ for Commercial house.
DJ Dipika Pandey has been considered as one of the most passionate and energetic DJ by almost everyone with whom she has worked. DJ Dipika Pandey always gets the loudest cheers from the crowd.
My own passion and in fact my inclination towards music inspired me to be a DJ.
Well my Biggest inspiration is my Mother who was and will always be there with me in my ups and downs! More than love I respect my mom, No one can replace her.
Well this question should be asked to the audience that hear me! But my friends say when I play, their moods definitely goes from down to right up there to the party. I believe it's a good compliment for me! And I am confident about myself in any situation.
If you wanna know about my style then I would say I love to be casual along with being classy! I love to be hip hop along with being gentle and subtle! I wanna balance everything in my life so that I don't miss out on any part. And yes Black is my favorite color, Me Devil!! LOL.
In order to pump the crowd I play according to the ambiance! For Instance if it's full on dance party then I play in top pops and dance nos and if I see the atmosphere is romantic I transform my music and play accordingly. You have to play what people wanna listen. I just do that and people get pumped up all by themselves!
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GENEVA - The Global Fund welcomes the early release of new WHO guidelines for HIV treatment. The new guidelines, which will be released in full later this year, call for antiretroviral treatment to be given as soon as a person is diagnosed with HIV. Recent studies have shown that treating people with HIV as soon as possible keeps people healthier longer, and reduces the risk of passing the virus on to others.
The guidelines also recommend offering pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to people at "significant" risk to help prevent them from contracting HIV. PrEP could be a useful tool to complement existing prevention measures for marginalized and at-risk groups such as adolescent girls and young women, men who have sex with men, sex workers and others. PrEP should be used in conjunction with existing preventative and treatment measures to fight the disease, including HIV testing, counseling and care, and access to condoms and safe injection equipment.
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Incumbent judge, district attorney vie for Oconto County Circuit Court seat
Kent Tempus
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OCONTO – Oconto County's district attorney, Edward Burke, is challenging incumbent Judge Jay N. Conley for the Oconto County Circuit Court Branch 2 post in the April 5 general election.
Burke and Conley first vied for the Branch 2 post in 2010, with Conley taking 57% of the vote.
Conley, who was unopposed in 2016, is completing his second six-year term as one of two judges in Oconto County.
Before that, Conley was the district attorney in the county for about 19 years.
Burke, who was elected district attorney in 2012 and reelected in 2016 and 2020, previously served in private practice and was a public defender.
Ed Burke
Highest education level: Juris Doctorate, Marquette University, 1990.
Family: Wife, Carrie Burke; four children
Relevant experience: 1990 to 2005, public defender, criminal defense; 2005-2013, small-business owner, with private practice in areas of family, probate, estate planning and real estate law; 2013-present, criminal prosecutions and certain civil cases on behalf of state agencies.
Jay Conley
Highest education level: Law degree from Marquette University, 1977.
Family: Wife Linda Conley, three children, one granddaughter.
Relevant experience: I was in the private practice of law in Oconto County from 1978-1991. I did general practice, including some municipal work, principally for the Village of Suring. I was District Attorney for Oconto County from 1991-2010. I have been Oconto County Circuit Court Judge, Branch II, since 2010.
Why are you running for office?
Burke: I can do a better job by being innovative in approaching the way cases are handled. I am a problem solver by nature and can work with the various parties in the justice system to come up with solutions to problems facing our community.
Conley: I am the Judge now and have been Judge for more than 11 years. I love my job and look forward to going to work. I feel I have a lot to offer and want to continue to serve and protect our community.
Why should voters elect you?
Burke: I have a personal interest in keeping Oconto County safe for all Oconto County citizens. I have three children and a granddaughter who still live in Oconto County. I have served Oconto County for 30 years as public defender, a small-business owner with two employees, and District Attorney.
Conley: I have a proven record of service to Oconto County as District Attorney and Judge for more than 30 years. I am fair, honest, and highly experienced. I believe in the rule of law, respect for law and law enforcement. I believe in protecting the community.
What are your recommendations to improve the administration of justice in Oconto County?
Burke: Establish a drug court and preside over it to provide another tool for Courts to use to battle drug dependence. Use video conferencing for routine appearances for incarcerated persons, eliminating transporting Defendants from all across the State for a five-minute hearing. Use video conferencing to allow attorneys to appear remotely to relieve calendar congestion. At times, attorneys have conflicting commitments in other counties. By allowing remote appearances we can keep cases moving forward in Oconto County. Work with the Sheriff's Department, Prosecutors and Defense bar and service providers to establish diversion programs for certain offenses.
Conley: A new law just took effect that will allow most court appearances to be conducted virtually with the consent of the parties. This can save expense and help expedite cases. We have a Committee that meets, regularly, to discuss ways to improve the system. We will be looking at ways to address the explosion of drug cases the County has experienced, recently. I am encouraged at the educational programming now available to our jail inmates that Sheriff Skarban has advocated for. Incarceration alone will not solve the problem. Rehabilitation has to be part of the solution as well.
What aspects of the justice system in Oconto County does the public seem to misunderstand, and is there any way to improve that?
Burke: I don't think the public understands that courts are meant to be participatory, to be observed. The public is always able to come in and watch how our courts operate and watch the justice system in action. There are benches in the courtrooms for a reason. I understand that most people work during court hours. I would hold night court at least once a month to allow for public participation in the court process. Broadcasting court proceedings via a service such as YouTube would also allow the public to see what its tax dollars are doing.
Conley: I have been out in public quite a bit, recently, and I don't feel the public misunderstands the justice system here. Most have a good grasp of it. People are frustrated and disturbed about individual cases and situations, and that isn't going to change. I do think, at times, people don't understand the law, and general legal education is a good thing. When I was District Attorney, another attorney and I spoke at local high schools around law day about the law. I thought it was, extremely, beneficial for everyone. I think Student Government Day at the Courthouse, sponsored by our veterans, is a wonderful experience for everyone. Students ask a lot of questions! Education is a great way to alleviate any misunderstanding.
The cash bail system has been criticized in some areas of the state as disproportionately affecting minority populations, as well as allowing some defendants to be released on low bond, only to commit further offenses. In light of the relatively high number of bail jumping cases filed in Oconto County in recent years, how can you, Judge Conley, assure the public that bail is being is set appropriately? And to Mr. Burke, what steps would you take to address the above listed concerns?
Burke: In cases involving violence, there should be a bond or no bond decision that the court makes based on a set of risk factors. In certain cases, a defendant should not be released from custody until the case is concluded. Oconto County bail jumping cases generally involve a defendant not complying with conditions of bond such as not consuming alcohol. If we can save money in other areas, such as not transporting prisoners to court, we can contract with a service to monitor defendants released on bond who may be high risk to violate bond, or because of the nature of the offense, may be a risk to the public. Things like GPS monitoring and daily contact would reduce the number of undetected bond violations.
Conley: I think that communities around the country that, largely, eliminated cash bail or set unreasonably low amounts have had negative, sometimes tragic consequences. Cash bail is important. That being said, the law has to be followed and Chapter 969 of the Wisconsin Statutes sets forth the law, along with our Constitutions. Every single case is different, and the purpose of bond is to make sure the person appears in court. The Defendant is presumed innocent. Wisconsin does set a lengthy list of factors the Court can consider in addressing bond. One is the gravity of the offense or offenses, so the Court has the power to set a higher cash bond in serious cases. We always strive to set an appropriate bond.
How has the implementation Marsy's Law impacted the administration of justice in Oconto County?
Burke: From the prosecution perspective, very little. We have been operating a Victim Witness Office as part of the District Attorney's Office for decades. Marsy's Law adds some additional requirements. However, the Victim Witness Coordinator is trained to deal with those changes.
Conley: Marsy's Law further enshrined Victim Rights in the Wisconsin Constitution. Our Victim/Witness Coordinator, Rachael Race, attends many hearings and does a great job. I typically check with her and the District Attorney to ensure that Victim Rights have been complied with.
Now that an appeal of Marsy's Law has been accepted by the state Supreme Court, do you agree or disagree with the contention that the ballot question was legally inadequate and should be overturned, and why?
Burke: I read the briefs of both parties. I believe that the question was drafted in compliance with State laws. I do not believe the referendum item mislead the public in any way. The lower court's decision was a prime example of judicial activism, not sound judgment.
Conley: I am not going to express an opinion on a pending case before the Supreme Court. It is the Supreme Court that should decide that question.
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Q: Why is my newObject method not called? I am following an exercise from Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa book - chapter about Core Data. I have a document-based application that saves car(s) data into an array controller, it then uses bindings... The problem is that I have a date picker, and I want to initialize it to today's date as soon as a new car is added, so we're subclassing NSArrayController's newObject method. But, it always shows 2/12/1982! The NSLog inside the newObject method is not called. What am I (or book) missing?
CarArrayController.h
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface CarArrayController : NSArrayController

@end

CarArrayController.m
#import "CarArrayController.h"

@implementation CarArrayController

- (id)init  //this is not called!
{
    self = [super init];
    if (self) {
        NSLog(@"in init");
    }
    return self;
}

-(id)newObject {   // not called either
    id newObj = [super newObject];
    NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
    [newObj setValue:now forKey:@"datePurchased"];
    NSLog(@"yep");
    return newObj;
}

@end

MyDocument.xib
Has an instance of NSArrayController, its Custom Class name is set to CarArrayController.
PS: For my Array Controller in MYDocument.xib, "Prepares Content" button is checked, so automaticallyPreparesContent should be set to YES...?

A: I think there is a bug in Xcode 4.2, there is a thread on that in bignerdranch's forum: http://forums.bignerdranch.com/viewtopic.php?f=183&t=3465
Somehow Xcode doesn't realize that I changed the Array Controller to my custom class. To get it to work, I first added the initWithcoder method, then archived the application, then went back and deleted the initWithCoder method (going back to my original code), and now it works! People in the thread above propose other solutions that don't make sense… I'll assume it's a bug…

A: To complement janehouse's answer, I had the same issue in the same book, albeit in the later fifth edition using Swift. Reading through that forum link, I found this post from riceboy which worked for me:

I think it is a bug.
For my part I had the same issue. What I did was:
1 - on "Textual Date Picker With Stepper" > "Value" tab, I unchecked the "Bind to Cars" checkbox.
  2 - CMD+Shift+K to clean the project
  3 - CMD+Shift+B to build the project
  4 - Run it and close it
  5 - Back on "Textual Date Picker With Stepper" > "Value" tab, I checked the "Bind to Cars" checkbox.
  6 - Repeated step 2 to 4 then it worked...
Be sure that the class of your "Cars" controller is set to CarArrayController

I can only make the assumption that because we created the binding before setting our NSArrayController instance to the subclassed CarArrayController, those changes don't get propagated to the original bindings.

A: To set default values on new instances of core data entities, you would be better off overriding awakeFromInsert in your managed object subclass. Set the default values there instead.
As to why your overridden method is not being called, I can only assume that you have made a subclass of NSArrayController but are somehow not using it? How does the controller show up if you log it?

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How to Help Your Overly Active Dog - Petpav - Your Online Magazine for All Things Pet!
If your dog is filled with an abundant amount of energy, he or she is probably an overactive dog. An overactive dog typically has endless energy, loves to walk for hours and never seems to get tired. As a dog owner, there is no need for alarm with an overactive dog; just make sure that an overactive dog gets enough exercise and training.
However, a hyperactive dog is more problematic as he or she is similar to a child that is hyperactive… his activity is almost frantic. A hyperactive dog will pant constantly and has a heart rate that is elevated. And, this behavior continues until he or she is so tired, that the poor pup passes out. This can be dangerous in dogs and should be monitored.
The first thing you should do if you think that you have a hyperactive dog is take him or her to the vet to see if there is a medical issue. Make sure to properly document why or how you think your dog is hyperactive. If your dog truly is hyperactive, he most likely will demonstrate this behavior while you are with your vet.
Based on a full medical examination of your seemingly hyper dog, your vet can come to a conclusion about the reason for his excess activity levels. She may prescribe medication to treat any medical causes of his behavior. There are some medications that you can try to see if it helps the issue.
Even if your vet does describe medication, you should first try exercising your dog more and see if this helps his over-activity. If you take him or her on runs and teach him after to sit down on a mat and rest, this could help. Remember, that behavioral changes take time so don't expect results overnight. With time and effort, you might be able to calm your dog merely by working him out more.
Some hyperactive dogs become this way due to lack of training. Maybe you adopted a dog that won't settle down. Or maybe you have given your dog too much attention even when they are barking, jumping or biting your furniture and he likes the attention. Your dog will need to learn the basics of dog training and if you think he is hyperactive, you should hire a dog trainer. A trainer will be more skilled to teach you how to work with your dog.
Some dogs suffer from anxiety and are constantly stressed out. This usually manifests itself by dogs that pace the floor and pant heavily. These dogs might have a compulsive disorder and as in humans can repeat the same behavior over and. These dogs aren't hyperactive; they just need help to settle down. A vet will know if your dog has a compulsive disorder and will prescribe medication or it could be time to see an animal behavior specialist.
If your dog is seemingly hyperactive, make sure to give him plenty of time, love, attention and exercise and that might just be the cure.
Great tips on this! I have such an overactive dog – she is young though. We have to take a few daily to tire her out!


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Samuel Dougal is launching an eponymous ready-to-wear collection this season at London Fashion Week. At only 26, the Cornwall native has already dressed Rihanna and Paloma Faith. Before creating his own line, Dougal trained under greats like Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy. His debut collection focuses on tailoring and creating sleek and modern silhouettes, with a focus of quality fabrics and colors pulled from distinct locations around the United Kingdom, including cool greys inspired by the north of England and rich reds from Scotland.
Einer hails from Estonia, but moved to London in order to study at the University of Westminster and Central Saint Martins. The designer will show her second collection during London Fashion week, and if we have any indication from the debut, it will be playful and exuberant. Roberta interned at Mary Katrantzou, where she certainly gained experience working with bold color. The designer uses embellishment and hand embroidery to create special ready-to-wear pieces that feel young, and downright fun.
Roberta Einer Fall 2016 moodboard.
ROHK is a new brand founded by Rok Hwang in 2015. Before launching his label, Hwang worked under Phoebe Philo at Céline, and freelanced for Louis Vuitton and Chloe. The Central Saint Martins grad is interested in mixing sensual elegance with a raw attitude, and twisting classic pieces so they feel a bit odd, and new. The result is interesting women's wear that can be carried over from season to season, year to year.


There were a number of fantastic entries this year. It's always difficult to compare big budget items, such as Biffy the Vampire Slayer, with low budget or independently produced items. But, the list below spans the gamut and should provide something for everyone.
With transsexual demons and lesbian wtiches as the main characters, this prime-time TV show has done a lot for the queer horror arena.
A great collection of short horror stories that all have GLBT themes.
The first serious gay werewolf movie. A very poignant look at society.
A sequel to his book 'The Hunger' which was made into a fairly famous movie.
Who knew that queer horror would ever become animated?


For most of us, Thanksgiving is typically a time to reunite with family and gain a few pounds from over-enjoying a table loaded with the requisite turkey, dressing, and all the trimmings. The day is also a highlight for football fans as well as signaling the traditional start of seasonal parties and marathon shopping sprees. It's quite a contrast from the holiday's earliest beginnings when, in 1621, the Pilgrims of New England celebrated a day of thanksgiving in gratitude for their good health and harvest, prompted in part by the death of half of the Plymouth colony from starvation and cold during the previous winter . . .
On Veterans Day, we honor and commemorate the men and women who have served our country through their military service. Our focus is naturally directed toward those who fought our country's enemies, unselfishly risking their lives to preserve a way of life that is without equal anywhere in the world. Most of these men and women have very personal stories about their war-time duty—memories about a particular event or situation that touched their lives while, in many cases, they were far from home . .


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Vice Adm. Tim Giardina Fired as No. 2 Nuclear Commander
President Obama relieves him of command amid gambling investigation.
ByLUIS MARTINEZ
Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina is shown in a Nov. 11, 2011, photo.
Oct. 9, 2013 — -- The No. 2 officer at U.S. Strategic Command has been relieved of command by President Obama because of a "loss of confidence" in his abilities to carry out his post.
Vice Adm. Tim Giardina has been the focus of a criminal investigation looking into his suspected use of counterfeit gambling chips in a poker game at a western Iowa casino.
StratCom commander Gen. Robert Kehler suspended Giardina from his duties as deputy commander on Sept. 3 and recommended to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that he be relieved from his post. Kehler's moves were guided by preliminary information he had received from investigations of Giardina's alleged activities.
A defense official said Wednesday that "based upon a recommendation from the Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, the president determined Oct. 3 that Vice Adm. Timothy M. Giardina, former Deputy Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (O-9), should be relieved."
President Obama became involved in the case because only the president can relieve a three- and four-star officer from his post.
Giardina has been reassigned to an undetermined position within the Navy.
The vice admiral remains under investigation by the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) which launched its own probe of Giardina after being contacted by Iowa authorities in mid-July.
David Dales, a special agent in charge with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), told ABC News in late September that his agency began an investigation this past June centered on the introduction of counterfeit poker chips in a poker game at the Horseshoe Council Bluffs Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa. That city is located across the Missouri River from Omaha, Neb., which is near StratCom's headquarters.
Dales said the use of counterfeit chips is "pretty rare" and constituted "a Class D felony in the state of Iowa." Dale would not characterize the amount of chips used in the game, but described it as "a significant monetary amount."
He said his agency contacted StratCom "when we discovered the subject of the investigation that we had developed, and who that person was."
A source familiar with the case said Giardina was the subject of DCI's investigation.
Dale said the investigation is still open and no charges have been brought in the case, though DCI's investigation is pretty much complete. The county attorney has decided to hold off on charges for the moment and DCI is fully cooperating with the investigation being conducted by NCIS, he said.
Council Bluffs is home to three casinos that do the most gambling business in the state of Iowa. Horseshoe Council Bluffs Casino, run by Harrah's, is home to a greyhound race track and has table games and slot games inside a casino area.
A defense official said there is nothing to indicate there's been any compromise of StratCom's mission or classified material in the matter involving Giardina.
StratCom, based at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb., oversees the military's nuclear units and weapons.
Giardina was scheduled to leave StratCom later this year and his successor, Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, had already been nominated by the White House.


"I visit Ian's stream whenever I can and invariably find myself smiling, admiring, or just wondering how on earth he does it.
His work is so colourful and lovely captured. I admire his panos as they are just wonderful and an inspiration for a lot of people on Flickr and myself being one of them.
And as if that's not enough, he is one of the most generous commentators I've ever come across on Flickr and is always punctilious in thanking others for their comments on his own pictures.
Thanks for sharing your world with us Ian."


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\section{Introduction}

Many natural phenomena can be described as continuous stochastic processes. The prototypical example for a stochastic phenomenon is Brownian diffusion of a particle within a liquid, usually modeled as a Wiener process. Other systems, such as a particle diffusing within a homogeneous gravitational field, involve a combination of stochastic and deterministic forces. These cases can be modelled by adding a drift term to the stochastic differential equation of the Wiener process. Furthermore, many systems show a tendency to return to a preferred equilibrium state, such as in the case of particle diffusion within a harmonic potential well, which is modeled by the Ornstein$\!-\!$Uhlenbeck process process.

Stochastic processes such as the Wiener or Ornstein$\!-\!$Uhlenbeck process deal with a continuous state variable (e.g., the particle's coordinate $x(t)$) as a function of continuous time. However, when a continuous particle trajectory is measured, the resulting data is typically a time series $x_t$, where the index $t\in\left\{0,1,2,\ldots\right\}$ is counting discrete time points separated by a fixed sample interval $\delta t$. It is most natural to model such time series as a discrete stochastic processes, also called a Discrete Time Random Walk (DTRW) model. While, in general, a DTRW may have a continuous state variable $x\in\Re$, it is often advantageous to further simplify the mathematics and to reduce also the state space of the system to a discrete set, such as $x_t\in\left\{\ldots,-2,-1,0,1,2,\ldots\right\}$. The simplest example is an uncorrelated random walk where the state variable $x_t$ changes after each time interval $\delta t$ by plus or minus a fixed step length $\delta l$. This model can be shown to converge towards the Wiener process in the limit of small $\delta t$ and small $\delta l$.

Possible applications of DTRW models go far beyond traditional physics and include, for example, many biological and economic systems. In particular, the spatio-temporal motion patterns of various biological agents (animals, cells) could be successfully described by DTRW models, but only after correlations between successive steps have been included. In the simplest version of a discrete time correlated random walk (DTCRW), the next step has the same sign as the previous one with a probability $q\!\neq\!\frac{1}{2}$. For values $q\!<\!\frac{1}{2}$, the random walk is called anti-persistent, correponding to a back-and-forth motion. For $q\!=\!\frac{1}{2}$ it behaves like an uncorrelated random walk. For $q\!>\!\frac{1}{2}$, the random walk is called persistent, since it consists of long chains of steps in the same direction. This model is equivalent to a Markov chain and has first been investigated in 1920 \cite{fuerth20}. It is possible to derive analytically the resulting displacement distribution $P(\Delta x, \Delta t)$, which is defined as the probablity that the `particle' has moved a distance of $\Delta x=k\delta x$ during a time interval $\Delta t =n\delta t$, as well as the mean squared displacement $\overline{\Delta x^2}(\Delta t)$ \cite{hanneken98}.

Besides $\delta x$ and $\delta t$, which set the spatial and temporal scale of the system, the only true parameter of this standard correlated random walk model is the persistence parameter $q\!\in\![0,1]$. It directly determines the correlation time $\tau\!=\!\frac{\delta t}{2(1-q)}$ of the velocity autocorrelation function $C_{vv}(\Delta t)\!=\!\sigma_v^2 e^{-\Delta t/\tau}$. This correlation time $\tau$ becomes also apparent in the mean squared displacement $\overline{\Delta x^2}(\Delta t)$ as the characteristic time separating the ballistic regime (small lagtimes) from the diffusive regime (large lagtimes).

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=9cm]{figs/phases.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig:phases} Example of a temporally inhomogeneous random walk (b), consisting of three subsequent correlated random walks with different degrees of persistence (a).}
\end{figure}

Not all correlated random walks, however, can be characterized by a single correlation time $\tau$. For example, it is known that individual cells that are migrating on planar substrates can switch between different migration modes, ranging from anti-persistent to highly persistent motion
\cite{potdar10},\cite{niggemann04}.
The mean squared displacement of such cells often approximates a fractional powerlaw over several decades of lagtime \cite{dieterich08}, pointing to a scale-free random process without any unique correlation time. In order to describe such temporally inhomogeneous systems, it is natural to use so-called superstatistical models \cite{beck03}, in which the statistical parameters (correlation times, diffusion constants, etc.) are themselves subject to random temporal fluctuations (compare Fig.\ref{fig:phases}).

In this paper, we start from the standard correlated random walk (CRW) model with persistence parameter $q$ and its known quantities $P(\Delta x, \Delta t \;|\;q)$ and $\overline{\Delta x^2}(\Delta t \;|\;q)$. We then generalize the model by allowing $q$ to vary throughout the ensemble, according to a fixed distribution $P(q)$. The resulting displacement distribution $\left\langle P(\Delta x, \Delta t) \right\rangle_q$ and mean squared displacement $\left\langle \overline{\Delta x^2}(\Delta t) \right\rangle_q$ of the ensemble can simply be obtained by computing the average of these q-dependent quantities, weighted with $P(q)$. The average will be performed numerically, revealing almost exponentially shaped displacement distributions and a mean squared displacement resembling a fractional powerlaw over several orders of magnitude in the lagtime. Furthermore, we argue that similar statistical properties are expected for homogeneous ensembles, in which the parameters $(q_j(t),\delta x_j(t))$ of each individual walker fluctuate temporarily, provided the parameters can be considered constant for time periods $T\gg\Delta t$ longer than the considered lagtime $\Delta t$.

\section{Model and Results}

\subsection{Standard Correlated Random Walk: CRW model}

Since the statistical properties for this model have been derived analytically in Ref.\cite{hanneken98}, we just repeat the main results here. The displacement distribution for a DTCRW with persistence parameter $q$ is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
&P&(k,n\;|\;q) = P(\Delta x = k\delta x , \Delta t = n\delta t \;|\;q) = \nonumber\\ &=& \sum_{m=1}^{(n-|k|)/2}\! \binom{(n\!+\!k\!-\!2)/2}{m\!-\!1} \binom{(n\!-\!k\!-\!2)/2}{m\!-\!1} \nonumber\\ &\cdot& (1-q)^{2m-1}q^{n-1-2m}  \left( \frac{n(1\!-\!q)+2m(2q\!-\!1)}{2m}  \right),
\end{eqnarray}
where $n$ and $k$ must either both be even or both be odd. It has additionally been assumed that initially (at time step $t\!=\!0$) the probablity for the particle to go left or right are equal. Note that $P(k,n)=0$ for $|k|>n$.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=9cm]{figs/swdCRW.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig:swdCRW} Displacement distributions in the correlated random walk model. Case (a) correponds to an anti-persistent walk ($q=0.1$), case (b) to the uncorrelated walk ($q=0.5$) and (c) to a persistent walk ($q=0.9$). In all cases, the distributions are shown for the three lagtimes $n=8$ (circles), $n=64$ (squares), and $n=512$ (stars). The distribution is only defined at the discrete points, lines are guides for the eye. Note that $P(k,n)=0$ for $|k|>n$.}
\end{figure}

Fig.\ref{fig:swdCRW} shows the evolution of the displacement distribution with lagtime for an anti-persistent, the uncorrelated and a persistent case. For lagtimes much larger then the correlation time, the distributions approach Gaussians. The mean squared displacement is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\overline{\Delta x^2}(n\;|\;q) = \overline{\Delta x^2}(\Delta t =n\delta t \;|\;q ) =\nonumber\\
&&\delta x^2 \frac{nq}{1-q}\left\{ 1-\frac{(2q-1)\left[1-(2q-1)^n\right]}{2nq(1-q)} \right\}.
\end{eqnarray}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{figs/msdCRW.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig:msdCRW} Mean squared displacement in the correlated random walk model. The red line correponds to an anti-persistent walk ($q=0.1$), the green line to the uncorrelated walk ($q=0.5$) and the blue line to a persistent walk ($q=0.9$), just as in Fig.\ref{fig:swdCRW}. The thin black lines show a linear and a quadratic dependence.}
\end{figure}

Fig.\ref{fig:msdCRW} shows the mean squared displacement (MSD) as a function of lagtime for the same three degrees of persistence as in Fig.\ref{fig:swdCRW}. In the uncorrelated case (green line), the MSD is linear, corresponding to diffusive random motion. An anti-persistent walk (red line) with the same step length has a smaller MSD, compared to the diffusive case. For a persistent random walk (blue line), the MSD starts ballistically for lagtimes smaller than the correlation time and then continues to grow diffusively.
\vspace{0.5cm}

\subsection{Inhomogeneous Ensemble}

We now assume an inhomogeneous ensemble of correlated random walkers $j$ with different values $q_j$, distributed according to a given distribution $p(q)$. We can then compute the statistical quantities of the ensemble by averaging over the corresponding quantities of the standard correlated walk, so that

\begin{equation}
\left\langle P(k,n) \right\rangle_q = \int_{q\!=\!0}^1 dq \;P(q)\; P(k,n\;|\;q)
\end{equation}

and

\begin{equation}
\left\langle \overline{\Delta x^2}(n\;|\;q) \right\rangle_q = \int_{q\!=\!0}^1 dq \;P(q)\; \overline{\Delta x^2}(n\;|\;q).
\end{equation}

There are specific choices for the distribution $P(q)$ of peristence parameters for which the integrals can be calculated analytically. For example, in the case of an equal distribution $P(q)=1$ in the full range $q\!\in\![0,1]$, the averaged mean squared distribution is given by

\begin{eqnarray}
&&\left\langle \overline{\Delta x^2}(n\;|\;q) \right\rangle_{q,P(q)=1}  =\nonumber\\
&=& \epsilon + (n+1)\cdot\left[ \Psi\left(\frac{n+3-\epsilon}{2}\right) - \Psi\left(\frac{3}{2}\right) \right].
\label{eq:Analyt}
\end{eqnarray}

Here, $\epsilon\!=\!0$ for even times $n$ and $\epsilon\!=\!1$ for odd times $n$. The digamma function $\Psi(x)=\frac{d}{dx} \log\left(\Gamma(x)\right)$ is defined as the logarithmic derivative of the gamma function. For a derivation of Eq.(\ref{eq:Analyt}) see Appendix.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=9cm]{figs/swdFPM.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig:swdFPM} Displacement distributions for an inhomogeneous ensemble of correlated random walkers. Case (a) corresponds to equally distributed degrees of persistence with $P(q)=1$, case (b) to a distribution $P(q)\propto\gamma^4$. In all cases, the distributions are shown for the three lagtimes $n=8$ (circles), $n=64$ (squares), and $n=512$ (stars). The distribution is only defined at the discrete points, lines are guides for the eye. Note that $P(k,n)=0$ for $|k|>n$.}
\end{figure}

We have also investigated distribution of the form $P(q)\propto q^{\gamma}$ for the persistence parameter $q\!\in\![0,1]$ and computed the averages numerically for the cases $\gamma=0$ and $\gamma=4$. The resulting distributions (Fig.\ref{fig:swdFPM}) are strongly leptocurtic and resemble exponential functions, rather than Gaussians, which is usually interpreted as a signal of anomaleous random motion.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{figs/msdFPM.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig:msdFPM} Mean squared displacement for an inhomogeneous ensemble of correlated random walkers, corresponding to the distributions $P(q)\propto q^{\gamma}$ of Fig.\ref{fig:swdFPM}. The blue line despicts the case $\gamma=0$, the green line the case $\gamma=4$. The dots show the analytical result according to formula Eq.(\ref{eq:Analyt}). The thin black lines show the powerlaws $n^1$, $n^{1.3}$ and $n^2$.}
\end{figure}

The corresponding mean squared displacements
(Fig.\ref{fig:msdFPM}) also show clear signatures of anomaleous behavior. In particular, for the case of equally distributed degrees of persistence (blue line), the MSD can be well approximated by a powerlaw with a fractional exponent of about $1.3$ (middle dashed line). In order to confirm our numerical averaging procedure, we have also compared this MSD curve with the analytical result from Eq.(\ref{eq:Analyt}) and found excellent agreement (black dots).

\subsection{Extension of the model and scaling poperties}

A natural extension of the above model is an inhomogeneous ensemble where each walker has not only its own persistence parameter $q_j$, but also an individual step length $\delta x_j$. This extension is actually required for transforming a given ensemble of random walkers from sampling interval $\delta_t$ to another sampling interval $\delta_t^{\prime}$, so that the statistical properties (such as $P(\Delta x, \Delta t \;|\;q)$ and $\overline{\Delta x^2}(\Delta t \;|\;q)$) remain invariant: It has been shown in \cite{met12b} that a single DTCRW with parameters $\left[ \delta t, q, \delta x \right]$ has the same statistical properties as a DTCRW with rescaled parameters $\left[ \delta t^{\prime}=\delta t/s, q^{\prime},\delta x^{\prime} \right]$, if the following scaling relations are used:
\begin{equation} \label{scaleq}
q^{\prime}=q^{\prime}(q,s) = \frac{1}{2}\left( 1\pm \left| 2q-1  \right|^{1/s}  \right), \mbox{and}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation} \label{scalex}
\delta x^{\prime} = \delta x\cdot g(q,s)\;\;\mbox{with}\;\; g(q,s) = \sqrt{\frac{q(1-q)}{q^{\prime}(1-q^{\prime})} \frac{1}{s}  }.
\end{equation}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{figs/ensTrafo.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig:ensTrafo} Scaling transformation of an inhomogeneous ensemble of correlated random walkers to different sampling intervals $\delta t$, using the scaling transformations Eq.\ref{scaleq} and Eq.\ref{scalex}. Each individual member $j$ of the ensemble is represented as a point $(q_j,\delta x_j)$. Solid lines are guides for the eye. For $\delta t=1$, the persistence parameters $q_j$ are equally distributed in [0,1] and all step lengths $\delta x_j$ are set to 1.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includegraphics[width=8cm]{figs/swdTrafo.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig:swdTrafo} Displacement distributions of an inhomogeneous ensemble of correlated random walkers for three different lagtimes. Solid lines correspond to the ensemble sampled at time increments of $\delta t=1$. The dots show that the distributions remain invariant when the ensemble is rescaled to a smaller sampling time $\delta t=1/8$ according to the scaling transformations Eq.\ref{scaleq} and Eq.\ref{scalex}.}
\end{figure}

These scaling relations have to be applied to each individual member of the ensemble. When transforming the ensemble to a smaller sampling time $\delta t^{\prime}<\delta t$, all step sizes decrease, the anti-persistent walkers become even more anti-persistent and the persistent walkers even more persistent (compare Fig.\ref{fig:ensTrafo}). We have tested the correctness of the scaling transformation by comparing the displacement distributions of an ensemble sampled at $\delta t = 1$ and the corresponding rescaled ensemble sampled at $\delta t = 1/8$ (compare Fig.\ref{fig:swdTrafo}).

\subsection{Ensembles of temporally inhomogeneous walkers}

Above, we have considered an inhomogeneous ensemble of random walkers with temporally constant properties. However, similar statistical properties would be expected in the case of a homogeneous ensemble of random walkers with temporally fluctuating properties. For a concrete example, consider a Petri dish with a set of migrating cells, all of the same type and prepared in the same way. Assume that each specific cell $j$ of this ensemble switches its persistence parameter $q$ in regular intervals $T=N\delta t$ according to the distribution $p(q)$ and produces a time-series $x_t^{(j)}$ corresponding to the x-coordinate of its trajectory. Such an individual time-series $x_t^{(j)}$ does not represent a stationary random process, since the statistical properties (such as the displacement probability $P(x_{t+m}^{(j)}-x_t^{(j)})$) are not time-invariant but depend on the momentary $q$-value of cell $j$. However, if the individual cells switch their $q$-values in a completely independent, asynchronous way, we can compute the ensemble-average ($\left\langle P(x_{t+m}^{(j)}-x_t^{(j)})\right\rangle_j$) and thus obtain a stationary quantity. The $q$-average used above is just a convenient way to compute this ensemble-average.

\section{Discussion and Outlook}

An important point to be addressed is the nature of the approximate `powerlaw' found in specific cases such as shown in Fig.\ref{fig:msdFPM}. It is clear that our random process is not really long-time-correlated and scale-invariant (not even after performing the ensemble-average) since all correlations are lost for lagtimes larger than the duration $T$ of each constant-$q$-phase. Nevertheless, this duration $T$ can last over several decades of lagtime and may exceed the maximum measured time interval in an experiment.

In this paper, we have considered just a very simple case of a superstatistical random walk. The basic concept of starting with a homogeneous random walk model, controlled by a set of parameters $q_1,q_2,\ldots$, and then defining a second layer of random `super-process' for the dynamics of these control parameters, leads to a multitude of possible model variants. These variants may be particularly useful for biological systems with extremely inhomogeneous ensembles. An interesting problem will be how to extract from a measured superstatistical time-series the properties of the super-process from those of the underlying random walk.

\section{Appendix}

We consider a DTCRW model with $\delta x=1$, $\delta t=1$ and persistence parameter $q$. The velocity autocorrelation function is given by
\begin{equation}
C_{\nu\nu}(n\;|\;q) = \frac{ \left\langle \nu_m\;\nu_{m+n}\right\rangle_m } { \left\langle \nu^2_m\right\rangle_m } = (2q-1)^n.
\end{equation}
For the case of equally distributed degrees of persistence, $p(q)=1$, it is straight forward to calculate the average autocorrelation function
\begin{equation}
C_{\nu\nu}(n)=\int_0^1\;(2q-1)^n\; dq = \frac{\frac{1}{2}(1+(-1)^n)}{n+1} = \frac{E_m}{n+1},
\end{equation}
where $E_m=1$ for m even and $E_m=0$ for m odd.

From the autocorrelation function, we can calculate the mean squared displacement by the general relation
\begin{equation}
\overline{\Delta x^2}(n)= \delta x^2\;\sum_{m=-n}^{+n}\;C_{\nu\nu}(m)(n-|m|),
\end{equation}
or
\begin{equation}
\overline{\Delta x^2}(n)/\delta x^2 = n+2n\sum_{m=1}^{n}\;C_{\nu\nu}(m)-2\sum_{m=1}^{n}\;m C_{\nu\nu}(m).
\end{equation}
In our special case, we obtain
\begin{equation}
\overline{\Delta x^2}(n)/\delta x^2 = n+2n\sum_{m=1}^{n}\;\frac{E_m}{m+1}-2\sum_{m=1}^{n}\;m \frac{E_m}{m+1}.
\label{anaMSD}
\end{equation}
The first sum can be rewritten as
\begin{equation}
A_n=\sum_{m=1,2,3,\ldots}^{n}\;\frac{E_m}{m+1} = \sum_{m=2,4,6,\ldots}^{n}\;\frac{1}{m+1}.
\end{equation}
Assuming that the time step $n$ of interest is even, we obtain
\begin{eqnarray}
A_n &=& \sum_{m=1,2,3,\ldots}^{n}\;\frac{E_m}{m+1} = \sum_{k=1,2,3,\ldots}^{n/2}\;\frac{1}{2k+1} \nonumber\\
&=& \frac{1}{2}\left[\Psi(\frac{n+3}{2})-\Psi(\frac{3}{2})\right],
\end{eqnarray}
where $\Psi(x)$ is the digamma function.
The second sum can be rewritten as follows:
\begin{eqnarray}
\sum_{m=1,2,3,\ldots}^{n}\;\frac{m\;E_m}{m+1} &=& \sum_{m=2,4,6,\ldots}^{n}\;\frac{m}{m+1}= \sum_{k=1,2,3,\ldots}^{n/2}\;\frac{2k}{2k+1}\nonumber\\
&=& \frac{n}{2} - \sum_{k=1,2,3,\ldots}^{n/2}\;\frac{1}{2k+1} = \frac{n}{2} - A_n.
\end{eqnarray}
Inserting the sums into Eq.(\ref{anaMSD}), one obtains
\begin{eqnarray}
\overline{\Delta x^2}(n)/\delta x^2 &=& n + 2 n A_n - 2 \left(\frac{n}{2}-A_n\right)\nonumber\\
&=& (n+1) 2 A_n \nonumber\\
&=& (n+1) \left[\Psi(\frac{n+3}{2})-\Psi(\frac{3}{2})\right].
\end{eqnarray}
The case for odd $n$ can be computed in a similar way.

\begin{acknowledgments}
This work was supported by grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
\end{acknowledgments}

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For the first few days of his artificial life, after the box from Sony arrived and the batteries were charged, my AIBO robot dog behaved pretty much the way I'd expect a mechanical puppy to behave—he lurched around the house, emitting digital-sounding bleeps of pleasure every time my 2-year-old son petted him on the head. He learned to shake and would reliably sit on command. He ran into the occasional wall, of course, but he never made a mess on the carpet.
These behaviors are not part of Sony's official repertoire for AIBO. Instead, they're the product of digital-age sharing. The behaviors come from other AIBO owners' home-brewed packages of software, which they've offered on the Web. Think of it as a kind of cross between the Westminster dog show and Sybil: You see another robot dog sashay with style down a virtual runway and almost instantly you can zap that entire personality to your own pet.
This "personality swapping" between AIBO owners is an entertaining distraction, but it begs a profound question: What will happen when people start to teach their robots new tricks?
The name AIBO is a conflation of three words: Artificial Intelligence roBOt. Also, the word aibo means "companion" or "pal" in Japanese. The latest model of the robot dog can be trained to recognize its owner's face and voice and understand about 100 words or phrases.
Not surprisingly, a growing number of AIBO owners have attempted to do just that. Sony's initial response to tinkerers messing with AIBO's sophisticated internal works was to dispatch a team of lawyers to shut them down. But ultimately the company decided to cultivate independent programmers by releasing a number of software developer tools that make it possible to create a variety of customized AIBO behaviors. "Much of the fun is in creating something new and having your AIBO do something that has never been done by any robot before," reports one coder, who goes by the handle Aibopet.
Not all of the personality swapping is frivolous. One of Sony's goals in providing programmers with the tools to modify AIBO was to encourage academic institutions exploring artificial intelligence and robotics to use the "dog" as a research platform. Last spring Carnegie Mellon hosted the first annual RoboCup American Open, in which teams composed of four AIBOs competed in a canine version of soccer, kicking their beloved pink ball across an Astroturf table outfitted with goals at either end. The competition inspired robot aficionados to develop programs that would allow the AIBOs to make complex, on-the-fly group decisions such as ganging up on a lone defender or passing the ball to a teammate closer to the goal.
AIBOs playing soccer is just the beginning. Natalie Jeremijenko, a design engineer, wants to go one step further and release computerized canines into the wild. In her Feral Robots project, Jeremijenko and a research team from Yale purchased a variety of off-the-shelf robot dogs, which retail from $5 to $200 and have considerably less brainpower than $1,300 AIBOs, and equipped them with customized processors and sensors that detect contamination levels in reclaimed landfills, urban parks, and various other public spaces. In addition, the sniffer dogs follow special "pack behavior" rules as they explore these spaces; when one dog detects a strong scent of a given pollutant, the other dogs converge on him. The system is not unlike the way an ant colony explores the area outside its nest for food sources, each ant following a random path and signaling others when it has stumbled across something.
Jeremijenko describes her approach as being closer to sociology than to the psychological model that governs most artificial intelligence research. It's about crowd behavior, not inner mental life. Like the intelligence of ant colonies, the intelligence of feral robots comes more from the group interaction than from the individual dogs themselves.
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The day AIBO arrived at my house, I plunked down the lifeless assemblage of alloys and servomotors in front of my 2-year-old and hit the power button nestled under the machine's chin. AIBO churned through its start-up routines for a minute or two, during which time I struggled to retain my son's attention. And then, finally, a dog appeared on the carpet, sitting at attention, tail wagging obligingly behind him. My son's face lit up, and he blurted out a welcome: "Hi!" By next year, no doubt, my son will be ghostwriting AIBO's response. Imagine what he'll be doing in a decade.


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We left off at the end of part two with the issue of maintenance. Maintenance is not optional with water cooled systems; it is mandatory, and if maintenance slips then much of the equipment can be damaged in a matter of months. So what do professionals do about this?
The first thing to understand is that a cooling tower evaporates water in order to reject heat from your building. The water that has evaporated in the cooling tower needs to be replaced, which is easy to do automatically. But as the water is evaporated, it leaves behind the minerals that were in the water, and that is what needs to be managed. Without care, the minerals will form scale on all the interior surfaces of the tower. This leads to both inefficient operation and corrosion that will quickly damage the metal portions of the tower. The most basic chemical water treatment system involves a digital controller with some sensors that monitor the build-up of the minerals in the tower. Periodically, some of the water is automatically drained to keep the mineral level below a critical point. Scale inhibiting chemicals are added to help prevent scale from forming. Biocides are added to keep things from growing in the tower. And today, most systems also incorporate a way to measure water use, to help make sure that excessive chemicals are not used. Our industry has been doing this for 60 years or more and knows how to do it well, but this kind of system has to be regularly checked, adjusted and the chemical levels maintained. The most common frequency for this activity is monthly.
The other thing to recognize about cooling towers is that they are great air washers. Vast amounts of air are blown through a tower, where it is exposed to water sprays in order to evaporate the water. These sprays also do a great job of washing all the dust out of the air…and the dust ends up in the sump at the bottom of the tower. In the Los Angeles basin, depending upon how dusty it is near the tower, we typically have to clean out the mud accumulation 1 – 4 times per year to avoid damaging rust under the layer of mud, where the chemical treatment cannot reach.
Maintenance for a water cooled system is therefore a regular activity, and it involves both automated systems and manual removal of dirt and mud. But the energy savings can make all of this worthwhile…more about that in the next blog in this series.
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Autumn needed a wardrobe update and overhaul. She was holding on to items from high school that were outdated and didn't fit her anymore. We went through her closet by section (tops, bottoms, shoes) and eliminated items that she hadn't worn in years. We also made a list of items that she needed based on her body type and lifestyle (i.e., blazers, blouses, color, pattern, black leggings, high-waisted skirts, day dresses, black jeans, etc).
Sarah hadn't gone on a real shopping spree in years. She had been pregnant and was currently nursing her second child, so she wanted items that were practical, comfortable, and looked great on her. We went through her closet and Sarah chose to donate some items to charity. Many of her pieces were so worn that they had lost their shape. We made a list of most-needed items such as pants (updated silhouettes, skinny jeans, leggings, work slacks), shoes (work heels, winter shoes, boots), dresses, pattern, color, scarves, sweaters, and blouses.
Katherine had gained a bit of weight and felt depressed when getting dressed each morning because there were only a few items in her closet that fit her current shape. She needed updated items in a different size than she had previously bought and she needed some support. Katherine wasn't ready for me to look in her closet, so we met at Goodwill and spent time picking things that she loved and felt good in.


Summer's in full swing in our house, so my blog posts will be less frequent for a while. But I'm still working on my 50 Book Project and today I'm sharing book 20. It's another Japanese stab binding and it's called Tortoise Shell.
The soft cover is a piece of marbled paper that I made and the insides are copier paper. Because this type of binding doesn't open flat, thinner paper works well for soft cover stab bound books. If the pages are thick, it's harder to access them for writing or drawing.
I used a Fiskars hand drill to create the holes and waxed, black linen thread to bind it.
If you're interested in learning how to create this binding, Rose Newton produced a good video several years ago. Also, Erin Zamrzla's Handmade Books for Everyday Adventures is a good resource for Japanese stab bindings. You can read a review I wrote about it last year here.
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Life Stand Still Here – Rafael Soldi's major solo exhibition in NYC, at ClampArt gallery.
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The portraits are on display at ClampArt gallery in New York City.
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We had a 'mad waxing day' today; the first lot of cheeses we waxed were some smoked goat cheese. We have our own little smoker, an Afos, that we bought from McKenzies' Smokehouse which means we can smoke our own cheese, so we are not dependent upon anyone else.
fire to the oak chippings with a blow torch which results in a slow smouldering. A fan on the right side draws smokey air from the drawers on the left over the cheese and then out. The smoking process generally takes about 6 hours, sometimes a little longer.
We smoke most of our goat cheese, sheep and Wensleydale of course.
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A potent new attacking formation that has sent Gonzalo Higuain towards another top scorer's award faces the acid test Wednesday when Juventus take on Porto away in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Juventus, beaten 3-1 by Barcelona in the 2015 final, are en route to a record sixth Serie A crown and remain many pundits' favourites to challenge the likes of Real Madrid for the trophy in Cardiff next May.
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Massimiliano Allegri's Serie A league leaders head to Porto's Estadio do Dragao as favourites, but aware that they also ended Roma's hopes of even qualifying for the competition in clinical fashion last summer.
"Juventus are a top side who have made it to the final of the Champions League recently, so they will be a challenge for us," Porto president Pinto da Costa was quoted as saying in Corriere dello Sport.
"But Roma were also favourites against us, and in the end we won 3-0."
Allegri's decision to ditch his tried and trusted 3-5-2 for a more attack-minded 4-2-3-1 has seen Higuain, thanks to support from Juan Cuadrado, Paulo Dybala and Mario Mandzukic, pull level with Roma's Edin Dzeko at the top of the Serie A charts on 19 goals so far.
But while the Juventus front line is firing on all cylinders, Porto have reason to be targeting a makeshift Juve defence that could be missing key components in Andrea Barzagli and Giorgio Chiellini.
Both remain doubtful due to recent injury niggles, meaning either Daniele Rugani or Mehdi Benatia could partner Leonardo Bonucci in central defence.
Allegri's switch to a flat back four means Stephan Lichtsteiner, Dani Alves, Kwadwo Asamoah and Alex Sandro -- who are all adept as wingbacks in a five-man midfeld -- are all available for the left and right-back positions.
On Friday Allegri said: "Unless some strange things happen in the meantime, we will deploy a 4-2-3-1 in Portugal."
Both Rugani and Lichtsteiner were completely rested for Friday's 4-1 win over Palermo, in which Dybala hit a brace and Higuain hit one. Mario Mandzukic was also completely rested, suggesting he is a definite starter on Wednesday.
Allegri's two holding midfielders are likely to be Miralem Pjanic, the side's free-kick specialist, and Germany midfielder Sami Khedira.
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In a large saucepan, heat chicken broth.
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Place chopped chicken breast, onion, and celery into skillet. Cook at medium heat until chicken is cooked and vegetables are soft; add to soup. Stir rice and optional vegetables into the soup. Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring.
Stir in grated cheese before serving.
a lot of work but worth it!! Very good soup/chowder for a winter day!
My son wasn't crazy about this recipe, but my husband and I enjoyed it.


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Kamathipura is one of the most anticipated web series of 2021. The web series was all set to release sometime in March 2021; however, things seem to have turned against the web series. The introduction of the new guidelines for OTT platforms in India is the sole reason why the makers of the film saw fit to delay the release date of the series, indefinitely.
Disney+Hotstar was already negotiated to release the web series, but the regulations have blocked its release.
Meera Chopra, the lead actress of the most-promising series of 2021 on Twitter revealed the makers' decision. The tweet also revealed that there isn't a proper date at the time of writing as to when the series will premiere. Further, this also suggests that there will be several changes in the series due to the guidelines before the series releases on Disney+Hotstar.
Kamathipura: Storyline and Plot
The series foretells the stories which are intertwined across the popular red-light area in Mumbai. The officials of Disney+Hotstar were the first source to reveal the storyline and the premise of the Kamathipura. Kamathipura also covers three murders and the mystery behind them.
Previous speculations suggested that the series will transcend viewers to experience the most difficult journey to uncover the underbelly criminal network of Mumbai. The makers have skillfully addressed the issues like narcotics, financial, protection money, human trafficking, and murder.
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The series does feature an incredible star cast alongside a very powerful script. The web series has cast actors like Meera Chopra, Tanuj Virwani, Anang Desai, and Varun Joshi. Kulbhushan Kharbanda is cast in the series in a disclosed role but an important one.
Initially, Kamathipura was to be released on Amazon Prime Video; however, the digital rights went to Disney + Hotstar. As soon as the release date is revealed, we'll share it with our readers and audience.
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Balls to the wall
Winnipeg dodgeball is taking a leap to the next level
Expert ball dodgers look forward to playing under the World Dodgeball Federation rules.
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Dodgeball Winnipeg draft league games start Sunday, Nov. 1 between 4 and 6 p.m. and continue at the same time every week. Most games will take place at Norberry-Glenlee Community Centre (26 Molgat Ave.).
More information and registration is available on the Dodgeball Winnipeg website: Dodgeballwinnipeg.com
Winnipeg's dodgeball community is demanding more competition and they're about to get their wish.
A new league, Dodgeball Winnipeg, aims to offer a more competitive atmosphere by using World Dodgeball Federation (WDBF) rules. The rules are used in nearly every other city in Canada.
"It's the logical next step in getting the sport off the ground," organizer Stacy Huen says.
Winnipeg Rec League (WRL) currently organizes a dodgeball league in Winnipeg, using rules unique to its league.
While the Dodgeball Winnipeg organizers enjoy playing dodgeball in WRL, having a league that uses WDBF rules may cause Team Canada recruiters to actually stop in Winnipeg for tryouts, Huen says.
And when people want to travel for tournaments, they will be used to the WDBF rules that are standard almost everywhere, he adds.
The WDBF rules are less ambiguous, causing fewer arguments so people can focus on playing the game. They also use smaller balls that weigh less. Being hit by one of these balls stings less and the balls are less likely to jam fingers while being caught.
Dodgeball Winnipeg is run by people who are already involved in the local dodgeball scene, which means the organizers understand the needs of the participants, Huen says.
"That's what we are looking to do, cater to what the community wants," he says.
This season, Dodgeball Winnipeg will offer a draft league. In the 2016 season, they plan to offer a women's league, a co-ed league and an open league.
In draft league, individuals sign up and are placed on teams based on skill level.
Dedicated dodgeball veteran Natasha O'Reilly says playing in a draft league this season will be exciting.
"Teams will be balanced with seasoned players and newbies. I love playing competitive dodgeball, but when you're annihilating teams it doesn't become fun anymore," she says.
Each year, individual players' stats (hits and catches) are reevaluated and the teams are shuffled to keep the skill sets balanced.
Winnipeg is one of the only cities in Canada that doesn't have a draft league, despite its dedicated dodgeball community.
Three-year dodgeball veteran Scott Brandt is not just enthusiastic about playing dodgeball, but also for having a dodgeball community.
"The best part about the dodgeball scene in Winnipeg is the community… I have made many friends and many memories because we all care about the game," Brandt says.
Dodgeball Winnipeg isn't just for people who are fiercely competitive. Anyone over 18 is also welcome to play.
"Most people can dodge, catch, or throw. If you can do two of those, you will be a threat on the court," Huen says. "Try out the sport you loved as a kid and you might just love it as an adult."
Published in Volume 70, Number 7 of The Uniter (October 22, 2015)


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Lauren is an associate with the firm concentrating her practice in a variety of general liability groups, including vehicular negligence and property/premises liability.
Prior to joining the firm, Lauren was an associate with a Long Island firm which focused its practice on negligence and personal injury work. She has handled all phases of litigation involving vehicular/trucking and premises accidents. Lauren has also worked at a mass tort firm on Long Island concentrating in the areas of pharmaceutical liability and defective medical devices.
Lauren received her Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law. Lauren received her Bachelors of Arts in Political Science from the State University of New York, College at Geneseo.
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Juris Doctor Degree – Hofstra University
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