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3D Knowledge-Based Segmentation Using Pose-Invariant Higher-Order Graphs
Wang, C., Teboul, O., Michel, F., Essafi, S., Paragios, N.
Wang, C., Teboul, O., Michel, F., Essafi, S., Paragios, N. 3D Knowledge-Based Segmentation Using Pose-Invariant Higher-Order Graphs In International Conference, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2010 (inproceedings)
Vision-Based Automated Recognition of Mice Home-Cage Behaviors.
Jhuang, H., Garrote, E., Edelman, N., Poggio, T., Steele, A., Serre, T.
Workshop: Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior, in conjunction with International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) , 2010 (conference)
Jhuang, H., Garrote, E., Edelman, N., Poggio, T., Steele, A., Serre, T. Vision-Based Automated Recognition of Mice Home-Cage Behaviors. Workshop: Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior, in conjunction with International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) , 2010 (conference)
Hands in action: real-time 3D reconstruction of hands in interaction with objects
Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 458-463, 2010 (inproceedings)
Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D. Hands in action: real-time 3D reconstruction of hands in interaction with objects In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 458-463, 2010 (inproceedings)
Orientation and direction selectivity in the population code of the visual thalamus
Stanley, G., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Desbordes, G., Black, M., Alonso, J.
COSYNE, 2010 (conference)
Stanley, G., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Desbordes, G., Black, M., Alonso, J. Orientation and direction selectivity in the population code of the visual thalamus COSYNE, 2010 (conference)
Estimating Shadows with the Bright Channel Cue
In Color and Reflectance in Imaging and Computer Vision Workshop (CRICV) (in conjunction with ECCV 2010), 2010 (inproceedings)
Panagopoulos, A., Wang, C., Samaras, D., Paragios, N. Estimating Shadows with the Bright Channel Cue In Color and Reflectance in Imaging and Computer Vision Workshop (CRICV) (in conjunction with ECCV 2010), 2010 (inproceedings)
Dense non-rigid surface registration using high-order graph matching
Zeng, Y., Wang, C., Wang, Y., Gu, X., Samaras, D., Paragios, N. Dense non-rigid surface registration using high-order graph matching In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010 (inproceedings)
Computational Mechanisms for the motion processing in visual area MT
Jhuang, H., Serre, T., Poggio, T.
Society for Neuroscience, 2010 (conference)
Jhuang, H., Serre, T., Poggio, T. Computational Mechanisms for the motion processing in visual area MT Society for Neuroscience, 2010 (conference)
Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Grasping Actions
Romero, J., Feix, T., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, pages: 2103-2108, 2010 (inproceedings)
Romero, J., Feix, T., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D. Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Grasping Actions In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, pages: 2103-2108, 2010 (inproceedings)
Inferring hand motion from multi-cell recordings in motor cortex using a Kalman filter
Wu, W., Black, M. J., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Serruya, M., Donoghue, J. P.
In SAB'02-Workshop on Motor Control in Humans and Robots: On the Interplay of Real Brains and Artificial Devices, pages: 66-73, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK), August 2002 (inproceedings)
Wu, W., Black, M. J., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Serruya, M., Donoghue, J. P. Inferring hand motion from multi-cell recordings in motor cortex using a Kalman filter In SAB'02-Workshop on Motor Control in Humans and Robots: On the Interplay of Real Brains and Artificial Devices, pages: 66-73, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK), August 2002 (inproceedings)
Bayesian Inference of Visual Motion Boundaries
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Nestares, O.
In Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millennium, pages: 139-174, (Editors: Lakemeyer, G. and Nebel, B.), Morgan Kaufmann Pub., July 2002 (incollection)
This chapter addresses an open problem in visual motion analysis, the estimation of image motion in the vicinity of occlusion boundaries. With a Bayesian formulation, local image motion is explained in terms of multiple, competing, nonlinear models, including models for smooth (translational) motion and for motion boundaries. The generative model for motion boundaries explicitly encodes the orientation of the boundary, the velocities on either side, the motion of the occluding edge over time, and the appearance/disappearance of pixels at the boundary. We formulate the posterior probability distribution over the models and model parameters, conditioned on the image sequence. Approximate inference is achieved with a combination of tools: A Bayesian filter provides for online computation; factored sampling allows us to represent multimodal non-Gaussian distributions and to propagate beliefs with nonlinear dynamics from one time to the next; and mixture models are used to simplify the computation of joint prediction distributions in the Bayesian filter. To efficiently represent such a high-dimensional space, we also initialize samples using the responses of a low-level motion-discontinuity detector. The basic formulation and computational model provide a general probabilistic framework for motion estimation with multiple, nonlinear models.
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Nestares, O. Bayesian Inference of Visual Motion Boundaries In Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millennium, pages: 139-174, (Editors: Lakemeyer, G. and Nebel, B.), Morgan Kaufmann Pub., July 2002 (incollection)
Wu, W., Black M., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Serruya, M., Donoghue, J.
Program No. 357.5. 2002 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 2002, Online (conference)
abstract [BibTex]
Wu, W., Black M., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Serruya, M., Donoghue, J. Inferring hand motion from multi-cell recordings in motor cortex using a Kalman filter Program No. 357.5. 2002 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 2002, Online (conference)
Probabilistic inference of hand motion from neural activity in motor cortex
Gao, Y., Black, M. J., Bienenstock, E., Shoham, S., Donoghue, J.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, pages: 221-228, MIT Press, 2002 (inproceedings)
Statistical learning and probabilistic inference techniques are used to infer the hand position of a subject from multi-electrode recordings of neural activity in motor cortex. First, an array of electrodes provides train- ing data of neural firing conditioned on hand kinematics. We learn a non- parametric representation of this firing activity using a Bayesian model and rigorously compare it with previous models using cross-validation. Second, we infer a posterior probability distribution over hand motion conditioned on a sequence of neural test data using Bayesian inference. The learned firing models of multiple cells are used to define a non- Gaussian likelihood term which is combined with a prior probability for the kinematics. A particle filtering method is used to represent, update, and propagate the posterior distribution over time. The approach is com- pared with traditional linear filtering methods; the results suggest that it may be appropriate for neural prosthetic applications.
Gao, Y., Black, M. J., Bienenstock, E., Shoham, S., Donoghue, J. Probabilistic inference of hand motion from neural activity in motor cortex In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, pages: 221-228, MIT Press, 2002 (inproceedings)
Automatic detection and tracking of human motion with a view-based representation
Fablet, R., Black, M. J.
In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 1, pages: 476-491, LNCS 2353, (Editors: A. Heyden and G. Sparr and M. Nielsen and P. Johansen), Springer-Verlag , 2002 (inproceedings)
This paper proposes a solution for the automatic detection and tracking of human motion in image sequences. Due to the complexity of the human body and its motion, automatic detection of 3D human motion remains an open, and important, problem. Existing approaches for automatic detection and tracking focus on 2D cues and typically exploit object appearance (color distribution, shape) or knowledge of a static background. In contrast, we exploit 2D optical flow information which provides rich descriptive cues, while being independent of object and background appearance. To represent the optical flow patterns of people from arbitrary viewpoints, we develop a novel representation of human motion using low-dimensional spatio-temporal models that are learned using motion capture data of human subjects. In addition to human motion (the foreground) we probabilistically model the motion of generic scenes (the background); these statistical models are defined as Gibbsian fields specified from the first-order derivatives of motion observations. Detection and tracking are posed in a principled Bayesian framework which involves the computation of a posterior probability distribution over the model parameters (i.e., the location and the type of the human motion) given a sequence of optical flow observations. Particle filtering is used to represent and predict this non-Gaussian posterior distribution over time. The model parameters of samples from this distribution are related to the pose parameters of a 3D articulated model (e.g. the approximate joint angles and movement direction). Thus the approach proves suitable for initializing more complex probabilistic models of human motion. As shown by experiments on real image sequences, our method is able to detect and track people under different viewpoints with complex backgrounds.
Fablet, R., Black, M. J. Automatic detection and tracking of human motion with a view-based representation In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 1, pages: 476-491, LNCS 2353, (Editors: A. Heyden and G. Sparr and M. Nielsen and P. Johansen), Springer-Verlag , 2002 (inproceedings)
A layered motion representation with occlusion and compact spatial support
Fleet, D. J., Jepson, A., Black, M. J.
We describe a 2.5D layered representation for visual motion analysis. The representation provides a global interpretation of image motion in terms of several spatially localized foreground regions along with a background region. Each of these regions comprises a parametric shape model and a parametric motion model. The representation also contains depth ordering so visibility and occlusion are rightly included in the estimation of the model parameters. Finally, because the number of objects, their positions, shapes and sizes, and their relative depths are all unknown, initial models are drawn from a proposal distribution, and then compared using a penalized likelihood criterion. This allows us to automatically initialize new models, and to compare different depth orderings.
Fleet, D. J., Jepson, A., Black, M. J. A layered motion representation with occlusion and compact spatial support In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 1, pages: 692-706, LNCS 2353, (Editors: A. Heyden and G. Sparr and M. Nielsen and P. Johansen), Springer-Verlag , 2002 (inproceedings)
Implicit probabilistic models of human motion for synthesis and tracking
Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Sigal, L.
In European Conf. on Computer Vision, 1, pages: 784-800, 2002 (inproceedings)
This paper addresses the problem of probabilistically modeling 3D human motion for synthesis and tracking. Given the high dimensional nature of human motion, learning an explicit probabilistic model from available training data is currently impractical. Instead we exploit methods from texture synthesis that treat images as representing an implicit empirical distribution. These methods replace the problem of representing the probability of a texture pattern with that of searching the training data for similar instances of that pattern. We extend this idea to temporal data representing 3D human motion with a large database of example motions. To make the method useful in practice, we must address the problem of efficient search in a large training set; efficiency is particularly important for tracking. Towards that end, we learn a low dimensional linear model of human motion that is used to structure the example motion database into a binary tree. An approximate probabilistic tree search method exploits the coefficients of this low-dimensional representation and runs in sub-linear time. This probabilistic tree search returns a particular sample human motion with probability approximating the true distribution of human motions in the database. This sampling method is suitable for use with particle filtering techniques and is applied to articulated 3D tracking of humans within a Bayesian framework. Successful tracking results are presented, along with examples of synthesizing human motion using the model.
Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Sigal, L. Implicit probabilistic models of human motion for synthesis and tracking In European Conf. on Computer Vision, 1, pages: 784-800, 2002 (inproceedings)
Robust parameterized component analysis: Theory and applications to 2D facial modeling
De la Torre, F., Black, M. J.
In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 4, pages: 653-669, LNCS 2353, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (inproceedings)
De la Torre, F., Black, M. J. Robust parameterized component analysis: Theory and applications to 2D facial modeling In European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 4, pages: 653-669, LNCS 2353, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (inproceedings)
Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
We propose a Bayesian framework for representing and recognizing local image motion in terms of two basic models: translational motion and motion boundaries. Motion boundaries are represented using a non-linear generative model that explicitly encodes the orientation of the boundary, the velocities on either side, the motion of the occluding edge over time, and the appearance/disappearance of pixels at the boundary. We represent the posterior probability distribution over the model parameters given the image data using discrete samples. This distribution is propagated over time using a particle filtering algorithm. To efficiently represent such a high-dimensional space we initialize samples using the responses of a low-level motion discontinuity detector. The formulation and computational model provide a general probabilistic framework for motion estimation with multiple, non-linear, models.
pdf pdf from publisher Video [BibTex]
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J. Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
Stochastic tracking of 3D human figures using 2D image motion
(Winner of the 2010 Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision)
Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Fleet, D.
In European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, pages: 702-718, LNCS 1843, Springer Verlag, Dublin, Ireland, June 2000 (inproceedings)
A probabilistic method for tracking 3D articulated human figures in monocular image sequences is presented. Within a Bayesian framework, we define a generative model of image appearance, a robust likelihood function based on image gray level differences, and a prior probability distribution over pose and joint angles that models how humans move. The posterior probability distribution over model parameters is represented using a discrete set of samples and is propagated over time using particle filtering. The approach extends previous work on parameterized optical flow estimation to exploit a complex 3D articulated motion model. It also extends previous work on human motion tracking by including a perspective camera model, by modeling limb self occlusion, and by recovering 3D motion from a monocular sequence. The explicit posterior probability distribution represents ambiguities due to image matching, model singularities, and perspective projection. The method relies only on a frame-to-frame assumption of brightness constancy and hence is able to track people under changing viewpoints, in grayscale image sequences, and with complex unknown backgrounds.
pdf code [BibTex]
Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Fleet, D. Stochastic tracking of 3D human figures using 2D image motion In European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, pages: 702-718, LNCS 1843, Springer Verlag, Dublin, Ireland, June 2000 (inproceedings)
Functional analysis of human motion data
Ormoneit, D., Hastie, T., Black, M. J.
In In Proc. 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 2000 (inproceedings)
Ormoneit, D., Hastie, T., Black, M. J. Functional analysis of human motion data In In Proc. 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 2000 (inproceedings)
Stochastic modeling and tracking of human motion
Ormoneit, D., Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Hastie, T.
Learning 2000, Snowbird, UT, April 2000 (conference)
Ormoneit, D., Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Hastie, T. Stochastic modeling and tracking of human motion Learning 2000, Snowbird, UT, April 2000 (conference)
A framework for modeling the appearance of 3D articulated figures
Sidenbladh, H., De la Torre, F., Black, M. J.
In Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pages: 368-375, Grenoble, France, March 2000 (inproceedings)
Sidenbladh, H., De la Torre, F., Black, M. J. A framework for modeling the appearance of 3D articulated figures In Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pages: 368-375, Grenoble, France, March 2000 (inproceedings)
Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Linear parameterized models of optical flow, particularly affine models, have become widespread in image motion analysis. The linear model coefficients are straightforward to estimate, and they provide reliable estimates of the optical flow of smooth surfaces. Here we explore the use of parameterized motion models that represent much more varied and complex motions. Our goals are threefold: to construct linear bases for complex motion phenomena; to estimate the coefficients of these linear models; and to recognize or classify image motions from the estimated coefficients. We consider two broad classes of motions: i) generic "motion features" such as motion discontinuities and moving bars; and ii) non-rigid, object-specific, motions such as the motion of human mouths. For motion features we construct a basis of steerable flow fields that approximate the motion features. For object-specific motions we construct basis flow fields from example motions using principal component analysis. In both cases, the model coefficients can be estimated directly from spatiotemporal image derivatives with a robust, multi-resolution scheme. Finally, we show how these model coefficients can be use to detect and recognize specific motions such as occlusion boundaries and facial expressions.
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D. Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Robustly estimating changes in image appearance
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
We propose a generalized model of image "appearance change" in which brightness variation over time is represented as a probabilistic mixture of different causes. We define four generative models of appearance change due to (1) object or camera motion; (2) illumination phenomena; (3) specular reflections; and (4) "iconic changes" which are specific to the objects being viewed. These iconic changes include complex occlusion events and changes in the material properties of the objects. We develop a robust statistical framework for recovering these appearance changes in image sequences. This approach generalizes previous work on optical flow to provide a richer description of image events and more reliable estimates of image motion in the presence of shadows and specular reflections.
pdf pdf from publisher DOI [BibTex]
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y. Robustly estimating changes in image appearance Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
Robust anisotropic diffusion and sharpening of scalar and vector images
Black, M. J., Sapiro, G., Marimont, D., Heeger, D.
In Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP, 1, pages: 263-266, Vol. 1, Santa Barbara, CA, October 1997 (inproceedings)
Relations between anisotropic diffusion and robust statistics are described. We show that anisotropic diffusion can be seen as a robust estimation procedure that estimates a piecewise smooth image from a noisy input image. The "edge-stopping" function in the anisotropic diffusion equation is closely related to the error norm and influence function in the robust estimation framework. This connection leads to a new "edge-stopping" function based on Tukey's biweight robust estimator, that preserves sharper boundaries than previous formulations and improves the automatic stopping of the diffusion. The robust statistical interpretation also provides a means for detecting the boundaries (edges) between the piecewise smooth regions in the image. We extend the framework to vector-valued images and show applications to robust image sharpening.
pdf publisher site [BibTex]
Black, M. J., Sapiro, G., Marimont, D., Heeger, D. Robust anisotropic diffusion and sharpening of scalar and vector images In Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP, 1, pages: 263-266, Vol. 1, Santa Barbara, CA, October 1997 (inproceedings)
Robust anisotropic diffusion: Connections between robust statistics, line processing, and anisotropic diffusion
In Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision, Scale-Space'97, pages: 323-326, LNCS 1252, Springer Verlag, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 1997 (inproceedings)
Black, M. J., Sapiro, G., Marimont, D., Heeger, D. Robust anisotropic diffusion: Connections between robust statistics, line processing, and anisotropic diffusion In Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision, Scale-Space'97, pages: 323-326, LNCS 1252, Springer Verlag, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 1997 (inproceedings)
Learning parameterized models of image motion
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D., Fleet, D. J.
In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-97, pages: 561-567, Puerto Rico, June 1997 (inproceedings)
A framework for learning parameterized models of optical flow from image sequences is presented. A class of motions is represented by a set of orthogonal basis flow fields that are computed from a training set using principal component analysis. Many complex image motions can be represented by a linear combination of a small number of these basis flows. The learned motion models may be used for optical flow estimation and for model-based recognition. For optical flow estimation we describe a robust, multi-resolution scheme for directly computing the parameters of the learned flow models from image derivatives. As examples we consider learning motion discontinuities, non-rigid motion of human mouths, and articulated human motion.
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D., Fleet, D. J. Learning parameterized models of image motion In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-97, pages: 561-567, Puerto Rico, June 1997 (inproceedings)
Analysis of gesture and action in technical talks for video indexing
Ju, S. X., Black, M. J., Minneman, S., Kimber, D.
In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 595-601, CVPR-97, Puerto Rico, June 1997 (inproceedings)
In this paper, we present an automatic system for analyzing and annotating video sequences of technical talks. Our method uses a robust motion estimation technique to detect key frames and segment the video sequence into subsequences containing a single overhead slide. The subsequences are stabilized to remove motion that occurs when the speaker adjusts their slides. Any changes remaining between frames in the stabilized sequences may be due to speaker gestures such as pointing or writing and we use active contours to automatically track these potential gestures. Given the constrained domain we define a simple ``vocabulary'' of actions which can easily be recognized based on the active contour shape and motion. The recognized actions provide a rich annotation of the sequence that can be used to access a condensed version of the talk from a web page.
Ju, S. X., Black, M. J., Minneman, S., Kimber, D. Analysis of gesture and action in technical talks for video indexing In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 595-601, CVPR-97, Puerto Rico, June 1997 (inproceedings)
Modeling appearance change in image sequences
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Fleet, D. J.
In Advances in Visual Form Analysis, pages: 11-20, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 1997 (inproceedings)
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Fleet, D. J. Modeling appearance change in image sequences In Advances in Visual Form Analysis, pages: 11-20, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 1997 (inproceedings)
Recognizing facial expressions in image sequences using local parameterized models of image motion
Int. Journal of Computer Vision, 25(1):23-48, 1997 (article)
This paper explores the use of local parametrized models of image motion for recovering and recognizing the non-rigid and articulated motion of human faces. Parametric flow models (for example affine) are popular for estimating motion in rigid scenes. We observe that within local regions in space and time, such models not only accurately model non-rigid facial motions but also provide a concise description of the motion in terms of a small number of parameters. These parameters are intuitively related to the motion of facial features during facial expressions and we show how expressions such as anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, and sadness can be recognized from the local parametric motions in the presence of significant head motion. The motion tracking and expression recognition approach performed with high accuracy in extensive laboratory experiments involving 40 subjects as well as in television and movie sequences.
pdf pdf from publisher abstract video [BibTex]
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y. Recognizing facial expressions in image sequences using local parameterized models of image motion Int. Journal of Computer Vision, 25(1):23-48, 1997 (article)
Recognizing human motion using parameterized models of optical flow
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Ju, X. S.
In Motion-Based Recognition, pages: 245-269, (Editors: Mubarak Shah and Ramesh Jain,), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1997 (incollection)
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Ju, X. S. Recognizing human motion using parameterized models of optical flow In Motion-Based Recognition, pages: 245-269, (Editors: Mubarak Shah and Ramesh Jain,), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1997 (incollection)


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Top-50 senior George Washington III names five finalists.
Chaminade-Julienne's George Washington III, a top-50 prospect in the 2023 class, is down to five schools, he told Stockrisers.com.
He had pledged a verbal commitment to Ohio State on November 3rd last year and recently reopened his recruitment on September 5th. The suitors immediately filed in and now he's cut that list to five.
Washington III, a 6-foot-2, 165-pound guard, is down to Louisville, Michigan, Virginia, Dayton, and Wake Forest.
He broke down each finalist for Stockrisers.com.
Louisville:
"With Louisville, I feel like their program, their history, the legacy that Louisville basketball has is something hard to beat, something hard to match. On top of that, with the coaches they have coming in with KP, [Danny] Manning, Nolan Smith, I think it's an insane level of pro-level, basketball knowledge. Personnel-wise, that school has turned into something that can really fit my game and playstyle wise too."
Wake Forest:
"With Wake Forest, I think playstyle and style-of-play is a major thing for them too. They're a very fast-paced team, scoring wise, they love to score. Coach Forbes lets his guards play, that's a big attraction for them. Wake Forest is a beautiful school too, a great academic school. I just like them all-around, that could be a great fit for my game."
"Michigan, you know it's kinda been crazy. Kinda crazy being committed to Ohio State, de-committing, then having them [Michigan] on my list. I feel like what Coach Howard has as far in terms of NBA experience is great. What he has and his staff has. They really work for a pro-style, NBA-level type of offense, with that type of feel to it because that's what is coaching them. I feel like that could be a great fit for me too, personally."
"Virginia, I mean Coach Bennett is a hall-of-fame coach. There are not many coaches out there that have done what he has done or can do what he has done or will do what he's done. He's a great person. The school of Virginia holds a lot of weight itself, Coach Bennett has put a lot of pros in the league and pros recently, and there's a handful of guys that are still doing their thing in the league that went or graduated from Virginia that are still doing there thing and that's big."
Dayton:
"With Dayton, I feel like they're the only mid-major on the list, but I don't feel like you can call them a mid-major with the level of talent that they have. Coach Grant is another NBA guy who spent time in the league playing, Coach Greer has spent time overseas. They have a ton of basketball experience too on their staff. I feel like talent-wise they're up there with Power Five schools. Their win over Kansas this past season highlights that too. Playstyle wise and style of play that could be a fit too."
Commitment timeline:
"We're still getting some things together."
Says he's taking an unofficial to one of the five schools this weekend but is undecided.
Has emphasized fit, he wants to find the program with the best fit with style of play.
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The international Felix Schoeller Photo Award is now open for entries, marking the fourth occasion that the prize has been awarded. Until 31 May 2019, professional photographers and photographers in training will be able to submit their work at www.felix-schoeller-photoaward.com.
The Felix Schoeller Photo Award honours photographers who demonstrate a love of photography and the highest quality standards in their pictures. It is awarded every two years with around 2,700 photographers from over 90 countries taking part in 2017.
A five-member, independent jury, presided over by Michael Dannenmann, an internationally renowned portrait photographer from Düsseldorf, is free to select winners in thematic categories, with Fashion Photography being a category in its own right for the first time in 2019. This category covers the entire fashion spectrum and every aspect of representation including accessories.
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After the awards ceremony, winners and nominees will be exhibited in Osnabruck's Museum District, Germany, over a period of several weeks.
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#include "mongo.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <getopt.h>
#include "test.h"

static const char *db = "test";
static const char *ns = "test.c.error";

int test_namespace_validation(char *_servername ) {
    mongo conn[1];
    char longns[130] = "test.foo";
    int i;

    mongo_init( conn );

    /* Test a few legal namespaces. */
    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test.foo" ) == MONGO_OK );
    ASSERT( conn->err == 0 );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test.f" ) == MONGO_OK );
    ASSERT( conn->err == 0 );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test.foo.bar" ) == MONGO_OK );
    ASSERT( conn->err == 0 );

    /* Test illegal namespaces. */
    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, ".test.foo" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "ns cannot start with", 20 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test..foo" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "ns cannot start with", 20 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Collection name missing.", 24 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test." ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Collection name missing.", 24 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "." ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "ns cannot start with", 20 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "tes t.foo" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Database name may not contain", 28 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "te$st.foo" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Database name may not contain", 28 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "te/st.foo" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Database name may not contain", 28 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "te\\st.foo" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Database name may not contain", 28 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test.fo$o" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Collection may not contain '$'", 29 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test.fo..o" ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Collection may not contain two consecutive '.'", 46 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, "test.fo.o." ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Collection may not end with '.'", 30 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    for(i = 8; i < 129; i++ )
        longns[i] = 'a';
    longns[129] = '\0';

    ASSERT( mongo_validate_ns( conn, longns ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Namespace too long; has 129 but must <= 128.", 32 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    return 0;
}

int test_namespace_validation_on_insert(char *_servername ) {
    mongo conn[1];
    bson b[1], b2[1];
    bson *objs[2];

    INIT_SOCKETS_FOR_WINDOWS;
    CONN_CLIENT_TEST(_servername);

    bson_init( b );
    bson_append_int( b, "foo", 1 );
    bson_finish( b );

    ASSERT( mongo_insert( conn, "tet.fo$o", b, NULL ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Collection may not contain '$'", 29 ) == 0 );
    mongo_clear_errors( conn );

    bson_init( b2 );
    bson_append_int( b2, "foo", 1 );
    bson_finish( b2 );

    objs[0] = b;
    objs[1] = b2;

    ASSERT( mongo_insert_batch( conn, "tet.fo$o",
          (const bson **)objs, 2, NULL, 0 ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_NS_INVALID );
    ASSERT( strncmp( conn->errstr, "Collection may not contain '$'", 29 ) == 0 );

    bson_destroy( b );
    bson_destroy( b2 );
    mongo_destroy( conn );

    return 0;
}

int test_insert_limits( char *_servername) {
    char version[10];
    mongo conn[1];
    int i;
    char key[10];
    bson b[1], b2[1];
    bson *objs[2];

    /* Test the default max BSON size. */
    mongo_init( conn );
    ASSERT( conn->max_bson_size == MONGO_DEFAULT_MAX_BSON_SIZE );

    /* We'll perform the full test if we're running v2.0 or later. */
    if( mongo_get_server_version( version ) != -1 && version[0] <= '1' )
        return 0;

    CONN_CLIENT_TEST(_servername);

    ASSERT( conn->max_bson_size > MONGO_DEFAULT_MAX_BSON_SIZE );

    bson_init( b );
    for(i=0; i<1200000; i++) {
        sprintf( key, "%d", i + 10000000 );
        bson_append_int( b, key, i );
    }
    bson_finish( b );

    ASSERT( bson_size( b ) > conn->max_bson_size );

    ASSERT( mongo_insert( conn, "test.foo", b, NULL ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_BSON_TOO_LARGE );

    mongo_clear_errors( conn );
    ASSERT( conn->err == 0 );

    bson_init( b2 );
    bson_append_int( b2, "foo", 1 );
    bson_finish( b2 );

    objs[0] = b;
    objs[1] = b2;

    ASSERT( mongo_insert_batch( conn, "test.foo", (const bson **)objs, 2,
          NULL, 0 ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->err == MONGO_BSON_TOO_LARGE );

    bson_destroy( b );
    bson_destroy( b2 );
    mongo_destroy( conn );

    return 0;
}

int test_get_last_error_commands( char *_servername ) {
    mongo conn[1];
    bson obj;

    INIT_SOCKETS_FOR_WINDOWS;
    CONN_CLIENT_TEST(_servername);

    /*********************/
    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_prev_error( conn, db, NULL ) == MONGO_OK );
    ASSERT( conn->lasterrcode == 0 );
    ASSERT( conn->lasterrstr[0] == 0 );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_last_error( conn, db, NULL ) == MONGO_OK );
    ASSERT( conn->lasterrcode == 0 );
    ASSERT( conn->lasterrstr[0] == 0 );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_prev_error( conn, db, &obj ) == MONGO_OK );
    bson_destroy( &obj );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_last_error( conn, db, &obj ) == MONGO_OK );
    ASSERT( bson_has_data( &obj) );
    bson_destroy( &obj );

    /*********************/
    mongo_simple_int_command( conn, db, "forceerror", 1, NULL );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_prev_error( conn, db, NULL ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( conn->lasterrcode == 10038 );
    ASSERT( strcmp( ( const char * )conn->lasterrstr, "forced error" ) == 0 );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_last_error( conn, db, NULL ) == MONGO_ERROR );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_prev_error( conn, db, &obj ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    bson_destroy( &obj );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_last_error( conn, db, &obj ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    bson_destroy( &obj );

    /* should clear lasterror but not preverror */
    mongo_find_one( conn, ns, bson_shared_empty( ), bson_shared_empty( ), NULL );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_prev_error( conn, db, NULL ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_last_error( conn, db, NULL ) == MONGO_OK );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_prev_error( conn, db, &obj ) == MONGO_ERROR );
    bson_destroy( &obj );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_last_error( conn, db, &obj ) == MONGO_OK );
    bson_destroy( &obj );

    /*********************/
    mongo_cmd_reset_error( conn, db );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_prev_error( conn, db, NULL ) == MONGO_OK );
    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_last_error( conn, db, NULL ) == MONGO_OK );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_prev_error( conn, db, &obj ) == MONGO_OK );
    bson_destroy( &obj );

    ASSERT( mongo_cmd_get_last_error( conn, db, &obj ) == MONGO_OK );
    bson_destroy( &obj );

    mongo_cmd_drop_db( conn, db );
    mongo_destroy( conn );

    /* for bson_has_data */
    ASSERT( MONGO_ERROR == mongo_create_index( conn, "testbar", bson_shared_empty(), NULL, MONGO_INDEX_SPARSE | MONGO_INDEX_UNIQUE, -1, &obj ));
    ASSERT( !bson_has_data( &obj) );

    return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {

    GETSERVERNAME;
    test_get_last_error_commands(_servername);
    test_insert_limits(_servername);
    test_namespace_validation(_servername);
    test_namespace_validation_on_insert(_servername);

    return 0;
}

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Refractive Surgery aims to change the shape of the cornea permanently. This change in eye shape restores the focusing power of the eye by allowing the light rays to focus precisely on the retina for improved vision. There are many types of refractive surgeries, Grandview LASIK Center can help you decide if surgery is an option for you.


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About Insuremyrentalcar.com
Written by Ross Callander Thursday, 09 July 2015 00:00
Our founder and CEO, Ernesto Suarez, was quoted in the New York Times (3 July 2015) explaining why travelers renting cars are better off having standalone insurance cover, rather than relying on their auto policy.
The piece headlined, 'Check Insurance Coverage When Renting a Car', looked at how customers should protect themselves financially when they're renting a car.
Written by money expert, Ann Carrns, it said the below about Insuremyrentalcar.com:
"Some insurance brokers aim to offer a cheaper alternative for travelers. Insuremyrentalcar.com offers short-term auto rental policies that provide coverage if a rental car is damaged or stolen. (The policies do not include liability coverage — protection for damages caused to other people, cars or property.) The coverage, underwritten by the Federal Insurance Company, a subsidiary of the Chubb Group, starts at about $18 for a single-trip policy.
"Ernesto Suarez, the site's chief executive, said it began operating in the United States in January 2014 and now offers policies to residents of most states, except Florida, Alaska, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Vermont. With a stand-alone policy, Mr. Suarez said, a consumer does not have to make a claim under his or her own auto policy and risk an increase in premiums.
To read the full New York Times article please click here.
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The licensed agent is The Direct Marketing Group, Inc. (known as DMG Insurance Agency in California)
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Nice work. Thank you for the ideas!!
Leather-wrapped fuel key cut out.
Final shape and sanding on the Bloodwood ignition key.
Coat of varnish really brings out the deep red colour.
Forgot to post this last time: Both keys finished and mounted on a ring, along with a custom leather cord/fob I made (so I can grab them out of my pocket easily but also not scratch the tank).
Bonus: A more recent pic of the little Rebel.
That's it for this year. Will surely be up to more shenanigans come summer. Already have a new chain waiting to be mounted, and a set of sprockets on order.
Like what you've done so far. kept the original spirit but making it your own.
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What is Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy?Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy is a series of specifically designed interactive experiences with horses to promote psychosocial healing and growth. A trained therapist assists with personal exploration of feelings and behaviors and allows for the clinical interpretation of these feelings and behaviors.
Who can benefit from Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy?Almost any individual desiring personal growth who enjoys animals and the outdoors may benefit. No previous horse experience is necessary. Appointments for children over 6 years old, teens and adults are available.
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How does E.F.P. differ from Therapeutic Riding? Though E.F.P. and Therapeutic Riding share many of the same benefits, there are some important distinctions between the two. E.F.P. is always facilitated by a licensed/credentialed mental health professional. Though the client will learn equestrian skills, therapy co-facilitated with horses is the primary focus.Therapeutic Riding, however, has a more recreational and educational focus. Though learning riding skills and participating in activities may have therapeutic value for the student, it is not therapy. According to PATH International, an activity is therapeutic if a participant derives benefit, shows improvement or feels better once engaged. An activity can be therapeutic without being considered as therapy.
How do E.F.P. and Therapeutic Riding differ from Hippotherapy? Hippotherapy is a physical, occupational or speech therapy treatment strategy utilizing equine movement. The unique movement of the horse becomes part of an integrated treatment program to achieve functional outcomes. Though the equine movement experienced during an E.F.P. session or Therapeutic Riding lesson may have some benefits similar to Hippotherapy, these programs all have different areas of focus. Where Hippotherapy's primary focus is physical, E.F.P. is primarily centered around mental and emotional well-being, and Therapeutic Riding has a recreational focus. Just as E.F.P. must be facilitated by a licensed/credentialed mental health professional, Hippotherapy must be practiced by a credentialed physical, occupational, or speech therapist. As there are currently no appropriately qualified therapists on the Dream Quest staff, Dream Quest does not offer Hippotherapy.
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DMV surcharges — Surcharges from the DMV can cause you to lose your driving privileges. Bankruptcy can help you get back on the road.
We can also help you understand the intricacies of filing for bankruptcy individually when you are married, bankruptcy and divorce, and how bankruptcy can help protect you and your small business.
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Thunder announce Abdel Nader suffered concussion against Celtics
Oklahoma City Thunder wing Abdel Nader suffered a concussion against the Boston Celtics in the scrimmage on Friday, the team announced Saturday afternoon.
Nader hit his head on the floor in the fourth quarter, at which point he was taken out of the game.
"It looked like — from my angle, I didn't see — is that he kinda landed and the back of his head hit the floor," Donovan said shortly after the game.
Nader was evaluated after the game and has entered concussion protocol.
The Thunder said there is no timetable for his return.
In the return to the court, Nader had 11 points on 5-for-9 shooting in 12 minutes.
Through 48 games this season, Nader averaged 6.0 points and 1.9 rebounds in just under 16 minutes per game.
Nader will almost certainly miss the remainder of the scrimmages and likely more. Oklahoma City plays its first real game on Aug. 1, only a week away.
The first round of the NBA playoffs is set to begin Aug. 18. Nader would have 25 days since the concussion occurred to get back on the court and get back to basketball form.
Nader is one of two injured Thunder players. Center Nerlens Noel missed the game Friday, but has been practicing with the team and is expected to return to game action soon.
Additionally, the Thunder will at some point lose the services of Dennis Schroder, who plans to leave the bubble for the birth of his child.
Andre Roberson on his long-awaited return: 'It was just a blessing'
Billy Donovan trying to balance spread of playing time, getting lineups in sync


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Un Poquito Más Duro, Un Poquito Más Suave: New Music From Latin America : Alt.Latino An Argentine DJ mixes one of the most iconic Latin Alternative songs with a rock and roll classic, Colombian champeta and bullerengue get remixed, and a Cuban soul singer bound to make you swoon.
Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux finds her tough side in her new album, La Bala.
When I went to school at the University of California, Berkeley, there was an infamous building called Dwinelle Hall, a labyrinthine structure reminiscent of M.C. Escher's Relativity. There was a running joke that freshmen would enter the building and finally figure their way out by graduation. And there was a myth about the building — the wings had been constructed by feuding brothers who refused to cooperate or even consult with each other, hence the crazy staircases and dead ends. The truth about Dwinelle Hall, I only recently found out, is that it was originally two separate buildings that were connected well after they opened.
In a lot of ways, this week's Alt.Latino reminded me of Dwinelle Hall. Usually Felix and I work together on producing each show, comparing our picks and deciding what our theme will be. Will it be a rock 'n' roll show or have a hip-hop vibe? But I was sick during the pre-production week, lying in a pile of Kleenex in a cold-medicine stupor, imagining I was on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean. Which is why I dragged myself to the studio with a handful of songs that pretty much sound like a party on a yacht in Paradise.
Then I realized Felix had decided to do a show with very mellow, even melancholy, music ideal for a rainy winter day. So we decided to do both.
We start off this week with danceable remixes and party starters in Columbian flavors. We really have it all: the champeta attack of La Makina Del Karibe, the Caribbean stylings of El Guincho (in an unexpected but very lovely duo with Chilean electro pop princess Javiera Mena), Novalima's unique blend of Afro-Peruvian tradition and international club music, and DJ Maga Bo's fantastic remix of Colombian Bullerengue icon Petrona Martinez.
As an added treat, we throw in a downloadable track by Argentine DJ Alonso Morning, whose work I could listen to all day, every day. Sometimes we play bands that take classic American rock songs and translate them into merengue and cumbia for their kitsch value (Tropikal Forever comes to mind). But DJ Alonso Morning is taking that art to a whole other level. He stitches two songs together so impeccably, he literally fuses them into something completely new. The song "Matadoors," his fusion of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs classic "Matador" and The Doors "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" is a great example.
Then we cool down with Felix's music picks: a slow smooth track from Rodrigo y Gabriela's new album and a mellow song from Colombian-Cuban duo Alejo Aponte y Latonera. And just to prove that I can mellow out, too, I share something from Danay Suarez, a Cuban artist I'm simply enamored of, with a cosmic Caribbean chill reminiscent of India.Arie or Erykah Badu. I'll confess that I am completely obsessed with this woman, and if you give her a listen, I'm sure you'll understand why.
This is probably one of the messiest, most schizophrenic shows we've ever done. And you know what? It's one of my favorites. We're literally all over the place and I love it. So, whether you are like me, arriving at the recording studio with a huge cold, wrapped in a blanket and deliriously holding a coconut drink in hopes of being whisked away to a warmer climate, or like Felix, showing up in a cozy sweater with a cup of cocoa, I think you'll find something to get into. All these musical hallways and staircases lead somewhere good.
Un Poquito Más Suave, Un Poquito Más Duro: Nuevas Canciones Desde Colombia, Cuba, Y Toda América.
sido construidas en forma separada por dos hermanos que se odiaban a muerte, cuyas compañías de construcción eran rivales. La realidad es que la construcción fue originalmente planeada para dos edificios separados y esto dio lugar a un bizarro espacio interior.
Escher. Engripada durante la producción, entre un mar de pañuelos y medicamentos, me imaginaba a mi misma en una playa caribeña. El resultado es un manojo de canciones preparadas para el estudio de grabación que parecen una banda sonora para una fiesta en un paraíso tropical. Mientras tanto Félix, sano y salvo en su oficina, había decidido hacer un show suave, hasta se podría decir melancólico, ideal para un día lluvioso de invierno.
Así que decidimos hacer ambas cosas.
Comenzamos el show con varios remixes bailables y canciones movidas y llenas de sabor colombiano. Realmente tenemos de todo: el estilo champeta de La Makina Del Karibe, los ritmos caribeños de El Guincho (en una colaboración inesperada pero perfecta con la estrella del electro pop chileno, Javiera Mena), la inigualable mezcla de tradición afro-peruana y tecno de Novalima, y un fantástico remix del icónico bullerengue de Petrona Martinez, producido por DJ Maga Bo. Y como si todo eso fuese poco les presentamos al DJ argentino Alonso Morning, cuyas canciones yo podría escuchar todo el día y todos los días. Nosotros, de vez en cuando, ponemos al aire bandas que adaptan canciones clásicas de rock a un estilo cumbia o merengue (estoy pensando en la banda mexicana Tropikal Forever.) DJ Alonso Morning tiene un nivel artístico único dentro del género. Mezcla canciones de manera tan impecable, que literalmente las fusiona, convirtiéndolas en algo completamente nuevo. La canción "Matadoors", por ejemplo, su es una fusión de "Matador" (el clásico de Los Fabulosos Cadillacs" y "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" de The Doors.
Después de todo esto, a relajarse con la música que escogió Felix. Una canción melancólica y suave del nuevo álbum de Rodrigo y Gabriela, y algo lento del dúo colombiano-cubano Alejo Aponte y Latonera. Y solo para demostrar que yo soy capaz de apreciar la música relax agrego una canción de Danay Suarez, una artista cubana para enamorarse. Tiene un aire a Caribe cósmico, con claras influencias de India.Arie y Erykah Badu.
El show de esta semana es posiblemente uno de los más desordenados que hemos hecho. ¿Y saben algo? Está entre mis favoritos. Así que si están, como estaba yo, envueltas en una frazada, casi delirantes de fiebre y soñando con una bebida tropical, o llegando a su trabajo en su sweater mas grueso y una taza de chocolate caliente, como Felix, hay para todos, y a disfrutar de las subidas y bajadas de nuestro programa.
Find out more about Guincho at his website.
Find out more about Javiera Mena at her website.
Learn more about Novalima here.
More about Ana Tijoux on her website.
More about Rodrigo y Gabriela on their website.
Hear the entire EP here.
More about Makina Del Karibe here.
More about Lido Pimienta here.
More about Alonso Morning here.
More about Maga Bo here.
More about Petrona Martinez here.
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Humoristische Blätter war der Titel einer deutschsprachigen Satirezeitschrift. Als Wochenblatt erschien die Zeitschrift von 1873 bis 1915 in Wien. Ihr Gründer war der Maler, Graphiker und Fotograf Karel Klíč.

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Mom: Eric, what did you most enjoy about camping in Tandil?
Eric: the rock climbing. We did two kinds of rock climbing, going up and coming down. The first time it wasn't a very steep slope; we rappeled down it. The second one was a lot scarier because it was a straight-up slope, all rocky with not many hand-holds and foot-holds. The scariest part of it was going down after we had climbed up because you had to look down at the instructor to make sure that it was okay to start coming down. You had to lean back, with your feet on the mountain side.
Mom: Wow. You had a harness, right?
Eric: Yes, of course mom. We were safe.
Mom: So what else did you do? What food did you eat?
Eric: We slept in tents with about 4 people per tent. It was pretty crowded. We played a lot of games. Soccer in the field. We went on a lot of hikes. Every breakfast we had little cookies and hot chocolate. But it wasn't very good hot chocolate. It was Nesquick and they didn't stir it, so it was all clumped at the bottom. For lunches we had sandwiches with ham and cheese and tomatoes. For dinner we had things like chicken, rice, potatoes and meat. No vegetables. Except potatoes.
Mom: What did you do after dinner?
Eric: We took turns taking showers and then made up skits. Then we played hide and seek in the dark with flashlights. We had a bon fire and on the last night we performed our skits. I was a cupid and had to shoot pretend arrows which were really pieces of sticks. It was lots of fun.


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Invisible barriers are holding women back in workplace, says Rebecca Rennison of EY
Humber set for jobs boost as Associated British Ports signs £100m agreement with ferry giant Stena Line
Exclusive: Wagg bags ice cream king Lambert as new chairman
WAGG FOODS has bagged Yorkshire entrepreneur James Lambert to replace its retiring founder as chairman.
By Bernard Ginns, Business Editor
Tuesday, 2nd December 2014, 6:00 am
The Thirsk-based company is the UK's largest independent manufacturer of dry pet food and has doubled in size over the last five years.
The family-owned firm, a leading supplier of the Big Four supermarkets, is aiming to win new contracts and expand into new markets in Britain and overseas.
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Mr Lambert, the former chief executive of R&R Ice Cream, has joined the board as a non-executive director and will become non-executive chairman next March when Bill Page turns 75.
Tom Page, George Page, and Richard Page (left-right)
Mr Lambert told The Yorkshire Post: "It's growing fast, it has a fantastic mill and the quality of its brands is getting stronger and stronger. The family has stuck together and created a wonderful business."
Wagg is led by managing director Richard Page and his two brothers Tom and George. Their father Bill founded the business in 1990.
Wagg has invested £20m on automation at its manufacturing facility over the last four years to make the business as efficient and low cost as possible.
Turnover has grown to £58m this year, up from £22m in 2008. The company delivered core earnings of £9m this year and employs 125 people.
Richard Page said Mr Lambert has the skills to help the company take advantage of opportunities that may arise in the pet food industry, including consolidation in a tough retail market.
He added: "There's undoubtedly a number of companies within the European context that are thinking about a sale."
Wagg is wholly owned by the Page family and has minimal debt on its balance sheet, which means it could easily raise finance to fund any acquisitions.
Mr Page said the company is conservative by nature but would "think more laterally about ownership" if the right growth opportunity came up.
Wagg supplies Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons as well as the likes of Amazon, B&M and Poundstretcher.
Its brands - Wagg and Harringtons - make up 85 per cent of sales, with the remainder coming from own-label products.
The company has a small but growing export business supplying customers in Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Hungary.
At R&R, Mr Lambert transformed an old Victorian dairy with a small contract to supply Morrisons into Europe's largest own-label ice cream maker via a series of mergers and acquisitions in a fragmented sector that was ripe for consolidation.
Like R&R, Wagg aims to grow its own-label manufacturing business to boost volume and keep its costs down.
Mr Lambert said: "In the grocery market, the people that are growing are the low-cost producers that are sustainable and can innovate and carry on investing."
Another similarity is the sector, which has a lot of players and is dominated by two giants, in this case Pedigree and Nestle.
Mr Lambert expects to see some consolidation at some stage in the future.
He stood down as chairman of R&R this summer, a year after the buyout by French private equity house PAI Partners.
Mr Lambert is also chairman of Burton's Biscuits, which owns the Maryland, Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels brands and is backed by the $140bn Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, and vet drugs maker Animalcare plc.
Mr Page described his appointment at Wagg as "a momentous change" for the business.
He said: "On the one hand, we are all sad to see Father retire.
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Some days words don't come easy.
Some times words don't come easy. I'm staring at the keyboard wondering how to convey two days that started with so much hope, and ended with near tragedy. But let's start with the positive. Many good things have happened.
Yesterday representatives from the City of Minneapolis met with Patina Park and Robert Lilligren of the Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors group (MUID), the designated point of contact within the Native community for encampment-related matters. They discussed the in-progress plans to create safe, warm, transitional shelter for the residents of the camp. Much progress has been made in just three weeks and all expressed gratitude for the continued work and input of grassroots groups like Natives Against Heroin (NAH), tribal leadership, and city, county and state agencies. Work on the transition plan has truly been a community effort.
Meanwhile, back at the camp, a group of students from the High School of the Recording Arts in St Paul, led by their instructor Phil O'Neill, built a much needed 4 x 8 ft bulletin board in the center of the camp where opportunities for housing and other services can be posted and messages left for camp residents. It's an analog communications center for what is essentially a small village without computers or electricity.
Later Peggy Flanagan, the current candidate for lieutenant governor, visited the encampment. She toured the camp with James Cross of NAH and Robert Lilligren of MUID, gathering information she can take to the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless annual conference in Duluth later this week. If elected, Flanagan would become the highest ranking Native woman in public office. It's impossible not to feel a sense of hope and progress when you're spending time with Peggy.
And then today we witnessed the first official step towards a humane transition. The housing subcommittee of the Minneapolis City Council reviewed the proposed plan, albeit without a designated site, and passed a motion directing staff to develop implementation plans for the establishment and operation of:
One or more navigation center(s), including careful consideration of City-owned property, to provide emergency transitional services to address the immediate needs of the residents of the Hiawatha encampment that includes low-barrier access to emergency beds, basic healthcare, and other support services; and
One or more culturally-focused and informed transitional housing options focused on serving American Indian individuals and families suffering from chronic homelessness.
This is REAL progress. See the official motion at this link; scroll to Addendum #5.
But despite this good news from City Hall, a tinge of sadness hangs in the air at the camp. The tragic and preventable death of camp resident Alissa Skipintheday, from an asthma attack, continues to weigh heavy. The loss is especially difficult for the NAH volunteers, including her cousin Fabian. Alissa's spirit fire no longer burns at the center of camp, but the presence of loss still remains.
And last night - and again tonight - tragedy nearly struck again. On both nights camp residents overdosed but were revived through the speedy injection of Narcan, a drug used to treat suspected opioid overdose. Respect to the members of Natives Against Heroin who are trained to administer Narcan and CPR. They saved two lives over the course of just 36 hours.
The heads and hearts of camp residents, NAH volunteers, MUID members and our community are reeling. Anxiety is palpable at the encampment, where medical services are few and the residents remain skeptical about their options for the future. Winter looms.
As I stared at the keyboard tonight, wondering what to write and how to describe this emotional roller coaster, I did know one message that must be conveyed: without hope there is despair. I'm heartened by the council vote today but fear the slow roll of bureaucracy. The residents of the Franklin Hiawatha encampment deserve our attention, our compassion, and a commitment from our elected representatives to do more and do it better. They deserve safe shelter and there is no time to waste.
Peggy Flanagan visits the Franklin Hiawatha encampment
Instructor Phil O'Neill and student volunteers from the High School of the Recording Arts in St Paul construct a large bulletin board for the camp.
Alissa Skipintheday's memorial at the Franklin Hiawatha encampment.
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Gallipoli, Western Turkey, 1915 – savage fighting raged as Allied forces tried to advance inland against tough Turkish opposition.
Korea, South-East Asia, 1950 – the forces of the United States of America were locked in a bitter struggle with the Chinese-backed communist forces of North Korea.
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The thing I like about getting bags to review, other than satisfying my constant craving for new bags, is the way in which different manufacturers approach design. Essentially, it's about working out how to wrap heavyweight materials around your DJ gear and keep it safe, and each one has its own particular way of working. UDG have gone for solid and chunky, perhaps at the expense of space. The SlingBag set isn't the biggest set I've ever come across, but will possibly be one of the hardest wearing.
But you get what you pay for - this set isn't cheap, but I've learned time and time again that spending a little more for quality is worth it in the end. Find out more in my review right here.
Nice review Giz! But I can't help but wish that UDG would have sent you a more "uptodate" bag/set of bags to review.
UDG SlingBag Trolley Set Deluxe used to be the bags to have - but that was before DJs started lugging laptops, soundcards, controllers and the likes to gigs instead of vinyl records.
As nice as those bags are, unless you take out the padding you can't even fit a 13,3 laptop nore a 15,4/6, so..as I said nice review but those bags and what they were intended for just don't seem to matter much these days for the working DJ on the road! So please UDG send Gizmo sth like the UDG 22" trolley or sanything else more current!
@ R2D2 - The word is "similar bags"...I used to own the exact bag set that Gizmo wrote about and without removing the padding you can't fit normal sized latops into the bag.
And a bag without padding....not so great.
I'm sure the ableton DJs you saw used UDG trolley but I'm just as sure that it wasn't this model.
UDG has a gazillion different trolleys most of which have special laptop departments but these ones well...they were strictly and pretty much only designed for transporting vinyl!
I'm with R2D2 on this one (not to say Strategy is incorrect). I know a quite a few Traktor and Serato DJ's that use the sling bag trolleys who haven't got a bad word to say about these bags. They use 13" mac-books normally and they seem to fit a wide range of gear in them, from midi controllers and audio interfaces to back up CD's or vinyl's.
Stategy is right in the fact that, yes these bags will struggle with the larger laptops on the market, but even though these were originally for vinyl, they still have a variety of uses for other equipment/media.
When I'm using Traktor at a Gig i use the UDG U9011 bag (Look it up, its awesome!!) it fits a missive amount of gear in it.
- a few bits like torches and little things like that.
As you can see, quite alot of stuff can fit.. Definitely worth a look at if someone is after something other than a trolley bag.


No, this isn't about that type of exercise.
Of course, exercise is important for everyone. It's critical for people inflicted with multiple sclerosis. Many of us are too tired to exercise, so we find excuses to skip it. Skipping the exercise makes us weaker over time. Being weaker makes us more tired. Being more tired makes us less likely to exercise and the circle goes on.
We are all susceptible to this, but the cycle accelerates for people with MS. The disease itself causes fatigue, which steps on the gas pedal for this spiral towards poor fitness.
Two months ago my MS doctor gave me a hard time because I have not been exercising. I said that I had done tai chi once a few weeks ago. She said that's good but it doesn't cut it.
For some reason, this time it really struck a chord. It has really hit home that I have this disease now and that there is no cure so I will have it for life. That means for the rest of my life I will be taking strong medications. And that for the rest of my life I really need to be serious about my diet and exercise. It's going to be a marathon, not a sprint. In fact, an endless marathon. This is not a new year's resolution that gets pushed to the side two weeks later when work gets busy. This is permanently adopting a new lifestyle. This is having a choice. Am I willing to live more healthy if it could possibly make a difference in dancing with my daughter at her wedding some day, versus being in a wheelchair for it?
My wife is incredibly supportive. We have a family membership at a local fitness center, but we both know that it will be tough for me to stick with the commitment of going there in the evenings. We have an extra bay in our garage and I suggested turning that into our workout room. My wife knew that it would still be prone to out of sight, out of mind. She insisted that we turn one end of our bedroom into a workout area. I have no choice but to walk past the equipment at least a few times a day and hence, much tougher for me to make excuses not to use it.
I am a fan of bodyweight exercises so my emphasis has been on that. It also fits my lifestyle in that I go on frequent business trips. While most of the hotels have a fitness center, it's too easy for me to skip it. If my workout it doing pushups or squats in my hotel room, I'm much more likely to actually do it.
A power tower. This is a device that allows you to do many body weight exercises. Pull-ups, dips, knee tucks etc.
I block off time each day when my wife keeps the kids occupied for me to do the recumbent bike. The rest I do randomly as I walk by the equipment. A couple of sets of pull-ups now. Some crunches and back extensions when I walk through later. I pick one or two body parts to focus on each day, in addition to the bike.
Two months is not a long time but so far, so good. I have exercised almost every day that I have been home since my doctor made me see the light of my new priorities.
It's a little ironic that coming down with a debilitating disease is making me get in shape and be healthy again. I may have MS but for all that I know, the MS motivated diet and exercise may prevent me from having a heart attack or something else that might have occurred otherwise. Life works like that.


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Quick lube operators grapple with space and time to maximize their shops' efficiencies. A tweak here or a change there creates a little extra time. It all adds up, and time is money after all.
Bill Floyd, who runs the Lucas Oil Centers in Evansville, Ind., knows these metrics well. He says he's always working on ways to gain a little more time or save a little more space in pursuit of better car counts.
"At the end of the day, that could be the ability to process more cars," Floyd says. "All those seconds add up to minutes, and the minutes add up to an hour."
Floyd, who is also the board president for the Automotive Oil Change Association, shared with NOLN his process behind five major parts of his shop's routine that have made big differences.
1: Crowd Control
The driveway lot might be the most valuable real estate for getting ahead of the service process.
When cars line up in front of Floyd's three bays, he sends someone out to begin the service process. It's more than just a greeting and basic customer information.
"We're actually using the staging area prior to oil changes," he says. "Whether that's the next car in line or two cars deep in line. Time is money, and car count is part of your time management."
One of the first things a courtesy tech will do after greeting the customer is mark the window with a washable marker. That helps everyone else adhere to the "first in, first out" policy that governs the lines at Lucas Oil Centers.
By that time, the customer should be on their way to the lobby to get fully checked in at the counter. One benefit is that it allows the tech to move cars according to the system. It also gives the courtesy tech room to do some preliminary checks or begin a flush service.
"At the same time, the technician or whoever moves the cars, has already popped the hood. They've already noted the mileage on the odometer. They've noted any check engine lights," Floyd says. "By doing that ahead of time, we've found that 45 seconds or a minute's worth of time savings just adds up to cars at the end of the day."
2: Bay Time
Now the car is in a bay, ready for the bread-and-butter oil change service. Early on, Floyd says that his shop had one layout flaw that made techs move a bit slower.
He had shared computer stations at first. That created a bottleneck in the service process, so he decided to go with one per bay.
"It's worth it to invest in additional workstations per bay. We intentionally have put a complete setup with computer, sticker, printer per station, per lane, per bay," he says. "The location of them, the proximity, is intentionally toward the driver's door. So you're looking at the window and see the VIN rapidly and see the hood."
Floyd focuses on is keeping techs in their areas as much as possible. It's just a constant reminder not to stray too far from the system. Each piece relies on the other.
"You've constantly got cars in motion," he says. "There's a car pulling out, there's a car pulling in. If you take a technician off of what he's doing in the bay, you slow that process down."
When it's time for the car to leave the bay, there better be a fresh car coming in on the other side. That's a typical rule for shops, but Floyd says the process also doubles as a part of the inspection process.
The tech who just pulled a finished car out of the bay and is guiding a new one inside should be checking the headlights, blinkers and anything else that can be seen from the front. Light replacements are a welcomed safety service and have good margins, Floyd says.
If all goes right, the actual oil change might be the quickest part of the process. And it repeats throughout the day.
3: Workflow, Streamlined
The process of training, honing and changing a shop's process is constant, no matter how efficient it is. The education stage can be continual because there are almost always new techs to train.
Floyd says this presents an opportunity for overall shop development. If the workflow is constantly being taught to someone, then it's constantly under review.
"Unfortunately, because of people changing and turnover, it sort of requires that we're constantly working on it," he says. "And we still are getting better."
Shops also manage different key performance indicators depending on how the day is going. When there's a huge line of cars waiting outside of the shop, then the priority is going to be on getting them in and out. Car count reigns supreme, and it's often the main figure that quickly describes a shop's output.
That's what a smooth service workflow promotes.
"Your processes should be done identical every time," Floyd says. "But there's a direct correlation that a really busy packed day is not going to have as good of a ticket average as a slow day."
4: Additive Add-Ons
One efficiency factor Floyd has been working on in his shops isn't related to the labor workflow. It's in how he's crafted his shop layout. As customers and OEM recommendations are asking for a wider variety of oils, it's becoming more economical to add more bulk tanks.
"So you have more products in your dispensing console," Floyd says.
But each tank is smaller. Where he once had a couple 500-gallon tanks, there might be a few 150- or 200-gallon tanks with various types. Perhaps customers will respond to having more options for conventional or synthetic at a certain grade level.
"Your tank farm is growing even though your viscosity isn't, necessarily," he says.
It's up to each shop operator to analyze their oil sales to see what inventory might be suitable for smaller bulk storage, and some cost savings might be seen there.
There's another, more substantial change that Floyd swears by: a fourth bay.
His fourth bays are reserved for some of the more time-consuming additional services, as well as some others where inventory can be close at hand. That's where they perform transmission flushes, serpentine belt replacements, battery replacements and air conditioning service.
It's an investment that can be limited to a shop's lot size, financial abilities and other factors. But if possible, Floyd endorses the extra bay.
"Moving forward, I won't build another store without that fourth bay," he says.
5: Add Service, Create Efficiencies
While additional services might bring new revenue opportunities to a shop, they can also extend service times.
At his shops, Floyd decided that offering tire rotations would be a good fit for his service menu. At first, there was an equipment investment that helped maximize efficiency, because it meant that everything could be done there in the bay. He wanted to help prevent adding time even though he was adding a service.
"We put pit lifts on every bay," he says. "Because of the number of synthetic oil changes that continues to grow and the long drain intervals, rotations need to be done."
He quickly found that, in practice, the lower bay tech didn't have anything to do while the employees up top were performing the rotation. He made a small tweak: move the lower bay tech up top to help on rotations.
The change helped to speed up the process, maximized labor and helped out the upper bay techs from doing all themselves.
"They speed the process up, and it kills the fatigue for one guy," he says.
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Agent Jirius: Bellevue Short Sales: What is a HUD-1 and why does it matter on a short sale?
Bellevue Short Sales: What is a HUD-1 and why does it matter on a short sale?
Bellevue WA – Here is something that drives inexperienced short sale agents crazy. It is a HUD-1, also called a HUD. HUD is the Federal Agency, the Department of Housing & Urban Development, also called HUD.
Before a short sale lender will accept a short sale, they want to know what they will net from the sale. A HUD-1 breaks down all the projected closing costs so the lender can see their net.
Most agents are familiar with a HUD-1. They see them at the closing of every home they sell. But, seeing a HUD-1 at a closing is not the same as the familiarity you learn on short sales.
See, if you mess up on that HUD-1, then it puts the short sale transaction in jeopardy. The short sale lender will look at a projected HUD-1 and agree to accept a certain number.
If unexpected costs get added to the HUD-1, then that net goes down. (There are always unexpected costs on a short sale. I can tell you from personal experience.) Now, the agent has to go back and re-negotiate with the short sale lender. That can drag out the process another 60-90 days.
The buyer will usually get frustrated and cancel the contract. Then, the agent has to re-sell the house and start the process all over again.
This is what causes many agents to hate short sales. They didn't take the HUD-1 seriously and had problems on a short sale. As a result, they think all short sales are impossible.
To truly be successful at short sales, the agent must understand HUD-1s inside and out. They need to make sure that every single projected expense is added to the HUD-1 at the beginning of the negotiations.
Adding them after you have negotiated isn't going to work.
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Why? Because most short sales are beneficial to a lender. If you accept our offer to help you on a short sale, your lender may not agree to a short sale or to modify your loan.
We do offer a loan modification kit.
However, the likelihood of negotiating a modification is like everything else in life. It takes work and persistence to convince your lender to modify your loan.
No matter what you or we do, your lender may not approve a loan modification. We do not recommend that you stop paying your mortgage, because this will cause damage to your credit and could cause you to lose your home.
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AssurMada is a popular sailing fixture for the Dutch insurance industry. It was founded in the 1990s by claims specialist Aad Remkes at Aon Risk Solutions and his former colleague Jean van Oosterhuot, who now works in claims at AGS. The aim of the event is to encourage communication across the European insurance market and specifically to build bridges between Dutch and English insurers.
The boats set sail from Rotterdam early on Wednesday 6th June, crossing the North Sea in convoy and arriving safely in Ipswich marina, Suffolk the following day, despite one of the vessels becoming separated en route due to treacherous weather conditions.
The visitors, including a number of representatives from Markel International Netherlands, travelled to London by train and were met at Lloyd's by Markel, which hosted a tour of the building followed by a buffet lunch.