The Goshen College Music Department's ninth annual Christmas extravaganza will feature Goshen College ensembles, students and faculty in a musical celebration of the season.
Reserved seating tickets are $15 and are available through the Welcome Center by calling (574) 535-7566, emailing welcomecenter@goshen.edu or visiting www.goshen.edu/tickets. Patrons are strongly encouraged to purchase tickets in advance.
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HomeNewsAon Launches New Exec Committee
Aon Launches New Exec Committee
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Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, today introduced the new Aon Executive Committee (AEC). The Aon Executive Committee is responsible for executing on the firm's four-pronged Aon United Blueprint, which creates new sources of value for clients, delivers more effective client service, drives innovation at scale and ensures a unique and sustaining colleague experience.
"Our Aon United operating model has been further strengthened through the combination planning process and we're moving forward at speed without the overhang of regulatory uncertainty or distraction of restructuring," said Aon CEO Greg Case. "Our new Executive Committee is an incredibly capable team of leaders with a clear perspective on what it will take to reach the full potential of Aon United."
Case added, "This team knows how to work together across geographies, solution lines and functions to bring the best of our firm to clients and is fully committed to accelerating innovation to better address unmet client need."
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Although a little chilly it was a lovely, sunny day yesterday. There are quite a few tidying up jobs that need doing so I thought I would try and strike a few off the list. I decided to weed last years runner bean/sweet pea plot, which the brassica's are going in this year. I dug up several of these rather unpleasant creatures, which I suspect are the larva of the black vine weevil (Otiorynchus sulcatus). However, I did read somewhere that they do not have legs and as you can see in my photo above this one did, so I am not certain. Anyone got any ideas?
While digging up the old runner bean plot I also dug up a 7-spotted ladybird (Coccinella 7-punctata), which I initially thought must be dead. However I moved him/her into the greenhouse and placed it on a strawberry plant we have in there. Ater a couple of minutes it started moving about as you can see below. I knew that ladybirds hibernated but I didn't think they hibernated underground.
After messing around for quite a while attempting to take these pictures (I am struggling a little with my new camera) I did finally manage to get some of my jobs done. I was hoping to sow some broad beans and aubergines, but was beaten by the clock :( I can't wait for the summer nights where it is still light at 10 pm!
Urgh, that's horrible. I'm not very good with pests. I hope the ladybird doesn't come to any harm, it's supposed to get cold again this week. The clocks go forward next month then we'll have a bit more light in the evening, I'm looking forward to the lighter nights too.
:D It really was horrible!
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"Desbarates" This solid and beautiful album was presented at the Sala Galileo Galilei in Madrid, on 5 and 6 June 2008. This album was recorded with the Madrid group "Hexacorde " with the developing part of his business for three years . Hexacorde is a Folk group, dedicated to performing traditional repertoire of Castilla y León and also created from the root, its own music.
"Agarraos" This is the second disc of Muela Vanesa and Hexacorde group in which you will be able to see the evolution of the web disk. It was presented to the public on October 19, 2012 at the Galileo Galilei hall in Madrid. It is a disk full of danceable pieces like the pasodoble, the polka, the jota or seguidillas. With this work we try to merge the traditional and roots with other musical styles such as swing music.
Hexacorde members are:
Alvaro Aguilar: Spanish flute in G, xaphoon tambourine tambourine.
Rafael Alonso: Spanish Sol flageolet, flute and bagpipe.
Ángel Goyanes: acoustic, guitar and mandolin cistro.
Fernando Llorente: clarinet, bagpipe and drum charra.
Héctor López: drums, clarinet, darbuka, djembe and percussion.
Sergio López: electric bass.


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This is the song that almost caused songwriter Billy Montana to hang up his guitar and take a fast train out of town. The story here is as close to heartbreak that it gets in the business side of the music industry.
Billy: "Del Reeves was a Grand Ole Opry star. And his daughter Anne and I wrote 'Montgomery To Memphis' a long time ago. I think it's still a really great song, and I love Lee Ann's version of it. The thing about it was that it came out on her album at a time where, when she recorded it, I didn't even know who Lee Ann Womack was. So this was her debut album. And it had happened to me before, I have a cut on Tim McGraw's very first album that was the album before 'Indian Outlaw' propelled him into superstardom. And so it was one of those things where you never knew what was going to happen with the artist if you got on a debut project. It could be really good, or maybe nothing would happen with their career. But in Lee Ann's case, we were on the album, and then she started having hits. So I started getting hopeful, because the word was that we were going to have a single. And that's the only way, short of being on a mega-million selling album, that a writer can make money is by having hit singles. So we were hopeful that it was going to be a single, and sure enough they put three out. Two of them had a great deal of success. I don't know if they got to #1, but they were knocking on the door.
So we were supposed to be the fourth single off the project. And I remember we went back to where our home was, which was upstate New York, for summer break or something like that. And I got a call from my publisher. And they had already pressed the CD pros, which are basically the CD singles. And they were getting ready to ship 'Montgomery To Memphis' as a single to radio. And two weeks before the release date they changed their minds. And so that was a period of my life where I kind of threw my hands up. That was as close to giving up as I'd ever come. It was really discouraging. And stuff like that happens to people all the time in this business."
The attrition rate with sessions songwriters is very, very high. Writers have to fight for a percentage of earnings from downloaded and traded music. Because of this underbelly of the business, it's more difficult now than ever for a songwriter to make a living wage off their efforts.
Billy Montana takes the poison with an antidote chaser on a routine basis. "I was writing with a guy named Doug Nichols, and I said something like, 'Man, do you believe we get paid to do this? To write songs?' And he said, 'This is not what we get paid for. We get paid for all the other stuff surrounding it. The negative stuff.' Which is really true, because for the 999 times out of 1,000 that you have the non-success, that's the hard part. The easy part is getting with your friends and trying to create a song. I mean, that's really fun and exciting. So if you understand it, just what he was saying was we don't get compensated for doing the fun stuff. You have to be compensated for doing the hard stuff. And the hard stuff is taking the rejection that is very predominant. Because when we're hearing the successes, like even the cuts that I've had and the hits that I've had and all that, I'm still sitting on a pile of songs that is exponentially greater than those things that you've heard. So you've got to look at it like, you still go in and try to write them the same way every day, and try to write the greatest songs that you can every day."


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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the Islamic Republic of Iran and South Africa have excellent capacities that can complement each other's economy.
President Rouhani made the remarks during a meeting and receiving the credentials of the new ambassador of South Africa, Vika Mazwi Khumalo, and said that Tehran and Pretoria, in addition to bilateral relations, have close and constructive cooperation in international arenas.
He noted that the two countries have always been supportive of one another in different stages In the international arena, politically and legally, and 'we hope that we can develop our relations more culturally, politically and economically than ever before'.
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President Rouhani also emphasized strengthening of financial and banking relations between the two countries, and expressed hope that there would be a development in this regard.
South Africa's ambassador also emphasized his country's support for the International Court of Justice's ruling, and said, 'South Africa has always supported the positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran at international communities and we are deeply interested in developing economic relations between the two countries in various fields, and we have identified areas for joint cooperation'.
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Brexit chaos has brought on politicized judiciary in Britain, historian says
LAWRENCE — While last year's surprise Brexit referendum shocked the political world, a University of Kansas historian says less attention has focused on another significant development: the emergence of a politicized judiciary in the United Kingdom.
Jonathan Clark, Hall Distinguished Professor of British History, has written an essay recently published in a special issue of Politeia, "Triggering Article 50: Courts, Government & Parliament," which focused on constitutional issues surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union.
In late January following an earlier court decision, Britain's Supreme Court ruled that Parliament must vote on whether the government can start the process to leave the EU, an action that last year's referendum triggered. The court case was a tactic by those wanting Britain to remain in the EU, known as the "Remainers." They argued that under the doctrine of the "sovereignty of Parliament," an Act of Parliament was necessary to begin the process of leaving.
"This idea is itself a historical construct, not an eternal truth," Clark said. "Many institutions have competed for a share of 'sovereignty.'"
This could yet touch off a constitutional crisis, for Britain's Supreme Court did eventually decide that Parliament needed to approve the Brexit. The House of Commons has voted to do so, but the House of Lords still could reverse that decision.
Clark said the episode illustrates a power-grab by the Supreme Court in Britain, an element that more resembles the judiciary in the United States because for most of British history the higher judiciary were much less proactive until Tony Blair, as prime minister, created the Supreme Court in 2005.
"The Supreme Court has taken sides, just like the U.S. Supreme Court seems to do. It is still possible that Brexit might be frustrated by their judgment," Clark said. "The constitution is in dispute."
Historically, the expansion of the role of the judiciary in Britain has contradicted an idea made popular in 1885 as the "sovereignty of Parliament" by constitutional lawyer Albert Venn Dicey. However, that doctrine seems to be greatly weakened, Clark said, after a majority of voters, in the referendum June 23, 2016, disagreed with Parliament's support of membership of the EU.
Instead, two institutions are likely fighting to fill that vacuum of political power: the Supreme Court, representing the ideal of the rule of law, and the referendum, giving expression to the ideal of popular sovereignty, he said. Both appeal to history.
"History," Clark said, "has practical consequences."
Photo: The United Kingdom Supreme Court, via Flickr.
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Q: Calculate min/max slope of loess fitted curve with R? Related: R: Marking slope changes in LOESS curve using ggplot2
This question is trying to find the min/max y (slope=0); I'd like to find the min/max
For background, I'm conducting some various modelling techniques and thought I might use slope to gauge the best models produced by random seeds when iterating through neural network results.
Get the data:
nn <- read.csv("http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=6SSCb3QR", header=T)
rbf <- read.csv("http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=hfmY1g46", header=T)

For an example, here's the results of a trained neural network for my data:
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(nn, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=factor(group))) +
geom_point() + stat_smooth(method="loess", se=F)

Similarly, here's one rbf model:
ggplot(rbf, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=factor(group))) +
geom_point() + stat_smooth(method="loess", se=F)

The RBF model fits the data better, and agrees better with background knowledge of the variables. I thought of trying to calculate the min/max slope of the fitted line in order to prune out NNs with steep cliffs vs. more gentle curves. Identifying crossing lines would be another way to prune, but that's a different question.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Note: I used ggplot2 here and tagged the question accordingly, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be accomplished with some other function. I just wanted to visually illustrate why I'm trying to do this. I suppose a loop could do this with y1-y0/x1-x0, but perhaps there's a better way.?

A: I think the simplest solution would be to use the first difference (using function diff) as an approximation of the first derivative.
slope.loess <-function(X, data){
    # First your loess function:
    my_loess <- loess(y~x, data=data, subset=data$group==X, degree=2)
    # Then the first difference
    first_diff <- diff(my_loess$fitted)
    # Then the corresponding x and y values for the minima and maxima
    res <- cbind(my_loess$x[c(which.min(first_diff), which.max(first_diff))],
            my_loess$fitted[c(which.min(first_diff), which.max(first_diff))])
    colnames(res) <- c("x", "y")
    rownames(res) <- c("min", "max")
    res
    }

#Then apply the function to each group
slope.rbf <- lapply(levels(rbf$group), FUN=slope.loess, data=rbf)
names(slope.rbf) <- levels(rbf$group)

slope.rbf
$A
           x        y
min 3.310345 20.30981
max 7.724138 18.47787

$B
           x        y
min 3.310345 21.75368
max 7.724138 20.06883

$C
           x        y
min 3.310345 23.53051
max 7.724138 21.47636

$D
           x        y
min 4.413793 25.02747
max 0.000000 26.22230

$E
           x        y
min 4.413793 27.45100
max 0.000000 27.39809

A: I am writing a neural network myself for ultrafast trading. In the beginning I was using Loess or Lowess to fit time series, but what I wanted was smooth derivatives, which Loess doesn't supply. Even, if you implement Loess yourself and use the orthogonal polynomials for each point to compute a derivative you get odd results. There is a reason for this.
A solution to your problem can be found in a paper by Graciela Boente: Robust estimators of high order derivatives of regression functions. The formula is on page 3. The paper is freely available on the internet. Once you have acquired both values and derivatives, you can use this for uniquely defining cubic splines, which will give contiguous derivatives.
I am not familiar with R

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GCS Home › Forum › Announcements › Diane Redington passed away on March 15, 2018 – but her legacy and the GCS Project lives on.
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I have been monitoring this site since my diagnosis last August (17).
Finding this site and finding Dianes's ability to communicate with honesty and hope helped to give me the strength I needed to move forward. I wish I had told her so. She was a warrior. And a beautiful woman. I happened to google something about carcinoma sarcoma the other day and up came her picture. To me this represented a tribute to her intellect, courage, openness, compassion and dedication to this cause.
My condolences go to her family and loved ones. I also feel touched by her and struck by her loss.
Thank you Diane Redington. You will be missed here on earth!
I was so saddened to hear of Diane's passing. She was an inspiration to so many of us women who have been diagnosed with GYN Carcinosarcoma. Diane was a bold and brave visionary who loved life and was determined to find a cure. Thank God her legacy lives on through the GCS Project! I wish to extend my prayers and deepest condolences to Diane's family and I encourage those of us who have this disease to spread the word about the GCS Project. We must keep funding for the research viable and ongoing. I pray for Dr. Birrer and his team every day to make strides in their research and discover new treatments. The fight is not over! Thank you Diane, for your hard work and persistence. We will never forget you!
Diane was the voice of hope to many of us with this cancer. It is hard to hear that she has lost her battle with this bad cancer. I am thankful for her work and her perseverance for a cure! We need to continue her fight! We need to be encouragers for each other!
So true the world just lost an angel. Such sad news about Diane. What will we do without her. Diane gave me hope. I was just devastated when I heard this announcement.
To Diane's family and friends, how lucky you were to know her and have her in your lives. Wish I had known her personally however, I felt her warmth through the emails we shared.
My prayers and sympathy are with all of you who loved her.
So very, very sad to hear about Diane's passing. She was a true inspiration to us all and will continue to inspire us to work to find a cure. Prayers and kind thoughts for her family and friends. The world just lost an angel.
Diane (Dede) Redington, the beloved, inspirational founder of the GCS Project — dedicated to finding a cure for gynecological carsinosarcoma or MMMT — passed away on March 15, 2018. To honor Diane's valiant three-year battle and tireless efforts to find a cure for this rare, insidious disease, the GCS Project will continue to support her mission by providing hope with state-of-the-art medical and scientific information on the GCS website and its social media platforms and by raising significant funds for research.
The GCS Project team reaffirms its commitment to finding a cure for this disease in honor of Diane and all those women we have lost too soon.
Now more than ever, The GCS Project needs your support. Please spread the word and DONATE in honor of Diane's heroic fight – your donation is truly a vital gift to fund research to cure gynecologic carcinoscarcoma.
The GCS Project Team encourages the GCS community to continue to engage with the Forum and with each other. We will continue to do our best to bring relevant information on the science and clinical trials to support those with this hideous cancer.
We remain committed more than ever. Just as De would have wanted.


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Q: Are Python 3 and sqlite3 enough for a socket login and how much do I expect to handle before it falls down? I have a saved_auth table within an auth.db sqlite3 database on the user's side (inside an android.apk) and a thread that runs func_auth_socket().
Here is a part of the thread:
def func_auth_socket():
    global auth_packet, auth_packet_answer, username, conto_auth_socket, decoded_auth_packet_answer, holdermsg
    while conto_auth_socket == False:
      try:
        auth_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        auth_socket.connect(('192.168.1.138', 3367))
        print('connected')
        print('after conn '+ auth_packet)
        while True:
            if auth_packet != '':
                print('sending auth packet: ' + auth_packet)
                auth_socket.send(bytes(auth_packet, 'utf-8'))
                auth_packet_answer = auth_socket.recv(100)
                decoded_auth_packet_answer = auth_packet_answer.decode("utf-8")
                print(decoded_auth_packet_answer)
                conto_auth_socket = True
                print(conto_auth_socket)
                auth_socket.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
                auth_socket.close()
                break

                if decoded_auth_packet_answer == 'match':
                    username = auth_packet.split('|')[0]
                    print('recieved username: ' + username )
                    auth_socket.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
                    auth_socket.close()

                elif decoded_auth_packet_answer == 'unmatch':
                    auth_socket.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
                    auth_socket.close()

                else:
                    pass
      except:

        holdermsg = 'Initializing'
        time.sleep(0.5)
        holdermsg = 'Initializing  .'
        time.sleep(0.5)
        holdermsg = 'Initializing  ..'
        time.sleep(0.5)
        holdermsg = 'Intializing  ...'

and inside the gui loop (threading kivy mainapp) I have this with some update functions:
def fun_socket_auth():
    global auth_response2, auth_response1

    socket_auth = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    socket_auth.bind(('192.168.1.138', 3416))
    socket_auth.listen(10)
    while True:
        linktoauth = sqlite3.connect('USERS.db')
        curs = linktoauth.cursor()

        clientsocket, address = socket_auth.accept()
        print(address[0])
        while True:

            auth_request = clientsocket.recv(100)
            string_auth = auth_request.decode("utf-8")
            user = string_auth.split('|')[0]
            print(string_auth)
            curs.execute("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ?", (user,))
            select = curs.fetchone()

            if select == None:

                clientsocket.send(bytes('unmatch', "utf-8"))
                auth_request= ''
                string_auth = ''
                user = ''
                break
            elif select[0]+'|'+ select[1] == user+'|'+ string_auth.split('|')[1]:
            #if auth_request.decode("utf-8") == 'user|password':

                clientsocket.send(bytes('match', "utf-8"))
                auth_request = ''
                string_auth = ''
                user = ''
                break
            else:

                clientsocket.send(bytes('unmatch', "utf-8"))
                auth_request = ''
                string_auth = ''
                user = ''

                break

            #   pass
fun_socket_auth()

This base model is working fine for a couple of virtual machines and I also can edit the server side to store every clientsocket in a list then answer to it, but the question is how do I know if I am overloaded with requests to what should I compare it? Is sqlite3 fast enough? Should I split the requests into two different servers, or different threads?.