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Home Uncategories Chito Miranda and Neri Naig in another viral video: "Chito's Proposal to Neri"
Chito Miranda and Neri Naig in another viral video: "Chito's Proposal to Neri"
Chito Miranda and Neri Naig became viral video stars last August because of their private video which was leaked online. Now, they are subjects once again of another viral video.
No longer a sex video scandal though, but it's the video of Chito's marriage proposal to Neri.
After more than 2 years of being boyfriend-girlfriend, a few months after surviving the video scandal, Chito Miranda and Neri Naig are now engaged.
In a Youtube video shared by Chito himself Thursday, the proposal was made during Neri's fake music video shoot which was actually set up by the Parokya Ni Edgar frontman. Simple proposal, yet with nice concept and very romantic.
It may not be as viral as their controversial video last year, but the proposal video is a viral hit as well, now having almost half a million views on Youtube in less than 2 days. Watch the video below. So sweet!
The date or any details about the wedding though have not yet been revealed.
Earlier this 2014, too many celebs have already got engaged: Yeng Constantino and Yan Asuncion, Bianca Gonzalez and JC Intal, Eric 'Eruption' Tai and girlfriend, etc.

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Hummingbird Huddle started off as a conversation between two activists who were frustrated about the lack of unity among San Diego activists, and the lack of unifying public space in the city as a whole. They drafted a plan to start a collectively run community center that would serve as a hub for community building, networking and outreach.
Inspired by the story of the hummingbird as told by the activist Wangari Maathai , they chose the name Hummingbird Huddle. Separately we may feel as small as hummingbirds, but if we come together we can make and enact big, big plans!
Hummingbird Huddle began putting together a monthly social justice movie night series called Films For Flight. Members of the community were invited to present a film and then facilitate a conversation around the subject.
Hummingbird's vision evolved to include a cafe that would serve as a front for the community center, creating an intentional meeting space and generating the revenue to maintain the community center. A partnership was struck up with Donut Panic, and a sandwich stand was established at the City Height's Farmer's Market to offer an affordable, healthy meal option with ingredients almost entirely sourced from local organic farmers.
The sandwich stand has now been converted to a coffee stand in order to reduce prep and refocus energy onto developing community outreach. However, the vegan sandwiches live on as a catering option – we have served groups such as Bikes del Pueblo and the CA Center For Cooperative Development.
Our current goal is to grow our partnerships with local community groups, and develop more outreach and education around the intersectional issues of social, environmental and food justice.
Eventually, we plan to channel our collective energies to opening a physical space, bridging north park and city heights, where we can realize our long term vision as Hummingbird Huddle Community Cafe.


We are incredibly proud of the multilingual and cultural diversity that exist at Lawn Manor Academy. In the Modern Languages Faculty we aim to build strong and lasting bridges of understanding between our own vibrant and diverse culture, and those that we can explore through our study of languages and beyond.
Today, the study of a foreign language is absolutely key to developing a rounded sense of self and instrumental in the academic and pastoral development of all pupils. Languages are now an integral part of the Primary curriculum and are being taught throughout KS2 and creating inquisitive young linguists, we are building on this great start and enabling students to exceed their potential in KS3 and further on at KS4. French and Spanish are global languages with growing importance on the world stage and therefore here too, in the classroom in Swindon. Pupils with languages can get into university more easily and build a portfolio of skills that will benefit them long after they have left the school gates for the last time.
Now that it is a requirement for Primary Schools to offer a language, more and more pupils are arriving at Lawn Manor with some languages experience. All pupils are assessed in their first term and whether or not they have studied a language before, learning is tailored within the scheme of work to ensure all pupils can reach and exceed their potential.
KS3 runs over 2 years in Year 7 and Year 8. Pupils will study Spanish for three hours per week. We have increased our allocation from two to three hours in order to allow for the increased demands presented by the new style GCSE MFL exams. During these years many useful and engaging topics are covered and students are introduced to the building blocks of grammar, expression and understanding, basic translation and transcription and learning to communicate in three timeframes in a number of different contexts.
Our staff are all committed to maintaining the highest standards of teaching and learning. We have all been bitten by the language bug and our enthusiasm for languages bubbles away under the surface of every lesson.Each year we have a Spanish speaking foreign language assistant to help with speaking lessons across KS3 and at GCSE level.
Pupils currently in Year 9 and all new cohorts beyond will be studying the new GCSE for Modern Foreign Languages. This new exam does not have any course work and will be examined at the end of the course.
Every pupil will sit 4 exams at the end of the course: the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing will be tested. The new requirements mean that there will be elements of literature and translation included and that there will be a slightly longer speaking exam. There will still be the opportunity to opt for higher or foundation – though pupils will now have to enter for the desired tier in all elements of the MFL exam.
In the MFL department at Lawn Manor we are lucky enough to enjoy access to our own ICT suite where we can continue the work done in the classroom and give pupils the opportunity to work independently. All pupils can have access to these facilities after school in Homework Club and The Learning Zone which are offered on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons after school.
Video Cameras and voice recording devices allow for instant and continuous feedback from teachers and peers and keep fun records of some of the more creative lessons in MFL such as film reviews and News items and restaurant visits. We also incorporate the use of the library into our lessons, where we are lucky enough to have some iPads available.


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Invalidity cross-claim blocks interlocutory injunction
war / 8 March 2019 8 March 2019 / Patents
The Full Court has upheld Burley J's refusal to grant Sanofi-Aventis an interlocutory injunction over Alphapharm's SEMGLEE insulin solution for an injector pen. The significance here is that this is an unusual case where the (alleged) infringer's cross-claim has negatived the patentee's prima facie case of infringement. The Full Court also affirmed his Honour's approach to balance of convenience issues.
Burley J found a clear case that Alphapharm's product fell within claim 1 of Sanofi-Aventis' patent. His Honour found, however, that Alphapharm's cross-claim that the patent was invalid for lack of novelty was sufficiently strong that "it was doubtful" Sanofi-Aventis had made out a prima facie case of infringement.
Since the Interpharma case, cross-claims by alleged infringers that the patent is invalid have not enjoyed much success as the Court has approached matters on the basis that it is the patentee's "title" to interlocutory relief which is in issue.
What was different here was that the invalidity cross-claim was not "merely" a triable issue. It was of such strength that Burley J considered (provisionally) the patent was invalid. The Full Court explained the correct approach at [14]:
…. A case for invalidity which is merely arguable, of itself, does not undermine the existence of a prima facie case of infringement which has otherwise been found to exist. However, a sufficiently strong case of invalidity may well qualify the conclusion that there is a prima facie case of infringement at all. Far from reasoning contrary to the approach in Interpharma and Janssen, the primary judge was applying the same reasoning, albeit with an outcome not to Sanofi's liking because his Honour was satisfied that Alphapharm's case on invalidity was sufficiently strong to qualify (indeed, virtually to negate altogether) Sanofi's prima facie case of infringement. Further, it is Sanofi's submissions which have conflated the relevance of the competing cases on invalidity. What is relevant is the strength of the case that the claim or claims said to be infringed are invalid. The primary judge at [118] found that "the lack of novelty case advanced by Alphapharm is sufficiently strong (at the provisional level) to qualify (in the sense contemplated in Interpharma at [17]) the conclusion that Sanofi has a probability of success". ….
Sanofi-Aventis argued that the weight of the balance of convenience in its favour was a factor in considering its prima facie case of infringement. This argument failed both at the level of principle and on the facts.
First, the Full Court accepted that the strength of a plaintiff's prima facie case is relevant to consideration of the balance of convenience. Balance of convenience, however, did not affect the assessment of the strength of the prima facie case of infringement. At [8], the Full Court explained:
…. The strength of the prima facie case is relevant to the balance of convenience, but the weighing process involved in evaluating where the balance of convenience lies does not affect the assessment of the existence or strength of the prima facie case. As was said in Samsung at [59] "[t]he critical integer in the test …is the need for the Court to assess the strength of the probability of ultimate success on the part of the plaintiff. The strength of that probability will depend upon the nature of the rights asserted and the practical consequences likely to flow from the grant of the injunction which is sought". ….
Secondly, Burley J had apparently considered the respective losses relatively finely balanced on the question of balance of convenience, but had ultimately considered the difficulties of calculating Alphapharm's losses outweighed the difficulties in calculating Sanofi-Aventis'.
In particular, the Full Court considered that Burley J had not inappropriately undervalued Sanofi-Aventis' position as a long standing incumbent. For example at [51], their Honours explained:[1]
… Sanofi had not demonstrated a sufficient likelihood of success in all of the circumstances to justify the preserving of the status quo. Each case turns on its own facts so it is not the point that in GenRx and Warner Lambert the preservation of the status quo was given considerable weight. In neither case was the strength of the prima facie case undermined in the same way as in the present case. In neither case was there a suggestion of market circumstances similar to the present case given the primary judge's reference in [174] to the real possibility of Alphapharm's prospective market disappearing as a "significant aspect" of this matter. Faced with the primary judge's reasons, Sanofi's submission that his Honour failed to take into account the disruption of the status quo as a material consideration is untenable. His Honour weighed all those matters but the balance favoured Alphapharm not Sanofi.
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v Alphapharm Pty Ltd [2019] FCAFC 28 (Jagot, Yates and Moshinsky JJ)
One can only speculate how the 1336 paragraphs Jagot J had to write to work out the quantum on an undertaking as to damages in Sigma v Wyeth concentrated her Honour's appreciation of this issue! ↩
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Q: Detection of Blur in Images/Video sequences I had asked this on photo stackexchange but thought it might be relevant here as well, since I want to implement this programatically in my implementation.
I am trying to implement a blur detection algorithm for my imaging pipeline. The blur that I want to detect is both -
1) Camera Shake: Pictures captured using hand which moves/shakes when shutter speed is less.
2) Lens focussing errors - (Depth of Field) issues, like focussing on a incorrect object causing some blur.
3) Motion blur: Fast moving objects in the scene, captured using a not high enough shutter speed. E.g. A moving car a night might show a trail of its headlight/tail light in the image as a blur.
How can one detect this blur and quantify it in some way to make some decision based on that computed 'blur metric'?
What is the theory behind blur detection?
I am looking of good reading material using which I can implement some algorithm for this in C/Matlab.
thank you.
-AD.

A: There is a great paper called : "analysis of focus measure operators for shape-from-focus" (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234073157_Analysis_of_focus_measure_operators_in_shape-from-focus) , which does a comparison  about 30 different techniques.
Out of all the different techniques, the "Laplacian" based methods seem to have the best performance. Most image processing programs like : MATLAB or OPENCV have already implemented this method . Below is an example using OpenCV : http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/09/07/blur-detection-with-opencv/

A: Motion blur and camera shake are kind of the same thing when you think about the cause: relative motion of the camera and the object.  You mention slow shutter speed -- it is a culprit in both cases.
Focus misses are subjective as they depend on the intent on the photographer.  Without knowing what the photographer wanted to focus on, it's impossible to achieve this.  And even if you do know what you wanted to focus on, it still wouldn't be trivial.
With that dose of realism aside, let me reassure you that blur detection is actually a very active research field, and there are already a few metrics that you can try out on your images.  Here are some that I've used recently:

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*Edge width.  Basically, perform edge detection on your image (using Canny or otherwise) and then measure the width of the edges.  Blurry images will have wider edges that are more spread out.  Sharper images will have thinner edges.  Google for "A no-reference perceptual blur metric" by Marziliano -- it's a famous paper that describes this approach well enough for a full implementation.  If you're dealing with motion blur, then the edges will be blurred (wide) in the direction of the motion.

*Presence of fine detail.  Have a look at my answer to this question (the edited part).

*Frequency domain approaches.  Taking the histogram of the DCT coefficients of the image (assuming you're working with JPEG) would give you an idea of how much fine detail the image has.  This is how you grab the DCT coefficients from a JPEG file directly.  If the count for the non-DC terms is low, it is likely that the image is blurry.  This is the simplest way -- there are more sophisticated approaches in the frequency domain.

There are more, but I feel that that should be enough to get you started.  If you require further info on either of those points, fire up Google Scholar and look around.  In particular, check out the references of Marziliano's paper to get an idea about what has been tried in the past.

A: One important point to note here is that an image can have some blurry areas and some sharp areas. For example, if an image contains portrait photography, the image in the foreground is sharp whereas the background is blurry. In sports photography, the object in focus is sharp and the background usually has motion blur. One way to detect such a spatially varying blur in an image is to run a frequency domain analysis at every location in the image. One of the papers which addresses this topic is "Spatially-Varying Blur Detection Based on Multiscale Fused and Sorted Transform Coefficients of Gradient Magnitudes" (cvpr2017).
the authors look at multi resolution DCT coefficients at every pixel. These DCT coefficients are divided into low, medium, and high frequency bands, out of which only the high frequency coefficients are selected.
The DCT coefficients are then fused together and sorted to form the multiscale-fused and sorted high-frequency transform coefficients
A subset of these coefficients are selected. the number of selected coefficients is a tunable parameter which is application specific.
The selected subset of coefficients are then sent through a max pooling block to retain the highest activation within all the scales. This gives the blur map as the output, which is then sent through a post processing step to refine the map.
This blur map can be used to quantify the sharpness in various regions of the image. In order to get a single global metric to quantify the bluriness of the entire image, the mean of this blur map or the histogram of this blur map can be used
Here are some examples results on how the algorithm performs:

The sharp regions in the image have a high intensity in the blur_map, whereas blurry regions have a low intensity.
The github link to the project is: https://github.com/Utkarsh-Deshmukh/Spatially-Varying-Blur-Detection-python
The python implementation of this algorithm can be found on pypi which can easily be installed as shown below:
pip install blur_detector
A sample code snippet to generate the blur map is as follows:
import blur_detector
import cv2
if __name__ == '__main__':
    img = cv2.imread('image_name', 0)
    blur_map = blur_detector.detectBlur(img, downsampling_factor=4, num_scales=4, scale_start=2, num_iterations_RF_filter=3)

    cv2.imshow('ori_img', img)
    cv2.imshow('blur_map', blur_map)
    cv2.waitKey(0)

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*For detecting blurry images, you can tweak the approach and add "Region of Interest estimation".
In this github link: https://github.com/Utkarsh-Deshmukh/Blurry-Image-Detector , I have used local entropy filters to estimate a region of interest. In this ROI, I then use DCT coefficients as feature extractors and train a simple multi-layer perceptron. On testing this approach on 20000 images in the "BSD-B" dataset (http://cg.postech.ac.kr/research/realblur/) I got an average accuracy of 94%

A: Just to add on the focussing errors, these may be detected by comparing the psf of the captured blurry images (wider) with reference ones (sharper). Deconvolution techniques may help correcting them but leaving artificial errors (shadows, rippling, ...). A light field camera can help refocusing to any depth planes since it captures the angular information besides the traditional spatial ones of the scene.

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Date Published: February 2019
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
A cunning pederastic serial killer nicknamed "Santa" is making his way up the East Coast from New Orleans to Boston, leaving a trail of young bodies in his wake. Santa covers his tracks along the way by working as an itinerant bass player in a series of jazz combos. At the same time, the Driscoll family – Mark, Julie and their nine-year-old son Nate – who live in an upstate suburb of Syracuse, New York, struggle to come to grips with Mom's quadriplegia following a horrific auto accident. The suspense builds to a fever pitch as these two plot strands approach each other for the inevitable confrontation. All this tension is heightened by the mystery of Duncan, Nate's stuffed-toy gorilla, who is not only the boy's beloved companion but becomes a kind of family totem, and, later on in the story, so much more.
This is a novel not only for readers addicted to thrill rides and maddening suspense, but also those who are curious about the abnormal psychology of the pedophiliac killer. The book gives food for thought as well as a kind of perverse satisfaction for the imagination and senses. It is a thinking reader's thriller.
It was the best cut at the ball little Joey Simmons had ever taken, but he fouled it back over the chain-link fence. As catcher, Zach Moss had the job of retrieving it. He slipped down through the hollowed-out area under the fence, looked both ways before crossing the empty street lined with warehouses and loading docks, and darted across to where the ball lay nestled against the curb—just a few feet in front of the charcoal van. It was Sunday afternoon and the area was deserted. As Zach reached down, out of the corner of his eye he spotted the tall man in the black polo shirt leaning casually against the van's open sliding door, kicking a crushed paper cup to the curb.
"Whatcha got there, pal?"
"A baseball," Zach answered shyly, noticing the van was empty.
"Wow, that looks like a Phillies ball. I'll bet you caught it off the bat of Ryan Howard or some big slugger like that, huh? Could I have a look?"
Zach hesitated, torn between advancing and retreating, politeness and caution. That hesitation sealed the boy's doom. The man made as if to reach for the ball, but grabbed the little wrist holding it instead. It was a deft move, a practiced move, and lightning fast, carried out with the larcenous dexterity of a seasoned pickpocket. The boy was so stunned that he forgot to scream.
The sliding door slammed shut and the man was behind the wheel pressing the accelerator before the boys on the ball field knew what was happening. He had kept himself on the sidewalk side of the van during the entire abduction, carefully hidden from their view. Zach knew he'd done something very wrong, even though he hadn't meant to. All those endlessly repeated parental warnings raced across his mind, all the "Don't ever listen's" and "Always avoid's" and "Run screaming from's." Could he have another chance? Please! He'd do it right this time. He splayed his fingers against the window, crying out—too late—to his friends as the van pulled away. He hadn't noticed that its windows were dark-tinted, transparent only from the inside.
Passing through the industrial outskirts of the city, the van headed up Old York Road into the northern suburbs. It neither sped nor lagged and it obeyed all traffic laws. The man at the wheel enjoyed a supreme confidence in his trapping skills. It was a craft, an art even, and he had mastered it. Soon there was more wilderness than houses, until at some point the van turned left off the main road onto a poorly marked crossroad that, in short order, forked at a dirt road. The van took the dirt road across a tiny rustic bridge spanning a creek, continuing then across a cleared, open field on the right, at the end of which stood a modest white colonial house atop a gently sloping lawn. Potted plants overhung the small porch with its two rockers diagonally facing each other on either side of the front door. The place stood in the open, yet was well hidden by hilly wilderness beyond property boundaries. The dirt road saw little traffic.
The van pulled off the road and circled around to the rear of the house, stopping next to the angled steel cellar doors. The man got out, looked around and inhaled deeply, basking in the mellow sunlight of late afternoon. He was alone, the only sound that of the gently rustling trees. He slid open the van's side door and leaned in, hands braced against the roof, ogling his prey with satisfaction. And lust.
Terror widened the boy's eyes, making them—and him—all the more alluring to his captor. He cowered, pressed against the corner of his seat, his body balled up in futile self-protection.
"What do you want, mister? Why am I here?" he asked tentatively, knowing full well the man knew he knew why he was there.
"All in good time, Zach, all in good time," the man chuckled. He'd heard the other kids call the boy by name weeks ago when he first began scouting him. He always made sure, if at all possible, to get a kid's name before taking him. The process went much smoother that way. Strategic use of a boy's name soothed the boy with the delusion that, despite appearances, his captor was well disposed towards him. A tactic that would make an adult instantly wary tended to pacify an eight-year-old. He'd learned that the hard way many years ago from the debacle in Austin when the words, "Whaddaya say, kid, let's hang out," triggered a shrieking that forced him to start, rather than end, the process with lethal violence. After that, from Atlanta through Nashville and Blacksburg and on up the east coast—it was his first "tour"—he made sure to get the name up front and learned to soften his diction. It was part of his evolution from a seat-of-the-pants amateur predator to a serial pedophile of deadly proficiency.
"Why don't you climb out of there and come in for a cold drink, Zach? You must be thirsty. Catchers eat a lot of dust. They need to rehydrate all the time."
"No! I don't want to! I wanna go home!"
"I'd like you to think you are home—for now."
"No, I'm not!" the boy cried with mounting panic. He began to whimper.
"Come on now," the man said, mildly irritated. He extended his powerful right arm inside, like reaching for a prize in a grab bag, and gently but firmly pulled Zach out of the van. Then, bending over slightly while holding onto the boy, he pulled open the already unlocked cellar doors with his free arm.
Instinctively, Zach began to buck. He tried to pull away and squirmed furiously—to no avail. He had never felt such physical strength before. It was like trying to jerk a piece of wood loose from the vice in his father's basement tool shop. Even when, not so long ago, his father would playfully toss him up in the air and catch him coming down like a medicine ball, it was nothing like the sheer physical resistance, the total control by another, he was feeling now.
The man carried the boy down the steps, bracing him on his hip like a surfboard. They entered a finished basement, though one that had the same dank, musty air all basements have, with or without dehumidifiers. The smell of the air caused a new spike in the boy's panic, suggesting as it did the mold of the grave. Even at eight Zach was aware of the connotations of mold. The man cuffed him, as if scolding a pet, and got off on it. It was all part of the one-way foreplay.
The man carried him to the far end of the dark basement, which was largely uncluttered by the usual piles of stored junk, as if the house hadn't been occupied long enough to accumulate much to store. There, well behind the furnace and hot-water heater, was a small, inconspicuous room, walled off from the rest, no doubt originally intended as a study or office. But the man had converted it to a kind of private pleasure cave. Richly paneled and lushly carpeted, hung with lurid pornographic images, both paintings and photographs, of naked children, many interacting with "erect" naked men, the windowless room was the sick expression of what had become the man's sole reason for being. He had left the door unlocked and ajar for quick and easy sequestering of his latest prey. Lowering the boy onto the quilt-covered king-size bed that occupied more than half the room's space, he raised an index finger to his smiling lips to shush the signs of panic contorting the boy's face and body language. Then he leaned forward and switched on the portable CD-player on the nightstand. The soft strains of "So What" filled the room, the opening track of Miles Davis's cool-jazz masterpiece, Kind of Blue, with the insouciant opening base sequence introducing Davis's smokey trumpet. It was always the same music, always "So What," setting the same naughty jazzy mood— anything else would have been unthinkable to him.
As the man pulled his shirt over his head and began unbuckling his jeans, the boy's whimpering swelled into alternating sobs and shrieks. He had no idea he was playing right into his predator's game plan, for the man's lust was spiked above all else by another creature's helplessness. He wanted the boy to beg for his innocence, his bodily integrity—his life. He craved the dark bliss of godlike power over the destiny of another, especially when that other was fully aware of his own utter dependency. This was his drug, his elixir, immeasurably more potent than the heroin he had tried so many times, which, while bestowing bliss, had also dulled his senses, and he lived for the sharpening of his senses. This got him out of bed in the morning.
"Zach, Zach. It's all right. We're just gonna cuddle for a while. Okay? Just lie together and hold each other and make each other feel good, you know?"
"I wanna go home!" the boy bawled in tearful protest, apparently shocked by the urgency of his own voice, for his sobbing escalated, opening up to a pathetic wail fueled by panic.
Its only effect was a quickening of the man's desire. Stimulus … response. No one could hear them there, and it was all just becoming so delicious. As the man slipped out of his jeans, Zach's eyes were riveted on the bulge in the crotch of his briefs. At eight, he had just enough sexual awareness to know what that bulge meant. Still, it was his dim but nightmarish sense of what might come afterward that intensified the stabs of panic.
The man lay down on the bed and snuggled up to his prey, whose flinching reflex merely spiked his lust once again. The man was lost within the dark caverns of his desire, the boy trapped within those same caverns.
"This is so nice," the man breathed dreamily, reaching down deftly to their mutual nether regions while pressing the sobbing boy to him with unnatural strength …
The sun was down and a purplish twilight graced the overgrown area behind the house as a dark figure strode purposefully from the cellar doors in the rear into a little copse of oak and cedar about a stone's throw away. He was carrying a base fiddle case. But his firm grip and taut right arm left no doubt that the case's contents were heavier than any fiddle.
After a while, the only sound to pierce the darkening stillness was the rhythmic thrusting of the spade into the soft earth. Far from being drained by the effort of the
cleanup, the man felt juiced, energized, expansive, and, at the same time, utterly relaxed. He reveled in the digging, each thrust of the shovel a little aftershock of that explosion of pleasure for which he lived. Finally, dropping the shovel behind him, he sank to his knees, opened the case and stared for a while at the olive-hued double-strength trash bag that served as a shroud for the lifeless body. Gently lifting the body from the case, he lowered it into its shallow grave, again staring and carefully straightening out both the bag and the body it contained, though without attempting to pose the body in any way. No tableaus, no "necro-symbolism" to titillate the profilers. Just putting it where it belonged.
Author Dennis McCort (1941-) was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, the "mile square city" on the Hudson, in the shadow of Manhattan. He writes of his experiences growing up there in the postwar industrial era before gentrification in his book, A Kafkaesque Memoir: Confessions from the Analytic Couch (PalmArt Press). McCort is now retired from Syracuse University in upstate New York where he taught German language and literature over a long career. He has authored literary studies on German and Swiss writers and on the influence of Zen Buddhism on such Western writers as J.D. Salinger, R.M. Rilke and Thomas Merton. His understanding of Zen, both as scholar and practitioner, i.e., from both outside and inside, helped him to add layers of complexity to the fascinating personality of the pedophiliac protagonist of Duncan. McCort has also written a comic novel, titled The Man Who Loved Doughnuts, about a young professor who fails to get tenure at his upstate university and spends a lost weekend in lower Manhattan. It is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook. Duncan is his novelization of a macabre seed-concept coming from his wife Dorothy: that of a serial pedophiliac murderer on a collision course with a young boy whose only defense is his stuffed toy gorilla. Both McCort and wife describe the book as a "thinking man's thriller."
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Numerical Phenomena: Goal: to avoid any arbitrariness and subjectivity. Up to 100 features that are not weighted. Leads to different classifications when using different feature sets. It cannot be gradually refined. a) "distance method" b) "thrift method".
Cladification/Mayr: (c. 1950) is based exclusively on genealogy. Only common derived features (apomorphies), no original features are taken into account. Each taxon consists of a branch of the genealogical tree, which includes the stem species of this branch and all its offspring (including "ex groups," i.e. highly modified offspring). Without any consideration of similarity!
Similarity/Darwin: uses as many features as possible.
Classification/Darwin: shares with the cladification in contrast to the purely numerical phenomenology, that groupings are taken into account.
Taxonomy/Tradition/Darwin: a taxon is monophyletic when all its members descend from the next common ancestor.
Taxon/Cladism: "holophyletic", demarcation of the taxa. (Both methods of hierarchies are purely genealogical).
Clade: does not correspond to a taxon in Darwin. A "Cladon" goes back to a root species (and includes it), that is, the kind that has the first apomorphic feature of this branch (Clade).
Cladification: shows well the phylogenetic aspects of the characteristics.
1. Most of the clades are very heterogeneous, other stem groups can be much more similar to the stem groups of the sibling groups than daughter groups (end stages).
Klade: does not correspond to a taxon at Darwin. A "Cladon" goes back to a root type (and includes it), that is, the kind that has the first apomorphic feature of this branch (Clade).
1. Most of the clusters are very heterogeneous, other groups can be much more similar to the parent groups of the sibling groups than daughter groups (end stages).
3. The determination to assign sibling groups the same rank is unrealistic. A sibling group, which has hardly developed further, and one who has undergone a drastic evolutionary change (for example, birds) would have to have the same categorical rank.
5. Each population requires to be ranked as a species even if they differ in only one characteristic (phylogenetic species concept).
6. A classification is more useful, the more features it takes into account.
7. Sibling groups are excluded from relationships, even if they are more closely related than remote offspring.
Each classification based on a single characteristic leads to heterogeneous, artificial taxa.
Multidimensional Order: the order of taxa in a printed line is forcibly one-dimensional.
But common lineage is a three-dimensional phenomenon.
1. Derived taxa: behind those from which they are derived.
2. More specialized behind less specialized.
3. Modifications to the original sequence are to be avoided.


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Maxmiliánův vodovod (též Maxův vodovod) je vodárenský objekt z roku 1838, jehož součástí je kašna se stáletekoucí vodou v ulici Na Kopečku 1490 v Kroměříži, v sousedství městského koupaliště Bajda. Jedná se o památkově chráněnou stavbu v klasicistním stylu, která se nachází v nárazníkové zóně světového dědictví UNESCO Zahrady a zámek Kroměříž. V současné době voda z kašny není pitná, ale pouze užitková.

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Maxmiliánův vodovod je přízemní čtvercová budova, jejíž štítová zeď s kamennou kašnou a chrličem je orientována směrem k zámku a Mlýnské bráně. Ve středu štítu je umístěn litinový znak biskupa Maxmiliána Josefa Sommerau Beckha a pod římsou nad kašnou je nápis z kovových litých písmen ve znění "MAXMILIAN JOSEPH SEINER GUTEN SCHUTZSTADT CREMSIER MDCCCXXXVIII".

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Maxmiliánův vodovod v Kroměříži nechal zřídit olomoucký biskup Maxmilián Josef Sommerau-Beckh v roce 1838, aby přiváděl vodu z prameniště na svahu kopce Barbořina. Projekt a výstavbu provedl arcibiskupský stavitel Anton Arche. Kašna sloužila jako nový zdroj pitné vody pro město, kterou dříve zajišťovala vodárenská věž ve Štěchovicích, zásobovaná vodou z Moravy, vybudovaná biskupem Karlem II. z Lichtenštějna-Kastelkornu v letech 1665 až 1667.

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The long association of dogs with humans is proof that it is the oldest domesticated species with estimates ranging from 9000 years to 3000 years B.C. As a result, dogs have acquired the ability to understand and communicate with human beings and are attuned to human behavior like no other animal. Some of the social cognitive skills discovered in dogs are found not even in highly intelligent mammals like the apes, but comparable skills have been found closer home- in human children, no less.
The status of pet dogs has evolved in two distinct ways over the years. In the first, the dog is considered as a human being and we expect it to conform to human expectations of behavior. On the other hand, there is the view to treat the dog as a dog, with its own unique needs and routines, but as an important member of the family.
In the mid-1900s, the dogs were mostly kept outside, in a kennel or a doghouse. They were bred for the purpose of guarding, a walking companion or children's playmate. Towards the end of the 20th century, there has been a gradual change in the way dogs are looked upon – they have been increasingly integrated with human life and pet dogs have become a very important part of family life.
Dog training is very common now and many normal dog behaviors like barking, urine marking, digging, rolling in dung are not acceptable and dogs are discouraged from exhibiting these behaviors. Pet dogs play an important part in the family life as members use the dog as a resource and as a medium of interactions among the family members.
It is little wonder then, that the comfort of this loyal and loving creature is uppermost in his human owner's mind. Dogs are trained to sleep in their own beds, which may be a blanket or a proper bed. These beds can now be bought from the comfort of your home, by ordering it online.
There are different types of beds: extra large beds for large dogs, beds with motifs beloved to dogs like bones, etc., sofa shaped beds, oval beds, fleecy blankets, cushions, thermal quilted beds, the list is endless.
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One of the ways dogs understand hierarchy is by physical height. If you allow your dog to sleep in your bed, unlike making him sleep on the floor where a clear hierarchy is laid out, sleeping in the bed will be indicative of a not so clear hierarchy, and then there will be issues.
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Falkirk is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, 23.3 miles north-west of Edinburgh and 20.5 miles northeast of Glasgow.
Falkirk has a resident population of 34,570 according to the 2008 census. The population of the town had risen over the past decade, making it the 20th most populous settlement in Scotland. Falkirk is the main town and administrative centre of the Falkirk council area, which has an overall population of 156,800 and inholds the nearby towns of Grangemouth, Bo'ness, Denny, Larbert and Stenhousemuir.
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The subjects comprise an office suite extending over the ground and first floor of an end terraced two storey building. The building is of brick construction with large glazed frontage and timber and glazed entrance door.
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New Albany to name court in honor of Indiana commit Romeo Langford
By Raphielle JohnsonMay 8, 2018, 4:27 PM EDT
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Five-star prospect Romeo Langford's decision to commit to Indiana last week was a major development for Archie Miller's program for multiple reasons. Of course there's Langford's talent, but the New Albany, Indiana product is also the first elite, in-state recruit of the Miller era in Bloomington.
Langford's been a big deal in New Albany for quite some time now, and before he makes the move to Bloomington his hometown will honor him. According to Justin Sayers of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the city of New Albany is naming a soon-to-be constructed basketball court at Kevin Hammermsith Memorial Park in Langford's honor.
Groundbreaking is scheduled to take place at 6:00 PM local time Friday, with the project expected to be completed by July 14.
In the eyes of some this honor may appear to be a bit too much for a person of Langford's age. But given everything he accomplished at New Albany High School, finishing his career ranked fourth all-time in Indiana high school history with 3,002 points and leading his alma mater to an Indiana 4A state title in 2016, it makes sense. And that's just touching on what Langford has achieved on the court.
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Q: Only the last variable in sequence being written I have perhaps the most perplexing issue I've ever had with PHP. Please see the following code:
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      $this->$profile = $_SESSION['user_profile'];
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For some reason, it seems that either $this->$profile will be written or $this->$account will be written, but only if it is the last one. In the situation above, if I moved the profile line to be after the account line, it would be written. However, in this case it is not.
Both $_SESSION variables are objects retrieved from an SQL statement, and their assignments are valid as accessing either of the variables directly (eg. $_SESSION['user_profile']->forename) works fine.
Any ideas? Thank you.

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Replace this:
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Taking on that SOB in Catholic News January 14, 2021 Aaron Adair
It's been a long time since I posted here at ATP.
Every holiday season there will be articles repeating the theories of what the Star of Bethlehem really was. Or could have been. It definitely was real, and it could have been any of a dozen things. Or so the articles go on, and each year it's much the same. A few times, I will see something a little bit new, or something that tries to directly address points I have brought up in my writings.
In particular, I noticed a flurry of articles that popped up on the National Catholic Register, in particular from a certain Dave Armstrong, who also writes on Patheos. There are some remarkable differences in tone between the articles written in both places, but the more important thing is to address the, frankly, strained arguments that it's perfectly natural to read the Christmas Star tale as astronomical rather than supernatural.
First, let's consider this page at NCR on proper exegesis of the story. Now, one would expect that such exegesis would be to consider the scholarship on the wording of the text, or a direct look at the underlying language (Greek). That is all missing, even though we are told that the version of the story we see all the time is not fitting to the text. That's hard to tell when someone doesn't actually look at the text. In fact, even in English, many points the author brings up are clearly contradicted by what is said.
The main argument presented is that Jupiter is the Star, as seen to the south from Jerusalem towards Bethlehem. This was the Star "going before" the Wise Men, and this is just phenomenological language as is saying 'sunrise' even though it's not the Sun moving up in the sky but the Earth rotating. Compared to the North Star (Polaris), then Jupiter is acting in the same way to act as a stationary guide rather than the supernatural traveler others think they read in the text.
There are two points that make this a poor comparison. First, unlike Polaris, Jupiter does move in the sky relative to the observer. Only stars at the poles of rotation (namely Polaris) have little or no movement throughout the night. Jupiter, on the other hand, would be moving constantly with the Earth's rotation of 15 degrees per hour. That's the reason no one uses such stars or planets for navigation—if your compass needle deflected by a degree every 4 minutes, you wouldn't use a compass anymore! Secondly, unlike Jupiter, the Star really is said to move and in a way unlike stars do from east to west. After all, Matt 2:9 says that the Star "went before" them (going south) "until" something happened. Well, it can't be in front of them and then just not. What happened? According to the Greek (less well-represented in English translations), the Star arrived at its destination. It then stood still. Well, if the Star stood still, then before it was moving! That isn't what Polaris does at all, and it isn't what Jupiter does either.
So much for that, but the article writer does bring up an 18/19th-century commentator to say that the Star never pointed out a particular house. The commentary comes from Joseph Benson, a Methodist from England and one I had not heard of before. But when I looked up his commentary on Matt 2:9, he says exactly the opposite:
At the same time, it was a great confirmation of their faith, to be thus miraculously conducted to the very town pointed out in the Scriptures as the place of the birth of the Messiah. It left them not till it came and stood over where the young child was — Thus pointing out the very house.
Benson goes on to say that the Star didn't send down a beam of light from heaven or come down itself, which is the only traditional trapping he disagrees with. But he instead says the Star was always a light in the air, so it never came down in the first place—it was always low enough to act as a guide.
So the only exegete cited to favor a non-supernatural reading of the text speaks completely in the opposite way. I don't know how that could have been missed, especially if the author, Dave, is looking for any commentator in history yet has to quote-mine like this. He told me it was a simple mistake, but if so then it shows he's a poor researcher, searching for any tidbit that seems to favor his theories and blind to any contrary evidence. Sounds like an apologist to me.
But that's not all. As noted, Dave also has a Patheos article trying to say that skeptics are purposely making the story sound weird by forcing it to seem supernatural. There is frankly a lot of bloviating about too many other topics, trying to argue the Bible is a completely, scientifically advanced text. All of that is a distraction from what matters: what does Matt 2 say about the Star, and is there any historical or linguistic evidence to support any naturalistic reading of the tale.
First, Dave again insists that the text of Matt 2:9 does not say the Star moved. Except that it did. The word used in the Greek here is proago, with 'pro' being a prefix to the main verb, 'ago'. And that verb means 'to lead, guide'. And as noted earlier, this is something the Star does 'until' a certain point in the journey. If the Star were merely in front of the Magi/Wise Men, then it wouldn't stop being that way when they arrived at Bethlehem. Also, because all stars and planets will move from east to west as the night goes on, there is no way a star or planet could have held steady as a stationary guide to the south. These stars do move, again because of the rotation of the Earth, but not in the way to help someone going south.
Now, there is finally one point that Dave cites a Greek word. And he botches it up. The term is hou, which is an adverb meaning 'where'. However, Dave at first thought it's the word for place, as if it were a noun or pronoun. That is even contradicted by the concordance he links to—it clearly says the word is an adverb meaning 'where'. I don't know how he could have missed that. It is worth noting that he has modified the article to fix this, but it was only after I told him he was wrong. He seems to not think it matters to his argument, and in a sense it doesn't. However, it does undermine any believability that he can read and understand the original language. In fact, he told me he doesn't read Greek, so this goes to show that every deduction he makes about the text is suspect.
But even ignoring his initial ignorance, his approach is ill-founded. He is looking at only one, rather general word and then declaring its generality means none of text has the supernatural inclinations skeptics claim it has. However, the way words, especially modifiers like adverbs, get their meaning is from context, so what does Dave have to say about the other important words that describe the Star 'standing' 'over' where 'the child was'? Nothing. And that is unfortunate because it's what I focus on the most to show that the Greek is clear about the Star coming low enough to point out a particular house. Just like Joseph Benson said!
And yet, Dave says I'm the one that botched the text, a text which he can neither read nor understand even with aid?
There is one last source Dave jumps to in order to defend his understanding of the text. He notes that in one translation of the Bible, it says the Star stood over Bethlehem. This is a unique translation, but its source is one that scholars know not to use. It's the Living Bible, a version of the book that is certainly easier to read than the KJV, but it is well-known to not be a reliable version of the text. In fact, it was so problematic, it caused other biblical societies to come out with a new, easy-to-read English version, the New Living Translation. And guess what? That version doesn't translate the passage as Dave wants—it says the Star guided the Wise Men and then stood over where the child was. So for Dave's argument to work, we have to follow the grade-school level version of the Gospels that was so bad other evangelicals wrote a whole new version to fix it, and then we must ignore everything else.
Again, how am I the one botching the text, when Dave is literally using botched texts?
So, there is a lot of misquotes, avoidance of evidence, and the inability to even understand basic tools used to understand the language of Scripture. Which is why I won't waste my time addressing his 'medical' research about the Bible.
But even all of this discussion is premised on the tale being historical. This is something else that few have addressed when I point out the implausibilities of the story as-told, even if one accepts the supernatural. For example, magi were at this time in history not astrologers and wouldn't be looking to moving stars for signs of a Messiah. In fact, these Zoroastrian priests wouldn't have cared about a Jewish Messiah any more than a Jew cares about a Zoroastrian Saoshyant. We also know that later on, the magi of Persia actually persecuted Jews and Christians—odd if they had been worshiping the Christ! And there are the political complications of the king-makers of Persia coming into Roman territory to undermine the authority of King Herod and Caesar Augustus concerning who was the king of Judaea. These are all detailed in my book, so I won't go into them here unless someone actually can deal with the points.
So, what is new in these posts from Dave Armstrong? Unfortunately, not new evidence but ignorance of the text and mistaken citations of authorities that undermine him when read fully. (And I haven't even go into the particular theories of what conjunction was supposedly the signal to the Wise Men (he's largely following the ideas from the Star of Bethlehem documentary, which I critique here)). That is lastly demonstrated by his love of Augustine. He brings up the venerable saint because he was against astrology before modern science was. It's rather a distraction from the main point of his article, but this is worth highlighting for two reasons. One, is that Augustine's arguments against astrology were not original to him, but comes over 400 years earlier from Cicero. If Augustine is going to get credit for attacking astrology, then so should the pre-Christian philosophers like Cicero. But perhaps more importantly, Augustine was not simply against astrology, but a former believer in it when he was a Manichaean; so when he says that the Star of Bethlehem was not any sort of astrological phenomenon, he should be taken seriously:
Besides, this star was not one of those which from the beginning of the world continue in the course ordained by the Creator. Along with the new birth from the Virgin appeared a new star, which served as a guide to the Magi who were themselves seeking for Christ; for it went before them till they reached the place where they found the Word of God in the form of a child. But what astrologer ever thought of making a star leave its course, and come down to the child that is born, as they imagine, under it?
AGAINST FAUSTUS 2.5
If Dave wants to keep saying the Star of Bethlehem was natural, he can take it up with the patron saint of theologians.
Now, I have also been having back-and-forth messages with Dave via email, and I want to point out what I think is needed if he or anyone else wants to make the case that the Christmas Star was something naturalistic. What they need is some ancient example of someone describing a known, astronomical body with the same sort of language. Has anyone in Ancient Greek, Latin, or Hebrew ever described a planet as "going before" someone, or standing over a place with the same sort of verbiage? If that could be found, then we'd need to change our interpretation of the Gospel text. But without that, why go against the reading of the text as understood for thousands of years by virtually every reputable scholar?
If there is no linguistic evidence for a naturalistic reading of Matt 2, then any other digression is mere bloviation.
Please check out my book: The Star of Bethlehem: A Skeptical View [UK], called the "go-to book on the Star of Bethlehem" by Richard Carrier:
"Well researched, scientifically reasoned, elegantly concise, this book will long be required reading on the 'Star of Bethlehem'. Full of fascinating historical facts, and better informed and more careful than any other book on the subject, this should be on the shelf of everyone interested in that legendary celestial event." Richard Carrier, Ph.D., author of Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus.
"A fascinating and readable feat of hardcore historical legwork and keen scientific analysis." David Fitzgerald, author of The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion: The Mormons.
"…tightly-argued, well-reasoned…. Adair masterfully demonstrates why every effort to rationalize the Star thus far has failed…. A concise and rigorous must-read for anyone interested in religion, history, and modern efforts to understand the past." Jason Colavito, author of The Cult of Alien Gods.
Aaron Adair
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Guerrero Lagoon is surrounded by an exotic display of tropical plants, orchids and palm trees, one can swim in its turquoise waters and relax in different restaurants with grass huts (palapas) while enjoying a delicious plate of ceviche or whichever house special they may have.
Xul-Ha meaning "where the water ends" in Mayan is found on the southern end of the Bacalar lagoon.
This place is a colorful community of nature lovers, who enjoy adventure, history and celebrating cultural events. It has perfect scenery, and for this motive on October 2nd 2007 the governor of the state, Felix Gonzalez Canto, and the Secretary of Tourism of the state, Gabriella Rodriguez, informed the public that Bacalar had been declared a "Magical Town" in Mexico.


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Q: upload page layout in sharepoint 2013 without wsp solution I designed my own page layout (with html, css, js and sp controls)
and I wanna upload him to my site (sp 2013 publishing site).
The thing is that I have no solution(wsp) to deploy my site,
so I want to upload my layout directly to the site catalog (as I uploaded a masterpage).
There is a way to do it?
Thanks,

A: If you are uisng the Sharepoint 2013
then try following steps and you may be able to upload them easily:

*

*map your local drive as a map drive to the server.

*By this uploading these page layouts becomes very easy. Simply drag and drop the files into your Master Page Gallery.

*In SharePoint, refresh the Master Page Gallery page to see that the two page layouts have been added. Also notice that an associated ASP.NET file has been created for each of the page layouts.
Reference :http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2013/04/10/stage-7-upload-page-layouts-and-create-new-pages-in-a-publishing-site.aspx
Thanks

A: Thanks guys.
I solved the problem with SP designer,
I created a new layout via sp designer,
but I also saw that I could do it with design manager.


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Considered one of the most common electrical wiring concerns is regarding how to wire a change. Even though using switches at your house is quite uncomplicated, wiring one might not be that simple for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is actually quite simple to wire. There are actually different types of switches, but for this example, let's say you happen to be installing a single-pole toggle switch, an exceptionally prevalent swap (plus the easiest).
There are three colours of wires in the normal single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and green. Splice the black wire in two and connect them on the terminal screws - a person on top rated plus the other within the base screw of the change. The white wire serves to be a resource of uninterrupted power and it is ordinarily linked to a light-weight coloured terminal screw (e.g., silver). Hook up the environmentally friendly wire to the ground screw of your respective switch.
These ways would normally be ample to create a typical change work without having a dilemma. On the other hand, in case you aren't self-confident that you choose to can attain the undertaking effectively and properly you far better permit the professionals get it done rather. Right after all, you can find a purpose why this activity is probably the most popular electrical wiring queries questioned by the majority of people.
For some cause, how to wire a ceiling fan can be certainly one of quite possibly the most prevalent electrical wiring issues. To simplify this activity, you need to use one switch for your single ceiling fan. To wire the enthusiast, it's simply a subject of connecting the black wire of your ceiling fan for the black wire with the change. When there is a light-weight, the blue wire needs to be related into the black wire from the switch too.
There are motives why these are probably the most normally questioned electrical wiring inquiries. A single, a lot of assume it really is very simple to perform, and two, they are the prevalent electrical jobs at home. But then you definitely should not place your safety at risk in the purpose to save money. The stakes could even be a great deal increased should you seek to save cash and do an electrical wiring task without having ample know-how or expertise.


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It is a grace to desire You.
It is grace that draws me to You.
And, still, I feel you near.
While I stand searching this empty tomb.
Come, Wind of the Spirit.
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