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I've been spending most of my time in the studio, working on "Motet." Here is the progress so far.
Some of the tableaus are finished, but many are not.
The lotus-covered figures of Radha and Krishna are pretty much done, but I might add something to either side of them. A painting often works differently at the end of the process than it does in the middle, so I'll probably wait until the last minute to decide.
This little scene of lovers flanked by flower-offering maidens is in the bag. I adore the "S" curve of the attendants. This was a common style of depicting the female form in the middle ages and it's an elegant one.
The reclining lady will get a delicate lace curtain and trees in the background.
"Pin Up" is done, although I might do a bit more outlining on the roses.
"Baby Krishna" will get some frame details, but I'm not sure what. Ideas always waft into range as needed.
"Lovers" looks complete, but a final decision will wait until the end.
The psychedelic tree with snakes is all the way there. The design is taken from Indian folk art, which I look at a lot. I adore the tension between simplicity of form and eye-opening detail. Of all the tableaus so far, this has been the easiest and most fun to work on.
The angel is halfway there. Maintaining a balance of skin tones for the figures complements the balance of sacred and secular which permeates the piece and forms its real theme.
"Lady With Snake" is done too. I could probably do some detail on the snake, but also might just leave it alone. It tires the eye and bores the mind if detail is too ubiquitous. Throwing in some strong, simple shapes tricks viewers into looking longer than they otherwise might.
I've just started working on the center panel. It's a big job but at least there's some forward movement.
Other pieces yet to go:
I'm consciously going to do the serenading cowboy last. Don't know why. I'll save the Christ mudra until the end too.
I've been working on this piece every day, stopping only to eat and process the harvest. The deeper I sink into it, the stranger and more delightful it becomes.
I'm reminded of an old gospel song which says, "God may not come when you want him but he's right on time." Linda Blaine, local musician, artist and God-mad-matron-about-town stopped by for a studio visit yesterday, bringing with her a sweet, healing presence which was most welcome. Sometimes the world offers up encouragement just when you need it most. Thanks, Linda!


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"Founded in 1856, Burberry today remains a quintessentially British brand, with a closely connected, creative thinking culture at its heart. Burberry believes that to be a great brand it must also be a great company and constantly leverages the energy of its culture. Headquartered in London, the brand has built a global reputation for innovative product design, digital marketing initiatives and dynamic retail strategies."
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Dezeen story (with further comments from Saville)
Relevant quote
"The new logotype is a complete step-change, an identity that taps into the heritage of the company in a way that suggests the twenty-first-century cultural coordinates of what Burberry could be," Saville exclusively told Dezeen.
Dezeen story (with further comments from Saville)
Images (opinion after)
The old logo can be categorized as classic simply by longevity and recognizability. There was nothing particularly great about it; a literal drawing of a knight would not get many "Great" votes today and the Bodoni-esque wordmark was as ubiquitous in the fashion world as dry sans serifs are today, which is where the new logo lands. It's a nice wordmark, I guess, but… yeah, that's about it. It is no more different nor more or less interesting than any other fashion sans serif logo, whether it's Balenciaga or Peter Saville's own recent Calvin Klein redesign. I mean, sure, I see the visual differences in weight and proportions but they all become a blur much like the Bodonis did before these. The old logo at least had the knight as a mnemonic trigger and maybe the idea is that the monogram pattern will become as linked to the Burberry name as the knight was. The pattern is kinda quirky and not at all what you would expect from a high-end fashion brand and that's the one aspect I like about it, that it's sort of a cartoon-ish monogram with the bulby "B" and the funky colors as opposed to something sharper or more serious — although I don't think anyone at Burberry's would appreciate me thinking of it as cartoon-ish. It's awkward, though, and there is a lack of fluidity to the pattern that makes it slightly uncomfortable. The color palette is the one thing I really like — it's a classy but modern mix. Overall, the logo is as expected as it gets nowadays while the pattern has a decent chance at becoming a thing.

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A strong rise in loans for house purchase helped mortgage lending reach a record level of £16.6 billion in March, according to figures from the monthly CML/DTLR Survey of Mortgage Lenders based on mortgage completions from both banks and building societies.
Lending rose sharply from February's total of £13.3 billion and was considerably higher than the £12.3 billion recorded in March 2001. Loans for house purchase increased to £9.3 billion in March or 56% of gross advances, compared with £6.8 billion in February (51% of gross advances). Remortgaging also reached a record level of £6.1 billion in March but, because of the particularly strong growth in loans for house purchase, it declined as a proportion of gross advances to 37%
The figures, published on the day of the CML's annual lunch, showed that the number of loans for house purchase totalled 116,000 in March, compared with 87,000 last month and 103,000 in March 2001.
But although the figures showed a small increase in the proportion of loans to first-time buyers, affordability for this group has become more difficult over the last year. On average, first-time buyers borrowed 82% of the value of their properties and 2.51 times their income last month, compared with 80% of the propertys value and 2.38 times income in March 2001.
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But let's get to the reason you're here.
In case you didn't know, David Hayter wrote the first two "X-Men" movies and he also was one of the screenwriter's on "Watchmen". But while that's cool to a lot of people…to many video game players, all they care about is that he's the voice of Solid Snake in the "Metal Gear Solid" games.
In fact, when I posted my exclusive interview with Mike De Luca awhile back, I received a ton of emails telling me that I had to tell Mike that David Hayter had to be involved with the "Metal Gear Solid" movie.
David Hayter
- Metal Gear Solid update – He tells us what happened behind the scenes and what might be happening in the future
- says he is adapting Lost Planet for Capcom and Warner Bros.
What are you working on right now?
DAVID HAYTER: I'm adapting a videogame called "Lost Planet" at Warner Bros.
Are videogames the next superheroes?
HAYTER: Not necessarily. I wanted to do it because Avi Arad was a producer I liked a lot. I worked with him on "X-Men" and "Black Widow" and I took it on because I thought it was a great world and it was about energy depletion which I thought was very applicable to our current situation.
The videogame, "Lost Planet", that's the one with the ice? I played it awhile ago. It was not one of my favorite videogames.
HAYTER: The thing about it is that…I lived in Japan and it was very Japanese in the way it was told. It's not very linear, everything is extremely ambiguous and you're not really sure what's going on and it wasn't the story so much as that world. The ice planet, what it is was an ice planet that was colonized to a huge extent a hundred years ago. And then, they sort of raised the temperature and these giant insects come out and kill everybody and when we come back seventy-five years later, there are all these kinds of American-style cities on this abandoned ice planet that are just crumbling and falling apart and I thought this was an incredible palette to set a movie in and when I realized I could turn it into a movie about energy and helping the Earth survive, then I started to feel that there was a worthwhile movie there. It's not the same thing as "Watchmen" where I said, "Oh my God, I have to do that story," it was "There's a structure I can really play in and create a story."
And I love "The Thing" and I wanted to do a movie in the snow and thought it would be beautiful and here is a whole planet that is under dispute so what I've tried to do is create a story is where this young guy, kind of a screw-up young pilot, like "An Officer and a Gentleman" or something, becomes "Lawrence of Arabia" and gathers these lost colonies together and takes back his planet.
Very much like "Dune".
HAYTER: Yes, very much like "Dune". I don't have any original ideas! (laughs) Fortunately, I work in Hollywood and they don't want any.
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More than 95% of Aberdeenshire pupils are moving on to positive destinations once they leave school, new figures have shown.
A total of 2,547 pupils in the region left school in 2017-18 with 96.3% (2,453 pupils) having a "positive destination".
This includes higher education, further education, training, employment and voluntary work.
More pupils moved into positive destinations in 2017-18 compared to the national figure of 94.4%.
A report to members of the education and children's services committee said: "Aberdeenshire is still performing above both national figures and the positive destination rate increased slightly from 95.5% to 96.3% in 2017-18."
It adds that higher education continues to be above the national average with employment slightly below the national average level due to the downturn in the oil industry.
Councillors will be asked to consider and comment on the data presented in the report when they meet on Thursday.
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Purchase of Service Data
Purchase of Service Data Relating to Age, Race, Language, Disability, Residence Type, and Insurance Related
The Department of Developmental Services (DDS) is required to compile data relating to purchase of service (POS) authorization, utilization, and expenditure by each regional center with respect to consumer age, race or ethnicity, primary language, and disability detail. The data, includes residence type as well as number and percent of consumers who are eligible for regional center services. View the DDS POS Data page.
In reviewing the data it is important to note that the expenditure data reported may not include payments made by the regional center to a service provider under a Contract. Typical services paid to a service provider under a Contract include, but are not limited to: Transportation Services, Transportation Assistant Services, and Supported Employment Program (SEP) Group Services. Further, the data reveals that the primary contributing factor to the significant cost differential is attributable to the utilization of residential services. The most costly of all Regional Center funded services is reflected in the section of the report entitled "Total Annual Expenditures and Services by Residence (for all ages)." This report contrasts consumers living at home with those residing outside of the family home. The distinction between these two categories is notable.
Links to the data reports by reporting year are listed below.
- POS Data 2018/2019
- View the 2019 report to DDS on the 2017/2018 POS Data
- POS Data 2017/2018
- View the 2018 report to DDS on the 2016/2017 POS Data
- POS Data 2016/2017
- View the 2017 report to DDS on the 2015/2016 POS Data
- POS Data 2015/2016
- View the 2016 report to DDS on the 2014/2015 POS Data
- POS Data 2014/2015
- View the 2015 report to DDS on the 2013/2014 POS Data
- POS Data 2013/2014
- POS Data 2012/2013
- POS Data 2011/2012
Public Meetings to Review Data
- The data report for 2017/2018 will be reviewed and discussed at Public Meetings. We will hold a meeting on March 25, 2020 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon in the Boardroom at ELARC's main office in Alhambra. For complete details, please view the English flyer here. View flyers in:
Also, ELARC and the Chinese Parents Association for the Disabled (CPAD) will co-host a discussion-based review of the data on March 21, 2020 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at the Asian Youth Center in San Gabriel. For detailed information,please view the flyer here. View flyers in:
Additionally, ELARC and Fiesta Educativa will co-host a discussion-based review of the data, on March 23, 2020 from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon at the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) in Montebello. For more details, please view the flyer here. View the flyer in Spanish.
- The data report was reviewed and discussed at Public Meetings held in March, 2019 at our main office and in the community in partnership with the parent groups Fiesta Educativa and the Chinese Parents Association for the Disabled. View the powerpoint reviewed at these meetings.
Projects to Reduce Disparity
Fiscal Year 2016/17 Projects
In September of 2016, ELARC submitted a proposal to utilize available funding from the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) to reduce disparities in purchase of services, as authorized by Assembly Bill (AB) X2-1 (Chapter 3, Statutes of 2016). In reviewing regional centers' proposals, DDS took into account statewide needs and available resources, as well as information gathered during the Department's statewide stakeholder meetings. In addition, each proposal was analyzed for compliance with applicable statute and regulations, and the Department's guidelines issued on July 25, 2016.
On October 25, 2016 DDS approved ELARC's proposal. View a summary of the approved projects. (ELARC document)
View the DDS listing of all approved projects.
Fiscal Year 2017/18 Projects
In November of 2017, ELARC submitted revisions to the original 2016/2017 proposal. DDS subsequently approved ELARC's proposal for FY 2017/2018. View an outline of the approved ELARC projects and those Community Based Organization's projects approved by DDS to work in ELARC's community.


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In 2018, there were over 500 luxury apartment building in progress in central and western London. While this may not address all the housing needs in this international city, it does address the needs of its high-end inhabitants.
Amenities may have attracted individuals to your building, but more than simple maintenance is needed to keep them.
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This checklist has 3 parts and has all the details to keep high-end tenants happy.
Maintenance Required by Law or For Safety
Update Building Exteriors
These items should be serviced and inspected annually by the fire department and or a structural engineer.
Common but Often Overlooked Maintenance and Repairs
These maintenance tasks may seem common, if left undone they will overshadow other building upgrades.
Paint Common Areas
This should be done every 5 years when paint chips, appears to be worn or has lost its luster.
Replace Carpeting in Common Areas
After 5 years carpet will dull and start to unravel, replace it before it gets to this point.
Clean the Windows
This is a seasonal task that will keep your building sparkling.
Clean Upholstery
Upholstery should be cleaned on a schedule and inspected regularly to ensure stains are not present.
Clean & Inspect Gutters
Downspouts and gutters need to be maintained at least twice a year. If you have water-related features, they should be visually inspected regularly and serviced twice a year.
Service HVAC & Plumbing
Annually check and repair furnaces, air conditioning systems, and plumbing.
Maintenance and Upgrades for High-End Buildings
These maintenance and upgrades will keep your luxury tenants engaged in your property.
Choose New Lobby Floors
While stone or wood floors will last almost 30 years if properly maintained, consider replacing lobby floors to match existing interior design trends. This helps to keep your building relevant in a competitive market.
Update Light Fixtures and Upholstery
Bulbs should be replaced regularly and replaced when they go out. However, if you also replace the fixtures to keep your building on-trend you will add to its allure.
The same is true for upholstery, while it may still be in good condition if it isn't following the current trends, it will leave you tenants wanting more.
Curb appeal is important. Look for eye-popping ways seasonally update landscape.
Upgrade Technology
Consider consultants to help you stay updated on the latest technology for internet, building, and individual flats. Video monitoring of the front door, by individual units, adds a level of sophistication high-end clients welcome.
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Obviously, there is more to any building maintenance checklist. But, we hope you will get a pattern from ours that caters specifically to high-end luxury living. We would love to hear from you, comment below.
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In 2016, the Nine Dots Prize was awarded for the first time, to James Williams. His prize? The opportunity to develop his 3.000 word idea into a full-length book: 'Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy' (available from Cambridge University Press as open access). This is a review of that book.
Increasingly our experiences and interactions with others are mediated by information and communication technology, through are smartphones, the apps we install on them, and the websites and platforms we connect with. We trust this new, wondrous technology. We trust it to be on our side, to serve our interests, to act on our behalf.
But is that technology really on our side? The book strongly argues this is not the case.
A lot has been said about the problem of our increasing reliance on information technology from the privacy perspective, i.e. the risks associated with the collection of huge amounts of personal data without our consent or without any meaningful sense of control. We are not the users; we are the product being sold.
This book however approaches the problem from the autonomy perspective. It discusses the risks of the so called 'digital attention economy', and the threat it poses to human freedom as 'systems of intelligent persuasion [] increasingly direct our thoughts and action'. Williams delivers his message in three stages.
- Systems are designed to distract us by design, to capture our attention to keep us engaged as long or as often as possible.
- This erosion of our attention erodes our free will, it changes what we aim to achieve. This has profound societal consequences, especially for politics and our democracy.
- To counter this, we should tell the designers of these systems (like Diogenes told Alexander the Great) to "stand out of our light".
1: Distraction by design
First of all, Williams observes, information used to be scarce. Now (with the advent of digital technology) it has become abundant. Once information becomes abundant, according to the economist Herbert Simon attention becomes the scarce resource. The goal is to maximise 'the amount of time you spend with their product, keeping you clicking or tapping or scrolling as much as possible, or showing you as many pages or ads as they can.' Instead of supporting our intentions the technology is designed to capture our attention. The collection of large swaths of personal data is only possible if we are tricked, seduced, into using these technologies more and more. And the personal profiles derived from that personal data can only be monetised if we engage with these technologies often enough, so our attention can be sold to companies targeting their adds to us based on these personal profiles. The technology has created 'empires of the mind', that persuade in influence us in a way that (if anything) can best be compared to things like religion, myths, or totalitarianism.
2: Clicks against humanity
Second, as Williams argues, the effect of this attention grabbing transcends the mere domain of behavioural advertising, and affects society at large. It changes our values; it influences our 'free will'; it undermines the very construct of citizenship and thus changes our capability to function in a democratic society. In other words, it's not just the user that is the product, the citizen is the product.
The system is feeding on our attention; we pay by our attention, and as a result our ability to pay attention, to remain focused, deteriorates. The technology starts to get in our way, to 'stand in our lights'. In fact Williams distinguishes the following three "lights" affected by this attack on our attention (I am quoting their definitions from the book).
- The spotlight (doing) : This corresponds to our immediate capacities for navigating awareness and action toward tasks. It enables us to do what we want to do. The spotlight is the target of functional distraction, like notifications. Our spotlight is also affected by the specifically engineered addictedness of the apps and services we use, as explained in part one of the book.
- The starlight (being) : This equals our broader capacities for navigating life "by the stars" of our higher goals and values. It enables us to be who we want to be. Our starlight is affected by what Williams calls pettiness, the tendency to spend an insubordinate amount of time on low-level goals like giving likes, or making connections. This in turn means getting attention becomes important too. In fact, fame has become a heuristic for determining what and who matters. At a meta-level, social networks are now the main tool to establish and express our identity, and clearly shape how we can and cannot do this (thus affecting our starlight). Moreover, personalised web services (like social networks, search, but also content providers like Netflix and YouTube) create filter bubbles or echo chambers that are hard to escape, and feel like straight-jackets for our identity.
- The daylight (knowing): These match our fundamental capacities – such as reflection, metacognition, reason, and intelligence – that enable us to define our goals and values to begin with. It enables us to "want what we want to want." This is the target of epistemic distractions, distractions that make it harder to see the forest from the trees, to see long term developments, to detect general principles. These distractions undermine our capabilities to see what is true. As a result it becomes harder to reflect on ourselves and the world around us. Williams discerns two such epistemic distractions. The first is the lack of leisure, of boredom, caused by our constant engagement with the technology around us. But by far the strongest epistemic distraction is the moral outrage that is fed by the constant cycle of bad news these technologies spread: 'mob rule is hard-coded into the design of the attention economy'.
3. Freedom of attention
Thirdly, and finally, Williams argues we need to act, and we can and should act now! Williams does not really make clear how, though. He observes that the core problem is that the goals of the technology are not our (societal) goals. According to him a language for talking about the full depth of this problem is missing. I am not sure I agree here… Isn't this what political science is all about? In fact, Williams immediately after this observation argues that tackling these problems is a political undertaking, a political struggle even!
Blaming users (by framing the problem as an addiction issue), or putting the onus on the user (by asking him or her to unplug or detox) will not help.
We should also not do rely on self-regulation. And, according to Williams, we should not blame the designers of these technologies themselves, as it is not each of them personally but rather the emergent behaviour of the system as whole that causes the adversarial consequences.
Instead we should 'treat[] the design of digital technologies as the ground of first struggle for our freedom and self-determination'. Williams is clear and upfront about his lack of sufficiently thought-through approaches to achieve this. He does offer a few suggestions though:
- rethink the nature and purpose of advertising,
- deepen the language of 'attention' and 'distraction' to cover human will, and talk about 'users' as humans (instead of 'eyeballs'),
- 'chang[e] the upstream determinants of design', i.e. broaden the incentives for companies beyond mere financial goals towards other social good goals, for example by introducing strong legislation and by developing strong standards, and
- advance mechanisms for accountability, transparency, and measurement. Williams suggests a 'Designers Oath' as possible way to let designers commit to a more responsible way of designing systems, for example.
It doesn't come much more concrete than that, unfortunately. Which for me was a bit of disillusionment to be honest, for a book that started of quite promising.
The first part of the book is the strongest, most compelling. The way current systems are designed to draw our attention and keep us engaged is very clearly explained. I totally subscribe to the observation that current digital technology is not on our side and does not act in our best interest. This is nothing new however. Many people have essentially argued the same for years.
The book makes very clear that by framing the problem of digital technologies in informational terms, we only worry about the management of information, makes us only discuss privacy, security surveillance. This turns us blind to other important consequences, like how it changes our attention, how it creates opportunities for persuasion, and in the end erodes our own autonomy. (And perhaps even the bigger, capitalistic, picture; see also Morozov's epic critique of Shooshana Zuboff book on "Surveillanve Capitalism" that can be summarised as: never mind surveillance if you are not willing to address capitalism itself.) This is important because, quoting Oxford philosopher Neil Levy,
Autonomy is developmentally dependent upon the environment: we become autonomous individuals, able to control our behavior in the light of our values, only if the environment in which we grow up is suitably structured to reward self-control.
Persuasion (as opposed to coercion) plays an important role throughout the book. The difference between coercion and persuasion is not always very clear, however. I would argue that the placement of escalators in shopping malls or the layout of cities force people to move in certain ways, and hence are coercive in nature. Similarly, the choice architectures embedded in digital systems are coercive in nature. Now one could argue that the difference is purely semantic in nature, but I believe the difference is significant with respect to the possible or necessary responses against this coercion. Coercion requires a stronger, top down, response than persuasion. Williams concurs observing that Aldous Huxley's persuasive "Brave New World" (Sweet Sister as a metaphor for the dangers of being pampered and the corresponding lack of autonomy) has been less of a worry to us than George Orwell's coercive "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (Big Brother as a metaphor for the dangers of surveillance and the corresponding lack of privacy).
(Side note: it is interesting to note that we tend to think that persuasion is better than coercion in order to effectuate change in people. We prefer nudging, offering rewards, creating incentives over forcing change through peoples throats.)
Now the real question is whether with the advent of new technology, our predicament has fundamentally changed. As Williams concedes:
"Yet all design is "persuasive" in a broad sense; it all directs our thoughts or actions in one way or another" (p27)
But he continues to argue that in the twentieth century persuasion has become industrialised. In particular, advertising has become more personalised, more scalable and more profitable, and thus became the primary business model for the internet. The resulting digital attention economy is compromising the human will.
But I fear that this focus on persuasion through advertising, this idea that the digital attention economy is the sole source of the current state of affairs, is too narrow, too limited. It is one thing to argue that this technology has a direct influence on what we do (our 'spotlight'); it is quite another to argue that it influences what we want to do (our 'starlight') and even more to argue that it influences our free will (our 'daylight'). The second part of the book does not make a compelling argument that this is indeed the case. If anything, it shows that the situation is much more nuanced, more complex than that.
There are so many more factors playing a role here, that focusing on the attention economy, focusing on persuasion totally ignores the important role played by mere coercion. In fact, I think it is a much more decisive factor that digital technology is all around us, mediating all our interactions with our friends, our colleagues, our representatives, our government. It influences how we can be lovers, be friends, work together, can be citizens, simply by the choices embedded in their designs. This is independent of the attention we do or do not give to those technologies. The simple fact that they are literally 'in the way' gives them tremendous power and influence.
Moreover, many technological developments like the rise of platforms as Uber, Deliveroo, or Airbnb have a direct influence on our society and our politics, as they fundamentally change the capabilities of governments to regulate and control public transport, labour, or housing. This influence has nothing to do with the attention economy at all.
Nor are problems we are facing just the result of such technological developments. The threat to our liberal democracies (alluded to on page 61 of the book) like the decreasing number of people that believe 'democracy' is essential or the increasing number of people that approve of 'military rule' cannot simply be explained by referring to 'fake news' or secret mood manipulation experiments. In fact such reasoning is a very dangerous fallacy, ignoring very real societal and economic developments that deserve far more attention than current politicians are willing to devote.
Now very early in the book Williams states:
We trust these technologies to be companion systems for our lives: we trust them to help us do the things we want to do, to become the people we want to be. (page 9)
But I beg to differ. I don't think anybody is as naive as to really trust technology to help us become the people we want to be? I do trust my car to drive me where I want to go. But I do not trust the car to help me become the person I want to be. (Perhaps for some people the car passively helps them to create a certain image; but do we really expect the car to actively support us to become something or someone?). Similarly, I trust my browser to browse the web, my social network to connect me with my friends and relatives. But I do not expect those to help me become a better person or something. I would agree though that we simply do not expect technology to stand in our way to become the person we want to be. That is to say: we do not expect it to help us with that; we simply do not expect it to actively prevent us from achieving our goals.
And it is this latter aspect, the fact that these technologies sometimes actively try to prevent us from achieving what we want to achieve, is the real problem we are facing today. Indeed, as Mitch Kapor already said in 1991:
Architecture is politics.
So it is high time we, citizens, get a seat at the design table.


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BBVA will offer digital customer onboarding everywhere it operates by the end of 2019
The digital onboarding process based on biometric identification technologies, which is already available in Spain, will now reach other countries thanks to the reuse of globally designed components.
One of the greatest achievements made possible by technology in recent years is that one can become a bank customer without ever having to step foot in a branch. The digital enrollment process is now even more convenient thanks to biometric technologies, which use unique physical traits – faces, voices, or fingerprints – to verify users' identities.
By implementing this biometric technology, BBVA became the first bank in Spain to offer digital enrollment to potential customers. Technology has been improving ever since, making the process even easier. For example, it is no longer necessary to set up a video call to verify the identity of customers in Spain. A short "selfie-video" with the customer showing his or her form of identification is now all that's needed.
Today, the online enrollment service is available in Mexico, Spain, the U.S., and Colombia. It will soon be launched in Peru, Argentina, and Turkey. "Our goal is to have digital enrollment available to all users across our operating footprint by the end of 2019," explained Gonzalo Rodríguez, BBVA Global Head of Customer Solutions.
For 80 percent of the bank's footprint, this is only possible thanks to the reuse of components that enable biometric identification, components that have been designed holistically so that they can be easily adapted to the distinct requirements of different countries and markets. For example, in some countries – Colombia, for instance – customers will not have to download or install an app to take advantage of digital enrollment. They will be able to complete the process on the web, which is the preferred channel in this region. Whereas in Turkey and the U.S., the bank uses different identity verification mechanisms via digital channels that conform to regulatory requirements and customer habits specific to these markets. BBVA's goal is to allow everyone in its footprint to become a BBVA customer securely and over their preferred channel.
Veridas, a world leader in biometrics
These biometric solutions have been a collaborative development with Veridas, BBVA's 2017 joint venture with the Spanish start-up, Das-Nano. Veridas is dedicated to the research and development of biometric identity verification software, such as voice and facial recognition. In 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recognized Veridas for having the third best biometric technology in the world. NIST is an international leader in technology standards and releases a vendor test assessment each year.
The test involves running an algorithm to analyze real facial images in poor lighting where the subjects aren't looking directly at the camera or who might be hiding part of their faces with their hands or hair. Veridas managed to come in third place and is the only Spanish company among more than 100 participants.
"BBVA's goal is to allow everyone in its footprint to become a BBVA customer securely and over their preferred channel"
"We want customers to be have access to maximum banking features and services via their preferred channel at any time of day or night, conveniently and safely. To this end, Veridas has demonstrated that they have unrivaled technology, which will now be available to our customers wherever we operate," Rodríguez explains.
This is why BBVA is looking to do even more than new customer online enrollment. The bank is also working to develop technical solutions that allow current customers to sign up for products – new payment cards, loans, or mortgages, for example – entirely online without having to visit a branch. Throughout 2020, the bank aims to gradually roll-out these features – currently available in some countries – across its entire operating footprint.
New invisibile payment experiences
With the power of biometrics, BBVA also sees a clear opportunity to change the way customers interact not only with the bank but also with merchants and restaurants. In fact, the Veridas BBVA technology is already supporting a functioning facial recognition payment system, operational in the bank headquarters' corporate cafeterias. This new type of payment experience eliminates lags in customer transactions, resulting in a faster purchasing process and shorter lines, benefiting customers and businesses alike.
"We are already working to explore new experiences for both customers and businesses, novel use cases that will dramatically change the way people pay for products and services," Rodriguez concludes.
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New York state's major electric utilities and three leading solar power developers yesterday announced an agreement on a new net-metering plan, a move that links two sides that elsewhere are in a pitched battle over the fair cost that owners of distributed solar units should receive for surplus carbon-free power they sell back to the grid.
The agreement preserves full retail electricity price credits for individual rooftop solar owners until 2020, while phasing in increased payments to utilities from developers of large solar installations.
The proposal was submitted to the New York Public Service Commission as a component of New York's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) policy, which recasts utilities as delivery services for customer and third-party electricity providers. It was signed by Consolidated Edison, the state's largest utility; owners of four other utilities upstate; and SolarCity, SunPower and SunEdison following a negotiation facilitated by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute.
"We're working together to keep our state's solar market vibrant while enabling us to maintain the robust power grid that solar energy requires, and in a way that is fair to all customers," said John McAvoy, ConEd's chairman and CEO. "Utilities and solar companies have found common ground to enhance our environment, the economy and electric reliability."
"I think it's a really interesting proposal that I hope all the rest of the stakeholders can now examine," said Anne Reynolds, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, an advocacy group that includes environmental organizations and clean-tech companies. "But I think the nice thing about it is it shows the developers and the utilities can have productive conversations about these tough questions, like community net metering."
"It's very encouraging to see some of the leading solar companies and the utilities in New York collaborating instead of fighting against each other, as we've seen in other jurisdictions," said Jackson Morris, director for Eastern energy at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "It's really striking that you're not seeing what has been historically almost ideologically a butting of heads."
The agreement proposes that owners of behind-the-meter residential rooftop solar units continue to receive the retail price of electricity as a credit for power delivered back to the grid through Jan. 1, 2020. This was a top priority of the solar power suppliers, according to people involved in the agreement. After the 2020 date, the solar credit would be reduced on a schedule to be set by the commission.
Payments to utilities would start immediately by developers of large-scale "community" solar farms, which effectively reduces the subsidies that solar power owners receive from other utility ratepayers, utility officials said.
The proposal is one of many submitted to the New York power regulators. The PSC's next step will be to convene discussion around what various stakeholders want to see in a final net-metering rule.
Read more at Utilities, Developers Strike Deal on Solar Pricing in N.Y.


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Perverse financier Jeffrey Epstein was so desperate to keep his twisted sexual activities a secret he used his money and influence to kill stories about him.
And a new report said the jet-setting pedophile also used physical intimidation.
According to NPR, former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter found a bullet and the head of a decapitated cat on his doorstep in 2003.
That came as the glossy magazine was preparing an Epstein takedown.
The 66-year-old hedge fund manager killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell earlier this month while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Epstein was well connected and deeply plugged into the world's business, political, societal and cultural elite.
Carter said he first heard the vile whispers about Epstein in 2002.
A writer began looking into the financier and had found several young women ready to tell their tale.
The pedophile was not happy, NPR reports.
The editor arrived to find Epstein sitting in his office.
"He was torturing Graydon," former VF staffer John Connolly told NPR, adding that he bombarded the magazine with phone calls and messages.
Connolly added that after the story appeared — stripped of the explosive sex charges — Carter found a single bullet placed outside the front door of his Manhattan home.
Carter had been warned.
"That wasn't a coincidence," Connolly said.
In 2006, the writer went to Florida in pursuit of the Epstein story.
Carter called Connolly to give him a disturbing development: he had found the severed head of a dead cat in the front yard of his Connecticut home.
"It was done to intimidate," Connolly told NPR.
"No question about it."
Meanwhile, the U.S. Dept. of Justice released new photos of Epstein and his alleged "pimp", socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, frolicking in Paris with one of their "underage sex slaves".
The photos are from a defamation suit brought against Maxwell by Virginia Roberts.
Other photos show Roberts with Maxwell, Prince Andrew in London at Epstein's New Mexico ranch.
Roberts wrote: "Over the next few weeks, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trained me to do what they wanted, including sexual activities and the use of sexual toys. The training was in New York and Florida, at Epstein's mansions. It was basically every day and was like going to school. I also had to have sex with Epstein many times."
The teen also suspected she would be murdered if she escaped Epstein's clutches.
"If I left Epstein, he knew all kinds of powerful people. He could have had me killed or abducted, and I always knew he was capable of that if I did not obey him," she told the Daily Mail in 2011.
"He let me know that he knew many people in high places. Speaking about himself, he said 'I can get away' with things."


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Nyck de Vries stormed to his maiden FIA Formula 2 Championship victory during Saturday's Sprint race around the streets of Monaco.
Johnny Cecotto Jr
The Checkered Flag previews the 2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship, where ten teams and twenty drivers will be vying for the title!
Dutchman Nyck de Vries ended the final day of pre-season testing in Bahrain on top of both sessions on Friday.
Norman Nato set the fastest time of the week on Wednesday, the final day of the first FIA Formula 2 Championship test of 2017.
For the second day in succession, ART Grand Prix hit the front at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, but this time it was rookie Alexander Albon to set the pace.
Rapax will field Johnny Cecotto and Nyck de Vries for the 2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship.
Nicholas Latifi set the best time of the three day test in Abu Dhabi as the GP2 Series year concluded this week at the Yas Marina Circuit.
Artur Janosz will make his Formula V8 3.5 championship debut this weekend as he replaces Johnny Cecotto Jr at RP Motorsport.
Watch the highlights from the opening race of the Hungaroring weekend of the Formula V8 3.5 Series.
Tom Dillmann secured a dominant pole position at the Hungaroring for race one on Saturday, ending up more than six-tenths of a second clear of second placed Aurelien Panis.
Teo Martin Motorsport and RP Motorsport led the way during the two collective test sessions on Friday at the Hungaroring.
Ferrari Driver Academy star Charles Leclerc headed the field on day one in Bahrain but only after Honda protégé Nobuharu Matsushita was penalised for a red flag offence.
Johnny Cecotto Jr and Nobuharu Matsushita set the pace on the first day of the three-day Formula 2 test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Monday.
Alex Lynn ended the year on a high with victory in the Abu Dhabi Sprint race, while Pierre Gasly can celebrate after securing the 2016 GP2 Series Drivers' Championship.
Johnny Cecotto Jr capitalised on errors by Louis Deletraz and race leader Tom Dillmann to claim his and RP Motorsport's first Formula V8 3.5 victory in race one at the Hungaroring on Saturday.
The Checkered Flag looks ahead to the 2016 Formula V8 3.5 Series season that begins this weekend at Motorland Aragon in Spain.


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It's been a long time since I feel like I've heard God. I can see Him working in the lives of the people around me. I see things in the scriptures that apply to my own life and I'm not saying that's not the Holy Spirit. But I don't feel like I hear Him. I don't sense His movement or dare I say even His presence. I'm sure it's a reflection of the listener, not the speaker. It's not God, it's me…but I don't know what to do about it. I don't know how to fix it. I ask, believe me, I do! I sit…I wait…and God seems silent. Maybe you can relate. Perhaps you find yourself in the uncomfortable quiet…waiting. It's a hard place to be and it's tempting to pull away. But there are a few things we can do when God seems silent.
I don't know about you but I often suffer from spiritual amnesia. I forget who God really is and what He has promised. I struggle to think back on all the ways in which I have heard and sensed Him in the past. God knew this would be our tendency. He made our hearts so He understands everything we do. That is why the scriptures call us to remember! Here are some promises to think about when God seems silent.
Stay Connected
When God seems silent our inclination is to disengage. Now more than ever is the time to press in and stay connected. Show up for time with God. Keep seeking. Continue asking. Lean into the quiet and listen. Continue to pray that the Spirit would help you be attentive to His presence and that you would experience His goodness.
When God seems silent it can be hard to worship. But often times I find that if I do, it is some of the most authentic time with God. Don't wait until you feel like it. Praise God now. Tell Him what you need and thank Him for all He's done. Recently the song "So Will I" by Hillsong United has brought me into a rich time of worship. It speaks to the power, grandeur, and goodness of God. I use it every day to worship. You can check it out for yourself here.
There are times when God seems to be silent. It can be painful and confusing. But somewhere deep down at the very core of my being, I know that He is there. He is the God who sees, the God who loves, the God who speaks. He is a God of clarity, not confusion. His timing is impeccable and His plan for us is perfect. Nothing can shake His intentions…not our feelings nor our failures or our inability to hear. No silence is too deep for the penetrating love and power of God. So when God seems to be silent…remember…stay connected…and worship.
If the stars were made to worship so will I
If the mountains bow in reverence so will I
If the oceans roar Your greatness so will I
For if everything exists to lift You high so will I
If the wind goes where You send it so will I
If the rocks cry out in silence so will I
If the sum of all our praises still falls shy
Then we'll sing again a hundred billion times
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Enjoy the unique experience of night paddling on illuminated paddleboards for Illuminate 2019.
This will be our third year of running night paddles alongside the Illuminate light festival at Royal William Yard and this time we will be part of the show. Each SUP will be illuminated by EL wire for a totally awesome paddle experience.
Meet at our base at Firestone Arch, Royal William Yard, kit up and head out.
We will explore the illuminated areas of the Yard and Mt Edgecumbe cruising in secluded, sheltered water.
Limited to 10 paddlers each night and you need to have previous SUP experience. If you haven't already, come along for a lesson to become a SWSUP member for free and you'll have access to a whole range of spectacular SUP events.
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South London Citizens Accountability Assembly
The Halley Academy Social Action Group at the South London Citizens Accountability Assembly
"The supreme task is to organise and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force."
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
On 7th May 2019, The Halley Academy Social Action Group attended the South London Citizens Accountability Assembly at Southwark Cathedral.
South London Citizens invited leading politicians in Lambeth, Southwark, Greenwich, Lewisham, Peckham and Merton councils to this Accountability Assembly, including James Murray, Deputy Mayor of London for Housing, Debbie Weekes-Bernard, Deputy Mayor of London for Social Integration, Lib Peck, Director of London's Youth Violence reduction Unit and our local councillor, Danny Thorpe. The politicians were held to account for commitments they have made on the issues that South London Citizens have collectively been campaigning on, including affordable housing, youth safety and welcoming refugees. It was also an opportunity to celebrate where change has been made and ask the local politicians to commit to continue working with us on a number of issues. The assembly was full of powerful testimony about housing, sanctuary, welcome, safety and youth violence. There was also talented local entertainment from the Peckham Poets and the Peckham Citizens Choir. The Halley Academy Social Action Group took an active role in the assembly by preparing information about their campaign and holding a placard to share their aspirations. Once again, this was an exciting opportunity to experience social change in action!
The next stage in The Halley Academy Social Action Group's campaign is to design and deliver workshops to our local police cadets on misogyny and sexism. We look forward to updating you on this very soon!


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The US Armed Forces and the Red Army only once met in battle. It was during the Russian Civil War that the Soviets and Americans fought each other directly.
Soviet Russia signed a separate peace treaty with the Central Powers, ending participation in WWI. Immediately, the Allies organized an expedition intended to regroup the Imperial Russian Army and subdue the Bolshevik revolution. Several contingents of Allied troops deployed to Russia.
The British regiment landed in Arkhangelsk, on the far northern tip of the Russian coast on August 2nd, 1918. The city held many supplies sent by the Allies to support the last Russian offensive against the Germans in 1917. Unfortunately, the supplies had already been seized by the Bolsheviks, who engaged the Allies in combat almost immediately upon their arrival.
The American contingent stationed in Arkhangelsk was dubbed the Polar Bear Expedition due to the position of the city near the Arctic circle. The freezing weather (as cold as 20 below zero) produced the nickname. Elements of the 85th division were sent by General Pershing to aid the British in Arkhangelsk. The principle U.S. combat unit so deployed was the 339th Infantry, comprised mostly of the Michigan National Guard, since dubbed The Polar Bears.
A report dated October 1919 stated that there were 210 American casualties; 110 KIA, 30 MIA, and 70 deaths from disease, mostly Spanish Flu. 305 were wounded.
The August issue of VFW Magazine contains an excellent, more complete account of this action by Earl Rickard, a Brown Water Navy veteran of Vietnam and freelance writer.


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Hit Continue to go back to battle.
In town: Hit gear icon in the lower right corner of the screen, and you will open "Settings" screen, where you can mute sound or music in game or set an option to see more information about skills.


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The Clarke Schoolhouse, located on the former land of Nathanial Powers, the first settler in Kirby, has the distinction of being the first designated heritage building in the community.
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Time to plan your menu for the week! To help you here are some great ideas! Each week I share a recipe of mine and a recipe from 7 other bloggers – 7 dinners and 1 dessert. This menu plan sure helps me, so I hope this weekly menu helps give you some ideas when planning out your own menu. If you would like to see all of the menus so far you can check out myMenu Plans page. I am also sharing a side dish idea as well!
Weekly dinner menu hostesses are:
Summer Scraps – Housewife Eclectic – Embellishmints – The Crafty Blog Stalker
My Mommy Brain – Mom's Messy Miracles – It's Me Deb CB – The Dwelling Tree
Slow Cooker Turkey Vegetable Soup
Loaded Bacon Sweet Potato Fries
CopyCat Chili's Enchilada Soup
Also here is a side dish you might like:
Bacon, Cranberry and Pecan Salad
To go along with this weeks menu I created a cute Kitchen Cheet Sheet that you can print out for free!


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Taking on the restoration of historic sites requires a special sort of person and Brook Hurst Stephens is one of them.
In August, 2016, Brook and her husband, Kim, purchased the Faraway Estate on Filucy Bay in Longbranch.
Faraway is one of the most expansive and intact historic properties left on the Key Peninsula. The main house was built in 1915 for Frank McDermott, head of the Bon Marche department store (now Macy's). The Stephens have an ambitious plan to restore the property but want to respect McDermott's original design.
A news article from the May 9, 1915, Tacoma Daily Ledger, reproduced in "Echoes of Faraway" by Longbranch resident Connie Hildahl, described McDermott's search for a place to build his dream vacation home: "(He) has been cruising all over Puget Sound for several years looking for the prettiest spot … in his choice of Longbranch, McDermott believes he has found the most ideal."
The once ideal property has suffered from neglect for the last decade. The outbuildings were used for storage of everything from building materials to trash, routine maintenance was ignored, and the grounds became overgrown with blackberries.
Undaunted, the Stephens have begun the task of bringing the property up to code while remaining sensitive to the intrinsic value of the historic estate.
In addition to the main house, there is a small barn and stable, a chicken house, a green house, a four-bedroom guesthouse, a caretaker's house, and at least two other buildings. What was once referred to as the chauffeur's garage is still almost completely hidden by overgrowth.
Brook Stephens has a clipboard of to do lists for every room.
Because of the historical significance of several of the structures, the work is more complicated than a simple remodel. Before they could assess the condition of the outbuildings and begin to compile a catalogue of projects, they had to empty them. "It has taken months just to remove everything from the buildings," she said. "The greenhouse was filled with glass windows and doors and blackberries had grown through the windows." Other buildings were filled with junk and little else.
"The greenhouse is usable" now that it is empty and has new shelving and potting tables, Stephens said. "I may be able to have things growing by summer."
One unique find was a small stove uncovered by her father. It had enough identifying marks on it that the maker was traced to a foundry in France that operated until the mid-1800s.
Local arborist Tim Kezele has been removing undergrowth and trimming trees to improve the views from the main house and let more sunlight reach the garden areas. He is very knowledgeable about the property, having worked with three different owners over the past 40 years. None of them paid much attention to developing the landscape and gardens, he said, and he is excited to see the new owners "really going for it."
Stephens has spent hours and days pruning the climbing roses along the 200-foot pergola that links the house to the parking area, and estimates that she still has forty more to trim. Her long-range plan is to join the KP farming community as a cut-flower farmer. She is also well known as a master food preserver and looks forward to sharing her knowledge with the community. (See her new food and lifestyle column in this edition.)
For more information and to follow the Stephens' progress, go to Historic Faraway on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HistoricFaraway.


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This is apparently true: a Long Island elementary school cancelled the annual-year end kindergarten show because it would distract the kindergarteners from preparing for college. I'm not as surprised by this as I might have been twenty years ago or so. … Continue reading
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Faith Healing
What I am going to say here will sound so basic to many people who have long ago learned these things but I am sharing this stuff for people like myself who have come out of the counterfeit cult-prosperity gospel churches. Mom and I were raised on the true Word of God, and had grandpa lived longer he probably could have awakened us sooner to the pit of lies we fell into. Truth is much more exciting than hearing the lies being propagated by false teachers and false prophets.


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Located on busy George Washington Hwy in Chesapeake, VA surrounded by other commercial ventures, this is one of two properties side by side that must be purchased together. B1 zoning on this vacant lot and B2 zoning on the adjacent improved property. An affordable opportunity to own and develop a corner lot with many options for future use.
Electric Avail, Sewer Avail, Water Avail
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My favorite (hard) boiled egg recipe is all about the steam
May 13, 2019
I am a huge fan of Chef John and his Food Wished channel on YouTube. I am also a fan of not messing up the simplest of recipes: making a hard-boiled egg. An egg that's creamy and a little yolky and easy to prepare, to peel, and not overcook. Chef John from Food Wishes is on my YouTube channel rotation and he has a simple, foolproof, recipe for making the perfectly-cooked eggs:
- 3 quart saucepan with lid
- 1 1/4 cup water
- 6 large eggs, straight from the refrigerator
- Fill your pot pinky nail deep with water
- Bring it to a boil over high heat (takes a couple minutes not between ten and twenty)
- Lay the eggs carefully in the bottom of the saucepan
- Cover the pot
- Bringing the heat down to medium-high
- Put the timer on for between 9 and 9 1/2 minutes
- Rinse the eggs under a running tap to cool them off and stop the cooking process
I tried putting the raw eggs into a pot full of tap water, bring the whole thing up to a boil, then turning off the flame and letting it sit for ten minutes. It works every time—if and when I don't forget that pot's on the range. I've had catastrophic boil downs that have resulted in a dozen golf balls burning at the bottom of my pot.
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My favorite hard-boiled egg recipe uses the InstantPot. Set it and forget it! You can add more or less time depending on how soft you want the yolks, and the shells slip right off, every single time. I am a convert.
I bought one but I rarely use it so far. I am sure I will. When I try I keep on falling back in love with Dutch Ovens and Slow Cookers.


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As I was driving by anyway, I decided to take an hour to explore a local conservation area and capture a photo or two.
As I was driving by anyway, I decided to take an hour to explore a local conservation area and capture a photo or two.
After a couple of days of rain I decide to make a visit to a photo location where I had never really had much success creating images. I figured that with the extra water flow and the autumn colours, my chances would be good for bringing home 1 or 2 keeper photos.
After being confined to my desk working on a large graphic design project for a client, I decided I needed a little break from my work to go out to a local forest, relax and practise some photography techniques. It's amazing what a little time in the fresh air can do for your creativity.
I'm back after a short absence from the chanel. The leaves are starting to change colours and we had a great rainstorm overnight so I decided it would be a good time to get back out there, visit a local waterfall and bring you along.
I planned to go on a landscape photography walk that day but woke to a torrential downpour. As the rain eased up I decided that a short walk around the campground to see the pretty flowers was all I was going to get in.
A visit to one of the beautiful hidden waterfalls in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for a little landscape photography.
An early morning hike with unexpected results.
A couple days of glamping in early May at Pinery Provincial Park is just what the doctor ordered 😉
Trying out vlogging for the first time ever while visiting King's Forest & Buttermilk Falls, Hamilton, Canada


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Globe recently launched their prepaid LTE services along with their new LTE Mobile WiFi devices at Aracama in Bonifacio Global City.
The Tattoo LTE Stick can be connected to the laptop's USB port and the user can enjoy download speeds of up to 42 Mbps. Price of the LTE stick is Php 3,995.00.
Those who need a pocket WiFi can get a Tattoo Mobile LTE WiFi device which not only connects to speeds up to 42 Mbps, it can also share its LTE signal up to 10 devices. A cool feature of the Mobile LTE WiFi device is the ability to act as a powerbank, giving users the added juice whenever their smartphones are low on battery. The cost of the Tattoo Mobile LTE WiFi device is Php 4,995.00.
These LTE devices by Globe Tattoo come with 5GB worth of data for free and is valid for 7 days. Regular rates are Php 5 per 15 minutes.
"The Tattoo brand is superior in that we give users the best value for their money. Our products and services provide the fastest speeds–up to 42 mbps–with the highest functionality and quality, giving our users the best of both worlds," says Dong Ronquillo, Vice President for Globe Tattoo Nomadic Broadband Business.
Globe now has LTE sites available in select areas in Makati City, Pasig City, Quezon City, Taguig City, Manila, Muntinlupa, Mandaluyong, San Juan and Las Piñas. The Globe LTE infrastructure has also expanded to key areas in Metro Cebu and Metro Davao as well as in the provinces of Bohol, Batangas, Negros Occidental, La Union, Rizal, Aklan, Laguna, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, Cavite, Cagayan, Pangasinan, Isabela, Ilocos, Quirino, Tarlac and in Boracay, Aklan.
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Try Les Mills Virtual Classes at TCR
Les Mills Virtual Fitness Classes at TCR
Our world is ever-changing and evolving. Similarly, so is the way we access fitness! TCR has added over 40 Les Mills Virtual classes in our weekly schedule of classes. From group exercise classes like BodyPump and Grit to cycling classes like RPM and Sprint. Click here to view class descriptions from Les Mills.
LES MILLS™ Virtual workouts combine Les Mills' world-leading fitness programs with pumping sound and motivation from some of the hottest instructors on the planet. At TCR, we display our automated virtual classes throughout the weekly schedule using state of the art projector systems.
There are hundreds of classes to choose from, and Les Mills updates their class listing every 3 months to keep the options fresh. It's a truly inspiring experience that will drive amazing results.
Worried about how you're going to keep up in an instructor led class? Virtual provides a low-risk way for members to try out a new program and gain confidence before they try it live with an Instructor.
Overall, Virtual reality is going to be beneficial to all of our members and hopefully introduce them to new types of fitness and more confidence to branch out to our live class alternatives. Try a virtual class at TCR today!


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Expand the Electorate for 2020 - Register Voters in Heavily Gerrymandered Districts (April 28)
Start: Sunday, April 28, 2019•11:00 AM
End: Sunday, April 28, 2019• 2:00 PM
SFV Indivisible is partnering with Swing Left to register voters in "Super States" across the country. These Super States are being targeting because one new voter in each of these states will be rep huge rewards: a democratic representation in State Legislatures, a Democratic Senate and/or House Member, and a Democrat in the White House. How will we do it? We'll write letters to unregistered voters. In the letters we will tell them our personal story; why voting is important and why every vote matters. Join us for this very important action for 2019: Expand the Electorate and Win Big in 2020.
In addition to this critical electoral work SFV Indivisible is making a concerted effort to reduce our carbon footprint. We are switching to compostable plates and will be serving water from large jugs rather than plastic bottles. You can help too; please bring your reusable water bottle. We appreciate everything you do and changing small habits can have a large impact when done collectively. We learned that in 2018.
Now for the not so fun stuff: we need a $15 contribution to cover costs for paper products and stamps and food. Thank you for your generosity.


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I'll close with this. I am still alive.
Tag: daily life
Week 2: Gym Tips
I go to the gym after work. This means I have to carry a bunch of stuff, all the time. Luckily for you, I've learned how to efficiently pack all of my stuff and still be hands-free. You're welcome. Here are some tips for being prepared for the gym without carrying five bags:
Week 1: Everything Hurts
A compact Thor
Get Back in the Groove: A Guide to Working Out…Again
Blah blah blah physics.
Acid Reflux at 24
Be ready for the intense, stabbing pain at any moment.
Rich College Student to Poor Adult
And when I get lazy, I watch TV instead of write. Writing is hard, and takes a lot of brain power. I need to save my energy to do it.
The Chicago Taco: A Revision
Granted, I was forced to go, but it was pretty good.
The New Title: A Stiff Fall to the Ass
The title is that because my life is so awkwardly funny that it borders on sad. Let me explain.
Money Please
Officially the poorest.
A Graduation
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Sep 28, 2018 · newsletter
Apache Spark gets a machine learning makeover
Machine learning on Spark: an abridged history
Apache Spark - the cluster computing framework that's been throwing shade at MapReduce since 2011 - has always been a bit remarkable, because it bridged the divide between data engineering and data science. One of the great promises of Spark was that it would be easy, trivial almost, to scale machine learning and data science to arbitrarily large data. Seven years later, Spark has made its place in data science, but perhaps not in the way we originally hoped.
Spark's big contribution was that it delivered a very elegant API for dealing with distributed collections of data, termed Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs). Compared to alternatives at the time, it was simple to use that API to write certain machine learning algorithms, and since those algorithms were built on RDDs; you got fault tolerance and scale for free. It wasn't long until a machine learning library built on RDDs was born: MLlib.
Implementing performant, scalable machine learning algorithms in MLlib wasn't quite as easy as just expressing the logic using RDD transformations, but in some cases it worked quite well. Spark, and by extension MLlib, work well when algorithms can be expressed in parallel, independent tasks that each work on independent chunks of data. Accordingly, MLlib has seen success and adoption with linear models, K-means clustering, decision trees, and some others. But some algorithms, most notably deep learning, are difficult to express using Spark.
In comparison to linear models, optimizing deep learning algorithms over distributed collections requires frequent communication between tasks. Further, deep learning is slow, if you don't use a framework that has been heavily optimized for that exact use case. Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, etc. all leverage accelerated hardware and heavily optimized C/C++ code to achieve reasonable efficiency. All this is to say that Spark and deep learning aren't a very good match. So why are we talking about it?
Deep learning needs data (big data!) and that data often needs to be accessed through or pre-processed by Spark. That data is also messy and is probably stored across many datasets in many different storage platforms. Spark makes reading, aggregating, and joining these datasets less awful. So even if Spark isn't heavily optimized for machine learning, the data that feeds these algorithms often goes through Spark first. This reality led many developers to ponder, "what if we could combine the heavily optimized ML/DL frameworks into Spark?" And with that, the family of XOnSpark libraries came to be.
But Spark hasn't made it very easy to combine these other libraries, most of which are written in a combination of Python and C++, with Spark. There are three main shortcomings:
- Moving data between Spark processes (JVM) and Python processes is inefficient
- Spark task scheduling doesn't take GPUs into account
- Deep learning tasks need to constantly communicate gradient/weight updates between them, which is a Spark anti-pattern
Project Hydrogen makes Spark play nice with other ML frameworks
To address each of these issues, the open source community for Spark is undertaking a new initiative, dubbed Project Hydrogen, which is broken up into three main chunks, each designed to solve one of these shortcomings:
The goal of Project Hydrogen is to make it easy and efficient to build deep learning workflows that can run end to end in Spark. This is exciting!
Spark and deep learning can't ignore each other, and that probably won't change any time soon. Because of the current complexities, it's best to avoid distributing deep learning training when possible. But we're excited to see investment into scaling deep learning with Spark. There are so many great libraries for doing heavily optimized machine learning - PyTorch, Tensorflow, XGBoost, LightGBM - that it's hugely beneficial to be able to scale these up with Spark.


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On May 18, 2018, CMS released the preliminary FY 2020 Worksheet S-3, Parts II and III wage index Public Use File ("PUF"). The PUF contains wage data based on FFY 2016 hospital cost reports; that is, cost reports with fiscal year begin dates of on or after October 1, 2015 and on or before September 30, 2016. The FFY 2016 wage data will be used in the development of the proposed FFY 2020 wage index, to be published in the Federal Register in Spring 2019.
It is important to note that the PUF excludes hospitals designated as critical access hospitals as of May 2017. The PUF is available at here.
The wage index is a major component of both inpatient and outpatient hospital payments (impacting at least 60 percent of the payment). So it is important that hospitals confirm the accuracy of their data in the PUF. Hospitals may request revisions to their preliminary wage index data if there are any issues.
The FFY 2020 Hospital Wage Index Development Timetable indicates that all requests from hospitals for changes to their FFY 2020 wage index and CY 2016 occupational mix data must be submitted to and received by their Medicare Administrative Contractors ("MACs") by September 4, 2018. A hospital that wishes to revise its data must submit its request along with complete, appropriate, detailed supporting documentation to its MAC. MACs must receive the revision requests and supporting documentation by this date.
Practical Takeaways
- The FFY 2020 PUF will be used to calculate the wage indices used for hospital inpatient services between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020 and outpatient services between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020.
- This data will also be used to set the wage indices for other providers (e.g., hospice, skilled nursing facility, IPPS-excluded hospitals).
- Hospitals should carefully review the PUF to confirm the inclusion and accuracy of their wage index data. Hospitals should also review if there are any significant changes to specific categories of costs or hours from last year and investigate whether those changes are appropriate.
- CMS has very specific deadlines to request revisions. So hospitals should be sure to submit any revisions requests and supporting documentation by September 4, 2018.
If you have any questions, please contact one of the following professionals:
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Child correspondent lays down the law: 'The Supreme Court is not your mom'
The Supreme Court calendar year ends this month, which means they only have two weeks to finalize all pending cases. One of these cases being health care. To help Come Here and Say That better grasp on the intricacies of the healthcare decision, Alicia Menendez sat down with political commentator and attorney Alex Sanchez and 5-year-old Jack.
Related: How SCOTUS could revoke health insurance for 8.2 million people


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The Grandeur of the Seas' spa has a wide variety of spa selections: massages, acupuncture, body wraps, slimming treatments, facial treatments, tooth whitening, steam rooms, and water therapies. The spa is managed by Steiner, the leader in spa management for the majority of the cruise lines.
Check when aboard for the current list of services being offered on your cruise. Of particular interest in the Grandeur of the Seas' spa facilities are the couples massage room, men's & women's steam rooms, and a dry float bed. The spa is aft on Deck 9.
The salon on the Grandeur of the Seas offers hair styling, cutting, coloring, eye brow shaping, waxing, manicures, pedicures, and facial treatments.
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February marks the first installment of the biannual Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York showcasing fashion collections that everyone clamors to see. International and independent designers gather from far and near to present their creations to potential buyers, press, and general public. MBFW launches their new Digital District this year designed to give the press live streaming of runway shows and to experience the virtual Collection feature that displays pieces from the designers – this reminds me of the technology enforced in Milan's Men's Fashion Week: Milano Moda Uomo.
The free service will further fuel prospects and supplement coverage desired for future seasons. With such drastic changes being considered for the upcoming FW14 season, its even more shocking to learn that American designer and Creative Director of Balenciaga, Alexander Wang, may not even consider Manhattan for his is showing. Rather than viewing Wang's collection in the Box at Lincoln Center, attendees may find themselves in Brooklyn, the Pavillion, or the Hub at Hudson.
This year, IMG Fashion is committed to appeasing those who have voiced their concern from an industry survey. The refinement will allow more intimate show spaces, redesigned venues, and tighter lists of registered media.
"This season is very exciting for us as we begin to see the first set of event upgrades, both cosmetically and operationally, to take effect," said Jarrad Clark, IMG's VP and Global Creative Director, to Racked.
The strain of keeping up with innovative show spaces and fewer invites is the Achilles's heel of uncharted territory. The regulated anonymous feedback from designers, publicists, and show producers is just what the industry needed for it helps monitor MBFW's success and refinement.
The plight for fashion enthusiasts will become more grueling than ever as it enters further into the industry. The declaration of change from IMG Fashion spurred many opinionated blog posts all over the web, questioning the necessity of fashion bloggers in NYFW's ecosystem. One of our very own copy editors will be releasing her views on behalf of FashionBoss, in upcoming article, 'Is the Art of Blogging dead?"
What do you think about the new MBFW Digital Media renovation?
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In this sermon we look at Proverbs 1:7 and what it means to fear the LORD.
– What is it?
– How do we do it?
– Why is the gospel hopeful in this?
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After a pressure check, I understood that atmosphere was coming away of the correct part of my engine near the camera chain tensioner. When I unhooked the SAI to Combi crinkle hose pipe so I could get my little finger in and under, I could experience the surroundings coming away and rubbed off a wonderful layer of refreshing essential oil from the fifty percent moon cut in the head. Why VW/Audi determined to make a big gap in the mind after that fill it with a piece of plastic I possess no idea, but at least now I know how to repair the leak. Personalized Shower Curtain
Lane, Samuel – Frederick Lane Shower Curtain
This job is definitely easy, extremely easy, specifically if you are only changing the valve cover gasket so you can draw off the valve cover to provide it a good polish. But, if your VC (valve cover) is normally leaking, it can be suggested to alter your camera string tensioner at the same period as it is definitely more than likely nearing the end of its lifestyle span mainly because well.
As I said this job is easy, easy in the guidelines and tools you need to perform to obtain it done. But when it comes to in fact changing the cam tensioner gasket, it is definitely a huge discomfort in the a**. Also, you will end up being operating around your time string, so the last issue you need to do is usually have got the string move out of place and screw up your timing. shower curtain rod holder.
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shower curtains 99 cent store,This DIY article will cover replacing both gaskets, I are a small short on pics for the cam tensioner aspect as I was even more concerned with obtaining it in right than I was with pics, but I have got found a few pictures on the world wide internet that should help.
The VC can be simple, but perform the camera string tensioner gasket at your very own risk as I will not become responsible if you happen to clutter up your engine. shower curtains under $20.
Shower curtains hunting theme,The only specialized tool that is definitely required for this work is a camera tensioner device (which is just needed if you are doing the tensioner gasket and half moon seal) the tool is certainly VW device # 3366. It can become bought on eBay for 12-15 dollars. It is certainly fundamentally a long 6mmeters bolt with a plastic "T" on the top to release the string from the tensioner.
zazzle shower curtains,Essentially, if you are only carrying out the valve cover gasket, you will just require a 10mmeters outlet and a 5mmeters Allen mind wrench if you still have the vac package over coil 4.
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This is definitely basic in words and phrases but a discomfort in the butt to perform. You will also become working near the timing chain and loosening the tensioner to access the gasket and half moon seal off, therefore function at your very own risk. I don't have got a lot of pictures of placing in the half moon seal off, but I can tell you it is a very tight fit with extremely small area to work in. But all said and done, it should be quite simple and directly forwards mainly because longer as you avoid move the timing chain. I don't try to move it but it isn't going to appear like it would move that easy in any case.