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When the Braves traded Craig Kimbrel to San Diego on the eve of opening day, they did so primarily to unload the remaining $46 million owed to Melvin Upton Jr., whose $75 million, five-year contract had been the biggest free-agent deal ever handed out by the Braves and also was arguably the biggest reason GM Frank Wren was fired.
But most of you probably know that by now.
The Braves were pleasantly surprised by the 2015 performance of center fielder Cameron Maybin, one of the two veteran outfielders they got from the Padres in the trade (Carlos Quentin retired without ever playing again). And they were pleased with the development of one of the minor leaguers they got in the trade, pitching prospect Matt Wisler, a leading candidate for a spot in the 2016 opening-day rotation.
But again, most of you probably knew that.
What you might not know is that, ultimately, the most valuable asset the Braves got from the trade could turn out to be third baseman Austin Riley, whom they selected with the 41st pick of the June 2015 draft, a pick they got from the Padres as part of the deal. The Braves might finally have another big-time homegrown home-run hitter, folks.
Riley is a 6-foot-2, 230-pound slugger who pitched and played shortstop last year as a high school senior at DeSoto Central in Southaven, Miss., and committed to Mississippi State University, where his dad, Mike, was once a standout punter.
After selecting Riley significantly higher than draft experts predicted he'd go, the Braves watched him surpass all expectations – even theirs – during his first season of pro ball, batting a combined .304 with a .389 OBP and a .544 slugging percentage in 60 rookie-league games, and racking up 12 home runs in just 252 plate appearances.
"It's been a dream come true," said Riley, whose favorite third basemen as a kid were the Braves' Chipper Jones and the rival Mets' David Wright. "The Atlanta Braves are a great organization. My biggest thing is, play the game the right way. And that's exactly what it's all about here in this organization. That's what I love. It's been awesome."
He could be the best power-hitting prospect in quite a while for a Braves organization that's had a dearth of that commodity. Riley has above-average bat speed and can lift the ball, a skill that home-run hitters must have or develop. He strikes out too much right now, but the Braves are confident that rate will drop with experience, since he has a good feel for the strike zone and shows consistent ability to square up pitches.
Riley's a big boy, but he's well-proportioned and athletic around third base. He has good reflexes and instincts on the basepaths, which helps make up for below-average speed. He might someday end up at first base or an outfield corner, but for now the Braves like his soft hands and strong arm at third base, a position where they were thin in the minor league system.
Did we mention raw power? He's got a lot of that, and it's what should get him to the big leagues and could make him an impact player.
He quickly impressed important Braves officials including senior advisor Bobby Cox – the iconic former manager raved about him after seeing Riley in Instructional League this fall -- president of baseball operations John Hart and GM John Coppolella.
Riley was asked about those recent comments from Cox.
"I take it more as, it's just another thing that motivates me more to get better each and every day," Riley said. "But it is exciting to hear that from them. I haven't gotten to meet Bobby Cox yet, which I'm hoping to do that in spring training. But to hear that from him – he's an all-time great, that's for sure. All them guys, they're good guys and they do it the right way, and It's exciting."
After 30 games in the Gulf Coast League, Riley was bumped to short-season Danville at the end of July. In both places, Riley flourished after an initial adjustment period. He had no home runs and one RBI in his first 14 games in the GCL, and six homers with 20 RBIs in his last 16 games.
After homering twice in his first 20 games at Danville, he had three home runs and 11 RBIs in his final 10 games. In 30 games at Danville, he hit .351 with a .443 OBP and 1.028 OPS.
"I spent a month or so in the GCL, struggled a little bit starting off, but I expected that just because I'd never seen the velocity," Riley said. "But once I got rolling, it went well. Then I got to finish the season off at Danville and it was like I never left the GCL; they took me in like I was already up there from the beginning, and we just rolled on through. It was a lot of fun."
Riley also played football in high school, becoming an all-state punter -- "My dad taught me that; it was fun" -- but giving up quarterbacking following his sophomore season due to the time-demand conflict with baseball.
He'd committed to play baseball at Mississippi State, and Riley said during his senior year that he would follow that course unless a major league team that drafting him offered, as he put it back in December, "life-changing money."
The Braves did. They gave him a $1.6 million signing bonus after taking him with the 41st pick. None of the most recognized draft observers had ranked him among the top 100 players – high school, college and foreign -- available prior to the June draft, and one year ago Baseball America ranked him as the 48th-best high school player in his class.
But the Braves saw something special in Riley, as first-year scouting director Brian Bridges said after selecting him on the first night of the draft. Bridges and Roy Clark, the Braves special assistant and scouting guru, had both seen Riley and were intrigued.
Many teams were interested, including some that wanted Riley more as a pitcher (he threw 90 mph, or a tick or two above, in high school). The Braves liked him as a hitter, and planned to move him from shortstop -- he'd only played there as a senior -- back to his more natural third-base position.
"I'd seen him in the summer a lot," Bridges said. "You see him hit balls and you're like, 0h man. Then you see him on the mound. When Roy called me, I sent Roy to the tournament in LaGrange, and I said, Roy, make sure you see Austin Riley. He called me and said, 'I saw Austin Riley pitch.' I said, I know what you're going to say, you like him better as a hitter? He said, 'yeah.' So we jumped right in there on him."
It didn't take long for Riley to make the pick look smart. Now everyone is eager to see how the kid, who turns 19 in April, fares as he moves up the minor league ladder and how long it'll take before he's ready for the big leagues.
By then, Melvin Upton's contract may have become a mere footnote, a distant memory for the Braves.
• Without further adieu, let's get to my Top 50 Albums of 2015. I've put together one of these lists here on the blog annually for more than a decade, and they never get any easier, especially at the top few spots.
This year there were three albums that, to me, stood above the rest and would've been No. 1 in most years. (Last year was equally difficult, with D'Angelo's entry Black Messiah arriving in late December, the first album of 2014 that I thought was on a level with Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds of Country Music.)
As for this year's list, you'll note right away some similarities in my top three albums, by James McMurtry, Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell. All are brilliant songwriters who fall into what these days is dubbed "Americana" music. (I would argue that each artist is truer country music than anything on the so-called country charts, even if Stapleton's album is the only one that got much airplay on the mostly horrible radio stations that call themselves country but are really just pop stations that specialize in "bro country" garbage.)
Rather than trying to categorize them, I'd just say they're three tremendous artists who have elements of rock and country as well as folk, bluegrass and even some Muscle Shoals-style R&B. And all are songwriters of the absolute highest order. In my opinion, these are three of the four or five finest working American songwriters, at least in the under-60 division (Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, et al are 6-oh or older).
Isbell has put out consecutive masterworks with Southeastern and this year's Something More Than Free, and might be poised to take over as the preeminent songwriter of his generation. Stapleton, on his debut album Traveller, got massive exposure and recognition after previously being known primarily by bluegrass fans for his work with The SteelDrivers, and in Nashville circles as a songwriter who penned plenty of mainsteam hits for popular artists. On Traveller, he created an exemplary, soulful slab of country and Southern rock.
Still, and maybe this reflects my bias toward McMurtry, who I think has rarely been given his due as an extraordinary writer and performer, I'm going with his Complicated Game as my album of the year.
McMurtry does what he does better than anyone else, and he has for a couple of decades. I remember the first time I heard a James McMurtry song was in 1995 a now-defunct Houston station that specialized in Texas-related music. I remember the moment clearly -- I was driving my rental car, approaching the Astrodome, when the tune came on -- "Levelland" off McMurtry's album Where'd You Hide the Body. (Robert Earl Keen had a hit with the song, but McMurtry wrote it and sang it best.) I went back and bought JM's previous albums that next week, and have bought every album he's released since. The dude's work just does something to me, as he does to so many other of his hardcore fans.
Nobody pens short stories into 4- to 6-minute songs like McMurtry, songs that are essays on America's working class, its shrinking middle class, its downtrodden and otherwise broken. The man is an absolute treasure. I remember asking Jason Isbell about McMurtry a few years ago after Jason had toured extensively with him. I wanted to know what McMurtry was like, if he was as intense as his on-stage persona suggested, if he was brooding or complicated or, you know, just a guy. I'll keep private what Jason said, other than assuring you, he really liked McMurtry and, as a fellow songwriter with a literary bent, had a complete appreciation for his talent. As Isbell put it, "He really knows how to twist the knife" lyrically.
Nobody twists the knife better. Nobody has quite the efficiency of words, the details and complex characters as McMurtry does in his best work, of which the album Complicated Game contains plenty including South Dakota and Long Island Sound. Hell, he even has a little fun semi-rapping on "How'm I Gonna Find You Now?", for the first time since he famously did a little something like that back in the day on "Choctaw Bingo."
So he's at the top of my list. Without further adieu, here's the Top 50 and a bunch of honorable mentions that I also liked an awful lot.
Unlike most other such best-of-year albums lists, I have no restrictions on genre; I like what I like. My only rules: The albums have to be available on vinyl or CD, I must have purchased the full album (or in a couple of cases had them sent to me) and not downloaded it, and no reissues, compilations, live albums, covers albums or multi-artist soundtracks are eligible.
Honorable mention (in alphabetical order): AMERICAN AQUARIUM Wolves, LEON BRIDGES Coming Home, RYAN BINGHAM Fear and Saturday Night, BUILT TO SPILL Untethered Moon, BULLY Feels Like, PETER CASE HWY 62, THE DESLONDES The Deslondes, DESTROYER Poison Season, ANDERSON EAST "Delilah", FAITH NO MORE Sol Invictus, FAILURE The Heart is a Monster, THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE Tales from the Land of Milk and Honey, CRAIG FINN Faith in the Future, FUTURE "DS2", GIANT SAND "Heartbreak Pass", WARREN HAYNES Ashes and Dust, HIATUS KAIOYTE Choose Your Weapon, FRANKIE LEE American Dreamer, LUCERO All A Man Should Do, JD McPHERSON Let The Good Times Roll, KEITH MORRIS & THE CROOKED NUMBERS The Dirty Gospel, KACEY MUSGRAVES Pageant Material, WILLIE NELSON & MERLE HAGGARD Django and Jimmie, LYNDI ORTEGA Faded Gloryville, GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR Mystery Glue, NATALIE PRASS Natalie Prass, JOSH RITTER Sermon on the Rocks, BOZ SCAGGS A Fool To Care, THEE OH SEES Mutilator Defeated at Last, RYLEY WALKER Primrose Green, KAMASI WASHINGTON The Epic, PAUL WELLER Saturn's Pattern.
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Lakewood 3B Maikel Franco was ranked the 16th best prospect in the South Atlantic League by Baseball America after a very good season in which he hit .280 with 14 HR and 84 RBI's. Franco was the third highest ranked 3B on the list behind Trevor Story (Rockies) and Gavin Cherini (Red Sox). The Phils sit with two 3B in their system who are legitimate prospects at this stage (Asche and Franco) but will likely have to fill the position in the short term by signing a free agent to what is hopefully just a one-two year deal. (Youkelis, Keppinger)
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Post Season Report Card, Bullpen, Williamsport and GCL
We finally hit the last report card of the 2012 season. It's difficult as we reach the lower levels as I have seen very few of these guys play, and generally base the reports on their stat lines and trends over the last few years. I would think that there are some limited circumstances where the Phillies see something outside the stats, but would also think it to be the rare occasion where there is a belief that a guy with a 7 ERA and a 1.70 WHIP is throwing well. At any rate, enjoy…and we will kick off the Arizona Fall League season next week with Brad reporting.
Geoff Broussard, 22, Phils 23rd round pick in 2012; 20 games; 2-1 with a 2.41 ERA; 7 saves; 33.2IP 34H 8BB 36K; 2HR allowed; 0.88 GO/AO; .264 opp. avg., 1.24 WHIP; 2.1BB/9.6K per nine; Very good professional debut for Broussard. Grade: B+; 2013: Clearwater bullpen
Luis Gonzalez, 20, Signed as a free agent in 2009; 16 games (6 starts); 1 save; 50.2IP 51H 2HR 25BB 46K; 0.81 GO/AO; .258 opp. avg., 1.50 WHIP; 4.5BB/8.1K per nine; .380 vs. LH, .216 vs. RH, .246 with RISP. Gonzalez did enough in 2012 to move him to Lakewood next year. His numbers vs. LH are striking. Grade: C+ Continue reading Post Season Report Card, Bullpen, Williamsport and GCL

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October 18, 2016
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This webinar will provide an overview of the complexities and many aspects related to sexual abuse: emotional and physical impacts, the factors associated with aging that increase vulnerability, the warning signs and barriers to disclosure and accessing the justice system.
By reviewing case studies, participants will learn strategies to start the conversations about suspected sexual abuse, safety planning issues and the requirements pertaining to reporting.
Elder Abuse Ontario's Sexual Abuse in Older Adults training module will be used to demonstrate how to conduct an assessment, to detect, intervene and support older adult survivors of sexual abuse.
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I am testing the stability of derivatives of [math] as repect of cosmological parameters, thanks to matter power spectrum, in order to compute after a Fisher matrix. I am using the last version of CAMB (downloaded and installed on 29 November).
Here's an example of curve obtained for the parameter [math] with different values of step (from 1e-8 to 1). The redshift is taken at z = 0.2095. I have achieve this plot for 7 different multipoles.
The derivatives used is a 3 points derivative (from finite differences), I can increase the number of points for derivatives but from my last results, the issue remains.
Here this figure (there are 20 points per power of 10, so 160 points at total) :
As you can see, there are different zones on this image. We can distinguish "numerical noise on the left" where there are a lot of fluctuations (up to roughly 2e-6).
Then, between approximately 1e-6 up to 2e-4, we get a kind of pseudo flatness zone (I say that since for multipole l = 366.42 and 1079.28, there are still relative important fluctuations).
But the most important and the issue we have, we don't understand the behavior of derivatives [math] at 4e-2 with a suddent peak and a shape of saw tooth patterns up to 1e-3.
After the 1e-3 step, the behavior is correct since there is a stability for computing the derivatives (typically, in our recipe, we take a step of 4e-2).
So questions :
1) is this shape of saw tooth pattern due to nonlinear Matter Power Spectrum Model used (Takabird or Takahashi model ??) Or have I to use another model of matter power spectrum.
2) From your point of view, which is the cause of this sudden peak at 4e-2 (I plot with matplotlib 'symlog' to take into account the negative into log10).
3) Are there other alternative non-linear models that could allow to avoid these fluctuation between 1e6 and 1e-2 ?
I expect firstly a "numerical noise" for very small steps (like I have currectly), then a flatness zone just after and finally fluctuations when step is relatively closed to 1, as we can see on the right.
But for the instant, I can't manage to get a total and single flatness zone in the middle, i.e between fluctuations of very small steps and fluctuations of relatively large steps.
4) Is it normal that the first pseudo flatness zone is not at the same level that the other on the right : I guess that's not the case. How can I fix these 2 different values for each multipole ?
Any help/remark/suggestion would be great, I don't know how to circumvent this isssue (surely a problem on halofit-non/linear model).
PS: we did additionnal computations like the derivatives of the [math] as a respect of [math] for different values of [math] and the cutoff also appears, I mean the 2 different flatness appear :
So this comforts us in the fact that issue comes from [math] generated by CAMB.
Computing Cl stability - 2 different zones of flatness
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We've all heard the saying: Practice makes perfect. It has been estimated that it takes 10,0000 hours to master a skill. Wow! So if we wanted to fast track this process (and it is a process!) what would be the best way to do it? In this short article we are going to look at the importance of the role of education leading to your success.
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Being a latex designer, we are certainly in tune with and champion every expression of honest and peaceful individuality. From marching through Montreal with our fellow alt. fashion lovers, to just slipping on a hood simply because we like the way it feels, like you all we are thrilled to be part of a community of free thinkers and doers. And some truly great free thinking and doing is coming to NYC this week in two events: the LGBT Expo and CineKink 12th Annual Film Festival.
The 22nd year of the LGBT (that's over two decades!) presents a full seminar experience over a jam-packed weekend. With what the promoters are boasting this attendees will experience across their "enhanced entertainment stage" speakers this year will include; FDNY Firefighter Brooke Guinan presenting "The Transgender Workplace," WNBA's New York Liberty hosting a panel discussion exploring "LGBT and Athletics," Sgt. First Cass Denny Meyer presenting his "A Blunt History of Gays in the Military" and social media expert Matt Skallerud, president of Pink Banana Media his "The LGBT Community Connecting Through Technology In The 21st Century."
Details for the weekend can be found here.
From February 24-March 1, 2015 CineKink NYC returns for its twelfth year. Opening Tuesday, February 24th@ 8 PM, with a fundraising kick-off extravaganza at Taj (48 W. 21st Street, NYC), the festival moves to Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, NYC) from Wednesday, February 25 through Saturday, February 28, and then there's a DIY filmmaking workshop, awards celebration and an "AfterGlow" play party to end everything on Sunday, March 1.
Fans as we are of all kinds of cinema, but especially films of a decidedly 'edgy' sensibility, the list of what will be shown this year reads to us like quite the scrumptious shmosregboard. On 2/25 (just two days from now, so be quick and get your tickets here) the festival opens with films "Inside Her Sex" and "Air Sex: The Movie." Other titles spanning the end of the week and across the weekend are: "Love Hard," "Body Of God" "A Tribute To Club 90" documentary, "High Shine: 15 Years Of International Ms Bootblack" (something lots of Dawnamarix fans might be interested in?). On the last day a course will be presented for making your own naughty movie, FROM FANTASY TO FILM as well as the annual Cinekink Awards and a party to follow to close-out the event.
Enjoy your fellow like-minded friends, just bask in the glow of all this honest and healthy individuality…and don't forget to wear some pasties or a kimono at either or both events. A great city and great happenings, how can you beat it?


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house Pharmacy this week!
All the poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be read here: http://bit.ly/2xu8VST
Kaveh's debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is just out with Alice James in the US and Penguin in the UK, and his chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida.
Kaveh also founded and edits Divedapper, a home for dialogues with the most vital voices in contemporary poetry. Previously, he ran The Quirk, a for-charity print literary journal. He has also served as Poetry Editor for BOOTH and Book Reviews Editor for the Southeast Review. Along with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, francine j. harris, and Jonathan Farmer, he starred on All Up in Your Ears, a monthly poetry podcast.
CONTACT: firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @KavehAkbar.
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It's holiday season here in the UK, and regardless of whether you travel abroad to a beautiful golden beach or stay more local to home, there's often lots of ice creams and 99's to be enjoyed. The recipe I'm sharing today is a fun twist on the classic ice cream cone. Infact it's not an ice cream at all, but a cupcake styled as an ice cream!
One of the great things about these ice cream themed cupcakes (other than the fact that you could playfully fool your children!) is that every single part of them is edible (well, apart from the stone in the cherry on top, though you could pit them if you like!) There's no paper cupcake cases to be gathered and binned as the cupcakes are baked in the flat bottomed wafer ice cream cones! Just to be upfront, the cones do become a tiny (and I mean tiny) bit more crisp after the bake but other than that these substitute cupcake cases aren't at all affected by being in the oven.
These Black Forest Ice Cream Styled Cupcakes are just as easy to make as your regular cupcakes too, afterall we're simply replacing the disposable paper cases with edible wafer cones! Simply steady the flat bottomed ice cream cones in the muffin tin (I talk through this in the printable recipe below), part fill them with your cake batter and then bake! How easy is that!
The other great thing about these summery cupcakes is that they'd be great for so many occasions, whether that's a party for a child or adult, a summer fate, or even a charity bake sale.
They're also great for a bit of playful fun by tricking the children into thinking they are ice cream!
So, here's how to make Black Forest Ice Cream Styled Cupcakes
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delicious flavours of a Black Forest Gateau. They're filled with a
chocolate sponge with a hint of kirsch, topped with an ice cream style
swirl of butter cream and finished with a cherry and that all important
drizzle of chocolate!
Hands on time: 30 mins Bake time: 20 – 25 mins Yield: 11 – 12 cupcakes
For the Cupcake Batter
- 11 – 12 Flat Bottomed Ice Cream Cones (we used Askeys)
- 115g Butter, unsalted & softened
- 60g Caster Sugar
- 55g Golden Caster Sugar
- Pinch of Salt
- 3 tsp Kirsch (optional)
- c35g Dried Cherries
- 85g SR Flour
- 30g Cocoa Powder
For the Butter Cream Frosting
- 250g Butter, unsalted & softened
- 450g Icing Sugar
- 1 tbsp Milk
For the Chocolate Ganache
- 70g Dark or Milk Chocolate
- 70ml Double Cream
To Decorate
- 11 or 12 Fresh Cherries, washed. Consider pitting them.
Notes: a) When making the cupcake batter, consider weighing the cracked eggs first to ensure the batter has equal weight of butter, sugar, flour and eggs. Simply weigh the butter, sugar and flour to the same weight as the eggs. Of course the value may be slightly different to the 210g listed in the ingredients above. b) Consider warming your lightly beaten eggs over a bain marie especially if they feel particularly cold. Warm them until they feel lukewarm. This should help prevent the batter from curdling and produce a better cupcake sponge. c) I filled each of the Askeys flat bottomed cones almost two-thirds full – up to the base of the writing where the cone begins to jut out. Avoid overfilling the cones. d) You may find it easier to use a piping bag to fill the cones with the cake batter. Ensure enough of the piping bag is cut away for the dried fruit pieces to pass through. e) Consider mixing a teaspoon of kirsch into the made chocolate ganache, considering who they are intended for.


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Three Short Trips to Practice Your Spanish in a Whole New Way
Valencia is a city that never goes out of style. However, if you have some time to travel, you'll be happy to know that the surrounding areas are also well worth visiting. If you want to study Spanish in the quintessential Mediterranean destination, we have two words for you: ¡qué suerte!
The city of Valencia is close to picturesque villages, beautiful beaches without the crowds that flock to La Malvarrosa, and traditional corners of the world with a unique charm. At don Quijote we encourage you pack a bag for the weekend, take a break from your classes, and practice your Spanish as you discover new pieces of paradise.
In addition to the activities and excursions we organize at the school, we make it easy for you to travel! Our facilities in the heart of the city are just a few minutes from the main bus and train stations. With don Quijote, you have the Mediterranean at your fingertips. ¡Vamos!
Looking for a typical village that will make you remember why you fell in love with Spain? If so, visiting Altea is a must. This adorable town is on the Costa Blanca (White Coast), just a three-hour bus ride from Valencia. It's famous for its labyrinthine cobblestone streets and whitewashed walls.
This year Altea has been named the Valencian Cultural Capital. While you're here, take a moment to chat with the local artists and practice your Spanish as you admire their handicrafts on display.
This city is pure heaven for palm tree lovers and Pre-Roman history buffs. In its gardens you can get lost in the sea of trees and tropical plants that have earned Elche its distinction as a World Heritage Site.
In addition to its incredible green spaces, Elche boasts centuries of history. Behind its city walls lie the secrets of many civilizations who have called it home: Iberians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Goths, and Moors, to name a few. Drop by the tourism office and pick up some pamphlets in Spanish. As you read, you'll be learning about the history of Spain and practicing your Spanish at the same time.
What a castle! Perched atop a hill, the Castell de Xàtiva is visible from miles away. Játiva is just an hour outside Valencia, and it's reachable by train. If you want to come completely prepared, we recommend you watch Los Borgia, a movie by Antonio Fernández, in the original Spanish version.
It's about a scheming noble family from Játiva called the House of Borja. The stories of the family's struggle for power and involvement in plots surrounding the papacy are still very much alive in the city today.
With conversations, travel brochures, and film, Spanish learning goes far beyond the classroom. Visit donquijote.org to choose the specialized course that best fits your needs and discover all the different ways to learn Spanish. ¡Te esperamos!
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The number of monarch butterflies has declined by more than 80% in the last 20 years. What's to blame? Big Ag's use of potent glyphosate-based herbicides like Monsanto's Roundup is killing off native milkweed plants that monarchs need to survive. Milkweed is the only food source for monarch caterpillars. So no milkweed means no monarchs.
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Contributor: Mr. Panache
No Excuses, But Pure Lesson.
This article, I write it based on personal experiences with business recently. There is often trouble in managing operation in a business and such trouble starts sneaking in when you're having problem paying your vendors because the company is not bringing in enough revenue to cover expenses.
On February 25, 2019, we had to close doors to one of our shared ICT Service branches because we had figured out what was broken in the business, and made some serious commitment to amend that.
The failure we experienced was not necessarily the result of lack of management skills or proper capitalisation. Slowly and steadily the branch was growing and we were realising the shared vision until we could not improve results that would benefit everyone in both the short term and long term.
We had systems in place, however, in the end there was no control whatsoever and we could not inspire dedication from our employees. Though there was growth, yes perhaps in terms of mindshare from potential clientele and those converted into sales, could not be well monitored. In this period of potential failure on our part, we had the objective to track the company's performance and get timely information to provide proper analysis on regular forecasts.
The company usually undertakes on projects, depending on their feasibility and the viability of the concept. We did not have the attitude that we must have hands-on control of all aspects of the business, but we entrusted it with the people we had high hopes would do well. Little were we around to concentrate on the most important problems facing the business at the time.
We knew where we wanted the company to go, we shared responsibility and gave the people authority. But, there just was not any control, especially with us not there all the time and profits not monitored. Significant costs started mounting and complementary plans by those we entrusted with authority were not as well informed. In that period, the company was spread too thin because of the need to optimise the minimum resources remaining. We understood that success in business was never automatic and we had the experience with foresight to steer the ship. Starting a business is always risky and we have been taking the plunge for the past 5 years, testing out the different concepts.
Best lessons we learnt were that business is not meant to scare, but to prepare entrepreneurs for the rocky paths ahead. Warrior mentality is one of the best tools entrepreneurs can develop and embrace, not shrinking away at failure. First thing you would find when searching Google about failures of businesses are many articles such as one from successharbor.com on why businesses fail while others succeed. It is even regarded as a mystery in entrepreneurship that businesses are continuing to fail with most in the last stages with no chances of being salvaged.
I personally take away from the article a thoughtful quote "It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning." Dr. Graeme Edwards.
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Today I had to work from home because my car was snowed in. The main roads were manageable, but the cul de sac in which I live was unnavigable. That wasn't supposed to rhyme, but it almost did.
I walked to the garage at lunch to get some food, and there's a choice you have to make when walking in this… It's cold, so you either keep your hands in your pockets to keep warm, or you keep them by your sides ready to break your fall. If you slip with your hands in your pockets then you're fucked. You're landing on elbows and skull. But with your hands by your side all you're getting is cold palms. And you've already got cold palms because you'd made the choice not to put your hands in your pockets.
So what's the right thing to do? Well, out-of-pockets, probably, but what did I do? In-pockets, of course. It was fucking freezing.
Thinking about it, the proper 'right thing to do' would be to wear gloves. Except I couldn't find any of those, so I took the pocket risk instead. If it hadn't been for the fact that we had literally(ish) no food in the house, I wouldn't have even bothered leaving, but all I'd had to eat all day was advent calendar chocolates. Thankfully I'd been away all weekend so I was two-behind, plus today's made three, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I ate tomorrow's and Wednesday's chocolate as well. I didn't even check to see what the chocolate was shaped like.
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About to embark on the next adventure… 2-3 month road trip around the States. I've been back in Perth, Australia, for just over 3 months now, and I've loved catching up with friends and family, but as the Summer here is coming to an end, I thought it time to hit the road once again.
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- Time: 2-3 months
- Accommodation: couchsurfing, camping, the occasional hostel/motel … sleeping in the car…
- Travel buddy: Michael Cowgill
- Flight: Perth – Singapore (Tiger airways); Singapore – LA (via China) (Southern China airline) – total cost $850 one way
My travel buddy: I met Michael a few years ago through a mutual friend, and though I've never been traveling with Michael before, I'm sure there will be some benefits to traveling with him. Firstly, Michael is quite a tall and scary looking guy, his bald, shiny head I'm sure will scare off most of the grizzly bears we encounter; secondly, he is a fair bit taller than I am, so he can reach those items that tall people tend to store on top shelves, where average sized people (like myself) cannot reach (I'm sure there is some kind of height discrimination going on there). On the downside, Michael cannot drive, and is a terrible navigator, leaving it up to me to do all the driving, and navigating, which could result in an interesting road trip (we may end up accidentally visiting my brother in NY). Despite this, Michael is a great guy, and I only hope he can put up with my occasional road rage and car sing-alongs … I guess if not, I could always just leave him at a road house somewhere along the way 😉
Our freaky flight: So, we decided to book the cheapest flight combination we could find. The result, booking a flight that cost $666 flying on April Fools day, with an airline I've never heard of (Southern China)… Let's hope we make it to LA…
Adios Perth, it's been fun! Will definitely miss my family, friends (old & new) and of course the beautiful Perth beaches xxx


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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Monday 17th Week in Ordinary Time
Monday 17th Week in Ordinary Time - Year I
Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the
Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and
back. The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of
God, engraved on the tablets. When Joshua heard the noise of the
people shouting, he said to Moses, "There is the sound of war in the
camp." Moses replied: "It is not the sound of victory, it is not the
sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear." When Moses
approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned
and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at
the foot of the mountain. And he took the calf they had made and
burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on
the water and made the Israelites drink it. He said to Aaron, "What
did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?"
"Do not be angry, my lord," Aaron answered. "You know how prone these
people are to evil. They said to me, `Make us gods who will go before
us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't
know what has happened to him.' So I told them, `Whoever has any gold
jewelry, take it off.' Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into
the fire, and out came this calf!" The next day Moses said to the
people, "You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the
LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin." So Moses went back
to the LORD and said, "Oh, what a great sin these people have
committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. But now, please
forgive their sin--but if not, then blot me out of the book you have
written." The LORD replied to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me I
will blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke
of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for
me to punish, I will punish them for their sin."
He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard
seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the
smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of
garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come
and perch in its branches." He told them still another parable: "The
kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a
large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough." Jesus
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anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was
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utter things hidden since the creation of the world."
Actual grace is a help from God to live as true Christians. We receive
it many times a day. It is an unmerited interior help which God gives
us to strengthen us, when strength is needed, to warn us when caution
is dictated, to give us courage, joy, hope beyond the human.
St. Paul writing to the Philippians, says: "It is God who works in you
both to will and to accomplish." This is actual grace. It not only
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what is good. So we must not shut out the grace of knowledge. We must
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still need the leaven of grace to raise us up to doing the right. God
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– One very important element to think about in purchasing a Bengal cat is its actual price. Well, if you would like to have a Bengal in your house, you should really well know it is a rare breed. With rarity comes the large price, so you should expect a Bengal cat could cost from 500 USD to about 5,000 USD, based on what Bengal caliber you prefer.
Pet quality Bengals cost 500-1,000 USD as a breeder or show quality Bengal could cost from 1,500-5,000 USD (reveal Bengals could be more expensive depending on the breeder).
Besides the actual purchase of the Bengal, you should also observe the basic expenses in keeping or maintaining it. Here are some factors so that you may have an idea of how much a Bengal may cost:
It really makes a difference especially in the event that you lose your cat by chance. Embedding a microchip into your cat may cost you 50 USD.
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The price of the breeder cat food changes from time to time, based on the price of raw materials. You need to keep yourself updated with the cost variations in your community grocery store.
Medical care
Vet care and vaccines should be regarded too. Work with your vet to find the payment methods which you can avail of (health insurance). This may also have possible emergency care, hospitalization, supplements, and other medications. This is a really significant factor in determining how much a Bengal could purchase. Vaccinations price 50-70 USD, while flea and de-worming drugs cost 20 USD.
Insuring your Bengal cat could really help you from the entire medical cost to getting you reunited with your Bengal (if ever you lost it). Including this in your Bengal budget is a must.
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The sum of money required in acquiring a Bengal cat also depends on where you are going to get your Bengal. In case you choose to receive your cat from a reputable breeder, then you should be preparing a larger amount. However, if you are going to get your Bengal cat from a rescue center, it will only cost you a lot less since you'll be adopting the cat. Regardless, you still need to consider the costs in maintaining your Bengal cat.


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Sir Vince Cable, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has been ridiculed for the second time in as many weeks after claiming that almost one-third of EU leaders supported the Liberal Democrats' call for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.
Rather foolishly, in retrospect, Cable claimed that eight prime ministers, specifically those of the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Estonia and the Czech Republic, had agreed a joint statement saying that British voters should have the "final say" on any withdrawal deal.
Setting aside the fact that nobody cares whether the Prime Minister of Estonia or Belgium thinks Britian should be forced to endure another time-consuming, costly and divisive referendum, it turns out that no such statement had been agreed anyway. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group (ALDE) posted a tweet that denied any such statement had been agreed or released. "Pertaining to the Lib Dem press release issued today on Brexit: at the ALDE leaders meeting of 22 March no statement has been agreed upon or released."
Plainly embarassed and perhaps more than a little angry that fellow lib-dems hadn't simply backed up his claim regardless of the truth, "sources close to Sir Vince Cable" insisted that the statement was verbally agreed by the leaders at the lunch, but not formally signed.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May responded: "We have always said that we understand that there are many countries in the EU that are disappointed by the UK's decision to leave and we understand that. But we won't be having a second referendum. We will be delivering on the will of the British people."
Sir Cable evidently refuses to accept that the average British voter doesn't care whether or not EU politicians want Britain to have another referendum, ignoring the fact that many voted to leave specifically to prevent EU politicians having a say in how Britain is run.
We're not going to heap embarassment on Sir Cable by printing the subsequent responses to his claims. It seems cruel to kick a man already on the floor.
We have a lot of sympathy for Sir Cable, head of a party that was never truly relevant, even in its 'glory days'. Rather than providing the mythical 'third way', the Liberal Democrat party only ever provided a sanctuary for politicians who prefer a responsibility-free career on the opposition benches to the stressful business of actually governing a country.
Leading a party that has no desire to go anywhere is a bit like voted president of the local Agoraphobic Rambler's Club.
With no identifiable focus or reason to exist, the average person on the street has absolutely no idea what the lib-dems stand for. However, by hammering on about staying in the EU, Cable has successfully stumbled upon an identifiable policy standpoint.
It's just a shame that his past two pronouncements on the issue have been to imply Brexit voters were racists and to tell us that a bunch of EU politicians want the UK to have another referendum. Seriously, we wish Sir Cable well in his efforts to stop the British Lib Dem party heading the same way as the Northern White Rhino, but we think he needs to seriously reassess his tactics.


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Iridium NEXT, a new iteration of the Iridium satellite constellation, is currently in development and will provide higher bandwidth per user, hosted payload capability, and other improvements. At the heart of the Iridium NEXT ground architecture is the Access Network Controller (ANC), powered by 40 Gbps AdvancedTCA (ATCA). In this xTCA & CompactPCI Systems interview, Hermon Pon of Iridium Communications, and Michael Lohman of Hughes Network Systems discuss upgrades to the Iridium ground architecture, and how ATCA is helping roll out the NEXT constellation. Edited excerpts follow.


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This page provides the software necessary for running the machine learning system for protein-protein interaction extraction described in Airola A, Pyysalo S, Björne J, Pahikkala T, Ginter F, Salakoski T, All-paths graph kernel for protein-protein interaction extraction with evaluation of cross-corpus learning, BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 (Suppl 11)(S2). We kindly ask that users of the software cite this paper. An earlier version of the paper was presented at BioNLP 2008.
NEW Errata available for the article here.
Five corpora were used for evaluating the system, the AIMed [1], BioInfer [2], HPRD50 [3], IEPA [4], and LLL [5]. Derived versions of these corpora containing parses created with the Charniak-Lease parser [6] and transformed to collapsed Stanford format [7] are made available on this page. These data files are based on the conversions available here.
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[1] Bunescu R, Ge R, Kate RJ, Marcotte EM, Mooney RJ, Ramani AK, Wong YW: Comparative Experiments on Learning Information Extractors for Proteins and their Interactions. Artif Intell Med, Summarization and Information Extraction from Medical Documents 2005, 33(2):139-155.
[2] Pyysalo S, Ginter F, Heimonen J, Björne J, Boberg J, Järvinen J, Salakoski T: BioInfer: A Corpus for Information Extraction in the Biomedical Domain. BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(50).
[3] Fundel K, Kuffner R, Zimmer R: RelEx - Relation extraction using dependency parse trees. Bioinformatics 2007, 23(3):365-371.
[4] Ding J, Berleant D, Nettleton D, Wurtele E: Mining MEDLINE: abstracts, sentences, or phrases? In Proceedings of PSB'02 2002:326-337.
[5] Nédellec C: Learning language in logic - genic interaction extraction challenge. In Proceedings of LLL'05 2005.
[6] Charniak E, Lease M: Parsing biomedical literature. In Proceedings of IJ CNLP'05 2005.
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I finished up a notebook yesterday and moved into a brand new one.
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Something that busts creative blocks.
I've gotta write, record, and release an EP in the next week or so…and I got nothing. I've been legitimately busy, but the year is almost over, and I need to keep my commitment to release four EP's this year. I released Someone to Blame, Rain, and Fighter. Now just one more…
I tried to come up with a few song ideas yesterday, and everything I wrote was lame. So today I'm giving myself some ideas of ways to bust through these creative blocks and crank out some songs. (more…)
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But I generally take it to a more serious place, like a zombie apocalypse. (more…)
Just yesterday I had to say 'no' to two small recording projects from two different people.
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For the next two days I'll be producing an acoustic EP for my friends Ben and Caitlyn of Homestead Collective. (If you're following me on the Facebook, I'll be live-streaming some during the sessions. Come check it out.)
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Prizmah has partnered with BoardSource, the most recognized name in nonprofit governance expertise, to bring the Jewish day school field customized packages for assessing and improving board governance and performance. Thanks to The AVI CHAI Foundation, we are able to offer these packages at a subsidized rate.
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A great Jewish day school depends on sophisticated and effective governance. Your board works to ensure the school's future. Just as your administration and faculty benefit from professional development, nurturing the growth of your lay leaders in this way will strengthen your school's ability to deliver a high-quality education.
Good board development will start from a place of understanding your strengths and your challenges. Assessing performance is the most effective way to lay the foundation for helping your board members understand their duties and implement good governance practices.
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Schools are accepted into the Board Fitness Program on a rolling basis. If you are interested in participating, please contact Traci Stratford.
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Meeting notes management
We need a solution for meeting notes management. At this time we're adding it to a task or to the description, but we need a place that's consolidated and easily accessible. Asking resources to locate a project, locate the meeting notes tasks or folder, and sort through the notes needed for viewing is too many steps and cumbersome.
Adding an additional request. As we're adding meeting notes, from 1:1s, group meetings, and action items it would be helpful to be able to drag and drop line items to group them. In Quip for example, we have a list of action items in our individual page as we mark them as complete we drag to group them together, and move them to an archive area. Without this feature, we'll have to copy and paste each line item to group them together before moving it to an archive task in Wrike.
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Howdy, Diana! I'm not sure if this will help you or not, but we set up a "Notes" status in our default workflow. When we have meetings, we create a task with a name like "Meeting Notes - Part A 2019-0726" and assign everyone involved in the meeting. With the "Notes" active task status it is (usually) easy to find notes and comments in projects, and this practice also keeps those notes on everyone's dashboard until the project and tasks are "completed".
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That's what we've done too - we actually have a whole 'meetings' workflow - Agenda, Minutes, Action, Decision etc - this works really well for us as we're able to @mention and share as required, plus ensure all actions are completed
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@Diana, I'd also recommend checking out this thread (and upvoting the post as well😉) - there's an interesting discussion on notes there too 👍
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Yesterday saw the iPad 2 launch throughout the UK. If there is anyone left who's not aware this was happening, back in April last year the iPad was launched in the USA, after several years of failed attempts to get a star-trek-style tablet on the market, Apple dared to go where others had failed.. and the gamble paid off as iPad sales went through the roof.
By Christmas 2010 everyone and their auntie were promising iPad-killers and the full might of Chinese industry went into producing various sizes and shapes of tablet armed with the promising Android operating system – but no-one could match the price/performance of the iPad.
By February the rumour-market was in full swing as manufacturers finally woke up to the fact that the tablet is here and terms Xoom, Galaxy Tab became household names. The Tab appeared in shops all over in large numbers, sadly that's where most of them seemed to stay because despite the quality of the tablet itself, the software simply wasn't ready for prime-time and Google themselves were the first to admit this.
Then along came Gingerbread, the great hope for iPad alternatives – finally some real competition? Well, no. Many of us wondered if Apple would pull a rabbit out of a hat and it looks like they have.
Firstly, the iPad 2 was launched in the US a couple of weeks ago and immediately the price of the original iPad went through the floor, effectively killing off the low-budget competition, friends of ours who bought iPads near the time of the launch of the new tablet were offered free upgrades by Apple who by now really HAVE gotten the knack of marketing in a way that their key competitor never really managed. So now we have iPads on Ebay and even being sold off as reconditioned by Apple themselves… meanwhile the suspense was building up for the UK launch and by mid-evening it was all over.
I joined the queues in the MetroCentre in Newcastle at around mid-day and already there were a couple of hundred people on two floors queuing for the new device. Apple wasted no time in dishing out Starbucks coffee and water to the waiting crowds and before long sent their guys along to find out what everyone would be buying and giving them reservation tickets to ensure there were no disappointments. Apparently one poor soul had been queuing since the night before and the MetroCentre security guys would not let him stop overnight so I'm guessing it was a night in the car. Rightly so he was given extra attention by the staff.
The whole production was very American, with a 5pm opening slot looming, staff in their hoards started clapping and cheering even though the rest of us were far too weary through standing all afternoon to show that much enthusiasm. Their noise certainly brought in the crowds and by now they'd succeeding in breeding a distinct "event" atmosphere.
We were herded toward the shop in small groups in a very civilised fashion and as each person or family got to the store they were asked their names and assigned to a particular staff member who would not only take their money off them but give them any on-the-spot training or help they needed and all of them were friendly and knowledgeable. I can think of a few stores who could do with such training.
Some heavy questions had to be answered.. was it to be white, or black, 16, 32 or 64 gig, with or without 3g, leather or plastic smart-cover… by the sound of it there were no real favourites, everyone had their own idea of what makes the perfect iPad2.
There was a definite buzz in the brightly lit store as staff extracted countless thousands of pounds from the public in return for a hint of magic and punters stared in admiration at their new wonder-toy.
By 7pm we were out of there, our choices being one black and one white iPad2, I went for the girly pink plastic, my wife went for the manly red leather. We both bought the incredibly stylish Bluetooth keyboard.
So – was it worth it?
You bet. It's thinner, lighter and faster than the original, the glass is many times stronger, the new apps (Garageband and iMovie) are excellent, PhotoBooth is great fun and Facetime works a treat. I now have the job of re-installing hundreds of apps. Forget the rubbish you read about being good for games, I now have PDF and WORD readers program editors, video editing and I've just found a new bunch of business apps including database editors I didn't know existed as well as CRM tools and many more vital business apps – oh, and some pretty good games.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Apple have on their hands not only a new winner in the iPad2, but an Android-killer in the now price-competitive original iPad. Arthur C Clarke came up with the phrase "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Well, we're not quiet there yet, but the Apple iPad 2 is only stones-throw away from magic". Well done Apple.


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