The following guideline is based on brochures supplied by SECTUR. Reprint of those brochures is made with approval of the Mexican Consulate. Be sure to check with SECTUR or the Mexican Consulate prior to your departure to make sure you have the most up to date information.
What papers do I need to enter my vessel temporarily into Mexico?
1. Title (lease agreement in your name if the vessel is rented).
2. Proof of citizenship or resisdency in a foreign country.
b) Title for the trailer (or lease agreement in your name if trailer is rented), in the event that you enter by land.
What should I do when I arrive in Mexico?
2. Obtain from Customs a temporary import permit for the vessel and the trailer.
3. Pay $ 10.00 (in U.S. Currency) with an international credit card, or deposit with the Armed Forces Bank, BANJERCITO, a bond for the value of the vessel (this procedure is applicable only when the vessel enters by sea, if you enter by land the permit for your vehicle will cover your vessel).
In the event that you decide to return to your country of origin and leave your vesel in the care of the marina, you must return to the marina at least once a year. Requirements To Bring Your Boat Into Mexico.
1. Upon your arrival at the first port of entry in Mexico, go to the immigration office and obtain a Tourist Entry Form for each passenger aboard, if you had not previously obtained this form from a Mexican consulate, Mexican Government Tourism Office or embassy.
It is important to indicate that once you enter the country (whether you came by sea or by land) you will be able to proceed to a marina, and obtain a form to register your vessel. Once this has been done, remind the marine operator to inform the proper Tax Office for the area where the marina is located, or the Customs office at the port of entry, that your boat is registered at the marina.
Your motor boat or sailboat can remain in the country for the period authorized on the Tourist Entry Form.
NOTES: In the event that rented sailboats or motor boats are involved, you must present proper rental agreement in your name.
The Temporary Import Permit for your car, together with the vessel information will provide legal authorization to enter your vessel into the country until you arrive to a tourist marina.
The trailer used to transport your vessel can be imported under two conditions: Tourist Marines Regulation which allows you to leave your trailer in the care of the marina for the length of time you desire.
Temporary Immigration Regulations, according to which your trailer can remain in Mexico for the length of your authorized stay.
3. You file through the Marina, a notice to the customs Office or the local tax collection office for the area in which the marina is located , stating that said trailer shall not be taken out of the country while under the care of the marina.
You should take into account that trailers brought into the country, according to tourist marinas regulations, can only travel within the national territory while transporting said vessel, therefore, if the trailer leaves the country, so must the vessel.
In those cases when a vessel is pulled by a private vehicle owned by a tourist importing the vessel, you shall register the vessel and it's trailer on the back side of the temporary import permit used for the vehicle, describing with precision the characteristics of both the vessel and trailer.
Departure clearance from the port of origin or any other legal document verifying the vessel's point of departure.
1) A departure clearance from the port of origin or any other legal document verifying the vessel's point of departure.
2) Inspection Certificate from the vessel's country of origin or similar document to verify it.
a) The recreational yachts or sailboats left in their care are 4.5 meters long (14'-6") or larger.
b) The vessel is marketed through the tourist marina itself or a third party who, together with the owner of the vessel, is responsible for all fiscal obliagations.
c) The tourist marina or authorized third party has entered into a rental agreement with the owner of the vessel.
Here are some Insurance Agencies which allow you to buy insurance for your boat or vessel over the phone, fax or Internet.


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50 Marathons in 50 Weeks
By Cindy Horbrook
Paul Erway races in the marathon in Burlington, Vermont on a less-than-ideal racing day.
Paul Erway is what one would call a "weekend warrior." He holds a full-time job with Superior Van & Mobility and competes in wheelchair marathons on weekends. This year, he's spent time in a just about every corner of the United States from Anchorage, Alaska to Portland, Maine to Miami, Florida.
Erway, along with fellow wheelchair racers Aaron Roux and Grant Berthiaume, have taken on a challenge that some would refer to as crazy. The men are closing in on their goal of 50 marathons in 50 weeks. They are not just racing for fun, but also to raise donations for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation benefiting spinal cord injury research.
The three racers from left to right, Erway, Berthiaume and Roux.
"It is quite the challenge for sure," says Erway. "The first three marathons I ever did I swore I'd never do one again and now look at this, this is crazy isn't it?"
The challenge has never been done before and depends completely on donations.
"It'd be great if we could get to a million dollars for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation," he says. "We're having a tough time getting there, but we're pretty optimistic."
Erway participated in his first wheelchair race back in 1982.
"I was only like 10 months post my accident. The gentleman in the college room next to me, we were going to lunch, and he challenged me to a race to a telephone pole that was maybe 20 feet away," explains Erway. "He beat me half that distance and he's a little guy, so my determination was to beat this little guy. That's what got that fire burning."
The accident Erway is referring to occurred the weekend before graduation in 1980. While on a double date, Erway received a severe spinal cord injury as a result of an auto accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Erway had another unfortunate incident in July 2006, while speeding down a steep hill in Shelbyville during a training run, he encountered a pickup truck on the other side of the road. While trying to move over, he lost control of his wheelchair and slammed into the driver's door of the truck. He sustained an open fracture of both scapula and collarbone, two broken ribs, a punctured lung, a spinal compression fracture and the avulsion of part of his scalp.
After that accident, Erway was motivated once again to take up racing, competing in the wheelchair marathon in Oita, Japan in 2010. It was at that marathon that Erway met Berthiaume and began hatching a plan.
"We realized some of the marathoners tried to do a marathon in every state, so then we started talking about well there's 50 states, 52 weeks in the year, so what if we do it quickly," says Erway.
Berthiaume then put a schedule of marathons together and they realized the idea was a very reachable possibility.
"We knew this was going to hurt and we had to find a good reason why we need to do this," says Erway.
Donating money to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation turned out to be that good reason for Erway, Berthiaume and Roux, a former U.S. Marine who joined the 2013 team that started the awareness and fundraising venture on Jan. 5 for the Mississippi Blue Marathon.
Aaron Roux completing the Knoxville Tennessee marathon earlier this year.
The schedule has been daunting and some weekends, there are not one but two marathons to complete; for example competing in the Philadelphia Marathon on the morning of Nov. 17, then flying to Las Vegas for another marathon the same afternoon. Other weekends have involved both a race on Saturday and Sunday.
The final race is scheduled to take place on Dec. 8 in Honolulu. When asked if he thinks he'll take a break from racing after this challenge is complete, Erway says he and the others have talked about the top 10 marathons that they'd like to go back and do againor taking the challenge overseas, to Poland, London and back to Japan. But for now the focus is still on their goal of raising money for spinal cord research.
"If we don't reach the million this year for Christopher Reeve, we still have a chance to go back and do speaking engagements about this challenge and our experiences," says Erway. "Hopefully in two years, we'll get the full amount if we don't have it this year."
For more information, visit 50abilitymarathons.com.
Cindy Horbrook is the associate editor for HME Business, Mobility Management, and Respiratory & Sleep Management magazines.
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Christopher Bursk's latest collection is not just profoundly honest; it is profoundly brave. These astonishing poems explore the space between sensuality, sexuality, and love—a landscape in which flawed human beings give birth to the flawed human beings who will one day take care of them, each generation screwing up even as it adds to the universal fund of beauty and compassion. Above all,Ovid at Fifteen reminds us what it means to feel the wonder of life too keenly—to "want to throw yourself / off the cliff, plunge / into the very heart of color." If Bursk's ordinary yet mythic heroes hold back, they do so not out of cowardice but because they remember what happened to Icarus. And so they watch, and dream, and feel, and thus "make a living / out of aching . . ." The greatness of this book lies in its immortalizing that ache, that delicious pain.
Christopher Bursk, recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, and Pew fellowships, is professor of English at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of a number of collections, including Cell Count, Ovid at Fifteen, and The Improbable Swervings of Atoms, winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. He resides in Langhorne Manor, PA.


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Reese is a 44-year-old married African American female. Her parents live in another state, and she is their only child. Her father is a retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel who was stationed both in the United States and overseas while Reese was growing up. She entered the Air Force as soon as she graduated high school at age 17 and has achieved the rank of Chief Master Sergeant. She has been married 15 years to John, and they recently discovered she is pregnant. The unexpected pregnancy has been quite disorienting for someone who has planned and structured major decision her entire life. Reese is fiercely loyal to her extended family and frequently travels to help her parents care for her aunts, uncles, and cousins whenever they experience hardships. Her efforts are not always appreciated, because she offers very specific guidance and is easily frustrated by their lack of follow-through.
The Case of Julio:
Since I was young, as long as I can remember, this has been a thing with me. Focusing, it's been a problem, and now it's affecting my career. It's always affected me career to some degree, but now it's really kind of affecting things in a bigger way. I'm making a lot of careless mistakes and that's a problem. At times my boss will be talking to me and I won't even know it. I'll just be spaced out somewhere, I won't even know he'd talking to me and then someone will knock me in the side and I'll realize it. For example, they tasked me with organizing office events and things like that sometimes. They did a couple times, until I screwed them up so many times, but it was always the details, I just forgot the details and certain things that would make things fall apart. I lose things a lot and forget important dates, and just basic information all the time too, and so it's a frustrating thing. It's something that's been going on for a while and something that's definitely been affecting me.
Julio is a 36-year-old single gay male. He is of Cuban descent. He was born and raised in Florida by his parents with his two sisters. He attended community college but did not follow through with his plan to obtain a four-year degree, because his poor test taking skills created barriers. He currently works for a sales promotion company, where he is tasked with creating ads for local businesses. He enjoys the more social aspects of his job, but tracking the details is challenging and has caused him to lose jobs in the past. He has been dating his partner, Justin, for five years. Justin feels it is time for them to commit and build a future. Justin is frustrated that Julio refuses to plan the wedding and tends to blame Julio's family. While Julio's parents hold some traditional religious values, they would welcome Justin into the family but are respectfully waiting for Julio to make his plans known. Justin is as overwhelmed by the details at home as he is at work.
The Case of Kimi:
My husband left me about six months ago. That's really where it all started again. I had a lot of trouble when as a teenager, well, all the way through college. I just eat a lot sometimes. Usually when I'm feeling bad. Then I throw up. I just ate so much, I just throw up, and it's just the relief. I know that sounds gross, but I just feel such a release. When I'm feeling bad, it can just really help me just feel better. But anyway, my husband left about six months ago. He left me for a younger woman.
He was cheating. I thought I had a handle on all this. I'm a professional woman, and feel on top of the world. My career is going great. I was on top of my weight. Just since he's gone, I just feel really awful again, and the only thing that makes me feel better is just sitting down, when I'm home alone at night. It's not every night, but maybe a couple times a week. I just eat. I eat and eat. I mean I can do a whole thing of ice cream, and a whole tray of cookies. Just go through it, and then I just throw up. I hate myself, because of course I'm going to gain weight. I mean, I know that. But then once I get rid of it, just kind of washes over me that I just feel better.
Kimi is a 48-year-old female currently separated from her husband, Robert, of 16 years. They have no children, which was consistent with Kimi's desire to focus on her career as a sales manager. She told Robert a pregnancy would wreck her efforts to maintain her body. His desire to have a family was a goal he decided he needed to pursue with someone else. He left Kimi six months ago for a much younger woman and filed for divorce. Kimi began having issues with food during high school when she was on the dance team and felt self-conscious wearing the form-fitting uniform. During college, she sought treatment because her roommate became alarmed by her issues around eating. She never told her parents about this and felt it was behind her. Her parents are Danish and value privacy. They always expected Kimi to be independent. Her lack of communication about her private life did not concern them. They are troubled by Robert's behavior and consider his conspicuous infidelity as a poor reflection upon their family. Kimi has moved in with her parents while she and Robert are selling the house, which has upended the balance in their relationship.
The Case of Reese:
Hi. I am chief master Sargent Reese Matthews. The United States Air Force. I pride myself on the 27 year Air Force veteran and I quite enjoy the structure that my job allows me to have. Life has been wonderful pretty much. I come from a very structured background. Here recently, though, things have kind of fallen apart. I've been married for a bit, and a part of being married is that of course I tell my husband or I told my husband what I expected of him and made it very clear to him what's expected in being a husband by writing it down. He agreed to it. He's in the Air Force as well. That has worked well for both of us. We like our routine. That's very important to us.
Here lately, I've been struggling because things have fallen apart in my marriage. I suspect that will impact my structure at my job. A part of my marriage contract with my husband was that we would save a certain amount of money so we could have children eventually. Specifically, we needed to save $497,000 so that everything would be perfect when we had a baby. Well, we have not saved $497,000. We have saved only $383,000. I discovered that we are going to have a baby. I don't know what to do. This is so far out of our plans. This is not something that we bargained for. this is not something that I bargained for. I don't want this to happen like this. I don't know what to do with this situation.
We are struggling through that process. I feel let down or I feel disappointed because a part of our marital contract was that my husband would earn rank like I did. Of course, he didn't. I'm very disappointed because I did all the work, earned the rank, and he has been goofing off. He has not earned the rank that he should have earned. I have tried to help him. I've given him lesson plans, helped him study to earn his rank and yet he has not done that. In addition to not earning the rank, that's one part of the plan that's falling apart and now we're having a baby. That's a second part of the plan that's falling apart. I am really truly, truly at wits end. I don't know what to do because everything in life has fallen apart. My life is a shambles of a mess right now. I don't know what to do.
Of course, I have done a very, very good job of sticking to the list of things that I'm supposed to do as a wife and I've done that. The same as what I've done as a member of the military. I've done everything that's on my list to do. It is my husband who has not done everything that's on his list to do. He doesn't seem to understand that he has to do these things and these things have to be done in the order that he is supposed to do them. Now I am stuck, literally stuck in this crazy place that I can't figure out what I need to do next or what we need to do next because he had wrecked all the plans. We had a perfectly laid out set of plans that we could easily follow, that anybody could easily follow, that he should have easily followed. I followed the plan. I did everything step by step by step that I was supposed to have done. Now he has wrecked the plan. He really has just screwed up our marriage.
Now, it's easy to see that the fault here is not mine. The fault is my husband's. Although he has been whining about this for years. He says, "Oh my goodness, Reese. You are just too rigid. Oh my goodness, Reese. We don't have to follow this list." I keep telling him we do have to follow a list of things to do. For example, I make a list for him all the things we have to do on Mondays and then all the things we have to do on Tuesdays. That has worked for us. That has worked for us for the last 15, 20 years. Even when we were dating, he would make little snide remarks about it. About the fact that I'm too rigid, I'm too structured, I'm too regimented. That I make all these crazy, crazy lists and he has to follow things in this rigid order, but it has worked. It has worked very, very well up until now. I think that he is just sabotaging everything that I have worked so hard to achieve.
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Describe presenting concerns and relevant history.
Explain what information has been provided in each case that helps to determine which disorders are appropriate for consideration (differential diagnoses) for a final diagnosis.
Evaluate how at least one assessment tool, which is listed in the List of Assessment Tools resource, will aid in obtaining further information to back up your final diagnosis. The Differential Diagnosis Decision Tree may be helpful to guide this process.
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Stephen & Juliette, along with the rest of their team, have worked incredibly hard over the years to make Pho a success. They believed in the concept from the very beginning so to be opening their seventh restaurant, seven years after the first, is a real milestone and Salix are extremely proud to have been a part of this process.
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Dr. P. Saravanan, Associate Professor in Department of Electrical and Electronics engineering, has 15 years of teaching experience and 4 years of industrial experience.
He gained his bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics from GCT, Bharathidasan University. He completed masters in Embedded System Technologies from CEG, Anna University. He earned his Ph.d degree in Electrical engineering from Anna University, Chennai. During his research work, he developed various intelligent control algorithms for speed control of Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) drive. He explored the implementation of the control algorithm over broad range of embedded processors (FPGA, DSP and ARM controllers).
He worked as a trainee in Kancheepuram Electricity Distribution Circle (KEDC), TNEB, over one year and gained eligibility for 'A' license. He also worked in "Southern Safety Systems", for 11KV Transformer Commissioning and Maintenance.
He has published over 18 research publications in the refereed journals and in proceedings of international conferences. He has received seed money of Rs. 5.5 lakhs from DST-SERB. Currently, he is working on the project titled, "Design & Development of Axial Flux Switched Reluctance Motor based battery operated vehicle", with the grant of Rs.36,26,000 from DST-SERB. His areas of research include Special Electrical Machines, Intelligent computing, Real time Embedded System design and Automotive Electronics.
1. Saravanan P, Balaji M, Anbuselvi M and Arumugam R, "Investigations On Embedded Processor Architectures For The Speed Control Of Switched Reluctance Motor Drive" Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol.18, No.1, pp.450-456, April 2018.
3. Anbuselvi, M. Saravanan, P and Gladwin, S. Joseph, "Analysis of a Code Construction Method for Non-Binary Quasi-Cyclic Irregular Low Density Parity Check Decoder" Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 15, No.2, pp.719-724, Feb 2018, (Scopus).
4. Saravanan P, M Anbuselvi and Salivahanan S, "An Efficient Algorithmic-Architectural Transformation of Quasi-Cyclic Non-Binary Low Density Parity Check Decoder", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 14, pp.5844–5850, 2017, (Scopus).
5. M Anbuselvi and Saravanan P, "Image coding using Cellular Automata based LDPC codes", has been published in International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, Vol.17 No.11, pp. 146-150, 2017, (Thomson Reuters).
6. Saravanan P, Senthil Kumaran M and Arumugam R, "FPGA Based Speed Control of SRM with Optimized Switching Angles by Self Tuning", Circuits and Systems, vol. 7, pp: 1530-1545, July 2016.
10. Saravanan P, Senthil Kumaran M, Veena S, Srilakshmi P S, "Estimation Of Position And Speed Of SRM Using MATLAB-System Generator And Xilinx Nexys-2 Board", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10, No.5, pp: 9038-9042, 2015.
11. Saravanan P, Anbuselvi M, Prashaanth R, Sindhu S L, "Design And Development Of Computation Intelligence For ACC Based On RTOS Using PIC Controller", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.10, No.5, pp: 8849-8853, 2015.
12. M. Anbuselvi, S.Salivahanan, P. Saravanan, "Analysis of Wave-pipelined architecture of ARA-LDPC codes", International journal of computer applications, Vol. 24 No:3, June 2011, pp 43-4. DOI : 10.5120/2927-3872, If: 0.85, ISSN:0975-8887.
1. Saravanan P, Anuradha R, Anbuselvi M, Pranika.R, Raveena.P, " Design And Development FPGA Based Of Speed Controller For High Performance BLDC Machine", National Conference on Research Challenges in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems for Wireless Communication, RCVEWC 2016, SSN College of Engineering, June 20-21 2016.
2. S Bavani, M Balaji and P Saravanan, "Design and Implementation of Fault Tolerant Converter Topology for Switch Reluctance Motor Drive", International Conference on Contemporary Topics in Power Engineering and Aiding Technologies (ICCPEAT'2017), Pondicherry Engineering College ,Puducherry.


For a deeper dive into University Hospital's many accomplishments, check out the below image, a bird's eye view of the campus. Each number corresponds to a story below, letting you go behind the scenes to see how hospital staff are saving lives every day and providing high-quality care to all patients, regardless of their income.
When University Hospital opened in 2013, staff frequently saw full-term pregnant women sleeping overnight on cement sidewalks waiting for labour to begin. Many of them lived far from care and wanted to be near the hospital as their due date approached. Mothers of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit also slept outside to be available for feedings. These everyday scenes were a testament to the mothers' determination to receive high-quality care for themselves and their newborns. They also were the inspiration for Kay Manmito, the maternal waiting home PIH built on the grounds of University Hospital.
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The Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT) has supported the development of the Tongan Government's TOP 28.4 million (US$15.1 million) three-month response plan to provide response and early recovery assistance to the affected people of Ha'apai following Tropical Cyclone Ian.
Tropical Cyclone Ian struck the northeast islands of Ha'apai on 11 January, leaving one person dead, 3,500 people homeless and causing significant damage to houses, schools, infrastructure and agriculture across six islands. The plan will facilitate the coordination of immediate response and early recovery activities, with unmet funding totaling TOP 23.7 million (US$12.6 million).
Priority areas identified in the plan include shelter, water, food, education, and the safety and protection of vulnerable groups. In total, 89 activities have been outlined to address the needs of the affected population across 11 national clusters or sectors.
Sune Gudnitz, Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Pacific region, said the collaborative work of Government Ministries and the PHT to progress this plan has been a positive step forward for the affected people of Ha'apai.
The document will continue to evolve into a recovery and reconstruction plan as further needs are identified and refined through detailed assessments. The projected total funding requirements over the next 12 to 18 months, including the three-month response plan, is TOP 90.2 million (US$ 47.9 million), of which TOP 83.4 million (US$ 44.3 million) is unmet. The largest funding requirement is TOP 48 million (US$ 25.5 million) for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of 800 damaged and destroyed homes across Ha'apai.
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Ephedra californica is a species of Ephedra, known by the common names California jointfir, California ephedra, desert tea, Mormon tea, and cañatillo.

Distribution
The plant is native to many diverse areas of central and southern California, Baja California, and west Arizona. It grows in varied scrub and open habitats, including chaparral, arid grassland, and Creosote scrub. It is found at elevations from .

Regions and landforms of distribution include:
Mojave Desert
Sonoran Desert
Colorado Desert
Peninsular Ranges
Transverse Ranges
Tehachapi Mountains
Southern Sierra Nevada foothills
San Joaquin Valley
South California Coast Ranges
Channel Islands
Southern California coastal basins (undeveloped habitats)

Habitats include:
California chaparral and woodlands
California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion
California montane chaparral and woodlands ecoregion
California interior chaparral and woodlands

Description
Ephedra californica is a spindly shrub made up of twigs which are greenish when new and age to a yellowish-gray color and have fine longitudinal grooves on their surfaces. The bark becomes gray-brown, and irregularly fissured and cracked. It grows  in height, with similar spread.

The tiny leaves grow at nodes on the twigs and dry in drought, to crumble away to leave brownish ridges there. Male plants produce clumps of pollen cones at the nodes and female plants produce egg-shaped seed cones each about  long, May to June.

Native American uses
Ephedra californica was used by the indigenous peoples of California as a medicinal plant, culinary ingredient, and for making tools. Tribal people using it included the Kumeyaay—Diegueño and Kawaiisu of present-day Southern California. The branches of the Ephedra californica were frequently brewed for its medicinal properties. The Kumeyaay used the tea of the Ephedra californica to cleanse the blood and kidneys and as an appetite suppressant.

References

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment: Ephedra californica (desert tea)
Flora of North America @ efloras.org: Ephedra californica
USDA Plants Profile — Ephedra californica (California jointfir)
Ephedra californica — U.C. Photo gallery

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Flora of California
Flora of Baja California
Flora of Arizona
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
Natural history of the Central Valley (California)
Natural history of the Colorado Desert
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
Plants used in traditional Native American medicine

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In an emotional moment during last night's Real Housewives of Atlanta, we saw Kenya and Shereé make an unlikely duo as they joined forces to produce a PSA against domestic violence. The ladies rallied around Cynthia's Mom as she shared her story.
Bravo spoke to Cynthia about her thoughts about her Mom sharing her story, and what it was like working with all the ladies on the PSA.
Bravotv.com: What went through your mind hearing your mom's story?
I was sad and proud of my mom at the same time when I heard her testimonial at Kenya's PSA shoot.
My mother has never really openly talked in detail about her domestic issues regarding her past relationships with me and my siblings.
We knew that she had dealt with domestic violence in her life, but didn't know how much, how bad, or how it was still affecting her life today. I know that it was extremely difficult for my mother to address this part of her life publicly and allow her voice to be heard in Kenya's PSA.
Actually, I was surprised when she told me that she wanted to do it, and honestly at the last minute she wanted to back out because she was worried about what her friends and family would say.
I encouraged her to pray about it. To follow her heart and her spirit and do what she wanted to do. Not to worry about what the world thinks because it's her life and her story, not the world's.
I was so proud that she did the PSA, because I know she will not only empower other victims of domestic abuse to standup, but also finally be able to heal herself and get the closure she needs to move on with her life.
Bravotv.com: What was it like working with all the ladies on the PSA?
I loved working with all the ladies for Kenya's PSA. I always enjoy coming together for good and not evil, LOL! Although we all have our individual power, we are so much more powerful together.


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The City of Jacksonville has built a recreational trail on the north side of Lake Jacksonville. The Friends of the Trails Initiative of the Jacksonville Park Foundation invites the community to learn and love the path through new Sunday Strolls.
Park in the boat launch lot. Walk, run, or ride – bring the whole family. No official start. The goal is simply to have a concentration of people on a promenade to encourage interaction on the recreational trail.
Restroom facilities located at concession building near the boat dock.
Walkers have right of way. Bicycles yield to people on foot. Campers with permit can ride golf carts, and they must yield to people walking, running or biking.
Read more about the City of Jacksonville's grant application to complete the final stage of the recreational trail (Exhibit F (partial), G+H in map above).
Lake Jacksonville Pedestrian & Bike Path (under construction, Feb. 2019).
Help the City of Jacksonville beef up its application for a state grant to complete the Lake Jacksonville Pedestrian and Bike Path. The City of Jacksonville voted unanimously to apply for a state grant via the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for the final phase of the Lake Jacksonville Recreational Trail. The grant will cover 80% of the cost. You can help improve our chances of landing the state grant by signing on now, for the deadline is in the 2nd week of March.
Better: Email a note stating "I support the City of Jacksonville's effort to use a IDNR RTP Grant to complete a Lake Jacksonville Pedestrian and Bike Path" to trail19@jaxpark.org. Feel free to expand with information about your interest in the lake, nature, community, health, and the like. Bonus if you can get your group or company to send a letter, saying how the trail could benefit the community.
Best: Recruit people to do the above, and/or download a petition and get people to sign. Scan and send to trail19@jaxpark.org.
Send email, mail or drop off by Monday March 11 to trail19@jaxpark.org or Greg Hillis, Benton & Associates, 1970 W Lafayette Ave, Jacksonville, IL 62650.
Jacksonville Park Foundation board member Peggy Davidsmeyer gives a tour of the trail leading to the Lake Jacksonville walk/run/ride bridge to cyclist Sandy Ballard.
The vote for a walk/run/ride bridge at Lake Jacksonville is scheduled for Monday night 12 September 2016, and a show of support is needed to get this item passed. Plans available to download from DropBox. With the bridge complete hikers/runners/riders will be able to go around the lake without risking IL-267. And families with small kids will have about a mile stretch of no/low+slow traffic road to walk or ride together in the woods.
What you can do . . .
Contact the Mayor and your aldermen (directory link) and express your support of the bridge, your experience visiting trails in other towns (and going to restaurants, shops and other pocketbook adventures while you were there). This project will not only be good for community health but also for the local economy.
Meeting 6pm Monday, 2nd floor of city hall. Process starts with study session, then vote comes later when meeting moves next door to council chambers.
Keep in mind the history on this . . .
When this walk/run/ride bridge came to the fore 2 years ago some residents of the lake subdivisions went through their county representatives to stop the project. The city attorney determined all this was on city land, and planning could progress.
After that and committee meetings former Parks & Lakes Chairman Alderman Bruce McDaniel asked Benton & Associates to donate a design for the bridge (thanks!).
That info and budget was used to request needed funds as part of this year's city capital budget, and the bridge survived a challenge at that point.
Lately the counter argument has been the city needs to first do a trail to get campers to the concession stand and even around the entire lake, with the bridge as the final step — even though a lake trail has been kicked around since a 2003 city/county bike plan and for at least a decade as part of the city's comprehensive plan, with no action.
Let's pick the low-hanging fruit . . . Put in this bridge. Get a short trail for families to walk or ride. Get a way for confident bikers get around the lake on county roads without becoming roadkill on 267. Let the mountain bike club and others start volunteering to create trails at the lake which don't require people to scramble over slippery concrete at the spillway to ford Big Sandy Creek. Get fishers easier access to more shoreline. Build on the short stretch for a trail around the lake or eventually a path into town. Open the lake for walking, running, cycling — for those who camp at the lake, and for the general city populace.


I liked the ideas in MARJORIE PRIME far more than the film itself. The ideas surround the nature of memory and AI. In a near future, AI has developed to the point that grieving people can buy a "prime" - a lifelike robot who can learn to remember your family memories. As the film opens, we have an old lady called Marjorie (Lois Smith) who interacts with a younger avatar of her dead husband (Jon Hamm). What's fascinating is that she is teaching him their shared memories but chooses to alter some of them - making his proposal more romantic so that that becomes his version of events. And then, as her memory fades and he becomes her factual record, it's the fake memory that becomes the shared history. Marjorie's daughter (Geena Davis) is initially horrified by the concept of her mother having a relationship with a Prime, while her husband (Tim Robbins) sees it as a boon. But as the film develops, we see the two of them have their own relationships with Primes and the position shifts as they too start to re-interpret history through shared but altered memories. Most impressively, in the final scene of the film, we see the Primes themselves interact and share those memories, moving further away from the truth. The film, then, raises important and nuanced questions about the nature of shared memory and the ethics of altering it. Should the truth be privileged or is it better to tell white lies that comfort people?
The problem with the film is that it reads like a didactic treatise rather than a living and breathing drama. Matters aren't helped by the fact that director Michael Almereyda largely keeps the action in the closed confines of the family home, paces the film slowly, and does little with his camera. To that end, the movie feels like a filmed stage play, and it is indeed based on a play by Jordan Harrison. I found myself admiring its ideas and some of its performances but deeply deeply bored.
MARJORIE PRIME has a running time of 98 minutes and is not yet rated and does not yet have a commercial release date. It played Berlin, Sundance and San Francisco.


Jim brings deep expertise in decision information sciences, analytics and supply chain combined with an experience-based understanding of the Navy's mission to his role as lead for Accenture Federal Services Navy account.
He served for 25 years in the Navy, retiring as a Captain in the Navy Supply Corps in 2009. During his Navy Career, he served operationally in a surface ship, at an air station and in a submarine. His military specialty was Operations Research, leading Operations Research teams solving supply chain and logistics problems at Headquarters levels in OPNAV, the Defense Logistics Agency, NAVSUP Headquarters, and the Naval Inventory Control Point.
Hoover joined Accenture in August 2009. Since that time, he initially worked on several projects supporting the Defense Logistics Agency including: advanced analytics for inventory and supply chain; business case analysis for distribution operations; and procurement optimization and procurement risk analysis. He was promoted to Managing Director at Accenture in 2012, and currently serves as the Navy Account lead for Accenture Federal Services. His teams work with Navy clients supporting Financial Auditability, Navy ERP SAP sustainment/build efforts, Naval Shipyard Maintenance applications, IT strategy, analytics and training.
In January 2014, he also became the analytics lead for Accenture Federal Services encompassing the technical big data solutions, business intelligence, visual analytics and also the advanced analytics teams supporting Federal clients. This work encompasses oversight of analytics projects across the Federal Government that include: Human Capital Analytics, Fraud Detection, Intelligence Analytics, and Big Data applications.
Hoover is 2017 graduate of the University of Florida, receiving a Doctor of Business Administration degree with research focused on Analytics. He also holds an MBA with a concentration in Decision Information Sciences and an undergraduate business degree in Accounting.
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Like an old-growth tree that moves pitifully slow compared to the deadly encroachments of climate change, the Democratic Party establishment is now bumbling about in search of where to go now. If only there were some... signs.
Despite an embarrassing presidential loss to a racist oaf driven by rising tide of inequality that is cracking up parts of our societal institutions that were once presumed inviolate, the Democratic Party itself has not changed much—it still consists of the same elected officials as last year, the same Congresspersons and Senators, the same fundraising apparatus and donors, the same lineage of party functionaries who see themselves as the rightfully appointed decisionmakers. The furious grass roots upsurge since the election has thus far failed to completely permeate the actual political party that is best positioned to take advantage of it. That is why we have, for example, a top Democrat saying that "the message is being worked on," as if "the message" must be a carefully crafted patronizing trick rather than a simple explanation of how to help people who need help. That is also why we cannot shake the conviction by much of the Democratic establishment that the savvy and "pragmatic" move is to nominate a middle-aged white male centrist from a red state in 2020.
That's the fucking problem with Democrats. They mistake weakness for pragmatism. They mistake pandering for savvy. They always seem to imagine that the closer they edge to Republican policy positions, the more votes they will inevitably capture, due to math. They—the establishment, the ones in control, with all of the plugs plugged into the current power grid—are unable to imagine a world in which they lead voters to their side with bold, progressive policies, and by telling the truth. That is considered hopelessly unrealistic, by the circle of operatives that helped to lose to Donald Trump. The entire apparatus of Democratic operatives who spent decades accumulating power, riding their way up through the Bill Clinton and Obama administrations, are still there. And they did their best in 2016. And here we are.
After six months of scandals and embarrassments, Donald Trump is terribly unpopular. But according to a new Bloomberg poll, there is a political figure who is even more unpopular: Hillary Clinton. This is the result of the Democratic Party's existing strategy. A candidate, the most inside of insiders, handpicked to run in an election with unprecedented anti-establishment sentiment, beaten by a buffoon who at least spoke his stupid mind, and who is now confirming everyone's worst fears of what he would do in the White House, and who is still more popular than the Democratic candidate.
Democrats who have wielded power for many years: America is sick of your bullshit. Maybe let the grass roots give it a shot for once. You suck.
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"The destiny of our instances is characterised via explanation and intellectualization and, principally, through 'the disenchantment of the world.'" Max Weber's assertion continues to be a dominant interpretation of the fashionable situation: the expanding services of information and technology have banished mysteries, leaving a global that may be mastered technically and intellectually. And although this concept turns out empowering, many folks became disappointed with glossy disenchantment. utilizing intimate encounters with artworks to discover disenchantment and the probabilities of re-enchantment, Arts of Wonder addresses questions about the character of humanity, the realm, and God within the wake of Weber's analysis of modernity.
Jeffrey L. Kosky makes a speciality of a handful of artists—Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy—to express how they introduce areas hospitable to secret and beauty, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and production. What should be regarded as non secular longings, he argues, are the most important facets of mesmerizing secularity while constructed via encounters with those artworks. constructing a version of faith that may be major to secular tradition, Kosky indicates how this version will be hired to deepen interpretation of the artwork we frequently view as representing secular modernity. A considerate discussion among philosophy and artwork, Arts of Wonder will capture the attention of readers of paintings and faith, philosophy of faith, and artwork criticism.
Why are humans so drawn to what they and others throw away? This booklet indicates how this curiosity in what we discard is way from new - it's indispensable to how we make, construct and describe our lived atmosphere. As this wide-ranging new learn finds, waste has been a polarizing subject for millennia and has been handled as a wealthy source by way of artists, writers, philosophers and designers.
Rethinking the connection among eighteenth-century pietistic traditions and Enlightenment notion and perform, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the advanced and sometimes missed non secular origins of contemporary secular discourse. Mapping wonderful routes of trade among the spiritual and aesthetic writings of the interval and recentering issues of authorship and viewers, this booklet revitalizes scholarship at the Enlightenment.
Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The WireHigh modernism is now as faraway from us as antiquity was once for the Renaissance. Such is the basis of Fredric Jameson's significant new paintings within which modernist works, this time in portray (Rubens) and track (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted opposed to late-modernist ones (in movie) in addition to numerous postmodern experiments (from SF to The twine, from "Eurotrash" in opera to Altman and East German literature): all of which try, of their other ways, to invent new varieties to understand a selected social totality.
Devoted to artwork practices that mobilize the version of the archive, this booklet demonstrates the ways that such 'archival works of art' probe the probabilities of what artwork is and what it will probably do. via a number of media, methodologies and views, the artists surveyed right here additionally problem the rules on which the notions of association, proof and documentation are outfitted.


Life expectancy rises. Wages stagnate. Retirement accounts shrink. Guaranteed monthly pensions are an endangered species.
The average U.S. age for men retiring from work has gradually increased to 64. Yet age 62 continues to be held out as the popular standard, perhaps because that's Americans' marker for Social Security eligibility.
Is retirement at age 62 destined be a casualty of dovetailing medical, financial, economic and even political trends? Many baby boomers are already postponing retirement into their mid- or even late 60s. One study found that claiming Social Security at 62 is becoming less popular, a trend that is expected to continue despite the hardships of the Great Recession.
"I don't think it's dead, but its health has eroded," Chuck Miller, a Chicago communications consultant who specializes in retirement, said about age-62 retirement in this country.
Wisconsin's failed recall election for Governor Scott Walker suggested growing U.S. voters' disdain for generous pensions and early retirement ages, even as Europeans protest government proposals to raise public employees' retirement ages. Rhode Island has already raised its employee retirement age to 67, from 62 previously. And voters in San Jose just approved measures to scale back public worker pensions that included an increase in the retirement age.
Squared Away readers, where do you stand? Have you or will you retire at age 62? Tell us about your situation or your theories!
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I am 65 1/2, going out at 65 3/4. I want to travel while I can.
My personal take on retirement is that I do not believe in retirement. There is much to be done in this world we live in, and I believe in the philosophy of moving from "success to significance." I personally spent 30 plus years as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and private investor. I am now teaching, writing, and researching full time at a major university. I believe I can add value to the young people looking to complete their education and start their careers by bringing real world experience to the classroom. I am blessed to have this opportunity and would encourage others who want to do more than travel, play golf, and spend time with family to consider the same direction. I have plenty of time to do all those things and more and consider that as extremely important as I have five living children, 13 grandchildren, and 1 great grandchild. Life is good. We are only remembered for what we give back, not for how much we have. How do you want to be remembered?
My original plan to retire at 62 was stymied when my job was cut in 1998, at age 54. I survived three years before I was employed again. In 2007, I found a higher paying job that would increase my Social Security benefits, making up for the years lost ('98-01). I retired at 67 with almost the max in Social Security, which makes up about 1/3rd of my living expenses. At 68, I have no debt and a new house. It wasn't easy but it is worth it.
In a word, yes. There is no credible medical coverage between 62 and Medicare. Therefore, everyone without coverage is continuing to work for the employer-provided catastrophic medical benefits. Also, the bang-for-the-buck to wait on collecting Social Security is too good to pass up, so working longer is my plan.
I am 64. I will be 65 next March. My employer is allowing me to cut my work load to 80% next year, so I'll be able to still work, but taper off. I plan to NOT take Social Security until later – at least 67, 68, or even 70 if possible, even if that means drawing some of my 401(k) out to tide us over.
In this day and age, people are doing things later and later in life, retirement being one of those things. At 62, people are still capable of doing many of the things that they were able to do before this "retirement age." We work with many people in assisted living situations, and we know firsthand that many of them are still able to do many of the jobs they were doing before retirement.
I'm a 49-year-old female. For most of my adult life I've been a non-paid mom and military spouse moving every 3-5 years. For the past 10 years, I've been a teacher working for the U.S. Gov't. I remarried three years ago to a retired U.S. Marine. Between us, we've got 6 kids and 2 grandchildren. Right now, I've got a great paying job in Germany and am socking away all I'm allowed to for retirement. The day I hit my minimum retirement age, I'm gone. I look forward to traveling, gardening, spending time with my grandkids, and volunteering at church, the American Red Cross and USO. My first husband died of a heart attack at 49-years-old, and my current husband lost his first wife to MS at 50-years-old. I don't save my china or crystal (or anything) for special occasions.
Life is too short! I say, "eat the pie first and maybe have room for the veggies." I retired at 62 and love traveling and playing with my grandchildren (7 girls). I am not rich with money, but with fun!!
I retired at 58 with 32 years at auto factory (early buyout). I'm 62 now, living well, never touching my savings. Don't wait too long to give up the greed. Too many friends dropping dead in their mid 60's, shoulda woulda coulda.


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Fort Monroe's new Paradise Ocean Club to host Uncle Kracker on Sept. 9
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I understood from Daily Press stories about the new Paradise Ocean Club at Fort Monroe that the waterside venue would eventually present some national entertainers. It's happening soon. Uncle Kracker is set to play there Sept. 9.
The announcement came from sources at country radio outlet U.S. 106.1, which has the show listed on its concert calendar.
I'm told that tickets won't be required for the show, but regular admission to the club will apply.
"It's always a $10 admission price to get in to Paradise Ocean Club and Uncle Kracker will just be an addition to the regular admission," wrote Jason Fox with Sinclair Communications, parent company of U.S. 106.1. "No tickets necessary and open to everyone!"
The Paradise Ocean Club's website is still under construction and doesn't yet include information about the show, but a staff member there confirmed the show.
An as-yet-undetermined opening act will play around 3 p.m. and the headliner will take the stage about 6 p.m., I was told.
In case your memory needs jogging, Uncle Kracker is the former Kid Rock DJ who, on his own, evolved into a country and pop hitmaker. His hits include "Drift Away," "Smile" and "In a Little While" and "Follow Me," a No. 5 pop hit in 2001.
Below you'll see and hear Kracker's newest hit, "My Hometown."
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Noel Simone Band of Friends is a New York City based jazz , bossa nova, soul and funk group. Performing Jazz Standards, Blues Covers, and Funk covers and Original music in the NYC Metropolitan Area. Previous performances at Chocolat Restaurant, Paris Blues, Cafe Noctambulo, Caffe Vivaldi, Newark New Jersey International Airport, Silvana and SHRINE, Gin Fizz, and Rockwood Music Hall in NYC area to name a few venues. Starting in Winter 2013 as a jazz jam band with various musicians from the NYC area, our band consists of vocals, drums, trombone, saxophone, flute, bass, piano, and guitar. We perform collectively on a regular basis in the Harlem community.


Blind faith is the belief in yourself and your music. The belief that it is good and it has value. As strange as it sounds, many musicians and artists lose it especially when their promotional efforts don't yield the results they want, the media doesn't respond favorably to their music and/or they don't sell the amount of CDs or downloads they wanted. Regardless of what people say, whether they are in the media, the industry or they are music fans, you have to believe in your music and yourself. Too many times as artists we give more value to the negative responses than the positive ones. Ten people can say how much they love your music but if you get one negative email, you let it bother you more than enjoying what the ten other people said.
Stop comparing yourself to other artists! If someone doesn't like one of the artists you compared yourself to, they won't even listen to your songs!
Stop using genres to limit your audience. I recently spoke at a conference where an artist introduced himself and told me what kind of music he played. I told him I didn't like that kind to see how he would react. He was stuck. He didn't know what to do next. I told him music fans can react the same way. Tell them what's in your songs and make sure not to use any cliches about the performances in the recording.
Stop telling people that your new songs are better than the old ones. Every artist, songwriter and musician evolves and grows. Their songs are different as time goes by. What would Beatles fans think if the band said, "Our old songs sucked. The new ones are much better. I hope you didn't buy any of the old records."
Stop limiting what you are capable of! You can accomplish more than you think. Aprylle Gilbert, who you remember as a brand new artist at the last Music Strategies is this month's example of this. Aprylle booked herself into a venue that was definitely bigger than her current fan base. The venue made her rent the whole night out and gave her tickets to sell. By emailing, calling fans, promoting to her Facebook friends the right way and going out and meeting new people and connecting with them, her show is already sold out two weeks before the date. I guess it's time for a new press campaign. Unknown artist comes to your town, promotes herself and sells out venue she has never played before.
The point is, you have to find the blind faith you once had and use it! The faith that made you write songs, record them and then go out and sell them. The faith in yourself that made you get up and play in front of family, friends, everyone you knew and complete strangers. It's time to get rid of the excuses and limitations and once again realize the value you and your music have right now. Believe in what you have created and push us to listen to it and become fans!


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Felix Draeseke
Available Recordings
Sonata for clarinet & piano in B major, Op.38 (3)
Symphony no 1 in G major, Op. 12 (2)
Symphony no 3 in C major, Op. 40 "Symphonia tragica" (2)
Abendreihn, Op. 17 (1)
Concerto for Piano in E flat major, Op. 36 (1)
Das Schloss am Meer, Op. 53 (1)
Das sterbende Kind (1)
Das verlassene Mägd'lein, Op. 2 (1)
Der Tod kennt den Weg, for voice & piano, Op. 58 (1)
Die Schwester, Op. 81 (1)
Die traurige Krönung, Op. 80 (1)
Du bist der ungebrochne Sonnenstrahl, Op. 67 (1)
Funeral March in E minor, Op. 79 (1)
Grosse Messe in A minor, Op. 85 (1)
Helge's Treue, Op. 1 (1)
Landschaftsbilder, Op. 20 (1)
Mitternacht, Op. 24 (1)
Morgens send' ich dir die Veilchen (1)
Penthesilea, Op. 50 (1)
Serenade in D major, Op. 49 (1)
Born: October 7, 1835; Coburg, Germany Died: February 26, 1913; Dresden, Germany
In his youth, Felix Draeseke was an enthusiastic follower of the New German School, whose music drew the attention of Liszt. In his old age, however, deaf and perhaps disillusioned by too many years spent teaching and too few years gaining accolades as a composer, Draeseke had become conservative, attacking the excesses of the Strauss generation even while maintaining an idiosyncratic style of his own.
Draeseke entered the Read more Leipzig Conservatory at age seventeen, studying with Julius Rietz. He abandoned the conservatory three years later, after hearing Wagner's Lohengrin. Besotted with this new, heightened, German-nationalist form of musical expression, he began an opera in a similar vein: König Sigurd, which attracted the support of Franz Liszt. In 1861, Liszt's performance in Weimar of Draeseke's Germania-Marsch met with angry protests. Germany seemed to have a new musical firebrand on its hands.
Draeseke met Wagner in Lucerne in 1859, and the young composer, too, would move to Switzerland in 1861. He would be based there for fifteen years, toiling as a piano teacher in towns around Lake Geneva and never gaining the attention for his own music that his early notoriety suggested would come easily. Liszt hailed Draeseke's Sonata quasi Fantasia, composed during this time, as the best piano sonata since Schumann, but few other cognoscenti seemed to share this opinion.
He returned to Germany in 1876, settling in Dresden and gaining a job at the conservatory there in 1884. This position gave him a stable enough base that he could now compose more prolifically, though no longer as a member of the Romantic avant-garde. The 1880s saw the completion of his first staged opera, Gudrun, and several large orchestral works, most notably his Third Symphony, "Symphonia Tragica," as well as chamber works, including a sonata for the short-lived viola alta.
From the 1890s Draeseke turned increasingly to dramatic stage works and large-scale sacred music, including his once highly regarded Mysterium: Christus (completed in 1899). His use of harmony and methods of voice-leading remained distinctive, but Draeseke was now firmly entrenched in the musical establishment, and he was appalled by the flamboyance of Richard Strauss, which he parodied in his 1912 "Symphonia Comica."
Draeseke's music fell into obscurity; only a murky recording of his "Tragic" Symphony kept his name alive in the second half of the twentieth century, although since 1986 the International Draeseke Society has revived his work in print and recording. Read less
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Elegy: Music for Cor Anglais, Vol. 2 / Frutiger, Mihneva
Label: Guild Music Catalog: 7810 Release Date: 04/06/2018 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Leopold Wallner, Karl Mille, Felix Draeseke, Leland Cossart ...
Performer: Martin Frutiger, Petya Mihneva
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Draeseke: Chamber Works / Solistenensemble Berlin, Breuninger Quartet
Label: Cpo Catalog: 555107 Release Date: 03/17/2017 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Felix Draeseke
Performer: Andreas Grünkorn, Mathias Wollong, Birgitta Wollenweber, Felix Schwartz
Orchestra/Ensemble: Breuninger Quartet, Berlin Soloists
Draeseke: Chamber Works
Label: Tyxart Catalog: 16077 Release Date: 02/17/2017 Number of Discs: 1
Performer: Lisa Schatzman, Hervé Joulain, Marie Chilemme, David Pia ...
Hebbel Lieder
Label: Gramola Catalog: 98999 Release Date: 10/14/2014 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Hans Pfitzner, Walter Braunfels, Othmar Schoeck, Peter Cornelius ...
Performer: Ulf Bastlein, Sascha El Mouissi
Felix Draeseke: Complete Symphonies
Conductor: Jörg-Peter Weigle
Brahms, Reinecke, Draeseke / Amir Katz, Kilian Herold
Label: Cavi Music Catalog: 8553263 Release Date: 11/13/2012 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Johannes Brahms, Carl Reinecke, Felix Draeseke
Performer: Amir Katz, Kilian Herold
Draeske, Mendelssohn, Burgmuller, Beethoven / Pierce-aomori Duo
Label: Msr Catalog: 1382 Release Date: 04/12/2011 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Felix Draeseke, Felix Mendelssohn, Norbert Burgmüller, Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Daniel Barrett
Orchestra/Ensemble: Pierce-Aomori Duo
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Genie Oblige! Franz Liszt - Origin Oeuvre & Legacy In Song
Label: Wendy Waller (Soprano) Catalog: 5637528325 Release Date: 09/01/2009 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendof, Felix Draeseke, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt ...
Performer: Wendy Waller, Margaret Singer
The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 47 - Draeseke, Jadassohn / Becker
Label: Hyperion Catalog: 67636 Release Date: 03/10/2009 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Felix Draeseke, Salomon Jadassohn
Performer: Markus Becker
Conductor: Michael Sanderling
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Draeseke: Lieder / Ingeborg Danz, Roman Trekel, Cord Garben
Performer: Ingeborg Danz, Cord Garben, Roman Trekel
Draeseke, Schumann / Gronostay, Netherlands Chamber Choir
Label: Globe Catalog: 5147 Release Date: 05/09/2006 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Robert Schumann, Felix Draeseke
Conductor: Uwe Gronostay
Orchestra/Ensemble: Netherlands Chamber Choir
Draeseke: Symphony No 1 & 4 / Weigle, Et Al
Orchestra/Ensemble: North German Philharmonic Orchestra
Draeseke: Symphonia Tragica, Etc / Hansen, Wuppertal So
Label: Md&g (Dabringhaus & Grimm) Gold Catalog: 3351041 Release Date: 01/22/2002 Number of Discs: 1
Conductor: George Hansen
Orchestra/Ensemble: Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra
Liszt: Piano Sonata; Draeseke: Piano Sonata / Tanski
Label: Altarus Catalog: 9030 Release Date: 11/29/1995 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Felix Draeseke, Franz Liszt
Performer: Claudius Tanski


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The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 6, Supplement >> 495b Charles Etienne Arthur Gayarre >> Page 104
495b : To CHARLES ETIENNE ARTHUR GAYARRE
Charleston July 13. [1849]'
Hon Charles Gayarre dear Sir:
Sympathizing very sincerely with you in regard to the onerous duties of the political contest which keeps you from more agreeable toils, I still congratulate myself with the hope that you will be able soon to appropriate the necessary leisure on the semi-historical & social subject of which we have spoken. I write now rather with the view to saying that I have just put up to be sent you by the earliest vessel a copy of my Histy of South Carolina, which I trust you will find not utterly unworthy of a place in your library. You will find in it proofs, at all events, that I am a genuine Southron if not an historian. With best wishes, believe me Very truly
Your friend &c
W. Gilmore Simms.
P. S. I must not forget to acknowledge the reciept of your excel-lent history'& very agreeable Sketches from History)
'Simms' reference to "the onerous duties of the political contest" suggests 1853 as the date of this letter: in that year Gayarre was defeated, probably by fraudulent votes, as an independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. But Simms' expressed desire for Gayarre soon to have "the necessary leisure" to devote to "the semi-historical & social subject of which we have spoken" seems clearly a reference to the article that Simms in his letter of May 17, 1849 (488a), asked Gayarre to write for the Southern Quarterly Review. The "political contest," then, would be the election of 1849, in which Gayarre as secretary of state of Louisiana would necessarily be involved.
'Romance of the History of Louisiana.
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Drahomír Kadlec (né le  à Příbram en Tchécoslovaquie) est un joueur professionnel tchèque de hockey sur glace qui évoluait au poste de défenseur.

Biographie
Kladnec commence sa carrière professionnelle en 1985 avec le HC Kladno. Trois ans plus tard, il est repêché par les Flyers de Philadelphie mais ne rejoint jamais la Ligue nationale de hockey et poursuit une carrière à travers divers championnats européens jusqu'en 2006. À partir de 1987, il est sélectionné dans l'équipe de Tchécoslovaquie avec laquelle il remporte quatre médailles de bronze aux championnats du monde et une aux Jeux olympiques. Il joue ensuite pour la République tchèque et après une nouvelle médaille de bronze en 1993 il remporte le titre suprême en 1996. Il prend sa retraite en 2006.

Statistiques
Pour les significations des abréviations, voir statistiques du hockey sur glace.

En club

| 1985-1986 || HC Kladno|| Tchécoslovaquie||  42|| 4|| 8|| 12|| 12||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1986-1987 || HC Dukla Jihlava|| Tchécoslovaquie || 40|| 7|| 2|| 9|| 26||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1987-1988 || HC Dukla Jihlava|| Tchécoslovaquie || 42|| 5|| 11|| 16|| 44||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1988-1989 || HC Kladno|| Tchécoslovaquie || 39|| 7|| 15|| 22|| 70||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1989-1990 || HC Kladno|| Tchécoslovaquie || 49|| 8|| 21|| 29|| 40||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1990-1991 || HIFK|| SM-liiga|| 42|| 3|| 10|| 13|| 36|| 3|| 1|| 1|| 2|| 24
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| 1991-1992 || HIFK|| SM-Liiga|| 44|| 4|| 20|| 24|| 30|| 9|| 2|| 6|| 8|| 6
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| 1992-1993 || HIFK|| SM-Liiga|| 48|| 11|| 20|| 31|| 39|| 4|| 0|| 0|| 0|| 2
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| 1993-1994 || HC Kladno|| Extraliga || 11|| 1|| 7|| 8|| 0||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1993-1994 || ESV Kaufbeuren|| 1. Bundesliga|| 44|| 13|| 10|| 23|| 18|| 4|| 0|| 2|| 2|| 2
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| 1994-1995 || Kaufbeurer Adler|| DEL || 43|| 7|| 23|| 30|| 28|| 3|| 1|| 2|| 3|| 2
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| 1995-1996 || Kaufbeurer Adler|| DEL|| 46|| 8|| 25|| 33|| 32||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1996-1997 || Kaufbeurer Adler|| DEL|| 29|| 5|| 9|| 14|| 12||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1996-1997 || HC Zlín|| Extraliga || 18|| 1|| 7|| 8|| 8||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1997-1998 || HC Chemopetrol Litvínov|| Extraliga || 38|| 4|| 16|| 20|| 46||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1998-1999 || HC Slezan Opava|| Extraliga || 47|| 2|| 9|| 11|| 42||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1999-2000 || Tappara Tampere|| SM-Liiga|| 5|| 0|| 0|| 0|| 0||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 1999-2000 || EC Bad Tölz|| 2. Bundesliga || 36|| 5|| 24|| 29|| 10||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 2000-2001 || EC Bad Tölz|| 2. Bundesliga|| 54|| 6|| 20|| 26|| 42||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 2001-2002 || EC Bad Tölz|| 2. Bundesliga|| 48|| 5|| 28|| 33|| 20||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 2002-2003 || EC Bad Tölz|| 2. Bundesliga|| 47|| 6|| 32|| 38|| 58||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 2003-2004 || HC Egna|| Serie A || 28|| 8|| 5|| 13|| 24||  ||  ||  ||  ||
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| 2004-2005 || HC Egna|| Serie A2 || 35|| 9|| 26|| 35|| 36|| 7|| 0|| 7|| 7|| 10
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| 2005-2006 || HC Egna|| Serie A2 || 38|| 5|| 27|| 32|| 78||  ||  ||  ||  ||

En équipe nationale

| 1987 || Tchécoslovaquie || Coupe Canada || 3 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 12 || align="left" |
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| 1987 || Tchécoslovaquie || Championnat du monde || 5 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 2 ||  Médaille de bronze
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| 1989 || Tchécoslovaquie || Championnat du monde || 9 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 10 ||  Médaille de bronze
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| 1990 || Tchécoslovaquie || Championnat du monde || 9 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 4 ||  Médaille de bronze
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| 1992 || Tchécoslovaquie || Jeux olympiques || 8 || 1 || 4 || 5 || 6 ||  Médaille de bronze
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| 1992 || Tchécoslovaquie || Championnat du monde || 8 || 2 || 2 ||4 || 10 ||  Médaille de bronze
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| 1993 || République tchèque || Championnat du monde || 8 || 3 || 1 || 4 || 14 ||  Médaille de bronze
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| 1994 || République tchèque || Jeux olympiques || 8 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 4 || align="left" | Quart-de-finale
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| 1994 || République tchèque || Championnat du monde || 6 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 0 || align="left" |
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| 1996 || République tchèque || Coupe du monde || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || align="left" |
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| 1996 || République tchèque || Championnat du monde || 8 || 1 || 3 || 4 || 2 || align="left" |  Médaille d'or

Références

Naissance en novembre 1965
Joueur international tchèque de hockey sur glace
Choix de repêchage des Flyers de Philadelphie
Joueur du HC Kladno
Joueur du HIFK
Joueur du ESV Kaufbeuren
Joueur du HC Zlín
Joueur du HC Litvínov
Joueur du HC Slezan Opava
Joueur du Tappara
Joueur du EC Bad Tölz
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1992
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1994
Champion du monde de hockey sur glace
Médaillé de bronze olympique tchécoslovaque
Défenseur de hockey sur glace
Joueur international tchécoslovaque de hockey sur glace
Joueur du HC Egna
Naissance à Příbram
Naissance en Tchécoslovaquie
Médaillé aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1992


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For All Seasons is the debut studio album by American rapper Nature.
Nature, is an American rapper, best known for his association with fellow New York City rapper Nas and having replaced Cormega in the original QB group the Firm.
Baxter grew up in Queensbridge, New York, and went to school with Nas. Nas introduced Nature to the public in 1997, as a member of his supergroup The Firm, whose members also included AZ and Foxy Brown. Nature was brought in to replace rapper Cormega, who had a contractual dispute with Nas' manager Steve Stoute. The Firm's first and only album, Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album, went platinum, and topped the Billboard 200 album chart.
The group disbanded in 1997 to pursue various solo projects. In 1998, Nature was featured on Noreaga's single "Banned from T.V.", alongside Big Pun, Cam'ron, Jadakiss and Styles P.
After several delays, Nature's debut album For All Seasons, was released in 2000 by Columbia Records and featured a guest appearance from Nas. It reached number 50 on the Billboard 200.
Produced by Trackmasters, Ski, L.E.S., Lord Jamar, Poke And Tone and more.
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Why Is Federated Learning Getting So Popular
By Ram Sagar
In 2016, Uber paid $148 million to settle the investigation on a data breach that exposed the personal information of over half a million drivers. In 2020, Google was fined $57 million for a GDPR violation. The rise of on-device machine learning, coupled with the growing concerns of data privacy, has nudged developers and researchers towards techniques such as federated learning–a collaborative learning method that operates without exchanging users' original data.
The stringent GDPR makes data sharing among European organisations challenging. Meanwhile, federated learning systems (FLS) have shown promise with good predictive accuracy while complying with privacy rules. According to Li et al., federated learning systems are game changers like deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
As illustrated above, the number of related papers in FL has increased rapidly and has reached about 4,400 last year.
Federated Learning leverages techniques from multiple research areas such as distributed systems, machine learning, and privacy. FL is best applied in situations where the on-device data is more relevant than the data that exists on servers. However, FLS faces various challenges such as effectiveness, efficiency, and privacy. FL enables multiple parties to jointly train a machine learning model without exchanging the local data. According to Li et al.,se FLS is being adopted in various domains:
A typical Federated Learning Protocol according to Google AI:
Federated learning servers are called by devices
Model checkpoint from storage is read by the servers.
Models are sent to the select devices.
On-device model training followed by server update.
Server aggregates these updates into a global model and writes them into storage.
On-device FL
(Source: Paper by Bonawitz et al.,)
Federated learning provides a decentralised computation strategy to train a neural model. Modern day mobile devices churn out swathes of personal data, which can be used for training. Instead of uploading data to servers for centralised training, phones process their local data and share model updates with the server. Weights from a large population of mobiles are aggregated by the server and combined to create an improved global model. The distributed approach has been shown to work with unbalanced datasets and data that are not independent or identically distributed across clients.
On-device machine learning comes with a privacy challenge. Data recorded by cameras and microphones can put individuals at great risk in the event of a hack. For example, apps might expose a search mechanism for information retrieval or in-app navigation.
Federated averaging was implemented by researchers from University of Kyoto in practical mobile edge computing (MEC) frameworks by using an operator of MEC frameworks to manage the resources of heterogeneous clients. Both distributed deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and federated learning were also adopted in mobile edge computing systems. The use of DRL and FL has the potential to optimise the mobile edge computing, caching, and communication. FL has also been performed on resource-constrained MEC systems, where the researchers address the problem of how to efficiently utilise the limited computation and communication resources at the edge. A technique called FedGKT was proposed where each device only trains a small part of a whole ResNet to reduce the computation overhead. Using federated averaging, the researchers implemented many machine learning algorithms including linear regression, SVM, and CNN.
For natural language processing
Companies like Google use Federated Averaging techniques in its smartphone keyboard for text prediction. FL was applied in mobile keyboard next-word prediction. Federated averaging method was used to learn a variant of LSTM called Coupled Input and Forget Gate (CIFG). According to the researchers, the FL method can achieve better precision recall than the server-based training with log data.
For instance, companies like Apple use FL techniques and its variants like Federated Tuning (FT) on their products to carry out a combination of on-device computing as well as recommendations with user privacy. For Apple, applications around FE and FT occupy a large percentage of system usage. Federated evaluation (FE) occurs on user interaction history. This significantly reduces turn-around times when compared to live A/B experimentation. FE can help quickly identify the most promising ML system or model candidates before exposing end users to these candidates via live A/B experimentation.
For recommender systems
Federated collaborative filter method is popular with building recommendation systems. Based on a stochastic gradient approach, the item-factor matrix is trained in a global server by aggregating the local updates. The method is said to have no accuracy loss compared to the centralised method. In another method, a federated matrix factorisation framework is used. Here, Federated SGD is used to learn the matrices. Federated recommender system (FedRecSys) has implemented popular recommendation algorithms with SMC protocols. The algorithms include matrix factorisation, singular value decomposition(SVD), factorisation machine, and deep learning.
Though the local data are not exposed in FL, the exchanged model parameters may still leak sensitive information. Model inversion attacks and membership inference attacks etc can potentially infer the raw data by accessing the ML model. This is a major concern especially in domains such as healthcare.
Modern health systems require cooperation among research institutes, hospitals, and federal agencies. Moreover, in a pandemic like situation, collaborative research among countries is vital but not at the expense of privacy. FL makes the cooperation possible because it can ensure privacy. In a federation of healthcare, there is probably no central server. So, another challenging part is the design of a decentralised FLS, which should also be robust against malefactors. The privacy concern can be solved by additional mechanisms like secure multi-party computation and differential privacy. According to a survey on FLS by Li et al., explainability of the FL models is an open problem.
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