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Attorney Michael Schneider said Friday that Guzman and his lawyers look forward to addressing the drug-trafficking and other allegations against him in court. Schneider also suggests they’re also interested in exploring whether Guzman’s extradition was appropriate.
Guzman is charged with running a massive drug trafficking operation that laundered billions of dollars and oversaw murders and kidnappings. Through his court-appointed lawyers, he entered a not-guilty plea Friday in a Brooklyn federal court.
He’s being held without bail.
As the convicted leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Guzman has repeatedly been imprisoned and escaped in Mexico. U.S. authorities have pursued him for years.
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has made an appearance in a New York City courtroom, where a federal public defender entered a not-guilty plea for him.
A hush fell over the Brooklyn courtroom moments before Guzman entered Friday. He looked dazed and wore a dark blue T-shirt, dark blue pants and sneakers.
An indictment charges Guzman with running a massive drug trafficking operation that laundered billions of dollars and oversaw murders and kidnappings.
Guzman answered questions through an interpreter standing to his right and said he could understand the judge’s English.
Prosecutors agreed to not seek the death penalty as a condition of the extradition of Guzman, who’s the convicted leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
U.S. officials say they didn’t learn until Thursday that Mexico was extraditing drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
U.S. Attorney Robert Capers in New York says prosecutors weren’t aware it was going to happen but were nonetheless prepared for it.
Prosecutors agreed to not seek the death penalty as a condition of the extradition.
The U.S. is seeking a $14 billion forfeiture order as part of its prosecution.
The convicted leader of the Sinaloa cartel was awaiting an arraignment in Brooklyn. The case is a joint prosecution with the U.S. attorney in Miami.
Guzman’s lawyer says his extradition is politically motivated.
A U.S. attorney in New York says the government is seeking a $14 billion forfeiture order as part of its prosecution of the notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
The convicted leader of the Sinaloa cartel was brought into a Brooklyn courthouse Friday to await his arraignment.
U.S. Attorney Robert Capers spoke at a press conference about the joint prosecution with the U.S. attorney in Miami.
He likened the drug trafficking to a cancerous tumor that spread, leading to “misery” for legions of Americans.
Guzman has twice escaped from maximum-security Mexican prisons, most recently in 2015.
His lawyer says his Thursday extradition was politically motivated.
Notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is in a U.S. courthouse, two decades after he was first sought by federal authorities.
The convicted leader of the Sinaloa cartel was brought into a Brooklyn courthouse on Friday to await his appearance before a federal judge.
Guzman has twice escaped from maximum-security Mexican prisons, most recently in 2015 via a hole in the floor of his cell shower.
Now in his late 50s, Guzman was first indicted in Southern California in the early 1990s.
Notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will stand in a U.S. courtroom, two decades after he was first sought by federal authorities.
The convicted leader of the Sinaloa cartel is expected to appear in a Brooklyn federal courthouse Friday.
The brazen slip was highly embarrassing for the Mexican government. Guzman has fought extradition since his recapture last year.
His lawyer says his Thursday extradition was politically-motivated.

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Jennifer Hartmann is a copy editor and production editor for the Hachette Book Group. Based in Boulder, Colorado, her work involves supporting authors who publish non-fiction work in the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, political science, history, and health and wellness.
Welcome everyone to this Reedsy webinar. My name is Jennifer Hartmann. I am an Associate Project Editor at Hachette Book Group in Boulder. My background in editorial, I began working in academic publishing. I'm currently working at a big five trade publisher, but I started my editorial career in the acquisitions department at an academic publisher. I've always worked mainly in the fields of psychology, sociology, some anthropology, and health and wellness, which is really trendy right now. That is a booming topic. If you've Google information about writing nonfiction before you've probably found a lot online because there is a lot online. Today, I wanted to focus specifically on making nonfiction work readable and accessible.
I want to briefly go over what nonfiction is because there are lots of sub-genres within nonfiction that you perhaps might not be as familiar with.
We do include memoirs in nonfiction. Memoir, and autobiographies, and biographies are just stories that are true and that are told well, and they are very popular. But, historically, non-fiction has not been as popular as fiction. We've kind of associated non-fiction writing with boring textbooks and encyclopedias that non-fiction is becoming very popular. Big five publishers like Hachette, and HarperCollins, and Penguin Random House are very actively and enthusiastically seeking out non-fiction as much as they are literary fiction.
But I wanted to give a couple examples of some very successful nonfiction work.
This is an example of creative nonfiction. It's a great piece that was turned into a movie.
This has a gorgeous cover. This is a nonfiction book by Dave Cullen and the content alone is riveting because so many people are curious to pick up a book about tragic incidents so that we can learn from them so that we can increase our awareness. Books that deal something that's happened in our society are very popular. They require extensive research, but the audience always benefits greatly from the effort.
This is another example of fantastic narrative history. This book, I believe it was a runner up for the national book award a couple of years ago, and for a very good reason. Ibram Kendi did tonnes of research on this. This is a journey through a comprehensive history of anti-racist ideas — and like Columbine, books like this can start a collective social dialogue and they're just becoming more popular because of the speed and the ease with which we can communicate in today's modern world.
If you're working on a book right now, you may have this on your shelf. If you don't, this is a fantastic book to pick up. Do you want to learn how to write better? This book does exactly what it says it will do. It teaches you to become a better writer. And Anne Lamott is funny and witty and very knowledgeable.
This just came out within the last year or so. And my goodness, she is a riot. Authors who are funny really sell well. This is nonfiction at its most hysterical because she's a natural comedian. This is something to keep in mind and I'll touch on this a bit later, but humor can be a great tool to have in your nonfiction arsenal. If a reader picks up a book and they're laughing hard, they won't be able to put it back down.
This is another self-help book or self-empowerment book. And these are extremely popular today. This genre is arguably the biggest up and coming or rather has already arrived genre, a sub-genre within nonfiction. If you go to a Barnes & Noble you will find self-help books on the French shelves being marketed and advertised because they are selling Jen Sincero, also a very funny writer.
The quality of being legible or decipherable.
The quality of being easy or enjoyable to read.
So, readability is important. If you think back to middle school and high school, you might remember the textbooks that your teachers forced you to read; the ones you struggling to stay awake reading. Maybe they had errors in them that distracted you. Authors who self publish do benefit greatly by hiring multiple editors because we will help you to clean up the writing and make it readable. One thing that really hampers readability is typographical errors and lack of style.
It's vital for authors to have at least a working knowledge of grammar and of style. By far, the most common problem I encounter with new or less experienced authors is they're not fully aware of these basics. It's very true. Then, the editor's job is to help you clean up your writing, but the editors work is cut out for them if there are clunky sentences and typos and scattered areas. These really are quite preventable.
So, you can teach yourself a lot of these basics and save yourself some time and some money by reducing the number of errors in your work. Thankfully, an incredible style guide has been on the market for, I believe, nearly a century now. I believe that was published in 1920 that this is The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B White. It has absolutely stood the test of time and it's really the bread and butter of writing manuals.
Of all the books, I would recommend picking up Elements of Style, is number one. It's a very important book to have.
Tip number two, kind of a funny one, but a true one. You never want to frustrate your reader. Of course, typos and errors are frustrating, but these are not the only things that hinder readability. As you're writing or as your editing or as you're advising, think about some of these questions.
What are some things that bother you when you're reading a book? Again, think back to when you were a kid reading a text for school or perhaps think about a time when you started a book and you just couldn't bring yourself to finish it. What happened, what went wrong? These are absolutely things you can think about when writing and revising your own nonfiction.
Here are a few specific things that cause frustration. They may frustrate you. They definitely frustrated a lot of my peers who like to comment on books that they've read recently.
The first with long sentences. And not all long sentences are bad, but they can frustrate and exhaust your reader. It can be energy sapping to read sentence after sentence. If it's filled with commas and there's just too much going on or perhaps you're trying to make multiple points and you're squeezing in too much that you could cover in a different sentence or you could break them up into smaller sentences and just reading and saying that sentence aloud is making me winded. We don't want to do that to readers. It's not a readable thing in a book, having really, really long sentences. And short sentences are extremely effective.
Changing up sentence length will help you control the pace of your writing. And short sentences are also great for changing the topic or introducing an element of surprise.
Block text is another thing that can be exhausting for your reader. It can be overwhelming, so we want to break up big block text into smaller sections. I do say this to a lot of my authors on the front end, but a lot of them are really surprised that we can still take big paragraphs and cut them into smaller paragraphs and smaller paragraphs.
There's no such thing as a paragraph that's too small. A single sentence can serve as a paragraph and it can help you transition into different paragraphs. So, it really does help you to transition and more smoothly communicate your ideas.
My favorite thing that frustrates the reader: jargon.
These are words or expressions used by professionals, usually within academic publishing that's difficult for people to understand and nothing frustrates readers like not being able to understand what you're saying. And jargon does one of two things: it either intimidates your reader (the poor things) or it makes them question you. Both are to be avoided.
The reason is sometimes we use jargon and long words and long sentences because we aren't entirely confident about what it is we're saying. And this is normal. This is a totally human thing that we want other people that we know, people we don't know, people we will probably never know to think we're great and to think that we're awesome and competent. But we use jargon to convince people that were qualified to say the things we're saying and that's not needed. You are qualified. You have something to say. Just eliminate the jargon.
If you want to write well, don't talk like a law student unless you're writing for law students. Now that that horse has been fed, let's move on to the next subject, which is a little more subjective, but no less important I think.
This is a brief pep talk because we all need one sometimes, that be fearless when you write, and especially when you revise your writing. I say this because it can be really scary to write something down and then give it to someone else for them to read and critique. It's essentially like giving yourself to be edited. They're editing a piece of you and that is scary.
I've never worked with an author who was fully confident that all of their material was perfect. Most of them are very nervous about turning over their manuscripts because the writing isn't fully polished yet, and it can be better. Of course, I'm not saying to ignore grammar or elements of style, but also recognize that very few authors crank out a polished, bestselling novel on their first try. It just doesn't happen. While it's likely that you won't ever feel your writing is as perfect as it can be, the good news is that you have as many chances as you want and need to revise it and to make it better. And that's because writing is not a onetime performance. It's a long and winding road.
On this note, a book that I love to pass on to my authors who do just maybe need that little confidence boost is Brenda Ueland book, If You Want to Write. And I cannot tell you how many people have passed this specific book onto. It is marked up and eared and flagged. It's one of those books that has so much in it. Not just a pep talk, but things like tapping into your imagination, not being discouraged, finding your writing voice. And Brenda Ueland is just a master at communicating. Simply reading her writing is its own lesson in writing. So, after Elements of Style, this is a book that I would highly recommend that you pick up.
Tip number four to consider humor. William Zinsser says, "Humour is the secret weapon of the nonfiction writer," and I absolutely agree with that. If you start on your revision process and maybe you've cut jargon and you've cleaned up sentences and you still find that your book is missing something, consider humor. It's intrinsically entertaining and very few readers dislike being entertained. It's especially great because you don't have to a comedian to add humor to your writing. In fact, I know lots of authors who don't think of themselves as funny at all and they're often the same ones who write incredibly witty and entertaining prose.
It's true that some writers just happen. It's just easier for them. It just comes more naturally. Perhaps stand up could be a lucrative side hustle for them. That's not all of us. But it's something to consider. It can be a secret weapon. And Williams Zinsser's book On Writing Well also has lots of fantastic information on basics like word choice and sentence structure: tools that you can add to that arsenal.
As an editor, I'm asked very frequently what are some things, just give me a couple tools that I can use now, that I can use today that will help me make the writing process easier. Whether or not you've started writing, you've finished a book, you are barely thinking about starting a book, all of these things can benefit you. All of these quick hacks.
Reading out loud, it's an amazing thing to do. You catch more errors and you're just better able to locate sentences that drag out, maybe words that don't sound as good or that don't serve you. It helps you to step away from your writing and look at it in a different way. As an author, you may have experienced this agonizing thing where maybe you sit and you stare at a page for hours and you can't find out what needs to change or you can't pinpoint those areas that just need a little bit of extra work. Reading out loud breaks your routine, which is sometimes all you need to get out of that red.
I didn't mention this earlier, but this is a good thing to do too. A beta reader like a friend or a family member, a colleague, they can give you a new perspective as well if you don't feel ready to hire on a professional editor.
I love this one. Anne Lamott does this. So if Ann Lamott does it, then, of course, we should all do it. When you experience something and words pop into your head and you think that thought of, "Oh, I'll remember this later," only to get home and you've completely forgotten it. That's also agonizing.
And sometimes the harder you try to recreate that image or conjure those words, the more impossible it seems. So, don't lose that moment. Carry index cards with you or a notebook or pieces of paper. I used to have scrap paper around with me sometimes and I would just write on everything and put it all in the same little pocket of my purse and then dig them out and try and see if I could read them. But index cards are a good thing to have.
We get distracted easily. I don't know if it's just me, it's probably not. Lots of authors and editors and just people, in general, get distracted. We live in a world where information is coming at us quickly and sometimes it's best to just turn it all off and focus on your writing. I understand this is difficult to do. A lot of us have kids, we have family, but if you can step aside and take an hour or two for yourself on a weekly basis for some uninterrupted focus time, it's extremely beneficial. Those are my quick hacks.
Any questions or thoughts? Share them in the comments below.

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Vegan recipes, topics, & our travels.
One of my favorite foods is tacos. I just love them and when I became vegan I thought I would never enjoy another taco. I was so very wrong. In my search for some great vegan recipes I wondered about tacos. So into google I typed Vegan Tacos and was amazed at all the recipes that popped up. I came across this one and I just happened to have most of the ingredients in my fridge so I thought why not? Tom and I were absolutely blown away by all of the flavor. They were so easy to make and had lots of depth which have made these my go to tacos every since.
If you need a great taco recipe, hop on over to The Vegan Road and try out their Vegan Street Tacos.. you will not be sorry that you did.
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As many of you know, I am a busy mom of four little ones. All of my babies were breastfed for at least a year and I absolutely LOVE breastfeeding. Most, if not all of my babies were also very distracted babies when it was time to eat and it was always a challenge to nurse discreetly at times. I remember I was on an airplane with my first baby and I would nurse during take-offs and landings to keep her ears from hurting. Well, I always nurse with a cover on when in public and my Hannah hated to be covered. Being that she was my first baby, I wasn't too handy with a cover and how to hang onto it and, well, lets just say she flashed the passengers behind us. HAHA! It was quite an embarrassing moment for me, but one that I can now look back on and laugh about. I am a bit more seasoned now that I have nursed a few more babies and am pretty good at keeping a nursing cover on a baby who is flailing their arms around. It's challenging, but not as difficult as it used to be.
Created in 2005, Mommy Necklaces is the original line of jewelry inspired by motherhood. Born out of the frustration shared by countless mothers in breastfeeding, the company began with a simple observation; A bright, engaging necklace could make a difference in focusing a distracted baby.
Since the creation of the first necklace, two principles have guided our product lines. First, the necklaces must be safe and durable. Able to withstand the pulling and twiddling of feeding time. Mommy Necklaces include durable cording, non-toxic beads and a patterned closure that is designed for even the most determined baby.
Second, we are keenly aware that early motherhood is a beautiful, wonderful time that is cherished by many women around the world. However, it can also be a time when it is easy to lose yourself and your sense of beauty and style. While safe and functional, all Mommy Necklaces are created by moms who understand that you are still a beautiful, passionate, inspiring woman in addition to being a mom.
Today, Mommy Necklaces are found on dressers around the world. And while originally designed for breastfeeding mothers, they have become so much more to so many women. Whatever your style, season in life, or mood, we invite you to discover why Mommy Necklaces IS jewelry, justified.
I had a hand-painted nursing necklace given to me when my second baby was born and I loved it. The only issue I had with it was that anytime it got near my son's mouth, the paint would come off onto his face. It was totally safe and non-toxic but still, he would have a blue, green and purple face after playing with my necklace. I hated the mess, but loved the concept of a necklace for my little one to play with while nursing.
So, for this review I chose to receive Dangling Donut Strand and I chose the Promise design. They also sent me a lovely blue Teether Donut add-on. I love this!! This design is one of many and contains some beautiful, bright colors.
Have you ever worn a necklace only to have a baby pull on it and it breaks? It has happened to me and I don't typically wear necklaces when I have babies. I have lovely necklaces, but am too afraid of them breaking. Well, this is one of the reasons I love this particular brand of mommy necklaces. These necklaces are designed with a custom break-away closure that will automatically break away if pulled too hard. This way, the necklace itself won't break but the clasp will open.
The Dangling Donut Strands come with a donut pendant that can be changed out if you want a different color or design. I absolutely LOVE the teether pendant. It is the perfect texture for my little teething 7 month old. She puts everything into her mouth and this is something that she can play with while I hold and nurse her.
The reason I chose the Promise design was because my babies have always loved brightly colored objects and the beads on this necklace are so bright and colorful. All the beads that are used in the Mommy Necklaces are made in the USA, are non-toxic and are tested for lead and other heavy metals. This isn't your typical costume jewelry, moms. These are high-quality pieces of jewelry that will withstand motherhood like no other. Designed by moms---for moms, they are amazing.
So, if you would like to check out this and other lovely necklaces, bracelets and other accessories, be sure to visit Mommy Necklaces. They have just about every color you can imagine and they can cater to even the pickiest of jewelry wearers.
This necklace has helped my busy little breastfeeder be less distracted and she just loves the teether donut. It has also helped her to not pinch me so much while feeding...her little fingers hurt sooo bad sometimes! I wore my Mommy Necklace to church today and baby Rebekah played with it the entire time. People were complimenting on the beautiful colors of the necklace too and when they found out that it was specifically for the baby, they were so impressed! I would definitely recommend this company to any mom out there who needs a distraction for their baby, whether it be during nursing/feeding time or just for an outing. They are great for anytime!
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I love the blue accent nourish necklace. It is really pretty and an ingenious idea.
I like both 'Cheer' and 'Gloss' a lot!
I like Epic. I think it is pretty. All are cute though.
I like the "Cheer" one.

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It’s hard to believe, but May 26, 2011 marks 10 years of marriage for my wife and I. I remember our wedding day as if it happened just an hour ago and it’s hard to fathom that the next 10 years may pass as quickly. 10 years ago, we were in our twenties, and one of us had more hair than he has now. 10 years ago we had no kids, and today we have a 4 year old, a 2 year old, and a 9 month old, and a 6-year old Yellow Lab. 10 years ago my mom was still alive, and today she’s in a better place. One thing that has NOT changed in the past 10 years though is my Chevelle (well, up until about 2 months ago because now she’s in a billion pieces and on her way to becoming a Pro Touring holy terror).
The morning of Saturday May 26, 2001 was rainy, and it was a challenge to keep the Chevelle clean. I stored it overnight in my mother-in-law’s garage to keep it out of the major storms, mainly because the trunk leaked (a lot). Her house is older and had a really narrow and tight garage. It just fit. I remember dragging the headers while backing out.
Laura arrived at the church before I did, so I ate breakfast with my buddies, gassed up the car, and then gave the keys to my brother-in-law to be Greg. It would be his job to pull the car around front for our church exit and to keep my buddies from doing anything too stupid while decorating it. I’m not a fan of the pepper-in-the-sun-visor trick, the pull-all-the-plug-wires trick, of the remove-all-of-the-lug-nuts trick. Greg did a great job, and so did my buddies. I assume that my dad supervised. The Chevelle was done up well with cardinal and gold streamers, our college colors, paper bags, beer cans (and one Diet Coke can), and shoe polish on the windows that had run a little bit in the rain. All was ready for my bride.
Watching the video of this event really makes me smile. First, my wife looks beautiful, and what’s extra cool is she looks exactly the same today. The sun was shining, and the red interior and her white dress were a perfect contrast. All of our friends and family came – and seeing them all again brings back a flood of fun memories. After I put Laura in the Chevelle and closed the door I heard my mom yelling at my buddy Shag (don’t ask) to open the door so someone could get a picture of her. In the video she’s the woman helping Laura into the Chevelle and yells “YEE-HA” at the end. It always makes me glad to see my mom again and to hear her voice, and hearing her yell, even a happy yell, was something I was used to. She sang at our wedding and even played the processional organ pieces.
When it was my turn to get in the Chevelle I did so Duke-Boy style – while wearing a tux. I don’t know why I did it, but I still think it was a cool move. Then I fired up and we headed out to leave….except I wanted to have a memorable exit. I was thinking of a burnout of some kind but didn’t want to do something huge like a brake stand and blow the driveshaft. That would kill the cool factor in a hurry. I decided just to dump the clutch and make some noise. I didn’t like my position when we left, so I backed up to get a better run. My buddies, without any discussion ahead of time, were already out in the street blocking traffic. God bless them all.
The rest is history. Laura was just cranking her window down when the tires lit and waved as we left. Since then there have been a lot of ups and downs, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m sure 10 years from now we’ll be driving the same white Chevelle, and maybe we’ll take the kids to Hwy 63 in Oskaloosa, IA and do another burnout in front of the Methodist Church to celebrate. I can’t wait!
By the way, if you’re my wife and you’re reading this, know that I love you. Happy Anniversary! Thanks for letting me chase my dreams. If you’re not my wife, just skip this part.
I love you. Thanks for the best 10 years.
Great story and congrats on 10 years! You have my sympathy regarding your comment of “one of us used to have more hair”…I am in the same boat my friend.
Great story and a great exit.


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text: Pistis Sophia is an important Gnostic text. It relates the Gnostic teachings of the transfigured Jesus to the assembled disciples including his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Martha. Pisti Sophia recounts that Jesus remained on earth after the resurrection for 11 years. In it the complex structures and hierarchies of heaven familiar in Gnostic teachings are revealed.


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The referees all around the world have appreciated FIFA’s decision of implementing goal-line technology in the football matches being played these days.
In the recently played Confederations Cup, the referees had the luxury of using this technology, but, they didn’t need that. All the 68 goals scored in the tournament were clear.
This technology will be used in the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil as well.
Webb has a huge refereeing experience. He has been in this field since the last 20 years. He has refereed matches in all the big competitions including the Premier League, Champions League, World Cup and Euro Championships.
In the final match of the 2010 World Cup which was played between Spain and Holland, it was Webb who was the referee. He has been selected again for the 2014 World Cup finals.
Webb officiated a few matches in the recently played Confederations Cup as well which was played in Brazil. The host nation ended up winning it.

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Robin just posted our PR Shopping Day schedule on her blog (on August 28th). Check it out and join us! I am still in shock that I was able to get Elliott Berman to open for us on a Saturday.
I’m looking forward to meeting everyone Thanks to you and Robin for arranging this.
Wow, cool! I never thought I would be able to get to EB. Thanks for all the work you are putting into this.
Well you’ll have to do this one without me- and it hurts so much to have to say that. Think of me when you fondle beautiful fabric please!
I may have to go hit a local starbucks followed by some self indulgent fabric shopping just to stop myself sulking that I won’t be there. Sounds like a fun day!
Wow, the envy! (A choice of fabric stores? FRIENDS to fabric-shop with?) Have fun!
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When the myFutureNC Commission set out its plan to develop educational attainment goals for all education systems in North Carolina, it made a point of saying the goals must be “evidence-based.” With its strong network of public and private research universities, our state has access to some of the nation’s best evidence on what works to improve student success. The challenge is how to capitalize on this trove of knowledge and share it in order to break down barriers between research, teaching, and public engagement. Here are two brief examples to illustrate what I mean.
Since 1999, scholars at the Center for Child and Family Policy (CCFP) in Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy have been studying education policy issues such as achievement gaps, school segregation, and academic redshirting. Many of their studies rely on the N.C. Education Research Data Center. Through a partnership with the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the data center at CCFP gives scholars access to an immense quantity of longitudinal data on N.C. public schools, students and teachers.
One such study addresses the optimal time to provide algebra instruction. Knowing – from previous research – that students who complete a math course beyond Algebra II are more than twice as likely to earn a college degree, many schools accelerated the math schedule. Algebra I was often offered to all students in eighth grade rather than ninth, and some could begin as early as seventh grade.
The intentions were good, but what does the research show? In a nutshell, it shows that what is good for higher-achieving students is harmful for lower-achieving students. In some districts, such as in San Francisco, the early Algebra wave has receded — but not without cries of alarm from parents of high achievers. Even when the evidence is clear, structural, practical, and political barriers can hold back progress.
Another example: reading instruction. The National Council on Teacher Quality found that fewer than 4 in 10 teacher preparation programs taught the components of reading instruction that research has shown to be most effective. Slow adoption is part of the problem, and so is active resistance.
These brief stories illustrate the challenges of using evidence effectively. Science is iterative; new studies build on, or call into question, earlier ones. Institutional inertia slows the adoption of best practices. Building consensus takes time and negotiation. The imperative for policy schools such as ours, then, is to develop ongoing dialogues with educators and with policymakers. The myFutureNC Commission recognized the importance of such dialogue when it embarked on a nine-city listening tour across the state, acknowledging that we must work to identify what challenges are faced by individual communities, and what solutions may best fit their unique needs.
The Sanford School has renewed its longstanding commitment to maintaining this critical two-way street. One avenue is the Policy Bridge initiative. We are actively working to share Duke’s scholarly research with policymakers and influencers in a format that is relevant and efficient. At the same time, we want to ensure that the real-world knowledge and needs of these partners informs and strengthens our research.
Do you have ideas on how we can strengthen our connections? I’d like to hear them. Please drop me a line.
Judith Kelley is Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
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We offer a spare key service for Rover P5B.
At our workshop we offer a comprehensive spare car key service for Rover P5B, offering both genuine dealerkeys and our own brand keys for Rover P5B. Just call our workshop to arrange an appointment, have a seat in our waiting area and we will have your spare key ready in no time. For your Rover P5B we can offer a genuine remote key or a more cost effective key with no locking feature at a lower cost; this key will open and start your vehicle but it will not have the remote functionality, but is less expensive.
We can call to any make of vehicle, even your Rover P5B, to create keys in a lost key situation. Call our workshop today for a quotation as prices do vary depending on the location, year and make of the vehicle.
We offer a full engine management fault finding service for your Rover P5B. At AutoKey, we only hire the best technicians in the country, with unparalleled knowledge on engine management systems.
We offer a repair service on a wide variety of ABS modules including your Rover P5B.
We offer an immobiliser repair service for all vehicles, including your Rover P5B.
We are very familiar with problems on electronic steering locks and can deal with your problem promptly and effectively. The movement of your Rover will be restricted with a steering lock problem and we may have to recover your Rover P5B and bring it to our workshop to complete the repairs. We can assist you at the roadside in most cases, however if your vehicle needs to be recovered, we have our own Recovery Vehicle and can have your Rover P5B brought to our Repair Centre on the Naas Road if necessary.
We repair any problem you may have with your instrument cluster: illumination problems are a common fault. We have fantastic capabilities repairing these modules due to the fact that we have bench rigs made for almost all models that have common failures. We can simulate any condition on a vehicle’s cluster without the vehicle being present, however after some repairs we may need to recode the cluster and would need your Rover P5B to be brought in to our Repair Centre.
At Autokey we can repair or re-condition all types of problems with ECU’s for Rover P5B.

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I am not a permissive parent. You probably could guess that about me. There aren’t a lot of sweets, the kids pick up after themselves, and bedtime is a pretty regular routine.
Even though I am glad for the routine and structure, sometimes I worry. Should my role as a stepmom be less of a parent and more of a friendly aunt type? Do they see me just as an enforcer of rules and a driver to activities and maker of school lunches? Do they think I’m fun?
In our house we talk a lot about how people are good at different things. Ana is a great runner. Dad is a great referee. Yoseph is good at Legos. And when you ask the kids what I am good at, they say cleaning. Ouch.
Though true, it’s a little sad. I’m not good at sports. I am good at organizing closets. I’m not good at painting or drawing. I am a good public speaker, but they don’t know that (nor would they care at this point in their lives). I am also excellent at sarcasm, something they will not appreciate as teenagers, I am sure.
So in my moments of insecurity as a stepmom, I reflect on the fact that the kids think of me as someone who cleans the house, makes meals, keeps clothes clean, but may not be particularly fun. Of course, someday they’ll look back and know that these acts of service were a way of showing how much I love them. It took me until about age 19 to begin to appreciate all that my mom did for me (sorry, Mom).
So until those days come, I’m going to make sure that the structure is tempered with some fun activities.
Structure is good–but so is fun. So 2017 will be the year we find a better balance of that in our house!
I saw this great idea for a Reverse Advent routine, where instead of opening a little gift in anticipation of Christmas, you donate a food item from your pantry every day. You gather them into a box and then donate to a food pantry to help feed the hungry. With my love of an unseasonably early Christmas, we have had Advent calendars since October (if not September), Disney Tsum Tsums for Ana and Star Wars Lego for Yoseph. But this seemed like a great idea to keep the kids (and me and Tim) sensitive to the fact that we have so much and should be giving back. So I made a stop at Aldi this week and stocked up on canned veggies, macaroni and cheese, and other staples. I wrapped an Amazon box in Disney Christmas paper and was feeling generous and, truth be told, a little smug.
When I introduced this idea to the kids on Friday, December 2, they warmed to it immediately. Just as they got to open two days of Advent surprises for 12/1 and 12/2, Yoseph suggested we donate both a healthy item and a delicious snack for the two days of Advent to our food for the hungry box. My heart was bursting with pride.
Though Fergus has been a member of our family for a few months, I haven’t shared the story of how he arrived.
Tim had long been ready to add a furry member to our family, but I was reluctant. I knew I would eventually relent and confronted with a summer in which I had more free time than usual, the idea started to take root. It was solidified one weekend after I sat down to pay the bills.
While going through bills and paperwork, I realized that I had not yet tithed on a chunk of money we earned through side work. I sighed as I realized how much this would tax our budget that month. But we have made a commitment to pay God first, and so, even when it looks like money will be tighter than usual, that’s what we do.
I scheduled our payments and realized I must have missed something. After double and triple checking my math, we had more money left than we were supposed to have. Maybe you will want to call this an accounting error; I don’t. I manage our budget and bills monthly and this has never happened. I believe God showed Himself faithful to us that month (July) to encourage us in the midst of my unemployment. And we had the exact amount that we had been discussing it would take to adopt a dog.
“Get in the car, and you’ll find out,” teased Tim.
So pile in, we did. And we headed toward the Indiana State Fairgrounds, where a pet adoption fair was being held that day. There was a large sign near the parking lot that used the word “Adoption”. We asked the kids if they had figured out where we were going because of signs they could read.
“Well, what would we adopt?” asked Tim.
“A baby?” she answered uncertainly.
“A DOG?” And all hell broke loose. There was screaming and shrieking and high-pitched squealing. Suffice to say, we got the reaction for which we had hoped.
Long story short, we needed a dog that was less likely to trigger my allergies. Unfortunately we didn’t find one that day, despite two more stops around town and many sobs from Yoseph.
In the week following, after much searching and not much luck, I shared our challenge with a good friend who recommended Natalie’s Second Chance in Lafayette. That night, I analyzed their posts on Facebook and found two possibilities for us–so we made the 90 minute drive. One of our challenges was that I would have loved to have a 6-7# dog and Tim would have loved to have a 60-70# dog. But when we met Fergus that evening, Tim was willing to compromise to this 20# miniature schnauzer, ten years old, with almost all of his teeth pulled and a food allergy. I know the staff at the shelter were happy he had a new home, but it made us teary to see how THEY got teary saying good-bye to him!
So we took our new addition home and honestly, he settled in quite well. He had a few days with just us before the kids came home. And well, the rest is history!
Our narrative leading up and in the days following the dog’s adoption was that we did it for the kids. But had I known how happy it would make this guy, I promise, I would have done it sooner.
The dog and I have our days. But the kids are learning lots about responsibility. And even though my house sometimes smells like wet dog, it was the right decision.
I will totally accept Claire’s declaration as a 9 year old that I am young. Yes. Game on.
Tim and the kids made me feel incredibly special over the span of several days. And though I cherish the beautiful flowers, jewelry, desserts, and gifts they treated me to, I keep thinking about a line my mom wrote in my card.
Whoa. That is a word that has never been associated with me in my entire life.
Even today, over a week later, I found myself reflecting on these words. I reflected on these words as I tried to straighten a pile of papers on the kitchen counter that, despite my best effort, never seem to disappear. I contemplated mellowness when I spotted smeared poop on the kids’ toilet seat and was too exhausted/over it to wipe it up. I wondered if it was being mellow that caused me not to freak out about walking on crumbs on the kitchen floor despite daily sweepings. I craved mellowness when Tim and I stripped the bed at 6am because Yoseph spit up medicine in his stubborn refusal to swallow it because it didn’t taste like bubble gum. I assume it is this newly found mellowness that kept me from a breakdown when the entire day’s plan was derailed by a 6 year old who couldn’t decide if his stomach hurt for real and a stepmom who wasn’t willing to risk it.
I know that by any definition, I will never be flexible or laid-back. But reflecting on my mom’s word–on her compliment–I realized that I am more mellow than I was. I ran a super tight ship as a single woman who lived alone and answered to no one. And, truth be told, I still run a pretty tight ship and I am blessed, BLESSED beyond measure to have a husband who embraces this about me instead of fighting it. And due to his grace, unconditional love, and flexibility and the grace of God, I’m learning to soften, to deal better with the unexpected, and dare I say, to become more mellow.
While practicing sight words this week, Yoseph struggled with the difference between “went” and “want”. His Gammy, Tim’s mom Dolly, suggested the following sentence as he was trying to sound out “want”.


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Durability-engineered to give dependable and longer trouble-free performance.
Cost effective-They are priced lower than draperies and other types of window coverings.
The raw materials and motor are imported from US and Europe.


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The image-hosting site's native ads boast high engagement rates thanks to the shareability of visual content.
Imgur’s native ads get between a one and four percent engagement rate, reports Adweek. That is three to 13 times more engagement than a Facebook page with a million fans.
The image-hosting site, which launched an analytics tool earlier this year, is a perfect platform for marketers thanks to the shareability of visual content.
According to Alexa, Imgur is currently the 21st highest-trafficked site in the U.S. The average visitor spends over five minutes on the site, with the largest share of users coming in from Reddit.
So far, the platform has run native advertising campaigns for Fox’s Let’s Be Cops, Anchorman 2 and General Electric.
Imgur’s coo Matt Strader believes that what makes its native images engaging is that Imgur is set up so that its albums naturally tell a story, except they use pictures instead of words. “From a native advertising aspect, the essence of that experience works great on the Web and great with mobile—and the impact just grows more and more over time,” he stated.

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What’s your smoking status and how often do you consume alcoholic beverages? Those are just two of the questions on an online calculator that will put a number on your life expectancy, and on the amount of time you might expect to spend in hospital. On a more positive note, kit will also tell you what is the largest risk factor you can change. This iss part of a project from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa that found nearly one of every three days Ontarians spent in a hospital bed could be attributed to smoking, physical inactivity, poor diet and unhealthy alcohol consumption.
It found that men with all four bad habits end up in hospital about 25 years earlier than men with none of them. For women, the gap is 20 years. Here’s lead author Dr. Doug Manuel.
While other studies have looked at the impact of these behaviours individually, this is the first time they have been assessed as a group. And there’s also a big cost to the system – 1.8 billion dollars a year. To see what the calculator says about your lifestyle, go to projectbiglife.ca .

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Bar looks aft over the wake of the ship.
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Convicted US whistleblower Chelsea Manning could have her visa application denied by the Morrison government just days before her speaking tour is due to start.
Ms Manning, a former army intelligence analyst best-known for leaking classified military and diplomatic documents, is scheduled to start her Australian speaking tour in Sydney on September 2.
The government is reportedly considering refusing entry to Ms Manning - who was released from military prison in 2017 - under s501 of the Migration Act, according to media reports.
The Department of Home Affairs says it does not comment on individual cases but all non-citizens entering Australia must meet character requirements set out in the Migration Act.
"A person can fail the character test for a number of reasons, including but not limited to where a non-citizen has a substantial criminal record or where their conduct represents a risk to the Australian community," a department spokesman told AAP in a statement.
Ms Manning is also facing calls to be barred from New Zealand with the centre-right National Party urging the government to decline her visa request, saying she was a "felon".
The transgender activist is due to speak in Melbourne on September 7, Auckland on September 8, Wellington on September 9 and Brisbane on September 11.


text: It's 90's Night at 20 Mile Tap House! Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with 90's Til Dawn, Denver's premier 90's cover band, as they rock your favorite hits from 8:30pm until 12:30AM. Show off your best moves during our 90's Dance contest at 9:30pm. Come dressed in your best 90's garb and compete in our 90's costume contest at 11:00pm.


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I like to look for tea shops on my travels. When returning from London my suitcase was filled with tea from Fortnum & Mason! But what I hadn’t realized is that we have some quite wonderful tea shops right here in Helsinki.
The Ounce has two shops/cafés in the city center. One near Kamppi on Fredrikinkatu and the other on Iso-Roobertinkatu. You will recognize the shop by Sir Edward in the window sipping his tea.
Inside, you will find many different flavors to choose from – anything from white tea to oolong. I am quite obsessed with black tea, so I had no eyes for any other sorts of tea.
The service was nice and friendly, so do have a chat while choosing your tea. Upholding British traditions, the shop uses ounces to measure the tea. The decor reminds you of 1800’s England.
It’s very cosy inside and you can stay for a pot of tea.
I was in a rush to go meet friends for dinner, so I bought three different black teas to taste at home. Interesting fact – The Ounce has a shop in St. Petersburg too!
What better way to enjoy my new tea than make some scones? Aren’t these little paper bags cute?
Heat oven to 220°C. Stir flour, baking powder, sugar and salt together in a bowl. Add butter which has been cut up into small pieces and rub it in with your fingers. Add sugar. Add milk gradually whilst stirring until you have a firm dough. Now roll the dough into a kind of stick. Then proceed to cut the stick into 10-12 pieces. Put the pieces onto the cookie sheet circle side up, so that when the dough rises in the oven, it will become a round scone. Bake for around 12 minutes.
Enjoy with jam and cream. No clotted cream for me thanks!
Do you prefer tea or coffee? What kind of tea do you like? What are your favourite scone toppings?
Love this post! The Ounce looks so quaint and cozy, I will check it out when I am in Helsinki. I drink both coffee and black tea, but anything tastes wonderful from a Moomin cup!
What a delightful discovery! I’m a coffee person myself, but am always open to trying a new type of tea.
As a Londoner I love a good cup of tea – the Ounce looks like the perfect place for it. Love the cute little paper bags.
Hi Miriam! Thank you for visiting 🙂 Oh you are lucky to live in London with all the lovely afternoon tea places. In Helsinki we only have two for afternoon tea!
What a lovely cafe! I wish that I had read your post before we went to Helsinki. I stayed with a friend in Espoo over Easter and I was delighted to discover that she (like me) starts the day with a cup of Earl Grey tea (by Clipper). She also served us delicious green tea from Tajikistan and gave us a bag to take home with us. I have to say that we also had lovely coffee with her, including coffee that we made on a campfire in Väärälampi. I’m definitely impressed!
Lovely. I have changed coffee to tea last year. Thus, I will remember this. Thank You.
I think many Finns are finding the joy of tea these days! We are not just coffee drinkers anymore 🙂 Wishing you a great day!
I prefer coffee, especially here in Italy, where it is excellent.
Hi, this looks like a delightful place to visit for a nice tea. I hope you enjoy your Fortnum & Mason tea, Chloe.
I’m a green tea drinker 🙂 I’ve been to The Ounce once, though, (Fredrikinkatu) and the decor was just great. Felt like I was in the 1800’s. Have you tried Théhuone on Eerikinkatu? I haven’t…yet.
Thehuone looks really nice from the outside but I haven’t tried it yet. Thanks for reminding me 🙂 They sell really gorgeous tea pots as well!
I enjoy both tea and coffee, tea mid afternoon and at bedtime and coffee at breakfast, mid morning and after dinner. As for scones, I love clotted cream on them but whipped cream is almost as nice. I always spread the jam on first. I sometimes bake scones as they are quick and easy but more often I buy them from the bakers!! Hope you got some nice Fazer or Lindt Easter Eggs yesterday!!


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Chris served honorably in the U.S. Army from 2006 to 2015. His MOS was 27D (Paralegal). Most of his experience was in Legal Assistance, and served as the sole paralegal for a Combat Support Hospital (CSH) for two years.
He came to the Lord in 2011. Since then he has done street preaching at the Alamo (San Antonio, Texas) and currently serves as the audio/visual technician and is the church librarian for Grace Christian Fellowship in Queen Creek, AZ. He’s a member in good standing with the National Certified Chaplain Association.


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Riding on SMAC, CESC has gone from a company submerged in legacy to a completely digital one in just a year. Here’s how the company transformed.
The Victoria House in Kolkata’s Chowringhee Square is a marvel that’s steeped in history. The building is home to CESC (Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation) since 1933. Set up by the British in 1897, the company, now a part of the SP-Goenka Group, is over a 100 years old.
Everything about CESC dates back a century—or so. For any company, that’s a milestone.
But in the IT world, too much history isn’t a virtue. It spells that nasty word that modern day CIOs dread: Legacy.
Legacy systems are like a loathsome set of tattered hand-me-downs that CIOs don’t want. But one CIO is taking that challenge head-on.
Debashis Roy, VP-IT, CESC, along with his IT team, has created a digital strategy that has transformed the company from an organization submerged in legacy systems to one that’s sailing with the power of digitization.
“We are a 100-year-old power utility in the private sector. We are in the business of generation and distribution of electricity. In the last couple of years, we have started focusing extensively on customer-centricity. From this evolved our digital strategy,” says Roy.
He started off by revamping the company’s corporate website. CESC has six brick and mortar regional offices. “We changed the look and feel of our website and positioned it as our 24x7 virtual regional office,” he says. That isn’t a minor tweak, it actually kicked off CESC’s digital journey.
For starters, a digital strategy could just mean going mobile. But Roy believes in aiming high. While most CIOs are just talking about SMAC (social media, mobility, analytics and cloud), Roy has gone ahead and made SMAC the foundation of CESC’s digital strategy.
SMAC has a zing to it. It sounds like those yuppie, new, things that are contagious. But one element of the SMAC stack is more infectious than others: Mobility.
Roy realized that and figured that mobility, along with other technologies in the SMAC stack, will help the company get closer to its goal of ensuring customer-centricity and delight. To do that, instead of taking the beaten track of outsourcing mobile app development, Roy took the bold move of building mobile apps in-house.
Not many companies take that route due to a lack of skill sets and the complexity involved in building mobile apps. But Roy had faith in his large team and training them would take care of that. “We have a large IT team, with over 60 people. We trained some of our people and built the apps,” says Roy.
Roy and his team built two types of apps: Employee-facing and customer-facing. The consumer app provides customers with the same functionality that’s available on the company’s website. “From the app, customers can avail all the services that they expect from a power utility company, like, pay electricity bill, change address or names etcetera from the comfort of their homes,” says Roy. The app, launched last year, was the first mobile app from the house of a power distribution company in India. The app has already been downloaded by over 10,000 consumers from the Google Play Store alone.
But what’s more interesting is CESC’s employee-facing app. The company’s billing cycle is monthly. Every month, 30 lakh meters need to be read. Meter readers used to carry bulky meter reading books and go to the consumer’s premises to read meters. “We have done away with those bulky meter reading books. Now we have smart tabs that have mobile apps. These apps help them read meters,” says Roy.
Now, meter readers take smart tabs and go to the consumer’s premises and invoke the mobile app. Once the app is opened, the master—that has customer information and history—is loaded. What’s fascinating about the app is that meter readers have an option of either keying the amount of units consumed or send a voice command to the smart tab. “For example, if the reading is 4096, he just has to say ‘4096’ and it goes directly to the server via GPRS. And the server immediately generates the bill,” says Roy.
This has improved the meter-to-cash cycle, which is crucial for any power utility, in terms of efficiency, productivity and accuracy. Both apps can be downloaded from the company’s website and is also available in the app stores on Android, iOS and Windows.
But that was just the beginning of CESC’s digital journey.
The next stop in the company’s digital journey was social media. Savvy companies have realized that being on social media is not just about getting on the bandwagon but reaching customers and making your presence felt.
To do that, Roy and his team have built a company-specific Facebook page and a Twitter handle. They encourage their consumers to visit the page and express what they think about CESC’s services. To keep consumer interest alive, CESC also introduces contests. “We also launch exciting contests. A lot of consumers come and participate. We pick and react to these conversations,” says Roy.
He says the company has created a dedicated team to monitor social media activity. It has introduced a CDO (Chief Digital Officer) and a call center that’s taking care of all social media conversations.
But what about analyzing all that data? No digital journey is complete without analytics. And CESC is not leaving that out. Roy says the company is collecting real-time data on the field and analyzing it. This helps CESC understand consumers’ power usage patterns, among other things. This also helps them cater to its customer needs better. And all that is running on a private cloud.
And with that, the company’s digital strategy has ticked all the boxes in the SMAC stack.
The company’s digitization story was so impressive that it won the Digitizing India Award, instituted by CISCO and NDTV under the category New Age Service Provider of the Year. Over 300 companies had applied for the award.
Now that’s something. At a time when most organizations are struggling to wrap their minds around SMAC, CESC has already implemented the entire stack and is reaping benefits.
Roy’s advice to CIOs struggling with SMAC? “These are exciting times for people who are adopting digital technologies. It just takes these organizations to another level. Organizations that don’t embrace digitization would become extinct,” says Roy.

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centerofmass(label, pos, boxsize[, comm]) Calulate the center of mass of particles of the same label.
count(label[, comm]) Count the number of particles of the same label.
fof(source, linking_length, comm, periodic, …) Run Friends-of-friends halo finder.
fof_find_peaks(source, label, comm[, …]) Find position of the peak (maximum) from a given column for a fof result.
FOF(source, linking_length, nmin[, …]) A friends-of-friends halo finder that computes the label for each particle, denoting which halo it belongs to.
A friends-of-friends halo finder that computes the label for each particle, denoting which halo it belongs to.
Friends-of-friends was first used by Davis et al 1985 to define halos in hierachical structure formation of cosmological simulations. The algorithm is also known as DBSCAN in computer science. The subroutine here implements a parallel version of the FOF.
The underlying local FOF algorithm is from kdcount.cluster, which is an adaptation of the implementation in Volker Springel’s Gadget and Martin White’s PM.
For returning a CatalogSource of the FOF halos, see find_features() and for computing a halo catalog with added analytic information for a specific redshift and cosmology, see to_halos().
find_features([peakcolumn]) Based on the particle labels, identify the groups, and return the center-of-mass CMPosition, CMVelocity, and Length of each feature.
run() Run the FOF algorithm.
to_halos(particle_mass, cosmo, redshift[, …]) Return a HaloCatalog, holding the center-of-mass position and velocity of each FOF halo, as well as the properly scaled mass, for a given cosmology and redshift.
Based on the particle labels, identify the groups, and return the center-of-mass CMPosition, CMVelocity, and Length of each feature.
If a peakcolumn is given, the PeakPosition and PeakVelocity is also calculated for the particle at the peak value of the column.
Data is scattered evenly across all ranks.
The labels array is scattered evenly across all ranks.
Return a HaloCatalog, holding the center-of-mass position and velocity of each FOF halo, as well as the properly scaled mass, for a given cosmology and redshift.
The returned catalog also has default analytic prescriptions for halo radius and concentration.
The data is scattered evenly across all ranks.
peakcolumn (str , optional) – when posdef is ‘peak’, this is the column in source for identifying particles at the peak for the position and velocity.
Calulate the center of mass of particles of the same label.
The center of mass is defined as the mean of positions of particles, but care has to be taken regarding to the periodic boundary.
This is a collective operation, and after the call, all ranks will have the position of halos.
pos (array_like (float, 3)) – position of particles.
boxsize (float or None) – size of the periodic box, or None if no periodic boundary is assumed.
comm (MPI.Comm) – communicator for the collective operation.
hpos – the center of mass position of the halos.
Count the number of particles of the same label.
This is a collective operation, and after the call, all ranks will have the particle count.
labels (array_like) – the label of objects, starting from 0.
The underlying local FOF algorithm is from kdcount.cluster , which is an adaptation of the implementation in Volker Springel’s Gadget and Martin White’s PM. It could have been done faster.
linking_length (float) – linking length in data units. (Usually Mpc/h).
comm (MPI.Comm) – The mpi communicator.
minid – A unique label of each position. The label is not ranged from 0.
catalog – A 1-d array of type ‘Position’, ‘Velocity’, ‘Length’. The center mass position and velocity of the FOF halo, and Length is the number of particles in a halo. The catalog is sorted such that the most massive halo is first. catalog does not correspond to any halo.
Find position of the peak (maximum) from a given column for a fof result.

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ZTE, Huawei: Can China ever become a true innovation powerhouse? A Future Tense event.
Will China’s Scientists and Technologists Ever Be Truly Innovative?
From left: Adam Segal, Denis Simon, Yifei Sun, and Steve LeVine.
Just this week, a House of Representatives committee issued a report warning the United States against doing business with two major Chinese tech firms, ZTE and Huawei. The companies were closely tied to the Chinese government, the report said, and could be stealing information from the U.S. government and American businesses.
In opening remarks, Steve LeVine, Washington correspondent for Quartz magazine and a Bernard L. Schwartz fellow, established the questions for the day: Can China ever become an “innovation juggernaut,” just as it is a world leader in manufacturing? Does “innovation” have to mean breakthroughs, or is incremental innovation—small tweaks on Western-made technology to make it cheaper and sometimes better—enough? And should the rest of the world be worried?
-Creativity isn’t encouraged: Segal argued that while we focus on the “hardware”—the more tangible results of innovation, like patents filed—China needs to focus on the “software” problems of culture. In China, researchers aren’t urged to think creatively, nor do they feel free to fail. “No risk, no reward” may be a cliché, but it is also a truism.
-Quantity is valued over quality: According to Huang, the number of journal articles published by Chinese researchers has exploded in recent years. But outside of the life sciences and biology, the level of impact from this research has remained fairly flat—indicating that the research is not high-quality. In part, this may be because researchers are paid per publication, so repetitive research and short-term work is incentivized.
-Intellectual property rights are not respected: Since patents and copyrights are frequently violated, there is less incentive to create.
China’s leadership understands all of these things, said Segal. In fact, they have probably visited Silicon Valley “more than anyone,” he joked. Accordingly, China’s 2006 mid- to long-term plan for science and technology development emphasized the need for better intellectual property protection, for startup culture. But politically, introducing these elements will be very difficult—especially, as Simon noted, because the politicians have other significant worries on their minds, like domestic protests. Still, they understand that the “transition to a knowledge economy” is critical, and accordingly they want to be the No. 1 or No. 2 country in the world for innovation by 2049—China’s centennial. That’s one reason why they are expanding investment into R&D, going from 1 percent of GDP for a long time to 2 percent of GDP in 2011. But China isn’t doing this only for financial reasons, according to Segal—the country also wants not to have to depend on the West for its technological and scientific needs.
There are some positive signs here for China. For instance, Simon said that more and more research funding is coming in at the local level, not from the national government—a “systemic change,” he termed it. And while many Western companies opened their research labs in China initially because the government effectively made it a condition for selling goods in the country, said Sun, they are increasingly producing interesting work. No breakthroughs yet, he acknowledged, but they may come soon. China’s most successful fields—nanotechnology, life sciences, biology—are those that have been open to international collaboration.
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New Delhi: Shares of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) edged higher on Tuesday, ahead of the company’s June quarter results announcement, rising 0.35% to ₹ 1,894. India’s biggest IT company TCS will announce its Q1 FY19 results after market hours today. The TCS top management will address the media at 5.15 pm, followed by an analyst conference call at 7pm. TCS share prices have hugely outperformed the broader market this year, surging about 40%. There has been a re-rating in some IT stocks on expectations that growth will pick up.
The IT index has outperformed the broader markets this year, driven by a depreciating rupee. Expectations are high from TCS and other top-tier IT companies on the earnings front for the June quarter.
“The first quarter is a seasonally strong one for IT companies due to higher billing days and allocation of budgets to programmes. This, along with benefits from currency movement, is expected to result in improved recovery for the sector," market analyst Ambareesh Baliga wrote in a blog post.
(1) For the June quarter, TCS is expected to post a net profit of ₹ 6,985 crore on revenues of ₹ 33,966 crore, according to Bloomberg estimates. HDFC Securities expects TCS to report revenues of $5,063 million, rising 1.8% sequentially and 10.3% year on year. For the March quarter, TCS had reported a net profit of ₹ 6,904 crore on net income from operations of ₹ 32,075 crore.
(2) The growth outlook from the TCS management with respect to first-half seasonality, large account metrics, performance and outlook in core verticals such as financial services and retail will be key things to watch out for, according to HDFC Securities.
(3) The company’s EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) margin is expected to decline 40 basis points, quarter on quarter, to 25%, affected by wage increases, according to HDFC Securities. This is likely to be offset by rupee depreciation and efficiency gains, it adds. The rupee is down nearly 7% against the dollar so far this year. One basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.
(4) TCS rival Accenture Plc’s strong results in the third quarter have put the focus on Indian IT companies. Accenture follows a September-August financial year. “Accenture’s early participation in digital, led by a comprehensive portfolio of offerings across verticals and geographies, is reaping rich dividends. Accenture results demonstrate that the spending environment is robust but requires an optimum portfolio mix and capabilities to capitalise on it. From IT companies’ perspective, the progress made by TCS is impressive," says Kotak Institutional Equities in a note.
(5) The digital business of TCS will be another key focus area for analysts. Greater adoption of digital technologies by customers helped digital engagements contribute 23.8% of TCS’s revenue in the March quarter, rising of 42.8% year on year. “We are seeing strong demand in digital, in security and blockchain, in analytics and data," TCS chief operating officer N. Ganapathy Subramaniam had said after the March quarter results were announced.


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I’ve had the busiest week ever. And I loved it.
This week I managed to complete one of my year goals of leaving my city to visit at least 2 other places in England. As you may know, I decided to stay in my city of 8 years for university so unlike others, I didn’t have the chance to live in a fresh new city that you can call another home.
Though the familiarity is comforting, I feel like I’ve been missing out on the excitement of a new environment. So on my last week of Easter break, I planned out to go to the big city of London and Birmingham.
Arriving in London a little late than planned was definitely worth it. I love big, busy cities where everyone’s moving quickly to work or wherever they need to be.
I was so excited. I have been to London twice before with family and on a school trip but I felt like we went to just certain areas using the car or tour bus, it was actually quite boring.
The first place we reached was Hyde Park, we originally wanted to ride on the Santander bikes but we were carrying luggage (of course, I over packed) so the first priority was to get to the hotel in Archway.
Okay, I have to admit. When I first went underground to ride the tube, I was just thinking throughout: Get me out of here, get me out of here, get me out of hereeee.
But once I adapted to the: stand right on the escalator, the central line is red, arrows usually tell you where to go (face palm), cluster of people on a popular line then it wasn’t so bad. In fact, by the end of the day, going underground was probably one of the highlights of my trip.
I felt like a proper Londoner, even walking faster than usual – I’m known for walking at a snail’s pace usually (this is why I always have to be early to places) Next thing to master: the accent. Result: No.
It’s not a break away unless you get completely lost. But I saw awesome sky scrappers, so it was worth it.
As we were only in London for two days, we planned a walk down South Bank to ensure we saw all the famous landmarks of London.
Starting at Tower Bridge and finishing off at Big Ben, I fell in love with the city again and again – literally falling head over heels for it as I almost tripped several times down stairs and flat pavements.
We also saw the sun set and lights turn on, it was really really beautiful.
Passing various restaurants that are familiar to me as they are in my hometown, I ventured off to try and find a different place to have dinner.
We were going to have dinner on a boat restaurant googled from earlier but unfortunately, we couldn’t find it and I was exhausted from all the walking. In the end, we went back and ate at the hotel’s restaurant — closer to bed, not-so-bad food and did I say it’s a lot closer to bed?
Next time, I will find you, restaurant-on-a-boat.
I want to live here, can I live here?
Next post will be on my second day!
Congratulations on knocking off one of your goals! Going out to new places is great, but staying at the same one isn’t bad either. Sometimes, you discover new things you didn’t know about before :).
London looks amazing! I like how there are some historic buildings that are well kept, while having modernized ones up. Glad to hear that you enjoyed your time there! It’s awesome to see the underground tunnels built. If only we have them here XD.
Sounds like a fun trip! All those pictures are lovely!
I probably wouldn’t of ventured to go anywhere else honestly. XD I like familiar things!
This looks so great! I feel the exact same way when I go to Melbourne. Even though I’ve been a few times I still find amazing new things! It’s such a beautiful city.
In my mind London has a bunch of old Victorian style buildings but your photos show a very different perspective and that it is actually quite modern. There’s so many glass windows!
Oh, wow! Love your photos, girl! Makes me really want to visit England . . . heck, makes me want to visit Great Britain, period! Ooooh, the double-decker buses and the Tube!!! Ahhhh! I want to go!
Like you, I chose to not go away for uni, so I stayed in Seoul. However, like you again, I’m trying to explore and visit more of the places outside of Seoul while I can . . . but I’m not doing so well on that like you seem to be! 😀 I really should make a trip to Busan one day . . .
Beautiful photos! I kind of wish in my city there was more to see, but alas, it’s no where near as big as London, I’m telling you. Those older cities always have the richest stories, for good or bad.
Glad you got to explore so much of it! You’re very beautiful and so is that sky you took pictures of.
Wow. Sounds like your having a good time in London. I hope to visit there one day. It look so beautiful according to your photos. We have those double deck buses here. I felt like they copy cat London. Nothing compare to London.
Ah how fun! London is definitely on my list of cities to visit. My knowledge of London is only from books and movies though. But I’m sure I’ll love it!
And congrats on accomplishing one of your goals. I have such a long list of places to visit…time to starting working through the list!
Looks like you had a lot of fun – really lovely photos! Ahaha I’m always in such a rush when I’m in the underground but do often notice a few confused faces, it’s as though I forget not everywhere in England has an underground that as huge as in Central London.
Can’t wait to see your video!!
It’s amazing that you set yourself a goal to go outside of the hometown to see the country. My goals this year is to go outside of London to other cities. I’ve not been to many other towns or cities in the UK.
Huhuhuhuhu, that first picture is near Marble Arch, right? AMIRITE. I’m pretty certain. Lol. Calm down, Chynna.
Let me tell you something about the tube. Don’t ever stand on the left because then you will get disgruntled Londoners huffing and puffing behind you. Don’t master a London accent. I sound like a right tool. Hahahaha. Oh, hello – that looks like it’s near Warren Street Station, but I could be wrong.
I’ve always wanted to visit London and your photos further convince me!
Awesome! I’m sure you had such a great time since you now want to live there. Lol. Hope to see London someday!
I love London! I’ve been on a few holidays there, and it just has so much more than everywhere else in the UK. I live in Leeds, which is quite a big city in itself, but it’s nowhere near as big as London. I’m always amazed by the amount of things to do there. I love it.
I got lost the last time I went to London. I was trying to find a Wetherspoons for some cheap food, but the map on my phone just didn’t help at all. London’s so big that everything that looks close on a map actually isn’t close at all. I’ve had a lot of long walks between different areas that I thought were really close.
Some great photo taking skills there! The food looks particularly amazing.
Can’t wait to hear about your second day!
Did you go on the London Eye though?! ? I am making that a must for my trip – I am obsessed with ferris wheels and I know London Eye is pretty big. It looks so pretty at night.
I love London. I hadn’t been there much when I was younger but seem to have gone every year now since 2009 in some way, whether that be comic con, sightseeing or to the theatre.
There’s so much to explore and so much I haven’t seen or done yet.
I’d definitely love to live there in future, even for a short period.

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Google has bought a three-person Canadian startup, DNNresearch, based in Toronto, TechVibes reports.
The "DNN" in its name stands for "deep neural networks." That's a contemporary approach to designing artificially intelligent systems which requires less work to "train" the systems.
Google archrival Microsoft has already rolled out deep-neural-network technology in some of its audio- and video-indexing systems.
DNNresearch is led by Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto who will split time between the university and Google's Toronto office and Mountain View, Calif. headquarters. Two of Hinton's graduate students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, will relocate to California. Google had previously backed their research with a $600,000 grant, TechVibes reports.
Where their technology, which delivers improved recognition of nearby objects and images, could come in handy is with Google Glass, the experimental Internet-connected headset, and Google Now, Google's predictive-assistance technology which attempts to deliver answers without forcing users to enter queries.
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Eleven members of a family were found dead in India's capital on Sunday, most of them hanging from the ceiling of their home, blindfolded and hands tied behind the back, in a part of India's Delhi that was the scene of a gang war just two weeks ago.
The victims included four men and seven women, including teenagers. A neighbour in the Burari district found the victims early on Sunday, police said.
"We don't know the reason yet, our team is at the spot and investigating this," said a police official posted in the area, who did not give further details. The official cannot be identified under briefing rules.

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Hi guys, did some work on a file and tested it!
Will do some more adjustments and will rjn another test!
I’m really happy with the 3D engrave results!
It’s done in a 3mm Plywood!
Wow, great depths! Looks sculpted!
that turned out great. what are you doing to clean up the wood after the engrave? are you getting any warping?
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It bends when doing it but straighten when dries!
Even using water to remove the dirty bit!
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I’ve used on this occasion.
The crosshatch pattern in your deepest engraves… Is that part of the design or laser artifacting?
I would say it’s the laser lpi, not the design !
i’ve also noticed that when engraving plywood, you often get results inside the core(s) that are less consistent with smoothness.
Nicely done - did you use hardwood settings?
@cordioli I’d also love to see the original file! I’ve been working on some 3d engrave stuff and just haven’t been able to get anything to come out looking good. Would love to explore your file and settings.
Could be adapted for frames easily, although they aren’t true 3d engraves.
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It’s tried once before and failed, and it’s back again.
NextEra Energy Resources is proposing another wind farm for Stark County.
And while the landowners directly involved are on board, some living nearby have their concerns.
Chet Steier and his family have farmed for years on these lands, but he isn’t opposed to change.
“We do need an alternative source of energy,” said Steier, Stark County farmer and rancher.
NextEra Energy Resources wants to establish a wind farm on some of his and others’ lands in Stark County. NextEra held a meeting last week to discuss their plans to maybe even extend to Hettinger County.
“They have them positioned and stuff like that they’re working very closely with the landowner,” Steier said.
It would include 87 turbines and generate enough electricity to power more than 37,000 homes. Steier doesn’t think the towers will make a difference.
“And after a couple years or so you won’t even know that they’re standing there,” Steiner said.
The company estimates that participating landowners would receive more than $24 million over the course of the project. But neighbors have their concerns.
“North Dakota is beautiful country, you know, a lot of us live in the countryside, for countryside,” said Autumn Richard, Stark County.
Richard says the contracts landowners sign put the majority of power in the hands of NextEra, though NextEra representatives say landowners at the meeting were excited about the project.
“Having this extra income that would be generated from having a wind turbine on their property would be fantastic,” said Steve Stengel, NextEra Energy Resources spokesman.
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Two-time European Cup winners says there is still much left to play for this campaign.
Alan Kennedy says that Liverpool should use the disappointment of their Europa League exit to Zenit St Petersburg at Anfield on Thursday as a spur to try and qualify for European football once again next season.
The Reds went out on away goals to the Russian champions, having won the second leg of their round-of-32 tie 3-1, and the one-time Liverpool legend hopes that pain will be used to good effect between now and the summer.
“There might not be a trophy at stake but there’s still a lot to play for,” Kennedy told the Liverpool Echo.
“Being in Europe is vital for a club of Liverpool’s stature. It was a special night on Thursday with the crowd playing their part and we came so close to pulling it off.
“Some of our players won’t have played in an atmosphere like that before. They won’t have experienced anything like that but having had a taste of it they should want more.
“Hopefully that will inspire them for the rest of the season. Being out of all the cups means we have to work doubly hard to make sure we get everything we can from the remaining league games.
“We need to get more consistency with our results and finish as high as we possibly can. Too often this season little lapses in concentration have cost us and we’ve found ourselves chasing games we were in control of.


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After several reports of widespread crime and violence facing my country (Trinidad and Tobago) I was very concerned about attending Trinidad Carnival this year. Nevertheless, my homesickness got the better of me and I surrendered. It was fete after fete ( otherwise known as partying after partying) . The highlight for me as always was Brian Lara’s All-inclusive party or should I say experience. Special thanks to Brian and his management for always showing my husband and I a great time. Then there was Vale Vibe (Breakfast party) and Bayview and the pan yard and the list goes on.
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