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Tashkent: two mendicant Dervish men in conversation. Process print after G.S. Sedoff after V.V. Vereshchagin.




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The Radja Djajanagara and regent of Serang, Java, Indonesia. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters after C.W.M. van der Velde, ca. 1843.

Amsterdam : Uitgegeven by Frans Buffa en Zonen, [between 1843 and 1845]




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Guam: a woman holding a bowl and a man holding a staff. Etching by Prot after J. Arago.

[Paris] : [Pillet aîné], [between 1827 and 1839?]




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First report of the British Association Committee on the treatment and utilization of sewage : drawn up at the request of the Committee / by Dr. Benjamin H. Paul.

London : Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1870.




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Report of the Committee on the treatment and utilization of sewage : reappointed at Exeter, 1869.

London : [Published not identified], 1871.




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Report of the Committee on the treatment and utilization of sewage : reappointed at Liverpool, 1870.

London : [Published not identified], 1872.




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Report of the Committee on the treatment and utilization of sewage : reappointed at Edinburgh, 1871.

London : [Published not identified], 1873.




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Fifth report of the Committee on the treatment and utilization of sewage : reappointed at Brighton, 1872.

London : [Published not identified], 1874.




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Sixth report of the Committee on the treatment and utilization of sewage : reappointed at Bradford, 1873.

London : [Published not identified], 1875.




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Seventh report of the Committee on the treatment and utilization of sewage : reappointed at Belfast, 1874.

London : [Published not identified], 1876.




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Report on the treatment and utilization of sewage.

[London] : [Published not identified], [1877]




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The Scott Moncrieff system of sewage purification of by micro-organisms : reports, &c.

[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 1895.




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Report upon the Scott Moncrieff system for the bacteriological purification of sewage / by Alexander C. Houston.

[London] : Waterlow Bros. & Layton, Limited, [1893]




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The dynastic marriage of William of Orange and Mary Stuart: above, they are brought together before a bust of Hercules; below, their wedding in London on 4 November 1677. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1678.

[The Netherlands] : [Romeyn de Hooghe?], [1678?]




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The marriage of King Charles I and Princess Henrietta Maria in Notre Dame cathedral, Paris, 1625. Engraving by N. Dupuis, 1728, after L. Chéron.

London : Printed & sold by Thos. & John Bowles, printsellers, [1728]




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Michigan State Superintendent Takes Sick Leave After Cancer Diagnosis

Brian Whiston since 2015 has led the state's education department while it put together its plan under the Every Student Succeeds Act and took control of the state's school takeover district.




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Strike Date Set for Chicago Teachers

Unless they come to an agreement with the district, Chicago Teachers Union members plan to stop work Oct. 17. And the fight is about more than just pay.




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Chicago Strike: Why Teachers Are on the Picket Lines Once Again

Teachers in the nation's third-largest school system are fighting for salary increases, class-size caps, and a written commitment for more nurses, social workers, and librarians—as well as investments some say are outside the scope of collective bargaining.




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Illinois high court rules against teacher in sick leave case




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Caps Stanley Cup run lookback: Re-living Kuzy's OT goal against the Penguins

It's been two years since Kuzy sent the Caps to the Eastern Conference Final with a legendary goal in overtime.




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NBCSN’s Hockey Happy Hour: Gagne starts Flyers’ historic comeback

The win was the first of four straight for the Flyers, culminating in a historic comeback over the Bruins.




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Evgeny Kuznestov doesn’t consider his 2018 series-winning goal against Pittsburgh the biggest of his life

Capitals forward Evgeny Kuznetsov doesn't consider his series-winning goal against the Penguins in 2018 is the biggest goal of his life.




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2020 NHL season: Bruins-Predators season-opener in Prague postponed

The Boston Bruins had planned on opening up their 2020-21 NHL regular season overseas against the Nashville Predators in Prague as part of the NHL Global Series, but that plan to visit the Czech Republic has now been postponed.




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NHL calls off 2020-21 season games in Helsinki, Prague

National Hockey League regular-season games that were scheduled for early in the 2020-21 campaign in Helsinki and Prague have been called off in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. With concern about when or if the halted 2019-20 campaign might resume due to the deadly virus outbreak, the NHL and the NHL Players Association announced the decision to scrap the matchups with an eye to a 2021 return. "The NHLPA and the NHL remain committed to maintaining and growing our international presence," a joint statement said.




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Capitals cut ties with Leipsic after disparaging comments

The Washington Capitals on Friday placed Brendan Leipsic on unconditional waivers to terminate his contract after he made disparaging comments about women and teammates in a private social media chat. In a conversation involving his brother and Florida Panthers minor leaguer Jack Rodewald, Leipsic commented on the physical appearances of Vancouver forward Tanner Pearson's wife and Edmonton captain Connor McDavid's girlfriend. The NHL called it ''inexcusable conduct'' and said it would address the matter with the Capitals and Panthers.




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Discover Asylum the radical mental health magazine




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Media broadcasts and broadcasts ANSR's message / ANSR.

Edinburgh, Scotland : ANSR, 1993.




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Media broadcasts and broadcasts ANSR's message / ANSR.

Edinburgh, Scotland : ANSR, 1993.




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Smoky affair / Asian Age.

[Place of publication not identified] : Asian Age, 1997.




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Scissors and Glue Zine collage/vegan/art




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Tuberculosis statistics : summary of the report / addressed by Dr. S. Rosenfeld (Vienna) to the Health Committee of the Leage of Nations.

England : League of Nations, 1925.




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The radical mental health magazine.




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Narcotic antagonists, the search for long-acting preparations / editor, Robert Willette.

Rockville, Maryland : National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1976.




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Narcotic antagonists : naltrexone : progress report / editors, Demetrios Julius, Pierre Renault.

Rockville, Maryland : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, 1976.




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Drug dependence in pregnancy : clinical management of mother and child / [editor, Lorreta P. Finnegan].

Rockville, Maryland : National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1979.




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Management information systems in the drug field / edited by George M. Beschner, Neil H. Sampson, National Institute on Drug Abuse ; and Christopher D'Amanda, Coordinating Office for Drug and Alcohol Abuse, City of Philadelphia.

Rockville, Maryland : National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1979.




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The aging process and psychoactive drug use.

Rockville, Maryland : National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1979.




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Evil eye : to protect use red thread : images of eyes being attacked.

[London] : [publisher not identified], [2019]




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[Our times : contagious cities]

[Hong Kong] : [Art In Hospitals], [2019]




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Drug-related social work in street agencies : a study by the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence / Nicholas Dorn and Nigel South.

Norwich : University of East Anglia : Social Work Today, 1984.




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Resolving the image

As discussed in last week's post we have recently made important decisions on the Holtermann Collection digitisatio




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Chicago State women's basketball coach Misty Opat resigns

CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago State women’s coach Misty Opat resigned Thursday after two seasons and a 3-55 record.




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Natalie Chou on why she took a stand against anti-Asian racism in wake of coronavirus

During Wednesday's "Pac-12 Perspective" podcast, Natalie Chou shared why she is using her platform to speak out against racism she sees in her community related to the novel coronavirus.




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Oregon State women's basketball receives Pac-12 Sportsmanship Award for supporting rival Oregon in tragedy

On the day Kobe Bryant suddenly passed away, the Beavers embraced their rivals at midcourt in a moment of strength to support the Ducks, many of whom had personal connections to Bryant and his daughter, Gigi. For this, Oregon State is the 2020 recipient of the Pac-12 Sportsmanship Award.




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Target Propagation in Recurrent Neural Networks

Recurrent Neural Networks have been widely used to process sequence data, but have long been criticized for their biological implausibility and training difficulties related to vanishing and exploding gradients. This paper presents a novel algorithm for training recurrent networks, target propagation through time (TPTT), that outperforms standard backpropagation through time (BPTT) on four out of the five problems used for testing. The proposed algorithm is initially tested and compared to BPTT on four synthetic time lag tasks, and its performance is also measured using the sequential MNIST data set. In addition, as TPTT uses target propagation, it allows for discrete nonlinearities and could potentially mitigate the credit assignment problem in more complex recurrent architectures.




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Weighted Message Passing and Minimum Energy Flow for Heterogeneous Stochastic Block Models with Side Information

We study the misclassification error for community detection in general heterogeneous stochastic block models (SBM) with noisy or partial label information. We establish a connection between the misclassification rate and the notion of minimum energy on the local neighborhood of the SBM. We develop an optimally weighted message passing algorithm to reconstruct labels for SBM based on the minimum energy flow and the eigenvectors of a certain Markov transition matrix. The general SBM considered in this paper allows for unequal-size communities, degree heterogeneity, and different connection probabilities among blocks. We focus on how to optimally weigh the message passing to improve misclassification.




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Expectation Propagation as a Way of Life: A Framework for Bayesian Inference on Partitioned Data

A common divide-and-conquer approach for Bayesian computation with big data is to partition the data, perform local inference for each piece separately, and combine the results to obtain a global posterior approximation. While being conceptually and computationally appealing, this method involves the problematic need to also split the prior for the local inferences; these weakened priors may not provide enough regularization for each separate computation, thus eliminating one of the key advantages of Bayesian methods. To resolve this dilemma while still retaining the generalizability of the underlying local inference method, we apply the idea of expectation propagation (EP) as a framework for distributed Bayesian inference. The central idea is to iteratively update approximations to the local likelihoods given the state of the other approximations and the prior. The present paper has two roles: we review the steps that are needed to keep EP algorithms numerically stable, and we suggest a general approach, inspired by EP, for approaching data partitioning problems in a way that achieves the computational benefits of parallelism while allowing each local update to make use of relevant information from the other sites. In addition, we demonstrate how the method can be applied in a hierarchical context to make use of partitioning of both data and parameters. The paper describes a general algorithmic framework, rather than a specific algorithm, and presents an example implementation for it.




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GluonCV and GluonNLP: Deep Learning in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

We present GluonCV and GluonNLP, the deep learning toolkits for computer vision and natural language processing based on Apache MXNet (incubating). These toolkits provide state-of-the-art pre-trained models, training scripts, and training logs, to facilitate rapid prototyping and promote reproducible research. We also provide modular APIs with flexible building blocks to enable efficient customization. Leveraging the MXNet ecosystem, the deep learning models in GluonCV and GluonNLP can be deployed onto a variety of platforms with different programming languages. The Apache 2.0 license has been adopted by GluonCV and GluonNLP to allow for software distribution, modification, and usage.




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Lower Bounds for Testing Graphical Models: Colorings and Antiferromagnetic Ising Models

We study the identity testing problem in the context of spin systems or undirected graphical models, where it takes the following form: given the parameter specification of the model $M$ and a sampling oracle for the distribution $mu_{M^*}$ of an unknown model $M^*$, can we efficiently determine if the two models $M$ and $M^*$ are the same? We consider identity testing for both soft-constraint and hard-constraint systems. In particular, we prove hardness results in two prototypical cases, the Ising model and proper colorings, and explore whether identity testing is any easier than structure learning. For the ferromagnetic (attractive) Ising model, Daskalakis et al. (2018) presented a polynomial-time algorithm for identity testing. We prove hardness results in the antiferromagnetic (repulsive) setting in the same regime of parameters where structure learning is known to require a super-polynomial number of samples. Specifically, for $n$-vertex graphs of maximum degree $d$, we prove that if $|eta| d = omega(log{n})$ (where $eta$ is the inverse temperature parameter), then there is no polynomial running time identity testing algorithm unless $RP=NP$. In the hard-constraint setting, we present hardness results for identity testing for proper colorings. Our results are based on the presumed hardness of #BIS, the problem of (approximately) counting independent sets in bipartite graphs.




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pyts: A Python Package for Time Series Classification

pyts is an open-source Python package for time series classification. This versatile toolbox provides implementations of many algorithms published in the literature, preprocessing functionalities, and data set loading utilities. pyts relies on the standard scientific Python packages numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, joblib, and numba, and is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license. Documentation contains installation instructions, a detailed user guide, a full API description, and concrete self-contained examples.