 on the circle of 5ths is G major, which shares all its notes except for one, F#. On its other side, you find F major, which again, shares all of its notes except for one, Bb. These are closely related keys, and a modulation from one to the other will likely be seamless, even if unprepared.

...In fact, go listen to Africa by Toto, because that song is a perfect example. It begins in C# minor (E major), before an unprepared modulation to B major for the verse, and another unprepared modulation to A major for the chorus. A brief return to C# minor (E major) is heard at the end of every phrase during the verse. The whole song moves seamlessly between 3 keys with little or no preparation and the listener barely notices. That's because all three keys that are being played with are adjacent on the circle of 5ths.

On the other hand, opposite C major on the circle of 5ths is Gb/F# major, which shares only two of the same pitches (the tritone notes, F and B), and contains all of the black notes, which C major doesn't have. Going from one to the other may be done well, and may be effective, but will feel more drastic and jarring because instead of being closely related, they are distantly related.East Adams Rural Hospital
DESCRIPTION: The electrical design consists of integrating two (2) projects, spread across several different contracting methods to address multiple code issues faced by the hospital.
The first project was an ESCO project designed to replace the HVAC and lighting systems, and also included replacement of the existing emergency generator and upgrading the existing NEC 517 emergency power systems. The first project was financed through State DES funding sources.
The second project was a design/bid/build project designed through a local architect for the general building renovation and addition, financed through a bond issue.
LOCATION: Ritzville, Washington
CLIENT: East Adams Rural Hospital
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Build (DB) and Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACTOR: Apollo Solutions Group – Spokane, Washington
DESIGN-BID-BUILD CONTRACTOR: Leone and Keeble – Spokane, Washington
ARCHITECT: NAC|Architecture – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design
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FACILITY SIZE: 49,000 Square Feet 90 Beds
CLIENT: Yolo County
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Lionakis Sacramento, California
SERVICES PROVIDED: Security Electronics System Design
- Cell and movement door control systems.
- CCTV system.
- Digital audio systems.
- Personal Duress Alarm systems.
- Network infrastructure.
- UPS Systems.DAVAO CITY, The Philippines — The Philippine coffee industry is in a good trend in terms of production and quality, according to an American non-government organization helping farmers in the country.
“The coffee industry is in a good place. The trend is changing — there is more coffee consumption, more skilled farmers,” said TJ Ryan, chief of party of the ACDI/VOCA during the AFP-PNP press corps briefing at the Royal Mandaya Hotel on Wednesday.
ACDI/VOCA is the organization that implements the US Department of Agriculture-funded Philippine Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise (PHilCAFE) project, the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI), and the World Coffee Research (WCR).
Along with robust growth in both quality and production, Ryan also cited the crafting of the five-year National Coffee Roadmap 2017-2022 that seeks to guide key sector players and government agencies in the development of the coffee industry.
For four years now, ACDI-VOCA has been providing technical support to the Philippine coffee farmers with total funding of USD515 million, focusing in Mindanao regions — Bukidnon, Socssksargen, Davao, Caraga, and parts of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Its four-year project seeks to build the capacity and expand service provision to 350 value chain actors, financial and school institutions, producer organizations and input suppliers, roasters and retailers.
Ryan noted that Philippine coffee has already penetrated the markets in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand and that the domestic market continues to be strong — especially for specialized coffee.
A briefer provided by ACDI/VOCA said the country’s coffee supply remains low compared to current demands. In 2015, coffee production was only 36,171 metric tons of green coffee beans while a farm yields an averaged 0.30 tons per hectare.
It said the small farmers continue to be the country’s main producers of coffee, with the following varieties accounting for the total production: Robusta, 69 percent; Arabica, 24 percent; Excelsia, 6 percent; and Liberica, 1 percent.
Soccsksargen, Davao, and ARMM are top three producing regions with a combined 68 percent of the coffee produced in the country in 2015, ACDI/VOCA said.
Socssksargen, Davao, ARMM, Calabarzon and Northern Mindanao are also top five regions with the huge coffee production area at 113,738 hectares.
Under the five-year roadmap, the government aims to increase the yield of green coffee beans by 0.3 metric tons per hectare to 1 metric ton per hectare by 2022 and production by 5 percent per annum.Bells were a compulsory requirement on new bikes sold in the UK until 1983 when they were scrapped by the Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher. However, in May 2004 it was again made a legal requirement to sell new bikes with bells installed, even though the new owner could remove the bell as soon as they had purchased a bike. This law was again scrapped in December 2011 under a government initiative called the Red Tape Challenge which aimed to quash over-regulation. So it is now personal preference as to whether the owner of a new bike would like to add a bell.
Apart from being incredibly useful at notifying other road users as to your existence, the humble bell has also become a fashion statement. Cannondale got in on the act with team rider Peter Sagan in 2012 when he was photographed with his new Cannondale Panic Bell, but it was a hugely successful 2013 Kickstarter campaign by Spurcycle for the Raw Bell and Black Bell which spawned a new generation of high-end bells… one of which was the King Cage BarBell which doubles as a shot glass!. ethereum has 244 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. is a global, decentralized platform for money and new kinds of applications. On Ethereum, you can write code that controls money, and build applications accessible anywhere in the world.
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Humans intuitively solve tasks in versatile ways, varying their behavior in terms of trajectory-based planning and for individual steps. Thus, they can easily generalize and adapt to new and changing environments. Current Imitation Learning algorithms often only consider unimodal expert demonstrations and act in a state-action-based setting, making it difficult for them to imitate human behavior in case of versatile demonstrations. Instead, we combine a mixture of movement primitives with a distribution matching objective to learn versatile behaviors that match the expert's behavior and versatility. To facilitate generalization to novel task configurations, we do not directly match the agent's and expert's trajectory distributions but rather work with concise geometric descriptors which generalize well to unseen task configurations. We empirically validate our method on various robot tasks using versatile human demonstrations and compare to imitation learning algorithms in a state-action setting as well as a trajectory-based setting. We find that the geometric descriptors greatly help in generalizing to new task configurations and that combining them with our distribution-matching objective is crucial for representing and reproducing versatile behavior.


Introduction
Imitation Learning (IL) [1,2,3] from human demonstrations is challenging as humans often solve tasks in versatile ways. Even the same person might solve a task differently when confronted with it multiple times. Behavior can be versatile in terms of task-level decisions, such as planning a route to a target, and individual actions, such as randomly pausing during a movement to think about the next steps. Most recent IL approaches [4,5,6,7] model the behavior in state-action space using Gaussian policies, which assumes the behavior is unimodal and cannot capture this planning versatility. Yet, this assumption is violated by most human expert datasets, often causing poor generalization to human demonstrations [8]. Additionally, IL approaches often need immense amounts of data to achieve generalization [9,8]. We tackle these challenges by a feature matching approach to IL that is able to generalize to novel contexts from a small amount of expert demonstrations. Such contexts are (typically low-dimensional) vectors that describe a specific task configuration within a family of related tasks, such as e.g., the coordinates of goal locations to reach. The resulting approach, Versatile Imitation from Geometrically Observed Representations (VIGOR