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New Orleans Airport Gate Waiting Area Photo i024 by Grant Wickes

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Waiting at the School Gate

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Nina waits in the right place to meet her son after school.

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Redhill Footbridge - June 2011 - Health & Safety at Walk

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A Walk in the Park

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Wit takes a short walk after dinner.

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Leaving a Phone for Repair

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Golf explains a phone problem and asks about the repair cost.

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Aria Resort Hotel Front Desk

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Checking In at a Hotel

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Fern checks her booking details and asks about breakfast at a hotel.

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Cappuccino in ugly glass cup :P

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A Broken Cup

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Lina cleans the kitchen safely after a cup breaks.

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Stratford Ontario - Canada - Architecture Cottage with Captains Walk

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The Early Bus

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Joe leaves home early and reaches work before the meeting.

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An English-language NS train ticket, that is located in the Groninger city of Winschoten, Oldambt.

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Changing a Train Ticket

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Dan changes his train after learning that his meeting will end late.

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Sending a Parcel

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Yui prepares a parcel and chooses a delivery option at the post office.

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Advanced real news

GraphVid: Interactive Graph-Controllable Video Generation

Controllable video generation remains challenging due to the difficulty of specifying precise multi-object interactions using text prompts or motion-control inputs that primarily constrain pixel movement. In practice, trajectory-based control often requires users to draw accurate tracks for multiple objects, which scales poorly with scene complexity and becomes ambiguous under occlusion or overlap. To enable flexible yet precise multi-subject control, we introduce $\textbf{GraphVid}$, a graph-conditioned image-to-video generation model that enables interactive control through structured interaction graphs. We further curate $\textbf{GraphVid-Bench}$, a large-scale interaction-centric video dataset with structured relational annotations to enable training of interaction-aware video generation models. Despite using substantially less training data and fewer trainable parameters than prior motion-control methods, GraphVid delivers strong controllability and video quality. Compared with Motion-I2V, GraphVid reduces FID by up to 39.9% and FVD by 37.6%, while improving PSNR (9.87=>15.98) and SSIM (0.38=>0.61). Our results highlight the potential of structured semantic interfaces as a powerful paradigm for controllable video generation.

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Barzilai-Borwein Fails Superlinear Convergence on an Open Set of Quadratics for Every Dimension $n\geq 4$

Barzilai--Borwein (BB) method has shown strong practical performance in continuous optimization, yet its convergence dynamics remains poorly understood. In particular, a central unresolved question is whether BB converges superlinearly for almost every strictly convex quadratic problem and initialization. We provide a negative answer to this question. Specifically, for every finite dimension $n\geq4$, we construct a nonempty open, hence positive-Lebesgue-measure, family of strictly convex quadratic problems and initial points for which the long Barzilai--Borwein method (BB1) converges but cannot converge root-superlinearly. More precisely, with the explicit constants $ρ_{\min}=10^{-6},ρ_{\max}=0.61$, every spectral component of the gradient is bounded above and below by the corresponding geometric sequence. Consequently, the gradient norm and the energy norm of the error satisfy two-sided geometric estimates with the same rates, while the objective gap satisfies the corresponding estimates with squared rates. In particular, all three quantities are bounded below by geometric sequences, ruling out superlinear convergence. The construction is highly nontrivial, based on a computer-assisted proof of a nonresonant, attracting seven-cycle of the projectivized BB dynamics in dimension four.

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Foreign Currency and Coins

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Change at the Market

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

May checks her change after buying bananas.

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At the Pharmacy

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Ben asks the pharmacist for help with a small cut.

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The Dentist Office of the Future

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Moving a Dentist Appointment

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Pat moves an appointment after his work schedule changes.

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A Phone Call from the Driver

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Mee gives clear directions when a delivery driver cannot find her building.

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Special Weather Statement issued July 23 at 11:49AM MDT by NWS Pueblo CO

At 1149 AM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11 miles northwest of Trinchera, or 17 miles east of Trinidad, moving east at 15 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Trinchera.

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Meeting a New Neighbor

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Suda welcomes the new person who moves next door.

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Laundry Before the Rain

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Anan brings his clean clothes inside before rain arrives.

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Asking About a Restaurant Order

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Jane politely checks an order when one dish does not arrive.

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'Fallingwater' and Waterfall

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Calling About a Water Leak

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Lek reports a leak clearly and helps the landlord arrange a repair.

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Advanced real news

Selective State-Space Adaptation and Retrieval for Language Model Reasoning

Low-rank adaptation introduces a static learned update applied identically to every input. The update provides task-level adaptation but does not explicitly represent token-level or instance-level state variation. A family of adapters is proposed that introduces selective state-space recurrence at two complementary granularities. At the token level, \textbf{MaLoRA} (Mamba-modulated low-rank adaptation) makes the adapter's scaling factor a dynamic input-dependent function with recurrent state across tokens, in contrast to the stateless modulators of prior work. At the context level, \textbf{MaRA} (Mamba Retrieval Adapter) tracks cross-segment state and selects the segments most relevant to the query, before the modulated language model generates its answer. Across three frozen backbones (Qwen-2.5-7B, Llama-3.1-8B, Gemma-2-9B) and two reasoning benchmarks (MuSiQue, 2WikiMultihopQA), the family improves reasoning accuracy on every cell of the $3{\times}2$ grid, by $+6.8$ F1 ($+10.5\%$ relative) on average and up to $+9.3$ F1 ($+18.2\%$ relative) on the hardest cell over the LoRA baseline, and the token-level gains carry to RULER QA-2 under length stress.

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Book Return

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Returning a Library Book

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Dao returns a library book on her way home.

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A Low Phone Battery

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Kiet charges his phone before an important call.

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Introduction to Bioinformatics Teacher Workshop

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A Meeting with the Teacher

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Kanda prepares questions before meeting her daughter's teacher.

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Checking a Bank Transfer

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Som checks the account details before sending rent money.

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The Lunch Box

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Pim finds the lunch box that she left at home.

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Yesterday on the train to work

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The Raincoat at Work

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Ton remembers his raincoat before he leaves the office.

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Missed the last Bus

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Missing the Last Bus

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Ploy finds another safe way home after missing her bus.

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Returning the Wrong Shirt

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Niran returns a shirt after discovering that the size is wrong.

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What did Vancouver get from the World Cup?

For five weeks, the FIFA Men's World Cup brought big crowds, busy transit and new energy to downtown Vancouver. Now that the crowds have left, the city is weighing the tournament’s legacy, with questions about public costs, Granville Street and whether soccer momentum can be sustained in B.C.

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Identifier : shorthistoryofen00hinduoft ( find matches ) Title : A short history of engraving (and) etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers Year : 1908 ( 1900s ) Authors : Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1880-1957 Subjects : Engravers Engraving Etchers Etching Publisher : London : A. Constable Contributing Library : Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor : MSN View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book : Catalog Entry View All Images : All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: s in the manner of this school, and distinctly inferior books: ... ... 1 -i, • » ■ Monte Sancfo to the preceding m technical power, are the illustrations to Antonio ^i ^/,;^ ^^^^.Bettinis Monte Sancto di Dio, 1477, ^d Landinos Dante of 1481, Landinosboth of which were published by Nicolas Laurentii. The former Dante, 1481.is one of the earliest instances known where the copper-plates usedfor book illustration were printed directly on to the page of text.^ Ofthe Dante illustrations, which were engraved after designs by Botticelli,* ^ See A. Warburg, Riv. dArtc, iii. (1905), July. - Again in 1498 he is mentioned as renting a goldsmiths shop with Tommaso and Antonio (sonsof his late brother Stefano). Cf. H. P. Home, Botticelli, 1908 (pp. 77-86). ^ Cf. pp. 30, 33, 65, 70, 96, 119. • Either adapted from those at Berlin and in the Vatican, or more probably based on an earlier series now lost. 48 THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS and never completed (they embrace the first nineteen cantos of the Text Appearing After Image: IQ ^^^^ ^coiui.cht! mondo cbi^ima amoi-c E i nacqucdocioS/dj lafciuiaKumana. i I Amai-ofKotneufdi.-a^uedHimcglio Nutniocli penficrdold SiToRui/ il 2 Ouando fiatuo/cf)onie.no(>ro fignote. FattodgnorS^dioda-gcnieuafia Fig. 19.—Anon, early Florentine Engraver in the Broad Manner.The Triumph of Love. Inferno), only the first two, or at least three, are ever found printed THE BROAD MANNER 49 on the page of text. The others, when they occur, are generallyprinted on a separate piece of paper and pasted in, an evidence ofthe difficulties which the printer experienced with the other process.Besides these two publications there is hardly any book of impor- Other engrav-tance illustrated with metal engravings until the end of the next *gs in fifteenthcentury, when the practice was revived with success. Three engrav- ^^ ^^^ °° ^ings (two tables of affinity and the Virgins Crown with a smallAnnunciatio)i) are found in Fra Pacifico di Novaras Sumula diPacifica Conscientia, printed in Milan b Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

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A Short Shopping List

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Mali uses a short list to buy food for dinner.

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The Bus Card

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Nok learns how to add money to her bus card before work.

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Changing a Work Shift

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Fah asks a coworker to exchange shifts so she can attend a family event.

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Making a Clinic Appointment

Fictional learning story - not real newsเรื่องอ่านฝึกภาษา แต่งขึ้นเพื่อการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ ไม่ใช่ข่าวจริง

Arun calls a clinic and chooses an appointment that fits his work schedule.

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Is this the most controversial World Cup yet?

After more than 100 matches across Canada, Mexico and the United States, the FIFA World Cup 2026 is about to come to an end, cementing its legacy with highs, lows — and seemingly endless controversies. So, is this the most controversial World Cup? We talk to experts to get a sense of how this year's decisions have affected the tournament.

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Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?

U.S. presidents have promised short, decisive wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. All have proved much more difficult than advertised and fallen far short of the political goals set at the beginning.

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