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Grounding Yoga in physical well-being practices a series of flows after looking at the meaning of the Warrior Postures. This class is for beginners and the Yoga student who wants to move to new levels of practice. This practice will work with the physical body choosing to move to a new level, it will also allow the mind to remember to "be still," and practice the breath at peace with the true flow after breathing through the warrior pose itself. The core strength begins in the middle and allows all the muscles to connect with relaxing the expression. This allows us to flow through the energy gracefully and powerfully. We begin by becoming still, then flow, trusting the energy to support the flow. We ground into the ever ending Now. Grounding Yoga reminds the yoke to practice the Power of Now.

Q: using watch with ssh I have a script: export TERM=xterm watch -t -d -n 1 'netstat -veeantpo | grep 43597 when we run this script though ssh, it does not determine the monitor resolution. so lines are wrapped although there is space to show results. You can see the result in the picture.(I have removed the trailing space after ESTABLISHED). A: Add -t to your ssh. By default when you pass a command to ssh, it doesn't allocate a TTY on the remote host, so the application only has a basic STDOUT pipe to work with. ssh -t foobar 'watch -t -d -n 1 "netstat -veeantpo | grep 43597"' A: Your terminal info is not being passed on to the remote side. You can either tweak your SSH client and server config to pass the variables, or take the easy way and put them inside your command string: "TERM=$TERM COLUMNS=$COLUMNS LINES=$LINES watch -n 1 top -bn 1

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By tiffany November 22, 2013 - 8:00 am November 20, 2013 Uncategorized With Thanksgiving knocking on the door, I thought I would share some holiday DIY tutorials from around the web! Click on the pictures for instructions. Roxi Reviews By tiffany November 21, 2013 - 8:00 am November 20, 2013 Book Talk Roxi Wilkinson has graciously agreed to share some of her recent reads with us. The following review is part of an ongoing series of guest posts written by Roxi: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole is a debut novel that marks Brockmole as a storyteller to follow. The book is a suspenseful love story spanning two wars. The entire novel is told through the old fashioned style of communication, hand written letters. March 1912; Elspeth Dunn, a twenty-four-year-old published poet, has never ventured further than her home on the the remote Scottish Isle of Skye. To her astonishment, a fan mail letter arrives and sends her backwards, quiet life spinning. June 1940; Elspeth's daughter, Margaret, is in love with a pilot in the Royal Air Force heading to World War ll. Elspeth warns her daughter against finding love during war times which surprises and puzzles Margaret. It isn't until a bomb rocks their home and letters hidden in a wall come raining down that Margaret is able to piece together her mother's past and hopefully, lead to where her mother is currently hiding. Letters from Sky celebrates the enduring power of hope in an enchanting, surprising way. We would love for you to share a recent library read with us! Simply submit your review via this websites Contact form and your review will be posted! Based on the Book By tiffany November 20, 2013 - 8:00 am November 18, 2013 Book Talk, Uncategorized There's still time to refresh your memory before seeing Catching Fire on the big screen. Copies of the book are available here in the library. Only three more days before Catching Fire releases! 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The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp: In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee. Jack by F. Paul Wilson: Teenaged Jack, later to be known as Repairman Jack, begins to uncover some unsuspected talents in himself after he and his friends, the clever, imaginative Weezy and her brother Eddie, discover a corpse deep in the mysterious Pine Barrens. Wereworld by Curtiss Jobling: When Drew suddenly transforms into a werewolf, he runs away from his family, seeking refuge in the most out of the way parts of Lyssia, only to be captured and forced to battle numerous werecreatures. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver: After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive "the cure"–an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore: The members of the Garde, trying to master their legacies and work together, receive a sign they believe is from Number Five, a crop circle in the shape of a Loric symbol, and set out to find Five before it is too late. Gone by Michael Grant: In a small town, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the town residents and the students from a private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and those who do not. School Spirits by Rachel Hawkins: Fifteen-year-old Izzy, who comes from a long line of monster hunters, investigates a series of hauntings at her new high school. Curtis McCarty: An Innocent Man on Death Row By tiffany November 18, 2013 - 9:25 am November 18, 2013 Events Curtis McCarty: An Innocent Man on Death Row presented by Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty will speak today at noon in our community rooms. Curtis Edward McCarty was exonerated in 2007 after serving 21 years — including 19… years on death row — for a 1982 Oklahoma City murder he did not commit. Mccarty was convicted twice and sentenced to death three times based on prosecutorial misconduct and bad forensics. Narrowly escaping an execution, it was only a lucky break that allowed McCarty to prove his actual innocence. Since his release, he has worked tirelessly to support efforts to repeal the death penalty in Nebraska, throughout the country, and around the world. Feel free to bring your lunch to this event. Friends of the Library One Day Book Sale! By tiffany November 15, 2013 - 8:00 am November 14, 2013 Events, News Open House Tonight! Don't forget to attend tonight's Open House from 5:30 to 7:30! We'll be serving pie, coffee, and apple cider. Karina Soriano will be giving a violin concert, which are always beautiful! We will also be drawing for a Kindle winner from our Kindle raffle and taking final bids on the Basket Auction. To see a list of baskets and their contents, visit my earlier post here. We hope you can make it out for a night of friends, music, and refreshment! By tiffany November 13, 2013 - 8:00 am November 11, 2013 Based on the Book The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will be in movie theaters on November 15, 2013, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. Mon-Thu: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Fri: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sat: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 308-762-1387 1750 Sweetwater Ave. Alliance, Nebraska 69301 Director: Stephanie O'Connor Youth Services: Cynthia Horn Adult Services: Emily Nelson Technical Services: Tiffany Hickox Library Clerks: Pam Becker Ebsco Ebooks Books in a Series Database Alliance Public Library, serving the City of Alliance, Nebraska for over 100 years, is located at 1750 Sweetwater Avenue in Alliance, Nebraska, 69301. We may be reached by phone at 308-762-1387 or Fax at 308-762-4148.

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Q: Drawing circles with SDL2? is there a sdl "draw circle" function? or should i make it from cero? or, instead of that... is there an already made function in c++ for that? something like: int main (){ // create the window SDL_Window * window1 = SDL_CreateWindow("Window",700,50,500,450, SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN); // create the renderer SDL_Renderer * renderer = SDL_CreateRenderer( window1, -1 , SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED); // Set background SDL_SetRenderDrawColor( renderer, 255, 255, 255, 255 ); SDL_RenderClear( renderer ); SDL_RenderPresent(renderer); // Set circle's position int x = 100; int y = 100; int radius = 40; // Loop to hold the window in screen bool running = true; while(running) { SDL_Event event1; while(SDL_PollEvent(&event1) !=0){ // CIRCLE FUNCTION ?????? functionSDLcircle(x, y, radius); if(event1.type ==SDL_KEYDOWN) { switch (event1.key.keysym.sym){ case SDLK_RETURN: running = false; break; } } } } return 0; } A: Nope, nothing like that off-the-shelf in the SDL_Renderer system. You'll have to roll your own using SDL_RenderDrawLines()/OpenGL or switch to something like SDL2_gfx.

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Mainilský incident 26. listopadu 1939 byl operací Rudé armády pod falešnou vlajkou, během níž sovětské dělostřelectvo fingovaně napadlo sovětskou příhraniční vesnici Mainila. Incident se stal rozbuškou zimní války s Finskem. Průběh Rudá armáda předstírala ostřelování své pohraniční vesnice Mainila a tvrdila, že za útokem stojí Finsko a že došlo ke ztrátám v sovětských jednotkách. Této propagandy využil Sovětský svaz k útoku na Finsko, čímž o čtyři dny později začala zimní válka. Z osobních zápisků stranického činitele Andreje Ždanova vyplývá, že celý incident byl vykonstruován Sovětským svazem, aby mohlo být Finsko označeno za agresora a Rudá armáda mohla zahájit "protiofenzívu". Finská strana odpovědnost za útok odmítla a obvinila SSSR. Z deníků nejbližších finských dělostřeleckých baterií vyplývá, že Mainila byla mimo jejich dostřel. Byly totiž od hranice staženy, aby Finové předešli právě takovýmto incidentům. Sovětská propaganda ale nepřestávala šířit zprávy o smyšlených útocích finské armády. Sověti také vypověděli smlouvu o neútočení a 30. listopadu zahájili ofenzívu po celé délce hranic. Nedlouho po odtajnění vojenské dokumentace (denních hlášení) se potvrdilo, že k žádným ztrátám v době incidentu nedošlo, čímž se definitivně prokázalo, že útok byl fingován. Reference Externí odkazy Diplomatická korespondence mezi vládami Finska a SSSR Zimní válka Operace pod falešnou vlajkou Dějiny Finska Dějiny Sovětského svazu (1922–1940) Události roku 1939

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The National Quarterly Review, المجلد 20 history of the world. Among the eclipses of this character we may mention the following :—The one mentioned by Herodotus, already referred to. This eclipse is alluded to by several other ancient writers, who flourished subsequently to Herodotus. This author does not state when the eclipse occurred; but Cicero and Pliny assert that it happened in the 4th year of the 48th Olympiad, which corresponds to the year 585 B.C. This eclipse has given rise to a good deal of discussion among calculators. Riccioli and Newton, and various other modern writers, adopt the date mentioned above. Scaliger, however, found, by actual calculation, that it happened on the 1st of October, 583 B.C. Archbishop Usher placed it in the year 601 B.C.; and Bayer and Costard think that Herodotus refers to a total solar eclipse which it was formerly thought happened in the year 603 B.C. But any solution of the question, based on actual computation by means of the solar and lunar tables, previously to the publication of the recent accurate lunar tables by M. Hansen, and the corrections of other theories by Peirce and Longstreth; and the solar tables of Hansen and Olufsen were necessarily imperfect, and could only give approximate results. Baily's solution, in 1811, was considered for many years, however, as having decided the question.' He began by skillfully criticising the original passage in which the Grecian historian alludes to the eclipse of Thales, and he concluded that it could not have happened earlier than 629 B.C., nor later than 595 B.C. Out of seventy eclipses which happened in that period, he found only one that was total in the peninsula of Asia Minor, and that he fixed on the 30th of September, 610 B.C.* It has more recently been discovered, however, that the secular motion of the moon's node, used in the calculations, was erroneous by more than a minute and a half, and Professor Airy has shown that the eclipse occurred 584 B.C., May the 28th, thus confirming the statements of Cicero and Pliny. Hence we see how the secular variations of the elements of the moon's orbit are connected with our knowledge of important ancient celestial phenomena. * Phil. Trans., 1811, p. 220, et seq. Herodotus also mentions another eclipse, * when Cyaxares was at war with the Lydians, "when the engagement, which happened in the day, was suddenly interrupted by nocturnal darkness." The father of history also mentions a solar eclipse, which happened when Xerxes was advancing with his army from Sardis to Abydos. "At the moment of their departure, the sun, which before gave his full light, in a bright, unclouded atmosphere, withdrew his beams, and the darkest night succeeded."+ The date of this last eclipse has been referred to 480, B.C. Professor Airy thinks, however, that it was not a solar eclipse, but a total eclipse of the moon, which, it appears, took place March 19th, 478 B.C. Xenophon mentions an eclipse of the sun, which led to the capture of Larrisa by the Persians. Dwing the retreat, which was conducted by Xenophion, the Greeks passed "a large deserted city, called Larissa, formerly inhabited by the Medes. Its walls were twenty-five feet thick, and a hundred feet high; its circumference two parasangs; it was built of burnt brick, on a foundation of stone, twenty feet high. When the Persians conquered the Medes, the Persian king besieged this city, but was unable to capture it till a cloud hid the sun wholly from view, when the inhabitants withdrew in great fear, and the city was captured." The Greeks, after passing Larissa, reached another deserted city, called Mespila. Layard, in his researches in Assyria, identified Larissa with the modern Nimroud ;s and Mespila with the ruins opposite the modern Mosul. I Professor Airy has shown that this eclipse happened May 19th, 556 B.C. It is not a little curions, how frequently eclipses are associated with important undertakings among ancient nations. Thus a total eclipse of the sun, supposed to have taken place August 30, 430 B.C., seriously threatened the success of the expedition of the Athenians under Pericles. He manned a hundred and fifty ships, and was preparing to set sail. "The Athenians conceived good hopes of success, and the enemy * Book I., sect. 93.1 Book VII, sect. 37. I Grant's Hist. Phys. Ast., p. 363. $ Nineveh and its Remains, vol. I., p. 27. [lbid, vol. II., p. 196 and 218. Ilind's Solar System, p. 102. no less dreaded so great an armament. The whole fleet was in readiness, and Pericles on board of his own galley, when there happened an eclipse of the sun. This sudden darkness was looked upon as an unfavorable omen, and threw them into the greatest consternation. Pericles, observing that the pilot was much astonished and perplexed, took his cloak, and, having covered his eyes with it, asked him, if he found anything so terrible in that, or considered it a sad presage. Upon his answering in the negative, he said : Where is the difference, then, between this and the other except that something bigger than my cloak causes the eclipse ?'"* Although it is evident that Pericles had some knowledge of the cause of the eclipse, it does not appear that it had been predicted. Among the solar eclipses of antiquity, that known as the eclipse of Agathocles has given rise to as much trouble as almost any other. We are informed by Diodorus Siculus, that the voyage to Africa, from Syracuse occupied six days, and that, on the second day, an eclipse occurred, during which the darkness was so complete, that the stars became visible in all directions. The eclipse was, therefore, total. Neither the date nor the locality was open to much doubt, or uncertainty, and the phenomena, therefore, seemed to Mr. Francis Baily to afford a favorable opportunity for checking the solar and lunar tables, instead of using them to settle the date and limits of the eclipse. He found an irreconcilable difference of 180 geographical miles between the tables and the historical statement in regard to the most southerly position that can be assigned to the fleet of Agathocles, and the limit of the total phase. - To obviate this difference," says Hind, 1 "it is only necessary + to stippose an error of about three minutes of arc in the computed distance of the centres of the sun and moon at conjunction-a very inconsiderable correction for a date anterior to the epoch of the tables by more than twenty-one centuries." Professor Airy has been more successful, by founding his calculations on improved lunar tables; and he has shown that the limits of the zone of totality were such, that Agathocles might have been involved in the moon's shadow, during his passage. * Plutarch's Lives-Pericles, p. 126; Langhan's Translat'on. † Solar System, p. 102. According to Philastratus, * the death of the Roman emperor, Domitian, was previously announced by a celestial phenomenon, which appears to have been an eclipse of the sun; and we mention it here because the account of it probably contains the earliest record of which we have any account, of a phenomenon accompanying total solar eclipses, that has of late years attracted much attention. We refer to the luminous ring, or corona, surrounding the moon during totality. "In the heavens," he says, "there appeared a prodigy of this nature; a certain corona, resembling the Iris, surrounded the orb of the sun, and obscured his light." This eclipse occurred in the year 95 A. D. Many other total solar eclipses are recorded to have happened during years intervening from 237 to 1113 of our era, but they require no further mention here. Sir Edmund Halley communicated to the Royal Society a paper on the total eclipse of the sun, which happened at London, on the 3d of May, 1715, † and in it he alludes to the fact, without indicating very clearly whence he derived his information, that there had not occurred before then another total eclipse of the same body, visible in that city, since the 20th of March, 1140 A. D.—a period of 575 years -so infrequently are total eclipses of the sun visible from any particular locality on the earth. A notice of the lastmentioned eclipse occurs, however, in the section of the "Saxon Chronicle" which relates to the year 1140: "In the Lent, the sun and the day darkened about the noontide of the day, when men were eating; and they lighted candles to eat by. That was the thirteenth day before the calends of April. Men were very much struck with wonder." On the 17th of June, 1433, a remarkable total solar eclipse happened, which was visible in Scotland, and the time of its occurrence was long remembered by the people of that country as the black hour. According to Maclaurin, the celebrated mathematician, a manuscript account of it is preserved in the library of the university of Edinburgh. It is there stated that it took place about three o'clock in the afternoon, and that the darkness was so complete that nothing was visible—a statement that is evidently exaggerated, since the absence of the sun in the night does not produce such an effect. The eclipse, however, was one of a very unusual kind, since Maclaurin found, by calculation, that, at the time of its occurrence, the sun was only 2o from his apogee, and the moon not more than 13° from perigee. * Life of Apollonius. † Phil. Trans., 1715, p. 245, et seq. | Saxon Chronicle, p. 371 of Ingram's translation. In the year 1598, there occurred a total eclipse of the sun, which was visible in the British Isles. The moon's shadow passed over the border countries of England and Scotland, and the day of the eclipse was long remembered, in both countries, as "black Saturday." In 1652, there was another total eclipse of the sun visible in Great Britain and Ireland. Dr. Wyberd observed it at Carrickfergus, in the north of Ireland,+ and in Scotland, the day of its occurrence, gave rise, among the common people, to the expression "mirk Monday," and it is even still used in some parts of that country, although the eclipse was long ago forgotten. On the 24th of September, 1699, there occurred a total eclipse in the north of Europe, and a correspondent of the Royal Society, writing from Leipsic, where it was almost total, says that when ten digits were covered, "the sky, being otherwise very clear, began to appear of a more livid, or wan, complexion, and more sad than it usually looks, with a clear sky, when the sun is set, or below the horizon." He adds, that "the cocks, which had before crowed very frequently, left off crowing, and went to roost, and they did not renew it till, by the recovery of the sun's light, they had recovered their former gaity and mirth."+ Souville, in his account of the eclipse of 1715, mentions the same thing. Until the year 1706, solar eclipses seem to have attracted no further attention than the observation of their ordinary * Phil. Trans., 1737, p. 134. † Wing's Astronomia Britannica, p. 355. + Phil. Trans., 1700, p. 624. VOL. XX.NO. XXXIX.

Shows from 2023 Main Shows from 2017. Main Shows from 2014 Shows from 2013. Shows with a Roundtable Format with various guests and co-hosts. Here you will find Seriah's appearances on other Radio Shows and Podcasts... Tim explores various strange stories in his podcast, Strange Familiars. This is where you can find the free edition of Steph's podcast. Additional episodes will be available on her membership site. Here you will find interviews with movie creators as well as our movie review shows. Here you can find stories from listeners and others who have had their own paranormal experiences. Exploring Ancient Egypt with the Brothers of the Serpent - Nov 27, 2021 Seriah hosts the Snake Brothers in a deep-dive conversation involving their recent trip to Egypt. Topics include alternative history and Egyptology, the Great Pyramid of Giza complex, difficulties in dating buildings and objects, "Pyramid Code", possible purposes for pyramid construction, astronomical alignment, unexplained underground tunnels and chambers, theories of pyramid building and modification, possible ancient sonic technology, lost civilizations, electrum and other mythical metals, fakery in Egyptology, political cover-ups, Antikythera mechanism, Zahi Abass Hawass, Christopher Dunn's idea of "The Giza Power Plant", architecture to create awe, psychological effects of physical surroundings, temples vs. pyramids, consciousness-altering and audio properties of the pyramids, an adventure in a water tank, the Egyptian military and its influence on Egyptology, unexplained holes and chambers, Ramesses II, and much more! This is a focused, yet surprisingly eclectic discussion! - Recap by Vincent Treewell Outro Music is Boxed Up Memories by Fifty Dollar Dynasty Snake Brothers Misisng People in the Smokies with Steve Stockton - Nov 20, 2021 Seriah welcomes researcher and author Steve Stockton. Topics include Cades Cove, locations that cannot be photographed, camera anomalies, magnetic irregularities in the Smokey Mountains, Sasquatch, feral human cannibals, Eric Rudolph, Dennis Martin disappearance, ginseng hunting, Appalachian cave systems, Key family encounter, Dwight McCarter, bizarre suicide of an FBI agent, missing people and the sudden onset of unusual weather, strange discrepancies in recovered bodies, boulder fields, Native American lore of rock creatures, the Bennington VT Triangle, David Paulides, maps of missing people, amnesia, "dogs" and "bears" who help missing children, Casey Hathaway, weird similarities amongst those who go missing, disappeared person from a bus, serial killers, Appalachian Trail, killings by animals, tree roots and corpses, portals, Timothy Renner and being Fey-led, a mysterious tree, strange lights in the woods, the Fairy Folk, paradoxical undressing, body temperature, Edd McKinley, unusual suicides, voluntarily missing people, Derek Joseph Lueking, Thelma Pauline Melton, old-time drivers license issues, Trenny Lynn Gibson, Laura Riste host of www.canadiangurl77.com, conspiracy in the assassination of President Lincoln, impersonators of famous criminals, bear attacks vs. plane crashes in the Great Smokies, bizarre weather phenomena, ghost stories, and much more! This is non-stop riveting conversation! Outro Music by Sax Myle. Steve Stockton Hunt Manual with Anthony Tyler - Nov 13, 2021 Seriah and Taylor Bell (of The Green Lion Podcast) interview journalist and author Anthony Tyler. Topics include esoterica, comparative religion, Forteana, Jungian philosophy, horror as an artistic genre, alternative storytelling, living in Alaska, true crime, Jacque Vallee, John Keel, Charles Fort, Manly P. Hall, empiricism vs. scientificism, Colin Wilson, Carl Jung's personal experiences with the paranormal, Jungian archetypes, the concept of shadow, Masonic allegory, memetics, flaws of New Age thinking, interaction between the objective and subjective, sleep paralysis, encountering entities in dreams, the nature of dreaming, releasing and purging tension, phantom-limb syndrome, Sandra Blakeslee and V. S. Ramachandran, balancing light and dark, shadow work, the necessity of challenges in life, poltergeist phenomenon, UFOs, the intersection of various paranormal phenomena, Dr. Richard Gallagher, exorcism and mental illness, aliens without the ETH, difficulties in present-day journalism, human vulnerabilities in space travel and exploration, break-away civilization hypothesis, astrology as a philosophy, the Great Platonic Year/Equinox Precession, the UFO as archetype, Erich von Däniken, hypnosis, cults, epilepsy and spiritual visions, serial killers, memes as metaphorical viruses, demonology as a metaphor for psychological/psychiatric issues, heuristic techniques, well-targeted skepticism, and much more! This is a wide-ranging, fascinating discussion that leaves the listener hungry for more! Outro Music by Mothers of Jupiter with Drop the Needle. Anthony Tyler Wandering the Road with Red Pill and Super Infra Man - Nov 6, 2021 Seriah is joined by Super Infra Man and Red Pill Junkie. A wide-ranging discussion ensues. Topics include hypnotic regression, remote viewing, anesthesia and its side-effects, false memories, channeling while in altered states of consciousness, DMT and other psychadelics, "The Spirit Molocule", past life regression and reincarnation, Dr. Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum, Seth, spiritual families that stay together through incarnations, anomalous memories and skills, Dr. Julia Assante, future life progressions, waiting rooms between incarnations, life-contracting and pre-incarnation choice, the nature of time, a paranormal experience involving foreknowledge and a video game, video game technology and the subculture of cheat codes, gaming pop culture, "Rabbits" podcast, "Hellier", synchronicities, card divination, Randonautica, "Tanis" podcast, re-booted Riddler/Zodiac Killer in next "Batman" movie, John Dee's scrying mirror's Aztec origins, Micah Hanks, Aztec deities and the fear of uncertainty, John E. L. Tenney, perspectives on length of life, the wit and wisdom of pro wrestlers, extremely ancient human-built structures, archeological anomalies in Oklahoma, lost history, time travel, Luis Elizondo, electro-magnetism, "The Electric Universe" theory, break-away civilizations, Charles Dellschau, Walter Bosley, Sonoma Aero Club, the theatrical performance aspect of the paranormal, Herbert Schirmer, Mike Clelland, exhaust from futurist power sources, George Knapp, and much more! This is one of my favorite types of episodes: wonderfully rambling in countless directions! Outro Music is The Day Fell by Meka Nism Red Pill Junkie Saxon Williams The Hidden Gateway with Jesston Williams - Oct 30, 2021 Seriah interviews experiencer, author, and podcaster Jesston Williams. Topics include meditation, societal transformation due to the pandemic, Robert Monroe and the Monroe Institute, Thomas Campbell, OBEs, psychic readings, telepathy, skydiving and overcoming fear, ayahuasca, Archangel Metatron, an orb experience, interactions with good and evil entities, an experience in the Pentecostal church, differing concepts of the Divine, a shamanic ayahuasca journey, universal oneness, fasting, the Gateway guided meditation, binaural beats, military intelligence and CIA interest in Robert Monroe, attempts at mapping the spiritual world, the concept of infinity, big bang vs. steady state theories of the universe, a life-changing astral encounter, the Sethian idea of spiritual family groups and reincarnation, retro-causality and connection, dreams, "lanes" of reality, fate and mission in life, the accelerating pace of change in society, irresponsible manipulation of the public by media corporations, the Tuskegee Experiment and other racist experimentation, Seriah's vision of an NDE, spirit-merging, a channeler-enabled encounter with an important historical figure, some extreme negative childhood experiences and life-transformation, and much more! This is a wide-ranging conversation that covers a lot of fascinating material! Outro Music by Eliza Rickman with "Now and Then" Jesston Williams The UFOlogy Tarot - Nov 8, 2021 Seriah hosts Greg Bishop, Red Pill Junkie (who maybe should now be known as Miguel-angelo), Joshua Cutchin, and Taylor Bell to discuss a very unique artistic project (in which Susan Demeter is also involved). Topics include Tarot, UFOlogy, Josef Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallée, Bob Lazar, Betty and Barney Hill, Whitley Strieber, synchronicity and serendipity in art, playfulness and enjoyment in UFOlogy, paranormal/occult/esoteric integration, open mindedness, "The Key", secret information in art, alchemical imagery, "Forbidden Knowledge" and "Forbidden Science", Grimerica podcast, "The Four Elements of Financial Alchemy: A New Formula for Personal Prosperity" by Jacque Vallee, magical squares, Pennsylvania German folk magick, "The Long Lost Friend", anagrams and the information they contain, the artistic process, gazing into the UFO abyss..., and much more! This is a special episode about a truly unique project! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufotarot/the-ufology-tarot Greg Bishop Joshua Cutchin Cinema Symbolism with Robert Sullivan - Oct 23, 2021 Seriah interviews researcher and author Robert W. Sullivan about hidden images and symbolism in film. Topics include the 9/11 terror attacks, information moving from future to past, unintentional prediction, alternative explanations of the twin towers collapse, life imitating art/art imitating life, archetypes; the films "Vanilla Sky", "The Matrix", "Fight Club", "Donnie Darko" and "The Patriot" containing synchronistic 9/11 imagery; Gnosticism in film, "The Simpsons", rap group The Coup's planned album cover, "The Lone Gunmen" episode predicting 9/11, the band Dream Theater's album release on 9/11/01, Donald Trump imagery appearing in film and TV, Platonism in creativity and art, "Midsommar", "Hereditary", director Ari Aster, "The Exorcist", numerology in film, Saint John's Day significance and references, allusions linking one movie to another, "The Wicker Man", Christopher Lee, "The Witch", director Robert Eggers, John Dee and Enochian magick, Anton LeVay and the Church of Satan, Michael Aquino and the Temple of Set, the Satanic Bible and the book "Might is Right", Satanic panic, false memories, the film "House of the Devil", alchemical cinema, occult casting, deep analysis of "Joker", "Black Swan", director Richard Kelly, "Donnie Darko", "Back to the Future", personal synchronicities in film, "S. Darko", "The Box", "Dark City", Valentinianism, Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber, Saint Albertus Magnus and AI, Saint Thomas Aquinas, the golem, Hermeticism, Giordano Bruno, mnemonic devices, the movie "Evilspeak", astronomical allegories, and much more! This is a fascinating discussion with a true cinephile who can identify a dizzying array of Easter eggs and references in numerous movies! Outro Music by Seasons of the Wolf with Reignite the Sun Robert W Sullivan IV Researching the Paranormal with Joshua and Taylor - Oct 28, 2021 Seriah welcomes Joshua Cutchin and Taylor Bell. Engaging discussion ensues, focusing around the hands-on techniques involved in doing paranormal research and content-creation. Topics include citing sources, the "paranormal web" of connected subjects, Indo-European horse sacrifice, choosing and narrowing topics, communicating to audiences with varying levels of knowledge, endnotes, spoken vs. written material, witness testimony, evaluating sources, bibliography requirements, apocryphal stories, multiple pillars of support for researching a paranormal topic, authenticity, Graham Hancock, accessing library and archival resources, locating the context of a quote, "Communion" and the Gray Face, serendipitous book finds, speculative non-fiction, high strangeness, reports from Eastern Europe circa the collapse of the Soviet empire, examining subjective experiences, replicating themes in paranormal reports, mytho-poetic similarities, post-modernism, gnosis, the real/unreal binary, the Fortean concept of societal dominants, Terrence McKenna, "Timewave Zero", 2012, 2016, acceleration of societal change, Yuga cycle, cyclical change vs. evolutionary progress, reincarnation, Darwinism, memory palaces, monuments in America vs. Ireland, fate and effort, tantra, changing book prices online, manipulation of "best seller" status, algorithms, problems with consumer polling, internet privacy dangers, online image searching, crowdsourcing, "Don't F*ck With Cats", internet-driven vigilantism, SWATing, alien-human hybrids, recognizing biases, Star Wars, pre-incarnation memories and memories of time spent unborn, reptilians, an anthropological approach to the paranormal, underground bases and underground Fairy Folk, conspiracy theories and their origins, "gazing into the abyss", the economic realities of an artistic career, creative destruction, societal effects of the pandemic, practical advice for would-be creative producers, and much more! This is an engrossing conversation between three very different artists immersed in the paranormal! Recap by Vincent Treewell Kundalini and High Strangeness - Oct 16, 2021 Seriah interviews Lindsay on a deep dive into her kundalini experiences. Topics include meditation, a shadow person, the "red glowing eyes effect", chakras, uncontrollable bursts of energy in the body, hot and cold symptoms, OBEs and the silver cord, the 3 knots, energy blocks, psychological issues, transfers of information by touch, a transparent apparition, entities who seem surprised to be seen by humans, a mechanical cuckoo/strange sphere experience, an oddly behaving static globe, electrical phenomenon, the SLI "slider" phenomena, kundalini effecting vehicles, pulsation experiences, strange sounds and voices, distant transmissions of words, the brain's role as filter, universal energy field theory, empathy, Jane Roberts channeling Seth, reincarnation, intuition, energy attracting strangers, encounters with a strange shape-shifting animal, black dog phenomenon, and much more! Outro Music is Mouth of God by Meka-Nism Ghosts of Atlantis: Part 2 with JD Kenyon - Oct 9, 2021 Seriah interviews author, researcher, and long-time "Atlantis Rising" publisher J. Douglas Kenyon. Topics include decay of stars, crystals, Kurt Vonnegut, Neanderthals, Colin Wilson, Stan Gooch, the Carpathian Sphinx, Dr. Robert Schoch, Romanian and central European esoterica, Atlantis and the historical Jesus, parallels between Christianity and ancient Egyptian religion, Atlantis as a global socio-political order, Plato, Minoan civilization, end of the last ice age, Rose and Rand Flem-Ath, Charles Hapgood, ancient maps, Antarctica, alignment of ancient temples, pole shifts, Scott Creighton, live organisms in Antarctica ice cores, the Caribbean, Edgar Cayce, Dr. Greg and Lora Little, the Bimini Road, Pauline Zalitzki, ocean floor formations off of Cuba, sunken ruins near India and Indonesia, alleged "Bosnian Pyramids", Japanese "Yonaguni" structures, Graham Hancock, extremely ancient petrified wheel ruts, Dr. Alexander Koltypin, Malta, Gobekli Tepe, multi-level underground structures in Turkey, Incan monuments and older civilizations, structures on Mars, Richard C. Hoagland, Dr. John Brandenburg, nuclear war on Mars, possible destroyed planet between Mars and Jupitor, cosmic catastrophism, Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact, Dr. Avi Loeb and Oumuamua object, crop circles, Australian "saucer nests", fakery and media, Andrew Colllins, academic/scientific peer review and its problems, bias on Wikipedia, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Dr. Luc Montagnier, homeopathy, holy water, morphic resonance, "Eye of Africa" formation, cyclical climate of the Sahara, Jimmy Bright, Edgar Cayce's hall(s) of records, alternative Egyptology, reincarnation, Association for Research and Enlightenment, the "Forbidden" series of books, and more. This is entrancing discussion that connects to so many subjects! Outro Music is War by High Council J Douglas Kenyon Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /homepages/34/d161588478/htdocs/WDTRG/new/templates/gk_rockwall/html/com_k2/templates/default/category.php on line 191

EIGD 2014 – Post Eventum 30 November 2014 120 That's it, the EIGD (European Indie Game Days) 2014 are already over. Was it a good event? Indeed it was! I'm gonna tell you all about it, but first, why not put some music on, maybe some Sista M tunes : A very dense event EIGD's third edition has been occuring in Montreuil (near Paris, France), on novembre 27th and 28th, and I was there, with about 200 other participants, most of them independant game developers, artists, game designers etc. Other trades were also present, from finance to marketing, and everything in between, like middleware and technical solutions… It was quite a dense event: during the span of two days, something like fifteen talks and panels followed one another. The pace was thus pretty frantic. Sometimes, one has to make choices – not because two talks occur at the same time (it nevers happens), but because one has to decide between listening to a talk or show one's game to a potential partner, another dev, etc. Contrary to what I did for last year's event, I came this year to the EIGD with a well advanced project and a playable demo, so I tried to make playtest sessions and opportunities for feedback and advices a priority, and I don't really regret it. Many meetings I had the pleasure of presenting our game to various superstars from the industry, including Frédérick Raynal (Alone in the Dark, 2Dark…), Rami Ismail of Vlambeer (Super Crate Box, Ridiculous Fishing, Nuclear Throne…), Alex Houdent (Globz), Sos Sosowski (Mc Pixel…), Zuraïda Buter (Global Game Jam, and many other things), or Thierry Platon (EIGD's organizer). It's clearly a big opportunity, being able to gather the opinions and advices from so many talented persons, even more so when their feedback has been positive and encouraging, and their critics relevant and useful. The concentration of Game Designers in the event was also significant. Same with game journalists. I thus made not only a nice loot of advices, but also harvested lots of contacts. It all translated to many playtest notes that I still have to sort and implement, now that my sobriety is slowly coming back to me (the EIGD is also a very festive and convivial event, once the talks are over…) Pitching QLRZ The last part of the event was a Pitch My Game session, during wich I had to be brave and go onstage to present QLRZ with microphone, giant screen projection and all that jazz. I can't say it was a pleasant moment for me, because of the panic I tend to experiment when being in front of an audience of more than one or two persons. But I did survive, and hope I'll do better next time, by talking louder, and pacing myself more. With that being said, the feedback on that part was also quite positive: @QlRZgame un puzzle game coloré et bien rythmé #EIGD2014 #PitchMyGame pic.twitter.com/VubYc4Wsy5 — yaki_ (@yaki_) November 28, 2014 About the talks and panels, I particularly liked the "10 minutes for an engine" panel, that presented a few game development frameworks and solutions. Each participant had made a different choice, and it translated into a very instructive and lively discussion about the strength and weaknesses of each. The "Design a game for Oculus Rift" was also very interesting, although the discussion seemed to materialize only towards the end ; there obviously was still a lot to be said about these new devices and the VR technology, even though it's already an old pursuit of our industry, more than 20 years in the making, it's still in the early stages of its development. I also liked the opportunity that was given between talks to test the devices, an experience I recommend. Another recommendation, if you happen to make games, is that you come to next year's EIGD! Our news for November 2014 Hey QLRZ, what's kickin'? – we'll demo our game on november 18th at the Robin des Jeux games store – QLRZ is part of the European Indie Game Days Awards 2014's selection. You can vote for us (and other games) on their website : http://www.eigd.org/fr/content/qlrz. Votes are opened until november 24th. – QLRZ will be available for demo / test during this year's EIGD (27 and 28 november 2014 in Montreuil, France. All the info is at http://www.eigd.org/, don't fret and come say hello! – we've also been selected to present the game at the november 28th's Pitch My Game. It's a free event where you can discover the next videogames hits. Again, all the information you need is at Pitch My Game QLRZ (colorz) an early access video game QLRZ on Nolife TV New trailer for the release of QLRZ (colorz) early access QLRZ early access available on itch.io QLRZ, now responsive for all screen sizes

Alex Hay and Robert Rauschenberg in Grass Field, 1966. In 1947, Robert Rauschenberg studied at the Académie Julian, in Paris, before returning to the United States the following year to pursue his studies at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, with painter Joseph Albers (1948-49). There, he also formed friendships with John Cage and David Tudor. He then moved to New York City, where he attended the Art Student League from 1949 to 1951. In the second half of that decade, he created the series of "combines" works, building a bridge between abstract expressionism and the Pop-art movement. Along with his pictorial work, Rauschenberg designed costumes and sets for many choreographers (including Merce Cunningham). In the 1960's, his activities became even more diversified, and he joined the Judson Dance Theatre – first as set designer, then as choreographer. During the same period, Rauschenberg experimented with the use of electronics in his art (Oracle, 1962-65, Soundings, Solstice, 1968, Mud Muse, 1968-71). These works incorporated the technical expertise of engineers Per Biorn, Billy Klüver, and Robby Robinson, who were then working at Bell Telephone Laboratories (Murray Hill, N.J., U.S.). In 1966, after his participation in 9 Evenings, he co-founded Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) with Billy Klüver, Fred Waldhauer, and the artist Robert Whitman. This non-profit organization aimed to promote cooperation between scientists, artists, and engineers on projects involving players from each of those sectors. In the 1970's, Rauschenberg concentrated primarily on lithography. In the 1980's and 1990's, he devoted his attention, through his Foundation, to philanthropic activities, offering financial assistance to artists, protecting the environment, and fighting poverty. Since his first retrospective at the Jewish Museum in 1961, his work has been featured in many individual exhibitions in both the United States and Europe. Robert Rauschenberg died in May 2008 at his home on Captiva Island (Florida). He was 82. Open Score brought together two of Robert Rauschenberg's concerns in the 1960s: technology and performance. In 1965, Billy Klüver sought the expertise of some 30 engineers at Bell Labs, requesting that they participate in an project blending avant-garde theatre, dance and new technologies.

The government may try to put in place rules to check tax evasion but trust ingenious businessmen to come up with ways to beat it. That's precisely what's happening with goods and services tax (GST), where protests by traders have forced the government to go slow on enforcing several elements, such as matching of sales and purchase invoices and electronic way bill, that were meant to plug evasion. NEW DELHI: The government may try to put in place rules to check tax evasion but trust ingenious businessmen to come up with ways to beat it. That's precisely what's happening with goods and services tax (GST), where protests by traders have forced the government to go slow on enforcing several elements, such as matching of sales and purchase invoices and electronic way bill, that were meant to plug evasion. When it comes to trucks, several businessmen based in Surat seem to have perfected the art. Industry players said that sari traders often use the same set of invoices to ship goods thrice to Delhi. "I don't know why it's three times but it is an industry norm," said a tax consultant. A senior official acknowledged the massive use of kutcha and pucca invoices with the latter destroyed if tax authorities do not check a truck on the way. While leakages are one part of the story, another is misuse of tax credits, where Delhi seems to have taken the lead with what is known as "bill to one and shift to another". This is a racket involving fake invoices that are generated in favour of entities that want to take input tax credit, while those who don't need the benefit charging a premium. A tax official said that in case of construction, steel is prone to this kind of misuse with Faridabad being a major centre.

This article is out of date, please refer to zk-mvvm-book/8.0/data_binding/advanced/displaying_huge_amount_of_data for more up to date information. When we display data with data components (Listbox or Grid), we may create a model object which contains all data for a data component. But sometimes the time to query all data from a database is unbearable long. Under this situation, we cannot put all data in the model object at one time. The model object should query a small group of data each time which are required by the component's rendering. We now demonstrate a custom ListModel implementation which only queries a small size of data a time instead of all data in this section. Assume we are going to display large amount of personal information in a Listbox. Because there are too many of them, they cannot be displayed at one time. One way is set "rows" to limit the visible rows, and another way is to use "paging" mold. As querying all data is time-consuming, we need to implement a custom ListModel for the Listbox. This custom ListModel contains no data at the beginning, it queries data from a database until each time the Listbox request the data from it. Because we have limited visible rows, when a Listbox renders its Listitems, it only gets part of data for those visible rows instead of all data. During one execution, Listbox will call ListModel.getElememtAt(int index) several times to get a range of data it requires for rendering. To avoid performing one query for each getElementAt() calling, we query a page size of data and store it as the execution's attribute at the first getElementAt() calling. In the subsequent callings, we just get the item from the cache without querying to a database. This implementation reduces query time drastically and user still can browse all data. Thus this implementation solves the problem and works fine under Listbox's paging or default mold. //we only reuse this cache in one execution to avoid accessing detached objects. Line 1: We can create our ListModel class based on AbstractListModel in most cases without implementing from scratch. Line 3: The personDao is a Data Access Object which queries data from a database. Line 16-22: It queries one page size of data and put them into a cache object. Line 37: This method gets cache object from execution's attribute. If no exist, put a new one. This page was last modified on 28 May 2015, at 07:26.

Tween dresses are a popular clothing choice for young girls. Many tweens enjoy dressing up, either for a special event or just for fun. There are lots of different dress patterns, colors, and styles to choose from when shopping for teen or tween dresses. Black and white is an excellent choice for any event, especially for more formal occasions. While it is a simple color combination, black and white is always in style. Hats can also add a cute touch to an outfit. Blue dresses are another good choice for a dress. Light blues are fun and cute for young girls, and darker, deeper blues are perfect for a more elegant look. It is a good color to bring out blue or green eyes as well. Finding that perfect dress for your formal event can seem like a daunting task. When you go dress shopping for the first time, it might help to take an adult or friend with you to help you choose the dress that looks best on you. It should be easy to find a dress that matches your style, whether you like bright and bold colors, or dark and mysterious pictures. Pink is a fun and feminine color that many girls like to choose for dresses. Tweens who love pink will adore a pink dress, and there are many different styles available. Dresses in natural colors are a good way to bring out your features, especially if you have brown eyes or hair. Browns, dark greens, and even some darker blues are all good natural colors to choose from. In the summer, many tween and teen girls like to wear dresses that have cute and fun patterns on them. Stripes are always a good option, whether they are horizontal or vertical. Wearing a sun dress over a bathing suit is also a popular summertime style. Getting your first homecoming dress can be a little scary at first. When you are going to your first school dance, you might be worried about what to tween dress to wear, who to go with, or what to do once you get there, but don't worry too much. Once you get there, you will enjoy it, no matter how worried you were.

What year did christianity originate When did Christianity arrive? Christianity was introduced to North America as it was colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. What year did religion begin? This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,220 years ago (3200 BC). The prehistory of religion involves the study of religious beliefs that existed prior to the advent of written records. What religion did Christianity grow from? Christianity grew out of Jewish traditions and was shaped by Roman cultural and political structures for several centuries. To take one lasting example, the head of the Roman Catholic Church—the Pope—takes his title from the old Roman office of pontifex maximus—the high priest. When did Christianity start in Africa? Christianity first arrived in North Africa , in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was brought from Jerusalem to Alexandria on the Egyptian coast by Mark, one of the four evangelists, in 60 AD. Who started Christianity? How did Christianity enter Britain? We tend to associate the arrival of Christianity in Britain with the mission of Augustine in 597 AD. It began when Roman artisans and traders arriving in Britain spread the story of Jesus along with stories of their Pagan deities. You might be interested: Christianity sects created over time What was before Christianity? Late Antiquity and Christianization As Christianity emerged from Second Temple Judaism (or Hellenistic Judaism), it stood in competition with other religions advocating pagan monotheism, including the cults of Dionysus, Neoplatonism, Mithraism, Gnosticism, and Manichaeanism. Is Christianity the oldest religion? 'Islam is the oldest religion in the world, founded by Adam, and it was reborn with Abraham and a second time with Muhammad. Between Abraham and Muhammad, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity emerged in this order. Then Sikhism emerged after the time of Muhammad. These are the six world religions . Is Christianity in the Bible? The first recorded use of the term (or its cognates in other languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11 after Barnabas brought Saul (Paul) to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says: "[] the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." (Acts 11:26). Who spread Christianity? After Jesus , the two most significant figures in Christianity are the apostles Peter and Paul /Saul. Paul, in particular, takes a leading role in spreading the teachings of Jesus to Gentiles (non Jews) in the Roman Empire . Did the Romans believe in Jesus? To the Romans , Jesus was a troublemaker who had got his just desserts. To the Christians, however, he was a martyr and it was soon clear that the execution had made Judaea even more unstable. Pontius Pilate – the Roman governor of Judaea and the man who ordered the crucifixion – was ordered home in disgrace. Did Christianity start in Ethiopia? Christianity was introduced to Ethiopia in the 4th century, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (called Tewahdo in Ethiopia ) is one of the oldest organized Christian bodies in the world. You might be interested: What countries practice christianity Who is God in African traditional religion? God is experienced as an all-pervading reality. He is the constant participant in the affairs of human beings. Scholars who study religion in Africa tell us that all African societies have a belief in God . This paper aims at an indepth study of these beliefs . What was the original religion of Africa? Christianity came first to the continent of Africa in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. Oral tradition says the first Muslims appeared while the prophet Mohammed was still alive (he died in 632). Thus both religions have been on the continent of Africa for over 1,300 years. Where do christianity come from How do you know christianity is the right religion

Cystoscopy & Urodynamic clinics GP Seminars The Urology Practice Bladder cancer (transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder) is the second most common urological cancer in adults. Condition – Bladder Cancer It occurs more commonly in men and is often associated with cigarette smoking. Other risk factors include exposure to certain industrial chemicals, namely aromatic amines, often used in the printing and rubber industry. Haematuria (blood in the urine) is the most common presenting symptom in patients with bladder cancer. The bleeding may be seen with the naked eye or only found when the urine is examined under the microscope. Irritative voiding symptoms such as burning, frequent and urgent urination can also result from bladder cancer. If you complain of any of these symptoms your doctor may ask you to have a number of investigations to determine a cause for the symptoms. Such tests may include: Urine microscopy and culture – to confirm the presence of blood and to exclude an underlying urinary tract infection Urine cytology – this involves the microscopic evaluation of the urine looking specifically for any cancer cells Intravenous pyelogram (IVP) – this is a dye study, that is very good at looking at the inside of the kidneys, at the tubes that drain urine from the kidney to the bladder (called the ureters), and at the bladder itself Cystoscopy – this involves a very small fibre-optic scope being passed through the urethra into the bladder. This very simple test can be done as an outpatient using a local anaesthetic gel injected into the urethra. This test is essential in any patient with blood in the urine in order to thoroughly evaluate the bladder Bladder biopsy – if any abnormality is seen in the bladder a small piece of tissue can be taken and sent to the pathologist for examination Transurethral resection (TUR) – if the urologist sees a tumour on cystoscopy it can be removed via the cystoscope. Usually, this can only be done under a general anaesthetic. Once again the tissue is sent to the pathologist. For many patients this is the only treatment their cancer will need. Once the diagnosis of bladder cancer is made, your doctor will order a number of investigations to ensure that the cancer has not spread to anywhere else in the body. These may include a CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis, a chest Xray or CT scan of the chest, liver function tests and rarely an MRI scan. TNM Classification of Bladder Cancer The TNM staging system classifies bladder cancers based on 3 key pieces of information: The letter T is followed by numbers and/or letters to describe how far the main (primary) tumorhas grown through the bladder wall and whether it has grown into nearby tissues. Higher T numbers mean more extensive growth. The letter N is followed by a number from 0 to 3 to indicate any cancer spread to lymph nodesnear the bladder. Lymph nodes are bean-sized collections of immune system cells, to which cancers often spread first. The letter M is followed by 0 or 1 to indicate whether or not the cancer has spread (metastasized) to distant sites, such as other organs or lymph nodes that are not near the bladder. Once the T, N, and M categories have been determined, this information is combined to find the overall cancer stage. Bladder cancer stages are defined using 0 and the Roman numerals I to IV (1 to 4). Stage 0 is the earliest stage, while stage IV is the most advanced. Treatment – Bladder Cancer Treatment options for superficial bladder cancer: Cystoscopy and diathermy of the tumour Transurethral resection of the bladder tumour (TURBT) Intravesical therapy Treatment options for advanced bladder cancer: Combination chemotherapy and radiotherapy Small tumours can easily be destroyed by heat delivered by either an electro-cautery device or laser fibre, similar to many superficial skin cancers. These instruments are passed into the bladder through a tiny channel within the cystoscope. Larger tumours are usually completely resected using a curved endoscopic loop passed through the cystoscope. The tissue is removed from the bladder and sent to the pathologist for diagnosis. Often a urethral catheter is placed into the bladder for a time, to ensure there is no significant bleeding. Certain drugs can be placed into the bladder via a catheter to coat the lining of the bladder and help reduce the risk of recurrence of the tumour and its progression. The most commonly used drugs include Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and Mitomycin C. The drugs delivered this way are not associated with the side effects commonly seen with chemotherapy. Unfortunately, for those patients who have had one bladder cancer, up to 70% of them will develop a recurrent tumour. Therefore, it is imperative that these patients are diligently followed-up with regular check cystoscopies. These can be done under local anaesthetic and are usually performed at 3 monthly intervals in the first year, 4 monthly intervals in the second year, 6 monthly for the third and once a year thereafter. A surgeon passes a telescopic instrument into the bladder via the urethra. The bladder wall and openings to the ureters can then be examined through a scope while filling the bladder with water. Any bladder cancer detected can then be removed surgically by the surgeon. Treatment option for superficial Bladder Cancer. With intravesical therapy, the doctor puts the drug directly into the bladder (through a catheter) rather than giving it by mouth or injecting it into a vein. This may be either immunotherapy, which causes the body's own immune system to attack the cancer cells, or chemotherapy. Medicines given this way mainly affect the cells lining the bladder, with little to no effect on cells elsewhere. This means that any cancer cells outside of the bladder lining, including those that have grown deeply into the bladder wall, are not treated. Drugs put into the bladder also can't reach cancer cells in the kidneys, ureters, and urethra, or those that have spread to other organs. Cystectomy involves the complete removal of the bladder and in the male patient removal of the prostate and seminal vesicles as well. In the female the uterus and tubes are also removed. Obviously once the bladder is removed, the drainage of urine needs to be addressed. Reconstructive techniques used include: Ileal conduit Continent cutaneous reservoir Orthotopic bladder substitution Essentially, in these operations a segment of bowel is harvested and isolated from the intetsine. The ureters are connected to one end and the other drains to the skin (stoma) and empties into a bag, in the case of an ileal conduit, into a reservoir of bowel with a stoma that is catheterizable, in the case of the continent cutaneous reservoir and finally into a new bladder fashioned out of the bowel and is connected to the patients own urethra allowing normal micturition in the case of bladder substitution. Radiation therapy can be used to treat muscle invasive bladder cancer as well, either in isolation or more commonly nowadays in combination with chemotherapy. Multiple chemotherapeutic agents are used together with the radiation therapy. This prolonged treatment course can give results approaching those of surgery in terms of curing the cancer. Treatment options for advanced Bladder Cancer. Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill or slow the growth of cancer cells. Chemotherapy drugs are also called cytotoxics, which means poisonous (toxic) to cells (cyto). Many of these drugs are obtained from natural sources such as plants, while others are completely developed in the laboratory. There are many types of chemotherapy drugs, which are often used in different combinations and at different strengths. All treatment options are associated with differing risks and benefits. Patients with bladder cancer are best served when managed in units where multidisciplinary clinics are available so as to offer each individual patient the best treatment option for both their cancer and themselves. 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Hans Pölkow (* 1935 in Rostock; † 13. November 2021 ebenda) war ein deutscher Fotograf. Leben Von 1954 bis 1955 war Hans Pölkow Praktikant am Städtischen Museum Rostock. Daran anschließend absolvierte er bis 1956 ein Volontariat bei der CDU-Regionalzeitung "Der Demokrat" in Rostock. Es folgte bis 1961 ein Studium der Kunstgeschichte und Theaterwissenschaften in Rostock und Berlin. Während dieser Zeit arbeitete Hans Pölkow bereits als Kulturjournalist, Kunstkritiker und Fotograf in Berlin. Seit dem Studium war er freischaffend tätig. Er arbeitete für Printmedien, Buchverlage, Museen, Galerien und den Rundfunk. Den Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeiten legte Pölkow neben Landschaftsaufnahmen, Stillleben und Aktfotografien auf die Porträtfotografie. 2002 verlegte Pölkow seinen Lebensmittelpunkt nach Sarmstorf bei Güstrow. 2017 wurde Hans Pölkow der Hauptpreis des Kulturpreises des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern verliehen. Einzelnachweise Fotograf (20. Jahrhundert) Fotograf (21. Jahrhundert) Fotograf (DDR) Fotograf (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) Porträtfotograf Bildender Künstler (Rostock) DDR-Bürger Deutscher Geboren 1935 Gestorben 2021 Mann

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One of the most common preconceptions about an assisted living community is that seniors in an assisted living program are restricted by their residence or the support staff in the community. Assisted living residents are free to do whatever suits them, from playing musical instruments, to working on art, watching movies, and really engaging in whatever kinds of things they would be interested in if they weren't living in an assisted living community. Support staff and communities are actually very carefully designed to ensure that residents are free to do whatever they like as if they were living in their own home or private residence off the property. What an assisted living community does is recreate everything that a person enjoys about their home - having their own space, being comfortable, having privacy, and spending their free time doing whatever they choose. Support staff and the amenities of the community are there to serve the resident, making life easier for them and taking any cumbersome tasks off of their hands like laundry, housekeeping, and cooking. These are chores for people at any age, and assisted living handles these chores for residents so they can relax, rest, and indulge in their favorite activities. Now, with a more luxury and upscale community like Ventura Townehouse, we go over the top by providing exceptional amenities and support across the entire community. This can be seen in things like our music room, exercise spaces, our tastefully appointed personal residences with assorted floor plans to choose from, and our restaurant level fine dining program. As a modern assisted living community, we've thought of everything we would want in a home and built it into a comfortable, charming atmosphere that our residents love. We'd love to give you a tour of our community or host you for lunch. Previous Previous post: Did you know United States Veterans are eligible for assisted living? Next Next post: Did You Know Our Independent and Assisted Living Programs Are Dog Friendly?

Middlesbrough have made their third signing of the summer with the transfer of Marten De Roon from Atalanta. The 25-year-old Dutch defensive midfielder has moved to Teesside for an undisclosed fee. De Roon moved to Serie A last season from Heerenveen, playing all but two matches for the Bergamo side. He is Boro manager Aitor Karanka's third signing of the summer after Viktor Fischer and Bernardo Espinosa. Middlesbrough's pre-season training began this week ahead of their first friendly, at York City on 9 July. The Teessiders' first Premier League match in seven years will be when they host Stoke City on 13 August, before a North East derby at Sunderland.

Benoit Blin, French chef patissier at Raymond Blanc's Belmond Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons ‒ and one of a trio of high-profile judges on the new eight-episode show – said that the programme would encourage new pastry chefs to come forward, and promote the skills of existing chefs. He also commented that the show's presenter, two-Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge, had been as enthusiastic as a "little kid" during filming, and had been fascinated by the precision demanded by the pastry chefs. Bake Off: Crème de la Crème is set to begin this evening, and is a high-end professional spin off to the wildly popular Great British Bake Off, presented by Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, and judged by TV cook Mary Berry and baker Paul Hollywood. Its other judges are Cherish Finden, executive pastry chef at the Langham hotel; and Claire Clark, pastry chef and pastry consultant to supermarkets, restaurants and hotels across the country.

Rirkrit Tiravanija (tailandés: ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช, pronunciación: [rɯk-rit tira-wanit] o Tea-rah-vah-nit) (1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) es un artista contemporáneo que reside en Ciudad de Nueva York, Berlín, y Chiang Mai. Es profesor en la Escuela de las Artes en la Universidad de Columbia. Sus instalaciones toman la forma de habitaciones en donde se comparte comida, se cocina, se lee o juega;, la arquitectura o estructuras para socializar es un elemento base en su trabajo. Es representado, en México, por la galería kurimanzutto. Biografía Nació en Buenos Aires, ha vivido en Tailandia, Etiopía, y Canadá. Inicialmente estudió historia en Carleton Universidad, posteriormente estudió en la Universidad de Arte de Ontario, la Escuela del Instituto de Arte de Chicago, y en el Museo Whitney de Arte Estadounidense. Obra Proyectos artísticos Sus exposiciones están frecuentemente basadas en la interacción y el intercambio entre los participantes. Algunos y algunas espectadoras, como estudiantes que vivieron en Untitled 1999, una recreación del departamento de Tiravanija en East Village, se mudaron ahí el tiempo que duró la exposición. En 2005 en una exposición en la Galería de Serpentina, Londres, presentó réplicas de este apartamento, completo con cocina, baño, y dormitorio. Proyectos curatoriales Fue co-curator del proyecto de Station Utopia en la Bienal de Venecia en 2003. En 1998, co-fundó con Kamin Lerdchaiprasert el proyecto educativo colaborativo The Land Foundation que combina intervenciones de arte contemporáneo y valores tradicionales agrícolas. Es parte de una galería alternativa Gallery VER localizada en Bangkok. Exposiciones Su trabajo ha sido presentado ampliamente en museos y galerías: Drawing Center, Nueva York (2008); Musée d'Arte Moderne de la Ville de París (2005); Galería de Serpentina, Londres (2005); Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2003); Secesión, Viena (2002); Portikus, Fráncfort (2001); Centro para Arte Contemporáneo, Kitakyushu, Japón (2000); Museo de Condado del Los Ángeles de Arte (1999); y el Museo de Arte Moderno, Nueva York (1997). Reconocimientos Premio de la Gordon Matta Clark Foundation (1993) Premio a la Competencia de la Bienal de la Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial (1993) Beca del National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist (1994) Premio Benesse por el Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan Premio Lucelia del Smithsonian American Art Museum (2003) Premio Hugo Boss de la Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum en New York (2004). Referencias Enlaces externos Sitio web oficial En la Base de datos de Película del Internet Rirkrit Tiravanija En Pilar Corrias Galería, Londres Artistas de Argentina Artistas de instalaciones Personas vivas Porteños Artistas de Tailandia Tailandeses del siglo XX Tailandeses del siglo XXI

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Traits of Mentally Strong People Sucharita Mishra Entrepreneurship is a kind of job which takes a toll on your mind. Hence, only people who are mentally strong survive the crazy business world. Here are some traits which mentally strong people showcase, which anyone dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur should inculcate. 1) Avoid feeling sorry for themselves Whenever you try something new, there is always a risk of failing. In such cases, many people tend to feel bad about themselves and start comparing their lives to others' lives. However, a person who is mentally strong, instead of feeling sorry, tries to learn something from the circumstances in which they are. Instead of dwelling on their mistakes and failures, they take the lessons learned from them and try to better their future endeavors. Arianna Huffington, the founder of the Huffington Post, had her books rejected 36 times before getting it published. Even with the continuous failures, Huffington did not give up on her dreams and now is considered one of the most influential women in the world. 2) Have the ability to say no According to a research study, people who lack the ability to say no to others are likely to suffer from anxiety, stress and depression. Mentally strong people know the importance of saying no when the situation calls for it. They are equipped with confidence and foresights to distinguish which task it is to which they should say no. They give priority to their previous commitments by saying no to any new ones. Such determination helps them become successful. The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, always stresses on how saying no creates successful people. He himself follows the rule by saying no to most social gatherings and uses the time to do activities which he believes are productive and contribute to his life. 3) Embracing change Mentally strong people have the ability to embrace change. They are flexible and are able to adapt to any kind of change which comes their way. They always have a plan of action for cases where any kind of change occurs. They recognize the opportunities created by such changes and try to capitalize on them, in turn making them more successful. When famous inventor Thomas Edison's factory burned down in a fire in 1914, it destroyed some unique prototypes. However, instead of stressing about the damage, Edison, who was 67 at the time, embraced the change by saying all his failures and mistakes burned down but he would start over again the next day, which he did. He quickly started working on reconstruction plans with his employees the next day and did not back down. Six months later, he gave a demonstration of a new invention, a battery driven light source. Edison had come up with the idea of this invention and design while watching the firefighters douse the fire at his laboratory with difficulty due to lack of power and light. 4) They have a positive attitude The most important trait of mentally strong people is they have a positive attitude. Whether it is a successful pitch to investors, failing economics or a failed business, people with strong mentality don't lose their optimism when faced with such difficulties. Instead of feeling like a failure, they try to find alternative methods to forward their careers. Kathryn Minshew, the co founder of The Muse, even after losing access to her website PYP Media and the savings she invested in it, did not lose her positive attitude. She took the failure as a lesson and went on to create the website The Muse by working alongside team members of her previous company. 5) Practice delayed gratification Resisting any kind of temptation requires a strong determination. Mentally strong people understand great things happen to those who wait. Many people hope to achieve more faster and without any effort. However, mentally strong people know the results of your efforts come with time and hard work. LinkedIn co founder Reid Hoffman founded a social networking site which ultimately failed. Even after facing such failure, Hoffman didn't stop and eventually built one of the most famous and successful websites in the world, LinkedIn. Did we miss any other traits of mentally strong people? Comment below and let us know. Related Topics:2019 Best Inspirational Story 2019Characteristics of Mentally Strong PeopleEmotionally Strong PeopleFeaturedMental StrengthMentally Strong PeopleMentally Strong QuotesMentally Tough Peoplestartup storiesTraits of Mentally Strong People Lessons Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From Shark Tank Traits To Look For In A Mentor

Consolidation Period: From June 23, 2011 to the e-Laws currency date. Last amendment: O. Reg. 283/11. "witness officer" means a police officer who, in the opinion of the SIU director, is involved in the incident under investigation but is not a subject officer. ("agent témoin") O. Reg. 267/10, s. 1 (1). (2) The SIU director may designate an SIU investigator to act in his or her place and to have all the powers and duties of the SIU director under this Regulation and, if the SIU director appoints a designate, any reference to the SIU director in this Regulation, excluding this subsection, means the SIU director or his or her designate. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 1 (2). (c) if the person was so appointed by a member of a board, a member of the municipal police force for which the board is responsible. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 1 (3). (4) A police officer appointed under the Interprovincial Policing Act, 2009 shall comply with all directions given to him or her for the purposes of this Regulation by the chief of police of the police force of which the officer is deemed to be a member or by the designate of that chief of police appointed under subsection 2 (1). O. Reg. 267/10, s. 1 (4). 2. (1) The chief of police may designate a member of the police force who is not a subject officer or witness officer in the incident to act in the place of the chief of police and to have all the powers and duties of the chief of police in any matter respecting an incident under investigation by the SIU. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 2 (1). (2) If the chief of police appoints a designate under subsection (1), any reference to the chief of police in this Regulation, excluding this section, means the chief of police or his or her designate. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 2 (2). (3) The person appointed under subsection (1) must be a senior officer. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 2 (3). 3. A chief of police shall notify the SIU immediately of an incident involving one or more of his or her police officers that may reasonably be considered to fall within the investigative mandate of the SIU, as set out in subsection 113 (5) of the Act. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 3. 4. The chief of police shall ensure that, pending the SIU taking charge of the scene of the incident, the police force secures the scene in a manner consistent with all standing orders, policies and usual practice of the police force for serious incidents. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 4. 6. (1) The chief of police shall, to the extent that it is practicable, segregate all the police officers involved in the incident from each other until after the SIU has completed its interviews. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 6 (1). (2) A police officer involved in the incident shall not communicate with any other police officer involved in the incident concerning their involvement in the incident until after the SIU has completed its interviews. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 6 (2). Note: On August 1, 2011, subsection (2) is amended by striking out "shall not communicate with any other police officer" and substituting "shall not communicate directly or indirectly with any other police officer". See: O. Reg. 283/11, ss. 1, 4. 7. (1) Subject to subsection (2), every police officer is entitled to consult with legal counsel or a representative of a police association and to have legal counsel or a representative of a police association present during his or her interview with the SIU. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 7 (1). (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if, in the opinion of the SIU director, waiting for legal counsel or a representative of a police association would cause an unreasonable delay in the investigation. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 7 (2). Note: On August 1, 2011, section 7 is amended by adding the following subsection:(3) Witness officers may not be represented by the same legal counsel as subject officers. O. Reg. 283/11, s. 2.See: O. Reg. 283/11, ss. 2, 4. 8. (1)Subject to subsections (2) and (5) and section 10, immediately upon receiving a request for an interview by the SIU, and no later than 24 hours after the request if there are appropriate grounds for delay, a witness officer shall meet with the SIU and answer all its questions. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 8 (1). (2) A request for an interview by the SIU must be made in person. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 8 (2). (3) The SIU shall cause the interview to be recorded and shall give a copy of the record to the witness officer as soon as it is available. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 8 (3). (4) The interview shall not be recorded by audiotape or videotape except with the consent of the witness officer. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 8 (4). (5) The SIU director may request an interview take place beyond the time requirement as set out in subsection (1). O. Reg. 267/10, s. 8 (5). 9. (1)A witness officer shall complete in full the notes on the incident in accordance with his or her duty and, subject to subsection (4) and section 10, shall provide the notes to the chief of police within 24 hours after a request for the notes is made by the SIU. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 9 (1). (2) Subject to subsection (4) and section 10, the chief of police shall provide copies of a witness officer's notes to the SIU upon request, and no later than 24 hours after the request. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 9 (2). (3) A subject officer shall complete in full the notes on the incident in accordance with his or her duty, but no member of the police force shall provide copies of the notes at the request of the SIU. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 9 (3). (4) The SIU director may allow the chief of police to provide copies of the notes beyond the time requirement set out in subsection (2). O. Reg. 267/10, s. 9 (4). Note: On August 1, 2011, section 9 is amended by adding the following subsection:(5) The notes made pursuant to subsections (1) and (3) shall be completed by the end of the officer's tour of duty, except where excused by the chief of police. O. Reg. 283/11, s. 3.See: O. Reg. 283/11, ss. 3, 4. 10. (1)The SIU shall, before requesting an interview with a police officer or before requesting a copy of his or her notes on the incident, advise the chief of police and the officer in writing whether the officer is considered to be a subject officer or a witness officer. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 10 (1). (2) The SIU shall advise the chief of police and the police officer in writing if, at any time after first advising them that the officer is considered to be a subject officer or a witness officer, the SIU director decides that an officer formerly considered to be a subject officer is now considered to be a witness officer or an officer formerly considered to be a witness officer is now considered to be a subject officer. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 10 (2). (c) give the chief of police the original and all copies of the police officer's notes. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 10 (3). (4) The chief of police shall keep the original and all copies of the police officer's notes received under clause (3) (c) for use in his or her investigation under section 11. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 10 (4). 11. (1)The chief of police shall also cause an investigation to be conducted forthwith into any incident with respect to which the SIU has been notified, subject to the SIU's lead role in investigating the incident. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 11 (1). (2) The purpose of the chief of police's investigation is to review the policies of or services provided by the police force and the conduct of its police officers. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 11 (2). (3) All members of the police force shall co-operate fully with the chief of police's investigation. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 11 (3). (4) The chief of police of a municipal police force shall report his or her findings and any action taken or recommended to be taken to the board within 30 days after the SIU director advises the chief of police that he or she has reported the results of the SIU's investigation to the Attorney General, and the board may make the chief of police's report available to the public. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 11 (4). (5) The Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police shall prepare a report of his or her findings and any action taken within 30 days after the SIU director advises the Commissioner that he or she has reported the results of the SIU's investigation to the Attorney General, and the Commissioner may make the report available to the public. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 11 (5). 12. (1)The police force may disclose to any person the fact that the SIU director has been notified of an incident and is conducting an investigation into it. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 12 (1). (ii) an appointing official as defined in that Act if the chief of police is not such an official and the investigation relates to the officer. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 12 (2). 14. A chief of police or police officer shall not be required to comply with a provision of this Regulation if, in the opinion of the SIU director, compliance is not possible for reasons beyond the chief of police's or police officer's control. O. Reg. 267/10, s. 14. 15. Omitted (revokes other Regulations). O. Reg. 267/10, s. 15. 16. Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation). O. Reg. 267/10, s. 16.

I was soon invited to become part of the Presbytery's new Spring Street Committee, then headed by Executive Presbyter Arabella Meadows-Rogers. Under her leadership the Presbytery accepted responsibility for finding a suitable reburial spot for the remains. The committee's mission was now clear, but it turned out to be a long process. Two years later Arabella tragically died from cancer and I was appointed chair of the committee. This past June the people of the Spring Street Church – representing a recently revised estimate of 190 individual burials – were finally laid to rest at historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. A simple graveside service was led by Rev. Agnes Blackmon, one of the committee members. I'd also like to mention at this time the other two members – Ellsworth Stanton and Diana Pardue. I thank them and the officers, staff and trustees of the Presbytery of New York for their steadfast support. The seven year journey was certainly a tangle of legal and procedural steps that couldn't have been negotiated without able assistance from our attorney Frank Patton. But what stands out most is that it was a journey of discovery – of learning about this congregation's brave opposition to slavery in the 1820's and 30's and of the fascinating archaeological revelations that resulted from study of the contents of the vaults at Utica College and especially Syracuse University. The corner stone of the Spring St. Church was laid July 5th, 1810. Among those present was the Rev. John Rodgers, long-time pastor at First Presbyterian on Wall Street. A year later the church opened for services. Its hard to imagine today, but at that time the area at Spring and Varick Streets was the country side. Northward urbanization hadn't yet arrived. But with the New York Commissioners Street Grid Plan newly in place, in a few short years it would. Starting in 1820 with the installation of its second pastor, the Rev. Samuel H. Cox, Spring Street became notable as a congregation advocating the immediate abolition of slavery. In addition, free African-Americans were admitted into full communion. It was an integrated congregation, and by 1823 it had an integrated Sunday School. A number of years later, in 1834, Cox would write to the editors of the New York Evangelist newspaper, "I assume it as practically certain that the blacks and the whites, or the African and European races of men, are to exist together on this continent – till the morning of the resurrection; and also that slavery cannot co-exist with the descendents of these two races, cannot exist at all, much longer. It must certainly be destroyed – and we all know that." It was a prescient statement, but it would take almost another thirty years for it to happen. By 1833 the call for immediate abolition became organized under formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Started by Boston newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison and two wealthy silk merchants, Arthur and Lewis Tappan, it became a who's who of early abolitionist figures – both black and white – including Reverends Cox and Ludlow. The organization was the real start of the movement that eventually spread throughout the northeast prior to the Civil War – and it was based here in New York. One more piece of history – In July 1834 there was a violent reaction in New York against this organization and its goals. It started through a series of events, including a statement from a lecture by Cox published in a newspaper saying that Christ was probably "of a dark Syrian hue…" Vicious and largely unsubstantiated rumors were also published in the Courier and Inquirer newspaper about the Spring St. Church and abolitionists – that Rev. Ludlow was performing interracial marriages, that Arthur Tappan had divorced his wife and married a Black woman, along with a number of other incendiary rumors. The result was three days of rioting by several mobs, targeting homes, businesses and houses of worship associated with the anti-slavery movement. The Spring Street Church was attacked by a mob on July 11th. Shouting, "Let's wipe out the Presbyterian barn" according to newspaper reports, the mob entered the church through smashed windows and destroyed much of the interior. They tore out pews, galleries and the organ and piled them in the street, which served as a barricade against the advancing National Guard. The Laight St. Church was likewise attacked as were the homes of Cox and Ludlow. The abolitionist movement – and the Spring Street Church – survived however, only to grow stronger in its opposition to slavery. When we think of a memorial service, we normally think of it for a single person most of us knew. Today we gather to memorialize some 190 people. Of that number only 38 names are known to us, and of that number, only two names can be matched with a skeletal remain. Who were these people? Most were apparently fellow New Yorkers from the immediate neighborhood surrounding the Spring St. Church. They lived and died nearly two hundred years ago. They were merchants and dock workers, seamstresses and domestic workers. Mothers and Fathers and Children. In short, a mix of middle and lower income residents, both black and white. There was Rudolphus Bogert, a merchant and volunteer fireman, husband and father who died at the age of 76 and who's miniature portrait was found to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There was Louisa Hunter, who's father was assistant superintendant for the New York Almshouse and died nearing 17 from an undetermined illness. A few were not congregants, like the U.S. Senator from Georgia, Nicholas Ware, who had traveled to New York in 1824 and died here later that year. He was reported to have been interred at Grace Episcopal Church in Queens, but a coffin plate with his name was found in the Spring St. vaults. The discovery of the burial vaults and the subsequent research and study of the remains – whom we've come to call the people of Spring Street – has added substantially to our knowledge of some of the details of their lives. That research and study is ongoing. Its thanks to Drs. Shannon Novak and Meredith Ellis – whom you'll hear from later – and others at Syracuse University, that we can now share this knowledge. So today we gather to honor not just the dead, but the living history of a congregation that stood on the ground floor of the early 19th century abolitionist movement. It was a time when the call for the complete and immediate destruction of slavery was in stark contrast to the prevailing culture. As I look back on the seven years it took to find an honorable place of reburial – and Green-Wood Cemetery was really first choice of my committee – I think about the journey of the people of Spring Street. From those modest early 19th century vaults in lower Manhattan, across the East River to the hallowed ground of Green-Wood, where Washington's Continental troops fought the Battle of Brooklyn in late August 1776. Its wholly appropriate. The people of Spring Street helped fight the battle against injustice in their day. They are now rested where they rightly belong, and it has been my privilege to have escorted them on that journey. Let us today reclaim the precious heritage that has been passed to us – one of human rights and social justice.

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The first pgCon Unconference is only 10 days away, and we now have room numbers. If you want to lead a topic ... or, more importantly, if you want someone else to lead a topic ... please add your topic ideas to the wiki page! We're expecting over 100 people at the unconference, given that pgCon registration is up above 225, more than 10% higher than last year at this point. Second, my article on the PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta is up at LWN.net (subscription required, or wait 2 weeks).

Two-time NBA Champion Mario Chalmers (Miami Heat) recently partnered with BidSpot Cares, a crowdfunding platform that raises money for charities using online games and social media. Look to the Stars caught up with Chalmers to chat about his MC15 Miracle Shot Basketball Camp; the Mario Chalmers Foundation and what sparked his interest in charity. Last night you hosted your Foundation's fundraising event? How was it? Yeah, we had a mixer last night with a silent and live auction with all proceeds going to my foundation and the Ronald McDonald House. It was really good, but my favorite thing is hosting my basketball camp, seeing the smiles on kids faces, being there playing one-on-one with them, parents smiling and everyone leaving with something positive from the camp. The story on that is a close friend of mine – his mother died in 2006 of breast cancer, so since then I wanted to find out more about it, how we can help and just make breast cancer sufferers lives a little bit easier. And with the children's initiatives, just keeping kids off the streets is what's important. The hardest thing for me – growing up in Alaska – was people saying I wouldn't make it. We don't have a lot of celebrities coming out of Alaska, so for me to make it and follow in the footsteps of people like Carlos Boozer, Scott Gomez, Curt Shilling – people like that who came from Alaska, made a name for themselves and gave back to the community -to have my name mentioned with those people is a great accomplishment. Is there anything you'd like to ask you fans to do to support you? Follow me on Twitter, follow my foundation page and find out about upcoming events to participate in. I gotta go with Super Mario. BidSpot Cares founder Cheryl Womack explained how this unique platform works and how it can enhance a charities fundraising ability. For example, an initial ten-dollar donation gives donors VIP access to bid on or purchase amazing experiences or items from their favorite athlete or celebrity. The bids are also donations and go towards a 'bigger story'. Look to the Stars thanks both Mario Chalmers and Cheryl Womack for taking time out to chat with us.

Earlier today Deep Freeze Enterprise 8.52 was released to our customer base, however shortly after release an issue was exposed regarding the digital certificates used in the build. At this time we have recalled the 8.52 release and are working on updating the build to correct this issue. Customers who have downloaded the 8.52 release should hold on installing until we have an updated build available. Customers who have already installed and are seeing issues with the build should contact Faronics Support for assistance in remediating the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience and will continue to provided updates as they become available.

Q: In Excel, add 1 if not number, or else add the number In excel, how do I write a formula that does the following: In a certain cell range, if the cell contains a non-numeric entry, add one, or else add the number the cell contains. for example 4 xyz def bc 2 0 =9 or 1 ab cd 2 af =6 A: Contents of the data A1:A6 4 xyz x 2 y 0 Write the following formula in cell B1 =SUM(A1:A6)+(COUNTA(A1:A6)-COUNT(A1:A6)) A: What I would do is write a the formula =ISERROR(Cell+0, 1) next to each cell, and then sum across these cells. What the formula does is it returns the value of the cell if the cell is a number, and it returns the number 1 if the operation "cell + 0" errors out (e.g. when the cell's value is not a number). See the picture below for how i applied this to your first example. A: I would use an array function: {=SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(A1:F1);A1:F1;1))} Enter by writing "=SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(A1:F1);A1:F1;1))" and pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter. A | B | C | D | E | F | G --+---+---+---+---+---+---+--- 1 | 4 | a | b | c | 2 | 0 | {=SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(A1:F1);A1:F1;1))}

There are lots of ideas about what should be zypper able to do, how the output should look like, and so on. Unfortunately, we don't have resources to code them all. Fortunately, you can help us :O). Here is one way to do it. Check our list of bugs and pick up one or few that interests (or bothers) you. Fix it and send us a patch :O) Simple, eh? You can also contact the developers before or while fixing the bug to get help or coordinate the work. Please note that some of the bugs may need work in libzypp rather than zypper.

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Home / Community / Paramedics TV Series / About the series Ambulance Victoria agreed to be involved in Paramedics to help our community better understand when to use their ambulance service, what to expect when paramedics arrive on scene and important community health messages. The television series also supports important community awareness and education campaigns including saving ambulances for emergencies, aggression and violence against health care workers and slowing down to 40 km/h near emergency vehicles. The wellbeing and safety of our patients is at the centre of everything we do at Ambulance Victoria. We are extremely grateful to the many patients willing to share their stories with Australia to highlight important health issues like asthma management and calling Triple Zero (000) for chest pain. Cases like these will no doubt help save lives. Production company WTFN filmed with a small team of 13 paramedics over 12 weeks. When paramedics arrived at a scene, they advised the patient and any bystanders including family members and friends of the patient, that a film crew was travelling with them. Any request for the cameras to be turned off was immediately complied with and the film crew exited the scene. Ambulance Victoria followed up with patients and their families at an appropriate time to discuss the TV Series, and seek informed, signed consent. Many patients also reunited on camera with the paramedic crews who cared for them, as part of filming the Series. A small number of patients have been de-identified for anonymity, as their stories are important to educate the community on risks and issues we face every day like drug overdoses and occupational violence.

Turkey: Journalist found unconscious with brain haemorrhage Credit: Twitter of İdris Özyol Turkish journalist İdris Özyol who had been beaten up in May was found unconscious in the street in Antalya on 2nd December and rushed to hospital where he was diagnosed with a brain haemorrhage. The EFJ and IFJ join the Progressive Journalists' Association (CGD) and Disk Basın-İş in calling for a full investigation into the case and demanding the government act to ensure journalists' safety. İdris Özyol, who is known for his criticism of government's policies, writes for local daily Akdeniz'de Yeni Yüzyıl in the southern province of Antalya. On 15 May 2019, he was attacked by three assailants in front of his newspaper's building following threats over his articles deemed "offensive to power". The attackers, armed with thick sticks, broke Özyol's nose and inflicted wounds to his left arm and face. The attack came soon after a local ultra-nationalist politician Talu Bilgili from the MHP, Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party, openly threatened the journalist during a public meeting. Özyol is still in hospital and his situation is critical. It is not yet clear if the haemorrhage is linked to his beating in May. Disk Basın-İş President Faruk Eren said: İdris was attacked and injured after he was threatened by a local MHP official. He is the second of six journalists attacked this year following threats from MHP. We are worried about him and about all journalists in Turkey given the multiplication of attacks against them by people in the government coalition. We demand a full investigation into each attack and that measures are taken to protect journalists

While reading the updates on the Terri Schiavo case, TheAnchoress posted a link to this The Empire Journal article that helps detail how George Felos has asserted on behalf of his client Michael Schiavo that Judge Greer does not have the authority to intervene any further. In his courtroom, a judge is the law. You just don't tell a judge that he can't do something. I hope that this may change Judge Greer's opinion back to neutral, at least.

James Ross (15 February 1880 – 31 October 1914), was a Scottish rugby union player for . He was one of the first Scottish rugby internationalists to die in the First World War, and fell at Messines. He was capped for five times between 1901 and 1903. He also played for London Scottish FC, which he had captained in 1901-02 and 1904–05. His brother Edward Ross, also gained a single cap in 1904. Early life Rugby career International appearances Military service See also List of international rugby union players killed in action during the First World War References Bibliography External links Commonwealth War Graves database 1880 births 1914 deaths People educated at Cargilfield School People educated at Fettes College London Scottish F.C. players Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players British military personnel killed in World War I London Regiment soldiers British Army personnel of World War I

Home > Centers of Excellence > The Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) > Kno.e.sis Publications > 710 Kno.e.sis Publications OpenWS-Transaction: Enabling Reliable Web Service Transactions Ivan Vasquez John A. Miller Kunal Verma, Wright State University - Main Campus Amit P. Sheth, Wright State University - Main CampusFollow OpenWS-Transaction is an open source middleware that enables Web services to participate in a distributed transaction as prescribed by the WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction set of specifications. Central to the framework are the Coordinator and Participant entities, which can be integrated into existing services by introducing minimal changes to application code. OpenWS-Transaction allows transaction members to recover their original state in case of operational failure by leveraging techniques in logical logging and recovery at the application level. Depending on transaction style, system recovery may involve restoring key application variables and replaying uncommitted database activity. Transactions are assumed to be defined in the context of a BPEL process, although other orchestration alternatives can be used. Presented at the Third International Service-Oriented Computing Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 12-15, 2005. Attached is the unpublished, author's version of this proceeding. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11596141_38. Vasquez, I., Miller, J. A., Verma, K., & Sheth, A. P. (2005). OpenWS-Transaction: Enabling Reliable Web Service Transactions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3826, 490-494. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/knoesis/710 10.1007/11596141_38 Bioinformatics Commons, Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Databases and Information Systems Commons, OS and Networks Commons, Science and Technology Studies Commons Thomas Wischgoll Valerie Shalin Michael L. Raymer

UN's upcoming summits may foreshadow a revival of multilateralism or an obituary for world order The United Nations will be hosting six high level plenary meetings—unprecedented even by its own standards—during the beginning of the 74th session of the General Assembly in late September, writes Thalif Deen for the Inter Press Service. The meetings are being viewed primarily as an attempt at reviving multilateral diplomacy at a time when a rash of hard-right nationalist leaders, including US President Donald Trump, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, are either rooting for authoritarianism, abandoning international treaties or undermining multilateralism—not necessarily in that order. Regrettably, they are joined by a fistful of other demagogic leaders both from the North and the South, including from Russia, Italy, Myanmar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Poland and Turkey – among others. The United Nations is expecting over 180 world leaders, including foreign ministers and high-ranking government officials, to participate in the six-day mega event. The multilateral bodies — and international treaties– that have taken a beating include the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Human Rights Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and Paris Climate Change agreement. As one delegate puts it: "It is either a resurrection of multilateralism or a prelude to an obituary for international order". Scheduled to take place September 23-27, the meetings will cover a wide range of political and socio-economic issues on the UN agenda, including climate change, universal health care, sustainable development goals (SDGs), financing for development (FfD), elimination of nuclear weapons and the survival of small island developing states (SIDS) facing extinction from rising sea levels. Speaking to reporters last month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that multilateralism is under attack from many different directions precisely "when we need it most." "In different areas and for different reasons, the trust of people in their political establishments, the trust of states among each other, the trust of many people in international organizations has been eroded and … multilateralism has been in the fire," he complained. On the upcoming six summits, Guterres warned "the people of the world do not want half measures or empty promises. They are demanding transformative change that is fair and sustainable." But will the talk-fest produce concrete results or end up being another political exercise in futility? In an interview with IPS, Jayantha Dhanapala, a former Sri Lankan Ambassador and UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, said: "As we survey the graveyard of multilateral security, environmental and economic agreements underpinning the mutually beneficial liberal order, fires burn 20% of the lungs of the world in the Amazon and even the Arctic has its tundra burning." "And the numbers of refugees fleeing violence and persecution are the highest in recorded history." With the unrivalled super-power under the quixotic leadership of Donald Trump, even developing countries like the Philippines, Brazil and others have abandoned global norms, Dhanapala told IPS. "A rule based international order is collapsing before our eyes and Britain is on the brink of a messy Brexit while trade wars ruin Sino-US trade and drive the world towards a ruinous recession and the end of sustainable development." Martin S. Edwards, Associate Professor and Chair, School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University told IPS: "I think you're right that the depth and breadth of the work that the UN is launching is more than just symbolic." With Bolsonaro set to address the General Assembly right before President Trump (on September 24), their comments will mirror each other, and will be in stark contrast to many of the other delegates, he added. But the important thing, he pointed out, is that there's needed substance here. "The US might well sit out the Climate Action Summit, and that's fine. The work of the UN and the member countries will go on without it". As for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), he said, this is a signature UN initiative that needs more attention and focus. "The world is not on track to reach many of these goals, and without greater commitment by member governments, they are not likely to be met by 2030. With the US disengaged from many of these discussions, it falls to the Secretary General to recommit leaders to these goals," Edwards noted. James Paul, a former executive director of the New York-based Global Policy Forum, told IPS "This is a time of great international uncertainty and instability. What does this mean for the UN as a cluster of high-profile meetings approaches? And what can we expect from these events?" "My sense is this: nationalistic enthusiasm is now waning at the popular level and posturing leaders are under increasing pressure from below to deliver more than rhetoric. So multilateral diplomacy may be headed for a much-needed revival, with a stronger and more egalitarian agenda coming to the fore." "As we have seen at the recent G-7 meeting in Biarritz, leaders are changing course and opting for more cooperation, though still far less than what is required. Above all, the environmental crisis is serving to mobilize public attention and energized youth are insisting that their voices be heard," said Paul, author of the recently-released book titled "Of Foxes and Chickens: Oligarchy and Global Power in the UN Security Council". Greta Thunberg, the dynamic young Swedish activist, he said, will be at the UN climate meeting to dramatize the need for common action and to symbolize the essential role that the UN can play. Will the leaders act with the seriousness and determination that she demands? It may be, as climate activists rightly say, our last chance. No politician will be excused for inaction in such a dramatic circumstance. The UN has much to offer at this moment in history, Paul declared. Dhanapala told IPS a gloomy future lies ahead unless a new leadership replaces the present. The UN, he argued, has lost its moral influence and not even the upcoming ritualistic General Assembly gathering of heads of state can salvage sensible limits on nuclear weapons, conventional weapons and a new generation of Lethal Autonomous Weapons or robotic weapons while negotiating an end to regional wars. Next year, in 2020, he said, the UN will observe its 75th anniversary when a new chapter rededicating this unique global body to the ideals of the Charter opens. "New stringent agreements must be negotiated at the planned gatherings without the charade of rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic. The UN has the creative minds to do this. Can its member states summon the political will to do so?," he asked. Edwards said one other thing that is important to underscore is that these upcoming meetings will be a real credit to Secretary General Guterres' quiet leadership style. He has responded to the President's call for a more minimal multilateralism by going big, but doing so without the bombast that is a hallmark of the Trump administration. So, this might be an interesting inflection point. The world has proven with climate that it can move forward without the US. The question is how much this happens in other areas moving forward?, he asked. "I like the attention on Financing for Development (FfD), but that meeting is probably not going to be a successful as developing countries raise the issue of G20 broken promises on foreign aid, and G20 countries are too cheap to admit it," he declared. Thalif Deen is Director & Senior Editor, UN Bureau, Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency. UN General Assembly Week of Summits: Q&A from Barbara Adams, Roberto Bissio, Karen Judd and Elena Marmo - Global Policy Watch, UN Monitor #06 Original source : Inter Press Service Report: The G7 was a joke. Three degrees warming isn't We need a positive vision of internationalism that acts as a countervailing power against ethno-nationalist demagoguery, shunting us on an alternative... Article: World leaders must stop fuelling inequality As global leaders gather in the coming months at several summits and meetings, the following open letter is written by the growing global movement to... News: World warned: Change now or endanger food and climate Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless it curbs emissions and stops... 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Mark and I started dating about two years ago, and at the time he had no idea what he was signing up for with my future as a foster parent. Being a college senior, I don't think the responsibility of a dog is exactly his idea of the best way to spend his last few months before the real world, but he supports me and helps me out so much with all the dogs I bring home – definitely being a "fosterdad" to each one. I wanted him to share his take on the rescue world that I so lovingly forced upon him :-). So Juliana was nice enough to let me borrow her blog for a day and write from a different view. First, to introduce myself I'm Mark. I'm the one you sometimes see at the other end of the leash in many of the photos from different adventures. I get to see the behind the scenes view of Juliana's growth in the foster world, and at the same time I'm learning a lot. You were introduced to my canine family in Doggy Pawlitics. My two goldens, Profittarollie and Seamus, gave me a passion for dogs, but I grew up with a very limited scope of what owning a dog meant. My perspective on dog ownership has completely changed and I hope to share my lessons learned. I know many of you are true believers in adoptions and rescues, so bear with me as I tell you my story. My mom spent many months learning everything about Golden Retriever breeders all around Pennsylvania and neighboring states. She picked a reputable breeder and checked on the health history of the mother and father. Finally after the due diligence and waiting, we brought home 8 week old Profittarollie, Profitta or Pro for short. It was amazing, and a lot of work, raising a puppy. We had her for eight years before I was leaving for college. During the month before I left my mom and I went down the street to a doggy daycare that we trust with Profitta when we are out of town. The owner, who is a family friend, told my mom about a young male golden that had been dropped off by a couple that could no longer take care of him. He had serious behavior issues such as marking in the house and chewing up all their belongings. The establishment was not a shelter or a rescue organization, but they still wanted to find this dog a home. My mom's heart was sold quickly to help this dog in need. She brought Seamus into our house the day after I left for school (and may or may not have talked to my dad about it first). Even though I left for school three hours away, when I came home for break the first time Seamus became my dog. Every few months when I make it home for a weekend Seamus is by my side the whole time and even lets me have a corner of my bed to sleep in with him. He is an amazing dog, and Profitta is the perfect alpha female to break his bad puppy habits and show him how to be a family dog. What is most interesting about my story is how my view of my own dogs has changed after being exposed to the work many of you do. I never really thought of Seamus as a rescue dog, and I never understood that a community like the one Juliana is involved with even existed. The moral of my story, education is everything. Many people do not know the options that are out there to gain a best friend and help save an animal's life no matter what kind of dog you are looking for. Breed preference is personal and we all have our reasons. Personally, I have grown to love pits, but I will always consider myself a golden person. In any case it does not make a difference because there are so many organizations out there for every breed. There are many issues that surround the canine community. I believe the best way to really help people learn is to engage them in conversation and work to understand each others views. Juliana & I often have different views on adopting, training, and caring for dogs, but I like to think that by really talking about the issues we've been able to expand our views and improve ourselves as dog owners. You of course have to respect everyone's opinions and choice about their dogs, but we can still help each other become better owners. This entry was posted in Dog talk, Rescue/Humane Society, Uncategorized and tagged adoption, breeders, fostering, golden retrievers, rescue. Bookmark the permalink. I love this guest post! You guys are a gorgeous couple! Were a Terp household as well. I agree, every breed needs rescuing. I had no idea this world existed, either! Thanks for sharing your story, Mark! I think it's great that your mom chose to research a reputable breeder rather than just going to any old pet store and buying a puppy that most likely came from a puppy mill. And then she went and rescued Seamus! I love hearing from the menfolk on everyone's blogs, it's always so nice to hear their thoughts on things…and like Two Grads said, you two are a gorgeous couple! Great Post! Yet another point of view. Mark, you make many good points. Most importantly, knowledge is everything. Thanks for sharing :-). Thanks for the post, Mark. Where are you guys in the last photo? I've been in exactly zero situations where I needed to dress up and was still allowed to bring a dog. We were at Juliana's Love Ball event that benefits MCHS every fall! I was just a volunteer so I had to wear the just black, but since Juliana was in charge she got to be a little more stylish. My parents were nice enough to drive down for the event and bring the dogs with them. It was a lot of fun and if you're in the area you should get more information for this years event. Absolutely GORGEOUS couple, love hearing from the dudes that support all us dog ladies :) I personally am always so curious how well everyone else's significant others deal with all our dog obsessions. Great to hear from Mark and about his lovely dogs!

Assais-les-Jumeaux – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Nowa Akwitania, w departamencie Deux-Sèvres. Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 808 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 15 osób/km² (wśród 1467 gmin regionu Poitou-Charentes Assais-les-Jumeaux plasuje się na 380. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 26.). Polacy w Assais-les-Jumeaux Po inwazji niemieckiej na Polskę we wrześniu 1939 r., została podpisana w Paryżu między rządem polskim i francuskim umowa o utworzeniu Armii Polskiej we Francji pod wyższym dowództwem francuskim. Już w październiku francuski sztab wojskowy decyduje o założeniu w departamencie Deux-Sèvres, między Veluché a Airvault, obozu, położonym w lesie dla dwóch polskich dywizji, liczących razem 32 000 żołnierzy. Miejsce to leży obecnie na terenie gminy Assais-les-Jumeaux. Linki zewnętrzne Bibliografia Miejscowości w departamencie Deux-Sèvres

If you are doing any numerical simulation or modeling, it happens quite often that you want to show a series of your solution snapshots one after each other to make an animation on how the solution is evolving. There are different software available to do this, but we are going to limit ourselves to the freely available one on Linux and MAC. Even if you are not animating graphics, but you want to perform a certain task on multiple graphic files or change their format this post gonna be helpful. where fps is the number of frame per seconds.

Introducing BuildingNYC! New Association Formed to Protect Tens of Thousands of Minority Workers NEW YORK, NY – Dec 23, 2015 – One of New York's most successful and expanding areas of construction in NYC is under attack-and the tens of thousands of workers who form the foundation of this success, are being threatened by this unprincipled assault. BuildingNYC is here to make sure that this success is not only protected, but that it expands so more immigrant and minority New Yorkers get a chance to participate with good paying jobs on a ladder to successful middle class participation in the American Dream. Much of the building and construction industry is under siege in NYC by forces that cling to old patterns of behavior that undermine the great potential that exists to significantly increase the number of jobs available for those NYC communities where unemployment is running far ahead of the national average. Over the past decade, scores of new construction firms either entered the market, or have rethought their business model to enhance productivity and efficiency; and by doing so they have provided employment for thousands of New Yorkers, especially the new immigrants, who have been ignored in the past by stakeholders wedded to an outmoded methodology of doing business. This vibrant construction sector has been responsible for an upsurge in affordable housing development that has begun to address what the City sees as the most crucial public policy issue that we face in New York. This could not have happened under the old and discredited business model, whose proponents are now understandably lashing out in fear and anger as their market share continues to evaporate. BuildingNYC is an association that represents those workers doing the majority of the building in NYC today, especially affordable housing. Comprised of a diverse workforce from across all sectors of the NYC construction industry, we seek to protect and advocate for the right to work in a safe, fair and equitable environment that promotes continued job growth and economic success. As attorney and spokesperson for BuildingNYC points out – "The old inefficient and corrupt ways of construction in NYC are fading fast, and those who have lived off the fat of the land are desperate to protect their eroding privileges-at the expense of minority and immigrant workers, and the hopes of New Yorkers for more affordable housing. BNYC is here to make sure that tens of thousands of upwardly striving workers are not threatened by despicable slander and political cronyism." – Brad Gerstman, Esq. BuildingNYC has been formed to insure that the hopes and dreams of countless New Yorkers from all over the city will not be deterred by a scurrilous campaign conducted by forces that have been proven to be hidebound and unproductive-unable to compete in a level playing field and now looking to use politics to prevent their continued free fall. We are prepared to meet fire with fire-and we will demonstrate that the slanderous charges being leveled are grotesque distortions of the truth. According to the Building Congress, there were 225,000 construction workers in NYC in 2010, and five years later the number probably exceeds 250,000. Over 60% of this work force is minority-and, importantly, "Non-United States citizens accounted for 39 percent of the total construction industry workforce and 45 percent of all construction trades workers. In addition, 56 percent of all respondents said they speak a language other than English in their homes." (https://www.buildingcongress.com/outlook/122111.html) If, as has been estimated, close to 50% of the new construction is being done by firms who have bucked the Old Guard regime, than we are looking at one of the most important private sector labor markets in NYC for not only minority workers, but for recently arrived immigrants as well. Those opposing our companies are standing in the way of the ability of hard working New Yorkers to gain a foothold on the ladder of achievement-on the way to a middle class life. (http://www.wsj.com/articles/growth-of-nonunion-construction-tests-new-york-city-labor-leaderthe-weekend-profile-gary-labarbera-1434154002) Given the overwhelming success of our members and their workers, we are not surprised that our critics are lashing out with false and defamatory rhetoric. What we will not do, however, is stand by and allow this defamation to continue unchallenged. There is simply too much at stake. Affordable Housing and the Old Guard BuildingNYC has been established not only to protect the businesses and the workers they employ. Our new and vibrant construction sector has been responsible for an upsurge in affordable housing development that have begun to address what the city sees as the most crucial public policy issue that we face in New York. This upsurge could not have happened under the old and discredited business model, whose proponents are now understandably lashing out in fear and anger as their market share evaporates. As the Regional Plan Association points out, affordable housing cannot be built under the antiquated business model of our opponents-and most of those hiring to build these units are new immigrants from the neighborhoods where the construction is going forward: "But union wage rates and benefits have always been too expensive for other sectors of the construction industry, namely 1-, 2-, and 3-family homes, affordable housing, and most low- or mid-rise buildings in the four boroughs other than Manhattan." (http://www.rpa.org/pdf/20110501-RPA-Construction-Costs.pdf) Safety: But not from Defamation Unable to point to their competitive success, the Old Guard is flailing around for issues to attack their more productive opponents. In doing so, they have latched on to the issue of safety and have managed, using bad faith arguments, false figures, and an inaccurate broad brush, to demonize all of the companies that do not adhere to their unsuccessful business model. Recently our opponents, using emotional street displays aimed to mobilize the fears of New Yorkers, have claimed that our industry sector is disproportionately responsible for a series of tragic construction-related deaths over the past year. Yet, if we examine fatalities over the past seven years, we find a radically different result: "During this time period, the average labor participation rate at New York State construction sites was 73% non-union and 27% union. However, the number of fatalities shows that the fatality rate at union construction sites was higher than the union participation rate." (http://www.nysafah.org/cmsBuilder/uploads/nysafah-safety-analysis-5-11-2015.pdf) 1. There were 93 construction site fatalities in New York City between 2008 and 2014; 60 fatalities or 65% occurred at non-union sites while 33 or 35% occurred at union sites. 2. The percentage of fatalities of union workers was often higher than the union labor participation rates between 2008 and 2014. If union jobs were safer, the percentage of fatal incidents would be lower than the participation rate. As the NYSAFAH report goes on to point out: "This analysis demonstrates that there is no evidence to suggest that non-union construction sites are less safe than union sites, rather the opposite. The reason is that both union and non-union developers are committed to worker safety and that all construction sites are subject to the same New York City, State, and Federal safety standards." And what our opponents fail to point out, because it doesn't fit their false narrative, is that there has also been an epidemic of pedestrian fatalities in Manhattan where most of construction's Old Guard still holds way. Unsurprisingly, these accidents have come from that sector: "Some of New York's largest unionized contractors appear in the city's accident database, including one Tishman Construction Co., listed as the contractor in eight construction accidents involving pedestrians, including two in 2013. In one, a pedestrian was hit by falling masonry debris on Park Avenue. In another, a pedestrian was struck in the head by a falling fence in Harlem." (http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-pedestrians-face-a-threat-from-above-142969680) Our firms are also being attacked on the issue of work quality. But the Regional Plan Association makes the following telling point-one made over 4 years ago: "All segments of the industry agree—at least in private—that the union advantage in quality and speed of construction has diminished with every new project that is built nonunion. This may be the most important—and enduring—construction trend of our time." (http://www.rpa.org/pdf/20110501-RPA-Construction-Costs.pdf) In the continued pursuit of even more quality workmanship, BuildingNYC will be developing a robust workforce training program to enable our employees to improve their skills and rise rapidly on the employment ladder. We will vigorously oppose any training program that seeks to funnel workers into one area of our industry. NYC does not need any more medieval guilds. We at BuildingNYC yield to no one in our adherence to, and support of, the most stringent safety standards that the law mandates-and we support new legislation that enacts fair measures that apply to all companies doing business in NYC. What we do not support-and will fight vigorously-are laws that will scapegoat our firms and unfairly penalize the thousands of workers we employ. BuildingNYC is not going to be a passive participant in the upcoming fight over the future direction of the construction industry. We will vigorously challenge defamation, and strenuously oppose laws that unfairly single out our members. Our elected officials need to understand that our continued success means the success of their constituents and the promotion of what is clearly in the public interest: good well paying jobs, safety in building, and the dramatic increase in affordable housing that our own workers and the city as a whole badly needs. Full News Story: https://pressreleasejet.com/newsreleases/2015/introducing-buildingnyc-new-association-formed-to-protect-tens-of-thousands-of-minority-workers/ Distributed by Press Release Jet Company Name: Building NYC Contact Person: Brad Gerstman Email: [email protected] Website: http://buildingnyc.org/ CategoriesBusiness, Employment, Professional Services, Real Estate, Website & Blog Previous PostPrevious NewTravel.cz – a travel search aggregator Next PostNext Vipinzon Launches the Most Innovative Auto Trunk Organizer for SUV

Q: Android NDK. Not a JPEG image: starts with 0x00 0x00 I want to use jpeg images in my Android NDK application. I downloaded libjpeg9 and successfully compiled it as static library. I load an image from apk with libzip and when I begin reading header of the image I get the following error: "Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x00 0x00". The same error is occured when I launch my application in emulator and real device as well. I type in Terminal command to check my file: "file myjpeg.jpg" and get the following message: "myjpeg.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01" so file is valid. Moreover, if I load the same image from file with jpeg_stdio_src function in MacOS app I get success. Part of code is responsible for loading jpeg files in Android: zip * apk = zip_open(apk_path.c_str(), 0, NULL); if (!apk) return false; zip_file * fp = zip_fopen(apk, path.c_str(), 0); if (!fp) { zip_close(apk); return false; } JSAMPARRAY buffer; int stride; jpeg_error_handler jerr; jpeg_decompress_struct cinfo; cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr.pub); jerr.pub.error_exit = jpeg_error_exit; jerr.pub.output_message = jpeg_error_msg; unsigned char * imageData = NULL; if (setjmp(jerr.setjmp_buffer)) { jpeg_destroy_decompress(&cinfo); zip_fclose(fp); zip_close(apk); if (imageData) free(imageData); return false; } struct zip_stat st; zip_stat_init(&st); zip_stat(apk, path.c_str(), 0, &st); if (st.size <= 0) { zip_fclose(fp); zip_close(apk); return false; } imageData = (unsigned char*)malloc(sizeof(unsigned char) * st.size); memset(imageData, 0x0, sizeof(unsigned char) * st.size); jpeg_create_decompress(&cinfo); jpeg_mem_src(&cinfo, imageData, st.size); jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, TRUE); jpeg_start_decompress(&cinfo); stride = cinfo.output_width * cinfo.output_components; buffer = (*cinfo.mem->alloc_sarray)((j_common_ptr) &cinfo, JPOOL_IMAGE, stride, 1); jpg->width = cinfo.image_width; jpg->height = cinfo.image_height; jpg->colorMode = cinfo.output_components; log("Loaded: " + path + " width: " + StringUtils::intToStr(jpg->width) + " height: " + StringUtils::intToStr(jpg->height) + " color mode: " + StringUtils::intToStr(jpg->colorMode)); // read jpeg image... How can I read correct data from the file? I suppose the file isn't loaded into buffer by jpeg_mem_src but I don't know about reasons. Thanks in advance. A: It looks like you aren't telling the library where the image data is. imageData is set to 0's then passed to the library. jpeg_mem_src just tells the library where your "decoded jpeg data" is located. You need to pass in a pointer to this data. It looks like you are retrieving this from the APK, try passing a pointer to the data into jpeg_mem_src instead.

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zuluCrypt-cli has a direct dependency on libcryptsetup and libgrypt and it breaks everytime these two packages are updated in a way that change the name of their shared libraries and a solution is to rebuild zuluCrypt. Will look into making zuluCrypt-gui(the GUI component of the project) notice if its command line component is broken as stated above and recommend a solution. Hi @Danbar Thanks for your comment. I verified and had the same problem on my system : 4.20.10-arch1-1-ARCH. The solution (like last year) is to rebuild ZuluCrypt and it works like a charm ;-) I wrote a message to mhogomchungu so he could give us some more explanations. I updated my manjaro to Stable 18.0.3. The message that I am reading right now is: Reading partition properties took longer than expected and the operation was terminated. Click refresh to try again. I cannot access my partitions protected by zulucrypt. Thanks. (stating mhogomchungu) zuluCrypt has a dependency on libcryptsetup. cryptsetup prior to version 2.0.0 has a library named "libcryptsetup.so.4" cryptsetup version 2.0.0 going up has a library named "libcryptsetup.so.12" zuluCrypt is failing because it can no longer find cryptsetup library it depends on. Solution is to rebuild ! rebuild zuluCrypt to force it to use the updated library version. Version 5.4.0 gives "Unrecognized ERROR with status number 127 encountered" when key is entered. both zuluCrypt-cli and zuluMount-cli give: error while loading shared libraries: libcryptsetup.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Thanks to the mighty mhogomchungu. @salan54 Ok. Can you adjust -git version accordingly?

Q: Dimension of a commuting nilpotent variety Fix $k$ an algebraically closed field, $n$ a natural number, and $\lambda=(\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_m)$ a partition of $n$. Let $A$ be any $n\times n$ nilpotent matrix with entries in $k$ whose Jordan form corresponds to the partition $\lambda$. Consider the variety $X_{A}$ of pairs of commuting nilpotent matrices which also commute with $A$: $$X_{A}=\{(B,C)\in C_{\mathfrak{gl}_n}(A)^{\times2}\mid B^n=C^n=0,\;BC=CB\}$$ I'm interested in computing the dimension of $X_{A}$. My initial computations with Magma suggest the following conjecture: If $s_i=|\{j|\lambda_j\ge i\}|$ then$$\dim X_{A}=n+\sum s_i^2-m-1$$ (The program I've written in Magma can't handle partitions of $\ge4$ parts, so although all computations thus far agree with the above formula, the evidence is far from conclusive) How might I compute the dimension of $X_{A}$? Any general advice or techniques used in computing dimension?

Brigitte Foster-Hylton is this week's Track Beauty! In the run-up to the London Olympic Games, Foster-Hylton was having a stellar string of performances. Her 12.51s clocking in Kingston (5/5/2012) was inferior only to Sally Pearson's 12.40, 12.49s, and 12.49s in the season top list. At 37-years of age, with a complete collection of World Championship medals in her curriculum vitae, London was Foster-Hylton's last shot at Olympic glory.

Evans leads No. 4 Louisville women over Northern Kentucky AP Dec 15, 2018 at 6:41p ET LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Dana Evans understands her role for No. 4 Louisville is to provide a spark off the bench. The sophomore guard did that and more Saturday. Evans scored a career-high 21 points and tied her career best with four steals to lead the Cardinals to a 92-59 victory over Northern Kentucky. It's the seventh time in Louisville's last eight games that the former McDonald's All-American reached double figures. Coach Jeff Walz said Evans could easily start for the Cardinals (11-0), which lost just one player from last year's Final Four squad. However, he added that he has a senior point guard in Arica Carter, who starts and keeps things steady. "Then I throw Dana in the game and she just turns things up," he said. Evans, who made 8 of 12 shots and added six assists, scored 10 of her points in the first half. She finished with two fast break baskets in a 20-second span, making it 89-57 with 2:00 remaining, before leaving to a rousing ovation from the Yum Center crowd. She was one of four players who scored in double figures for Louisville. "It's fun playing on a stacked team because there's not pressure on just one person," Evans said. "Everybody can do different things." Forwards Sam Fuehring and Kylee Shook scored 15 points each for the Cardinals. Shook, a junior reserve, added 11 rebounds for her fourth career double-double. The Cardinals never trailed and led by as many as 28 points in the first half. Ten players scored for Louisville, which scored 80 or more points for its seventh straight game. A 3-pointer by Grayson Rose with 4:08 left in the third quarter cut the Louisville lead to 59-41, but that's as close as the Norse (1-6) got in the second half. The sophomore led Northern Kentucky, which lost its sixth straight, with 16 points. Sophomore Kailey Coffey added 15 points and 11 rebounds. MILESTONE WATCH Louisville's Asia Durr was held to a season-low 11 points and made just 4 of 13 shots. That leaves the senior guard 18 points from becoming the Cardinals' fourth player to reach 2,000 points for her career. POLL IMPLICATIONS Louisville's performance should ensure it remains in the top four in next week's AP Top 25, and the Cardinals may rise in the rankings after No. 11 Stanford beat third-ranked Baylor Saturday afternoon. Northern Kentucky: The Norse came into this game having lost three contests by five points or fewer, but the Norse were clearly outmatched Saturday. They managed to outrebound the Cardinals 39-33, largely because of ineffective shooting, with 17 off the offensive glass. Northern Kentucky missed 14 of its first 18 shots and finished shooting 41.7 percent. The Norse have just one senior and two juniors, and at one point, coach Camryn Whitaker had three freshmen and two sophomores on the court. "We're competing," Whitaker said. "The kids played particularly hard. So, I'm just proud of the effort on the boards. We've been working on it all week." Louisville: The Cardinals entered ranked No. 6 in the country in shooting at 51.1 percent. They made 50.7 percent against the Norse, the sixth time in the last seven games the Cardinals have hit better than 50 percent from the field. Northern Kentucky: The Norse travel to Providence next week to play in the Friar Holiday Classic. Their first game in the three-day, four-team event is Wednesday against La Salle. Louisville: The Cardinals venture to Central Michigan, the nation's seventh-best shooting team, Thursday. It'll be Louisville's last game before starting Atlantic Coast Conference play on Jan. 3 when North Carolina comes to town. Northern Kentucky Norse

But the past two seasons have shown the downside of the strategy, the consequences of overhyped newcomers who can't quite live up to the bombastic expectations. We've seen the collateral damage of the ticking clock. And the clock is ticking. We know it. The players know it. Calipari knows it. These days, the window of opportunity closes extremely fast. These days a Kentucky team has one shot at greatness before the refresh button must be pushed and we start all over again with another collection of newcomers. UK's 87-82 loss at LSU on Tuesday night shouldn't be that big of a deal. It's hard to win on the road. The conference schedule isn't even half over. LSU presented matchup problems. You could say this young Kentucky team has plenty of time to get it right, but it doesn't. Not when you know that no matter how they play, the likes of Julius Randle, James Young, Aaron Harrison and his twin brother Andrew are all headed to the NBA at season's end. That was the bargain all along. It doesn't really matter if all four are ready for the NBA. Was Daniel Orton ready? Was Marquis Teague ready? Was Archie Goodwin ready? They wanted to go, that was their goal, so they went. It doesn't really matter that not all top-ranked recruiting classes are created equal, or that the very idea of accurately ranking high school athletes from across the country in order of potential is impossible at best, farcical at worst. Timely example: Russell Wilson will lead the Seattle Seahawks in Sunday's Super Bowl. Back in 2007, Rivals.com ranked the dual-threat quarterback out of Richmond, Va., as, oops, Wilson wasn't considered talented enough to earn a ranking. He was a two-star recruit. This isn't to pick on a scouting service. It is an example of an inexact science. At UK, there is no time for revisionist rankings, however. The shelf life is short. The sense of urgency is great. The pressure is intense. You can see it in the players who seem to be having little to no fun. You can see it in the head coach. Ron Higgins of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans knows John Calipari well from their days in Memphis — Higgins was a writer for the Memphis Commercial Appeal; John as coach of the Tigers. What struck Higgins on Tuesday night was Calipari's impatience with his players. "On this night," said Higgins via e-mail, "they looked like a bunch of freshmen all trying to make plays to avoid catching Cal's wrath." Can you really blame Calipari? He can't afford to wait until Randle's sophomore season for the Texan to develop a perimeter game. He can't afford to wait until next year for Andrew Harrison to learn on which side of the floor he should be positioned. He needs these young birds to soar right now. His hip is bothering him, true, but you can see all this taking its toll on Calipari, as you might expect from someone who is constantly coaching first-year players. They may have to rename Cal's post-game interview with Tom Leach "The Kenny Payne or John Robic Show." Next up is a Saturday game at Missouri. It is UK basketball's first visit to Mizzou. A Wednesday check of StubHub showed tickets priced as high as $280. It's not over until it's over, of course. Despite the wobbles, this team is superior to last year's team. There's not another NIT trip in my crystal ball. Where there's talent, there's hope. "I just wish we were farther along," Calipari said Monday before his team made the trip to the Bayou.

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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} Recently published literature on strategies for minimizing DNN training and/or inference runtime and model size while maximizing accuracy can be broadly categorized into the following 4 categories based on the most important methodical concepts: \begin{enumerate} \item Quantization (bit-width reduction of layers, i.e. weights, gradients, activations, sec. \ref{sec:quant}), to computationally more efficient floating-, fixed- or block-floating-point (an arithmetic approaching floating- on fixed-point hardware) \cite{wilkinson1994rounding} representations \cite{jacob2018quantization, yang2019quantization, zhang2018ECCV, sheng2018quantization, rajagopal2020multi, alistarh2017qsgd, alistarh2017qsgd_lg, loroch2017tensorquant, zhang2019qpytorch, achterhold2018variational, iandola2016squeezenet}. Quantization, in principle, can be applied either globally or on a per-layer basis, pre-training (apriori choice of a certain representation), intra-training (dynamic choice of representation during DNN training) or post-training (after training in float32, quantization to a lower representation is applied). \label{cat_quant} \item Adapting network architecture or topology (order, type, size or connections of layers, sec. \ref{sec:AA}) either via pruning of over-parameterized weights s.t. layers that do not contribute to the networks accuracy are either reduced in size, bypassed or removed completely and extending weights that under-parameterized \cite{gordon2018morphnet, singh2020woodfisher, han2015deep, iandola2016squeezenet, fang2020fast, hua2018channel, golub2018full, yang2020procrustes} or controlling network size via hyperparamaters \cite{sandler2018mobilenetv2, howard2017mobilenets, howard2019mobilenetv3, sinha2019thinmobilenet, chen2018hybridmobilenet}. Similar to quantization, architectural adaption can be applied either globally or on a per-layer basis, pre-training (pruning an architecture before training or re-training it), intra-training (dynamic pruning or extending of the DNNs weights or modifying its topology during training based on some criterion) or post-training (after training). \label{cat_arch} \item Introducing architectures obtaining their representational power (representational power based DNN taxonomy see \cite{khan2019survey}, sec. \ref{sec:new}) from entirely new, more efficient operations \cite{zhang2018shufflenet, ma2018shufflenet, iandola2016squeezenet}. Approaches employing this strategy usually require training from scratch. \label{cat_new} \item Distributed (sec. \ref{sec:dist}) training and/or inference on large numbers of individually resource constrained devices \cite{ben2019demystifying, mcmahan2017federated, mcmahan2017federated2, wang2018deep, alistarh2017qsgd, alistarh2017qsgd_lg} \label{cat_dist} \end{enumerate} Strategies from categories \ref{cat_quant} and \ref{cat_arch} aim at optimizing DNN parameterization i.e. reducing over-parameterization either by keeping the number of parameters the same while reducing their numerical representations precision or by reducing the number of parameters while keeping their precision - both approaches lead to reduced model sizes and improved computational efficiency. Approaches falling into categories \ref{cat_new} and \ref{cat_dist} do not directly consider the number of model parameters or their numerical representation as relevant variables, but instead focus on more efficient use of computational resources for a given number of parameters and numerical representation. Besides a strategy-based super-categorization, we further sub-categorize literature in tab. \ref{tab:overview} dependent on the following parameters: \begin{itemize} \item Whether abstract guarantees are provided by the authors (proof of convergence, time and space complexity, test error) \item The data agnosticism of the algorithm (i.e. whether the content of the data is irrelevant to the algorithms function) \item Task type the authors used in their paper for demonstrating their approach (classification, object detection, speech recognition, semantic segmentation) \item The scenario where the approach claims an improvement over existing methods (training, inference, simulation - the last indicates the paper provides a simulation framework for e.g. simulating fixed-point quantization on floating-point hardware) \item Whether the approach is dynamic or static in the sense that it is computed during the target scenario or pre-computed \item Whether a publicly available code base exists that allows reproduction of the authors results, implemented either by the original authors or shipped as part of a machine learning framework e.g. \href{https://www.tensorflow.org/}{\underline{TensorFlow}}, \href{https://pytorch.org/}{\underline{PyTorch}}, \href{https://mxnet.apache.org/versions/1.8.0/}{\underline{MXNet}}. \end{itemize} Empirically measured speedups or testing errors were intentionally not included in tab. \ref{tab:overview} for they might not always be produced under comparable circumstances. If an approach matches the criteria for more than one category, it is listed in \ref{tab:overview} in all categories it fits into. \subsection{Research and Selection of Literature} \label{sec:intro:ssec:litsel} The papers incorporated in our survey were researched through the search engines of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (\href{http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/}{\underline{PMLR}}), Neural Information Processing Systems (\href{https://nips.cc/}{\underline{NeurIPS}}), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) \href{https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp}{\underline{Xplore}} as well as \href{https://scholar.google.com/}{\underline{Google Scholar}}. While we preferred works published in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings in the 2018-2021 timeframe, we included \href{https://arxiv.org/}{\underline{arXiv}} or earlier papers as well if we deemed them particularly novel or creative. We selected papers based on the factors novelty, ingenuity, citation count and reproduceability of results, i.e. the existence of a public code repository at e.g. \href{https://github.com/}{\underline{github}} or similar platforms or inclusion in a major machine learning framework such as \href{https://www.tensorflow.org/}{\underline{TensorFlow}}, \href{https://pytorch.org/}{\underline{PyTorch}} or \href{https://mxnet.apache.org/versions/1.8.0/}{\underline{MXNet}}. \subsection{Related Surveys} \label{sec:intro:ssec:relsurv} The focus of other recent surveys in the field lies on parallel and distributed deep learning \cite{ben2019demystifying} whereby \cite{wang2018deep} specializes particularly on mobile applications. \cite{yu2018surveyquantized} treats theory and methods of quantization and discusses their merits and drawbacks while the complementary work \cite{tourad2020surveyfpgas} discusses frameworks and methods for executing DNNs on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). DNN pruning techniques are surveyed and categorized by \cite{xu2020surveypruning}. Recent developments in DNN architectures are described in \cite{khan2019survey}, which provides an overview not only over the SOTA but also the historical developments that lead there. The comparably new field of Quantum DNNs (QDNNs) is covered by \cite{li2020surveyquantumml, ramezani2020surveyquantumml}. \\\\ Our survey differs from others by it's wider scope, incorporating works from different strategical categories, because we think that the most recent mixed-strategy approaches (sec. \ref{sec:mixed}) as well as the fact that quantization (sec. \ref{sec:quant}), DNN pruning (sec. \ref{sec:AA}) and the search for more efficient DNN architectures (sec. \ref{sec:new}) essentially treat the same issue - the systematic simplification of DNNs overly complex for the tasks they are intended to solve, leading to disproportional computation, memory and storage requirements - requires a broader perspective in order to provide a complete picture of the current SOTA. For brevity, our survey does not include recent advancements in QDNNs. \section{Overview} \label{sec:overv} In this section, we will provide a categorization in tab. \ref{tab:overview} along the lines introduced in sec. \ref{sec:intro} as well as brief descriptions of mentioned approaches whereby particular attention will be paid to architectural adaption techniques. \begin{table}[] \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline \textbf{Paper} & \textbf{Cat.} & \textbf{Metric} & \textbf{Guar.} & \textbf{DA} & \textbf{Task} & \textbf{CA} & \textbf{Scenario} & \textbf{DS} & \textbf{Ref} \\ \hline \cite{rajagopal2020multi} & \ref{cat_quant} & RT, TE, & N & Y & CL & \href{https://github.com/ICIdsl/muppet}{\underline{1}} & TR & D & \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quanttr} \\ \hline \cite{jacob2018quantization, sheng2018quantization} & \ref{cat_quant} & RT, TE & N & Y & CL & \href{https://www.tensorflow.org/model_optimization/guide/quantization/training}{\underline{1}},\href{https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/quantization.html}{\underline{2}} & INF & S & \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quanti} \\ \hline \cite{achterhold2018variational} & \ref{cat_quant} & TE & N & Y & CL & N & INF & S & \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quanti} \\ \hline \cite{yang2019quantization} & \ref{cat_quant} & RT, TE & TC, SC & Y & CL, OB & \href{https://github.com/aliyun/alibabacloud-quantization-networks}{\underline{1}} & INF & S & \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quanti} \\ \hline \cite{alistarh2017qsgd, alistarh2017qsgd_lg} & \ref{cat_quant}, \ref{cat_dist} & RT, TE & C, SC & Y & CL, SR & \href{https://github.com/scottjiao/Gradient-Compression-Methods}{\underline{1}} & TR & D & \ref{sec:mixed:ssec:dq} \\ \hline \cite{loroch2017tensorquant, zhang2019qpytorch} & \ref{cat_quant} & TE & N & Y & CL & \href{https://github.com/cc-hpc-itwm/TensorQuant}{\underline{1}}, \href{https://github.com/Tiiiger/QPyTorch}{\underline{2}} & SIM & - & \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quantsim} \\ \hline \cite{zhang2018ECCV} & \ref{cat_quant} & RT, TE & N & Y & CL & \href{https://github.com/Microsoft/LQ-Nets}{\underline{1}} & INF & S & \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quanti} \\ \hline \cite{han2015deep} & \ref{cat_quant}, \ref{cat_arch} & RT, MS, TE & N & Y & CL & \href{https://github.com/mightydeveloper/Deep-Compression-PyTorch}{\underline{1}} & INF & S & \ref{sec:mixed:ssec:aaq} \\ \hline \cite{iandola2016squeezenet} & \ref{cat_quant}, \ref{cat_arch}, \ref{cat_new} & RT, MS, TE & SC & Y & CL & \href{https://github.com/forresti/SqueezeNet}{\underline{1}} & TR, INF & S & \ref{sec:mixed:ssec:naq} \\ \hline \cite{gordon2018morphnet} & \ref{cat_arch} & RT, MS, TE & N & Y & CL & \href{https://github.com/google-research/morph-net}{\underline{1}} & INF & D & \ref{sec:AAD:par:morph}\\ \hline \cite{sandler2018mobilenetv2, howard2017mobilenets} & \ref{cat_arch} & RT, MS, TE & SC & Y & CL, OB & \href{https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/slim/nets/mobilenet}{\underline{1}}, \href{https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/slim/nets/mobilenet_v1.md}{\underline{2}} & TR, INF & S & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet}\\ \cite{ howard2019mobilenetv3}& & & & & SS & & & & \\ \hline \cite{singh2020woodfisher} & \ref{cat_arch} & RT, MS, TE & TC, SC & Y & CL & \href{https://github.com/IST-DASLab/WoodFisher}{\underline{1}} & INF & S & \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:wood} \\ \hline \cite{fang2020fast} & \ref{cat_arch} & RT, MS, TE & N & Y & OB, SS & \href{https://github.com/JaminFong/FNA}{\underline{1}} & INF & S & \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:FNA}\\ \hline \cite{golub2018full} & \ref{cat_arch} & RT, MS, TE & N & Y & CL & N & TR, INF & D & \ref{sec:AAD:par:DP}\\ \hline \cite{hua2018channel} & \ref{cat_arch} & RT, MS & N & N & CL & N & INF & D & \ref{sec:AAD:par:CGNets}\\ & & TE, EE & & & & & & & \\ \hline \cite{yang2020procrustes} & \ref{cat_arch} & RT, MS, & N & Y & CL & N & TR, INF & D & \ref{sec:AAD:par:proc} \\ & & TE, EE & & & & & & & \\ \hline \cite{zhang2018shufflenet, ma2018shufflenet} & \ref{cat_new} & RT, MS, TE & N & Y & CL, OB & \href{https://github.com/MG2033/ShuffleNet}{\underline{1}}, \href{https://github.com/pytorch/vision/blob/master/torchvision/models/shufflenetv2.py}{\underline{2}} & TR, INF & S & \ref{sec:new}\\ \hline \cite{mcmahan2017federated, mcmahan2017federated2} & \ref{cat_dist} & RT, TE & N & Y & CL, SR & N & TR, INF & S & \ref{sec:dist}\\ \hline \end{tabular} \caption{\label{tab:overview} Overview of papers dependent on \textbf{Cat}egory, \textbf{Metric}, \textbf{Guar}antees, \textbf{D}ata \textbf{A}gnosticism, \textbf{Task}, \textbf{C}ode \textbf{A}vailability, \textbf{D}ynamic/\textbf{S}tatic and \textbf{Scen}ario. Papers sharing the same properties are summarized in the same row independent of academic relation. For a summary of the table, see sec. \ref{sec:disc}. Abbrevations: RT = \textbf{r}un\textbf{t}ime, MS = \textbf{m}odel \textbf{s}ize, TE = \textbf{t}est \textbf{e}rror, EE = \textbf{e}nergy \textbf{e}fficiency, C = \textbf{c}onvergence, T/SC = \textbf{t}ime/\textbf{s}pace \textbf{c}omplexity, CL = \textbf{cl}assification, OB = \textbf{o}bject \textbf{d}etection, SR = \textbf{s}peech \textbf{r}ecognition, SS = \textbf{s}emantic \textbf{s}egmentation, TR = \textbf{tr}aining, INF = \textbf{inf}erence, SIM = \textbf{sim}ulation, D = \textbf{d}ynamic, S = \textbf{s}tatic} \end{table} \subsection{Quantization} \label{sec:quant} \subsubsection{Quantized Inference} \label{sec:quant:ssec:quanti} Minimizing inference accuracy degradation induced by quantizing weights and activations while leveraging associated performance increases can be achieved by incorporating (simulated) quantization into model training and training the model itself to compensate the introduced errors (Quantization Aware Training, QAT) \cite{jacob2018quantization, yang2019quantization}, by learning optimal quantization schemes through jointly training DNNs and associated quantizers (Learned Quantization Nets, LQ-Nets) \cite{zhang2018ECCV} or by using dedicated quantization friendly operations \cite{sheng2018quantization}. A notably different approach is taken by Variational Network Quantization (VNQ) \cite{achterhold2018variational} which uses variational Dropout training \cite{kingma2015variational} with a structured sparsity inducing prior \cite{neklyudov2017structured} to formulate post-training quantization as the variational inference problem searching the posterior optimizing the Kullback-Leibler-Divergence (KLD) \cite{kullback1951information}. \subsubsection{Quantized Training} \label{sec:quant:ssec:quanttr} For speeding up training on a single node via block-floating-point quantization, \cite{rajagopal2020multi} introduced a dynamic training quantization scheme (Multi Precision Policy Enforced Training, MuPPET) that tracks mini batch gradient diversity \cite{yin2018gradient} across epochs and decides if a precision switch is triggered for the next batch based on the violation of an empirically determined threshold . Due to a lack of dedicated fixed-point (i.e. FPGA) hardware, speed ups achieved by MuPPET were the product of simulations executed on floating-point hardware using NVIDIA CUTLASS \cite{nvidia2020cutlass}. \subsubsection{Simulation} \label{sec:quant:ssec:quantsim} For exploring the accuracy degradation induced by quantizations of weights, activations and gradients, \cite{loroch2017tensorquant} and \cite{zhang2019qpytorch} introduced the frameworks TensorQuant and QPyTorch capable of simulating on a float32 basis the most common quantizations for training and inference tasks. Both frameworks allow to freely choose exponent and mantissa for floating-point, word and fractional bit length for fixed-point and word length for block-floating-point representations as well as signed/unsigned representations. Since the quantizations remains a simulation, however, no actual speed ups can be achieved using these frameworks. \subsection{Architectural and Topological Adaption} \label{sec:AA} \subsubsection{Pre-Training Adaption} \label{sec:AAPreTA} \paragraph{MobileNets} A representative of pre-training architectural adaption, MobileNets, first introduced by \cite{howard2017mobilenets}, are models that are based on depth-wise separable convolutions (highly efficient factorized convolutions, factorizing a standard convolution into a depthwise convolution and pointwise convolution \cite{sifre2014rigid}). Their width and resolution can be controlled by multipliers (i.e. hyperparameters) controlling layer in and out channels as well as input sizes, thus allowing architectural adaption. While the original paper introduces only a sequential model and does not offer a systematic approach how to find the best architecture for a certain use case, later extensions integrate non-sequential residual blocks \cite{sandler2018mobilenetv2} increasing representational power and employ Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms \cite{howard2019mobilenetv3}. Numerous extensions of the popular MobileNet concept by researchers other than the original authors exist \cite{sinha2019thinmobilenet, chen2018hybridmobilenet}. \label{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \subsubsection{Post-Training Adaption} \label{sec:AAPostTA} \paragraph{WoodFisher} Based on the classic Optimal Brain Damage/Surgeon (OBD/S) \cite{lecun1990optimal, hassibi1993second} framework, WoodFisher \cite{singh2020woodfisher} uses second-order information in the form of efficiently approximated (Inverse-) Hessian's to determine the change in loss induced by the removal of one ore more parameters and prunes the network architecture accordingly. The approach is notable because not only does it not require retraining after pruning, but the authors also provide guarantees for time and space complexity. \label{sec:AAPostTA:par:wood} \paragraph{Fast Neural Network Adaption} Solving a problem different from reducing training or inference times but none the less interesting is Fast Neural Network Adaption (FNA) \cite{fang2020fast}: FNA uses depth-, width- and kernel level parameter remapping to map parameters from a pre-trained seed network to an arbitrary target network, thus allowing NAS to search for architectures optimized for other tasks (e.g. object detection, semantic segmentation) than the original seed network was (e.g. classification) without requiring retraining. \label{sec:AAPostTA:par:FNA} \subsubsection{Dynamic Adaption} \label{AAD} \paragraph{MorphNet} \cite{gordon2018morphnet} is an efficient resource-constrained structure learning algorithm based on the combination of width multipliers (as first introduced by MobileNet, see sec. \ref{sec:AAPreTA}) and sparsifying regularizers (e.g. L1 \cite{williams1995bayesian, ng2004feature, tibshirani1996regression}) to obtain particularly pruning-friendly weights tensors. MorphNet iteratively trains, shrinks, and expands a given DNN, finding each layers width multiplier s.t. a certain resource constraint (e.g. FLOPS or model size) is satisfied. While the authors are unable to proof convergence of their algorithm, they state that in their empirical evaluation, after 1 to 3 iterations, significant reductions in resource requirements where observed while maintaining iso-accuracy. \label{sec:AAD:par:morph} \paragraph{Dropback} introduced by \cite{golub2018full} is a DNN training algorithm which trains DNNs under a pruned weight budget. During training, Dropback tracks only the highest $k$ accumulated gradients ($k$ in this context refers to the weight budget) while untracked weights retain their initial values, thus reducing training times and memory accesses significantly. The actual model itself, however, is neither pruned in width nor depth and no advantage for inference is obtained. \label{sec:AAD:par:DP} \paragraph{Channel Gating} (CGNets) \cite{hua2018channel} is a dynamic inference topology pruning scheme that learns during training which regions in the features contribute least to the classification result and skips computations on a subset of these ineffective regions input channels. This is achieved by the introduction of learnable gate functions which, for each channel of a specific layer, learn if the channels output is zeroed out by ReLU or saturated to Sigmoid or TanH, allows bypassing of that channel in that layer. \label{sec:AAD:par:CGNets} \paragraph{Procrustes} \cite{yang2020procrustes} is an energy efficient sparse DNN training accelerator aimed at producing pruned models with iso-accuracy. Procrustes is based on above mentioned Dropback (sec. \ref{sec:AAD:par:DP}) and extends the concept by inducing sparsity through decaying the untracked weights initial values over the first $i$ iterations s.t. these weights can actually be pruned if they decay to zero, remedying one of Dropback's major drawbacks. Additionally, Procrustes avoids the need to sort all accumulated gradients by using dynamic quantile estimation to continuously track target sparsity. \label{sec:AAD:par:proc} \subsection{New Architectures} \label{sec:new} Instead of pruning, compressing or quantizing a pre-existing architecture, ShuffleNet \cite{zhang2018shufflenet} aims to be highly efficient per design: computationally expensive pointwise convolutions, used in SOTA architectures such as Xception \cite{chollet2017xception} or ResNext \cite{xie2017aggregated} but also the adaptive MobileNet or MorphNet architectures discussed in sec. \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} and \ref{sec:AAD:par:morph}, are replaced in ShuffleNet by less costly pointwise group convolutions. The introduced downside of grouping pointwise convolutions (outputs from a certain channel are derived only from a small fraction of input channels) are compensated by shuffling output channels s.t. the subsequent layers input channels receive features extracted from all other channels. The ShuffleNet concept is extended by ShuffleNetV2 \cite{ma2018shufflenet}, which introduces the concept of channel splitting to balance the numbers of groups and channels which were immutable in the original work. \subsection{Distributed Training/Inference} \label{sec:dist} Proposing a new, completely decentralized view of DNN training, \cite{mcmahan2017federated, mcmahan2017federated2} introduce Federated Learning/Optimization (FL/O), an approach where no centralized learning takes place but instead client nodes (e.g. mobile devices) locally compute updates based on local data to a global model which is then averaged by a server node and shared among participating client nodes, thus performing a global update w.r.t. global data. \subsection{Mixed} \label{sec:mixed} \subsubsection{New Architecture and Quantization} \label{sec:mixed:ssec:naq} By combining alternating pointwise and 3x3 convolutions into an architectural element called the Fire Module as well as post-training quantization, SqueezeNets \cite{iandola2016squeezenet} authors empirically show that their approach significantly reduces model size compared to other SOTA models while maintaining iso-accuracy. \subsubsection{Architectural Adaption and Quantization} \label{sec:mixed:ssec:aaq} Deep Compression \cite{han2015deep}, an earlier work, like SqueezeNet produces an efficient, quantized DNN as output but instead of beeing based on a new architectural element, Deep Compression applies pruning, quantization and Huffman coding \cite{huffman1952method} to a pre-trained network to achieve it's goal. \subsubsection{Distributed Training and Quantization} \label{sec:mixed:ssec:dq} For training on multi-node environments (i.e. distributed), Quantized Stochastic Gradient Descent (QSGD) introduced by \cite{alistarh2017qsgd} incorporates a family of gradient compression schemes aimed at reducing inter node communication costs occurring during SGD's gradient updates, producing a significant speedup as well as convergence guarantees under standard assumptions (not included here for brevity, see \cite{alistarh2017qsgd_lg} for details). \section{Discussion} \label{sec:disc} \subsection{Metrics} \label{sec:disc:ssec:metrics} As can be seen in tab. \ref{tab:overview}, a common ground all surveyed approaches share is they recognize test accuracy (expressed as test error by some works) as relevant metric. We conjecture this represents the common goal of iso-accuracy, i.e. any improvement in terms of time and space complexity must not come at the price of degraded test accuracy compared to more complex state-of-the art approaches. Second to test accuracy in terms of prevalence is runtime (expressed in time units, e.g. milliseconds, speedup or operation counts), which is recognized as relevant by all except 3 of the 24 surveyed papers. Those papers not recognizing runtime as relevant metric for their contribution were either quantization simulation frameworks (TensorQuant, QPytorch, sec. \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quantsim}) or did not disclose their reasons for why they decided against runtime as metric (VNQ, sec. \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quanti}). With regards to model size (expressed as number of parameters or bytes), notably no work falling solely into the quantization (sec. \ref{sec:intro} cat. \ref{cat_quant}) or distributed (sec. \ref{sec:intro} cat. \ref{cat_dist}) category uses this metric, however it is used by all works either introducing new architectures, adapting existing architectures (\ref{sec:intro} cat. \ref{cat_arch} and \ref{cat_new}) or mixing multiple approaches. While it is clear why work distribution strategies dont lead to decreased model sizes, a possible reason for the lack of reported model size reductions using quantization could be that quantization alone, while yielding improvements in runtime, does not result in a sufficient reduction in model size so that authors did not considers it's worthwhile reporting it - however, the verification of this conjecture is considered out of the scope of this survey. An interesting metric explicitly reported only by a 2 works (Procrustes and CGNets, sec. \ref{sec:AAD:par:proc} and \ref{sec:AAD:par:CGNets}) is energy efficiency: this is distinctive because energy efficiency (and indirectly carbon emissions) of deep learning algorithms have recently been subject of research and are suggested as key metric in evaluating deep learning models \cite{patterson2021carbon, anthony2020carbontracker}. \subsection{Tasks} The baseline task all surveyed works compete at is classification. In only 7 of 24 works, authors applied their approach to object detection, speech recognition or semantic segmentation tasks (namely QSGD (sec. \ref{sec:mixed:ssec:dq}), MobileNets (sec. \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet}), FNA (sec. \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:FNA}), ShuffleNets (sec. \ref{sec:new}), FL/O, \ref{sec:dist}) . There is no obvious connection between type of task chosen by the authors and strategical category, so we conjecture that authors might display the observed preference of classification task for reasons of simplicity. \subsection{Guarantees, Data Agnosticism, Scenario} Regarding abstract guarantees, only 5 of 24 works are able to provide guarantees w.r.t. convergence time and/or space complexity, namely QAT (sec. \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quanti}), QSGD (sec. \ref{sec:mixed}), MobileNets (sec. \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet}) and WoodFisher (sec. \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:wood}), and no work provides guarantees w.r.t. test error. The majority of authors rely solely on empirical evaluation of their works. \\\\ Only CGNets (\ref{sec:AAD:par:CGNets}) considers input data in it's decision where to prune, which distinguishes it from the 23 other surveyed data agnostic approaches. \\\\ There seems to be a focus on increasing inference performance in the surveyed literature, with 2 works focusing on training, 12 on inference and 10 offering improvements for both. \subsection{Performance of Architectural Adaption Methods} \label{sec:disc:ssec:perf} In our work, we found that the most common experiment conducted by researchers working on DNN architectural adaption problems is classifying ImageNet \cite{russakovsky2015imagenet, deng2009imagenet} (seconded by classifying CIFAR-10/100 \cite{cstronoto20XXcifar}) and comparing the metrics test accuracy or error, Multiply-Add Operations (MAdds, 1 MAdd = 2 FLOPS)) and model size (usually given as number of parameters) with other SOTA approaches. Hence, we found this experimental setup most useful for comparing the performance of different approaches and summarized the authors results in tab. \ref{tab:perf}. This still remains only the smallest comparable subset of experiments however and should not be used to judge the contribution of an approach without considering its other properties (dynamic/static adaption, pre- or post-training, proven generalizability to other tasks such as object recognition or semantic segmentation, etc). \subsubsection{The Best Solution?} \label{sec:disc:ssec:perf:sssec:sol} Within the limited expressiveness of the comparable experiments listed in tab. \ref{tab:perf} however, we found that Procrustes (sec. \ref{sec:AAD:par:proc}) outperforms all other works in terms of top-1 accuracy by model size ratio and top-1 accruracy to MAdds ratio, reporting a top-1 test accuracy of 71.13\% with only 75M MAdds and 0.35M weights when combined with MobileNetV2 (sec. \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet}). The best top-1 accuracy by model compression ratio though is reached by WoodFisher (sec. \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:wood}), which reports a top-1 test accuracy of 72.16\% after inducing 95\% sparsity in a ResNet50s weights, which under the assumption of a sparse weights storage format, translates to a reduction in model size by a factor of ~20. WoodFisher also outperforms all other approaches in terms of highest test accuracy: with the induction of 80\% sparsity, WoodFisher reaches 76.73\% accuracy and a model compression by a factor of 5. Unfortunately though the WoodFisher paper does not explicitly report MAdds or FLOPS but just speed-ups s.t. we cant compare the approach to others using this metric. At this point, we take into account that WoodFisher and Procrustes solve two similar but different problems: WoodFisher receives a pre-trained, un-pruned network and prunes it to obtain it's results while Procrustes already prunes during training, i.e. the latter is capable accelerating training and inference as well, which illustrates the limited usefulness of comparing experiments without taking algorithmic properties into account. \begin{table}[] \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline \textbf{Approach} & \textbf{Top 1} & \textbf{MAdds} & \textbf{Size} & \textbf{Src} & \textbf{Ref} \\ \hline MobileNetV1 (1.0) & 70.6 & 569M & 4.2M & \cite{howard2017mobilenets} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MobileNetV1 (0.75) & 68.4 & 325M & 2.6M & \cite{howard2017mobilenets} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MobileNetV1 (0.5) & 64.7 & 149M & 1.3M & \cite{howard2017mobilenets} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MobileNetV1 (0.25) & 50.6 & 41M & 0.5M & \cite{howard2017mobilenets} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline GoogleNet (cite) & 69.7 & 1500M & 6.8M & \cite{howard2017mobilenets} & \\ \hline VGG16 \cite{simonyan2014very} & 71.5 & 15300M & 138M & \cite{howard2017mobilenets} & \\ \hline SqueezeNet & 57.5M & 1700M & 1.25M & \cite{howard2017mobilenets} & \ref{sec:mixed:ssec:naq} \\ \hline AlexNet \cite{krizhevsky2012imagenet}) & 57.2 & 720M & 60M & \cite{howard2017mobilenets} & \\ \hline MobileNetV2 (1.4) & 74.7 & 585M & 6.9M & \cite{sandler2018mobilenetv2} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MobileNetV2 (1.0) & 72.0 & 300M & 3.4M & \cite{sandler2018mobilenetv2} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline ShuffleNetV1 (1.5) & 71.5 & 292M & 3.4M & \cite{sandler2018mobilenetv2} & \ref{sec:new} \\ \hline ShuffleNetV1 (2.0) & 73.7 & 524M & 5.4M & \cite{sandler2018mobilenetv2} & \ref{sec:new} \\ \hline MobileNetV3-L (1.0) & 75.2 & 219M & 5.4M & \cite{howard2019mobilenetv3} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MobileNetV3-L (0.75) & 73.3 & 155M & 3.0M & \cite{howard2019mobilenetv3} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MobileNetV3-S (1.0) & 67.4 & 66M & 2.9M & \cite{howard2019mobilenetv3} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MobileNetV3-S (0.75) & 65.4 & 44M & 2.4M & \cite{howard2019mobilenetv3} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline InceptionV2 \cite{szegedy2016rethinking} & 74.1 & 5000M\cite{szegedy2016rethinking} & 25M \cite{szegedy2016rethinking} & \cite{gordon2018morphnet} & \\ \hline MorphNet-InceptionV2 & 75.2 & 5000M & 25M & \cite{gordon2018morphnet} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:morph} \\ \hline MobileNetV1 (0.5) & 57.1 & 149M & 1.3M & \cite{gordon2018morphnet} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MorphNet-MobileNetV1 (0.5) & 58.1 & 149M & 1.3M & \cite{gordon2018morphnet} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:morph} \\ \hline MobileNetV1 (0.25) & 44.8 & 41M & 0.5M & \cite{gordon2018morphnet} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline MorphNet-MobileNetV1 (0.25) & 45.9 & 41M & 0.5M & \cite{gordon2018morphnet} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:morph} \\ \hline ResNet18 \cite{he2016deep} & 68.41 & 1800M\cite{yang2020procrustes} & 11M & \cite{golub2018full} & \\ \hline Dropback-ResNet18 & 70.05 & ? & 2M & \cite{golub2018full} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:DP} \\ \hline Dropback-ResNet18 & 67.99 & ? & 1M & \cite{golub2018full} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:DP} \\ \hline ResNet18 & 69.17 & 1800M & 11M & \cite{yang2020procrustes} & \\ \hline Procrustes-ResNet18 & 69.31 & 359M & 1M & \cite{yang2020procrustes} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:proc} \\ \hline MobileNetV2 (1.0) & 70.98 & 301M & 3.5M & \cite{yang2020procrustes} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline Procrustes-MobileNetV2 (1.0) & 71.13 & 75M & 0.35M & \cite{yang2020procrustes} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:proc} \\ \hline ResNet18 & 69.2 & 1800M & 11M & \cite{hua2018channel} & \\ \hline CGNet-A-ResNet18 & 68.8 & 933M & ? & \cite{hua2018channel} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:CGNets} \\ \hline CGNet-B-ResNet18 & 68.3 & 887M & ? & \cite{hua2018channel} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:CGNets} \\ \hline MobileNetV1 (0.75) & 68.8 & 325M & 2.6M & \cite{hua2018channel} & \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet} \\ \hline CGNet-A-MobileNetV1 (0.75) & 68.2 & 173M & ? & \cite{hua2018channel} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:CGNets} \\ \hline CGNet-B-MobileNetV1 (0.75) & 67.8 & 136M & ? & \cite{hua2018channel} & \ref{sec:AAD:par:CGNets} \\ \hline ResNet50 & 77.01 & 3727M\cite{wang2019fully} & 20.69M\cite{wang2019fully} & \cite{singh2020woodfisher} & \\ \hline WoodFisher-ResNet50 & 76.73 & ? & 4.14M & \cite{singh2020woodfisher} & \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:wood} \\ \hline WoodFisher-ResNet50 & 75.26 & ? & 2.07M & \cite{singh2020woodfisher} & \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:wood} \\ \hline WoodFisher-ResNet50 & 72.16 & ? & 1.03M & \cite{singh2020woodfisher} & \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:wood} \\ \hline \end{tabular} \caption{\label{tab:perf} Experimental evaluation of architectural adaption approaches compared to 'classic' SOTA architectures (ResNet, AlexNet, VGG16, GoogleNet) by top-1 accuracy classifying ImageNet, MAdds (= Multiply-Add Operations, 1 MAdd = 2 FLOPS), Size (= Number of Parameters). MAdds and size are given in Millions.} \end{table} \section{Concluding Remarks} We present a survey, which differs from other surveys in the field as outlined in sec. \ref{sec:intro:ssec:relsurv}, of carefully researched and selected (sec. \ref{sec:intro:ssec:litsel}) recently published SOTA methods in the field of dynamic DNN architectural and topological adaptation (sec. \ref{sec:AA}), quantized (sec. \ref{sec:quant}) and distributed (sec. \ref{sec:dist}) DNN training and inference as well as new, efficient architectures (sec. \ref{sec:new}). We further contribute a categorization (sec. \ref{sec:intro}) and overview (sec. \ref{sec:overv}) of these methods, describe the metrics (sec. \ref{sec:disc:ssec:metrics}) and experimental setups (sec. \ref{sec:disc:ssec:perf}) used commonly in the field as well as the problems faced when comparing different approaches (sec. \ref{sec:disc:ssec:perf}). Finally, we highlight open questions (sec. \ref{sec:disc:ssec:open}) we regard as relevant for their high potential to advance the SOTA in the field of deep learning. \section{Open Questions} \label{sec:disc:ssec:open} In DNN training, a DNN stores information on the shape of decision surface in it's weights. We found that no approach exists using a metric that directly measures the amount information lost (e.g. KLD) through weight pruning and we conjecture that the concept introduced by VNQ (sec. \ref{sec:quant:ssec:quanti}) could be extended to that purpose. We also point out that it has not yet been explored how quantized training impacts vanishing/exploding gradients, counter-strategies \cite{basodi2020gradient, chen2018gradnorm, salimans2016weight, klambauer2017self, glorot2010understanding, he2015delving, hanin2018start} and vice versa. It is furthermore unknown how the combination of various approaches performs. It might be worthwhile exploring how a MobileNet trained by Procrustes, pruned by WoodFisher and finally compressed and quantized by Deep Compression performs (sec. \ref{sec:AAPreTA:par:mobnet}, \ref{sec:AAD:par:proc}, \ref{sec:AAPostTA:par:wood}, \ref{sec:mixed:ssec:aaq}) and whether the results can be improved further by the most recent data augmentation techniques for semi-supervised and supervised deep learning tasks \cite{khosla2020supervised, chen2020simple}. \\\\ Given \cite{hong2019terminal} showed the practical feasibility of software-induced fault injection attacks on DNNs and the high vulnerability of DNNs to such attacks, another important question left untreated by all quantization related works in sec. \ref{sec:quant} and \ref{sec:mixed} is how these approaches hold up against dedicated attacks on quantized networks \cite{rakin2019bit, rakin2019bitimplementation} for they do not natively include defense mechanisms \cite{he2020defending, he2020defending2} against such attacks. Exemplary studies of the robustness of quantized neural networks against bit error attacks were recently conducted by \cite{giacobbe2020many, stutz2021bit}. Another type of attack to which DNNs are particularly vulnerable are out-of-distribution (OOD) attacks \cite{augustin2020adversarial} which is why we deem it important to explore how architectural adaption or quantization affects a networks robustness to such attacks. Proofable guarantees w.r.t. to the detection of OOD attacks are provided by \cite{bitterwolf2020certifiable}. \\\\ As discussed in sec. \ref{sec:disc}, only 5 of 24 surveyed works provide abstract guarantees regarding convergence, time or space complexity and not a single work provides any guarantees w.r.t. test error (i.e. network degradation induced by architecture modifications or quantization). We conjecture component-wise perturbation analysis \cite{highamperturbation} might lead to such guarantees as this technique has in similar scenarios not only been applied to study historical neural network architectures \cite{wangperturbation, meyerbaeseperturbation, zengperturbation} but also yielded results for simple modern architectures recently \cite{lenetperturbation}. \\\\ Another question we deem worthy of further investigation is whether the interpretability \cite{zhang2018visual1, zhang2018visual2} of quantized, pruned or otherwise adapted DNNs changes w.r.t. to a base model and whether these changes, if present, can be quantified and lower or upper bounds for their magnitude be provided. \printbibliography[type=inproceedings,title={References - Conference Papers}] \printbibliography[type=article,title={References - Journal Papers}] \printbibliography[type=inbook,title={References - Books}] \printbibliography[type=misc,title={References - Other}] \end{document}

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Wolves Come Up Short in Overtime Against Prowlers By Jay Harris Riding on the energy of their 7-1 victory last night, the Watertown Wolves looked to avenge Sunday's loss against the Port Huron Prowlers when they faced off in a rematch at the Watertown Municipal Arena Saturday night. The Prowlers defense gave the Wolves a challenge in the first period and prevented them from getting a puck past Curtis Martinu in the net. Branden Parkhouse got a puck past Danilla Allistratov to make the score by the end of the first period 0-1 Port Huron. The Wolves stepped it up in the second period. Captain Brett Liscomb shot the puck in the net as the officials blew the whistle, negating his goal just thirty seconds into the period. Mike Baker gave the Wolves a power play when he earned a holding charge. During the action on the power play Prowler Aaron Atwell ended up flat on the ice and did not get back up for a couple of minutes. He was eventually able to skate off the ice with assistance. He was placed on a stretcher with a neck brace, and taken to the hospital for further examination. Brett Liscomb and Jason Dolgy got the puck to Jeremy Akeson during the power play to give the Wovles their first goal of the game. This was Akeson's first goal since he returned to the line-up when he was out with a broken hand. The second goal of the period belonged to Watertown also. Jason Dolgy intercepted the puck from Port Huron on their blue line to break away and get one past goalie Curtis Martinu. The Wolves ended the period with a 2-1 lead. Port Huron took back the lead with two back-to-back goals in less than a minute. The first scored by Ahmed Mahfouz and the second scored by Mike Beer. Jason Dolgy tied the game back at three on assists from Bret Liscomb and Kyle Powell and sent the game to overtime. Port Huron would gain an extra player to make it 4-on-3 when Brett Liscomb got charged with tripping. The Wolves held on until Austin Daae scored with just nineteen seconds left in Overtime. The three stars of the game went to Jason Dolgy, Brett Liscomb, and Jeremy Akeson. The Wolves will be back in action on Friday, March 10th when they face the Berlin River Drivers at the Watertown Municipal Ice Arena with the game starting at 7:30 pm.

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Eagles fall to the Bandits There are teams in the AJHL that are always a big challenge and one of those teams is the Brooks Bandits. On Saturday night the Eagles travelled to Brooks to battle the Bandits for the 1st time since the two teams met in the 2nd Round of the AJHL Playoffs last March. The Eagles who were able to end the Bandits? winning streak of 35 games in Game 3 of that series were unable to end the Bandits? season unbeaten streak, as Brooks improves to 11-0 with a 7-1 win. They are the last team in the AJHL to remain undefeated. The Eagles, on the other hand, see their early-season record drop to 4 wins and 6 losses and remain in 5th Place in the AJHL South Division 4 points back of 4th Place Camrose and 6 points back of 3rd Place Drumheller. The Eagles were able to get on the board first when Captain Tian Rask scored his 4th of the season with Max Giangualano and Finn Withey picking up the assists. The Bandits scored 7 unanswered goals, including 3 from their Captain Jakob Lee. The Bandits scored twice in the 1st period, 4 times in the middle frame and once in the final frame. They outshot the Eagles by a 45-20 margin. Eagles rookie netminder Devin Chapman got the start between the pipes for the 2nd consecutive night and he made 38 saves. Eagles Head Coach and General Manager Andrew Milne was satisfied with the performance of his netminder saying, ?I thought Devin was good. He made some big saves. We had too many turnovers, made too many mistakes. Two of their goals were tips in and they also had three goals on two-on-ones.? Chapman is currently the only goalie on the Eagles roster as the team announced yesterday that 20-year old veteran Logan Dyck was traded to the Notre Dame Hounds of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in exchange for future considerations. The team is expected to bring in a new goalie and the announcement should be made on Monday. Also yesterday, the Eagles added a new player to their roster. The player is 18-year-old Forward Cam Sterling from Calgary, AB. Sterling is no stranger to the Eagles organization as 2 seasons ago, he was an affiliate while he was playing Midget AAA with the Calgary Buffaloes and he suited up for 2 games with the Eagles. Last season, he played in the WHL with the Moose Jaw Warriors. ?Cam is a big strong kid, he plays heavy and he?s got experience,? said Coach Milne. "I thought he played a good 1st game last night and he is a good addition to our club.? The Eagles continue their 5-game trip on Tuesday night as they head to Ken Bracko Arena in Calgary to take on the Canucks (1-11-1). The Eagles will then head North for a 3-game in 3 days road trip next weekend against the Drayton Valley Thunder (3-7-1), the Grande Prairie Storm (6-7) and the Whitecourt Wolverines (6-4-2). After the first 10 games of the regular season, Coach Milne feels there is an improvement to be made saying, "We made some adjustments with our lineup. Our offence and our Power Play are there, but we need to keep pucks out of our net and get pucks out of our end.? Previous PostEAGLES WIN FINAL GAME IN BANFFNext PostThis Week in Eagle History (Oct.14th – Oct.20th)

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30% of the Pentagon's top leadership positions will be vacant in 2020 With the most recent departures, a total of 18 of the 59 presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed positions on the Defense Department staff... By Jeff Schogol December 19, 2019 Five top defense officials have tendered their resignations this month, ultimately leaving nearly one-third of the Pentagon's Senate-confirmed positions vacant, defense officials said. Since Dec. 5, the following officials have tendered their resignations: Tina Kaidanow, senior advisor for international cooperation. Kari Bingen, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. Randall Schriver, assistant defense secretary for Indo-Pacific security affairs. Jimmy Stewart, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Steven Walker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Separately, Defense Secretary Mark Esper fired then-Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Nov. 24. Esper later told reporters he was "flabbergasted" to learn that Spencer went behind his back to try to negotiate a deal to allow Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher retire with his trident. With the most recent departures, a total of 18 of the 59 presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed positions on the Defense Department staff will be vacant, said Pentagon spokesman Chuck Prichard. The Defense Department will have to fill two more positions when President Donald Trump signs the Fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. Esper recently told reporters that he was not concerned by the slew of resignations in December. "That's a normal rotation," Esper said during a Dec. 16 flight back from Belgium. "Folks have been at it hard for two years now, two-plus years." But Lara Seligman of Foreign Policy first reported that current and defense officials blame Undersecretary of Defense for Policy John Rood for creating a hostile work environment that has prompted many of the Pentagon's civilian leaders to resign. Rood, the No. 3 leader at the Pentagon, is reportedly verbally abusive toward subordinates, In one case, according to Seligman, Rood allegedly exploded over a minor issue and could not get over it for days. However, of the five defense officials who have announced they are leaving, only one – Schriver – works for Rood, said Pentagon spokeswoman Air Force Lt. Col. Carla Gleason. Two other senior leaders who worked for Rood have left this year, Gleason said. David Trachtenberg, the former deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, retired in July. Mark Mitchell left in November after overseeing special operations for roughly four months. "We have the utmost confidence in Under Secretary John Rood's expertise and professionalism," Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement to Task & Purpose. "He has demonstrated effective and constant leadership over the past two years as under secretary for policy in a difficult, demanding and vital role in the Department with responsibility for aligning civilian and military policy across the globe in accordance with Secretary's focus on the National Defense Strategy." Jeff Schogol View Jeff Schogol's articles @JeffSchogol ~popular_source-pageview pentagon vacancies At 1,200 rounds per minute, this full-auto Glock was Saddam Hussein's weapon of choice The Glock 18 is a machine pistol capable of firing 1,200 rounds a minute Death of 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper at Fort Bragg under investigation 'Private Second Class Smither was an invaluable member... US Sub Makes Port Call In South Korea Just In Time For North Korea Military Parade The guided-missile submarine USS Michigan made a port...

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Home » Cancer Topics » Gynecologic Cancer Publish Date September 19, 2019 Certain Anatomical Sites Appear to Respond Well to an Investigational T-Cell Therapy for HPV-Positive Epithelial Cancers Victoria Forster, PhD Follow @vickyyyf The benefit of engineered T cells has generally been limited to their use in hematological cancers. Why has progress been so slow for other cancer types? There have been promising results in a few patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive epithelial cancers who were treated with innovative T-cell therapies, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.1 "The idea behind the treatment is to target a constitutively expressed tumor antigen expressed only in tumor cells and not healthy tissue," said Christian Hinrichs, MD, investigator in the experimental transplantation and immunology branch at the National Cancer Institute, NIH Lasker Clinical Research Scholar, and lead author of the research. T cells are taken from the patient and genetically engineered to express a T-cell receptor (TCR) targeting an HPV viral oncoprotein expressed on HPV-associated cancers. They are then expanded to huge numbers (up to 100 billion cells) and infused back into the patient. Following NCCN Surveillance Guidelines in Oropharyngeal Carcinoma Did Not Yield a Survival Benefit: Study Most HPV-Linked Cancers Due to Types Targeted by 9vHPV Vaccine Incidence of HPV-Positive OPSCC Is Double That Seen in HPV-Negative Disease "The main toxicities are related to the chemotherapy given in the conditioning regimen — cyclophosphamide and fludarabine," said Dr Hinrichs, noting that these toxicities included bone marrow toxicity, bleeding, and an increased risk of infection. Any significant clinical benefit of engineered T cells so far has generally been limited to their use in hematological cancers. Why has progress been so slow for other cancer types? "This approach is similar to [chimeric antigen receptor] CAR T-cell approaches, but the difference is that we don't use a CAR that can only target antigens on the surface of the cell. We use a TCR that can target intracellular antigens. Many of the most attractive antigens in oncology such as KRAS and BRAF are intracellular, hence, can't be targeted with CARs," said Dr Hinrichs. Two patients enrolled in the trial were described as having an objective response to the therapy, with 1 patient, in particular, having a remarkable response. "The best response was in a woman with metastatic anal cancer where 1 of her lesions went away completely and another 2 shrank completely. We then operated to remove the residual disease; she's now 4 years out with no disease. She had metastatic cancer; it's remarkable and [she] has gone years with no cancer," said Dr Hinrichs. Next post in Gynecologic Cancer Intrauterine Device Use May Reduce Incidence of Ovarian Cancer Close more info about Certain Anatomical Sites Appear to Respond Well to an Investigational T-Cell Therapy for HPV-Positive Epithelial Cancers

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JOHN HORGAN: Could Nobel Prize for "God Particle" Be Last Gasp for Particle Physics? SA Magazine SA Mind Subscribe to Print & Tablet » Subscribe to Print » Give a Gift » View the Latest Issue » Critical views of science in the news Cross-Check Home Could Nobel Prize for "God Particle" Be Last Gasp for Particle Physics? By John Horgan | October 8, 2013 | 8 "Here at last!" With this unusual but understandable exuberance, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that it has awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to François Englert and Peter Higgs. Almost a half century ago, Englert and Higgs independently proposed the existence of a particle—which came to be known as the Higgs boson–that helps confer mass to other particles. The Higgs boson was finally discovered last year by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. Computer simulation of particle traces from an LHC collision in which a Higgs Boson is produced. The Higgs has long inspired mixed reactions. As I reported last year, some observers fear that the Higgs boson may represent the last gasp of particle physics. I quoted physicist-journalist Adrian Cho noting in Sciencethat "even as physicists celebrate, the discovery raises worries among some that there may remain no new physics that can be discovered with the atom-smasher." Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg told Cho: "My nightmare, and it's not just me, but a lot of us [in particle physics], is that the LHC discovers the Higgs boson and nothing else… That would be like closing a door." Most other coverage of today's Nobel Prize announcement will no doubt be celebratory and upbeat about the future of particle physics. So surely no one will mind if I reprise the glum perspective of the Higgs I have offered in previous posts. The Higgs has long been a mixed blessing for particle physics. In the early 1990s, when physicists were pleading—ultimately in vain–with Congress not to cancel the Superconducting Supercollider, which was sucking up tax dollars faster than a black hole, the Nobel laureate Leon Lederman christened the Higgs "the God particle." This is scientific hype at its most outrageous. If the Higgs is the "God Particle," what should we call an even more fundamental particle, like a string? The Godhead Particle? The Mother of God Particle? Lederman himself confessed that "the Goddamn Particle" might have been a better name for the Higgs, given how hard it had been to detect "and the expense it is causing." A more fundamental problem is that discovering the Higgs would be a modest, even anti-climactic achievement, relative to the grand ambitions of theoretical physics. The Higgs would serve merely as the capstone of the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes the workings of electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. The Standard Model, because it excludes gravity, is an incomplete account of reality; it is like a theory of human nature that excludes sex.As physicist Michio Kaku put it in 2011, the Standard Model is "rather ugly" and "a theory that only a mother could love." Our best theory of gravity is still general relativity, which does not mesh mathematically with the quantum field theories that comprise the Standard Model. Over the past few decades, theorists have become increasingly obsessed with finding a unified theory, a "theory of everything" that wraps all of nature's forces into one tidy package. Hearing all the hoopla about the Higgs, the public might understandably assume that it represents a crucial step toward a unified theory–and perhaps at least tentative confirmation of the existence of strings, branes, hyperspaces, multiverses and all the other fantastical eidolons that Kaku, Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene and other unification enthusiasts tout in their bestsellers. But the Higgs doesn't take us any closer to a unified theory than climbing a tree would take me to the Moon. String theory, loop-space theory and other popular candidates for a unified theory postulate phenomena far too minuscule to be detected by any existing or even conceivable (except in a sci-fi way) experiment. Obtaining the kind of evidence of a string or loop that we have for, say, the top quark would require building an accelerator as big as the Milky Way. Kaku asserted that finding the Higgs "is not enough. What is needed is a genuine theory of everything, which can simply and beautifully unify all the forces of the universe into a single coherent whole—a goal sought by Einstein for the last 30 years of his life." He insisted that we are at "the beginning, not the end of physics. The adventure continues." Maybe. But I'm not hopeful. Whether or not physicists find the Goddamn Particle, the quest for unification, which has given physics its glitter over the past half century, looks increasingly like a dead end. Almost 10 years ago, I put my money where my mouth is. The Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit that encourages long-term thinking, asked a bunch of people to make bets about trends in science, technology and other realms of culture. I bet Kaku $1,000that by the year 2020, "no one will have won a Nobel Prize for work on superstring theory, membrane theory or some other unified theory describing all the forces of nature." (Lee "loop space" Smolin was my original counter-bettor but backed out at the last minute, the big chicken.) Kaku and I each put up $1,000 in advance, which the Long Now Foundation keeps in escrow. If civilization–or more importantly, the Long Now Foundation–still exists in 2020, it will give $2,000 to a charity designated by me (the Nature Conservancy) or Kaku (National Peace Action). In defending my bet, I stated: "The dream of a unified theory, which some evangelists call a 'theory of everything,' will never be entirely abandoned. But I predict that over the next twenty years, fewer smart young physicists will be attracted to an endeavor that has vanishingly little hope of an empirical payoff. Most physicists will come to accept that nature might not share our passion for unity. Physicists have already produced theories–Newtonian mechanics, quantum mechanics, general relativity, nonlinear dynamics–that work extraordinarily well in certain domains, and there is no reason why there should be a single theory that accounts for all the forces of nature. The quest for a unified theory will come to be seen not as a branch of science, which tells us about the real world, but as a kind of mathematical theology." I added, however—and this is both mawkish tripe and the truth–that "I would be delighted to lose this bet." Image and caption copyright: CERN, http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/about-higgs-boson. Image credit: Lucas Taylor. About the Author: Every week, hockey-playing science writer John Horgan takes a puckish, provocative look at breaking science. A teacher at Stevens Institute of Technology, Horgan is the author of four books, including The End of Science (Addison Wesley, 1996) and The End of War (McSweeney's, 2012). Follow on Twitter @Horganism. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. Previous: My Problem with "Taboo" Behavioral Genetics? The Science Stinks! More inShare 1. M Tucker12:40 pm 10/8/2013 While it may turn out that the LHC will not discover any else that it new this does not spell the "last gasp for particle physics." The particle physicists have much to keep them busy. They still need a good theory to explain the curious behavior of neutrinos and there is of course dark matter to deal with. Why does the Standard Model include three generations of particles when only the first generation is necessary to construct all matter in the universe? No, particle physics has not reached an end but a unification of the Standard Model with gravity might not be possible or it might take new physics to make it possible. I have a feeling you will win your bet John as long as civilization or the Long Now Foundation still exist; although it would be fun if you lost. Link to this 2. RSchmidt1:09 pm 10/8/2013 I don't really see the point of being pessimistic about our chances of finding a unified theory. Sure, it is a difficult problem. And yes, we don't know the answer yet (what a surprise), which I guess is why we are looking. At this point we have no reason to think this is impossible, so why the pessimism? Do you get points for guessing outcomes, other than your rather pointless bet? Do you get some smug satisfaction from doubting the abilities of the scientific community? Instead of trying to call the race before it is over, why not find enjoyment in the process? Regardless of whether or not we find a unifying theory, we will discover something new about the universe and for me, that is reason for optimism. 3. curiouswavefunction4:57 pm 10/8/2013 "Last gasp for particle physics" sounds suspiciously like one of those doom-and-gloom scenarios postulated for physics at the end of the nineteenth century. 4. geojellyroll6:59 pm 10/8/2013 Not at all. This is akin to walking across the country and now knowing that you are walking in the right direction. Resources are channeled based on more knowledge and on less speculation. The real issue is if there is a finite amount of knowledge that is possible to know. We modern humans have a false bravado that anything is possible if we put our minds to it…actually that is wrong. Something may be possible only if it is within the properties of matter and energy. Way out in left field speculation (call me whacko)…sometime in the next few decades or millenia we are going to have some understanding of existence not through our physics but through information provided by ET intelligences. This won't be through radio astronomy but through some type of quantum entanglement info hiway that links a quadrillion or so intelligences around the universe. Re String theory. My reaction is often 'so what'. We have no means of verifying String theory pronouncements…except through meathematics which is a circular logic. Some branch of String theory today may explain everything but we couldnt confirm it. String theory is more a mathematical than scientific endevour. Noble but so is music and poetry in seeking 'The Truth'. @geojellyroll, whacko 6. nicholasjh12:02 pm 10/9/2013 It could be that the unified theory is based on forces or particles we can not measure. – we already know there are particles that we are unable to detect directly (such as higgs which we can only detect by destroying it.) and some neutrinos which pop in and out of or detection, not because they disapear, but because the transform to something we can't detect. There is no reason to believe that there isn't a whole host of things that we are unable to detect. 7. John Duffield3:30 pm 10/9/2013 John: you aren't pessimistic enough. Not nearly. 8. Von Stupidtz4:15 pm 10/9/2013 Betsman you are. Does the news make you feel better? You must sign in or register as a ScientificAmerican.com member to submit a comment. Click one of the buttons below to register using an existing Social Account. 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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said he was prepared to hold negotiations with the U.S.-backed opposition and added he would support early parliamentary elections, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. "I am ready to sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition so that we could talk for the good of Venezuela," Maduro told RIA in an interview in Caracas. Maduro also said Russian President Vladimir Putin had promised him more economic and military support during phone talks last week. "There is cooperation every month. This is normal, nothing extraordinary about this," he added. Venezuela is a rare Moscow ally in Latin America. The two countries have a long history of ties and Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez, known for his tirades against the United States, was a welcome guest at the Kremlin. The United States, a dozen Latin American countries and Canada have recognized Guaido as interim president, while China and Russia — Venezuela's two main creditors — have urged non-interference. In the interview with RIA Novosti, Maduro said he would support early parliamentary elections. "It would be very good to conduct parliamentary elections at an earlier stage, it would be a good form of political discussion," Maduro said. At the same time, he dismissed the possibility of holding a new presidential poll any time soon. "Presidential elections in Venezuela have taken place, and if imperialists want new elections let them wait until 2025," he said in an apparent reference to Washington. Maduro has been in charge since 2013 but his re-election in May was branded illegitimate by the European Union, the United States and the Organization of American States. The embattled leader also implied he was firmly in charge of the army whose support is crucial. Maduro also claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump had ordered the government of Colombia to assassinate him. "If something happens to me one day then Donald Trump and Colombian President Ivan Duque will be responsible for everything that is happening to me," he said, adding however that he was in good hands. "At the same time, I am protected. We have a good system of defense in place and moreover, we have more significant protection — this is protection from God who will give me a long life," Maduro added. He declined to comment on some media reports that Russian private contractors had allegedly arrived in Venezuela to protect him. Russia has denounced the opposition's "usurpation of power", calling Maduro the crisis-hit country's legitimate leader. Venezuela owes China and Russia billions of dollars and Maduro vowed to honor the debt. He also expressed hope that the two countries would continue to support Venezuela economically and invited US companies to invest in energy and other sectors. Venezuela has been in turmoil before, but the events of recent weeks have been unprecedented. Ultimately it will be the armed forces that either deal the crushing blow to President Maduro or who continue to provide him with life-sustaining support, according to David Pion-Berlin, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. Is Venezuelan President Maduro's Fate in the Hands of the Armed Forces? Will Trump's Border Wall Keep Mexican Migrants Out or Lock Them In?

Have you outgrown your current home? Are you moving to a new city or state? Maybe it's time to downsize and find a home that's easier to maintain. Whatever the reason, you've come to realize that it's the right time to sell. So, you decide the best option is to sell your home first, get cash in hand, and then start searching for your new place. Now comes the hard part. What happens if it takes longer than expected to find your new home? Do you have temporary housing set up or are you prepared to move in with relatives or friends? Where will you store all of your furniture and belongings in the interim? Selling first may have sounded like a good idea, but you could end up spending a whole lot more than you originally planned and scrambling to find a new home fast might force you to settle for something you don't really love. Are there any easy solutions? The answer is YES! If you don't want to buy a new home until yours is sold AND you don't want to worry about finding temporary housing or settling for a home that doesn't meet your needs, DLP Offers is your answer. Through the Immediate Buyout Offer, one of our experienced real estate agents will come to your home, assess it, and give you a highly competitive offer within 24 hours. If you accept, you'll have cash in hand in as little as 7 days! And, the best part? You can continue to live in your home until you find the home you really want! "With DLP Offers, we offer the flexibility of closing at our client's convenience, allowing them to take as much or as little time as they need to move," says Jonathan Campbell, VP of DLP Realty. Additionally, you won't have to deal with the hassle of costly repairs, staging, or scheduling showings. Instead, you'll have more free time to search for your next home. No more worrying about finding expensive temporary housing or moving in with family or friends and you won't need to spend money on storage for your belongings. You'll have more money in your pocket to put toward the home you really want. Want to learn more about our Immediate Buyout Program and other innovative programs DLP Realty offers to eliminate the stress from buying and selling a home?

?'Commons?' condo project shifts to fall OLD SAYBROOK ?— Construction of a 204-unit condominium project off North Main Street will probably get under way in the fall, developer David Mack said Monday. Walt Platteborze The "Saybrook Commons" project was approved in Superior Court last November when a judge ruled against a Zoning Commission decision that would have reduced the number of units and set several conditions on design and construction. Mack had said following the court ruling that ground probably would be broken this spring. Mack said Monday, however, that all the paperwork involved with the legal case held up planning for the project. The Superior Court didn't formally sign off on the case until late last month, he said. "We're working on the design stuff now," he said. Mack said market prices haven't yet been determined, but that he expects the "affordable" units to go for about $100,000 each and the others in the range of $250,000 to $300,000. Twenty-five percent of the units are to be priced as housing affordable to lower-income individuals and families. Affordability is determined under state regulation by such factors as regional housing costs and income levels. The designation of Saybrook Commons as an affordable housing project weighed heavily on Judge Lois Tanzer's ruling in favor of the lawsuit filed by the developer. State laws meant to increase availability of such housing make it more difficult for town land-use boards to turn down projects if less than 10 percent of the town's housing stock is deemed affordable. Tanzer had noted that only 1.93 percent of Old Saybrook's housing could be considered affordable. Mack had sought approval for Saybrook Commons after the Zoning Commission turned down his development company's proposal to build a Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse on the 12-acre commercially zoned site located east of Old Saybrook Shopping Center and west of North Main Street. The commission approved the project, but limited it to 168 units and imposed many conditions. Conditions included a building height restriction, placing units a greater distance from the adjacent Amtrak rail tracks than planned and putting sound buffers along the tracks and in the units.

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Understandably, Mrs. Cratchit was angry for their conditions and that Scrooge was a "squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" Bob's toast was for the job that made these moments with his family possible, regardless of what a jerk he was. A Christmas Carol is a classic story and most people think it is about Christmas, or a story of Scrooge and his transformation. It's a leadership book. It is about the transformation in the lives of individuals and in society with functional leaders. Charles Dickens wrote a lot about social issues and the plight of the poor. A Christmas Carol was written in 1843 towards the end of the industrial revolution in London, where not everyone had benefited from England's success. Technology and trade had given an elite status to many merchants, but traditional cottage industries and many workers were largely left behind. Dickens is showing two viewpoints of business in society. One is that business is only there to make a profit and business has no social responsibility. This is the viewpoint that economist Milton Friedman promoted, and many investors and leaders currently embrace. The second is that business is to make a profit, but that it is a social institution and has social responsibilities. When a business stewards their profits responsibly, individuals grow and the community as a whole prospers. One of Henry Ford's greatest accomplishments was to raise the standard of living for a huge group of automotive workers and the communities where they worked. While he was trying to fix a production problem, he stumbled upon the value of changing the community, and consequentially created more potential customers for Ford. Dickens didn't write a Christmas message, it's an economic principle. Remember, when you are watching "A Christmas Carol" or even "It's a Wonderful Life", there are many real-life examples of businesses transforming communities. I salute and raise a toast to those leaders, and managers who are making a difference. You may not be doing it perfectly and some may think you are screwing up. Despite that, you are "The Founder of the Feast". Thanks Robert. Businesses are accountable to God to be just. Individuals are accountable to God to be charitable. Conflating these two harms both businesses and the societies that depend on them to create wealth and opportunity for all. By the way, just saw "The Man Who Invented Christmas" and enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for the comments Chris, This isn't charity, its good business! The point that I am making is that through the wealth and opportunity created, business impacts individuals and communities. Jobs are good for the individuals and are created when companies make profits.

Jonathon M. Seidl Hot Mic: Dem Sen. Caught Saying Lame Duck Agenda is 'All Rigged' A microphone accidentally left on during Tuesday's Senate session caught one Democratic senator complaining that the agenda is "all rigged." After voting on the Food Safety Act, a microphone picked up Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) complaining that the process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is "rigged." "It's all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged," he said. "The fact that we don't get to a discussion before the break about what we're going to do in the lame duck. It's just rigged." In comments made to the Daily Caller, Bennet Chief of Staff Guy Cecil stood by the remarks. "It's something he's been talking about from day one," Cecil told the DC. "The whole process being rigged against having a real conversation about tax cuts, the estate tax and the defense authorization. We're not having a lot of those conversations. It's just a symptom of Washington being broken." According to MSNBC's Kelly O'Donnell, Bennet's ire is directed toward his own party and its leadership. "Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet is apparently unhappy with the Democratic leadership's plan for the lame duck session," she reports. When O'Donnell reached out to the Bennet camp for a comment, aid Adam Bozzi echoed Cecil's statement from earlier: For almost two years, he [Bennet] has talked about needing to fix a broken Washington. We can't move forward on major issues facing our country because of a broken system that is rigged to prevent progress. We are now in the second week of this session and haven't begun debating Defense Authorization or tax cuts that will expire at the end of the year. Colorado and the rest of our country deserve better which is why he has proposed overhauling the way Washington works, including filibuster and lobbying reforms. O'Donnell also reports that Bennet appears to have been talking with fellow Democrat Amy Klobuchar (Minn.). Three samples of ice cream tested positive for COVID-19 in China Democratic legislator reportedly texts 19-year-old a graphic photo of his genitals. He says he thought he was texting his wife.

A lightweight & configurable timepicker directive. ### uib-timepicker settings * `arrowkeys` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> _(Default: `true`)_ - Whether user can use up/down arrow keys inside the hours & minutes input to increase or decrease its values. * `hour-step` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> _(Default: `1`)_ - Number of hours to increase or decrease when using a button. * `max` <small class="badge">$</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> _(Default: `undefined`)_ - Maximum time a user can select. * `meridians` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> _(Default: `null`)_ - Meridian labels based on locale. To override you must supply an array like `['AM', 'PM']`. * `min` <small class="badge">$</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> _(Default: `undefined`)_ - Minimum time a user can select * `minute-step` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> _(Default: `1`)_ - Number of minutes to increase or decrease when using a button. * `mousewheel` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> _(Default: `true`)_ - Whether user can scroll inside the hours & minutes input to increase or decrease its values. * `ng-disabled` <small class="badge">$</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> _(Default: `false`)_ - Whether or not to disable the component. * `ng-model` <small class="badge">$</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> - Date object that provides the time state. * `readonly-input` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> _(Default: `false`)_ - Whether user can type inside the hours & minutes input. * `second-step` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> _(Default: `1`)_ - Number of seconds to increase or decrease when using a button. * `show-meridian` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> _(Default: `true`)_ - Whether to display 12H or 24H mode. * `show-seconds` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i> _(Default: `false`)_ - Show seconds input. * `show-spinners` <small class="badge">$</small> <small class="badge">C</small> _(Default: `true`)_ - Show spinner arrows above and below the inputs. * `tabindex` _(Defaults: `0`)_ - Sets tabindex for each control in the timepicker. * `template-url` <small class="badge">C</small> _(Defaults: `uib/template/timepicker/timepicker.html`)_ - Add the ability to override the template used on the component. **Notes** If the model value is updated (i.e. via `Date.prototype.setDate`), you must update the model value by breaking the reference by `modelValue = new Date(modelValue)` in order to have the timepicker update.

iQ Content - the company for whom I work - was awarded 8th place in Deloitte's FAST 50 last night. This ranks us among the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Ireland, based on average percentage revenue growth over 5 years. Well done to Morgan (the boss) on getting this recognition.

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It's Wordless Wednesday and I'm going to keep it short today. Simple and sweet. 32 is our boy our Fall, an 8th grader playing small town nine-man football on the North Dakota prairie. Small town games are a community event. It's a gathering place. Win or lose, which we were on the losing end tonight, it is still a memory forever burned into my mind. In five years, our boy of Fall will (God willing) be in college and life will be so different. So I am going to relish in the chaos of road tripping to weekly games for the next four plus years and enjoy the warm (or cool) Fall days of watching our boy. Link up and share your Wordy or Wordless Wednesday. Be sure to visit other fun blogs that have linked up and enjoy. I love to do anything related to halloween in the fall! The magazines at the store are so tempting! I am in such a fall mood you would not believe it. Thanks for hosting this week and allowing me to show off this crazy festival & contest. My son is playing football and it is 3 games per week….freshmen, junior varsity, and varsity….whew! Good luck to your young man.

Iveco Bus will accompany the Eintracht Frankfurt football club for the 2013/2014 Bundesliga season, Germany's most important football league championship. The inauguration of the team partnership took place Friday, 28th June, with the delivery of a Magelys Pro, a bus belonging to a vehicle family that has been recognized as one of the leaders in the specialist Gran Turismo touring coach segment. With the supply of this vehicle, Iveco Bus joins Eintracht Frankfurt's main sponsor: Alfa Romeo. It was recently announced that the Alfa Romeo brand logo will be displayed on the team's traditional red and black uniform jerseys. The Magelys Pro is also accordingly personalized with the German football club's colors along with the symbol of the House of Alfa featured beside the eagle, representing Eintracht. Designed to provide a comfortable and relaxing experience while en route to a challenging sports match, the coach responds to the specific requirements of a professional team and personnel. The vehicle is equipped with a series of custom modifications including a 19-inch monitor and Wi-Fi connection. The central area of the coach is appointed with club tables. The Magelys Pro further impresses for its innovative design. Its unique roof design features large glass roof arches offering a wide panoramic view of the world outside the coach's interior. This view extends to the front windshield, ensuring maximum visibility for the driver and low air resistance which results in increased mileage and low noise levels. The Magelys Pro supplied to the German team is a 12.8 meter version, equipped with a Cursor 10 EEV engine, 450 HP and a fully-automatic 12-speed transmission. Unique style and design, high performance levels, optimized fuel consumption, low environmental impact, long-term reliability and above all excellent comfort for both the driver and passengers are the winning characteristics which make this vehicle ideal for any situation. With this sponsorship, Iveco celebrates its entrance into the Bundesliga league with the aim of promoting the Iveco Bus brand in the German market. This is also an opportunity to once again articulate the company's shared values with those that define the world of professional sports, a field where rigor, determination and passion are the basis for reaching successful results.

How to Orgasm From a One-Night Stand Sex-Love-Life By Emily Morse Casual sex is all but a given in today's hookup culture, but a lot of women still walk away from a one-night stand feeling far from satisfied. It's not because they're secretly hoping for every tumble to turn into a full-blown relationship. The fact is that 70 percent of Americans have had at least one night of passion with a stranger, but only 22 percent of women report achieving orgasm during these encounters. That's a lot of ladies left wanting! So What's the Problem?While the novelty of exploring a new body is more exciting than your average sexcapade, few (if any) women have the best sex of their lives during a run-of-the-mill romp with a rando. The problem is, casual hookups are made to look so easy and effortless—with a sexy stud bringing your single self to a mind-blowing climax. In movies, TV shows, and pretty much every Jackie Collins novel, men seem to just know exactly when, where, and how women like it. In reality? Not so much. Casual sex with a stranger too often ends in frustration instead of fireworks. The Sex and The City ladies made it look so easy…so what are we doing wrong? We all know how awkward the one-night-only hookup can be. You may not know his last name, or even what he looks like in proper light. But despite darkness, anonymity, and alcohol being social lubricants, women are still hesitant to ask for what they want, leaving casual encounters with a lot to be desired. I'm a big believer in asking for—and getting—the sexual satisfaction you desire. If you're not nervous about a stranger seeing your "laundry day" undies, why not set your sights on a mind-blowing orgasm? You can go big and go home; just keep these three things in mind for your next one-night stand. 1. Skip That Last RoundA little liquid courage can go a long way in getting two strangers ready for a session, but too much can extinguish the fire quicker than you can say "very dirty martini." Not only does being drunk hinder his—uh, performance—but the dehydrating effect of alcohol can dry things out for you too. Know your limit and have just enough of a good thing to make sure it's a night you won't forget—literally. If you're feeling queasy or dizzy or can't remember where your shoe went, it's best to speed-dial an Uber and call it a night. 2. Prioritize Your PleasureWe live in a society that tends to prioritize male pleasure over our own, and unfortunately many women still fall into this pattern in the bedroom. When you're not sure if you're going to see "Mike Blue Shirt" again, there's absolutely nothing wrong with your getting off first. Your single-serving lover may be an absolute gentleman on the street, but between the sheets it often turns into every orgasm for themselves. So why not get that itch scratched the way you like it, when you feel like it? This means asking for what you want and being responsible for your own orgasm. Don't let him put your pleasure on the back burner—strike while the iron's hot! 3. Take ControlThis guy may be many things—a Rhodes scholar, a weekend volunteer, a bass guitarist for a Journey cover band—but I'm willing to bet the one thing he ISN'T is a mind reader. Like it or not, your one-night-wonder has NO idea what makes you tick, so it's up to you to show him the ropes. Even if you never see him again, your lessons on loving may help him to become a better lover for some other lucky lady. The ladies down the line will thank you for paying it forward. Suggest a massage to get things started! Make out like teenagers! Get your fill of foreplay—do whatever it takes to get you hot and ready and then make sure your needs are met. Pick positions that stimulate that clitoris—like cowgirl or doggy-style (making it easy for you to help yourself), and don't be afraid to take your orgasm into your own hands. If dirty talk turns you on, let the erotic expressions fly. Remember—holding back only inhibits your orgasm, and you owe it to yourself to give it all you got. It's just one night, after all. If you think about it, one-night stands are a great way to practice asking for what you really want in the bedroom, not to mention a chance to try out some new moves on a more-than-willing test subject. Best-case scenario: You end up having the best sex of your life, and your last call ends up on the booty call list. Worst-case scenario: You still had some pretty great sex. xo, Emily Emily Morse is a sexologist, host of the Sex With Emily podcast, and cofounder of the intimate care line Emily & Tony. She has a doctorate in human sexuality and is the author of Hot Sex: Over 200 Things You Can Try Tonight and a weekly cohost of the nationally syndicated radio show Loveline With Dr. Drew Pinsky. 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The subject of this blog post is around ORION (Oracle IO Numbers) from Oracle corporation and SLOB (Silly Little Oracle Benchmark) from Kevin Closson. ORION – SLOB implementation is a subject I have in my basket since ages. I know the tools but I have never taken few days to understand how they are working and which results I could obtain from them. The post does not at all aim at bench-marking my infrastructure as here I'm using a Virtual Machine running under VirtualBox on my own desktop. The Operating system is Oracle Linux Server release 7.1 with Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Enterprise Edition 12.1.0.2.0. To have four devices I have created four disks of 4GB that I have attached to my virtual machine and integrated inside ASM using UDEV, like we have seen in the UDEV post. Calibration will take approximately 25 minutes. Test says 263 IOPS of small (8KB) so 2.05 MBPS with an average read latency of 303 ms. Test says 217 IOPS of small (8KB) so 1.70 MBPS with an average read latency of 411 ms and an average write latency of 98 ms. ERROR: When -run is simple or normal, -testname and -num_disks must be specified. The only other parameters which may be specified are -cache_size, -storax, -hugenotneeded, iotype and -verbose. Calibration will take approximately 77 minutes. Putting in place SLOB is a bit more complex as you have to setup a database to have it working… The software installation in itself is as simple as an unzip plus a small make in wait_kit directory. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : Begin SLOB setup. Checking configuration. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : LOAD_PARALLEL_DEGREE == "4" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : SCALE == "10000" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : ADMIN_SQLNET_SERVICE == "" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : ADMIN_CONNECT_STRING == "/ as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : NON_ADMIN_CONNECT_STRING == "" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : Testing connectivity to the instance to validate slob.conf settings. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : Testing Admin connect using "/ as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : ./setup.sh: Successful test connection: "sqlplus -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:10 : Dropping prior SLOB schemas. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:34 : Deleted 33 SLOB schemas. Note, this includes the user0 schema. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:35 : Previous SLOB schemas have been removed. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:35 : Loading user1 schema. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:48 : Finished loading user1 schema in 13 seconds. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:48 : Beginning concurrent load phase. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:50 : Waiting for background group 1. Loading up to user5. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:35:17 : Finished background group 1. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:35:19 : Waiting for background group 2. Loading up to user9. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:36:40 : Finished background group 2. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:36:42 : Waiting for background group 3. Loading up to user13. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:38:07 : Finished background group 3. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:38:08 : Waiting for background group 4. Loading up to user17. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:39:20 : Finished background group 4. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:39:22 : Waiting for background group 5. Loading up to user21. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:40:49 : Finished background group 5. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:40:50 : Waiting for background group 6. Loading up to user25. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:42:11 : Finished background group 6. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:42:13 : Waiting for background group 7. Loading up to user29. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:43:37 : Finished background group 7. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:43:39 : Waiting for background group 8. Loading up to user33. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:44:57 : Finished background group 8. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:44:59 : Waiting for background group 9. Loading up to user37. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:46:33 : Finished background group 9. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:46:34 : Waiting for background group 10. Loading up to user41. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:48:12 : Finished background group 10. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:48:14 : Waiting for background group 11. Loading up to user45. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:49:50 : Finished background group 11. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:49:52 : Waiting for background group 12. Loading up to user49. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:51:22 : Finished background group 12. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:51:24 : Waiting for background group 13. Loading up to user53. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:53:05 : Finished background group 13. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:53:06 : Waiting for background group 14. Loading up to user57. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:54:40 : Finished background group 14. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:54:42 : Waiting for background group 15. Loading up to user61. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:56:36 : Finished background group 15. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:56:37 : Waiting for background group 16. Loading up to user65. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:58:42 : Finished background group 16. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:58:44 : Waiting for background group 17. Loading up to user69. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:00:39 : Finished background group 17. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:00:41 : Waiting for background group 18. Loading up to user73. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:03:17 : Finished background group 18. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:03:19 : Waiting for background group 19. Loading up to user77. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:04:56 : Finished background group 19. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:04:58 : Waiting for background group 20. Loading up to user81. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:06:44 : Finished background group 20. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:06:45 : Waiting for background group 21. Loading up to user85. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:08:37 : Finished background group 21. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:08:39 : Waiting for background group 22. Loading up to user89. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:10:33 : Finished background group 22. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:10:35 : Waiting for background group 23. Loading up to user93. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:12:31 : Finished background group 23. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:12:32 : Waiting for background group 24. Loading up to user97. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:14:12 : Finished background group 24. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:14:13 : Waiting for background group 25. Loading up to user101. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:16:01 : Finished background group 25. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:16:02 : Waiting for background group 26. Loading up to user105. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:17:39 : Finished background group 26. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:17:40 : Waiting for background group 27. Loading up to user109. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:19:16 : Finished background group 27. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:19:18 : Waiting for background group 28. Loading up to user113. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:20:58 : Finished background group 28. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:20:59 : Waiting for background group 29. Loading up to user117. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:23:00 : Finished background group 29. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:23:03 : Waiting for background group 30. Loading up to user121. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:24:35 : Finished background group 30. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:24:37 : Waiting for background group 31. Loading up to user125. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:26:25 : Finished background group 31. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:43 : Creating SLOB procedure. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:44 : SLOB procedure created. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : Please examine ./slob_data_load_summary.txt for any possbile errors. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : examine /home/oracle/slob/SLOB/cr_tab_and_load.out. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : SLOB setup complete (3276 seconds). [oracle@server3 SLOB]$ ./setup.sh slob 128 NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : Begin SLOB setup. Checking configuration. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : Load parameters from slob.conf: NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : LOAD_PARALLEL_DEGREE == "4" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : SCALE == "10000" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : ADMIN_SQLNET_SERVICE == "" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : ADMIN_CONNECT_STRING == "/ as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : NON_ADMIN_CONNECT_STRING == "" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : Testing connectivity to the instance to validate slob.conf settings. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : Testing Admin connect using "/ as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : ./setup.sh: Successful test connection: "sqlplus -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:09 : NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:10 : Dropping prior SLOB schemas. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:34 : Deleted 33 SLOB schemas. Note, this includes the user0 schema. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:35 : Previous SLOB schemas have been removed. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:35 : Preparing to load 128 schema(s) into tablespace: slob NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:35 : Loading user1 schema. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:48 : Finished loading user1 schema in 13 seconds. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:48 : Beginning concurrent load phase. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:33:50 : Waiting for background group 1. Loading up to user5. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:35:17 : Finished background group 1. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:35:19 : Waiting for background group 2. Loading up to user9. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:36:40 : Finished background group 2. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:36:42 : Waiting for background group 3. Loading up to user13. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:38:07 : Finished background group 3. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:38:08 : Waiting for background group 4. Loading up to user17. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:39:20 : Finished background group 4. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:39:22 : Waiting for background group 5. Loading up to user21. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:40:49 : Finished background group 5. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:40:50 : Waiting for background group 6. Loading up to user25. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:42:11 : Finished background group 6. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:42:13 : Waiting for background group 7. Loading up to user29. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:43:37 : Finished background group 7. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:43:39 : Waiting for background group 8. Loading up to user33. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:44:57 : Finished background group 8. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:44:59 : Waiting for background group 9. Loading up to user37. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:46:33 : Finished background group 9. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:46:34 : Waiting for background group 10. Loading up to user41. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:48:12 : Finished background group 10. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:48:14 : Waiting for background group 11. Loading up to user45. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:49:50 : Finished background group 11. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:49:52 : Waiting for background group 12. Loading up to user49. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:51:22 : Finished background group 12. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:51:24 : Waiting for background group 13. Loading up to user53. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:53:05 : Finished background group 13. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:53:06 : Waiting for background group 14. Loading up to user57. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:54:40 : Finished background group 14. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:54:42 : Waiting for background group 15. Loading up to user61. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:56:36 : Finished background group 15. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:56:37 : Waiting for background group 16. Loading up to user65. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:58:42 : Finished background group 16. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-16:58:44 : Waiting for background group 17. Loading up to user69. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:00:39 : Finished background group 17. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:00:41 : Waiting for background group 18. Loading up to user73. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:03:17 : Finished background group 18. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:03:19 : Waiting for background group 19. Loading up to user77. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:04:56 : Finished background group 19. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:04:58 : Waiting for background group 20. Loading up to user81. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:06:44 : Finished background group 20. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:06:45 : Waiting for background group 21. Loading up to user85. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:08:37 : Finished background group 21. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:08:39 : Waiting for background group 22. Loading up to user89. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:10:33 : Finished background group 22. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:10:35 : Waiting for background group 23. Loading up to user93. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:12:31 : Finished background group 23. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:12:32 : Waiting for background group 24. Loading up to user97. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:14:12 : Finished background group 24. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:14:13 : Waiting for background group 25. Loading up to user101. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:16:01 : Finished background group 25. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:16:02 : Waiting for background group 26. Loading up to user105. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:17:39 : Finished background group 26. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:17:40 : Waiting for background group 27. Loading up to user109. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:19:16 : Finished background group 27. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:19:18 : Waiting for background group 28. Loading up to user113. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:20:58 : Finished background group 28. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:20:59 : Waiting for background group 29. Loading up to user117. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:23:00 : Finished background group 29. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:23:03 : Waiting for background group 30. Loading up to user121. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:24:35 : Finished background group 30. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:24:37 : Waiting for background group 31. Loading up to user125. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:26:25 : Finished background group 31. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:43 : Completed concurrent data loading phase: 3234 seconds NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:43 : Creating SLOB procedure. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:44 : SLOB procedure created. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : Row and block counts for SLOB table(s) reported in ./slob_data_load_summary.txt NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : Please examine ./slob_data_load_summary.txt for any possbile errors. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : NOTE: No errors *detected* but if ./slob_data_load_summary.txt shows errors then NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : examine /home/oracle/slob/SLOB/cr_tab_and_load.out. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:27:45 : SLOB setup complete (3276 seconds). Each test run with runit.sh produce different files that are described in SLOB official documentation. The one that you will most use is awr.txt, yes AWR in text format, as a script to dig in it is provided. The script is awr_info.sh in misc directory. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:41 : Conducting SLOB pre-test checks. admin_connect_string == "/ as sysdba" admin_conn == "sqlplus -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:41 : Verifying connectivity. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:41 : Testing SYSDBA connectivity to the instance to validate slob.conf settings. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:42 : Connectivity verified. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:42 : Performing redo log switch. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:45 : Redo log switch complete. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:45 : Setting up trigger mechanism. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:55 : Running iostat, vmstat and mpstat on current host--in background. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:39:05 : Pausing for 5 seconds before triggering the test. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:39:35 : Executing AWR "before snap" procedure. Connect string is "sqlplus -S -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:39:57 : Triggering the test. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:40:29 : Waiting for 292 seconds before monitoring running processes (for exit). NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:45:22 : Entering process monitoring loop. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:45:35 : There are 129 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:45:46 : There are 129 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:45:57 : There are 121 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:08 : There are 109 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:19 : There are 94 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:29 : There are 62 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:40 : There are 37 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:46 : Executing AWR "after snap" procedure. Connect string is "sqlplus -S -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:47:20 : Generating AWR reports. HTML reports will be compressed. Connect string is "sqlplus -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:47:21 : Terminating background data collectors. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:48:43 : SLOB test is complete. [oracle@server3 SLOB]$ ./runit.sh 128 NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:41 : NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:41 : Conducting SLOB pre-test checks. NOTIFY: UPDATE_PCT == 25 RUN_TIME == 300 WORK_LOOP == 0 SCALE == 10000 WORK_UNIT == 64 ADMIN_SQLNET_SERVICE == "" SQLNET_SERVICE_MAX == "0" admin_connect_string == "/ as sysdba" non_admin_connect_string == "" admin_conn == "sqlplus -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:41 : Verifying connectivity. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:41 : Testing SYSDBA connectivity to the instance to validate slob.conf settings. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:41 : Testing connectivity to instance (user1/user1) NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:42 : Testing connectivity to instance (user128/user128) NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:42 : Connectivity verified. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:42 : Performing redo log switch. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:45 : Redo log switch complete. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:45 : Setting up trigger mechanism. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:55 : Running iostat, vmstat and mpstat on current host--in background. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:38:55 : Connecting 128 sessions ... NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:39:05 : NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:39:05 : Pausing for 5 seconds before triggering the test. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:39:35 : Executing AWR "before snap" procedure. Connect string is "sqlplus -S -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:39:57 : NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:39:57 : Triggering the test. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:40:05 : List of monitored sqlplus PIDs written to /tmp/23155_slob.pids.out NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:40:29 : Waiting for 292 seconds before monitoring running processes (for exit). NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:45:22 : Entering process monitoring loop. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:45:35 : There are 129 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:45:46 : There are 129 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:45:57 : There are 121 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:08 : There are 109 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:19 : There are 94 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:29 : There are 62 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:40 : There are 37 sqlplus processes remaining. NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:46 : Run time in seconds was: 409 NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:46:46 : Executing AWR "after snap" procedure. Connect string is "sqlplus -S -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:47:20 : Generating AWR reports. HTML reports will be compressed. Connect string is "sqlplus -L / as sysdba" NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:47:21 : Terminating background data collectors. ./runit.sh: line 589: 17395 Killed ( iostat -xm 3 > iostat.out 2>&1 ) ./runit.sh: line 589: 17396 Killed ( vmstat 3 > vmstat.out 2>&1 ) ./runit.sh: line 591: 17397 Killed ( mpstat -P ALL 3 > mpstat.out 2>&1 ) NOTIFY : 2015.07.09-17:48:43 : SLOB test is complete. So 132 IOPS (PREADS i.e. physical reads) for 1.1 MBPS (READ_MBS) with a read latency of 237 ms (DFSR_LAT) and a write latency of 179 ms (DFPW_LAT). So 132 IOPS (PREADS i.e. physical reads) for 1.1 MBPS (READ_MBS) with a read latency of 458 ms (DFSR_LAT) and a write latency of 196 ms (DFPW_LAT). This entry was posted in Oracle and tagged Benchmark. Bookmark the permalink.

> UKTV experiences record Q1 viewing and sees huge uptick in 16-34s tuning in UKTV experiences record Q1 viewing and sees huge uptick in 16-34s tuning in Multi-channel broadcaster enjoys highest ever Q1 share of viewing at 4.73% - an 8.6% growth year-on-year UKTV's share of commercial impacts (SOCI) has increased by 8.3% from 7.68% in Q1 2020, to 8.32% in Q1 2021 41% y-o-y increase in direct-to-consumer views on UKTV Play More than 10% increase in share of 16-34s tuning in to the network and +20% uplift on Dave y-o-y UKTV Originals Bangers and Cash (Yesterday), Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (Dave), Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out (Gold) and Secrets of the Transport Museum (Yesterday) in top ten shows on the network Dave, Drama, Gold, Yesterday and Alibi experience viewing share growth Award-winning network UKTV has released consolidated viewing figures from the first quarter of the year and announced its highest ever Q1 share of viewing (4.73%)* with UKTV Originals continuing to entice viewers. Popular channels Dave, Drama, Gold, Yesterday and Alibi have all experienced growth between January 1 and March 31 as well as on-demand service UKTV Play. In addition, younger viewers (16-34) have flocked to the network, 10% more than this time last year. February and March were also record months for SOCI. CEO Marcus Arthur said: UKTV achieved record viewing in 2020 and I'm so pleased to see that momentum continuing into the first quarter of this year, driven by brilliant programming - be that our original shows, global acquisitions or viewer favourites from the BBC archive. Starting the year with a strong SOCI, viewing share, impressive ratings and more viewers than ever, particularly 16-34s, is evidence that our growth strategy is on the right trajectory. It is also testament to the hard work of colleagues across the business throughout a difficult year for many. As we enter and adapt to another period of change, everyone here at UKTV is focussed on continuing to deliver brilliant new shows for viewers to enjoy. Share of commercial impacts (SOCI) For UKTV's seven channel network, it has achieved a record share of commercial impacts for the months of February and March, 8.08% and 8.72% respectively**. Compared with the same period last year, UKTV has grown its overall SOCI by 8.3% to reach 8.32%. The standout channel is Drama, which had its highest SOCI on record in March (2.98%), significantly higher than its previous highest SOCI month which was 2.80% in May last year. Alibi, Dave, Gold and Yesterday have also achieved SOCI growth during this time. UKTV's SOCI for 16-34s has also grown to 6.12%, the best the network has seen for six years. In addition, Dave has had 29% y-o-y SOCI growth for 16-34s for the quarter. Channels growth and programme highlights UKTV's seven channel network has grown its viewing share to 4.73% between January 1 and March 31 2021 - the broadcaster's highest ever Q1 share and a y-o-y growth of 8.6%. It has also achieved y-o-y share growth for adults (+8.6%), 16-34s (+10.1%) and ABC1s (11.2%). Comedy entertainment channel Dave has witnessed a significant number of 16-34s tuning in throughout the first quarter of the year, 20% more compared with the same period last year. This is thanks to new and returning UKTV Originals including Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, Meet the Richardsons (S2) and Hypothetical (S3). The channel has also increased its viewing share by 4% y-o-y. Drama, which recently launched a +1 channel on Freeview, has continued to entertain audiences with its range of much-loved shows. The channel has remained the number one non-PSB owned channel in the UK, its share is up 17% y-o-y, and March was its best month ever. Death in Holy Orders, the feature-length murder-mystery thriller based on the PD James book, consolidated to 696k viewers, the channel's second highest TX for a show ever and the most watched show on the channel for the year so far. Last Of The Summer Wine and Death in Paradise make up the other top shows on Drama for Q1 2021. Dedicated crime drama channel Alibi has also had y-o-y uplift (+16%) driven by S2 of the action-packed police series and international hit Hudson & Rex which averaged 548k viewers. Rosario Dawson-led drama series Briarpatch also proved popular with viewers, 516k viewers (Total Consumption) tuned in to the premiere of that in Ja nuary. UKTV Originals on leading factual channel Yesterday were the stars of Q1 and have taken the channel's share up by 12% y-o-y. Bangers and Cash S4 opened to 648k viewers making it the strongest launch for the charming Yorkshire-based observational documentary series and the second highest performing episode of any show on the channel to date (outperformed only by another episode of Bangers & Cash in 2020). Secrets of the Transport Museum has become the second best brand-new S1 launch to date on the channel. UKTV Original shows have proved popular with viewers on Gold and W. The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out launched on 6th March on Gold to 577k viewers, the best performing retrospective since The Story of Only Fools and Horses in 2017. It has also had a positive impact on viewing figures for the original Vicar of Dibley archive which is the third highest rating show on the channel for the quarter. On W, Emma Willis: Delivering Babies in 2020 has had one of the strongest 16-34 profiles for a UKTV commission on the channel with 66% of the show's audience aged 16-34. UKTV Play has enjoyed a 41% increase in direct-to-consumer views y-o-y in Q1 2021 driven by The Bill: The Early Years and Yesterday's returning original series Bangers and Cash, the sixth most popular title on the service. Richard Watsham, UKTV's Director of Commissioning, said: I'm pleased to see Bangers and Cash taking Yesterday's ratings to new heights. The team has done a fantastic job, with our brilliant production partners, to populate the channel's schedule with a number of high rating, high quality hits. After a busy development period during lockdown, we're now well positioned to continue that growth across the network with our highest ever commissioning budget in place for the next 12 months and a number of exciting projects waiting in the wings. Alibi has a whole host of gripping new crime series in production for later this year and early next. Annika, starring the incredible Nicola Walker, Ragdoll, a dark thriller from Sid Gentle, the makers of Killing Eve, as well as World Productions' The Diplomat, and second series of We Hunt Together and Traces, which performed well on BBC1 and iPlayer too. On Dave, the successful arrival of Mel Giedroyc: Unforgiveable heralds a new wave of comedy entertainment shows in the coming months. These are joined by another helping of multi-RTS nominee, Big Zuu's Big Eats, and on the scripted side there's a new series of Samson Kayo's Sliced. Coming soon to Gold is the latest evolution of Jason Cook's high performing Murder on the Blackpool Express franchise, Murder, They Hope, starring Sian Gibson and Johnny Vegas. And these are just a few examples of what we have coming up. UKTV Originals are in rude health and well positioned to continue contributing to UKTV's strong growth. Also coming soon is French and Saunders: Funny Women, a brand new special for Gold which will see the much-loved duo celebrating the crucial and unforgettable contributions from women throughout the history of comedy, as well as Smother, an Irish investigative thriller starring Dervla Kirwan (The Stranger, Safe House) and Seána Kerslake (Hole in the Ground), and many more UKTV Originals and global acquisitions. Ali Laurie, Publicist, UKTV ( * ) Highest ever viewing share for UKTV's current portfolio of channels - Dave, Gold, Drama, Alibi, Yesterday, W and Eden ( * * ) Highest ever Share of Commercial Impacts for UKTV's current portfolio of channels - All data is BARB Adults 16+ except programme data which is individuals. - Top performing programme lists are 4+ Dovetail (TV and online pre-broadcast and 1-7 day). - Programme viewing stats are 4+ 7 day consolidated, unless referenced as total consumption (TC). - Total consumption is the measurement of all viewing within the seven-day premiere window of a show. It encompasses the 4+ overnight, PVR (digital recording views), video-on-demand and pre-broadcast viewing on UKTV Play (direct-to-consumer + third party) for the premiere linear transmission and narrative repeats on TV sets and online devices, consolidated up to 28-days within BARB. - Date Range: Q1 2021 defined as 01/01/21- 31/03/21. corporate.uktv.co.uk | @uktvpress More UKTV news Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Thalissa Teixeira join Lucy Hale as leads in serial killer thriller Ragdoll for Alibi Production starts in London today TV channel Dave creates 'a build your own bar' - billed as the 'ultimate local' No room at the Inn? No worries! Introducing the world's first Flat Pack Pub... Alibi secures UK broadcasting rights for Irish drama Smother UKTV today announces that Alibi will exclusively broadcast the new RTE drama Smother... Cast revealed as filming for second series of Alibi's We Hunt Together begins Eve Myles, Babou Ceesay and Hermione Corfield return, plus new cast for series 2

Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project Jordi Boggiano Saturday 27 June 2015 at 15:45 Keynote in English - US at Dutch PHP Conference 2015 View Slides: http://slides.seld.be/?file=2015-06-26+Behind+the+Scenes+of+Maintaining+an+Open+Source+Project.html#1 Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/a7a48 (QR-Code (opens in new window)) Gabriel Somoza at 16:31 on 27 Jun 2015 Remon van de Kamp at 21:03 on 27 Jun 2015 Very good talk, really deserved the keynote spot! Really good speaker and a really interesting subject, which was very well covered. I loved the anecdotes! Niels Nijens at 21:10 on 27 Jun 2015 Lucas at 21:39 on 27 Jun 2015 Thanks for making us aware again that we should not treat all the things we currently have in the open source world like a commodity and complain if things sometimes don't work out as expected. Reminds me that I have thought many many times: "Composer has absolutely revolutionized the way build applications", but never actually said this to you on Twitter etc, so: a late thanks for this! The underlying "be kind" message in your talk is means a lot to me, I can react angry at people at times (just in general) where it's just not worth it. So also thanks for reminding me I should always try and react less angry than the person who approaches you. Furthermore your keynote was also a lot of fun. Gorka López de Torre at 23:15 on 27 Jun 2015 It lacked a little bit of rythm at times, but it was really interesting to get some feedback from the open source package manteiner trenches of such popular projects as composer and monolog. Great talk on the human side of the OS community from the inside. Ben Waine at 01:50 on 28 Jun 2015 I'd like to echo the comments made by Lucas and Remon. Nice to hear about whats it's like to be the maintainer of an open source project. I liked the delivery, although not the most polished it was heartfelt and authentic. Thanks for your continued hard work, try not to burn out! :D Stephan Hochdörfer at 09:51 on 28 Jun 2015 Good closing keynote. Interesting to hear about the insights (and the daily problems) of an open source maintainer. Will try to keep that in mind when bothering the speaker next time about problems with Composer or my PRs that take a while to get into master :P Thanks Jordi! Hugo Hamon at 10:14 on 28 Jun 2015 The keynote was inspiring, fun and with lots of hilarious moments. Jordi is both a talented developer and a great speaker. Thanks for your presentation man! I've rated 4 instead of 5 just because I expected the pace to be a bit more energical. Otherwise, the content was excellent! Stefan Koopmanschap at 10:22 on 28 Jun 2015 Quite an interesting view in some of the aspects of maintaining an open source project. A good mix between jokes and serious content, and some lessons to take away. Alessandro Rabitti at 10:49 on 28 Jun 2015 Impressive and really great closure of a fantastic conference. Jordi was sincere, real, funny at the same time, talking about some aspects of his great experience behind the scene of Composer project. Onno Marsman at 14:36 on 28 Jun 2015 Insightful and entertaining. Thijs Feryn at 14:53 on 28 Jun 2015 This is a new level of keynoting which I enjoy. We've seen our fair share of inspirational speakers over the years (which I always enjoyed). Jordi is a different breed of speaker: no nonsense, to the point, a healthy dose of humor and sarcasm. But the humor and sarcasm never went to extreme levels and throughout the talk it was balanced by very nuanced statements. A very well balanced talk about life in the OSS trenches. In the past I didn't see "keynote material" in Jordi, but the experience and the years have shaped him. Jordi has become an expert, he has seen some good stuff and bad stuff and DEFINITELY has a right to stand there on stage doing a keynote. Congratulations, enjoyed it a lot! Rick Kuipers at 15:16 on 28 Jun 2015 This keynote made me realized that maintaining an open source project is not just hard work, it's incredibly hard work. It makes me respect all open source maintainers even more. Will definitely be trying even harder for open source contributions. misiaq_com at 21:52 on 28 Jun 2015 A human factor of the open source. Very interesting keynote. James Titcumb at 12:32 on 29 Jun 2015 (via Web2 LIVE) Was looking forward to seeing this talk, and it was great, thanks Jordi. Pieter Meyvaert at 13:45 on 29 Jun 2015 I really, really liked your keynote Jordi! It was very down to earth and brought with enough humor and truths. It showed perfectly what you (or any open source maintainer) has to endure when doing this. It has opened my eyes and now I even have more respect for people like you. It also gave me incentive to go and do some more OSS work in the future. Renan Gonçalves at 14:02 on 29 Jun 2015 It was a good talk. I felt it wasn't particularly inspired after it tho, which should be the outcome of a keynote. JoindIn Doesn't Let You Change Your Username at 16:31 on 29 Jun 2015 Great use of historical tweets! Very inspiring to anyone who has tried to help out open-source but has felt disheartened from the whole process. It was a brilliant end to the whole conference! Mike Simonson at 17:50 on 29 Jun 2015 Awesome delivery and very good approach of your subject IMO. A talk that not only more dev should see, but more people in general. Gary Hockin at 18:19 on 29 Jun 2015 A great talk that gave me plenty of ammunition for future trolling. Thanks Jordi. Eelco Verbeek at 20:05 on 29 Jun 2015 Great ending of the conference. Just the right amounts of jokes, information and personal experience. Although like others said the rhythm or flow can be a bit better I really enjoyed it! Mark Baker at 23:45 on 29 Jun 2015 Jordi managed to convey some of the traumas of tribulations of being involved in an Open Source project with a wry humour (I think he should be made an honourary Briton for that alone), and the type of things that can inspire frustration, anger and burnout... yet also gave insight into how he manages to "survive" the experience. While my own projects are far smaller, I can sympathise with the issues that he raised, even if I only suffer from them on a much smaller scale and less critical than Composer/Packagist... and I can only aspire to be as patient. Jordi, you're a star Sander Zegveld at 08:32 on 1 Jul 2015 A bit disappointing, had expected a great talk but the talk in general was kind of 'down', sadly told, sometimes with humor but most of the time on a negative side... But the general message should be clear: respect people and especially appreciate the work that some people do, and don't react in a negative way on things you would have done otherwise or features you are missing in the software. You can give advice on what to do better or what to add, and on the same time give the creator a good feeling...it should not all be negative. Kuba Waliński at 20:25 on 1 Jul 2015 Interesting talk, but I found the delivery to be a bit off, so I found it difficult to stay on topic at times. Christopher Pitt at 05:12 on 2 Jul 2015 Lovely talk. Melvin louwerse at 09:34 on 2 Jul 2015 Good talk funny at times but it felt a bit slow to me. But it was interesting to see in the kitchen of open source and to see it is not just about the coding. David Buchmann at 08:57 on 6 Jul 2015