Abstract:The existing fault diagnosis methods for bogie bearings of the metro vehicle mostly use single physical quantity like vibration signal, temperature signal and acoustic signal as information source, thus having shortcomings like low accuracy and poor reliability of intelligent diagnosis. To improve this deficiency, an intelligent fault diagnosis method for bogie bearings of the metro vehicle based on improved weighted D-S evidence theory is proposed. This method, taking the radial vibration acceleration signal and temperature signal of bogie bearings as basic information source, uses the improved weighted D-S evidence algorithm to diagnose the health condition of bearing and find out the fault type when fault occurs. In order to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method, a test platform for bearing fault diagnosis is designed and built, and the faulty bogie bearings used in a particular kind metro are tested on this platform. Test results show that the proposed fault diagnosis method for bogie bearings can availably identify the fault condition and fault type of bearing.
王远霏,裴春兴,孙海荣. 基于加权改进D-S证据融合理论的地铁车辆转向架轴承故障诊断方法[J]. 北京交通大学学报, 2018, 42(6): 75-.
WANG Yuanfei, PEI Chunxing, SUN Hairong. Fault diagnosis method for bogie bearings of the metro vehicle based on improved weighted D-S evidence theory. Beijing Jiaotong University, 2018, 42(6): 75-.
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 李怡萌;顾雪平;李扬. 电网故障的动态连续诊断方式[J]. 北京交通大学学报, 2014, 38(5): 142-.
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CIRM funds $61 million through Disease Team awards
Reflecting the progress being made in moving the most promising therapies out of the lab and into clinical trials, the state stem cell agency the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved $61 million in funding for its third round of Disease Team awards. The funding was approved by the stem cell agency's governing board, the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee (ICOC).
This round of awards targets diseases including leukemia and other solid tumor cancers, such as breast and prostate, that have not responded to conventional treatment. Other diseases targeted include sickle cell disease and macular degeneration, one of the leading causes of blindness in the elderly.
"The goal of the Disease Team award is to help accelerate the development of new therapies," said Alan Trounson, Ph.D., president of the agency. "I think this is the sharp end of the CIRM program—we need to get therapies into clinical trials. The scientists are working together as teams to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of their products that have evolved from discoveries in the laboratory. What's impressive about this series of awards is that five of the six successful applications are for the continuation of work we previously had funded. It's a reflection of the importance of continuity of funding, enabling scientists to keep their teams together and move their work forward as quickly as possible."
The Disease Team awards are designed to encourage multidisciplinary teams of researchers from academic institutions, medical centers and industry to work together and develop new treatments for a broad range of therapies. The recipients were selected from 14 applications, all of which were reviewed by an independent group of internationally renowned scientists.
"Three of these successful studies arose as collaborations between California scientists and those in other countries four years ago," said Trounson. "Funding agencies in Canada and the U.K. supported work in those countries, and CIRM funded the teams in California. This international teamwork has been crucial to the projects' success."
"I think this round of funding speaks volumes for the quality of the work we support," said Jonathan Thomas, Ph.D., J.D., chairman of the board. "Many of these projects are ones we have previously funded, so to have our outside expert reviewers look at them and recommend continued investment in this research shows we are on the right path."
The board also discussed the recommendations of the president's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), presented at the last ICOC meeting in October. The SAB was composed of experts in the scientific, clinical, ethical, industry and regulatory aspects of stem cell biology to give the president advice and suggestions on strategic priorities for future research and how best to allocate existing funds.
The board decided to create an accelerated development pathway, putting aside $200 million in a strategic reserve, to be used in helping select projects already funded by the agency speed up their development and move them through the clinical trial approval process as quickly and safely as possible. The money would be used for research that is already in or close to a clinical trial but needs additional funds to get through a phase II trial to prove the therapy is both safe and effective.
The board voted to discontinue further funding for the Shared Laboratories award, to continue funding for the Early Translation program and to continue funding at a reduced level the Basic Research program. The board also asked staff to provide them with a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of the training grants, bridges and creativity programs, to determine if they wanted to continue funding them.

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Date: Friday, 26th February, 2016
Venue: SBS Reception Lounge (Common Room), School of Biological Sciences.
Guest Speaker: Steve Henry, Founder and CEO of Kode Biotech and Professor at AUT.
You are welcome to join us for our first networking events this year on Friday the 26th February at 4.30 with sponsorship from ATEED.
A special feature of our first forum will be the 'sabre champagne' ceremony, kindly supported by BioPacific Partners. This event, which has become a Bioscience Enterprise tradition, celebrates the success of our 2015 masters class. It also marks their transition from student life to the 'real world', and exciting future prospects.
Our speaker will be Steve Henry, Founder and CEO of Kode Biotech and Professor at AUT speaking on the topic:
Kode Biotech - focussed on innovation
Venue below. Please RSVP by responding "Yes" in the subject line
Steve Henry says "Innovation is often poorly understood, and in many instances confused with invention. My favourite distinction is that invention is the conversion of cash into ideas, while innovation is the conversion of ideas into cash."
He should know: Kode™ Technology is probably the most versatile surface modification technology available today, and has resulted in numerous innovations including diagnostic assays, quality control kits, and teaching/training systems. This technology has also enabled an extensive range of research tools used for modification of cells, viruses, bacteria, organisms, solutions, aerosols, and surfaces. Recently a multi-million dollar therapeutic-use license was announced, where KodeTechnology is being used as a novel cancer immunotherapy, and another licensee is developing the technology for cancer drug delivery. Several other therapeutic-use and diagnostic-use licenses are in current negotiation with big Pharma.
Kode won the 2015 Supreme New Zealand Innovator Award.
In his talk Steve Henry will discuss his company's platform technology and its journey to success.
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Date and time - 4.30-6.30 pm drinks and canapés (for 5 pm presentation), Friday 26thFebruary, 2016.
Venue - Reception Lounge, at the IIB and SBS entrance to the Thomas Building, 3a Symonds St (see map).
Parking - University is well serviced by bus routes, and car parking is available under the University of Auckland Business School (the Owen G Glenn Building) on Grafton Rd.


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The Meaning of Home contest invites grades 4, 5 and 6 students from across Canada to submit a written poem or essay explaining what home means to them for a chance to direct a grant to their local Habitat for Humanity.
The contest was established by founding sponsor Sagen in 2007 to help raise funds and awareness for Habitat for Humanity in Canada, and to engage and educate the next generation in Habitat's mission to help families access affordable homeownership.
Visit the Meaning of Home website
The 2023 Meaning of Home contest is open!
Sign up and submit entries at meaningofhome.ca
Contest highlights
90,000+ students from across Canada have participated in the Meaning of Home contest since 2007
During the 2022 contest, a record high of over 13,000 students participated
$2 million raised to date to help Canadian families in need of decent and affordable homeownership
In 2021, the Meaning of Home contest helped families in 45 communities across Canada build a brighter future through affordable homeownership
To read this year's entries, visit meaningofhome.ca
What does home mean to you?
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With the support of partners like you, the Meaning of Home contest will continue to engage and empower Canadian students to make a difference in their communities, while helping Canadian families build strength, stability and self-reliance through affordable homeownership.
Why sponsor?
Strengthen your brand awareness among teachers, students and parents and demonstrate corporate social responsibility by partnering with Habitat for Humanity Canada, ranked in the top 5 as one of the most recognized brands in the world (World Value Index 2018).
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Find out how to become a Meaning of Home contest sponsor by emailing partnerships@habitat.ca or calling 1-800-667-5137 x2.
It's simple: all your child needs is a pencil and paper to write a composition, essay, or poem and tell us what home means to them. When they enter $10 will be donated to your local Habitat for Humanity. Each grade will have a grand prize winner and three runners-up.
The Meaning of Home contest is a unique and meaningful way to get students involved in creative writing. The goal is to teach students the importance of actively participating to better their communities.
It is also a way for you to meet curriculum criteria in the area of language/language arts.


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Answer all your questions about the US Constitution, Bill of Rights and later amendments up to the 27th Amendment (Congressional Compensation). The file size is small and it's nicely indexed.
Read the Declaration of Independence as well as the Preamble. Learn about the men who signed the document, the state they were from, their occupation, date of birth/death and see their photo. Finally, read about the chronology of events which led up to this historic document.
A task manager that replaces the standard toolbar on the Today screen with its own customized bar. It allows you to manage tasks and close any or all active applications. You can customize the components and the look and feel of the bar. Wisbar Advance adds several more functions and options to the toolbar as well as cleaning up the appearance. The Wisbar toolbar is also skinable with many different skins available on the internet.
Learn about our solar system, missions in space, astronomy in history and stars and constellations. Indexed and searchable and storage card compatible.
If you find it difficult to come up with new, secure passwords then use this password generator on your Pocket PC.
Turn your PDA into a personalized clock and calendar. Add your own pictures and the program will use them as a slideshow background for the clock and calendar.
Read books on your PDA. HandStory Basic allows you to read eBooks and view images. Pick from the free titles or purchase a book.
Nomad Electronics describes Pocket Stars as, "a high accuracy star chart, ephemeris, and Celestial Navigation calculator for the Pocket PC. The ultimate portable astronomy tool."
The ultimate file encryption tool for the Pocket PC. I have tried several other programs similar to this, but none seemed to work as they should have. Encrypt and decrypt a single file or complete folders. It's very easy to use and you can choose to encrypt files with 40-bit RC2, 40-bit RC4, 56-bit DES or 128-bit RC4 algorithms.


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Leadership & Navigation
Experts: 'People smarts' are good business and can be learned
#Dinah Wisenberg Brin
By Dinah Wisenberg Brin November 1, 2013
Human resource leaders at Amadori decided in 2008 that the large Italian-food company needed to add emotional intelligence to its leadership culture. The following year the McDonald's supplier teamed with emotional-intelligence consulting organization Six Seconds to help managers develop stronger people skills and insights, an effort later expanded to others in the company's plants.
A multiyear study of Amadori found that high emotional intelligence (also known as EQ or EI) significantly influenced individual performance and organizational engagement, which, in turn, improved company performance, according to a case study that Six Seconds posted earlier this year.
According to the report: "There is strong evidence that emotional intelligence is predictive of individual performance; we found that 47 percent of the variation in performance is predicted by variation in EQ. Plants with more emotionally intelligent managers had higher organizational engagement. Plants with higher organizational engagement reached better performance."
The findings help reinforce the notion that good people smarts go hand in hand with overall success. The study found a "strong, significant link between the 'hard' outcome of results and the 'soft skills' of emotional intelligence," suggesting that "massive individual performance benefits can be reached by developing these skills and by selecting managers who already exhibit these skills."
Not a New Concept
Nearly a decade ago, former General Electric Co. Chairman and CEO Jack Welch, in a Wall Street Journal column, touched on the importance of emotional intelligence in leaders.
"A leader's intelligence has to have a strong emotional component," he wrote. "He has to have high levels of self-awareness, maturity and self-control. She must be able to withstand the heat, handle setbacks and, when those lucky moments arise, enjoy success with equal parts of joy and humility. No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader. You just can't ignore it."
Emotional intelligence is the ability to use emotions effectively, "the key competence for relating to people, sustaining drive and making optimal decisions," Six Seconds Chief Operating Officer Joshua Freedmansays on his blog. In The Business Case for Emotional Intelligence, a 2010 white paper, he wrote that "the growing base of research consistently finds a powerful relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness."
Although some people may have been born with high emotional intelligence or raised in a family that developed it, many business leaders and staff members could benefit from training.
"There's just no question people can learn—even the toughest nut"—if they care, said Roxi Hewertson, president and CEO of Highland Consulting Group, near Ithaca, N.Y. A 53-year-old she worked with regretted that he hadn't learned emotional-intelligence skills 30 years earlier. At first he didn't know how he'd get over the fact that he'd previously been a bad leader , but, eventually, he let go of the past.
"Everyone can learn emotional intelligence and grow it," said Hewertson. "Once they get it, they really get it, and they want to be good at it."
Hewertson, who has a master's in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and trains people in emotional intelligence, has observed that five main strengths help great leaders excel:
The ability to understand their own emotions and see the effect on themselves and others.
Knowledge of their own gifts and shortcomings.
Possession of a good sense of self-worth and of their own abilities.
The ability to think and act with optimism.
The desire to seize opportunities to contribute to the greater good.
On the flip side, she said, are failing leaders, who discount others' feelings and views, are blind to organizational cues and networks, blame others for poor results and isolate themselves or their team.
"Oftentimes what I see … is that leaders don't even know that they're in trouble until it's almost too late, if they don't have very much social awareness or self-awareness," Hewertson noted.
People "often don't understand how their attitudes and behaviors are impacting other people and impacting the work," she said in a recent interview with SHRM Online. "They just go about doing their tasks, just thinking that as long as they're getting their results, everything is fine." These leaders may end up with short-term results but long-term pain, she added.
Leaders often lack empathy—"understanding where other people are coming from"—and don't deal well with conflict, Hewertson said. She cited bosses who are much more directing and controlling than collusive and collaborative, which isolates people.
Great leaders pay attention, observed Hewertson, who said she used to think it was a great idea to lay out her vision at the outset of staff meetings. She didn't realize that her passion for her own ideas quieted others. "I wasn't getting the kind of input that I wanted, and I didn't know why," she recalled.
Hewertson eventually changed her meeting strategy, refraining from discussing her own vision until she had heard from others. "When I stopped doing that, everything was so much better," she said. "When you're so wrapped up in your own stuff, you're not going to get the best out of people."
Leaders also need to know their own strengths and limitations. Hewertson mentioned a boss who'd answer every question regardless of whether he knew the answer. This diminished his leadership credibility and got him into trouble, she said. "Nobody knows everything about everything … nobody knows everything about anything," she added, noting that she likes to hire people who are better than she is in certain areas.
People also need a solid sense of their own self-worth, said Hewertson. She explained that people send clear signals when they are arrogant rather than self-confident: Those who are arrogant are usually insecure or fearful, while those with confidence are secure in their abilities—"and it kind of just emanates from people."
Similarly, Hewertson noted that people tend to have either a "scarcity" or an "abundance" viewpoint. Those with the former view may feel insecure about their jobs; so they need to learn that lifting others up won't bring them down. Those with an abundance viewpoint act with optimism and look for solutions.
Some leaders wrongly regard this "soft" side of business as something that's nice to have if they have time, but it's much extremely important, according to Hewertson. "The reality is—and the jury is in; it's not out—that those people who have and practice high levels of emotional intelligence are significantly more successful, both personally and as far as bottom-line results, than those who don't. It's not even close."
She explained that "it's really not touchy-feely, because everything we do in life and in work is all about relationships," including relationships with vendors and regulators.
Without emotional intelligence, people get attached to agendas and don't care about the success of the organization as a whole, she said, citing the recent federal government shutdown.
EQ Training Brings Results
If there's any doubt about the bottom-line importance of a high emotional intelligence, just consider the case of a Motorola manufacturing plant, which Friedman cites in his white paper, where 93 percent of employees became more productive after the facility adopted stress-reduction and emotional-intelligence programs. Another factory reduced "lost-time" accidents, boosted productivity and sharply lowered formal grievances after supervisors received training in "emotional competencies."
In another case, a Sheraton hotel achieved much greater customer satisfaction and market share and a significant reduction in staff turnover after a one-year EQ-development program, Freedman noted.
A manager is more likely to lead with emotional intelligence if the company values it, said Hewertson. If the company rewards a supervisor for tasks—the number of widgets sold, for example—and not relationships, the manager will think relationships are not important, she explained.
"What you reward is what you will get," said Hewertson. Lacking a reward for building good work relationships, a leader will focus on the widgets, even if the widgets are defective and employee turnover is high.
Dinah Wisenberg Brin, a former Associated Press and Dow Jones Newswires reporter, is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer.
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This article is about The GameTime Movie character. For other versions of the character, visit GameTime (disambiguation).
RealGameTime usually referred to as just GameTime or GT, is the main protagonist of The GameTime Movie as well as it's related TV show, Sly Guy NEXT and various other video games like GameTime: Game Breaker.
During the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World of Light trailer for the 11/1/18 Nintendo Direct, RealGameTime accidentally warped himself into the game using his video game transporting powers that he randomly has as of now. Galeem, the main villain of the mode, killed all of the characters (except Kirby) during the trailer and RealGameTime was one of them. You can see him as a cameo. He's that tiny spec. The light beam ultimately killed him and Fandom Labs members warped into the game after hearing the news on the Fandom 13 news channel. Strangely unlike getting imprisoned and turning into a evil incarnation of himself like the other characters, he instantly disintegrated instead. Scientists are finding a way to resurrect him through various methods which may take some time. A new character, Princess Bad Piranha Plant, was recently hired by the scientists and was taking over his social media accounts for the time being. He later was resurrected and is now running his accounts again.
GameTime is an erratic, immature, and idiotic person who frequently jokes around a lot.
GameTime is sometimes friendly or disrespectful when with others.
GameTime can be considered as very loud-mouthed and annoying to others.
Like his name suggests, Gametime is obsessed with video games and has a great knowledge on them.
Frequently, GameTime likes to put random words and nonsensical sayings in his speech. One example is the word, "frick". The word is usually used as an alternative to "the f-word" that is less offensive but often still satisfying. It is also less versatile than the real f-word. GameTime uses the word, not only as a alternative for the curse word but in many other nonsensical ways, such as replacing certain words with it for little to no reason. The word has become GameTime's catchphrases but many other characters use it in that certain way as well.
None of GameTime's family members are ever mentioned but the only character that is connected to GameTime's family in any way is his dog, Spot (The GameTime Movie). GameTime, in Wikia, created Spot as a fanon character and they both live in a apartment with Fricksy Business.
GameTime names his car "Road Rusher" and it is implied that he stole it from a car rental shop in Wikia. He sprayed painted his car with flames to give it a "edgy design".
It is shown that GameTime knows how to various weapons such as crossbows (Abby's bow) and swords (Excalifate).
GameTime is an expert at video games just like his name says.
GameTime is the current ruler of the Phantom Underworld realm of Wikia and is implied to have many abilities because of this.
GameTime has black hair in his signature hairstyle (messy and spiked up), as well as dark brown eyes. He also has large light black eyebrows. His hoodie is red with orange sleeves and a orange-lined pouch. The hoodie's red hood also has a orange outline and the hoodie itself on each shoulder has a flap resembling a devil horn. He wears a black belt that goes all around on top of his dark blue denim jeans. He wears black sneakers.
Armed Robbery: GameTime robbed a bank using a gun in a Discord roleplay and was sent to jail afterwards.
Assault: GameTime usually gets into fights with his friends or other characters such as Fricksy Business and ChibiTime. They don't really count as they aren't crimes but he has done so several times. However, GameTime used a piece of debris to attack The Worker in "GameTime: Into the GameTime-Verse" and also attacked him in jail in a Discord roleplay where he was serving food in the cafeteria. He also almost shot Santa Claus in the sky when in a police car using a crossbow in the "I'll Be Home For Frickmas" and kicked a Waddle Dee from the Kirby franchise in a Discord roleplay. He had a fist fight with his cellmate in another Discord roleplay.
Burglary: GameTime, occasionally, breaks into Fricksy Business' house and steals his computer as said in a Discord roleplay. GameTime and Fricksy Business both broke into a burrito factory and stole burritos in "Cop Academy".
Genocide: GameTime's actions led to the mass genocide of Wikia in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arc. He, along with Abby, Fricksy Business, ChibiTime, and Crowley killed many user-turned zombies in "GameTime of the Dead".
Kidnapping: On one occasion, GameTime kidnapped Princess Bad Piranha Plant against her will in a Discord roleplay. It is also implied that he kidnapped a Waddle Dee from the Kirby universe in the same roleplay.
Murder: In various Discord roleplays, GameTime is shown to have killed various users and characters such as Fricksy Business (1 time) and the Trash Man from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in the Minecraft arc. However, they usually come back to life without any explanation afterwards.
Theft: GameTime stole a chew toy and got caught by mall security officers in the Sly Guy NEXT 2018 Holiday Special. He stole burritos with Fricksy Business at a burrito factory in "Cop Academy". It is implied that he stole the Road Rusher from a rental shop in Wikia.
Violation of Firearm Laws: It is implied that GameTime does not have a gun liscene though he uses guns throughout several Discord roleplays.
GameTime's personality and antics often get him and Fricksy Business into trouble or some sort of misadventure ranging from ordinary to surreal and he frequently insults Blue for being "nerdy". On occasion, he shows how much he cares for Fricksy Business and values him as a friend, and always helps him out when needed. GameTime's actions frequently annoy Fricksy Business, though Fricksy, on the other hand, is secretly jealous of GameTime and how he wishes to live his life. He secretly desires to be more like him in some ways.
This version of GameTime can be considered as the main version of the character as this version serves as the user with the same name's internet persona.
The character is based on RealGameTime, the creator of the character.
The character drawing was made by RealGameTime.
The character has one dimension parallel who acts as a main character throughout Sly Guy NEXT presentations, ChibiTime.
ChibiTime's personality is very different than GameTime's personality.


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The Latest West Coast Condominium Trends
Get a glimpse into new and resale condominium prices, sales, and inventory in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Seattle
The San Francisco Condominium Pricing Index was unchanged month over month in May but increased by 2 percent year over year to $1,180 per square foot.
New-construction absorption totaled 58 units in May, as sales activity accelerated at 815 Tennessee and 99 Rausch. The inventory of new construction units decreased slightly to 547, as the 37-unit Sutter North development at 1238 Sutter St. began selling.
Resale activity slowed to 191 transactions in May, down from 258 in April. The average price of resales jumped to $1,444,302, and the average price per square foot rose to $1,172, with both metrics representing their highest monthly peaks since The Mark Company began tracking such data in 2012. Higher-end and luxury units comprised a larger share of the resale pool in May.
Active resale inventory decreased to 348 units, representing 1.8 months of inventory, well below the six-month equilibrium point between a buyer's and seller's market.
Download the full San Francisco trend sheet.
The Downtown Los Angeles Condominium Pricing Index was essentially unchanged month over month and year over year, at $749 per square foot. The Penthouse Pricing Index also held steady at $1,214 per square foot.
The Los Angeles Condominium Pricing Index has essentially been flat for the past four months, at $750, down by 4 percent year over year.
New construction inventory in Downtown Los Angeles has declined steadily since peaking in February 2016, falling to 380 units on the market this month, 378 of them in the Metropolis project.
Forty-three resale transactions were reported in May, the most in any month since last September. The average sale price of the resale units was $901,262, and the average price per square foot was $734, up by 24 percent year over year.
Active resale inventory increased to 123 units in May, the most on the market since July of last year. Still, this reflects just a 2.9-month supply of inventory, well below the six-month equilibrium between a buyer's and seller's market.
Download the full Downtown Los Angeles trend sheet.
The Downtown San Diego Condominium Pricing Index rose to $721 per square foot in June, a 1 percent increase both month over month and year over year and a new high-water mark since The Mark Company began tracking such data in 2014.
New-construction inventory continued to decline, falling to 176 units amid strong sales activity at Savina and Pacific Gate, which saw a combined 30 units absorbed in May. There are 127 units remaining at Savina and 49 left at Pacific Gate, which reported its first closings in March. Inventory will rise later this summer, when the 41West condos are expected to begin selling.
Sixty-nine resale transactions closed in May, at an average of $683,940, or $627 per square foot. These represent the highest overall and per-square-foot price tags since August 2017.
Resale inventory fell to 281 units, after rising to a three-year high of 302 units in May. This translates to 4.1 months of inventory, still below the 6-month equilibrium point between a buyer's and seller's market.
Download the full Downtown San Diego trend sheet.
The Downtown Seattle Condominium Pricing Index increased to $1,140 per square foot in May, a 2 percent gain from April and a 24 percent jump from the same time last year. This metric is at its highest point since The Mark Company began tracking in 2012.
New-construction absorption totaled 10 units in May, as availability at the actively selling developments continued to dwindle. Gridiron and Nexus each had 22 units remaining at the end of the month, while Koda was fully reserved. In nearby Bellevue, the One88 project placed more than 70 percent of its units into contract within three months.
There were 33 resales completed in May, up from 26 in April. The average price per square foot on resales grew to $975, up by 4 percent from the previous and month and by 25 percent year over year to a new cycle high.
With 79 units on the market, resale listings in Downtown Seattle are at their highest point since October 2015, but the active supply still represents just 2.4 months of inventory.
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UK Hydrographic Office
A masterclass in beautifully integrated architecture and engineering. Hydrock's multi-disciplinary engineering services helped deliver a new 11,000 sq m headquarters building for the UKHO which prioritises both collaborative and agile workspace.
Service lines:
Building Performance Engineering, Structural engineering, Transportation, Infrastructure and civils, Geotechnics.
UKHO was a national BCIA award winner in 2019 - judged 'Commercial Property Project of the Year', and also won the RICS South West Commercial Property award, RIBA South West Sustainability Award 2019, RIBA South West Award 2019 and Construction News Project of the Year £20m-£50m.
In collaboration with architects, AHR, main contractor, BAM, and cost consultant, Mace, Hydrock delivered a full multi-disciplinary engineering design role from inception to completion for the award winning new headquarters for UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) in Taunton.
The project was successfully delivered within an ambitious timescale – completing in January 2019, exactly three years after initial design work began in January 2016.
The UKHO is one of the world's leading marine geospatial information agencies. The design of their new 11,000 sq m headquarters building represented a cultural shift within their way of working, prioritising collaborative and agile workspaces for the 850 staff, including a gym, a restaurant and meeting spaces.
The UKHO's brief was to encourage a 'one team' approach, in contrast to their existing cellular buildings. The architectural and structural engineering design achieved this by arranging two wings either side of an 800 sq m central atrium with open balconies and bridges creating a physical and visual connection between all parts of the building resulting in an impressive sense of openness for such a large facility.
Structural engineering solutions
Our structural engineering design is based on a concrete flat slab structure. It was chosen because it worked well for the grid shape of the building, it is very effective for thermal mass, and it is good for services distribution.
This structural design solution ensures that by day, heat generated by people and IT etc. is absorbed in the slab, and at night the vents open so the heat can leave the building. The resulting exposed soffits have been designed to become part of the aesthetics of the structure.
On the outside of the building, the natural wood and brick finish conceal the concrete and adjoin perfectly together.
The dramatic central atrium contains a feature stair that leads to a number of steel link-bridges which provide access to the wings and act as break-out space.
The glazed atria contains 203 roof lights and is one of the key features of the building. The overall effect is achieved through unique V-shaped pre-cast concrete beams that form the gutter to the atria roof and support the extensive array of roof lights. The beams span 10.5m to 16m. The advantage of using pre-cast concrete beams is that no access is needed inside the building for repair or maintenance, whilst on the outside it is possible to stand in the gutter to gain access to clean the roof lights.
Building services solutions
The adoption of natural ventilation and the maximisation of daylight were central to the design ethos. The resulting services strategy delivers a space that supports employee wellbeing and a highly sustainable, low energy operation that has significantly reduced costs for installing, operating and maintaining fans, pumps and chillers.
A Building Management System controls the opening and closing of the top half of every window in the building, whilst occupiers can control the opening of the bottom half of each window to provide instant access to fresh air, giving them a sense of control over their immediate environment.
The building has exceptional levels of daylight. An exposed concrete frame and generous 3.5m floor to ceiling heights, coupled with the glazed atrium roof means that even in winter there is minimal use of artificial lighting, which is reducing energy demand.
The sinuous larch clad baffles, hanging from the atrium roof, provide acoustic absorption to improve the sense of wellbeing for building users. They enhance the ability for people to talk to each other at a normal level in an open plan office environment, and they are an integral part of the passive environmental design as they eliminate glare to the offices below by diffusing low angle sun.
Civil engineering solutions
Our civils engineers managed the external civils works through a process of phasing. With the new office being built on the existing car park, their approach was to ensure a new 500-space car park and security building was constructed first, changing access to the site to enable the main HQ building to begin construction.
Our transportation specialists supported the planning application with a Transport Assessment and a revised Travel Plan for UKHO which recognised that this was a new building on an existing site. Our team also provided a re-design of the site access arrangements.
For over 20 years Hydrock has delivered award-winning engineering projects across a wide variety of sectors. Contact us today to find out how we can help your business.
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Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie have revamped the song "We Are the World," originally recorded 25 years ago. More than 75 big-name stars got together on February 2nd at Jim Henson Studios – where the song was originally recorded – to do it again. The song will benefit aid relief in Haiti.
The long list of celebrities includes Bono, Jason Mraz, Akon, Wyclef Jean, Usher, Pink, Céline Dion, Natalie Cole, the Jonas Brothers, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Lil Wayne and many, many more.
The song will air for the first time on February 12th on NBC. It'll be shown during coverage of the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Richie and the late Michael Jackson wrote the song, and the original recording raised more than $30 million for USA for Africa.


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Once the toast of the fashion world, designer Anand Jon Alexander now fights a lonely long-drawn battle from within his prison confines in New York. Purba Dutt reports.
The year was 2006. Desi designer Anand Jon Alexander had wooed and impressed the Wall Street hard to-please stuffed shirts for them to have evaluated his brand name and agreed to pump in millions for his new ready-to wear line. The high priestess of high jinks, hotel heiress Paris Hilton was to be intimately associated with this project.
Life was not merely looking good, Anand was just a signature away from breaking into a league that only few could aspire to. The deal was to be inked on March 7, 2007. But, tragically, a day before, the dream ended. Reality caught up. Instead of inking the multimillion-dollar deal, Anand was negotiating the intricacies of the arrest warrant issued against him on charges of alleged rape, molestation and sexual indiscretions and indecencies. In no time, the charges were flying thick, fast, and all over the place as girls and women kept coming out of the woodwork complaining about Anand's alleged sexual misdemeanours.
Five years hence, Anand lies on a heap of crushed dreams at the cold and formidable Rikers Island prison in New York as he awaits trial, having already been convicted in California and earning a sentence of over 50 years of imprisonment.
A few days ago, Anand was writhing in unbearable pain, and the jail authorities remained indifferent to his plight, insisting he was faking illness. They joked that he probably needed psychiatric help. When the doctor was finally summoned, it was discovered that Anand had kidney stones, which needed immediate intervention.
But Anand is hardly the hopeless defeated man you'd expect of someone who's spent over four years in lock-up. He doesn't rave, rant and rail against the cruel turn of fate. Instead, he sounds calm, composed, and you can detect his silent resolve to fight it out. So, how did things go so horribly wrong after getting off to something so goddamn right?
"Just before my grandmother, Ammana Abraham, passed away, I had won my art scholarship to go to America. She'd warned me about how fame and fortune can change anyone and a land of dreams into one of nightmares. It is heartbreaking to find out the hard way that some of the people I trusted as friends and partners had ulterior motives," says Anand on the phone from Rikers Island jail.
His family and lawyers have suggested often enough that Anand's super successful career in the US ultimately became the reason for his downfall as there were many who were insanely jealous of how an 'alien' boy was beating them in the sweepstakes on their own turf. Ask him if he feels let down and revengeful, and he stoically replies, "One of the worst feelings in the world is to be falsely accused. One of the worst experiences is this kind of humiliation and loneliness someone innocent is forced to endure. If someone like myself, who has no criminal past, no history of violence or drugs can be targeted like this, then no one is safe. Whether someone is a rich and famous celebrity or just a regular person, all human beings deserve justice. That was denied once to me and I am truly grateful that a higher power is opening new opportunities and a second chance for me. I do not wish such suffering upon anyone, not even those who did me wrong, whether accidently or intentionally."
The life Anand's leading behind the bars is a far cry from the life that Anand led before his incarceration. But he's not complaining. His mother says that Anand won't talk about the kind of food served to him or the conditions in his cell simply because he knows that nothing can be done about it. "This painful path is a powerful learning experience. It is humbling to follow the footsteps of our forefathers who were also wrongfully imprisoned as they fought against the Empire for truth, justice and freedom, and eventually won as the crisis united people to do the right thing," he says philosophically.
Anand now spends most of his time brushing up his knowledge of law and legal matters and sketching, practising yoga and meditation. "Being born and brought up in India, the spiritual foundations of yoga and meditation have been a source of inspiration to walk through such adversity."
And does he sense freedom, even if it might take some time coming? "There's no question about it. Justice will ultimately triumph. Swaraj is my birthright and part of my life plan is to keep a covenant and help others fight against injustice. I do have many plans upon regaining my freedom, which will be seen in my actions rather than my advertising them."
His family complain their finances have all but dried up; they feel that Anand's celebrity friends from the US, barring a few like Ivanka Trump and the Chatwals, and Indians like Suhasini Maniratnam, and Anand's uncle singer KJ Yesudas and a few others, not many have thrown their weight behind Anand and his family at this very trying time. But, what has upset them most is that the government has done precious little to exert pressure on the US to ensure fair and quick justice delivery. Says Anand, "Just like other communities stand by their own, if and when South Asians and Indians are targeted anywhere in the world, we must literally have a billion voices demanding justice for me. Today it is me, tomorrow it can be anyone."
Down he may be, but not out. Anand says he'll live and fight for another day. "It's inhuman what I'm going through, but I don't see any point in getting angry. It's a travesty of justice and human rights all the way…the system wants to break you down, demonise you. In California, I was set up by my own lawyers. What can I do? File civil suits against those who falsely testified against me? I have kept the faith because if I break down and succumb, I willingly fall into the trap they've laid for me. This may work for criminals. For someone who's worked and lived honestly, there's no way I'm going to give in or give up. It's been many years of total isolation for me, and I can't sleep at night. I worry about my mother and sister, who're fighting for justice for me. Once I get out, I'll restructure my life. I'll visit my grandparents' graves first thing after release. I need intelligent media to take up my cause, the cause of someone very wronged by a system of justice that hitherto he's had the highest respect for."
Why did these girls take so long to speak up? — Rehane, Chennai-based designer
"I can't claim to know Anand personally, though I've met his mother and sister Sanjana Jon, both perfectly decent human beings. It's not for me to say if Anand is guilty or innocent. Ours is a profession where a lot can be misconstrued. It's a handson job for us, literally. We have to be there with the models for their fittings and trials and when they're changing into or getting out of their costumes.
Many people can, out of ignorance or under pressure, attribute malicious motives to what is otherwise just a normal part of our jobs. In our profession, no one's interested in women! Colour, cuts, fits and, fall, but not women. The punishment being meted out to Anand is wholly disproportionate to the quantum of his so-called crime. Why did these girls take so long to speak up? Surely, these are not your wet-behind-the-ears models who didn't know what was happening to them. It also beats me how Anand's case could be about professional rivalry or jealousy. Surely, in the US there's room for everyone.
Besides, Anand was only a fast rising star, not an established celebrity designer. It's bizarre, this case, and I feel very sad for him. I think the US Justice system needs to look more closely at the case and review if it's not being overzealous and irrational in way it's being handled.
'Much money has changed hands' – — Shashi Abraham, Anand Jon's mother
We have just set up a trust to raise funds to fight for justice for Anand Jon. I realise that money has had a huge role in setting many of these girls against Anand. Many of these women knew Anand well and have travelled to India with us. They've been his friends. And suddenly they started testifying against him and making all kinds of ridiculous sexual allegations against him. It's a nobrainer that much money has changed hands. There's been intimidation too. I had great hope and faith in the US justice system, but, sadly, that faith has all but eroded. It smells like racism the way Anand's being treated. To secure bail, I'll need billions. Where will I get this money from? The IMF chief can bail his way out; what can we do? The autumn- winter fall!
purba.dutt@timesgroup.com


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Boston Arts Diary
Moby Dick: A Musical Reckoning
in Musicals, Plays
Musical (2019)
Music, Lyrics, Book and Orchestrations by Dave Malloy
Based on the novel by Herman Melville
Developed with and directed by Rachel Chavrin
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Music Direction and Supervision: Or Matias; Choreography: Chanel DaSilva; Scenic Design: Mimi Lien; Costume Design: Brenda Abbandandolo; Lighting Design: Bradley King; Sound Design: Hidenori Nakajo; Puppet Direction: Eric F. Avery
With Dawn L. Troupe (Father Mapple, Captain Boomer, Captain Gardiner), Manik Choksi (Ishmael), Kim Banck (Sailor, Singer, Carpenter), Starr Busby (Starbuck), Andrew Cristi (Queequeg), Ashkon Davaran (Sailor, Elijah, Blacksmith), Morgan Siobhan Green (Pip), Anna Ishida (Flask), Matt Kizer (Tashtego), J.D. Mollison (Daggoo), Kalyn West (Stubb), Tom Nelis (Ahab), Eric Berryman (Fedallah)
J.D. Mollison as Daggoo
with the Cast and members of the audience
in "Moby Dick"
Photo: Maria Baranova
Courtesy of American Repertory Theater
A freewheeling musical adaptation of the great American novel.
Anyone who has read Moby Dick knows it's about an obsessed Captain, Ahab, who's after a great white whale. Narrated by a seaman, Ishmael, the tale of Ahab's vengeful possession of the determination to destroy Moby Dick provides the large arc of the drama. Internal to it are various smaller dramas about the various seaman on board, and particularly about the mate, Starbuck, who becomes increasingly aware of Ahab's growing derangement.
But, one who has read the book also knows that, despite its incredible length, there's a lot there that has very little to do with the plot itself. There are large swaths of it which are simply descriptions and analyses of whaling and compendia of interesting tidbits about whales. The narrative doth go on, but not necessarily to develop the character of Ahab or to investigate the dimensions of his relationship with the crew. Though, indeed, Moby Dick is a great work of world literature, one must regard it as something different than a novel per se. Much like James Joyce's Ulysses or Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, it is indeed an epic of inestimable cultural value, but that is not due, in large part, to the novelistic finesse it displays.
Interestingly, Dave Malloy, who wrote the book, lyrics and music to this show, not to mention doing the orchestrations, had chosen another of these literary non-novelistic epics, War and Peace for one of his last musicals, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 originally produced at the ART in 2015 and then sent to Broadway for a durable run there. Given the nature of these beasts, so to speak, one would expect that Moby Dick would be headed in the same direction.
Manik Choksi as Ishmael
with a bust of Herman Melville
Photo: Evgenia Eliseeva
There is much to like in this musical and production, though I found the first half of it significantly more captivating than the second. Some of the music, though seeming almost entirely eclectic, is quite catchy; the lyrics are somewhat straightforward, though at times they take interesting turns.
And much of the staging is truly brilliant. For this production, Chanel DaSilva who had done the choreography for the ART's excellent The Black Clown, does it here as well; it's generally wonderful, as is much of the staging. And there are great additions, like a superb section in which various puppets and props representing whales and associated materia, designed by Eric F. Avery, are bandied about. It turns the section named Cetology, very long in the book and which is all about whales, fascinating, entertaining and enlivening.
There is also a pretty long section in the first part in which about twenty audience members are brought on stage to participate in a whaling expedition. Magically, boats appear from below stage, audience members are donned with red rain gear, and water spouts shoot up. Cast members transport the audience members who are seated in the boats for a spin around the stage and everyone seems to have a good time. It's a gag that's very reminiscent of The Blue Man Group at which performances audience members – not as many – are outfitted with raincoats and included in the messy action. Though one might think it's a bit derivative, it works pretty well here.
Tom Nelis as Ahab
Starr Busby as Starbuck
There's also a fun and messy segment about processing spermiceti that has the cast and the raincoated audience members sitting in a circle mushing the stuff around in bowls and then grasping hands with one another. The indulgence of this section is that it plays on a common misinterpretation of the sailors in the mid-nineteenth century that spermiceti was actually the sperm of the Sperm Whale. It's actually not, but, rather, a substance found encased in the head of the whale and thought to perhaps have something to do with buoyancy. Conveniently, the substance is white and kind of waxy, which enables this musical to refer to it as "sperm" and have a good old time with the confusion. But it does seem like a bit of an indulgence to play upon the audience's likely ignorance of this and go for a slightly racy impression.
The cast, except for Ahab, is non-white, which seems to be making a point about domination, subservience, ethnicity and democracy. That intention is well-taken, and the motif, made popular by Lin-Manual Miranda in Hamilton (2015), carries over here as well. In the novel, the non-white members of the crew play a very distinctive role and are highlighted by their non-whiteness; that stark relief in which Queequeg or Tashtego rise up in the book gets somewhat lost in this notion of making practically all of the cast non-white. Nonetheless, the identification of the whole crew with the non-white members seems, in fact, the basic idea, and in contradistinction to the stark whiteness of Captain Ahab and the object of his obsession. In Hamilton the whole cast takes on the mixed ethnicity of its hero; here, in Moby Dick, the whole cast takes on the ethnicity of those strikingly ethnic members of the crew. It's an interesting technique, clearly makes a point, and gives good roles to talented people of color in a work that, more traditionally cast, would not. One still might ponder whether that choice makes less vivid some of those significant distinctions from the book.
Things move along quite well in the first half. One doesn't get too much about Ahab, though he stands around a lot looking gloomy and obsessed. Other than that, one doesn't really know that much about why he's obsessed, except that Moby Dick had eaten his leg in a prior encounter. But we don't hear a great deal about what's going on under the hood with Ahab.
That all seems okay in the first half, but the hens come home to roost in the second. The problem, in part, is with the novel, which, surprisingly, given its girth, does not give all that much about Ahab; one is left with an image of a severe and obsessive captain who goes off the rails, but not much more than that. The musical also seems short on that matter, but it's not really its fault, though one might have hoped that it would, through the magic of musical lyrics, flesh out the texture of Ahab's character and associated insanity a bit more.
In the second half of this production, instead of trying to make some sense of Ahab's nuttiness, there is an overly long section about Pip, a cabin boy who gets lost at sea. It encompasses several attenuated songs and a lot more than a few minutes of stage time, which does not serve the rhythm of the overall drama. Including the Pip episode, but in a more abbreviated form, would seem like a better choice.
The illness and death of Queequeg, an expert harpooner originally from the South Seas, is handled more economically and deftly. Through depicting his strong negative visceral reaction to the murder of a mother whale nursing her young, his acute decline becomes vivid and poignant.
Kalyn West as Stubb
with the Cast
The acting, and dancing and singing, are extremely good all around. A great thing about this production, in keeping with the sense of what it portrays, is its democratic sensibility; each cast member gets a moment to shine, whether in a singing or dancing solo, or as a rapper or stand-up comedian. That embrace of democratic sensibility nurtures the subtext of this great American novel, which is really about the way in which an entire diverse crew, originally inspired by democratic spirit, is led to disaster by a maniacal leader.
The greatness of the novel lies, in part, in demonstrating how each character in that diverse crew has an integrity that gets taken over and manipulated by the crazed leader. Were they led by a Captain Gardiner of The Rachel – portrayed as a far saner alternative to Ahab – how different their sense of engagement and associated destinies would be. Clearly, this production enables one to consider how timely and relevant such concerns are.
Though singing by almost all of the cast is clear and wonderful, the score is not always straightforward and there are at various points in some of the solo outings some intonation issues that border on the uncomfortable.
The first part of this show is very good – I found it more deftly crafted than Malloy's earlier Natasha and Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. Even with the long audience participation gag and a pretty long stand-up comedy routine by Eric Berryman that breaks the fourth wall with contemporary language and perspective, it all works pretty well.
The second part could be trimmed significantly, while still preserving the important dramatic elements – the collapse of Ahab's sanity, Starbuck's realization of that, the tragedy of Pip's loss at sea, and the death of Queequeg. The poignancy of these various themes might be served by some deft editing that could enable the overall length – a weighty three and a half hours that begins to wear on near the end – to be lightened a bit.
One must certainly commend Dave Malloy and the ART for taking on this great work in an interestingly improvisational, pluralistic, and entertaining way, and helping, as with Natasha and Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, to make one of the world's great epics just a bit more accessible to many who might not have yet wandered through its significant expanses, and to offer a stimulating recapitulation to those who have.
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define the position based on the calibrated positioning database.
Yearly license based on the number of beacons of the positioning database will enable unlimited Android and IOS smart devices to use the SDK for guiding and navigation.
Air-Go Smart Sniffer allows to scan Smart Beacons (BLE4.0 Advertisement packets) and send the RSS (Received Signal Strength) Information to the Air-Go RTLE Server through its Ethernet or WiFi interfaces. Smart Tags advertise BLE4.0 packets and are inexpensive devices.
The Air-Go Visio tool is a Geographic Information System including a MapServer based on cloud to manage People, Assets, Tags, Tracks, Sites, Maps, Geofences and Policies to Localize people and assets, report alarms and generate geo-analytics and insights from tracked devices. Air-Go Visio is licensed based on the number of tracked devices.
to set Sites and buildings to load floor's maps.
to manage digital maps's system calibration.
to define the paths on the map to calibrate the system, and to generate positioning database.
With the Air-Go Deployment tool the beacon location and installation is performed very ease.
BLE devices installed in indoor environments are Bluetooth 4.0 beacons that can be placed very easily by adhesive to any surface. The battery is easily replaceable without removing the beacon from the wall, the battery can last about a year. Bluetooth Low Energy beacons send advertising packets using channel 37,38 and 39 of the 2.4 GHZ band. This advertising packets are sniffed and its power measured in order to estimate the position. The positioning software on smartphones get the necessary metrics from the signal emitted by Smart Beacons installed in the environment and calculates the position in real time with technology based on radio-map filtering and probabilistic techniques.
Air-Go RTLE Server allows to centralize positioning calculations in those use cases where no smart devices offload the operation. Tag's RSSI readings are sent to the Air-Go RTLE Server to compute and estimate the position. Yearly license based on the number of beacons of the positioning database will enable unlimited Android and IOS smart devices to use the SDK for guiding and navigation.


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Q: Reputation graph on profile page is un-draggable Reputation graph on profile page is un-draggable. Currently displaying data only for last 30 days.
Observed on Google chrome Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) (OS - Win 10)

Can this be something related to touch based screens?
Note: Not duplicate of this Question as graph is not draggable at all. While in the previous question, graph timeline can selected by dragging pointer in the lower chart but the same is not reflected in the upper chart/graph

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When last we left, I was about to go to my 25th college reunion. I'm back now and I almost ended up trading in for a smartphone Saturday morning. The trigger was an inability to show photos of my kids like everyone else around me was doing. I considered running home, quickly printing out 8 x 10 paper photos of them, throwing them in a 3-hole punch and then a loose-leaf binder. But there were various social hours to get to and I take my cocktails, I mean, socializing, very seriously. And I also have a dearth of three-ring binders at home.
But I definitely felt the pull of the ease and fun of having a camera and the past five years' worth of developmental phases and growth spurts in a handy digital catch-all spot. In other words, pictures of my kids on my phone. I kind of felt like a bad mom. I'm just as besotted with my children as the next parent, I just don't have the ability to flash photos of them right now to interested, or even disinterested but standing close enough, parties. What kind of mom doesn't have photos of their kids? One currently with a flip phone, that's who.
Having a flip phone does have one positive in this whole conundrum though. Not being able to take or show photos also means I don't have to wonder should I post the photo to social media or not.
"Digital DNA is my term for digital footprint, because I don't think the term 'footprint' is strong enough when you take into consideration every image, every comment, every post has some kind of record.
"Parents are posting their kids' life on social media and curating that on their behalf.
"What habits are we teaching our kids if we are curating every moment of their lives on digital devices? Are there private moments that would be better kept private?"
Such great questions, Dr. Kirsty Goodwin!
"It goes to vulnerability. We want our kids to be vulnerable and no one is vulnerable on social media. We want our kids to be real, and no one is real on social media.
"I never put a picture of myself up when I'm struggling."
"I just think [it is important] to reinforce the notion it's okay to fail. That is a really big issue for many children. They don't want to be seen as failures, a lot of kids are perfectionists."
And reinforce that it's okay to not post every little adorability on FB, Instagram, etc.
I write this because I had a real compulsion to post everylittlething on Facebook. All of it! Remember that saying, "If it's not on Facebook, it didn't happen?" That was me! There was some perverse sense for me that posting these wee little nuggets of sweetness were more indelible, more meaningful when I shared them with the world. I know...crazy!
So all of this is to say, the flip phone is again somewhere in my house as I continue this journey with it that comes with its benefits and its challenges. I know a smartphone is definitely in my future with its efficiencies and easier everything, but I think I need to still wait until the glamour of it continues to wane for me.


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Q: Using RS flip-flops to solve this problem Consider a rail with a wheel mounted on it. The wheel can move from point A to B or B to A. There is a linear sensor to track the position of wheel between A and B. At point A, the linear sensor gives converted digital output 0 and at B it gives 1000. We will consider the wheel to be midway between A and B when the linear sensor gives reading as 500. Lets say this point it C.
Something like>
A___________C___________B
0__________500__________1000
Now to the electronics part:

*

*Button 1 moves the wheel to A by starting motor x.

*Button 2 moves the wheel to B by starting moor y.

*Button 3 moves the wheel to the center point irrespective of its starting position, that is, A to C or B to C or from anywhere in between towards C.

The same motors x and y are used, based on the direction.
I have solved all 3 conditions above but there is one more that I am not able to implement. Sometimes when pressing button 3 to move point C, it can happen that the wheel may be acted upon by an external force and cross point C rather than stopping at it. In this case, we do not want that our existing logic starts moving the wheel back towards point C. Think of this like a pendulum effect with the wheel oscillating and crossing over point C before eventually coming to a stop.
So, the ideal condition is that if the wheel crosses over C while button 3 is being pressed, the motors x and y both should be shut off after the first time the wheel reaches or crosses C.
My friend suggested that I should use flip-flops to solve this but I havent managed.
Please help!!

A: Here's some untested microcontroller pseudo-code to analyse. This would be simple to implement on an Arduino platform or similar. If you insist on using logic circuits it may help you work out the logic.
// Three buttons, left, centre and right: btnL, btnC, btnR.
// Two motors: motorX moves right, motorY moves left.
// Position: p

void loop(){
  // Left motion
  if(btnL && (p > 0) {motorX = true} else {motorX = false}

  // Right motion
  if(btnR && (p < 1000) {motorY = true} else {motorY = false}

  // Centre-cross detection
  // The variable 'centrePass' tracks whether a mid-point transition has occured.
  if(btnC && motorX && (p >= 500) {centrePass = true}
  if(btnC && motorY && (p <= 500) {centrePass = true}
  if(!btnC) centrePass = false

  // Centre motion
  if(btnC && !centrePass) {
    if(p < 500) {motorX = true} else {motorX = false}
    if(p > 500) {motorY = true} else {motorY = false}
  } else {
    motorX = false;
    motorY = false;
  }
}


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El macizo Tajt-e Soleimán (en persa: بلندی‌های تخت سليمان) es una subcadena de montañas de los montes centrales Elburz. En la región se distinguen alrededor de 160 picos que superan los 4.000 metros de altitud, siendo el más alto, famoso y técnico el Alam Kuh (4.850 m). La región puede insertarse en un rectángulo de 30 km de ancho y 40 de largo. El macizo queda limitado por el valle de Talekán al sur, la llanura verde de Kelardasht al este, el bosque tropical de Abbas Abad y colinas de espera vegetación al norte, y los bosques de Shahsavar y el valle de Se Hezar al oeste.

Descubrimiento
El nombre original pre-islámico era Tajt-e-Yamshid. La región de Tajt-e-Soleymán era desconocida para los foráneos hasta 1933. Douglas Busk, un escalador británico, descubrió e investigó la zona. Más tarde, Busk junto con el profesor Bobek hicieron una detallada exploración de la zona. En 1936 la cadena noroeste (llamada flanco de los alemanes) del Alam Kuh fue escalada por la primera vez por alpinistas alemanes, lo que fue considerado un gran logro entre los alpinistas europeos.

Galería

Enlaces externos

 Introduction to Takht-e Soleyman Massif.
 Tajt-e Soleimán bajo nieve.

Takht-e Sulaiman

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As far as I'm concerned, Sorcerer is a strong class in the Elder Scrolls online. What's more, Sorcerer is a flexible type of class; it can become a powerful Tank, a high damage DPS or a healer as long as the sorcerer is equipped armed with the proper equipment. I assure there are lots of players to play the class and I wish to share my sorcerer with you.
Magicka is the important attribute for the Sorcerer class. When playing sorcerer, sufficient Magicka can make sure sorcerer can continue to cast spell skills. In addition, there is a respectable amount of Stamina to benefit the class in battle. Of course, to a good survival, remember to add some points to Sorcerer health.
The sorcerer will be given three skill trees to choose from upon starting the game: Daedric summoning to summon familiars, Dark Magic for utility, and Storm Calling to dish out lightning damage.
Active skill to summon minions.
The lowest damage than other two branches.
The crowd controls skill. Sorcerer casts the skill to hit back, control and deal damage.


View looking into the fullonica from its entrance. Note the large rinsing tub on the right side and the rooms and the frescos on the left side. In the distance is the atrium and the processing areas of the fullonica.
A fullonica was designed for the washing of dirty laundry and degreasing fabric that had just been threaded, was built in the last stage of the life of Pompeii, transforming the structure from an original house to commercial business. Based upon inscriptions it is believed that Stephanus was the owner of the fullery. He died during the eruption in 79 AD while trying to escape. The workers for Stephanus, almost all slaves, had to tread on fabrics and clothes for hours, placed under a liquid containing human and animal urine, collected in pots placed along the streets, which intended to treat the fabrics (see following images).


One of the world's top paragliders was killed during a competition in the Western Cape.
Competition spokesman Ian Cowie said the pilot was approaching the "goal field" in Eendekuil after a 68km flight from Porterville on Friday when he hit "extreme turbulence".
This would have caused his glider to collapse' sending him plunging to the ground' said Cowie.
He said an investigation would be conducted by the South African Hang-gliding and Paragliding Association and the Civil Aviation Authority. The identity of the dead pilot would be released once his embassy confirmed that his family had been informed.
"All I can say for now is that he was a top international pilot. He would have been on the podium in one of our five classes'" said Cowie.
Cowie said the pilot reached hospital in Piketberg within an hour of the crash' and doctors — assisted by advance life-support paramedics from a helicopter and the ambulance that transported him — attempted to resuscitate him for 90 minutes.
Saturday's final day of the seven-day South African Pre-PWC Porterville Paragliding Open' which attracted 120 pilots from around the world — including world champion Aaron Durogati' from Italy — was cancelled as a mark of respect to the accident victim.
Cowie said that until Friday's accident' the competition had "met and exceeded our expectations". This was despite the fact that the El Niño effect – also responsible for the drought crippling the Western Cape – had introduced challenging conditions at Porterville' known as Africa's premier summer flying and cross-country competition site.
He said two witnesses who watched the entire incident in which the pilot was killed would give evidence to the inquiry.
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Пакарайма () — муниципалитет в Бразилии, входит в штат Рорайма. Составная часть мезорегиона Север штата Рорайма. Входит в экономико-статистический микрорегион Боа-Виста. Население составляет 10 433 человека на 2010 год. Занимает площадь 8 028,483 км². Плотность населения — 1,30 чел./км².

Праздник города — 17 октября.

История
Город основан в 1995 году.

Границы
Муниципалитет граничит:
 на востоке — муниципалитет Уйрамутан,Нормандия
 на юге — муниципалитет Боа-Виста
 на юго-западе — муниципалитет Амажари
 на северо-западе — Венесуэла

Демография
Согласно сведениям, собранным в ходе переписи 2010 г. Национальным институтом географии и статистики (IBGE), население муниципалитета составляет:

По данным оценки 2015 года население муниципалитета составляет 11 908 жителей.

Важнейшие населенные пункты

Статистика
 Валовой внутренний продукт на 2003 составляет 35.153.840,00 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Валовой внутренний продукт на душу населения на 2003 составляет 4.523,14 реалов (данные: Бразильский институт географии и статистики).
 Индекс развития человеческого потенциала на 2000 составляет 0,718 (данные: Программа развития ООН).

Примечания

Ссылки
 IBGE Cidades
 Confederação Nacional de Municípios (CNM)

Муниципалитеты штата Рорайма


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