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The belief that China's surveillance gives it an advantage is misleading—and dangerous.
Bruce Schneier and James Waldo
According to foreign-policy experts and the defense establishment, the United States is caught in an artificial intelligence arms race with China—one with serious implications for national security. The conventional version of this story suggests that the United States is at a disadvantage because of self-imposed restraints on the collection of data and the privacy of its citizens, while China, an unrestrained surveillance state, is at an advantage. In this vision, the data that China collects will be fed into its systems, leading to more powerful AI with capabilities we can only imagine today. Since Western countries can't or won't reap such a comprehensive harvest of data from their citizens, China will win the AI arms race and dominate the next century.
This idea makes for a compelling narrative, especially for those trying to justify surveillance—whether government- or corporate-run. But it ignores some fundamental realities about how AI works and how AI research is conducted.
Thanks to advances in machine learning, AI has flipped from theoretical to practical in recent years, and successes dominate public understanding of how it works. Machine learning systems can now diagnose pneumonia from X-rays, play the games of go and poker, and read human lips, all better than humans. They're increasingly watching surveillance video. They are at the core of self-driving car technology and are playing roles in both intelligence-gathering and military operations. These systems monitor our networks to detect intrusions and look for spam and malware in our email.
And it's true that there are differences in the way each country collects data. The United States pioneered "surveillance capitalism," to use the Harvard University professor Shoshana Zuboff's term, where data about the population is collected by hundreds of large and small companies for corporate advantage—and mutually shared or sold for profit The state picks up on that data, in cases such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's use of Google search data to map epidemics and evidence shared by alleged criminals on Facebook, but it isn't the primary user.
China, on the other hand, is far more centralized. Internet companies collect the same sort of data, but it is shared with the government, combined with government-collected data, and used for social control. Every Chinese citizen has a national ID number that is demanded by most services and allows data to easily be tied together. In the western region of Xinjiang, ubiquitous surveillance is used to oppress the Uighur ethnic minority—although at this point there is still a lot of human labor making it all work. Everyone expects that this is a test bed for the entire country.
Data is increasingly becoming a part of control for the Chinese government. While many of these plans are aspirational at the moment—there isn't, as some have claimed, a single "social credit score," but instead future plans to link up a wide variety of systems—data collection is universally pushed as essential to the future of Chinese AI. One executive at search firm Baidu predicted that the country's connected population will provide them with the raw data necessary to become the world's preeminent tech power. China's official goal is to become the world AI leader by 2030, aided in part by all of this massive data collection and correlation.
This all sounds impressive, but turning massive databases into AI capabilities doesn't match technological reality. Current machine learning techniques aren't all that sophisticated. All modern AI systems follow the same basic methods. Using lots of computing power, different machine learning models are tried, altered, and tried again. These systems use a large amount of data (the training set) and an evaluation function to distinguish between those models and variations that work well and those that work less well. After trying a lot of models and variations, the system picks the one that works best. This iterative improvement continues even after the system has been fielded and is in use.
So, for example, a deep learning system trying to do facial recognition will have multiple layers (hence the notion of "deep") trying to do different parts of the facial recognition task. One layer will try to find features in the raw data of a picture that will help find a face, such as changes in color that will indicate an edge. The next layer might try to combine these lower layers into features like shapes, looking for round shapes inside of ovals that indicate eyes on a face. The different layers will try different features and will be compared by the evaluation function until the one that is able to give the best results is found, in a process that is only slightly more refined than trial and error.
Large data sets are essential to making this work, but that doesn't mean that more data is automatically better or that the system with the most data is automatically the best system. Train a facial recognition algorithm on a set that contains only faces of white men, and the algorithm will have trouble with any other kind of face. Use an evaluation function that is based on historical decisions, and any past bias is learned by the algorithm. For example, mortgage loan algorithms trained on historic decisions of human loan officers have been found to implement redlining. Similarly, hiring algorithms trained on historical data manifest the same sexism as human staff often have. Scientists are constantly learning about how to train machine learning systems, and while throwing a large amount of data and computing power at the problem can work, more subtle techniques are often more successful. All data isn't created equal, and for effective machine learning, data has to be both relevant and diverse in the right ways.
Future research advances in machine learning are focused on two areas. The first is in enhancing how these systems distinguish between variations of an algorithm. As different versions of an algorithm are run over the training data, there needs to be some way of deciding which version is "better." These evaluation functions need to balance the recognition of an improvement with not over-fitting to the particular training data. Getting functions that can automatically and accurately distinguish between two algorithms based on minor differences in the outputs is an art form that no amount of data can improve.
The second is in the machine learning algorithms themselves. While much of machine learning depends on trying different variations of an algorithm on large amounts of data to see which is most successful, the initial formulation of the algorithm is still vitally important. The way the algorithms interact, the types of variations attempted, and the mechanisms used to test and redirect the algorithms are all areas of active research. (An overview of some of this work can be found here; even trying to limit the research to 20 papers oversimplifies the work being done in the field.) None of these problems can be solved by throwing more data at the problem.
The British AI company DeepMind's success in teaching a computer to play the Chinese board game go is illustrative. Its AlphaGo computer program became a grandmaster in two steps. First, it was fed some enormous number of human-played games. Then, the game played itself an enormous number of times, improving its own play along the way. In 2016, AlphaGo beat the grandmaster Lee Sedol four games to one.
While the training data in this case, the human-played games, was valuable, even more important was the machine learning algorithm used and the function that evaluated the relative merits of different game positions. Just one year later, DeepMind was back with a follow-on system: AlphaZero. This go-playing computer dispensed entirely with the human-played games and just learned by playing against itself over and over again. It plays like an alien. (It also became a grandmaster in chess and shogi.)
These are abstract games, so it makes sense that a more abstract training process works well. But even something as visceral as facial recognition needs more than just a huge database of identified faces in order to work successfully. It needs the ability to separate a face from the background in a two-dimensional photo or video and to recognize the same face in spite of changes in angle, lighting, or shadows. Just adding more data may help, but not nearly as much as added research into what to do with the data once we have it.
Meanwhile, foreign-policy and defense experts are talking about AI as if it were the next nuclear arms race, with the country that figures it out best or first becoming the dominant superpower for the next century. But that didn't happen with nuclear weapons, despite research only being conducted by governments and in secret. It certainly won't happen with AI, no matter how much data different nations or companies scoop up.
It is true that China is investing a lot of money into artificial intelligence research: The Chinese government believes this will allow it to leapfrog other countries (and companies in those countries) and become a major force in this new and transformative area of computing—and it may be right. On the other hand, much of this seems to be a wasteful boondoggle. Slapping "AI" on pretty much anything is how to get funding. The Chinese Ministry of Education, for instance, promises to produce "50 world-class AI textbooks," with no explanation of what that means.
In the democratic world, the government is neither the leading researcher nor the leading consumer of AI technologies. AI research is much more decentralized and academic, and it is conducted primarily in the public eye. Research teams keep their training data and models proprietary but freely publish their machine learning algorithms. If you wanted to work on machine learning right now, you could download Microsoft's Cognitive Toolkit, Google's Tensorflow, or Facebook's Pytorch. These aren't toy systems; these are the state-of-the art machine learning platforms.
AI is not analogous to the big science projects of the previous century that brought us the atom bomb and the moon landing. AI is a science that can be conducted by many different groups with a variety of different resources, making it closer to computer design than the space race or nuclear competition. It doesn't take a massive government-funded lab for AI research, nor the secrecy of the Manhattan Project. The research conducted in the open science literature will trump research done in secret because of the benefits of collaboration and the free exchange of ideas.
While the United States should certainly increase funding for AI research, it should continue to treat it as an open scientific endeavor. Surveillance is not justified by the needs of machine learning, and real progress in AI doesn't need it.
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Clinic with a Heart, a faith-based organization, serves the uninsured and under-insured in Lincoln with hospitality, dignity and grace. As an urgent care clinic, they strive to serve as a gateway to other human service agencies around the community and help their patients find a permanent healthcare provider.
Each clinic night is sponsored by a mission team and since 2008, Sheridan has served as a sponsor. The mission teams provide the coordination of services and funding, and include seven different churches, a temple, two hospitals and one educational institution.
In 2016, an average of 40 volunteers served at Clinic with a Heart every month – which adds up to over 1,440 hours of service time last year!
Already in 2017, Sheridan has been able to provide the care for 194 patients visits and volunteers donated 867 hours of service on the day we sponsor, the 2nd Tuesday of the month.
What an impactful ministry that serves the Lincoln community and we are glad to help with this amazing work!
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The aim of this website is to give you some insight into who we are and what we are trying to achieve. The purpose is to persuade you to come and train with us. This website is not intended to be a definitive guide to Aikido, however, if you are interested in finding out more about Aikido I've created a link to the Aikido Journal website which can be found in the 'Links' section of our 'Media' page and it is as great place to start.
You are never too old to start training in Aikido and because it does not rely on strength or speed it is an activity you can carry on for life. The first session is always free so apart from your time there is little to lose by coming along and giving this wonderful martial art a try. If you don't feel comfortable starting straight away or just want to see what Aikido is all about then you are welcome to come and watch. If you have any questions please feel free to call me or ask them when you come and any one of the instructors will be happy to answer them as best we can.
I sincerely hope that should you come and visit one of our classes you will see that we are simply a group of people studying Aikido in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. So if this website creates an interest in our club and you decide to come and give Aikido a try, then brilliant!! If you decide not to, then we wish you the best of luck and we hope that you find what you are looking for.
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5S at Your Workplace
best practices lean manufacturing productivity supply chain workplace organisation
This online course provides an overview of the 5S system (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain). It covers the concept of 5S, its importance, methods of implementing each of the 5S in different settings, including retail store, office, warehouse and factory, as well as the key success factors of sustaining it.
This course is designed for team leaders, managers and above who are working in large companies at brand or factory level, and closer to sourcing & production.
The course is self-paced. It starts with a video by the course instructor to introduce you to the concept. Each of the 5S is discussed in one module. By the end of each module, there will be a quiz to check your understanding.
All participants who successfully complete the course will receive an Esquel Group Certificate of Completion.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the concept of 5S and its relationship with Lean manufacturing
2. Apply 5S effectively in various settings including retail store, office, warehouse and factory, with the aim to enhance safety, productivity, make problems visible in your workplace
3. Understand the key success factors in sustaining 5S in the workplace
The introduction will give you an overview of 5S, its relationship with Lean manufacturing, and the benefits of 5S. You will also learn about Japanese origin of each of the 5S.
Module 1: Sort Free trial
This module covers the idea of 'Sort', the first step of 5S, through a game. It guides you to think about what needs to be sorted and how to do so in the office and manufacturing context. By the end of this module, there is a quiz to test your understanding.
Module 2: Set In Order
This module covers the idea of 'Set In Order', the second step of 5S. It discusses the importance of setting things in order to production and introduces some error-proof techniques that are applicable in the office and manufacturing setting. By the end of this module, there is a quiz to test your understanding.
Module 3: Shine
This module covers the idea of 'Shine', the third step of 5S. It is about the importance of regular maintenance of 5S and some factors to consider when doing regular maintenance. By the end of this module, there is a quiz to test your understanding.
Module 4: Standardize
This module covers the idea of 'Standardize', the fourth step of 5S. It walks through the importance of standardizing the procedures through documentation and methods to help others follow the procedures. By the end of this module, there is a quiz to test your understanding.
Module 5: Sustain
This module covers the idea of 'Sustain', the final but most difficult step of 5S. It discusses the commitment needed to drive continuous adoption of 5S and the steps to follow through. It also introduces about how 5S Audits can be done. By the end of this module, there is a quiz to test your understanding.
This module concludes the course with a summary of benefits of 5S towards management effectiveness, quality, safety, etc.
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Kent Teh
Kent has been with Esquel Group since 1989, and is currently Director of Manufacturing for Esquel Vietnam. He has over 32 years of experience in the garment and textile industry, spreading over 6 countries. Flourishing in a collaborative environment, his career at Esquel has covered a wide range of functional roles and responsibilities, including QA, fabric manufacturing, SCM, IT, PPC and garment manufacturing. Kent has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Computer Science with a minor in Management.
About Esquel Group
Founded in 1978, Esquel Group has pursued growth over the years in line with its vision of Making a Difference, which guides its development toward two goals – tackling climate change and narrowing the wealth gap. Over the years, Esquel has grown from a shirtmaker to a total solutions provider in textiles and apparel, a curator in industrial knowledge and technology, as well as a builder of direct consumer brands.
Read more about Esquel Group.
Fashion Supply Chain: Concept to Consumer
Michael Londrigan
The global fashion supply chain is wide and complex. Take this course to gain a solid understanding of its structure, players and how it operates.
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Digital Fashion and Sustainability: In Practice
Merunisha Moonilal
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Take this class to identify ways to use technology to go from a linear to a circular supply chain and apply quantitative problem-solving frameworks to complex sustainability problems.
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Solving Fit Problems: Women's Tops
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Emily Robertson Hood, Jackie Lewis
Engaging, interactive and collaborative course with real examples of fit problems and pattern corrections that are commonly seen. Become a true detective and solve recurring fit issues!
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My knowledge of Christ began at the age of 5 when my older siblings and I were attending Vacation Bible School. I had been learning about Jesus, and since I was asking questions, my mother told me about the plan of salvation.
She told me that God loved me and had sent His only Son to pay for my sins and that if I believed this and asked Him to come into my heart, I would someday go to Heaven.
So, with my mother leading me, I asked Jesus to come into my heart. Later, at the age of 12, I reaffirmed my salvation and was baptized.
During my late teenage years, there was a significant movement among those who believed in evolution, and some of my friends were following them. Although this was unsettling, I remembered what my mother had told me, and she had always been right before, (or so I had thought).
I once heard a man say, "I know God is real because I talked to Him this morning." I'm sure he had, and this was the way I felt.
Although the evolutionary position demands tangible proof, I only found theories and suppositions, separated by millions of years and yet they teach these concepts to our children as fact. Who can disagree with the assertion, that: "a theory taught as fact is not education, but indoctrination?"
I wanted to know about the Bible prophecies - the story of Jesus - (even the existence of God) - were they valid, or merely legend?
Satan would whisper, "The Bible was written by men, perhaps even after the time of Christ!" However, the Bible tells us that Satan is a liar: that every Word in the Bible was written under the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit through devout and specially chosen men of God.
Then, God began to reveal Himself to me through a series of amazing dreams answered prayer and events that only He could have arranged.
These experiences were so powerful and meaningful that I have only shared them with a precious few. God in His fantastic and inexplicable ways had chosen to make Himself known to me personally before showing me the tangible evidence.
A short time later I learned of some scrolls that contain the same prophecies about the coming of the Messiah as did the Old Testament. The scientific world has inspected the writings, "The Dead Sea Scrolls," and most agree they are authentic and were written hundreds of years before the time of Christ.
The scrolls replicate almost in detail, the very words of the Old Testament, including Scriptures that tell of the promised Messiah.
The Messiah, of course, was Jesus, (Christ). The earthly existence of Jesus is said to be one of the most proven facts in history.
But why did the World need a Savior?
Satan had lied and tricked Adam and Eve causing them to sin. Their sins brought about their removal from the Garden of Eden and forced all of humanity to be separated from God and forced to live in a sin-cursed world.
Lifespan was shortened, women bore children with pain and hardship, babies crying, with no way to properly care for them. Destitution, famine, sickness, and poverty prevailed and does even to this day.
Still, God had not forgotten man, and in His incredible love immediately devised a glorious plan of restoration.
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel," (Gen 3:15).
Bruise thy head would be Jesus delivering a death blow to Satan on Judgement Day by casting him into Hell.
In the centuries that followed, God sent prophets to let His people know about the coming Messiah. Some 333 prophecies were written between 1450 BC and 430 BC, telling of the coming of Jesus.
The Apostle John tells us that the Messiah was God's Son, Jesus and that He was sent to earth to die for the sins of the world.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life," (John 3:16).
Many Bible scholars believe the fulfilled and verified prophecies of Jesus coming to earth are within themselves sufficient to prove the existence of God.
I believe God has placed a desire in the human race to know Him and that perhaps this is the reason so many who have not been introduced to the real God mistakenly worship images, snakes, cows, and other inanimate objects. I am so thankful that my mother introduced me to the real living God. .
The "Dead Sea Scrolls;" and other reliable manuscripts verify the prophecies in the Old Testament. These fulfilled predictions have been confirmed, by historical documents and records.
The followers and disciples of Jesus who wrote much of the New Testament were eye-witnesses. They were so convinced He was who He said He was that they knowingly gave their lives for their faith.
I do not believe these men would have given their lives for something they knew to be a lie.
For me, the reality of God is beyond doubt. In my most intense times of prayer and meditation, I recognize with absolute certainty the incredible sweet presence and love of God. I would not trade those times for any I have known on earth.
"...What god is great like our God?" (Psa 77:13).


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'Citizen Candidates' Aim To Support French President Macron With Bids For Parliament
By Eleanor Beardsley
Published June 9, 2017 at 11:16 AM CDT
People in Bayonne, France, walk past posters for parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place June 11 and June 18.
A group of about 30 volunteers gathers in a Paris park on a sunny afternoon for lessons in door-to-door campaigning.
They'll soon be trying out their new skills in the surrounding apartment blocks — plugging two young candidates from President Emmanuel Macron's new party, Republic On The Move.
Delphine O, 31, is one of the candidates. The half-French, half-Korean diplomat says she never imagined she'd be running for parliament.
"Of course, I'm nervous because I'm very conscious of the responsibility that will be given to me if I win," O says. "But I'm also very hopeful and excited. The victory of Emmanuel Macron was something that really lifted us all."
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Delphine O, 31, says she never imagined she'd be running for parliament.
The newly elected French president has taken the country by storm and upended a two-party political system that's been in place since the founding of France's Fifth Republic in 1958. But if Macron wants to revolutionize the country as he promised, he must win a majority in the French parliament in legislative elections in the coming week. As of today, his brand new party has no seats at all.
Citizen candidates are on the hustings all across France. Half of the new candidates put forth by Macron's party are women. Fifty percent are citizens with no prior political experience. The party will have to win 289 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly to hold a majority.
At an outdoor street market in Paris, vendors call out, hawking their wares. Stan Guerini is handing out flyers and shaking hands with shoppers. The entrepreneur, who founded a solar-panel company, is now running for a seat on Macron's ticket.
"I feel like a citizen going for parliament," Guerini says. "And this is very important because we want to keep the spirit of a citizen movement. We want to change the country."
Many of the parliamentary races will be extremely tough, as the newcomers go up against entrenched opponents from the political establishment. But polls show Macron's party is actually in the lead. Only on rare occasions have French voters not given a legislative majority to the president they've just elected. But this time the president is starting from zero.
In another Paris congressional district, a Republic On The Move candidate is holding a campaign event in a bar. English teacher Owen Chiver says he's unlikely to vote for him, but he's shown up out of interest. He admits the new president has totally shaken up the system.
Stan Guerini, an entrepreneur who founded a solar-panel company, is now running for a seat on Macron's ticket.
"The divide between right and left has just exploded," Chiver says. "It is no longer valid. And we don't know what's going to happen exactly but we're going to see!"
The candidate in the packed bar in Paris's 19th arrondissement is Mounir Mahjoubi. Mahjoubi became a kind of star during the presidential campaign, when he lead Macron's bare-bones digital team and foiled Russian hackers.
He's now been put in charge of a newly created digital affairs ministry. At 33, the son of Moroccan immigrants (his mother worked as a cleaning lady and his father as a house painter) is the youngest member of Macron's cabinet.
"When you grow up in a poor family in a rich town, first you feel very grateful to the country and to the city," Mahjoubi says. "I had the best schools, I had the best universities, I had everything, and I didn't pay for it because the state was there to help my family."
Mahjoubi says he has always thought he would be useful to others one day. And he believes there's no better way than by serving in parliament.
Parisian Annick Garache has come out to support Mahjoubi. She's wearing a t-shirt with a smiling image of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
At 33, Mounir Mahjoubi is the youngest member of Macron's cabinet. He became a kind of star during the presidential campaign when he lead Macron's bare bones digital team and foiled Russian hackers.
Garache says she's known Mahjoubi his whole life because he's a friend of her son.
"He is a great person," she says. "When he was 13, he won a science project award and got 5,000 francs. And with the money, he bought his first computer. All along his studies, he worked. He's an entrepreneur and a businessman at heart, and he knows how to make things work."
Garache says President Macron recognized Mahjoubi's worth.
Mahjoubi says he wants to help Macron build a dynamic economy that will allow strivers with dreams to succeed, but also protect those who need help.
Jean Pierre Numa, 60, is listening. He says Mahjoubi and Macron represent the new face of France.
"They are young, from diverse backgrounds and they symbolize this multi-cultural nation that is part of a globalized world," he says. "But what binds us all are our common values of liberty, equality, fraternity and secularism."
Eleanor Beardsley
Eleanor Beardsley began reporting from France for NPR in 2004 as a freelance journalist, following all aspects of French society, politics, economics, culture and gastronomy. Since then, she has steadily worked her way to becoming an integral part of the NPR Europe reporting team.
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"Do you know what homemade butter tastes like?", I ask, not with a hint of condescension but with a glint of affirmative hope that you will.
Not the melon yellow store-bought cubes devoid of character that we call butter.
They are brilliant at heroism; of redemption on the day you are running late; swish and go, that simple.
But I am talking about homemade butter. Homemade butter from cowmade milk.
First you need to be a cunning matchmaker and acquaint working class hero, buttermilk, with classist maiden, milk. Just an intro will make her day. When they fall in love she will curdle into that cotton cushion clouds are made of. At this point marry them off using a mixer and out of her beautiful consistency will be born little islands of butter.
So coming back to the butter at hand, it's slightly sweet and slightly sour, pale and light, looks textured but is fluid in your mouth.
I had a slice of sugar-kissed buttered bread today. Its been ages. Those hurried tea-times before freedom are long gone. Freedom spelled with friends, cricket, cycle and sun.
But I remembered the minute details. Like how the butter, in all her silkiness, had slipped over the pot-holed bread and sugar in all his bravado had kissed her scraped knee to make her feel better. A bite could taste like a smile if you bit the crystals of sugar, like peace if you got the butter and like an argument if you hit plain bread thanks to my inferior buttering skills.
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2020 Presidential Hopeful Elizabeth Warren 'Helped' Energy Secretary Rick Perry Understand U.S. Nuclear Energy Policy – Incorrectly
April 1, 2019 March 31, 2019 Admin
by Jason Hopkins
The Energy Department released a statement in response to Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's claims that Secretary Rick Perry was "confused" about a particular energy law.
The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony from Perry, the secretary of the Energy Department, on Thursday regarding the Trump administration's approval of seven applications for the U.S. to sell nuclear power assistance and technology to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the hearing, Warren pressed Perry over the legality of the move, saying the Energy Department is required to seek congressional approval.
"Do you agree that any agreement to transfer our nuclear materials, facilities or sensitive technology to Saudi Arabia requires congressional review?" the Democratic senator asked Perry. "The law is it requires congressional review. Are we clear on that?"
Warren later published a video of the exchange on Twitter, saying Perry seemed "confused" and that she "helped him understand" what the law is.
The last thing we should be doing is giving Saudi Arabia the tools to make a nuclear bomb. That's why we have a law that requires Congress to review the sale of nuclear technology to foreign govts. But @SecretaryPerry seemed confused by that law – so I helped him understand it. pic.twitter.com/9t56GYkwDF
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 28, 2019
However, according to a subsequent statement from the Energy Department, Warren was actually conflating two separate processes.
"Part 810 authorizations and 123 agreements are two distinct and different processes based on two separate sections of the Atomic Energy Act," the Thursday statement read. "The authorization process [for 810 authorizations] involves a thorough interagency review that requires the Department of Energy to secure the concurrence of the Department of State, and consult with the Departments of Defense and Commerce, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
Perry issued seven different 810 authorizations to U.S. companies that allow them to export civil nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. These authorizations, an Energy Department spokeswoman stipulated, does not enable the transfer of nuclear equipment, material or components to other countries.
A 123 agreement, on the other hand, is "the legal mechanism that allows the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to license the export of nuclear material, equipment and components from the U.S." Unlike 810 authorizations, all 123 agreements "undergo rigorous Congressional review, including 90 days of continuous session review by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
While the White House has previously held discussions with Saudi Arabia concerning a 123 agreement, the current issue is over the administration's recent deal to share unclassified civil nuclear technology with their government. Many lawmakers remain concerned over sharing any such information with the Saudi government following the murder of Jamal Kashoggi.
Perry responded to Warren on Twitter, linking to the Energy Department statement and saying, "[Warren], no confusion here, we fully understand and comply with the law [at the Energy Department]."
Jason Hopkins is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation. Follow Jason on Twitter.
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Q: Unity - Input.GetMouseButtonDown I created a script where by clicking on the smartphone display, an object was activated. I used Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) to check if a tap was made on the display. The script works fine, but I have a problem: if I insert a button in the scene, clicking on the button I receive both the click of the button and that of the Input.GetMouseButtonDown function. How could I "divide" the two touches?
// Example
void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    myObject.SetActive(true);
}

public void PauseButton()
{
    // Open Pause Panel

}

I was thinking of deleting "Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)" and using an invisible button and resizing it on the portion of the display I needed.

A: Add Tag to your UI button like: "UI"
Below function tells whether a click was Over a UI object tagged with a UI tag, so you can check in your screen tap function if you should fire your event or not
public static class InputHandler
{
    public const string CompareTagForUIElements = "UI";

    public static bool IsPointerOverUIObject(int touchId)
    {
        var eventDataCurrentPosition = new PointerEventData(EventSystem.current);
        // I'm using touch since you are talking about smartphones,
        // if you still need click use Input.mousePosition
        eventDataCurrentPosition.position = new Vector2(GetTouch(touchId).position.x, GetTouch(touchId).position.y);
        List<RaycastResult> results = new List<RaycastResult>();
        EventSystem.current.RaycastAll(eventDataCurrentPosition, results);
        for (int i = 0; i < results.Count; i++)
        {
            if (results[i].gameObject.CompareTag(CompareTagForUIElements))
                return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

So rather than
public void ITappedOnScreen()
{
    if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        Debug.Log("Screen tapped");
}

use
public void ITappedOnScreen()
{
    if(Input.touchCount > 0 && Input.GetTouch(0).phase == TouchPhase.Begin &&
        !InputHandler.IsPointerOverUIObject(0))
        Debug.Log("Screen tapped");
}

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Action at a distance (computer programming)
For the interaction between objects, see Action at a distance (physics).
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Action at a distance is an anti-pattern (a recognized common error) in computer science in which behavior in one part of a program varies wildly based on difficult or impossible to identify operations in another part of the program.
The way to avoid the problems associated with action at a distance are a proper design, which avoids global variables and alters data only in a controlled and local manner, or usage of a pure functional programming style with referential transparency.
The term is based on the concept of action at a distance in physics, which may refer to a process that allows objects to interact without a mediator particle such as the gluon. In particular, Albert Einstein referred to quantum nonlocality as "spooky action at a distance".
Software bugs due to action at a distance may arise because a program component is doing something at the wrong time, or affecting something it should not. It is very difficult, however, to track down which component is responsible. Side effects from innocent actions can put the program in an unknown state, so local data is not necessarily local. The solution in this particular scenario is to define which components should be interacting with which others. A proper design that accurately defines the interface between parts of a program, and that avoids shared states, can largely eliminate problems caused by action at a distance.
2 Action at a distance across objects
This example, from the Perl programming language, demonstrates an especially serious case of action at a distance:
Array indices normally begin at 0 because the value of $[ is normally 0; if you set $[ to 1, then arrays start at 1, which makes Fortran programmers happy, and so we see examples like this in the perl(3) man page:
foreach $num ($[ .. $#entry) {
print "  $num\t'",$entry[$num],"'\n";
And of course you could set $[ to 17 to have arrays start at some random number such as 17 or 4 instead of at 0 or 1. This was a great way to sabotage module authors.
Fortunately, sanity prevailed. These features are now recognized to have been mistakes. The perl5-porters mailing list now has a catchphrase for such features: they're called "action at a distance". The principle is that a declaration in one part of the program shouldn't drastically and invisibly alter the behavior of some other part of the program.
—  Mark Jason Dominus, Sins of Perl Revisited[1]
Action at a distance across objects[edit]
Proper object oriented programming involves design principles that avoid action at a distance.
The Law of Demeter states that an object should only interact with other objects near itself. Should action in a distant part of the system be required then it should be implemented by propagating a message. Proper design severely limits occurrences of action at a distance, contributing to maintainable programs. Pressure to create an object orgy results from poor interface design, perhaps taking the form of a God object, not implementing true objects, or failing to heed the Law of Demeter.
One of the advantages of functional programming is that action at a distance is de-emphasised, sometimes to the point of being impossible to express at all in the source language.
Being aware of the danger of allowing action at a distance into a design, and being able to recognize the presence of action at a distance, is useful in developing programs that are correct, reliable and maintainable. Given that the majority of the expense of a program may be in the maintenance phase, and that action at a distance makes maintenance difficult, expensive and error prone, it is worth effort during design to avoid.
COMEFROM
Loose coupling
State pattern
^ Sins of Perl Revisited
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Action_at_a_distance_(computer_programming)&oldid=884589843"
Anti-patterns


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Tilbury's dismal recent run continued at Potters Bar Town on Saturday as the Dockers exited the FA Trophy at the first hurdle losing 4-0. The result also saw manager Gary Henty decide to step down in his role as manager.
Captain Jack Carlile returned to the side and striker Michael Salako starting his first league game of the season.
Both sides started brightly. The home sides Andy Lomas had the first effort on 3 minutes that went just over. On 19 Lee O'Leary cut inside and hit wide.
On 20 Potters Bar took the lead when Michael Murray saw hos left footed effort fly home. The home side continued to push as they started to dominate and just before half time were awarded a penalty. Murray again took his penalty well, despite Clarke Bogard getting his hands to the ball.
Potters confirmed there progress on 54 when a cross from the left shot across goal for Billy Lobjoit to slot home at the back post.
On 67 Potters Bar were reduced to 10 men when George Nicholas saw red for an ugly challenge on Lewis Jaggs that saw a delay in the game of over 5 minutes. With 8 minutes to go Potters Bar were awarded a free kick 20 yards out and Billy Lobjoit smashed the direct free kick into the roof of the net for a fine effort. .
The result sees Tilbury exit the FA Trophy for the second successive year at the Preliminary Round.
Tilbury are back in action on Tuesday, when Cheshunt come to Chadfields. Under 23 manager John Sussex will be in temporary charge.


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Digital healthcare is here to stay
It was initially intended to fill the gap as the nation grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, and as face-to-face consultations were not possible due to quarantine restrictions imposed by the national government. But as we now tread the new normal and as health protocols eased, health experts who graced the Inquirer Project Rebound's latest webinar "Healthcare: What Lies Ahead Post-Pandemic" agreed that digital healthcare is here to stay.
The webinar, which was livestreamed via Inquirer.net Facebook page last April 28, featured guests from different causes and organizations,
namely: Dr. Rajendra Yadav of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr.
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Health Undersecretary Dr. Maria Rosario Singh-Vergeire opened the virtual event with a pre-recorded message showing the Department of Health's (DOH) data on the future of healthcare. Despite encouraging and positive predictions, Dr. Vergeire emphasized the importance of health behaviors, minimum public health standards, and vaccination in order to keep the path for a clean transition open. Readers may listen to the full version of Dr. Vergeire's talk on Youtube via this link.
The first segment of the webinar featured talks from some of the panelists. Dr. Yadav introduced Rethink, Reboot, Rebound, a concept which he believes people should strive for self-care, health awareness, and also care for the planet. Dr. Caampued discussed the driving factors of health digitalization, as well as its possibilities for change, such as hybridization of digital and face-to-face consultations. Anduiza, meanwhile, promoted telemedicine and teleconsultation, particularly Konsulta MD's efficiency at providing online medical advice quickly and easily.
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Villanueva pointed out that health digitalization and improvement in the digital infrastructure will allow better monitoring and track usage, thus lessening the threat of leakage, corruption and governance issues.
To watch the full discussion on post-pandemic healthcare, visit here.
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Sensenbrenner has been in office since 1978
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. — Republican U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner has more than $280,000 in the bank for his latest re-election effort against token opposition.
Wisconsin's longest-tenured congressman has been in office since 1978. He's opposed by Democrat David Heaster, who hasn't mounted much of a campaign.
Sensenbrenner represents the 5th Congressional District, which covers Ozaukee and Washington counties, along with parts of Jefferson and Waukesha counties.
According to filings posted Thursday on the Federal Election Campaign's website, Sensenbrenner raised about $532,000 from January through last week. He has $283,000 cash on hand.
Websites for the FEC and the Center for Responsive Politics say there are no reports on record from Heaster. Candidates have until Thursday at 11:59 p.m. to turn in their fundraising numbers.
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The First National Bank of Brundidge
Bank Name:The First National Bank of Brundidge
Bank Class:National Bank
Locations:2 Branches in Alabama
Web Address:f-n-b.com
Headquarters:137 South Main Street, Brundidge, Alabama 36010
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRUNDIDGE INFORMATION
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Burritt on the Mountain
3101 Burritt Drive
https://burrittonthemountain.com/
Burritt's historic park interprets the past by showcasing aspects of farm life from the 19th century, contrasting Alabama Constitution Village's 19th century urban life. Step back into the lives of southern farmers as you visit historic log structures including the Eddins House ca. 1808, the oldest known man-made dwelling in Alabama. Living history interpreters recreate the diversity of farm life allowing you to become involved through lively conversation, demonstration and hands-on activities. In the Burritt Barnyard, students can get "up close and personal" with animals that would have been used for work, wool and even food for the families.
Burritt and His "Green" Home
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Dr. Burritt was ahead of his time. His home has many features unique to his day. The wheat straw bale insulation he used is recommended for green buildings today. Even the shape of the house is unique. Learn about the myths of snakes in the walls and dragons in the dining room. Take a tour of the historic park buildings to see how settlers of the past designed structures to take advantage of solar heat and wind power.
Length of Course: 1-1/2 hours Grades: 4-12
Castles of Cumberland
Visit some early American "castles" of the Cumberland region. These log structures dominated the region's early rural landscapes. Explore four different styles of cabins and other types of structures. All houses in the historic park are furnished with authentic relics and reproductions.
Length of Course: 1 hour Grades: 4-12
How in the World
How did the people of the past get to North Alabama? Where did they come from? Learn about orienteering, cardinal directions and mapping as you trek across Burritt on the Mountain. You will have the opportunity to participate in a scavenger hunt as you use the compass to navigate through the park. Limit 25 students or must be combined with another activity.
The Underground Railroad had no tracks or train cars, but it moved thousands of slaves from the South to the North. Learn why people traveled on the Underground Railroad and where they went. Students will experience following the helpful clues from one "safe" house to the next. Hear the music from this era as you reenact this real-life adventure with your class. The size limit for this trip is 40 students.
Wild Wonderful World of Animals
Burritt offers animal studies including domestic, wildlife and urban wildlife. Learn the differences and similarities between these types of animals. You will have the opportunity to visit the habitat of a variety of animals as you hike the trails, travel through the barnyard and observe our pets.


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What Is a Buy-Sell Agreement?
Fred Byda Business Tips
Summary: How do businesses separate ownership and assets if a partner divests, perishes, or becomes disabled? What happens if the company dissolves? You need to consider these possibilities carefully. Click through to learn some important truths about exit strategies.
A buy-sell agreement stipulates how a partner's share of a company will be reassigned if he or she either dies or walks away from the business. These agreements detail a reasonable sale price for the current owner's interest as well as when and how each party's share will be distributed to those who'll assume control.
A buy-sell agreement lets you and your partners or investors know who owns what percentage of the business instead of leaving the decision to the courts.
Setting a fair value for each share in a company can prevent potential legal conflicts by proactively establishing an exit plan, should the business partners decide to go their separate ways in the future. Buy-sell agreements establish an understanding of what should happen in that situation ahead of time, making it a great way to prepare for potential departures in the future.
Buy-sell agreements are similar to wills in that they determine which parties are entitled to a share. Without it, the deceased partner's next of kin may want to take over a portion of the business without input from fellow owners.
Let's take a look at the key aspects of a buy-sell agreement.
Ownership percentages establish a fair value for each partner's share in the business. This comes in handy if a partner wants to remain part of a company after another partner exits. The limitation of ownership transfer rights are explained for right of refusal.
The exiting owner gives notice to the business of their intent to sell. The agreement will clearly state the price paid for each owner's stake. This can be helpful if the owners have a dispute later on about the value of the company or about a specific partner's interest. The partners can just use the valuation methods included in the buy-sell agreement.
The two most common buy-sell agreements are as follows:
Cross-purchase agreements allow remaining owners to purchase the interests that belong to either a deceased owner or an owner who is selling his or her interest.
Redemption agreements require that the business buys the interests of the owners who are selling their interests.
A hybrid model is a situation in which a certain percentage is available for purchase by the individual partners and the remaining interest is purchased directly by the partnership.
The agreement notes how it can be changed or terminated in the future. Add the choice of a law provision if a legal dispute arises. This will clarify which laws in which state will pertain to the agreement.
With buy-sell agreements, your business-related future will no longer be in limbo. In turn, it is far less likely that an exiting partner or a deceased partner's heirs will initiate an argument over the value of their shares. The last thing you want to do is leave your partners in a vulnerable state of circumstances in which your company is disrupted, dissolution is on the rise, or heirs decide to sell.
Look at a buy-sell agreement as though it's simply another step in the business planning process. Implementing a buy-sell agreement can prevent your company from having to face financial or legal difficulties down the road. View it as a transition pertaining to ownership, as it allows you to identify the relevant parties, their stakes in the ownership of the company, and how everything should be handled in the event that undesirable events unfold in the future.
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OUSL Activities in 2006
20th November 2006 - Conference on "Mysteries of Current Fundamental Physics Research"
Roger Cashmore, Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford and President of Brasenose, and Professor Ralf Tarrach, Rector of the University of Luxembourg, gave individual talks on the astonishing new speculations and the understanding that mankind is acquiring on the fundamentals of matter and force. Our association invited members of the science teaching profession and the Luxembourg Engineers' Association. The speakers graphically described the puzzle of dark matter and dark energy, and the apparently accelerating expansion of the universe. They were reserved about string theory, since it was a theoretician's paradise and so far incapable of providing falsifiable predictions.
Saturday 18th March 2006 - OUSL visit to Arlon
OUSL members and friends enjoyed an extremely interesting visit to Arlon in Belgium on Saturday March 18th. With the leading Luxembourg historian and Society member Jean-Claude Muller as their guide, they visited two of the town's museums and walked round the historic centre of what was an important settlement in Roman times and had previously been a Celtic township.
The morning was spent at the Gaspar Museum, a former private dwelling housing exhibits illustrating the ecclesiastical and monastic history of the Belgian province of Luxembourg, including the Fisenne Reredos, an impressive triptych from the early 16 th century with wood carvings in the Antwerp style showing scenes from the life of Christ. Of greatest interest here was the exhibition devoted to the life of the Jewish community in Arlon, one of the oldest established and most important in Belgium.
This visit was followed by a walk up to the Knipchen, the hilltop citadel from which a superb view can be had of the surrounding countryside, and the 17 th century church of St Donat with its frescoes, discovered in 1986.
After lunch in the Place Léopold the group went to the Musée Luxembourgeois, which contains an extensive collection of sculptures and artefacts dating from the first three centuries AD. A notable feature of this collection is the vivid impression it gives of daily life, for example in a stone carving showing a reluctant Celtic farmer paying his taxes to a Roman official, the pained expression of the former contrasting with the indifference of the latter, some would say a characteristic of officialdom that still prevails today ! The carvings illustrating scenes from Greek mythology bore witness to the sophisticated cultural level of the community at that time.
This event, greatly enjoyed by all who took part, reflected one of the OUSL's key aims, which is to enable its members to gain a deeper and richer understanding of the history and culture of Luxembourg and its surrounding region. Further events of this kind will be organised in future.
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Miss Juliette Lacey's wallflower days are over. She has a plan to turn her eccentric family into the toast of the ton—but the devilishly handsome rake trying to oust them from their home thwarts her at every turn. How can one man be so vexing andmake her simmer with desire?
There are few stories more satisfying than a redemption arc, especially if it involves an enticing love story. Sam is both frustrating and adorable in the worst way, but watching the self-indulgent man-child become just a man was as rewarding as it was vexing. Julie, or Juliette, is far from what I expected of the once proclaimed wallflower. The passionate little fireball takes no prisoners, or any of Sam's nonsense, from the very beginning. She is witty, and her interactions with Sam were a delight to read from the first meeting.
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First Details Of The New Compulsion Games Game (We Happy Few)
We Happy Few: One of Microsoft's new studios and the Xbox family is preparing a third-person adventure with a strong narrative component. Since it was acquired by Microsoft and launched We Happy Few in 2018, little has been known about Compulsion Games and its future plans. However, the developer recently gave an interview to Xbox Squad colleagues in which she revealed the first details of her new project, which until now she had only confirmed that "it will be just as bizarre" as her previous works, Contrast and We Happy Few himself According to his statements, what we can expect is an eminently narrative third-person adventure.
Compulsion and its transfer to Xbox
"We have given ourselves a little time to learn. It will be our first game with Microsoft and we are learning a lot of things," said the studio representative, Naila Hadjas. The head of public relations has confirmed the rumors that the team moved to a new office in Montreal (Canada) and assures that they have doubled their resources and are adapting to it. Taking into account that they were around 50 employees, they would have grown to approximately one hundred people.
Hadja has also commented that the game is in full production, but at the moment it is not clear when it will be ready to be shown. What they do know for sure is the direction of the project. "We Happy Few evolved a lot. At first it was kind of a rogue-like and then we added a story to it because people loved their world and their characters. But we did the story and its ending on the fly. In our next game We already know in advance where we are going. It will be a narrative adventure, a third-person story. The goal is to expand our quirky universe and continue to make our mark as a studio that makes unique games. Pursue our legacy and remain true to our style ".
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Twin Rivers Rehab is regularly dealing with clients suffering with depression or addiction and depression. Twin Rivers appreciates how debilitating depression can be whether the diagnosis is 'Persistent Depressive Disorder' or a more sever depression such as Bi-polar. With thorough medical and psychological input, clients can improve the quality of their life and learn to manage what was once thought impossible to manage.
It is sadly common for addiction and depression to be found together – one study found that 47 per cent of those diagnosed with depression also engaged in substance abuse (Source: Journal of Psychoactive Drugs June 1996). If you or your loved are dealing a dual diagnosis which involves depression, it is important to seek the right type of treatment, as this will give you the best chance of recovery.
Dual diagnosis depression treatment involves entering an inpatient rehab so your addiction can be dealt with at the same time as your depression. Managing both of these conditions under the same roof and at the same time makes sense because otherwise you might struggle to make any real progress in recovery. The reality is that it is going to be difficult to effectively treat your depression while you are still engaging in substance abuse, and unmanageable depression is going to increase your likelihood of relapse. Dual diagnosis treatment gives you the support and resources you need to experience true freedom.
Is Your 'Real Problem' Addiction or Depression?
It is understandable that you will want to know more about the origins of your problems, but there is not always going to be a satisfying answer. Some people who turn to substance abuse at a young age will have done so as a type of self-medication. They will have experienced some emotional discomfort and found that alcohol or drugs made them feel a bit better in the beginning. In many cases, this discomfort will have been due to the early symptoms of depression – although the person may have been completely oblivious to this fact. There are also lots of people who develop depression as a result of their substance abuse.
If you suspect that your underlying problem is depression, you may be tempted to speculate that you will be safe to use alcohol or drugs once your depression is under control. This type of thinking can get you into a great deal of trouble, as you could use it as a justification to relapse. The truth is that it doesn't really matter whether the depression or addiction came first because once you become addicted, the only viable option is complete abstinence from alcohol and drugs. The good news is that with once you commit to recovery, and you get the right type of help, you can look forward to a wonderful future.
These days most rehabs will be happy to take clients who have been diagnosed with depressive illness, but you need to be certain that the facility you choose is equipped to deal with your unique needs. A quality dual diagnosis rehab will have the experience and resources for providing depression treatment with suitable aftercare. Here at Twin Rivers, we have extensive experience with helping people transform their lives following addiction and depression, so we do hope you will choose us as the rehab where you begin your journey into recovery.
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