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Asia | Democracy in Hong Kong
China has ruled out any further steps towards direct elections
Apr 29th 2004 | beijing
Debating constitutional reform
"HONG KONG'S future development will be shaped by the people of Hong Kong," said China's affable prime minister, Wen Jiabao, during a visit to the former British colony last summer. Now Mr Wen and his colleagues in Beijing have apparently changed their minds. This week they made it clear that, despite strong support in Hong Kong for full democracy, China is having none of it.
The decision to rule out any meaningful political change in Hong Kong, at least for another eight years, was announced by China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC). It followed weeks of increasingly strong signals from Beijing that the central government wanted to put an end to lively debate in Hong Kong about the possibility of greater democracy in 2007, when a new chief executive is due to be chosen, and in the following year, when a new legislature will be formed.
The NPC's Standing Committee ruled, after a typically closed-door two-day session, that the chief executive would not be elected by universal suffrage in 2007. And no more than half the seats in the legislative council, or Legco, would be filled through open election. The other half would continue to be filled by representatives of business sectors and various professions, chosen by colleagues in the same line of work. Hong Kong's business community tends to support China's policies in the territory and to oppose the introduction of universal suffrage.
China's official justification for putting its foot down is that rapid moves towards full democracy could destabilise the territory. In fact it is probably more worried about losing its control over the choice of Hong Kong's leaders, which in turn could lead to growing confrontation between Hong Kong and a central leadership resolutely opposed to anything much resembling western-style democracy. Hong Kong's current leader, Tung Chee-hwa, was chosen by an 800-member election committee packed with supporters of the Chinese Communist Party's line.
Many in Hong Kong had high hopes for Mr Wen and his boss, President Hu Jintao, when they took up their posts early last year. They were often portrayed in the local media as being somewhat more in tune with public concerns than their predecessors. During his trip to Hong Kong, Mr Wen upstaged the standoffish Mr Tung by visiting the widower of a SARS victim, kissing his daughter and holding his baby.
But the day of Mr Wen's departure coincided with the biggest anti-government demonstration in the territory since Britain handed over control in 1997, involving half a million people. In November last year, pro-China politicians suffered humiliating setbacks in Hong Kong's district elections. In March, Taiwan's pro-independence president, Chen Shui-bian, won a second term of office with a greatly increased share of the vote (though only a tiny lead over his opponent). These developments have prompted China to rethink its strategy.
To soften the blow, China has tried in recent days to reach out to Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp by holding its first official meetings with some of its leaders since the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. But the NPC's blunt declaration this week will only heighten antagonism. Pro-democracy activists are planning large-scale rallies, and China's political plans for Hong Kong will clearly now become a central issue in Legco elections in September. China's latest ruling could well backfire.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "On hold"
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The STOOP: Punk Finally Has a Home in the #614
When I started dating the man who eventually became my husband, I was very new to the punk scene despite years of activism, which gradually turned me into an anarchist. Over the first several days of our relationship, he shared bands that advocated for the same ideals that I fought for. Over the first several weeks, he got me up to speed with the genre's history. This process included watching the iconic documentary trilogy, The Decline of Western Civilization, and the slightly lesser-known but still incredibly influential, Another State of Mind.
So, of course, I couldn't help but smile when I entered the Stoop. Especially when my husband whispered under his breath, "I feel like we are in Another State of Mind." Mainly because those small communal clubs were a thing of the past when I was coming into my own. There were a few short-lived endeavors in creating these spaces. However, they all disappeared as quickly as they arrived. The catastrophically perfect storm of record labels overproducing bubblegum pop-punk combined with the simultaneous rise of music festivals and digital downloads likely contributed to their demise. Then came streaming music and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, both in 2008, and it is easy to see how local punk scenes across the country lost their sacred spaces like my husband's beloved Riot 101.
And to be honest, few things have gotten better since 2008. The country has been on the decline since at least 2001. In hindsight, the shock value of the Decline of Western Civilization, particularly the third installment, seems hyperbolic now. More and more people are becoming economically marginalized after two financial crashes that we never fully recovered from, an openly fascist president, and a pandemic. In 1998, the year DoWCIII was released, my husband was in high school and would have to drive to the economically depressed neighborhood of Lorain to play for his (mostly) middle-class friends at Riot 101. Few people in the heartland of the Midwest at that time understood the desperation of the young adults featured in that film, who lived on the most extreme outskirts of society. But fast forward 23 years later, and the majority of this country is one to two paychecks away from that same threat of homelessness.
However, all those things eventually contributed to a revitalization of the punk scene. In the era of streaming music and social media, bands no longer need to relocate to Los Angeles or New York to get discovered. In fact, record labels are being formed in our own backyard. DIY has never been easier. However, Columbus was still lacking the kind of iconic venues that our gritty neighbor on the shores of Lake Erie is famous for…until now.
In the heart of Hilltop, in a nondescript and formerly abandoned building on West Broad Street, is a place that rivals those legendary venues of old. It's called THE STOOP, and I have heard whispers of this place since 2019. And as this place has evolved, those whispers have only gotten louder. I was already planning on catching a show there when I overheard people talking about the Stoop at a Radkey show and then again at an Anti-Flag show.
So last Thursday, after a hectic day, I decided that it was time to pay this place a visit, and I was rather impressed with the concept. Inside, you will find a relatively diminutive main stage, which looks like a living room set piece of an 80s sitcom. Any band larger than a three-piece would struggle to fit up there, which only sounds detrimental. However, the notably small stage encourages vocalists to get on the floor with the crowd and gives solo acts a cozy spot to perform where all eyes can be on them. In contrast, the main floor is quite roomy. A band can open up a rather sizeable and active pit on a typical night while still leaving plenty of room for people who would rather quietly chill. And on a weekend night or when a well-known band is in town, it would be relatively easy for someone to crowd surf once the crowd filled the venue to capacity.
In addition to the stage, The Stoop also houses a half-pipe where local skaters can hone their skills. This is honestly one of the most ingenious ideas I have ever come across, especially when there is so much overlap between the punk and skateboarding communities. The presence of the half-pipe benefits all attendees, even if you don't skate yourself. Watching the skaters practice and hone their skills before the show and in between sets adds the venue's intriguing entertainment value. Also, I can only imagine how cool it is to skate with a local punk band providing a live soundtrack in the background.
But onward to the actual show…
Drake Talbot took the stage first, and I was pretty blown away by his talent and charisma. Although his acoustic set was vastly different from the hardcore D.O.S. or the skate punk of A.S.M.R., the juxtaposition worked incredibly well. Talbot's acoustic guitar work gave me heavy Alkaline Trio vibes with intense and rapid strumming. In fact, he was strumming so fast that at one point that I was convinced he would break a string or rip the skin right off his fingers. Luckily, neither of these things happened. His intensity on acoustic guitar allowed him to hold his own in a lineup featuring two very aggressive hardcore acts while building up the crowd's excitement. Drake Talbot has earned the honor of being the first local musician to be classified as a #localgem and #diamondintherough because of his ability to appeal to potential fans across multiple genres with his melodic compositions, soulful lyrics, and rich yet raspy vocals I hope we are lucky enough to watch this potential rising star progress in his musical career. His original song about his daughter, "Are You Sure?" almost made me weep, while his Social Distortion cover had my husband wondering if Talbot is looking for a drummer. When it comes to first impressions, I think Drake Talbot was my favorite act of the night. I am incredibly moved by lyrics, and Talbot had a distinct advantage in this category. Being an acoustic act, I could clearly hear his vocals at all times which allowed me to take in his masterfully sincere lyrics. I look forward to the possibility seeing him perform again and possibly writing a more in-depth review. That being said, you absolutely cannot sleep on D.O.S. and A.S.M.R. because both bands have the potential of being icons in the growing Columbus punk scene.
I would like to bestow the honor of being one of our first #ontheradar bands to D.O.S. because I need to see them again to give them a fair review. They are the band that I know the least about. From my initial impression, D.O.S. seems to be heavily influenced by bands like the Circle Jerks, T.S.O.L., D.O.A., and Fear. However, I will need to see the band again to provide a more accurate musical analysis and critique. Unfortunately, I don't know the band members' names…yet. However, I can tell you that D.O.S. is definitely the most hardcore/crust punk band I have seen in the last five years or so, especially among local acts with lyrical gems like "I'll eat your f***ing ass until your dead." Unfortunately, hardcore bands are difficult to review after just one show unless you are already familiar with a band and their songs.
D.O.S. also has a secret weapon in their guitarist—a classic jack of all trades with a solid mastery of often overlooked fundamentals and a knack for subtle showmanship. That being said, the juxtaposition of their adorably femme of center bass player with the lead singer was ***chef's kiss*** and bodes well for diversity and representation in the Columbus punk scene. I'd like to see the band again so I can give their drummer the attention they deserve.
This particular style of punk music is so in your face that I have trouble picking up more nuanced aspects like musical techniques and skill while being overwhelmed with such hostile (in a good way) energy from the vocalist. That being said, D.O.S. is built for a venue like the Stoop. Their vocalist, who was incredibly hard to photograph because he was so active, working the floor stomping in circles as he growled into the microphone and got the crowd hyped to let out a little aggression in the pit. Despite it being a smaller Thursday night crowd, the band was able to keep the audience energized with participation peaking during a song that I believe was called "I've Had It!"
The show closed with local band A.S.M.R. who's name alone earns them extra points. They are the second of only two bands to earn the designation of #ontheradar. I will need to see them at least one more time before I can critique them fairly —especially from a musical standpoint. A.S.M.R. is fueled primarily by the power of Phœnix Radtastic's pure, unadulterated charisma when on the microphone and it's hard not to be distracted by their blissful glow when they are singing to a crowd of friends.
Seeing Radtastic open up one of the wildest, raucously fun, yet wholesomely communal pits was joy in and of itself to witness. Phœnix even helped the only person who got knocked down back onto their feet. There was so much commotion and merriment in the circle pit that it was difficult to observe the band outside Radtastic or fairly assess their original tunes. However, their covers were absolutely lit and the perfect soundtrack for those skating the half-pipe. Modern Man by Bad Religion got people out on the floor. Song 2 by Blur took the vibe to the next level as the entire crowd began interacting with one another. Finally, their cover of The Last Goodbye by Agent Orange got nearly everyone, especially my husband, absolutely hyped.
Overall, I would likely return to the Stoop to see any of these three acts perform live again. Drake Talbot blends genres beautifully, and his heartfelt lyrics and intensity on acoustic guitar give him the gift of mass appeal without sacrificing authenticity. D.O.S. is possibly the closest thing you can find to the New York hardcore scene of the 1980s, especially in Columbus. And finally, A.S.M.R. brings the west coast skate punk energy with plenty of our wholesome Midwest queer character. I have yet to see a local band that can get a crowd so hyped without losing its humanity.
(The Stoop will be featured again in an upcoming series showcasing some of the instagram-worthy bathrooms at my favorite punk venues.)
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EyeSite Surveillance, Inc. is always looking for ways to maintain and improve our top-notch service. Because of this, we are pleased to announce its recent hire of Brandon Eaden, Alarm Coordinator and Law Enforcement Liaison. Eaden will focus on false alarm compliance and will serve as a primary contact for clients, municipalities and monitoring stations.
"I was attracted to EyeSite Surveillance after serving for over 30 years in public safety and service administration because of their proactive approach to solving theft and vandalism problems throughout Arizona and, more recently, Texas. Their professionalism and drive to always do what is right made them a good fit for me in this stage of my career," Eaden said.
Eaden comes to EyeSite after spending 7 years with the City of Tempe (AZ). He performed multiple duties there including developing and promoting community education programs focused primarily on false alarm prevention and compliance (a growing issue with most municipalities throughout the U.S.).
Eaden's broad experience also includes positions as Communications Dispatcher, Community Service Officer, Criminal Investigator and Crime Prevention Specialist. He brings critical skills to the EyeSite team with his expertise in Alarm Code Compliance, Burglary and Report writing, Investigation and Interrogation Training, Security Planning and Special Event Coordination.
Eaden is a member of FARA (False Alarm Reduction Association) and the Arizona Alarm Association. He even served as the Public Safety Chairperson for the Arizona Alarm Association from 2011 to 2016. He has received numerous awards and much recognition in his field including Superior Service in Crime Investigations awarded by NAPRI (National Association of Property Recovery Investigators), and Customer Service Commendation and the Employee Council Award awarded by the Tempe Police Department.
As a member of the US Navy, Eaden served honorably from 1983 to 1987 as a Radioman. He served at NAS Miramar San Diego, CA and Naval Supply Center Oakland, CA aboard the USS Kansas City AOR-3. Eaden completed a West-Pac tour which included travels to Hawaii, Guam, Subic Bay Philippines, Singapore, Diego Garcia, Muscat, Oman, Perth Western Australia, Anchorage, AK and Banff, British Columbia. Eaden says that some of his greatest conversations to date are with Veterans from all eras, especially with Homeless Vets.
EyeSite Surveillance looks forward to having Eaden use his wealth of experience to improve the depth of service we offer. Eaden will employ skills gained in his past to experience to fulfill several roles. He will monitor and review alarm calls and police reports and track all arrests made during alarm activations. As alarm coordinator, he will develop and promote a false alarm prevention and compliance program. Additionally, Eaden will be an active member of several local Alarm Associations, enhance partnerships with law enforcement and ensure customer care by helping the client understand all municipal alarm ordinances and best practices.
We have no doubt that the addition of Brandon Eaden to our team will provide many benefits for our clients. We know he will help to smooth alarm compliance and help prevent false alarms as alarm coordinator. Also, having a central liaison for law enforcement will grow our presence in the communities in which we operate. Eaden will also foster deeper relationships with law enforcement. This is so important in providing for even more complete protection for our clients.
For more information, please contact Scott Carpenter at 602-525-2505, email [email protected] or visit EyeSite Surveillance website at www.GoEyeSite.com.
Very cool! Thank you for sharing. Glad to see eyesite continuing to hire more talented and experienced professionals. Security companies need to continue to flourish!
It has been great to have Brandon on our team. He has already made a huge impact on alarm coordination and taking our customer service experience to another level.


The Nigerian Rapper, Falz the bad guy has taken to his page to share the 'behind the scene' photo of his newly released song Moral Instruction.
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The opening of a new family venture. Turning a bistro in the old town of Marbella into an industrial and vintage, but contemporary venue for fine Italian dining.
The ambition of this renovation was to bring the meaning of Casa Tua - "Your home" to life by brightening up the space and giving it instant new light. Dark wood was white grain washed along with the black iron bars on the windows, which were given an antique white wash for a fresh look. Accents of olive green and earthy tones were used for the reupholstering of the benches referencing to the Italian roots of the restaurant. The letterforms of the logo reference a personal signature and provide a sense of elegance as well as resonating with the personal service of a bistro. Taking care of small details such as shaping the bougainvillea and placing shooting floodlights on the facade gave this project a polished final touch.


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Q: Why can't I do a "upper()" in my PostgreSQL database? I created a database in PostgreSQL with "encoding = 'UTF8'", and loaded some UTF8 data in it.  Selecting works fine, but when I try to do a "WHERE UPPER(name) = 'FOO'" in a query, I get an error
ERROR:  invalid multibyte character for locale

My research seems to indicate that this is because the PostgreSQL installation was "initdb"-ed with LANG=en_US rather than LANG=en_US.UTF8.  Doing a "SHOW LC_COLLATE" shows "en_US".  I don't want to have to dump and recreate all my databases, because several of them are PostGIS and it's a royal pain to recreate those.  Is there a work-around, like a way to do the equivalent of "UPPER" that works for UTF8?
Update  I ended up doing the dump, reinitdb, and restore of the database, and it was less painful than I thought it would be, except for a bit of a problem figuring out where the data was supposed to go because the postgres user doesn't set the PGDATA environment variable, and neither does any config file or shell script that I could find.

A: I don't think the workaround you want is feasible, but dump and restore of your PostGIS-enabled databases should work fine.  I regularly dump and restore databases with the PostGIS functions and data with geom objects.
What kind of problems do you have?

A: You diagnostic is right, it is a common problem with Unicode in PostgreSQL. The installation procedure tried to be smart and initdbed with the locale of the shell running it :-(
I suggest that, if you cannot dump and restore your database, you have a problem more serious and more urgent that uppercasing the data. IMHO, you should address this problem first, before you have to actually restore your data after a new version of PostgreSQL was issued (or after a hard disk failure).

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Kaiden is a mechanic in my Fallout story. She's a hard-working girl who doesn't mind getting dirty, or pulling more than her fair share of the weight. She's the only mechanic in town, and the only person with big specialized equipment for probably hundreds of miles, so she constantly has a very heavy workload. As such, she's basically always tired, and fairly grumpy with everyone. She mostly keeps her head down and keeps to her work, though she does have a number of regular acquaintance/business relationships with people in town, as well as visitors who regularly stop in from out of town.
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Wilmer is an unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

History

Wilmer was named in honor of Richard Hooker Wilmer, the second bishop of Alabama in the Episcopal Church. A post office first opened under the name Wilmer in 1894. Wilmer's first mayor was Perry Walter Evans, who also founded Wilmer's fire department. In the 1990's Wilmer gained notoriety for changing the local speed limit on six different occasions in a sort period of time, in large part reportedly as part of a speed trap scheme to raise local revenues.

Demographics

Wilmer was an incorporated community, incorporating around 1970 (though just after the census was taken, as it did not formally appear until the 1980 U.S. Census, with the 1970 population figure when it was still unincorporated). It formally disincorporated effective September 30, 1993.

Geography

Wilmer is located in southwest Alabama northwest of Mobile and near the Alabama-Mississippi border. The community lies on U.S. Route 98 and is two miles northwest of Big Creek Lake. The elevation is .

Education

Mobile County Public School System operates public schools serving the area.

Elementary schools with Wilmer, Alabama addresses include: Wilmer Elementary School (serving the area formerly within the municipality), Turner Elementary School, and Tanner Williams Elementary School, Areas within these boundaries are zoned to Semmes Middle School and Mary G. Montgomery High School.

References

Unincorporated communities in Alabama
Unincorporated communities in Mobile County, Alabama
Populated places disestablished in 1993
Populated coastal places in Alabama
Former municipalities in Alabama

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Politics of Planning
Environment Minister comments on the Government's planned SuDS mandate for housing schemes
The review of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (FWMA) was published last week, prompting the Government to accept its recommendations and announce that sustainable drainage systems will become mandatory for all new housing developments in England beginning in 2024. These will include soakaways, grassed areas, permeable surfaces, and wetlands to reduce the impact of rainfall.
Upon release of the review, Environment minister Rebecca Pow said: "Our traditional drainage systems are under increasing pressure from the effects of climate change, urbanisation, and a growing population.
"The benefits of sustainable drainage systems are many – from mitigating flood risk by catching and storing surplus water and reducing storm overflow discharges, to enhancing local nature in the heart of our developments and helping with harvesting valuable rainwater."
Currently, the planning system only requires large-scale developments of ten homes or more to include SuDS, but under the recommended changes adopted by the Government, this requirement would be expanded to incorporate smaller developments as well.
No doubt the Government views this to be a broadly positive step from an environmental perspective with regard to the enhancement of local wildlife habitats, in addition to the excess pressures on traditional drainage and sewage systems brought on by climate change which will inevitably by alleviated as a result. However, there remains the potential for unintended consequences that could impact the planning and development sector if the proposed changes were to be introduced haphazardly. For example, the extra costs that would be shouldered by developers in order to comply with the new rules, may have disproportionate financial implications for small and medium size builders.
There also remains significant ambiguity concerning how a mandatory requirement for the provision of SuDS would coincide with DEFRA's recent amendments to nutrient neutrality regulations. These regulations prevent councils from granting planning consent to developments that are likely to add more phosphates and nitrates to waterways, yet appear to contradict the Government's planned changes to the FWMA as sustainable drainage systems, by their very nature, allow surface water runoff to be absorbed into the wider environment.
Furthermore, it seems to contradict the Government's rhetoric regarding support for more SME house builders playing a part in housing delivery and Local Plans. With housing targets watered down and LPAs potentially looking to prioritise fewer and smaller sites, this change will impact the ability of smaller developers to take advantage of new opportunities.
With the forthcoming changes to the NPPF and the progression of the Levelling Up Bill, the housebuilding industry will understandably be wondering what else the Government will throw at it next.
Author: Jack Codling
Net Zero Review recommends planning reforms
Review: Virtual Politics of Planning Breakfast Roundtable with Cllr Peter Strachan (Buckinghamshire)
Councils prepare to alter Local Plans ahead of NPPF revisions
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After five days of intensive discussions and presentations by senior executives of Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM), Ministry of Commerce and private sector, the Innovations in Digital Finance member training wrapped up in Rabat, Morocco on Friday, 2 November 2018.
Organized by BAM and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), the member training focused on three core areas in digital financial inclusion: payment and payment systems oversight, innovative regulatory approaches and cybersecurity frameworks. Participants also discussed green financial inclusion as an emerging policy area. Gender and consumer protection were underlying themes throughout the five-day training.
"I hope that this kind of training is offered regularly since digital payments are evolving; AFI members should be on track in order to learn from each other and harmonize policy developments. This would allow digital payments to advance financial inclusion without compromising the management of risks associated with emerging digital payment technologies and trends," remarked an avid participant at the training.
Throughout the week, 37 participants from 27 countries, representing 29 AFI member institutions shared and learned from each other's country experiences including how to develop strategies to create enabling payment ecosystems, facilitate decision making for designing innovative regulatory approaches, and design cybersecurity frameworks tailored to their own jurisdictions.
The Innovations in Digital Finance member training was created to address the growing demand from members for Capacity Building programs focused on DFS within the AFI network, where members share lessons and experience on effective approaches to balancing financial innovations with financial stability.
"It was nice to learn the Moroccan experience about coming up with a National Switch using home grown technology. We are keen to follow Morocco's success story as we move forward with implementing our own National Switch," one of the participants highlighted.
Morocco is one of the leading countries within the AFI network demonstrating policy leadership to advance financial inclusion. BAM developed advances oversight mechanisms for payment systems and means of payments, backed by in-depth knowledge of how complexities in the payment system translate to additional oversight mechanisms.
The member training also covered global perspectives on interoperable retail payment systems and challenges related to payment systems oversight, digitization of bulk payments, innovative regulatory approaches, and cybersecurity threats in pursuit of digital financial services (DFS) for financial inclusion. BAM has advanced cybersecurity frameworks in place that comply with international standards, which was showcased at the training.
"I realized that in my country, we're a bit behind on regulating around cybersecurity. These [cybersecurity] sessions were a kind of "wake-up call" for us," remarked a participant during the training.
"With fast emerging technology, proliferation of financial services, diversification of financial service providers the role of regulator has assumed a much more critical role. The key question we addressed in this training was how we, as regulators, can make this transition efficient, safe and proactive rather than reactive. Capacity building plays a key role in preparing us for this enhanced role," emphasized AFI's Head of Capacity Building, Madhurantika Moulick, during her closing remarks. She also remarked that the wealth of knowledge within the AFI network is extremely enriching and urged participants to leverage on various AFI platforms including the AFI Data Portal to share and learn from each other.


The Internet of Things (IoT) has strong potential for supporting a human society interacting more symbiotically with its physical environment. Indeed, the emergence of tiny devices capable of sensing environmental cues and triggering actuators after consulting logic and human preferences promises for a more environmentally aware and promiscuous society. However, the intrinsic nature of the IoT challenges existing software development processes and, in particular, techniques for ensuring software reliability and security. In this talk I will cover our experiences in the development of debugging and monitoring solutions for a reliable and secure IoT. In addition, I will put our work in the perspective of a question on the minds of many PhD students and candidates: shall I pursue scientific research towards a PhD degree (and possibly beyond) or rather go for a tech startup?
Professor Eugster's research aims at proposing support for developing distributed systems. Particular topics of interest, in the context of distributed settings, include algorithms, middleware, and programming languages, abstractions, and methodologies.


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The Intouchables
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Based on a true story, THE INTOUCHABLES tells the comical, endearing tale of an unlikely friendship between a quadriplegic and an ex-con. Philippe is a disabled aristocrat, spending his days confined to his wheelchair, cooped up in his mansion after a paragliding accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Driss is a candid young man from the projects, recently released from jail after a robbery conviction and with no place to call home. When Driss shows up at Philippe's mansion to interview for the role of Philippe's live-in caretaker, the two seemingly opposite men meet for the first time, igniting a bond that will ultimately change both of their lives. As the two men begin to view the world through one another's eyes, they discover they have more in common than they thought, and that each man can teach the other how to live life to its full potential. A feel-good dramatic comedy, THE INTOUCHABLES has developed into a cultural phenomenon in France, having recently become the second most successful film in French box office history—only nine weeks after its release. (In French with subtitles) – M.M.
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Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
French screenwriter, director, and actor duo Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano have collaborated on a number of short films and features together since the 1990s. They made their mark in the festival world when their second short film "Les petits souliers" (1999) received the Paris Film Festival's Audience Award.
"Just Friends" (2005), "Those Happy Days" (2006), "So Close" (2009), THE INTOUCHABLES (2011)
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La technologie environnementale (encore appelée technologie de l'environnement ou technologie verte ou écotechnie) est une des applications des sciences environnementales visant à développer des outils pour :
 la biosurveillance (bioindication) et la mesure des teneurs en certains polluants de différents milieux (air, eau, sol...) ou d'un réseau trophique (bioconcentration...) ;
 la réhabilitation ou l'assainissement (ex : bioremédiation, phytoremédiation..) de lieux contaminés (lutte contre les marées noires, conservation du sol, séquestration du carbone, radioprotection) ;
 la gestion des déchets : recyclage, incinération des ordures ménagères, épuration des eaux... ;
 l'usage raisonné des ressources : écoconstruction, économie d'énergie, économies d'eau ;
 le renforcement de l'utilisation d'énergies renouvables et propres (énergie solaire, géothermie...) ;
 l'épuration de l'air intérieur (ex : programme phyt'air)

 L'ADEME considère que l'argument « plantes dépolluantes » n'est pas validé scientifiquement au regard des niveaux de pollution généralement rencontrés dans les habitations et des nouvelles connaissances scientifiques dans le domaine.

Ces outils visent généralement des solutions plus économes et efficientes, la réduction de notre empreinte écologique, pour un développement plus soutenable.

Le développement durable est le noyau des technologies environnementales. Lorsqu'on l'applique aux problèmes environnementaux, les solutions doivent être socialement équitables, économiquement viables et écologiques.

Voir aussi

 Technologie appropriée
 Meilleure technique disponible
 Éco-technologie
 Génie végétal
 Génie écologique
 Haute qualité environnementale
 Biomatériaux, sédimatériaux
 Mycoremédiation
 Phytoremédiation

Références

Liens externes
 Le plan d'action en faveur des écotechnologies (ETAP)
 Centre de technologie environnementale d'Environnement Canada
 Centre de sensibilisation et de recyclage PC Recycle.
  Ressources documentaires et nouvelles sur les technologies environnementales

Génie de l'environnement
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Bill in LS seeks deletion of leprosy as a ground for divorce
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Leprosy and divorce.No joke this. The Narendra Modi government is headed towards removing leprosy as a ground for divorce from statute books.
In fact,the Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was introduced in Lok Sabha on Friday seeking to amend five personal laws -- the Divorce Act (for Christians), the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, the Hindu Marriage Act, the Special Marriage Act and the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act -- to strike down leprosy as a ground for seeking divorce.
Introduced by Minister of State for Law P P Chaudhary, the bill carries the provision of leprosy as a ground for divorce since it was part of the laws when these acts came into being and leprosy was incurable.
Now, leprosy was curable. In the past, its patients were isolated and segregated from society as the leprosy was not curable. The entire society was hostile to them. However, as a result of intensive health care and availability of modern medicine to cure the disease, the attitude of the society towards this disease has undergone change," states the bill.
As such the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to omit such discriminatory provisions from the personal laws based on the recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission, the observations of the Committee on Petitions of the Rajya Sabha, the recommendations of the Law Commission and the observations by the Supreme Court.
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The online National Final of the Robotics Olympics 2020: how'd it go?
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Fiorella Operto
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, the National Final of the Robotics Olympics was held live streaming, organized by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the School of Robotics.
Among the objectives of the competition were the conception, design, and construction of prototypes of robots capable of performing useful functions to improve the environmental conditions of our planet and/or human living conditions thanks to the development of tools capable of collecting data in a sensitive way in places difficult to reach.
Due to the impossibility to perform the event because of COVID-19 the final of the competition has been turned into an online hackathon and the event has been completely redesigned to allow remote participation to all enrolled students. The challenge, divided into two parts, required all participating teams – "allied" in a unit of three teams each – to carry out a robotic project aimed at the analysis and data collection of the environment.
In addition to the final phase of the competition, the event included the participation of numerous guests with interventions related to the use of robotics for the environment. The live streaming was recorded in Genoa, from the headquarters of Liguria Digitale.
In order to realize these projects, the participating students received two robotics kits that allowed all the participants to work on their projects. In addition, all students participating in the Robotics Olympics followed online courses on machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence. Later, through a live streaming extraction, 'alliances' were created between the teams with the aim of fostering collaboration among them.
Each team alliance developed a data collection network monitoring nine points on the national territory where each team's prototype carried out data collection.
All the projects presented during the National Final were in open-source, with the possibility to be replicated, modified, and reproduced to provide inspiration for other students.
For the category 'Air' the Green Bot team of I.I.S. "ITI E ITG di Vibo Valentia.
For the category 'Terra' the ATP team of the l.S. "A. Scacchi" of Bari ranked first.
For the category 'Water' the SENSO team of I.T.S. "J.F. Kennedy" of Pordenone ranked first.
Moreover, the Sorobot teams of I.S.A. Sobrero of Casale Monferrato and ATP of l.S. "A. Scacchi" of Bari won the OMRON Special Prizes.
In the morning, during the contest, and in the afternoon many guests spoke about their activities in ICT and robotics.
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Learn how to make Stollen, a traditional German Christmas Bread. This is our first recipe that is not sourdough as it is a sweet bread and is normally made using yeast. This recipe makes 6 Stollen and they can be kept for a week or frozen and then brought out on Christmas Day.
Add dried yeast to the milk and stir to mix and leave for a few minutes. Add the milk to the flour and mix until the flour is fully hydrated. Cover with cling wrap and leave to rest for 18 hours.
Place blanched almonds on baking tray which has been covered with baking paper and roast in oven at 210°C (410°F) for 5-10 mins until golden.
Add ingredients to a bowl and you can be generous with the wine. Leave to soak for at least 30 mins and place in a colander to removed excess juice before you add it to the dough.
Cut butter into cubes and leave to soften.
Baking Temperature and Time Preheat oven to for 40 mins to ensure stone is hot. Bake at 190°C (374°F) for 20-25 mins turning around and letting paper slide onto stone after 10 mins.
Put the fruit in a colander to let the excess liquid drain out.
Weigh and add flour to bowl.
Weigh and add diastatic malt to the bowl.
Add sponge to the bowl.
Weigh and add salt to the bowl.
Weigh and add sugar the bowl.
Add eggs to the bowl, for 75g we used 2 eggs.
Weigh and add orange blossom water.
Add dried yeast to the milk and leave to hydrate for a few minutes before adding to the bowl.
Add mixed spice to the bowl.
Add lemon and orange zest to the bowl.
Mix all of the ingredients until the flour is fully hydrated and then rest in the bowl for a few minutes.
Move dough to the bench and knead dough for 5-10 minutes.
Add the soft butter to the dough and knead dough for a 5-10 minutes and then leave to rest for a few minutes.
Spread the dough out and add the fruit and roasted blanched almonds and mix into dough.
When the fruit and nuts are incorporated into the dough, place it back in the bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave to rest for the bulk fermentation time of 1 hour.
Heat oven on max for 40 mins or until your stone is ready.
Scale the dough into 6 500g(17.637oz) loaves and leave covered with a tea towel for the intermediate proof of 30 mins.
On a dusted bench shape each loaf into a rectangle shape and roll the top third of the rectangle to form the first mountain, place the marzipan which has been rolled into a log, on to the bottom third, roll the dough over the marzipan to cover and place this roll over the middle of the rectangle to form the top mountain. Watch how this is done on the video.
Place baking paper on a tray and place two stollens on the tray and bake for 20-25 mins at 190°C (374°F). Half way through the baking turn stollens around and place stollens and paper onto the stone.
Put butter on very low heat 10 mins before the bread comes out of the oven. As soon as the loaves are removed from the oven place them on a wire tray. Using a pastry brush paint the loaves with the melted butter and then sift the icing sugar over the loaves.
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If the dough does not double during bulk what should I do?
Sorry, I haven't responded earlier.
If you've weighed all the ingredients carefully and combined them correctly – meaning the "sponge" was mature you've either made the final dough it excessively cold because I can't see how the yeast could not be active. However, all things being equal, if the slow activity is due to cold temp you can allow it to ferment longer with no harm.
Failing that I need more info to divine where the problem could be.
Q1.did the sponge triple over the 18hrs then begin to collapse? This indicates full maturity.
Q2. When you added the balance of the final dough ingredients, did you develop the gluten before adding the fruit and nuts?
Q3. What was the finished dough temperature and the ambient air temperature?
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Do we still follow the Sabbath being that it's one of the Ten Commandment?
In the Bible where it says, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy" and "you shall not do any work" (Exod. 20:8), * that's done away with just like that?
It's not done away with; rather, it's fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why we worship on the first day of the week in remembrance of the resurrection. The early Christian church changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday, so within weeks you had thousands of Jews who willingly gave up a theological tradition that they had given them their national identity. God provided the early church with a new pattern of worship because of Christ resurrection on the first day of the week as well as the Holy Spirit's descent on Pentecost Sunday.
The Scriptures provides us with the reasons behind the symbol of the Sabbath. If you look at Genesis the Sabbath was a celebration of God's work in creation (Gen. 2:1-2), after the exodus, the Sabbath was expanded to a celebration of God's deliverance from oppression in Egypt (Deut. 5:15). As a result of the resurrection, we have now our Sabbath rest in Jesus Christ (Heb. 3-4). For the emerging Christian church the most dangerous snare was a failure to recognize Jesus was the substance that fulfilled the symbol of the Sabbath (Col 2:16-17). That's the one thing that's nonnegotiable.
It's really not the day that is important; rather, it's what you're recognizing as important on that day. The Sabbath was shadow of the things that were to come, the reality, says Paul in Colossians is found in Jesus Christ (Col. 2:17).
I was thinking that we should still celebrate the Sabbath on the seventh-day to rest?
And you're still doing that. We are working six days and resting one day, but the day is related to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is the fulfillment of the Law. According to the Mosaic Law, anyone who did any work on the Sabbath would have to be put to death (Exod. 31:14, 15; 35:2). We don't adhere to that either. The Apostle Paul explains, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law" (Gal. 3:13).


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Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed
A 9-cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually.
A low-power, sensor system developed at the University of Michigan 1,000 times smaller than comparable commercial counterparts. It could enable new biomedical implants.
The U-M system's processor, solar cells, and battery are all contained in its tiny frame, which measures 2.5 by 3.5 by 1 millimeters. It is 1,000 times smaller than comparable commercial counterparts.
The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices. It could vastly improve the efficiency and cost of current environmental sensor networks designed to detect movement or track air and water quality.
With an industry-standard ARM Cortex-M3 processor, the system contains the lowest-powered commercial-class microcontroller. It uses about 2,000 times less power in sleep mode than its most energy-efficient counterpart on the market today.
The engineers say successful use of an ARM processor— the industry's most popular 32-bit processor architecture—is an important step toward commercial adoption of this technology.
Greg Chen, a computer science and engineering doctoral student, will present the research Feb. 9 at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco.
"Our system can run nearly perpetually if periodically exposed to reasonable lighting conditions, even indoors," said David Blaauw, an electrical and computer engineering professor. "Its only limiting factor is battery wear-out, but the battery would last many years."
"The ARM Cortex-M3 processor has been widely adopted throughout the microcontroller industry for its low-power, energy efficient features such as deep sleep mode and Wake-Up Interrupt Controller, which enables the core to be placed in ultra-low leakage mode, returning to fully active mode almost instantaneously," said Eric Schorn, vice president, marketing, processor division, ARM. "This implementation of the processor exploits all of those features to the maximum to achieve an ultra-low-power operation."
The sensor spends most of its time in sleep mode, waking briefly every few minutes to take measurements. Its total average power consumption is less than 1 nanowatt. A nanowatt is one-billionth of a watt.
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Spiritual Magna Carta
by Suzanne Ferrett of Passion for the Nation | Apr 3, 2020 | Health
"know also that wisdom is like honey for you. If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off" Proverbs 24: 13, 14
We come into agreement with Psalm 147: 3, "He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.' We declare the revelation of the power of the love of Jesus to this nation, that through His goodness and His kindness those left wounded by previous events and those struggling with current pressures will be healed.
We declare over God's people, 'God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.' We declare, as we enter His Presence, to praise and to worship we His people will be so connected to His heart and His Spirit, His words will be our words, His heartbeat our heartbeat, and that we will step into the fullness of the wisdom available to us, releasing His peace, mercy and hope to overwhelm all hopelessness, death and despair; that through the fullness of His Spirit, inner healing and supernatural healing will increase across our land. 2 Timothy 1:7
In the Name of Jesus, we speak peace and health to those of all age groups struggling with mental health issues, that in these days support and care will be maintained, programmes funded and recovery found. We speak healing to those damaged through childhood experiences, trauma or abuse, through addictions or through abandonment, we speak wholeness and healing to those struggling with grief, loss, anxiety or stress. We especially declare peace and wholeness to those involved on the frontline of the NHS.
Lord, we thank You for every initiative of social action that has been put in place in the last season in-line with Your Kingdom principles and for those God-given creative ideas that are being released from heaven in this time, and we decree new partnerships are being formed between individuals, families, communities, and local & national government, to build a righteous, healed and healthy society.
Now, we stand as God's people in this land, and we declare God desires all people will be whole in body, soul and spirit. So, in the Name of Jesus, we declare a new season of health will come upon this land.
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import org.ec.jap.bo.saap.RegistroEconomicoBO;
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 */
@Stateless
public class ActividadBOImpl extends ActividadDAOImpl implements ActividadBO {

	@EJB
	LlaveBO llaveBO;

	@EJB
	AsistenciaBO asistenciaBO;

	@EJB
	RegistroEconomicoBO registroEconomicoBO;

	/**
	 * Default constructor.
	 */
	public ActividadBOImpl() {
	}

	@Override
	public void generarAsistencia(Usuario usuario, Integer idActividad) throws Exception {

		Actividad actividad=findByPk(idActividad);
		map.clear();
		map.put("actividad", actividad);
		List<Llave> llaves = llaveBO.findAllByNamedQuery("Llave.findByActivoInactivo", map);
		map.clear();
		map.put("idPeriodoPago", actividad.getIdPeriodoPago());
		map.put("tipoRegistro", "INASIS");
		RegistroEconomico registroEconomico=registroEconomicoBO.findByNamedQuery("RegistroEconomico.findByType", map);
		for (Llave llave : llaves) {
			Asistencia asistencia = new Asistencia();
			asistencia.setActividad(actividad);
			asistencia.setAsistio(false);
			asistencia.setIdUsuario(llave.getIdUsuario());
			asistencia.setNumeroRayas(0.0);
			asistencia.setIdRegistroEconomico(registroEconomico);
			asistencia.setNumeroLlave(llave.getNumero());
			asistenciaBO.save(usuario, asistencia);
		}
	}
}