I estimate there were probably 5,000 people at the annual Yangjiang Kite Festival and after walking around the place for three hours I concluded I was the only non-Chinese person there. This made me a bit of a freak that earned me a 10 minute photo session with half of the Chinese school girls attending. I felt like a second-rate celebrity. It was both weird and disturbing having people run up to you with their cell phones and ask to take your photo. Why? Why? Why?
Anyway, there were loads of adorable kids at the festival and plenty of photo opportunities for non-kite images. I took over 1,100 photos in 3 hours, which may be a personal record.
After walking around the festival I quickly realized there was a huge difference between a Chinese gathering like this and a similar one in the US. The only places selling stuff at the kite festival were kite shops and the Chinese Sports Lottery (scratch-off tickets). No food. No drinks. No souvenirs. Nothing. Maybe next year I'll seize that opportunity and open a mini-donut stand.
I've created a separate post for kite photos.
October 24, 2012 | Filed under China, Kids, Kites, Old People, Really great shots and tagged with China, kids, Old people.


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Women and Children; and Loitering Men at Manchester Art Gallery
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In an interview with the Guardian in 2012, British photographer Shirley Baker recalls the urban clearances in Manchester and Salford that became the focus of her work from the 1960s onwards: "There was so much destruction: a street would be half pulled down and the remnants set on fire while people were still living in the area." The photographs that resulted might have focused on the architectural upheaval of the time – the rubble heaps and broken buildings with coal black bricks – and some did, but Baker mainly chose to use this as a backdrop for the social aspect of what was happening, turning her lens on the people the clearances were impacting. Capturing scenes of poverty, but also resilience, Baker documented the values and experiences of working class communities in photographs that were meticulously-timed responses to spontaneous moments.
Women and Children; and Loitering Men is an exhibition of Baker's work at Manchester Art Gallery (previously at The Photographers' Gallery in London): organised in narrative and thematic strands, the photographs are set to a specially commissioned soundscore of noises from the streets alongside Baker's voice from a 1922 interview, arranged by Derek Nisbet. The exhibition also includes a series of colour photographs that have never before been exhibited, having remained unprinted in Baker's archive since they were taken in 1965; displayed in a separate gallery, the images depict children playing on a rubble heap, an elderly couple picking their way across a post-clearance landscape. They evidence Baker's experimentation with colour married with her ambition to document "the mundane, even trivial aspects of life not being recorded by anyone else" – to stunning effect.
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21st February 2019 events
the great big naked conspiracy night
Years ago I worked a lot as an arts journalist doing features and reviews on all sorts of arts events in Northern Ireland. What I really enjoyed most though was doing interviews and I had always nurtured the idea, for some strange reason, of doing the interviews in a Jacuzzi.
At the time, which was before the digital revolution, I was trying to get my head around how I could arrange to do the interviews in the local hotel swimming pool area, which also had a jacuzzi, getting permission …never mind convincing the interviewee. My main worry however was getting the recording gear, cameras etc. damaged with all the water and humidity.
Sadly, the newspaper I wrote for, Daily Ireland, closed down but the idea never really went away. I then moved more into broadcasting and have been presenting and producing the Weekly Arts Show on Drive 105, a community radio station in Derry, ever since. It really is a labour of love.
In this two hour show, which always goes out live every Wednesday morning, I showcase the arts locally, nationally and internationally. Radio is a great way of connecting people and letting them know about what's going on close to home but also much further afield. I also think arts and politics are very connected and sometimes I do special features on issues of interest and importance, but with an arts focus. This could mean doing a feature on the Ukraine or Palestine, but with poets, film makers and maybe a geopolitical expert.
Before I moved into journalism I spent many years working in Spain and noticed that a lot of the Spanish and Italian programmes that I saw had very scantily clad female presenters, while the men were practically wearing three piece suits.
I decided to bring Ric Mullen on my show as a regular monthly commentator on world affairs, in many cases to offer an alternative analysis of some of the big stories that were being covered in the mainstream media that many people didn't understand. And to be honest, the naked idea, that is having The Naked Politics Show, kind of started by accident.
But I was delighted with the result and the feedback was great, so we decided to run with it. I kind of liked the idea of it being like a reverse Italian quiz show, where I was fully clothed, but the man was naked. Think we were pretty much pre the whole #Metoo era.
Because it was a radio show, obviously no one could actually see Ric naked, they only heard his voice, though I do always ask him to tell us what he is wearing.
When I was asked to do something for this year's Festival of Politics in Belfast, and having already spoken to Ric about it, I thought it might be fun to do The Naked Politics Show live for the first time in front of an audience.
I had also toyed with the idea of running a conspiracy-themed night somewhere at some time with fellow Derry creative David Dryden, so thought maybe the two events would go really well together.
And I found a brilliant Anti-Pop band in Derry called The Barbiturates and again thought they would fit this theme very well, so I have put together a three part event for this year's Festival of Ideas and Politics called The Great Big Naked Conspiracy Night.
It's on Saturday 30th March from 8pm to close at the oldest bar in Belfast, McHugh's. Luckily they didn't have any objections to nudity. Tickets and further information are available here.
Eileen Walsh is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, writer and film maker based in Derry, where she presents and produces the Weekly Arts Show on Drive 105. A self-confessed news and politics junkie, she managed to convince Ric to appear on her radio show every month, to discuss politics and current affairs in the nude. Him, not her. It was slightly more difficult getting him to agree to do the show in his nip for the first time in front of a live audience. Eileen also runs a social enterprise in Derry called Together in Pieces Interactive, which aims to stimulate social change and eradicate sectarianism through the exploration of graffiti, street art and hip hop culture. Details here.
Ric Mullen was born in Canada. In University he began writing for several magazines (two of which were edited by Naomi Klein.) He met a charming deutsche Frau on a back-packing holiday in Ireland and soon found himself living in Berlin. It was there that he learned all about the importance of being denuded: that is, wearing a birthday suit is not such a big deal. The Naked Politics Show began by accident and we'll tell you all about that on 30th March 2019.
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On November 24, 2017 Georgian NOC President Leri Khabelov met at the NOC offices the President of the World Olympians Association Mr. Joel Bouzou, President and Founder of a global initiative called 'Peace and Sport'.
The meeting was attended by Mrs. Alexsandra Bouzou, advisor to the President, First Vice President of the NOC E. Bersihsvili, Vice Presidents N. Salukvadze and M. Khabareli, President of the Modern Pentathlon and Triathlon Federation of Georgia V. Malishev and Head International Relations of the GNOC R. Aptsiauri.
During the meeting Joel Bousou debriefed the NOC leaders on the WOA activities and the projects this association plans to realize in the short run. He emphasised great importance of the cooperation between all generation Olympians and protection of their interests.
The President spoke about the recent initiative launched by the WOA on recognizing the status of every Olympian by symbolic award of the title OLY. Each Olympian has opportunity to register online for obtaining the OLY status and get certificate in recognition of this significant status which is the symbolic recognition of their importance in the society and Olympic movement in general. The WOA President encouraged all Olympians to join the initiative by registering online for getting the status.
At the 8th International IOC Athletes' Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland on November 11, WOA President Joël Bouzou OLY presented the first OLY certificate to IOC President Thomas Bach. The initiative allows Olympians to use the OLY post-nominal letters. OLY can be used on official documentation, CVs, business cards, social media. In fact anywhere an Olympian would use their name, in the same way a university graduate may use PhD.
Serving as a symbolic recognition of an Olympian's status in society, OLY promotes an Olympian's social, charitable, and community-based work, acting as a reminder of their achievements and of their responsibility to embody the values of Olympism in everyday life.
President of the WOA was rather honoured to hand over the certificate to the Georgian NOC President.
NOC President expressed gratitude to Mr. Bouzou for his visit and presenting of OLY Certificate and spoke about the NOC activities, short term plans with regard to Georgian Olympians Association. He stated: "NOC will organize in December the Assembly of the National Olympians Association which will be attended by the delegates from National Olympic Sports Federations. We believe new composition of the NOA Executive Board will continue more effective and active work that will be supported from our side"- said L.Khabelov.
The guests visited the Olympic museum and received information on the rich Olympic history of Georgia.


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Q: php include variables without including Can some one tell me how to "include" a variable from another .php file without all its other content.
index.php
<?php
$info=file('somedir/somefile.php');
$v1=trim($info[2]);
$v2=trim($info[3]);
$v3=trim($info[4]);
?>

the somedir/somefile.php
<?php
$variable=something;
$variable2=someotherting;
$variable3=thirdone!;
All the other content there may not be runned or showed.
?>

Can anybody please help me??
Edit:
Its for my dynamic page.

    <?php
    include_once 'config.php';
    include_once 'includes/mysqlconnect.php';
    $url_slash=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $url= rtrim($url_slash, '/');
    //$url = basename($url);
    $info=file('sites/'.$url.'.php');
    $title=trim($info[2]);
    ?>

        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <title>$title</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $domain;?>themes/reset.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $domain;?>themes/<?php echo $theme;?>.css">

            <?php include_once 'includes/header.php';?>

                <?php include_once 'includes/navigationbar.php';?>
                <?php include_once 'includes/rightsidebar.php';?>

<?php

                if ($url==''){

                    include_once "sites/home.php";
                }
                elseif (file_exists("sites/$url.php") && is_readable('/var/www/html/sites/'.$url.'.php')){
                    include_once '/var/www/html/sites/'.$url.'.php';

                }

                else {
                    include_once 'sites/404.php';

                }

                ?>

                <?php include_once 'includes/footer.php';?>

Hope you understand my question now.

A: Programming is just driving your thoughts :)
So what i want to say that your question is how you can include just some part of an included file and my answer is that you can achieve that by doing a test each time the main file is included from withing this file to see if the file is included internally or not and you can be more precise in a way that you split your main file into block which are loaded due suitable variable
Take a look for this workaround and hope you will understand what i mean
Supposing we have the main file named main.php contains that contents
<?php
     echo 'I am a java programmer';
     echo 'I know also PHP very well';
     echo 'When the jquery is my preferred toast !';
?>

now i have three external files that will include that file each file is specific for one of this 3 programming language
So i will create my 3 files in this way :
File : java.php
<?php
    $iamjavadevelopper = 1;
    include_once("main.php");
?>

File : phpfav.php
<?php
    $iamphpdevelopper = 1;
    include_once("main.php");
?>

File : jquery.php
<?php
    $iamjquerydevelopper = 1;
    include_once("main.php");
?>

and my main.php will be coded in this way
<?php
    if(isset($iamjavadevelopper))
        echo 'I am a java programmer';
    if(isset($iamphpdevelopper))
        echo 'I know also PHP very well';
    if(isset($iamjquerydevelopper))
     echo 'When the jquery is my preferred toast !';
?>

By this way each one of our three external files will show just a part of the included file :)

A: The only way I can think of without cookies or session's is to make an if condition in the page.
like that:
index.php
<?php include('somedir/somefile.php');?>
the somedir/somefile.php
<?php
if ($pageName != 'somefile.php')    {
    $variable=something;
    $variable2=someotherting;
    $variable3=thirdone!;
}   else    {
    // All the other content
}
?>

A: Save the variables in a separate file that can be included separately. Do it the sane way. Structure your code properly, don't try to invent solutions for problems you have because your structure is messy.

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News from the world of maths: Tasty Maths
Mathematics is often used to study evolution, whether that be the evolution of animal species, the evolution of viruses or the evolution of language. A recent study has taken this one step further by modelling the evolution of national cuisine, and it was found that even though there are wall-to-wall celebrity chefs on television these days trying to broaden our culinary horizons, our cultural cuisines are largely the same as they were almost 100 years ago.
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posted by westius @ 2:15 PM
News from the world of maths:
After every Olympics, there is speculation about which country performed best. Should we really be surprised when China, with its huge population, and the US, with its combination of high GDP and population, top the medal table? Can we take a look at the medal tables and see which countries did indeed perform better than expected?
posted by westius @ 10:29 AM
What about factoring the availability of drugs into the model?
At 11:13 PM, Will said...
The model provided by the fancy pants bureau thingy is stupid.
it has A(Log[X])+B(Log[Y/X]), which is the same as A(Log[X])+B(Log[Y])-B(Log[X]), which is the same as (A-B)(Log[X])+B(Log[Y), and as A and B are just constants, A-B can be anything. say C. They've added in a completely unneccesary element.
At 1:19 PM, Martin Collett said...
There's a simple comparison of the 2008 Beijing medals results scaled by GDP, population, etc at http://www.channel4.com/olympics
Interesting post. This article in the Wall Street Journal has some good history on medal tables.
http://www.wsj.com/article/SB121856271893833843.html?mod=psp_free_today
check out this widget that gives an interactive interface for analyzing medals per GDP, population, etc.
http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/48abc6bc903b61d0
Apparently created by a new online data modelling tool - www.youcalc.com - which I have not had time to test tey.
Interesting read here:
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/22082008/389/gold-medal-really-worth.html
Analysis of UK funding of sports and it's effect on medals
Then why does India do so badly at the games?
At 10:35 AM, Mike said...
WELL statistics and dam statistics. The problem is your raw data is wrong and as with all statistics the way you look at is partial. Is there a relation between GDP and medals, should there be? Difficult to say, I would have thought it is about social structure and expectations as well. GB did well in various areas because there was an expectation, resources and talent coming together and it did badly in others because one or more of these was missing.
At 2:21 PM, westius said...
Mike, if our data is wrong, you should let us know in which areas it is and we can fix it. Some of the data points may have changed, but they were correct at the time of writing.
So, what are the predictions for 2012? What are the variables to consider?
News from the world of maths: London science blogging conference
London science blogging conference
On 30th August this year, London will be playing host to the inaugural science blogging conference, Science Blogging 2008: London, hosted by Nature Network, in collaboration with the Royal Institution. Plus, being a very active science blogger, will be attending, so come and say hi (or leave a comment if you prefer).
The aim of the conference is to bring together science bloggers from around the world to discuss the pressing issues in science, science communication, publishing and education. What role does blogging play? If you are interested in coming along, registration is free although places are filling up.
Other favourite blogs of Plus in attendance will be the Cambridge-based blogs Understanding Uncertainty and Sciencebase. There aren't many mathematically focused blogs out there, so Plus will be happy to meet with anyone else who is blogging about maths!
Plus also brings you the Mathematics forum on Nature Network.
Disney Pixar have just released the movie, WALL-E. A bleak, post-apocalyptic tour-de-force, the movie depicts the gentle romance between two robots of the future: WALL-E, the not-so-bright and not-so-attractive "guy" with the big heart and sweet personality, and EVE, the sleek, sexy, totally out-of-his-league babe.
Pixar designed these robots so that we see them as human. But what exactly is WALL-E? Is he pure fantasy and speculative fiction? Or is he — is artificial intelligence — simply the way of the future?
At 10:57 AM, Patrick Andrews said...
"Instead of programming a computer to abide by the traditional step-by-step rules approach, we model it like the neurons in the human brain where the results of the program depend on the "strengths" of each particular neuron."
Neural computing runs on a computer...it too is algorithmic.
It seems to me that people are algorithmic as well but that each of our internal programs can achieve intuitive leaps, insights and creative ideas by accepting as input, data in many different forms...eg a certain spreadsheet of numerical data can be interpreted, from across the room as a portrait of Einstein.
The reason why computers will never be 'human', is because human reasoning, morality and intellect is not optimal. If a machine should have the computational power to rival human thinking, pressing it into the mold of a human brain will be diametrically opposed to the aims of such a machine. We like to consider ourselves to be the pinnacle of evolution, but we are forgetting that i) evolution is an on-going process, and ii) humans are not as clever as all that. In fact, looking around you, from Big Brother to the Iraq war, would a computer with a vast intelligence feel nothing but derision for our species?
At 5:09 PM, Terry said...
I agree with many of the comments left by Patrick Andrews.
It seems to me that the advancement of artificial intelligence is handicapped to a considerable extent by the intellectual capacity of the computer technocrat.
Using a trivial example to illustrate, while working for the now-defunct computer manufacturer Sperry Univac, I asked a visiting VP what the company's position was following IBM's introduction of its (then) 'Personal Computer'. He replied that the company regarded the PC as a fad and the future was in mainframe computers! It is this level of intellect that presents the handicap mentioned earlier.
Some years later, I was to have discussions with Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University about what he considered to be a problem in "pattern matching". Basically, the problem was to take a large amount of information about daily trading in a retail environement and establish through analysis what represented 'normal' trading. By this means, what repesented 'abnormal' trading could be established. It was abnormal trading that was the holy grail being sought in this particular excercise. Sadly, we did not get very much further than stating the problem. The overall solution, though, was believed to lie in the computer's ability to learn from key factors in the environment of the problem. It was this ability, residing in the human counterpart (given the right degrees of application, intellect and experience), that could provide answers for discrete cases, albeit at the expense of considerable time and effort.
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News from the world of maths: Who is your favourite fictional mathematician?
Who is your favourite fictional mathematician?
We all have favourite movie characters, but who is your favourite fictional mathematician?
It is quite difficult to compile a list of fictional mathematicians. Scientists are often portrayed in films — usually as mad — but there are very few who are specialised mathematicians. Here at Plus, we have come up with a list that we think covers most well-known fictional mathematicians, although it is debatable whether some are even mathematicians at all! We are asking for your opinion — who is your favourite?
Have we missed yours off the list? Please leave a comment and let us know. We will write a biography of the character who wins the poll.
posted by westius @ 12:06 PM
At 4:14 PM, Julia said...
If you're thinking about fictional mathematicians in print, there are quite a few others who might make the list. How about the title character from Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis (you can read a MAA review by Keith Devlin at http://www.maa.org/reviews/petros.html)? Or Daisy Love from Jeff Noon's Nymphomation? Hobbs Baranov from William Gibson's Pattern Recognition? Or the narrator from The Oxford Murders, recently also made into a film?....
From a colleague:
The protagonist of Sam Peckinpah's film Straw Dogs is a mathematician
not on your list. Also not on your list is the maths student protagonist of Krystof Zanussi's (Polish) film "The constant".
From another colleague:
Of Prof Moriaty:
It was written that: 'He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature
with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the binomial theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him.
But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and come down to London....'
'Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book
which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?'
Please may we have a simple .cgi voting page for this poll? I hate having to install plugins, particularly those which take up a lot of cycles like flash.
He's not fictional (prof. Comeau, the Stellan Starsgard character, is) but I like Matt whoever's question "who's the most famous living American pure mathematician?" in Good Will Hunting. The answer is Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
My initial inclination is to vote for Yakima, the hero of Greg Egan's Diaspora, but that's because I really like the book as a whole. Another candidate, a great contrast with the former, would be Myron Aub who rediscovers mental arithmetic in Asimov's The Feeling of Power. More reflection is required.
There's also Kate Gunzinger from the film 'It's My Turn' (see here) - this film is in fact given by Weibel in his Introduction to Homological Algebra as a reference for the Snake Lemma, a proof of which opens the film.
At 12:21 AM, Anonymous said...
I wouldn't call here my favourite character but Barbara Sabich - Harrison Ford's wife in Presumed Innocent - is a mathematician (I think we hear this in the scene where she complains about how long it has taken her to get tenure).
A minor, behind the scenes character, but one without whom there would be no story.
At 1:35 PM, Anna Faherty said...
I have voted for 'The Square' but wonder if 'Count von Count' from Sesame Street should be included? He has certainly promoted the joy of numbers and counting to generations of kids around the world!
The list is definitely too "english-centered". You are missing many fictional mathematicians in non-English spoken movies. So, the question of the poll should be: "Who is your favourite English-speaking fictional mathematician"?
E.g.: have you seen the Argentinian movie "Il treno di Moebius" ("The Moebius train")?
The Count from Sesame Street gets our vote.
At 7:46 AM, PiXnic said...
How about John Nash - a beautiful mind? Although he isn't my favourite I still love the comment "I am a well balanced individual I have a chip on both shoulders".
At 8:43 AM, KatieG said...
How about David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) in Independence Day? Does he count as a mathematician??
At 9:26 AM, Sandy Starr said...
One of the mathematicians on your list is Max Cohen from the film 'Pi' (played by Sean Gullette), but I'd prefer to nominate Cohen's mentor in the same film, Sol Robeson (played by Mark Margolis). When Cohen becomes obsessed with finding patterns in the digits of pi (π), Robeson quite rightly rebukes him, saying that he's no longer a mathematician but rather a numerologist.
John Nash isn't a fictional character...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash
At 9:55 AM, gary thomson said...
I voted for Prof Calculus but I'm not sure he was strictly a mathematician.
How about James Harris that guy is unreal.
At 12:21 PM, Beans said...
Wouldn't you say that "The Doctor" is a fictional character? And I have reason to believe that he's not too bad a mathematician himself!
(But then again is he really fictional?!)
At 12:58 PM, Olivier Schwimmer said...
There is at least another mathematician in another Michael Crichton's novel: Harry Adams in Sphere (also a movie) and his character is important in the plot.
Other side comments:
a) I concur that this list looks very english literature-centered but it is likely to evolve as more comments and references are made.
Two recent examples of novels with mathematician characters:
- Hans Singer in "Villa des Hommes" by Denis Guedj (closely copied from Cantor's character)
- Arthur Seldom in "Crímenes imperceptibles" (aka "The Oxford Murders")
b) John Nash is of course a real person, but his image in the Holywood dramatization of Silvia Nasar's pseudo biography A Beautiful Mind is a complete fiction who never existed except in the script of the film.
At 1:54 PM, gary thomson said...
There is a female mathematician in Scarlett Thomas' Popco. The main charecter is Alice Butler and her grandmother is portrayed as having been one of the few women mathematicians at Bletchley Park.
At 3:23 PM, David Thompson said...
There are numerous references to fictional mathematicians and mathematical fiction at http://math.cofc.edu/kasman/MATHFICT/. I would vote for Professor James Darnley McCorkle in "The Chair of Philanthromathematics" by O Henry.
At 3:16 AM, Alain said...
Verushka Graef in The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks.
The interesting about her is that she is interesting.
At 8:54 AM, MadeleineS said...
To the anonymous commenter who said "have you seen the Argentinian movie "Il treno di Moebius" ("The Moebius train")?" The answer is that we have tried and tried to see this film but cannot get a copy for public screening in the UK. It would have been part of the Edinburgh Maths at the Movies Festival last April if it had been possible. I can't speak for the USA but it's been seen by very few people in the UK because it's only ever been screened at few film festivals shortly after release.
This film, however, is based on one of my all time favourite short stories "A Subway named Mobius" by Prof. A.J. Deutsch at Harvard. It was actually written about the New York subway system. Tupelo, the topologist who solved the problem, should be on the voting list but I'm afraid he was originally an English speaking New Yorker.
http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/A_Subway_Named_Mobius
At 5:44 PM, Josh said...
Numbers is a silly show.
More people need to read Asimov's Foundation series and get to know Hari Seldon.
At 12:57 PM, Brian said...
Lawrence Waterhouse.
At 12:18 PM, MadeleineS said...
Rudy Rucker's work is stuffed full of fictional mathematicians! His 2006 book "Mathematicians in love" features Bela Kis and Paul Bridge, postgrads at Berkeley and a higher world of mathematician cockroaches!
My favourite is a much earlier work "White Light" whose hero, Feliz Raymond, stays in Hilbert's Hotel and visits Cantor's Continum. If he was on the list he'd have got my vote.
See www.rudyrucker.com to find out more
At 10:32 AM, J.Kamesh said...
Griffin and Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde
At 1:10 PM, G. Edgar said...
The Professor in
"The Professor and His Beloved Equation"
2006 movie from Japan
"Hakase no aishita sûshiki"
News from the world of maths: Bicycles in London modelling contest run and won
Bicycles in London modelling contest run and won
MP Emily Thornberry, eBourbaki founder Eliana Hechter, and contest winners Peter Eccles, Tom Hudson, and Ryan Lothian.
eBourbaki has announced the winners of its 2008 Bicycles in London mathematical modelling competition. The contest took place in early May, and students were asked to model a network of low-cost rental bicycles for the City of London. Students were able to explain mathematically why some schemes in Europe have succeeded while others have failed. For more information on the contest, see our story on the Plus blog
The winning team was presented with a check for £1000 by Emily Thornberry MP, head of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cycling.
The winning team included:
Peter Eccles, 21, Merton College, Oxford
Tom Hudson, 20, Merton College, Oxford
Tom Eccles, 20, Trinity College, Cambridge
Ryan Lothian, 20, Merton College, Oxford
Caroline Roney, 20, Merton College, Oxford
The winning team created two mathematical models. The first described commuter flow based on publicly available data from Transport for London. They recommend that 12 large bicycle stations be placed near rail stations in Central London together with a network of 250 smaller stations distributed throughout the West End, the City of London, and the area in between. The second model focused on the estimated use of a network of 50 stations in the proposed configuration to determine the number of bicycles appropriate for these stations. Ultimately, the team proposed an average of twenty bicycles at a small station.
eBourbaki director Eliana Hechter said, "The winning team created a mathematical model that could serve to help the City of London construct a network of rental bicycles that serves commuters most efficiently. Mathematical modelling is a way of 'testing the system' to be confident that the system, once instituted, will actually work effectively. We hope the City will work with the winners and consider using their programs in the network design."
eBourbaki organizes mathematics modelling contests for students of mathematics, computer science, and engineering around the world to provide solutions to optimization problems, addressing some of today's greatest public goods issues. The policy implications of this contest are great and the results have been forwarded to Transport for London. The Bicycles in London contest followed the successful Shade in Phoenix contest in conjunction with the City Planning Department of the City of Phoenix, Arizona.
eBourbaki's next contest will involve predicting the results of the next U.S. presidential election this October. We'd all like to know that result.
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One of our volunteers, Darren Kearns, caught up with one of our recent winners, Ramatsobane Aretha Malope.
Ramatsobane entered and won a bursary to study the popular Entrepreneurship in Action course at the Red & Yellow Creative School of Business. This is her story.
Darren: What is your background with education?
Ramatsobane: I have a Diploma in Office Management, a degree in counselling psychology and an Honours Degree in Counselling Psychology.
Darren: What inspired you to apply for the Bursary Lottery?
Ramatsobane: I've been running a community development project for over 5 years and have since realized that, I am ill equipped for the journey I embarked on. I then started looking for opportunities to empower myself and since all my revenue went towards the running of this project, I couldn't afford to educate myself. I then came across an ad for Bursary Lottery and I took my chances and applied. Hence I am here today.
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The opportunity to change your life is something that can now be realised. One just has to grasp the opportunity and make it work for you.
"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday".
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Q: How do I do database transactions with psycopg2/python db api? Im fiddling with psycopg2 , and while there's a .commit() and .rollback() there's no .begin() or similar to start a transaction , or so it seems ?
I'd expect to be able to do
db.begin() # possible even set the isolation level here
curs = db.cursor()
cursor.execute('select etc... for update')
...
cursor.execute('update ... etc.')
db.commit();

So, how do transactions work with psycopg2 ?
How would I set/change the isolation level ?

A: I prefer to explicitly see where my transactions are :

*

*cursor.execute("BEGIN")

*cursor.execute("COMMIT")

A: Use db.set_isolation_level(n), assuming db is your connection object. As Federico wrote here, the meaning of n is:
0 -> autocommit
1 -> read committed
2 -> serialized (but not officially supported by pg)
3 -> serialized

As documented here, psycopg2.extensions gives you symbolic constants for the purpose:
Setting transaction isolation levels
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psycopg2 connection objects hold informations about the PostgreSQL `transaction
isolation level`_.  The current transaction level can be read from the
`.isolation_level` attribute.  The default isolation level is ``READ
COMMITTED``.  A different isolation level con be set through the
`.set_isolation_level()` method.  The level can be set to one of the following
constants, defined in `psycopg2.extensions`:

`ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT`
    No transaction is started when command are issued and no
    `.commit()`/`.rollback()` is required.  Some PostgreSQL command such as
    ``CREATE DATABASE`` can't run into a transaction: to run such command use
    `.set_isolation_level(ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT)`.

`ISOLATION_LEVEL_READ_COMMITTED`
    This is the default value.  A new transaction is started at the first
    `.execute()` command on a cursor and at each new `.execute()` after a
    `.commit()` or a `.rollback()`.  The transaction runs in the PostgreSQL
    ``READ COMMITTED`` isolation level.

`ISOLATION_LEVEL_SERIALIZABLE`
    Transactions are run at a ``SERIALIZABLE`` isolation level.

.. _transaction isolation level:
   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/transaction-iso.html

A: The BEGIN with python standard DB API is always implicit. When you start working with the database the driver issues a BEGIN and after any COMMIT or ROLLBACK another BEGIN is issued. A python DB API compliant with the specification should always work this way (not only the postgresql).
You can change this setting the isolation level to autocommit with db.set_isolation_level(n) as pointed by Alex Martelli.
As Tebas said the begin is implicit but not executed until an SQL is executed, so if you don't execute any SQL, the session is not in a transaction.


Type A personalities are competitive, time urgent, aggressive and suffer from chronic high stress. The term Type A personality was first coined in the 1950s by two cardiologists, Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, who studied the risk of heart disease in association with Type A personality traits, prompted by how quickly their patients wore out the arms of the chairs in their waiting room. Their hypothesis describes Type A personalities as competitive, highly organized, ambitious, impatient, highly aware of time management and aggressive. After an eight year study of healthy men aged 35 to 59, they concluded that Type A behaviour doubles the risk of coronary heart disease in otherwise healthy individuals.
I'll tell you straight off the bat that although I came across this study entirely by 'accident' in Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Full Catastrophe Living, I do have a personal interest. I consider myself a fit, clean living and health conscious person, steeped in years of meditation practice and other mind management techniques, but still I had a severe heart attack in 2017 at aged 55 during an early morning run on the beach. It took me by surprise and sharpened my focus on the life I was leading, the lives so many of us lead that are not entirely conducive to thriving. A couple of weeks before the heart attack, I had given up my I.T. career for good, ending a very stressful role in a startup when I became aware that the stress was killing me. Rather prophetic, as it turned out.
So back to Type A. When I discovered this research, I identified immediately and strongly with the characteristics described, from a longer list including organized, status-conscious, sensitive, impulsive, angry, defensive, impatient, perfectionist, anxious and proactive. Type A men (there were no women in the study) are often high-achieving workaholics, hating delays and ambivalence. They typically experience high job-related stress and less job satisfaction.
When I started reading about Type A personality in Kabat-Zinn's book, ideas started to come together in my mind. Kabat-Zinn is a research scientist and mindfulness teacher who in 1979 developed the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program at the University of Massachusetts for sufferers of chronic pain and stress disorders. I was reading the book and doing the MBSR daily mindful practises – yoga, body scan and sitting meditation – to rehabilitate from a serious road accident 6 months after my heart attack. I had received loud and clear the message that I was to slow down!
If you have any interest in the MBSR program, I can heartily recommend both the exercises and Full Catastrophe Living, which is packed with research, theory and discussion on stress, pain, mindfulness and mind-body healing. As you will see, I have leaned heavily on his work for this article.
Since the early work of the Type A research and Kabat-Zinn, study in to areas such as neuroplasticity, epigenetics, health psychology and positive psychology has exploded. I'm always glad to know this, as it supports the idea that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks and that we retain some degree of control over how we live our lives and what is possible for us.
Our thoughts and belief systems play a big part in how we live our lives, our physical and mental health and the levels of fulfilment we experience. We can train ourselves in techniques such as mindfulness meditation to calm our minds and direct our thoughts to the positive spectrum or we can allow or indulge in unrestrained negative thinking that frequently triggers our adrenal system and the cycle of fear, anxiety, stress and panic.
The wide-ranging detrimental effects of stress have been under ever closer scrutiny in recent years, for example gut-brain, gut-heart and the antics of the gut microbiome when it's hit simultaneously by our modern diet, lifestyle, chemical environment, social (dis)engagement and chronic stress. If our gut function is disrupted by stress, this powerhouse pivotal to all the other systems and processes of the body fails to maintain equilibrium. We literally starve ourselves instead of nurturing ourselves. Our organs, glands, muscles and brain suffer. Everything suffers. The basic nutrients, such as magnesium required for over 300 essential processes in the body, don't make it through. Gut imbalance is known to contribute to mental dis-ease and mood disorders (Alzheimers, dementia, ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety) .
I have recently been focussing – out of self-interest if nothing else – on all things stress-related but in particular WHY and HOW we stress. Where stress comes from, how we turn it chronic and how we can turn that back around.
Dr Engel's biopsychosocial model from 1977 proposed that factors affecting susceptibility to illness include beliefs, social support, stress exposure and behaviour. We know that humans can learn to control heart rate, skin temperature, blood pressure and brain waves and we know from positive psychology that an attitude of optimism or pessimism affects health outcomes. Pessimism dampens the hormonal and immune system, whereas optimism has a protective effect.
It's helpful to consider that over our lifetimes we have built a vast bank of beliefs that we subsequently act on subconsciously. We rarely inspect these beliefs for usefulness or even truth, but we don't HAVE to believe our thoughts. By bringing thoughts and beliefs to awareness we can review how they affect us and consider replacing them and thus developing a new relationship with what stresses us.
For men there is arguably still social pressure to cope with everything, to hide 'un-desirable' emotions and signs of instability or 'weakness'. Under duress, if we bow to this pressure we will choose to suppress our stress responses, preventing them from going through their normal cycle and dissipating. Stress hormones build up in our bodies and stressful thoughts stay with us. Habitually perpetuating stress affects our minds and bodies, and can lead to high blood pressure, inflammation, headaches, backaches, anxiety, cognitive impairment and many other diseases. If it's long term, it can also foster depression and even addiction as we try to find ways of silently coping whilst in denial of our real situation.
There is a lack of trust implicit in such behaviour – we don't trust ourselves, because we're out of whack with our truth and we don't trust others, to whom we could turn for support. This is a maladaptive stress response that does not promote resilience and which may easily deteriorate over time as our negative beliefs around stress strengthen with repetition. It also separates us from our fellows, potentially intensifying the suffering and adding loneliness to the mix. Social isolation and loneliness present a major public health issue, adversely affecting health and longevity and posing a greater health risk than smoking or obesity.
The antidote to chronic stress consists of many small actions to support our true self and allow us to re-integrate with the support systems we sorely need. We need to recognise our own agency to bring about positive change and actually make that change.
In fact, it's clear that we have power over our thoughts and actions, which gives us the tools we need to develop self-efficacy and resilience to stress in our lives. So how we do this?
My work is based on helping clients essentially deal with exactly this. I work with Type A men who share a need to better manage their stress, health and human connections. We work together on developing better thought habits to reduce stress and support their personal goals. It's simple work, but any change is demanding. Where beliefs or 'thought habits' have caused or prolonged stress, the work is to bring those thoughts to the conscious mind and choose to build new beliefs.
For anyone suffering prolonged stress, self-care is enormously important and any of these tips will help.
*As a coach, I believe it's this last one that contains the biggest and most enduring payoff and this is where I can help. If you want to test your own stress personality type, take the quiz below and get a free personalised assessment from me along with some ideas on managing your stress.
 Engel GL: The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine. Science 1977;196:129-136.


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Granite countertops are a favourite among homeowners for many reasons. The most significant is arguably their wide range of natural patterns and brilliant colours which enhance your home's beauty.
But have you ever wondered how those patterns and colours are formed? Let's learn how.
Granite: The Formation of Its Colours and Patterns
Granite is mined from all continents. Composed of several minerals fused together under high pressure below the earth's crust, it's solid and highly durable. The word "granite" is derived from the Latin word for grain ("granum") because there are visible grains of minerals on its surface.
Granite is mainly composed of quartz, alkali feldspars, plagioclase feldspars, and mineral impurities present during its formation. Feldspars in particular are easily affected by weather and exposure to ground fluids due to their chemical instability, which dramatically alters their appearance. (They can even change into completely different forms like clay minerals, bauxite and limonite.) The presence of quartz and feldspar along with the weathering effects produce the variety of colours we see in granite today.
The most common colours of granite are white, pink, yellow, grey and black, mainly because of its composition. Quartz is milky white, feldspar is white, potassium feldspar is pink, biotite is black or brown, muscovite is yellow, and amphibole is green. These minerals determine the colour of the granite depending on the type and ratio of their combination and external pressure. For example, granite with large quantities of potassium feldspar will look pink while large quantities of amphiboles make it look green. The presence of amethyst can tint it a faint purple while radiation can tint it a smoky to black shade. If it has a lot of quartz and amphibole, you will see the typical speckled black and white granite most commonly used in kitchen countertops.
Quartz and feldspar are key minerals in granite, comprising between 20% and 60% and 10% to 65%, respectively. Other minerals are amphiboles and biotite or muscovite (between 5% and 15%). These will determine the colour of the granite as well as its durability. As a rule of thumb, the higher the percentage of quartz, the harder the granite.
Below are some of the most popular granite colours and a brief description of each.
Traditional White Granite
White granite is made of milky white quartz and white feldspar. White granite forms because the conditions or pressure did not favour the formation of more amphiboles, or there simply weren't other minerals present in the source material. The dark streaks or specks that you find in white granite are mostly amphibole. It's extremely rare and almost impossible to find granite that's solid white. If you do see one, it's probably an engineered stone, not natural.
Classic Black Granite
Like white granite, black granite is rarely 100% black. If you do find one, it probably has a large percentage of biotite. However, granite with less than 20% quartz is more likely to be gabbro; this is an intrusive rock that features similar properties (if not composition) to granite.
Blush Pink Granite
As mentioned, pink granite contains a large proportion of potassium feldspar. It will also consist of milky white quartz, dark amphiboles, and white feldspar minerals.
Bold Red Granite
Red granite shares a similar composition with pink granite, except that the potassium feldspar has a darker shade. The red colour may also be the result of feldspar combined with iron oxide.
Cool Blue Granite
Although blue granite is popular among today's homeowners, it's unlikely to be true granite. Instead, it's usually a type of igneous rock called monzonite, which contains less than 5% quartz, or anorthosite, also an igneous rock composed mostly of a feldspar mineral called blue labradorite. Although beautiful, it's not true granite.
Lush Green Granite
Green granite has a mixed dark and light green background with white specks on it. It typically contains a green feldspar mineral called amazonite. In most cases, green granite is a type of metamorphic rock with an abundance of marble or other types of rock, such as soapstone.
Granite countertops are preferred for their beauty, versatility and ease of maintenance. No matter what colour you choose for your countertop, proper care and use of a sealant are a must because leaving spills and messes can tarnish its surface. This will help retain its beauty and functionality for many years.
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Q: Sharing intents (queryIntentActivities) on Android 10 does no return all the expected ones I have a simple code to share photos through external apps that have been working as expected in previous Android versions.
But we are getting some reports saying that users can not share photos with their apps because only some of them appears in the share sheet.
We did some tests in different phones (with Android 10), and the results is that there are only like 3 or 4 app available to share, and it depends on the phone. For instance, in some phones Gmail is shown, but no in other. In those where Gmail appears, it works correctly.
Any idea why?
This is how Uri looks: content://com.MyPackageName.fileprovider/external_cache/test2014_000000059279.jpg
This is how mime looks: image/jpeg
Here is the code, I've simplified it a bit.
public void shareViaIntent(Context context, Uri uri, String mimeType, CharSequence shareTitle) {
    Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.setType(mimeType);
    shareIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION); // temp permission for receiving app to read file from temp cache path of our app
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, context.getString(R.string.shared_text));
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);

    final ArrayList<Intent> shareIntents = getExternalShareIntents(context, shareIntent);

    Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(target, shareTitle);
    chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, shareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
    context.startActivity(chooserIntent);
}

private ArrayList<Intent> getExternalShareIntents(Context context, Intent shareIntent) throws Throwable {
    final List<ResolveInfo> resolveInfos = context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(shareIntent, 0);

    final ArrayList<Intent> shareIntents = new ArrayList<>();
    for (ResolveInfo resolveInfo : resolveInfos) {
        final String packageName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName;

        if (packageName.equals(buildInfo.getApplicationId())) {
            continue;
        }

        Intent intent = new Intent(shareIntent);
        intent.setComponent(new ComponentName(packageName, resolveInfo.activityInfo.name));
        shareIntents.add(intent);
    }

    return shareIntents;
}

And here you can see the behavior changes depending on the phone..

Thanks in advance

A: When your app's targetSdkVersion is 30 or later, you will receive a filtered list of activities/packages. Hence, the weird results on different phones/setups. It's also worth noticing that this also affects ShareActionProvider which is commonly used for share actions.
Package Visibility in Android 11
Read about the details in Android Documentation. There you find the solution to this problem. The manifest must include a <queries> tag.
The solution
Run the latest version of Android Studio and Gradle. Then modify your AndroidManifest.xml as shown below. My sample only handles text/plain, but you can of course add other MIME types if your app needs it.
<manifest>
  <application>
    <!-- -->
  </application>
  <queries>
    <intent>
      <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
      <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
    </intent>
  </queries>
</manifest>

With this in place, the Intent Chooser no longer shows a filtered list.


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Directions in Life for the Occasionally Confused
Author: John Foster Elliot
Reviewer: Jocelyn Morris-Dryant
First, I'd like to say that we all have bouts of confusion from time to time. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to squeeze out some sort of explanation for our confusion and sometimes we're not. This book is for those of us who are tired of rationalizing on our own, anymore. Let someone else do the work for a change!
This skillful piece of work slowly pulls the reader into his/her own "life� as only he/she knows it to be. The author discussed what we couldn't or dared to share with another. It includes explicit language which makes for brutal but comedic honesty for the adult reader in/for real life. The author exposes himself and the rest of us in just 197 pages. He shares his own psychopathology and rules of life in hopes to normalize life's confusion. He also shares some of his sessions with the reader only to point out his own learning. I often had to stop reading to take a few moments to ponder a philosophical note or chapter only to realize my "self�. I had related. The passages or philosophies shared by the author may serve as desert in a breakthrough session with a difficult client.
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The author doesn't leave you wondering, questioning or asking for more. He covers his bases from A to Z, beginning to end, with a guideline to meditation. I finished the book feeling light and fluffy and remembered this passage "There is a reason for peak experiences and getting your feet back on the ground�.
John Foster Elliott began his career in psychology at age twenty-one, founding the first crisis intervention and drug-counseling center at Pennsylvania State University. He worked with Dr Steven Danish and others in utilizing Rogerian techniques for paraprofessionals and presented his first paper for the APA at age 22. John graduated cum laude in 1974, receiving the Eric Walker Award for "the most outstanding character, leadership and citizenship� among the senior graduating class. He went on to Los Angeles and established several other non-profit mental health programs for the poor and disadvantaged. Both the Los Angeles City Council and the California State Assembly officially commended John for his work in the field of substance abuse. He also studied Gestalt and NeoReichian therapy for five years with Eric Marcus, MD, one of the founders of the Gestalt Institute of Los Angeles. His other clinical interests included the study of unconscious imagery, metaphor and Ericsonian hypnotherapy. He has taken a recent interest in collaborative therapy and has written a piece for Barry Duncan in Heroic Clients, Heroic Agencies, a manual for client-directed outcome informed therapy.
John received his Master's degree in Clinical Psychology in 1981 at International College and was licensed by the State of California as a Marriage and Family Therapist in 1982.
He has been a consultant for government and private agencies across the country, including:
the National Free Clinic Council, Los Angeles County Health Dept, Lutheran Social Services, LEAA, California BBSE Orals Commission, LAPD, LA Drug Abuse Task Force, Impact House, CRI-Help, Pasadena HS Peer Counseling, Old Time Steelworkers Fund, Project Heavy, the California State Assembly and a variety of film production companies in Hollywood.
In his spare time John practices meditation, is a performing singer-songwriter and a writer. He is currently at work with Titan Studios in Sherman Oaks, Ca. John's book "Directions in Life for the Occasionally Confused� was released through PublishAmerica in Nov of 2004.
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When Nicole Bonza had to give up her beloved motorcycle after experiencing mechanical failure and having a brand new baby, she went into a "hibernation" of sorts. After six years of not riding, the 44-year-old mother of two bought a new Honda CBR650R. Able the "breath again," she feels her life coming back.
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Motojournalist Jess Kline shares her thoughts about moving outside her motorcycle comfort zone to give flat track racing a try when she was asked to join a group of male riders on a press intro in Croatia.
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This 14-year-old girl dreamed of racing a motorcycle—and her Dad made it come true!
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Jasmine Nichols, now 14, started riding and racing motorcycles at age 11. She couldn't have done it without the love and support from her parents—particularly her father.
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This year was a year of firsts; my first over-5,000 mile ride on Bruno, a 2014 Ducati Monster 696, and my first presentation at the 2014 Overland Expo East in Asheville, North Carolina. I've only been riding for two years and to have these two things accomplished on my second year of riding seems almost cosmic.
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import net.jmreyes.tutelaserver.api.PatientSvcApi;
import net.jmreyes.tutelaserver.model.Patient;

import org.springframework.data.mongodb.repository.MongoRepository;
import org.springframework.data.rest.core.annotation.RepositoryRestResource;

@RepositoryRestResource(path = PatientSvcApi.PATIENT_SVC_PATH)
public interface PatientRepository extends MongoRepository<Patient, String> {

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Technology: I just called to say I'm out of sync
Technology 25 April 1992
By ELISABETH GEAKE
Videophones could make it harder, not easier, to communicate, according
to researchers at the universities of Glasgow and Nottingham who are starting
a three-year project on face-to-face communication this month. In some situations,
callers could be distracted by the poor quality images on early versions
of videophones. But when trying to convey complex information, video can
help the user significantly.
Previous work has already shown that, if people can see each other,
only two-thirds as many words are needed to convey information as when they
cannot see each other. So could videophones cut the amount of time we spend
on the phone? It is not that simple, says Simon Garrod of the Human Communication
Research Centre at Glasgow's department of psychology.
Telephone lines can only carry a limited amount of data, so pictures
on a videophone are a compromise between fine resolution and frequent updating
of the picture. Some videophones update the picture less than 10 times per
second and the picture and the sound do not match very closely. This can
distract people enough to reduce the exchange of information.
The researchers will be looking at these problems and other aspects
of face-to-face communication. Garrod says the results of the work could
improve videophones and even help people who experience communication problems,
such as those suffering from brain damage or schizophrenia.
Chris Fowler, from the human factors division at British Telecom's
laboratories in Suffolk, says that BT recognises the problems of infrequently
updated pictures. But he says they will be much less of a problem when people
use the Integrated Services Digital Network which is now used mostly by
businesses to carry sound, pictures and electronic data through normal phone
lines.
The researchers at Glasgow are analysing quantitatively the communication
between pairs of volunteers. Both volunteers are given a map of an island.
One map has a route across the island which must be described to the other
volunteer in ten minutes. When the test is complete, the researchers overlay
the two maps and measure the differences between the routes, to find the
quantity of information conveyed in the dialogue.
Some of the pairs of volunteers can see each other's faces, and others
are 'blind'. Garrod and his colleague Anne Anderson then try to assess how
the verbal and body language, including vocabulary, intonation and elision,
contributed to the communicated map route.
So far about 120 dialogues have been recorded between adults and children
as young as seven. The volunteers who could see each other interrupted half
as frequently as the 'blind' pairs and said 'mmm' and 'yes' less frequently.
'This is possibly due to cues from the gaze which show when you think you've
finished your turn,' says Garrod.
Claire O'Malley and Vicki Bruce at the University of Nottingham are
looking at information conveyed by the face and hands. So far it seems
that the eyes help the most when people are having communication problems.
Magazine issue 1818 , published 25 April 1992
Telltale signs of a stressful life: Experiments have often deliberately caused stress to animals. The findings should now be used to improve their lot
Technology: Fire-fighters find gas that's easy on ozone


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thanks kingston! time really flies it's almost a year since i graduated. need to work harder.
Hey, do you mind if I use your art as a concept art for my 3d model?
Thanks for asking! Hmm, I have to ask though, is it for personal work or commercial?
If it's personal, sure. Just credit me for the design and original illustration?


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The leading fast casual franchise is leveraging its focus on hospitality and brand awareness across the Southeast to expand its reach in the key development market.
For nearly 30 years, McAlister's Deli® has been setting the standard for excellence in the fast casual segment of the restaurant industry. The brand goes above and beyond that of a traditional sandwich shop—by serving top quality salads, soups, spuds, desserts and McAlister's Famous Sweet Tea™ in addition to hand-crafted, made to order sandwiches, the brand is able to tap into a broader customer base that in turn boosts its franchisees' bottom lines. And now, that one of a kind business ownership opportunity is set to reach even more entrepreneurs in Tampa, Florida.
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"Our passionate franchisees are ultimately the driving force behind our continued success. That's why having a strong support system is so important to us—we're here to help our local owners reach their full potential as entrepreneurs," said Sturgis. "That support system is even stronger in cities like Tampa because we already have a strong presence in the area. Franchisees who sign on to develop the brand there can rely on other owners for help and guidance who have been through the process and know the ropes."
In addition to offering extensive corporate support, McAlister's Deli® also offers prospective franchisees the opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing brand at an affordable rate. With startup costs ranging depending on specific real estate, McAlister's Deli® has a flat franchise fee of $35,000 per location.
"Our business model is incredibly simple. By focusing on what we do best and eliminating the need for major restaurant equipment like fryers and grills, we give prospective business owners the opportunity to grow alongside the booming fast casual industry without breaking the bank," said Sturgis. "That simplicity is present in everything that we do—at its core, the McAlister's Deli® brand serves great food with exceptional customer service in a welcoming and comfortable environment. We're looking forward to bringing our concept to more consumers in the Tampa area as we partner with more franchisees."
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