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Moye, J. Todd
Education: University of North Carolina, B.A., 1992; University of Texas, M.A., 1995, Ph.D., 1999.
Office—Department of History, University of North Texas, Wooten Hall 257, P.O. Box 310650, Denton, TX 76203. E-mail—[email protected]
University of Texas, Austin, 1998-2000, became adjunct professor of history; National Park Service, Atlanta, GA, director of the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project, 2000-05; University of North Texas, Denton, assistant professor of history, 2005—, director of the Oral History Program.
John E. O'Connor Award, American Historical Association, 2004; Research and Professional Development Grants, University of Texas, 1995, 1997-98; Patterson-Banister Fellowship, University of Texas History Department, 1997-98; postdoctoral fellow, Avery Research Center for African American History, and College of Charleston, 1999-2000; Save America's Treasures grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002, for Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project Recordings; Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award, Oral History Association, 2005-06; University of North Texas Faculty Research Grant, 2006-07, for Tuskegee Airmen archival research; University of North Texas Hispanic and Global Studies Initiative Fund grant, 2007, for the North Texas Immigrant Rights Movement Digital Archive.
Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 2004.
Contributor to reference books, including The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, The Oxford American National Biography, The Oxford African-American National Biography, The Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism in America, The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America, The Sixties, The New Georgia Encyclopedia, and The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Contributor to journals, including the Journal of American History, Mississippi Folklife, and Heritage Matters; reviewer for journals, including the Journal of Southern History, Southern Cultures, and Southern Changes.
Historian and educator J. Todd Moye's focus is on oral history. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, he created the South Carolina Black Legislators Oral History Project, which involved recording oral history interviews, teaching methods of oral history to graduate students, and editing a scholarly journal. Moye has also been director of the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project of the National Park Service. In this capacity he recorded more than eight hundred interviews with Tuskegee servicemen in formulating and developing programs and archives for the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Tuskegee, Alabama. The project was awarded the Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award for outstanding contributions to the field of oral history. At the University of North Texas, Moye became an assistant professor of history and director of the Oral History Program, a project that has collected the largest number of oral interviews of any public university in Texas. The interviews fall into various categories, including North Texas regional history, Texas political and business history, and civil rights history.
Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986 is based on Moye's doctoral dissertation. A central figure in this study is James O. Eastland, a multimillionaire planter who owned nearly six thousand acres in Sunflower County near Doddsville, and who in the 1950s spoke out against the decision of the Warren Supreme Court in Brown v. The Board of Education, which ruled for desegregation. When speaking before Southern segregationist groups, Eastland, who served in the U.S. Senate for thirty-five years, phrased his rhetoric in such a way as to imply that those who opposed desegregation had a constitutional right to do so. Flyers distributed for these appearances advocated the killing of blacks. As chair of the Civil Rights subcommittee, he refused to hold meetings.
The main title of this book was the motto of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which concentrated its efforts in Sunflower County, where conditions were deplorable because of Eastland. Michael T. Bertrand noted on H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online that Moye's selection of this county, "a district comprised of isolated, dependent, unskilled, unneeded, and unwanted people, underscores that the black freedom movement involved issues of class as well as those of race." Bertrand commented that Moye shows "that his appreciation for the region was heightened when he discovered that Eastland and civil rights heroine Fannie Lou Hamer had "lived within spitting distance of one another"…. That two individuals could inhabit virtually the same space yet live in two very dissimilar and separate worlds establishes the tone for Moye's book. For it addresses how one group, in seeking to become full citizens in a country renowned for freedom, met resistance from another group bent on denying civil rights to neighbors whom a segregationist system (with a heavy assist from institutionalized sharecropping) had thoroughly dehumanized."
In addition to Hamer, Moye profiles familiar civil rights pioneers, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, and Diane Nash, and organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), SNCC, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. He also credits lesser-known individuals who worked to bring economic equality, education, and democracy to the poor of Sunflower County. These include Amzi Moore, Charles McLaurin, Clinton Battle, Lawrence Guyot, Charles Cobb, Aaron Robert Merritt, and Willie Spurlock, as well as organizations such as Freedom Schools and the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union.
Moye also discusses institutions of resistance to civil rights, including the Citizens' Council of Indianola. Organized by Robert Patterson, a plantation manager and former Mississippi State football player and veteran of World War II, it was a less violent version of the Ku Klux Klan that intimidated black residents of Sunflower County and discouraged the integration of schools and voter registration, particularly through economic control. Because members of this group worked at all levels of business and government, fair representation for blacks was impossible. The group even formed a whites-only private school while doing nothing to improve the public system. Moye concludes by writing that it was not until the 1980s that any real civil rights advances were made in Sunflower County, and division has continued because black workers have historically been forced to accept lower pay.
"This book will provide students and scholars alike with a thorough representation of a community central to the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi," asserted Tiyi Morris in a Journal of African American History review. "It provides an invaluable contribution to the recent scholarship that enhances our understanding of 'local movement centers' in the civil rights era."
Journal of African American History, summer, 2007, Tiyi Morris, review of Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986, p. 445.
Journal of American History, December, 2005, Mark Newman, review of Let the People Decide, p. 1059.
Journal of Social History, winter, 2006, Gilles Vandal, review of Let the People Decide, p. 533.
Journal of Southern History, February, 2007, Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, review of Let the People Decide, p. 221.
Labor History, November, 2005, Jonathan Rosenberg, review of Let the People Decide, p. 553.
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online,http://www.h-net.org/ (August, 2005), Michael T. Bertrand, review of Let the People Decide.
University of North Texas History Department Web site,http://www.hist.unt.edu/ (February 13, 2008), faculty profile of J. Todd Moye.
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For a long time now, I've been explaining why the world would have been better off if Apple's computers had come to dominate homes and businesses. I've focused on the virtues of Apple's software almost exclusively, even though Apple has for most of existence been primarily a hardware company, like Dell or Hewlett Packard. Why? Because it's clear to all us Martians that what makes or breaks a computing experience is the software. To paraphrase one of your ex-Presidents, "It's the Software, stupid!"
I've noted that when someone conjures this phrase to explain a colleague or acquaintance's intransigence about something, those listening will nod to each other knowingly and somewhat sadly aver, "So true."
And yet, how many humans really think they're as "stupid" as horses?
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Atlantis Armenian Airlines LLC is an air carrier, established in Armenia in 2010 and granted with Air Operator Certificate by Armenian Civil Aviation Authorities in 2018 for scheduled flights operations; it holds ICAO "AEU" and IATA designator "TD" and accounting "432" codes.
Atlantis Armenian Airlines LLC is the first Armenian airline willing to develop light aviation in Armenia, which is an important transportation solution for a land-locked and mountainous country like Armenia. For the light aviation development concept implementation, in 2018 LET L410 was purchased: two-engine aircraft intended for transportation of up to 19 passengers, cargo or for special missions.
According to the business plan and current operational programme, from 2019 the Airline will start operation of domestic flights from "Zvartnots International Airport" (Yerevan, Armenia) to shortly to be reconstructed "Kapan" airport (Syunik, Armenia). Also, by L410 flights operation will be from Yerevan to Tbilisi and Kutaisi airports of Georgia, and several other destinations within the region.
From IATA Summer 2020 season, Atlantis Armenian Airlines is planning by A320 to operate scheduled flights from Yerevan to Vienna, Prague, Athens in Europe, as well as to Kiev and Moscow in CIS. It's also intended to operate charter flights to Greek islands from Summer 2020.
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Environmental, FERC News, North America
How Resolving Project Boundary Challenges Helped Streamline Relicensing
Issue 3 and Volume 37.
During Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing of its
16-MW Ozark Beach project, The Empire District Electric Company worked to redefine the project boundary and remove land not required for project operation, thus simplifying this portion of the process.
By Sarah Howard and Kyle Slagle
The Ozark Beach Hydroelectric Project, originally constructed in 1913, is owned and operated by The Empire District Electric Company. Ozark Beach is a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)-licensed, 16-MW run-of-river project located on the White River in south-central Missouri. The dam is 1,300 feet long.
The project includes a 2,200-acre impoundment (Lake Taneycomo) located between two federal hydropower projects, owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: 200-MW Table Rock (upstream) and 340-MW Bull Shoals (downstream).
The existing project boundary encompasses large blocks of land, some of which extend well beyond the lake shoreline. However, not all of this land is necessary for operation and maintenance of the project.
Empire initiated FERC relicensing of the Ozark Beach project in September 2015, as the current operating license expires in 2022. Work successfully completed to date includes the notice of intent/pre-application document (NOI/PAD), the public review period, and the joint meeting. Work is now under way to complete a recreation resources study, a Phase I cultural resources study, an erosion study, and a downstream aquatics study. The next phase will be to complete the draft license application.
As part of the relicensing process, Empire has proposed to revise the project boundary to exclude land that is no longer required for project operation. The existing project boundary encompasses about 6,295 acres (including water), and the proposed boundary encompasses about 2,242 acres (including water). Doing so will reduce the administrative cost and burden on Empire and FERC. Empire hired Black & Veatch to perform the work required to revise the project boundary.
This article presents the approach Empire took to establish the FERC project boundary, which typically relates to the "normal maximum surface elevation" of the reservoir. For Lake Taneycomo, streamflow is heavily influenced by releases from Table Rock Dam, making it difficult to identify the "normal" and "maximum" elevations.
The 16-MW Ozark Beach hydro project will soon have a revised, smaller project boundary, as part of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing work. (Photo courtesy The Empire District Electric Company)
Identifying the land
The first step in revising the project boundary was to define the normal maximum surface elevation of the impoundment. Because flows and surface elevations in Lake Taneycomo are dictated largely by the operation of Table Rock Dam upstream, it was necessary to first establish a "normal maximum" flow release from Table Rock Dam, then model the corresponding impoundment elevation to arrive at the "normal maximum surface elevation."
Using current and historical hourly flow data provided by USACE, 13,500 cfs was selected as the normal maximum flow release from Table Rock Dam. This value represents the maximum hourly Table Rock Dam release and corresponds to the about 5% exceedance value on the project's flow duration curve. As such, it is a conservative value that has been presented to FERC as appropriately representing the normal maximum flow condition.
The revised project boundary for the impoundment was established by calculating the normal maximum surface elevation that corresponded to the 13,500 cfs normal maximum flow release from Table Rock Dam. Black & Veatch completed this work using an existing HEC-RAS model from USACE that was developed in 2000 for the White River.
The resulting contour represented the normal maximum surface elevation and, thus, the revised project boundary for Ozark Beach (see Figure 1). In several areas where the revised boundary extended beyond the existing boundary, the existing project boundary configuration was adopted or the 200-foot offset stipulated in the FERC regulations was implemented.
Figure 1 Revised Project Boundary
This image shows the existing Ozark Beach hydro project boundary in green and the proposed revised (smaller) project boundary in pink.
The revised project boundary will:
•	Exclude properties within the existing project boundary that are not "…necessary for operation and maintenance of the project or for other project purposes…" and thus, more closely adhere to the provisions of 18 CFR 4.41(h)(2).
•	Continue to include and protect project-related recreational facilities and environmental resources, all of which are retained within the revised project boundary per the requirements in 18 CFR 4.41(h)(2)(i)(B).
•	Contract the project boundary around the impoundment to more closely conform to the requirements of 18 CFR 4.41 (h)(2)(iii)(B).
Obtaining FERC approval of the proposed project boundary has been incorporated into the relicensing process, as opposed to it being submitted separately as an amendment to the current operating license. Combining the proposed project boundary with the relicensing provided for a streamlined approach to the overall FERC process.
The proposed project boundary will not change the hydro project's operation or maintenance procedures, affect the current ownership or properties, or result in any significant adverse impacts to environmental resources, local landowners, residents, businesses, community services or infrastructure. It also will not extend beyond the existing project boundary, which has been sufficient, without any known complaints or issues, for many years.
The application for transfer of project lands was filed with FERC on Dec. 5, 2016. In it, Empire requested approval to transfer fee title of 23.9 acres, or about 3,500 linear feet, within the boundary of the project to private property owners. The transfer of land ownership would be subject to retaining a flowage easement that would permit Empire to operate and manage the reservoir as required by the project's license.
The proposed project boundary for Ozark Beach is currently under FERC review.
Sarah Howard is a senior environmental scientist in the consulting engineering services/renewable services business line of Black & Veatch's global energy business. Kyle Slagle is director of water operations with The Empire District Electric Company.
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Q: Lower Central Series Problem: $D^i(G/N) = (ND^i(G))/N$ Denote by $D^iG$ the $i$th term in the lower central series of G, i.e. $D^0G = \{1\}$, $D^i=[G, D^{i-1}G]$. The claim is that if $N$ is normal in $G$, then $D^i(G/N) = (ND^i(G)/N)$.
I know we should proceed by induction, and we do thus:
For the base case, $i=0$, we have:
        $$ D^0(G/N) = G/N \mbox{ and } (ND^0G)/N = (NG)/N$$
        But from the second isomorphism theorem, $(NG)/N \cong G/(G\cap N) = G/N$, and we have equality.
Now, assume that the claim holds for the $k$th term, and we will consider the $k+1$st term:
$\begin{eqnarray*}
 D^{k+1}(G/N) &=& \left[ G/N, D^k(G/N) \right] \\
 &=& [G/N, (ND^kG)/N] \\
 &=& \langle [x, y] \mid x \in G/N, y \in (ND^kG)/N \rangle \\
 &=& \langle xyx^{-1}y^{-1} \mid x \in G/N, y\in (ND^kG)/N \rangle \\
 &=& \langle xyx^{-1}y^{-1}N \mid x \in G, y\in ND^kG \rangle \\
 &=& \langle [x,y]N \mid x \in G, y\in ND^kG \rangle \\
 &=& [G, D^kG]N \\
 &\subseteq& (ND^{k+1}G)/N
\end{eqnarray*}$
This gives one direction of inclusion. The other direction seems similar. Is this the right approach? I feel like I've bungled the chain of equalities. In particular, I'm pretty sure I just pulled the $ND^{k+1}G$ (necessary so that so that $N$ is normal in $ND^{k+1}G$) product out of thin air.
Tips, advice, corrections?  (I'm a noob here, so be gentle :-P )

A: Induction certainly works. (There are other ways of proving it if you know a bit more theory, but not necessary here). So your approach is a good one.
Some comments, then:

*

*You don't need the Second Isomorphism Theorem in the base case: $GN = G$, so $GN/N = G/N$ by simple set equality.

*You can save yourself a bit of work by noting that $ND^i(G) = D^i(G)N$ for all $i$; this because $N$ Is normal. That means that $yN\in ND^i(G)/N$ if and only if there exists $y'\in D^i(G)$ and $n\in N$ such that $yN=y'nN=y'N$; so you can assume $y\in D^i(G)$ directly, which makes some computations easier.

*It would be better if you don't switch between $x$ representing elements of the quotient and elements of the original group. So it would be better if your third line was
$$ = \Bigl\langle [xN,yN] \Bigm| xN\in G/N, yN\in D^k(G/N)\Bigr\rangle$$
and then you explicitly used the induction hypothesis, by writing it as
$$ = \Bigl\langle [xN,yN]\Bigm| x\in G, y\in D^k(G)\Bigr\rangle$$
(already using the equality above).

*The other inclusion is actually easier: if you are assuming that $ND^kG/N = D^k(G/N)$, then look at a generator of $D^{k+1}G$: it is of the form $[x,y]$ with $x\in G$ and $y\in D^k(G)$. Therefore, $yN \in ND^k(G)/N = D^k(G/N)$, so $[x,y]N = [xN,yN]\in [G/N,D^k(G/N)] = D^{k+1}(G/N)$. Hence, $ND^{k+1}G/N\subseteq D^{k+1}(G/N)$.

*Likewise, to show that $D^{k+1}(G/N)\subseteq ND^{k+1}G/N$, it suffices to show that every generator of $D^{k+1}(G/N)$ is the image of an element of $D^{k+1}G$, so just take $[xN,yN]\in D^{k+1}(G/N)$, with $xN\in G/N$ arbitrary and $yN\in D^{k}(G/N)$; then you can use the induction hypothesis directly on $yN$.

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Round one of applications is now closed.
The Charity is spending some time evaluating the first round of grants, thinking about the best way to proceed.
We have developed a three year strategy focussing on funding, building and convening.
Barking & Dagenham Renew was formally launched in November 2017. Our focus was, and continues to be, enabling and empowering residents with good ideas, to initiate new activities that add something to the borough. Our first year has involved many conversations, explorations and learning from our first grant round. This activity has led us to conclude that we have 3 objectives we want to fulfil over the next 3 years.
To award small seeding grants to fund resident led activity that will impact the cultural, social and physical landscape of Barking & Dagenham. We will be zooming in to focus on the Gascoigne Estate and Weavers Quarter area as a way to test this activity on a smaller scale.
With particular focus on ideas that promote intergenerational activity, ideas that bring together new and existing communities, supporting social cohesion across the borough and our test area at a time of borough wide change.
We see B&D Renew as being a convener, to bring together existing organisations who are developing and delivering resident led activities across the borough to meet together, share learning and position B&D Renew as the funder for activities that are impacting the specific local context and the cultural, social and physical landscape of Barking & Dagenham.
Build a base as a funder focused on shaping the local landscape of Barking and Dagenham, starting with new communities and developments across the borough, ensuring that alongside all development is effective and innovative community development to support both existing and new communities. This will include funding robust evaluation throughout to measure impact.
Round 1 of grants will be open from November 20th 2017 to February 20th 2018.
Trustees will assess all applications and inform you of the decision within 6 weeks of the application window closing.
If you are successful, we will give you all the information you need to know to get started. Grants should be spent within 6 months and you will be asked to submit a report at the end of your project to let us know what you achieved.
We will use your feedback from Round 1 to develop and shape the application process for future rounds.
Barking and Dagenham Renew accepts applications from anyone local, including individuals, registered charities and constituted or non-constituted organizations. Applicants must be able to identify how much funding they require and indicate whether these costs are for a new project or ongoing costs.
The organisation will need a bank account with a minimum of two signatories. If you don't know any organisations, please let us know as we might be able to find one for you. We do not want this to be a barrier.
You are able to submit an image to support your application, but this is not essential.
Why do you or your group need the funding?
Who does it benefit & how?
What are the key activities and who is involved in running it?
What do you want to achieve from your project?
How much funding are you applying for?
Could you provide a breakdown of how the funds will be spent?
How did you hear about Barking and Dagenham Renew grants?
We would like the application process to be as transparent as possible. Do get in touch if you have any questions about the application process, the charity or anything else.
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In recent years, multi-rotor aerodynamic aircraft have been widely used in consumer UAVs and some special industries. Mention of hovering aircraft, the first thing we have in mind is multi-rotor, which ignoring the potential of other hovering aerodynamic configurations. There is no denying the fact that multi-rotor occupied most of the market share, while UAVs should not only has one form. It is necessary that a flexible choice of pneumatic layout for different applications and scenarios.
In this context, we have developed a coaxial two-propeller UAV Tdrone. This article provides a complete information and an open source solution to share this. I hope you are interested in this kind of aircraft,even make one by yourself!
For a small coaxial twin-propeller aerodynamic configuration, a single-layer pitch-changeable structure is usually adopted, that is to say, only one rotor can be pitched in the upper and lower layers, while the other is fixed-pitch. The advantage of this layout is to simplify the mechanical structure to the greatest extent, which is conducive to the manufacture and later maintenance of aircraft. Of course, if we pursue better performance, we can also design more complex double-layer variable-pitch structure to achieve better flight performance.
1. Coaxial twin-propeller aircraft has larger rotor area and higher flight efficiency under the same working size (in flight).
2. The coaxial twin-propeller vehicle has larger payload under the same working size (in flight).
3. Under the same payload, the rotor speed is lower than that of multi-rotor, which results in less noise and better silence.
4. When generating pitch and roll control moments, the main rotor does not need to be accelerated or decelerated frequently, which reduces the energy loss. Especially in the case of large aircraft size, this advantage over multi-rotor will be more obvious.
5. The propeller can be folded and accepted conveniently without the complicated folding and locking mechanism of the multi-rotor aircraft arm. The folded fuselage is more regular and easy to carry and transport.
1. Comparing with multi-rotor aircraft, the mechanical structure of coaxial twin-propeller aircraft is relatively complex, resulting in lower manufacturing cost and maintainability than multi-rotor aircraft.
2. Flight mode is more complex than multi-rotor, which has some challenges in flight control design.
more than 100 years after the Wright brothers completed their first manned flight using fixed-wing aircraft, we are hopeful to witness the first use of UAVs on planets other than Earth, which is a coaxial drone!
The Tdrone UAV was developed in October 2015, and by April 2016 the first generation of Tdrone had initial flight capabilities, as shown in the video. Tdrone uses two modified 1806 brushless motors as power, two steering motors to control the swashplate and differential control for yaw. Flight control uses CC3D flight control. It is equipped with a two-axis stable platform and a motion camera. The duration is about 10 minutes.
Tdrone is manufactured by 3D printing technology. All parts are optimized for 3D printing, which can be printed directly. The printing materials are made of ordinary ABS plastics. Aluminum tubes are used in the central core. 98% of the parts are fixed by screw, which is convenient for later maintenance and replacement.
Are you going to sale this drone?, where i can find more info abour electronics that you use and configurations?.
I understand that swash-plate helicopters would be there in use forever, I mean by the end of the world !
Many people (among the RC community) started hating them due to the mechanical complexity involved in the design and then were born the multi-rotor copters with zero mechanical complexity, people loved them !
I appreciate the hardwork done in designing this co-axial drone but it's having the same or even higher mechanical complexity.
Currently only open source has no plans to sell. Stay tuned for tdrone and I will update more detailed tutorials in the near future.
A swashplate controlled with two servos is not as complicated as a swashplate controlled by three servos. In the past, we all speculated on the reliability of mechanical structures and did not have a lot of practical experience. I hope that the theory we speculate can be tested in practice.
Where can we find a fixed pitch rotor for this machine?


In YouTube Descrambler, a user approaches a black box projecting a popular YouTube video on a nearby wall. The user sees a large crank arm, and, familiar with this affordance, begins to crank. Immediately the user feels resistance, but as she cranks, she sees another video, beginning to peek out from the bottom of the projection. The more she cranks, the more others crowd around her, encouraging her to reveal the bottom video. This video is an unpopular video, which has been relegated to obscurity by the capitalist meritocratic system embedded in YouTube's algorithms.
This piece references a cable descrambler, invented in the 1980s to hack cable systems and allow users to access premium content, in front of which obstacles had been placed, namely the scrambling algorithm.
The YouTube Descrambler is visually striking: a sleek, black acrylic box with regularly spaced ventilation holes and internal LED bulbs. It resembles an object from a not-so-distant future. It will be rather simple to build, and extremely easy to interact with, its antique crank and handle immediately inviting users to investigate it.
For the Design Exchange Boston opening reception, we decided to take the futuristic idea that everyone will have a YouTube Descrambler in their living, and combine it with a 1960's setting. We added an actress dressed in 1960's attire to host our event, as if attendees were entering her living room.
This project is part of Terra Preta Lost Cities, a collective that works to subvert the growing influence of algorithmic inference in every aspect of human existence. TPLC rejects the notion that human life is enriched through inferences made by emerging ambient intelligence technologies.


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The history of the Greek Australian Cultural League
By CATHY ALEXOPOULOS
The influx of migrants that had embarked the shores of Port Melbourne were not only diverse in their labour skills but also in their academic knowledge. As more of them established themselves in their new homeland so did the need to belong to a group that they could identify with and that they could share their common language, traditions and customs.
Thereby we see the bourgeoning of locality organizations, community groups, brotherhoods, federations, and other clubs being created.Thus in this climate an idea originated to establish an organization that had no locality affiliations or barriers, but to focus solely on the advancement and pursuit of the Greek letters and culture. The creation of this organization was also the result of an intense desire for social communication both on the individual level and on the communal level.
The need for a common linguistic, cultural and even psychological outlet was certainly the only means for survival for the migrants in a land with foreign customs, language and a different social cohesion that did not offer such specific services. So in 1963 an attempt was made by a band of enthusiastic, young, literary men and women and they formed the "The Hellenic Writers Federation of Australia" with Konstantinos Alexander-Malaxos, philologist, polyglot and gnostic as their guiding light.
Unfortunately after a few years Mr Malaxos left for Greece and the group disbanded. But the thirst still existed and in 1970, in the presence of 46 committed, literary devotees the Greek Cultural League of Melbourne was founded in the Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria. In 1981 the name was changed to the Greek-Australian Cultural League of Melbourne. The GACL came into being at a period of maturity by the community, when after 20 years of mass migration, uprooting, uncertainty and period of adjustment came something that they could identify with and call their own.
They formed a non-profit organization that had and still has no political or religious affiliations and its basic aims and objectives as were formulated in their constitution and thereafter amended were:
• To maintain and advance Greek language learning.
• To maintain the Greek ethos and cultural traditions and their exposure to the multicultural society of Australia.
• To encourage and organise cultural and artistic events relevant to attracting a younger audience.
• To create working relationships with comparable organizations and of other minority ethnic groups.
In order to fulfil its aims and objectives the League published the "Antipodes" periodical in 1974. This is the longest published, bi-lingual periodical circulating in Australia with 60 printed volumes, counting this year's publication. Chris Fifis, one of the founding members, gave the name of "Antipodes" thus establishing the geographical location of its inception and place of publication. The periodical has played a major role in the promotion of the flourishing Greek-Australian literature which coincides with its period of circulation.
Within its pages a large number of Greek-Australian writers have found their voice and become household names- at least in the Greek circuit. Each year the periodical pays a special tribute to Greek-Australian men/women of letters, those who have helped to maintain and encourage the Greek culture and history, and to artists (visual and performing) who have made a substantial contribution to the Greek community in Australia.
With the inclusion of articles, essays, reports, critiques, studies, book reviews and other academic dissertations, the periodical has served and will continue to contribute as an important archival and reference depository for future researches. Another point of note is the recognition that this periodical has received from Greece. Over the years we have had many submissions for the periodical by not only notable Greek writers but also by academics and well known Greek personalities who are familiar with the high standard that the periodical has attained.
In conclusion, for the past 41 years the periodical "Antipodes" has formed the backbone of Greek-Australian literature and has given the opportunity to all admirers and followers of the written word the chance see their works in print in a prominent literary periodical.
In order to facilitate the realisation of its aims the League in 1980 initiated the annual bi-lingual Literary Competition in the categories of poetry, short story, and recently one-act plays. The first prize recipients, in each category, as an extra incentive have their work published in the periodical "Antipodes".
What has become evident in the recent years is the large number of participants in this competition from Greece as well as from other parts of Europe, including Cyprus. This of course is due to the electronic technology available to us with the press of button. The League's name has certainly broadened its perimeters and the boundaries have been abolished.
Over the course of the years we have acknowledged the work of the founding members and supportive friends with special tribute events showcasing their diverse skills. We have received invaluable support from many academics –too many to mention, from all over Australia in the form of meticulously researched and inspirational articles, invaluable services and scholarly analysis. I would like to publically thank them and acknowledge their contribution.
We are most grateful for the admirable and insatiable contribution from all these fervent supporters who have spent their time in writing quality material to be published. Through the League's portals many well known Greek-Australian writers have entered its domain-to name a few: Dimitris Tsaloumas, Tom Petsinis, Nikos Ninolakis, Aristidis Paradissis, Nikos Nomikos, Yiannis Vasilakakos, Stathis Raftopoulos, Antigone Kefala, Dina Amanatidou, Vasso Kalamara and many others.
I would also like to mention that the League has foreseen and predicted the need to become more relevant and embrace the younger generation and the new venues of communication-our old website and blog were upgraded and consolidated in one new site which includes an online bookshop too, as well as other interactive social media such as facebook, twitter and instagram.
In the past few years there has been a concerted effort to include second generation men and women into our Administrative Committee as well as broadening our membership base with new members from different age groups. We also organize events that are more relevant to second generation poets, writers and artists. A few of these are in both languages for instance translated books or bi-lingual poetry.
We organised for the 4th year in a row an Art Exhibition called "Antipodean Palette" at Steps Gallery, Lygon St., Carlton, to showcase second generation artists, of Greek descent and of course incorporate the talent of some first generation artists as well. At this exhibition we have also included the works of artists of non-Greek background.
We also organise poetry evenings and book launches while the exhibition is on. We are indeed very proud and gratified that a number of first and second generation writers of whom the Cultural League has supported and promoted participated in the inaugural "Antipodes Writers Festival" held at the Wheeler Centre in 2012.
We are a non-profit organisation that relies on membership payments, generous donations and grants from the Victorian government for its running costs. Through prudent financial management we have been able in 2010 and in 2011 to support the Modern Greek at Monash University through scholarships or a contribution for the payment for the lecturer.
Countless activities
From its establishment the GACLM organised frequent talks, lectures, poetry evenings, outings, trips, dances, musical interludes and many other events. Another of the important activities of the League has been the countless book launches-books written in either Greek, English or translated versions by Greek-Australian writers. Without these book launches the community would not have become familiar with the literary creations that are around and the writers would not have had the necessary avenue to familiarise their labour of love to a broader, supportive audience.
In the past years we have also presented and promoted books written in Greece by Greek writers who have come here to present their books. A notable mention is when in 1981 the world famous writer, Antonis Samarakis came to especially to Australia to launch his translated book "The Passport", translated by Prof. Gavin Betts.
The League has managed to co-exist and form common bonds with other organizations that have similar interests, therefore in the course of the years the majority of the events have been co-organised with other affiliated associations. We have also participated in events that have been beyond the Greek community… Poetry in translation at Federation Square, poetry recitals at Readings book shops, Book exhibitions at Fed. Square, etc.
Due to the multifaceted services that the GACL has offered to the Greek-Australian community for over 40 years in both the literary, cultural, educational and social sectors, the Meritorious Service to the Community award was granted to the League from the Victorian Award for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs, in 2006. Over the years the League has been managed by a group of hard working, enthusiastic, diverse, talented and honest volunteers who have formed the various Administrative Committees.
These men and women have not only devoted countless, precious, private hours of their time but have financially assisted in organizing the innumerable functions that the League has undertaken. They are the essence and the mainstay of the success behind the League's proud longevity. And of course we must not forget the supportive membership base that have tirelessly contributed and attended the various events all these years and have not only benefited the League in realizing its aims and objectives but they have established long lasting friendships and networks as well as creating the cultural and Literary foundations for future generations to build on.
Forty four years on we find that the League has played a pivotal role in offering the Greek-Australian community a plethora of events promoting the Greek language, culture and generally the advancement of philhellenism in the Diaspora. This organization has written the literary history of Hellenes in Australia and has left a critical and vital mark in the continuation of the undertaking we have endowed from our predecessors.
It is our responsibility to steer the correct course and maintain the same momentum in the years to come. Although the foundations are solid and the grounding is firm we are traversing a transition phase of modifications and adjustments, necessary changes for the continued viability of the League into the next generation.


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Barcelona in move to sign key Arsenal defender
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Written by Martin Graham | April 14, 2022
The latest reports suggest that Barcelona are targeting Arsenal defender Gabriel Magalhaes in a summer swap.
Gabriel joined the Gunners in the summer of 2020 from French club LOSC Lille and has grown into an important player in the team, seamlessly forming partnerships with fellow Brazilian David Lewis, and then signing Ben White summer 2021 at the heart of Arsenal's defence.
So far, he has made 62 appearances for the club and is a major reason why Arsenal's above-average level of defense has helped him return to the competition for European positions next season.
Barcelona need a left center back despite having two of them in Clement Lenglet and Samuel Umtiti. Both Frenchmen are expected to be transferred in the summer, necessitating the acquisition of a new left-footed centre-back.
The 24-year-old Brazilian fits the bill and Spanish outlets Diario Sport Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez is allegedly pressuring the club to make a summer move for the player. Relations are good between Barcelona and Arsenal following the transfer of Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in January, and have been built on the back of other deals in the past.
It has also been reported that Arsenal are keeping an eye on three Barcelona players they could use for any deals for Gabriel in the summer. Arsenal are eyeing Memphis Depay, who joined the club only in the summer in a free game from Olympique Lyonnais in France, as well as goalkeeper Neto Morara and midfielder Ricky Puig.
Depay has struggled with frequent injuries that have pushed him down the standings as newcomers Ferran Torres and Aubameyang from Manchester City and Arsenal respectively filled the place Depay had.
Neto has been struggling to get match time at Barcelona and has barely played this season for the Catalan giants. On the other hand, Puig slipped down the rankings with the emergence of young La Masia teammates Pablo Gavira "Jaffe" and Nico Gonzalez.
Depay is an option for Arsenal who are set to lose Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah in the summer, while Neto could replace Bernd Leno, who is also expected to end his time at the Emirates.
Arsenal have promising young defender William Saliba on loan at Olympique de Marseille and could risk losing Gabriel. Arsenal signed Saliba as a 19-year-old from Saint-Etienne in 2019 but have not used him since.
His string of strong displays in Ligue 1 alerted Arsenal to the gem in their hands and the Frenchman was promoted for a comeback. However, they will have to do a lot to convince Saliba not to make his move to Marseille permanent as the French club have expressed an interest in keeping him – along with fellow Arsenal loanee Mathieu Guendouzi – for the foreseeable future.
It remains to be seen if Arsenal and Barcelona Saberman make a deal that would see Gabriel move to Camp Nou next season with Saliba in mind either as a direct buy, or a swap deal that includes any of the three Arsenal targets currently at Barcelona.
Martin Graham is a sports writer for the MFF Forum


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To date the 28-year-old has played 66 times for the Warriors and has scored four tries.
Details of Leone's new club will be announced by them in due course.
Glasgow Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend said: "Leone has attracted a lot of interest from other clubs due to the form he's been in over the last year.
"During the Rugby World Cup a lot of clubs were interested in signing him and although we were looking to retain him, we have now agreed to let Leone leave a year early.
"Leone has been a fantastic player for the club and has been a pleasure to coach. He has worked hard and developed into one of the best second-rows in the world during the past three years.
"He has worked very hard to improve and has shown on numerous occasions how much he cares for his teammates and this club.
"We will rightly remember his outstanding game in last year's GUINNESS PRO12 Final, but his performance this season at home to Leinster was equally as impressive. Following an injury to Peter Murchie, Leone became our captain in the second-half and really stepped up for his teammates, making smart decisions and putting his body on the line in defence.
"We are looking forward to Leone delivering similar performances as we enter a very exciting run of games at the end of this season."
Speaking to glasgowwarriors.org, Leone Nakarawa said: "These types of opportunities only come around once and I couldn't turn it down.
"I'll miss all of the players, but I'll still keep in touch with them as I get on with them all so well.
"This is a new challenge which I'm looking forward to, but that is next season and my focus just now is trying to retain the GUINNESS PRO12 trophy and end my time at the club on a high.
"Glasgow Warriors have helped me a lot with the coaches and backroom staff improving my game and making me stronger.
"I'd also like to thank the Glasgow supporters for making me feel so welcome."


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The Republic of Phocidaea is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Consul Tiver Célj Phóca with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.763 billion Phocidaeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.
The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Education, with Social Policy, Welfare, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manha Phócidaea. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Phocidaean economy, worth a remarkable 2,648 trillion adamás a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 179,369 adamás, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, and giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls. Crime is totally unknown. Phocidaea's national animal is the harp seal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.
Phocidaea is ranked 3,872nd in the world and 132nd in Osiris for Most Inclusive, scoring 241.88 on the Mandela-Wollstonecraft Non-Discrimination Index.
20 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls.
20 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework.
20 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments.
41 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security.
41 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, new government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps.
41 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, citizens are remarkably well involved in the political process.
41 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, the justice of Phocidaea is considered superior to that of other nations.
57 days ago : Phocidaea was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Politically Free.
68 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state.
68 days ago : Following new legislation in Phocidaea, strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down.


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Fake Drugs Labelled As Chinese Tea: France In Record Haul
Health World
Paris (AFP) – Aspirin, anti-diarrhoea and erectile dysfunction drugs: French customs have seized millions of counterfeit medicines imported from China in what they described as the biggest haul of its kind within the European Union.
A total of 2.4 million pills, capsules and powdered medicine were seized at the end of February in the northern port of Le Havre in 601 boxes labelled as containing Chinese tea, customs officials said Thursday.
"Some of the drugs contain no active ingredient, which constitutes outright cheating of consumers," said a customs statement.
"Others have different levels of the active ingredient compared to the authentic drug which means they could represent a serious health risk for patients taking them."
According to French customs, the previous record seizure in the EU was for 1.2 million doses of counterfeit aspirin, also made at Le Havre in Normandy, in May 2013.
Like the seizure this year, the powdered aspirin was mainly composed of glucose.
Le Havre is a huge commercial port in France through which nearly 2.5 million containers transit annually.
Every year, customs seize tens of thousands of counterfeit products that include television sets, mobile phones, auto parts, clothes and medicine, most of which come from China en route to African countries such as Nigeria.
Last year, counterfeit drugs represented nearly 20 percent of all seized products, and consisted mainly of fake pills of Viagra and Cialis for erectile dysfunction, as well as aspirin.
The problem of counterfeit drug production in China was highlighted last year when the country's authorities launched a crackdown which led to 1,300 arrests in December and the closure of dozens of unauthorised online pharmacies.
According to the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a U.S. non-profit medical research group, the traffic in fake medicine is highly lucrative, generating 55 billion euros ($76 billion) globally in 2010, a 90 percent rise from 2005.
In Europe, meanwhile, a study conducted by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 2010 showed that the market for fake drugs was worth around 10.5 billion euros, including one billion euros in France.
And according to the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines, 62 percent of drugs bought on the Internet in 2011 were fake.
Photo via Flickr.com/Charles Kaiser
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Q: Custom PAM config: How can I pass username/password parameters to an pam_exec.so module? I'm using openvpn, a PAM aware app. It has the following useful documentation:
For example:

  plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "login login USERNAME password PASSWORD"

tells auth-pam to (a) use the "login" PAM module, (b) answer a
"login" query with the username given by the OpenVPN client, and
(c) answer a "password" query with the password given by the
OpenVPN client.  This provides flexibility in dealing with the different
types of query strings which different PAM modules might generate.
For example, suppose you were using a PAM module called
"test" which queried for "name" rather than "login":

Now I want to create an openvpn configuration in /etc/pam.d that gets the username/password from openvpn PAM plugin and passes it to a script. Enter:
pam_exec.so

Setting up a PAM openvpn configuration with an:
auth required pam_exec.so myscript
And configuring openvpn to call:
plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "openvpn login USERNAME password PASSWORD"
All seems straight forward. The part that gets me is what syntax I use to get the login/password that were defined in openvpn out to the script. The documentation of pam_exec.so seems to ignore this key question.
E.g.:
auth required pam_exec.so myscript %login %password
The above is just my psudo code for how it might look, what should this syntax correctly look like?

A: The full answer is posted here:
https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=8310
Without duplicating that answer in full, the jist of it is that the configuration in server.config of openvpn needs to be:
plugin /usr/local/openvpn/sbin/openvpn-auth-pam.so "openvpn"

Contrary to the example provided in the documentation:
plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "login login USERNAME password PASSWORD"


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Parliament: Critical to revive Changi air hub, says Ong Ye Kung
Calling for support for S'pore to open up safely, he says status quo is not sustainable
In Parliament yesterday, Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said the status quo - with the airport serving just 1.5 per cent of its usual passenger volume - is not sustainable. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Lim Min Zhang
Assistant News Editor
https://str.sg/J2FR
The longer Singapore's borders remain closed, the greater the risk of the country losing its status as an air hub, said Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung yesterday.
The status quo - with Changi Airport serving just 1.5 per cent of its usual passenger volume - is not sustainable, he told Parliament.
"We cannot just wait around for a vaccine, which may take a year or two before it becomes widely available. Even then, we do not know if the vaccine will work as expected," he said. "So we need to take proactive steps to revive the Changi air hub, as a top national priority."
In a 30-minute speech, Mr Ong set out why Singapore's air hub status is critical to its economy, and asked for Singaporeans' support in this "critical endeavour" to open up slowly and safely.
Singapore's decision to close off its borders on March 24 to tourists and short-term visitors - much like what many governments did around the world in the face of an unknown and dangerous virus - has decimated air travel, he said.
Today, Singapore has fewer passengers than when it first opened Changi Airport Terminal 1 in 1981, he noted.
The closure has affected many other sectors, such as aerospace, tourism, hospitality, retail, entertainment and attractions, as well as taxi and private-hire car drivers.
"But what is most worrying is the longer-term impact on our entire economy. Our aviation hub status is essential, even existential, to the health of the Singapore economy, to our jobs and our future," said Mr Ong.
A key reason companies put significant investment in Singapore is its superior air connectivity, he said. This means customers, suppliers, partners and key executives can travel in and out of the country easily.
Mr Ong set out the steps that Singapore will take to open up its borders and revive air travel, to rebuild Changi as an air hub. These range from negotiating two-way air travel bubbles with safe countries and regions, to the continued pursuit of reciprocal green lane arrangements and facilitating passenger transfers at Changi Airport.
Singapore should also consider lifting border restrictions with countries and regions that have Covid-19 incidence rates comparable with the Republic's and comprehensive public health surveillance systems, said Mr Ong.
Changi drops from 7th to 58th on busiest airport list amid global travel restrictions
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New requirements for visitors to S'pore being planned to replace SHN: Ong Ye Kung
"Remember that we are small. Our domestic market is not a big bargaining chip. Instead, what we need to have is a mindset of generosity, required of a hub," he said, adding that this was why Singapore opened up its skies unilaterally when building up Changi Airport in the 1980s.
It is also why Singapore removed tariffs unilaterally for all countries decades ago. Despite this, many countries chose to negotiate air services and free trade agreements with Singapore, he said.
"Our partners know that by connecting to Singapore, they connect with the rest of the world. They chose to deal with Singapore because it is strategic to do so."
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Concluding, Mr Ong said that while Singapore had to close its borders earlier this year to keep its people safe, the trade-off between lives and livelihoods is no longer as stark, and the two do not have to be at odds. This is because Singapore has learnt to control the virus, and testing is now much less of a constraint.
"Eventually, when there is a widely available and effective vaccine, air travel will resume. But in the meantime, we will have to learn to live with the virus - taking sensible precautions, while earning a living, and keeping hopes for our future alive."
What is at stake is not just hundreds of thousands of jobs, but Singapore's status as an air hub, its relevance to the world, its economic survival and, in turn, Singapore's ability to determine its own future, he said.
"We must open up slowly, carefully, and holding each other accountable for our collective safety. But open up we must."
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S'pore's travel arrangements: Which countries can you visit?
Revitalising Singapore's air hub
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 07, 2020, with the headline Critical to revive Changi air hub: Ong Ye Kung. Subscribe
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As a parent, student, teacher, or friend of the school, the first person you have seen when walking into school on Saturday for the past 30 years has been Mrs. Deyhimi. Although she has grown older, her passion for the students and the school have only become stronger. There will be a 90th birthday party for dear Mrs. Deyhimi at the Westin Hotel in Tysons Corner on October 14, 2016 from 7:30 to 11:30 PM. Come celebrate her passionately dedicated life to the Iranian community, Farsi language, Persian history, and young children of all backgrounds who have wanted to learn this beautiful language for 30 years.
This event can only happen with your participation and will include full course Persian dinner, live entertainment and music. The ticket per person is $100 or a table of 10 for $1000.
Come celebrate her passionately dedicated life to the Iranian community, Farsi language, Persian history, and young children of all backgrounds who have wanted to learn this beautiful language for 30 years.
All the tickets for this event have been sold.


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Q: Read data from serial port and keep track of most recent lines read Here is my problem. I have about 20 different types of messages coming in through a port. they can all be identified and come in at different rates (some come multiple times per second, some once every couple of seconds.)
I need to keep a log of these items, but only log them every 30 minutes. I would like to constantly read the port, and update an array of some sort. then when the timer event occurs, log the data from the array.
I am doing this in C# .net 4.5.2

A: You can use a dictionary of lists to organize this type of in-memory log. If you create say
public enum EventTypes
{
    A,
    B
};

and assuming your data points are integers, you could use
Dictionary<EventTypes, List<int>> inMemoryLog = new Dictionary<EventTypes, List<int>>();

Then you could log like this:
inMemoryLog[EventTypes.A].Add(myDataPoint);

When you're ready to flush the log to memory, persist the inMemoryLog to disk, removing each entry that you have written out. It may be a good strategy to create a copy of inMemoryLog to use to write to disk (and then re-initialize the imMemoryLog instance you use for logging) so that in-memory logging can continue without interruption.


I have lots of reels from at least four different major manufacturers (plus one from the late US Reel company whose distinguishing feature was that it lacked a levelwind), and I'm just a weekend fisherman, not an engineer, so I'm not going to try to sell you on any particular brand.
They all have their pluses and minuses, I suppose, and truth be told there are lots of really good ones out there right now. At the $99 price point you can get an amazing tool, and for $150 or $200 you can get something so much better than the premium models of yesteryear that it's not even a close comparison. In the upper echelons of the price game, the available reels often border on being functional works of art. While you might choose one brand over another for its aesthetics, or for some functional difference, the truth is that you really can't go all that wrong. The differences are relatively minor.
That's what I thought, at least, until I fished the Shimano Curado DC for seven days last week in Mexico. Full Disclosure: I have several friends who work at Shimano, and I may have gotten some discounted gear in the past, as I have from other companies. With seven days of use, I can't yet say that it will revolutionize the sport or make all other reels obsolete, but if it holds up and continues to perform as it did I will end up with a bunch of them consistently on the deck of my boat.
What makes it different? It's the computerized cast control.
What does that mean? I'll be damned if I know. I can barely hit the power button on my Commodore 64.
I don't really care why it works. I just care that it does work. Despite the fact that my thumb has 35 years of higher baitcasting education there are still times when you have to plan or time your throws with light lures, particularly those that catch air. I spent all week using the DC to throw Rico's and hard jerkbaits and unweighted Senkos, and when I was fishing with it I could literally "set it and forget it." No backlashes, just the rare loop when throwing a light lure directly into a really heavy wind.
At 250 bucks, they're not cheap, but they're not all that much more than any other premium reel, and less than many others. Without explicitly endorsing one brand over another across the board, I can tell you right now that you're going to like this one. Order and find out. Just don't make your purchase too soon – they're on backorder and I need to get a few in my grubby paws in time for Shad Rap season.


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Here's How CenturyLink Is Cutting Capex
News Analysis Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading 12/6/2018
CenturyLink is combining "robust" spending scrutiny with synergies from its Level 3 merger to reduce capex by three percentage points for calendar 2018, CFO Neel Dev said at the UBS Annual Global Media and Communications Brokers Conference.
CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL) drove down capex by putting in "robust processes" to "make sure we're getting a return on every dollar of investment," Dev said in a Tuesday Q&A with a UBS analyst. "We look at every investment to make sure it's in line with our future strategy." Additionally, CenturyLink saw savings through its 2017 Level 3 merger, enabling the redeployment of network capacity and equipment. (See A Deep Dive Into CenturyLink's Operations Transformation & Roadmap and CenturyLink Splashes $34B on Level 3 Buy.)
CenturyLink plans to reduce capex from its original outlook of 16% of total revenues to $3.15B to $3.25 billion, the company said in its earnings call last month, for the third quarter ending September 30. The new capex spending is about 13% of total revenue, based on projected 2018 EBITDA of $9 billion to $9.15 billion.
Dev and UBS kicked off Q&A by discussing integration between CenturyLink and Level 3. "We're at a point where we are operating as one company," Dev said. The combined company has aligned much of its its organization, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), North American and European operations, product disposition, network interconnection and major processes.
CenturyLink is ahead of schedule on the integration, achieving more than 90% of its goals of $850 million synergies in the fourth quarter, with more savings to come, Dev said. The company planned to reach its goal over three years, but instead was able to hit 90% of goal in four quarters, Dev said.
CenturyLink sees continued cost transformation in three categories, Dev said. First is moving services from off-net onto its own network, which can achieve $300 million savings in network expenses.
The second category is "overall digital transformation of the business." The company wants to move all its customer touch points to digital interactions. "We've trained our customers to call us. We want to change that; we want them to digitally interact with us," he said. Additionally, CenturyLink wants to transition away from manual billing, and provide self-service delivery assurance. These transitions will both improve the customer experience and boost CenturyLink's cost structure.
CenturyLink operations center in Broomfield, Colorado. Photo by CenturyLink.
The third category is network and infrastructure simplification, transitioning from legacy services such as voice switches. As usage of those services decline "there is an opportunity for us to really optimize space, power maintenance and other costs," but those costs will take time to achieve, Dev said.
CenturyLink has seen revenue decline. In the third quarter, revenue fell for the third straight quarter, down 3.6% to $5.82 billion
The company has been focusing on profitable revenue, and exiting some unprofitable contracts, Dev said. CenturyLink has shifted the focus away from IT, managed services, and CPE where it isn't paired with network services, as well as slowly declining legacy products like voice, Dev said.
And to counter the revenue decline, CenturyLink is looking to grab enterprise market share and is seeing demand, bandwidth and connectivity requirements grow in that market, Dev said.
Weak enterprise telecom spending hasn't been a problem for CenturyLink, Dev said. "We're leaning into the enterprise marketplace," he said. The company is "taking share" and "pricing dynamics are good," as are demand trends. Technology transition away from legacy service drives down average revenue per user (ARPU) initially, but the business grows over time as "demand grows, bandwidth grows, connectivity requirements grow," he said, adding that demand trends are healthy.
SD-WAN plays a role in CenturyLink's future. CenturyLink sees SD-WAN as "just another part of the product portfolio," Dev said. SD-WAN is cheaper per node than MPLS and also less expensive than 100Gbit/s connectivity. But CenturyLink isn't selling single node networks, outside of its SMB business; it sells 200-400-node networks. And SD-WAN lets CenturyLink win more business, with customers with international locations and locations not addressable to CenturyLink previously.
On its consumer business, CenturyLink is seeing decline driven by its linear video business, which CenturyLink stopped marketing in the first quarter, as well as declining voice business, Dev said. "I think there is an opportunity for us to improve the performance of our broadband business. And we have a series of initiatives in terms of micro targeting to really figure out how we improve the performance of that business with increased penetration," he said. Twenty-megabyte speeds in an urban market where CenturyLink faces competition are a different proposition than in a rural market where CenturyLink is the only alternative.
CenturyLink is moving from copper to fiber on its consumer network, contributing to the capex savings.
— Mitch Wagner Executive Editor, Light Reading
Architec73447 12/6/2018 | 1:52:57 PM
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