Income taxpayer base moved up substantially to 6.26 crore at the end of the last fiscal, from nearly 4 crore earlier, CBDT Chairman Sushil Chandra said today.
ANd returns for this year is still 30 September, so I think the final number might be close to 7 crore. All these years salaried employees complaiend they were the only ones paying taxes, well looks like most people are finally moving to the tax net and earlier era of looting the public savings via easy loans and hiding NPA's is coming to an end. to be honest most of today's PSU Bank NPA of 8 Lac crore should have been NPA on 31 Mar 2014.
Not sure why this is an accomplishment. It opens up questions as to how can one ascertain country of origin for immigrants who have secured AADHAR or PAN card in India.
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi offering floral tributes to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Kalam Sthal, in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu on July 27, 2017.
Swach Bharat Mission. HY and UK declared ODF. Joins SK, HP, KL. 5 states now ODF.
Modi stated this during his Monday's informal discussion with BJP MPs from Delhi, J-K, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. According to a press statement issued on the outcome of interaction with parliamentarians, Modi stated that "poor are getting money directly into their accounts after Haryana and Puducherry closed their PDS systems. This model may be implemented in other states as well".
He informed the members that Haryana and Chandigarh have managed to check corruption after they became kerosene free.
Under the PDS, central public sector undertaking Food Corporation of India (FCI) sells food grains, including wheat, rice and sugar, and kerosene through fair price shops in states and union territories.
The PM also impressed upon the MPs to ensure the continuance of the "benefit chain" under the GST and urged small businesses and traders to register under the new tax regime. The lawmakers gave positive feedback on the GST to Modi and stated that there was a lot of enthusiasm among small commercial ventures regarding the new law.
"GST has been accepted and overwhelmingly supported across the country. Small traders should also register themselves with this new tax law. It should be ensured that the benefit chain of GST be continued," Modi was quoted by an official statement as having told the party MPs.
He also talked about qualitative changes his government's schemes have brought in the lives of people belonging to the hills since MPs from Uttarakhand and MP were present in the sixth such meeting at his residence.
Replying to a question on recovery of undisclosed income post demonetisation, Gangwar said the Income Tax Department conducted searches in 900 groups of persons during November 2016 to March 2017, leading to seizure of Rs. 900 crore and admission of undisclosed income of Rs. 7,961 crore.
Besides, 8,239 surveys were conducted leading to detection of undisclosed income of Rs. 6,745 crore.
He further said during the current financial year (till June end) the department conducted searches in 102 groups, seizing assets worth Rs. 103 crore.
Over 9.27 lakh responses were received giving information on 13.33 lakh accounts involving cash deposits of around Rs. 2.89 lakh crore.
Clean up on epic scale. NGOs, shell companies, individual PAN, all avenues of black money being cleaned. Long term benefits will be massive.
As a result of demonetization and Operation Clean Money, there is a substantial increase in the number of Income Tax Returns(ITRs) filed. The number of Returns filed as on 05.08.2017 stands at 2,82,92,955 as against 2,26,97,843 filed during the corresponding period of F.Y. 2016-2017, registering an increase of 24.7% compared to growth rate of 9.9% in the previous year. The growth in returns filed by Individuals is 25.3% with 2,79,39,083 returns having been received upto 05.08.2017 as against 2,22,92,864 returns in the corresponding period of F.Y. 2016-2017. This clearly shows that substantial number of new tax payers have been brought into the tax net subsequent to demonetization.
The proposal moots that post hearings in district courts, appeals in all civil and criminal cases will be heard in the courts of appeal. These new courts will be placed higher than the district courts but below the high courts.
A number of courts of appeal is likley to be formed under the jurisdiction of each high court, and case disposal norms or targets may be set for these courts. Setting up the courts of appeal will be a big administrative exercise and may require changes in some rules governing the present system.
The idea that an alternative mechanism was needed to hear all statutory appeals and therefore, decongest the legal system was firmed up at a recent top-level meeting attended by senior officials from the Prime Minister's Office, the cabinet secretary, and secretaries from ministries of finance, department of personnel and training, law and Niti Aayog. Two Supreme Court judges represented the top court at the meeting. ET has reviewed the minutes of the meeting.
.....the award money will be recovered from the officer/employee found responsible for the delay.
There are some achievements mentioned. Well presented by prof Nalapat.
Triple talak banned. Govt refused to support it in SC.
Power sector developments under Modi govt.
According to authorities, the resignations were driven by the dealers' failure to make an extra buck since the "foolproof machines" were installed, a charge some of the dealers have admitted.
Bijnor district supply officer Manish Kumar Singh said, "Dealers can't cheat people anymore. In Bijnor alone, 10 dealers have quit."
Daudhan: After years of foot-dragging India will begin work in around a month on an $87 billion scheme to connect some of the country's biggest rivers, government sources say, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi bets on the ambitious project to end deadly floods and droughts.
Both rivers flow through vast swathes of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh states, ruled by Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the prime minister hopes the Ken-Betwa scheme will set a template for other proposed river interlinking projects, one of the sources said.
The 425-km (265-mile) Ken flows through a tiger reserve nestled in a verdant valley. The government plans to clear out 6.5% of the forest reserve to build the dam, relocating nearly 2,000 families from 10 remote villages.
Around half a dozen clearances, including on environmental and forest protection, have been obtained for the scheme to link the Ken and Betwa, according to two sources and documents seen by Reuters.
Modi's cabinet is likely to give its final go-ahead for the project within a couple of weeks, sources say, after which he will flag off construction at the site about 805 km (500 miles) from New Delhi, currently marked only by rows of red concrete slabs placed on the ground.
The government is also finishing up paperwork on projects in western India linking the Par-Tapi with the Narmada and the Daman Ganga with the Pinjal. The projects involve Modi's home state of Gujarat and neighbouring Maharashtra, which includes Mumbai, both also ruled by the BJP.
Modi's government is touting the linking of rivers as a panacea to the floods and droughts that plague India every year, killing hundreds of poor people and withering crops.
Large areas of eastern and north-eastern India are reeling under floods in which hundreds have died, while torrential rain also brought the commercial capital Mumbai to a standstill this week. The southern state of Tamil Nadu, in contrast, recently rationed drinking water due to drought.
India, which has 18% of the world's population but only 4% of the usable water resources, perversely gives incentives to produce and export thirsty crops such as rice and sugar cane.
India had first mooted the idea of having such an agency for the BRICS grouping to challenge the dominance of credit-rating market by S&P, Moody's and Fitch. These three western rating age ..
The government is also betting on the 101 cold chain projects it sanctioned in March this year to help boost food processing capacity. "100 cold chains have been set up already and in the next 18-24 months, 101 more (cold chain projects) will be ready," Kaur said.
Lucknow: Villagers in Bhadarsa in Uttar Pradesh's district are going though a hard time after the city administration ordered to disconnect the electricity supply of houses those without toilets in the village.
As per a report, the ordered was given by Block Development Officer of Sarojini Nagar of Lucknow.
However, Bhadarsa residents said that they are facing problems after electricity cut and had asked for some more time to make toilets. But BDO didn't listen to their request.
The electricity was restored after some time.
Speaking to ANI, BDO Ajay Pratap said, "Electricity is restored but why aren't people cooperating with govt when they have means to make not 1 but even 2-3 toilets."
On Tuesday Netanyahu mentioned this during his address to the United Nations General Assembly. He called Modi's visit to Israel truly historic!. It is indeed rare that one hears that in a UNGA address!
All villages along Ganga now ODF. Part of Namami Gange.
Saubhagya yojana launched. Free or subsidized electricity for BPL.
Ever since the gross domestic product (GDP) figures for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2017-2018 were released, there has been talk about the economic slowdown. Some have been eager to lay the blame for it at the feet of the two big-bang economic initiatives of the Narendra Modi government – demonetisation and the goods and services tax. While some others have vowed to mount a defence in any case.
Far from this debate, however, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not be as troubled by the GDP growth slide.
A simple comparison of important economic factors between the years 2014 and the present, 2017, paints an optimistic picture.
Foreign direct investment inflows, for instance, have grown from $24.2 billion in 2013-14 to $60.1 billion this fiscal. India's rank in the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index this year is 40, up 31 places in the last three years. And inflation – a highly watched and tracked economic indicator – is down to 4 per cent this year, from 11 per cent in 2014.
According to the SRS Bulletin, last year, the IMR only saw a two point decline.
"Not only this, India also recorded a major drop in birth cohort, which has for the first time come down to below 25 million. India has registered 90,000 fewer infant deaths in 2016 as compared to 2015. The total number of estimated infant deaths have come down from 9,30,000 (9.3 lakhs) in 2015 to 8,40,000 (8.4 laks) in 2016," said the statement.
Gujarat, Chandigarh now ODF (Open Defecation Free).
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Roads increased from just under 96K km in 70 years in 2014, to 170K km in 2017. Amazing.
Very useful listing of domestic Digital advances by Minister Ravi Prasad.
He says 100 new manufacturing units have come up for mobile alone!!!
Guys who were teenagers in the 80s early 90s will remember how exhilarated people (jingos) were when just one new manufacturing unit for any damn thing came to India then. Barely 20 years later we are throwing around numbers like these... Incredible India indeed. We are lucky to be living in these times.
10 new Swachh iconic places chosen under Swachh Bharat Mission.
Bhandari's election in ICJ - Incredible win and demonstration of Modi's clout in international support.
The Government of India welcomes the election of Judge Dalveer Bhandari to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) when the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council convened independently in New York on 20 November 2017 to fill the fifth vacancy for the 2018-2027 term.
The UN Security Council and the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in support of India. Judge Dalveer Bhandari received all 15 votes in the UN Security Council and 183 out of the 193 votes in the UN General Assembly.
The extraordinary support from the UN membership is reflective of the respect for strong constitutional integrity of the Indian polity and the independence of the judiciary in India.
It may be recalled that the Indian National Group to the Permanent Court of Arbitration had re-nominated Judge Dalveer Bhandari as India's national candidate in June 2017. Government of India has been supporting the campaign of Judge Bhandari through diplomatic efforts at different fora.
The UK decided to withdraw its candidate after a closely fought electoral process. We appreciate the UK decision.
We thank all those governments who supported India in this election.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India initiative has helped the defence ministry save more than Rs 1 lakh crore worth of foreign exchange. In the past two years, as many as six air defence and anti-tank missile projects have been built indigenously by the DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation), even as several new ones are under its consideration.
Senior defence officials said the decision by the government in favour of going for Make in India is also going to help the development of the indigenous defence industry as the money which would have been transferred to foreign vendors would now be spent within the country and will also develop the capabilities of the indigenous players.
Even though three different defence ministers Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar and the incumbent Nirmala Sitharaman have held the office in the last three years, all of them have shown inclination towards Indian projects while deciding on whether to buy the missile systems from abroad or go for Made in India systems, the officials said. The services chiefs have also backed the indigenous programmes fully while allowing the Defence Research and Development Organisation to take time to develop in-house missile systems.
The projects where the government has decided against the foreign vendors and gone for DRDO's Made in India products include the two separate projects for Short Range Surface to Air Missiles (SR-SAMs) for the Navy and the Army, The Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) for Army, Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) for the Army, helicopter-launched anti-tank guided missiles for the Army and the armoured vehicle launched anti-tank missiles for the ground force.
Some of these missiles which will substitute imports have been under development for the last several decades. It goes to the credit of DRDO that some of the projects that have been undertaken by it in recent times have also reached advanced stage, due to the organisation's expertise.
Mail Today takes a look at the different projects including the missiles, which Defence Research and Development Organisation have developed indigenously and calculates the money the country has saved. SR-SAM (short range surface to air missiles) project for the Navy (expected cost : Rs 30,000 crore) The Navy wanted the capability to annihilate any incoming enemy aircraft, drones and cruise missiles at a short range altitude of 20-25 kilometres and was keen on going in for a European solution. Prior to this, Navy had also said no to the indigenous Akash missiles on the grounds that it wanted a more compact system.The DRDO then proposed to develop an indigenous canisterised version of the short range air defence missile.
Following this, the government decided to scrap the plan to buy the European missile in large numbers and go in for a Make in India solution. The defence ministry has now decided to go in only for limited procurements from abroad. SR-SAM project for the Army (expected cost Rs 20,000 crore): Under this programme, the Army wanted to buy missiles from global vendors in Russia, Israel and Sweden. The force demanded that they want a system in which the missile should have a sensor to track and target the incoming missiles accurately. The DRDO then offered its latest version of Akash missile with an indigenous sensor. The project was accepted, and the then defence minister Arun Jaitley scrapped the global tender.
The new missile named Akash-S1 was tested successfully five times in Odisha, last week. HELINA (Helicopter Launched NAG missiles) and NAG (expected cost Rs 10,000 crore): The HELINA programme has been going on for several decades and it started showing success in tests in recent times.


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Visit to twin Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux in France focuses on schools and youth
Twelve people from this Diocese travelled to our twin Diocese of Évreux in the French Roman Catholic Church this month, part of a mutual exploration of one another's work with schools, children, young people and families in the parish context.
The Dioceses of Salisbury and Évreux have been twinned for over 30 years now. They share much in common – both are located in largely rural regions with many market towns and no large cities. Both look after many churches in villages with small populations, and clergy are consequently thinly spread, especially on Sundays. Both operate in societies perceived to be among the most secular in the world.
The visitors from England were particularly keen to learn how the work of the Diocese of Évreux in both Catholic and other schools is hampered or enabled by the wider French national principle of laïcité.
During the trip, the visitors were warmly welcomed and hosted by families from Évreux itself, Acquigny, Bernay and Avrilly.
The formal programme began with a visit to an "all through" Catholic College of the Immaculate Conception in Évreux, covering ages 3-16. The Salisbury delegation found both similarities and differences to the situation in England. Around one-sixth of French children are educated in Church schools, but they are more restricted in their religious activities than their English counterparts.
As in England, many French parents choose Church schools as they are seen as better in standards and also provide a more caring pastoral setting for children. Also as in England, the majority of children attending are not from churchgoing families and Church schools are popular with parents of other faiths, Muslims in particular. Like Church of England schools, Catholic Schools in France argue that the quality of care and well-being reveals the Christianity that lies at their roots, more than formal indoctrination.
The next visit was to a state school, and in particular to a teacher who was a practising Catholic, born and raised in England. Having taught in both the British and French education systems, she provided particular insight.
France recognises the right for all children to attend Catholic Schools and they are obliged to deliver the National Curriculum. Teachers at Catholic schools are paid by the state, although they are paid less than their equivalents in the state sector. The upkeep of buildings falls entirely on the schools which charge limited fees. Currently the fees at Immaculate Conception are €815 per annum. Catholic Schools cannot teach Religious Education or Catechesis within the curriculum, but non-compulsory sessions are provided on Wednesday afternoons. Attendance at three Masses per year, on the other hand, is compulsory.
In state schools, although there is teaching about religion in subjects like history, there is no religious education. Philosophy is taught, but this is purely secular in motive and content.
There is a strong ethic and prejudice against allowing any religious teaching in state schools, and an absolute ban on proselytising or evangelising. Indeed, some argue there is a reverse evangelisation in state schools to embrace only the secular.
This assertive, some might argue aggressive, secularism follows on a strong anti-clerical strand in French political culture since at least the Revolution, which culminated in the imposition of laïcité in 1905. This saw the complete eradication of all religious imagery, culture and teaching from the state sector.
This was a violent event with religious orders being ejected and some moving abroad. Clergy could no longer teach and were prevented from doing so, on occasion at gunpoint. At times even today, some hosts said, the application of laicité has been inconsistent and extreme, particularly in the context of a multi-faith society with a significant Muslim population.
After visiting another Catholic school in Louviers, the visitors moved on to the Diocesan Chaplaincy to Children and Young People in State Schools. The chaplaincy operates outside state school premises at centres based in the parish, aims to help children and young people reflect on meaning and develop personal autonomy in thinking and in social awareness:
The politics surrounding laïcité means the chaplaincy has to be careful and sensitive to the context. It attempts to work in dialogue with the state schools and with the civil authorities. Activities include singing, trips, learning about the faith, discussions about the self, and support for school studies.
The chaplaincies are open to all and those who attend are encouraged to bring along friends. The hope is that every young person involved, regardless of their religious viewpoint, will have their horizons and views widened.
Their work is supported by diocesan events, and those on an even larger scale including World Youth Day, a world-wide Catholic celebration.
The final event for the visitors was to express their prayer for Christian Unity by being present at the parish Mass at La Madeleine, a multi-racial church south of Évreux. The Parish Priest, Fr. Jean-Serge, had been part of visit to Salisbury last year, and the parish bade farewell to the visitors after lunch.
The shared work of the Dioceses will continue, with visits in each direction proposed for 2016, most likely on the theme of the Church and the environment.
More information both about the visit and the link with Évreux are available from Canon Harold Stephens on rectoryh@gmail.com.

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Managing Information Technology
Brown, C.V.; DeHayes, D.W.; Hoffer, J.A.; Martin, E.W.; Perkins, W.C.,7/e (United States, Prentice Hall, 2012)
Select a Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Managing I.T. In a Digital World
Barbara L. Marcolin, Ramasastry Chandrasekhar
In 2011, HCLT ERS, a division of HCL Technologies, a global IT services corporation headquartered in New Delhi, India, had to devise next year's plan for the Engineering Out Of The Box (EOOTB) business concept that it had initiated in 2009. EOOTB had facilitated the division's ability to create "16 productized solutions" and to engage customers in new revenue services. The productized solutions were heavily reliant upon IT platform-based solutions and services. The executive vice president of HCLT ERS and the EOOTB team must consider new markets to enter, new types of work in existing markets, and delivery ecosystems involving partners, collaborators, and third-party providers.
Issues: Productized Solutions and Services; Information Technology; Engineering; Research and Development; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Thought Leadership; India
MEDICALTECH: CO-CREATING VALUE WITH CUSTOMERS
Barbara L. Marcolin, Sasha Romano Lopez
The head of research and development at MedicalTech, a new manufacturer of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coils and software, had just met with MedicalTech's founder and chief executive officer (CEO). They had been discussing the technology development requirements decided so far in their attempts to build MedicalTech's first technology offering for diagnosing cancer. The head of research and development needed to advise the CEO regarding the best technology development approach (services-oriented technology co-creation and product-oriented technology creation); selecting the appropriate hospital partner to co-create the first public prototype; and determining the value propositions of all end-users for the features and functions chosen. The head of research and development gave some thought to seeking the advice and partnership of more developed competitors in the industry, as she was confident that this start-up company could be a success, but wondered whether the company could succeed on its own.
Issues: End User Value Proposition; First Customer Piloting; Technology Development Approaches; Business and Profit; Canada
The Data Resource
MGT GROUP: RECONSTRUCTING THE SUPPLY CHAIN AFTER A CROSS-BORDER FACTORY RELOCATION
Zhiduan Xu, Shi Yun, Xu Yong
Product Number: 9B11D009
Established in 1945, MGT Group was headquartered in France. Its LSD factory was a well-known global engineering provider specializing in the design and manufacture of high-precision valves. At the end of 2007, MGT decided to close the LSD factory in France and relocate it to Fuzhou, China. Two people were put in charge of this project: Kevin Lurton, vice chief operations officer of MGT Control Systems Division, and Jian Li, the general manager of MGT Fuzhou Company. Lurton and Li faced a series of challenges, ranging from the need for strategic planning to the need for an implementation policy for supply chain reconstruction during the cross-border factory relocation.
Teaching Note: 8B11D009 (14 pages)
Issues: Cross-border Factory Relocation; Supply Chain Reconstruction; Supply Chain Strategy; France; China; Ivey/CMCC
Managerial Support Systems
UNIMICRON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Deborah Compeau, Eugenia Huang
The president of Unimicron must evaluate the degree to which the company's information systems support its business strategy. The case provides an extensive review of the company's history, its strategy and its key competitive and organizational moves. The case reviews the way in which information systems are used in the company, and challenges students to assess the degree of fit between strategy, organization and technology.
Issues: Management Information Systems; Information Systems; CNCCU/Ivey
E-Business Systems
YUMCHA.COM.AU
Nicole R.D. Haggerty, Rohan Belliappa
Set in November 2007, the case is about a soon-to-launch social networking website (Yumcha) in Australia intended for the country's significant Asian population and diaspora. The case describes the process that Yumcha's founder went through in establishing the entity, including her initial motivations and business rationale. The case goes on to describe the dilemma facing the founder in choosing a web developer for the site, including whether to source the developer from new online bidding platforms. The challenges involved in this relatively new means of sourcing and bidding for technical talent are presented. The case also outlines the strategy questions facing the founder concerning expanding the social networking venture in an external environment that has seen the rapid development and expansion of numerous other social networking websites.
Issues: Information System Design; Entrepreneurial Business Growth; Internet; Startups; Entrepreneurial Marketing
Basic Systems Concepts and Tools
Methodologies for Custom Software Development
Methodologies for Purchased Software Packages
Planning Information Systems Resources
POLARIS 2008
Darren Meister, Rua-Huan Tsaih
The chairman of Taiwan-based Polaris Securities Co. Ltd. (Polaris Securities), announced approval of Polaris' investment plans in Singapore, Vietnam and Abu Dhabi. The chairman's name was known in Taiwan as synonymous with innovation and entrepreneurship. He had experienced great success in launching an information technology strategy and related complementary assets for online stock trading and online transactions. With a prominent performance, the chairman had made Polaris Securities stand out conspicuously in Taiwan's securities market. He also copied Polaris Securities experiences, such as computational finance, trading platform and customer service, to Polaris Securities (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Polaris Securities HK) to expand his business scope. The chairman contemplated whether Polaris Securities and Polaris Securities HK experiences could be duplicated in Singapore, Vietnam and Abu Dhabi.
Issues: Leveraging Information Technology; Internationalization; Information Technology Strategy; Computational Finance; CNCCU/Ivey
Leading the Information Systems Function
TARGET SYSTEMS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ELECTRONIC HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM ARENA
Michael J. Fratantuono, David M. Sarcone
In the summer of 2010, the members of the business development team of Target Systems were carefully considering the possibility of entering the Electronic Health Information (EHI) systems arena. The company had both breadth and depth of experience in providing logistics, project management and information technology (IT) services to clients in the public and private sector. Although the employees of Target Systems were experts in a full range of IT services, no one in the company had deep expertise about the way IT applications were being used to manage patient care or administer health care organizations. The lack of expertise implied that a movement by Target Systems into the EHI systems arena would call for the company to simultaneously develop new products and services for a new set of clients –– to engage in growth by related diversification. That strategy would stand in contrast to the growth by concentration strategy the team had employed throughout company history. To pursue a diversification strategy the team would have to decide if it should provide services to regional health information organizations, hospitals or individual physicians' practices. It would also have to decide whether it would cultivate new capabilities by investing in internal development or by seeking a strategic partner that was already operating in the arena. Ultimately, the way the business development team weighed the opportunities versus the challenges of adopting a new growth strategy in the context of a still uncertain external environment would strongly influence its decision as to whether or not the company should enter this new arena.
Issues: Strategy formulation; diversification; United States
CHALLENGES OF GROWTH AT PROTEGRA
Bob Travica
Protegra is a small company established in 1998 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company specializes in the area of computer software development and business performance consulting. Protegra features a unique organizational design, characterized by a lack of hierarchy and a collegial, professional culture centred on employee and customer values. Various information systems support Protegra's design. In the process of expanding into foreign markets and enlarging staff, Protegra has been concerned with preserving its way.
Issues: Managing Growth; Organizational Change; Information Systems; Consulting
Social, Ethical and Legal Issues
NESTLÉ: A SOCIAL MEDIA NIGHTMARE (A)
Jana Seijts, Benjamin Bigio
As the largest food and drink company in the world, Nestlé S.A. prided itself on a solid reputation built over the past 150 years. On March 17, 2010, the chairman of the board of directors was surprised by a YouTube video created by the environmental activist group Greenpeace. The graphic and provocative video criticized Nestlé for its use of palm oil in Nestlé products. It helped Greenpeace make a bold statement: Nestlé products were leading to deforestation and the extinction of orangutans. Within 24 hours, the video had more than 100,000 views and anti-Nestlé campaigns quickly emerged on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks around the world. At the same time, Greenpeace activists dressed up as orangutans and protested at Nestlé's headquarters and factories in Europe. Activists urged the company to stop sourcing palm oil from companies that destroy forests in the process. Considering the popularity and force of social media, how should Nestlé react to the YouTube video?
Issues: Public Relations; Crisis Communication; Social Media; Food and Beverage


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Q: Autoencoder of CNN - decrease or increase filters? In an Autoencoder based on CNN, will you increase or decrease the number of filters between layers  ? As we compress the information, I was thinking of decreasing.
Example here of the encoder part where the number of filters is decreased at each new layer, from 16 to 8 to 4.
x = Conv2D(filters = 16, kernel_size = 3, activation='relu', padding='same', name='encoder_1a')(inputs)
x = MaxPooling2D(pool_size = (2, 2), padding='same', name='encoder_1b')(x)

x = Conv2D(filters = 8, kernel_size = 3, activation='relu', padding='same', name='encoder_2a')(x)
x = MaxPooling2D(pool_size = (2, 2), padding='same', name='encoder_2b')(x)

x = Conv2D(filters = 4, kernel_size = 3, activation='relu', padding='same', name='encoder_3a')(x)
x = MaxPooling2D(pool_size = (2, 2), padding='same', name='encoder_3b')(x)

A: It is not always the case that the filter sizes are reduced or increased with increasing number of layers in encoder. In most examples of encoder I have seen of convolutional autoencoder architectures the height and width is decreased through strided convolution or pooling, and depth of layer is increased (filter sizes are increased), kept similar to last one or varied with each new layer in encoder. But there is also examples where the output channels or filter sizes are decreased with more layers.
Usually autoencoder encodes input into latent representation/vector or embedding that has lower dimension than input that minimizes reconstruction error. So both of the above can be used for creating undercomplete autoencoder by varying kernel size, number of layers, adding an extra layer at the end of encoder with a certain dimension etc.
Filter increase example
In the image below as more layers are added in encoder the filter sizes increase. But as the input 28*28*1 = 784 dimension features and the flattened representation 3*3*128 = 1152 is more so another layer is added before final layer which is the embedding layer. It reduces the feature dimension with predefined number of outputs in fully connected network. Even the last dense/fully connected layer can be replaced by varying the number of layers or kernel size to have an output (1, 1, NUM_FILTERS).

Filter decrease example
An easy example of filters decreasing in encoder as the number of layers increase can be found on keras convolutional autoencoder example just as your code.
import keras
from keras import layers

input_img = keras.Input(shape=(28, 28, 1))

x = layers.Conv2D(16, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(input_img)
x = layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(8, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = layers.Conv2D(8, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
encoded = layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)

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*https://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/autoencoders.html

*https://xifengguo.github.io/papers/ICONIP17-DCEC.pdf

*https://blog.keras.io/building-autoencoders-in-keras.html

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In a week that revealed baseball's ugliest warts, here's a story to restore faith in today's ballplayers.
During Wednesday's win over the Atlanta Braves in Cincinnati, several Reds helped ease the pain of a boy whose grandfather had suffered a fatal heart attack in the Great American Ball Park stands.
While emergency workers attempted to revive the man, security personnel led his 6-year-old grandson, Antonio Perez, to the Reds' bullpen area, where coach Tom Hume agreed to let the boy watch the final two innings of the game from the bullpen bench.
Afterward, Reds center fielder Ken Griffey Jr. took Perez onto the field to exchange high-fives with the victorious Reds and then ushered him into the clubhouse. Knowing the boy's parents were on their way to the ballpark, the Reds players kept Perez busy with conversation.
"They were unfortunate circumstances," Griffey said. "You try to make the best of it. He kept asking, 'Where's my grandfather?' And we tried to change the subject. Have him shake hands with the guys, see the locker room."
Several Reds gave Perez gifts to take home such as bats, balls and wristbands. Shortstop Felipe Lopez offered the batting helmet he used in July's All-Star Game.
Griffey said the players wanted Perez to have "a memory of something positive that happened out of something negative. Anything we could have done, we would have done."
Joe Garagiola Jr., the only general manager in the history of the Arizona Diamondbacks, announced he is leaving the franchise to become senior vice president of operations for Major League Baseball.
Garagiola is best known for making two key trades that helped propel the Diamondbacks to the 2001 World Series title. He dealt Karim Garcia to the Detroit Tigers before the 1999 season for eventual World Series hero Luis Gonzalez and picked up ace Curt Schilling from the Philadelphia Phillies for Omar Daal, Vicente Padilla, Travis Lee and another pitcher in July 2000.
"It's s great opportunity for him," said Arizona's managing partner Ken Kendrick. "It's tough for the Diamondbacks, though, because he will be missed. I've been in business for over 40 years now, and he is as classy a man as I've dealt with."
No permanent replacement has been named, but a possibility is Bob Gebhard, a special assistant to Garagiola and a former Colorado Rockies general manager.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Wilson Alvarez, 35, is wrestling with continual shoulder soreness and is seriously considering retirement. ... New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza keeps getting dropped in the order. He batted seventh this week, the first time since his rookie year. ... A Padres fan was ejected from $55 seats at San Diego's Petco Park last week after starting a "Towers [stinks]" chant directed at general manager Kevin Towers. ... Rick Ankiel, the former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, was promoted to Double-A Springfield this week as he tries to make it back as an outfielder.


Carrying on with Monday's theme of Succulents, today I'm sharing the Vertical Garden Project Kit. This kit contains everything except glue to make this beautiful wall hanging. The succulent plants and roses are all pre-cut. You just need to punch them out of the paper, shape them, and then glue the down.
Here are a couple tips when making this project.
Look at the instruction sheet. I usually skip looking at the instructions and try to wing it. With this kit, you'll need to read the instructions to determine which layers go together.
The instructions give each layer of the plant a numerical code by size. The instructions tell you which sizes go together. You will need two of each size for each plant that you make. As you punch out your leaves, lay them in piles according to each plant.
I used the tip of my embossing stylus to shape the plants. You could also use a bone folder. This took quite a bit of time to shape each individual layer.
Once I had my stacks of plants shaped, I started gluing them together using my Fine-Tip Glue. Be sure to offset each layer so you see all the different petals. You'll want to give them time to dry before working with them.
The roses I wound around a pencil to shape them. Then I slid them off the pencil and filled the base of the rose with hot glue to get them to hold their shape.
I laid everything out in the tray to check for sizing before gluing down. I did notice that I could see a bit of the tray they sit in. Rather than leaving it plain brown, I added some of the pattern paper from the Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper. You can skip adding the paper if you prefer the plain brown background.
I transferred all the plants to my desktop and lined them up as they were in the box.
Using a hot glue gun, I glued each plant down, working from the bottom to the top. Since I knew my plants would just fill the space, I was careful to not place them too close together. In fact, I ended up with a small gap, but made sure that it would be under the "Hello" sign.
Stamp the Hello banner and center over the top of the tray. I used a hot glue gun to glue it down.
The ribbon is the final piece. You should be able to fairly easily slip the ribbon through the slit in the tray. Then tie it in a bow.
Here is a close-up view of the tray with the plants. I love how this project turned out. It did take a bit of time to assemble it. You'll want to allow several hours to make it. Initially, I was going to ink each layer of the plants. I decided to pass on that idea, knowing it would likely take more than another hour to do all the inking. It would have looked nice inked, but I wanted to finish the project.
Don't forget that Sale-abration has started. For every $50 order (pre-tax/shipping), you can pick a free Sale-abration item. Don't miss out! Click the links on the right and they will take you directly to my store to see the Occasions Catalog and the Sale-abration Catalog.
You did a fantastic job putting this project together! Thank you for sharing!!


On February 12, 2002, "Narada" label released "Pieces of the Sun", the third Tony Levin album. It was recorded in 2001, at "Applehead Studios" in Woodstock, New York, and was produced by Tony Levin.
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Beverly Hills News – Friar's Club Developers Return for Request Overlay Zone for Luxury Housing at Planning Commission
Posted: Monday, January 8, 2018 – 1:37 PM
By Victoria Talbot
The applicants for a project located at 9908 South Santa Monica Boulevard will come before the Planning Commission Thursday to request a Residential Overlay Zone have submitted a modified project for consideration, with 27 luxury condominiums, an increase from 3,541 to 10,500 square feet of ground floor retail in a commercial zone, an FAR increase from 2.59 to 2.87:1, and other changes, many of which are not reflected in the schematic submitted to planning staff.
The project applicant has been before the Planning Commission two times, and each time, they have been directed to revise their project. This go-round, the applicants have submitted completely underdeveloped project plans, in a partial attempt to meet the direction of the commission.
The proposal is for very high-end condominium development in the space that once belonged to the Friar's Club on South Santa Monica Blvd. The area is a commercial zone. Commercial zones comprise only 9% of the City and provide 50% of the City's taxes, meaning that removing any retail space is a serious matter. Once removed, it is highly unlikely that it will return, and it cannot be made up elsewhere.
The applicant last came before the Commission on Nov. 28. Attorney Tom Levyn attempted to pin down commissioners for a one-week turnaround. The agenda being full, they were given this date in January, about six weeks away. Now, despite the turnaround urgency they requested, they are evidently not ready for the Planning Commission.
For example, a loading dock has not been reviewed by the City's traffic engineer. A third level of parking is in word only: no schematic exists to show that it is there. Without establishing whether there is a restaurant component in the retail, the permitted parking requirements cannot be established. The applicant, who had asked for a 66-foot height in a 45-foot zone, has indicated that the five-story building height will be reduced to 58 feet, which has not been verified by staff from the revised elevations.
The staff report includes letters of support from realtors in the area, who expect to make a tidy sum from sales. But the City could lose significant tax revenues that are crucial to the budget.
The project has garnered support from residents who believe these units will become affordable alternatives to downsize from their Beverly Hills homes when they retire. In fact, the homes will probably sell for the same price as their homes in Beverly Hills, or more.
The project has drawn attention to itself by employing two previously neutral members of the community into their lobbying efforts, including Noah Furie, who is presently serving as Chair of the Cultural Heritage Commission. Furie took on the position just prior to changes in the lobbying ordinance later this month that will prohibit any commissioner or lobbyist from serving simultaneously on a commission or as a lobbyist.
For Furie, having slipped through the cracks doesn't necessarily make him a lobbyist. It only shows that he disrespects the City's General Plan.
Gabby Reims Alexander, whose mother, Kathy Reims, served as the interim councilmember to replace Dr. Willie Brien when he left, was previously associated with the Friends of Beverly Gardens Park. With no previous experience in lobbying, she has taken a position as a lobbyist for this project.
In summary, it appears that the project is being rushed to the Planning Commission in a less-than-ready state, which consumes staff time and commission time. Based 0n the missing information, it appears that it would be difficult to accurately assess the project.


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A daily breakfast high in dietary fibre could help protect your colon and prevent infection.
Health practitioners have been extolling the virtues of fibre-rich foods for decades. Dietary fibre is a nutrient that is important in regulating the digestion and eliminating waste.
Now researchers at the University of Michigan in the US have found another equally important reason to eat a diet high in fibre-rich foods. Dietary fibre, it appears, indirectly protects the intestinal wall, guarding against the invasion of unfriendly bacteria and pathogens.
The research, published in Cell, was carried out using specially-bred germ-free ("gnotobiotic") mice which are born with no gut microbes of their own. The mice received a transplant of bacteria that normally grow in the human gut.
• a third group of mice were fed a diet high in prebiotic fibre of the type often found in health supplements and processed foods.
The research revealed that in the mice fed a fibre-free diet, some of the normally helpful, "friendly" bacteria began to eat their way through the protective mucus layer that lines the wall of the colon, eroding it to such an extent that pathogenic bacteria were able to invade.
This was found to be the case even after just a few days of eating a fibre-free diet. It was also found to be the case in the mice fed the prebiotic fibre.
But where the host was fed a diet of fibre-rich foods, the protective mucus lining remained strong and impregnable.
When some of the mice were infected with a strain of pathogenic bacteria similar in effects to E.coli in humans, the fibre-free mice showed inflammation over a much greater area than the ones on a fibre-rich diet.
Last year I visited Costa Rica, for a family graduation. I travelled round the country on my own for a couple of weeks, staying in some beautiful remote jungle areas, before meeting up with the family for the big event.
Just before I returned to San Jose, the capital city, to meet up with my family, I noticed a large circular red mark on my left arm.
I knew this was significant – but I couldn't remember why.
The bull's eye mark is clear to see on my left arm in the main photo and inset.
When I met up with my sister a few days later, she spotted the mark and said it looked like Lyme disease. My sister is a doctor, and she told me that Lyme disease required immediate treatment with antibiotics – otherwise it can stay in your system for years.
Usually the first sign that you've contracted Lyme disease is a distinctive red or pink circular rash with a dot in the middle, often described as a "bull's eye" rash. However some people don't develop this rash when they contract the disease.
Flu-like symptoms often occur in the early stages of Lyme disease: headaches, fatigue, joint pains and a high temperature. But if the disease is not treated, later symptoms can be much more serious, including fatigue, joint pain and swelling, numbness, paralysis of the facial muscles, headaches and heart problems.
Many people believe that they have chronic effects from Lyme disease, sometimes appearing long after the original infection. This is an area of controversy, but given that the ticks that pass on Lyme disease may pass on more than one type of bacteria, it does seem possible.
Symptoms can vary from country to country, as ticks can carry more than one disease. Strictly speaking, Lyme disease is Lyme borreliosis, spread by Borrelia type bacteria, but other common infections from ticks in the UK include babesiosis and ehrlichiosis.
Ticks are small black creatures related to spiders. They can be as small as a poppy seed, so they are not easy to identify. If one lands on your skin and starts to feed on your blood, it could stay there for five to seven days before dropping off.
If you spot a tick on your own or someone else's body, it's not advisable to just brush it off with your hand – unless you have just seen the tick landing on the skin.
The tick will burrow into the skin in order to feed on the host's blood, and if it's roughly brushed off leaving part of it or the contents of its stomach or mouth in the skin, the infection could be passed on. So it's important to remove the whole tick very carefully, using either fine tweezers or a special tick removal tool, as described here.
If you are infected and the "bull's eye" develops, the only way known to science to cure the infection is by taking a course of antibiotics.
When I realised I had Lyme disease, I did a bit of research to see if a natural cure might be possible. I didn't find any satisfactory natural alternative to antibiotics, and I didn't want to risk symptoms lingering in my system, possibly for years.
Luckily for me, I was due to return home a few days after my bull's eye rash developed, and my doctor prescribed an antibiotic. Antibiotics can trigger a lot of side-effects, as they can wipe out a lot of "friendly" gut bacteria along with the targeted pathogens, so as a precaution I ate a lot of fresh raw vegetables during and after my course of antibiotics.
Towards the end of the course I developed a slight burning feeling in my gut, so I made myself a daily litre of a special anti-inflammatory juice that I used to make up for a former customer of my juice café. The ingredients are greens, celery, cucumber, lemon or lime, fresh turmeric, fresh ginger and black pepper.
After a few days of taking those, the burning sensations completely disappeared.
I've had no recurrence of the bull's eye mark, and if it ever happens again, I'll certainly recognise it.
What happens if you don't know you've contracted Lyme disease?
Having read a bit more since then, it seems there is a strong argument for natural treatment of Lyme disease – although if it happened to me again I would probably still take the antibiotics.
Not everyone gets the "bull's eye" mark, and even those who do might not notice it until it's too late. It seems likely that many people are living with the condition without knowing that they have it.
The bacteria passed on by ticks will take their place in your gut along with your other gut bacteria.
If you have a strong, diverse gut flora, the theory goes, the new pathogens may not stand a chance. We all carry many different types of bacteria in our gut, some more helpful to us than others. Researchers have found pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria living peacefully in the crevices of many healthy people – we are all probably harbouring some pathogens that usually do us no harm.
That's why it's crucially important to keep the bacteria in our gastrointestinal tract healthy and diverse, by consuming prebiotics to lay the groundwork in which friendly bacteria can flourish, and probiotics, to introduce good bacteria and encourage them to stick around.
Or simply by eating a balanced diet containing ample amounts of fruit, vegetables and plant fibre to feed your healthy bacteria, as well as taking regular exercise, limiting stress and getting out in the sunshine when you can.


LAS VEGAS -- As reported by the Associated Press: ``Two more people have filed a federal lawsuit after being caught up in a deadly biker brawl during the Laughlin River Run motorcycle rally in 2002.
``California residents Robert Garcia and Noi Lewis claim excessive force by Las Vegas police who detained them after members of the Hells Angels and Mongols motorcycle gangs fought at Harrah's Laughlin hotel-casino.
``Two Hells Angels and one Mongols motorcycle gang member died and at least 12 people were hurt in the brawl involving guns and knives inside Harrah's Laughlin casino…"


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The stars align to reveal an Old Prophet in the stacks!
Posted on October 31, 2016 by L Tallis | 2 comments
It was a dark and stormy afternoon in Special Collections & Archives. I was sitting in my office, cataloguing a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, when Lisa, our Assistant Librarian, tapped at my office door. 'I think maybe there's an error in the catalogue,' she said.
When the Cardiff Rare Books collection came to Cardiff University in 2010, we'd drawn up a bare-bones inventory, knowing that it would be several years before the collection could be fully catalogued. Lisa had been looking through the collection inventory to look for uncatalogued books that might be useful for a resource guide on Witchcraft. 'The inventory says this book was published in 1681, but the catalogue record says 1685,' she observed as she showed me the two conflicting records.
Being a cataloguer and somewhat inclined to obsessive-compulsive behaviour, I couldn't allow such an egregious error to remain in our records, so I went to the stacks to investigate. Stretching to reach the top-most shelf, I spotted the title in question: William Lilly's Merlini Anglici ephemeris: or, Astrological judgments for the year 1685… with the 1681 issue, uncatalogued, sitting next to it on the shelf—both records had been correct, but incomplete! Alongside these almanacs I noticed several other volumes of William Lilly's astrological writings. Thinking they might be useful for the resource guide, I brought the lot of them back to my office for cataloguing.
A selection of astrological books by William Lilly, from the Cardiff Rare Books Collection.
A contemporary of John Dee and Nicholas Culpeper, William Lilly began his life as the son of a yeoman farmer in Leicestershire. He worked for seven years as a servant in London before marrying his former master's widow when he was just 25 years old. Now a man of leisure, he spent his time studying astrology. From 1647 to 1682, he published a series of astrological almanacs which brought him both popularity and scandal. By 1649, sales of his almanacs had reached nearly 30,000 copies and by the 1650s, they were being translated into Dutch, German, Swedish, and Danish. At he same time, however, he made many enemies by predicting on astrological grounds the downfall of the Stuart monarchy, while also criticizing both parliament and the Presbyterians.
Among the volumes I'd picked up for cataloguing was a first edition of Christian astrology modestly treated of in three books (London, 1647), Lilly's most comprehensive work. An amalgamation of 228 earlier texts, Christian astrology contains 832 pages of instruction on reading the stars and planets and their influence on everything from the physical characteristics and likely fortunes of unborn children, to international politics. The work is significant because it was the first astrological instruction book to be published in English rather than Latin, making it accessible to a middle-class audience.
Christian astrology modestly treated of in three books (London, 1647).
After carefully transcribing the book's bibliographical details, I began to describe the unique attributes our particular copy: binding and marginalia. I spotted inscriptions in at least four different hands, ranging across three centuries. I deciphered and recorded them in the catalogue record as best I could, and then brought the volume over to Lisa, thinking she might find them interesting.
Inscriptions, dating between the 17th and 19th centuries, on the front endpaper of William Lilly's Christian astrology (London, 1647)
'Is that the "Old Prophet's" signature?' I exclaimed, at which point, the lights in the office flickered. I had a sixth-sense (those of us who work with special collections often get this!) that this was the signature of the Welsh Independent Minister and author, Edmund Jones (1702-1793).
An intriguing figure in eighteenth-century Wales, he was a passionate Calvinist connected with the vicinity of Pontypool and Monmouthshire, where he regularly preached during the 1730s. Sympathetic to the growing Methodist movement, characterized by a more heartfelt, experiential form of religion, it was Jones who encouraged Howell Harris to preach in Monmouthshire for the first time in 1738.
Certainly, his diaries record a dedicated schedule where he travelled and preached extensively, delivering 104 sermons in the year 1731. Almost fifty years later, in 1778, he took a 'tour through Monmouth [and] Wales … to Caerphilly'. Although not traditionally educated, his autobiography reveals how he was a 'great lover of books, buying and borrowing as much as he could'. One such book it seemed, appeared to be our copy of Lilly's Christian astrology.
Edmund Jones' signature on the front endpaper of Christian astrology (London, 1647).
Edmund Jones' signature on A geographical, historical, and religious account of the parish of Aberystruth (Trevecka, 1779), held by the National Library of Wales.
In order to confirm my suspicions, we needed to compare this signature with some known examples of Jones's handwriting. Fortunately, the National Library of Wales holds Jones's diaries, saved from the final destination of being used as wrapping paper in a Pontypool shop. Thanks to the help of their Manuscript Librarian, these journals not only reveal a script eerily similar to our sample, they also include a list of books that Jones acquired …
And yes! No need to consult the stars on this one, for Lily's Astrology is clearly recorded at the bottom of the page.
A page from Edmund Jones' diary for the year 1768, listing the books that Jones acquired that year. Held by the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 7025A).
So not only does Special Collections hold Edmund Jones's personal, annotated copy of Lilly's Astrology, but this discovery reveals Jones's more mystical side.
Known as the 'Old Prophet' due to his apparent gift of prophecy and ability to foretell future events, he was also a firm believer in witchcraft and the supernatural. His interest in books was not confined to collecting, for he published a number of works, including A Relation of Apparitions of Spirits which comprised a collection of supernatural experiences and spiritual encounters designed to 'prevent a kind of infidelity … the denial of the being of Spirits and Apparitions, which hath a tendency to irreligion'.
As the seventeenth century drew to a close, a slight change of attitude towards the beliefs in apparitions and witchcraft, is evident. Atheism now posed a greater threat than popery (Roman Catholicism), and works composed around this time were directed at countering this new danger.
Joseph Glanvill's Sadducisimus Triumphatus, for example, provides 'full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions'. To deny the existence of the spirit, he argues, 'is quite to destroy the credit of all human testimony'. Bovet's Pandaemonium, or the devil's cloyster, is aimed at 'proving the existence of witches and spirits', for 'there can be no apprehensions … from the attacks of the … Sadducees'. For Richard Baxter, a belief in spirits was a means to salvation since through faith in the world of spirits, the 'saving' knowledge of God could be obtained.
Illustration detail from Glanvill's Saducismus Triumphatus (London, 1700)
It is in this context that Jones collected Relations of Apparitions which include fairy encounters and apparitions such as corpse candles and phantom funerals. For example, a 'Mr. E. W.' confirmed in a letter to Jones that saw the fairies as a company of dancers in the middle of the field, while an innkeeper from Llangynwyd Fawr saw them with speckled clothes of white and red, as they tried to entice him a while he lay in bed. Another gentleman also told Jones how 'the resemblance of a young child … and also of a big man' appeared to him. As he looked on, 'the child seemed to vanish into nothing'. Not long after the encounter, Jones notes, the child of the man who witnessed the apparition sickened and died, as did he not long after his daughter was buried.
The phantom funeral or Toili, could manifest itself as a mournful sound, the cyhyraeth. Noises associated with the funeral procession or service, or the dismal cries of the Cŵn Annwn (Hell Hounds), inevitably signalled death. Thomas Phillips heard the cries of these spiritual dogs prior to the death of a woman in his parish of Trelech. In Ystradgynlais, two women heard someone singing psalms. The voice was that of John Williams, who sang the psalms at a later Dissenting meeting and was indeed 'buried' a few days after. Faced with such great sums of truth, Jones challenges, 'who … can deny the reality of Apparitions of Spirits?'
Indeed, and here at Special Collections we are well aware of the ghosts of owners past that we sometimes encounter amongst the aged pages of our rare books. Like Jones's unique accounts of the supernatural experiences of ordinary Welsh men and women, these rare books occasionally reveal the spectre of a bygone reader and their occult interests. So the moral of this post is to beware! For you can never predict what you'll find between the pages of a rare book, even one on predictions.
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Tagged 17th century, almanacs, apparitions, astrology, Atheism, Cardiff Rare Books Collection, death portents, Fairies, Jones, Edmund, 1702-1793, rare books, Spirits, Toili, William Lilly, witchcraft
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Henry Winkler is an acclaimed American actor. Winkler has a net worth of 35 million dollars. Winkler is best known for his role as The Fonz on the show Happy Days. Winkler has also found a fair amount of success in a number of Adam Sandler films like The Waterboy. Mr. Winkler has also gone to perform in films for former child star turned director, Ron Howard. Winkler has guest starred in the show Arrested Development.
Winkler has worked as an executive producer for a number of different retrospectives for the Biography Channel. Winkler has also been an executive producer and an actor in a number of different sitcoms and pilots. Hollywood Squares is another show that Winkler produced. The Hollywood Squares premise lets us know what different stars are doing with their careers while telling jokes.


Achieve some balance in your life and maintain your sense of calm, this Temperance notebook is here to relieve you of a clouded mind. In traditional Tarot reading the angel holds two receptacles pouring water into each with one foot on land and one in water. Be patient as each cup fills and you'll find harmony!


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El protegit (títol original: Unbreakable) és una pel·lícula nord-americana de l'any 2000 del gènere thriller i superherois escrita i dirigida per M. Night Shyamalan i protagonitzada per Bruce Willis i Samuel L. Jackson.

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La pel·lícula comença amb un flashback, en el qual es mostra el naixement de Elijah Price, un bebè afroamericà; el doctor nota una raresa en el nounat, i és que té osteogénesis imperfecta, conegut comunament com a , "ossos de cristall".

David Dunn (Bruce Willis) és un guàrdia de seguretat de poc més de 40 anys que viu separat del món, trist i sense motivació a la vida. Es troba profundament distanciat de la seva dona (Robin Wright), que sospita que l'enganya amb una altra, i del seu fill petit (Spencer Treat Clark), al que coneix menys del que li agradaria. Un dia, viatjant en un tren creuant Filadèlfia, ocorre un accident: el tren descarrila i els vagons acaben destrossats, aixafats i escampats en trossos a diversos quilòmetres a la rodona. Més tard, es fa pública una sorprenent notícia: només una persona ha sobreviscut a aquest succés, i per algun motiu desconegut, no té la més mínima ferida. Aquesta persona no és una altra que David.

Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson) sofreix una perillosa malaltia que provoca que s'afebleixin els seus ossos i articulacions, fent que el seu esquelet sigui extremadament fràgil i lleugerament deforme. Havent passat un terç de la seva vida en llits d'hospitals, Elijah es va fixar en els còmics de superherois i va fer d'ells la seva passió. Aquesta passió li va portar a creure en un equilibri universal basat en ells. La teoria de Elijah és que, si al món hi ha una persona tan fràgil i dèbil com ell, també deu haver-hi una altra que sigui diametralment oposada: forta, sana i poderosa, algú que hagi estat enviat sense saber-ho per protegir els qui li envolten. Creient fermament en això, Elijah ha seguit les notícies de nombroses catàstrofes esperant sentir una descripció semblant d'algú, i finalment ha succeït: aquesta persona podria ser David.

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 Bruce Willis - David Dunn
 Samuel L. Jackson - Elijah Price
 Robin Wright - Audrey Dunn
 Spencer Treat Clark - Joseph Dunn
 Charlayne Woodard - Senyora Price
 Eamonn Walker - Doctor Mathison
 M. Night Shyamalan - Traficant de drogues

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 Aquesta pel·lícula va ser ideada en un primer moment com una trilogia, titulant-se les seves seqüeles, Breakable (Rompible) i Broken (Trencat). La segona es va estrenar finalment en 2016 amb el títol "Split". En el comentari de la pel·lícula que ofereix el director en el DVD, ell mateix declara estar escrivint una pel·lícula basada en un còmic amb tres parts (El naixement del superheroi, les seves peripècies lluitant contra el mal, i finalment el gran combat contra el seu major enemic). Finalment va trobar molt més interessant la part del naixement que la resta. Al setembre de 2010, Shyamalan va revelar que el segon antagonista planificat per a la primera pel·lícula es va traslladar a la seqüela planejada, però aquest personatge ara s'ha utilitzat per a una propera pel·lícula que serà pròximament escrita i produïda.

 Cameo del director M. Night Shyamalan. Apareix caracteritzat com un assistent a l'estadi on treballa el personatge de Bruce Willis i és, precisament, revisat pel seu personatge per haver-hi sospites que trafica amb drogues.

 La pel·lícula està rodada en un sentit que imita les vinyetes d'un còmic, ja que sovint els personatges i les seves escenes es veuen emmarcats per elements poligonals com a marcs o parets. Alguns exemples són l'escena inicial amb els seients del tren, les portes i finestres de la galeria d'art de Elijah (Jackson) i l'escena en què David (Willis) registra la part superior del seu armari per inspeccionar la seva pistola. Per al personatge de "Glass" (Mister Cristall) el director fa en diverses ocasions un reflex en elements reflectants com a miralls o pantalles de televisió.

 La majoria d'"enemics" o personatges importants que David (Willis) coneix en la pel·lícula es caracteritzen per portar una peça de color cridaner que ressalta en les "visions" del protagonista, que tenen menys color. Eljiah (Jackson) destaca per la seva camisa porpra, mentre que el personatge de Shyamalan destaca per la blava. En el gran vestíbul, David "detectarà" a tres delinqüents de vermell, verd i groc, i al final seguirà a un més sanguinari que la resta, que vesteix de taronja. Com a curiositat, la banda sonora de James Newton Howard dedica una cançó a aquest personatge, titulada "The Orange Man".

Seqüela
En la seqüela del protegit, Split (2017), ens presenten a "La bèstia", que serà l'enemic que Dunn haurà de caçar en la tercera pel·lícula de la sèrie, Glass, amb estrena prevista per a gener de 2019.

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Enllaços externs
 Lloc a la Web de Shyamalan (en anglès)

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What if you could make a microchip at home? Vladimir Nenezic/Shutterstock.com
Open-source hardware could defend against the next generation of hacking
October 17, 2018 6.27am EDT
Joshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University
Joshua M. Pearce
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University
Professor Joshua M. Pearce is the author of the Open Source Lab. He receives funding for various projects involved in open hardware from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) through America Makes: The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, which is managed and operated by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM). He also receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for technical projects. In addition, his past and present research is supported by many non-profits and for-profit companies in the open source industry including re:3D, 3D4Edu, Miller, Aleph Objects, CNC Router Parts, Virtual Foundry, Ultimaker and Youmagine, Cheap 3D Filaments, MyMiniFactory, Zeni Kinetic, Matter Hackers, and Ultimachine. He has no direct conflicts of interests.
Imagine you had a secret document you had to store away from prying eyes. And you have a choice: You could buy a safe made by a company that kept the workings of its locks secret. Or you could buy a safe whose manufacturer openly published the designs, letting everyone – including thieves – see how they're made. Which would you choose?
It might seem unexpected, but as an engineering professor, I'd pick the second option. The first one might be safe – but I simply don't know. I'd have to take the company's word for it. Maybe it's a reputable company with a longstanding pedigree of quality, but I'd be betting my information's security on the company upholding its traditions. By contrast, I can judge the security of the second safe for myself – or ask an expert to evaluate it. I'll be better informed about how secure my safe is, and therefore more confident that my document is safe inside it. That's the value of open-source technology.
Computer hardware is, for the most part, like the safe whose security mechanisms are secret. Any weaknesses are hidden, as well as any of their strengths. In the wake of revelations that Chinese spies may have been able to install a tiny computer chip inside devices used by as many as 30 companies, like Amazon and Apple, as well as the U.S. military and the CIA, I suggest re-evaluating the hardware people and corporations rely on to protect their secrets.
Hacking hardware is particularly dangerous because it can bypass even the most secure programming safeguards – like taking control of a server without needing a password at all. Hardware customers could benefit from the clear – if surprising – lesson the software industry has learned from decades of fighting prolific software hackers: Open-source systems can be more secure.
Lessons from open-source software
Software users and developers already embrace computer software whose source code is publicly accessible. All supercomputers, 90 percent of cloud servers, 82 percent of smartphones and 62 percent of embedded systems – like those inside consumer electronics – run on open-source operating systems. More than 70 percent of "internet of things" devices also use open-source software.
Open-source software isn't inherently or automatically more secure. But it creates more possibilities, and market pressure, for improving security. Just as when choosing a safe to store a secret document in, customers must decide – should they pick a system whose security is vouched for by the company that makes it, or a system that can be explored, examined and tested?
Open-source software users choose not to trust a program unless they can verify it independently. Many of them don't have the expertise themselves to be able to evaluate security claims, of course – but they can wait until consumer-protection groups do so independently, hire a verified expert to check things out, or even learn the skills needed to investigate for themselves. They could even decide to pay for a version of the software that has been checked out and is supported by experts.
An open-source electronics board under inspection with ultraviolet light. Shane Oberloier and Joshua Pearce, CC BY-ND
Security with open-source hardware
Open-source hardware offers users the same choice. Many people who buy electronics have no idea what's inside them. Even technically sophisticated companies like Amazon have to hire outside forensic experts to be sure of exactly what is in the hardware their companies rely on.
Open-source hardware would mean each device's designs and components would be open for public view at any time. People could study the information, follow the directions to build a device, test it and distribute it – or even sell it. All that transparency would give attackers more data about their potential targets, for sure. But it would help customers downstream much more, by giving them the means to verify their own devices' security themselves.
This does not mean people would be left to build their own hardware. The open-source software movement has found a number of opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators to sell systems and services based on software that itself is free. For instance, 90 percent of the companies on the Fortune Global 500 list pay for a brand-name version of the open-source Linux operating system from Red Hat, a company that makes billions of dollars a year for the service they provide on top of the product that can ostensibly be downloaded for free. The open-source hardware movement is not yet as mature as its software counterpart, but it could catch up fairly quickly.
An open-source circuit mill built using low-cost components from 3D printers. Shane Oberloier and Joshua Pearce, CC BY-ND
The future of distributed manufacturing
Making open-source hardware systems more available increases regular people's security by giving them verifiably secure options. If someone is especially concerned, they could even manufacture their own electronics. There are a wide range of designs already publicly available on sites like Hackaday, Open Electronics and the Open Circuits Institute. There are also many communities based on specific products like Arduino.
Even open-source chips are gaining traction. It's already possible for people to build electronics that are open-source from the chips all the way up to the physical components. If hardware hacks become more common, that may be a key way for people to protect their cybersecurity. Companies and governments can also be expected to adopt policies that favor open-source hardware and require better testing to ensure their equipment is safe to use.
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Q: PHP output to CSV I have the following PHP script which reads from two CSV files, At the moment I am putting the data into a table however I need it to output to a CSV file...
<?php

$products_file = fopen('Products.csv', 'r');
$manufacturers_file = fopen('Manufacturers.csv', 'r');

$manufacturers = array();

while (($manufacturers_line = fgetcsv($manufacturers_file)) !== FALSE) {

     $manufacturers[$manufacturers_line[0]] = $manufacturers_line [1];

    }

echo '

SKU	Make and Model	Make and Model
';

while (($products_line = fgetcsv($products_file)) !== FALSE ) {

  echo '
'.$products_line[3].'	';

  echo $manufacturers[$products_line[5]];

  echo '	'.$products_line[4].'
';
}

echo '
';

fclose($products_file);
fclose($manufacturers_file);

?>

How can I do this using fputcsv ?

A: Looks like you just need to change where it renders the html table to write it to a csv file like this as from the PHP documentation:-
$fp = fopen('newfile.csv', 'w');

while (($products_line = fgetcsv($products_file)) !== FALSE )
{
  fputcsv($fp, $products_line);
}

fclose($fp);

Hope that helps.
Rick.

A: You could also do it this way:
Declare $csv outside your while loop:
$csv = '';

Then in your while loop populate the variable:
$csv .= $products_line[3].','.$manufacturers[$products_line[5]].','.$products_line[4]."\n";

Then once outside your loop you can write $csv to a file:
$myFile = 'testFile.csv';
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die('cannot open file');
fwrite($fh, $csv);
fclose($fh);

Done!
Note the double quote around the \n. If you use single quotes the \n character will not have the expected result.

A: I'd suggest this:
$outfile = fopen('output.csv', 'w');

while (($products_line = fgetcsv($products_file)) !== FALSE
      && fputcsv(
        array($products_line[3], $manufacturers[$products_line[5]], $products_line[4]
      ) !== FALSE) {
  echo '
'.$products_line[3].'	';
  echo $manufacturers[$products_line[5]];
  echo '	'.$products_line[4].'
';
}

First, a new array is being created with
array($products_line[3], $manufacturers[$products_line[5]], $products_line[4].
Then this array is being fed to fputcsv().
The above code outputs both csv and html. Remove the echo if you don't want html output.


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1. The people of Israel sinned in the eyes of the Lord again. So the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
2. There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites. His name was Manoah. His wife was not able to have children.
3. Then the angel of the Lord came to the woman and said to her, "See, you have not been able to have any children. But the Lord will make it possible for you to have a child and you will give birth to a son.
4. So be careful not to drink wine or strong drink. Do not eat anything that is unclean.
5. You will have a child and give birth to a son. His hair must never be cut. Because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the time he is born. He will begin to take Israel away from the Philistines' power."
6. Then the woman came and told her husband. She said, "A man of God came to me. He looked like the angel of God, filling me with fear. I did not ask him where he came from. And he did not tell me his name.
7. But he said to me, 'See, it will be possible for you to have a child and give birth to a son. Do not drink wine or strong drink or eat anything that is unclean. For the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the time he is born to the time he dies.' "
8. Then Manoah asked the Lord, saying, "O Lord, let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again. Let him teach us what to do for the boy who is to be born."
9. God listened to Manoah. The angel of God came again to the woman while she was sitting in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.
10. So the woman ran to her husband in a hurry. She told him, "See, the man who came the other day has come to me again."
11. Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man he said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to the woman?" And he said, "I am."
12. Manoah said, "When your words come true, what will be the boy's way of life? What should he do?"
13. The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Let the woman be careful to do all I have said.
14. She must not eat anything from the vine or drink wine or strong drink. She must not eat anything that is unclean. Let her obey all I have told her."
15. Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "We ask of you, stay with us. So we may get a young goat ready for you to eat."
16. The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "I will stay, but I will not eat your food. But if you get a burnt gift ready, then give it to the Lord." For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.
17. Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "What is your name? So we may honor you when your words come true."
18. But the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why do you ask my name? It is a name of wonder."
19. So Manoah took the young goat with the grain gift. And he gave it on the rock to the Lord. Then the Lord did powerful works while Manoah and his wife watched.
20. For the fire went up from the altar toward heaven. And the angel of the Lord went up in the fire of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell with their faces on the ground.
21. The angel of the Lord did not show himself to Manoah or his wife again. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
22. So Manoah said to his wife, "We will die for sure. For we have seen God."
23. But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had wanted to kill us, He would not have received a burnt gift and grain gift from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or let us hear these things."
24. Then the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew up and the Lord brought good to him.
25. And the Spirit of the Lord began to work through him at the tents of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.


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package patio.group.repositories;

import io.micronaut.data.annotation.Query;
import io.micronaut.data.repository.PageableRepository;
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
import patio.group.domain.Group;
import patio.voting.domain.Voting;

/** All database actions related to {@link Group} entity */
public interface GroupRepository extends PageableRepository<Group, UUID> {

  String VOTING_HOUR_TIME = "+ extract(hour from g.voting_time) * INTERVAL '1 hour' ";
  String VOTING_MINUTE_TIME = "+ extract(minute from g.voting_time) * INTERVAL '1 minute' ";
  String VOTING_DURATION = "+ g.voting_duration * INTERVAL '1 hour' ";
  String TODAY_AT_MIDNIGHT = "DATE_TRUNC('day', current_date) ";
  String VOTING_START_TIME = TODAY_AT_MIDNIGHT + VOTING_HOUR_TIME + VOTING_MINUTE_TIME;

  /**
   * Finds all groups for a specific voting day and with time in a group's voting period
   *
   * @param day day of the week
   * @param time time after or at it's voting voting time
   * @return a {@link Stream} of {@link Group}
   */
  @Query(
      value =
          "SELECT g.* FROM groups g "
              + "WHERE :day=ANY(g.voting_days) "
              + "AND :time BETWEEN "
              + VOTING_START_TIME
              + "AND "
              + VOTING_START_TIME
              + VOTING_DURATION,
      nativeQuery = true)
  Stream<Group> findAllGroupsInVotingDayAndInVotingPeriod(String day, OffsetDateTime time);

  /**
   * Finds all groups already having a Voting for the CURRENT voting period
   *
   * @return a {@link Stream} of the {@link Group} having a voting between these two moments
   */
  @Query(
      value =
          "SELECT g.* FROM voting v, groups g "
              + "WHERE v.group_id = g.id "
              + "AND v.created_at BETWEEN "
              + VOTING_START_TIME
              + "AND "
              + VOTING_START_TIME
              + VOTING_DURATION,
      nativeQuery = true)
  Stream<Group> findAllGroupsWithVotingInCurrentVotingPeriod();

  /**
   * Finds all votings with non-expired votings that are OUT OF its CURRENT voting time
   *
   * @param time the OffsetDateTime to consider when reviewing the voting period
   * @return a {@link Stream} of the {@link Group} having a voting between these two moments
   */
  @Query(
      value =
          "SELECT v.* FROM voting v, groups g "
              + "WHERE v.expired = false "
              + "AND :time >= v.created_at "
              + VOTING_DURATION
              + "AND v.group_id = g.id",
      nativeQuery = true)
  Stream<Voting> findAllExpiredVotingsByTime(OffsetDateTime time);

  /**
   * Returns the user's favourite {@link Group}
   *
   * @param userId user's identifier
   * @return its favourite {@link Group}
   */
  @Query(
      "SELECT v.group FROM Voting v JOIN v.group.users u WHERE u.user.id = :userId ORDER BY v.createdAtDateTime")
  Optional<Group> findMyFavouriteGroupByUserId(UUID userId);
}

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This piece is about the way in which the AKP government, through its use of the National Intelligence Unit (MIT) and the Police Intelligence unit has turned profiling into a standardised practice that has gone as far as becoming contractualised through the signing of protocols.
I will start with the article that was published in Taraf Daily Newspaper on the 10th June which reported that the MIT have been busy illegally collecting data about Turkish citizens and profiling them on databases. According to the article, MIT forced the Turkish Postal Services (PTT), the Education Ministry, Turkish Airlines (THY), the Social Security Institution (SGK) and the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) to sign protocols on sharing information of individuals who 'make use of the services' of these institutions, which experts and jurists have said is a violation of individual freedoms and the right to privacy.
Never mind that, government is working on a quick fix: a new law will grant the MIT special powers to legally keep tabs on everyone who goes to school in Turkey, anyone who has a bank account, or anyone who uses the postal service to name only 3 institutions.
A couple of days later, Mehmet Baransu, the same journalist from Taraf revealed that the profiling carried out by MIT had also been keeping tabs on the political leanings of big businessmen (eg. whether they vote AKP or not). Reason being, when it came to giving out tenders for large public contracts, it was made sure that the public procurements were given to businessmen that voted for the AKP. Thus, we gain an insight into the ugliest face of cronyism.
CHP MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu submitted a question to the Turkish Parliament, making an official request for an answer to the claims raised by the article which was never made. To make matters worse, although the claims were not denied, the courts made it illegal for media sources to report on the alleged MIT reports to the government.
On the 19th of June, the AKP past yet another law that legalises the profiling of medical patients. Through the new system called 'Health Net', the Ministry of Health is collecting all sorts of personal information including drinking habits, birth control habits of women and whether they have had abortions etc. On this note, it is also worth mentioning the scandal that came up in May which shows the Ministry of Health have been profiling women who have been having abortions and calling them at their homes to ask their husbands if they knew that their wives were having abortions.
– Hospitals in Ankara and Istanbul have been sent separate forms during the protests so that patients that were injured during the protests could be profiled .
– Ministry of National Education has written a letter to school administrations requesting them to investigate and pass over the names of teachers and other staff that have been taking part in the Gezi Protests or who have been sympathetic to the cause. When news of this came out, CHP MP Dilek Akagün Yılmaz submitted a question to parliament, declaring a reply from the Minister of Education. Her request was blocked by the National Assembly Leadership's Office on bogus grounds that the question was too long and too personal. In short, the opposition in parliament are not even allowed to do their job, which is to check on the AKP. The message is clear: no one can question the AKP. Thus, we gain an insight into the broken parliamentary system.
– A columnist writes about how her assistant was not allowed on a graduate program at Marmara University (state university) because of protest pictures posted on her facebook account. (She was told by the university).
Funny… People talk of dark storm clouds gathering over Turkey. Doesn't anybody see that it is already raining?!


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Q: tableView in collectionView IOS I'm using Collection View in a MainStoryboard.storyboard showing a grid of images. I want to go from collection view to table view when the item is selected, i.e on following method:
- (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didSelectItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

How can I load tableView in collectionView's method after selecting?
My approach:
UIViewController *vc = [[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"SubCategories" bundle:nil] instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"SubCategories"];
 [self.view  addSubview:vc.view ];

A: You should make a new ViewController in your Storyboard that has a TableView in it. Then add a segue from the first ViewController (from the VC itself, not from the CollectionView) to the new ViewController. Make sure you set a segue identifier for that segue.
Then in your didSelectItemAtIndexPath method, call
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"YourIdentifier" sender:self];

You can then implement the prepareForSegue method in your first VC to pass data about what was selected to your second VC.
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
    // Make sure your are about to perform the same segue
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"YourIdentifier"]) {
        // Get reference to the destination view controller
        SecondViewController *vc = [segue destinationViewController];
        // Pass any objects to the view controller here, like...
        [vc setMyObjectHere:object];
    }
}

Note, don't ever call prepareForSegue, iOS calls it for you when a segue is about to happen.