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FashionBeans x Percival: Your New Favourite Menswear Collection
Proudly presenting our first-ever clothing collaboration
Men's Style 11 December 2018 By FashionBeans EditorsPhotography: Tom Cattanach
We're going to let you in on a secret that — as a business designed to showcase the latest in menswear — we really shouldn't. You don't need to own a lot of clothes to look good.
Seriously. While other publications might say it's important to have that shearling teddy-bear coat or those conceptual triple waistband jeans in order to be considered 'stylish', this simply isn't the case.
You should, however, aim to have to hand a select few essentials that work anytime, anywhere. Genuinely handsome, well-made stuff that works with everything else in your wardrobe. Not only will this make getting ready in the dark a breeze (a real possibility during the winter months), but also elevate you among the ranks of truly well-dressed men.
For that reason (and because we're fans of the British brand's trademark understated style), we've teamed up with Percival to produce our first-ever clothing collaboration, a six-piece capsule collection comprising just that.
Designed in London by FashionBeans deputy editor Luke Todd, made in fair trade factories and limited to a run of just 30 per item, the range takes the cornerstones of every good outfit and gives them a fresh look with premium fabrics like rich moleskin and ethically sourced Portuguese lambswool, plus details such as subtle checks and seventies-inspired trims.
The result is a series of throw-on-and-go pieces that will last for seasons to come. They will go with most of what you already own. They will go with each other, too. And they will go in the post and reach you by Christmas if you get in quick. Enjoy.
FashionBeans x Percival
Bronze Moleskin Denton Jacket
What constitutes the perfect wardrobe isn't typical everyday pub chat, so you'd be forgiven for not knowing that it includes a moleskin jacket. A strong fabric traditionally worn by blue-collar workers, it's durable and insulating, yet lightweight and pliable, making it ideal for wintry weather. This example, based on Japanese denim jackets, has a slightly cropped body, meaning it'll layer easily over T-shirts, hoodies and chunkier knitwear.
Wayfarer Embroidered T-Shirt
UV rays are year-round, and so is the appeal of the classic white T-shirt. Therefore, it makes sound economic sense to bring the two together into one neat package. Both stalwarts of the male wardrobe, favoured by style icons such as James Dean and John F Kennedy, here classic Wayfarer sunglasses appear embroidered on a soft pure cotton T-shirt that will form the foundation countless cool and cold-weather outfits. Menswear? Completed it, mate.
Cream Yoke Weave Roll Neck
You've no doubt already got a pretty good selection of knitwear in your wardrobe — heck, there's even probably a few roll necks in there — but that doesn't stop this waffle knit version from elevating the wardrobe staple to new heights. Spun from medium weight Portuguese lambswool for an ultra soft handle that's also both insulating and breathable, the final touch comes in the form of seventies-inspired trims to the hems.
Navy Corduroy Vincent Overshirt
There's a very good reason why the overshirt frequently appears on those lists of items every stylish man should own. As smart as it is practical, this version may come in one of this season's trending fabrics, corduroy, but it's practically future-proof thanks to the timeless navy shade that can be worn dressed up with a roll neck and smart trousers or down with a white T-shirt tucked into tailored joggers.
Wayfarer Embroidered Sweatshirt
When it comes to the building blocks of the male wardrobe, three things take priority: fit, fabric and attention to detail. This simple grey marl sweatshirt excels on all counts. Cut slim for a contemporary look, and rendered in 100 per cent cotton, it's finished with the custom FashionBeans x Percival Wayfarer emblem and that all-important V stitching at the neckline.
Melton Check Roscoe Overcoat
There's nothing quite like the feeling of climbing into a quality overcoat on blustery days, especially when it means you not only out-dress every other man in the park, but stay genuinely warm. This one, which features a subtle check design, is cut from thick melton wool in a comfortable, unstructured profile for easy throwing over a chunky knit at the weekend or a suit for when you seriously mean business. Take that, winter.
About Percival
Since 2012, Percival has been on a mission to redefine the classics of the male wardrobe. Headed up by founder and creative director Chris Gove, the London-based brand focuses on a handful of core premises: lasting and considered design, versatility and quality workmanship.
As such, Percival's regular drops have become synonymous with timeless styling and clever detailing over trend-led collections; an approach that has earned it a loyal following, including well-known wearers like Richard Biedul, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jim Chapman.
www.percivalclo.com


Cap Maison - Samam House St Lucia. Coming soon!
A tropical house built in 1990, Saman House sits in one acre of landscaped gardens on a cliff-top, facing west over the Caribbean to Pigeon Point, and north to Martinique. Benefiting from all the facilities and services of Cap Maison yet set within its own private grounds Saman House is a stylish holiday residence.
Four double bedrooms with ceiling fans and en suite bathrooms with showers , open onto the verandah which extends the length of the house, and all overlook the sea.
Spacious and attractively furnished in a relaxed tropical style, Saman House provides the perfect vacation retreat. Decor is simple, tiled floors, whitewashed walls, wooden jalousie shutters and ceiling fans in every room. The pool, deck, barbecue with the sea below, where there is good snorkeling. A safe swimming beach at Smuggler's Cove is located 2 minutes walk away.
Complete with its own services and cook if required.
Bedroom 1: Master bedroom with a four-poster king-size bed, ceiling fan, TV, private balcony with sea views and en-suite bathroom with bathtub/shower combination, double vanity and WC. 2 guests maximum.
Bedrooms 2 - 4: Bedroom with a king-size bed, ceiling fan, access to veranda with sea views and en-suite bathroom with shower, double vanity and WC. 2 guests maximum.


Austin L. Wright researches and leverages microlevel data to study the political economy of conflict and crime in Afghanistan, Colombia, Indonesia, and Iraq. His research on substate conflict largely focuses on rebel strategy, examining how rebel groups adopt new technologies of war in a dynamic environment. In addition to how individuals respond to unexpected economic and climatic conditions, including projects on opium diseases and intelligence sharing, weather shocks and crime, and wildfires and interpersonal violence.
Asst. Prof. Wright is also a faculty affiliate of The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts, the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, and non-resident fellow of the Liechtenstein Institute. His research and work are supported by the National Science Foundation, Niehaus Center for Global Governance, The Asia Foundation and World Bank.


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Q: Intercepting method calls on the caller side I need to intercept certain invocations with bytebuddy. However, the .intercept() API, as far as I can tell, edits the code on the callee side. I need it to be intercepted caller side. How can I achieve this? I have a list of all callers, and I can edit them, but is there an api for modifying the body of a function in this manner?

A: You can replace method calls using a MemberSubstitution. You apply this by registering via DynamicType.Builder::visit where you can decide what methods need adjustment. You can redirect the invocations to your own infrastructure and invoking the actual code if appropriate.
That said, member substitution is limited, callee substitution is much more flexible. Possibly, use a StackWalker to locate your current position in the stack.

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Bergunda landskommun var en tidigare kommun i Kronobergs län.

Administrativ historik
När 1862 års kommunalförordningar trädde i kraft inrättades i Sverige cirka 2 500 kommuner. Huvuddelen av dessa var landskommuner (baserade på den äldre sockenindelningen), vartill kom 89 städer och åtta köpingar. I Bergunda socken i Kinnevalds härad i Småland inrättades då denna kommun.

Vid kommunreformen 1952 bildade den storkommun genom sammanläggning med de tidigare kommunerna Öja och Öjaby.

År 1971 upplöstes den och dess område gick upp i Växjö kommun.

Kommunkoden 1952–70 var 0718.

Kyrklig tillhörighet
I kyrkligt hänseende tillhörde kommunen Bergunda församling. Den 1 januari 1952 tillkom Öja församling och Öjaby församling.

Geografi
Bergunda landskommun omfattade den 1 januari 1952 en areal av 153,37 km², varav 128,71 km² land.

Tätorter i kommunen 1960

Tätortsgraden i kommunen var den 1 november 1960 69,8 procent.

Politik

Mandatfördelning i valen 1938–1966

Anmärkningar

Referenser

Sveriges kommuner 1863-1951
Sveriges kommuner 1952-1970
Tidigare kommuner i Kronobergs län
Indelningar i Växjö kommun

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Songwriter Gillian Welch performed in Hill Hall on Tuesday after she received the Thomas Wolfe Prize. Photo by Mark Seliger.
This year's Thomas Wolfe Lecture took on a unique form — a live concert from a Grammy Award-winning recording artist.
Each year, UNC's Department of English and Comparative Literature awards the Thomas Wolfe Prize to honor the legacy and literary spirit of Wolfe, one of UNC's most famous graduates. Along with receiving prize money and a medal, recipients of the award are invited to speak to students along with the general public as part of an annual lecture series.
Gillian Welch, this year's award winner, performed Tuesday night to a sold-out crowd at Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. Welch and her partner, guitarist/singer David Rawlings, played songs from their 20-plus year career. They said many of their song choices were influenced by conversations that they had with students throughout the day. In between songs, they told stories about their origins in what they jokingly referred to as the "lecture" portion of the event.
The performance was followed by a question and answer session with audience members, many of whom had traveled significant distances to attend the event, showering Welch with praise and detailing how her music had profoundly impacted their lives.
Welch's unique style, which incorporates country, folk and other forms of Americana music, and relies heavily on storytelling, is a large part of why she was the first-ever songwriter chosen to receive the prize. Many of the people who spoke at the event compared Welch's ability to create characters and tell moving stories to Wolfe's.
"Gillian Welch writes lyrics with the emotional force and cadence of Thomas Wolfe's prose," Rebecca Godwin, president of the Thomas Wolfe Society, said.
The weight of the honor is not lost on Welch, who lists Wolfe as one of her biggest literary influences.
"It's very personally meaningful for me to receive this award because of what Thomas Wolfe meant to me," she said.
Earlier in the day, Welch and Rawlings spoke to creative writing students about their songwriting process, their own musical histories and the often-difficult process of navigating a career in the creative arts.
Notably, the Department of English's choice of a songwriter as the recipient for this year's prize coincides with the recent development of a songwriting track within the creative writing minor. With the implementation of the program, students who share Welch's passion for songwriting will now be able to directly apply her words of wisdom in the classroom.
This gift was not lost on Tuesday night's crowd. Welch and Rawlings received a lengthy standing ovation from the audience, many of whom were visibly moved by the performance.
When English professor Bland Simpson introduced the duo, he spoke about the profound effect of their music.


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The U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" and collectively the "Antitrust Agencies") jointly issued new guidance for Human Resource professionals regarding agreements between competitors related to hiring and compensation of employees (the "Guidance").
The Guidance explains the Antitrust Agencies' position with regard to wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements between competitors in the employment marketplace. It also highlights the Antitrust Agencies' intent to shift toward criminal prosecution of companies and individuals who enter into these types of agreements when they are not ancillary to a legitimate business collaboration, such as a joint venture or a merger or acquisition.
The Guidance is particularly significant because it announces that the Antitrust Agencies will view standalone, or "naked," wage-fixing or no-poaching agreements between competitors in the employment marketplace as per se illegal regardless of whether they have an actual anti-competitive effect. According to the Guidance, a "naked" wage-fixing or no-poaching agreement is an agreement that is separate from or not reasonably necessary to a larger legitimate collaboration between companies, such as a joint venture or a proposed merger or acquisition of one company, or a division thereof, by another company. In the Guidance, the Antitrust Agencies compared such "naked" wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements to price-fixing agreements—which have traditionally been criminally investigated and prosecuted as hardcore cartel cases—and indicated that they view them as eliminating competition in the same irredeemable way. Accordingly, the DOJ intends to investigate and, where appropriate, bring criminal, felony charges against companies and individuals it believes are guilty of violating antitrust laws by entering into such "naked" wage-fixing or no-poaching agreements. This represents a shift in how the Antitrust Agencies have traditionally dealt with wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements and significantly increases the risk of antitrust violations for employers.
The Guidance includes a list of "red flags." According to the Antitrust Agencies, antitrust concerns arise if a company:
Agrees with another company about employee salary or other terms of compensation, either at a specific level or within a specific range.
Agrees with another company to refuse to solicit or hire that other company's employees.
Agrees with another company about employee benefits.
Agrees with another company on other terms of employment.
Expresses to competitors that they should not compete too aggressively for employees.
Exchanges company-specific information about employee compensation or terms of employment with another company.
Participates in a meeting, such as a trade association meeting, where the above topics are discussed;
Discusses the above topics with colleagues at other companies, including during social events or in other nonprofessional settings.
Receives documents that contain another company's internal data about employee compensation.
The Guidance notes that this list is by no means exhaustive and states that the presence of a "red flag" does not mean that there has been an antitrust violation. The Guidance also provides that not all information exchanges are illegal and gives examples that an information exchange may be lawful if:
a neutral third party manages the exchange;
the exchange involves information that is relatively old;
the information is aggregated to protect the identity of the underlying sources; and
enough sources are aggregated to prevent competitors from linking particular data to an individual source.
SESCO recommends that clients review all applicable policy and practices to ensure compliance. For assistance, contact us at 423-764-4127 or by email at sesco@sescomgt.com

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Dismantling Federal Assistance to US Elections — Good, Bad, or Ugly?
Published March 1st, 2017 by John Sebes
The U.S. Congress is in the process of dismantling the Federal agency that provides assistance to the local election offices that run all U.S. elections, and to the states that oversee them. That is the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a small agency that's not well understood by a great many people — including several who have been asking me, and other election technology experts, whether dismantling it is wise, and what the effects will be.
I aim to answer all those questions, but in multiple short segments, of which this is first. I want to first lay out some of the issues that people need to decide for themselves whether it is a good or bad idea, or whether there are consequences that could be ugly. Then in other segments, I'll get to some of the functions of the EAC that will be missed when it is gone, and the consequences of the gaps created by EAC's exit.
Original Mission: Accomplished?
How you might think about dismantling the EAC is of course largely driven by what you think its function and value is. One of its original functions was part of a critical response to the hanging chad filled election dysfunction of the 2000 election — a good chunk of Federal funding to help states replace flawed voting systems with ones that didn't depend inconsistent human interpretation of ballots (think of those photos of Florida election officials squinting at punch ballots to see exactly how the chad was hanging). A major function for EAC was to manage the disbursement of funds to states for eligible projects including but not limited voting system replacement.
That's one reason why it might be good to dismantle EAC with a "mission accomplished" status: those funds are long gone, and the post-2000 voting replacement is finished. But what about EAC's other election assistance activities? To be sure, states and localities are getting some ongoing support in terms of election management resources, research and data, and a small batch of ongoing grant money to disburse. But is it vital? How much value is really being delivered to EAC beneficiaries in state and local government? Clearly, some in Congress and elsewhere don't think that the ongoing value is high, and most of the value desired by the original Help America Vote Act (HAVA), that created EAC, has already been delivered.
Mission Evolved
As a result, I think that it's not a bad idea, and not even ugly, if you consider the value of the EAC in the original context of HAVA and EAC's original mission. But that was well over a decade ago and a lot has changed. In following segments, I want to highlight some of the functions of the EAC that have evolved over time, and have become very important — indeed visibly very important in the last year. That change over time, the public visibility, means that a couple odd corners of EAC's original mission might be quite important indeed. And, as EAC is being dismantled, there are important questions about how states and localities might or might not be able to pick up the slack in these important areas.
Here's a teaser for those changes. Just in the last year, the public at large has learned what election experts have known for a while: the current voting systems (mostly paid for by HAVA) turned out not to be as wonderful as hoped, are wearing out, needing replacement, and were not and are not designed to be robust against manipulation against state sponsored adversaries. In short, we now know that U.S. elections are a target, a national security risk, and they run on antique insecure technology.
What's EAC's connection with that? More next time.


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How does the Czech government deal with election hacking? With an "anti-fake news" crew of white-hat hackers.
The Czech government plans to set up a special unit aimed at tackling falsehoods reportedly spread by websites supported by the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Guardian.
The new group will attempt to stop foreign interference in Czech Republic's upcoming general election, so fake news won't sway public opinion.
Czechs setting up specialized anti-fake news unit, targeting Kremlin-backed disinformation.
Officials say they're convinced Putin is behind certain fake news sites that aim to "discourage people from participation in the democratic processes," Tomas Prouza, the Czech government's state secretary for European affairs, told the Guardian.
Specialists will scrutinize and counter false news, primarily via a dedicated Twitter account. It will also train civilians to avoid blackmail and resist foreign lobbying.
Fake news is being blamed for confusing American voters ahead of the November election.
The United States has acknowledged Russian hackers acted to help Trump win.


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Q: Python 'textwrap' module not replacing all whitespace when using 'wrap' and 'fill' functions I'm trying to output some text to the console using the Python textwrap module. According to the documentation both the wrap and fill functions will replace whitespace by default because the replace_witespace kwarg defaults to True.
However, in practice some whitespace remains and I am unable to format the text as required.
How can I format the text below without the chunk of whitespace after the first sentence?
Some title
----------

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.         Duis sem eros, imperdiet vitae mi
cursus, dapibus fringilla eros. Duis quis euismod ex. Maecenas ac consequat quam. Sed ac augue
dignissim, facilisis sapien vitae, vehicula mi. Maecenas elementum ex eu tortor dignissim
scelerisque. Curabitur et lobortis ex.

Here is the code that I am using.
from textwrap import fill, wrap

lines = [
    'Some title',
    '----------',
    '',
    ' '.join(wrap('''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
        Duis sem eros, imperdiet vitae mi cursus, dapibus fringilla eros. Duis
        quis euismod ex. Maecenas ac consequat quam. Sed ac augue dignissim,
        facilisis sapien vitae, vehicula mi. Maecenas elementum ex eu tortor
        dignissim scelerisque. Curabitur et lobortis ex.'''))
]
out = []
for l in lines:
    out.append(fill(l, width=100))
print('\n'.join(out))

A: replace_whitespace is not regular spaces ' ' - but only '\t\n\v\f\r'.
From the docs:

replace_whitespace
(default: True) If true, after tab expansion but before wrapping, the wrap() method will replace each whitespace character with a single space. The whitespace characters replaced are as follows: tab, newline, vertical tab, formfeed, and carriage return ('\t\n\v\f\r').

https://docs.python.org/3/library/textwrap.html#textwrap.TextWrapper.replace_whitespace

A: So looks like this can be done using dedent and defining separate strings for multiline strings.
from textwrap import dedent, fill

lines = [
    'Some title',
    '----------',
    '',
    dedent('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ' \
        'Duis sem eros, imperdiet vitae mi cursus, dapibus fringilla eros. Duis ' \
        'quis euismod ex. Maecenas ac consequat quam. Sed ac augue dignissim, ' \
        'facilisis sapien vitae, vehicula mi. Maecenas elementum ex eu tortor ' \
        'dignissim scelerisque. Curabitur et lobortis ex.')
]
out = []
for l in lines:
    out.append(fill(l, width=100))
print('\n'.join(out))


Note: The ArrayStoreException begin with 5.0u6 (See CR 6322301 fix).
The API specification for java.lang.Class states that Class.getAnnotation() returns this element's annotation for the specified type if such an annotation is present, else null. ArrayStoreException is not a checked Exception so it doesn't have to be declared, but it effectively prevents the API from following the specification - either the annotation should be returned, or null. Currently neither happens.
The application could catch the ArrayStoreException and handle it, but Licensee prefers it to be dealt with in the JDK's internal implementation.
Catch the undocumented ArrayStoreException and handle it.


A girl who will be 18 years old on 23rd September 2010, was brain damaged at birth due to the negligence of Rochford Hospital, Essex and sustained extensive and permanent injuries which render her wheelchair bound, lacking meaningful speech and with extensive learning difficulties. Her mother cared for her almost entirely single-handed for very many years before starting to explore whether her profound injuries were the fault of the hospital.
Margaret Bowron QC, instructed by David Kerry of Attwaters, advised that a claim should be brought and it was started in August 2009. Liability was swiftly admitted and, thanks to co-operation between the 2 sides, the valuing of the claim was quickly dealt with and the settlement PPO package, which would amount to about £4m on a lump sum basis, was approved by Kenneth Parker J on 1st September 2010. He commended both sides on their sensible and speedy resolution of the case.


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Kunowo – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie wielkopolskim, w powiecie szamotulskim, w gminie Duszniki.

Historia
Pod koniec XIX wieku Kunowo pod względem administracyjnym leżało w powiecie szamotulskim i liczyło 9 domostw i 100 mieszkańców. Wśród ludności przeważali katolicy (94) nad ewangelikami (6). Majątek Kunowo liczył 7 domostw, 146 mieszkańców i był własnością rodziny Prusimskich, a potem Grabskich.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa poznańskiego. W 2011 w Kunowie mieszkało 186 osób.

Zobacz też
 Kunowo, Kunów

Przypisy

Duszniki (gmina)


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use byteorder::{BigEndian, ReadBytesExt, WriteBytesExt};
use eventual;
use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::io::{Cursor, Read, Write};

use util::{SpotifyId, FileId};
use session::{Session, PacketHandler};

pub type AudioKey = [u8; 16];
#[derive(Debug,Hash,PartialEq,Eq,Copy,Clone)]
pub struct AudioKeyError;

#[derive(Debug,Hash,PartialEq,Eq,Copy,Clone)]
struct AudioKeyId(SpotifyId, FileId);

pub struct AudioKeyManager {
    next_seq: u32,
    pending: HashMap<u32, AudioKeyId>,
    cache: HashMap<AudioKeyId, Vec<eventual::Complete<AudioKey, AudioKeyError>>>,
}

impl AudioKeyManager {
    pub fn new() -> AudioKeyManager {
        AudioKeyManager {
            next_seq: 1,
            pending: HashMap::new(),
            cache: HashMap::new(),
        }
    }

    fn send_key_request(&mut self, session: &Session, track: SpotifyId, file: FileId) -> u32 {
        let seq = self.next_seq;
        self.next_seq += 1;

        let mut data: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
        data.write(&file.0).unwrap();
        data.write(&track.to_raw()).unwrap();
        data.write_u32::<BigEndian>(seq).unwrap();
        data.write_u16::<BigEndian>(0x0000).unwrap();

        session.send_packet(0xc, &data).unwrap();

        seq
    }

    pub fn request(&mut self,
                   session: &Session,
                   track: SpotifyId,
                   file: FileId)
                   -> eventual::Future<AudioKey, AudioKeyError> {

        let id = AudioKeyId(track, file);
        self.cache
            .get_mut(&id)
            .map(|ref mut requests| {
                let (tx, rx) = eventual::Future::pair();
                requests.push(tx);
                rx
            })
            .unwrap_or_else(|| {
                let seq = self.send_key_request(session, track, file);
                self.pending.insert(seq, id.clone());

                let (tx, rx) = eventual::Future::pair();
                self.cache.insert(id, vec![tx]);
                rx
            })
    }
}

impl PacketHandler for AudioKeyManager {
    fn handle(&mut self, cmd: u8, data: Vec<u8>, _session: &Session) {
        let mut data = Cursor::new(data);
        let seq = data.read_u32::<BigEndian>().unwrap();

        if let Some(callbacks) = self.pending.remove(&seq).and_then(|id| self.cache.remove(&id)) {
            if cmd == 0xd {
                let mut key = [0u8; 16];
                data.read_exact(&mut key).unwrap();

                for cb in callbacks {
                    cb.complete(key);
                }
            } else if cmd == 0xe {
                let error = AudioKeyError;
                for cb in callbacks {
                    cb.fail(error);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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These are the committees defined within Florida Floodplain Managers Association. Click the "go arrow" or the committee name to see a list of committee members. Click the info link icon to view additional information about the committee. If there are subcommitees, a list of subcommittees will be displayed. Click on the name of the subcommittee to view the members.
FFMA Coastal Committee looks at flooding and the impacts to our coastal communities.
Assist the Communications Chair to find innovative and cost effective ways to promote FFMA and it's mission. Provides oversight of the annual e-newsletter and provides suggestions for website enhancement/issues.
Assisting the Conference Chair with planning, preparation, logistics, workforce, equipment and collection of data and information.
Stay informed regarding changes in insurance and CRS issues.
Assisting the Education Chair with providing training opportunities, suggesting trainers, finding no-cost training venues, providing occational no-cost copying services and other help as needed.
Continue the work of the Symposium producing a reference document from discussion points for use in future strategic planning.
Work with the Treasurer to review finances and provide recommendations for expenditures and cost savings.
Receives nominations of Regional Directors, Board Members and oversees the Board Officer nomination process.
Assist Legislative Chair with issues regarding laws that pertain to floodplain management in Florida.
Assist the Executive Director and Membership Chair with increasing membership numbers, providing innovative ideas for outreach and better communication to potential members.
Work with the Executive Director, Education/Training Chair, Membership Chair and Conference Chair to provide cost offsets for training, membership and conference attendance.


Fun times as Baseball America released their Top 10 Astros prospect list this morning. Click the link for the full run-down, as well as Best Tools, Top 15 Players Under 25, etc.
That is amazing VV and Wojo move into the top 10 and the change to the outfield moves DDJ out of the top 10. Singleton drops to sixth.


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The most important attribute of a business is profitability. Close behind, the next most important feature is organization; a disorganized business isn't long for the market. Perhaps the easiest way to stay organized, even amidst hectic startups and unpredictable economies, is to rely on an order management system to track orders from receipt to delivery.
Fortunately, there are dozens of order management systems available, so you can find the one that perfectly suits your business needs. Unfortunately, not all OMS providers offer the same features or pricing structures, so it is possible for you to be stuck with a cheap option that does little to keep your business organized and on track. To prevent the latter scenario, here are the features you definitely want in your order management system.
Perhaps this is the most obvious feature for an order management system, but it is nevertheless true: Your OMS must sync with your inventory management system. Making sales on products that are already sold out is an extremely bad practice that makes customers angry and wastes employee time. A thorough order management system can track items placed in carts – but not yet purchased – and update stock levels to keep employees aware of resupply needs. An inability to integrate with inventory is a major red flag in an OMS.
Any small or medium-sized business that isn't using QuickBooks for accounting and other administrative purposes needs to reconsider. Intuit's software suite is incredibly comprehensive, allowing businesses to manage sales, marketing, training, inventory, and more. Therefore, an order management system that integrates with QuickBooks is a powerful tool. For one, it assists workers' productivity by maintaining all pertinent information within one practical program. For another, it ensures accuracy of data by eliminating the need for workers to transcribe figures from one source to another. With order management integration, as soon as an order is made or input into the system, it appears in QuickBooks, so all workers can see and use that information, remaining organized and productive.
When customers make orders online, they might have a few expectations, most are looking for at least two features: intuitiveness of ordering process and access to order information. Your OMS should be able to provide both. It should be obvious why you need to keep customers happy, but in addition to developing loyalty in your customers, you should be eager to relieve your sales staff and customer service department of the added responsibility of answering simple questions, like "When will my order arrive?" and "What is your return policy?" Instead, that information should be provided through the order management system.
Customized order forms, so customers can find frequently ordered items quickly.
Order information and history, usually emailed, which should include answers to FAQs and other data that prevent unnecessary customer service queries.
Stock information, so customers know how much is available, which can inform their buying decision.
Shipping information, so customers know when to expect their orders.
Online order forms. Your sales team should be able to log orders even away from the home office. Hosting integrated forms online provides constant access for 24/7 sales.
Customer-specific pricing. Different conditions may trigger different pricing structures. Order managers should be flexible.
Customer information tracking. Sales reps need access to customer information to provide the best possible experience and make the most sales.
Integrating warehouse processes with your order management system will help your business run even more smoothly. The warehouse is responsible for packaging and sending orders, so they are integral in order fulfilment. The sooner warehouse workers are aware of incoming orders and the sooner you know of the orders' fulfillment, the better. With warehouse integration, you can simplify your logistics, decreasing order fulfilment time. Plus, you can offer customers more accurate shipping information, so they aren't anxiously awaiting details on their orders.


Magnificent views of the Steamboat ski area from this single family home just west of downtown Steamboat Springs. The back and side yard have been fenced and are perfect for pets or children to play. The property also has mature trees and a storage shed on the side of the home. Besides the attached 2-car garage there is an extra parking pad for a RV, snowmobiles, etc. There is a south-facing deck on the front of the home and also one off the dining room. The family room has a gas fireplace and beautiful wood accents.


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New Pages!
Because I had a long publishing hiatus, this site hasn't seen any new pages for a while. In fact, I'd almost forgotten how to add them!
With four books coming out this year and another in 2023, I had to take action. Fortunately, I was able to make the changes without ruining my site, and now my two spring 2022 books have their own pages. You can see the page for She Persisted: Temple Grandin here. The book is due out on April 5 and will have editions in hardcover, paperback, e-book, audiobook, and eventually, Spanish. This is the first time I've had simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions, and my very first audiobook. I'm especially pleased because it's another point of access for students with disabilities and my subject is an autistic scientist who struggled in school.
Moonwalking also has its own page. This verse novel co-authored with Zetta Elliott is due out on April 12. It has three editions — a hardcover, an e-book, and an audiobook with Findaway that will include a copy of the book with the recording. Zetta and I are pleased to have two acclaimed narrators who will read the alternating poems from Pie's and JJ's points of view. Caz Harleaux will be the voice of Pie, and Michael Crouch will be JJ's voice. I heard their auditions, and they are amazing! Like She Persisted: Temple Grandin, Moonwalking features an autistic protagonist who is diagnosed with learning disabilities. The verse novel format has proven successful with young readers who may have trouble with prose novels, and having the poems read aloud while the child follows in the book (which also features illustrations) is an ideal way to present this story.
What about all my other books, you may ask. Film Makers has a final cover and is now on my main Books page, but I'm waiting to give this book its own page until the first two launch. Film Makers isn't scheduled to appear until August 16, so I'm trying to give my April books their moment in the sun.
The cover for Torch will not be revealed until May, as this YA historical novel isn't due out until November 1. Until I have the official cover, I won't be adding a new page for this book. But I've seen the cover, and it's perfect for the story, working on a number of layers. It reminds me a lot of the cover for Gringolandia, which is appropriate as Torch is probably the book most like my award-winning YA debut.
I did keep the announcements on my Books page for Torch and Ways to Play. Even though the announcement says fall 2022, Ways to Play, illustrated by Gabriel Alborozo, will in fact come out in 2023, giving me a bit more breathing room between books and guaranteeing I will not be a one-year publishing phenomenon.
I'm also working on new projects, again so I won't be a one-year or one-hit wonder. One of them is a YA historical novel in verse, which I started before Zetta and I developed the proposal for Moonwalking and set aside because the acceptance of the proposal meant that the novel had to be, actually, written. I'm also working on proposals for three nonfiction projects: another in the Women of Power series because it was a fun book to write, a biography in verse, and a historical nonfiction project that I believe is especially timely as so many people in the U.S. and around the world seem to be rejecting democracy in favor of authoritarian forms of governance.
Cynthia Levinson January 21, 2022
So many congratulations, Lyn, not only for all of these successes but also for your own persistence in bringing autistic characters to the forefront and in the midst of your own personal sadness.
Ruth January 21, 2022
I am bursting with pride. Congrats from one of your fans.
Linda W. January 26, 2022
Yay, Lyn! I've been waiting for your new books!!!


What is Human-Centred Machine Learning?
This sunday we are running a workshop at ACM CHI 2016 called "Human Centered Machine Learning". I thought I would write an article to explain the general idea (though the workshop itself is a way of better understanding the idea).
Statistical Machine Learning is one of the most successful set of techniques to come out of Computer Science in the last decades, and one that a lot of people are thinking about at the moment. It's often presented as quite an impersonal process: machines that learn for themselves, even AI that risk taking over the world. But, in fact, there is a lot of human work that goes into machine learning and not enough people have been talking about that. So that is what (I think) our workshop is about: understanding how people interact with machine learning and how we can make it easier for them to do so.
That description potentially covers a huge range of things, so I thought I would outline some of the main themes that come out of the papers in the workshop (you can find the full list of papers on the workshop website).
The classic way for a person to interact with machine learning is to gather a lot of data and divide that data into a set of classes that you want to the computer to recognise. This fits well with the learning algorithms but there is a lot of useful information that the computer could give that this process misses out. Also, there are many ways in which people want to interact with data that aren't just about labelling data with classes.
For example, Raphael Christopher and colleagues created a system for optical recognition of musical scores where a human and machine learning algorithm collaborate to get a correct reading of the score. In their system, the person supplied constraints on what the answer should be, for example, "this pixel should be part of a sharp". Baptiste Caramiaux's gesture recognition system doesn't just learn the gesture that people perform but also the subtle variations that people do, which is often treated as useless noise but in musical performance can be an important expressive element. Mike Schaekermann and colleagues use fairly standard class labels, but they acknowledge the fact that people can disagree on the correct label or be unsure of those labels, and that this disagreement can be important information.
So how do we design interaction with machine learning? A vital part (like any interaction design) is understanding users. Alison Smith's suggestions are from a survey of users about how they would like to interact with machine learning. One way of designing interactions is to base them on processes that people already know well, for example the document coding techniques used by qualitative researchers or the stages that web designers go through in creating a page layout.
Lots of these interaction styles are really about creating human-computer collaboration for learning. For example, in Raphael Christopher's Optical Music Recognition System human and computer have to work together to get the right answer. Human-Computer cooperation has been common form many years in active learning, where the computer suggests to the human which data items it wants labelled. Han and colleagues show that the computer can support this collaboration better by giving more relevant information about why a data item needs to be labelled.
Human-Computer Collaboration doesn't have to be one-to-one, some of our authors have looked at how big groups of people can work with machine learning systems, whether they are crowd workers or musical ensembles.
Mark Cartwright and Bryan Pardo start their paper by saying: "It is common for the teacher's understanding of a concept to evolve and change as they teach." This really excited me because it shows that it doesn't have to just be the machine that learns in machine learning, the human teacher also learns from the process (Nan-Chen Chen makes a similar point). Todd Kulesza and Rebecca Fiebrink (both workshop organisers) have both shown how their users ideas of what the machine should learn change as they try to teach the machine (something Todd calls "concept evolution"). This is very different from our standard ideas of how machine learning works.
A lot of human-centered machine learning is about making machine learning easier for people. For one thing, it can involve labelling a lot of data, which can take a lot of time. Several papers have looked at how to reduce this effort in evolutionary computing, active learning and brain computer interfaces.
But making the process easier isn't just about doing less work. Alison Smith says that machine learning systems should support users to help them focus on the most important tasks. Though Annika Wolff, Daniel Gooch and Gerd Kortuem say that it isn't just about making software easier, we should increase users' "data literacy". This kind of support becomes very important when users need to debug machine learning systems that don't work: training a system can be quite easy, but figuring out why it goes wrong is very hard.
Debugging machine learning is about understanding what is going on inside the algorithm, which is really not easy for most machine learning systems. Three of our papers (Nan-Chen Chen, Jules Francoise and Scott Cambo) all say that we have to "open up the black box" of machine learning.
One way to open up the black box is to provide visualisations of what is happening in the machine learning system. For example, visualising the states of a Hidden Markov Model or the features extracted from motion capture data. Jessica Zeitz Self's paper says that these visualisations shouldn't be static: we should be able to interact with them to better understand what is happening and also to update the learning model.
Visualisation is just one way of showing what a machine learner is doing. Michael Paul points out that, though topic models are normally represented as text, not diagrams, there is a lot of effort put into making them interpretable. Marco Tulio Ribeiro describes a way of explaining why machine learning systems classify things the way they do, and says that these explanations can make people trust classifiers more. But Simone Stumpf shows that this can back fire, and people can have too much faith in algorithms that aren't always reliable.
Maybe the most exciting part of the workshop is the sheer range of different types of work presented. Many types of machine learning: Evolutionary Computing, Topic Models (and more Topic Models), Bicluster Analysis and Hidden Markov Models (among many others). These are applied to many different types of data: musical scores, human movement, text documents and brain signals. And the techniques have been applied to an increadibly wide range of tasks and problems: mobile health tracking, art, optical recognition of musical score and ancient papyri, climate science, social science research, web design, medical devices, music, more music, and even more music.
So, with all this we are going to have a very busy day tomorrow. I'm really excited about it!
Virtual Reality researcher and educator at Goldsmiths, University of London and co-developer of the Virtual Reality Specialialization on Coursera.


As we noted earlier, clothing makers and retailers are tussling over payments, and now the fight is ending up in court. A clothing maker has sued Dillards over $200,000 in deductions that Dillards claims resulted from discounts (meaning that Dillards would owe less money to the maker, according to contractual terms). Part of the issue is that there is no proof of the actual selling price of the merchandise. (Other issues include the deduction of early payment discounts, while still not paying on time.) Hardball business tactics are nothing new, but neither side can afford the infighting. Domestic clothing makers are under incredible pressure from China and other places, especially with the liberalization of textile tariffs, and Dillards is getting squeeze from Target, Wal-Mart, and others. With the money spent on the suit, they would have integrated their systems and figured out how to work better together.


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The Used announces deluxe 'Heartwork' album
Credit: Brian Cox
The Used has announced a deluxe edition of the band's latest album, Heartwork.
The expanded set is due out September 10. It features a total of 11 all-new bonus tracks that were written during the original Heartwork sessions, including a collaboration with Blink-182's Mark Hoppus.
"Not a moment of our time in the studio for the Heartwork sessions was wasted," The Used says. "It seemed that every new day brought with it a song worth listening to. Therefore, we are beyond proud to present to you all of the songs that didn't make the record; the entirety of the session."
The original Heartwork was released in April 2020. It includes features from Hoppus and his Blink band mate Travis Barker, as well as Beartooth's Caleb Shomo and Jason Aalon Butler of FEVER 333.
The Used is currently on a co-headlining tour with Coheed and Cambria. Carolesdaughter and Meet Me @ the Altar are providing support on select dates.
Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka reflects on 61st anniversary of Gibson SG: "[It's] defined me as a player"
Cage the Elephant headlining 2022 Riverbend Festival
The Regrettes postpone upcoming headlining tour
Blink-182's Mark Hoppus featured on updated version of A Day to Remember's "Re-Entry"
Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, The Who headlining 2022 New Orleans Jazz Fest
Rage Against the Machine delays launch of reunion tour
Rage Against the Situation: Tom Morello mistaken for 'Jersey Shore' cast member
Nathaniel Rateliff, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop & more taking part in 2022 Tibet House US virtual benefit concert
New Liam Gallagher single "Everything's Electric" dropping in February
Twenty One Pilots grab milestone 10th number-one hit on 'Billboard' Alternative chart


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I'm available for commission, projects and employment opportunities. Please contact me at midriffseason (@) gmail.com for inquiries.


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Justin Bieber suffers concussion in Paris
Bieber felt lightheaded but was able to perform his last song before going backstage and passing out for 15 seconds.
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PARIS: Canadian pop star Justin Bieber ran headlong into trouble on a European promotional tour on Thursday, knocking himself out backstage in Paris and dealing with a crushing crowd in Norway that left some fans injured one day earlier.
Thursday's incident occurred after the singer fell into a glass wall during an intimate concert in Paris. Bieber told celebrity news website TMZ.com he felt lightheaded but was able to perform his last song before going backstage and passing out for 15 seconds.
TMZ posted an audio clip of its conversation with the pop sensation in which he said doctors told him he suffered a concussion and ordered him to relax. The singer quickly posted on Twitter that he was doing well, joking about the incident and saying "gotta laugh at yourself sometimes."
The concussion comes one day after Bieber, on a brief tour of major European cities to promote upcoming album "Believe," was met with a crush of fans before a free concert in Oslo leading to reports of dozens of young girls being injured.
Bieber's record label, Universal Music, said in a statement to celebrity site E! Online on Thursday that it "regrets strongly that some of those who were [at the] Justin concert had a bad experience."
A label executive said "fortunately no one was seriously injured," and added that Bieber wanted to return to Norway and perform a future concert there.
Calls and e-mails to Bieber's representatives were not immediately returned.
Bieber performed a free, six-song concert at the Oslo Opera House on Wednesday that is planned to be featured on his upcoming one-hour NBC television special to be aired next month.
The 18-year-old singer was forced to tweet a safety message ahead of the show after police were unable to control the crowds of fans trying to catch a glimpse of the star.
"for the show to happen u must all listen to the police. we are all concerned for your safety and i want what is best for u. please listen," Bieber posted to his 22 million Twitter followers on Wednesday. TMZ said 49 young girls were injured and 14 taken to hospitals, and police came close to declaring a state of emergency in the capital. Those reports could not be immediately confirmed.
This is not the first time Bieber fever has caused crowd control and safety issues. In November 2009, fans stampeded a shopping mall in Long Island, New York ahead of an appearance by the pop star, forcing organizers to cancel the event.
Bieber's manager was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance, but the charges were later dropped.
lou | 9 years ago | Reply aw that is really sad:(, hope he is okaaay and also cant wait for him to tour in the uk:)
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Crochetville would like to give a special thanks to Dot Matthews for generously allowing us to host her patterns here and give them a special permanent home on the internet. This thread will be a directory of all Dot's patterns here at Crochetville, arranged by type.
Does this mean that Dot is getting along ok then?
I was SO surprised to see Dot's patterns appearing this morning!
That is so sweet of both Dot to agree and Crochetville to do this.
Here is what Dot has asked me to pass along to everyone: She thinks of all her friends here often and she misses you all a lot. She hasn't had time to write patterns or crochet since her darling granddaughter moved in with them permanently. Her health is about the same, but she's a little weaker, a little slower, and as she says, "my brain seems to have taken a hike, lol!"
If anybody wants to post comments to Dot here in this thread, I'll send her a link to it after I get all her patterns posted. That should give people plenty of time to say something to her. Just remember, there are thousands of us and only one of her, so try not to say something that would make her think she'd need to respond to each and every post. She'd never see the light of day again!
Thanks for the update, Amy!!!
My life was just made brighter by this information. Thank you both, Dot and Amy, for letting us know all is well.
:hugThank you Dot for so graciously allowing Crochetville to host all your wonderful patterns. And thank you Amy for arranging them so we can all find them so easily.
Hi Dot! Just a little note to thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with us. Blessings to you and your family!
I am so glad to see these patterns here and to know that Dot Matthews is indeed alive and well. I love her patterns so much and have made many of them. It's good to know that others will be able to use them too.
Thank you Dot and Amy.
Thank you, Amy, for the update.
Amy, what a sweetheart you are for doing what you're doing with Dot's patterns!! Finding a home for them here at the 'Ville!!
How kind and thoughtful of Dot for so graciously agreeing to allow her wonderful patterns to be archived on Crochtville! We are so blessed to have people cross our lives as wonderful as Dot.
And many thanks also to Amy for donating her time to the archiving.
Thank you Dot and Crochetville for making these patterns available here. There are so many wonderful patterns and it's such a blessing that they will be preserved and available for all to enjoy.
Thank you Dot for all the wonderful patterns and thanks to you Amy for working this all out. I'm so glad Dot is okay.
Thanks so much, Amy! I dearly love Dot's patterns and had already saved a lot of them. But in order to make room on my hard drive (I've an older computer), I had to move all my patterns to cd. They're packed up since we're getting ready to move so I couldn't check to see what I already had. This list will help when I do. Wishing Dot health and happiness!
So happy that all is well! Thanks for allowing Amy to post the patterns here! Lots of hugs and love to you and your family! Happy Holidays to you and yours, too!
I'm still a novice at all this, but even with my inexperienced eyes, the first glimpse shouted "Pay attention John, you're in the presence of true art." What a marvelous gift. Thanks, seems such a trite thing to say, but I'm at a loss for one better.
Praise God! Every time I go to Dot's pages to see if there's an update, I get so very sad thinking someone who has touched so many hearts online is lost to us. I have every pattern and picture she ever posted and love making them still. Please send her best wishes & hopes for good health to continue. She has been sorely missed. Thanks Amy! We sure had no way to "track" her down. I know I'm not speaking for just myself when I say I love her for her caring and generosity and wit. If you need any pics, etc. just let me know. I'd be glad to share.
Dot, I don't know you, but I am falling in love with your patterns! What a treasured legacy of creativity!
And Amy, what a labor of love to make that treasure accessible again!
Wishing all of you a happy and healthy 2010!
Thank you Amy and Dot! Dot, your patterns are simply the BEST I've ever crocheted from, and I've been wondering what happened and looking for you for the past three years. I'm so glad to have read an "update". You are a jewel; I almost feel like I know you just from your incredible patterns. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and creativity.
Hi, This is my 1st post. I have been a lurker for a long time. I love all of Dot's creations. I was so upset when I saw that her site was not being updated. I was also worried about Dot. I am thrilled that she is doing good and thrilled that her beautiful patterns will be available. Thanks Dot & everone else that is helping with this!!
I am so glad to have Dot's patterns available here. I'm glad she is doing well. I hope Spike is okay, too. Another thank you prayer goes out tonight!


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Delta Chi (ΔΧ)  now has 137 chapters and 8 colonies across North America. Delta Chi has initiated over 118,000 men since founding in 1890.

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Provisional Chapters

 University of Alaska-Anchorage
 University of Arizona
 Towson University
 High Point University
 Northern Arizona University
 Creighton University
 Temple University
 Villanova University
 University of Colorado, Boulder
 Quinnipiac University
 Southern Arkansas University
 Washington University in St. Louis
 Illinois State University
 Rowan University

Alumni Chapters
 Arizona Valley
 Atlanta Area
 Augusta Area
 Austin
 Boston Area
 Cape Fear Area
 Capital Area
 Central Florida
 Charlotte
 Columbus
 Connecticut Area
 Dallas/Fort Worth
 Edmonton, Alberta
 Greater Wisconsin Area
 Gurnet Point, MA
 Houston Area
 Illinois
 Kansas City Area
 Los Angeles
 Miami Area
 Monongahela Valley
 Myrtle Beach
 Nashville
 New Orleans
 New York City
 Northeast Ohio Area
 Oakland, NJ
 Rio Grande Area
 Sacramento Area
 Seattle
 South Florida
 Tampa Bay Area
 Tennessee Valley
 Three Rivers
 Troy Area
 Twin Cities Area
 San Antonio

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Home Everything else Mini 'force fields' control tiny robot soldiers
Mini 'force fields' control tiny robot soldiers
Researchers are testing a way to control a single microbot that operates as part of a group. The robots are too small for batteries, so instead magnetic fields allow them to move independently while collaborating with a team.
The robots tested are magnetic disks about 2 millimeters in diameter—about twice the size of a pinhead—that slide across a surface. The goal is to create microbots that are around 250 microns in diameter, or roughly the size of a dust mite.
"The reason we want independent movement of each robot is so they can do cooperative manipulation tasks," says David Cappelleri, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University. "Think of ants. They can independently move, yet all work together to perform tasks such as lifting and moving things.
"We want to be able to control them individually so we can have some robots here doing one thing, and some robots there doing something else at the same time."
Findings are detailed in a research paper in the journal Micromachines.
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The team developed a system for controlling the robots with individual magnetic fields from an array of tiny planar coils.
"The robots are too small to put batteries on them, so they can't have onboard power," Cappelleri says. "You need to use an external way to power them. We use magnetic fields to generate forces on the robots. It's like using mini force fields."
The research is revealing precisely how to control the robots individually.
"We need to know, if a robot is here and it needs to go there, how much force needs to be applied to the robot to get it from point A to point B?" Cappelleri explains. "Once you figure out what that force has to be, then we say, what kind of magnetic field strength do we need to generate that force?"
In previously developed systems the microbots were controlled using fewer coils located around the perimeter of the "workspace" containing the tiny machines. However, this "global" field is not fine enough to control individual microrobots independently.
"The approach we came up with works at the microscale, and it will be the first one that can give truly independent motion of multiple microrobots in the same workspace because we are able to produce localized fields as opposed to a global field," Cappelleri says. "What we can do now, instead of having these coils all around on the outside, is to print planar coils directly onto the substrate."
The team moves the robots using attractive or repulsive forces and by varying the strength of the electrical current in the coils.
"You can think about using teams of robots to assemble components on a small scale, which we could use for microscale additive manufacturing," Cappelleri says.
Robots that build tiny machines
Independently controlled microbots working in groups might be useful in building microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, minuscule machines that could have numerous applications from medicine to homeland security.
"So far people have been good at making MEMS devices containing different components," he says. "But a lot of times the components are made from different processes and then have to be assembled to make the final device. This is very challenging.
"We can instead assemble them with our robots. And on the biological side we might use them for cell sorting, cell manipulation, characterization, and so on. You could think about putting the microcoils on the bottom of a petri dish."
Microbots equipped with probe-like "force sensors" might then be used to detect cancer cells in a biopsy.
"Cancer cells have different stiffness characteristics than non-cancer cells, and in some of our previous work we put force sensors on the end of these robots to figure out which ones are stiffer than others," Cappelleri says.
The coils were made by printing a copper pattern with the same technology used to manufacture printed circuit boards. They can be scaled down from their current size of about 4 millimeters. A new process, however, was needed to create a microscale prototype, he says.
The research is ongoing. The team will attempt to use microscale prototypes to assemble components for MEMS devices. One potential obstacle is the effect of van der Waals forces between molecules that are present on the scale of microns but not on the macroscale of everyday life. The forces might cause "stiction" between tiny components that affect their operation.
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Toyota Motor Corp said it will commercialise rehabilitation robots later this year when it makes its robotic walk assist system available for rent, joining Honda Motor Co in marketing mobility devices for Japan's ageing population.
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[TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp said it will commercialise rehabilitation robots later this year when it makes its robotic walk assist system available for rent, joining Honda Motor Co in marketing mobility devices for Japan's ageing population.
A decade after it began developing rehabilitation robots, the world's No 2 automaker on Wednesday said the system would be ready to hit the market by the end of 2017, two years after Honda launched a similar device.
Hospitals and other care providers would be able to rent the system, designed for patients with lower limb paralysis, for 350,000 yen (S$4,481) per month plus an initial fee of 1 million yen.
"The (system) will help to provide assistance to the elderly by enabling them to live more independent lives and to also provide support for their care-givers," Toyota said in a statement.
Japan is greying faster than the rest of the world, with the number of people aged 65 or older accounting for 26.7 per cent of the population in 2015, dwarfing the global average of about 8.5 per cent.
Demand for aged-care services has boomed as the shrinking working population means that fewer able-bodied adults are available to look after the elderly.
Globally, sales of robots for elderly and handicap assistance will total about 37,500 units in 2016-2019, and are expected to increase substantially within the next 20 years, according to the International Federation of Robotics.
In 2015, Honda launched a rental service for its mobility contraption. Worn around the waist and attached to the thighs, it helps patients improve their stride.
Such systems are a new frontier for major automakers, which are already competing to develop self-driving cars with an eye on the elderly as a major future market.
Toyota has invested heavily in artificial intelligence as part of its push into self-driving cars, and has said it may become a maker of AI robots to help the elderly.
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Woman flagged down in 'gold' for cash incident
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According to Hampshire Constabulary, the incident happened at around 1pm on Monday, (November 16), on the slip road connecting Tot Hill Services, near Highclere, with the southbound A34.
A woman said she was flagged down by a man who claimed his credit card was not working. He then offered her 'gold' in return for cash.
Previous scams that have been investigated have seen highly polished copper made to look like gold, which has then been offered in return for cash.
The man was described as of Middle Eastern origin, aged in his 30s and spoke German and English.
He was 5ft 4ins, of a chubby build and wore a red chequered shirt and a brown jacket.
His car was described as dark blue. Three other men were seen inside.
Anyone seen acting suspiciously in this way at the roadside should be reported to police, who have also asked for the vehicle registration number to be noted.
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