Is metaspace a better space?
An exploration of the advantages of web-based digital heritage and the changing role of the physical museum.
Digital technology is ubiquitous and is growing exponentially. It is this rapid pace of change that often renders it immune to definition and analysis. While digital technology continues to assume normative status in the daily operations of museums, galleries and heritage sites, there exists a growing body of digital reincarnations of these spaces on the internet, or metaspace. Their extreme sophistication and wide applicability gives rise to an uncomfortable question: Is metaspace a better space; are the digital, web-based reincarnations of museums, galleries and heritage sites beginning to supersede their physical incumbents?
New Museology theory identifies objects, dialogue, meaning making, and education as key components of the museum's mission which is fundamental to achieving social inclusion.The field of museology itself has a broad remit that refers to, and works with, both cultural and natural heritage.Thus, this article looks at archaeology, architecture and natural heritage to illustrate the variety of disciplines covered by museology.
While variance in New Museological theory does exist, there is general acceptance of the object's principal role. Their collection, categorisation and display represents the 'coping strategy of countless historically and culturally differentiated communities to bring some degree of order to the world around them.'1 These activities are contingent on the object's value, not necessarily determined by authenticity, but by the individual or group making decisions concerning its exhibition or acquisition.
This social element of museums contests the New Museological mission of just and representative object management. As societies become increasingly pluralistic, multicultural and transnational, and museum theory more confident in unpacking the infinite communicative potential inherent in museums, is it unrealistic to expect museums to be able to provide such a broad-based service and achieve social inclusion? While critical reflexivity provides some protection for museum staff and their communities, are we setting museums up to fail? Equally, are we failing to plan for the future? This is a fast-approaching reality that I believe the sector hasn't adequately addressed, nor approached with the kind of candour required. The Information Age has created a context where the virtual can be authentic, engendering other ways of interpreting objects. While this involves a substantial shift in normative practice, herein lies an opportunity for the sector to avoid a future in which, I think, they will be over committed.
The Google Arts & Culture Project demonstrates one way the sector might authenticate on material lines which, I argue, is a more effective way for museums to manage their relationship with objects. The Google Arts & Culture Project is an online platform strongly resembling the New Museological vision of a forum.It provides users with free access to over six million items of tangible and intangible heritage in the form of high resolution photography and videography, Google's Street View technology allows users to navigate their way around the sites and zoom in on works, many of which have been photographed with gigapixel technology. Gigapixel imagery can capture over 1 billion pixels, compared to the 12 million available in an iPhone 6. This offers an unprecedented level of access to works, where users can magnify their view to observe intense levels of technical detail, and even detect content indistinguishable to the naked eye, let alone from behind a barrier.These hyperreal manifestations of physical reality help to distance museum professionals and visitors from marginalising museum semantics, increasing their ability to re-attribute authenticity and value on material lines, allowing objects and their authors to speak louder than the information communicated by the museum itself.
A significant part of the New Museology mission is to create a 'dialogue between curators and the public' in a bid to disestablish its traditionally unilateral structure, build meaningful relationships with source communities and support transactional communication models that recognise the agency of audiences in creating and consuming meaning.It would argue that as a model, GlobalXplorer is surpassing the physical museum in this regard. GlobalXplorer is a free online platform of leading-edge satellite imagery whose mission it is to locate undiscovered archaeological heritage sites before they are destroyed by war, climate change or looting. Since its 2016 launch, its first project in Peru has experienced huge success and as a platform, GlobalXplorer is functioning with a ninety percent plus success rate. To date, 17 possible pyramids, 3,100 possible settlements, and 1000 possible Egyptian tombs have been detected.
Its major point of difference is that it uses crowdsourcing to generate information. Users of the GlobalXplorer platform are given access to the imagery and tools to execute robust micro-analysis for the regeneration of a collective history. Building crowdsourcing into your strategy indicates that as an organisation, you value pluralism, diversity and inclusiveness and are willing to share power with your stakeholders. This attitude is effective in breaking down common perceptions of traditional power structures inherent in binaries like institution and audience.
Institutions who digitise collections create systems that are more accessible to a wider cross-section of society. As at the museum, audiences can craft their own experience and have meaningful interactions with heritage on a digital platform. Audience agency is well-established in museum and heritage theory and can be so robust that often it is audience experience that becomesthe product of the museum. Digital heritage platforms have developed some incredible tools that capitalise on this phenomenon, like Make your own Masterpiece, an international design competition launched by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 2013.
The competition is highly accessible: there is no entry criteria and it is built on the concept of open access. The Rijksmuseum has over 150,000 images in the public domain that occupy a purpose-built website. Participants partake by perusing this digital archive, 'drawing inspiration from the collection and using them to make their own artwork.' [S7] T[MW8] hey can save images or specific details they like and use tools to modify them before having it developed on a wide range of materials like canvas, aluminium, or plexiglass. There is no limit in terms of style, application or medium; the judges are primarily concerned with how the artist makes meaning from the Rijkmuseum's collection. So far there have been 820 entries ranging from Delft Blue contact lenses to condom packets decorated with reproductions of engravings of Adam and Eve from 1643.
The Google Arts and Culture Project is relevant in the context of audience agency as it gives users' unprecedented power to categorise, but in a way that is personally interesting or impactful. The innovations in their Experiments portfolio are especially demonstrative of this as they test how 'machine learning' can contribute to the museum experience and potentially disrupt some of the very foundations of museum work. Machine learning is when the computer functions solely on algorithmically-powered visual recognition. For example Tags produces results that the computer has learnt are visual representations of the search entry. Each result has a tag to explain why it has been included in the search results.Tags exemplifies a web-based digital heritage platform that can transcend dominant ontological and epistemological concepts and definitions inherent in the physical museum by incorporating examples so recent that museum professionals would not have even had the chance to classify them. A charming example of this is given by its director Amit Sood, in his February 2016 Ted Talk. Using Tags, Sood ran a search of what was most meaningful to his mother—gold. This produced the kind of images like jewellery you would expect, but it had also tagged images that represented gold's contemporary namesake: "bling-bling".
At the core of the museum's mission has always been education. CyArk is an exceptional example of the educational potential of web-based digital heritage. CyArk uses 3D scanners to digitally delineate cultural heritage sites by reflecting laser lights off the site's exterior. The scanners map millions of points per second to two to three millimetre accuracy. These are then connected in a lattice so intricate it appears opaque. This transforms the initial "point cloud" into a solid 3D model to which colour from photographs are applied. These 3D models eclipse the capability of conventional apparatus that restrict surveyors to a mere 500 points per day.
A significant section of the website is dedicated to education and provides free, easy to download lesson plans for teachers like 'Math at Mount Rushmore' and 'Modernisation Theory and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Project.' In addition, CyArk's sustainability strategy is one of empowering through education with "technology centres" at partner universities in close proximity to project sites. There, students are taught the skills of digital preservation so they can take an active role in their local cultural heritage sector.
So what lies ahead for the physical museum? Museums need to be cognisant of how the heritage landscape is changing so they too, can take an active role in changing with it. For too long bureaucracy, funding, and sector standards have limited museums to incremental change rather than the big picture thinking that will incite the paradigmatic shift required to establish a point of difference in this digitally-driven environment. There is real value in museums adopting the kind of strategic planning that cause New Museologists to diverge. Basic internal and external analysis of the museum environment would reveal an opportunity in multisensory exhibitions that is humming with potential. This concept is already well supported by theory, and it is effectively employed in science and children's museums today.
Championing big picture thinking and putting forward multisensory services as a potential launch pad is essential for the next paradigmatic shift in museum evolution. Together, these four examples of web-based digital heritage challenge the fundamental role of the museum in terms of objects, dialogue, meaning-making and education and build a strong theoretical case for metaspace as the better space. Despite this, I think we would be hard-pressed to find widespread preference for digital over physical heritage experiences, especially in the context of intensifying device dependency and the general pervasiveness of these in our everyday lives. However, I am confident that digital developments in the heritage sector will continue to be exponential and in some cases, beyond our comprehension. Rather than relying on reactive 'coping strategies', I advocate for museums to plan more strategically for a future that is characterised by increasingly pluralistic, multicultural and transnational societies and laden with sophisticated digital technology, and consider ways in which they might leverage their existing capabilities to establish a point of difference in this environment.
1 Parry, Poole, and Pratty, "Semantic Dissonance," 96.


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Proms 2018
By JohnS, July 31, 2018 in Opera & Music
JohnS 2,081
I don't think there's yet a thread for this year's Proms but there have been one or two mentions elsewhere on the Forum. Highlights for me so far, and I'm still very much in catch up mode, have been Messian's Turangalia Symphony (Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra) which always brings a smile as it's so infectious; Alisa Weilerstein playing the Shostakovich 1st 'cello concerto with Karina Canellakis conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and then her Bach encore; and a fabulous Steve Reich Drumming Part 1 by 4 Young Musician permission winners as part of the Young Musician Prom - I know Steve Reich isn't everybody's cup of tea (Multiverse) but this I think is well worth catching.
ninamargaret 1,705
Enjoyed Paul Lewis, one of my very favourite pianists, playing Beethoven's Emperor and look forward to seeing it on TV next week. Tonight's prom was interesting with Act 1 of Nutcracker- good to hear it as 'music' although I kept visualising the ballet. And the premiere of Joby Talbot's guitar concerto with big echoes of Winters Tale in it. The interval talk mentioned new full length ballet by Wheeldon with music by Talbot in 2020, no further information.
Scheherezade 1,115
I loved the guitar concerto and was fascinated by Milos Karadaglic's recollections about his interaction with Talbot whilst the piece was being developed. Sadly, I just don't find Talbot a memorable ballet composer.
4 hours ago, Scheherezade said:
Keep trying!! I've now seen Winters Tale several times live and many times on DVD and I think I'm starting to enjoy it. Mind you, that doesn't extend to Alice; I don't enjoy the ballet or the music. Just to confuse the issue, I'm not fond of guitar music but I liked the concerto! Now feel thoroughly mixed up - must be the weather!
Sadly, I just don't find Talbot a memorable ballet composer.
I agree, very bland.
Sim 14,657
Talbot or Wheeldon said in the interview that guitar would feature in the score for the new commission....
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About a month in … highlights for me so far seem to say "Cello Cello Cello" … Shostakovich/ Cello Concerto, Dvorak/ Cello Concerto, Elgar/Cello Concerto. Also Shostakovich 7 and Drumming by Steve Reich. Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, bringing back memories of a daily commute on the M25 in the morning rush hour, listening to the Violin Concerto day after day. And then those works that remind me of ballet performances to that music - Debussy's Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune (Cherkaoui) and Stravinsky's Petrushka (Araiz). Looking forward to the second half of this year's Proms.
Wonderful to catch up on more of the Proms. I was very taken with Jean-Guihen Queyras playing the Elgar cello concerto and I can't recall such clarity in the fast sections. A welcome surprise to see bangorballetboy give his thoughts on the concerto beforehand (along with a few other audience members)!
And Andras Schiff giving another solo Bach concert - The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 after concerts of Book 1 and the Goldberg Variations in previous years. Utterly spellbinding and how fortunate we are to have such a musician playing for us and illuminating these masterpieces with his genius.
12 hours ago, JohnS said:
Oh dear, and I missed it! (Was out at another one)
Still on iPlayer. The whole concert in the link below includes the various audience contributions on the Elgar and an intriguing encore - Dutilleux's Un Poco Indeciso, the first of 3 Stophes sur le nom de Sacher (new to me and wonderfully complementing the Elgar):
BBC Proms, 2018: Elgar Cello Concerto: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bhwdnw via @bbciplayer
John Mallinson 5,192
2 hours ago, JohnS said:
BBC Proms, 2018: Elgar Cello Concerto: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bhwdnw via @bbciplayer
That link didn't work for me but this one does. Available for another 28 days.
bangorballetboy 5,013
20 minutes ago, John Mallinson said:
Suppose I should have a look and see what I said!
RuthE 1,950
That reminds me of the time I took part in a vox pop while in the queue for a First Night of the Proms one year, and it turned out my soundbite was the very first thing played on R3 on the very first broadcast of the season! I wasn't expecting that (and the resulting comments from friends and family I assumed would never hear it). I have no idea which year it was or what I said.
1 hour ago, John Mallinson said:
Sorry my link didn't work. John's link I think is only for the Elgar so no Dutilleux encore (nor bangorballetboy). I've tried again and it looks more promising:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bhwdnw
LinMM 6,297
I had an unfortunate experience at the Proms last week!
its a long time since I've been to a concert at the RAH and last week on bank holiday Monday I went to the Bernstein Age of Anxiety Concert (rather appropriate as it turned out) and Shostakovitch concert.
Some friends of mine (who I had spent the day with) were lucky enough to be in a Cambridge College box .....no spare seats....so I just got a ticket at the last minute in the Rausing Circle.
Well obviously the vertigo/panic ...that sometimes comes on when up very high these days has got much worse ( only been happening in the last five years or so)
Usually I can get the better of it but unfortunately on this occasion I just couldn't.
After struggling along the row to get to my seat where I just couldn't look down at all it was really hard to concentrate on the music as I had to fight the feeling that I might fall forward ( and obviously over the top of everyone else to my death far below) or that I would not be able to contain myself and have to make a gross disturbance to the whole concert ....or so it seemed at the time...trying to leave....but I could not leave because I could not stand up to get out because of the fear of falling!! It was almost like being in some sort of nightmare scenario. I had certainly forgotten how vast the RAH is. Hence a very hot and sweaty period digging my feet into the floor and telling myself very severely that I was not going to faint!! It somehow helped if the music was loud but when it was very quiet it seemed to intensify things.
So when the interval came it was such a relief and unfortunately I just couldn't bring myself to stay for the Shostakovitch ....and I love his music.
On the way home I thought maybe I'd missed an opportunity as I don't know but perhaps I could have asked the ushers if I could have gone into the Promenaders section for the rest of the concert which was not full by any means.
Almost certainly if attending another Prom this is where I would go .....right down on the floor!!
11 minutes ago, LinMM said:
Best place to be!
That's debatable
You should have asked Front of House, Lin. I'm sure they would have moved you. I've found vertigo comes and goes a lot - there have been occasional times when I have got it in the ROH amphi, although usually I don't - and I think it may depend on other (temporary?) health factors. Ear infections would presumably be one example because of the effect on your balance. But I hope it won't become generalised for you.
Thankyou Alison I used to be great with heights until about five years ago. ....it's why at the Amphi at the ROH I now have to be not much higher than row K and cannot sit in the slips at all any more.
its probably a weird combo of deteoration in inner ear balance and sight not being so good now for middle distance etc. And the huge space of the RAH.
Many years ago was right at the top to see Shirley Bassey and had no problem at all then.
I think the seats in the Rausing Circle are quite steeply raked as well.....so great for viewing but you don't feel protected that much by the row in front!!
What I did like was the lovely warm atmosphere in the audience and the RAH is an amazing space for sure.
i tend to pay less for concerts than for ballet but if there was someone or some concert I particularly wanted to see I would just have to pay more for a seat. But certainly when the Proms are on I think that bottom space would be great.....and not expensive!
With the Proms drawing to a close I must add a couple more highlights - Simon Rattle and the LSO plus chorus and soloists in Ravel and Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic in two concerts. Rattle/LSO and Petrenko/Berlin Philharmonic are already giving us wonderful music making and Petrenko doesn't take up post until next year - we're promised so much and the next few years I'm sure will be fabulous.
It's great to have Simon Rattle back in the UK.
Im hoping he will be invited to conduct his old orchestra in Birmingham at some point too....a good excuse to go to the Birmingham Symphony Hall!
I can't decide which I like more: Rattle being back, or Gergiev having gone, which is the reason for Rattle being back!
I have a soft spot for Simon Rattle as I worked with his father when I was teaching in Liverpool back in the early 70's!!
Simons father was an interesting man and very good on the guitar I might say! He retrained as a teacher in his 50's and I worked with him at Speke Primary school for a year. On miserable rainy days when the kids hadn't been out all day he would come across to my classroom ( adjacent to his) and say do you want to bring your kids in for a sing song!! And then we'd have a good old time for the last half hour of the day or so.....can't get away with this these days...unfortunately!!
He was always on about his son who was about 17 at this time and who "will be famous one day" we finally met him one Christmas where they lived in Menlove Avenue.
A couple of years later Simon was the youngest ever Conductor at the Royal Festival Hall at the time ( that age record has now been beaten though) I remember it was Berlioz and Shostakovitch 10th.....this was an introduction to Shostakovitch for me who I've loved ever since. I took my parents to this concert and in the first coincidence who should be in the next row but Mr Rattle senior!! He had met my parents before ( long story) and insisted we all went backstage to say hello to Simon.....much to my fathers dismay .....he hated any sort of fuss or show like that....but we did anyway!! Simon was lovely all masses of dark curly hair and green eyes and lots of charm!!
Some years later I was in Barnsbury Park in Islington near where I lived then sunbathing when I thought I heard a voice I recognised ....it couldn't be....but it was ...Mr Rattle senior again with a young toddler!! Second coincidence. It turned out Simon now lived in the next street to me!! It was at this point that Mr. Rattle told me that Simon had turned down some lucrative contracts to stay with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra which he did for another few years after this and I have always really admired him for this and what he achieved with this orchestra.
I would really love it if there was another coincidence .....Simon invited to conduct in Birmingham and he is conducting Shostakovitch 10th OR even the second piano concerto!!
I also hope we get the new concert hall that he would like .....but for me no half measures....either not at all ...or some truely amazing building that everyone would love to be in.....it has to be at least the best in Europe!!
For me, as a listener and tv watcher, the two stand out proms were the Ravel/Rattle and, perhaps even more the Berlioz with John Eliot Gardiner. I often find Berlioz vocal music a bit hard to take but not at this concert. And I loved the story on BBC 3 about Sir John being given his identity pass which bore the name Sir Elton John Gardiner!


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Air Canada and Air China sign long-awaited joint venture deal
Air Canada said the joint venture would help it compete more 'aggressively' in the Pacific market
Alicja Siekierska
Jun 06, 2018 • June 6, 2018 • 3 minute read • Join the conversation
Air Canada and Air China have signed a joint venture agreement that will increase co-operation on flights between Canada and China and on key connecting domestic flights in both countries. Photo by Mark Blinch/The Canadian Press
After years of discussions, Air Canada has finalized a long-anticipated joint venture agreement with Air China, a move that will increase flight cooperation between the two airlines.
The joint venture, which was announced and signed in Beijing on Wednesday, will expand the airlines' existing codesharing partnership as well as provide increased access to connecting domestic flights in both countries. The agreement, touted as the first between a Chinese and North American airline, will be phased in over the next six months.
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Air Canada's chief executive Calin Rovinescu said the agreement, which has been in the works since 2014, "is an important strategy in our global expansion as it significantly increases Air Canada's presence in an aviation market set to become the world's largest by 2022."
The announcement comes after Air Canada complied with a notice issued to airlines around the world by the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration on April 25 demanding that references to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau be changed to "fall in line with the Communist Party's standards," according to the White House.
China considers self-governing Taiwan part of its territory, and wants airlines to reflect that on its booking websites. Air Canada now lists Taiwan's capital as being part of China.
In a statement, the White House called China's request "Orwellian nonsense and part of a growing trend by the Chinese Communist Party to impose its political views on American citizens and private companies" and called on China to "stop threatening and coercing American carriers."
Air Canada was not the only airline that complied with the Chinese government, which considers self-governing Taiwan to be part of its territory. Chinese state media said 18 of 44 airlines made the requested change as of May 25.
According to Reuters, Rovinescu told reporters on the sidelines of the signing ceremony in Beijing that the pending joint venture did not have anything to do with the decision to list Taiwan as part of China.
"One's got nothing to do with the other," Rovinescu said.
"I'm not getting into Taipei. Today is not a day for discussions on Taipei."
Charles Chang, president of the Taiwan Chamber of Commerce of British Columbia, said it is inconceivable that Air Canada's change of approach to Taiwan has nothing to do with the joint venture to a country that is a key part of the airline's growth strategy.
"They can't withstand the pressure of not making a lot of money because with this deal they're making a lot of money," he said.
An Air Canada spokesperson declined to comment further about the decision.
Rovinescu also told reporters in Beijing the joint venture will allow Air Canada to "aggressively" compete in the Pacific market, a key part of its strategy that focuses on international expansion and growth.
Frederic Dimanche, the director of Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, said the agreement will be beneficial for both Canadian and Chinese travellers, as well as the tourism industries in both nations.
"Having access to a market as big as China, I think a lot of Canadian businesses will be able to benefit from that. It will bring China closer to Canada," Dimanche said.
"Now, Canadian and Chinese travellers will be able to reach destinations that they could not have access to before with a single ticket…. It's good for tourism, and it's good for business."
Earlier this year Air Canada expanded its codesharing relationship, allowing Air Canada to place its code on Air China flights between Beijing and several Chinese cities, including Zhengzhou, Xiamen, Shenzhen and Nanjing, and on Air China's flights between Montreal and Havana. Air China also placed its code on Air Canada's daily Montreal to Shanghai flights that were introduced in September, as well as flights from Vancouver to Victoria, Kelowna, Saskatoon and Regina.
The transpacific market has been a focus for Air Canada during recent capacity expansion plans. In its first quarter earning results, Air Canada saw transpacific capacity grow by 12 per cent, with revenues increasing by $64 million, or 4.2 per cent, due to traffic growth of nearly 16 per cent.
With files from the Canadian Press.
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Had the car out for about a week runs nice. i still need to get my side scoops from my buddys shop i got cobra brakes front and rear coming and a trickflow intake. and then the paint which will be sonic blue on top and black on the bottom. and then i'am done.
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Yada, yada, yada. It's August.
Here are the updated MLB power rankings.
Why they're here: The Red Sox are, to borrow a quote from Kenny Bania, "The best, Jerry. The best." They enter the week fresh off a four-game sweep of their nearest rivals in the AL East - putting them 9.5 games ahead of the Yankees - and they're eight games ahead of the Astros, who have baseball's second-best record. The guys who have been there all year have been outstanding, and the newbies have excelled, too. Steve Pearce has a .333 average, 1.097 OPS and five homers in 20 games since joining the Red Sox in a trade, and Nathan Eovaldi has thrown 15 shutout innings in two starts since Boston acquired him from Tampa Bay.
Why they're here: They hit a bit of a rough patch before winning road series against the Mariners and Dodgers. The losses - they scored just 10 runs in a five-game skid - were annoying, but the bigger issue for the reigning World Series champions is injuries. Lance McCullers just landed on the DL with elbow discomfort, and George Springer hurt his thumb sliding into second base. Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, Chris Devenski and Brian McCann were already on the DL, which means the Astros need help from their understudies - the substitute teachers of the baseball world.
Why they're here: This has not been the best stretch for the Yankees. They were tied for first with the Red Sox in the AL East after a win on July 1, and they enter play this week 9.5 games out in the division. Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez are on the DL, and newcomer J.A. Happ made just one start before landing on the DL with hand, foot and mouth disease. Sheesh. It's been rough, but least they didn't have to stay in a Ramada in Milwaukee. Things should even out, though. They'll get Judge and Happ and Sanchez back eventually, and the upcoming schedule should offer a bit of respite. They don't play another team currently over .500 until Sept. 3, when they start a three-game series in Oakland.
Why they're here: The A's are kind of amazing right now. Since June 15, they've won 33 of their 43 games; they've had four winning streaks of at least five games in that span and have only lost multiple games in a row once. When this streak started, they were 11 games behind Seattle in the AL West and wild-card standings. Now? The A's are 2.5 games up and baseball fans in Oakland are like, "It's not you, Mariners fans, it's me."
Why they're here: It's not like the Cubs needed external motivation, but they might have gotten it last week when ESPN broadcaster Alex Rodriguez ripped rehabbing pitcher Yu Darvish. Manager Joe Maddon sprung to Darvish's defense, angry as an old man trying to send back soup at a deli. The club's confident Darvish is working hard to return, but they made a deal for veteran lefty Cole Hamels anyway. In his first start with the Cubs, Hamels struck out nine and allowed just three hits in five innings in a win against the Pirates.
Why they're here: I like to imagine that Gabe Kapler started his first spring training meeting by asking his new players to pick out anything in the room, so he could lift it up over his head. Whatever he did back then, Kapler has been pushing the right buttons for the Phillies. They've been in first place in the NL East, either tied or alone, for more than a month now. Aaron Nola is a legit NL Cy Young candidate and Seranthony Dominguez has helped settle down the back end of the bullpen.
Why they're here: If you see a Brewers fan, give them a hug. It's been a trying season. They were 4.5 games up in the NL Central at the end of May, fell to 3.5 games out of first shortly after the All-Star break and now sit in a holding pattern right behind the Cubs. For fans of a franchise that hasn't made the playoffs since 2011 - and has only been four times total since the franchise moved to Milwaukee in 1970 - it's one long summer of trying to find serenity now while trying to hold on until October arrives.
Why they're here: Getting into the playoffs is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can't do it in one push; you've got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over. The Mariners own baseball's longest playoff drought, and until the A's started their crazy run of success, Seattle's October spot seemed relatively secure. Now, though, they're on the outside looking in. Again. Can the M's rock the proverbial Coke machine a couple of more times and finish the job?
Why they're here: Cleveland's front office looked at its major league roster a couple of weeks ago and decided the bullpen needed an upgrade. The problem: They had no Hand, no Hand at all. How would they get the Hand? They knew Hand would be tough to get. They traded top prospect Francisco Mejia to the Padres, and they got Brad Hand (and Adam Cimber) to fortify the bullpen. So far, Hand has been everything they hoped; he's 3-for-3 in save opportunities and has a 2.25 ERA.
Why they're here: You know what they say: You don't sell the steak, you sell the sizzle. Well, the Dodgers acquired plenty of sizzle in the past month, beginning with the trade for superstar Manny Machado and wrapping up with a deal for Brian Dozier to completely revamp their middle infield. Those two have combined to bat .301 with four homers and 12 RBIs in 22 games. This lineup now features eight players with at least 17 home runs on the season, and 10 players with at least a dozen.
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1) Public Liability insurance up to a maximum of $20,000.000. This covers all registered members of your Association. Insurance covers all "registered" members only and as a consequence TTNSW earlier this year arranged for "Social" membership to also be allowed. This means that officials are covered in the event that one of your registered members is injured at table tennis. Otherwise, the officials may be personally liable for any financial requirements.
2) Directors and Officers insurance is also provided for obscure reasons which members may sue the officials of your club.
3) Registered members are covered for Personal Accident and Injury insurance. You may think that injuries do not occur in table tennis but we currently have a claim for a lady who has broken both her wrists in a fall. The insurance covers loss of income as well as non Medicare related expenses. The benefits are provided under the "social" player arrangements for $10 per calendar year.
4) Travel insurance is also provided for all members travelling to and from table tennis related events.
5) Table Tennis NSW ensures details of your playing venues are available on our website. We refer requests from potential players to affiliates located within reasonable distances of the playing venues. We also constantly provide information which we believe may be relevant to your association.


Keywords: Homogenization, Probabilistic modeling, Micromechanics, Gradient materials.
If the length-scales are well separated, homogenization theory can provide a robust theoretical framework for heterogeneous materials. In this context, the macroscopic properties can be retrieved from the solution to an auxiliary problem, formulated over the representative volume element (with appropriate boundary conditions). This two-part PhD work by V.P. Tran is focused on the homogenization of heterogeneous materials. They are described at the finest scale by two different material models (both depending on a specific characteristic length) while the homogeneous (macroscopic) medium behaves as a classical Cauchy medium in both cases.
In the first part of this PhD work, the random microstructure of a Cauchy medium is considered. Solving the auxiliary problem on multiple realizations can be very costly due to constitutive phases exhibiting not well-separated characteristic length scales and/or high mechanical contrasts (see figure on the left). In order to circumvent these limitations, our study is based on a mesoscopic description of the material, combined with information theory. In the mesostructure, defined by a filtering framework, the fine-scale features are smoothed out (see figure on the right).
The mesostructure is a (tensorial) random field, which is characterized statistically. A model for this random field is then proposed and suitably calibrated. It allows to generate realizations of the mesostructure without prior generation and simulation of fully resolved microstructures. The model is shown to deliver very accurate estimates of the macroscopic properties, while significantly reducing the computational cost.
Probability distribution function of the filtered shear modulus of the true and model mesostructures.
Mori–Tanaka estimates of the effective bulk (left) and shear (right) moduli of the composite, as a function of the volume fraction of inclusions. The estimates are represented for both stress- and strain-gradient materials.
The second part of this PhD work is dedicated to gradient materials which induce microscopic size-effect due to the existence of microscopic material internal length(s). The random microstructure is described by a newly introduced stress-gradient model. Despite being conceptually similar, we show that the stress-gradient and strain-gradient models define two different classes of materials. Next, simple approaches such as mean-field homogenization techniques are proposed to better understand the assumptions underlying the stress-gradient model. The obtained semi-analytical results allow us to explore the influence on the homogenized properties of the model parameters and constitute a first step toward full-field simulations.


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N.J. students may lose mental health services at schools
After giving birth almost two years ago, Nayeli Espinoza agonized over whether to drop out of her high school in Trenton, New Jersey, and get a job to support her newborn son. She credits the School Based Youth Services Program at Trenton Central High School with allowing her to continue […]
After giving birth almost two years ago, Nayeli Espinoza agonized over whether to drop out of her high school in Trenton, New Jersey, and get a job to support her newborn son.
She credits the School Based Youth Services Program at Trenton Central High School with allowing her to continue her education by helping her secure day care and giving her a place to talk about her problems with counselors.
"It was a blessing," Espinoza, now 17, said Friday. "I was suffering a lot."
But the program that thousands of New Jersey students, particularly those in lower-income districts and communities of color, consider a lifeline could be eliminated at the end of the month under the proposed state budget. The plan has sent students and their families scrambling to figure out how to get crucial services without it.
"We have this program that can help us be something for our kids in life, and the state is taking that away from us," Espinoza said. "This makes me sad."
Since recently learning of the proposed cut, students and families have rallied outside the state capitol in Trenton and expressed their fear and anger online. Supporters say it will be next to impossible to replace the mental house services it offers for free, including in the areas of sexual assault awareness, work and college readiness, teen parenting and LGBTQ support.
The Trenton Student Voice Power Movement organized a rally outside the State House in Trenton, N.J., against cutting school-based youth service programs on Sept. 4, 2020. (Julia Hyland)
The program operates in nearly 100 of the more than 500 school districts in New Jersey and serves an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 students. After its inception more than 30 years ago, the program has been recognized nationally for what was seen as a simple innovation: operating inside schools and offering counseling and resources that students might not otherwise access.
Melda Grant, coordinator of the program in Trenton, said the office was already busy last week when students came to pick up Chromebooks for remote learning. One student whose father had recently died sought counseling, while another who was pregnant needed assistance.
"Without this program, our students would have to learn to navigate systems in the community, and I don't know that they have that self-efficacy and confidence," Grant said.
New Jersey is facing a $5.7 billion shortfall in its upcoming budget, worsened by a decline in revenue amid the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, has proposed about $1.25 billion in cuts, including nearly $12 million for the school-based programs. The state would also lose federal matching funds for the programs.
With opposition mounting, Murphy suggested this week the initiative could be restored in the budget.
"This is one that I think there's a broad agreement and support to try to find a way to get back in," Murphy said during his monthly radio show. "I've just got to make sure we have the money to pay for it."
A spokeswoman for the governor's office referred questions to the Department of Children and Families, which said Friday that "any reduction is painful" but all state agencies have had to find areas to cut.
Those calling for youth services programs to be saved have found backing from both Democratic and Republican state lawmakers who support a bipartisan resolution to restore funding. State Sen. Anthony Bucco, a Republican, said mental health counseling is needed even more now for children after "months of social isolation, separation from their friends and the stress of starting a new school year with the education landscape constantly changing."
Gov. Murphy's proposed budget would cut funding from proven school-based mental health counseling & municipal anti-drug programs for kids while directing money to new programs like 'baby bonds' that do little but generate headlines for the governor. https://t.co/MMlxfGnlnH
— Sen. Anthony M. Bucco (@tonybucco) September 1, 2020
The governor's budget proposal allocates $45 million to another mental health and behavioral program, the Children's System of Care.
"In these tough budget times, the department feels that the Children's System of Care — while not located in schools — can provide youth and families with an array of in-home, in-community and out-of-home supports," said Nicole Brossoie, a spokeswoman for the Department of Children and Families, in an email.
Funding shortfalls blamed on the pandemic have forced other states, such as North Carolina, to weigh whether they can afford school-based mental health programs as well.
While program directors throughout New Jersey said out-of-school programs are important and can also benefit from more money, they are not as accessible to all students.
"In-home therapy can work if everyone in the house buys in," said Mariam Gerges, director of the School Based Youth Services Program at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, a suburb of New York City. "But what if the parents are working two jobs? When is the family therapy going to happen?"
Children can be reluctant to speak to a therapist with their parents or they may live in a home where abuse or other disruptions are occurring, making it even more important to have a safe space at school where counselors can reach students who might otherwise suffer in silence, Gerges said.
More than 560 students at Dwight Morrow meet with a clinician, youth development specialist or college readiness expert each year, and about a quarter of students receive mental health services through the program. Gerges said the strain of the pandemic has only exacerbated feelings of anxiety and depression.
Demonstrators rally with the Trenton Student Voice Power Movement outside the State House in Trenton, N.J., to support saving school-based youth service programs on Sept. 4, 2020. (Nick Spanola)
For students at the high school, which has a majority Black and Latino population and where about half qualify for free or reduced lunch, the program is "a lifeline," Gerges said, recounting stories of students who were saved from sexual abuse, suicide and even human trafficking.
But the program, known by students at Dwight Morrow as The ZONE, also tackles issues on a smaller scale, like befriending students who are struggling socially and feeling alone.
"I can't tell you how many times we've gone in the lunchroom and said to someone, 'Why don't you come and eat lunch with us?'" Gerges said.
Several students referred to their School Based Youth Services Programs as "second homes."
Lauren Blann, a mother in Brick Township, along the Jersey Shore, applauds the program at her 12-year-old son's middle school for being a salvation for him during the school year.
She said her son, Trevor, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and is high-functioning on the autism spectrum, has had difficulty in school and with making friends, but the therapist he sees has been "life-changing."
"He told me yesterday that school is the hell of his existence," Blann, a pediatric nurse practitioner, said. "It breaks my heart."
Now, with the program appearing to near its end, Blann said her son has already threatened to stop going to classes; his middle school is doing both remote and in-person learning.
"He stood in my room last night in tears," Blann said. "He said to me, 'I'm losing the one person who actually listened to me and went to bat for me in school.'"
Blann, looking for support, joined hundreds of other parents, students and educators during a virtual rally this week. She explained her son's journey and hinted at her fears for his future without the program.
"My son's life is worth more than a line item on the budget," she said.
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Q: Converting text into numeric in xls using Java When I create excel sheet through java ,the column which has number datatype in the oracle table, get converted to text format in excel.I want it to remain in the number format.Below is my code snippet for excel creation.
    FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(tempFile.getAbsoluteFile(),true);
    //BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);

    HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook();
    HSSFSheet sheet = wb.createSheet("Excel Sheet");

    //Column Size of excel
    for(int i=0;i<10;i++)
    {
        sheet.setColumnWidth((short) i, (short)8000);
    }

    String userSelectedValues=result;

    HSSFCellStyle style = wb.createCellStyle();
    ///HSSFDataFormat df = wb.createDataFormat();

    style.setFillForegroundColor(HSSFColor.GREY_25_PERCENT.index);
    style.setFillPattern(HSSFCellStyle.SOLID_FOREGROUND);
    //style.setDataFormat(df.getFormat("0"));

    HSSFFont font = wb.createFont();
    font.setColor(HSSFColor.BLACK.index);
    font.setBoldweight((short) 700);
    style.setFont(font);

    int selecteditems=userSelectedValues.split(",").length;
    // HSSFRow rowhead = sheet.createRow((short)0);
    //System.out.println("**************selecteditems************" +selecteditems);

    for(int k=0; k<selecteditems;k++)
    {
        HSSFRow rowhead = sheet.createRow((short)k);

        if(userSelectedValues.contains("O_UID"))
        {
          HSSFCell cell0 = rowhead.createCell((short) k);
          cell0.setCellValue("O UID");
          cell0.setCellStyle(style);
          k=k+1;
        }
    ///some columns here..
    }

    int index=1;
    for (int i = 0; i<dataBeanList.size(); i++)
    {
        odb=(OppDataBean)dataBeanList.get(i);
        HSSFRow row = sheet.createRow((short)index);

        for(int j=0;j<selecteditems;j++)
        {
            if(userSelectedValues.contains("O_UID"))
            {
                HSSFCell row1=row.createCell((short)j);
                row1.setCellType(row1.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC);
                row1.setCellValue(odb.getUID());
                j=j+1;
            }
        }
        index++;
        }

    FileOutputStream fileOut = null;
    try {
        fileOut = new FileOutputStream(path.toString()+"/temp.xls");
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }
     try {
        wb.write(fileOut);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
     try {
        fileOut.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

A: Try this:
Cell cell = row.createCell(...);
cell.setCellType(Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC);

http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFCell.html
In your example it will be:
Cell cell = row.createCell((short)j);
cell.setCellType(Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC);
cell.setCellValue(odb.getUID());


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#ifndef __GECODE_SEARCH_SUPPORT_HH__
#define __GECODE_SEARCH_SUPPORT_HH__

#include <gecode/search.hh>

namespace Gecode { namespace Search {

  /// Clone space \a s dependening on options \a o
  forceinline Space*
  snapshot(Space* s, const Options& o, bool share=true) {
    return o.clone ? s->clone(share) : s;
  }

  /// Virtualize a worker to an engine
  template<class Worker>
  class WorkerToEngine : public Engine {
  protected:
    Worker w;
  public:
    /// Initialization
    WorkerToEngine(Space* s, size_t sz, const Options& o);
    /// Return next solution (NULL, if none exists or search has been stopped)
    virtual Space* next(void);
    /// Return statistics
    virtual Search::Statistics statistics(void) const;
    /// Check whether engine has been stopped
    virtual bool stopped(void) const;
  };

  template<class Worker>
  WorkerToEngine<Worker>::WorkerToEngine(Space* s, size_t sz,
                                         const Options& o)
    : w(s,sz,o) {}
  template<class Worker>
  Space*
  WorkerToEngine<Worker>::next(void) {
    return w.next();
  }
  template<class Worker>
  Search::Statistics
  WorkerToEngine<Worker>::statistics(void) const {
    return w.statistics();
  }
  template<class Worker>
  bool
  WorkerToEngine<Worker>::stopped(void) const {
    return w.stopped();
  }

}}

#endif

// STATISTICS: search-other

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Lucien Weissenburger studied at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Jules André and Victor Laloux. He returned to Nancy in 1888 and became the municipal architect of Lunéville, in which he designed the theatre. He collaborated since 1900 with Henri Sauvage in the construction of the Louis Majorelle's villa, in which he controlled the execution of the plans. His activities are proof of his great eclecticism through his various inspirations (Art Nouveau, regionalism, historical references) and the nature of his commissions (factories, town houses, stores, and Nancy's first HBM).
Some of his mose prestigious creations are still visible in Nancy: Bergeret's villa at 24 rue Lionnois (1904), his own house at Cours Léopold, the Royer Printers on rue de la Salpêtrière, and the hotel-brasserie Excelsior (1910) on which he collaborated with the architect Alexandre Mienville.


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An Urgent Plea for Better Management at Washington Metro
Ridership has declined on the Washington Metro in recent years, bucking national trends. Image: WMATA via WTOP
Things are not looking up at the Washington Metro. Despite service expansions, strong regional population and economic growth, and a national increase in rail ridership, fewer and fewer people are riding Metro.
Concerned about reliability and safety, riders are losing faith in Metro. Furthermore, Greater Greater Washington has pointed out that the agency's finances are increasingly unsustainable.
In light of these problems, GGW's David Alpert joined a coalition of business, labor, and advocacy organizations that drafted an open letter demanding changes, including the hiring of a new general manager:
Our groups have been staunch advocates for maintaining transit service, ensuring adequate funding, and expanding capacity such as through more eight-car trains. Yet recent events have shaken our, and the public's, confidence in a system and agency which our region depends upon. We are weighing in now to help the agency reach a path to restore this confidence.
To preserve and improve the region's livability and economic health, Metro must ensure service levels that meet demand, reverse recent years' erosion of train and bus service, restore off-peak train frequencies, and return to an expansion path so that it can meet future needs for core capacity and regional access.
Check out all the requests and view the full letter at Greater Greater Washington.
Elsewhere on the Network today: Transport Providence reports that the Rhode Island Department of Transportation is drawing fire from the ACLU for its lack of transparency. And Better Cities & Towns! says the Walmart fortune is now investing in "creating a strong public realm" in northwest Arkansas.
A Year After Houston's Bus Network Redesign, Ridership Is Up
After years of declining bus ridership, last August Houston METRO overhauled service patterns around the city, updating the bus network for the first time since the 1970s. Practically overnight, Houston's network changed from a hub-and-spoke model to a more grid-like system designed to expand access to frequent service to more of the city. Night and weekend service dramatically […]
Los Angeles Bus Service Declined as Rail Expanded
By Yonah Freemark	| Aug 23, 2017
Given the tens of billions of dollars that L.A. will spend on transit over the next few decades, it's all the more important to invest it in ways that will be useful and attract riders. But since 2014, ridership has been dropping.
USDOT to Shut Down Nation's Roads, Citing Safety Concerns
By Daniel Hertz	| May 11, 2016
Crossposted from City Observatory. WASHINGTON, DC – Citing safety concerns, today Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced he was contemplating the closure of roads to all private vehicles in nearly every city in the country until he could assure the nation's drivers that they would be safe behind the wheel. The announcement comes on the […]
Will D.C. Metro Fall Into a Transit Death Spiral?
The situation unfolding for transit riders in Washington, DC, is scary. Few American cities rely on transit more than DC, but the system seems to be caught in a spiral of deteriorating service and declining ridership. With fewer people paying fares, WMATA has less revenue to pay for service, and the cycle continues. WMATA is now planning for […]
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By Joe Cortright	| Aug 11, 2016
Cross-posted from City Observatory. Last week, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has ordered new ridership projections for the proposed Purple Line light rail line, which will connect a series of Maryland suburbs. Like any multi-billion dollar project that serves a densely settled metropolitan area—and this one connects some […]
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The lousy state of American bus stops is a serious problem. Transit riders say bad waiting environments are one of their top concerns, according to a recent survey and report by TransitCenter [PDF]. That's why Streetsblog is highlighting some of the sorriest bus stops in the nation this month. Poor walking conditions and uncomfortable bus stops are not just the transit agency's responsibility. Local governments and […]


Instagram is one of the best ways for a retailer to promote their products and grow their customer base. With shoppable Instagram posts launching in Australia earlier this year, it's also becoming more popular as a sales channel. But if you're putting time and effort into Instagram, you want results. Francesca Nicasio, a retail expert from Vend, explains how you can avoid making costly mistakes and achieve social success.
It is important for brands to constantly interact with their online community and come up with creative efforts that draw attention, likes, and even sales.
That said, retailers need to be careful with how they implement their campaigns. Being too aggressive with your efforts or running Instagram initiatives without thinking them through can cost you your fans and reputation. So here are three Instagram blunders to steer clear of.
User-generated content is gold for brands, which is why you should make it habit to scour the Instagram universe for fan photos that you could use to promote your store.Once you find pictures that you'd like to use though, get consent from the people who originally posted the images to ensure they agree to their use. This can be as easy as commenting and asking on the user's post. Failing to take this step can lead to upset customers and negative comments on your own posts.
Another option is to create an official hashtag and make it clear that users who tag their photos using this hashtag are giving you consent to share the images. When you see customers, who are constantly sharing great photos of your products, consider building a relationship with them. Reach out to these individuals directly, thank them for helping spread the word about your brand, and send them a token of appreciation (like a gift card). Doing so will not only score you extra points with the customer, but you'll encourage them to keep generating content for your brand. And then you're moving into the realms of having influencers do your marketing for you.
Influencer marketing – the practice of collaborating with influential people within a community – is very common on Instagram. There are several accounts on the platform that have garnered large followings, and brands are eager to team up with the owners of these accounts, so they can tap into their audiences. Usually, companies strike up agreements wherein the influencer posts something about the brand (usually an image of them wearing or using the retailer's merchandise) in exchange for products, free experiences, or even money.
Influencer marketing can be an effective tactic to put yourself in front of a relevant audience. However, problems may arise if the people you team up with fail to disclose that they're posting sponsored content. It's important to be very transparent about sponsorship campaigns that you're running with influencers. See to it that they fully disclose their material relationship with your brand by tagging their posts with hashtags like '#ad' or '#sponsored.' This will ensure that you don't break consumer trust.
More followers doesn't mean more engagement, or more sales. It is understandable to want to grow your follower count as quickly as possible but recognise this process may take time – and doing it the right way will pay off far more in the long run. Strive to organically grow your Instagram presence by posting great content and connecting with your audience in relevant and creative ways. Sure, this route takes work and you likely won't get hundreds or thousands of followers overnight (unless you're Taylor Swift). But if you do the legwork, you'll find that the followers you gain are ones who are genuinely interested in your brand and more likely to buy from you. Whatever you do, do not purchase followers. Social networks periodically crack down on fake accounts and the firms that sell them, so while buying followers might give you a nice follower count to look at, it'll likely be temporary. Instead, start by posting great looking pictures.
To get the most out of your investment on Instagram explore ways to engage with the community. Run contests, encourage user-generated content, or team up with relevant accounts. There isn't a one-size fits all Instagram strategy, as each retailer is different. The best way to figure Instagram out is to try different things and see what works.
Francesca is an Author and Retail Expert at Vend. She's passionate about helping retailers increase sales, save time, and serve customers better.


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One day, a young reporter boldly asked Thomas Edison about his 9000+ failed attempts while inventing a light bulb and whether he thought he should just give up. Perplexed, Edison replied, "Young man, why would I feel like a failure? And why would I ever give up? I now know definitively over 9000 ways that an electric light bulb will not work. Success is almost in my grasp." And shortly after that, with over 10,000 attempts, Edison invented the light bulb.
With a similar mindset, Biosense Technology's Myshkin Ingawale from Thane and his friends started working aggressively on a dream medical device. Their focus was on detecting the medical condition 'anemia' as more than 2 billion people worldwide suffer from it. According to World Bank estimates anemia causes up to USD 50 Billion in productivity losses worldwide. Moreover most of the 2 billion anemic are in the developing world and tightly linked to nutritional status.
Myshkin says "Children and pregnant women are the most at risk of mortality - more than 1 million women and children die annually from undiagnosed anemia although it is perfectly treatable and can be controlled by changes in diet, iron tablets and folic acid."
Till date, quantitation of blood hemoglobin levels which is an indicator of anemic condition is done only by using invasive techniques as no non-invasive method is currently available. Briefly, a small volume of blood is collected by pricking the finger or by using needle-syringe which is subsequently processed in laboratory to quantify hemoglobin levels. Hence, for measuring hemoglobin you need a trained technician and a small laboratories setup.
Myshkin and his team conceptualized a completely non-invasive methodology based on 'optical principals' to measure hemoglobin. They hypothesized that by using spectroscopic techniques one should able to quantify blood hemoglobin. Although the idea seemed simple, in practical terms it was highly improbable if not impossible.
Myshkin and his team made more than 32 failed attempts before they could achieve a breakthrough in building world's first non-invasive, low-cost, scalable, systemic health care solution 'ToucHb' for diagnosing anemia. ToucHb could be a boon for millions of poor as well as old people around the globe, who suffer from undiagnosed and therefore untreated anemia. It is simple, inexpensive and non-invasive detector for anemia, which requires no needles, no pricking, no high tech gadgets and no trained assistants. ToucHb is a real game changer. Apart from blood hemoglobin, Touchb can measure oxygen saturation, body temperature and pulse rate.
Talking more about the device, Myshkin says "The ToucHb works by shining light of different wavelengths through the tissue of the subject's finger. Hemoglobin has a characteristic absorbance. Understanding the spectrum, and understanding what signals to filter out, ToucHb is able to determine the concentration of hemoglobin present in tissue." Discussing about the failures, complexities and challenges faced while working, Myshkin adds "We learnt that every small thing has its own complexities. We can see the world in a grain of sand. We had to learn as we went along –We learnt the hard way – by being wrong!" Myshkin adds "there are hundreds of such 'fixable' problems all around us! We've learnt quite a bit of what NOT to do in product development thanks to our ToucHb story".
Now, ToucHb is deployed in few clinics in India for testing and currently the team is planning to scale the production from 30-40 a batch to more than 1000 a batch. Biosense Technologies is also exploring opportunities to partner with different international and national health agencies to create global impact with ToucHb.
Myshkin gets excited by the words 'non-invasive' and 'point of care' and truly believe that there is a revolution underway in medical technologies which India should lead. He also believes that mobile devices will soon play a major role in preventive healthcare. Hence after the ToucHb's success, now he and his team are working on another breakthrough project, a smartphone app 'uCheck' that helps diagnose and monitor 25 medical conditions. The uCheck app greatly simplifies urine analysis and also dramatically reduces the cost. It uses smartphone camera, color dipstick and the uCheck's peripheral kit, to measure up to 10 parameters of urine such as glucose, ketone, urobilinogen, pH, bilirubin, etc. The results can be saved, shared, exported and analyzed as a trend over time. Routine urine analysis can help diagnose more than 25 medical conditions including diabetes, problems of kidney, liver and bladder along with common infections like UTIs.
uCheck is already launched for an Apple device and now Biosense Technologies is working on adapting it for cheaper android devices. The android version of uCheck which will be launch soon will certainly empower primary healthcare workers to perform urine analysis in the remotest part of our country which currently has no access to primary healthcare facilities.
On a personal front, Myshkin is a big fan of bicycles and working on a project idea for a fabrication system that will enable anyone to design a bicycle for themselves, from frame to finish.
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Amazing Innovation ! Very True : Impossible is always Untried.
Nice Innovation.


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Mutant Protein Spreads Through a Neural Circuit in Huntington's Disease
The discovery suggests a new therapeutic strategy for the neurodegenerative disease.
Outbreaks of mad cow disease in the 1980s and 1990s highlighted a seemingly rare biological phenomenon: abnormal proteins behaving like infectious agents. The bovine brains contained prions, misfolded versions of normal proteins that spread from neuron to neuron, slowly degrading the cells they inhabit. Until recently, the prion field was confined to a handful of proteins and rare diseases. But now it's proving relevant to neurodegenerative conditions that are far more common.
Take Huntington's disease. Researchers at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) recently discovered that the mutant protein responsible for Huntington's spreads through a neural circuit. They reported this finding online in Nature Neuroscience on July 13.
"The misfolded protein travels from neuron to neuron, and cells that take it up begin to change shape," says senior author Paolo Di Giorgio, a lab head in the Developmental & Molecular Pathways group at NIBR. "This suggests that the spreading contributes to the neurodegenerative process."
"It might be possible to slow disease progression by blocking transmission of the sick protein," adds co-first author and postdoctoral researcher Eline Pecho-Vrieseling.
The study builds on previous findings about neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by aggregates of misfolded proteins. In 2006, for example, academic labs showed that aggregates called amyloid plaques—a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease—can spread in neural circuits. And in 2008, investigators discovered aggregates called Lewy bodies—a key feature of Parkinson's—in fetal neurons that had been transplanted into patients with the disease, indicating that it had spread to the graft. In both cases, the pathological proteins exhibited prion-like properties.
They left the neurons that produced them and showed up in different cells. The team wondered if the findings could be extended to Huntington's, an inherited disease that results in impaired movement and cognition. Like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Huntington's is characterized by aggregates of misfolded proteins. Mutations in the "huntingtin" gene cause the protein that it codes for to be sticky, so it clumps together. Most people with the disease develop symptoms in their 30s or 40s.
To test the hypothesis, the researchers developed a new tool. They reconstructed a neural circuit from a mouse with Huntington's disease in a dish. The resulting 3D model—which preserved the connections between neurons—allowed the team to visualize the movement of the mutant huntingtin protein through the circuit.
Pecho-Vrieseling and co-first author Claus Rieker (a postdoc who recently moved to the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences) inserted healthy human neurons—derived from embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells—into the dish, waited for the newcomers to integrate into the neural circuit and monitored the result. Initially, the sick protein, which they had labeled pink, was confined to the mouse neurons. After a few weeks, however, it began to show up as pink specks in the healthy human neurons, which proceeded to change shape and look stressed.
"This was our eureka moment, made possible by the context of the neural circuit," says Pecho-Vrieseling, who hopes that labs outside Novartis will apply the new tool to their own research.
The next step was to confirm the finding in the brain of an animal. The team turned to Silvia Arber's group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and Biozentrum, University of Basel. Together, they showed that the sick protein spreads from one brain region (the cortex) to another (the striatum) in mice
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Dorsey said in tweets ahead of the hearing: "We realize Twitter is used by many as a public square, and our singular objective as a company is to help increase the health and integrity of conversations found within."
Dorsey's second congressional hearing will seek to address allegations by Republican lawmakers that Twitter is unfairly targeting conservative-leaning users, charges echoed by President Trump.
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Because of the non-linearity of LEDs when driven by PWM, and also due to non-linearity in how the human eye percieves brightness, I found this fading effect to be not quite optimal. While mathematically correct, it didn't completely LOOK sinusoidal. What appears is that the LED remains in the region of brightness, for about twice as long as in the region of darkness.
Searching through the internet, I found various ways to compensate for this, for example (http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/1983/correcting-for-non-linear-brightness-in-leds-when-using-pwm), shows several possible ways to compensate, as well as another link to another method (using logarithmic functions).
Since I had very limited resources with the attiny45, I had to figure out something small and easy.
Basically, that makes the loop step through the sinusoid quicker as the PWM value gets higher, so at the bottom, with the led dim or off, "in" is incremented by a very small amount or zero, in addition to the increment provided by the FOR loop. As the value rises, "in" is incremented faster and faster, up to a total of 2 times the normal amount.
For me, this produced a more even looking fade in and fade out effect. You will have to play around with the increment amount in the FOR loop to get the timing right for your purposes.