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The Day I Held My Fire
This story first appeared on The War Horse — a nonprofit newsroom focused on the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
Thirty seconds is a long time to think you might accidentally kill a kid.
But that's how it was that day over Afghanistan.
We had to hurry. Chaos and Fester left, and without a break KRACR and I were directed to hit the man they were watching. The high-value dude drove out into the open. He was alone and on a motorcycle on a stretch of road running through a small valley just outside of town. I turned toward the target, and released two 500-pound bombs. I realized my mistake about two seconds after I hit the pickle button, but my part in the tactic was over. It was up to KRACR now to salvage my error and get my bombs on target.
I gave up on my high-tech sensors and looked out of my cockpit at the valley. In the bright midday sun, the road and the terrain blended into a vast field of beige. At the edge of the valley there was a cluster of buildings. I stared at them for 30 seconds, hoping that my poorly delivered bombs wouldn't hurt innocent people.
A small black mushroom cloud burst out in the open, halfway between the buildings and me. I realized I was holding my breath.
I was ecstatic I didn't hurt civilians. And ashamed that I helped us miss the target.
We stayed after the man on the moto. He dismounted and ran up into the hills. We ran our tactic a second time, and this time we got it right. I put two 500-pounders on the man where he hid in some rocks.
KRACR and I were sent to orbit over an empty valley and stand by. I drank a Red Bull and thought about my mistake. We got the guy, but I wasted time and assets. We orbited for about an hour before the Control and Reporting Center (CRC) sent us to a Troops In Contact situation (TIC). KRACR flew to the tanker to refuel and I headed to the coordinates. The JTAC (Joint Terminal Air Controller) got me into the fight in a place he called Razorback Ridge. He was calm and clear on the radio, but there was gunfire and shouting in the background.
He needed me to strafe with my 20mm gun. I vowed not to rush and screw up like I did an hour earlier with my bombs. The target was only 100 meters from friendlies. I told him I was going to make a dry pass to make sure I had the enemy position.
I was in a right-hand turn and rolled in to a steeper right bank to dive toward the target. I followed the outline of Razorback Ridge with my eyes down to the green vegetation in the valley bottom. I never saw enemy troops, but I pointed the nose of my aircraft right at the streambed where the enemy fire was coming from.
"That's it. Call in with direction," said the JTAC.
I started a climbing right turn when the JTAC said, almost chuckling, "Look out your left door. They just shot an RPG."
I leveled the wings for a second and looked over my left shoulder. He must've been used to talking to helicopters. I didn't have doors. There was a thin stream of white smoke from the RPG behind me. They could've been shooting at our guys on the ridge. Maybe they were shooting at me. I like to assume they were shooting at me.
I called in from the southeast and put two seconds of bullets into the streambed I identified during my dry pass. After a big sweeping right turn, I strafed again.
KRACR showed back up with more bullets, so he took over as the primary shooter. The JTAC directed him farther south to strafe a guy holding an RPG near a wall. KRACR made several passes there until he ran out of bullets.
I took my turn and drilled the end of the wall that the RPG guy was peeking around. I held the trigger down until the gun was empty. All my bombs were gone. I keyed the mic: "Winchester." The JTAC and his troops withdrew safely after our strafe passes.
KRACR and I returned to base. When we touched down, I felt like I just got back from landing on the moon. My day seemed just as rare. Two different fights on one sortie. Winchester.
I made one deployment to Afghanistan.
I dropped more bombs and shot more bullets there than I did in all three of my Iraq trips combined. But it's the day that I didn't shoot that sticks in my head:
On a different day during the Afghanistan deployment, the CRC directed me to another valley. The JTAC told me to strafe a group of buildings. I'll call it a farm. The JTAC said there was a sniper near one of the structures, but didn't, or couldn't, specify which one.
A gunship flying above me radioed that there were women and children in one of the buildings. I asked the JTAC if he knew this.
He didn't seem to care. Everybody's fangs were out.
I asked the JTAC, "Are you taking effective fire right now?"
"We're taking some potshots into our sandbags." He snorted it like a laugh.
Where are the children? Which building? Where's the sniper? Too many questions for me to squeeze the red trigger.
Frustrated, I said, "We're holding our fire."
The JTAC gave up on me and told the gunship he wanted 30mm on the farm. The gunship replied they didn't think their 30mm would be effective. But that wasn't it. The 30mm is bigger than my 20mm and causes more damage. I thought they hesitated because they heard me try to stop this train.
I was out of gas and had to refuel.
I told my wingman, Grunt, to hold his fire until I came back unless he could put his eyes on the sniper.
Then, the JTAC said this on the radio: "The air's got cold feet."
The JTAC worked with fire support from the ground troops to shoot mortars. Each round got closer and closer to the farm as two F-18 Hornets showed up to replace me. I let the Hornets know what I was trying to stop.
Only later did I learn that several of our soldiers had been injured and killed in previous fights in that valley. Maybe it was impossible for me to understand a soldier's mindset from an air-conditioned cockpit.
When I screwed up my bombs in that other fight, all I knew was that they didn't hurt innocents. Only later did I see the video of my attack. The bombs almost hit the motorcycle guy on the first pass, and he ran up into the boulders, chased by the shadow of the cloud from the bombs.
In the fight when I ran out of bullets, I tried like hell to avoid a nearby house when I shot at the guy with an RPG hiding by the wall. Only later did my weapons officer critique me for letting some of my bullets hit that house.
On another sortie, toward the end of that trip, I flew over a small town in a different part of Afghanistan. The high-value target came out of town on a motorcycle. We ran the tactic. I guided the bombs. The dude vaporized and the motorcycle cartwheeled about 50 yards. The weapons officer reviewed the video later and said the attack was "textbook."
I don't get to sit at a table after the war and sort things out.
Because there is no after. The war just keeps going and going. Iraq. Afghanistan. Syria. Recently, I pulled up a satellite map on my computer, trying to make sense of where I flew during that Afghanistan deployment. I suddenly recognized Razorback Ridge where I strafed to help my buddies. But a map only knows where things are. My other questions are unanswered.
Now, when I'm out running or cross-country skiing, my mind wanders back to Afghanistan. Instead of looking at the white snow or the green trail, I think about the brown mountains tilting down toward green fields on the other side of the globe. I didn't shoot down MIGs or dodge surface-to-air missiles. I did Close Air Support. I was in three scrapes in Afghanistan. One solitary time, I was lucky enough to clean off the racks and empty the gun.
There's a lot I don't know, but I know one thing for sure, and it still pisses me off: My teammates on the ground said I had cold feet. My three fights improved from small mistake to precision strafing to textbook.
I should feel redeemed.
Eric "Shmo" Chandler is a husband and father who cross-country skis as fast as he can in Duluth, Minn. He flew 145 F-16 combat sorties during seven deployments to the Middle East. He flew over 3,000 hours in the F-16 during his 24-year career in both the active duty Air Force and the Minnesota Air National Guard. He retired as a Lt. Col. in 2013. His writing has appeared in Grey Sparrow Journal, The Talking Stick, Great Lakes Review, Sleet Magazine, O-Dark-Thirty, Aqueous Magazine, and Northern Wilds, to name a few. He's a member of Lake Superior Writers and an Associate Member of the Military Writers Guild. Visit his website for more.
Mike Giles
It's always good to get the perspective of the guys providing the air support to the guys on the ground. The pilot wields a lot of terrible, uncontested power against soft targets on the ground. While small arms does a lot of damage, a misapplied 500lbs bomb does a lot more over a larger area.
The difference is the perspective. The fighter pilot has the big picture view and not that of the narrow focus of the trigger puller on the ground. I am not saying the grunts view is invalid, but when the bullets are flying past your head, things get a little more immediate.
Thanks for this article Sir.
Such a sobering account, one that vividly illustrates how out touch we civilians are with the real-world combat environment. Thank you for showing that humanity can exist even in Hell.


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Q: How to push data into an object? I have object and I am trying to push data into it, but I am getting the error "push is not a function".
Here's my object:
var item = {
  "_id": {
    "$oid": "asdf976"
  },
  "Categories": [{
    "mainmodels": [{
      "submodels": [{
          "price": "2000",
          "submodelname": "lumia021",
          "Remainingphones": "0",
          "Bookedphones": "0",
          "Numofphones": "10"
        }, {
          "price": "2000",
          "submodelname": "lumia341",
          "Remainingphones": "5",
          "Bookedphones": "5",
          "Numofphones": "10"
        }

      ],
      "Status": "Active",
      "modelname": "lumia",
      "fromdate": "2016-04-01T16:39:12.051Z",
      "todate": "2016-04-31T19:19:44.051Z"
    }],
    "brand": "nokia"
  }],
  "rank": "1",
  "name": "first"
}

I want to push:
var modal = {
                'custid': '1',
                'packcode': '22'
            };
            item.push(modal);
            console.log(item);

Here's my expected result:
var item = {
  "_id": {
    "$oid": "asdf976"
  },
  "Categories": [{
    "mainmodels": [{
      "submodels": [{
          "price": "2000",
          "submodelname": "lumia021",
          "Remainingphones": "0",
          "Bookedphones": "0",
          "Numofphones": "10"
        }, {
          "price": "2000",
          "submodelname": "lumia341",
          "Remainingphones": "5",
          "Bookedphones": "5",
          "Numofphones": "10"
        }

      ],
      "Status": "Active",
      "modelname": "lumia",
      "fromdate": "2016-04-01T16:39:12.051Z",
      "todate": "2016-04-31T19:19:44.051Z"
    }],
    "brand": "nokia"
  }],
  "rank": "1",
  "name": "first",
  'custid': '1',
  'packcode': '22'
};

How do I do that?

A: You don't push into objects, you push into arrays.
Based on what you've said you want, you do this:
item.custid = '1';
item.packcode = '22';

E.g., just assign properties to the object.
In ES2015, you could use Object.assign if having modal be separate is important:
var modal = {custid: '1', packcode: '22'};
Object.assign(item, modal);

...but I don't see a need for it here, and note that there's no ongoing link between modal and item.
Live Example:

var item = {
  "_id": {
    "$oid": "asdf976"
  },
  "Categories": [{
    "mainmodels": [{
      "submodels": [{
          "price": "2000",
          "submodelname": "lumia021",
          "Remainingphones": "0",
          "Bookedphones": "0",
          "Numofphones": "10"
        }, {
          "price": "2000",
          "submodelname": "lumia341",
          "Remainingphones": "5",
          "Bookedphones": "5",
          "Numofphones": "10"
        }

      ],
      "Status": "Active",
      "modelname": "lumia",
      "fromdate": "2016-04-01T16:39:12.051Z",
      "todate": "2016-04-31T19:19:44.051Z"
    }],
    "brand": "nokia"
  }],
  "rank": "1",
  "name": "first"
};
item.custid = '1';
item.packcode = '22';
// Note: Just using JSON for *display*
document.body.innerHTML =
  "
" + JSON.stringify(item, null, 2) + "
";

Or with Object.assign (requires an up-to-date browser or a shim):

var item = {
  "_id": {
    "$oid": "asdf976"
  },
  "Categories": [{
    "mainmodels": [{
      "submodels": [{
          "price": "2000",
          "submodelname": "lumia021",
          "Remainingphones": "0",
          "Bookedphones": "0",
          "Numofphones": "10"
        }, {
          "price": "2000",
          "submodelname": "lumia341",
          "Remainingphones": "5",
          "Bookedphones": "5",
          "Numofphones": "10"
        }

      ],
      "Status": "Active",
      "modelname": "lumia",
      "fromdate": "2016-04-01T16:39:12.051Z",
      "todate": "2016-04-31T19:19:44.051Z"
    }],
    "brand": "nokia"
  }],
  "rank": "1",
  "name": "first"
};
var modal = {
  custid: '1',
  packcode: '22'
};
Object.assign(item, modal);
// Note: Just using JSON for *display*
document.body.innerHTML =
  "
" + JSON.stringify(item, null, 2) + "
";

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The Graceland 25th Anniversary edition, with the Under African Skies film is a mesmerizing opportunity to revisit this amazing recording.
This anniversary package also includes the amazing documentary,Under African Skies, which tells the story of how Simon traveled to South Africa to record most of the songs on Graceland with extremely talented South African musicians. More information and photos are provided in the enclosed booklet.
The musicians were delighted to have an opportunity to let the world hear their music, but the trip and the recording were politically controversial. There was a cultural ban in South Africa at the time because of apartheid, and white musicians were not supposed to come to the country without permission from the rebel leaders. But Simon did not believe that musicians should have to ask permission to perform together, and he did not do so.
Many people criticized Simon and even the South African musicians for this decision, but this was not a case where a white musician came in and took advantage of the South African people. It was a true collaboration between a white American performer and native musicians.
Graceland changed the way many Americans viewed South Africa. It gave the people faces and voices. We all knew about the horrors of apartheid, but many of us pictured poor, ignorant people living in shacks. We sympathized, but we did not empathize. Hearing the incredible musicianship and watching the joy and exuberant dancing of the African performers on Saturday Night Live made them real people for us and made us care.
In Under African Skies, we get the full story of what the album meant to celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Harry Belafonte, as well as its impact on the South African musicians and on the anti-apartheid movement and on Paul Simon himself.
In both the CD and the DVD, those of us who love the music get to experience it again, and new listeners will get to discover the magic.
While "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" is one of my two favorite songs in the world, the entire recording is full of wonderful images, like "the bomb in the baby carriage," "the baby with the babbling heart," and "the human trampoline." Simon's style makes the whole CD feel like an intimate conversation about serious situations with a close friend, backed by incredible, joyous music.
Not all of the songs were recorded with South African artists. Simon recognized a similar sound in music from Louisiana and from Mexican-American music, so he recorded "That Was Your Mother" with Good Rockin' Dopsie and The Twisters, and "All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints" with Los Lobos. While "Graceland" featured South African musicians and the music was recorded in Johannesburg, the background vocals were provided by The Everly Brothers in Los Angeles, again reinforcing the collaborative nature of the work.


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Racist 'Hunger Games' Fans Find Film Too Much Like the Book
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Anna Holmes reports on Hunger Game Tweets a site tracking tweets by people who are upset that black characters in the book are depicted as black in the movie:
"People very often talk about literacy with words, but there's such a thing as visual and thematic literacy," says Deborah Pope, the executive director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, which encourages diversity in kids' books. "I think some of these young people just didn't really *read* the book." (Mr. Keats's groundbreaking classic, "The Snowy Day," which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, revolutionized children's literature by being the first mainstream picture book to feature a black male protagonist.)
Progress is so maddeningly slow. Still, thirty years ago, we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Everyone would just be white.

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Лев Степанович Игорев (, Комаровка, Кузнецкий уезд, Саратовская губерния — , Саратов, Российская империя) — российский художник-портретист, академик живописи.

Биография
Родился 10 февраля 1821 года в селе Комаровке, Кузнецкого уезда, Саратовской губернии, в семье пономаря Иоанно-Предтеченской церкви Стефана Васильевича Игорева.

Окончил Петровское духовное училище в городе Петровске, а в 1838 году вместе с братом Сергием поступил в Саратовскую духовную семинарию, которую окончил в 1844 году. В период учёбы выполнил набросок портрета епископа Саратовского Иакова (Вечеркова). После окончания семинарии получил назначение в церковь в селе Рудне, Камышинского уезда, но увлечение рисованием подвигло его написать прошение о поступлении в Петербургскую духовную семинарию для усовершенствования в рисовании с тем, чтобы после двухлетней подготовки получить должность учителя рисования в одном из духовных училищ. В 1845 году прибыл в Санкт-Петербург, где обучался за казённый счёт. Обучение рисованию в семинарии совмещал с посещением классов в Императорской Академии художеств, где его работы заслужили одобрительный отзыв вице-президента Академии Ф. П. Толстого.

В 1850 году получил от Академии звание художника за исполненный им портрет откупщика Стобеуса, а 7 декабря 1853 года был удостоен звания академика живописи за портрет ректора Санкт-Петербургской духовной академии архимандрита Макария (Булгакова) (Русский музей).

Весной 1855 года назначен на должность преподавателя живописи и иконописания в Санкт-Петербургской духовной семинарии, в которой прослужил 2 года.

Создал ряд работ для храмов: иконы Христа Спасителя и Божией Матери для церкви в с. Красное, имение г. Стобеуса; образ Христа, восседающего на престоле для церкви в городе Тверь; а также изображение Божией Матери в медальоне на кости (1854—1855) для поднесения императрице Марии Александровне, за которое награждён золотыми часами.

В конце 1856 года подал прошение о включении в состав 14-й Русской духовной миссии в Пекине. 13 января 1857 года художника зачислили в штат Пекинской миссии. В 1858 году Пекинская миссия была вынуждена на целый год задержаться в городе Иркутске, так как в Китае шла война. За это время художнику удалось написать несколько портретов известных деятелей Сибири — портрет военного губернатора города Иркутска, Карла Карловича Венцеля (Иркутский государственный художественный музей) и портрет губернатора Восточной Сибири Н. Н. Муравьева-Амурского (Кяхтинский краеведческий музей).

Из Китая прислал на академическую выставку 1865 года ряд работ: «Китайские нищие на холоде» (Государственная Третьяковская галерея), «Чиновники», («В младшем чине», «В летнем платье», «Начальник отделения иностранных дел»), «Солдат жёлтого знамени, христианин, 75-ти лет от роду», «Татарин», «Купец, родом манджур», «Врач, родом китаец» и другие.

В 1863 году вместе с миссией выехал в Петербург, куда прибыл 27 февраля 1864 года.

Расписывал храмы в Костромской, Нижегородской и Вологодской губерниях, писал иконы для Собора Петра и Павла в Сестрорецке, расписывал храм во имя Рождества Христова, построенный в городе Арзамасе мещанином Александром Михайловичем Заяшниковым и его зятем дворянином Николаем Яковлевичем Стобеосом, за написание портрета которого Игорев получил звание художника. В 1885 году мастер расписывает новопостроенный Покровский храм в Саратове. Для храма были изготовлены иконы для двух боковых приделов и вместе с учениками выполнена роспись стен. В это же время в здании новой духовной семинарии он пишет иконы для домовой церкви Иоанна Богослова.

Скончался 29 декабря 1893 года в Саратове и был похоронен на кладбище Саратовского Спасо-Преображенского мужского монастыря.

Семья
Не был женат и не имел детей, потому что целиком посвятил себя искусству, но после смерти родителей выдал замуж трёх своих сестёр.

Наследие
Кроме картины «Китайские нищие на холоде» и одного портрета, датированного 1860 годом (из собрания Эрмитажа), местонахождение других произведений Игорева, выполненных им в Китае, неизвестно.

В 1950-х годах в Пушкинский Дом из частной коллекции поступил недописанный портрет А. С. Грибоедова работы Игорева.

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We reached Hearst Castle in good time. What an amazing place. I'll confess my ignorance – I knew nothing of the place or the man before today. The place is completely OTT, but as his library was like 4 times the size of his bedroom, I have some respect for him!
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On 5 April 2019, 8IP Emerging Companies Limited (ASX: 8EC) has announced about the takeover bid wherein Aurora Funds Management Limited (Aurora), an entity of the Aurora Dividend Income Trust (ADIT) plans to make an all scrip takeover bid for 100% of the fully paid ordinary shares in 8EC. Each shareholder of 8EC, who will accept the Bid, will receive ADIT units equal to the value of $0.75.
The bid price is at a premium of 11.9% to the most recent closing price of $0.67 for 8EC, 6.7% premium above the 30-day volume weighted average price (VWAP), 0.2% below the 60-day VWAP and 5.5% below the 90-day VWAP of 8EC shares ending on 4th April 2019.
The directors of Aurora Funds Management is of a belief that combining both operations may benefit investors from increased scale, liquidity and a lower expense ratio. The bid also gives an opportunity to the shareholders of 8EC to form part of an Aurora managed fund or to exit their investment at ADIT's NTA.
The ADIT units by the 8EC shareholders who accept the bid can be held or redeemed off-market for then applicable NTA of ADIT. If Aurora receives enough acceptances resulting in a relevant interest greater than 50% at the close of the bid, then it will carry its 8EC investment across its various funds at 8EC's then prevailing NTA, enabling accepting 8EC investors to exit their investment for cash at NTA.
Aurora notifies ADIT unitholders that they have an intent to enhance the investment opportunities of the trust effective from 5th April 2019, by allowing the fund the ability to increase its gross asset allocation to Australian equities to 250% of net asset value, which is currently 100% of net asset value. Aurora will provide an update related to this in due course.
An increased asset base that may provide an improved ability to grow the investment portfolio returns after costs on a measured and sustainable basis is possible from the bid, leading to enhanced distributions without any significant increase in risk.
With the benefits of economies of scale, the enlarged entity also can reduce the management expense ratios currently charged to ADIT unitholders over a period of time, as the costs will be distributed over a larger unitholder base. The potential for operating synergies over the medium term, including in relation to the administration and overhead expenses is also reasonable anticipation in this regard.
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After Lori Lightfoot cruised to a landslide victory in the race for mayor, following an often bitter and divisive campaign against Toni Preckwinkle, the mayor-elect and her former rival joined for a show of unity, and pledged to work together to advance a progressive agenda in Chicago and Cook County. When she is sworn in, she will be the first mayor in Chicago who identifies as a lesbian. She's the first black woman and first openly gay person to be elected Chicago's mayor.
Tuesday's contest was bound to be historic, as residents were choosing between two black women, guaranteeing that Chicago would elect its first as mayor.
Ms Preckwinkle has for decades held various local elected offices, which analysts said hurt her in an election in which voters were looking to shake up city hall _ fed up with gun violence that claims more lives than in other major American cities and years of political corruption in the Democratic stronghold.
Finley Campbell, a spokesman for the Chicago-based Unitarian Universalist Multiracial Racial Unity Action Council, said part of what makes Lightfoot's win historic is also that she reached out successfully to white voters.
The new mayor said that she meant to lead in a different direction than outgoing Mayor Rahm Emanuel - who famously eschewed federal funding over DACA and declared Chicago to be a "Trump-free zone".
Before that, Lightfoot thanked voters at the Clark-Lake CTA station.
Preckwinkle mentioned Lightfoot's sexuality during one of the mayoral debates.
She and Ms Preckwinkle were the final two left competing in Tuesday's run-off election.
Lightfoot, 56, who had served as an assistant USA attorney before entering private practice, emerged as the surprising leader in the first round of voting in February when 14 candidates were on the ballot.
Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot clinches her fists as she speaks during her election night celebration after defeating her challenger Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff election in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., April 2, 2019.
NBC Chicago reported that Lightfoot had been endorsed by the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as U.S. Representatives Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and Robin Kelly. "You know, too much of a machine", said John Reyes, 71, speaking outside a polling place in the Albany Park neighborhood.
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But as Van Dyke was about to go on trial for murder in September, Mr Emanuel announced he would not run for re-election.
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But the Lion Air Flight 610 pilots didn't know that MCAS existed and might have been the cause of their plane's nose-dive. The pilot had tried repeatedly to regain control and pull the nose up, but the plane crashed into the sea.
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AI learning data: the CNIL joins the debate
Post author:Tarun Kumar
Post category:Sci&Tech
AI professionals often repeat it: use cases are the first levers for adoption and democratization. In this regard, ChatGPT has largely contributed to the accessibility of artificial intelligence techniques.
However, these breakthrough innovations can also highlight risks or abuses, particularly legal and ethical.
Competent authority in France on issues related to AI, the CNIL intends not to be left behind.
Strengthening the regulator's expertise on AI
The Commission has announced the creation of a five-person service dedicated to artificial intelligence, the SIA. He is attached to the technology and innovation department, headed by the former national coordinator for the AI strategy, Bertrand Pailhès.
The CNIL's objective is to "strengthen its expertise on these systems and its understanding of the risks to privacy, while preparing for the entry into application of the European regulation on AI".
The mission of the SIA will also consist in "developing relations with the actors of the ecosystem" and promoting the acculturation of professionals and individuals. The CNIL also recalls that the issue is not only technological.
Systems like ChatGPT also raise questions of law. Thus, the SIA, although attached to the technology and innovation department, will also be in "close" collaboration with "legal support".
Performance hides risk
"As of now, and without waiting for the evolution of the legal framework, the creation of this service responds to a social issue whose importance is increasing every day", underlines the protection authority, attentive to current events.
So much for the long-term work. It is coupled with a shorter-term mission, this time focusing on learning databases. To train these AIs, their designers generally use large volumes of data.
ChatGPT is an illustration of this with the use of data scrapping on the internet – combined with click workers. The CNIL recalls, without targeting an AI in particular, "that their operation is based on the processing of a large amount of data, very often personal".
As a result, "their implementation thus entails risks for privacy". The CNIL wishes to prevent operation in black-box mode, which is incompatible with certain regulatory requirements – in terms of explainability in particular.
Recommendations on the learning bases in 2023
In addition to the creation of the SIA, the Commission is therefore launching work on learning databases. The CNIL informs that public and private organizations ask it about the legality of certain uses concerning the constitution of training bases.
"The purpose of future work is therefore to clarify the CNIL's position on this point and to promote good practices, under the requirements set by the GDPR, but also in the perspective of the proposed regulation on AI currently discussed at European level. »
The project on the bases of learning must lead to "concrete responses" in terms of the creation or use of such assets "with respect for the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals". CNIL recommendations will be published, then submitted for public consultation.
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As best as I can tell, we have a number of barn spiders (Araneus cavaticus) around the property here in St. Paul. We initially noticed them in the chicken yard. We had a snow rake's handle hanging over the side entrance of the covered run, and one of the buggers made a web at least five feet high with support webbing running more than eight feet. The next barn spider showed up to the right of the main gate into the chicken yard; the web was smaller, but you could also easily find the spider, during the day, tucked behind the yellow "Chicken Crossing" sign. Since then, another one showed up at the front of the house, in front of the attached garage. Melissa wanted to name this one Charlotte, since the barn spider is the type of spider that Charlotte, of Charlotte's Web was modeled after.


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The Official OTC TBRPG Planning and Organization Topic
By Noxryn
October 11, 2011 in Off Topic Culture
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Ohhh a D&D RP, cooool.
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Okay, got a hazy kind of idea. Not sure how well it would but hey, thats what a planning topic is for.
Essentially, every character in it is dead. Died at some point in history, and find themselves in a sort of purgatory world. Its a simple sort of blank white void, with perhaps a few details denoting one or two structures or features. The people within are much the same, being more or less just stick-figures. Imagine living inside an xkcd comic, basically. They have no real memory of their past life, all they know is that it ended and they wound up in the void.
Then at some point they realise that there is another level of the purgatory, and this one has more detail. Maybe this one, while still being black-and-white, has a definite ground and proper houses. So of course the people have greater detail as well. Maybe they have hair now, or have more than just sticks for body and limbs. And they start remembering scraps of their old life. Things that haunted them, things they enjoyed. All with the slight caveat that its the GM who's inventing these traits for them, not the players. So perhaps it will turn out that those two characters who have become bestest buddies were enemies in life who ended up killing each other. Perhaps the there are two characters who were lovers when they were alive and have both found themselves in limbo...but have no way of recognising each other yet because neither of them looks like anything human yet. Perhaps a character who has assumed up to this point that they were male turns out to have been a woman when they were alive.
Originally I thought that dying in one level of the limbo would be the way to move on to the next, but thats going to isolate people very quickly, so perhaps its coming to some realisation about yourself that lets you move on. You realise, I dunno, "yes I did manage to make a lot of money in life...but what did I really do with it". You work through the various sins and regrets you built up, possibly without even realising it, when you were alive and that steadily causes you to be "reborn" into a more fleshed out human each time, with the world around you also becoming more detailed as long as you're in it and fading back to blankness when you move on.
I can see a lot of potential problems with this, but its an idea my head keeps thrusting back into the fore so I feel its worth working on. Any tips or useful insights from the vox populi?
Let's hear some of the potential problems you have with this, this is a very nice idea.
"Boss! Da needle is pointin' in da red! Dat ain't good!"
"Course it's good ya squealin' runt! Red goes fastah!"
Orks... Such wonderfully simple creatures.
So I was spitballing this idea.
Shadows of the Heroes.
One night... lets say it's halloween because everyone loves halloween, Monsters appear. Old, terrifying entities that ravage the city. Cops can't stop them. They're the sort out of nightmare and myth. Then... that same night, specters descend upon these beasts, and swiftly dispatch them, all before dawn comes. Surprisingly, there is nothing on the news about such beasts. The destruction and death is somehow attributed to a nasty, brutal gang war or something of the sort, but life goes on.
Or so it seems. What do you do when, every night, gibbering horrors try to force their way into the world and eat everyone? You call heroes, of course. But what kind? It's not like Superman will descend upon them and crush some skulls. No, a ritual was given to select people of all kinds, a ritual capable of materializing heroes and legends of old. Lancelot, Beowulf, Roland, and more. They exist as two, a mortal and a hero, a perfect partnership. The hero cannot fight without the mortal, but is many times stronger than they.
So why participate? On the humans' side, you get paid. Handsomely. On the heroes' side, they are given a second lease on life, to do what they want, maybe to start anew. Moreover, they need, I dunno, let's call it mana because everyone knows what that is, to subsist, and the easiest way to get it is by killing them. There is only one caveat, however. The mortal world at large cannot know.
So it goes - for a short while, everyone was cooperating, even if there was a slight competitive edge to it, as it happens when you put many, larger-than-life personalities next to each other. Then the realization: There aren't enough beasts to sustain everyone. To make matters worse, a rumor comes out, saying that, should a hero kill another, the mana infusion would be incredibly immense and perhaps something even more, so there's a reason for them to fight each other.
So the idea is that it's an urban fantasy playground where you can basically write fanfiction of awesome mythic heroes. As it is the plot is kinda shallow because monsters are there for mook fodder since people love mooks. Because you know, it's an urban fantasy playground where you play your favorite hero. It honestly does need a lot of hammering out, though.
Moreover, you can definitely bend and twist the legend to an extent. You can reinterpret events to give a different characterization slant. You can genderbend them if you want. Like, for example... a female Galahad, who is so absolutely incorruptible and pure, she can't help but feel disdain and disgust for everyone for not being as perfect as she. A completely alien and dangerous mindset. And so on.
Also to wave off some potential questions...
Could I be my own partner? No.
Why not just make it based on Fate/Stay Night? Lot of reasons. One, the class system is incredibly restrictive. Two, having GM'd a Fate RP before, I honestly do not have a high opinion of Type-Moon. The writer makes rules just so his protagonists can break them. Projection magic is supposed to be absolute garbage except the hero is able to almost perfectly replicate LEGENDARY weapons because plot. Average magi have 25 mana, except for the heroine who has 500, because reasons. Heroes are supposed to be myths, but then you have Archer.
Are all heroes created equal? To be honest... not really. It will be a cold, cold day before Lancelot loses a sword fight to Caesar.
Can I be a god like Zeus? No.
Can I make up a hero? No.
Can I, as a regular guy, fight a hero? Yes. Will you survive, barring exceptional circumstances? No.
Can I draw from the bible? No. See this? I don't want to open it.
Wyrd Bid Ful Araed
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I think first problem is how people are going to take to having their backstory dictated to them. I thought it might help create conflict or interaction between characters, but I can see it creating conflict between the players as well if they don't like what the GM mandates their history was when they were alive. I would take something like that as a challenge, seeing how dead!character deals with alive!character's flaws, maybe tries to move past them, but I can see some people getting insulted by it if they get something bad.
There's also the question of how you move to the next circle of limbo. I've said my plan would be if they learn from regrets and sins in life...but what if their backstory doesn't include any regrets or anything. Lets take that idea of two lovers lost from each other I mentioned, would they ascend because they find each other? What if one decides their love in life was really a meaningless fling they both read too much into and they ascend through that...but the other one continues to think that getting back together is how they ascend too. Are they then stuck because their goal has been made next to impossible? Do they then have to rekindle the love their other half felt, despite the fact that getting over it was a big part of their character development?
I like the idea, especially as a much more character driven contrast to most the RPGs currently around, but it still needs work and I'd definitely need help managing it.
@Shadow of Heroes: I'm sort of thrown off by the "must keep everything out of the mortal world" clause. I mean...how? Sure the mortals and the champions can do their best to avoid the limelight and keep things on the down-low, but by the sound of it the monsters sure aren't. And it doesn't matter if its at night, or if the news doesn't report it, this is the age of the camera phone. Someone is going to see a gibbering terror, and the first thing they're going to do is whip out their smart-phone and start recording the whole thing. Then upload it to every social media site they're a part of. It just seems impossible that you could keep this kind of war secret for very long no matter how cautious you are
Not Quite Dead
I was waiting to shout out FAAAATE the entire post.
I have similar thoughts to you as to F/SN, but setting this in a completely different environment and just borrowing the summoned heroes / holy grail idea could work. There are a lot of fate spinoffs that do this, making for much better stories than the original imo. Simply because the idea is great, the execution can just be lacking.
...but close to it
Yeah another thing I didn't like was the holy grail made conflict mandatory and yet they'd meet up and sip tea anyways
^^That's why youre going to have to eliminate witnesses. Moreover if you keep making a nuisance of yourself these benefactors may very well put a bounty on you. They managed to spin hours of unchecked rampage as a gang war, but it doesn't mean they want to do it again.
Edited January 28, 2015 by Bloody Nine
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How in the world did they manage to spin of untold hours of supernatural invasion as a gang war?
"I serve the weak. I serve the helpless. I am their sword and their shield. If you want to strike at them, you must go through me, and I am not so easily moved."
Erasing evidence? Buying off those that could be, discrediting those that couldn't, and so on. Call it a terrorist attack if you want. I'm sure there's hundreds of videos about "monster" and "ufo" sightings but nobody believes those.
At the end of the day, there's destroyed property without answers, and something mundane is more believable than shadow monsters.
That would work if it was not a very sudden outburst all across the entire city (If for some reason this only effects a single city.) What I Am Ultron Six said still comes into effect, pretty much everybody is going to have some record of these things, especially police and first response crews. And then you have all the people who got wounded in the full on combat that was taking place.
If it was gradual or just a few at a time yeah, the government could probably do a proper coverup. Not at the scale that you currently have it at though.
if a crazy bum dives a guy in the middle of the street, is the first thing you think is "OMG the zombies are here!" No it isn't. And if he gets subdued by the police, and the counselor tells you, "Don't worry about it, he just had a bad dosage of meth and was also rabid and went crazy" you'll believe that because that's a more comforting fiction than "oh geez zombies are rising"
Similarly nobody's going to think "Oh this thing is freaky, it's clearly actually a monster and not my mind playing tricks on me". It's terrifying, but people will rationalize it as something more scientific, believable. So if someone tells you, "Yeah, terrorists stole some powerful hallucinogenic agent and loosed it into the water supply and tried to cause as much mayhem as possible. That explains what you saw. Now go over here to receive the vaccine". It's a more comfortable fiction than "demon beasts from nowhere decide to wreck stuff up because reasons." You can explain terrorists. They don't like you, they want to make you hurt over the slights that your people did to theirs, and so on.
You could set it in a period of civil unrest or war or something. Giving both some kind of cover up and maybe sort-of some reason why things are happening, or some kind of exterior plot to the Highlander style battles.
How does that explain the pictures, videos, and audio recordings?
guess aliens are real, youtube said so
How many thousands of those all come out on the same night from a bunch of people who have absolutely nothing to do with each other?
Really, if that's the only complaint you have then I don't think there's any problems. It's a small detail that can be easily changed.
Its a pretty big problem when it breaks the setting, but yeah. Aside from that bit nothing jumps out as being game breaking.
Either way, it does seem like there isn't that much interest in it, so I'll probably have to shelve it for now.
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I think I shooould be able to double post at this rate?
I was tinkering with an idea like this. Fantasy setting.
The world is kind. People are prosperous, peaceful. The Gods are watching. Or so it seems. Yet, beneath the surface, Dark Gods stir. They are fallen or corrupted Gods from ages past, legendary monsters consumed by ambition, and more. They know that a war among the heavens is soon coming, and are looking to come out on top. But they are weak. Should they move into the light, they would rapidly be obliterated. They work secretly, through a select few agents.
So it's a two-tiered RPG.
The first tier you're playing a Dark God. Plotting, hunting, searching, corrupting, whatever. Any God can converse with one another on an astral plane separate from time and space, but you don't want to give TOO much to those that are your rivals and at the same time, your allies. As you amass more power, you can do more and grant more boons to your underlings.
The second tier, you're playing as random fantasy people. Agents of Dark Gods, paladins and clerics of light, wandering bounty hunters, whatever. Your dark patron gives you orders, and you follow them. You can work for any god if you quickly hash out a profile together with the god's player. You have powers granted to you by your patron God, and they choose your advancement on that specific aspect.
"But what if X the player hates me, and I'm his best agent?" You ask. "How can I advance?" Do what you do when your boss doesn't appreciate you: quit and find another patron.
"But what if X just wants as much power as he can and advances all of his agent players as soon as he can? How do I, as a Dark God, compete without just matching this arms race?" You may ask. Then X is getting too strong, too quickly. Band together and put him down.
It sounds complicated and a bit wonky to work out, especially given that everyone is basically a mini-GM in a sense, but it's something I was thinking of.
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It's been almost a year since the idea of a Transformers OTC RPG came up, and there are quite a few Transformers fans in our midst (i.e. Axilus Prime, Jakura Nuva, etc.). Could I work with this, or is this idea going to shot down to oblivion by the "three-strikes-it's-out" deal?
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I could possibly do a Transformers RP... Bring in my characters from another forum... though I should warn one of them is not so well liked, even among his own team... Calling him a Bit trigger happy is like saying a Nuke is just a cigarette lighter...
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Until I see signed statements by five RPers that they will actually play a Transformers RPG and dedicate time to it, I'm not approving one.
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Well better start a petition if you want this to pass then Dallior. If you need a signature you can add me to the list.... I may use my speedster Supersonic, though I think he could become as hated as my other character... Though for different reasons...
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I would tentatively play a Transformers RPG.
If it wasn't another war on Cybertron.
God we have too many wars on Cybertron.
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Well we could always roll a Beast Wars Version... Change it up and be Maximals and Predicons instead of the usual Bot and Cons... If you could transform into any animal what would it be? Who knows if it catches on we could go all the way into the Transmetal season... Allow for 3rd vehicle forms or even if one so choose a Fuzor (Mix of two animals)
Edited March 3, 2015 by Prowl Nightwolf
Well, the thing is, after posting this, I discovered that Aerixx: Gukko Lord is planning on making one. PM him about it.
well if that's true then that could be 4 people down for some form of Transformers RP... that means we'd only need one more...
Constructelf
Would anybody be interested in trying a Mass Effect RP again? Rather than being an open world RPG, it could follow the crew of a specific ship and their exploits; keeping everybody together in one location could help maintain a healthy level of interaction. It could take place before or during the Reaper War to have lots of canon to dry from, or it could be set after the ending of ME3 to maximize possibilities.
Alternatively, would anybody be interested in reviving FTL: Faster Than Light? The concept itself was good but the plot started to Peter out near the end; if a proper "roadmap" were to be thought up, could the story get back on its feet?
Even if the two above story concepts don't appeal to the community, would their basic structure of "being set in an isolated location" and "linear plot" appeal to the community? Or are sandboxes more popular here?
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been talking over a mass effect rpg with kaithas, but i think the general consensus is that it's best left on the backburner while we work on other projects and that the forum's kinda crowded enough already
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Tbh as great a potential as FTL had, I'm not sure it could have ever been a success long-term. A big role in its early success was I had twenty-some backers starting off, and then it petered out as time went on due to a variety of reasons. I still think group-based everyone-in-the-same-spot RPGs are the future for the forum, but I'm not sure if FTL as a concept (i.e. people having specific roles within that group and trying to do those roles in conjunction with others) is the route to go. The medium's just too slow for that to work. If one player has to rely on several others being online and active at the time then it just causes too many logistical issues.
Still interested in seeing a survival-type set up, band of survivors wandering the wastes and all.
Me, Jakura Nuva, and Aerixx: Gukko Lord are setting up a Transformers RPG for real. It's set in the smaller city of Altihex, a typically Autobot city, where a large Decepticon presence is gathering. Players can create their own Transformers, and the GMs (me, Jak, and Aerixx) are minor canon characters like Clamp Down and Brainstorm.
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I would totally join a Mass Effect RPG.
It would probably be easiest to set it during the Reaper War (and by that I mean during the events of Mass Effect 3; I'm not sure if the whole time span of all three games is referred to as the Reaper War) because a lot could be done within that. Setting it after Mass Effect 3 would be possible and interesting, but it would be harder to come up with a plot (not necessarily a bad thing).
Anyway, yeah. A Mass Effect RPG. That would be awesome.
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Is it just the usual Autobots v Decepticons factional dispute thing going on?
I could get behind a TF RPG. The last one I was in was several years long and I had several characters in it. I am usually a Decepticon however I do have Bots on tap for the good fight. Most of my characters are less then gentle and quite destructive. If you guys are doing something via PMs invite me in. Love to show you my character for both sides.
Edited March 22, 2015 by Prowl Nightwolf
Getting a Transformers RPG to succeed is incredibly difficult though.
Every last one has crashed and burned.
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Yeah. I should know. I was aboard a few of them when they went down.
I still get flashbacks.
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people. You are wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
This will be better, trust me. The storyline is detached from usual canon, and so anything is possible.
Well fill me in. Prowl wants to know...
Prowl, you wouldn't be one of the LEADERS, but we can make a discussion board seperate from the planning/creating board for you. Lemme conserve with the guys first, though.
Oh well I don't see why I could not be one of the leaders, whatever that means. I have a leader character... He is quite powerful and rivals Megatron in tyranny.
Just a question, do you fellows believe you can get a willing playerbase for your RPG?
OTC is a ... dead place, and Transformers RPGs have not done very well in the past, so people are wary on another. Those are going to be two major stumbling blocks in your quest for approval and if that is solved, the survival of the RPG.


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Through the first pillar of the Data Strategy, we have committed to promoting Ontarians' trust and confidence in the data economy. We will do this ensuring that the right safeguards are in place to promote their ethical and responsible use.
We know that the problems and opportunities arising from the digital and data-driven economy are complex. Addressing them will require collaboration across sectors and between all levels of government. To that end, the province is committed to working with the federal government as Canada implements the Digital Charter and we hope their actions can happen as soon as possible. The federal government's Digital Charter is a step in the right direction to address threats to people's privacy and the protection of private data across the country.
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Miloslav Gajdoš (* 13. dubna 1948 Město Albrechtice) je český kontrabasista, učitel hudby a skladatel.

Životopis
V letech 1963 až 1968 vystudoval hru na kontrabas na konzervatoři v Kroměříži. Jeho učitelem byl Alois Kříž. Ve studiu pokračoval na brněnské JAMU pod vyučujícím Jiřím Bortlíčkem. V letech 1968 až 1972 studoval skladbu u Zdeňka Zouhara. V letech 1976, 1977 a 1979 studoval kontrabas u Ludwiga Streichera na letních kurzech ve Výmaru. V letech 1976 a 1977 byl vítězem ceny mezinárodní soutěže kontrabasů v Markneukirchenu.

Během studií hrál na kontrabas v orchestru Janáčkova divadla v Brně (1968–1969) a ve Filharmonii pracujících Gottwaldov (dnes Zlín, 1969–1973). Hrál českou premiéru prvního kontrabasového koncertu Giovanniho Bottesiniho s Moravským filharmonickým orchestrem v Olomouci.

Od roku 1971 působil jako profesor na Konzervatoři P. J. Vejvanovského v Kroměříži. V roce 1978 založil v Kroměříži Bass club. V roce 1979 založil v Kroměříži mezinárodní soutěž kontrabasů Františka Gregory. Později učil v Moskvě, Debrecínu, Miskolci, Mnichově, Drážďanech a Berlíně a v roce 1997 přednášel mistrovské kurzy v New Yorku Juilliard School of Music. Mezi jeho studenty patřili Radomír Žalud, Miloslav Bubeníček, Roman Koudelka, Radoslav Šašina, Miloslav Jelínek, Pavel Klečka, Martin Šranko, Eva Šašinková, Luděk Zakopal, Miloslav Raisigl, Petr Ries a Jan Staněk.

Miroslav Gajdoš zpracoval pro kontrabas více než 70 děl a složil také duchovní hudbu pro kontrabas. Byl také sbormistrem Chrámového mužského sboru v tehdejším Gottwaldově (1970–1971), následoval smíšený sbor Moravan v Kroměříži (1975–1976). Spolupracoval v letech 1971–1989 s chrámovým sborem v Želechovicích nad Dřevnicí. Byl rovněž dirigentem kroměřížského komorního orchestru Capella baroca (1974–1992) a příležitostně varhaníkem a regenschorim v kostele Nanebevzetí Panny Marie v Kroměříži.

V 90. letech 20. století absolvoval několik koncertních turné po USA a vyznamenal se jako jeden z nejdůležitějších kontrabasových virtuózů konce 20. století. V roce 2000 byl spoluzakladatelem Mezinárodní hudební společnosti nesoucí jméno Johannese Matthiase Spergera.

Dílo (výběr)
Skladby s kontrabasem

 Tři tance (1989)
 Národní fantazie pro 2 kontrabasy
 Kontrapunktické studie pro 2 kontrabasy
 Menuet pro 3 kontrabasy
 Písňová suita pro 3 kontrabasy
 Sexdecimet pro 16 kontrabasů
 Variace a moll pro kontrabas a klavír
 Moravský tanec pro kontrabas a klavír
 Koncert F dur pro kontrabas a orchestr (1969)
 Koncertní polonéza pro kontrabas a orchestr (1975)
 Česká fantasie pro kontrabas a orchestr (2002)
 Pan Bottesini pro zpěv a kontrabas
 Navštívení krásy pro zpěv, kontrabas a klavír (1980)

Komorní

 Sonatina pro housle a klavír (2000)
 Reminiscence pro housle, kytaru a kontrabas
 Kánony pro housle a kontrabas (1966–1974)
 Nálada pro klarinet, trubku a klavír

Duchovní

 Ad extremum, kantáta na slova J. A. Komenského
 Čtyři chvály, kantáta pro sóla, sbor a orchestr

Odkazy

Reference

Externí odkazy
 https://web.archive.org/web/20130930163510/http://apimusic.org/composersb.cfm?ln=G
 Slovenský klub Doublebass – Miloslav Gajdoš

Čeští kontrabasisté
Čeští hudební pedagogové
Čeští hudební skladatelé
Absolventi Hudební fakulty Janáčkovy akademie múzických umění
Pedagogové z Kroměříže
Narození v roce 1948
Narození 13. dubna
Narození v Městě Albrechtice
Žijící lidé
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Daroca, Spain - claims to be UNESCO?
pikkle
Partaker #1 | Posted: 1 Aug 2017 01:37
I recently returned from a jaunt to Spain and southwest France. My brother and I immersed ourselves in Mudejar architecture for a few days and even found a few sites that probably should be on that serial (anyone been to Tarazona, about 40 minutes from Zaragoza?). Anyway, we saw Teruel, Zaragoza, and several other sites. We had already been to Valencia on Corpus Christi (fun time to visit), but we love the place and decided to head back for some more of that wonderful city. Anyway, on the drive we stopped at the town of Daroca. Were the Spanish attempting to get the churches in this town inscribed or are the plaques there merely commemorative? I find it hard to believe it's the latter because they are beautifully inlaid in the churches as tiles/azulejos. Anyone who has been to Daroca doesn't need me to tell them how beautiful the city is but here is a picture of the tiles and I just wanted to get to the bottom of this because I am 99.9% sure that this town does not belong to the Mudejar of Aragon site.
Solivagant
Partaker #2 | Posted: 1 Aug 2017 02:58 | Edited by: Solivagant
I note this sentence in the AB review for the 2001 extension
"The sites representing Mudéjar art in Aragón proposed for inscription were 157 in the first nomination proposal. This number was subsequently reduced by the State Party to 64, and then, after further negotiations with ICOMOS, to 6 sites. These sites are proposed to be added to the four sites of Teruel which are already on the List, making the total of 10."
Unfortunately the Nomination File for this extension hasn't been provided on the UNESCO Web site -unusual for one as late as this though the lack of the original 1986 nomination for Teruel is normal)
So - the 6 additional sites are fully accounted for without including a site in Daroca -
Tower and church of Santa María in Calatayud
Church of Santa Tecla in Cervera de la Cañada
Church of Santa María in Tobed,
Remains of the Palacio de la Aljafería in Zaragoza
Tower and Church of San Pablo in Zaragoza
La Seo Cathedral in Zaragoza.
No site in Daroca Town is inscribed -100%!!!!! The nearest is Sta Maria in Tobed 33kms away from Daroca. But ones in Daroca were included in the original 157 extra nominated sites and (probably) the reduced 64. This (Spanish) Wiki page lists all 157 under a section titled "Otros monumentos mudéjares de Aragón no incluidos expresamente en la declaración de Patrimonio de la Humanidad" ("Other Mudejar monuments of Aragon not expressly included in the World Heritage inscription") https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arquitectura_mud%C3%A9jar_de_Arag%C3%B3n .There are 5 locations in Daroca.
If one looks at Web sites mentioning "Daroca", "UNESCO", "Patrimonio Mundial" etc a large number of hits are returned! It appears that at least some of the non inscribed Mudejar sites (including those in Daroca) are simply referring to the UNESCO inscription of Mudjar Architecture in general and climbing on the bandwagonsince they also have "Mudejar Architecture"! If you read the azulejo in the photo above it doesn't actually claim that the building it is situated on is inscribed and could be said merely to refer to the inscription in general! Pedantic? Certainly!
Interestingly - nowhere on the Web have I been able to discover any newspaper etc articles bemoaning the reduction of locations from 157 to a mere 6 . Somewhere one might have thought that Daroca or elsewhere would have expressed disappointment - but one gets the feeling that the decision was made to "bank" the extension as a job well done and continue almost as if all 157 had been added!!
Iis there a Connection of sites which are shrunken for or during inscripton.?
Midejar Architekturen should bei in this Connection together with polish wooden churches and the wineyard of piemomt e.g..
I know there is a Connection thwhs Sites that were originaly larger or so.
Jakob:
is there a Connection of sites which are shrunken for or during inscripton.?
We seem to have 2 rather similar Connections here - are we sure that they are adequately different and, if so, correctly assigned?
a. Reduced from broader TWHS - http://www.worldheritagesite.org/connection/Reduced+from+broader+TWHS
b. Part of Cultural Nomination rejected - http://www.worldheritagesite.org/connection/Part+of+Cultural+nomination+rejected
Partaker #5 | Posted: 14 Jan 2022 22:37
Bumping my old thread because I was just in Aragon again and came across a few more of these :)
Here's one in Quinto! Just an example. They all have the same little tile signs as I had posted from Daroca. I think we got to the bottom of it but I still find it interesting.
https://momiasdequinto.es/documentos/paneles/Edificio_1.pdf
"It was built on the ruins of a previous church, and the beginning of the construction is dated between 1401 and 1416. It is therefore a Mudejar style building from the early 15th century, designated BIC (Listed building) and UNESCO World Heritage Site."
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High Impact Tech? eSignature, Lockbox, MLS Apps
By Florida Realtors® News (Reprinted with permission Florida Realtors. All rights reserved.) November 2, 2022
NAR's new 2022 technology report also found that cybersecurity, 5G and drones will likely have the biggest impact on real estate over the next two years.
WASHINGTON – What technology has the highest impact on the day-to-day life of a Realtor®? According to the National Association of Realtors®' (NAR) just-released 2022 Realtor Technology Survey, it's eSignature, lockbox, and apps and technology from their local multiple listing service (MLS).
The survey examined NAR members' current tech usage and attitudes about the future of real estate technology. Respondents labeled eSignature (79%), lockbox (67%) and local MLS apps and technology (67%) as very impactful tools used in their businesses during the past 12 months.
When asked to predict which emerging technology tools will be very impactful over the next two years, cyber security (31%), 5G (30%) and drones (27%) topped the list.
"It's clear that technology plays a key role in our members' lives and businesses," says NAR CEO Bob Goldberg. "From our annual iOi Summit to our REACH tech accelerator program, NAR has its eyes on the future. By partnering with innovation leaders and empowering Realtors with the latest technology, we're driving the future of real estate and helping our members build staying power."
Other survey findings
Technology costs: About one in three Realtors (34%) paid between $50-$250 per month, and 19% spent more than $500 each month on their real estate businesses; 20% spent less than $50 per month.
Technology source: 61% agreed or strongly agreed that their brokerage provides them with all the technology tools they need to be successful; 23% neither agreed nor disagreed, and 15% disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement.
Top tools: Realtors listed eSignature (67%), lockbox/showing tech (53%) and transaction management (45%) at the top. When asked about tech fees paid to their broker, 47% said that the price was reasonable, and 38% said their broker does not charge a technology fee, a slight increase from last year's 36%.
Social media: Facebook remains the top social media network among Realtors, with 89% using it in their real estate business. Instagram is used by 59%,up from 52% in 2021 and 39% in 2018. Two out of three Realtors (63%) said the main reason for using social media in their business was to promote listings, up from 49% in 2021.
For the first time this year, the survey asked about specific emerging technologies' possible impact on the real estate industry, and 35% said blockchain technology will definitely or probably have an impact. As for big data and AI (artificial intelligence) 48% think it will definitely or probably have an impact. The metaverse scored a similar result – 46% said it will definitely or probably have impact the industry.
When asked about the timing of metaverse impacts, 24% of Realtors predict one to two years, 27% said three to five years, and 11% said six to 10 years. However, 10% Ten percent believe the metaverse currently already impacts the real estate industry.
The 2022 Technology Survey is based on data collected in August 2022. The survey was emailed to NAR members, including Realtor® brokers, managers and agents, and generated 2,419 usable responses.
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In April, more than 170 FFA students learned about the Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network, kicking off the start of tour season of the three northwestern Ohio farms.
The farms in the Western Lake Erie Basin have been testing both new and traditional conservation methods to help reduce nutrient runoff and better protect water quality. The goal is to show farmers what type of conservation practice would work best on their farms. Ohio Farm Bureau and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service are partners on the five-year project.
On April 13, FFA students from a dozen schools visited Stateler Family Farms in McComb. They learned about the farm's conservation practices through hands-on education, as well as visited booths staffed by experts in various agricultural fields who will discuss career opportunities.
Education and outreach will continue to be the focus during the spring and summer, including the production of brief videos made of every conservation practice on the demonstration farms. Available later this summer, the videos will help teach about conservation in a classroom environment.
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Peter McLaren interviewed for the National Educational Evaluation Policy Gazette This Influential Educational Journal Reaches 50,000 readers, and Ministers of Education in 22 countries
The National Institute of Educational Evaluation Policy Gazette for the National Institute of Educational Evaluation of México interviewed Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice, Peter McLaren last month.
The Dangers of Educational Extremism: High-Stakes Standardized Evaluation in US K-12 Education
which includes content from McLaren's March interview with Policy Gazette Editor-In-Chief, Laura Athié, begins on page 5 of the article (page 7 of the pdf file). Special thanks to Dr. Arlo Kempf of the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto, who co-authored the article.
Information about the National Educational Evaluation Policy Gazeet from Editor-In-Chief, Laura Athié:
The National Educational Evaluation Policy Gazette is published each four months in Spanish, English and indigenous languages, with the aim of fostering the dialogue between the leaders of our National education. We have more than 50 000 readers and most of them are Ministers, education specialist, ONGs and teachers.
Today, Mexico is facing a strong National Educational reform, so, many teachers and state ministers need voices to make good decisions. That is the reason why we publish this Gazette, because we want to contribute to a different way to teach in basic and middle education thru public schools, and especially for the ones in situations of greatest disadvantage: indigenous, migrants and children in contexts of violence.
The Gazette is a monographic edition, so we have a different issue each number. Our last publication (Number 3), started with this question: 'What does rights-focused Evaluation mean?'. Our next edition (January 2016) will ask: How can we use the Evaluation to improve our education?, there are a lot of factors involved in this topic: equity and differences in the allocation of resources, violence and social contexts that affects school living, challenges and evidences. We have been asking if there is another way to decide furthermore than using just the evidences from the assessments and policy evaluation, and we think the personal values of the leather is one form to decide.
The Gazette has an international distribution, so it goes free to the Ministers of Education of 22 countries form North and Latin America and Europe. For us, is important to give the most brilliant minds and voices to the people who are making decisions on the future of more than 36 millions of children and adolescents in Mexico.
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Attallah College Professor's New Book Shares Research on the Impact of Family Engagement on a Student's Success
December 12, 2022 by Ronda Kalaji | News
Dr. Stephany Cuevas, an Assistant Professor of Education in the Integrated Educational Studies (IES) program, releases her second book, "Everyone Wins!: The Evidence for Family-School Partnerships and Implications for Practice." Ramping up from a research project that began in 2019 during her time at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. Cuevas and her colleagues put
January 4, 2023 by Ronda Kalaji | News
Chapman is honored to have been involved with the annual California Association of School Psychologists (CASP) conference. Attallah College of Educational Studies was represented in 13 total activities. Dr. Brianna Meshke McLay, an Attallah College Ed.S. and Ph.D. alum, was presented the Michael Goodman award at the CASP convention for research associated with her dissertation,


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Opus, the leading provider of SaaS-based compliance solutions, announced the appointment of Emanuele "Manny" Conti as Chief Executive Officer. Conti brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in the risk management and data analytics industries, with a proven track record of building global growth-oriented businesses. He was most recently CEO of Kroll Inc. and before that, President of the North America and International divisions of Dun & Bradstreet.
Opus was co-founded by GTCR, a leading Chicago-based private equity firm and has more than quadrupled in size since 2014.
Times Media has appointed Susie White as its new national sales manager for its agencies and retail division. White was previously the General Manager of Business Media, delivering advertising sales across a range of digital and print publications for their associated magazines.
Innovolt, a tech leader in comprehensive power protection and analytics, is pleased to announce the appointments of Phil Boatman as President and Ed McLaughlin as Vice-Chairman of the Company.
At Innovolt, Boatman and McLaughlin will apply their extensive sales and leadership experience and industry knowledge to build on Innovolt's proven technology, data and customer service leadership, both within the Office Equipment industry as well as the company's emerging industry applications.


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import com.flowci.docker.domain.Variables;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

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        props.setNamespace(System.getenv(Variables.NAMESPACE));
        props.setPod(System.getenv(Variables.POD_NAME));
        props.setPodIp(System.getenv(Variables.POD_IP));
        return props;
    }
}

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