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Foxconn exec pushes for manufacturers to be flexible, collaborative
Feb 21, 2019 12:00 am
Last updated on July 2nd, 2019 at 09:11 pm
In an era of rapidly advancing technology, manufacturers will increasingly need to be flexible and collaborative to be successful, Bill Mitchell, chief executive officer of Foxconn subsidiary Aguila told attendees at Manufacturing Matters on Thursday.
Aguila handles portions of Foxconn's logistics and distribution operations. Mitchell was also part of site selection efforts when the company initially decided to locate a $10 billion manufacturing campus in Wisconsin in the summer of 2017.
"In just that amount of time so much has changed about the way things are done and what gets done," he told attendees at the annual conference run by the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
He said companies need to develop long-term strategic plans while also allowing for flexibility. He said many companies are hurt by holding on to what has helped them reach their current position instead of adapting to things that can propel them forward.
"Most of us are held back more by fear than we are advanced by faith," he said, encouraging companies to step out and do something different.
Foxconn originally announced it would build a Gen. 10.5 thin-film-transistor LCD fabrication facility in Wisconsin. The operation would have produced massive display screens for large televisions but the company has since opted for a Gen. 6 plant to focus on smaller screens. Initially, the company has set up television assembly operations at a leased facility in Mount Pleasant.
Speaking to reporters after his remarks, Mitchell said he could not speak to the specifics of the Foxconn project, including the number of televisions the company is currently producing, where they are being sold or what types of jobs the company will eventually create.
Mitchell's work since Foxconn chose Wisconsin has included evaluating potential suppliers for operations in the state, including meeting with upwards of 500 companies.
"One of the things that's amazed me is their flexibility," Mitchell said of Wisconsin companies.
He said initially Foxconn was relying on connections and relationships and did not have a good way of evaluating whether it was using the best local partner. Foxconn and state officials have since collaborated to develop a vendor readiness program that evaluates potential suppliers based on core capabilities, customer data and ability to adapt to emerging technologies.
"We're not building a supply chain. We're curating an ecosystem," Mitchell said Thursday.
Foxconn's plans in Wisconsin have included the idea of an 8K+5G ecosystem since the project was first announced. With no television or display manufacturing currently existing in the state, it has not been clear what the ecosystem will include.
Mitchell said an ecosystem focuses on companies working together to be faster and accomplish more than they could individually.
"From an ecosystem standpoint, I think there's enough business to go around for everybody and if we can come together with people who might be in a competitive space and work together and learn from each other, then we're all going to get better," he said.
Speed has been a major component of the Foxconn project in Wisconsin from the start. It was just three months from the company's first meeting with then-Gov. Scott Walker to a formal announcement in July 2017. At the time, supporters suggested the company could break ground by the fall. Ultimately, earth moving work started in Mount Pleasant in the spring of 2018.
More recently, the project has shown signs of slowing down. The company fell short of its hiring target for 2018 and said it had shifted hiring plans in response to global markets. Foxconn also reconsidered what kind of thin-film-transistor technology it would employ before again committing to building a Gen. 6 plant last month.
On Thursday, Mitchell analogized the speed of the project to building, flying and redesigning an airplane at the same time.
"It's exciting to me for a company that is as large as us to go as fast as we do," he said. "You can't wait for things to happen or you'll be left behind. If you figure out all of the details, and I'm not saying this is true of Foxconn but for any company, if you wait until you figure out all of the details before you leave the runway, sometimes, in this day and age, with the advance of technology, you're not going to be able to continue to be competitive."
Mitchell recounted an early meeting with one company where he did not have answers to a number of questions the company had. Eventually the woman Mitchell was meeting with suggested Foxconn was operating as a multi-billion dollar startup.
"Yeah, that's kind of what we are," Mitchell said. "And we're figuring it out as we go."


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Why Comprehensive Employment Screening Still Matters in the Digital Age
June 20, 2016 by hremp.com Leave a Comment
With so many people nowadays openly sharing the intimate details of their lives via social media, why is comprehensive employment screening still relevant and critical to the hiring process? For most organizations, the answer is clear: Failing to screen prospective employees can result in negative — and potentially dire — consequences, including compromised security and damaged corporate reputations. Bad hires can harm overall employee morale, and disgruntled workers can be major sources of distraction and other troubles.
By thoroughly screening employees prior to hiring, companies can avoid bringing in the wrong people — who can pose significant future problems.
What Does Comprehensive Employment Screening Include?
By using comprehensive employment screening, companies can verify various information about prospective workers, including (depending on industry, position and salary):
Driving and criminal records
Reports about evictions
While comprehensive employment screening does not guarantee weeding out all bad hires, it often can identify red flags such as criminal convictions. It also can unearth circumstances that might be undesirable for certain positions, such as an individual who has had significant financial problems applying for a role that involves handling money at a financial institution.
Employees who aren't truthful about reasons for leaving a past job may be attempting to cover up serious incidences of bad behavior, such as insubordination, and an individual who flouts rules in the workplace may be more prone to behaving badly in the future. To get the full picture of a candidate, screeners may interview former supervisors, along with verifying professional certifications, educational degrees, criminal records and driving records.
What Are the Benefits of Comprehensive Employment Screening?
Most human resources professionals — 96 percent, in fact — report that their organizations conduct some type of background screening or professional reference verification checks for applicants. And the majority of business leaders understand that screenings remain vital for determining whether candidates will be a good match and whether they may pose a risk to security or reputation.
The consequences of failing to verify information about candidates can be detrimental for businesses. Over the past several years, numerous organizations have been publicly embarrassed when it came to light that individuals in high-profile positions lied about their qualifications.
With data-collection technologies continuing to improve and global security concerns mounting, comprehensive employment screening will continue to play an important role in corporate hiring procedures. And human resources professionals will continue to take the lead in guiding their organizations to best use background checks for hiring and retaining top team members.
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Ormax Media releases study to size OTT audience
Media consulting firm Ormax Media has released an audience research to size the OTT universe in India, titled The Ormax OTT Audience Sizing Report 2022. The research, based on a sample size of 13,500 across urban and rural India, was conducted from July to September 2022.
Ormax Media released select findings of the report, which reveal that the Indian OTT audience universe is currently at 423.8 Million (or 42.38 Crore) people. This translated into a penetration of 30%, which means that 3 out of 10 Indians watched online videos at least once in the last one month. The report breaks this universe by gender, age, NCCS, pop strata, states and cities.
Speaking about the need for the report, Shailesh Kapoor, Founder & CEO – Ormax Media, said: "India's OTT audience universe has grown rapidly since 2018, with a boost during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. Now that we are in a more settled, post-pandemic period, this annual report is an important reckoner for the OTT industry to understand how their audience base is growing, and where this growth is coming from. Unlike other reports that rely on desk research, this report is based on primary audience research across India."
The report also reveals that there are currently 119 Million active paid OTT subscriptions in India, across 49 Million paying (SVOD) audiences, i.e., an average of 2.4 subscriptions per paying audience member. 65% of these paid subscriptions are with male audience. The top 6 metros contribute only 10% to India's OTT universe but 33% to total paid subscriptions in India. Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai are the top 3, with more than 8.5 Million active paid subscriptions each.
Speaking about the findings, Kapoor said: "A large share of the 20% growth in audience base has come from rural India and small towns. The metro cities have reached saturation levels, with more than 79% OTT penetration. Platforms will have to rely on the smaller markets for the next phase of growth. From an SVOD perspective, the most significant finding has been that the average number of subscriptions have remained static at 2.4 per paying user. This data point holds immense strategic value, as it suggests that subscriptions growth will come from more people paying for subscriptions, than the same people paying for more subscriptions".
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Gnosis by Lesaffre, a business unit of Lesaffre, is the result of the combination of Gnosis SpA and Lesaffre Human Care. Discover the new corporate logo released and the wide range of products that make us able to boast a valued and transversal expertise!
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"Get back to nature and hear its lessons". A natural method of production means quality: vitaMK7® is produced naturally from the patented biofermentation process of the Bacillus subtilis ssp natto, without chemical compounds.
Lesaffre, a key global actor in the field of yeast and fermentation, announces the full acquisition of Gnosis, an Italian biotechnology company specialized in the development, manufacturing and sale of fermentation-derived ingredients and natural finished products for use in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, veterinary and cosmetic industries, three years after acquiring a majority shareholding of this company.
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CPhI, the worldwide pharmaceutical exhibition held in Madrid this week, closed its doors with a large success for Gnosis on show together with Lesaffre Human Care (LHC).
Welcome to the last day of CPhI Worldwide, the tradeshow with a wide offer of pharmaceutical solutions from all the world, which opened its doors in Madrid (Spain) last October 9th, attracting thousands of professionals from the pharmaceutical industry.
VitaMK7®, the fermented vitamin K2 as MK7, thanks to its very high purity profile with more than 99% of all-trans MK7 assay, and no unknown impurities, offers the more extended stability in the global market, with 4 years at room temperature granted in the product specification, and supported by the routinely stability tests carried out on the batches produced.
Join our Newsletter platform to build your knowledge!
Build your knowledge and improve people health subscribing to our Newsletter platform, which is part of the educational campaign undertaken by Gnosis to inform customers and provide them with a complete toolkit to promote their finished products.
Gnosis is pleased to show you the new leaflet of vitaMK7®. With its clean and understandable graphics, the brochure has been designed to allow readers to easily grasp the main concepts of one of Gnosis's flagship products.
Gnosis marketing support constantly grows!
Vitafoods Asia in Singapore has begun and walking around the tradeshow you can see the special corner dedicated to vitaMK7® with the new stability data available.
Gnosis welcomes you at Vitafoods Asia 2018!
It's almost September and we are ready to present the details of Gnosis workshop entitled "vitaMK7®: beyond vitamin K2. Reveal on purity, stability & health benefits", that will take place in Guangzhou (China) next September 13th, 2018.
Also in formulation, vitaMK7® shows an optimal stability with different calcium salts without any coating which increases non-natural substances. In the entire analytical tests, the Official USP assay method for Menaquinone-7 was applied.
Watch the video of the plant where vitaMK7® is produced!
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Gnosis YouTube channel has been recently updated with a new video. Watch it to discover the three key products aimed at boosting human health and well-being: Quatrefolic®, VitaMK7®, Mythocondro®.
Plenty of applause to Quatrefolic® and VitaMK7® during latest events: evidence that Gnosis scientific support never stops!
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While browsing our corporate website, have you had the pleasure to explore the page dedicated to social networks?
Vitamin K2 as MK7 represents the best solution for improving bone and cardiovascular health, since it ensures calcium deposit in the bone mass and protects arteries and tissues from calcification.
We have refreshed our look: the new corporate website is online!
Gnosis and its range of high quality products continue to amaze in the world.
An interesting recent review of S-Adenosyl-methionine (SAMe), published at the end of 2017, has provided a broad perspective on the role, efficacy and safety of SAMe in the treatment of depression, neuropsychiatric disorders, and co-morbid medical conditions.
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HomelocalGunmen Invade Ogun Monarch's Palace, Allegedly Burn Him And Four Of His Aides To Death
Gunmen Invade Ogun Monarch's Palace, Allegedly Burn Him And Four Of His Aides To Death
The traditional ruler of Agodo village in Ewekoro local council of Ogun State, Oba Ayinde Odetola, and four of his aides have been reportedly killed by unknown gunmen who invaded his palace and set them ablaze on Monday, January 24.
According to reports, the monarch and his aides were assassinated and burnt as soon as they entered the town around 11:00 a.m. It is believed that the attack is as a result of the crisis surrounding the choice of a ruler in the community. Crisis began in the community after the late monarch, who was from the Ake dynasty, was chosen as the traditional ruler of the community, but the Owu people allegedly insisted that anybody from Ake would not be their king.
Confirming the incident, one of the late monarch's sisters, Chief (Mrs) Adenike Akintade, lamented the heartless killing of the traditional ruler and his aides, adding that the same people recently killed a younger brother of the late monarch.
"I had just been discharged from hospital early this morning, only to start mourning the brutal assassination of my brother. Kabiesi called me on Saturday, urging me to reduce my activities, saying stress could contribute to my illness.
Oba Odetola lost his younger brother to this imbroglio some months ago; the young man was butchered by the so-called hoodlums. Today, Kabiyesi is no more, what a world," she lamented
Confirming the incident, the police spokesperson in Ogun State, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, denied that four of the monarch's aides were killed. He said after killing the traditional ruler, the perpetrators burnt the monarch with his car. He said the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has visited the scene of the incident for an on-the-spot assessment of the situation.
He added that though no arrest has been made, the Commissioner of Police has directed that the matter be transferred to the homicide section of the State Investigation Department for a thorough investigation.
Oyeyemi added that police operatives are on the trail of those who killed the monarch.


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A poor match for Manchester United, but a good win, even though unfortunately it wasn't very deserved today. Manchester United were okay in the first half in terms of attack where Marcus Rashford scored in the first half, but in the second half, they didn't have a single shot on or off target for the first 20 minutes where the first shot was a goal by Anthony Martial. Watford were the better side today, in stats and in performance, but they just lacked the final touch and the ability to convert the chances to goals accuracy.
Man of the match: None of Manchester United players, but David De Gea deserves a mention, as well as Luke Shaw.
Next: CONFIRMED Starting XI: Man United Vs Wolves. Rashford DROPPED, Martial-Matic BENCHED!


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Liverpool James Street railway station (commonly shortened to James Street station) is a railway station located in the centre of Liverpool, England, situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network. James Street is an underground station with access to the platforms via lifts from the James Street booking hall. At certain times the platforms are accessed via a pedestrian tunnel from the India Buildings on Water Street. As of 2013/14, James Street was the fifth-busiest station on the Merseyrail network.

History

The station opened as the original Liverpool terminus of the Mersey Railway Tunnel in 1886. James Street Station and Hamilton Square underground station in Birkenhead are the oldest deep-level underground stations in the world. The only other underground railway in 1886, London Underground, had stations just below the street surface, built using the cut-and-cover method. The stations are so deep they required lifts to access, and were the world's first lift-accessed stations. The lifts were initially hydraulically operated. There were originally two platforms, either side of a twin-track tunnel.

The Mersey railway tunnel was extended under dry land to Liverpool Central station in 1892, changing James Street's status to a through station. By this time, there were trains from Liverpool branching from Hamilton Square station terminating at Birkenhead Park and Rock Ferry stations in Birkenhead. The line was electrified in 1903. Through trains to West Kirby and New Brighton commenced in 1938, when the former Wirral Railway routes were electrified.

In 1941, during the Liverpool Blitz, the Luftwaffe bombed the surface building of the station, damaging the then famous James Street hydraulic accumulator tower so badly it required demolition. A new surface building was built in the 1960s.

The station was rebuilt in the 1970s, opening in 1977, as a creation of the Merseyrail network. A new single-track tunnel known as the Loop was constructed being a part of the Wirral Line under Liverpool's city centre. The Loop ran west from the Mersey Railway tunnel via a newly constructed third platform at James Street, then onto Moorfields, Liverpool Lime Street and Liverpool Central, and back to James Street rejoining the Mersey railway tunnel just to the east of the station.

The eastern section of the original tunnel between Liverpool Central and James Street is used by the Northern Line. The remaining western section of the tunnel, which is not used by either the Wirral Line or Northern Line, was retained to provide a connection between the two for moving empty electric trains between depots at  and . Of the original two platforms at James Street, only the westbound remains in regular use. Platform 2, the original eastbound platform, is kept in near-original condition, being used only when trains are prevented from using the loop itself.

The station and surrounding area were subject to a £2million package of improvements during 2007–8. Further refurbishment of platforms, concourses and the booking hall were undertaken in 2012–13, as part of a £40 million investment from Network Rail which saw all Merseyrail underground stations (excluding ) refurbished. Work to improve the little-used Platform 2 and the Water Street entrance were completed during 2015.

Station layout

James Street station has three platforms, although only two see regular use. Platforms 2 and 3 are situated on either side of the original Mersey Railway tunnel, and platform 1 in the newer tunnel on the loop line. Only platforms 1 and 3 are in regular use for the loop line, Platform 3 by trains westbound to the Wirral and Platform 1 by trains eastbound towards Liverpool. Platform 2, which is situated on the empty stock line opposite platform 3, has not normally been used by passenger services since the opening of the loop line. This platform has a frieze artwork, on the wall.

The junction at the western end of the station (where the loop leaves the original line in order to pass through platform 1) is known as Mann Island Junction.

Occasionally, the loop line may close to allow for maintenance to occur.
On these occasions, platform 2 is brought back into use to allow trains arriving from the Wirral to terminate and reverse there back onto the westbound line (either directly or via platform 3).

There are two entrances to the station. The main entrance on James Street itself has four lifts to reach the platforms from street level. It also has a small newsagents inside. The Water Street entrance uses a combination of staircases and a ramp over 150 yards long which goes from ground level to just above the platforms. The Water Street entrance is only in use during certain times of the day and is closed at weekends. It is open between 7am and 10am, then again from 3pm to 6pm.

Facilities
The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV. There are toilets, a payphone, an ATM, booking office and live departure and arrival screens, for passenger information. The station does not have a car park, though there is a cycle rack for eight bicycles. Step-free access to the platforms, for wheelchairs and prams, is possible, via the lifts.

Services
Trains operate every five minutes (Monday-Saturday daytime) around the Liverpool city centre loop to Moorfields, Liverpool Lime Street and Liverpool Central.  In the other direction, trains operate every five minutes to Hamilton Square, from where they continue every 15 minutes to each of New Brighton and West Kirby with six trains an hour to Hooton.  From Hooton, trains continue every 15 minutes to Chester and every 30 minutes to Ellesmere Port.  At other times, trains operate every 30 minutes to each of the four destinations, giving a service every 5–10 minutes to Hamilton Square. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

See also
List of underground stations of the Merseyrail network

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DfT Category E stations
Railway stations in Liverpool
Former Mersey Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1886
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Railway stations located underground in the United Kingdom

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WASHINGTON | Our brains do not seem to have been made for a modern-day economy. They are much better suited for deciding among a limited —a very limited— set of options. This could make sense when we were living in caves —for several tens of thousands years, let's not forget—, and the main selection we had to make was to pick a partner to mate with or a mammoth to take down. In today's world, however, our brain has become antiquated. Just picking a car in the U.S. means making a selection between almost 300 different possibilities, if we take into account just brand, model, and color.
Our brain becomes even more puzzled when the selection must be done among highly symbolic elements —for instance, when we pick a stock or another asset to invest. That means the more chances we are offered, the less creative we can be. Ask the E.U. leaders about their reaction to Greece, and more than a social-democratic or moral hazard problem, it seems to be linked to the lack of experience in dealing with this situation and the seemingly endless ways of getting out of it (admittedly, these options are becoming narrower and narrower).
What is the result? The brain drastically cuts off the possibilities, by disregarding many of them. That is partly based on previous experience, and as a result we tend to exaggerate the chances of something going o.k. if it has gone o.k. a number of times in the past, and the chances of something going to rot if that is what happened before.
Those are some of the findings made by NYU's Professor Paul Glimcher in his book 'Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis' (Oxford University Press, 2011). The Neuroeconomy is a new discipline that tries to trace in our brain concepts such as 'value', 'chose' and, ultimately, 'money'. It is an ambitious task —it means merging medicine, bio-chemistry, biology, psychology, and medicine. But it is the logical development of behavioral economics.
Neuroeconomics has been lambasted by neoclassical economists. "Why Neuroeconomics?" was an article published in 2008 by no other than Nobel Prize winner Robert Lucas. Rejections are understandable. A big chunk of the economics edifice will be torn to pieces if Neuroeconomics develop in full and confirm its hypothesis. Rational expectations do not fit into psychology. And, if we follow experience, then bubbles can be explained —or the belief that European, rich countries do not fall into crisis because, well, they haven't in the last few decades.
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Q: Extending argv to hold more values This is mostly out of curiosity.
In the ISO C specification the following is said:

The parameters argc and argv and the strings pointed to by the argv array shall
  be modifiable by the program, and retain their last-stored values between program
  startup and program termination.

http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1425.pdf section 5.1.2.2.1 Program startup
Still, I have seen recommendations online that you shouldn't reallocate argv to extend it, but rather copy it.
Is there a specific reason to not extend argv that doesn't affect other char** or is this by convention?
I don't know if there is any real need for extending argv with additional values, but the question is whether argv is special from the POV of the program.

A: There is nothing special about argc and argv as parameters.
1) argc is just an int that is passed by copy into the main function. changing it has
absolutely no affect on anything.
2) argv, is just an array of pointers to c-strings. The standard lets you modify the strings pointed to by argv.
Note that the standard does not let you free the strings pointed to by argv nor does it
say you are allowed to modify the array pointed to by argv.
For example, if argc==2 and argv[1] points to a string "hello world", this would be fine:
argv[1][0]='c'; // the string is now "cello world" which is the name of a store
                // located right next to banjo emporium.

but it is undefined to do:
argv[1] = "yo mamma"; // what are you thinking, are you 12 ???

Although, nothing bad happens if you do that -- it is just not defined. A test on centos 6.5 with gcc 4.4 (Don't make fun of me for using such an old version, okay?) gave me no
issues. So nobody is trying to free() the contents of argv on program exit. Also there are several libraries that as a side effect of processing argv, reorder
its contents. I cannot think of where I saw that though.
However, what you cannot do, because you have no way to do it, is to change the size of
the array pointed to by argv. For example, on my system, trying to realloc() argv throws an invalid pointer error. In other words, the array pointed to by argv, does not appear to be located on the heap.
Not being able to realloc() arrays passed into your functions is nothing new or special, for example the array might be static, or allocated on the stack, and the standard says nothing about how the argv array is allocated.
In any case, the standard allows the programmer to use the strings passed into main in any way without fear that they will be modified by somebody else, but it does not explicitly let the programmer change the array that holds the strings.

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Nice find, are those orange glowing dots on the planet, volcanoes?
Here's my entry. "RS 0-9-103060088-996-6-7-956125-131 A5"
Its a Temperate Terra with multicelullar life orbiting a orange dwarf with a 4 days rotation period!
Hello I am new here (Space Engine is awesome), I seem to be magnetized to planets with life they are of abundance for me. And this is one of my best findings in my opinion, I call it: The Planet Of Darkness, The Crimson Planet, and The Blood Planet (call it what you want) it is a Frozen Ice Giant with Organic Multicellular (aerial) life.
Having trouble understanding the image upload system so I hope this posts correctly.
She certainly is a beauty!
This beauty may only have unicellular marine life, but given the age of the system, it hasn't had much time to evolve. Only about 400 million years old. It's also fairly cold, but my small understanding of stellar evolution is that the red dwarf will get hotter and allow it to support more life. It's almost exactly one earthmass.
Place	"Moon Cold ice world with life"
I didn't gave it any name yet, only number: EA4L-G35. Parameters of this world speaks for themselves. This wonderful, tropical terra is actually a moon, orbiting (along with 51 others) around huge gas giant. About 40% of it's surface is covered with ocean. Old, large impact craters (now mediterranean seas) tells us an interesting story about it's voilent past. There are no high, rocky mountains here, except for some great, lonely (but long dead) volcanoes, scaterred on it's surface. Btw, just look at these delicate, blue clouds in upper atmosphere!
Let's talk about night sky a little longer. There is a globular cluster nearby. It's apparent size is 1deg, 12' and it's brightness is around 2 mag. A noticable amount of young, blue stars can also be found relatively close to our system. One of them, O4 main sequence star is slightly over 13 pc away (top right corner). It has a magnitude of -5,97, so it's much brighter than our Venus, and can be clearly seen at daytime. This supernova candidate will probably go boom within next milion years. Gamma burst from this apocalyptic explosion can inflict a devastating damage to all lifeforms on the moon's surface. Another bright object (-2,62 mag) is an A7 main sequence star (binary), only 1,2 pc away.
This terra has some cool features, and unusual day/night cycle. It's tidaly locked, so gas giant is permanently visible from one of it's hemispheres. From there, every night is very bright. It's darkest at the beginning (and at the end) and gets progressively brighter until midnight. When gas giant is fully illuminated, and shadow of our terra is visible at the very centre of it's surface - we know there is a middle of the night!
Daytime is also quite interesting. In the middle of each day, sun will set behind gas giant for about 70 minutes, allowing you to see perfectly dark sky, so different from typically blue-ish nights!
Once per every 18 hours there is a moment, when moon is fully illuminated from both sides.
It looks really strange with my palette but i have to agree that it is rare.
This is weird. I don't use any mods, and my version of SE is 0.9.7.3.
I forgot to mention about something. Although this terra have mostly tropical climate, a vast areas around poles are covered with snow, and even (I think) a thin layer of ice. Those are not typical, kilometers thick ice caps, but even small glaciers looks great at sunset!


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Lonnie Jerome Blair (October 30, 1929 – January 27, 1992) was an American Negro league pitcher between 1947 and 1950.

A native of East Carnegie, Pennsylvania, Blair was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer Garnett Blair. He attended Allegheny Vocational High School and joined the Homestead Grays while still in high school in 1947, and went on to play for the club as a pitcher and second baseman through 1950. Blair died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1992 at age 62.

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1929 births
1992 deaths
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In an interview with Yahoo! Movie, the Russo brothers revealed a few minor details about Captain America 3. They shared that the sequel to the 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier blockbuster will take a few years after that movie. Which makes all kind of sense considering the time in between the films. So it is more or less happening in real-time.
They also go on to reveal that the complicated relationship between Cap and Bucky will also still be at play in the sequel. In addition, the political world that Cap finds himself in now will also be something he still has to deal with.
It was also revealed that the Russo brothers will be directing some episodes of the upcoming ABC series, Agent Carter. So if you enjoyed The Winter Soldier, then Agent Carter might be something you want to keep an eye on.


This ticket implements affine connections on infinitely differentiable manifolds (i.e. smooth manifolds) . This is a follow-up of #19092 within the [http://sagemanifolds.obspm.fr/ SageManifolds project] (see the metaticket #18528 for an overview). As in #19092, the non-discrete topological field K over which the smooth manifold is defined is generic, although in most applications, K='''R''' or K='''C'''.
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Music Review - 'Kieran Ridge and The Moonrakers' by Kieran Ridge(jh)
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Kieran Ridge is a singer-songwriter from the Boston area who is delivering is fourth album, but the first with this band, dubbed The Moonrakers. The previous releases carried the name Kiernan Ridge Band. One would guess this band hails from the Carolinas rather than Boston though, given the instrumentation of fiddles, mandolin, and banjo although they do have a drummer. Naturally their vintage sound owes more to Celtic and European folk than Appalachia but maintains a similar traditional feel. Kieran is the guitarist and lead vocalist, accompanied by Hannah Rose on fiddle, Liam Dailey on mandolin and banjo, Pat Hannafin on drums and percussion, and Michael Doughty on bass.
Ridge's weathered voice is a perfect match for these "old" sounding songs. Kicking off with "The Last One To Know," the listener feels as if transported to a front porch singalong where the bottle is passed around. The song, after all, mentions whiskey more than a few times and is driven principally, as are several, by Baker's fiddle such as the Celtic flavored "Killing Time." The tempo eases with the folk and three-part harmonies on "Somewhere On the Edge of Town," another with an Irish pub kind of singalong vibe. It's one of several traveling songs, followed in kind by "To Get Back Home," a slow blues-like stomper where he talks about boarding a train in Boston bound for New Orleans.
There's a loose, fiddle-driven country quality to "Straight to the Heart of Love" while "Three Sheets to the Wind, Five Miles From Home" basically conveys that we have no choice but to deal with fate's sometimes troubling hand. For his part, as he does throughout, he acts unfazed and carefree. "Fear of Flying" is a upbeat tune where his gleeful tone masks the frustration of dealing with an elusive relationship, a theme he carries into "You Drifting Heart," imbued by Dailey's mandolin. "Blind In Time" also nicely utilizes acoustic guitar picking as well as mandolin and more fiddling, and like "Somewhere on the Edge of Town," sounds like a coffee house kind of song where he could deliver it alone, accompanied by just his guitar.
"Wasted" is the lone rock n' roll song on them album, evoking to some extent, Dylan's work with fiddler Scarlet Rivera. This one, though carries a softer edge with vocal harmonies and no electric instruments. This is either a carefree man or one too messed up to care as the chorus exclaims, "If it rains, let the rain all down on me." The closing "Close Your Eyes" is a gentle quasi-lullaby, another in his theme of letting go of that which one cannot control.
The raw, loose quality of the album can allow for reflection and comfort, the same themes that Ridge is singing about in his straight-forward songs.
Jim Hynes is an independent contributor on music for several magazines, including Elmore and Country Standard Time. He has also written for Variety. He was a listener-supported public station(s) radio host for 25 years in CT, MI, NJ and PA. He is also a Live music host/Emcee at several national and regional venues.
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In November 2015 it was reported that two more Pioneer ACOs had exited the program, leaving 16 ACOs in total. The latest intelligence from CMS reveals an additional seven Pioneer ACOs are no longer participating in the program. This brings the number of remaining ACOs down to nine, in stark contrast to the 32 Pioneer ACOs originating from the outset of the program in 2012.
It has been no secret that Pioneer ACO requirements have been troubling for participants, spurring mass departures. Many of the ACOs generated savings but not enough to meet program benchmarks necessary to participate in shared savings. Additionally, several participants voiced concerns that risks of losses were disproportionate to the potential reward of achieving shared savings.
The advent of the Next Generation ACO Program, which builds off of experience from both the Pioneer and Medicare Shared Saving Programs, offers promise for both existing and prospective ACOs. Providers are already seeing the opportunities and enhanced incentives. Park Nicollet Health Services of Minnesota and Trinity Health ACO of Iowa, among others, have transitioned from the Pioneer to the Next Generation Program; additionally, a number of exited Pioneer ACO participants have considered pursuing Medicare's newest ACO model.
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Think about the word inspire—made up of in meaning internal and spire from the Greek word for breath. To inspire means to breathe life in. Inspiration is our connection to life itself. Without inspiration, we can't move forward and be better. To inspire others is to breathe life into them.
Many leaders talk about wanting to motivate their teams, but we prefer to use the word inspire. Why? Motivation is internal. You can do all kinds of things to tap into motivation, but if you have someone who doesn't have the talent for selling and you try to motivate them with financial incentives, it still won't work.
Motivating others is about your needs. It's about trying to get someone to do what you want them to do. Inspiration is about being in service to others, through giving them a valuable infusion of positive energy, of belief, of belonging, of connection to a greater purpose.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. exemplifies a "better with" leader. He did not change the world alone; he did so by creating powerful resonance in his followers, in the world at large, and even with his enemies. His values were clear, and his approach was appreciative, asking: how good could this world be?
How did he execute his leadership vision? How did he lead his legacy? He risked everything—ultimately even his life—for what he knew his community deserved and needed. He addressed the best in people—that which makes us put aside our anger—and he addressed the parts of us that understand that every human being is connected.
In the words of a consultant friend of mine, "Martin Luther King Jr. didn't say he had a strategic plan—he had a dream!" Think about that when you are attempting to inspire the people around you to strive for greatness.
You need not become a world famous orator to think about how inspiring a leader you can be. When you are deeply interested in making your organization and the world a better place, your passion will likely shine through in all your words and actions and inspire others—all your various stakeholders—to want to be better, too.
Take time to share your inspiration, and to watch it inspire others!


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Father of the Bride, The (1950): Minnelli's Hit Comedy Starring Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor
July 15, 2006 by EmanuelLevy
Producer Pandro Berman owned the screen rights to Edward Streeter's 1948 best-selling novel. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, who'd written The Pirate, worked on the script. The idea of doing a comedy based on a more realistic and contemporary setting appealed to Vincente Minnelli.
Minnelli knew instinctively that Spencer Tracy was ideal for playing the disgruntled father, and that casting Jack Benny would turn the comedy into a showcase of the usual Benny jokes. He persuaded Tracy that only he could give the role the necessary distinction and resonance.
Once Tracy was on board, the rest of the cast fell into place. Minnelli chose the young Liz Taylor as the young bride, and Joan Bennett as her chic mother. The two actresses looked alike physically, having similar coloring and complexion. Joan Bennett and Tracy had showed chemistry onscreen in earlier teamings, such as the melodrama "Me and My Gal."
A gentle satire of the nuptial rites of upper-middle class suburbia, Father of the Bride was a perfect film for a studio that celebrated the ideal American family under the guise of being typical. Berman hoped that Minnelli would bring to "Father of the Bride" the same charm and resonance that had marked "Meet Me in St. Louis." "Like Meet Me," "Father of the Bride" was a basically plotless film, but one with strong premise and several poignant vignettes. Delighted with the cast and script, Minnelli began shooting on January 16, 1950, and finished exactly a month and a day later. This was an extremely efficient shoot for a major MGM production. Minnelli credited John Alton, a veteran of B-pictures who used to work fast, for getting the texture right and doing it quickly.
There are significant similarities between "Meet Me" and "Father of the Bride." In both, a realistic domestic setting and family epiphanies give the films a more shapely structure. The Smiths and the Bankses alike are defined by upper middle-class existence. In both stories, the home is the arena where the important events happen, and in both, every family member plays a narrowly-defined role based on society's mores.
While Meet Me looks back nostalgically to the turn of the century as an age of stability, Father of the Bride is a Truman-era product that propagated a return to traditional family values after the War. No wonder, Father of the Bride became the prototype for TV sitcoms in the 1950s.
MGM labeled the Banks as a typical family, but there was an undertone of smugness and elitism to them. Though seemingly ordinary, the characters belong to a higher social scale than the average moviegoers at the time. Stanley Banks, or Pop, is the breadwinner, domesticated by the chic matron Ellie, who combines immaculate grooming with feminine practicality. Their teenaged sons, Tommy and Ben, play peripheral roles, and the family's favorite is clearly Kay, nicknamed Kitten. Kay wishes to replicate her mother's life, as if no changes occurred in women's roles since the 1940s.
Minnelli used Beverly Hills North Alpine Drive as a model for Everydale, USA, with white Colonial houses on a tree-lined street. Like most MGM movies, Father of Bride dilutes the more specifically Scarsdale tone of Streeter's book. It presents a suburban community as an exclusive enclave. In Kay's speech about the Dunstans, her in-laws, she says, "they're as good as you and Mom, which was meant to reassure audiences that they, too, were as legit and desirable as the Bankses.
The film shows middle-class weddings as occasions of ostentatious materialism. Stanley Banks asks, "What are people going to say when I'm in the gutter, because I tried to put on a wedding like a Roman emperor
The Bankses' social status suffers one blow after another. Buckley's folks, the Dunstans (played by Moroni Olsen and a Billie Burke), turn out to be more sophisticated than the Bankses assumed; they've got a white (rather than black) servant. And Ellie's dignity crumbles, when a snotty caterer (Leo G. Carroll) observes, little cakes and tea sandwiches is what we usually serve for children's parties."
The comedy's most vulnerable character is Stanley Banks, the benevolent patriarch, who's a quintessential Minnelli screen hero. Displaced, Stanley is thrust haplessly into situations he doesn't relish and can't control. The poignancy derives from Bankss series of humiliation–he loses his most cherished person and gets to pay for the privilege. Though Banks is the narrator, he lacks authorial power; in fact, hes the last person to know what's going on. Banks doesn't even know which suitor his daughter will marry.
Minnelli presents a montage of close-ups of a gallery of nerds types, a chinless egghead, a scowling radical, a rubber-jointed be-bopper (Spike Lee would borrow this montage for his parade of foolish man in She's Gotta Have It). The lucky one, Buckley (Don Taylor), is a bland and muscled man holding a tennis racquet.
Tracy's moral gravity and pragmatism were assets for the role, and it was refreshing to see him playing a victim for a change, the stoic who loses his dignity before collapsing. Tracy wasn't a light farceur, but he was good at projecting offhand details that humanize the character. At one point, he toys with a rice-filled show, as a he surveys the wreckage after the festivity. Tracy's grave gaze, gruff tone of narration, and under-acting stood in contrast to the high energy exhibited by most Hollywood comedy actors.
Minnelli imbues the whole comedy with disquieting undertones. Shot in black-and-white, the film has a shadowy texture. Stylistically, it qualifies as a suburban, comic film noir. More than half of film takes place at night, when the family succumbs to the worst nightmares a family could have, wedding bills, serious doubts about Kay's groom and their the in-laws, and arguments over just about any topic. In the end, however, as in most Metros films of the era, balance is restored. Kay calls before her honeymoon to thank her parents. The movie ends as it begins, showing Banks an exhausted man, sunk in his armchair amid the wreckage left by the party. "Nothing really changes, does it" He then takes his wife into his arms for a waltz, while the music plays "Goodnight, Sweetheart." The last shot is particularly impressive. Stanley and Ellie dance, while the fluid camera retreats from them in endless reverse dolly shots. The couple is framed from a distance, just as the couple at the ending of "The Clock." The camera pulls back through the length of the house and out the French windows into the dark garden.
Released in May, Father of the Bride became a smash hit, earning $4,150,000, thus becoming the years sixth top-grossing film. At Oscar time, the film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay, but Minnelli was denied directing nomination. Even so, after the failure of The Pirate, Father of the Bride was much needed proof of Minneli's commercial viability at Metro and a boost to his ego.
Stanley T. Banks (Spencer Tracy)
Ellie Banks (Joan Bennett)
Kay Dunstan (Elizabeth Taylor)
Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor)
Doris Dunstan (Billie Burke)
Herbert Dunstan (Moroni Olsen)
Mr. Massoula (Leo G. Carroll)
Delilah (Marietta Canty)
Melville Cooper (Mr. Tringle)
Warner (Taylor Holmes)
Tommy Banks (Rusty Tamblyn)
Ben Banks (Tom Irish)
Reverend Galsworthy (Paul Harvey)
Joe (Frank Orth)
Produced by Pandro S. Berman
Screenplay: Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, based on the book by Edward Streeter
Cinematography: John Alton
Art Direction: Cedric Gibson, Leonid Vasian
Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, associate Keogh Gleason
Music: Adolph Deutsch
Editing: Ferris Webster
Costumes: Helen Rose (women), Walter Plunkett (men)
Recording engineer: Douglas Shearer
Makeup: Jack Dawn
Hair stylist: Sydney Guilaroff


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'It's just something you do,' Some caregivers do not self-identify
Some cultures and/or individuals do not self-describe or identify themselves as caregivers.
'It's just something you do,' Some caregivers do not self-identify Some cultures and/or individuals do not self-describe or identify themselves as caregivers. Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/outreach/caring-communities/2019/01/23/caregivers-self-identity-role/2513762002/
Cheryl Makin, Bridgewater Courier News Published 4:00 a.m. ET Jan. 23, 2019 | Updated 6:32 p.m. ET Jan. 23, 2019
Currently, there is an estimated 1.75 million people in the state of New jersey providing varying degrees of uncompensated care to persons who are elderly or disabled and limited in their daily activities. Typically, these are relatives, such as sons or daughters caring for an aging parent. (Photo: ~Courtesy of Pexels)
For some, being a caregiver is not a title or label they would bestow upon themselves. Some cultures and/or individuals do not self-describe or identify themselves as caregivers. Rather, it is a familial expectation, complete with hierarchy, traditions and generations of caregiving.
Many who come from an Asian, Indian or African-American culture see caregiving as a loving duty. For others, it is simply family tradition — expected with no questions asked and none needed.
Whether culture or hereditary-driven, this caregiving experience is an expectation — as a member of the family, the position as such potentially entails being or becoming a caregiver for a relative in need at some point.
According to Serena Collado, director of Community Health at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, caregiving is expected in some cultures, with the younger take care of the elder, so they tend not to report themselves as a caregiver. At Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, there is a new Chinese Asian Indian program to help with these cultural aspects and issues, Collado said.
"There are some cultures that absolutely view it as family takes care of family," Collado said. "That's just the expectation. But not everyone feels that way, and again, there are still challenges. Actually, in some of those cultures, it's an insult if you actually would use subservices and not do it yourself. This also means that an extra burden is added — there's psychological, financial, physical and now, cultural. And it is tough. There is no universal answer to this challenge."
A natural role
According to a recent United Way study of 970 caregivers titled "Caregivers: A Community in Crisis" led by the Atlantic Center for Population Health Sciences, with research support from the College of Saint Elizabeth's Department of Psychology and in collaboration with the United Way of Norther New Jersey's Caregivers Coalition, caregivers are a community in crisis, often suffering from and neglecting their own mental and physical health ailments, as they put themselves last in their desire to care for another. Caregivers may feel stress, grief and other difficult emotions while providing care.
The study, which can be found at www.unitedwaynnj.org/caregiverhealth, was precipitated because of the many stories staff heard from caregivers themselves, said Carol DeGraw, director of Health Impact Area, United Way of Northern New Jersey.
These caregivers who do self-identify as culture or hereditary-driven are often better equipped to fulfill this role for various reasons, said Ashley Anglin, production director of the ALICE Project at United Way of Northern New Jersey and a former Atlantic Health researcher.
READ: Actor Rob Lowe: I was my sick mother's caregiver, don't underestimate the stress caregivers face
Ashley Anglin, production director of the ALICE Project at United Way of Northern New Jersey and a former Atlantic Health researcher, worked on a recent United Way study of 970 caregivers led by the Atlantic Center for Population Health Sciences, in collaboration with the United Way Caregivers Coalition, that found that caregivers are a community in crisis, often suffering from and neglecting their own mental and physical health ailments, as they put themselves last in their desire to care for another. (Photo: ~Courtesy of Ashley Anglin)
Not a caregiver, just something you do
According to Anglin, many caregivers who fall into this category truly do not see themselves as caregivers. For the United Way study, when asked "Do you identify as a caregiver?," some at first, did not. Rather, Anglin said these caregivers "never had seen themselves in that role because it was just something you do."
"The feeling that this was a role that they just came into naturally," Anglin said.
Responses were anonymous but Anglin shared a few responses. One United Way survey participant said they now identify as a caregiver, but only since attending therapy sessions.
"I didn't even realize this whole thing," the participant said. "It was when I was trying to get validation, that my therapist let me know that I was a caregiver."
"I expected this to some extent," said another participant in the United Way survey. "I remember my parents taking care of their parents. It's just part of our culture."
A third United Way survey participant "just saw" herself "as a good daughter."
"Not something special because it's just what you do in my family," she said. "But now I think it's important to say I'm a caregiver so I can get some help with all of this."
Anglin added that because the caregiver role was something familiar and previously witnessed in the family or culture, the negative impacts may still be there, but were lessened.
"When it came to that back and forth between accepting it and not accepting it which we saw in a lot of people, folks in that situation were at least accepting of the role," Anglin said. " We heard a lot of 'This is what happens, I kinda of know what to do' or 'I saw my grandmother take care my uncle who had special needs' or 'I saw my mother care for her elderly parents when they got older' and 'My aunt takes care of her neighbor.'"
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More: Caregivers endure greater financial, mental health risks
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Unreported, so unknown
Collado said caregivers are one of the most unreported statistics that exist.
"If you ask a parent, 'Are you a caregiver?,' they will say 'No.' But they are because they are taking care of kids," she said. "Similarly, if you ask a neighbor who runs their elderly neighbor to the bank every week, 'Are you considered a caregiver?' They probably would say 'No.' They just look at it as doing a good deed, but that by definition it is considered caregiving."
Lucile Deutsch, owner of LHD Elder Care Solutions and caregiver herself, believes many need to be "woken up to" the fact that they are caregivers.
"I've met so many sons and daughters over the years who say 'No, I'm not a caregiver, I just go food shopping for my mom and do her laundry or I'll run to the bank.' Those are caregiving activities," she said. "You are a caregiver if you are doing those things. People don't realize, they don't even self-identify as caregivers because they don't believe that what they are doing qualifies under the heading caregiver. But it does."
So often, many of the caregivers Crystal McDonald, assistant director - Advocacy at AARP, speaks with "don't want to sound like they are complaining."
"The person they are caring for did a lot to care for them," McDonald said. "They love them unconditionally. When they are telling their story, every other sentence is 'I don't want to complain.' Sometimes sharing their story is a relief and they find it a little nerve- wracking to recognize themselves that way."
Lorraine D'Sylva-Lee, mother of Aaliya, is one of 1.75 million New Jerseyans who are caregivers — a growing group who often sacrifice much in their own lives for their loved ones. (Photo: ~Courtesy of Lorraine D'Sylva-Lee)
Jacqueline Moskowitz, senior vice president of Resource Development at Family Resource Network, said when discussing the topic of caregiver identification, she is often reminded of a woman who was caring for both a parent and a child with disabilities.
"It was a lightbulb moment for her when she realized she was a caregiver," Moskowitz said. "It is a lightbulb moment even for those who are in the field."
Moskowitz is like many other "in the field" professionals who are now identifying with the population they are helping.
"My mom has always been so young and independent, and suddenly, she has some health issues. Now, I am calling her every day. And suddenly, I'm not ready for this and I have the tools," Moskowitz said. "It's really scary. When those roles reverse caring for a parent, it's tough. And I have three of my own children. I'm also starting to see some of my friends caring for a spouse. They are now caring for their husband because there was some tragedy. It's life-altering."
Accepting the role of caregiver
An estimated 1 in 5 Americans have provided unpaid care in the past 12 months. Nate Chute, USA Today Network
Anglin said those who may not have first identified as caregivers but had familial or cultural expectations have "a little more preparation."
"You can never be fully prepared, but there was more of 'I know what this is going to look like. I know what to expect good or bad,'" she said. "Whereas people who kind of fell into the role and/or hadn't seen that in the family have no preparation and can be caught off-guard by these issues. If they didn't have that background, they are more likely having trouble accepting that role."
Anglin is quick to add "that's not to say they are not going to do a good job, or that they can't do that role." More people in that category had more questions and were taken aback by the caregiving role they felt thrust into suddenly. The learning curve is bigger, she said.
"Because of that, we also saw a lot of the caregivers having a balance between hope and purpose, and anger, frustration and resentment in their role," Anglin said. "I think some of the folks thrown into it without seeing that modeled by their family or culture are more likely to be more frustrated or resentful of the person they are caring for whereas people who feel this is their role, feel more of a purpose. ... It doesn't mean they don't have the same responsibilities in terms or their jobs, their wages or their health because that is across the board regardless of culture and regardless of length of caregiving. It takes a toll, but they feel it is a more natural role for them. Those that said that, said it comes naturally, and when they say that they mean their culture and their family. It's part of their personality, but its also what they have seen modeled and part of their expectations."
Expanding awareness
Many organizations, agencies and institutions such as the United Way, AARP, Family Network and RWJBarnabas system are trying to reach out to expand awareness of the health impacts of caregiving as well as get those who identify with a particular culture or familial tradition.
Crystal McDonald, associate state director – Advocacy AARP New Jersey, said that there is going to be a huge increase in the number of people who are aging and a corresponding need for caregivers. (Photo: ~Courtesy of AARP New Jersey)
McDonald said the more the role of caregivers is publicized, the more caregivers will recognize themselves as such.
"There are a lot of caregiving groups and the more folks talk to each other about the experiences they are having as caregivers they really come to realize they are doing more than they realize," she said. "Part of doing this outreach is to let folks know they are not alone. And to help them see that it is not just your duty, not just helping your family, but overall helping the state (New Jersey) kinda keep it together (financially.) There is a bigger picture and you (the caregiver) are not the only one doing it."
There are so many caregivers in the state and we need to recognize the hard work that caregiving is, McDonald said.
"And let them feel validated," she said.
"I think there are potential solutions, potential opportunities and potential services for people to use, but again, cultural beliefs you may or may not change through education," Collado added. "We can't change belief."
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import pysmt.logics

from pysmt.walkers.identitydag import IdentityDagWalker
from pysmt.utils import all_assignments
from pysmt.exceptions import InternalSolverError

class QuantifierEliminator(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self._destroyed = False

    def eliminate_quantifiers(self, formula):
        """
        Returns a quantifier-free equivalent formula of the given
        formula

        If explicit_vars is specified, an explicit enumeration of all
        the possible models for such variables is computed and
        quantifier elimination is performed on each disjunct
        separately.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def __enter__(self):
        """ Manage entering a Context (i.e., with statement) """
        return self

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
        """ Manage exiting from Context (i.e., with statement)

        The default behaviour is to explicitely destroy the qelim to free
        the associated resources.
        """
        self.exit()

    def exit(self):
        """Destroys the solver and closes associated resources."""
        if not self._destroyed:
            self._exit()
            self._destroyed = True

    def _exit(self):
        """Destroys the solver and closes associated resources."""
        raise NotImplementedError

class ShannonQuantifierEliminator(QuantifierEliminator, IdentityDagWalker):
    """Quantifier Elimination using Shannon Expansion."""

    LOGICS = [pysmt.logics.BOOL]

    def __init__(self, environment, logic=None):
        IdentityDagWalker.__init__(self, env=environment)
        QuantifierEliminator.__init__(self)
        self.logic = logic

    def eliminate_quantifiers(self, formula):
        return self.walk(formula)

    def _assert_vars_boolean(self, var_set):
        for v in var_set:
            if not v.symbol_type().is_bool_type():
                raise InternalSolverError(
                    "Shannon Quantifier Elimination only supports "\
                    "quantification over Boolean variables: "\
                    "(%s is %s)" % (v, v.symbol_type()))

    def _expand(self, formula, args):
        """Returns the list of elements from the Shannon expansion."""
        qvars = formula.quantifier_vars()
        self._assert_vars_boolean(qvars)
        res = []
        f = args[0]
        for subs in all_assignments(qvars, self.env):
            res.append(f.substitute(subs))
        return res

    def walk_forall(self, formula, args, **kwargs):
        return self.mgr.And(self._expand(formula, args))

    def walk_exists(self, formula, args, **kwargs):
        return self.mgr.Or(self._expand(formula, args))

    def _exit(self):
        pass

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Tag: psychedelic
Out now: R A D K O, Bebe Fang, Monocorpse and The Untitled
Out now are the latest four releases on Enfant Terrible, Vrystaete and Gooiland Elektro.
On Gooiland Elektro Monocorpse and The Untitled have appeared. Monocorpse already with this third 12″ EP and The Untitled with his debut on Gooiland Elektro/Enfant Terrible. Of course The Untitled has released way more before on his own label and other labels… check out his harsh acid/techno music here…
Monocorpse delivers his finest (in my opinion) EP up till now… a strange mix of soundtrack and dance floor minded stuff… like always dark and moody… you can find all the infos and sound previews here… and check out a video for this record below…
R A D K O from Italo deliver their debut 7″ with two tracks which border new wave, cold wave, shoegaze and even indie music in some ways… there is a video below and all infos are to be found here…
On Vrystaete comes the Bebe Fang LP… a personal favourite of mine… a haunting mix of lo-fi, ambient, folklore, ritual and psychedelic music… something I would like to invite you to explore yourself… get a taste of it here…
Author djMPosted on February 11, 2018 Categories daily posts, labelTags acid, ambient, Bebe Fang, cold wave, doom, enfant terrible, folklore, Gooiland Elektro, indie, lo-fi, monocorpse, new wave, out now, psychedelic, RADKO, ritual, shoegaze, techno, The Untitled, vrystaete2 Comments on Out now: R A D K O, Bebe Fang, Monocorpse and The Untitled
Lend Me Your Underbelly (again)
I wrote before on Lend Me Your Underbelly… a Dutch one man band in love with psychedelic music… most of his work until now is with electric guitar with lots of effects and electronics… but there is a new album coming up with a more acoustic focus…
The title is quite fitting as this new album will be called "Campfire Ballads"… the songs are all quite long with a prominent acoustic guitar and some other acoustic instruments and electronics and effects on the side… so not 100% campfire tunes… only for the better in my opinion!
You could describe the sound of the album as lo-fi ambient folk but basically this psychedelic music… to keep it simple…
Below is a preview of one full track… the album will be out on the 22nd of February…
Author djMPosted on February 16, 2017 Categories daily postsTags ambient, folk, lend me your underbelly, lo-fi, psychedelic
A Casa and Gouffre
Sometime ago I wrote about Ensync… this was the second release in the "Synesthetic Alchemy" series by 213 Records from Metz, France. The first release was by A Casa… which is equally interesting as the Ensync record…
The A Casa album is a psychedelic record with on the A-side music with a sort of indie feeling and mood… a drum computer with a steady but light rhythm and on top of this playful sounds and dreamy vocals… a sort of stretch version of Kim Ki O maybe… the B-side is less friendly so to speak… the piece starts with a high pitched tone… which keeps going on quite long and gets more intense along the way… and more annoying (in a good way!)… this evolves into a dark and ritual sounding soundscape with noises and screams… a rather occult listening experience for sure… you can listen to the A-side here…
Out most recently in this series is the Gouffre album… a band from the hometown of the label… like A Casa the A and B sides differ… but not as strongly… on the A-side you get a band sounding like The Velvet Underground with John Cale on cello instead of on violin playing totally on dope and freaked out… imagine this and you might get an idea where Gouffre is coming from… whatever way you like to describe the music on this record the result is absolute amazing stuff… ritualistic and occult sounding but never dull or cliché… this could also fit for music while watching "Carnivale"…
The B-side is a band maybe more related to Sonic Youth as The Velvet Underground… but a Sonic Youth armed with cello instead of electric guitars and sounding a bit more archaic maybe… it also calls to mind France with its hurdy gurdy and drums… they produce the same psychedelic drone-like noise… here you can listen to the A-side…
This "Synesthetic Alchemy" series has become one of my favourite labels/series to follow… and a fourth release is coming soon… I cannot wait for that one… It is all simply excellent stuff until now!
In case you are curious I have a few copies of the Gouffre for sale in the webshop… and I think I have also some Ensync copies left…
Author djMPosted on January 29, 2017 January 29, 2017 Categories daily posts, mailorderTags 213 Records, A Casa, Carnivale, EnSync, France, Gouffre, Kim Ki O, Metz, noise, occult, psychedelic, sonic youth, The Velvet Underground
Zandvoort & Uilenbal
Just before Christmas I got a tape from Elektrovolt… it was a project he did with Legowelt under the alias of Zandvoort & Uilenbal… this project is all about the Harmonium… electronics and Harmonium that is… somewhat like the Ocean Floor album… oh they also use a Trautonium… something I never heard about before… which is an early electronic instrument… you should look it up on internet… it looks great!
This tape entitled "Geruis Uit Somberdorp" (something like "Murmur From Sadville" if translated) features music from a concert originally commissioned for Concertzender…
Rather liker Ocean Floor's album the music is a sort of ambient / drone / psychedelic soundscape kind of thing… simply great trippy and dreamy stuff… subtle electronics and a prominent Harmonium do the trick to get you into a trance like state… it is better to listen to this music as to write too much about it… so below is one of the pieces from the tape… the 12 minute long "De Ark Van Somberdorp"… just click "play" and close your eyes…
Author djMPosted on January 23, 2017 Categories daily postsTags ambient, concertzender, drone, Elektrovolt, harmonium, Legowelt, Ocean Floor, psychedelic, tape
Lend Me Your Underbelly
Dutch one-man-band Lend Me Your Underbelly released his third album some time ago… the new record is entitled "The Edge of a Curious Wilderness"… Armed with guitar, effects and electronics Lend Me Your Underbelly creates droney soundscapes and noise pieces… all rather psychedelic and this time also quite dark and haunting… below are the two tracks I like the best from this album… but the complete record is worth checking out for sure!
Author djMPosted on December 4, 2016 Categories daily postsTags lend me your underbelly, noise, psychedelic, soundscapes


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Q: What are the differences between different releases of Ubuntu? For example, what is the difference between Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 LTS? What are some major/minor changes between the two versions?

A: I'd recommend consulting the release notes page which can be found here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes

A: Besides the official release notes in Histo's answer, Wikipedia also has an article listing all of the different Ubuntu releases, screenshots of each, mentions of major new features and changes, and tables listing each release's life span and certain package version numbers. This can be useful for seeing more of Ubuntu's historical highlights at a glance.
The article can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases

A: This doesn't quite answer the question, but in future I'd recommending reading OMG!Ubuntu because all the major changes are written about before the next release, and the articles are very well written. The articles about specific releases are tagged using the release codename, for example http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/tag/quantal has news about

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MARMOREALFORMATS + FINISHESHOW TO BUYCASE STUDIESSTORYPROCESSESSAY
MARMOREAL IS AN ENGINEERED MARBLE FOR ARCHITECTURAL SURFACES DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BRITISH DESIGNER MAX LAMB.
Marmoreal is offered in two colourways, one with a white background, and the other black. Each version is composed of four classical Italian marbles and is a material exploration that celebrates the individual qualities of these stones while acknowledging that their combination leads to something even more compelling. Suitable for interior architectural surfaces, this large-aggregate, pre-cast marble terrazzo offers an original material language with strong visual values. It skilfully balances a fifteenth-century craft tradition with modern engineered-stone technologies. The word 'marmoreal' means 'marble-like'; this Marmoreal is composed of approximately 95 percent marble and 5 percent polyester resin binders.
FORMATS + FINISHES
Marmoreal is available in a range of standard dimensions and finishes that suit the randomness of the material yet give the impression of a continuous surface. The smaller 300 ✕ 300mm tiles provide the flexibility to install in small spaces in a consistent grid. The generous 600 ✕ 600mm tiles and 3050 ✕ 1240mm slabs allow greater opportunities for customisation. Blocks measuring 3050 ✕ 1240 ✕ 850mm are available on special request. We offer a honed finish, which gives a perfectly matte, natural expression of the marbles, or a polished finish, which gives a more saturated, reflective surface.
MARMOREAL WHITE TILES IN TWO SIZES, 600 ✕ 600MM AND 300 ✕ 300MM.
Marmoreal White Slab, 3000 ✕ 1200mm.
TILE 300 ✕ 300mm 20mm / 30mm Honed/Polished
SLAB 3050 ✕ 1240mm 20mm / 30mm Honed/Polished
Marmoreal tiles and slabs are made to order. Production lead time is typically 4 weeks. Clients in the Greater London area can often have a reduced lead time. Please contact us directly for details and availability.
We ship worldwide direct from our factory in Italy. Transport times depend on destination and method of shipping selected. Sea, road and air freight options are available. Once you have specified material quantity and final destination, we will source multiple quotes and pass along the option that best suits your needs and budget.
SLAB: Marmoreal slabs measure 3050 ✕ 1240mm with a finished usable area of ±3000 ✕ ±1200mm and thicknesses of either 20mm or 30mm. We advise use of 30mm slab for work surfaces and 20mm for walls, cladding and floors. We do not sell partial slabs or fabricate custom slab sizes on a per project basis. This work would be carried out by a local tradesperson, likely a stone fabricator. We advise working with such a fabricator or architect to ensure calculations on material are correct for your project and to account for any overages necessitated by the design or installation of your project.
TILES: Tiles are available in 20mm and 30mm thicknesses and custom sized tiles are also available upon request. We advise a 10% contingency on top of the minimum quantity needed to account for any errors that arise during installation such as accidental breakage and to preempt any unforeseen circumstances that may present themselves.
Please contact us for enquiries about bespoke projects and items including alternative thicknesses for slabs and tiles and custom furniture.
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NEW YORK APARTMENT
BATHROOM FOR A NEW YORK APARTMENT
Residential, New York MOS Architects, Chamber Marmoreal Black slabs, 2cm thickness, honed finish Photo, Lauren Coleman
BATHROOM USING 60x60cm TILES
Bathroom using white 60x60cm tiles in NYC.
Residential, New York RP Miller Marmoreal White tiles, 60 x 60 x 2 cm, honed finish Marmoreal Slab Basin, Medicine Cabinet and Toilet Paper Holder Photo, Brian W. Ferry
We were curious to see what kind of stone Max would create, how his rational approach to furniture design would translate in material design and if he would work differently with a stone he creates opposed to one he takes from the earth.
Marmoreal by max lamb. Installation for Salone Del Mobile 2014.
Lamb's ongoing Quarry series was the starting point for our collaboration with him. These sculptural works are characterized by their raw appearance, generous scale and honestly celebrate the qualities of a given stone's natural shape, texture, and even its historical context.
We researched different man-made stone technologies and assessed which processes provided the most opportunity to achieve a desired result. A thorough survey of the existing products, past and present, was conducted to ensure originality.
DeLank Cornish Granite used by Lamb in the design of a chair and side table.
Approach to working with stone as it appears in Max Lamb's China Granite Project.
Investigating the thousands of pre-cast terrazzo and agglomerated stone recipes in existence.
Agglomerated stone recipe archive.
Archive image of an early precast terrazzo production from 1965.
After settling on making a precast terrazzo, extensive compositional studies followed and Lamb arrived at the idea of using large marble rocks as the bulk of the recipe to emphasize the inherent stoniness of human-made stone. This approach is in contrast to the typically small, speckled pieces of aggregate typical of terrazzo.
Conceiving the Marmoreal composition.
Marmoreal composition work.
An early Marmoreal concept sketch by Max Lamb.
Italian marbles turned into Marmoreal. Giallo Mori, Verde Alpi and Rosso Verona.
Rosso Verona, Giallo Mori, and Verde Alpi are the three Italian marbles featured in Marmoreal. Bianco Verona is used to create the white-background version, and Grigio Carnico is used for the black-background version. All of these marbles are natural materials and thus vary from batch to batch. The variations are part of the inherent beauty of natural stone and ensure that each piece of Marmoreal is entirely unique.
Rosso Verona, a red nodular limestone of the Jurassic period from northern Italy, is the prevailing stone in much of Veronese classical architecture. The entire city of Verona feels as if it is made from it. Its visual quality is the most predictable of the three featured stones, with colours ranging from earthy reds like dry clay to more saturated brownish reds characterised by fine circular patterns and stylolitic veins.
Giallo Mori is a bright, ochre-yellow marble from Trentino-Alto Adige, with both light and dark veins and the occasional small white quartz patches. The colour can range from pale yellow to dark Dijon mustard. The texture is often flat but can sometimes contain small white speckles that resemble a mass of microbes.
Rosso Verona Aggregates.
GIallo Mori aggregates.
Verdi Alpi aggregates.
The various particle sizes of Biancone marble used in the background of the white variant.
Weighing the ingredients that go into a block production.
Verde Alpi is a traditional marble from Valle d'Aosta, known for its intense green colour and contrasting white quartz veins. The most varied of the three marbles, its particles can have a high quartz content, making the stone a glassy white or emerald green, or an absence of quartz, making it nearly black.
Bianco Verona makes up the background matrix for Marmoreal White. This traditional Veronese marble is characterised by its opacity and textural flatness, perfect attributes to serve as a canvas for the three primary marbles. Bianco Verona can vary in colour from off-white to cream, pink, or grey. In the Marmoreal development phase, it became clear that this stone provided better contrast than its more famous counterparts, Carrara and Botticino.
Grigio Carnico is the background for Marmoreal Black. This dark grey to black limestone from Alpi Carniche contains some pronounced white and grey veining, but on the smaller scale used to create a matrix, these qualities are homogenised and give the appearance of a galactic scenescape.
Mixing marble powder, resin and the larger stones to make a marble slurry that is then cast and cut into Marmoreal.
Cast blocks cure in the yard for two weeks before cutting them into slabs.
Marmoreal being cast into blocks.
Machinery used to cut slabs.
Tile cutting process.
Terrazzo's sustainable roots date back to fifteenth-century Venice, where craftspeople used waste materials — for instance local stone off-cuts and chips from the construction of palazzos — to make decorative mosaic-like flooring solutions. Eventually they began introducing glass, metals, and even concrete, all while consistently using local-material waste. Marmoreal acknowledges this history by using waste stone from Italian quarries, most of it locally sourced.
Quarry where Biancone marble is sourced.
Archive image of early twentieth-century terrazzo making.
Rosso Sant'Ambrogio dimension quarry where we source the Rosso Verona aggregates.
Marmoreal:
Rebellious Child of the Terrazzo Family
by Vicky Richardson
The Royal Institute of British Architects in central London turns out to be a good place to start researching this article on Marmoreal. Its library has no books that can help me, but the Art Deco entrance hall features a spectacular terrazzo floor, and the material wraps around the interiors of WCs and corridors. Marmoreal is a variety of terrazzo with its own unique design and manufacturing process. Developed and produced by Dzek in collaboration with the British designer Max Lamb in 2014, Marmoreal is a product of our times in both the aesthetic and the technological sense—although it could not exist without the tradition of terrazzo, which dates back to the fifteenth century.
The RIBA headquarters was completed in 1934 to a design by the British architect George Grey Wornum. Strongly influenced by Scandinavian Functional- ism, particularly Gunnar Asplund's Stockholm City Library, its use of terrazzo is a great example of the revival of the material as a fashionable, decorative finish in the 1930s. The interiors were designed in collaboration with artists and craftspeople and feature materials and motifs from around the world, reflecting RIBA's desire to represent the profession internationally. Although the building was highly experimental in its use of materials, it was constructed during an economic downturn and the budget was tight. Terrazzo would have been understood as a fashionable but hard-wearing and cost-effective choice of finish.
It's thought that terrazzo was first developed as a flooring material in Italy in the fifteenth century, when mosaic craftspeople working with marble realised that the disused chips of material, when trodden into the ground, became a resilient surface. Palladio used a variety of terrazzo in villas in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy, which perhaps led to the naming of a variety of terrazzo with larger chunks of marble as Palladiano.
In the twentieth century terrazzo was revived at moments when architectural style embraced decoration. It was used widely in public buildings such as hospitals and civic centres, as it is durable and easy to clean but still carries an air of grandeur and an association with European style. The Italianate Ironmonger Row swimming baths in London's Clerkenwell (1931), where terrazzo was used for floors and partitions, is a good example. The building was beautifully restored by Tim Ronalds Architects in 2012, and both precast and in-situ terrazzo were used for floors and walls in the reception and main staircase.
Terrazzo became fashionable again in the 1950s at the start of the post-war boom, and yet again in the 1980s in part as a reaction against the utilitarianism of Modernism. In 1982 the Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata came up with the idea of using shards of coloured glass instead of stone in a type of terrazzo he named Star Piece. He went on to use the highly polished, glittery material for an entire interior at Design Gallery 1953 in Tokyo and for the Issey Miyake store in Ginza. The effect was a speckled pattern that appeared to flatten three-dimensional objects and spaces. Kuramata described it as 'the debris of meaning'. In 1983 the designer joined forces with the Italian design collective Memphis to produce a series of tables (Nara, Tokyo, and Kyoto) using Star Piece terrazzo; and later he translated the material into a graphic pattern that was applied to fabric and other surfaces, including packaging for the perfume L'Eau d'Issey in 1990.
As a means of extending its ideas into print, in 1988, Memphis founder Ettore Sottsass and his wife, the design critic Barbara Radice, founded a biannual magazine named after one of their favourite materials: Terrazzo. Radice wrote in her first editorial that the word, with its dual meaning—'terrace' or 'place of encounter' in Italian, and 'mosaic flooring' in English—expressed the 'idea of hardness of stone, of building and also the idea of leisure suggested in English by the multi-coloured pleasantness of the material'. 'Names', she continued, 'always carry with them a magic aura, a mysterious power. I like to think that Terrazzo can call forth the sum of both meanings in the two languages and be enhanced by the qualities.'
The meaning of the word 'marmoreal' is 'marble-like', and in Italian it refers to things that look like marble but are not actually made from it. Although it is born of a very different impetus and era, Marmoreal captures something of the joyful spirit of Memphis. It celebrates the natural quality of marble and relishes its multi-coloured variations. Four types and colours of marble are used in Marmoreal: green Verde Alpi, ochre-yellow Giallo Mori, and red Rosso Verona are set into either a white Bianco Verona or a black Grigio Carnico. But the material is not just a version of terrazzo. It brings a contemporary array of associations, and uses new techniques in its manufacturing. Conceived and designed by Max Lamb, a designer who has dedicated himself to exploring materials in a practical and artistic sense since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006, Marmoreal celebrates the 'stoniness of stone'.
Lamb first worked with stone in 2007, when he carved a chair from limestone quarried in the north of England (the Ladycross Sandstone Chair). He has since explored the geological and material properties of different stones while on res- idencies in many parts of the world, including China, Russia, and Ireland. Lamb conceived Marmoreal as a variety of terrazzo that uses large chunks of historically important Italian marble, showing his appreciation for the colours and natural patterning. The aggregates in Marmoreal are not only unusually large, but also carefully composed according to a 'recipe'. As Lamb explains, 'It is the aggregate size in relation to the background matrix that gives Marmoreal its graphic quality and its performance as an engineered material.'
Alongside developing Marmoreal as a material for architects and designers to play with, Lamb has used it for his own series of architectonic furniture and sanitaryware. To be consistent with the sustainable philosophy of Marmoreal, the furniture uses only standard-dimension slabs and tiles in order to reduce waste. These pieces look particularly striking within a setting of Marmoreal walls and floors and take the 'all-over' aesthetic to an extreme, an approach that Dzek founder Brent Dzekciorius describes as a minimal maximalist Gesamtkunstwerk. The furniture pieces also demonstrate the essential quality of Marmoreal as an engineered, mass-produced material that can be used to create unique one-offs, each with a slightly different 'slice' of stone.
Lamb's furniture and the growing catalogue of interiors where Marmoreal has been used as a surface material (private residences, retail environments, public spaces) demonstrate its versatility and style. Historic twentieth-century examples of terrazzo continue to be lovingly cared for by their owners, not simply because they are hard-wearing and practical but because they contribute something unique to the character of the architecture. Its sustainable engineering and simple, cost- effective format make Marmoreal a pragmatic choice. But aesthetically, its expressive chunks of coloured marble render Marmoreal the rebellious, artistic child of the terrazzo family.