Created at the tail end of the Victorian era, Sexton Blake rapidly became one of the most popular fictional characters of the 20th Century. He featured in thousands of adventure stories written by more than two hundred authors and published in countless story papers, magazines and comics. He also appeared in stage plays, radio dramas, movies and television serials. One of the most written about characters in the English language, he was once a household name and a publishing phenomenon.This book contains a selection of the finest stories from this vast output, edited by George Mann with an introduction by Blake aficionado Michael Moorcock.


3So Peter and the other disciple set out and made their way to the tomb.
4They ran together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.
5He peered in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not enter.
7and the napkin which had been round his head, not with the wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
9until then they had not understood the scriptures, which showed that he must rise from the dead.
12and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
14With these words she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not recognize him.
16Jesus said, "Mary!" She turned and said to him, "Rabbuni!" (which is Hebrew for "Teacher").
18Mary of Magdala went to tell the disciples. "I have seen the Lord!" she said, and gave them his message.
20then he showed them his hands and his side. On seeing the Lord the disciples were overjoyed.
22Then he breathed on them, saying, "Receive the Holy Spirit!
24One of the Twelve, Thomas the Twin, was not with the rest when Jesus came.
30There were indeed many other signs that Jesus performed in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
31Those written here have been recorded in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this faith you may have life by his name.


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Off to join the circus: A history of the big top in photos
By Elizabeth Pierson 2015-05-10 21:38:50 UTC
When Philip Astley started the first circus in England in 1768, he used the ring to exhibit his horse tricks, with a few jugglers, acrobats and clowns on the side. Circuses grew from a small traveling show to a three ring affair in 1881, when P. T. Barnum debuted P.T. Barnum's Museum, Menagerie & Circus, which featured many different acts and the world's largest elephant. When Barnum died in 1906, the Ringling Brothers bought the Barnum & Bailey Circus and merged it with their own popular circus, which still tours today.
Though the circus has taken many different forms, the magic under the big top has delighted crowds has delighted for years.
Circus History
An elephant performs in the Bouglione Circus, a winter circus in Paris, France in 2005.
Image: Owen Franken/Corbis
A crowd in front of the main entrance to the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Image: Corbis
Chinese acrobats perform during the 13th China Wuqiao International Circus Festival in Shijiazhuang, China in 2011. More than 200 acrobats from 17 countries and regions take part in performance as well as competition during the nine-day festival starting on Saturday. The festival is named after the province's Wuqiao County, the famous birthplace of acrobatics.
Image: Xinhua/Yang Shiyao/Corbis
Kids peek into the circus at the Ladywell Park in South London in June 1943.
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An artist of the Molier Circus performs in France in 1900.
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A circus kneeling man clown and female acrobat sit outside of a circus tent in 1970.
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P. T. Barnum, circus producer, stands next to a table on which Charles Stratton, a dwarf who came to be known as Tom Thumb, stands. Barnum hired Stratton at the age of five and Stratton became the first major attraction the circus owner promoted.
Circus artists perform in France in 1890.
A tiger in cage plays saxophone for a crowd in Los Angeles, California.
Tents set up for a circus for Charente Maritime in St Palais sur mer in July 2008.
Image: Francis Leroy/Hemis/Corbis
An animal trainer with Bostock's Trained Animals poses with his performing lions in 1903.
Acrobats perform at the annual International Circus Festival of Tomorrow at Paris' Pelouse de Reuilly in 2008, where attendees are offered the chance to catch the world's finest circuses under one roof.
Image: Jean Marmeisse/Corbis
The Russian Moscow Great Circus gives its brilliant performance to Chinese spectators during its 2009 China Tour in Wenzhou, China.
Image: ZHENG PENG/Xinhua Press/Corbis
The 5 brothers of the Ringling family started a circus show in 1901.
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Circus performers march down a street in 1952 in a scene from Cecil B. DeMille's circus classic The Greatest Show On Earth.
Image: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
Members of the Zoppe Bareback riding troupe put the finishing touches to their act at the dress rehearsal of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden in April 1950.
Topics: animals, circus, History, Photo Stories, Photography, ringling bros. elephants, shows, U.S., Culture

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Internet2 (I2) o UCAID (University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development) es un consorcio sin ánimo de lucro que desarrolla aplicaciones y tecnologías de redes avanzadas, la mayoría para transferir información a alta velocidad. El consorcio Internet2 opera la Red Internet2, una red telemática desarrollada principalmente por universidades estadounidenses que utiliza fibra óptica y provee servicios de red para la investigación y la educación, otorgando una red de prueba segura y un ambiente de investigación. A finales de 2007, Internet2 comenzó a operar su más reciente Red de Circuito Dinámico (DCN), el Internet2 DCN, una tecnología avanzada que permite la asignación de circuitos de datos en la red de fibra óptica basándose en el usuario.

La comunidad de Internet2 desarrolla e implementa tecnologías de red para el futuro de Internet. Estas tecnologías incluyen herramientas para la medición y gestión del rendimiento de redes de gran escala, identidad segura y herramientas para la gestión de accesos, así como capacidades para agendar circuitos de alto rendimiento y gran ancho de banda. Actualmente está formada por 212 universidades de Estados Unidos y otras 60 compañías tecnológicas como Comcast, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems y Cisco Systems. Algunas de las tecnologías que han desarrollado han sido IPv6, IP Multicast y Calidad de Servicio (QoS).

Los miembros de Internet2 participan en varios consejos consultivos, colaboran en una variedad de grupos de trabajo y grupos de intereses especiales, se reúnen en encuentros de primavera y otoño, y son estimulados para participar en procesos de planificación estratégica.

Historia
A medida que Internet fue ganando reconocimiento público y popularidad, las universidades fueron las primeras instituciones en sobrepasar las limitaciones del ancho de banda de internet debido a los requisitos de transferencia de datos enfrentados por los investigadores académicos que necesitaban colaborar con sus colegas. Algunas universidades quisieron dar soporte a aplicaciones de alto rendimiento, como las utilizadas en la minería de datos, en procesamiento de imágenes médicas o física de partículas. El resultado fue la creación de un Servicio de Backbone de Red de Muy Alto Rendimiento (o vBNS, por su sigla en inglés), desarrollado en 1995 por Andrés Arisa y la MCI, creado para las supercomputadoras de las instituciones educativas. Tras la expiración del acuerdo con la NSF, vBNS cambió hacia la provisión de servicios al gobierno estadounidense. Como resultado, la comunidad educativa y de investigación creó Internet2 para satisfacer sus necesidades de red.

El Proyecto Internet2 fue establecido en 1996 por investigadores de 34 universidades bajo el auspicio de EDUCOM (renombrado después a EDUCAUSE), y fue organizada formalmente como la Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet Avanzado (UCAID) en 1997. Posteriormente su nombre fue modificado a Internet2. Internet2 es una marca registrada. La sede central del Consorcio Internet2 se encuentra ubicada en Michigan, Estados Unidos, y posee oficinas en Washington D.C.

La comunidad Internet2, en colaboración con Qwest, construyeron la primera red de Internet2, llamada Abilene, en 1998, y fue un inversor inicial en el proyecto National LambdaRail (NLR). Entre 2004 y 2006, Internet2 y NLR mantuvieron discusiones extensivas sobre una posible fusión. Las conversaciones fueron suspendidas definitivamente en 2007.

En 2006, Internet2 anunció un contrato de colaboración con Level 3 Communications para lanzar una nueva red de alcance nacional, aumentando la capacidad de 10 Gbits/s a 100 Gbits/s. En octubre de 2007, Internet2 retiró oficialmente a Abilene y actualmente se refiere a su red de alta velocidad como la Red Internet2.

Objetivos
Internet2 provee a las comunidades educativas y de investigación, de Estados Unidos, con una red que satisface sus requisitos intensivos de ancho de banda. La red en sí misma es dinámica, robusta y con un costo-eficiente de combinación entre red óptica y paquetes de red. Provee un enlace troncal de red de unos 100 GBits/s a más de 210 instituciones educativas, 70 corporaciones y 45 agencias gubernamentales y organizaciones sin fines de lucro en los EE. UU.
Los objetivos de Internet2 son:
 Desarrollar y mantener una red vanguardia .
 Explotar completamente las capacidades de conexiones de banda ancha a través del uso de aplicaciones de nueva generación.
 Transferir nuevos servicios de red y aplicaciones a todos los niveles de uso educacional, y eventualmente a toda la comunidad de internet.

El uso de la red varía desde aplicaciones colaborativas, experimentos de investigación distribuidos y análisis de datos basados en grillas o matrices hasta redes sociales. Algunas de estas aplicaciones se encuentran en diferentes niveles de comercialización, como IPv6, middleware open-source para acceso seguro a redes, VPN's de capa 2 y redes de circuitos dinámicos.

Características
Las velocidades mínimas son:
 622 Mbit/s para un miembro de I2 (universidades y socios).
 50 Mbit/s para un usuario particular.

La principal finalidad de Internet 2 es la de proporcionar un ancho de banda fiable con el fin de poder brindar servicio a las comunidades de investigación y educación, un servicio que cada vez era más exigente. A día de hoy, Internet 2 es una organización sin ánimo de lucro cuya red es utilizada principalmente por comunidades de investigación y educación, por empresas y por el gobierno de Estados Unidos. En enero de 2016, esta red está formada por más de 1000 miembros.

Ésta red es capaz de ofrecer un ancho de banda de hasta 400Gbps, opera en la capa 3 de Internet y utiliza una serie de routers Juniper para establecer conexiones de 10Gbps entre los 9 nodos principales de la red. También se han establecido conexiones de hasta 100Gpbs entre los nodos más críticos.

La enseñanza, el aprendizaje e investigación, en colaboración, pueden requerir interconexión y altas conexiones de banda ancha en tiempo real. La infraestructura básica de Internet2 soporta esas aplicaciones, conocidas como Learning–ware. También han desarrollado otras aplicaciones para entornos de alta velocidad como los laboratorios virtuales (LAV), la telemedicina y la teleinmersión.

Para conectarse a Internet2 necesitas que tu red de alta velocidad esté conectada a un GigaPop de Internet2; también puedes conectarte a través de Internet usando un backbone. Aunque existen muchas similitudes con Internet, la nueva red no penetrante.

El uso de Internet como herramienta educativa y de investigación científica ha crecido aceleradamente debido a la ventaja que representa el poder acceder a grandes bases de datos, la capacidad de compartir información entre colegas y facilitar la coordinación de grupos de trabajo.

Internet 2 es una red de cómputo con capacidades avanzadas separada de la Internet comercial actual. Su origen se basa en el espíritu de colaboración entre las universidades del país y su objetivo principal es desarrollar la próxima generación de aplicaciones telemáticas para facilitar las misiones de investigación y educación de las universidades, además de ayudar en la formación de personal capacitado en el uso y manejo de redes avanzadas de cómputo.

Algunas de las aplicaciones en desarrollo dentro del proyecto de Internet 2 a nivel internacional son: telemedicina, bibliotecas digitales, laboratorios virtuales, manipulación a distancia y visualización de modelos 3D; aplicaciones todas ellas que no serían posibles de desarrollar con la tecnología del Internet de hoy.

En los Estados Unidos el proyecto que lidera este desarrollo es Internet2, en Canadá el proyecto CA*net3, en Europa los proyectos TEN-155 y GEANT, y en Asia el proyecto APAN. Adicionalmente, todas estas redes están conectadas entre sí, formando una gran red avanzada de alta velocidad de alcance mundial.

En Latinoamérica, las redes académicas de México CUDI, Brasil, Argentina RETINA y Chile REUNA ya se han integrado a Internet2.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web de Internet2 (en inglés)
 Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet - Steve Watson

Historia de Internet
Organizaciones fundadas en 1997
Organizaciones no gubernamentales de Estados Unidos
Ciencia y tecnología de Estados Unidos

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Infosys awardee Professor Suman Chakraborty from IIT, Kharagpur brings affordable diagnostic technologies for remote, resource constrained areas
New Delhi. : A slew of technologies by Professor Suman Chakraborty, who recently received the Infosys prize, along with his group, are helping community health-workers deliver healthcare-support to last-mile populations. Their initiative has been specially triggered by the recent pandemic.
A Nucleic-Acid Based Rapid Diagnostic Test for infectious disease detection called COVIRAP they have developed is a substitute for the resource-intensive RT-PCR for testing of infectious diseases. The technology has been transferred to several companies and organizations. It can be used for any infectious disease detection by suitably customizing and preprogramming the device as per the specific test protocol, with no need of changing the hardware.
Diagnostics with Finger-Prick Blood on Paper Strip, an ultra-low-cost, rapid extreme point-of-care device can quantitatively measure plasma glucose, hemoglobin, creatinine, and lipid profile from finger-prick blood collected on a paper-strip via a smartphone-based app. Just like how a credit card interfaces with a card reader, the paper strip interfaces with a hand-held device for getting the test results. This can be used for mass screening of several non-communicable diseases at the grass root level.
A low-cost portable hand-held imaging device for early screening of oral cancer on the basis of measured changes in the blood flow rate of the tissue from thermal imaging and analytics has been developed by the group. It does not require any clinical infrastructure. This portable device can be used for early risk assessment and categorization of the stages of oral cancer and this method can be extended to other forms of cancer. The device has successfully passed Phase-I clinical trial and has entered into field trial mode.
They have also developed a portable spinning disc capable of testing several body fluid-based diagnostic parameters from a single drop. The technology for measuring Complete Blood Count (CBC) using this platform, was designed and validated. An electrochemical sensor has been integrated for reading out the test results. It is designed to be a substitute of the laboratory centrifuge for diagnostic testing.
The group has developed a folded paper-kit for evaluating antibiotic resistance, which is a growing challenge. The kit helps assess the susceptibility of the bacteria to a medicine, simply by tracking the color changes at marked test-spots on it. In this way, within 3-4 hours, a recommendation on the efficacy of specific drugs for killing the bacteria may be arrived at, facilitating life-saving timely clinical decision making.
A reagent-free anemia detection technology they have developed harnesses on the fact that blood forms unique patterns while spreading on a moist paper strip. The pattern carries the signature of the red blood cell contents in a manner that those for anemic and normal patients may be classified and interpreted to be grossly different when analyzed via a custom-made image-analytics App. This can quickly classify at-risk patients needing emergent blood transfusion or other life saving measures.
Professor Chakraborty, a J C Bose National Fellow of Science and Engineering Research Broad (SERB), an attached institute of the Department and Science and Technology (DST), along with his group trained a large numbers of rural women to work as an interface between the patient, 'remote' doctor and the invented frugal diagnostic-technologies, enabling sustainable livelihood in the process. In addition, the empowerments of micro-small-and medium scale enterprises towards participating in manufacturing the most technologically advanced yet deceptively simple medical products have opened up a new paradigm of employment generation under difficult circumstances.
From Lab to the Field – Providing a sustainable ecosystem
Prof. Suman Chakraborty (suman@mech.iitkgp.ac.in), WhatsApp: +91-9831402939
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A formidable new book.... Provides a galaxy of challenging thought.... Gunkel does a fine job of lucid and concise exposition.
A thought-provoking look at the most interesting question in robot ethics: Can intelligent machines ever be considered as persons? The investigation is an impressively deep dive, drawing from many philosophical schools of thought.
Technological advances may prompt us to wonder if the science fiction of computers and robots whose actions affect their human companions (think of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey) could become science fact. Gunkel's argument promises to influence future considerations of ethics, ourselves, and the other entities who inhabit this world.
Gunkel's deconstruction is a tour de force that largely succeeds in getting us to 'think otherwise'. His argument that machines have always been the excluded other is convincing.... Gunkel engages the thinking of both 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers, which I believe is a virtue.... The book is an original contribution to the field and likely to have wide reverberations... careful and remarkably comprehensive.
There is something right about Gunkel's recognition that one can hardly consider the questions of machine morality without being led to more fundamental methodological and meta-ethical issues.... He nevertheless succeeded in connecting the ethics of robots and AI to a much broader ethical discussion than has been represented in the literature on machine ethics to date.
This controversial and thought-provoking book is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy of technology and in discussions on artificial intelligence and ethics of information and communication technology. The unprecedented value of the book is that Gunkel not only analyzes important aspects of the immediate problem but also that he places his discussion in the context of philosophical discussions on such related issues as rights discourse. Maybe some day the moral status of machines will be obvious for all of us, but for the present Gunkel's book provides an important voice for discussion on the moral status of machines.
From the opening pages, The Machine Question is a delightful melange of graduate philosophy seminars, solemn debates at science fiction conventions, and weighty discussions over drinks in dimly-lit pubs. It is delightful mainly because such diversity of approach, content, and examples is too rarely found in an academic publication...Gunkel's book is worth reading and will likely find a place in courses dealing with the problems reflected in its title.
This book is essential reading for philosophers interested in AI, robot ethics, or animal ethics.
Readers would do well to first read David Gunkel's The Machine Question in order to introduce themselves to the complex field of robot ethics.
Robot Rights is a brilliantly disorienting book.
At last, a masterful integration of the many disparate reflections on whether intelligent machines can ever be admitted to the community of moral subjects as either moral agents and/or moral patients. David Gunkel goes on to make a significant contribution to any further discussion of the topic in a final section that deconstructs the machine question from the perspective of continental philosophers including Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida. Machines have been the definitive 'other,' not worthy of moral consideration, but as we contemplate the prospect that future machines might be conscious and perhaps even have feelings, we are forced to think deeply about who (or what) should be included in the moral order.


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SimCity 4 Network Addon Mod maker warns against buying the game from Origin
By Andy Chalk 2014-08-25T21:30:47.236Z
Update: As of August 27, Origin has updated its version of SimCity 4. It is now compatible with the Network Addon Mod . Original story below.
SimCity 4 is more than ten years old, but given the relative dearth of SimCity games since it came out, it remains a popular way for fans of the franchise to get their fix. But the maker of the Network Addon Mod says gamers should be careful about where they buy it: The version of the game being offered by Origin is the unpatched retail release, and because of changes to its copy protection it cannot be updated, nor can it take full advantage of custom content and mods.
As explained on the SimCity 4 site SimTarkus , the Network Addon Mod (NAM) requires a minimum of SimCity 4 version 1.1.638, the version that results from applying the EP1 Update 1 to the retail version of the game. But the a href="https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/buy/56334/pc-download/base-game/deluxe-edition">Origin version is not capable of being updated because it modified the unpatched version of the game, 1.1.610, to replace the SafeDisc copy protection with Origin's online DRM.
"This modification, however, changes the checksum of the executable, just as the NoCD hacks did, which not only causes it to be rejected by the NAM installer, it also prevents the EP1 Update 1 patch and the BAT Nightlight patch from being installed, as well as the official first-party content creation tools, like the Lot Editor and the Building Architect Tool (BAT). In effect, this forces the user to remain at Version 1.1.610, deprived not only of the full function of the wide array of custom content available for the game, but of basic fixes to the game that have been available for 10 years," NAM developer Tarkus wrote. "Origin's digital version of SimCity 4 Deluxe is not just unpatched, it's unpatchable."
Tarkus also linked to a SimTropolis forum post from earlier this month in which an EA support rep acknowledged the limitations of the Origin version of the game, but insisted that it's behaving as it's supposed to.
"The game that you bought from us is working as intended and it is not broken," the rep explained. "The reason why mods are not working on your copy is because we do not support mods for the title. And we do not support the upgrades that you want to do in game."
There is, of course, a world of difference between "we do not support" and "we do not allow," especially since virtually every other digital distributor offers a version of the game that does support mods. So while it may be working as EA intends, the bottom line is obvious: If you want to buy SimCity 4, you're probably better off buying it somewhere else. (Today, by the way, that "somewhere else" should probably be GOG : It's on sale for $8 until 11:59 pm on August 25.)
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Government shutdown: Is there an endgame?
Style Magazine Newswire | 10/4/2013, 3:17 p.m. | Updated on 10/4/2013, 3:17 p.m.
As the country goes into the weekend with the government shut down and neither side talking, there seems to be little hope for breaking the impasse any time soon.
And with the days ticking down toward the moment the country runs out of options to meet its debt obligations, the head-butting over funding the government might force Congress to try to work out a deal to get it running again and raise the debt ceiling at the same time.
CNN Chief National Correspondent John King and Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley were asked about the state of play as we end a tumultuous week as well what next week might look like.
Q: CNN and others reported that House Speaker John Boehner said to Republicans in private meetings that he will get something passed to avoid defaulting on the U.S. financial obligations, even if it takes putting something together that would attract Democrats. Did he blink?
John King: His top aides are saying there's no dramatic shift here. But the speaker's meeting in small groups with rank-and-file lawmakers. John Boehner knows when he goes into a meeting like that it's going to leak out.
His obituary is already going to read he was the leader of a bizarre three-ring circus on Capitol Hill. He doesn't want to say he was the speaker when the government for the first time defaulted.
There's still a huge question of how you get there, though, because the speaker will continue to insist no raising the debt ceiling without getting something from the administration -- on spending cuts, on spending levels, on reforms in the most expensive government programs. And the president, of course, is on the record saying 'I won't negotiate.' You can reconcile those two positions by doing it in a couple of sequenced steps.
It's an optimistic statement from the speaker that we won't default, but getting from "A" to the finish line is still complicated.
Q: Are we talking about a grand bargain again? It's hard to believe that could happen this time around -- things have gone from bad to worse in terms of relations between these two parties?
King: Sometimes at the bleakest moment is when something can be pulled -- a rabbit you pull out of a hat, if you will. However, when you talk to people in both parties and top aides close to all of the people involved, from the White House to the Republicans and the Democrats on Capitol Hill, most just don't see an environment because of the distrust, because of the glooming political calendar of 2014 for a big grand bargain that does Medicare, Social Security, tax reform, other entitlements, other spending cuts in the government.
Is there a possibility of a smaller bargain that gets some of the things Republicans want in terms of savings in Medicare and Social Security, some other spending cuts? That is possible in these separate budget agreements.


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1. What is a "White Shoe Law Firm"?
2. The History of White Shoe Law Firms
3. The Secrets of White Shoe Law Firms
4. What Does the Future Hold for White Shoe Law Firms?
5. What are the benefits of working at a white shoe law firm?
The most famous and exclusive law companies in the United States are referred to as "white shoe law firms," for those who are unaware. These businesses have a long history that dates back to the early years of the American legal profession and are primarily based in New York City.
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What are the trade secrets of these white-shoe law firms, then? What distinguishes them from other people? We'll examine the background of these businesses, their distinctive cultures, and what the future may hold for them in this blog article.
What is a "White Shoe Law Firm"?
A law company with a reputation for representing powerful people and major corporations is referred to as a "white shoe law firm." The phrase "white shoe" refers to the fact that upper-class white men created and initially worked for these businesses. Today, however, the majority of white shoe firms serve a wider variety of clients and lawyers.
White shoe law firms are frequently full-service businesses, which means they give their clients access to a variety of legal services. They frequently have sizable teams of attorneys that are experts in several legal fields, like mergers and acquisitions, tax law, or litigation. White shoe firms have a reputation for being exceedingly choosy when it comes to employing new attorneys and frequently have a high level of prestige.
You may anticipate receiving top-notch legal services from knowledgeable attorneys if you seek representation from a white shoe law company. Nevertheless, you should also expect to pay more for these services than you would at a less reputable company.
The History of White Shoe Law Firms
An extremely prominent and conventional law firm is referred to as a "white shoe law firm." These companies frequently have a lengthy history that dates back to the founding of the United States. Many of these businesses were established by lawyers who were significant figures in the history of the country.
Alexander Hamilton established the first white shoe law firm in the United States in 1789. One of the most significant individuals in American history was Alexander Hamilton. He served as the first Secretary of the Treasury, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and one of the Constitution's framers. A significant part of some of the most significant legal cases in American history was played by his law firm, Hamilton & Burr.
Choate, Hall & Stewart, another white-shoe law firm, was established in 1848. This firm has been involved in some of the most significant cases in American history, such as Bush v. Gore and Brown v. Board of Education.
There are numerous white shoe law firms in the United States today. These companies are renowned for their status and tradition. One of these firms can be a good option to think about if you're seeking an outstanding legal team.
White shoe law firms have several well-kept secrets that are not commonly known. These companies have a long history, and many of them were established by lawyers who were significant figures in the history of the country. Numerous of these companies are still in business today and are renowned for their grandeur and legacy.
The fact that white-shoe law firms often only employ the smartest and brightest legal minds is one of their trade secrets. This is one of the factors contributing to these businesses' success. They only want to collaborate with the greatest attorneys who can produce outcomes.
White-shoe law firms are also known for having a vast network of contacts. This enables them to deliver the finest outcomes to their clientele. They have connections in a wide range of legal specialties and frequently succeed where other firms fail.
One of these firms can be a good option to think about if you're seeking an outstanding legal team. Some of the top legal minds in the nation will be working on your case.
What Does the Future Hold for White Shoe Law Firms?
The future of white-shoe law firms has received a lot of attention in recent years. While some people think these firms are no longer relevant, others think they will keep playing a significant part in the legal sector.
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Bug Romance
A belated Happy Birthday to Canada (July 1).
Happy Birthday 'United States of America', this Wednesday, July 4.
No matter how you look at it, 'God Indeed Set His Grace on Thee'.
We are in the middle (or beginning), of another heatwave.
It isn't often that Michigan gets heat index temperatures that hover around 110 degrees (44 c.).
Enough to issue a 'extreme heat warning'.
Everyone, use caution.
Stay hydrated, and please keep an eye on pets and animals.
One thing about short trips, is the work involved before you take off, and the work ahead when you return.
No matter, I am looking forward for my next trip Up North.
It is where my spirit gets renewed.
Where the woods are bigger and wildlife is everywhere.
The waters seem bluer and for sure cleaner.
It is where my spirit soars, and I feel our Creator romancing me.
Have you noticed, the songs of mating birds has pretty much subsided.
As we enter July, most birds species are winding down the reproduction mode.
I miss the early morning songs and the ones that go into the night.
One last thing.
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a bit on perfume for insects, how flowers and pollinators are created to attract each other, even for specific species.
So, how do bugs find each other when it come time for?
You know........
Bug love.
So what about the thousands of other bug species out there?
I don't have tons of pictures of mating bugs to share, and time constraints don't allow for me to go bug hunting right now.
I think we all get the drift without pictures.
Love (or Lust) at First Sight:
(Fireflies Mating.)
Did you ever feel this way?
Wow, she catches the eye.
After one date, "I think I'm in love".
Some insects use visual cues like bright colors and patterns to find and attract mates.
These insects often have excellent eyesight.
Male dragonflies look for a female with the right color and pattern.
Once he has found her, he may also do a special "courtship dance" to attract her.
If the female likes the courtship dance, she will allow the male to mate with her.
(Again, the male makes a spectacle of himself.)
Butterflies are near sighted, but often can spot others of the species (pheromones are important).
Male butterflies, often will wait for another to fly by and then check it out.
For the casual observer, it is difficult to know what insect is male of female.
For many entomologists, it is hard to discern as well.
Often, one must specialize in certain insects to understand the species and if it is male or female.
With some, there is a distinct color difference.
For many insects, size often lets you know the male and female.
When a male does battle, size helps.
In may occasions however, the female is much larger (think mantids and spiders).
Dances and Foreplay:
(Damselflies)
Any woman is a sucker for a man that can dance.
Some male insects and spiders "waltz" their way to love, performing elaborate dances for their chosen mates.
Jumping spiders for example, are famous for these skills.
They can perform a linear dance, a zigzag dance, and even a sort of can-can, with their forelegs.
Certain male flies perform aerial dances around a female to attract her attention and win the right to mate with her.
If you have witnessed this, and understand what is happening, you will agree that few things in nature are more seductive than watching a pair of butterflies in a prenuptial dance.
Some female insects like to be cuddled and caressed to get in the mood.
This is especially true of the more primitive, wingless insects.
Springtails, for instance, will touch each other with their antennae.
Some dung beetles engage in a different kind of foreplay.
Together, the pair rolls a ball of dung to serve as a nursery for their offspring.
Love is in the Air:
(Cloudless Sulfurs/Yellows)
Pheromones.
Night-flying moths don't have good eyesight and can't use visual cues to find mates.
They use chemical cues, called pheromones to find each other.
The female emits a pheromone only males of her species can "smell."
The male moth will detect the pheromone at very low concentrations and may fly several miles to find a receptive female.
Male moths have thousands of pheromone receptor neurons at the base of their antennae to help them do this.
Pheromones aren't simply for the night fliers, they are used for most insect species.
From butterflies to lady bugs, smell is the main attractant.
Back when in my younger days, I thought Japanese Beetle traps were the way to go to trap these pests.
What the traps did, was attract more than they trapped and made matters worse.
These traps use pheromones to attract both male and females.
One time, while I was peeling and opening the pest strip to attach to the yellow plastic thing, I was almost instantly covered with Japanese beetles.
Before I could ever get the pheromone strip attached or the trap and bag placed, I was surrounded by excited beetles.
It is known, that certain insects can smell another from more than a mile away.
Trickery and Deceit :
Males of some insect groups even use deceit and trickery to ensure their paternity.
For example, male damselflies remove sperm from previously mated females to make sure their genes are passed to the next generation.
In this case, it is best to be last on the love train.
Noisy Boys:
Males of some insect species make sound to attract their mates.
Males with the most vigorous sound will attract the healthiest females and more offspring.
Pay attention to the sounds of late summer, you may be able to hear the mating sounds of these insects:
Crickets:
The chirping of crickets is an annoyance to some, but a welcome sound to others.
Crickets produce sound by rubbing their wings together (not their legs), a sound-producing method called stridulation.
There is a thick, ridged vein at the base of the fore-wing which acts as a file.
The upper surface of the fore-wing is hardened, like a scraper.
When the male cricket calls for a mate, he lift his wings and pulls the file of one wing across the scraper of the other.
The thin, papery portions of the wings vibrate and amplify the sound.
This is similar to running your fingernail across a plastic comb.
Male crickets actually produce several different calls for different purposes.
The calling song helps the female find the male.
Once she is close to him, the male switches to a courtship song to convince her to mate with him.
Scientists have also discovered crickets produce an aggressive sound to discourage nearby males and a post-copulatory sound.
It has been noticed, male crickets chirp faster at higher temperatures.
The rule of thumb is if you add 40 to the number of chirps produced by the snowing tree cricket in 14 seconds, you will get the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
Mole crickets, which are ground dwellers, actually construct special entrance tunnels shaped like megaphones, from which they amplify their calls.
Some insects simply tap on a hard surface to produce their love calls.
The Death-Watch beetle, for example, bangs his noggin against the roof of his tunnel to attract a mate.
These beetles feed on old wood, and the sound of his head tapping resonates through the wood.
Katydids also make mating sounds in mid to late summer.
This too is produced by rubbing wings and not legs.
Cicadas: The annual or "dog-day" cicada appears mid- to late summer
(we always called them heat bugs when I was a young boy).
These robust, familiar insects have green to brown bodies with black markings and a whitish bloom on their bodies and have clear wings.
They look very much like a regular housefly on some serious steroids.
Male cicadas cluster high in trees and produce a high-pitched whine using two special vibrating membranes, called timbals, found on the underside of the first abdominal segment.
The sound is amplified in the male cicada's body.
Choruses of male cicadas can be deafening.
Sounds of individual cicadas have been measured to be more than 100 decibels.
Both male and female cicadas have hearing organs for hearing.
They receive sound via a pair of large, mirror-like membranes, called tympana which are connected to an auditory organ by a short tendon.
Courtship songs differ from calling songs, which are broadcast from a distance to help females find the males.
Fruit flies have no calling song, but do sing when a mate is in close range.
The fruit fly male vibrates his wings in a pulsing, rhythmic pattern. His song lets the female know he is of the same species, and available to mate.
Mosquitoes sing harmonic duets with each other, adjusting the frequencies of their songs simultaneously as they near the moment of copulation.
And to think, there are people that specialize, who study and research such things.
Then there is this.
The lean and mean:
The strongest, most buff.
The fastest, hottest male around.
There is often intense competition among males for available females.
The competition may be for prime egg-laying sites, to eliminate other males or simply to impress females.
In some species, males have developed hugely exaggerated features to improve their competitive advantage.
Male stag beetles have huge jaws (mandibles) they use to wrestle their rivals and eliminate their competition.
Dinner and a Date.
Some male insects provide an edible offering to the female.
Male scorpion flies and Mormon crickets are known to offer an edible "gift" to the female.
A female Preying Mantis and Black Widow spider often eats the male after mating.
Now that's a date then the dinner.
Guys, this a case of no greater love hath any man.
In this case, the female feasts to insure a good protein source for her eggs.
Well, it is time to fly.
Before I go, here is your positive thought for the week.
"God's alternative to revenge is not truce or standoff or cold war or isolationism.
It's forgiveness".
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
In the Bible, the book of Ephesians.
"Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you".
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
We borrow it from our Children."
Ancient Indian Proverb.
A Blessed week to you .


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Joseph François Paris, ook Paris-Isaac, (Batavia, 20 augustus 1824 - Lobbes, 9 december 1905) was een Belgisch senator.

Levensloop
Paris was een zoon van François Paris en van Pauline Hecq. Hij trouwde achtereenvolgens met Flore Isaac en met Marie-Thérèse Dellaert.

Hij promoveerde tot burgerlijk ingenieur aan de Universiteit van Luik. Na gewerkt te hebben in de fabrieken van La Providence (1849-1852) stichtte hij zijn eigen onderneming Ateliers J. Paris, waarvan hij afgevaardigd bestuurder was (1852-1896) en later voorzitter (1897-1905). De fabriek, gevestigd in Marchienne-au-Pont, was gespecialiseerd in het bouwen van bruggen en metalen gebinten. Onder de realisaties: de kapel van het kasteel van Laken, de Centrale Hallen in Brussel, het beursgebouw in Antwerpen, de hallen voor de wereldtentoonstelling van 1911 in Charleroi.

Paris werd in 1890 liberaal senator voor het arrondissement Thuin en vervulde dit mandaat tot in 1894.

Hij was:
 vrijmetselaar bij de loge La Charité in Charleroi,
 lid van de Koninklijke Jachtvereniging.

Literatuur
 Jean-Luc DE PAEPE & Christiane RAINDORF-GERARD, Le Parlement belge, 1831-1894, Brussel, 1996.

Belgisch senator
Belgisch ingenieur
Belgisch industrieel
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Overland literary journal > Latest > Activities > Prizes > Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize: the 2017 shortlist
21 February 2018 1 March 2018
Announcement / Prizes
Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize: the 2017 shortlist
Named after the late Neilma Gantner, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed around the notion of 'travel'. With support from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the competition awards a first place of $4000 and two runner-up prizes of $500. The winning story will be published in Overland's first edition of the year (available late March), with the two runners-up published as part of the edition online.
The three judges for this year's competition – Nic Low, Ryan O'Neill and Jennifer Mills – have finished their blind judging and deliberation, and decided on a shortlist of thirteen brilliant stories that approach the theme in original ways.
Congratulations to the shortlisted writers:
'If there are zebra finches'
Claire Aman
A young ornithologist and geologist persuade motorcycle tour guides Dolores and Allessandro to take them as pillion passengers on an expedition across the desert, laden with books and specimen cases.
Claire Aman grew up in Melbourne and settled in Grafton, NSW. Her short story collection Bird Country was published in 2017 by Text. Her stories have won the EJ Brady, Cal/Wet Ink and Hal Porter prizes and appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Birds are a lingering theme.
'Hot days'
Joey Bui
In the middle of an overbearing Vietnamese summer, a poor, simple waitress in the country attracts the attention of a gentleman who brings her to the city for guitar lessons.
Joey Bui is a Vietnamese Australian author. She graduated from NYU Abu Dhabi in 2016, where she completed her first collection of short stories. Joey has been published in literary magazines in the US and Australia, and competes in poetry slams in New York.
'Hungry'
Bill Collopy
Journeying from Bangladesh has not liberated Asif, but trapped him in a marriage; he can't leave and can't retreat, trapped in his daily taxicab loop, driving a hungry shift.
Bill Collopy is the author of one novel, one nonfiction book, and various essays and works of short fiction. For many years he has managed welfare programs in Melbourne. He has disappearing hair and keeps running out of bookshelves.
'Amusements'
Brooke Dunnell
On holiday in LA, a single mother and her kids struggle to reconnect.
Brooke Dunnell is a Perth writer and Overland fiction reader whose stories have been published in Best Australian Stories, New Australian Stories 2, Meanjin, Westerly and other collections. This story was first written as 2016 Writer-in-Residence at the Peter Cowan Writers Centre.
'Unspooling'
Laura Elvery
Overwhelmed by a pair of tragedies, a woman contemplates a new destination.
Laura Elvery is a writer from Brisbane. Her debut short story collection, Trick of the Light, will be published by UQP in March.
'Kiss Lovie, smile for Lovie'
Judyth Emanuel
Two tentative explorers, a terror of flying, chatting with China, growing wings, Lovie trips, oops, sings, kiss me and smile for me.
Judyth Emanuel is one of three winners of the 2017 Overland VU Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers. Her short stories are published in Overland, Electric Literature, Literary Orphans, Verity Lane, Intrinsick, Fanzine, STORGY and Jellyfish Review, among others.
'Alappuzha'
Kathryn Hummel
A story of journey fatigue and authenticity, 'Alappuzha' follows the aimless journey of Lindsay Gluck to Kerala, where she falls into the dubiously attractive company of Gabriel, the owner of the Ambrosia Inn.
Kathryn Hummel is a writer, researcher and poet, and the author of Poems from Here, The Bangalore Set and The Body That Holds. Her new media/poetry, nonfiction, fiction, photography and scholarly research has been published and presented worldwide. She currently edits 'Travel. Write. Translation' for Verity La. Further activities can be tracked at kathrynhummel.com.
'Year of sleep'
Emily O'Grady
En route to a wedding, a woman is stranded for the evening in a stranger's home.
Emily O'Grady is a writer from Brisbane and PhD candidate at QUT. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Kill Your Darlings The Big Issue Fiction Edition, The Lifted Brow, Australian Poetry Journal, Westerly, and Award Winning Australian Writing.
'Salt of the earth'
Sonali Patel
A difficult journey to his homeland becomes a transformative experience for an Adelaide immigrant forced to face some of the darker truths in the land of Gandhi.
Sonali Patel is an Adelaide-based writer and visual artist. She is completing her advanced diploma in professional writing at the Adelaide College of Arts. Her short stories have appeared in Crush – Stories of Love by MidnightSun Publishing, Stringybark Twisted Anthology and the Food, Wine & Fleurieu Anthology.
'I am human and I need to be loved'
Allee Richards
A woman realises the solution to all her problems is to transform into Shannen Doherty.
Allee Richards is a playwright and short fiction writer from Melbourne. Her stories have been published in Best Australian Stories, Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow. Her next play, Survival, will be performed at La Mama Theatre in July 2018.
'Psychosexual thriller'
Ursula Robinson-Shaw
A series of episodes about an ill-conceived trip to Mexico, which examine the sexual politics of looking and being looked at.
Ursula Robinson-Shaw is a writer from Wellington, New Zealand, currently living in Melbourne. Her work has appeared in Cordite and Minarets Journal, and she was shortlisted for the 2017 Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Awards.
'Seismophobia'
Jenny Sinclair
An earthquake happens on the other side of the world, and Paul doesn't quite know how to deal with the aftershocks.
Jenny Sinclair is a Melbourne writer of nonfiction and short fiction. Her books are Much Ado About Melbourne (2015) and A Walking Shadow (2013). She is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Melbourne.
'Dirt'
Tanya Vavilova
Follows two lovers on a road trip through central Australia interrupted by the discovery of a large, mysterious hole in the earth.
Tanya Vavilova is an emerging writer preoccupied with liminal spaces and outsider perspectives – by life on the margins. Her essays and short fiction have been published or are forthcoming in Seizure, Archer, The Lifted Brow, Visible Ink and The UTS Anthology. She was recently highly commended for the Lane Cove Literary Prize.
The final results of the competition will be announced here, at overland.org.au, late next week.
The Neilma Sidney Prize is supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation
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In 2023, as we look towards our 250th edition and prepare for Overland's 70th anniversary, we wish to make a tangible commitment to improve working conditions for our community, and ensure that whatever funding challenges we might face as a left-wing not-for-profit publisher are not passed on to our contributors. As such, we are proud to become the first publishers to sign onto the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance's Freelance Charter, which affirms the rights and protections of freelance contributors.
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Q: What is the simplest way to recode a variable based on conditions of another variable in R? Silly example df, "cat":
species color tail_length
calico  brown     6
calico  gray      6
tabby   multi     5
tabby   brown     5

Suppose I want to create a new variable, personality. The values here will be recoded based on tail_length, but will also be conditional upon the species and color of the cat. So the ideal final df would look like this:
species color tail_length personality
calico  brown     6          mean
calico  gray      6          nice
tabby   multi     5          mean
tabby   brown     5          nice

At present, I'm using the codes:
library(car)
cat$personality<-recode(cat$tail_length, "'6'==mean, '5'==nice")
cat$personality[cat$species=="calico" & cat$color=="brown"] <- mean
cat$personality[cat$species=="calico" & cat$color=="gray"] <- nice
cat$personality[cat$species=="tabby" & cat$color=="multi"]<- mean
cat$personality[cat$species=="tabby" & cat$color=="brown"]<-nice

My main question is this: is there a simpler way to do this/consolidate these functions into one?
Given that I made up this example data on the fly, please take it with a grain of salt when answering.
Thanks! As an R beginner, I really appreciate your help.

A: Here's one approach using qdap and qdapTools (CRAN packages that I maintain):
library(qdap); library(qdapTools)

key <- list(
    mean = c( "calico.gray", "tabby.brown"),
    nice = c("calico.brown", "tabby.multi")
)

dat[["personality"]] <- paste2(dat[1:2]) %l% key
dat

##   species color tail_length personality
## 1  calico brown           6        nice
## 2  calico  gray           6        mean
## 3   tabby multi           5        nice
## 4   tabby brown           5        mean

Basically you create a key that's a named list based on the combined columns.  Then %l% acts as a hash table lookup.

A: There isn't much you can do here because, at the end of the day, you still need to specify the conditions and new variables to assign.
However, you can cut down on the boilerplate code by using within:
within(cat, {
  personality <- recode(tail_length, "'6'==mean, '5'==nice")
  personality[species == "calico" & color == "brown"] <- "mean"
  personality[species=="calico" & color=="gray"] <- "nice"
  personality[species=="tabby" & color=="multi"] <- "mean"
  personality[species=="tabby" & color=="brown"] <- "nice"
})

A: This is really just a merge operation. (Furthermore, you have over specified the criteria since species and tail_length are completely dependent. But since it's only an example that may not be an issue.) Let's say your first dataframe is dat and the criteria dataframe is lookup. Then all you need to do is:
> merge(dat, lookup)
  species color tail_length personality
1  calico brown           6        mean
2  calico  gray           6        nice
3   tabby brown           5        nice
4   tabby multi           5        mean

Not a very interesting or dramatic result because it looks just like the lookup dataframe, but give it something a bit larger and:
> merge( rbind(dat,dat,dat) , lookup)
   species color tail_length personality
1   calico brown           6        mean
2   calico brown           6        mean
3   calico brown           6        mean
4   calico  gray           6        nice
5   calico  gray           6        nice
6   calico  gray           6        nice
7    tabby brown           5        nice
8    tabby brown           5        nice
9    tabby brown           5        nice
10   tabby multi           5        mean
11   tabby multi           5        mean
12   tabby multi           5        mean

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namespace gpu {
class ScopedSafeSharedMemory;

// Class which handles async pixel transfers in a platform
// independent way.
class AsyncPixelTransferDelegateIdle : public AsyncPixelTransferDelegate,
    public base::SupportsWeakPtr<AsyncPixelTransferDelegateIdle> {
 public:
  AsyncPixelTransferDelegateIdle();
  virtual ~AsyncPixelTransferDelegateIdle();

  // implement AsyncPixelTransferDelegate:
  virtual AsyncPixelTransferState* CreatePixelTransferState(
      GLuint texture_id,
      const AsyncTexImage2DParams& define_params) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void BindCompletedAsyncTransfers() OVERRIDE;
  virtual void AsyncNotifyCompletion(
      const AsyncMemoryParams& mem_params,
      const CompletionCallback& callback) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void AsyncTexImage2D(
      AsyncPixelTransferState* transfer_state,
      const AsyncTexImage2DParams& tex_params,
      const AsyncMemoryParams& mem_params,
      const base::Closure& bind_callback) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void AsyncTexSubImage2D(
      AsyncPixelTransferState* transfer_state,
      const AsyncTexSubImage2DParams& tex_params,
      const AsyncMemoryParams& mem_params) OVERRIDE;
  virtual void WaitForTransferCompletion(
      AsyncPixelTransferState* transfer_state) OVERRIDE;
  virtual uint32 GetTextureUploadCount() OVERRIDE;
  virtual base::TimeDelta GetTotalTextureUploadTime() OVERRIDE;
  virtual void ProcessMorePendingTransfers() OVERRIDE;
  virtual bool NeedsProcessMorePendingTransfers() OVERRIDE;

 private:
  struct Task {
    Task(uint64 transfer_id, const base::Closure& task);
    ~Task();

    // This is non-zero if pixel transfer task.
    uint64 transfer_id;

    base::Closure task;
  };

  void ProcessNotificationTasks();

  void PerformNotifyCompletion(
      AsyncMemoryParams mem_params,
      ScopedSafeSharedMemory* safe_shared_memory,
      const CompletionCallback& callback);
  void PerformAsyncTexImage2D(
      AsyncTexImage2DParams tex_params,
      AsyncMemoryParams mem_params,
      const base::Closure& bind_callback,
      ScopedSafeSharedMemory* safe_shared_memory,
      GLuint texture_id);
  void PerformAsyncTexSubImage2D(
      AsyncTexSubImage2DParams tex_params,
      AsyncMemoryParams mem_params,
      ScopedSafeSharedMemory* safe_shared_memory,
      GLuint texture_id);

  int texture_upload_count_;
  base::TimeDelta total_texture_upload_time_;

  std::list<Task> tasks_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(AsyncPixelTransferDelegateIdle);
};

}  // namespace gpu

#endif  // GPU_COMMAND_BUFFER_SERVICE_ASYNC_PIXEL_TRANSFER_DELEGATE_IDLE_H_

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New Software Allows Mobile Monitoring of Breathing Problems
News Sep 20, 2017 | Original story from the Optical Society (OSA)
Credit: Youngjun Cho, University College London
Researchers have developed new software that makes it possible to use low-cost, thermal cameras attached to mobile phones to track how fast a person is breathing. This type of mobile thermal imaging could be used for monitoring breathing problems in elderly people living alone, people suspected of having sleep apnea or babies at risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
New software allows low-cost, thermal cameras attached to mobile phones to track breathing patterns. The approach compensates for temperature changes and movement, allowing it to be used in places where other sensors might not work. Credit: Youngjun Cho, University College London.
In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Biomedical Optics Express, the researchers report that their new software combined with a low-cost thermal camera performed well when analyzing breathing rate during tests simulating real-world movement and temperature changes.
"As thermal cameras continue to get smaller and less expensive, we expect that phones, computers and augmented reality devices will one day incorporate thermal cameras that can be used for various applications," said Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze from University College London, (UK) and leader of the research team. "By using low-cost thermal cameras, our work is a first step toward bringing thermal imaging into people's everyday lives. This approach can be used in places other sensors might not work or would cause concern."
In addition to detecting breathing problems, the new approach could one day allow the camera on your computer to detect subtle breathing irregularities associated with pain or stress and then send prompts that help you relax and regulate breathing. Although traditional video cameras can be used to track breathing, they don't work well in low-light situations and can cause privacy concerns when used for monitoring in nursing homes, for example.
"Thermal cameras can detect breathing at night and during the day without requiring the person to wear any type of sensor," said Youngjun Cho, first author of the paper. "Compared to a traditional video camera, a thermal camera is more private because it is more difficult to identify the person."
Personal thermal cameras
Thermal cameras, which use infrared wavelengths to reveal the temperature of an object or scene, have been used in a variety of monitoring applications for some time. Recently, their price and size have dropped enough to make them practical for personal use, with small thermal cameras that connect to mobile phones now available for around $200.
"Large, expensive thermal imaging systems have been used to measure breathing by monitoring temperature changes inside the nostrils under controlled settings," said Cho. "We wanted to use the new portable systems to do the same thing by creating a smart-phone based respiratory tracking method that could be used in almost any environment or activity. However, we found that in real-world situations this type of mobile thermal imaging was affected by changes in air temperature and body movement."
To solve these problems, the researchers developed algorithms that can be used with any thermal camera to compensate for ambient temperature changes and accurately track the nostrils while the person is moving. In addition, the new algorithms improve the way breathing signals are processed. Instead of averaging the temperature readings from 2D pixels around the nostrils, as has been done in the past, Cho developed a way to treat the area as a 3D surface to create a more refined measurement of temperature in the nostrils.
Testing in real-world situations
In addition to indoor laboratory tests, the researchers used the mobile thermal imaging approach to measure the breathing of volunteers in a scenario that involved breathing exercises with changes in ambient temperature and in a fully unconstrained test where volunteers walked around inside and outside of a building. During the walking tests, the thermal camera was placed between 20 and 30 centimeters from a person's face using a rig that attached the camera to a hat. A cord then connected the camera with a mobile phone carried by study volunteers. It is also possible to hold a smartphone with an imaging camera about 50 centimeters from the face to measure breathing.
"For all three types of studies, the algorithms showed significantly better performance in tracking the nostril area than other state-of-the-art methods," said Cho. "In terms of estimating the breathing rate, the tests outside the laboratory showed the best results when compared with the latest algorithms. Although the results were comparable to the traditional breathing belt sensor, for mobile situations our approach seems to be more stable because the belt tends to get loose."
Because the new approach is more stable than standard chest belt respiratory sensors, the method could potentially be used to optimize an athlete's performance by providing more reliable and accurate feedback on breathing patterns during exercise.
The researchers took their work one step further by inferring a person's mental load or stress through automatic breathing analysis. They used their thermal imaging software to track the breathing of people who were free to move around while performing various types of tasks, and the results aligned well with findings from studies that used much more sophisticated equipment, indicating the portable thermal-camera based approach could be a useful tool for apps that help people relax.
"By using mobile thermal imaging to monitor only breathing, we obtained results very comparable to what other studies had found," said Bianchi-Berthouze. "However, those studies used complex, state-of-the-art techniques that involved multiple sensors monitoring not just breathing but also heart rate."
The current version of the software doesn't estimate the breathing rate in real time, but the researchers are working to incorporate this capability and to test their algorithms in more real-life situations.
This article has been republished from materials provided by The Optical Society. Note: material may have been edited for length and content. For further information, please contact the cited source.
Cho, Y., Julier, S. J., Marquardt, N., & Bianchi-Berthouze, N. (2017). Robust tracking of respiratory rate in high-dynamic range scenes using mobile thermal imaging. Biomedical Optics Express, 8(10), 4480. doi:10.1364/boe.8.004480
Bioinformatics Tool Enables Analysis of Complex Plant Genomes
Bioinformatics researchers from Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) have now published "Kmasker plants", a program that allows the identification of repetitive sequences and thus facilitates the analysis of plant genomes.
Imaging Approach Refines Breast Cancer Classification
An imaging approach developed at UZH enables the study of breast cancer tissue in greater detail. It uses 35 biomarkers to identify the different cell types in breast tumors and its surrounding area compared to the current standard of testing single markers. This increases the precision of tumor analysis and classification - and improves personalized diagnostics for breast cancer patients.
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Conditional Currency Makes Comeback as Retailers Lose Trust in Russian Ruble
By Anna Dolgov
A man walks along a street past a board showing currency exchange rates in Moscow on Jan.14, 1994.
Along with the flashy cars of the new rich and the garbage bin food scavenging of the new poor, a distinctive sign of Russia in the 1990s were store price tags in a non-official currency — "u.e."
Amid the decade's economic upheavals, when the ruble could bleed chunks of value overnight, the u.e. — which stands for the Russian words "uslovnaya yedinitsa," or "conditional unit" and is pronounced "oo-yeh" — was a response by storekeepers to soaring inflation and a way to avoid having to replace price tags on a daily basis. The u.e.-to-ruble exchange rate was pegged to the U.S. dollar.
As the economy stabilized, the conditional currency mostly disappeared, replaced by the familiar ruble, and the u.e. was relegated to a memory of a bygone turbulent era. Aside from a brief comeback in the 2008-09 economic crisis, the conditional unit disappeared from view.
With the ruble down almost 50 percent against the dollar so far this year — and over 14 percent just in the past three trading days — the u.e was back in circulation this week, certainly as a rumor and possibly as tender.
Moscow radio station Govorit Moskva on Sunday reported spotting prices at a hardware store in the capital's suburb of Khimki listed in the infamous conditional units. The radio station also posted photographs of the price tags on its website.
The report prompted a flurry of speculation and reprints on Russian social media and news websites.
The government's official newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta published an online report late Sunday night suggesting that the rumors were false — but stopping just short of saying so outright.
"Rumors about a switch to conditional units have indeed appeared," the head of the online trade department at Russia's Association of Electronic Commerce, Ivan Kurguzov, was quoted as saying. "A range of Internet stores are thinking about switching to u.e. or intend to change their price tags several times a day."
Rossiiskaya Gazeta said it had checked the websites of "popular Internet shops," and found no trace of u.e.-denominated prices.
The problem was that in some cases there were no prices in rubles, either.
The website of a hardware store in Khimki, ArtReality.ru, when checked by The Moscow Times early Monday, offered dashes instead of prices for items added to an online shopping cart, and a note asking customers to leave their phone number so that a "manager" could contact them to "agree on the price."
In a twist for the Russian government, the 1990s-reminiscent reports of the u.e.'s reemergence appeared as Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev published an op-ed article in the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper on Monday predicting a replay of the turbulent 1990s — for Ukraine.
The economic troubles afflicting Ukraine as government forces and pro-Moscow separatists fight in the country's east mean that "apparently, our neighbors will have to live through a second '90s," Medvedev said in the article.
Cheerless as Ukraine's economic situation might be, prospects are also dim for Russia. A combination of Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, capital flight and a steep drop in the price of oil, Russia's key export, have not only almost halved the value of the ruble currency, but have flattened already faltering economic growth and sharply raised inflation.
But store owners considering listing prices in u.e. are not allowed to ditch the ruble entirely.
"Under the law, the customer must be informed about prices in rubles," Rossiiskaya Gazeta quoted Dmitry Yanin, the head of an association of consumers' groups, as saying. "That is, the stamped price tag must be in rubles. But nobody prohibits listing next to it the price in dollars or euros. Or even in [Chinese] yuan! This would not be considered a violation of the law."
But Moscow's government upped the ante on Monday, with City Hall's trade and services chief Alexei Nemeryuk saying that prices must be displayed "exclusively only in rubles," and that price tags in u.e. would be removed, news agency RIA Novosti reported.
By the early 2000s, when the u.e. survived only in some business contracts and posh car dealerships, the exchange rate for the units stopped matching that of the dollar, and began to correspond to that of the euro. That meant higher prices, as the euro was gaining in value.
Radio station Govorit Moskva did not specify whether the u.e. at the Khimki store was pegged to the dollar or the euro.
But the explanation for the switch to oo-yehs was familiar from the 1990s: Listing prices in rubles would mean changing price tags several times per week to minimize losses from the depreciating ruble, store employees said, according to the report.
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			base(mm) {	}

		public InvalidSNException() : base("Invalid Sequence Number returned") { }

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		{
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To create the optically variable effect of the threads, special technical processes are required. Together with many years of experience and specially trained personnel, these processes are the requirements for manufacturing this proven, counterfeit-resistant feature.
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