The US Dept of Energy has long known that 10% mass savings improves automotive fuel economy 6-8%. As design engineers hone their skills over decades, vehicle mass reductions are sought with statements like "every gram, every day", showing the intensity of the effort. Though estimates vary, removing a pound of mass is worthy of $1 cost increase. Inarguably, consumers would certainly pay $200 more for a 200 pound lighter, safer vehicle that would provide $100s in annual fuel savings. Automobiles remain heavy for one simple reason; no cost effective method exists to make cars 100s of pounds lighter despite decades of research . . . until now.
Globally patented Flash® Technology is a paradigm shift in steel research being cited regularly by leading metallurgists, such as Sir Harry Bhadeshia of Cambridge University, in conference keynote speeches. Flash Technology employs counterintuitive grain expansion mechanisms that force intragranular chemically heterogeneous grain refinement leading to "Maximum Strength" steel nanoscale microstructures. Requiring just seconds, minimal cost induction equipment heats readily available, low grade steel to inordinately high temperatures then water quenches using a proprietary thermal cycle. CAPEX is scalable based on product size and throughput such that "cottage industry" operations could fit in a one car garage. This, of course, is in stark contrast to the costly proprietary alloying, ten minute thermal cycles, and $400M furnaces of the Steel Industry.
Initially developed as US Army validated record setting Armor, Flash® Technology has migrated from the Defense Industry to the civilian automobile. Flash® Bainite has been tested by three Auto OEMs to make over a dozen "room temperature stamped" components 20 to 58% lighter. Lower cost Flash parts, at strengths of 1500-1800 megapascals, provided record setting energy absorption during OEM impact testing. Regrettably, after decades of research, the strongest room temperature stamped components keeping today's automobiles safe are typically only 980 megapascals, and rarely 1180mpa.
The Dept of Energy awarded an unprecedented (5) grants in only three years totaling $3.1M listing Flash as "the Next Big Thing" in "Early Commercialization". Flash® is constructing a 10 ton coil-to-coil production line funded by an SBIR Phase 3 Grant, the first awarded by DOE in five years. Per the "Phase 3 Mandate", Federal Agencies and Prime Contractors must "to the greatest extent possible" work with Flash Technology above all other derivations or copycats.
Stronger than titanium, lighter than aluminum, Flash® Processing creates Maximum Strength Steel with unmatched bend-ability, toughness, and weldability. Lower costs and higher mass savings with Flash are predicted over all other lightweight metals for vehicles.
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LaVista Hills supporters seek annexation into Chamblee
Annexation, new cities Metro ATL
Dan Whisenhunt Jan 28, 2016
Supporters of creating a new city of LaVista Hills haven't given up on the idea of cityhood, and are now openly considering annexation into the existing city of Chamblee.
LaVista Hills was defeated in a Nov. 3 referendum by 139 votes.
A group called Citizens for Cityhood, which is targeting voters in the precincts that supported LaVista Hills, suggests Chamblee as an alternative to remaining in unincorporated DeKalb County. An email written by Citizens for Cityhood member Ben Shackleford says, "Annexation into an existing city in DeKalb County is potentially a solution for local control, better services and more responsive government."
The email rejects the idea of annexing into the city of Brookhaven, a newer DeKalb County city, or the city of Tucker which was overwhelmingly approved on Nov. 3.
The email says, "Annexation into Tucker seems possible for areas in close proximity to commercial property, however, the new city of Tucker will initially offer only three public services (Parks, Planning and Permitting). Annexation into Brookhaven is unlikely because there is little geographic overlap with the areas that favored cityhood in the 2015 LaVista Hills election."
Remaining unincorporated also isn't realistic, the email says.
"Restoring ethical, effective governance appears to be a long way off. In addition, staying unincorporated will likely mean commercial areas will become absorbed into the adjoining cities of Tucker, Chamblee and Brookhaven, leaving the residential areas behind," the email says.
According to the Brookhaven Post, Chamblee officials are receptive to the idea.
The group says the benefits of annexing into Chamblee include better representation by elected officials (one council representative for every 10,000 residents), a dedicated police department, and other public services like sanitation and public works.
Here is a map of all the areas that voted for and against LaVista Hills, listed by precinct.
An Election Results Map prepared for LaVista Hills Yes! at the request of Herman Lorenz by the consulting firm, InterDev.
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While writing my latest inspirational romantic suspense, Hide My Heart: Love and Trouble, I developed a truly sadistic and abusive villain. He was a hunter, and he hunted my heroine and her baby. Of course, he would use every tool at his disposal and that meant guns. He pulls a handgun on my heroine and she knows he'd use it too--not an empty threat.
However how much violence is acceptable or enough? I confronted these questions while writing Hide My Heart: Love and Trouble.
Early on, I knew Hunter would be violent. It's his nature. To be true to his character and to portray the real danger my heroine and hero were under, guns and violence were necessary to the story.
While my book is an inspirational romance, it still had to feel real and show the hunt, the chase, and the ultimate standoff. I do not "glory" in blood and guts. There are no gruesome descriptions or long, protracted fight scenes, but at the end, the story had to ring true. While it might make a few readers squeamish, the ultimate payoff is justice and a final resolution that prepares the way for love to triumph and a happy ending to play out.
A single mother on the run.
Amber McKay ran away from home to find adventure. She found Hunter instead. Now Amber's on the run again and this time she isn't alone.
A bartender and innkeeper who's never left home.
Nate Riley has always had big dreams - leave home, marry, raise a family. Family responsibility stole those dreams. Will fate return them?
A backwoods killer on the loose.
Nothing escapes Hunter Dixon. Especially his prize possession, Amber McKay. She is coming home no matter who has to die.
When Amber finds out this may be her grandmother's last Christmas, she is determined to say goodbye to the woman who always loved her. But she's hiding from Hunter, and she has a big secret. She turns to the one person who has never let her down, her childhood crush, Nate.
Nate agrees to help, but Hunter closes in. While Amber and Nate explore their budding romance, they must fight a crippling ice storm and a determined enemy to stay alive and protect her secret.
To read an excerpt, please visit my blog.
or read a preview on Amazon.
Rachelle Ayala is a USA Today bestselling author of dramatic romantic suspense and humorous contemporary romances. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the 2015 Angie Ovation Award for best Multicultural Romance with Knowing Vera, the 2015 Readers' Favorite Gold Award for A Father for Christmas, the 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Award for Christmas Stray, the 2016 Readers' Favorite Finalist for A Pet for Christmas, and the 2017 Readers' Favorite Gold Award for Playing for the Save.
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Wow, Rachelle! Looking forward to reading this book!
It sounds like a great story. So suspenseful!
Thanks. I was nail biting to write at times.
Sounds like a good story. I don't mind that there's a bad guy who would shoot someone in a suspense story.
It's dangerous in real life, so yes, dangerous in the story too. But there's a HEA.


I'm wrapping up this spooky season with one last Day of the Dead project. In conjunction with the 2nd Annual Dia de los Muertos Blog Hop, organized by Rebel and Malice, I created DIY papel picado necklaces. These are an updated take on the traditional papel picado, made with tissue paper. If you're into the more traditional kind, check out my Skull Papel Picado Tutorial, I did back in my Skull-A-Day project days. These necklaces make us of a Silhouette Cameo cutting machine, which saves your hand from laborious cutting. I made three designs which you are welcome to duplicate using my Papel Picado Necklaces Silhouette Cameo Cut File. I made 3 sizes for you. The smallest is for these exact necklace. The bigger ones can be use for little banners. If you want banners, you don't have to make all the paper layers the necklaces need. You can just back the papel picado with colored cardstock, punch corner holes, and string with baker's twine. You can resize the files to your needs.
After the tutorial, keep heading to the bottom to see the other blogs participating in the 2nd Annual Dia de los Muertos Blog Hop. Also, there is a GIVEAWAY, so make sure to enter that!!! Details at the bottom of this post!
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1) Open the Papel Picado Necklaces Silhouette Cameo Cut File in Silhouette Studio on the computer. Select what size necklaces you want. Delete the other sizes, so only one size is cut later. If you only want one design, but want multiples, delete everything but the one you want. Then, duplicated it as many times as desired, spacing out the duplicates about 1/4" from each other.
2) Add a piece of black cardstock to your cut mat, smoothing it down for the best adhesion. Load the mat into your machine. Set your Silhouette Studio cut settings to cardstock and adjust your Silhouette Cameo blade to the suggestion. Mine is at 3. Send the file to Silhouette Cameo. After the file is completely cut, unload the mat from the machine. I cut all 3 sizes and designs.
3) Carefully peel the papel picado from the cutting mat. Poke out any negative space pieces where needed.
5) With the small scissors, cut around the papel picado border, removing the excess colored cardstock.
6) Working quickly, with the paintbrush, add a layer of Mod Podge to the chipboard. Press the cardstock backed papel picado onto the chipboard. Lay wax paper on top and press under a heavy book for an hour.
7) Remove papel picado from wax paper pressing. With small scissors, cut around the papel picado border, removing the excess chipboard.
8) With the flat paintbrush, apply a layer of Mod Podge to black cardstock. Apply the layered papel picado. Lay wax paper on top and press under a heavy book for an hour.
9) Remove papel picado from wax paper pressing. With small scissors, cut around the papel picado border, removing the excess cardstock.
10) Using a small stiff paint brush and Marisa Pawelko Modern Surrealist Surfacez Ink in Beyond Black, color the edges of the layered papel picado.
11) With the flat paintbrush, seal the papel picado back and sides with Mod Podge.
12) With the hand drill, carefully drill one hole in each top corner of the papel picado.
13) Cut the 15" chain in half, with the wire cutters, making two 7.5" pieces.
14) With the jewelry pliers open one jump ring. Slip the jump ring through one hole and add one end of chain. Close jump ring with jewelry pliers. Repeat for other hole, chain, and 1 jump ring.
15) With the jewelry pliers open one jump ring. Slip the jump ring through one chain end and add the lobster clasp. Close jump ring with jewelry pliers. Repeat for last jump ring, 2nd chain and closure tab.
When you are finished, your necklaces should look similar to mine.
That's all for this project. If you love papel picado, check out my other related projects. This Cut Paper Sugar Skull was my 1st nice tutorial. It's still one of my favorites and hangs in my house. If you'd like a necklace version of that one, check out my Cut Paper Skull Pendant. It's the same instructions as the big version, but scaled down into a pendant. As we head into cold weather and Winter, my Skullflake tutorial is ever popular...actually my most popular tutorial that gets reproduced every year by happy people wielding craft knives and paper. I hope you've enjoyed all the Day of the Dead and Halloween projects I've been showing you how to make lately. Now look below for more projects made by other blog hoppers and enter both giveaways! Happy Makery!
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This is such a beautiful project! Thank you for being a part of the tour again. I really love this one. I definitely need to make it.
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I had hoped to make this with ingredients from our cupboard, but quickly discovered that we had no shaving foam: an essential ingredient! No surprise really given the size of my husband's beard! A quick click, and I had some added to my shopping basket ready for our next messy play sensory adventure.
I couldn't decide when to add the food colouring, but in the end it didn't matter as you will play with it for so long, the colour will disperse eventually. I added equal parts cornflour and shaving foam to a big bowl. A large bowl, tray or tub is a must for this stage – the combination of fluffy shaving cream and powdery cornflour means you need plenty of room to try and mix it. Imagine trying to mix icing sugar with butter in a small bowl … carnage! I placed the large bowl on a low table as Boo always helps to make our activities. She loves the mixing stage just as much as playing with the finished product. I also think it's great early scientific learning discovering what happens when you mix different substances. This takes some work to combine but the sensation is lovely as the 2 textures are such contrasts.
For this recipe, it is key that you don't add all of your ingredients at once. Hold some back. Unlike the scented putty we made, I found it a little more tricky to get the texture just right. Too much shaving cream and it is rather sticky. Neither Boo or I liked having it stuck to us – it was like being covered in cake batter and not being allowed to lick my fingers! Don't worry if this happens to you, it is really easy to fix. Add a little more cornflour and as you mix it in, it develops a texture more like cloud dough or moon sand. It will naturally fall off your hands and you will be able to play! The trouble we had was getting it to a texture that was moldable. I had hoped to be able to use some of our play dough cutters and shapers to make shapes and characters. As you add more cornflour, it becomes crumbly and doesn't hold very well. Eventually, after lots of little adjustments, I managed to get it just right. A lovely dough that could be molded into fun shapes, while still being crumbly when squished.
When you mould the dough, it has a soft foamy texture. As you squeeze it apart it will crumble apart again like soft sand. It really is very therapeutic running it through your hands.
This will keep for a long time in a sealed container. Sadly, I turned my back for too long and Boo added our floam beads and a whole jar of cinnamon to the pot! I'm not too cross at her experimentation but it does mean I won't be keeping this batch. Looks like we will have to find something else to make!
* I've just seen other photos of foam dough and realised our batch wasn't quite right. I'm not a Pinterest Mum. I don't care that it wasn't quite as soft and as moldable as it could be. We enjoyed it and that is what counts.
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Almost everybody knows Big Ben, the British Museum, Buckingham Palace, and the Tower Bridge. But the secret London which shapes the flair of the capital of the British Empire more than anything else is getting harder and harder to find. This guide elucidates unknown aspects of well-known places, but also explores the London unknown to foreigners and, in part, to natives, and its unique stories.
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Dillard Notables of 2019: #3 Third-Party Validations
All colleges use phrases such as "We have a top…" "Our ____ is one of the best." "We have a highly ranked…" Sounds like DJ Khaled works for all our marketing departments.
But many times we throw out these terms without any validation. We understand third-party validation in higher education through the accreditation process, where a team of peers reviews the institution or a program and determines if it meets a set of standards.
For example, in 2019 the Dillard University College of Business received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). The ACBSP was founded in 1988 and is a global accrediting body for business schools. According to the ACBSP website, "national or regional business school accreditation assures students that an institution of higher learning adheres to high-quality standards based on the latest research and professional practice." This is the first time in our history that we have applied for and achieved this accreditation.
While this was our biggest third-party validation in 2019, there were others for the work we do collectively at Dillard. Here are some examples.
I have never been a big fan of US News rankings because the formula is tilted heavily toward wealth schools that enroll few low income, part time, and students of color. I do think Washington Monthly is a fairer measurement. Dillard is classified as a national liberal arts university. We rank #73 out of 213, so the top third of schools. BUT we're the highest ranked national liberal arts HBCU, ahead of some really strong peers (Spelman, Tougaloo, Fisk, and Morehouse).
In recent years researchers have started to ask questions about mobility. What are the chances a student who attends a certain school years later moves up in their socioeconomic status? In every study I have seen Dillard University has fared extremely well.
In the study by the Rutgers Center for MSIs, Dillard was 5th for HBCUs in the percentage of low-income students who reached the middle class.
The Council of Independent Colleges studied the contributions of small colleges in producing underrepresented students in STEM in terms of doctorates. Dillard ranked #2 in producing black bachelors degree recipients who went on to receive biological science doctorates for all institutions between 2007 and 2016, more than most flagships and large research institutions. We ranked #22 for life science doctorates.
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The CIC study is backed up by a new book called "Making Black Scientists," which "provides specific examples of 10 historically Black colleges and universities that are moving the needle when it comes to training and preparing Black students for careers in science, technology, engineering and math, known as the STEM fields." Dillard is one of the 10 profiled.
The School of Public Health received a Health Leadership Award from The Advisory Board along with the Trustees of Arizonans Concerned About Smoking (ACAS), along with the Arizona NAACP and the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Officers Association (COA) members at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center (PIMC).
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Dillard University, along with Spelman College and Texas Southern were honored by KIPP this summer with the Beyond Z Award for our commitment to KIPP students on our campuses.
2019 was a great year for us, and a number of third parties agree!
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In the latest episode of Brexit, EU leaders finally gave their blessing for the draft transition deal, but the drama may be far from over. Here's what's coming up.
BOE Governor Carney's speech (Nov. 26, 6:30 pm GMT)
To kick things off this week, BOE head honcho Carney has some words to say at the Policy Exchange event in London. However, this could mostly focus on discussions about the the new book by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge: "Capitalism in America: A History" rather than his policy bias.
Still, do watch out for questions related to interest rates that might prompt clues on what the BOE has up its sleeve. Hints that policymakers are more confident about a Brexit transition deal and a continuation of their tightening efforts could prop the pound higher.
BOE Financial Stability Report (Nov. 28)
By the middle of the week, the BOE will release the results of its latest stress tests on the banking sector. Many are keen to find out if U.K. financial institutions could withstand contingency plans in the event of a "no deal" Brexit.
Note that this report is released only twice each year, which means that the results could carry a lot of weight. A positive outlook could add to the improving sentiment related to Brexit developments while indications of more financial risks could undo some gains.
More on Brexit
Of course, what's another trading week without Brexit headlines shaking things up for pound pairs? So far, sterling was off to a good start on news that EU leaders gave their thumbs-up for the draft deal.
But PM May still has her work cut out for her as her next task involves rallying enough support for Parliament to back the deal. The vote is due on December 12, which means that market watchers would likely be on their toes and sensitive to MPs' remarks until then.
If the Parliament winds up rejecting the Brexit deal, the U.K. might be forced to exit the region without any transition plans at all or yet another attempt to renegotiate an agreement. Either way, this would bring plenty of uncertainty for the economy and probably a lot of pain for the pound.
Last Week's Price Review
The pound edged out a win against the Greenback and the yen and is currently the second top-performing currency of the week (as of 3 pm GMT), which is a nice recovery after finishing in last place last week.
Overlay of GBP Pairs: 1-Hour Forex Chart
The pound found buyers from the get-go, likely because of news over the weekend that a leadership challenge against Theresa May failed to realized.
However, the pound slumped hard during Monday's London session when British PM Theresa May gave a speech since May stuck to her guns and defended her Brexit deal. And remember, the attempt to oust Theresa May from power was prompted by her deal.
Anyhow, the pound eventually clawed its way back up, although there were no apparent catalysts. The pound then traded sideways for a while before encountering sellers ahead of the BOE's inflation report hearing.
And when the report got underway, the pound spurted higher when BOE Guv'nah Carney expressed support for Theresa May's Brexit deal. There was no follow-through buying, though, and the pound's price action became mixed after that.
The pound's price action became uniform again during Thursday's London session since the pound spiked higher across the board when a draft of the post-Brexit relationship between the U.K. and the E.U. was leaked.
You see, the draft revealed that the U.K. and the E.U. are still gunning for a free-trade deal while also planning to do some prep work so that a trade deal can be quickly hammered out.
Perhaps more importantly, the draft revealed that there were plans to scrap the backstop solution.
"The Parties recall their determination to replace the backstop solution on Northern Ireland by a subsequent agreement that establishes alternative arrangements for ensuring the absence of a hard border on the island of Ireland on a permanent footing."
Remember, some MPs have expressed dissatisfaction with Theresa May's deal partly because of backstop solution since that's seen as a sneaky way to keep the U.K. within the E.U.
Getting back on topic, the draft was apparently the real deal since European Council President Donald Tusk tweeted the following after the draft was leaked.
I have just sent to EU27 a draft Political Declaration on the Future Relationship between EU and UK. The Commission President has informed me that it has been agreed at negotiators' level and agreed in principle at political level, subject to the endorsement of the Leaders.
— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) November 22, 2018
Theresa May also later confirmed that the draft was the real deal when she gave a speech during Thursday's U.S. session.
Anyhow, there was no follow-through buying and the pound's price action became mixed but somewhat range-bound for the rest of the week.
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Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
Achieve DOD Cybersecurity Compliance
What is the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)?
CMMC stands for "Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification". The CMMC is a verification mechanism that the U.S. Department of Defense will use (starting in mid-2020) to ensure that appropriate cybersecurity controls have been implemented to protect "controlled unclassified information" or CUI residing on systems in the defense industrial base (i.e. DoD contractors). CMMC is a replacement for NIST SP 800-171. No longer will a system security plan (SSP) and plan of action & milestone (POA&M) suffice to meet department of defense contract requirements. The earlier contractors begin working on their cybersecurity program the more likely they are to achieve a higher score, allowing them to win more contracts.
Desired Outcomes can help you achieve a higher cybersecurity maturity score thus opening up more contact opportunities for your company (contact@desiredoutcomesllc.com).
What is the difference between NIST SP 800-171 & CMMC?
The CMMC will combine cybersecurity control standards such as NIST SP 800-171 and ISO 27001 into one unified cybersecurity standards. The CMMC will not only look into the implementation of an organization's cybersecurity controls, it will also assess the maturity of an organization's cybersecurity practices, something that the NIST SP 800-171 framework did not consider. Maturity levels will be assigned to contractors based on the state of their cybersecurity program with 1 being the lowest rating and 5 being the highest maturity rating.
What are the different CMMC Maturity Levels?
There are 5 cybersecurity maturity model certification (CMMC) levels. The below graphic explains them quite well:
Why Maturity Levels are important
A higher maturity levels will allow you to bid on more contracts. If you have a maturity level of 1 or 2 you will not be able to win DoD contracts that require maturity levels of 3, 4, or 5 thus significantly limiting your business opportunities.
What cybersecurity control domains does the CMMC cover?
The CMMC covers 18 cybersecurity domains, ranging from access control to personnel security. The domains are very similar to what was required under NIST SP 800-171. A draft of all CMMC controls has been made available by the Department of Defense.
Link to CMMC Draft
When will the DoD require CMMC & who needs to certify?
Version 1.0 of the CMMC framework will be available beginning in January 2020, starting in June 2020 CMMC requirements will be part of DOD requests for information (RFI). All companies doing business with the DoD must be CMMC certified whether they handle CUI or not.
Cybersecurity is now an "allowable cost"!
Yes, you can now charge costs spent towards your cybersecurity program to your contract. "Katie Arrington, the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition for Cyber in the Office of the Under Secretary of Acquisition and Sustainment in DoD, made this bold statement before a roomful of vendors.
"I need you all now to get out your pens and you better write this down and tell your teams: Hear it from Katie Arrington, who got permission to say it from Mr. [Kevin] Fahey [the assistant secretary of Defense for Acquisition in the Office of the Under Secretary of Acquisition and Sustainment] security is an allowable cost. Amen, right?" Arrington said during an acquisition conference sponsored by the Professional Services Council in Arlington, Virginia. "Now what you need to do as industry is help me, help you. I'm not the enemy. I'm literally the one person in government who said, 'Hi, I'm here to help and I'm legit here to help."
Desired Outcomes can help you prepare for the new CMMC framework by providing strategic guidance and technical assistance to help you meet DoD requirements.
Every contractor will be audited by an independent non-profit third party that will assign them a cybersecurity "maturity" level between 1 and 5 with 5 being the highest score. The score received will either limit or enhance their ability to win contracts. For example, a company with a maturity level 1 will likely not be eligible as the prime contractor for a fighter jet program but may be able to produce boot laces, as a result; the higher a contractor's maturity level the more contract opportunities they have. To achieve a high score, contractors must have robust security controls in place, we can help you achieve that objective.
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RAC and EE bring superfast connectivity to Britain's fleets
EE, the UK's most advanced communications company, is working with the RAC to bring superfast connectivity to the nation's car fleets through the creation of one of the most advanced and far reaching business telematics products on the UK market. The agreement underscores EE's intention to be the partner of choice for companies looking to transform their business through mobile connectivity.
The three year deal marks a significant step forward for RAC's in-car B2B telematics solution and will enable fleet managers and business owners to quickly and reliably track and monitor each vehicle within their fleet.
An EE SIM embedded within the telematics unit will allow each vehicle to be monitored remotely, opening up an extensive range of benefits for those managing vehicle fleets. For example, as well as being able to more easily track the location, mileage and fuel efficiency of each vehicle, it will also provide the potential to identify mechanical faults and diagnose the cause of breakdowns and collisions without having to send out a mechanic.
The service is initially rolling out on EE's 2G and 3G network, the biggest and best in the UK, with plans to provide 4G services in the near future. The connectivity provided through EE means that the RAC will also be able to communicate with customers directly and establish stronger relationships with them.
The in-car telematics system also gives insurers the ability to use data on driver behaviour, car condition and mileage to more accurately tailor premiums, and to help decide who is at fault in the event of a collision.
Gerry McQuade, Chief Marketing Officer, Non Consumer EE said: "The rapidly increasing connectivity in the UK is fuelling a boom in M2M telematics, and EE is leading the way in this space. There are endless possibilities for its application in the automotive sector, and this partnership will enable RAC to ensure its customers are the first to reap the rewards of superfast connectivity."
RAC Director of Business Services David Aldridge said: "The RAC is dedicated to developing technology and networks that make significant differences to a business, both on an operational level and to the bottom line.
"As the UK's largest mobile network provider and pioneers of the UK's first 4G service, EE is a natural partner of choice for RAC, delivering telematics right to the heart of businesses to make managing a fleet of vehicles easier and more cost-effective.
"Our telematics technology offers fleet tracking and can even reduce the risk of accidents by up to 30%, which means that we can keep businesses moving on the roads more efficiently than ever before."
The RAC has a wealth of experience in fleet management service and the telematics product launch is part of a wider suite of new business services being launched by the motoring brand in 2013.
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With more than 15,000 employees and 600 retail stores, EE serves more than 27 million customers on EE, Orange and T-Mobile mobile and broadband plans.
EE runs the UK's biggest and fastest mobile network, having introduced the UK's first and only superfast 4G mobile service in 2012. In July 2013 EE's 4G coverage reached nearly 60% of the UK population, with plans to cover 98% of the population by 2014. 2G and 3G coverage currently reaches more than 99% of the population. EE's superfast fibre broadband service reaches 13 million premises, and fixed broadband reaches 99% UK population.
EE has received extensive independent recognition including being ranked the UK's best overall network by RootMetrics, and Best Business Network at the Mobile Industry Awards 2013.
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The RAC is committed to providing the very highest levels of service to its customers and ranked first for customer satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates' UK Roadside Assistance Study 2006 to 2009. The RAC was also the top-named breakdown organisation in the July 2009, January 2010, July 2010 and July 2011 half-yearly UK Customer Satisfaction Index from the Institute of Customer Service.
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Huddersfield town centre
Witnesses sought after horrific video emerges of gang of thugs beating up man in Huddersfield
The victim's friend said the attack was entirely unprovoked
Ben AbbissBreaking news reporter
Police have launched an appeal for witnesses after a video emerged showing a man being punched to the floor and kicked in the head by a gang of thugs in Huddersfield town centre.
The victim had just seen his friend to a taxi in Market Place following a night out when he was attacked by at least three men.
A video, which appears to have been shot on a mobile phone and later circulated on Snapchat, shows three attackers raining punches and kicks on the victim, who falls to the ground.
While he is lying motionless on the ground, one of the attackers runs up and kicks him in the head.
People can be heard laughing and encouraging the attack, which according to a friend of the victim was unprovoked.
The victim's friend told Yorkshire Live: "He had just put his friend in a taxi and was walking back through town, past McDonald's and Lloyds, when these guys at the other side if the road said something to him and he just said, 'grow up'.
"And then they just attacked him. You can see on the video three people but he said there was five."
Passers-by called an ambulance and the victim, aged in his 30s, was taken to hospital for treatment.
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A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: "Police received a report of an assault on Market Place, Huddersfield town centre on 21 August at around 11.30pm.
"A male in his 30s was assaulted and sustained facial injuries.
"Enquiries remain ongoing."
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The victim's friend said he, "has been shaken up since it happened," and has been experiencing regular nosebleeds during the past week.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police using the 101 online chat service, quoting crime reference 13200422597.


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Late in life, Newton said: 'I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me'.
About two years ago I was working on the ART OF LANGUAGE series, a series of paintings inspired by the languages of our world and concepts unique to those languages. While preparing a talk on the subject, I picked up a mathematical textbook. I wanted to illustrate the point that mathematics is not a language, just as musical notation is not a language.
An error in one painting was pointed out to me immediately by mathematician Gerard Michon .
While corresponding with him I got intrigued enough to 'enter a time travel machine' (my last brush with mathematics was doing an A level in the subject) and to start reading about mathematics all over again.
It is interesting to note that Robert and Ellen Kaplan start off their book (The Art of the Infinite) with a quote by the French poet Baudelaire, who speaks of 'cradling our infinite on the finite seas'.
This immediately poses some questions: does infinity live in our mind? Does it live in our language or in poetry? Or was it out there long before human beings conceived of it? Did it exist in the era of the Dinosaurs?
Mathematics is the science of searching for patterns to patterns and for connections between numbers. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said: 'A hidden connection is stronger than one we can see'. Could this be true?!
This image appeared before my eyes while waiting for a train recently, while mulling over concepts from mathematics that lend themselves to painting. The 'Implied Spider' from Wendy Doniger's book (or that is my guess! - see bibliography at the bottom of this page) crept in while working on this painting!
Robert and Ellen Kaplan say that mathematicians working right at the frontier of the subject must make a 'leap from seeing with the outer eye to the inner eye'. This is the leap from mathematics to the infinite: this must always be so. As an artist, used to working very intuitively, I find this a fascinating statement. For me painting is a marriage between seeing with the outer eye and the inner eye: I paint things I see with my inner eye, but base them on things I see with my outer eye, to take others on a visual journey that, ultimately, makes them look inside themselves.
David Foster Wallace (in this book 'Everything And More' ) makes an extremely interesting point about the concept 'abstract'. He uses a basic definition for abstract: 'removed from or transcending concrete particularity, sensuous experience'.
He says that 'used in this way, abstract is a term from metaphysics. Implicit in all mathematical theories, in fact, is some sort of metaphysical position. The father of abstraction in mathematics: Pythagoras. The father of abstraction in metaphysics: Plato'.
e is a real number constant that appears in some kinds of mathematics problems. Examples of such problems are those involving growth or decay (including compound interest), the statistical "bell curve," the shape of a hanging cable (or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis), some problems of probability, some counting problems, and even the study of the distribution of prime numbers. It appears in Stirling's Formula for approximating factorials. It also shows up in calculus quite often, wherever you are dealing with either logarithmic or exponential functions. There is also a connection between e and complex numbers, via Euler's Equation.
e = limn->infinity (1 + 1/n)n.
Its value is approximately 2.718281828459045... and has been calculated to 869,894,101 decimal places by Sebastian Wedeniwski (you'll find the first 50 digits in a Table of constants with 50 decimal places, from the Numbers, constants and computation site, by Xavier Gourdon and Pascal Sebah).
Imaginary numbers are based around the mathematical number i which is the square root of -1. In other words: i = the square root of -1, so i^2 = -1.
This list (by no means complete) evokes all sorts of images! Particularly Surreal Numbers, Imaginary Numbers and Transcendental Numbers! What might they be?!
Transcendental Numbers are numbers that cannot be the result of an algebraic equation (i.e. an equation which only uses the power of x ).
The label 'Imaginary' in Imaginary Numbers is thought to come from Descartes, he used the phrase dismissively. Newton thought that they were impossible. It must be pointed out though that to mathematicians they definitely exist!! Apparently they are of vital importance to aircraft designers and electrical engineers. Imaginary numbers are based around the mathematical number i which is the square root of -1. In other words: i = the square root of -1, so i^2 = -1.
The pythagorean world was shattered by Hippasus's proof that there were numbers, such as the square root of 2, which weren't the ratio of whole numbers. (I.e. you can't arrive at the square root of two by dividing two whole numbers).
Pythagoreans believed that mathematics held the key to the Universe!
^ SMALL NUMBERS, BIG PERSONALITIES!
Pythagoreans believed that numbers had personalities.
They believed that odd numbers are male and even numbers female!
In truth there is no such thing as Pascal's Pyramid - this is a concept of my invention! However there is such a thing as 'Pascal's Triangle'- and it looks like a pyramid. In the painting it is the smallest pyramid. Pascal's Triangle is famous for its symmetry and hidden relationships. Pascal didn't actually invent it, it was already known to Chinese scholars in the 13th century.
In Pascal's Triangle each number is the sum of the two numbers immediately above (working from the top down). In Pascal's Triangle the inner numbers form a pattern depending on whether those numbers are even or odd. If we substitute 1 for the odd numbers and 0 for the even numbers, we get a representation which is the same pattern as the remarkable fractal known as the Sierpinski gasket. (In my painting this is the medium size pyramid).
The German polymath Gottfried Leibniz discovered a remarkable set of of numbers in the form of a triangle. The Leibniz numbers have a symmetry relation about the vertical line. However, unlike Pascal's Triangle, the number in one row is obtained by adding the two numbers below it. For example: 1/30 + 1/20 = 1/12. In my painting the biggest pyramid shows the Leibniz Harmonic Triangle.
When first reading about Diophantine Equations: an elephant came to my mind. Proving Fermat's last theorem proved a 'mammoth task' for mathematicians. Gerard Michon then pointed out that not all Diophantine equations are elephantine - the linear ones are not. Having acknowledged his point here, this painting is still about an elephant. Something is the matter with this elephant... This painting was inspired by an image called 'L'Egistential Elephant' in a book about mathematical patterns.
It seems that there will be 'A Mammoth Challenge i' and 'A Mammoth Challenge II': Robin Whitty has drawn my attention to the fact that if I want to 'impress mathematicians' I ought to raise the power in A Mammoth Challenge to 37, rather than 3 (so I did!) He says it wasn't so hard to prove Fermat's Last Theorem for n=3, the real breakthrough was proving FLT for irregular primes, of which 37 is the first. So... back to the easel on this one!
Diophantine equations demand that their solution be in whole numbers. They are named after Diophantus of Alexandria whose Arithmetica became a milestone in the theory of numbers.
Pierre de Fermat was a 17th century lawyer and government official in Toulouse in France. He was a versatile mathematician and enjoyed a high reputation in the theory of numbers. He is most notably remembered for his las theorem, his final contribution to mathematics. (An explanation follows just below).
It is possible to add two square numbers together to make a third square. For instance: 5^2 + 12^2 = 13^2. Can we add two cubed numbers together to make another cube? And what about even higher powers than 3?
The answer is that we cannot do that. Fermat's last theorem says that for any whole numbers x,y, and z, there are no solutions to the equation x^n + y^n=z^n, when n is bigger than 2. Fermat's theorem is affectionately known as 'FLT' (or so Gerard Michon tells me).
Fermat claimed that he had found a 'wonderful proof', tantalising generations of mathematicians that followed! However Andrew Wiles proved this theorem in 1995.
Have you worked out the pattern? When I was a child I liked playing with series of numbers in my head, before falling asleep in the evenings. The Fibonacci series is familiar to me because of those nocturnal counting sessions: every number is the addition of the two previous numbers!
The Fibonacci sequence is found in nature in the formation of seashells, the number of spirals in the seed pots of sunflowers, in pine cones and just about every plant and vegetable! Interestingly it is also found in the family of the Honeybee: to be precise the family tree of the male drone bee!
One male drone Honeybee (1) has one parent: the Queen (1), two grandparents (2), three great grandparents (3)... and so forth!
In terms of human achievement, the Fibonacci numbers are found in room proportions and building proportions used by architects. Classical music composers have used these numbers as inspiration: Bartok's Dance Suite is believed to be connected to the sequence.
As a complete amateur when it comes to mathematics, I remember how certain algebraic equations I encountered at secondary school made me break out in a sweat. They scared the 'living daylights out of me', they looked like monsters to me!
...mathematical concepts and conclusions have inspired fear even in brilliant mathematicians!
In the 19th century the brilliant mathematician Georg Cantor was working hard on his Continuum Hypothesis. In his discovery that there is not just such a thing as infinity, but that there are higher orders of infinity, he was ahead of his times. Most of his colleagues and fellow mathematicians did not want to go there, or feel able to go there, so he ended up struggling in isolation. So actually, mathematical concepts have even frightened brilliant mathematicians on more than one occasion.
This painting is about certain mathematical concepts or notations turning into 'Frankenstein's monster' and frightening all who come face to face with it!
Postscript: Robin Whitty points out that 'nested roots', as the phenomon depicted in this picture is called, are tremendously important in the history of geometry because they exactly delimit what constructions are possible with the Greek 'straightedge and compass' method.
A theorem which uses ever more deeply nested square roots to give Pi is Viete's formula: (see www.theoremoftheday.org/Theorems.html#102), as Robin told me over dinner last night.
So I shall play detective... I feel a painting coming on!
Calculating the value for pi is, in a sense, equivalent to the ancient problem of squaring the circle: for a given circle construct, using a straightedge and compass, a square of equal area. It was finally established in the 19th century that only values which were built up from nested roots were 'constructable'.
Now pi can actually not be constructed by a finite number of ruler and compass operations. Viete's formula shows an approximation. He published this formula in 1593 and apparently it is the earliest known infinite product approximation of a number.
Personally I think this formula is both elegant and mysterious, a living piece of history!
A concept that I personally find very interesting is that of critical mass. The mathematical formula for this is n^2.
Critical mass is the point where a process reaches a point or density, where something shifts.
Critical mass is the minimum amount of something required to start or maintain a venture (= general wikipedia definition).
Critical mass is the minimum mass of fissionable material that sustain a chain reaction (and I guess that's chemistry).
Criticall mass is the condition of temperature and pressure above which no distinction exists between a liquid and its vapour.
'As a culture evolves, through the practice of what they already know, people become more and more prepared to know more. So there is eventually a critical moment in which a new idea can come into the group mind of the culture because the culture has in its evolution arrived at the first moment where it is capable of having that idea'.
Thus speaks Ralph Abraham in Twilight of the Clockwork God. He talks about a phase change or paradigm shift and says that such transformations happen on 'two sides of an axis', as it were: with the mathematical model on the one side and a cultural manifestation that swings history on its axis, on the other side.
Lynn Margulis is a scientist who studies the science of genetics and cell evolution. She makes the same point as Goethe did, speaking as a contemporary microbiologist: 'When you are paradigm shifting, you don't have the language. Whatever you say, people take the words in the context of their paradigm, which makes your scientific life difficult. You don't want to create neologisms. But you are not saying what they think you are saying'.
Zeno was a fiendishly clever Greek Philosopher. He came up with some of the most mindboggling paradoxes in world history!
His paradoxes challenge the reality of plurality and continuity. His most famous paradox is known as The Dichotomy. It looks very simple and it appears in two of his most famous paradoxes: 'The Racetrack' and 'Achilles versus the Tortoise'.
Basically he says that you can never cross a road, (or close a door, or win a race...) because before you can get all the way across the street, you have to reach the halfway point. And obviously before you can get halfway across, you first have to get to the halfway point of getting halfway across... and so forth. This is known as the dreaded 'regressus in infinitum', also known as the Vicious Infinite Regress or VIR.
Now a mathematician can come up with a formula to answer Zeno's dichotomy. (In case you want to know, that formula is a/(1-r)...) Obviously we all know from everyday experience that doors do shut, people cross streets and catch buses every day!
A very simple mathematical concept that has profound implications, or so it seems to me, is that of an infinitely large circle.
Or is it a case of there being many valid viewpoints, depending on who you are, where you are and what you are looking at?!
This painting was inspired by an illustration in a science book about how light behaves once enters a black hole.
Essentially it becomes trapped. The gravity in a black hole is such powerful that even light particles can't escape it.
Within mathematics there exists a field known as Chaos Theory. Now, isn't that a contradictio in terminis, if there ever was one?!
In the 19th centure a belief ruled the world that if we knew all positions, velocities and forces of all objects in the universe, then these quantities could be calculated exactly for all future times. This was the theory of a man called Marquis Pierre-Simon de Laplace, who mentioned this in an essay he published on the deterministic universe.
The general belief was that small discrepancies in initial conditions meant small discrepancies in outcomes. Chaos Theory exploded this idea!!
We have all heard about a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil and this resulting in a storm on the other side of the planet. Now this is Chaos Theory in action!
A characteristic of chaos is that a deterministic system may appear to generate random behavior. This is why forecasting the weather is so difficult, even with very powerful computers. The equations that 'govern' the weather are non-linear: they involve the variables multiplied together and not just the variables themselves.
One definition of Mathematics is to say that it is the science of finding patterns to patterns.
Within the concept of patterns, fractals are a very interesting concept. Fractals are patterns built up by means of a repetition that changes the scale at each application. They can be found all over the natural world, in the patterns of branching trees, plants and clouds. Snowfakes are an excellent example as well. The thing about fractals is that they look the same under the microscope as to a human eye without magnification!
As an aside: the blue pictures above are NOT recent paintings! I took these photographs at sunrise on January 2nd 2017 , at London Stansted Airport. They are frost patterns on parked cars. I was mesmerized by their beauty and did some research. I discovered that frost patterns are essentially fractals. Use this link for more information!
We have already come across a fractal on this webpage: the 'Sierpinsky Gasket' in the painting 'Pascal's Pyramids'.
This is the 'Sierpinsky Gasket'. It is a detail of a small painting enlarged and therefore quite crude. In reality every triangle in the image would contain an infinity of smaller triangles. It is never ending and quite mind boggling!
As I said in the previous section: 'Chaos Theory' sounds like a contradiction in terms, you would think that Chaos is what happens where all theories fail. This is not quite true. There is a branch of mathematics called 'Dynamical Systems Theory'. It is based upon the creation of mathematical models of dynamical processes in nature. It has been discovered that when systems enter states of turbulence (think of boiling water or epileptic seizures) they are actually entering into states of organisation so infinitely complex, that they only appear to be disordered. This is referred to as 'the self organizing properties of chaos'.
Now ask mothers of small children about the Self Organising Properties of Chaos...!
Or in the words of the Kaplans: mathematics lies in an enchanted world somewhere between reality and imagination.
Cantor is best known as the creator of Set Theory. He established the one-to-one correspondence between sets and proved that Real Numbers are more numerous than the Natural Numbers.
His most famous piece of work is the Continuum Hypothesis.
The Transfinite Cardinal of the sets that Cantor established is sometimes called E, or the 'smallest' transfinite number.
Robin Whitty comments that my painting shows the integers being put into one to one correspondence with the nonzero integers (so Lazy 8 + 1 = Lazy 8). Such correspondences are certainly at the heart of what Cantor did but there are examples which are more representative. Perhaps the most famous one is the one to one correspondence between the natural numbers and the positive fractions. Between any two whole numbers there are infinitely many fractions. Indeed, between any two fractions, however small, are infinitely many more fractions. So it is quite astonishing that there should be the same number of fractions as whole numbers! But such is the case and it is quite easy to see how.
In the following painting two entirely seperate and unlikely sources of inspiration come togeter: the Banach-Taski Paradox & Well Ordering Theorem and a comment made by my 4 year old son.
Brendan recently said that he prefers the 'Orange Moon' (i.e. the full moon) to the 'Banana Moon' (i.e. the waxing or waning crescent moon).
Around the same time Robin Whitty kindly gave me some feedback on my paintings about mathematical concepts.
He mentioned that the Banach-Taski Paradox would be a favourite theorem with many mathematicians.
I checked this out and learnt that in mathematical terms it is possible to cut an orange in five pieces which can then be rearranged to form a ball the size of the moon (or sun)!
Robin explains on his webpage that this notorious paradox is a bit of cheat because the pieces must be very complicated and they will make up a moon with a huge amount of empty space. Having said that: a mathematical orange has an infinity of material and infinity can fill up as much space as you need it to. At least it can if it is well-ordered!
And so in this painting my son's comment and Robin's intriguing Well Ordering Theorem come together. A reconstructed orange makes an Orange Sun and a reconstructed banana makes a Banana Moon!
I would like to thank the following mathematicians for taking the time to answer questions and engage with me on the most basic level (so I would have a hope of understanding!): Robin Whitty (in London), Gerard Michon (in Los Angeles), Evelien Bus and Bob Rink (both in the Netherlands). Obviously any remaining errors and dodgy bits are entirely of my own making! I would also like to say thank you to Judith Bogner (a TV presenter, not a mathematician!) for coming up with the concept of the Lazy 8 London Bus to Infinity!
For those of us who have small children - or remain children at heart! - here follows a list of the names of 'really big numbers'. My three sons often ask me for 'the name of the largest number known to man'. They talk about zillions and gazillions... I called my 8 year old son in right now and asked him for 'the largest number known in the school playground'. His answer was: million-billlion-zillion and hundreds of thousands! So what are the names of really large numbers?!


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If you have realized that you did not complete your NC real estate continuing education on time, you may be a bit stressed right now and not sure of what to do next. You were probably notified by the NC Real Estate Commission that you did not complete your required eight hours of annual continuing education due by June 10th and that your license will become inactive as of July 1. Here are the steps to remove that "CE deficiency" and get you back to active status as quickly as possible.
Step 1 – Call the NC Real Estate Commission at 919.875-3700 and find out exactly what your deficiency is and the number of classes you will need to make up that deficiency. Generally, if you did not take any CE, you will need to take the General Update course and 3 electives. If you only took 4-hours, you would need to take the General Update course and 2 electives. We offer online NCREC commission approved online, video-based electives that will help you get that portion completed quickly and efficiently. The General Update course will need to be taken in the classroom. You may search a complete listing of all CE classroom courses on the Commission website. No continuing education can can be offered during the blackout period of June 11 – June 30, however online continuing education and classroom continuing education will start back up July 1.
Step 2 – Once you have completed your continuing education, you and your broker-in-charge will need to complete Form 2.08 on the NC Real Estate Commission website. This form allows you to reactivate your license and your license is considered active at the point the form has been either mailed or delivered to the Commission. The Real Estate Commission will send you a Notice of License Record Change confirming that this form has been received and that your license has been placed on Active Status. If you haven't received the notice of change by 30 calendar days after the date entered on form 2.08, the NCREC states, "you must immediately cease any further activity for which a real estate license is required until the Notice of License Record Change has been received.
If you would like to be reminded of the CE deadline for next year, please subscribe to our email list and we will send you a link to our blog post on renewing your NC real estate license each year. This post also has valuable reminders for renewing your NC real estate brokers license and renewing your privilege license with the NC Department of Revenue. All active real estate brokers must pay the $50 privilege license to NCDOR each year.
As mentioned previously, it is best for you to call the Commission at 919-875-3700 so that they can look up your individual license record and tell you exactly what your license status is and the requirements to remove your deficiency.
I hope this information is beneficial. We are here to help you with your NC real estate continuing education; our NC real estate online video-based continuing education electives are up and running (effective July 1).


SYDNEY (AFP) - Human medicines and household substances have been discovered in the blood of green turtles in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, researchers said on Friday (June 2), highlighting the impact of man-made matter on marine life.
Medications for the heart (milrinone) and gout (allopurinol), as well as cosmetic and industrial chemicals, were among hundreds of thousands of substances detected in the reptiles' bloodstream as part of an ongoing conservation project.
Scientists said exposure to the substances had caused side effects in the turtles, with indications of inflammation and liver dysfunction.
"Humans are putting a lot of chemicals into the environment and we don't always know what they are and what effect they are having," said Amy Heffernan of the University of Queensland.
"What you put down your sink, spray on your farms, or release from industries ends up in the marine environment and in turtles in the Great Barrier Reef."
Researchers tested turtles at Cleveland Bay and Upstart Bay along the Queensland coast, as well as the more remote Howicks islands in the reef's north as part of the "Rivers to Reef to Turtles" project led by WWF-Australia.
The 2,300-kilometre-long barrier reef, a World Heritage site, is already under pressure from farming run-off, development, crown-of-thorns starfish and climate change, suffering its most severe bleaching on record last year.
WWF-Australia said the turtles could be used as a bio-monitoring tool to find out what chemicals were entering reef waters and what their impact on marine life could be.
In 2015, scientists said that a chemical used in sunscreen could be causing massive damage to coral reefs worldwide and threatening their very existence.
The chemical, oxybenzone, was causing "gross deformities" in baby coral, the study said.


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Q: Calling multiple functions using some generic function call in C I want to be able to call multiple functions using a single generic function call.
Currently I am trying to implement something like this:
main()
{
    generic();
}

A(){.....};

B(){.....};

C(){.....};

Where I call from main() some generic function, which, in turn, is supposed to be able to call the functions: A(), B(), C().
How can I implement this in C?

A: You can do it by using function pointers. Please refer on "how to use function pointers in C"

A: You have to use function pointers as below.
#include<stdio.h>
void A(void);
void B(void);
void C(void);
typedef void (*foo_ptr_t)( void );
foo_ptr_t foo_ptr_array[3]; //fucntion pointers of type foo_ptr_t
main()
{
    int i = 0;
    foo_ptr_array[0] = A; //assign function to each function pointer
    foo_ptr_array[1] = B;
    foo_ptr_array[2] = C;
    for(i = 0; i<3; i++)
        foo_ptr_array[i](); //call functions using function pointer
}

void A()
{
    printf("We are in A\n");
}

void B()
{
    printf("We are in B\n");
}

void C()
{
    printf("We are in C\n");
}

A: You can use function pointers, if all functions you want to call have same prototype.

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The Open Access publication course
Friday, 26 July 2013 in Science by Astrid Pellieux
Thanks to the Open Access movement, dissemination and accessibility of scientific publications have greatly evolved those last decades. Particularly related to the progress of online technologies, this evolution responds to the high demand of scientists to enhance the spreading of research results. This evolution can be assess through different statistics provided by key actors in this domain. As the Open Access movement begins with the green way of Open Access more statistics are provided for it.
In the research world, publications play an important role. In fact, thanks to them, all research results are spreaded to the scientific community. However, for years, those publications could only be reached through paid subscriptions. Allowing a free of charge access to scientific publications online represents the Open Access movement. Generally free of most usage restrictions (copyright and licensing), it also allows researchers to freely reused the publication results.
Two different ways exist in the Open Access movement. In the Green Open Access model, researchers put directly online and without charge their non peer-reviewed papers (preprints), peer-reviewed papers (postprints), thesis, etc. in open archives or repositories. In the Gold Open Access model, researchers publish papers in online Open Access journals which generally apply processing charges and peer-review processes. See our previous posts "Outline of Open Access" and "New practices in scientific peer review" for more information on these two subjects.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License
By giving free access to research publications, it is expected a greater dissemination of knowledges toward the scientific community. Since the creation of the first archive in 1991 (arXiv), more researchers contribute to the green Open Access by self-archiving their papers in open archives or repositories. The SHERPA/RoMEO platform provides several statistics concerning the publisher policies for self-archiving. According to it, 30% of the publishers referenced in their database allow researchers to deposit both preprints and postprints in a repository. 32% can archive only postprints, 8% only preprints, and 30% can't deposit any of them (statistics seen on 26 July 2013). Concerning the funder policy statistics, the platform SHERPA/JULIET provides good results. According to this website, 60% of world funders require publication archiving (statistics seen on 25 July 2013). To find green Open Access papers, several websites such as OpenDOAR exist. This platform also provides different kind of statistics like the percentage of repositories by continent, their more frequent content type, etc.
Concerning the gold Open Access, different informative platforms also exist. Since the PLOS publishing project initiated with an online petition in 2000, many journals are now available. The DOAJ platform provides a database of Open Access journals. On 25 July 2013, 9970 journals from around the world are referenced on this website. DOAJ also allows you to see the evolution of Open Access journals by providing a table of the number of journals registered by year and by country since 2002. For example for the United States, 16 journals were registered in 2002, and 1381 journals are now registered at this date. Thus, more and more Open Access journals are now available for researchers. Moreover, according to SHERPA/JULIET, 21% of world funders are now requiring Open Access publishing (statistics seen on 25 July 2013).
Thus, trough those few examples, we can see that the Open Access model continuously evolves since its beginning. To find more information, see the Dramatic Growth of Open Access Series of the librarian Heather Morrison.


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Q: I don't understand this step in this exercise involving algebra In the solution of an exercise they go from $e^{2y} = x + x\cdot e^{2y}$ straight to $e^{2y} = x / (1-x)$. Could anybody explain to me how/why this is possible?

A: subtracting $xe^{2y}$ on both sides we obtain
$e^{2y}-xe^{2y}=x$
factorizing
$e^{2y}(1-x)=x$ therefore
$e^{2y}=\frac{x}{1-x}$


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Q: AngularJS Error: $injector:nomod Module Unavailable I'm trying to learn AngularJS and am creating my first page. I am encountering the error:
Error: $injector:nomod Module Unavailable (here)
I have three files:
/index.html
/js/app.js
/js/controllers/MainController.js

And they are as follows:
/index.html
<!doctype html>

        <tilte>AngularJS Controllers</title>

Controllers

{{ message }}

                <form ng-submit="updateMessage(newMessage)">
                    <input type="text" ng-model="newMessage">
                    <button type="submit">Update Message</button>
                </form>

/js/app.js
var app = angular.module("myApp", []);

/js/controllers/MainController.js
app.controller('MainController', ['$scope', function($scope){
    $scope.message = 'hello';

    $scope.updateMessage = function(message){
        $scope.message = message;
    };
}]);

Where am I going wrong?

A: Avoid creating global variables like app for assigning the angular module. Instead angular provides a better syntax to set and get modules across multiple files.
App.js
(function() {
    // IIFE (Immediately invoked Function Express) to wrap variables inside the function. it prevents polluting global namespace.
     angular.module("myApp", []);
})();

MainController
  (function() {
     angular.module("myApp") // note [] is missing, it means we're getting a module
        .controller('MainController', ['$scope', function($scope){
            $scope.message = 'hello';

            $scope.updateMessage = function(message){
               $scope.message = message;
             };
        }]);
    })();

A: It is a typo.
When you pull your app.js inside the html, you wrote scr instead of src.
See:


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Known as the Eternal City, Italy's Rome is one of the world's most visited places. And with so much history found here, it's the ideal place to take photos!
This is a city where you'll focus on traditional architecture, culture and, of course, food. So learn about Rome photography in this guide.
Here are the best photo spots to help you get those stunning photos!
The Trevi fountain was completed in 1762, and today stands as one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions. It's not as popular as the Colosseum, or the Vatican, but still attracts large crowds.
The statues of the fountain make excellent backdrops for portrait photos. This is not lost on the throngs of people take photos of themselves and each other at this photo spot.
As a photographer you have two options, to embrace those crowds, or try to avoid them.
Include the crowds – Crowds can provide an important narrative element to a photo, giving the image context and life. To get the best of crowds in a photo you'll want to get above them.
Avoid the crowds – There are two main ways to increase your chances of photographing a monument without the crowds. The first is to wake up early in the morning, the second is to travel during the low season.
Best time to visit – Early in the morning, before the crowds.
The Trevi fountain in Rome is always busy. Sometimes it's good to embrace the crowds in your photography.
The Vatican museum houses one of the world's most important collections of artwork. There will be parts of this museum you won't be able to photograph. Even those you can, crowds of people will still make it difficult.
There is some amazing roof architecture worth capturing, but the real gem for photographers in this museum is the spiral staircase.
The Vatican staircase is going to be one of your main Rome photography targets. It's beautiful to photograph from the top looking down, from the bottom looking up, and midway along.
It's also crowded with people, and they don't really add to the photo. There is the option of arriving early, the problem is other people may arrive early as well. That's because the queues to get in are often very long indeed, giving regular tourists the motivation to arrive early as well.
So what are the other options? The answer is layering, and using this to remove the people.
The following is used to take the classic photo of these stairs, from the top looking down.
Compose your photo, you'll want to go as wide as you can to capture those swirling stairs.
Make sure you're nice and steady, and can hold your position for the duration of the photo sequence.
Take a series of photos, you'll likely need at least 20. Take a burst of 5 or 6 photos as the crowds move down the staircase, wait a while and then take another burst of photos.
Ensure your composition stays exactly the same throughout. As you can't use a tripod, you will have to concentrate on staying very still.
Import these images into Photoshop. You'll need to make sure the photos are all aligned. Layer the photos on top of each other, then go to Edit>Auto-Align Layers.
Now select all the images again. Next go to Files>Script>Statistics. From the menu that appears choose the median option. This will remove non-stationary object from your image, in theory leaving you with an image containing no people.
It's possible you will have some areas of the image that either still contain people, or a blurry area where people moved. Should this be the case you'll need to clone out the areas of concern, but these should be small after using the automated script.
Best time to visit – Arrive early to avoid waiting several hours in a queue.
The Vatican museum staircase will be at the top of many people's photograph list. To photograph it like this without crowds almost certainly means post processing.
Of the New7Wonders of the World, the only one to be found in Europe is in Rome, and it's the Colosseum.
There are plenty of good options for photographing this masterpiece, so let's look at some of the potential photographs you could take.
The wider scene – Capturing the Colosseum from a vantage point is possible from the area just in front of the building. Use a wide angle lens to capture the building from an elevation.
Traffic trail long exposure – At street level it's possible to capture bus light trails and the Colosseum in the same image. You won't see cars drive past the front of this building. If you wait patiently for buses, these provide excellent light streams.
Detail photos – Photos of the side of the building and its architecture work very well. Use the evening sunshine to get a nice warm glow as you photograph the window arches of the Colosseum.
Wide angle from inside – There are several view platforms inside the Coloseum that will give you a nice view. Once again a wide angle lens is best.
Dawn – Arriving at dawn means being able to photograph the Colosseum with no people. You'll also be able to capture the sun peaking through the windows of the Colosseum, as the sun is low to the horizon.
Best time to visit – Sunrise or blue hour.
There are many ways to photograph the Colosseum, traffic light trails is one technique you can try.
Around the corner from the Colosseum is the vast expanse of what was once an important location in ancient Rome.
This is an area that will give you the chance to photograph old decaying buildings, gardens, and lines of pillars. There are some nice vantage points to take photographs of this wider area, to get a sense of the scale of the place.
To get the most of this area take some wide angle photos from various vantage points. Use a longer focal length to take some detail photos as well.
Best time to visit – Early morning, perhaps after seeing the Colosseum.
The Roman forum is the excavation of the ancient Roman city.
In the centre of Rome is the Pantheon, yet another iconic building in Rome which you'll want to photograph. It's a building that's equally nice to photograph from the exterior and the interior.
One of the best times to photograph the building from the outside is the blue hour. It will be lit up, and you'll have the blue skies to contrast against the yellow glow of the illumination of the Pantheon.
The issue is avoiding the crowds once again. You might opt for the morning blue hour, before sunrise. The other choice is to use post processing to remove people.
The interior also presents good photos in the form of the roof of the pantheon, and the various statues you can find inside the building.
Best time to visit – The blue hour.
The Pantheon has both a nice exterior and interior. Here you can see the interesting architecture of the roof.
The other part of the Vatican that's popular to visit is St Peter's Basilica, with Piazza San Pietro right in front of it. This is an area of the Vatican that's not walled off, so you can freely wander in here.
If you're lucky, you might see the Pope. Should you be there on such a day bring a long telephoto lens with you. You'll not get close enough to photograph the Pope without it.
Beyond photographing the Pope there are two main reasons you'd want to photograph at St Peter's Basilica.
Church architecture – Architecture in religious building is meant to impress. That's certainly the case at St Peter's. So get that wide angle lens out, and do some interior architecture photography.
The viewpoint – This is a great place to visit for your Rome photography, with a nice view over the city.
Best time to visit – Early morning around sunrise, or the hour before sunset.
St Peter's square in the Vatican has a lot of pillars that make for interesting photos.
The views along the rivers of most major cities are impressive. Rome is no exception, and the river Tiber offers photographers a number of good photographic options.
There are lots of points along this river that you could use. Here are three of the most popular choices.
The view to St Peter's Basilica – The view down to St Peter's from Ponte Sant'Angelo is one of the best in Rome. Certainly the best along the river Tiber. Aim for sunset and blue hour to make the best of this location.
Castel Sant'Angelo – Looking along the same bridge, Ponte Sant'Angelo, is Castel Sant'Angelo. The lines of the bridge leading up to the Castel offer another great photo from this location.
Street photography – It's always good to practice some street photography, as this will enhance your Rome photography portfolio. The areas around the river bank offer good opportunities for this, with street artists going about their day.
The view toward St Peter's Basilica from the river Tiber is a popular photo.
The Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland) is an immense structure with striking architecture. It's great to photograph, and offers the chance to do some cityscape work.
The proximity to busy roads will also give you the chance to juxtapose modern traffic light trails against an old traditional building.
As it's located just in front of the Roman forum it will often be very crowded. That means arriving early in the morning if you want to photograph this building with less people wandering around.
It's good to photograph up close to get some architectural detail photos. Another location is from Piazza Venezia, from where you can use the rule of thirds to compose a nice photo of the Altar.
Best time to visit – Early in the morning, or perhaps blue hour in the evening.
Piazza Navona is Rome's central square. It's always busy. It's an area you should include in your Rome photography for several reasons. The first are the good opportunities for street photography. You'll find lots of life here, as people enjoy the fountains, browse the various street artists work, and go about their day.
The second reason are the surrounding traditional buildings. These make for a nice photo of a traditionally Roman scene.
You'll find street artists throughout Rome including in Piazza Navona.
The last stop on our list is another square, which offers something a little different from the others. This is a cobblestone square that's been pedestrianized. It's surrounded by lots of nice old buildings, in other words it's another very picturesque square in Rome.
There will be plenty of photos to take from street level here. The photo to take for your Rome photography is from a vantage point though.
Towards the back of the Piazza you'll find some steps that lead to a vantage point overlooking it. Take a photo of the Piazza extending down through Rome with the dome of St Peter's basilica in the background.
Best time to visit – Sunset and the evening blue hour.
Tripod – You can't use it everywhere, but it's vital for any good travel photography.
Various lenses – Make sure you cover your focal lengths with a good wide angle lens and a telephoto lens. Also grab a 50mm prime lens for some street photography.
You'll certainly need more than a few days to make the most of your photography in Rome.
If you can avoid the height of summer you'll be able to enjoy Rome at a less oppressive temperature, and you'll also likely have fewer crowds to deal with in general.
Rome is a nice city to walk through, but don't discount the excellent tram system that will get you around the city a little quicker so you can focus more on photography.
Looking for more travel photography tips? Check out our new post about the best architecture photography locations next!


The Pee Dee Vikings semi-pro football team will need to make some room in their trophy case as the Darlington-based crew won two more pieces of shiny hardware after another outstanding season.
Head coach James "Jay" Charles said the year started great and only got better as the Vikings amassed a 9-3 record for their regular season in the Central Carolina Football League.
"We went to the championship game against the Triad Outsiders from High Point, North Carolina, and it went to double overtime. We ended up losing by a field goal, 9 to 6," says Charles.
"It was a well-fought game and we had a lot of standout players – too many to mention. All season long, our boys gave their all," says coach Adrian Benjamin.
But, despite the disappointment of barely missing the league crown, the Vikings had one more shot to come out on top.
"The top two teams from each league every year get invited to a national bowl game in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. They matched us up against the Connecticut Mustangs, and we won 16-6," says Charles.
Cornerback Daily Whitten took MVP honors for the National Championship game, and linebacker Avery Harkless was the team's MVP in the CCFL championship game.
"To be a second year team and win 10 out of 13 games, and playing teams that have been in the league for 10 years, they're now looking at us like we're one of the top teams to beat. That's a major feat," says Benjamin.
Charles says the Vikings' winning team chemistry may be rooted in familiarity, since many players took the field together in high school, college, arena football, flag football.
Benjamin says that a share of credit must go to Charles himself – a hard-driving former player who emphasizes fitness and practices in step with (or ahead of) his team.
"They respect (Charles) because they know he played college, played arena. He knows the drills and can still get out there and run with them now. When he tells them to change something up or play their position a certain way, they listen to him. That takes you far," says Benjamin.
Coach and running back John Mills says that kind of commitment is key to keeping the Vikings inspired and energized, and that spirit transfers over to their families and fans.
"I have my family there in the stands, and it's a game I love, so once I have their support it's all in. Wherever I'm at, they are at," says Mills.
Fan support has increased over the Vikings' second season, with strong regular attendance and the occasional guest appearance by the Darlington High School Falcons marching band. Charles says the team is grateful for the support of Darlington Area Recreation, which upgraded bleachers, concessions and restroom facilities at Virgil Wells Stadium to host their home games.
The Pee Dee Vikings are gearing up for another season, with tryouts this past weekend and a grueling summer of practices ahead. If you're a fan of gritty gridiron action, make plans to attend a Vikings home game this fall. Tickets are just $5 each, and Charles promises an evening of high intensity football sure to entertain the whole family.