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Dancing Words with Madeleine Thien
Febrina Anindita (F) talks to Madeleine Thien (M).
by Febrina Anindita
You first went to university on a dance scholarship. How did you end up writing?
I was always writing, but I was always dancing, too. At some point I made the decision to leave my dance degree and to focus on literature, and to try to imagine and create in a different way.
On first impression, your intimate storytelling style makes your work memorable. Did you initially want to write with this style?
I'm so happy to hear this, thank you. "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" is a big novel, an epic, but I wanted the reader to feel as if this was their own life, their own family, their own aspirations. I don't know if I think about style per se, but I think about language and selfhood, how we speak, or learn to speak, and how our words come under pressure as the political climate changes — in times of oppression or totalitarianism, and in times of freedom, too. When I'm working on a novel, it's really a kind of listening. I'm just trying to hear something that is already in the world.
How far removed is your first piece of writing to what you are doing now?
I think it's quite far removed. I've often hoped that I could leave myself behind through writing and imagining, and that books are a way to steal away from oneself! It's an illusion that I seem to need in my life.
There are some implications of Asian writers who write about and within Asia. How impactful are these factors for your creative process?
I'm not sure. I think most characters live on the page through their complexity. I approach them as I approach myself, not as a category of person (Asian) but just as a person. The world they know is part of them, but the world is changing and in flux. That's how I see them, as solid and complex and alive and real (they want to make music, they love or fail to love, they are driven to forget or to reinvent themselves) but also like a river.
You're based in Montreal, but born to a Malaysian Chinese father and a Hong Kong Chinese mother. Each country in Asia has their own language. Do you think writing in English helps you translate your thoughts better?
It's my only language, unfortunately, as my parents raised us almost entirely in English. I speak a bit of Cantonese, Mandarin, French, and Dutch, but the only language in which I'm completely fluent in is English. I do sometimes think that I might be translating worlds or ways of seeing into the English language, but it feels so natural to me that I can't untie it from the function of language itself.
Your books "Dogs on the Perimeter" and "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" have traumatic national histories as settings. What made you choose these as the backdrops for your books?
I think the subject was revolution, idealism, and how we live or try to live as the worlds we know are collapsing or transforming. Cambodia is a place I became very attached to, and where I spent months and months over many years. And then, after writing "Dogs at the Perimeter," many difficult questions remained unresolved for me, and these gave rise to "Do Not Say We Have Nothing."
Your question is a fascinating one, as it makes me think that some of the most profound desires of the 20th century – what we wanted for our societies, and what we imagined they might be – became traumatic national histories. Belief, unbending and unforgiving, fueled ideology, and idealism embraced violence. Righteousness in all its forms frightens me; more and more I suspect one needs humility to truly change the world.
You incorporate classical music like Bach and Prokofiev in "Do Not Say We Have Nothing." Does your encounter with the classics influence your stories to have distinctive buildup and complexity?
The three characters at the centre of "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" are musicians, and so we see the world through them, their senses, their obsessions and questions. Sparrow, for instance, loves Bach, and the pattern of Bach's thinking is part of the pattern of his own. I think this becomes part of the structure of the novel, its themes and variations and recurrences, along with Bach's particular mix of technical precision with ardour, spirituality and something completely indefinable. I hope so.
There's an intimacy in words that can capture complexity better than visuals – and your work uses this technique to discuss the freedom of expression. As a writer, looking at regressive situations that occur everywhere, does literature make you feel hopeful?
No, I wish I could say that it does. But I don't think I turn to literature for hope. I think I need it because it has contradictions, and because the most profound literature can never be pinned down. I can't put my finger on exactly what it says or does because it's never really at rest, it has so many surfaces and interiorities and ways of thinking, that it is continuously refracting against our changing world. That's how I want to think and live.
Translation in literature is sometimes tricky because it might not eloquently convey the story, and your books have been translated into more than 25 languages. What do you think about this issue? Have you checked or met any issues regarding the translations?
Each language is another conceptual space, so that is part of the art of translation, how to carry a work from one space into another. I feel the translations have to find their own way. Translators are heroes. They lend their skills and their artistry to other books and artists.
Are there any new books or exciting projects coming from you?
I'm working on a novel, but very slowly. Mostly I've been traveling this year, so giving in to movement and change! And trying to absorb as much as possible.
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Ironworkers Robert Lipinski Jr., Mike Moreau and Mike Phillips were killed Feb. 16 when a 315-foot tall, 2-million-pound erection truss crane collapsed on the new I-280 bridge construction project in East Toledo, Ohio. The crane was one of two on the site.
Five other workers were injured. Three are listed in fair condition at area hospitals, while one is in serious condition and another in critical condition. The men are suffering from injuries ranging from closed head injury, spinal injuries and injuries to the abdomen, chest, and extremities.
Rescue crews spent several hours rescuing the injured workers and recovering the bodies of Lipinski, Moreau and Phillips. Members of Ironworkers Local 55 waited as the dead and injured were recovered, then asked to carry the stretchers to the waiting ambulances.
"They were very experienced ironworkers. None of them were rookies. They were very good, top men," said Joe Blaze, business manager of Local 55.
One onlooker described the scene as an erector set that had been pulled apart.
Rich Martinko, assistant director of highway management for the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), said, "We really don't have any answers or any indication what led to this." The highway will remain closed today while state and local investigators, as well as OSHA inspectors, investigate the collapse of the crane, which was built specifically for the project.
Although part of the crane tumbled into the left lane of northbound I-280, no vehicles were hit and no motorists were injured.
General contractor on the site is Fru-Con Construction Corp. The I-280 bridge over the Maumee River is the first project for the company's heavy civil construction group.
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Q: Why am I getting an Segmentation fault in this implementation of binary search? I am currently trying to implement binary search through recursion and created an prompt for User Input. Whenever I then input a number and searched for it I always get a segmentation fault (core dumped). I wrote this Code in the CS50 appliance.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <cs50.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>

int findMidpoint(int min, int max);
int binarySearch(int key, int array[], int min, int max);

int main(int argc, string argv[])
{
    int array[] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23};
    printf("Please search for a number : ");
    int key = GetInt();
    int search = binarySearch(key, &array, array[0], array[22]);
    printf("Result: %i \n", search);
}

int findMidpoint(int min, int max)
{
    int sum = min + max;
    int mid = sum/2;

    return mid;
}

int binarySearch(int key, int array[], int min, int max)
{
    if(min > max)
    {
        return -1;
    }
    else
    {
        int midpoint = findMidpoint(min, max);

        if(array[midpoint] < key)
        {
            binarySearch(key, array, midpoint+1, max);
        }

        else if(array[midpoint] > key)
        {
            binarySearch(key, array, midpoint-1, max);
        }
        else
        {
            return midpoint;
        }

    }

    return -1;
}

A: Here is your code working after a few modifications:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <cs50.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>

int findMidpoint(int min, int max);
int binarySearch(int key, int array[], int min, int max);

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    int array[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
            18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 };
    printf("Please search for a number : ");
    int key = GetInt();
    int search = binarySearch(key, array, 0, 22);
    printf("Result: %i \n", search);
}

int findMidpoint(int min, int max) {
    int sum = min + max;
    int mid = sum / 2;

    return mid;
}

int binarySearch(int key, int array[], int min, int max) {
    int midpoint = findMidpoint(min, max);
    if (array[midpoint] < key) {
        return binarySearch(key, array, midpoint + 1, max);
    } else if (array[midpoint] > key) {
        return binarySearch(key, array, min, midpoint - 1);
    } else {
        return array[midpoint];
    }
    return -1;
}

Notice that you need to return the result of binarySearch each time you recursively call it.

A: The min and max values are indices of the first and last elements, not values. You should therefore call the function with indices:
search = binarySearch(key, array, 0, 22);

Note that there is no ampersand & before array: The array will be treated as a pointer to its first element automatically. (And &array is not the right type here; you should have gotten a warning.)
When you recurse, you split the array in half and if the midpoint isn't your disired value, lok either at the left and right half. You got the right half part right:
binarySearch(key, array, midpoint+1, max);

but for the left part, mitpoint - 1 is the higher bound:
binarySearch(key, array, min, midpoint - 1);

Edit: The other answers show it, but I missed it: You must, of course, return the results of the recursive calls to binarySearch.

A: The application actually crashed on stack overflow, because the algorithm has not been properly implemnented.
Following the algorithm description on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm
Some returns added, recursive calls modified (GetInt replaced by hard coded value):
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>

int findMidpoint(int min, int max);
int binarySearch(int key, int array[], int min, int max);

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    int array[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 };
    printf("Please search for a number : ");
    int key = 10;
    int search = binarySearch(key, (int*)(&array), 0, 22);
    printf("Result: %i \n", search);
    getchar();
}

int findMidpoint(int min, int max)
{
    int sum = min + max;
    int mid = sum / 2;

    return mid;
}

int binarySearch(int key, int array[], int min, int max)
{
    if (min > max)
        return -1;
    else
    {
        int midpoint = findMidpoint(min, max);

        if (array[midpoint] < key)
            return binarySearch(key, array, midpoint + 1, max);
        else if (array[midpoint] > key)
            return binarySearch(key, array, min, midpoint - 1);
        else
            return midpoint;
    }

    return -1;
}

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Intel Goes Full XPU: Falcon Shores to Combine x86 and Xe For Supercomputers
by Ryan Smith on February 17, 2022 2:30 PM EST
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One of Intel's more interesting initiatives over the past few years has been XPU – the idea of using a variety of compute architectures in order to best meet the execution needs of a single workload. In practice, this has led to Intel developing everything from CPUs and GPUs to more specialty hardware like FPGAs and VPUs. All of this hardware, in turn, is overseen at the software level by Intel's oneAPI software stack, which is designed to abstract away many of the hardware differences to allow easier multi-architecture development.
Intel has always indicated that their XPU initiative was just a beginning, and as part of today's annual investor meeting, Intel is finally disclosing the next step in the evolution of the XPU concept with a new project codenamed Falcon Shores. Aimed at the supercomputing/HPC market, Falcon Shores is a new processor architecture that will combine x86 CPU and Xe GPU hardware into a single Xeon socket chip. And when it is released in 2024, Intel is expecting it to offer better than 5x the performance-per-watt and 5x the memory capacity of their current platforms.
At a very high level, Falcon Shores appears to be an HPC-grade APU/SoC/XPU for servers. While Intel is offering only the barest of details at this time, the company is being upfront in that they are combining x86 CPU and Xe GPU hardware into a single chip, with an eye on leveraging the synergy between the two. And, given the mention of advanced packaging technologies, it's a safe bet that Intel has something more complex than a monolithic die planned, be it separate CPU/GPU tiles, HBM memory (e.g. Sapphire Rapids), or something else entirely.
Diving a bit deeper, while integrating discrete components often pays benefits over the long run, the nature of the announcement strongly indicates that there's more to Intel's plan here than just integrating a CPU and GPU into a single chip (something they already do today in consumer parts). Rather, the presentation from Raja Koduri, Intel's SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group, makes it clear that Intel is looking to go after the market for HPC users with absolutely massive datasets – the kind that can't easily fit into the relatively limited memory capacity of a discrete GPU.
A singular chip, in comparison, would be much better prepared to work from large pools of DDR memory without having to (relatively) slowly shuffle data in and out of VRAM, which remains a drawback of discrete GPUs today. In those cases, even with high speed interfaces like NVLink and AMD's Infinity Fabric, the latency and bandwidth penalties of going between the CPU and GPU remain quite high compared to the speed at which HPC-class processors can actually manipulate data, so making that link as short as physically possible can potentially offer performance and energy savings.
Meanwhile, Intel is also touting Falcon Shores as offering a flexible ratio between x86 and Xe cores. The devil is in the details here, but at a high level it sounds like the company is looking at offering multiple SKUs with different numbers of cores – likely enabled by varying the number of x86 and Xe titles.
From a hardware perspective then, Intel seems to be planning to throw most of their next-generation technologies at Falcon Shores, which is fitting for its supercomputing target market. The chip is slated to be built on an "angstrom era process", which given the 2024 date is likely Intel's 20A process. And along with future x86/Xe cores, will also incorporate what Intel is calling "extreme bandwidth shared memory".
With all of that tech underpinning Falcon Shores, Intel is currently projecting a 5x increase over their current-generation products in several metrics. This includes a 5x increase in performance-per-watt, a 5x increase in compute density for a single (Xeon) socket, a 5x increase in memory capacity, and a 5x increase in memory bandwidth. In short, the company has high expectations for the performance of Falcon Shores, which is fitting given the highly competitive HPC market it's slated for.
And perhaps most interestingly of all, to get that performance Intel isn't just tackling things from the raw hardware throughput side of matters. The Falcon Shores announcement also mentions that developers will have access to a "vastly simplified GPU programming model" for the chip, indicating that Intel isn't just slapping some Xe cores into the chip and calling it a day. Just what this entails remains to be seen, but simplifying GPU programming remains a major goal in the GPU computing industry, especially for heterogeneous processors that combine CPU and GPU processing. Making it easier to program these high throughput chips not only makes them more accessible to developers, but reducing/eliminating synchronization and data preparation requirements can also go a long way towards improving performance.
Like everything else being announced as part of today's investor meeting, this announcement is more of a teaser for Intel. So expect to hear a lot more about Falcon Shores over the next couple of years as Intel continues their work to bringing it to market.
Source: Intel
name99 - Thursday, February 17, 2022 - link
"All of this hardware, in turn, is overseen at the software level by Intel's oneAPI software stack, which is designed to abstract away many of the hardware differences to allow easier multi-architecture development."
Except that, apparently, it doesn't.
I was recently part of a Twitter thread complaining that the primary reason Gaudi (and earlier Nervana) were gaining little traction was the absence of decent SW. I raised oneAPI and was told that it did nothing that was actually of interest to the serious large-scale NNU teams.
I know very little about oneAPI or NNU hardware, so I have no comment. But it does feel like oneAPI (like so much from Intel these days) exists a lot more on marketing slides and a lot less in actual customers hands.
edzieba - Monday, February 21, 2022 - link
A twitter complaints thread is probably not the best source for API adoption information.
mode_13h - Sunday, February 27, 2022 - link
> it does feel like oneAPI (like so much from Intel these days) exists a lot more
> on marketing slides and a lot less in actual customers hands.
Not exactly. At some level, it's a CPU/GPU API, being built upon SYCL and Data-Parallel C++. Their OpenVINO framework has a backend for it that supports their GPUs, which I know because we're using it.
Surprisingly, it seems OpenVINO still lacks backends for any Nervana or Habana ASIC, but they do have some level of support for Movidius and their GNA.
https://docs.openvino.ai/latest/openvino_docs_IE_D...
ballsystemlord - Thursday, February 17, 2022 - link
Sort of like Intel will be on 10nm within the next year? ;)
michael2k - Friday, February 18, 2022 - link
What do you mean? They've been on 10nm forever and just renamed their latest 10nm node I7
ballsystemlord - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - link
I was poking fun at Intel's recent slip with respect to the launch of their 10nm node. I was contrasting their lack of staying on schedule there with their current plans being likely to slip.
JayNor - Thursday, February 17, 2022 - link
The servethehome article, "Intel AXG on Falcon Shores Arctic Sound-M and Future Products at Investor Meeting 2022", mentioned that in a prior interview Raja made a note "LightBender", in reference to Falcon Shores' leading IO ... his interpretation that this meant Silicon Photonics.
I believe late 2024 to 2025 does match up with an in-package photonics roadmap Intel's Blum has presented.
Kevin G - Friday, February 18, 2022 - link
Silicon photonics is one of those aces Intel has had up their sleeves for awhile. Thus far they've only been leveraging that to produce some optical transceivers for Cisco.
Intel has been buying up networking companies with an eye of using their own advanced manufacturing and packaging to move those acquisitions forward. Intel's tile strategy will pay off here as the switch IO can be built using their silicon photonics as a discrete tile while the switch ASIC portion will be their own die. Then put in a few x86 dies for management and some memory controller dies to round out the product for the networking segment.
For the HPC side of things, those same tile used in the networking segment can be fully integrated as well for more internode bandwidth and lower latency. The switch ASIC portion wouldn't necessarily have to be Ethernet based as it could be something unique like PCIe over optics that leverages CXL to build a flat memory space and handle coherency.
name99 - Friday, February 18, 2022 - link
Or Silicon Photonics is the next Optane, a theoretically promising technology that Intel will fsck up through a combination of management incompetence, attempted market segmentation, tying it to intel products rather than allowing it to become generic technology, and so on...
emvonline - Saturday, February 19, 2022 - link
I think the optane analogy is that Optane works, but few people want it and are willing to pay for it. So it doesnt matter and no one cares. Many people have Si photonics technology. Do people want it and are they willing to pay for it. Was Optane mentioned at the investor meeting? I didnt hear it

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Robodebt failures 'should have been obvious' to senior public servants, judge finds
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Federal court judge Justice Bernard Murphy has slammed the commonwealth's robodebt scheme, describing it as a 'massive failure of public administration'.
Murphy on Friday approved a settlement worth $1.8 billion for hundreds of thousands of people who were wrongly issued with Centrelink debts.
He found the commonwealth 'unlawfully asserted' at least $1.763 billion in debts against roughly 433,000 Australians between July 2015 and November 2019.
"Then, including through private debt collection agencies, the commonwealth pursued people to repay these wrongly asserted debts, and recovered approximately $751 million from about 381,000 of them," Murphy said in his judgement.
"The proceeding has exposed a shameful chapter in the administration of the commonwealth social security system and a massive failure of public administration."
READ MORE: Robodebt: Government expects to refund more than 400,000 welfare debts
He said the fact that many welfare recipients don't earn constant income or work set hours 'should have been obvious' to the senior public servants and ministers running the scheme.
"Where a social security recipient does not earn a constant fortnightly wage, does not earn income every fortnight, or only works for intermittent periods in a year, their notional or assumed fortnightly income based on income averaging is unlikely to be the same as their actual fortnightly income," he noted.
"It should have been plain that in such circumstances the automated robodebt system may indicate an overpayment of social security benefits when that was not in fact the case. Yet, in the absence of further information from social security recipients, that is the basis upon which the automated robodebt system raised and recovered debts for asserted overpayments of social security benefits."
"Gordon Legal and our clients are delighted that the settlement has been approved by the Court, bringing closure for so many people who have been affected by the Robodebt scheme. We hope that this outcome brings peace of mind and some certainty to all class action members." pic.twitter.com/k2SlWEKCTQ
— Gordon Legal (@gordonlegal_au) June 11, 2021
The class action has been led by Gordon Legal. As a result, the commonwealth will — without admission of liability — pay $112 million in compensation to roughly 394,000 people, and refund more than $751 million in debts.
More than $1.7 billion in financial benefit will have been provided to approximately 430,000 group members since the class action began, Gordon Legal noted.
The government has also agreed to drop claims for repayment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in invalid debts.
READ MORE: Robodebt: Services Australia continued to recover debts despite risk that they were 'legally insufficient'
The Community and Public Sector Union and the Australian Council of Social Service have backed the federal court judgement.
CPSU national secretary Melissa Donnelly said union members working in Centrelink were raising concerns about the scheme with the department before it was rolled out.
"Had the department and the ministers responsible respected the expertise and experience of their own workers and listened to what they were saying, this 'shameful chapter' would never have occurred," she said.
"Our members are experts; they are on the frontline of this work every day. Had they been listened to at the outset, hundreds of thousands of Australians would have been spared untold financial and emotional stress.
"With the government continuing to initiate new schemes targeting welfare recipients, like the recently launched employer dob-in line, it is vital that it learns lessons from robodebt and takes welfare policy seriously."
Gordon Legal and its clients were 'delighted' by the approved settlement, according to Gordon Legal partner Andrew Grech.
"We hope that this outcome brings peace of mind and some certainty to all class action members and acts as a strong deterrent against similar callous welfare practices for both present and future governments," he said in a statement.
Shadow minister for the NDIS and government services Bill Shorten said the settlement was the 'second-best option' for the victims of the scheme.
"I think for the hundreds of thousands of our fellow Australians who were living on the edge in the margins and were unlawfully sued by the government, I think what they really wanted is that the government never behaved unlawfully to begin with," he told ABC News.
READ MORE: Morrison government settles robodebt class action for $112 million
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Several news outlets are reporting that Premier Wynne has told Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger that the province will pay the full capital cost of the proposed Hamilton LRT project. This is great news for Hamilton. For years Council and City staff have been looking at options for moving people through this vast region. With the upcoming introduction of All Day GO service and the future electrification of the Lakeshore GO Line it is going to become easier and easier to get around this region without using a car.
This statement confirms what I have long said: The Transit Only Lane vote (TOL) was not a referendum on LRT. Ending this planned 1 year pilot project had no effect on future transit funding from Metrolinx. What the TOL report did give us was very useful data that we can now use to come up with a full master transportation plan.
The devil however is in the details. When will the city receive the funding? What prerequisite work needs to be done prior to moving forward? How are we going to get people from the B-Line to the new GO station?
Here is the video http://livestre.am/52rRE from the Premier's press conference. The transit discussion begins around 8:40.
I look forward to receiving the official word from the Mayor and Metrolinx on this, and finding out from our Director of Transit (David Dixon) where Hamilton is in the priority queue for Metrolinx funding. The Mayor's press conference this afternoon indicates we should have a pretty good idea in the next few months when Hamilton would receive funding. I fully support the formation of the citizen's panel that our Mayor has spoken about and look forward to hearing their views and recommendations. Once we have this information we can begin to move forward with plans to improve transportation for the city and for the region.


Julius von Sachs helped establish plant physiology through his experiments in latter nineteenth-century Germany. Sachs infused the inchoate discipline of plant physiology with experimental techniques and a mechanistic stance, both of which cemented his place as one of the discipline's founders. Sachs trained a generation of plant physiologists, and his stress on experimentation and mechanism influenced biologists in other disciplines, especially embryologist Jacques Loeb.
Sachs was born in Breslau, Germany, on 2 October 1832. His parents, Maria-Theresia and Christian Gottlieb, were poor, and by 1849 both were dead. Sachs was friends with the children of Jan Evangelista Purkinje, a Czech physiologist and professor at the University of Breslau. Purkinje appreciated Sachs' potential and knew about his artistic skill. When Purkinje moved to the University of Prague in 1851 he hired Sachs as an illustrator and microscope assistant. Sachs lived in Purkinje's house until 1856, despite some tension between the two.
After Sachs enrolled at the University of Prague, he explored the university's curriculum, studying physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Unimpressed with the biology department, he pursued zoology and botany informally in his spare time. Robert Zimmermann, a philosopher, influenced Sachs more than any other professor at Prague. Sachs earned a PhD there in 1856.
In 1858 Sachs moved to the Agriculture College and Forest Academy at Tharandt where he stayed until 1859. He spent the next year at the Chemnitz Polytechnic and in 1861 was a professor at the Agricultural College of Poppelsdorf, which affiliated itself with the nearby University of Bonn. In Poppelsdorf, Sachs married an Austrian woman with whom he had three children. Sachs accepted the chair of botany at the University of Freiburg in 1867, but finding Freiburg unsuitable for plant physiology, he became a professor at the University of Würzburg within a year.
Würzburg administrators allowed Sachs to focus on his research and funded his laboratory so extensively that he stayed there the rest of his life despite offers from prestigious German universities. His colleagues elected Sachs rector of the University of Würzburg in 1871, and the local government bestowed an order of nobility upon Sachs, permitting the inclusion of "von" before his last name.
Sachs' contributions to biology fall primarily into four interconnected categories: methodological, practical, theoretical, and educational. His methodological contributions included treating proper microscope observations as fundamental to biological inquiry, yet insufficient to develop a science that could explain phenomena. For Sachs, experiments became another fundamental method of biological inquiry. Experiments he devised, most of which used simple devices and tools, became standard in plant physiology.
Sachs' time at the agricultural colleges was the source of many of his practical contributions, including his discovery that farmers could forego a popular but inconsequential and expensive soil supplement. His theoretical contributions, however, collected in his 1882 Vorlesungen über Pflanzenphysiologie (Lectures on the Physiology of Plants), overshadowed his practical contributions.
Sachs thought physiology could account for the vital processes prompting many to argue biology as irreducible to physics and chemistry. He viewed physiology as a fundamentally different discipline from physics or chemistry but wanted to use their laws for causal explanations. Sachs conceived of organisms as complexes of mechanisms that contributed to the continued existence of the organism and its reproduction into new organisms. As a discipline, physiology demonstrated which mechanisms contributed to those two processes, describing those mechanisms' characteristics. Most importantly, physiology measured and manipulated their contributions. For Sachs, organisms operated like machines. While one could study the physical processes of those machines, physiologists studied the processes of those machines that were fundamental for life: irritabilities.
Once fully understood, Sachs believed biologists could appeal to irritabilities to obviate appeals to vital forces. "Irritability" meant, for Sachs, a propensity in the protoplasm of an organism's cells to react to the organism's environment or external stimuli. Most importantly, those reactions could exhibit no proportionality or similarity to their external stimuli. An organism's overall structure, its cell-irritability, and the influence of its environment together comprised a tropism (environment-caused orientation). For instance, to study the sunlight-induced movements and reactions of a plant was to study that plant's heliotropism. Sachs argued that the energy transferred from the light rays to the plant was insufficient to move the plant, but enough to affect the irritability of the protoplasm in the plants cells, which then caused the orientation of the plant to change. Sachs could not fully account for how this worked, and so his account of irritabilities operated, to some extent, as a guiding maxim for his research.
Sachs's work on tropisms influenced Jacques Loeb during Loeb's two-year stay at Würzburg starting in 1886. Following intensive interaction with Sachs, Loeb began studying animal tropisms and solidified his experimental approach to biology, which he assimilated into embryology. Sachs's view of organisms also sparked Loeb's correspondence with Ernst Mach, which influenced Loeb's unabashedly mechanistic view of life.
Besides influencing Loeb, Sachs's educational contributions to biology include training a host of prominent botanists such as Francis Darwin, Hugo de Vries, Johannes Reinke, Karl Ritter von Goebel, and Wilhelm Pfeffer. Sachs' 1865 Handbuch der Experimentalphysiologie der Pflanzen was his original statement of the methods and objects of plant physiology, while his 1868 Lehrbuch der Botanik (Textbook of Botany) became the international standard for botany textbooks, and his 1875 Geschichte der Botanik (History of Botany) was an instant classic of historiography of science.
Sachs' students regarded him as a supportive teacher while also acknowledging his self-centeredness, arrogance, and intolerance for opposing views. Sachs slept little and worked long hours, relying on morphine at the least to help him through his long days. His addictions precipitated his death, which followed a painful illness, on 29 May 1897.
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James, W.O. "Julius Sachs and the Nineteenth-Century Renaissance of Botany." Endeavour 28 (1969): 61–64.
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Elliott, Steve, "Julius von Sachs (1832-1897)". Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2010-06-07). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1691.


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Rock 'n' Roll High School (film), een film uit 1979
 Rock 'n' Roll High School (album), soundtrack van de film
 Rock 'n' Roll High School (single), hit van de Ramones uit deze soundtrack

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Megaschizomus är ett släkte av spindeldjur. Megaschizomus ingår i familjen Hubbardiidae.

Kladogram enligt Catalogue of Life:

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Group A

Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's 17-man squad to play in the 2015 Kazakhstan President Cup.

Coach:  Carles Martorell Baques

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan 16 man squad to play in the 2015 Kazakhstan President Cup.

Coach: Samat Suymaliev

Spain
Spain 16 man squad to play in the 2015 Kazakhstan President Cup.

Coach:  Santiago Denia

Tajikistan
Tajikistan 16 man squad to play in the 2015 Kazakhstan President Cup.

Coach:  Zayniddin Rahimov

Group B

Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's 17-man squad to play in the 2015 Kazakhstan President Cup.

Coach:  Tabriz Hasanov

Belarus
Belarus's 17-man squad to play in the 2015 Kazakhstan President Cup.

Coach:  Vladzimir Pihuleuski

Georgia
Georgia's 17-man squad to play in the 2015 Kazakhstan President Cup.

Coach:  Gocha Avsajanishvili

Russia
Russia's 17-man squad to play in the 2015 Kazakhstan President Cup.

Coach:  Oleg Levin

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Opinion: Sesame Street's power of 'Yet!' isn't…
Opinion: Sesame Street's power of 'Yet!' isn't just for kids; it can change the world
By Sal Khan |
PUBLISHED: November 2, 2017 at 8:05 am | UPDATED: November 2, 2017 at 6:40 pm
I'm 41 now, and during tough interactions or challenging negotiations, I still have flashbacks to Big Bird singing "That's Cooperation" on Sesame Street.
My three young children may not be familiar with 1970s-era Big Bird, but they'll draw on lessons they're learning on Sesame Street today well into the future, too. I'm particularly excited to see them learning about "the power of yet."
Rather than saying "I can't do this," Sesame Street encourages us to say "I can't do this… yet!" That one word changes everything. It emphasizes that your capability isn't fixed. It highlights the reality that our brain is like a muscle. The more you challenge it, embrace failure and learn from mistakes, the more you can grow and eventually learn anything. Sesame Street is now using its broad reach to help millions of children build a strong growth mindset.
The idea of fixed and growth mindsets comes from Dr. Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University who pioneered the concepts through her study of learning over several decades.
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Dweck found those with a "fixed mindset" tend to focus their effort on tasks where they have a high likelihood of success and avoid tasks where they may struggle, which limits their learning. People with a "growth mindset," however, embrace challenges and understand that tenacity, effort, and the learning process itself can change outcomes.
As you can imagine, those with a growth mindset more actively push themselves and ultimately have more success. Even more interesting, Dweck has devised interventions that can help people of all ages go from a fixed to a growth mindset.
At Khan Academy, we've embraced the growth mindset and made it central to LearnStorm, our fall learning challenge. Our research shows 96 percent of students feel their learning confidence increased during LearnStorm pilots. We're excited to have a lasting impact on their education and, longer term, their professional and personal lives as well.
As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.
That's why I'm such a big fan of the power of yet. Later in life, when my kids struggle to understand a tricky concept or master a new skill, I want them to have the strength and experience to tell themselves "I don't know how to do this…yet!" I want them to be confident that, even if something seems challenging today, they have what it takes to figure it out.
Helping my kids embrace the power of yet seems like one of the most important things I can do as a parent.
Now, when I don't know the answer to a question one of my kids asks, I tell them "I don't know that yet, but let's go learn together." I want them to see we're never too old to learn, and with a strong mindset, we can learn anything.
If all of us embrace the power of yet, I believe we can truly change the trajectory of humanity. So next time you think you can't do something, remind yourself: You just can't do it yet!
Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a Mountain View-based nonprofit with a mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. He wrote this for The Bay Area News Group.
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The region of Limousin is famous for and takes pride in its flowers. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the township of Vayres.
Vayres is a village dedicated to the beautiful rose. Its people's love affair with the flower runs so deep that they have officially renamed the town Vayres-les-Roses (Vayres of Roses). The peak times to enjoy the blooms that adorn the side-walks, open spaces and residents' homes is from spring to October each year. You wont be bored in the winter either as the rose is ever-present in the village since even the street names are dedicated to the delicate flower.
The village of Vayres has even more historical and cultural significance. In the cold months of winter, the people of Limousin have historically relied heavily on hearty nuts and vegetables for sustenance. You will get a great feel for the importance of chestnuts as you meander through Vayres chestnut woods, past a typical chestnut drying, round stone house and a disused serpentine stone quarry.
We guarantee that you will fall in love with this florally-obssessed village. You can reach it easily from La Croix Du Reh and it is only 34km from Limoges, the Capital of Limousin. Just ask us how to get there.
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use App\V1Module\Presenters\SubmissionFailuresPresenter;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
use Nette\Application\Request;
use Nette\Application\Responses\JsonResponse;
use Tester\Assert;

$container = require_once "../bootstrap.php";

/**
 * @testCase
 */
class TestSubmissionFailures extends Tester\TestCase
{
    /** @var SubmissionFailuresPresenter */
    protected $presenter;

    /** @var EntityManagerInterface */
    protected $em;

    /** @var  Nette\DI\Container */
    protected $container;

    /** @var Nette\Security\User */
    private $user;

    public function __construct()
    {
        global $container;
        $this->container = $container;
        $this->em = PresenterTestHelper::getEntityManager($container);
        $this->user = $container->getByType(\Nette\Security\User::class);
    }

    protected function setUp()
    {
        PresenterTestHelper::fillDatabase($this->container);
        $this->presenter = PresenterTestHelper::createPresenter($this->container, SubmissionFailuresPresenter::class);
        PresenterTestHelper::loginDefaultAdmin($this->container);
    }

    protected function tearDown()
    {
        $this->user->logout(true);
        Mockery::close();
    }

    public function testListAll()
    {
        $request = new Request("V1:SubmissionFailures", "GET", ["action" => "default"], []);
        $response = $this->presenter->run($request);
        Assert::type(JsonResponse::class, $response);
        $result = $response->getPayload();
        Assert::count(2, $result["payload"]);
    }

    public function testListUnresolved()
    {
        $request = new Request("V1:SubmissionFailures", "GET", ["action" => "unresolved"], []);
        $response = $this->presenter->run($request);
        Assert::type(JsonResponse::class, $response);
        $result = $response->getPayload();
        Assert::count(1, $result["payload"]);
    }

    public function testDetail()
    {
        $failure = current($this->presenter->submissionFailures->findAll());
        $request = new Request("V1:SubmissionFailures", "GET", ["action" => "detail", "id" => $failure->getId()], []);
        $response = $this->presenter->run($request);
        Assert::type(JsonResponse::class, $response);
        $result = $response->getPayload();
        Assert::same($failure, $result["payload"]);
    }

    public function testResolveWithoutEmail()
    {
        $mockFailuresSender = Mockery::mock();
        $mockFailuresSender->shouldReceive("failureResolved")->never();
        $this->presenter->failureResolutionEmailsSender = $mockFailuresSender;

        $failure = current($this->presenter->submissionFailures->findUnresolved());
        $request = new Request(
            "V1:SubmissionFailures",
            "POST",
            ["action" => "resolve", "id" => $failure->getId()],
            ["note" => "bla", "sendEmail" => false]
        );
        $response = $this->presenter->run($request);
        Assert::type(JsonResponse::class, $response);
        $result = $response->getPayload();
        Assert::same(200, $result["code"]);
        Assert::same($failure, $result["payload"]);
        Assert::same("bla", $failure->getResolutionNote());
        Assert::notSame(null, $failure->getResolvedAt());
    }

    public function testResolveWithEmail()
    {
        $mockFailuresSender = Mockery::mock();
        $mockFailuresSender->shouldReceive("failureResolved")->once();
        $this->presenter->failureResolutionEmailsSender = $mockFailuresSender;

        $failure = current($this->presenter->submissionFailures->findUnresolved());
        $request = new Request(
            "V1:SubmissionFailures",
            "POST",
            ["action" => "resolve", "id" => $failure->getId()],
            ["note" => "bla", "sendEmail" => true]
        );
        $response = $this->presenter->run($request);
        Assert::type(JsonResponse::class, $response);
        $result = $response->getPayload();
        Assert::same(200, $result["code"]);
        Assert::same($failure, $result["payload"]);
        Assert::same("bla", $failure->getResolutionNote());
        Assert::notSame(null, $failure->getResolvedAt());
    }
}

$testCase = new TestSubmissionFailures();
$testCase->run();

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Watchdog slams lack of openness
EU OMBUDSMAN Jacob Söderman called this week for the European Commission and the Council of Ministers to open meetings where EU legislation is being discussed to the public.
By Leyla Linton
In a speech to the European Parliament petitions committee, he launched a fierce attack on the two institutions for their lack of openness. "It is difficult to see how the present practice can continue in the Union whereby only one institution – the European Parliament – carries out its legislative work in public, whilst the other two institutions operate more or less behind closed doors," he said.
Söderman told MEPs that the Council should consider giving the public access to meetings where Union legislation which would be binding on European citizens was being discussed.
But his remarks were given a cool reception by EU governments. The UK presidency has already announced plans to make more use of the open debates which now only take place at the first Council meetings of each presidency to discuss "genuinely legislative" matters.
However, diplomats said it would be difficult to go much further, pointing to problems in separating legislative work from negotiating sessions and arguing that opening up meetings to the public could push discussions into the corridors and slow down the decision-making process. "There is unlikely to be support in the Council for this," said one.
An Irish official said that while his country favoured increased transparency, "the devil is in the detail: the line between negotiation and legislation". He added: "There is no point in doing anything which would stop negotiations."
This concern was echoed by a Finnish diplomat, who said: "The real question is what the Ombudsman means by 'legislative'. If he wished to open the deliberations of the Council, our position would be hesitant The biggest losers would be the smaller countries."
A Commission spokesman said that the meetings of the full Commission had to be held behind closed doors to preserve their independence, but insisted that the Commission itself was not a closed institution.
He added that a "cultural revolution" had taken place within it, with a big increase in the number of Green Papers to open up the legislative process to consultation.
But he stressed that the Commission was "very concerned by what the Ombudsman thinks".
In his remarks to MEPs, Söderman also insisted that openness and democratic government required the public to be given sufficient access to documents held by the administration.
He said citizens could only exercise their right to freedom of expression if they knew "what the administration is doing and why". Yet neither Commission nor Council rules require registers of documents to be maintained, nor give any right of access to papers held by one body but originating in another.
"In future, these weaknesses must be addressed before one can speak about true openness in the Community administration," said Söderman.
The Ombudsman also said that he would have preferred the new article on right of access to documents in the Treaty of Amsterdam, which says that Parliament, Council and Commission should draw up their own rules, to be more precise and comprehensive.
More from ... Leyla Linton


The following open letter has been posted at the request of the Pacific Lutheran University Alumni Board in response to the proposed sale of KPLU. The PLU Alumni Board is a self-governing, volunteer leadership council comprised of 16 member alums.
Like many of you, the announcement of our alma mater's intention to sell KPLU was difficult news to hear. As the volunteer Board responsible for representing PLU's more than 40,000 living alumni, the administration of PLU shared with us the news of the sale prior to the public announcement. Many other alumni representatives were consulted confidentially over the past 10 months in the consideration of this possibility. Yet even with that advanced consultation, the KPLU news felt initially like a significant loss for us and for the University. However, shock and loss quickly turned to acceptance and understanding as we openly discussed the rationale for this sale.
As the KPLU/KUOW news has been shared more broadly, at times a few strong voices have dominated the conversation, framing the merger in a purely negative light. It would be inaccurate to assume that these voices speak for all PLU alumni. While we are all entitled to opinions on the matter, the Alumni Board felt it important to share our collective support for the Board of Regents' decision and highlight some facts we feel have been overshadowed in the past week.
We believe that this was a strategic decision based on careful analysis of the future of radio and a concern about how best to sustain public media in the region for as long as possible. The process to reach this decision was lengthy and thoughtful. Representative donors, alumni and stakeholders were consulted.
Student involvement at KPLU has been minimal for many years. Unlike alumni from the 80s and 90s, who remember robust and meaningful engagement, student interest has waned in recent years and the station was not providing a significant academic benefit to PLU's core mission – student education.
KPLU staff have done an amazing job in the past decade. This sale is not a vote of no confidence in their capacity, effort, or talent. Rather, it is a decision that acknowledges the significant difference between licensing and operating a radio station, and educating undergraduate and graduate students. The Board of Regents and administration are charged with strengthening and perpetuating the core educational mission for generations to come. Where core mission and business practice diverge, difficult decisions are often required.
The university is in good financial shape. The last fiscal year ended with a significant budgetary surplus. Student enrollment exceeded their goals for this year, and Fall 2016 recruitment is tracking ahead of projections, at a five-year high. The sale of KPLU does not benefit the university's operating budget, but rather invests the resources in the endowment to support future student scholarships, faculty and staff compensation, and professional development.
KPLU and KUOW have nine hours a day of duplicated NPR content. This is the single biggest item on the KPLU budget at close to $1 million per year. KPLU and KUOW have considerable overlap in listenership and donor base; so public media donors are supporting two stations, which are spending millions on duplicative programming.
Perhaps most importantly, KPLU's jazz listeners will have full-time jazz at 88.5, and news listeners will still have great NPR programming, better signal coverage on KUOW thanks to the superior reach of KPLU's network, and more resources for local news programming at 94.9.
KUOW is actively seeking input. We encourage you to share your thoughts on the voices and programming that you enjoy on KPLU.
This transition will take significant time for our community to process and accept. We hope this open letter helps in your discernment. Representatives of the Alumni Board are open and willing to hear from you, our fellow alums, in the coming weeks and months. Please know we invite your conversation, questions and concerns.
Once a Lute, Always a Lute.


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God Would Prefer You Shoot Your Own Dick Off
Jesus says go ahead
America's latest accused mass/racial murderer, a poorly-groomed white man by the name of Aaron Long, was a long-time churchgoer and apparently a deeply religious man before he made the news by icing eight people in three separate massage parlors last week.
Long allegedly killed his victims because he was tormented by the temptation they represented, so they say, even though he was a regular customer at those spas and paid the service charge to be tempted by his victims often. He describes himself as a sex addict, although he sounds like a regular twenty-one-year-old man afflicted only with the priapism that afflicts all men of his age, the vast majority of which relieve it by streaming porn rather than chilling Asian sex workers.
The ironic thing is, Jesus actually had advice for Long, for there is a verse from the Sermon on the Mount that says, "If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out." This is one of Our Savior's least frequently followed pieces of advice, but it's there. Apparently the crowd at the Sermon was pretty thug life, so the Savior was trying to make a stern impression on them. Nowhere in the Bible, though, does it say, "If a Korean woman gives you wood, buy a handgun and chill her." Although there's plenty of advice on who to kill and when to kill them in the Old Testament, that piece of wisdom is not contained in its pages.
Of course, the counsel to yank out your own eyeballs is better suited for those porn-watchers. Long's target would have to have been an even more personal one, but the words of the Bible are plain. It's a rare, one might even say a non-existent, event for a good Christian man to shoot off his own pecker to avoid the temptation of plunging it into another prostitute. Capping your own dick is usually reserved for drunk guys exercising their Second Amendment rights. Long could have been a pioneer in this field, and been hailed for solving his issues in a fundamentally Christian manner.
Instead, he went on a killing spree against sex workers, which has been done so often it's a cliché, at least here in the USA. He was excused by a local sheriff captain named Jay Baker as "being at the end of his rope," and "having a bad day," which resulted in Baker getting nearly as famous as Cooper all of a sudden.
We've all had bad days. Some of us are being audited by the IRS, some of us are getting our screenplay rejected once again, some of us are finding out our wives have been having sex with their bosses. Very few of us say to ourselves, when encountering a run of bad fortune, "The only thing that might possibly make this day shine for me is to kill every woman that's ever yanked me off."
Baker, meanwhile, has been fired from his job as spokesman for the Sheriff. Currently, he couldn't get a job as a spokesman for a poultry farm.
So, there's no happy ending for him, either.


On April 28, 1957 Twinsburg Township opened a new fire station to serve the community. That building is now being used by the Sheriff's Office.
The Twinsburg Fire Department was originally formed in May, 1919 with 25 original members. At that time they had a very minimal budget and were considered a "bucket brigade", as they did not have a station. In 1912, the first equipment was purchased – a 2-wheeled cart. The first motorized piece of equipment was purchased in 1923 and was a 1924 REO.
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Q: Computing TTR on corpus I'm trying to compute TTR of the Capitol Words corpus using lemmas over the entire vocabulary of each speaker.
I'm also trying to have defaultdict shuffle through each entry and then give a TTR percentage per each speaker. So far I have the code above, but not sure how to fix it so it works...
import nltk
cw = ReadCorpus(root)
from collections import defaultdict
speaker_TTR = defaultdict(int)
for record in cw:
    total_words = set([])
    N = 0
    text = record['text']
    processed = nlp(text)
    textw = [t.lemma_ for t in processed]
    N += len(textw)
    total_words |= set(textw)
    V = len(total_types)
    TTR = float(V)/float(N)
    speaker_TTR[record['speaker_name']] += 1

print "V = ",V
print "N = ",N
print "TTR = ",TTR


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odicci expands on ISO27001 certification
Sticky Post By editorial team On 26/05/2020
Odicci is the first ZERO-Party Data platform to achieve ISO27001 certification. It reinforces the commitment to the highest standards of information security and data protection.
Odicci, a leader in interactive customer engagement, today announced that interactive engagement platform was awarded the ISO27001 certification.
The ISO/IEC 27001 certification displays that odicci has met the complex international standards in ensuring the privacy, confidentiality, and availability of the entire odicci customer engagement platform.
''We know that every customer engagement and data collection decision we make has a security component to it, and our customers and their data is at the forefront.'' – Jacques Prothon (Odicci CEO)
Odicci's customer engagement platform enables users to create interactive experiences to build strong relationships and loyalty with new and existing customers.
Now with the ISO/IEC 27001 certification, we have a compliance commitment to monitor the best practises through repeatable processes including data transmission, logging, storage access controls operations and tracking of threats, and continuous improvement.
"We are setting the standard of thriving for the excellence and our strategic investment in maintaining a robust engagement platform and the completion of this internationally recognised certification process illustrates our dedicated commitment to security and the protection of customers data.'' – Jacques Prothon (Odicci CEO)
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is an Information Security Management System (ISMS) standard announced in October 2013 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
The standard guarantees that corporations have established methodologies and a framework of business and IT processes to support identify, manage, and reduce risks.
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How Transformative AI is Steering Our Future
September 7, 2017 by Ravleen Beeston
Artificial Intelligence is an amazingly powerful tool, with the potential to reach and enhance every aspect of our lives. As the technology around it continues to develop, so will the way we and organisations interact with it.
At Microsoft's Build conference this year, the mission was made clear that as AI becomes more sophisticated, it is vital to be made as accessible to consumers as it is to big businesses. With the potential to add new depth of understanding to the consumer journey, AI will be an essential evolution to search. This, for marketers specifically, highlights not only innovative ways to capitalise on this insight, but also enhance the consumer experience by providing them with personalised and timely content.
However, to reap the full rewards of AI, marketers must first shorten the divide between human creativity and intelligent technology. Creating a usable interface, which is appealing and accessible to your consumer base, is one of the first key steps in getting the most out of AI. By embracing AI empowered tools, marketing can reach new realms of engagement, enabling businesses to truly understand how their consumers behave, map patterns and share the best possible content with their audience. Indeed, in the future, personalisation will be the rule, not the exception.
AI is going to become an ever-present, invisible interface, set out with the aim of making our lives safer, easier and more productive.
This isn't a hypothetical future – the bridge between an effective user interface and personalisation first emerged with the digital personal assistants. With Cortana or Alexa, for example, everyday consumers can use AI to organise and benefit their day to day lives – indeed, Microsoft's Cortana can retain the same amount of information as a human PA. Or Cortana, for example, which can use location based accuracy to remind the user to pick up some more tea bags when passing a supermarket, what time to set out to get to an event on time – essentially, helping to make every day more productive for the user, by helping to reduce human error and assisting with tasks.
The next step for AI innovation will likely be the 'application economy'. The application economy represents a wide scope of opportunities to every sector. In particular, developers can use the tools at their disposal to enable them to bring to market new technologies with AI capabilities, quicker and more efficiently. These tools are more accessible than ever, with databases like Microsoft's Cognitive Services, a collection of APIs and services that allow developers to use a broad suite of AI Services. All developers, from experienced professionals to those starting out in the field, now have the ability to tap into vision, speech recognition, emotion and language services, seamlessly adding them to their applications and programmes.
AI is going to become an ever-present, invisible interface, set out with the aim of making our lives safer, easier and more productive. With increased accessibility to AI enabled technology, every brand now has the capacity to create even more impactful tools and, importantly, bring healthy competition into the industry. It is the role of marketers to shape how this technology unfolds and guide companies through their AI transformation.
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Third VAT-free day in Colombia: Marketplaces surpass 1,000% sales growth
The Colombian government's decision to sell electronic appliances only digitally leveraged the sales performance of e-commerce firms such as Mercado Libre and Linio
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The third VAT-free day in Colombia took place this Saturday, November 21. Previous dates were July 3 and June 19;
In this edition, the Colombian government decided to sell electronic appliances only through e-commerce stores;
According to the National Trade Federation of Colombia, Fenalco, sales will exceed $ 5 billion
The third VAT-free day in Colombia, which took place this Saturday, reached the same sales level as the past date held on July 3, according to a survey conducted with some retailers in Bogotá and other cities in the country and reported by La República newspaper.
According to a preliminary report that the National Trade Federation of Colombia, Fenalco, had access, around 10 a.m of this Saturday there was a 111% growth in sales with electronic invoicing, compared to the same time of the previous VAT-free days.
The Electronic Chamber of Commerce indicated in its official report at 10 a.m. a 25% growth in sales through electronic platforms, compared to the previous date.
"Compared to a normal November sales day in the first hours, it represents a growth of 300%. Versus the first VAT-free day, at the same time, a growth of 105% in sales, and vs. the second day, at the same time, 10% growth in sales," said Carlos Fajardo, PayU Latam marketing manager.
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As indicated by the payment gateway, on the third VAT-free date, the first hours of the day recorded more than $ 40 million in accumulated sales, more than 242,000 transactions, and an average ticket of $ 167.
"Without a doubt, Colombians are taking advantage of the discounts that commerce, in general, is making. Some of the main protagonists of the day are the large chain stores with more than 70% of total sales," he added.
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The Colombian government's decision to sell electronic appliances only digitally leveraged the sales performance of e-commerce and large marketplaces such as Mercado Libre and Linio.
It is expected that the third shopping date will show better figures than the previous days as, according to Fenalco, sales will exceed $ 5 billion. This is also due to other shopping campaigns in development called Madrúgale a la Navidad (Get up to Christmas) and Compra lo nuestro (Buy from us), which seek to transfer the Christmas purchases to the last week of November.
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Andrés Robatel, Linio's country manager, told the media outlet that, during the two previous days, the company exceeded up to 30 times the sales of a normal day in several of the categories and, in the second day without VAT, achieved a growth of more than 1,600% compared to other dates of the year, after the relevance given to the purchases of appliances and technology through e-commerce.
For Mercado Libre, on the first and second VAT-free days, 1,000% sales growth was registered; and during this last date, the e-commerce giant expects growth to exceed the first days.
The platform foresees to register an increase in new buyers very similar to the one that occurred during the past days, which remained at a growth of between 100% and 160% compared to a normal day. On this last date, the projection of users entering Mercado Libre is 250% more.
Mercado Libre seeks to register an increase of new buyers very similar to the one that was presented during the past dates, which remained at a growth of between 100% and 160% compared to a normal day. On this third VAT-free day, the forecast is to attract 250% more e-commerce newcomers.
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Inside a recent survey of home owners, nearly three from four put together to possess completed a current home transformation or had plans to do this over the following year. Actually, when requested to choose from a $10,000 home transformation or perhaps a personal transformation, three-quarters find the home transformation!
Most the home owners interviewed (64%) stated they'd use a nearby hardware store like Lowes or Lowe's for home transformation ideas and knowledge, while home designing magazines and residential improvement books were reported by 49% of home owners like a likely supply of transformation ideas. Do it yourself catalogs were pointed out by 42% of individuals interviewed like a likely supply of inspiration, and residential improvement tv shows were reported by 40% like a home transformation idea source.
Up to 50 % (49%) of home owners stated they'd use buddies and family for home transformation ideas, while 37% stated they'd talk to an inside designer, contractor or architect. Remarkably, only 31% of home owners pointed out they would search on the internet like a supply of home makover ideas.
Home owners within the survey were also requested who'd perform the focus on their house transformation and residential improvement projects. Up to 50 % of survey participants (47%) planned to roll-up their masturbator sleeves and obtain involved themselves, while 42% stated they'd employ a contractor and then leave the transformation try to another person. The rest of the 11% were undecided.
Survey participants were also requested how much cash these were intending to invest in do it yourself or home transformation projects in next season. Women, normally, were looking to spend about $10,000 to create over their houses, while males planned to invest typically $6,200 on their own home transformation and residential improvement projects. Both males and ladies chose kitchen areas and lavatories because the areas of the house most looking for a transformation, then master sleeping rooms, family rooms, home offices and sleeping rooms for him or her.
When requested what types of home transformation projects were on their own wish list, 47% of home owners pointed out a custom kitchen with real hardwood cabinets his or her dream transformation project. A marble bathroom having a Jacuzzi arrived second at 39%, then walk in closets (37%), a home entertainment system or hd tv (36%), natural hardwood flooring and paneling (32%) along with a well-outfitted office at home (26%).


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Cueva de Bolomor, or Bolomor Cave, is an archaeological site near Tavernes de la Valldigna in the Valencian Community, Spain. It was occupied over a long period of time, between 350,000 and 120,000 years ago.

Four Neanderthal remains have been recovered in excavations that were begun in 1989: a fragment of a fibula, two teeth, and a nearly complete parietal bone from an adult. All date from the late Middle/early Late Pleistocene. The thickness of the cortical bone in the fibula indicates it came from non-modern man.

Description

The cave is located in the La Valldigna valley, which is demarcated by the Les Creus mountain range to the north, whose highly eroded reliefs slope towards the valley, and the Mondúver range to the south. The valley is covered by sediments from the Quaternary period, and opens in the east to a marshy landscape with dunes, which connects to the coastal Mediterranean plain. The Cueva de Bolomor is on the right side of a cliff; it is a karst cave at  above sea
level, surrounded by karstified hills.

The cave today is more a rock shelter, of about  in length and  wide, and  deep with an irregular interior. Formerly, it was a much wider cave, before its dome fell in (probably due to seismic activity). Today's mouth of the cave overhangs the valley and offers a view of the coastal area, including the town of Cullera.

Occupation and remains
Archaeologists recognize a stratigraphy of 17 layers, dated between 350 and 121,000 years ago. Three main periods of occupation are recognized: 350,000 years ago, 200,000 to 150,000 years ago, and 120,000 years ago. Human occupants ate a wide variety of animals, including ungulates of all sizes, besides tortoises and birds. Throughout the occupation, they ate young elephants. A relative rarity for the Middle Pleistocene is the frequency with which the remains of rabbits, marked with cuts, are found; such small, quick prey is unusual for the period, and is most likely a specific feature of a unique locality.

Any prey, including young elephants, would have had to be carried up the steep  slope. Flake production dominated the flint technology, fire was habitually used, and there was lithic recycling; the Levallois technique was not often used, and no handaxes were found. It is postulated that the site represents a transition from an Acheulean to a post-Acheulean mode of living, which may have taken place between Marine Isotope Stages 9 and 7. Bolomor is one of "numerous European sites [that] attest new technological behavior oriented toward long and complex knapping methods, with long and complex repetitive core reduction, predetermined flake shape, and tool standardization". Layers with scrapers and denticulate tools alternate. Fifteen hearths, in age ranging between 250,000 and 100,000 years old, are being studied. Some of the hearths were lined with stone.

History of the research
The site has been excavated annually since 1989, during a 30-day period. Research is supported by the Prehistoric Investigation Service of the Valencian Council, and the material deposited in the Prehistory Museum of Valencia.

See also
List of Neanderthal sites

References

Notes

Bibliography

Further reading

External links

Neanderthal sites
Prehistoric sites in Spain
Province of Valencia
Caves of Spain
Archaeological sites in the Valencian Community


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SoftBank attempted to delay WeWork's $3 billion share purchase: Court filing
The transcript, part of a Delaware court filing, provides new details on the decision by SoftBank to scrap a $3 billion tender offer to repurchase stock from existing shareholders, including founder Adam Neumann and employees.
BOSTON | BENGALURU: SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son told the executive he tasked to turn around WeWork after its botched initial public offering to "use whatever excuse" to delay a $3 billion payout to the office-sharing startup's shareholders, a court transcript released on Wednesday showed.
A WeWork board committee that negotiated the tender offer sued SoftBank in April over that decision, accusing the Japanese company of "buyer's remorse" amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The transcript includes an undated text exchange between Son and Marcelo Claure, who he installed as WeWork's executive chairman last October.
Claure told Son that SoftBank Group Tokyo had "made a late request" to delay the tender offer payment until April 1, 2020 from Feb. 28, 2020.
Son replied: "It's great to postpone the close of tender.... Use whatever excuse to make senses."
Claure responded: "Ok. Will use antitrust. I am turning good at excuses like someone I know very well :)"
The court filing was made by Neumann and We Holdings LLC in an effort to compel SoftBank to produce documents they claim had been improperly withheld.
A SoftBank spokeswoman said in an email: "Cherry-picking quotes from documents doesn't change the facts: under the terms of our agreement SoftBank had no obligation to complete the tender offer in which Mr. Neumann-the biggest beneficiary- sought to sell nearly $1 billion in stock."
WeWork did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
SoftBank said earlier this year it would not complete the tender offer because several conditions had not been met.
Among the reasons it cited were U.S. criminal and civil investigations into WeWork, the failure to restructure a joint venture in China, and the pandemic.
SoftBank's decision frustrated WeWork shareholders expecting a payout. Neumann, who was replaced as WeWork CEO last year, was to have sold the bulk of the shares.
The tender offer was part of a nearly $10 billion rescue package for WeWork negotiated last October and which gave SoftBank control of the company.
Since then, the pandemic has hurt WeWork's occupancy rates, as corporate clients in big cities escape shared workspaces and ask employees to work from home.


On Thursday, British police forcibly removed Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy, where he had taken asylum for nearly seven years.
The letter to the Home Secretary was organised by Labour MP Stella Creasy and stated: "We are writing to request that you do everything you can to champion action that will ensure Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden in the event Sweden make an extradition request".
Sweden suspended its investigation into possible serious sexual misconduct against Assange two years ago because he was beyond their reach while he was living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London with political asylum status. British police said Assange had been arrested Thursday for breaching his bail conditions and in relation to the us arrest request.
Assange has denied wrongdoing. Prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is the U.S. political elite's revenge over information that he made public, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
But she said Assange should face the criminal justice system if the Swedish government charged him. He also sought refuge because of fears that Sweden would ultimately extradite him to the U.S.


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NBA: Does James Harden Want To Leave Houston Rockets? Coach Calls Harden A "Holdout"
By Julia Delong
This is a big question that has been circulating for some time. According to recent reports, it is hinted that the Houston Rockets top shooting guard, James Harden wants to call it quits with his team. His recent absence from the team's practice matches also calls for speculation.
Houston Rockets are all set to prepare for the upcoming NBA season and the team's coach Stephen Silas describes the absence of James Harden from Sunday's training session as a "Holdout".
Stephen Silas Calls James Harden's Absence A "Setback' For The Team
This is the first time Stephen Silas is acting as the head coach of a team. In a recent statement regarding the absence of James Harden, he spoke out that as far as the timetable for the practice sessions go, there is no timetable yet as far as his knowledge. He calls Harden's absence a setback. Expressing his disappointment regarding the entire situation, Silas further steps up to say that it is nothing better than a setback when the team's best player is absent from the ground.
James Harden, 31, became one of the NBA's most prolific scorers and earned recognition as the best shooting guard in the NBA, as well as one of the top overall players in the league. Harden also won the MVP title in 2018 and has a record of 8- times All-Star winner and a 6-times All NBA First Team honors winner.
In the statement Stephen Silas further mentioned that he was unclear regarding the reason for Harden's absence from the game practice. He says that he is uncertain about what the player desires or what "message" he wants to send the team.
During this period, James Harden has been spotted attending the birthday of Lil Baby and on another instance, partying in Las Vegas. Even though there is no official news yet, several reports suggest Harden wants to quit the Rockets and join the Brooklyn Nets and form a super combo with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant.


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Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus welcome first child together
Diane Kruger is a mom!
The German-American actress and her boyfriend, The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus, have welcomed their first child together, PEOPLE confirms.
No other details — including baby's sex, name or birth date — are known.
While the new baby is the first child for Kruger, 42, Reedus is also a dad to 19-year-old son Mingus Lucien, his only child with ex Helena Christensen.
Reps for the couple have not commented on the new addition.
Multiple sources confirmed the pregnancy to the outlet in May, after Kruger sparked rumors of her pregnancy at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival earlier that month by wearing a variety of loose-fitting outfits during the event.
The new mom and Reedus, 49, met while filming the 2015 movie Sky, in which Kruger's character embarks on a journey of self-discovery after leaving her husband and getting involved with Reedus' character. They promoted the film together at the Toronto International Film Festival before going public with their romance in March 2017.
Kruger previously dated The Affair star Joshua Jackson (who costarred with Reedus and Kruger in Sky) for a decade before breaking up in summer 2016. Reedus was in a five-year relationship with model Christensen, 49, whom he split from in 2003.
Although the couple didn't comment on their new addition throughout Kruger's pregnancy, the actress has been spotted sporting a baby bump in the months since the news broke. In August, a then-pregnant Kruger was photographed out and about in N.Y.C.
The National Treasure star showed off her growing belly under a floral-print blouse with puffy sleeves, wearing loose maternity jeans and carrying a black handbag as she hailed a taxi.
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Fleetwood Town go into the crucial festive campaign having seen Alan Goodall included in the Football League team of the week.
The defender scored his first league goal in four years and steered his side towards a point at leaders Gillingham. More details here. Next up for Town is a trip to Oxford United who have struggled with their start to this season's npower League 2 campaign. The travelling Cod Army have a great opportunity to boost thier ranks at the Kassam Stadium by booking club transport. Club travel is £20 and departs Highbury at 8am. The return journey starts immediately after the final whistle. Book travel in the club shop or call 0843 515 3832. Kassam Stadium tickets prices are found here. Morecambe visit Highbury on Boxing Day and many will have happy memories from September at the New Globe. Over a 1,000 travelling Cod Army saw Town take the Shrimps apart with Jon Parkin contributing a hat-trick. Tickets for the Boxing Day derby are on sale now for all home areas of the Highbury. Morecambe have been allocated the Percy Ronson Stand and blocks F&G. The Parkside Hospitality Suite is full but Jim's Sports Bar is open from 11am with Nottingham Forest hosting Leeds United at 12.15. Tickets are also on sale for the visit of York City on Saturday 29th December who some Parkside Suite tickets still available. Junior Brown and substitute Steven Gillespie scored in either half as Town excellently soaked up early pressure from the home side in the corresponding fixture in early October. The final game of the holiday period is the away trip to Port Vale on New Years' Day. Town will be looking to redress the balance after Vale took three points from Highbury in September. Travel costs £15 and coaches depart at 10.30. A great way of watching Fleetwood Town at Highbury is with a half-season ticket. These tickets are available now and make a great Christmas gift. The half-season tickets are available for the Parkside Stand, the Highbury Stand and the Memorial Stand for all age groups and full details are available here. All half-season ticket holders who have purchased by 3pm on Christmas Eve will be entered into a draw for a copy of Football Manager 2013 signed by Graham Alexander. Don't forget under 12's enjoy free entry to all Highbury league game with a Junior Cod Army membership. Please ask in the club shop or here. The club shop is open this week from 9am to 5pm and Saturday 9am to 1pm. Christmas Eve opening is from 8am until 3pm. The shop reopens on Boxing Day from 9am until kick-off at 3pm. Happy Christmas !


The Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology held an IT Skills Gap Forum on Friday, March 22, 2013 at Bellevue College. 30 IT industry professionals were in attendance for a Center presentation as well as spending 1.5 hours answering a series of questions in smaller focus groups. The purpose of this meeting was to obtain "real time" information from business and industry leaders about expected job growth trends over the next three to five years and to discuss workforce skills gaps that make filling job vacancies difficult for employers within the industry.
The IT Professionals completed an IT Skills Gap Forum questionnaire prior to the event. The Center in addition to asking for some general employment data (expected hiring, areas of employment where it was difficult to find employees, etc.) asked some additional and specific questions about specific technical knowledge and skills (including soft) that were deemed important and in high demand, as well as asking what new technological developments might create new or unanticipated IT career pathways. The Center then created a series of documents, including a "state of the industry" PPT, as well as the results from the questionnaire and the focus group Q&A to allow for a comprehensive look (with additional resource data imported) of how the skills gap and emerging trends in the technology sector might impact Washington State's college IT programs.
NEW RESEARCH RESOURCE FOR 2014: In October and November 2013, the Center of Excellence was asked to participate in two Microsoft-sponsored webinars on IT Technology/Workforce Trends.
Microsoft's Insights 2013 that featured a panel of industry and academic experts discussing strategies to move ahead in the field of technology. During the discussion, the panel addressed such issues as: What skills are required to succeed in technology roles today and in the future? How much can you expect to make along your chosen career path?
The State of the IT Industry PowerPoint presentation which focuses on technology trends and their impact on nine in-demand IT career pathways, as well as technical knowledge and skills of prospective employees identified with associated ratings of importance and difficulty in finding.


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C.J.: For RuPaul, love and kindness top everything else
"I love all of the things that make life exciting," says RuPaul.
— Robert Voets
By C.J. , Star Tribune
This is Week 2 of the test run for the "RuPaul" talk show airing on Fox 9+ (WFTC, Ch. 9.2), at 8 p.m. Tuesday. And this is the second of two parts of my interview with the cultural icon and host of the eponymous, Emmy-winning "RuPaul's Drag Race." The first installment was in last Tuesday's column.
He's always been a brave man, but he would not take more credit than he thought he deserved for moving from San Diego to Atlanta as a teenager to attend performing arts school at a young age.
Q: Would you let your 15-year-old move across the country?
A: I moved with my sister, though. My sister, who had kind of been a parental figure for me; she's seven years older. In essence, I did have some adult supervision. It would depend on the kid, though, you know? I wasn't coddled as a kid. I was taught how to stand up for myself and how to check in with my own inner GPS. My mother was secure knowing that I could take care of myself. I don't know if a lot of kids today can do it. Kids are a lot younger today than they were when I was 15. They're a lot less mature.
Q: Nowadays parents don't let their kids get knocked around so they can learn how to get back up after being bounced around by life.
A: That's right.
Q: You were named after the roux that is the base for gumbo. Do you know how to prepare gumbo?
A: I don't. I've seen it made. I have never made a gumbo myself. If pushed, I could probably do it. [Long laughs.] But I'm not a cook. My husband [Georges LeBar] does all the cooking.
Q: Speaking of your husband, what on earth do you do on his ranch in Wyoming?
A: When I'm up there, I do nothing. He owns a 60,000-acre ranch. I wear a lot of western wear. No one appreciates my western outfits. I read books. I'm very quiet. He and I both are people who can work well with stillness and with quiet and peace and tranquillity. I read a lot when I'm up there.
Q: What's the last book you read?
A: I am rereading "Respect" by David Ritz, a book about Aretha Franklin, because I loved it so much the first time. It's very funny. Did you read that book?
Q: I have not, but on your recommendation I will.
You strike me as someone who would prefer cremation, but play along with me now. When the time comes for you to be stretched out in one of those extra long caskets, how will you be dressed — like RuPaul in "Supermodel (You Better Work)" or unadorned with the freckles?
A: Well, you know, that's interesting. You started off with the whole cremation thing. I grew up with the concept I am not my body. This body is just a vessel. That's why, for years, I've said "You're born naked and the rest is drag." The point of that is to not take all of this superficial stuff too seriously.
There are things to take seriously, and those things are love and kindness. But I don't take the body thing too seriously. I would be cremated. In fact, in my will, this may sound morbid, [I stated] that I would be cremated and my ashes would just be tossed away in the garbage.
Q: You have been quoted saying, "You can call me 'he.' You can call me 'she.' You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee." Are you surprised that some gender nonconformists want to be referred to as "they" or "them" these days?
A: [Extended laughter. He took a breath and continued to laugh.] Just like me, whatever you want to be called is fine with me. [More laughter.] You can call yourself whatever you want.
Q: I don't know if you have ever seen Holly Robinson Peete's adorable youngest boy, Roman. He looks so much like young RuPaul.
A: Huh. I'll have to go look at that.
C.J. can be reached at cj@startribune.com and seen on Fox 9's "Buzz." E-mailers, please state a subject; "Hello" does not count.
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