A warm welcome to our Open House at the Jonas Vildmark Bushcraftcenter at the homestead Lienshyttans Herrgård, Riddarhyttan Sweden. A couple of Sundays per year we arrange what we call The Bushcraft Sunday. Everyone is welcome to join us around the camp fire discussing everything from old hunting stories to your upcoming hiking adventure.
Enjoy a refreshing Fika inside our cozy Garden House where you can buy soup, sandwiches and other pastries straight from the Homestead Kitchen. Inside our little Bushcraft Boutique you can find bushcraft gear and inspiring locally handcrafted items. In the Bushcraft Studio you can listen to interesting Speakers and look at inspiring pictures from our beautiful wilderness.
We're looking forward having interesting conversations about Woodcraft, Hunting, Fishing and other outdoor activities. Perhaps we'll touch upon; Natural navigation, Water purification, Sloyd, Primitive fishing techniques or your favorite gear - You decide. You are also welcome to bring your own made gear to inspire others and to get tips from the other participants.
Lienshyttans Herrgård is situated in Riddarhyttan Sweden along road No.68. The postal address is Hyttvägen 1 and you can read more about the homestead and how to get here by clicking HERE.
You are welcome to use our Facebook page to synchronize your carpooling.
Bushcraft Sunday Open House Entrance is for free (no entrance fee).
Dress code; robust, warm and comfortable (this is an outdoor event).
Looking forward seeing you here!
If you haven't already seen it; the new issue of Vapentidningen (No.7 - 2017) is now out in stores. Inside you'll find my article on the Casström Safari.
This hunting knife is the result of a collaboration between the English knife maker Mr. Alan Wood and the Swedish company Casström. It's a very handy and slim fixed blade knife featuring a 65 mm long blade from the well known stainless steel; Sandvik 12C27. The edge profile is a full hollow grind and the knife comes in three different handle versions.
Inside the same mag you'll also find interesting articles like; Get started with bow hunting (Ulf Backman), a massive test on Different rifle ammunition for practice (Johan Ljungné), Kimber Stainless Target II (Henrik Kalling) and The history of the 9,3x62 cartridge (Jens E. Perto).
For myself; I haven't had the time to read all the articles yet. So it's time for me to hit the sack and do some relaxing reading... Good Night my friends.
Also see my earlier Vapentidningen articles by clicking HERE.


From ghost restaurants to Augmented Reality, the restaurant industry is pushing boundaries to incorporate technology at a fast pace. These changes improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase the restaurant's profit margins. Stay ahead of the game with a look at this year's most exciting technology trends.
Opening any business has some level of risk, and franchises are no exception. Restaurant franchises have strong brand recognition among their customer base which may insulate them against the ups and downs of the industry. That doesn't mean there is room for complacency. Better management of franchise operations can increase profit margins and provide the right support system for success.
Deciding to implement new technology in your restaurant is exciting. It can lead to higher profit margins, happier customers, and more productive employees. The key to helping your company adopt it successfully lies in how you implement. It's just as, if not more, important than your decision to upgrade. Consider using some of our top tips below to help your next technology implementation project go smoother.
Labor retention continues to be a significant challenge in the food service industry. Restaurants experience annual turnover rates that are greater than any other sector, sometimes exceeding 70%! When the employee turnover rate is high, the costs of hiring and training new employees can really cut into potential profits. With increases in costs, labor competition, and minimum wage rates, it's becoming even more important to focus on retaining the right employees.
The new year brings new changes to minimum wage laws and regulations. For a restaurant owner or manager, these changes can have big impacts on your labor and payroll management. Make sure you are up to speed on the new laws so that you can effectively manage your workforce. This is also a great time to ensure that your technology systems are staying up to date with a changing regulatory environment.
A lot of us in the restaurant industry and at Restaurant Magic are cooks at heart. We sat down with our Director of Sales Michael Beck to hear him talk about how interconnected food and family are in his life.
Restaurant Magic reflects on the last year and how family and community values have shaped their business. Demonstrating values like Spirit of Adventure, Respect, and Honesty have been fundamental in making sure they have stayed true to their customers and themselves over the past 20 years.
After 20 years in business, Restaurant Magic Software has learned some valuable lessons about customer service. Through many evolutions they have established a central mission that encapsulates the core of their success in the industry: it's a human centric philosophy that caters to clients on a personal level, tending to their emotional responses as much as their technical needs.
Restaurants are no stranger to the issue of cybersecurity. Customer payment data has been a primary target for years. Restaurant owners and operators have been working hard to protect that data since the beginning. We know you take this security seriously, but the restaurant industry is changing, and so are the security concerns.
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month. We want to remind all of you to stay safe out there! Whether you're checking in with friends or managing work tasks, it pays to be vigilant. We spoke with our internal security expert, Mike Costanza, about protecting your personal and professional information online.
Building a restaurant is all about making a name for yourself among consumers. But it's just as important to build your brand among the industry as well. With labor costs rising and turnover eating into the profits, it's more important than ever to attract the right people to your store. So how do you make sure to attract the best talent? Here are 5 easy ways to position your restaurant as the one to work for.
Most restaurant owners go into business because they love restaurants. This means food prep, menu creation, and good service. Math and accounting skills never seem to be a factor, but they are important when understanding the health of the business. The most basic document that provides a picture of the restaurants health is the P&L Statement. So - let's break it down and find out what's really in a P&L.
Wages and labor costs are on the rise. As competition for jobs increases, so does compensation. Add that to market increases in health care costs, minimum wage regulations and overtime. What you get is a recipe for an expensive workforce. That's why it's more important than ever to make sure your scheduling practices are up to par.
Whether you are hiring for your restaurant locations or your management offices, the onboarding process will be key to determining your employees' engagement and retention. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 23% of the workforce had been with their employer less than one year. That's an awful lot of new hires.
Food waste is costly. According to the USDA, food waste makes up 30-40% of the total US supply. This costs roughly $1.61 billion a year. At Restaurant Magic Software we want to help reduce food waste. We have identified 5 common reasons for excess food waste, and what you can do about it. With a little oversight you too can be on your way to reducing your food costs and improving your bottom line.


Roots: The Spanish Inquisition. The Bible. The Doctor compares the Tower to the Tower of Babel.
Dialogue Triumphs: Unwisely, Ferdinand tells Nyssa and Tegan: "The Church doesn't want to waste any intellectual talent. Even a woman's limited mind might prove valuable to them".
"Don't blaspheme! I'm the [deleted] Pope!"
Continuity: The Morestran Empire currently spans eighty million light years and contains one thousand four-hundred and twenty-seven inhabited systems: of these, eight hundred and ninety-two are presently beyond the technological reach of the Empire and are considered effectively independent from Morestran rule until the Energy Tower is completed. Of the remaining, Inner Systems, seventy-one percent are Church controlled, twenty-five Imperial controlled, and the remaining four percent currently undergoing civil wars with no overall control. The Imperium, however, still controls the Central Morestran Systems, including the homeworld Morestra, also known as Alpha Major. The Empire is led by His Most Noble Imperious Majesty the Lord of the Host Systems Hippolito and his brother and co-regent Antonio from Capital City on Morestra; in practice however, the Church rules large portions of Morestra and has to vet any technological development, since technology is the work of the Dark Gods. The Cult of Science is opposed to the construction of the Tower, seeing it as a symbol of oppression used to keep the Church in power. Planets in the Morestran Empire include the twin planets Alpha Minor and Alpha Major, Epsilon Major, Ursus, Theta Major, Delta Minor, ; systems include the Gamma System, the Omega System, and Eta (a single-planet system ruled by the Church). The Church High Council is based in the city of Archetryx on the planet Archetryx in the Beta System and is also known as the Grand Council of Cardinals, ruled by the Arch-Cardinal. The Council answers to the Pope, His Papal Majesty Luciani XVII. The drone is the most advanced piece of machinery still known to the Morestrans. Morestran Space Service Oculoid Trackers Mark VI are now very old and rare and traded on the black market. There is a Sorenson Academy on Morestra. The Watchtower is an underground manuscript broadsheet printed and produced by subversives at the Academy. Kristyan Fall, a.k.a. the Zero Man, is an ex-Church Agent and Morestra's most dangerous man. The Energy Tower, also known as Torre del Oro or The Tower of Gold, is located on Omega Major and was designed to harness the kinetic movement of planets: Sorenson designed it based on the Doctor's glib comments at the end of 'Planet of Evil'. The Tower has taken two thousand years to complete. Women in the Morestran Empire generally stay at home and raise children and are second-class citizens. There are horses in the Morestran Empire. There is a San Salamar spaceport on Alpha Major. Alpha Major has seas. The Sorenson Academy is on the continent Valentia. The Church and Imperial fleets wipe each other out here. The Doctor creates a dimensional rift similar to the black lake to pull the Energy Tower into the Anti-Matter universe, restoring the balance and saving the universe. The Morestran Empire is largely destroyed by events here.
Anti-men are created by exposure to anti-matter because it hybridises the genetic structure, sending people back down the evolutionary ladder. According to the Doctor, the anti-matter is not anti-matter as the Time Lords understand it, but more a kind of nothingness that has existed along this universe since time began - he suggests that the term "ante-matter" might be more appropriate. Time has a completely different meaning in the Anti-Matter universe. Zeta Major is the outer planet in the Zeta System and a captured asteroid: it has been engineered as an experimental complex to synthesise anti-matter. Ferdinand's ship attacks Zeta Major, blowing the planetoid to pieces. The Church found a way to take anti-matter from Zeta Minor by deliberately creating anti-men, who could synthesise new anti-matter in their bodies, creating a surplus and allowing crystals to be taken from the Zeta System: they used eight thousand people for this. Since the events of Planet of Evil, the black pool on Zeta Minor has become a lake.
The Church's Holy Book is the Leyenda Negra and has a New Testament that recounts events on Zeta Minor. The Doctor is venerated as il Dottore, the saviour of the Morestran race; Sarah Jane is remembered as Sair-Ah, the handmaiden. The anti-matter crystals are known as the Crystals of the Dark Gods, with the power to transform men into demons also known as Leyenda Negra. The "Dark Gods" are the Anti-Matter Monster and Zeta Minor is the Gateway to Hell. Zeta Minor is also known as the Planet of Evil. Salamar is remembered as a prophet, Vishinsky his betrayer, and Morelli, Ponti and de Haan as Salamar's disciples. The Official Church History is entitled The Rise of the Morestran Orthodox Empire, and tells of the rise of the Cult of Science, which was formed by disaffected nobles over five hundred years earlier in reaction to the passing of the Science Law in 1530, which led to the decline of the Imperial Families and culminated in the Second Great Technology War of the new calendar year 1609. The Cult existed to preserve and continue a secular technological development separate from the Sorenson Academy, placing particular interest on the restoration of technological artefacts from the Old Empire. The Cult of Science is essentially a terrorist, subversive organisation, but is covertly used both by the Church and the Imperial Houses to develop non-Tower related equipment: the Church funded the Cult's rediscovery of Zeta Minor in 1993. Fr Lewington's The Church Triumphant is the most accurate account of the Great Technology War.
The Doctor has collapsed with hallucinations about the black wave on and off ever since Adric's death (Earthshock) and has been trying unsuccessfully to hide it from Nyssa and Tegan. He is never too sure about events that have taken place in previous incarnations. The hallucinations are actually caused by the inhabitants of the Anti-Matter universe trying to ask for his help: because their universe is so fundamentally alien, this will eventually kill him. The Doctor claims to be a very good shot with a revolver. He sees his Fourth incarnation in the Anti-Matter universe because time works different there.
Tegan reads a book in her room. She has a chest of drawers. Without the reassuring presence of the Doctor, she finds the TARDIS a cold and uneasy place. She is brainwashed by Kristyan Fall using hypnotic conditioning to assassinate Hippolito, but the Doctor stops her. However, she does shoot Hippolito in the arm. She later shoots Fall in the shoulder. She may have visited Lake Maggiore in Italy.
Nyssa reluctantly poses as a Special Investigator on Morestra. She is turned into an anti-man when anti-matter crystals are sewn into her stomach on Zeta Major, but cured when she enters the Anti-Matter universe with the Doctor.
Links: This story is a sequel to Planet of Evil. The Doctor comments on the irony of the Energy Tower being built in the Omega System (The Three Doctors, Arc of Infinity, Omega). Tegan tells Kristyan Fall about the Cybermen and Adric (Earthshock) and the Master.
Location: Zeta Minor, Morestra (a.k.a. Alpha Major), Alpha Minor, Omega Major, 39,164AD.
Future History: The Morestrans use the New Church Calendar. Morestra is almost entirely cut off from its Earth origins.
The Bottom Line: A bleak black comedy with a building sense of dread throughout, Zeta Major is easily Simon Messingham's best Doctor Who novel. Technically, everything that happens here is the Doctor's fault, as a glib remark has a massive impact on the development of an entire empire. Kristyan Fall makes a memorable villain.


We contribute to improving the health and medical care quality of people around the world through the creation of novel pharmaceutical products.
The Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA) is an organization that, as of April 2019, represents 72 research-oriented pharmaceutical companies. We aim to continue to contribute to improving the health and medical care of people in Japan and around the world through the creation of innovative pharmaceutical products.
The mission of JPMA and its member companies is to meet the needs of patients waiting for the arrival of innovative pharmaceuticals and medical technologies as early as possible. At present, controlling the rise of social security expenditures, especially medical costs, is a focus of the Japanese government's efforts toward sound fiscal policy. While reforms directed toward realizing effective medical care are important, it is equally true that there still exist a number of diseases with no established treatment (known as unmet medical needs). We must therefore exert our best efforts to fulfill the JPMA's mission by making one successful innovation after another.
Innovations in our industry have the power to change the society. Namely, an innovative pharmaceutical product or a medical technology can help patients recover from their illness or help senior citizens suffer less from the effects of aging, which in turn will enable these people to support others instead of receiving support themselves. This shift in their position in society will make a positive contribution to the growth of the Japanese economy, resulting in improved sustainability of the social security system. In addition, iPS cell technology and other scientific breakthroughs give impetus to the advancement of science itself, including the progress of life science. The new industries that will emerge out of them will be able to develop globally as a next-generation driving force for the growth of Japan.
With the progress of science and technology, expectations of medical care have become more sophisticated, as represented by the new approaches of personalized medicine and preemptive medicine. The discovery of innovative pharmaceuticals and the development of new medical technologies have become increasingly difficult, resulting in more intense competition among nations. In this challenging environment, we believe it is very important for Japan to define the promotion of life science innovations as a core element in the national growth strategy and put into place a comprehensive science and technology promotion policy covering the entire process, from the creation of innovations through the appropriate valuation of the outcomes, so as to ensure that new pharmaceuticals and medical technologies will continue to be developed. With an aim of fostering an environment and scheme that will encourage the creation of innovations and their fair valuation, JPMA will continue its dialogue with all stakeholders to achieve mutual understanding and work closely together.
During fiscal year 2018, the JPMA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. On behalf of the organization, I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation for the assistance all of you have extended to us over the years, and to state our commitment to enhancing the high levels of transparency and ethical standards in our activities so that JPMA remains an organization trusted by all.


Great action movie. I always preferred "The Killer" as my favorite, but this one is totally awesome. Phenomenal action, and I love the opening shootout.
It really BOILS down to The Killer and Hardboiled doesn't it? OHHHHHHHHHHH!


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May 2018 | Vintage Books
Why Am I Interested in Him?
Terence McKenna's Life
My Drug History
Why Are Psychedelics Illegal?
May 01. Brooklyn: powerHouse with Emily Witt [audio]May 14. Austin: BookPeopleMay 15. Los Angeles: Book Soup [audio]May 17: San Francisco: The Booksmith with Ross Simonini [audio]May 18: Portland: Powell's City of BooksJune 7: Murmrr Reading Series with Hamilton Morris [audio]June 21: Brooklyn: Spoonbill Studio [audio]
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Reason podcasti-D Magazine High ExistenceDiscussion with Darcie Wilder, Sam Pink The Third Wave Conversation with Sheila Heti KBOO's PathwaysVillage VoiceOtherppl with Brad Listi Hobart with Elle NashExpanding Mind
"Lin avoids writing in figurative language, and there is little hyperbole in these reports, nor references to nineteen-sixties-era acid metaphysics. Trip is, if not a guide to self-help, a book about a person trying to be happier, in part by changing the kinds of drugs he uses."—Emily Witt, New Yorker [link]
"If an aspirant asks for an example of experimental science writing, I'll recommend Trip. The book veers from excruciatingly candid autobiography to biography (of McKenna) to investigative journalism…to interview-based journalism to philosophical speculation to first-person accounts of the effects of DMT and Salvia."—John Horgan, Scientific American [link]
"Lin's trips are motivated by a belief that his brain is chronically depleted of the chemicals that cause us to feel happiness or wonder. He is vulnerable and struggling to find meaning in his life."—New York Review of Books [link]
"Trip is a sane book about becoming sane, and Lin's most valuable work to date."—Irish Times [link]
"The journalistic memoir documents Lin's radical lifestyle change following the depression and pharmaceutical drug addiction fictionalized in his previous novel, Taipei."—Anna Dorn, Los Angeles Review of Books [link]
"A charming and idiosyncratic example of 'psychedelic boosterism.'"—Matthew Bond, Los Angeles Review of Books [link]
"Trip shows that writing about his drug experience also opened up for him new ways of relating to language. The result is an immediately significant entry in the literature of derangement and recovery."—Christian Lorentzen, New York Magazine [link]
"Trip is thus a document of an evolving process, a sincere meditation on 'braiding life and literature,' and a quasi-treatise on why we write. It is also calmly beautiful—fracturing loneliness and humming with hope."—Ania Szremski, 4Columns [link]
"His rendering of tripping is perfect—better even, for me, than Aldous Huxley's elegant and evocative passages in The Doors of Perception, because Lin's account conveys reverence and immersion without grandiosity. And that allows humor to leak through."—Charlotte Shane, Bookforum [link]
"A kaleidoscopic fever dream of ideas, idolatry, and lots of drugs: uniquely produced and curiously intoxicating."—Kirkus [link]
"He eventually steers the epilogue toward a level of personal clarity that perfectly punctuates an introspective work of this depth and caliber."—Publishers Weeekly [link]
"Trip is not only a book about drugs—it's about the condition of humans at this point in history, troublingly divorced from our natural capacity for awe by our chemically depleted bodies and minds. This book has changed how I understand myself on a cellular level. It's a superbly researched, moving, and formally inventive quest for re-enchantment, and Tao Lin's most compelling and profound book yet."—Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood
"Trip transcends the ranks of drug memoirs to give us a characteristically nontraditional, completely unique, hilarious, tender, and at times frightening departure from everyday life such as only Tao Lin can write. With fascinating specificity, it asks essential questions about the nature of time, reality, consciousness, and the self, while holding a looking glass up to contemporary life, to ask, Is this really all there is?—and to answer, No, the possibility for knowledge is endless, and we should never cease searching."—Sarah Gerard, author of Sunshine State
"Similar to the psychedelic drugs Tao Lin writes about here, this book introduces new ways to consider language, perception, and recovery. It's a joy to watch Lin interrogate his obsessions so earnestly and thoroughly in an attempt to understand more about the world as he knows it. Trip is a book for anyone interested in learning about what the human mind is capable of seeing and believing."—Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I'm Someone Else
"Tao Lin's writing reliably restores my sense of the inexhaustible strangeness of even one minute of human thought and feeling."—Michael W. Clune, author of White Out
"I'm struck by the psychedelic experience, impressively researched and rendered here by Tao Lin, as being a realm beyond language–even so, Lin has translated his "trips" with remarkable clarity, wisdom, and beauty. This book is smart, entertaining, and ambitious in equally profound measures; it is a record of unmapped worlds; it is a history of human consciousness; it swaps the tired tenets of existentialism for something much richer and greater and more provocative: awe."—Kristen Iskandrian, author of Motherest
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Edinburgh Old Town Weaving Co.
Occupying the building that held the old Castlehill reservoir, this establishment is like an extensive complex of concessions where you can do everything from grab an ice-cream to snack in a conservatory café, have your picture taken in full Highland dress or simply buy a kilt. The weaving mill itself is run by Geoffrey (Tailor), a respected Highland outfitters. As well as being a working mill, this is a Victorian building bang in the heart of tourist country, and it can get pretty hot and busy in summer.
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Orbital ATK, SSL and others are gearing up to make house calls to ailing satellites
by Debra Werner — June 11, 2018
This NASA Goddard Space Flight Center illustration shows a servicing spacecraft, left, approaching a satellite needing assistance. Credit: NASA Goddard
This article originally appeared in the June 4, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine.
In five to 10 years, space experts think on-orbit servicing will become so common that satellites will be designed for towing, repairs or refueling.
"Once the technical risk is retired, more people will contract for mission extension or on-orbit servicing, which will bring the price down," Jean-Luc Froeliger, Intelsat vice president for satellite operations and engineering, said at the Space Tech Expo in Pasadena, California, in late May. "I expect a snowball effect."
Satellite owners, satellite manufacturers, NASA and DARPA are planning a series of demonstrations to prove spacecraft can be repaired or refueled in orbit without the type of ambitious and expensive effort NASA devoted to servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
The two largest geostationary communications satellite fleet operators, SES and Intelsat, are taking different approaches to satellite life extension. Intelsat awarded contracts to Orbital ATK subsidiary SpaceLogistics for two Mission Extension Vehicles, slated to launch in 2019 and 2020. The Mission Extension Vehicles will dock with the client vehicles and keep them in their proper orbits for five years, Froelinger said.
SES, in contrast, is hiring Space Systems Loral to refuel propellant tanks on one of its geostationary communications satellites with a robotic vehicle SSL plans to launch in 2021. SSL also is working with NASA on Restore-L, a mission to refuel the Landsat -7 Earth-observation satellite, and with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to send a mobile servicing vehicle into geostationary orbit through the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program.
"In the near to medium term, life extension will break down barriers to entry, allow existing operators to expand their markets and potentially allowing new operators to enter the market by lowering the cost of performing services," said Joe Anderson, SpaceLogistics vice president of business development and operations. "Longer term, as we implement in-orbit assembly, in-orbit construction capabilities, it will change the paradigm on how satellites are built."
Technicians at Orbital ATK put Mission Extension Vehicle-related hardware through its paces. Credit: Orbital ATK
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in preparation for the Restore-L mission, has spent nearly a decade developing and testing the tools and sensors to repair and refuel satellites that were not designed for servicing.
"The goal is to mature technology needed to service satellites so the government can then transfer that technology to industry and retire some of the risk for those missions," Brian Roberts, a robotic technologist in Goddard's Satellite Servicing Projects Division, said at the Space Tech Expo.
NASA is intent on satellite servicing as a way to extend the life of its spacecraft and to clear the way for deep space exploration. The "Holy Grail" is getting to the point where spacecraft can repair themselves, Roberts said. Having a way to "assemble other modules or make repairs on the way to Mars is where NASA is headed," he added.
Satellite owner-operators want the flexibility various life extension schemes offer.
"The goal of life extension is not to take a 15-year satellite and make it last for 30," said Bryan Benedict, SES Government Solutions senior director of innovation and satellite programs. "The goal is to be able to better accommodate the unknown."
In some cases, a communications satellite customer might not be willing to sign a 15-year contract but would agree to three more years of service. Servicing vehicles also could tow dead spacecraft out of geostationary orbit or free solar arrays or antennas that do not deploy properly, Benedict said at the Space Tech Expo.
In addition, satellite builders might streamline some pre-launch activities if they knew repairs could be performed in orbit.
"A lot of time is spent on the ground making sure a satellite is going to work 1,000 percent of the time," Roberts said. "If satellite servicing was more available, you may not spend as much time integrating the satellite on the ground and testing it to the nth degree, which might allow you to launch science satellites on a more frequent cadence."
From the Magazine DARPAOrbital ATKsatellite servicing


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Kazakhstan is a large central Asian country known for its landscapes and growing post-Soviet economy.
Kazakhstan is overall a secure country, but some elements of society are discontented with the status quo, with an underlying risk of civil unrest. Protests are infrequent but the authorities have limited experience with containing events and are likely to err towards heavy-handedness, brining a risk of violence when such events occasionally occur. The crime rate is moderate with a risk of both petty and more violent crimes, but foreigners are not normally affected. There is a small but still present risk of terrorism.
Long-standing president Nursultan Nazarbayev has announced his intention to stand down as leader immediately. He will likely remain a very influential figure and the country is not likely to become significantly more democratic in the short term, but it could help gradually improve the country's civil and political liberties over what is hoped will be a stable transition period. However, there are some concerns that the economy has not been performing as well as had been hoped in recent years, while Nazarbayev was also credited with containing ethnic tensions in the country, which may become more of an issue in the future without his leadership.
The taxis are pretty safe to use and mostly easy to find in urban areas. Uber is also available.
Another pretty safe/quiet city, although I was told not to go out alone at night. I mostly stayed in my hotel but I didn't encounter anything untoward and found it pretty safe/quiet either way. Just make sure you're staying in good quality accommodation and keep your eyes peeled if you do go out at night. I got around by uber but normal taxis are available too but make sure you used the licensed ones only.
It's a pretty safe city. I never saw much trouble and it certainly felt like any city in the west. Apparently things can sometimes get roudy in some of the bars but I didn't leave the hotel at night and certainly didn't see anything like that on the premises. I also got around very easily with uber. I didn't need to worry about getting ripped off.
It's safe to travel all over Kazakhstan but you need governmental permission in advance before you can travel to 'closed' parts of the country.
Loads of airlines fly here. It's the biggest airport in the country. Bring your own pen as you'll need to fill in an immigration card when you arrive and you could end up having to wait for ages for someone to find one for you.
There are quite a few shops, cafes etc which is nice, it's pretty good by regional standards in that respect. Note that they don't usually accept foreign currencies, including US dollars etc. A lot of staff don't speak English and things are generally a lot more expensive than outside the airport.
Call the airport to check if your flight is on time before coming in.
In the international departures hall there's a power socket with seating (a private little section) in the corner to the left of the Best of Kazakhstan shop, which can be useful if it's not already occupied.
Astana is a new city so it looks very modern, with lots of new amenities, malls, hotels etc. Note that it can get very cold in the winter. It can be a bit of challenge just to walk around in the streets! The pavements can get pretty icy for a start, so make sure you've got robust footwear.
In central areas, particularly around modern high grade hotels there's usually little in the way of crime, but it's always good to be aware of your surroundings. Don't display any outward signs of wealth/money etc. Some parts of the city are a little rougher but most foreigners probably won't have to go there.
The hotels usually provide a pickup service from the airport if you request it. You can also get normal taxis at the airport but they can be more expensive and might not speak English. Uber is also available and comparable to uber experiences in the West.
Roads can be badly maintained, particularly in rural areas. There can be very large distances between service stations on roads outside the main cities so make sure you're well stocked before any journeys. Other drivers can sometimes be a bit erratic/reckless.
There are restrictions on photography near military establishments, border areas and some official buildings; notices about these restrictions are not always indicated; photographing airport facilities is prohibited; many larger shops and supermarkets also prohibit photography.
Travellers must also carry a passport at all times (a photocopy is not acceptable).


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Are rankings and lists reliable economic indicators?
WXXI News | By Daniel Robison, WBFO
Leo Reynolds
Many cities in Upstate New York are featured on lists that (sometimes simultaneously) give props and talk trash.
Santa Claus isn't the only one making lists these days.
Showing strong growth in "technology jobs," Albany recently placed high in Tech America's annual ranking of the acceleration of jobs.
But some of the details reveal Albany's ranking may not be early Christmas present it initially appears to be:
Albany created only 341 high-tech jobs in 2009, but that was a 1.63 percent increase, enough to rank it third. Oklahoma City [ranked first] had 5.44 percent job growth, creating nearly 1,000 jobs in 2009.
Wait, the addition of 341 jobs is enough to earn a bronze in a national survey?
Remember, there was a recession going on when this data was compiled, so take the celebration of 341 new jobs as an indication of an emerging new relative norm. And at least Albany didn't lose tech positions, like Boston or Las Vegas. Most of the Capital Region's growth came from lab jobs sprouting up at Albany NanoTech and GE Global Research.
Lists are going to list, but what's it for?
The list is just one of many that we've reported on recently. Lists happen. They're now a standard magazine gimmick for garnering clicks on the web ("The Top 10 [insert topic] Cities!"). It is the low hanging fruit of the Internet. So it makes sense for a city to want to be on lists that flatter its features and avoid the embarrassing ones (least friendly to dog walking, Colorado Springs?).
My colleague Zack Seward is looking into this phenomenon right now, to see how much publishers (and the cities they love) are making off of all these lists.
Buffalo is a perfect example of how lists can confuse. Taken all together, sometimes they don't make much sense.
For instance, BestPlaces.com ranked the City of Good Neighbors second in a "best places to relocate" survey. Buffalo is the tenth best place to raise a family, according to Forbes.
But Forbes (yes, the same magazine) also slapped a "fastest dying" city designation on Buffalo. MSN places the city eighth on its "most miserable" list. And statistically, the Queen City is also the second or third poorest city in the country (not that it matters which).
So as we see, for many cities it is the best of times and the worst of times; it just depends which list you pull out of the hat.
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public class CsFlow
{
    private static void SolveMaxFlow()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Max Flow Problem");
        int numNodes = 6;
        int numArcs = 9;
        int[] tails = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4 };
        int[] heads = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5 };
        int[] capacities = { 5, 8, 5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 4 };
        int[] expectedFlows = { 4, 4, 2, 0, 4, 4, 0, 6, 4 };
        int expectedTotalFlow = 10;
        MaxFlow maxFlow = new MaxFlow();
        for (int i = 0; i < numArcs; ++i)
        {
            int arc = maxFlow.AddArcWithCapacity(tails[i], heads[i], capacities[i]);
            if (arc != i)
                throw new Exception("Internal error");
        }
        int source = 0;
        int sink = numNodes - 1;
        Console.WriteLine("Solving max flow with " + numNodes + " nodes, and " + numArcs + " arcs, source=" + source +
                          ", sink=" + sink);
        MaxFlow.Status solveStatus = maxFlow.Solve(source, sink);
        if (solveStatus == MaxFlow.Status.OPTIMAL)
        {
            long totalFlow = maxFlow.OptimalFlow();
            Console.WriteLine("total computed flow " + totalFlow + ", expected = " + expectedTotalFlow);
            for (int i = 0; i < numArcs; ++i)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Arc " + i + " (" + maxFlow.Head(i) + " -> " + maxFlow.Tail(i) +
                                  "), capacity = " + maxFlow.Capacity(i) + ") computed = " + maxFlow.Flow(i) +
                                  ", expected = " + expectedFlows[i]);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Solving the max flow problem failed. Solver status: " + solveStatus);
        }
    }

    private static void SolveMinCostFlow()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Min Cost Flow Problem");
        int numSources = 4;
        int numTargets = 4;
        int[,] costs = { { 90, 75, 75, 80 }, { 35, 85, 55, 65 }, { 125, 95, 90, 105 }, { 45, 110, 95, 115 } };
        int expectedCost = 275;
        MinCostFlow minCostFlow = new MinCostFlow();
        for (int source = 0; source < numSources; ++source)
        {
            for (int target = 0; target < numTargets; ++target)
            {
                minCostFlow.AddArcWithCapacityAndUnitCost(source, /*target=*/numSources + target,
                                                          /*capacity=*/1,
                                                          /*flow unit cost=*/costs[source, target]);
            }
        }
        for (int source = 0; source < numSources; ++source)
        {
            minCostFlow.SetNodeSupply(source, 1);
        }
        for (int target = 0; target < numTargets; ++target)
        {
            minCostFlow.SetNodeSupply(numSources + target, -1);
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Solving min cost flow with " + numSources + " sources, and " + numTargets + " targets.");
        MinCostFlow.Status solveStatus = minCostFlow.Solve();
        if (solveStatus == MinCostFlow.Status.OPTIMAL)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("total computed flow cost = " + minCostFlow.OptimalCost() +
                              ", expected = " + expectedCost);
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Solving the min cost flow problem failed." + " Solver status: " + solveStatus);
        }
    }

    static void Main()
    {
        SolveMaxFlow();
        SolveMinCostFlow();
    }
}

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Once you've devised a strategy for choosing investments appropriate for each of your investment goals, you've taken a major step toward meeting them.
Whether you decide to use an investment professional or not, it's important to understand what your investment choices are and how different types of investments put your money to work. It's equally important to understand yourself as an investor. That's because a portfolio that's right for someone else may not be best for you.
Some factors that can make a difference in your investment selection are your goals, or what you want to accomplish by investing, and the time frames for meeting those goals. It's also important to have a handle on your attitude toward risk, or what's called your risk tolerance.
No single approach to choosing investments will work for everyone or will be right for every situation. But here are a few tried-and-true rules for sound investment selection.
Understand what you own. Focus on investments that are easy for you to evaluate and give you access to reliable information about them. Regulators require that certain information be disclosed to investors through documents such as offering circulars, mutual fund prospectuses, and corporate filings for stock issued by public companies that trade on the major stock markets. In addition, you can find a wealth of real-time and historical market data for stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other securities online.
Assess liquidity. Make sure there is a market to trade your investments. Highly liquid investments are easy to buy and sell, either through a brokerage account or in some cases directly from the issuer. Thinly traded stocks or securities that aren't listed on a national securities exchange tend to be less liquid -- and are rarely a good idea for most investors. Likewise, exercise caution when considering securities such as non-traded REITs that may be illiquid -- meaning you can't cash out of them even if you really need do -- for long periods of time.
Know the true cost. Have a clear understanding of any costs, sales charges, and fees involved with buying and selling investment products, including whether there are penalties or additional fees for selling your investment within a certain time frame.
Comparison shop. Costs and services can vary significantly from firm to firm.
Verify registration. Check whether your investments are registered with the SEC or your state's securities regulator. Most investments have to be. And also use FINRA BrokerCheck to check whether the salespeople who sell them are licensed.
When you select any investment product, it's vital to understand that all investments carry some level of risk. Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can lose value -- even all their value -- if market conditions sour. Even conservative, insured investments, such as certificates of deposit (CDs) issued by a bank or credit union, come with inflation risk; they may not earn enough over time to keep pace with the increasing cost of living. Whatever investment you're considering, be sure you know how it can make or lose money before you buy.
Risk is any uncertainty with respect to your investments that has the potential to negatively affect your financial welfare. For example, your investment value might rise or fall because of market conditions (market risk). Corporate decisions, such as whether to expand into a new area of business or merge with another company, can also affect the value of your investments (business risk). If you own an international investment, events within that country can affect your investment (political risk and currency risk, to name two).
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Global Fleet Survey: Company car has 20% penetration in Latam
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Despite Latin America being one of the hardest-hit regions by the COVID-19 pandemic, GDP is projected to grow 5.9% in 2021 and 2.5% in 2022 and the region continues to be an important part of the world's vehicle fleet and mobility market.
Company cars have a 20% penetration (car to staff ratio) in Latin America, according to data from the 2021 Global Fleet Survey. The data below was also acquired from the survey, of which focused more on the key countries of Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile.
It is interesting to note that the light commercial vehicle (LCV) market has already recovered from the impacts of the pandemic fallout, while sales of passenger cars remain some 20% below pre-pandemic 2019 levels for the four countries.
Like other regions of the world, vehicle production in Brazil and Mexico has been affected by the worldwide micro-chip shortage. This has resulted in lower mileage in fleet and delays on car deliveries, thus inducing contract extensions.
For more on fleet and mobility management benchmarking throughout the world, download our e-book about the 2021 Global Fleet Survey. It covers Europe, Africa-Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and North America, as well as Latin America.
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It probably shouldn't need to be said, but if you want to succeed in your career today – any career – you need a decent computer, a decent phone, a decent Internet connection and the technological skills to use them all. Trying to build your career without these tools is a tremendous handicap and will have you spending your life playing "catch up" to all the others who have had technology and learned how to use it. You need to have these same tools at your disposal to keep you productive and connected to the world. We live in a world that requires technology and you should do your best to engage in it.
Today it is easy and cheap to get decent, usable, technology. Computers cost a fraction what they did when I first started my career. Consider the fact that a 4MB upgrade for my original Mac Plus cost me over $400 and a 20MB hard disk was around $200. You can walk into nearly any electronics or office store — or search online — and find very capable computer systems for $400-$500. In most cases, this new computer will have more speed, more memory and more hard drive space than you will ever need, unless you are doing audio or video editing. Smartphones now come cheap with subsidized cell phone plans. You can even get an older model iPhone for free in some cases. Add to that all the great Android phones on the market and there really is no excuse for not having a decent smartphone to help you manage your life and work.
Notice my use of the word "decent" here. You need not spend thousands of dollars for high-end technology. In most cases, you are simply paying a premium for the name on the box. Purchase in the mid-range on price and capability and you will do well. You'll get plenty of computing power without breaking your bank account. Of course, I would also caution you to not buy the cheapest technology you can find, either. Cheap equipment will fail often and quickly and means spending more money overall than if you had purchased a more expensive computer or smartphone in the first place. Don't be seduced by cheap. It will only come back to haunt you.
I know that there might be a small number of you who cannot afford any technology. Perhaps your financial situation is dire due to unemployment, health or family issues. I understand it can be difficult to get the technology you need. Still, you need to do your utmost to bring technology into your life so you can use it to better your situation.
First, take advantage of any services provided by your community. Look to your local library for computer access. With the creation of cloud services such as Google Docs/Drive, Gmail and others, you can perform a lot of tasks without having a computer of your own. These cloud services allow you access to your files and information from whatever computer you might have available — including friends, family and other organizations.
Next, look for friends and family who might be able to pass down their older technology to you. I recently inherited a fairly current Android phone and an iPhone 4s from some of my clients who were upgrading their devices. These devices are still greatly functional, even without a cellular data plan. In larger cities, free public WiFi is becoming nearly ubiquitous and you'll find that these devices can give you near-cell phone capabilities using only these free systems. They could provide a great leap in your connectivity if you don't have the ability to purchase something outright.
Even more important than the technology are your own computer skills. Knowing how to use a computer and its associated software or knowing how to use a smartphone is not some specialized knowledge that only a few people need. Everyone must know how to use these technology tools. In this day and age not having sufficient technological skills is akin to not knowing how to work a standard telephone, how to drive a car or how to cook your meals. Technological skills are critical to your life and work and should be gained and cultivated at every opportunity.
Learn about technology whenever and wherever you can. It doesn't require expensive computer training classes. Want to learn about technology? Walk into any Apple store (or Microsoft store or Best Buy or Staples) and play with the devices you find there. There is no excuse for not being at least familiar with Macintosh, iPhone and iPad devices. Unless you live in a rural area (and even then, most of us visit the "big city" on occasion) you have a technology training ground at your disposal. Pick up the devices. Investigate them and what they can do. Stand at an iMac, login to your Google Drive account, edit some documents. Open programs that run on the Mac like Pages, MS Word and more. Most importantly, listen to the questions and answers around you. You can learn a lot by hearing the answers to other people's questions.
If your technological skills are lacking, consider meeting with like-minded friends and family so you can learn together. There are usually one or two people in a group that have a bit more knowledge than the others. They can help get you started on the road to technology proficiency and then you can all learn more together. Of course, if you have the opportunity to take formal computer training – do it! This goes for nearly any training actually. If you don't take advantage of these opportunities when they are available, you are wasting both time and money that could help to build your career. Don't make excuses – ever — just go and learn!
Like the telephone, the railroad, the automobile, and the television before it — computer technology (in all its forms) is here to stay. You can't ignore it. You can't dismiss it. You can't wish it away. Your career success depends on engaging with technology nearly every minute of every day. Unless you want to retreat to a monastery, a rural homestead or a hermitage, you will need to face technology and all that it can provide you. To declare technological ignorance — or, even worse, feel pride in your ignorance — is folly. If you do so, you are stubbornly and willingly limiting your chances of ever building the career you deserve.


To make a movie is to take a story, confine it in a box--be it rectangle or square--and use it to buy your way into people's lives. It's probably why we get so passionate about the films we love, we've agreed to trade a part of ourselves to make room for them.
In the world created in the 1940 Thief of Bagdad remake, stories are very important. They can be used to save someone's life or to condemn it. The film itself is like a storybook, containing many tales under one cover, some with positive moral lessons and some with truly negative outcomes. The blind man Ahmad (John Justin) uses verse to attract alms and spins a longer yarn about his life as a King to bide his time and buy himself some time in his enemy's home. Within his story, there are other stories, and he is even listening to one when his usurper, Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), catches him unaware. Actually, Jaffar uses a story to set his trap and then uses another to close it. The tale of Ahmad's grandfather traveling out among his subjects to learn more about them is manipulated to convince Ahmad to do the same, and then Jaffar's fib branding the monarch a madman seals his fate. Ironically, in between the two, Ahmad sits down to hear a story about himself and how the toppling of his tyranny has been foretold in prophecy. All these narratives have been his undoing.
The Thief of Bagdad is like a cinematic version of a framed photo of a man holding a framed photo--the very same photo that is in the larger frame. And in that photo, another man and another photo, and on and on. In the movie, the Sultan of Basra (Miles Malleson), a collector of toys, has a replica theatre that contains miniature puppets that perform for him exactly the same way every time he opens the tiny doors. Though, in the movie, these aren't puppets, but real acrobats, and what we see is a miniature film within the film. Like the photo in the photo, the story inside the story, this is a movie in a movie.
In addition to the performers inside the Sultan's toy theatre, there are many instances when one character spies the actions of another through a frame. This works in tandem with the eye motif, which Michael Powell is often credited with introducing into The Thief of Bagdad. It begins with the zoom on the eye painted on the hull of a boat at the start of the picture, and comes up again in both how Jaffar performs his magic and the poetic injustice visited on Ahmad when he is blinded. Multiple times, characters are instructed to look with their eyes or are asked why their eyes are closed. When parted, Ahmad and his Princess (June Duprez) long to look upon one another again, and the difference in worldviews between the twisted Jaffar and the romantic Ahmad is summed up in how they view the object of their desire. The Princess is all Jaffar can see because he can't have her, and though Jaffar insists that when her lover regains his eyesight, Ahmad will see that there are plenty of women all over the world, when the King can see again, he only has eyes for one special lady. Even the little thief Abu (played by Sabu) is told that the key to miracles is seeing the world with the eyes of a child. It's a proper metaphor for the new mythology of moviemaking. The magician uses his eyes to perform his magic, his audience uses theirs to see it. It's a back-and-forth between filmmaker and viewer, here seen as a glorious positive--even if much later in his career Powell would question what we are all looking at in his controversial Peeping Tom.
This eye imagery is probably best represented by the All Seeing Eye, a jewel that Abu steals from a sacred temple, where it has rested for 2000 years. Through this jewel, he is able to find the lost Ahmad, and Ahmad is able to look across the world at his Princess. When the jewel is shattered, it becomes Abu's passage into a realm of miracles. Shattering the eye destroys the collective blindness that afflicts modern society and keeps its denizens from seeing magic. It is also cinema shattering the bonds of centuries of storytelling convention, forging the way for something new and different. You won't just hear or read about carpets flying, you will see them!
Besides, it's not all bad. The effect of the Sultan riding a horse across the sky still looks pretty good, and one can't help but be awed by the massive, colorful sets and the beautiful matte painting backdrops. This wasn't some cheap production, but an ambitious Technicolor undertaking. The new Criterion transfer of the picture shows every beautiful detail, restoring the bright hues and cleaning up each and every frame. There was probably a time in the past when no one thought movies this old would ever look this good again, but as with so much in The Thief of Bagdad, seeing is believing.
In addition to the new transfer, the Criterion Thief of Bagdad comes with two audio commentaries and a second disc entirely of extras. Of those, a half-hour program about the visual effects featuring special-effects legend Ray Harryhausen unravels the tricks the filmmakers used to create the magic in the movie, including pioneering the bluescreen process (there is a separate demonstration of how bluescreen works) and the employment of miniatures and perspective shots. There is a lot of great footage and photos from the set, though Harryhausen, even as he discusses the techniques, makes a good point about the destruction of illusion in our current need-to-know society. I have long felt that the one downside of the DVD age is that everything is explained to us, we always want to know how it's done rather than marveling at what was done. So, kudos to Mr. Harryhausen.
Alongside this documentary is a feature-length propaganda film from 1940, The Lion Has Wings, which couldn't be further from Thief of Bagdad in tone and subject. This was produced by Alexander Korda and made during a hiatus on Thief of Bagdad. It was partially directed by Michael Powell, and stars Ralph Richardson, Merle Oberon, and June Duprez--though roughly 2/3 of the movie is documentary footage. Even propaganda from the good guys is still propaganda, and so most of The Lion Has Wings comes off as stiffly preachy. The ever-present narration never lets us forget we're supposed to be learning something. The first twenty minutes is a rundown of the build-up to war and what England stands to lose if Hitler were to have his way, and then the rest of the movie is spent with the Royal Air Force. Real combat footage is interwoven with images of the homefront and a dramatization of the flight and ground crew's experience during bombing raids.
It's an interesting curiosity, but not much more than that, and certainly a comedown after The Thief of Bagdad.
* I should note, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull manages to get the nostalgia thing right, and if you're eager to go see it this weekend, I'd recommend following it up with the Thief of Bagdad when it comes out on Tuesday. It will make for a good chaser to quench your swashbuckling thirst.


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Ryan Meyer is the Executive Director of the Center for Community and Citizen Science at the UC Davis School of Education. His career has focused on the dynamics between science society, and on the role of science in environmental decision making.
Ryan was previously Program Director at the California Ocean Science Trust, a non-profit boundary organization that helps scientists and decision makers collaborate more effectively. He completed his PhD at Arizona State University, where he conducted research on the climate science funding in the US and Australia. He is a Fulbright Scholar, and an affiliate of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University.
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Harris, Paul, Meyer, Ryan and Leith, Peat May 31, 2013. "Scientists and policymakers: Wave goodbye to the valley of death." Online publication on The Guardian.
Preston, Benjamin L., Rickards, Lauren, Dessai, Suraje and Meyer, Ryan 2013. "Waters, Seas and Wine: Science for Successful Climate Adaptation." Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science and Practice in a Rapidly Changing World, eds. Moser, S. and Boykoff, M. Routledge.
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Technology in Post-Disaster Reconstruction: How One Woman is Contributing to Thousands of Safer Homes in Nepal
Women are leading the way towards the recovery of earthquake-affected communities in Nepal. Nearly 750,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed in the earthquakes in early 2015, leaving families in temporary shelters and students learning in makeshift school buildings. Rebuilding this infrastructure so that it does not collapse again in a future earthquake takes more than just bricks and money. Access to professional engineers and trained builders, along with other information on safe building techniques, are all crucial to rebuilding safer houses and schools.
So, how do people in rural areas – often with unreliable transportation and communication systems – gain access to information and trained professionals to help rebuild their houses and schools? Technology is changing the way people can access these resources, and women are emerging as leaders in this field as well.
Khusbhu Gupta is a Computer Engineer and Programmer who has been contributing to post-disaster data collection and monitoring through the FULCRUM Mobile App, an offline data collection and monitoring tool used by Build Change to monitor ongoing construction of rural housing in accordance with the government housing codes.
Khusbhu is a talented and passionate young woman, and as a technology enthusiast she enjoys diving into big data to generate insights used by diverse audiences to support families in rebuilding their houses safer than before. Leveraging FULCRUM for "Build Change has been a perfect platform for me to utilize my aspirations and potential as an IT professional. I am so happy to be able to use this technology for social good" she says, during a break at the Build Change Kathmandu office. "Without the FULCRUM app, the data collection and monitoring process would have been tedious and challenging for the engineers on-site and in the office."
FULCRUM provides engineers on-site with real time recommendations for construction, based on the data they observe and input, helping them to monitor the construction quality. It also records technical details of houses along with GPS locations and photos. Not only does the app support construction of individual houses, it also provides an overview of on ongoing construction sites to staff and project managers at the Kathmandu office, without them having to travel long distances between sites and the office. Staff and project managers can monitor construction quality, staff location, and project progress from the office, making the system extremely efficient and productive.
Khusbhu oversees all of the data entered and output in the app, and ensures it runs smoothly. She has been instrumental to the consistent, efficient lines of communication from Build Change field-based staff and the Kathmandu office, which has in turn supported the construction of hundreds of safer homes and schools around the country. With her help, homeowners and school leaders will continue to have access to the information, engineering support, and technical assistance they need to rebuild their homes and schools to disaster-resistant standards.
We are so lucky to have Khusbhu on our team, and cannot wait to see the exceptional work she will continue to bring to our team. Due to her outstanding work in data science, she has also been awarded with full scholarship to pursue Master in Data Science at Mahidol University in Thailand. Congratulations to Khusbhu on her great achievement!
Meanwhile, we are pleased to know that we have Mohita Joshi will be taking over Khusbhu's responsibilities while she studies. Mohita has her masters in Technology Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, India, and has over 5 years of experience in data management. We are so proud to have another female Program Information Officer on our team.
The female technical staff we work with every day are some of the most passionate leaders we have encountered, creating positive impacts in their communities through leveraging their skills and experience. To Khusbhu and all of the amazing women out there changing the world: thank you for your inspiration and dedication to building a safer world, one building at a time!