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Climate change and the new work order
A University of Sydney expert will urge for the future of work debate to be re-framed in the face of climate change at the Sydney Environment Institute's inaugural Iain McCalman Lecture on 6 February.
Debates around the future of work need to focus less on automation and more on the future of the planet, a University of Sydney expert will argue at The Iain McCalman Lecture.
Dr Frances Flanagan from the University of Sydney will deliver the inaugural lecture presented by the Sydney Environment Institute, recognising the contributions of one of Australia's greatest historians and co-director of the Institute, Professor Iain McCalman AO.
Professor Iain McCalman AO. Image credit: Kitty Chan.
In the lecture, titled 'Climate change and the new work order', Dr Flanagan will draw on her research to argue we need to grapple with climate change and late capitalism together if we are to meet the challenges that both pose.
"Whether it be school students striking for climate change action or the latest IPCC report, the world is calling out for collective action to minimise a catastrophic climate breakdown," Dr Flanagan will explain.
By 2030 over 24 million jobs will be created by virtue of renewable industries, while 6 million will be lost from the cessation of fossil fuels.
Dr Flanagan, a Sydney Fellow in Work and Organisational Studies affiliated with the University's Sydney Environment Institute and Sydney Policy Lab, will draw on stories from workers across Australia to contend that essential work, categorised by stewardship and renewal, should be a key part of the future of work debate.
A Brisbane woman who loves to care for and teach young children, whose wage is so low that she cannot afford to have children of her own.
A Kuninjku man in Arnhem Land who used to burn his country according to customary practice. His burning meant hot fires that feed off uncropped grass were less common. Since 2015, government policy changes mean he must now engage in 'work-like activity' (which doesn't include caring for country).
In rural NSW, a regenerative farmer who knows how to read the landscape, measures his success by the levels of animal health, species diversity, and nutrient and water cycling on his property. The soils on his farm are healthy and resilient, but to get them that way he had to change everything he was taught about best practice industrial farming over two decades.
"These people do work that is the opposite of what anthropologist David Graeber called 'bullshit jobs'. Their work is environmental, not just in the narrow sense of being low-carbon emitting or in boosting biodiversity, but because it is essential to the sustainability of human and environmental systems," Dr Flanagan will argue.
"There is a deep perversity in our current order of work, that places so many obstacles in the way of people who are performing the work that is most crucial to a flourishing planet and society."
The Reef: A Passionate History by Professor McCalman was shortlisted for the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for non-fiction.
Professor Iain McCalman will retire as Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute this year. Throughout his career as an historian and research professor, he published broadly on environmental topics spanning Charles Darwin's sea voyages and the Great Barrier Reef.
Professor David Schlosberg and Michelle St-Anne, Co-Director and Deputy Director of the Institute, said, "Iain has dedicated his career to fostering multidisciplinary collaboration and encouraging a wider conversation about environmental issues, and yet, he consistently makes time for mentoring early career researchers and young scholars."
"He has always understood the fight for a better future is one that not only scientists but also humanities scholars must take up," added Dr Flanagan.
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Why cities are part of the climate change problem and solution
Climate change is often seen as a global issue but over the past 20 years it has become a vital urban issue. At a Sydney Ideas event next Wednesday, Professor Harriet Bulkeley will explain why cities are both part of the cause and the solution to climate change.
Governments urged to measure household food insecurity: new study
New research from the Sydney Environment Institute has tracked the complexity of food insecurity - inadequate access to affordable, nutritious food - among Afghan migrant communities in Sydney, London and San Francisco.
Climate change a health risk, not just an environmental issue
Doctors should be telling patients that climate change is an immediate health risk, not just an environmental problem, say University of Sydney scholars and a sustainable healthcare expert visiting from the UK, Dr David Pencheon.


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Obedience in our contemporary Western world sounds archaic, outdated, undemocratic even. Why should we obey anyone else other than ourselves? "To thine own self be true". In a society where freedom and in particular freedom of the individual, is held up as the highest good, obedience and submission can seem like dirty words.
It's interesting to look at the etymology of the word obedience in Latin, oboedire: ob = towards; oedire = "to hear", meaning "to hear or listen towards". This can be interpreted as listening or hearing towards something other or external to the self, listening or hearing away from the self. This can be quite challenging in a culture where the self is seen as the central reference point, where individualism and the freedom to 'be yourself' are the values par excellence.
The Rule of St Benedict refers to obedience in several points and on several levels, and its importance is highlighted in the Rule's commitment to the three vows of stability, conversion and obedience. The Rule is an extremely practical document, more of a manual on relationship and a 'how-to' live in community that brings us closer to God than a theoretical, abstract treatise. But this document was written for monastics in the 6th century in a completely different cultural, social and political context- could it possibly still speak to us today especially on the contentious term of obedience?
Perhaps only in trying to live it can the true value of obedience within a spiritual context be discovered. Meditatio House, a lay community trying to live the Rule of St Benedict in a contemporary and relevant way, has been the place for me where I have made this discovery. Coming to live in a community like Meditatio House, we can be surprised that there is a certain way of doing things which must more or less be conformed to. Individualism is challenged in a very practical way when living in community. For example we may disagree with or find difficult to accept the certain level of cleanliness to be maintained in the house, or that we must always negotiate days off and time away, or find that the three times a day meditation is too much; or even more banally that the house doesn't always have our favourite cereal.
If we complain about why we can't do things our own way as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, we can miss the whole point of having a communal standard in the house that has to be lived up to: which is, to take us away from the focus on ourselves, to take us away from the habit of always trying to make the environment around us conform to our expectations and desires. It is a vision of community that involves a training in moving away from the self, a training in being less self-regarding and self-indulgent. The experience of living in community is a discipline in transcending ourselves in the detailed routine of everyday life through both ora (prayer) and labora (work). It is acesis, or training in a very hands-on way, reflecting the Rule's radically incarnational and practical nature. We try to live the rule, rather than just theorise about it.


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Good point Keven, but the fact is that the only options available for 1156 socket are quad core (or dual core with hyperthreading which is basically a quad core anyway). You really don't have an option for a single core or true dual core with socket 1156 and socket 1366.
2 months ago, I'd have advised people to go with socket 775 unless they were doing things that would utilize a quad core, because the prices for the newer sockets (motherboards, CPUs, and DDR3 RAM) were ridiculous. Now that the prices are more in line with socket 775, it just makes sense to use the newer (and in this case) faster/better technology. However the speed increases alone still aren't enough to justify an upgrade from a C2D (socket 775).
With AMD, since true dual cores are still compatible AM3 motherboards, price and usage are still valid considerations. In this case I'd still recommend going with a dual core unless the user is using software the majority of the time that utilizes all cores. That's a fairly small percentage of users at this point.
CPUZ is great, small and free and you can validate your CPU at their site. Everest or SIW are also great to use if you want extensive info on your PC.
On the topic of more speed or more cores, I just found out myself that Acer PC's and notebooks are almost imposible to upgrade, CPU wise. I tried to upgrade my Intel Dual Core E2140 CPU (1,6GHz), to an Intel Dual Core E6500 CPU (2,93GHz), both using the same socket (775). It dindn't work, because my Acer Aspire M3610 Desktop PC was preconfigured for Vista HP and the motherboard (Acer) was preconfigured for existing hardware. I think this issue is the same for most preconfigured PC's. So it seems wise to be well informed before buying any kind of hardware upgrade for a preconfigured PC.
DL Smith, Google CPUZ, download it, install it. Its a very light program that'll identify your motherboard, CPU, GPU, and RAM.
It's a small utility (~3.5 Mb) that will tell you the make, model, speed, family, stepping, cache amt of your cpu, and also the ID of your motherboard and other good stuff.
Available from Softpedia but other places as well. Google it.
ok so this answered part of my question about speed. The other is what if I want to update my present computer, how on earth do you find out firstly what is in my computer i.e. type of mother board etc. And where can you find out if the parts you want to use are compatable with your present parts???


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Q: Case of convex function I have a following problem.
a) Let $A \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ be convex set and $f\colon A \to \mathbb{R}$ convex function.
Show that a set $f^{-1}(-\infty, a)$ is convex for all $a\in \mathbb{R}$.
b) find an example, where $f^{-1}(0, \infty)$ is not convex.
I have proven the first half, but I struggle to find such example.
I was thinking using some norm, since triangular inequality is one of the properties and I could use those inequality in definition of convex function...
Can anyone puts some light on this problem? Thanks.

A: An example to b):
Let $A=\mathbb{R}^n, f(x)=|x|-1$. Then:
1.$\forall\lambda\in[0,1]$
$$\lambda f(x)+(1-\lambda)f(y)=\lambda|x|+(1-\lambda)|y|-1\geq|\lambda x+(1-\lambda)y|-1=f(\lambda x+(1-\lambda)y)$$
so $f$ is convex.
2.$f^{-1}(0,\infty)=\mathbb{R}^n/\mathbb{D}^n(1)$ is not convex.

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Fast Jets, The History of Reheat Development at Derby
by Cyril Elliott, with contributions from John Goodwin
Number 5 in the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Technical Series, Fast Jets is a must-read for folks who enjoy high performance gas turbines. The mention of Derby in the title refers to Derby, England where Rolls-Royce aircraft engines have been developed since this famous company got involved in aircraft engine development in 1914. Consequently, this book only covers those reheat applications developed at this location.
Like me, you probably thought that afterburning, or reheat in English speak, was simply a question of dumping a bunch of kerosene into the tail pipe of a jet. Think again. But it must be added that even Lord Hives had the same misconception I had. Reheat development took an inordinate amount of painful effort with almost the same number of problems one would associate with engine development proper.
Rolls-Royce entered the treacherous field of gas turbines with the Derwent. It should be noted that all Rolls-Royce gas turbines were and are named after rivers, the Derwent being a river in the midlands of England. Entering production in 1944, the Derwent powered the Gloster Meteor. As always in military powerplants, too much power is just enough, in other words there is never enough. So experiments were conducted with injecting fuel into the tail pipe. From these beginning stages, Rolls-Royce went on to develop many reheat designs for military applications. Of course, describing engine development has to go hand in hand with overall aircraft development. By the jet age, more and more emphasis was placed upon the powerplant, how it was mounted and catering to all its needs.
This book is strictly for those who enjoy the technical aspects of gas turbines, no wimps allowed. Obviously, it is focused on reheat but don't be fooled into thinking there is not much to it. To emphasize that point, this book should receive an honorable mention in the Guinness Book of Records for having the largest fold-outs of any book in print. Some of the them measure a staggering 60 inches wide—and this just illustrates the reheat part of the engine. These massive fold-outs, many of which are in color (a rarity in RRHT publications), need some studying to figure out what's going on but after a while it's possible to understand the myriad schematics illustrating fuel, hydraulics, compressed air, electrical systems, etc. Although the illustrations fall in roughly the appropriate part of the text, it would have been helpful to the reader if the illustrations had been actually referenced in the text. Nevertheless, the photographs and illustrations are absolutely first class.
Author Elliot goes through the various developments that took place in Derby chronologically. He covers all the gas turbine developments up to the Spey, used in the F4 Phantom. The F4K variant of the Phantom has been described (not in this book, I should add) as being the slowest, heaviest, and thirstiest of all the Phantoms. However, when you look at the task facing Rolls-Royce engineers, it was a miracle it was even pulled off at all. Even so, excellent insight is offered in the horrendous design and engineering problems that had to be overcome in shoe-horning a Spey into a Phantom airframe. After the Phantom episode, Elliot was reassigned to other tasks and the book was turned over to John Goodwin who takes us through the Adour development phase and its numerous sub types powering the Jaguar.
A nice Appendix 1 lists all the Rolls-Royce reheat engines including performance and applications. Appendix 2, put together by Dave Birch who also edits the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Derby Branch magazine, Archive, describes all the aircraft test-flown by Rolls-Royce in reheat development.
Again, this is a must-buy for those interested in gas turbines. The fold-outs alone are well worth the incredibly low price.
Copyright 2013, Graham White (speedreaders.info).
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Acute and intermediate-term results of percutaneous coronary stenting in octogenarian patients
Igal Teplitsky, Abid Assali, Gregory Golovchiner, Nurit Shor, Avraham Weiss, Alexander Battler, Ran Kornowski*
BACKGROUND: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in octogenarian patients has been associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to assess acute and intermediate-term clinical outcomes among octogenarians undergoing PCI. METHODS: The authors identified 97 consecutive patients aged ≥80 years who underwent PCI using stents between November 2000 and February 2002 at their institution. The patients were divided into three groups according to clinical presentation: (1) acute myocardial infarction (AMI, n=31); (2) unstable angina pectoris (UAP, n= 28); and (3) stable angina pectoris (SAP, n = 38). Procedural data, and in-hospital and six-month clinical outcomes were obtained and adjudicated for all patients. RESULTS: Overall mean age was 84 ± 3 years, 67% of patients were males and 73% had multivessel coronary disease. In-hospital outcomes varied according to clinical presentation: procedural success was 78% in AMI patients (including shock patients), 93% in UAP, and 95% in SAP patients. Likewise, hospital mortality was 26% in AMI, 3.6% in UAP, and 0% in SAP patients (p = 0.0003). Among AMI patients, hospital mortality was extremely high in patients with cardiogenic shock (67% versus 4.6% in AMI without shock, p < 0.0001). Cumulative event rate at six months also varied according to clinical presentation: mortality/MI and target vessel revascularization (TVR) rates were 29%, 3.6%, and 0% in AMI, 7.1%, 7.4%, and 11% in UAP and 0%, 5.3%, and 7.9% in SAP patients. Multivariate analysis identified cardiogenic shock as the most powerful risk factor for predicting mortality (odds ratio = 42, p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: These results show that clinically stable octogenarian patients undergoing PCI have favorable procedural and intermediate-term prognosis. In contrast, cardiogenic shock has a profound negative prognostic impact on octogenarians despite 'aggressive' PCI attempts.
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Teplitsky, I., Assali, A., Golovchiner, G., Shor, N., Weiss, A., Battler, A., & Kornowski, R. (2003). Acute and intermediate-term results of percutaneous coronary stenting in octogenarian patients. International Journal of Cardiovascular Interventions, 5(4), 195-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/14628840310018167
Teplitsky, Igal ; Assali, Abid ; Golovchiner, Gregory et al. / Acute and intermediate-term results of percutaneous coronary stenting in octogenarian patients. In: International Journal of Cardiovascular Interventions. 2003 ; Vol. 5, No. 4. pp. 195-199.
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Q: Re-Implement 3rd party TCP Java client I need to know if there are any tools to figure out the interface to a TCP client.  My Company has purchased a 3rd party tool and we really like the Server side and most of the client side.
I would like to see if I can figure out the calls that the client side makes to the server so I can create the client side functionality we want.
I have been able to figure out what the port number and protocol that the client communicates with the server on.  Since we host the server, I have full access to that too.
Any ideas on how to get hold of and execute the methods that the client app is calling on the server?
I am not that good at java, so I would like to use C#.NET if at all possible.  Does that sound feasible?
NOTE: I have done something like this before (connect to a 3rd party Java Based Server with a custom .NET client) but that time I had a bit of documentation to get me started. This time I have nothing.
Any Help will be greatly appreciated.
Also, if you know better tags for this please post them as comments (or just re-tag if you have the permissions)

A: If you're trying to reverse engineer the protocol so you can write your own client to the server, get Wireshark.  You can use it to follow the conversation between client and server.

A: You could attempt to decompile the library.  That should give you all of the low-level info that you need.

A: You could also use TCPMon to grab the exact message text passed between client and server.


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DAVIS: Riders embarassing showing in Winnipeg cause for much concern
By Darrell Davis
The Saskatchewan Roughriders were horrible.
They did virtually nothing right on offence, defence or special teams while getting obliterated 31-0 by the home-town Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday. In a pivotal CFL game between two teams on three-game winning streaks, the Roughriders were so unproductive they have to be concerned about their ability to bounce back from such an embarrassment.
Here's the biggest issue: Saskatchewan's offence hasn't scored a touchdown in nearly two-and-a-half games with a receiving corps that has, in one year, declined from one of the CFL's best groups to its worst. High-priced quarterback Zach Collaros didn't seem willing in curt post-game interviews to explain the issues or take much blame, while head coach Chris Jones, guard-turned-centre Brendon LaBatte and defensive end Charleston Hughes acted like leaders and pointed the fingers at themselves.
There were numerous ready-made excuses, including the absence of their only receiver remaining from last season's group (Naaman Roosevelt), a patchwork offensive line that was missing centre Dan Clark and lost right guard Dariusz Bladek during the game, plus a crappy CFL schedule that forced them for a fifth time to play a road game after a shortened week (Saskatchewan had four days between games; Winnipeg had seven).
So it was little surprise the Roughriders didn't look prepared for a game that could have helped them earn a home playoff game.
With a postseason berth already clinched they were totally flat from the opening minutes, when Collaros (who was 8-for-19 for 69 yards with two interceptions before being replaced by Brandon Bridge early in the third quarter) connected with rookie receiver Kyran Moore. Bombers linebacker Adam Bighill knocked the ball from Moore's hands to Winnipeg defensive back Anthony Gaitor, who ran 45 yards for a touchdown.
Those were the winning points. Out-gained 346 to 195 yards, the Roughriders never even got close enough to attempt a field goal, ending 12 of their 17 offensive possessions with a punt and four others with a turnover.
The defence and special teams have carried the Roughriders to their 10-6 record. Game-winning plays by defensive ends Willie Jefferson and Hughes and defensive backs Ed Gainey and Nick Marshall, plus kick-return touchdowns by Christion Jones, Marcus Thigpen and Moore have nearly hidden the fact that Saskatchewan's anemic offence ranks seventh in producing points.
The concern with the Roughriders throughout the season has been this: What happens when the special teams and defence perform as badly as the offence? The answer is this: 31-0.


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Vande Mataram Controversy: Kamal Nath changes tune, restores singing of 'Vande Mataram'
IANS Friday, 04 January 2019 08:22:49 AM
Bhopal : The Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday took a U-turn to announce that reciting "Vande Mataram" will be restored at the state secretariat from next month but added singing of national anthem to the practice.
The newly-elected Congress government was at the centre of a controversy over its decision to discontinue the practice of government employees singing "Vande Mataram" on the first working day of every month at the secretariat here.
Announcing the restoration, Chief Minister Kamal Nath said that in addition to the employees singing the national song, a police band will also play the tune, besides the singing of the national anthem on the first working day of the month.
Earlier in the week, the state government had ordered that it was no longer mandatory to sing the national song, a practice introduced by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in 2005.
Meanwhile, Chouhan has hailed the restoration of singing of the national song as a victory of the people and demanded to know whether the decision to discontinue the practice was taken by Kamal Nath or was made at the behest of Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
Vande Mataram Controversy
Kamal Nath
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Published : Friday, January 04, 2019 08:20 [IST]
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**12/30/21 UPDATE: Tri-County Health Department's public health order requiring masks in all indoor public spaces will continue into January. Individuals two years of age and older, regardless of vaccination status, should wear a face covering in all public indoor spaces, which include workspaces, restaurants, gyms, places of worship, private events held in public spaces like event venues, common spaces in apartment and condo buildings, etc.**
11/23/21 -- A new public health order by the Tri-County Health Department requires face coverings to be worn in all public indoor spaces in Adams County effective Wednesday, November 24, 2021 through January 2, 2022. According to Tri-County Health, the public health order comes in response to COVID-19 hospitalizations surging in Adams, Arapahoe and other counties in Colorado. The public health order will remain in effect until staffed ICU beds availability is above 10-percent for 14 consecutive days, unless extended, rescinded or amended by TCHD.
Per the public health order, individuals ages two years and older, including fully-vaccinated individuals, will be required to wear face coverings while in public indoor spaces.
Face coverings will be required in all City of Brighton buildings, including City Hall, Historic City Hall, the Brighton Police Department, the Brighton Recreation Center, Eagle View Adult Center and The Armory Performing Arts Center.
Exemptions include individuals under the age of two years, those who can't medically tolerate a face mask, and businesses and facilities that implement a voluntary vaccine verification program. Additional exceptions to face covering requirements include individuals who are in a swimming pool and those engaged in gymnastics, tumbling, cheer or wrestling. For a full list of exceptions, see TCHD's public health order here.
The public health order also includes recommendations for businesses and facilities to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. View the recommendations here.
If you have questions regarding the order or would like to report a violation, please contact TCHD at 303-220-9200 or visit www.tchd.org.
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