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Renew Your Vows at the Crossroads of the World on Valentine's Day
By newyorktrend on Jan 23, 2020 in Lifestyle, Local News, Relationships
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This Valentine's Day, the Times Square Alliance will host a celebration of love and romance during a large vow renewal ceremony on the iconic Red Steps in Times Square on Friday, February 14th, at 6:00 PM. The ceremony is free and open to people of all ages, genders, religions, races, and backgrounds.
As the lovebirds renew their vows, they will overlook the winner of this year's annual Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition: "Heart Squared" by MODU and Eric Forman Studio – made of 125 mirrors tilted in various directions within a steel frame that evokes the outline of an anatomic heart – "Heart Squared" transforms the spectacle of Times Square into kaleidoscopic images of people, buildings, and brightly-lit billboards. While the position of each mirror seems random, the designers developed a specialized technique to calculate the specific angles in order to hide a playful surprise. As viewers move around the structure towards a special marked location, those hundreds of reflections suddenly coalesce, revealing a pixel heart of urban life surrounded by a field of mirrored sky. For more information, visit www.TSQ.org/HeartSquared.
As the vow renewal concludes, official Times Square confetti will flutter around the participants.
To register for the vow renewal ceremony, visit www.TSq.org/vows.
For more information about Valentine's Day celebrations in Times Square visit www.TSq.org/Love.
DATE: Friday, February 14, 2020
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By: Jeffrey Burt | May 16, 2017
The vendor teams with cloud provider Markley to offer its Urika-GX appliance in an IaaS environment.
Supercomputer vendor Cray will make its systems and technologies available to high-performance computing organizations, enterprises and other end users via the cloud.
The company is partnering with Boston-based cloud provider Markley to offer the supercomputing technologies as a hosted service, starting with the life sciences industry, Cray officials said May 16. The companies will expand the reach of the supercomputing capabilities to other verticals and will develop industry-specific solutions in the future.
The supercomputer-as-a-service offering is part of Cray's larger push to expand its reach into the commercial and enterprise spaces as the demand for greater data analytics capabilities increases. During a conference call earlier this month regarding the company's most recent quarterly financial numbers, President and CEO Peter Ungaro spoke about a slowdown in the high-performance computing (HPC) market that Cray traditionally has played in and the need to move into adjacent markets.
Ungaro said he still expects the high-end supercomputing space to rebound from its current slowdown and that the company will refresh its four product lines in preparation. But he added that Cray's "second main focus area is to continue to expand in the commercial and big data markets. As data continues to explode, our government and commercial customers are looking for new ways to leverage that data into actionable business decisions."
The company also is pursuing other ways of delivering its technologies to the market, including partnering with solutions providers, Ungaro said, according to a transcript on Seeking Alpha.
Through the partnership with Markley, Cray is able to make its supercomputer technologies available to users—from researchers and scientists to engineers and data scientists—who in the past may not have had the chance to leverage them, Fred Kohout, the vendor's senior vice president of products and chief marketing officer, said in a statement. The demand is coming from a broad array of industries, including pharmaceuticals, aerospace, financial service and government agencies, company officials said.
With Markley, Cray is partnering with a 26-year-old infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider based in Boston that runs more than 3 million square feet of data center space in the United States and Europe. Bringing supercomputing capabilities to its lineup of services makes sense at a time when the demand for cloud computing, analytics and machine learning is growing, according to Markley CTO Patrick Gilmore.
"The need for supercomputers has never been greater," Gilmore said in a statement. "For the life sciences industry especially, speed to market is critical. By making supercomputing and big data analytics available in a hosted model, Markley and Cray are providing organizations with the opportunity to reap significant benefits, both economically and operationally."
The companies will first focus on the life sciences industry, with the initial solution including Cray's Urika-GX, an integrated offering for big data analytics that includes hardware and software. According to Cray officials, the appliance takes advantage of open technologies and can run multiple workloads at the same time, including enterprise analytics software like Hadoop and Apache Spark. The Cray Graph Engine, which provides pattern-matching capabilities and is optimized for the high scalability and parallelization of the Urika-GX, also is integrated. By partnering with Markley, Cray is making its Urika-GX platform available either on-premises or via the cloud.
Cray introduced the Urika-GX last year, offering a system that is preloaded with Hortonworks Data Platform, which includes Hadoop, Spark and the OpenStack management suite. The vendor sells other analytics platforms, like the Urika-XA and Urika-GD, which are aimed at the HPC space. The Urika-GX targets the enterprise and the workloads they run.
The companies plan to make more Cray infrastructure available through the cloud, officials for both companies said.
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Why Do People Like to Play Farming Games So Much?
Johan RoweAugust 5, 2021
Farming is one of the world's building blocks of creation. It is single-handedly one of the most excellent practices that humans have developed over millennia. Agriculture has helped civilizations flourish, fed over billions of people, and changed how we run our economies. Farming, apart from being an occupation, is also more of a therapeutic activity.
People now realize how stress-busting agriculture can be. Being a part of nature and doing some meaningful work that can feed not only your stomach but also others is something that you cannot miss out on. Video games played by adults are fewer than teens and adolescents. But with that being said, it does not mean that adults do not want to play games.
It depends on the type of game. Most adults who want to game find it a pathway to channel their free time and use it as a stress reliever. Farming games are top-rated amongst kids and adults. It teaches kids the various values of virtually caring and nurturing your ecosystem per se.
For adults that have a tight schedule and have to fit in their recreational activities, it can get hard to step out and take a break at times. Hence, playing farming games can reduce stress and give them a sense of calm. Visit ls22 (mods) to know more about farming games and their popularity amongst the adult gaming community. Is22 is a website that has a farming simulator.
It has realistic farming activities that you can create for yourself. This article will talk about 2 of the best farming games and why people love to play them so much.
The Importance Of Farming And Its Video Effect
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The revelation of farming was without a doubt one of the most significant societal advancements in human history. Our best evidence suggests that humans first started farming around 12,000 years ago in a place known as the fertile crescent, which is just a part of the middle east. With the onset of farming came the beginning of civilization as we know it.
Humans no longer had to hunt and forage for their food. Instead, they could settle in one place and grow crops or breed livestock. There were the earliest known crops to be produced by humans, among which were peas, lentils, and barley. While the earliest known animals ever reared were goats and wild oxen, which isn't essential, we found it fascinating.
Anyways, now that we have that out of the way, we have to ask what if humans never started farming in the first place. Let's start with some obvious answers. The reason being is humans never domesticated wolves or any other animals, so dogs aren't possible, neither are cats or any other pet.
Fish actually might be, but no one wants them in comparison to plant food, so moving on, a vast number of animals may have never gone extinct. One example is the passenger pigeon which went extinct in 1914 after being overly hunted by humans.
Other animals like the woolly mammoth still may have gone extinct as they were driven to extinction by hunting and other natural causes. This primary importance of farming is what motivates people to pursue it on a virtual platform. Farming video games were highly popularized in the 2010s and have only increased.
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Farmville, Zynga's new farm simulation game, allows players to build and grow the farm of their dreams. With the help of their friends, new players begin by customizing their farmers. Gender, eye color, and hairstyle are just a few too many options for users to create a unique character.
Once your farmer is completed, players then move on to build and customize their farms by plowing the land and choosing what they want to grow from a large variety of crops such as strawberries, eggplant, wheat, and soybeans.
All can be purchased from the Farmville marketplace as the users cultivate their farms. Their experience level and paint count, which can be seen at the top of the screen, will rise as your farmer's experience story goes up. New items will become available to purchase in the market, and as your bank account increases, you will have the funds to buy them.
The friend factor is a critical function of the Farmville story. You can recruit your Facebook friends to help tend and strengthen each other's farms. Groups of friends playing Farmville together can build more giant farms, grow more crops and earn more money.
It's a great way to stay connected and have fun with your friends no matter where they are. Farmville is a fun game and can be played anytime. You have an extra 5 to 10 minutes, which is excellent while you're doing things around the house or taking a quick break at work. Farmville is available free on Facebook, so make sure to try it out with your friends.
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One of the most giant selling games of all time, a creation of 2009, Minecraft is one of the biggest and best games on the internet platform currently. It is an understatement to call it a survival game, but that is one of the main aspects.
Minecraft can be viewed as a game based on your preference. You can play it to indulge in your architectural insights, or you could indulge in your want to farm and explore places. Minecraft has many things that are farming-related, and you can experience this game for its own sake. You have a large inventory of various items that are farming-related.
You are allowed to make your farming tools such as sickles, pickaxes, plows, and other harvesting tools. You can explore the world of Minecraft to avail yourself of various plant seeds and plant them in the right spot and soil. With enough nurturing and care over a certain period of game time, you'll be able to harvest them and use them for your sustenance. Truly one of the best creations in the world of gaming.
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Moscow's Motor Show 2005 to feature cars from over 1000 carmakers
Motor Show 2005, Moscow's ninth international car show, will feature vehicles from more than 1,000 companies representing 28 countries, an event organizer said Wednesday.
Alexander Kovrigin, chairman of the board of directors of Avtoselmash holding (ASM-Holding), said 650 Russian companies would present the latest developments of national auto industry at the August 24-28 show at Moscow's Expo Center.
"Such countries as Poland, the Czech Republic, Finland, and South Korea will present their products for the first time," he said.
Nikolai Sorokin, deputy chairman of the industry department of the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry, said the country's auto market, which totaled $18 billion in 2004, "is oriented to international standards," reports RIA Novoti.
"A few months have passed since Automobile Producers Association sealed an agreement with us for Motor Show-2006," Alexander Kovrigin said to Kommersant. Kovrigin is absolutely sure ASM Holding will remain the Show's arranger.
But Pyotr Kirchev, head of Crocus Motor Show and former official of Expocenter, thinks different. Kirchev said Crocus Expo has all chances not only to host the Motor Show-2006, but also to arrange it, the more so that the indoor exhibition area reaches 95,000 sq. m. there.
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Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Taavi Aas (Centre). Source: Ken Mürk/ERR
According to Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications Taavi Aas (Centre), expanding Estonia's major highways into four-lane highways is a major operation that may indeed take some 15 years to complete, as recently stated in an interview by Road Administration Director of Strategic Planning Martin Leng.
A total of 145 kilometers of Tallinn-Narva, Tallinn-Tartu and Tallinn-Pärnu Highways have been expanded into four-lane roads, with another 366 kilometers to go, Aas told ERR on Monday.
"This is a massive volume, and in order to succeed, we need more designers, builders and building materials," he said. "A 15-year program is necessary to ensure that the designers and builders manage to train the necessary engineers and employees and that builders could conduct quarry surveys and procure mining permits."
Should the implementation of a public-private partnership (PPP) allow for a reduction in construction time, that would be very welcome, the minister added.
In an interview with the winter 2019 edition of Teeleht (link in Estonian), Leng said that under a public-private partnership, the expansion of Tallinn-Narva Highway, Tallinn-Tartu Highway and Tallinn-Pärnu Highway into four-lane highways would cost €1.7 billion, take 15 years to complete and require the hiring of 50-60 additional employees by the Road Administration.
"So it tends to go, unfortunately," Aas said, agreeing with Leng's estimate that planning and preparatory work alone would take five years. "Once the thematic plan is in hand, just over two years then goes to the legally required environmental impact assessment for the planned section of road alone. The preliminary road design documentation for the section of road is drawn up within this time as well. The land expropriation process takes the same amount of time, the exact length of which depends on the number of properties along the route of a specific section of road. Add to that time spent on design and procurement tender announcements. There are very few places we can save on time."
Commenting on the need for additional staff, the minister noted that this would depend on both what the government decides as well as the speed at which these projects advance.
"Staff needs when building large-scale infrastructure projects are great not just on the contractor's end but also on the contracting entity's end," Aas explained. "The implementation of PPP projects requires increased legal and engineering competences. Exactly how great human resources requirements will depend on what the government decides as well as the extent and tempo of PPP project implementation."
At its final cabinet meeting of 2019 on December 19, the Estonian government approved the principles and guidelines for public–private partnerships, based upon which the state will pair up with the private sector for the construction of large-scale infrastructure projects.
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Gay Byrne reveals he's 'too sick and tired' to miss broadcasting
Byrne was joined by his wife yesterday at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre for the launch of new production Minding Frankie
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Former Late Late show presenter Gay Byrne has said he doesn't miss broadcasting as he's "too sick and tired" to be on the airwaves.
Byrne, 82, is currently undergoing treatment for prostate cancer and is recovering from a double hip replacement.
The beloved TV and radio veteran said he is in good spirits but has to take care of himself "as much as possible".
Byrne told the Irish Mirror: "No [I don't miss working] at all. Not at the moment anyway. I'm too sick to miss it. I'm too lacking in energy to miss it.
"People have been amazingly kind and gentle and asking how I am. It's from all over the nation."
Marty Whelan opens up about 'inspirational' Gay Byrne
The RTE legend confessed while his spouse Kathleen Watkins and the rest of his family are doing a good job looking after him, he's still a "lousy patient".
He said: "My darling wife, my darling son-in-law and my darling daughter are taking great care of me at the moment.
"I'm a regular visitor to the Mater Hospital for treatment and everything seems to be going fine for the moment.
"They're very happy with me – whether I am or not.
"I'm a lousy patient. I'm on about 18 tablets a day and they're driving me mad. They're affecting my moods all the time. I'm up and down. I don't want to paint a sorrowful picture."
The Dubliner also weighed in on the controversy over claims British actor Stephen Fry made
blasphemous comments during a 2015 interview in Byrne's The Meaning Of Life series.
Gordon Snell (husband of Maeve Binchy) with Gay Byrne and Kathleen Watkins pictured at a special afternoon tea at the Gaiety Theatre held to remember Maeve Binchy and to launch the World Premiere production of Binchy's Minding Frankie (Image: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland)
He said: "It didn't affect me in the least. Well I wasn't the one being accused of anything.
"I just thought it as very silly. It was very, very silly.
"It's an obsolete law and it should be done away with it. That is the end of it.
"Nobody came up to me. Nobody involved me at all so it didn't matter to me one way or the other. It wasn't one of those disturbing things in my life."
Gay Byrne undergoes two hip operations in two weeks but remains hopeful about cancer battle
Byrne was joined by his wife yesterday at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre for the launch of new production Minding Frankie.
The play has been adapted from the book of the same name by legendary writer Maeve Binchy.
Byrne said: "Maeve was a great favourite. And I always said that at any time her name was announced on the Late Late Show as a guest you could see the entire audience in the studio
smiling and happy she was there."
The show will run in the Gaiety from June 6 to 17. Tickets, which are priced from €25 to €37, are available at www.gaietytheatre.ie.
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Dota 2 The International 2019 prize pool crosses $30 million
By:Adnan Kljajic
DOTA 2 - The International 2019
Dota 2's main event of the year, The International 2019 has officially become the tournament with the biggest prize pool history, once again. Unlike before where Valve beat their own records, now they beat that of Fortnite World Cup.
Epic Games are trying to shake things up both on the storefront market and esports scene. The latter manifested in the staggering $30 million prize pool for Fortnite World Cup which became the single esports event with the biggest prize pool for a while.
As of 21 July 2019, Valve have beaten that record with Dota 2 The International 2019 (TI9). The prize pool was $30,021,352 at noon, 12:00 CEST and it keeps growing rather quickly. This number also gives some interesting insights into the workings of different companies and their comparisons with Valve.
Epic Games are simply throwing big bucks in, hoping enough players will latch onto Fortnite esports but the declining trends suggest that this did not work that well.
Meanwhile, Valve's interactive prize pool mechanics proved successful once again since the $30 million figure means the company earned $113.2 million in total with Battle Pass sales. A quarter of that ($28.4 million) went to the prize pool, which became a total of $30 million when added on top of the base $1.6 million Valve initially invested.
Riot Games offer bigger base prize pools on their League of Legends World Championship, which amounted to $6.5 in 2018 but they don't have any mechanic to amplify the number. There is no Battle Pass and not even a skin that would contribute to the World Championship prizes.
This is extremely odd as fans have been mentioning this over the years - Dota 2 has a lower player base but still trumps League of Legends each year with the main event prize pools. It is also not like Riot would have trouble selling prize-contributing skins either. Dark Star Cho'Gath sales that amounted to $6.1 million donated to charities over the world proved that.
Epic Games Fortnite World Cup
Technically, Epic Games threw $100 million on esports in 2019 but that was distributed over many tournaments, with World Cup still being the biggest one with $30 million prize pool.
Whatever the case for Dota 2's main competitors may be in the future, Valve's MOBA is still the biggest tournament when it comes to prizes, in large part thanks to brilliant Battle Pass strategy. The International 2019's green paper allure will just grow though as there is about one month left until the tournament begins, meaning there is still a lot of time to beef the prizes up.
Dota 2 - The International 2018 - Group phase teams
With The International fast approaching, the world's finest Dota 2 teams are going to duke it out to see who's the very best. The winning team will take with them the Aegis of the Immortal, the Stanley Cup of the professional Dota 2.
Valve cancels Dota 2 Winter Major
Dota 2 esports is still suffering from the worldwide pandemic and as a result, the Winter Major of 2022 was cancelled, with additional alterations to future tournaments.
New Mirana persona in Dota 2 comes from Dragon's Blood anime
Valve is one step closer to completing the set bridging Dota 2 and the Dragon's Blood anime as Mirana is the next one to grab the looks from the series.
League of Legends Caitlyn bug gives her two ultimate charges
Ah, League of Legends interactions. A genre of study in its own right, really. One never knows which update will make the whole game unravel, and we love it.
Riot will rework LoL Chemtech drake soul and map if it stays OP
The main issue the League of Legends player base has with the season12, as well as its preseason is the Chemtech drake. Riot are nerfing it in patch 12.2., and if that doesn't work, they say a rework will likely be in order.
LoL Chemtech drake soul has a 90% win-rate in season 12 ranked
The biggest change during season12 preseason was the addition of two new drakes, that of the Hextech and Chemtech drake. While the Hextech drake has been balanced, if not without bugs, from the start, Chemtech is anything but.
League of Legends patch 12.2 specific changes revealed
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Syracuse University statement on assuming operation of its steam plants
Monday, October 19, 2009, By News Staff
Kevin Morrow
Syracuse University today assumed operation of its steam plants from Project Orange Associates (POA) in order to assure the unabated production of steam to the University and other institutions—the U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Center, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY Upstate Medical University and Crouse Hospital.
The University constructed its two steam plants—the Riley Plant in 1952, with later conversion to natural gas power in the early 1970s; the Alco Plant in 1929, with an addition in the 1960s—to meet the heating and other steam needs of the University and the other institutions. In addition to the steam plants, the University constructed and maintains an extensive distribution system of underground steam mains to deliver the steam to University buildings and those of the other institutions.
POA had been operating the University's Steam Plants since 1992, pursuant to agreements entered into between POA and the University in 1990. Pursuant to those agreements, POA also constructed a cogeneration facility on land leased to it by the University.
On Oct. 15, POA advised the University that it would terminate production of steam and return control of the University's Steam Plants to the University on Oct. 19 at 12:01 a.m. POA has not turned over the cogeneration facility to the University.
POA specified three reasons for its termination of the production of steam: its claims against the University for fraud regarding the steam contract signed by the parties in 1990; the difficulties POA has been experiencing with the turbines in the cogeneration facility, which POA attributes to General Electric International and other General Electric entities; and the University's alleged refusal to permit POA to install a package boiler in the cogeneration facility.
In response to those alleged reasons, the University is aware that a Supreme Court judge already ruled in May 2009 that POA is not likely to succeed in its claim of fraud against the University with regard to the steam price and refused POA's application for a preliminary injunction with respect to the steam price. Further, the University long ago consented to POA's installation of a package boiler in the cogeneration facility. With respect to the alleged difficulties with the turbines in the cogeneration facility, the University is unaware of the details of the dispute between POA and General Electric. Under the 1990 agreements, POA agreed to meet the University's steam needs by operating the University Steam Plants should there be difficulties with the cogeneration facility. Accordingly, the University disagrees that POA's disputes with General Electric constitute any basis for POA to terminate providing steam to the University.
The University is disappointed that POA has now declined to meet its contractual obligations to provide steam, but the University will take all necessary steps to continue the supply of steam to the University and its customers.


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'Write If We're Still Speaking'
By Jay Nordlinger
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Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson in a publicity still for 1977's Semi-Tough, based on the Dan Jenkins novel	 (United Artists)
Yesterday, Dan Jenkins, the great sportswriter and novelist, died. He was one of my favorite writers — and America's, too. In addition to reams of sports journalism, especially about golf, he wrote many novels, including Semi-Tough, Life Its Ownself, and Dead Solid Perfect. He also wrote e-mails, of the most lovable kind.
In the summer of 2013, I was seeking to interview him. Could not get an e-mail address. Must have found some street address. Sent him a letter and eventually got a reply, via e-mail. The reply began, "Yo, Jay." He had me at "Yo, Jay," for sure. He continued,
I just returned from six weeks on the road that included the British Open, PGA, and a vacation in between, and found your month-old letter, the only important document in the stack.
I would be flattered to have my ownself fondled by National Review, one of the few publications I can tolerate these days.
How would you like to do it? I ain't going anywhere the rest of the year. Don't hear too good on the phone, but enjoy back and forth email, and would be pleased with a personal visit. I would try not to stuff you with too much Texas barbecue and Tex-Mex.
He lived in Fort Worth, where he was born and raised. Toward the end of his e-mail, he gave me further contact info, then said, "Did Doubleday sic you on me? Have you read the manuscript?" He ended, "Write if we're still speaking."
Someday, I will use that line, somewhere, somehow: "Write if we're still speaking."
No, Doubleday hadn't sicced me on him. In fact, I did not know, at that point, that he was about to have another book published. I just wanted to go see him and interview him and write about him — because I adored him. I had a little hook, or "hooklet," as I went on to tell him: He was about to collect a Red Smith award.
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After I e-mailed him, he wrote back with,
Jesus, I didn't know I'd be dealing with an intellectual, but bring yourself on. Book is a "journalism memoir," publisher insisted on calling it "His Ownself." My working title was always "Typing Through the Laughter." Out sometime around the first of the year, or a little later.
Look forward to your basic presence.
We talked (via e-mail) about this and that, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In one note, he said — I think you will like the phrasing (again) — "I'm stomping on the galleys right now for the grand final time. Can't predict when bound galleys will be available, but you should read 'His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir' before you come down here to slap me around."
It never worked out. I never went down to slap him around or otherwise be with him. But his writing, in all forms, gave me great pleasure for many years, and I am thinking of him today, for obvious reasons. A jewel of American life.
Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at the National Review Institute. @jaynordlinger


Businesses across Reading are urged to come forward to sponsor tickets to an event where the next generation of digital stars can learn their craft.
ConnectTVT is inviting firms to help fund up to 200 sponsored tickets for the Tech for Good event.
The event will be part of the three-day Reading town centre tech takeover known as the Festival of Digital Disruption (FoDD), which is now in its third year.
It has been organised by ConnectTVT founder Louize Clarke, who designed the conference to inspire young people about the way technology can lead innovation.
It will look at how to implement positive change across health, social and community services, with the aim of securing a better future.
Matt Bovey, co-creator at FoDD added: "There's a lot of talk about supporting digital talent, but few companies are willing to step up and invest.
"We're grateful to the businesses already on board, helping to tackle this potential talent crisis.
Speakers include Mike Dunn, from Donate the Change on innovative charitable giving, Natalia Efremova, CTO at Deep Planet on using AI and satellite imagery to enable precision agriculture in developing economies and Kathy Nothstine, lead Future Cities at Nesta who recently finished a project exploring the application of drones across five UK cities.
Ms Clarke said: "We want to inspire young people about tech's transformative potential.
"Our Tech for Good conference brings together the people that are making the world a better place through tech and digital innovation.
The tickets can be sponsored for £99 each, and a number of SMEs in Reading, Berkshire like Feelgood Creative, Technical Nature and Work in Confidence, have already come forward.
FoDD runs between Wednesday, November 21 and Friday, November 23, and is held at Reading Town Hall.
Any businesses wanting to sponsor a ticket can do so here.


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We were chosen thanks to the value our 3D augmented reality applications bring to the online retail experience for both realtors and consumers. VisionX applications like Live Catalogue and Design My Space allow users to place digital objects, such as office furniture, in their real-life environment and see how that object looks from all angles, in granular detail, and in contrast with the rest of their room. Our products can be applied to multiple use cases to solve numerous challenges in various retail industry verticals.
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Rumsfeld Out, Gates In?
Will a change in the leadership of the Pentagon and Congress translate into a new U.S. military policy?
John Feffer
The change in control of both houses of Congress was not the only bad news for George Bush. The day after the election, he announced the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense and the nomination of Robert Gates as his successor.
Coming just a week after the president told reporters that he wanted Rumsfeld to stay for the duration of his tenure in the White House, the change in the Pentagon's civilian head caught many by surprise. There was also a lot of relief. In the European parliament, 200 socialist deputies hailed "the beginning of the end of a six-year nightmare for the world."
Not necessarily. Changing personalities at the Pentagon does not necessarily mean that policy will change. In fact, Bush stated flatly that the goal is still "victory"—an Iraq that can defend itself from terrorists and the meddling of it neighbors, provide basic services for its people, and is fully integrated into the world economy.
So the question really is whether Robert Gates can offer a different direction—and whether Bush will listen?
Confirming Gates
First, however, the Senate will hold confirmation hearings for Gates, who currently is president of Texas A&M. Gates, no stranger to Washington, knows the process well. In 1966, after two years in the Air Force working with intercontinental ballistic missiles, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a Soviet analyst. He rose rapidly through the ranks until President Reagan appointed him deputy director of the CIA in 1986. One year later, he faced confirmation hearings to replace William Casey as director of the CIA.
In the meantime, however, the Iran-Contra scandal had blown wide open. A special prosecutor was investigating grounds for criminal indictments and Congress was holding extensive hearings. Many in Congress and in the nation were skeptical of Gates' claim that, until very late in the action, he was largely "out of the loop." The sale of weapons and spare parts to Iran and the diversion of the proceeds to the Nicaraguan Contras was a major operation. Even if directly orchestrated by Casey and Oliver North of the National Security Council staff, Gates most likely knew something of the scheme. That Casey and the CIA were directly aiding and abetting the Contras to overthrow the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega only fueled suspicions.
Facing an uphill confirmation battle, Gates withdrew his name. He remained deputy director of the CIA until 1989 when he joined the National Security Council. There he stayed through the 1991 war that ousted Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. In March 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Gates (for a second time) to be head of the CIA. The Senate confirmed Gates in early November of that year, and he served until 1993.
When he appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for confirmation hearings to be secretary of defense, Gates will see some familiar faces from his past, especially if the hearings take place in the lame duck session. Among those who spoke against the nominee in 1991 are current members such as Carl Levin and Edward Kennedy.
They may well resurrect the charges lodged against Gates in 1987 and in 1991. They may ask him again whether he lied to Congress about the extent of his involvement in or knowledge of Iran-Contra. They may want to know whether the CIA, under his watch, altered national intelligence estimates on Soviet capabilities to make the threat seem worse than warranted. Their questioning might probe his involvement in providing military equipment and intelligence to Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War, all of which helped Saddam in his battles against U.S. forces in 1991 in Operation Desert Storm. More broadly, Gates may be held to account once again for the CIA's failure to predict the demise of the Soviet Union, the lack of monitoring of Saddam's progress toward developing a nuclear weapon in the 1980s, and the "politicizing" of intelligence to support presidential biases.
Anything but Rummy
Whether the U.S. Senate, in the upcoming lame-duck session controlled by the Republicans, will try to push through abbreviated hearings and confirm Gates as soon as possible or leave that task for the new Senate remains unclear. Regardless, even though he's been out of government service for a dozen years except to serve on special commissions such as the current Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, Gates will most likely be confirmed – if for no other reason than the Democrats are eager to have anyone other than Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense.
The real test will be whether the change at the Pentagon and the change in Congress will produce any significant alteration in U.S. strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the very least, the U.S. public has expressed its dissatisfaction with the war choices of the administration and Congress. Needed now is planning for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. And the United States must begin to prepare itself psychologically for the day that Iraqis actually assume the full burden of devising a political solution that will be fair and workable for all Iraqi citizens.
On this point, the public will quickly glimpse just how Gates will fit in with other administration players. There may be White House pressure to implement the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group—due out December 7—no questions asked. Gates will have to take a principled stand, if warranted, or be seen as "politicizing" the war.
Mr. Gates, should he be confirmed, has his work cut out for him—as does the new Congress. And neither has time to waste.
Dan Smith is a military affairs analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus (online at www.fpif.org), a retired U.S. Army colonel, and a senior fellow on military affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Email at dan@fcnl.org or blog �The Quakers' Colonel.�


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Russia Now Has 'Treasure Trove' of Info About Stealthy F-22s - US General
The Syrian conflict has given Russia the ability to learn more about how US stealth aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor operate, a US Air Force general told an... 05.01.2018, Sputnik International
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© AP Photo / Kamran JebreiliA U.S. F-22 Raptor performs during the Dubai Air Show, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017.
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The Syrian conflict has given Russia the ability to learn more about how US stealth aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor operate, a US Air Force general told an audience at an Air Force Association briefing Thursday.
"The skies over Iraq and specifically Syria have really just been a treasure trove for them to see how we operate," said Lt. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson. "Our adversaries are watching us, they're learning from us," Jamieson said.
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The general went on to say "Russian has gained invaluable insights and information with operating in a contested airspace alongside of us in Syria."
"When meeting our partners from the Western coalition in the air, we always found ourselves 'on their tails' as the pilots say, which means victory in a dogfight," Russian Aerospace Forces Maj. Maksim Makolin said December 28. Specifically, Makolin referred to the tactical advantage of pursuing opposition aircraft from the beneficial position of lagging behind, in the opposition's blind spot.
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US F-22s and Russian Su-35s have had a few close encounters over Syrian airspace but have employed a deconfliction communications line to avoid miscalculations. "We will continue to deconflict with the Russians, but we have no intention to operate in areas that are currently held by the [Syrian] regime," Felix Gedney, British Army major general and senior official for the US-led coalition against Daesh, said in late December.
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In addition to observing classified flying tactics from the air, Russia could also "'paint' Western fighters and other air assets with ground-based and aerial fire control and search radars," Justin Bronk, an aerial combat analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider Thursday.
But as Russia was given a view of US Air Force tactics, so too was the US afforded the opportunity to watch how Russia's air force operates, analysts point out. "While Russia is certainly making every use that it can of the opportunity to learn about Western air operations and capabilities in the shared skies over Syria, that process goes both ways, since whatever Russian military aircraft do is done within airspace heavily surveilled by Western assets," Bronk said.


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HARRISBURG – Rep. Sue Helm (R-Dauphin/Lebanon) today announced that Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, will receive $300,000 in Multimodal Grant funds for construction of a sidewalk project along Union Deposit Road.
The grant, which was issued by the Commonwealth Financing Authority, will provide a portion of the cost of a sidewalk on Union Deposit between Shield Street and Powers Avenue.
Helm, who lobbied for the grant, said the project will provide a vital pedestrian connection between residential portions of Susquehanna Township and two shopping centers on Union Deposit Road.
Helm said the total project cost is estimated at $872,000.


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10 Choosing and Narrowing a Topic
Choosing a Topic to Research
Students often struggle to choose their topics of study or interest and therefore do not know where to start when it comes to the work of a history class. Here are some points to consider:
The most important element in choosing a topic for an undergraduate history class is to make sure that you can remain interested in the topic. Start by listing subjects, time periods, scenarios that interest you. Then consider whether or not you might want to focus on an individual, a singular event, a movement that crossed several eras, or some other aspect of the past. You might also consider what kinds of sources interest you—personal correspondence or diaries? Political speeches? Videos? Scientific treatises? Maps? Advertisements? Some of the best research papers focus on a narrow range of sources, but because they are examined within a new framework, or particularly in-depth, they yield fascinating new analyses.
Topic Finder and Term Clusters
For those with access to UTA's databases, you can "map" terms that interest you on Gale Virtual Reference library and see related terms for entries in GVRL's resources. For example, if you put in "pandemic" and "history" you get citations to a number of related individuals and events of previous pandemics in global history. See this link to Gale Virtural Resource Library and click on "Topic Finder" at top of page. https://login.ezproxy.uta.edu/login?url=https://go.gale.com/ps/start.do?p=GVRL&u=txshracd2597
The second most important element is to ascertain whether you can access the sources necessary to answer your research question. Are primary sources available? Do you know—or can you find—some of the secondary resources, that is, the historians who have preceded you and have written about the topic? [See Locating Sources] You may be particularly interested in ancient or medieval history, or the history of an indigenous people far removed from the United States. Unfortunately, the older the primary source or the further removed from the US experience it is, the less likely it is to be accessible to a public university student. Sometimes you can find a unique digitized or published set of primary sources but counting on such a find is risky. You might, however, be able to find contemporary sources on the representation of your topic—say nineteenth-century "gentlemen archaeologists" who studied those distant peoples, or twentieth-century newspaper or magazine articles that discussed an ancient find—thus allowing you to at least see how others from a more modern era have portrayed those times or individuals that interest you. Remaining flexible and creative when honing your topic is key.
Occasionally, a professor will direct students toward specific topics or otherwise offer parameters. In this instance, make sure you understand the scope, or timeline/focus, of your topic. Is your instructor looking to see if you can analyze change over a broad swath of time—centuries—or (more likely) to explain the motivations of an individual or what happened at a specific point in time? What sort of allowances will your instructor make for your own take on the topic? Does your instructor have in mind a particular sort of primary source analysis, such as considering maps or the artifacts of popular culture? Even with assigned topics, you should be able to find a research question that will interest you and be accessible to you with a bit of creativity.
Narrowing down your Research Question
Once you have chosen your topic or subject, it is time to frame your project by asking the right Historical Questions. Questions form the backbone of historical analysis and direct the historian as they complete the research portion of the assignment. By developing a proper set of questions, historians can set effective and efficient parameters on their research as they begin to study their accumulated evidence. For example: What role did women play in the American Revolution? This question defines both the subject matter of the research (women) and the time period (American Revolution) while also directing our reading of the documents. We are now going to look for women who played active roles during the war, as well as the impact of those actions. But it would be wise to narrow your topic further still if you only have a semester in which to produce your paper. You might do so by place or time. What role did women in Massachusetts play during the opening years of the Revolution? Or what was the contribution of a particular woman—say for example how did Mercy Otis Warren affect the development of Revolutionary politics of Colonial Massachusetts?
You'll notice by this last question that the historical question you ask should define the scope of your research in such a way that you will be able to isolate your subject quite a bit. Though you started with a broad interest—women in the American Revolution—your research question has allowed you to focus on a person who left sources, and a problem that needs answering—what did Warren do in the context of her own community in the years leading up to the American Revolution? For the most part, undergraduate students of history tend to attempt subjects that are too broad for fear that they will not be able to "fill up ten pages" (or twenty or five) unless they aim broadly. But this assumption sets them up for failure, in that trying to tackle a large question, well-trodden by other historians, they are unable to demonstrate the primary source analysis skills that their professors most want to see. Although you should consult closely with your instructor, the best rule of thumb is to narrow your topic into a question that has specificity by time, place, and primary source collections.
Don't worry though. Most research topics lend themselves to multiple historical questions, any one of which would make a decent research paper for an undergraduate student. By answering these with proper analysis of evidence historians are capable of crafting well-supported arguments and conclusions.
Recapping: How to make sure you find a topic for your paper that works
1. Be curious about a topic for which there exists primary sources –either in a local archive, in published primary sources, or a digital collection. What would you like to know? Brainstorm with many questions. Perhaps you might start with:
An event (a strike, an invention, a battle, a treaty, a new law): what was the cause? Who was responsible? Why him/her? Why did it happen when it did? Can I compare it to some similar event, and thereby evaluate what was unique about this cause/outcome?
An on-going trend (protests, women smoking, anti-tobacco movement): what was it like for people involved in this trend? Why did they make the choices they did? Why not other ones? How did they choose to participate?
Individual's or groups' motivations and responses – what motivated an individual? How did others understand an event or a remarkable individual? What led a group to organize?
2. Choose the best answerable problem from these questions. This involves narrowing the question, so that rather than asking about motivations generally, your research question might be "Why did x act as she did during the debate over the initial passage of this legislation?" OR "What were three major concerns for y when he was involved in that on-going trend?" Some suggestions for narrowing include:
Considering a specific time period (the background or ten years after a new invention)
Assessing the impact in a different location, such as a town you know something about, or have access to the newspapers for.
Focusing on a single individual and tracing their own experience in the context of a an important event or emerging trend.
Being pragmatic; narrow your question in light of available primary sources to answer your question.
3. Draft an argument or hypothesis based on that question, and make sure it's grounded in an historical context (that is, not a trans-historical "people are like this" explanation). For example,
X pursued this legislation because she was inspired and educated by her father, who was also a reformer.
This enslaved man who corresponded with his master in the 1850s spoke in a sort of code, rarely revealing sincere anger or irritation.
For further help in narrowing down a topic check out Learning to do Historical Research which has additional helpful resources
Previous: Researching Historically
Next: Locating Sources


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Q: sort a one-dimensional list of items into child/parent structure I was wondering whether someone may be able to help.
I have a text file with lines into that I have split on \t. They have two columns, a code and a name.
I was hoping to split this one dimensional structure into a parent child hierarchy on the code column.
Example of data being:
 0100000000     Coffee
 0110000000     Mocha
 0120000000     Cappuccino
 0121000000     Semi skimmed
 0121100000     Starbuckz
 0121200000     Costa
 0122000000     Skimmed
 0130000000     Latte

Human readable hierarchy:
 0100000000     Coffee
      0110000000     Mocha
      0120000000     Cappuccino
           0121000000     Semi skimmed
                0121100000     Starbuckz
                0121200000     Costa
           0122000000     Skimmed
      0130000000     Latte

I would like to convert this structure into a format like:
 public class LineData
 {
    public string OriginalCode { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public LineData Parent { get; set; }
    public List<LineData> Children { get; set; }
 }

The list is static and I will probably end up just storing in memory.

A: How about this?
var data = " 0100000000     Coffee\r\n 0110000000     Mocha\r\n 0120000000     Cappuccino\r\n 01210" +
    "00000     Semi skimmed\r\n 0121100000     Starbuckz\r\n 0121200000     Costa\r\n 01220" +
    "00000     Skimmed\r\n 0130000000     Latte";
var linesByPrefix =
    (from l in data.Split(new[]{Environment.NewLine}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
    let pair = l.Split(new[]{' '},StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
    select new LineData
    {
        OriginalCode = pair[0],
        Title = pair[1],
        Children = new List<LineData>()
    })
    .ToDictionary(l => l.OriginalCode.TrimEnd('0'));

foreach (var line in linesByPrefix)
{
    var parentCode = line.Key.Substring(0, line.Key.Length - 1);
    LineData parent;
    if(linesByPrefix.TryGetValue(parentCode, out parent))
    {
        line.Value.Parent = parent;
        parent.Children.Add(line.Value);
    }
}
var roots = linesByPrefix.Values.Where(l => l.Parent == null);

A: Something like this could work:
var lines = File.ReadAllLines(@"...");
Stack<LineData> parents = new Stack<LineData>();
List<LineData> items = new List<LineData>();

foreach (string line in lines)
{
    string[] parts = Regex.Split(line, @"\s+");

    string code = parts[0];
    string title = parts[1];

    LineData newItem = new LineData
    {
        OriginalCode = code,
        Title = title
    };

    LineData parent = null;

    // Find the parent, if any.
    while (parents.Any() && parent == null)
    {
        LineData temp = parents.Peek();

        if (code.Replace("0", string.Empty).Contains(
            temp.OriginalCode.Replace("0", string.Empty)))
        {
            parent = temp;
        }
        else
        {
            parents.Pop();
        }
    }

    if (parent != null)
    {
        parent.Children.Add(newItem);
    }
    else
    {
        items.Add(newItem);
    }

    parents.Push(newItem);
}

Basically iterate through every line and keep a stack of ancestors that you continually Pop until you find the correct parent. I've defined "correct parent" as an ancestor with an OriginalCode that's contained in the current item's OriginalCode, minus the zeros.
Note that you'd also have to add a constructor for LineData that initializes Children.

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