Telling stories has been a way of preserving our history since before the first written word was ever scrawled onto some bark or chiseled into stone. Now, like many other modern developments, we've figured out a way to make machines do it for us.
As reported by New Scientist, there are several computer programs that are currently capable of spitting out a story. Or at least, the idea for one. The program that does "write", called Scheherazade, will give you a tale that's not near Shakespeare, but might entertain a young reader learning to string sentences together. Set in any world that the program can learn about via the internet, Scheherazade uses crowdsourcing to gain knowledge of actions and scenarios. It then strings the actions together to form a story.
While this requires a great deal of human interaction on the input and refinement level, the program can nonetheless create accurate historical timelines from information presented, as well as fairly detailed short stories. According to Technovelgy, once the plot points are entered, Scheherazade then "clusters them based on semantic similarity to create plot events that unfold sequentially until a decision point is reached, at which point a new line of plot events and decision points is triggered."
Scheherazade is currently being developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology under a grant from DARPA, which wants to use the program as a means to develop instructional materials for the "online cultural training" of American troops.
"Online cultural training." Sure, DARPA. You're surely not teaching your murderous robot army how to dream up evil plots.
If you're not in the mood to be regaled and would rather write, a program can offer you a plausible (if possibly strange) character arc to work with. The Flux Capacitor, a program being developed at University College in Dublin, uses a metaphor generator to create conflict via "role transitions." These then become the inklings of a story, which are paired with the program's basic knowledge of the world, juxtaposed with characters that undergo a personal change.
For example, the Flux Capacitor could take the concepts of "cool" and "angry", adhere them to the roles of "musicians" and "politicians", and generate the idea of, "What causes cool musicians to change their style of rock and roll, start a campaign, and become angry politicians?" The "what causes" question prefaces each of the scenarios, which include two transitory notions before reaching the conclusion of the character arc. The Flux Capacitor uses @MetaphorMagnet twitter handle to assess its progress.
Then there's your simple "What If?" scenarios. There's a program now for that, the What-If Machine, being developed at the University of London. More of a computerized Mad Lib than anything you'd write a novel from, it nonetheless generates notions if you need them. In addition to human, animal, and object scenarios, one can also make Kafkaesque or Surrealist what-ifs. A Kafkaesque what-if (based off of the premise of "The Metamorphosis", whose lead character wakes up as a giant bug) might read, "What if there were a man who woke up as a manta ray, but he could still sing opera?" A Surrealist scenario might read, "What if there were a computer who fell in love, but his only object of attraction was a malfunctioning toaster?"
That actually might not be too much of a Surrealist leap, anymore, considering computer programs are becoming advanced enough to write. And what's writing if you're not doing it for love? Just another string of code stringing together words. Could computers learn enough about situational experiences enough to want to replicate them or experience them? If they don't, in their stories, at what point do humans put in that ineffable touch of literary love? Will there be a literary computer singularity, where a machine writes a book so good it fools humans?
What if we just kept using our brainframes to imagine all these what-ifs on our own? Can't we preserve a piece of art we still do as well, or better, than a computer?
Even if you do dream up and write the whole story on your own, you'll still want an editor. That's where you can hire Hemingway, an editing app that pares down your excessive verbiage into the taut, tough style of the classic American author. Robo-Hemingway highlights run-on sentences that you need to break up, adverbs that can be replaced with action verbs, polysyllabic words that you don't need to use to show off, and passive voicing to eliminate. That last part, for those who may want to work on it manually, means it's more effective to say, "The artist lost money because the computer wrote the book", rather than "The money was lost by the artist because the book was written by the computer."
Although hopefully, neither you or the computer will ever have to write that.
The preceding article was 100% non-computer-generated. Except for the research part. They're pretty good at that.
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This practice exam covers basic computer networking, to include the installation and configuration of networks, media types, configuration types, and network security. Passing this exam will require knowledge in the Ethernet Protocol, IPv4, and some IPv6, MAC addressing, TCP/UDP, the OSI Layer, and various other protocols such as SNMP, SSH, FTP, SSL/TLS, and more.
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1) What would the default subnet mask for the IP 172.16.24.45 be?
A) 0.0.0.255
B) 255.255.0.0
C) 255.0.0.0
D) 255.255.255.0
Answer Description
When determining the default subnet mask of an IP you need to identify which class (A, B, C, etc.) the IP falls under. The first octet of the IP is 172 which falls in the class B range of 128 – 191. The corresponding default subnet for this range is 255.255.0.0. A network architect is not required to use the default and could design the network to use any subnet mask, but the question specifically asks for the default mask.
This question is filed under objective 1, Network Architecture
IPv4 subnetting reference
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR ) is a method for allocating IP addresses and IP routing The Internet Engineering Task Force introduced CIDR in 1993 to replace the previous addressing architecture of classful network design in the Internet Its goal was to slow the growth of routing tables on routers across the Internet, and to help slow the rapid exhaustion of IPv4 addressesIP addresses are described as consisting of two groups of bits in the address: the most significant bits are the network prefix, which identifies a whole network or subnet, and the least significant set forms the host identifier, which specifies a particular interface of a host on that network… Read More
2) What command will allow you to determine the MAC Address of a local print server?
A) nbstat
B) dig
C) ping
D) arp
Arp (Address Resolution Protocol) queries a network to find the MAC Address for an IP Address. The Windows command to use ARP is easy, it's just 'arp'!
This question is filed under objective 4, Troubleshooting
Address Resolution Protocol
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a communication protocol used for discovering the link layer address, such as a MAC address, associated with a given internet layer address, typically an IPv4 address This mapping is a critical function in the Internet protocol suite ARP was defined in 1982 by RFC 826, which is Internet Standard STD 37 ARP has been implemented with many combinations of network and data link layer technologies, such as IPv4, Chaosnet, DECnet and Xerox PARC Universal Packet (PUP) using IEEE 802 standards, FDDI, X25, Frame Relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) IPv4 over IEEE 802… Read More
3) You suspect a hacker has accessed the network. Which of the following may help you confirm your suspicion?
A) SNMP
B) System logs
C) Traffic analysis
D) Network Sniffer
System logs will show every event on an operating system. This is very useful to find if some one accessed the system, among many other things.
This question is filed under objective 3, Network security
In computing, a log file is a file that records either events that occur in an operating system or other software runs, or messages between different users of a communication software Logging is the act of keeping a log In the simplest case, messages are written to a single log file A transaction log is a file (ie, log) of the communications between a system and the users of that system, or a data collection method that automatically captures the type, content, or time of transactions made by a person from a terminal with that system For Web searching, a transaction log is an electronic record of interactions that have occurred during a searching episode between a Web search engine and users searching for information on that Web search… Read More
4) You need to confirm the configuration of a NIC, what command should you use?
A) ping
B) msconfig
C) ipconfig
D) dxdiag
The ipconfig command will present you with information on all NIC's on a computer or server.
In computing, ipconfig (internet protocol configuration) is a console application of some operating systems that displays all current TCP/IP network configuration values and refresh Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name System (DNS) settings … Read More
5) Your company wants to allow only HTTPS traffic to a web server, what port should be allowed?
A) 443
C) 8080
HTTPS uses TCP port 443 and HTTP uses TCP port 80
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) The protocol is therefore also often referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL The principal motivations for HTTPS are authentication of the accessed website, protection of the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data while in transit It protects against man-in-the-middle attacks The bidirectional encryption of communications between a client and server protects against eavesdropping and… Read More
6) Which command will give you a list of host names connected to the local network?
A) arp
B) hostname
C) nslookup
D) nbtstat
Nbtstat will query the network for hostnames, while nslookup queries for domain name to IP. Nbtstat is often found only on 64 bit (not 32 bit) Windows Operating Systems.
This question is filed under objective 2, Network operations
Nbtstat
NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT, or sometimes NetBT) is a networking protocol that allows legacy computer applications relying on the NetBIOS API to be used on modern TCP/IP networks NetBIOS was developed in the early 1980s, targeting very small networks (about a dozen computers) Some applications still use NetBIOS, and do not scale well in today's networks of hundreds of computers when NetBIOS is run over NBF When properly configured, NBT allows those applications to be run on large TCP/IP networks (including the whole Internet, although that is likely to be subject to security problems) without change NBT is defined by the RFC 1001 and RFC 1002 standard documents… Read More
7) What is the effect of increasing antenna gain on an access point?
A) Frequency increases
B) Connection speeds decrease
C) Throughput decreases
D) Cell size increases
Increasing antenna gain will increase the amount of energy projected in a certain direction (gain). This will increase the distance of travel, and therefor the overall cell size of the AP.
Antenna gain
In electromagnetics, an antenna's power gain or simply gain is a key performance number which combines the antenna's directivity and electrical efficiency In a transmitting antenna, the gain describes how well the antenna converts input power into radio waves headed in a specified direction In a receiving antenna, the gain describes how well the antenna converts radio waves arriving from a specified direction into electrical power When no direction is specified, "gain" is understood to refer to the peak value of the gain, the gain in the direction of the antenna's main lobe A plot of the gain as a function of direction is called the gain pattern or radiation pattern… Read More
8) Which of these default ports, when disabled, will disallow TFTP traffic?
TFTP (Trivial-File Transfer Protocol) uses default port 69. Do not confuse this with FTP, which uses 20 and 21.
Industry standards, practices, and network theory
This question is filed under objective 5, Industry standards, practices, and network theory
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a simple lockstep File Transfer Protocol which allows a client to get a file from or put a file onto a remote host One of its primary uses is in the early stages of nodes booting from a local area network TFTP has been used for this application because it is very simple to implement TFTP was first standardized in 1981 and the current specification for the protocol can be found in RFC 1350 … Read More
9) What media would be best for a backbone connection, which will connect multiple floors of a large buildings network with thousands of users?
A) Fiber Optic
B) Ethernet
C) Wireless
D) Coax
Because your traversing different levels, wireless is out. Coax isn't practical to begin with, so that leave Ethernet and Fiber. The question specifies this is a large building, with a large network, so fiber is the best choice.
Fiber-optic communication
Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of infrared light through an optical fiber The light forms an electromagnetic carrier wave that is modulated to carry information Fiber is preferred over electrical cabling when high bandwidth, long distance, or immunity to electromagnetic interference are required This type of communication can transmit voice, video, and telemetry through local area networks, computer networks, or across long distances Optical fiber is used by many telecommunications companies to transmit telephone signals, Internet communication, and cable television signals Researchers at Bell Labs have reached internet speeds of over 100 petabit×kilometer per… Read More
10) Which protocol periodically uses a 3-way handshake to authenticate a connection?
A) Kerberos
B) PAP
C) CHAP
D) PPP
CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) uses a 3-way handshake to authenticate the opposing end of a connection, and will periodically repeat the authentication process during the connection.
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
In computing, the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) authenticates a user or network host to an authenticating entity That entity may be, for example, an Internet service provider CHAP provides protection against replay attacks by the peer through the use of an incrementally changing identifier and of a variable challenge-value CHAP requires that both the client and server know the plaintext of the secret, although it is never sent over the network Thus, CHAP provides better security as compared to Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) which is vulnerable for both these reasons The MS-CHAP variant does not require either peer to know the plaintext and does not transmit it, but has been broken… Read More
11) What type of IP address should be a assigned to a server?
A) Static
B) Lease
C) Dynamic
D) Scope
A server needs to be accessed at all times, with outages kept to a minimum. Using anything but static IP addresses will cause issues when clients attempt to access the server. If the Ip changed, the network and clients will have to learn about the change.
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication An IP address serves two main functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) defines an IP address as a 32-bit number However, because of the growth of the Internet and the depletion of available IPv4 addresses, a new version of IP (IPv6), using 128 bits for the IP address, was standardized in 1998 IPv6 deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s IP addresses are written and displayed in human-readable notations, such as 172… Read More
12) How many collision and broadcast domains are present on a 24-port router?
A) 1 collision domain, 1 broadcast domain
B) 1 collision domain, 24 broadcast domains
C) 24 collision domains, 1 broadcast domain
D) 24 collision domains, 24 broadcast domains
A router separates both collision and broadcast domains. This means each port will represent it's own domains. Because there are 24 ports, there are 24 broadcast and 24 collision domains.
Collision domain
A collision domain is a network segment connected by a shared medium or through repeaters where simultaneous data transmissions collide with one another The collision domain applies particularly in wireless networks, but also affected early versions of Ethernet A network collision occurs when more than one device attempts to send a packet on a network segment at the same time Members of a collision domain may be involved in collisions with one another Devices outside the collision domain do not have collisions with those inside Only one device in the collision domain may transmit at any one time, and the other devices in the domain listen to the network and refrain from transmitting while others are already transmitting in order to avoid… Read More
13) Which wireless encryption protocol supports the AES cipher?
A) WEP
B) 802.3
C) TKIP
D) WPA2
WPA2 (WiFi Protected Access v2) supports the use of AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) for encryption.
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2), and Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) are three security protocols and security certification programs developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to secure wireless computer networks The Alliance defined these in response to serious weaknesses researchers had found in the previous system, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)WPA (sometimes referred to as the draft IEEE 80211i standard) became available in 2003 The Wi-Fi Alliance intended it as an intermediate measure in anticipation of the availability of the more secure and complex WPA2, which became available in 2004 and is a common shorthand for the full IEEE 802… Read More
14) Which cable type would be a cost effective choice for a data center with large amounts of servers?
A) STP
B) Fiber
C) UTP
D) RJ-11
STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) is a type of Ethernet that has an EMI resistant jacket. Because there are a large amount servers, STP is necessary. UTP should be avoided in data centers because they are susceptible to crosstalk. Fiber is incorrect because the question specifies we need a cost effective solutions. Typically, fiber will be used on trunk and backbone connections.
Twisted pair cabling is a type of wiring in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes of improving electromagnetic compatibility Compared to a single conductor or an untwisted balanced pair, a twisted pair reduces electromagnetic radiation from the pair and crosstalk between neighboring pairs and improves rejection of external electromagnetic interference It was invented by Alexander Graham Bell… Read More
15) Which devices can block ports and filter data on a network?
A) Repeater
B) Hub
C) Firewall
D) Switch
A firewall will allow you to filter a network or areas of a network based on ports as well as the data inside of each packet.
Firewall (computing)
In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules A firewall typically establishes a barrier between a trusted internal network and untrusted external network, such as the InternetFirewalls are often categorized as either network firewalls or host-based firewalls Network firewalls filter traffic between two or more networks and run on network hardware Host-based firewalls run on host computers and control network traffic in and out of those machines … Read More
16) If a CAT5 cable is longer than the standard maximum length, which problem is most likely to be an issue?
A) Increase of EMI
B) Split cable
C) packet collisions will increase
D) Db loss
Db (Decibel) levels will decrease, causing errors and loss of data. For CAT cables, the standard maximum is 100 meters, anything beyond that will be unreliable.
The decibel (symbol: dB) is a unit of measurement used to express the ratio of one value of a power or field quantity to another, on a logarithmic scale, the logarithmic quantity being called the power level or field level, respectively It can be used to express a change in value (eg, +1 dB or −1 dB) or an absolute value In the latter case, it expresses the ratio of a value to a fixed reference value when used in this way, a suffix that indicates the reference value is often appended to the decibel symbol For example, if the reference value is 1 volt, then the suffix is "V" (e… Read More
17) Which OSI model layer is used for logical addressing?
A) Data Link
B) Network
C) Physical
D) Transport
Layer 3, the network layer, is the OSI model layer that uses logical (IP) addressing.
In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the network layer is layer 3 The network layer is responsible for packet forwarding including routing through intermediate routers… Read More
18) An employee connects to her desktop from her home computer, using the built in Windows Remote Desktop feature. What port is she most likely using?
A) 3389
D) 443
Windows remote desktop uses RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) which uses port 3389 as it's default port.
Remote Desktop Protocol
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection The user employs RDP client software for this purpose, while the other computer must run RDP server software Clients exist for most versions of Microsoft Windows (including Windows Mobile), Linux, Unix, macOS, iOS, Android, and other operating systems RDP servers are built into Windows operating systems an RDP server for Unix and OS X also exists By default, the server listens on TCP port 3389 and UDP port 3389Microsoft currently refers to their official RDP client software as Remote Desktop Connection, formerly "Terminal Services Client"… Read More
19) The transmission of bits is considered to be on which layer in the OSI model?
A) Application
B) Layer 2
C) Layer 1
D) Data-Link
Each bit is represented by a physical signal, either electric or optic. Because it is a physical signal, it resides on layer 1 (Physical layer) of the OSI model.
In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the physical layer or layer 1 is the first and lowest layer This layer may be implemented by a PHY chip The physical layer consists of the electronic circuit transmission technologies of a network It is a fundamental layer underlying the higher level functions in a network, and can be implemented through a great number of different hardware technologies with widely varying characteristicsThe physical layer defines the means of transmitting raw bits rather than logical data packets over a physical data link connecting network nodes The bitstream may be grouped into code words or symbols and converted to a physical signal that is transmitted over a transmission medium… Read More
20) Which of the following is a technology used specifically for wireless communications?
A) CSU/DSU
B) Modem
C) CSMA/CA
D) CSMA/CD
CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) is a technology in networking when each node senses if anyone else is communicating. If the node senses that some one else is using the network, then it will wait and try again in a moment. CSMA/CD (Carrier Detection) is not used with wireless because a single antenna cannot send & receive at the same time and therefor can't detect detection.
Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance
Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) in computer networking, is a network multiple access method in which carrier sensing is used, but nodes attempt to avoid collisions by beginning transmission only after the channel is sensed to be "idle" When they do transmit, nodes transmit their packet data in its entirety It is particularly important for wireless networks, where the collision detection of the alternative CSMA/CD is not possible due to wireless transmitters desensing their receivers during packet transmission CSMA/CA is unreliable due to the hidden node problemCSMA/CA is a protocol that operates in the Data Link Layer (Layer 2) of the OSI model… Read More
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If there is one thing that links all the threads, however, it would be San Jose's State's status at the cutting edge of football innovation and adaptation, particularly among the coaching ranks—including some of the school's players who became prominent coaches themselves. The trend really began in 1938. Spartans head coach Dudley DeGroot made the innovative decision to recruit retired former Stanford coach Pop Warner to serve as the Spartans' offensive "advisor." Warner revamped San Jose State's single back offense into a double wing and the team began rolling up points – most prominently in a 19-6 victory over the College of the Pacific (then being coached by the legendary Amos Alonzo Stagg).
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And those wild games? Too numerous to mention. But one happened in 2004, when San Jose State beat Rice, 70-63, to set a NCAA Division I record for most points and most touchdowns scored in a non-overtime game to that point. The result presaged college football's swing toward high-powered offenses in the 21st century.
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After investigation, here is keyboard screen-display tools in MAC, named keycastr
And, keymon (Display Keyboard and Mouse Status) for Linux, it can be downloaded here.

A: Screenkey is what you are looking for. An old version can be found on repo:
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Dog food and dog poo go hand in hand – this is fact!
Food is a constant consideration for all dog owners and of course, puppy food is a whole different consideration. Puppies grow 20 times faster than adult dogs and therefore require a special diet to aid their physical development.
When considering puppy food, specially formulated growth food is recommended which needs to be provided at evenly spaced intervals to avoid over stretching their small stomachs. The usual procedure is to feed your puppy four meals per day up until the age of four months. Reduce the feed to three meals per day until it is six months old when you can reduce to two meals per day for the rest of its life.
The stage of your dog's life and what they eat will of course determine what comes out. It's important to keep the garden clear and clean from all dog waste, to reduce the chance of spreading the bacteria and parasites into the home. Many puppies are born with worms, and therefore their waste must be cleared with extra care. We advise The dooup because it clears while spraying the affected area and the scoop inside. The dooup can store up to 10 days' worth of puppy waste, so it will save bags and time, as well as leaving the garden hygienically clean for all to use.
If children are using the garden too, you will need to be careful that they don't come into contact with the waste as there is a chance they will be affected with toxicariasis which is what happened to toddler Aimee Langdon below. As a result, she lost the sight in one eye.
We are spoilt for choice when it comes to dog food, so it is often difficult to know which one to buy. There is a huge range of dry complete foods on the market and the quality varies. Try to choose a food specially designed for them and suits your budget. The 'premium' dry foods tend to have the best quality ingredients. Many are based on chicken and rice or corn.
With semi-moist and tinned foods, choose a good quality food with an easily digestible recipe. For example, chicken and rice. Ensure it is nutritionally complete and doesn't require additional foods.
To make home-made dog food, it can be very difficult to get a balance right. It's a good idea to choose from a tried and tested commercial diet that fits in with your daily schedule.
Dog treats are also in abundance, and range in quality. Some of the commercial treats have far too much sugar, colourings and milk products in them. Even doggy chocs or low fat yogurt drops often contain sugars or lactose (milk sugar). Always check the ingredients.
Remember, if you are regularly feeding your dog treats, reduce the amount in their meals so as to avoid over feeding.
Puppy poo is often soft or runny, but with time and good diet this will improve. The dooup Complete Pet Waste Clearer works well in the garden to clear and sanitise the area after your puppy has been. It works best on grass to remove soft or runny waste. Push the lever several times and re-position to achieve maximum clearance and sanitation.
If soft or runny stools continue from your adult dog, it may be that his or her digestive system is slightly strained due to intense exercise, different food, noise or other factors. It is sometimes a good idea to stop the food for 12 to 24 hours. Resume, then feed half the usual amount the next day to ease their system..
Feeding your dog pure pumpkin (not pie) can work as a healthy treat as it contains dietary fibre to sooth the system, absorb moisture and firm the stool. Add around 1 to 2 teaspoons for a small dog and 1 to 2 tablespoons for a large dog to the main meal.
Consider changing the dog food. Show an ingredient label from your current kibble or canned food to your vet and he/she may suggest another type of food without corn or grains. Corn and grains can add bulk and this can lead to softening the stools. Keeping things simple, such as fish and sweet potato are really beneficial for chronic stool problems.


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L'Union sportive municipale de Gagny est un club omnisports français basé à Gagny en Seine-Saint-Denis et fondé en 1948.

Le club est particulièrement connu pour ses sections de handball masculin et féminin qui ont rapporté neuf titres de champion de France et quatre Coupes de France (masculins et féminines confondus) dans les années 1980.

Dans le sillage des Barjots, le handball français se professionnalise dans les années 1990. Si, en 1984, Gagny est l'une des premières équipes françaises à avoir trouvé un sponsor, le club rate le train en marche. Plombé par des finances exsangues et un déficit abyssal, Gagny dépose le bilan en 1996.

Historique
La section handball de l'USM Gagny a vu le jour en 1948 sous l'impulsion de M. Raymond Valenet alors vice-président de la FFFHB. À l'origine, cette section fut créée pour permettre aux jeunes de la ville de pratiquer un sport à l'échelon local. Ces joueurs étaient issus en majorité du Groupe scolaire Paul Laguesse, et la section ne comprenait que 2 équipes masculines (1 minimes et 1 cadets). Après deux saisons très difficiles où il fallait faire avec les moyens du bord,  une équipe seniors est créée en 1950 pour permettre une progression normale.

En 1971, la section  masculine est champion de France Excellence (D3) puis accède à l' élite en 1973 après avoir atteint les demi-finales de champion de France Nationale II.

Quant à la section féminine, c'est en 1982 qu'elle est promue en Nationale 1.

Handball masculin

Palmarès
 Championnat de France (5) : 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986 et 1987
 Deuxième en 1980, 1984
 Troisième en 1988, 1989 et 1990
 Coupe de France (1) : 1987
 Finaliste en 1985 et 1990
 Championnat de France Excellence (D3) (1) : 1971

Personnalités liées au club
Parmi les joueurs célèbres, on trouve :

Parmi les dirigeants, on trouve :
 Jean Valenet : président de 1968 à 1983
  Jean-Michel Germain : entraîneur de 1973 à 1992
  Jean-Paul Krumbholz : entraîneur de 1992 à 1995
  Philippe Germain : entraîneur de 1995 à 1996

Handball féminin

Palmarès
Championnat de France (4) : 1985, 1987, 1991 et 1992
 Deuxième en 1986, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994
Coupe de France (3) : 1985, 1992 et 1993
 Finaliste en 1990, 1994

Joueuses célèbres

Entraineurs
 Yvon Senlanne (entraineur équipe de France junior féminine)
 Dominique Bouzianne
 Brigitte Penati

Notes et références

Liens externes

Union sportive municipale de Gagny
Gagny
Club de handball disparu en France
Handball
Club sportif fondé en 1948
Club sportif disparu en 1996


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The Language of Liberty: A preliminary study
Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti & Kyriaki Kalimeri (2021). The Language of Liberty: A preliminary study. In Companion Proceedings of the Web Con-ference 2021 (WWW '21 Companion).
Quantifying the moral narratives expressed in the user-generated text, news, or public discourses is fundamental for understanding individuals' concerns and viewpoints and preventing violent protests and social polarisation. The Moral Foundation Theory (MFT) was developed precisely to operationalise morality in a five-dimensional scale system. Recent developments of the theory urged for the introduction of a new foundation, liberty. Being only recently added to the theory, there are no available linguistic resources to assess liberty from text corpora. Given its importance to current social issues such as the vaccination debate, we propose a data-driven approach to derive a liberty lexicon based on aligned documents from online encyclopedias with different worldviews. Despite the preliminary nature of our study, we show proof of the concept that large encyclopedia corpora can point out differences in the way people with contrasting viewpoints express themselves. Such differences can be used to derive a novel lexicon, identifying linguistic markers of the liberty foundation.
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Kukushkin, I., Weiss, Dieter, Lütjering, Gerd, Bergmann, Raymond, Klitzing, Klaus von, Eberl, Karl, Rotter, Peter, Suhrke, Michael and Rössler, Ulrich (1997) Manifestation of commensurate orbits in the magnetoluminescence spectrum of electrons in antidot arrays. Physical Review Letters 79 (9), pp. 1722-1725.
We present a magneto-optical study of the energy spectrum of two-dimensional electrons subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field in the presence of a square lattice of antidots. Oscillations of the luminescence intensity, measured at the Fermi energy, reproduce structure observed previously in transport experiments ascribed to commensurate cyclotron orbits that fit around a specific number of antidots. We demonstrate that commensurability features in the luminescence intensity can be observed below the Fermi energy, leading to a quadratic dependence of their spectral positions on the applied magnetic field. The possible origin of this novel effect will be discussed by comparing it with model calculations.


This project is a "mashup" of video still slices from my favorite television shows. After the mashups were created, a three dimensional model was generated from the still via a mix of different modeling and CNC control software. Then match moving techniques were used to animate the models; all stages of the process can be seen below.


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Entertainment » Fine Arts
A New "Pin" Unites Dallas Fashion World
by Scott Stiffler
Independent designers Rachel Nichelson and Julie McCullough Kim are determined to rejuvenate Dallas as the fashion mecca of choice between coastal juggernauts New York and Los Angeles. To claim that title, they've gathered dozens of established and emerging designers, photographers, models, make-up & hair artists, stylists and buyers.
The debut edition of The Pin Show 2008 took place Thursday at The Door (formerly the Gypsy Tea Ballroom), 2513 Main Street, Dallas. The Pin Show distinguishes itself from the style and mindset of other cities by showcasing work from independent Texas-based fashion and accessory designers who use material from in-state sources. "This is a way to help them launch their fashion lines as well as network with industry professionals, retailers and buyers; things they don't have access to by being independent," says co-founder and Executive Producer Julie McCullough Kim. In addition to the benefits it gives to participants, the public will also get the rare opportunity to purchase runway-fresh work months before it appears in the stores. McCullough Kim describes that opportunity as "a unique fashion experience that is generally reserved for high end designers and their clientele."
Using the cavernous space of its venue to full advantage, The Pin Show offers events on two stages. On the first stage, 26 designers showcased their Fall/Winter 2008 lines. Models will strut and pose on a runway "made of 100% sustainable forestry products." On the second stage, the public got a behind-the-scenes look as two photo shoots occur simultaneously. The resulting photos will be used in designer and model portfolios. After these two on-stage events, attendees were able to meet, greet, schmooze, mingle and network through the night and into the next day - while getting the chance to purchase items used in the shows.
"This is a way to help them launch their fashion lines as well as network with industry professionals, retailers and buyers; things they don't have access to by being independent," Julie McCullough Kim.
McCullough Kim hopes this event will give emerging talent the chance to make career-changing contacts with regional boutiques and buyers - whose purchases and word-of-mouth approval can take them from struggling obscurity to household name on the strength of a single well-received line. Asked to name a few designers to look out for, McCullough Kim praises the work of Lindsay Weatherread. Her company, L. Weatherread Design, launched in 2007 and is known for its distinctive organic cotton hand-dyed jackets. Weatherread will be showcasing her fall 2008 line as well as "her new fall and winter colors." Representing new artists is Oscar Fiera, whose presence at The Pin Show represents "his first major launch."
The Pin Show has already announced plans to hold similar events twice a year (September and February) beginning in 2009. For the curious public and discerning buyers, it promises to be a perpetual opportunity to see the best Texas-based fashions long before they make the journey from the store to your closet shelves.
Web site: www.thepinshow.com.
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Q: MeteorJS -- Internal server error [500] -- No Data I implemented a fully scaffolded Meteor project, and removed 'autopublish', and when I try to call even this simple function:
Meteor.methods({
    'test'(){
        alert('test called');
    },
});

I get the error:
Error invoking Method 'test': Internal server error [500]

I try calling another Method which doesn't even call an error, which is why I stripped down the function to the bare minimum.
All other solutions I look for talk about subscribing to databases, except I've taken all that information out -- what could be causing this error and how can I fix it?

A: This should throw an error, because Meteor.methods is run in server and alert is not defined in server side. alert is available in client side only. If you look at the server log you will find this:  Exception while invoking method 'a' ReferenceError: alert is not defined.
If you are trying to print something in server side use console.log instead. In your case;
Meteor.methods({
    'test'(){
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});


NEW YORK, NY, September, 24, 2015 — Piksel, a global leader in building successful online video businesses, today announced its partnership with Spafax, global content and media agency to the travel industry. The partnership will develop and launch innovative solutions to the market, the first of which being Voyage, a revolutionary new approach to in-flight entertainment which has already been adopted by Transavia, a major European low-cost carrier.
Voyage leverages the video delivery capabilities of Piksel Digital Showcase™, Piksel's video-on-demand platform, giving airlines greater ownership over the passenger's journey. In tune with the growing "Bring Your Own Device" trend, Voyage enables consumers to select and download video content to their personal devices, prior to boarding a flight. This opens up a raft of possibilities for airlines to engage with passengers, both pre- and post-flight, as they use the app to choose from a wide range of premium TV shows and films, access and update their booking, and make other travel arrangements.
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Voyage greatly enhances the user experience, leveraging the high quality screens found on user devices, and is compatible across iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. The content is locked until the passenger boards the flight, when it then becomes available to view. Once the flight has ended, the content is automatically deleted from the device, respecting all airline industry content licensing agreements with secure content delivery achieved by the DRM functionality of Piksel Digital Showcase™.


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Something nice that came from being home resting for a little over a week, was a desire to write and a burst of creativity. The downside to this, though, was that I couldn't really sit up to do much of anything without a lot of pain or feeling sick. But now that I can (somewhat) sit up, I've been writing. I haven't worked on any specific project, so much as just let myself type and see what comes of the words. So far, I really like it. But soon I have to get back to more serious words.
As 2014 comes to a close next week, I've had my mind on 2015, and what I'd like to do with a whole new year. Above anything, I want to make it incredible. I want to move forward, to better things. Even though it scares me.
So, I'm making a list of all the things I'd like to work on next year. What I want to accomplish, where I'd like to be by this time next year, etc. Expect that Monday or Tuesday.
I know the number one thing on that list, though, is to get something published. Something big, something little. Anything. Anything but sitting here doing nothing. I don't want to waste another moment saying that I want to be a writer. I AM a writer.
Alright, back to my words.


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The Landscape of Innovation
By Jennifer Bradley
Economies happen in places, and they have an effect on the physical form of places – as the new ghost 'burbs of the real-estate driven economies of Florida and Nevada show us. If the next American economy will be export-oriented, lower-carbon, and innovation-driven, as Larry Summers has posited (my colleagues and I agree), what kind of landscape will result? What will be the successor to the exit-ramp office parks, tangled residential cul-de-sacs, relentless highways, and reliably repetitive strip malls that were the built environment for the consumption-fueled, cheap-energy economy we're struggling to come out of?
The short answer: denser and better connected. An export-oriented economy will need a robust port infrastructure, which the U.S. more or less has, but also a freight network, guided by an intelligent, coordinated freight strategy, which the U.S. sorely lacks, so American manufactured goods can make it to the ports as fast as possible. (Howard Rosen has lucidly explained why goods exports are so critical to economic growth, particularly after the recession – the upshot: we still need to make stuff to sell abroad).
A lower-carbon economy will also increase the value of denser places, where transit makes sense, and where a detached single-family home isn't the only residential option.
But what's jaw-dropping to me is how much innovation also relies on density – measured in blocks, not miles. Ed Glaeser and others, going as far back as Alfred Marshall in 1890, have noted the gains from agglomeration, or geographically clustered activities. But they've generally looked at agglomeration at the metropolitan scale, and metros tend to be quite far-flung places, stretching across several counties. A couple of papers have described how dramatically the benefits of innovation and agglomeration fall off once people spread out beyond walking distance.
Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange found that the intellectual spillovers that drive innovation and employment drop off dramatically as firms and people move more than a mile apart. As they note, "Information spillovers that require frequent contact between workers may dissipate over a short distance as walking to a meeting place becomes difficult or as random encounters become rare." These effects are staggering. As you move out beyond just one mile, the power of intellectual ferment to create another new firm or even another new job drops to one-tenth or less of what it is closer in, or as the economists say in their inimitable prose:
Agglomeration economies attenuate with distance. The initial attenuation is rapid, with the effect of own-industry employment in the first mile up to 10 to 1000 times larger than the effect two to five miles away….
To gain a sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider first the software industry for which the localization effects are among the most pronounced. For that industry, adding one hundred software workers to the 1-mile ring would generate 0.04 births and 1.117 additional employees at new establishments. Adding one hundred additional employees to the 2-5 mile ring would result in 0.005 births and 0.08 employees, while adding one hundred additional employees to the 6-10 mile ring would lead to 0.004 births and 0.08 workers.
Another study, this one of the advertising industry in Southern Manhattan finds that the idea-generating benefits of agglomeration "dissipate very quickly with distance and are gone by 750 metres." (The authors don't say whether they ran a regression to correct for the overpowering effects of "I won't go above 14th street" parochialism.)
Obviously walkability isn't the sine qua non of innovation. The greater Boston area's innovation hub is actually named for a highway (Route 128), and Silicon Valley and Austin are both car-dependent. But you have to wonder how many ideas we've missed because people were driving, not walking. The next economy, will depend on humans actually, spontaneously talking, not just tweeting.
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Re-imagining partnerships in infrastructure finance
Darryl Murphy
Managing Director, Infrastructure
While the shape of the UK's future relationship with its European neighbours is still unclear, the question of how to finance infrastructure fit for the 21st century is equally pressing, argues Darryl Murphy.
The vast scale of investment needed to make the UK's transport, energy, social and telecoms infrastructure fit for purpose is certainly focusing minds. An infrastructure development pipeline worth £600 billion over the next ten years was set out in broad terms in late 2018.1 From improving resilience to climate change and providing data and power infrastructure, major sums are going to be required, with around half expected to be from the private sector.
However, although the UK has a long and innovative history of mobilising private capital, there is clearly no appetite to use established public private partnership (PPP) models from either the left or the right of the political spectrum. So, there is an immediate need for new tools and ideas to get projects over the line.
Public or private? What happens now?
UK Infrastructure & Projects Authority. As at 26 November 2018
Delivering tomorrow's infrastructure needs
The first and most important consideration is that tomorrow's infrastructure needs are very different to those financed before. The risks that come from financing data infrastructure with obsolescence risk or mega-power projects at a time of energy transition are clearly unlike those from low-risk utilities, like water. Many of the projects on the drawing board are large, do not have proven financing or funding models, nor will they generate stable, predictable cashflows from the outset – features that appeal to institutional investors.
In the short term there is a need for short duration, high risk-bearing capital, which is typically not a comfortable fit for many European pension schemes and other institutional investors. With that in mind, there is clearly a need for be a new, independent body supporting government policy on infrastructure, providing early stage capital and 'pump priming' key technologies. With a public-service remit, and the intention of staying public, it could focus on the specific technologies that might bring positive socio-economic or environmental returns. Direct lending, using credit enhancements, or co-investing with a body like this might take some early-stage projects out of the starting blocks and to the point where institutional investors, and even the wider community, want to be involved.
As an institutional investor, we are particularly interested in the scope for credit enhancement, through flexible guarantees that could address specific risks like complex construction or counterparty credit risk. Institutional debt investors mainly have appetite for investment-grade projects, particularly those investing to fund pensioners' annuities. We believe using credit enhancement where there might be material illiquidity premia - say in single-A to BBB rated credits - could mobilise significant capital.
The equity element is also worth touching on, as up until now successive governments have not really been able to capture equity gains under the 'old' PPP-type models. Instead, there have been cases where private sector operators have carried the bulk of the risk, but also been able to take gains when operating performance has fallen short.
Getting this part right this might mean some real 'win-wins': for the government in delivering on its commitments; for private sector stakeholders, who could make a genuine contribution to enhancing assets and services; and for the public, the users. But for that to materialise, there needs to be greater clarity around what 'success' is and communicating the findings to the public.
The reality is that the outcomes achieved by many privately financed projects have not been regularly assessed before now, but until this happens it will be a challenge to demonstrate value for money has been achieved. That is why providing hard evidence supported by data must become an immediate priority for the infrastructure finance community.
Evolution of future financing models
In terms of future model design, appetite for PPP is lacking but it appears the regulatory asset base (RAB) model - as used for financing the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT), London's super-sewer - could play a more prominent role. There are important differences between the PPP and RAB models in terms of risk transfer and to date the RAB model has only been used for consumer funded investments.. Broadly, the RAB model can be used to define a broader risk allocation between a wide number of stakeholders which can reduce the overall cost of capital of the investment.
Ultimately, the model could be rolled out quite widely for large-scale projects where cost certainty is difficult. Developing automated signalling and train controls on live railways, carbon capture and storage, nuclear power and wider digital infrastructure are examples that come to mind.
The long-term challenge, of course, extends far beyond the current political malaise. Working through how the right institutional framework and a more appropriate alignment of incentives can draw the best-qualified stakeholders to the table should be a priority in one of the most advanced infrastructure markets in the world.
A version of this article originally appeared in IPE Real Assets.
Projects worth £600 billion in the pipeline as government gets Britain building. UK Infrastructure & Projects Authority. 26 November 2018
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Russia Sends Its Most Advanced Fighters to U.S. Coast
Incident takes place a week after four consecutive days flying near U.S. territory.
By Kyle Mizokami
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Four Russian aircraft flew near the Alaskan coast last night, including two of Russia's most advanced fighter planes. The flight, which was intercepted by U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighters, came a week after Russian military aircraft flew near America's Arctic territory four days in a row.
Wednesday evening's incident involved two Tu-95MS "Bear" strategic bombers and a pair of Su-35 "Flanker-E" or "Super Flanker" heavy fighters. Although the presence of the Bear bombers was not unusual, it was the first time that Super Flankers had been seen off the coast of Alaska. The Super Flanker is an updated version of the 1980s-era Su-27 "Flanker" and Russia's most advanced fighter jet, with an improved radar and powerful, thrust-vectoring engines. The Super Flankers were reportedly unarmed.
Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bomber and Russian Aerospace Force tanker aircraft.
According to Fox, the Russian flight was intercepted about 50 miles southwest of Chariot, Alaska by a flight of F-22 Raptor jets already patrolling the area. The Russian jets were unarmed. Although they entered the U.S. Air Defense Identification Zone, which requires them to state intent and destination, the Russians remained outside of U.S. airspace.
The flight comes days after a streak that saw Russian aircraft visit the Alaskan coastline four days in a row. Two of the visits involved a pair of Tu-95MS bombers, while two others involved Il-38 "May" maritime patrol aircraft.
IL-38 May maritime patrol aircraft.
Via Globalsecurity.org.
Where the Super Flankers flew from is a bit of a mystery. Bear bombers make the 2,500 mile trip from Ukrainka Air Base in the Russian Far East to Chariot, Alaska with ease, but Super Flankers have a much shorter range. The fighter jets would have had to take off from a base much closer to the U.S. and possibly still have to refuel in midair.
Source: Fox
Kyle Mizokami Writer on Defense and Security issues, lives in San Francisco.
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