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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made advanced progress on computer vision over the past few years. Most algorithms strongly rely on the assumption that training data and test data are independent and identically distributed~\cite{zhou2021domainsuvery}. However, in many practical applications, domain shift often leads to performance degeneration of DNNs, which greatly hinder their further development. To deal with the issue of domain shift, Domain Generalization~\cite{shankar2018generalizing, zhou2020learning, zhou2021domain} is proposed to learn general representations without accessing the target domain. Existing methods have made tremendous progress on utilizing adversarial training~\cite{li2018domain, li2018deep, zhou2020deep}, meta learning~\cite{li2018learning, balaji2018metareg, zhang2021more} and data augmentation~\cite{QinweiXu2021AFF, zhou2021domain, li2022uncertainty, zhao2022test} to explore different types of invariances from the source domains. Such invariances commonly refers to domain-invariant information that is strongly related to task objectives.

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{images/aug_vis5.pdf}
\end{center}
   \caption{The visualization of the learned features on the source domains of PACS. $\circ$ denotes the original features, and $\vartriangle$ represents the augmented features by using MixStyle~\cite{zhou2021domain}.}
\label{fig:augvis}
\end{figure}

Aside from the domain-invariant information, the other particular domain characteristics with different distributions also play an important role to tackle domain shift, namely domain-specific information. The major limitation of domain generalization is the restricted diversity of domain-specific information~\cite{zhou2021domain}, some methods~\cite{QinweiXu2021AFF, zhou2021domain, li2022uncertainty, zhao2022test} make efforts to increase this diversity by augmenting the source data. Although these methods have achieved a moderate improvement, only enriching the source data according to the existing distribution still suffers from the overfitting issue. As shown in Fig~\ref{fig:augvis}, the augmented and original samples share a high similarity in the feature space.

\begin{figure*}[t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{images/overview3.pdf}
\end{center}
   \caption{The overview of the proposed method. Benefiting from DDC, a siamese network is designed to process two contrastive samples from different domains with the same domain-invariant information. During backpropagation, DIGB is proposed to control the update of the model parameters by leveraging a similarity vector via the comparison of optimization directions from different domains.}
\label{fig:overview}
\end{figure*}

Inspired by the observation that partial parameters of a model dominate the domain-invariant representation~\cite{wang2022exploring}, we propose to enable the model to adaptively perceive and update the domain-invariant parameters to relieve the overfitting issue. To achieve this, we design a framework that \emph{learns to learn domain-invariant parameters via paired contrastive samples}. In particular, we first develop a Domain Decoupling and Combination (DDC) module, to decompose the features into domain-specific and domain-invariant ones via Fourier transform~\cite{nussbaumer1981fast} and then randomly combine them to generate novel domain representations. The original and novel domain representations with the same domain-invariant information are fed into a Siamese network as contrastive samples. Then a Domain-invariance-guided Backpropagation (DIGB) mechanism is introduced to continuously identify and emphatically update the domain-invariant parameters that have unified optimization direction between the paired contrastive samples.
Moreover, to further increase the diversity of domain-specific information, we investigate the different combinations of the domain-specific features in frequency space to extend the training samples.

We have evaluated our proposed method over multiple domain generalization benchmarks. The experimental results have demonstrated that our proposed method has obtained a significant performance improvement and outperformed several state-of-the-art works, which indicates that directly enhancing the domain-invariant parameters is beneficial to model generalizability. We further conduct an intensive analysis and detailed ablation studies to assess the effectiveness of our proposed method.

\section{Method}
\label{sec:method}

In this section, we first describe the formulation of domain generalization for object recognition and its challenge, then present the proposed Domain Decoupling and Combination (DDC) and Domain-invariance-guided Backpropagation (DIGB) modules in details. The overview of our method is illustrated in Fig.~\ref{fig:overview}.

\subsection{Preliminaries}
In domain generalization, we denote the training set of multi-source domains as $\mathcal{D}_s=\left\{ D_1,D_2,\ldots ,D_K\right\}$. Each domain $D_i$ contains pairs of data and label $\{(x_i^j, y_i^j)\}_{j=1}^{N_i}$, where $N_i$ is the number of images in the $i$-th domain. Notably, different domains share the same label space of $y_i\in \{1,\ldots,C\}$. The major challenge of domain generalization is to learn a domain-agnostic model $f_\theta : \mathcal{X} \rightarrow \mathcal{Y}$ by only using the source domains, so that it is able to generalize well on unseen target domains $D_t$.

\subsection{Domain Decoupling and Combinatiomon}
The Domain Decoupling and Combination (DDC) module is designed to generate pairs of contrastive samples with the same domain-invariant information but different domain-specific information based on the decomposition of frequency signal. Given a sample $z \in \mathbb{R}^{C\times H\times W}$, the formulation of its Fourier transformation~\cite{nussbaumer1981fast} on each channel is defined as:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:fourier}
    \mathcal{F}(z)(u,v) = \sum_{h=0}^{H-1} \sum_{w=0}^{W-1}z(h,w)e^{-j2\pi\left(\frac{h}{H}u+\frac{w}{W}v\right)},
\end{equation}
where $u$ and $v$ represent the coordinates in frequency space. Subsequently, the frequency signal $\mathcal{F}(z)$ is decomposed to amplitude spectrum $\mathcal{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{C\times H\times W}$ and phase spectrum $\mathcal{P} \in \mathbb{R}^{C\times H\times W}$.
This is motivated by the finding that the amplitude component $\mathcal{A}$ retains rich domain-specific information (i.e., style), and the phase component $\mathcal{P}$ mainly captures domain-invariant information (i.e., content)~\cite{oppenheim1981importance}. Ideally, a controllable and efficient data generation can be achieved by exchanging the amplitude component $\mathcal{A}_s$ from other source data $z_s$ while preserving the phase component $\mathcal{P}_c$ of each instance $z_c$.

As shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:overview}(b), we introduce a binary mask whose origin locates at the center:
    $\mathcal{M} = \mathbb{1}_{(h,w)\in [-\alpha H:\alpha H, -\alpha W:\alpha W]}$,
where $\alpha$ is a hyper-parameter within the range of $\left[0,1\right]$ to control the proportion of the frequency component that needs to be exchanged. In our implementation, we sample the controller $\alpha$ from a beta distribution to achieve a trade-off between high and low frequencies, which represent the details and the overview of images respectively~\cite{jin2022style}. Then a linearly interpolating mechanism is introduced to synthesize the novel style information:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:amp_mix}
    \hat{\mathcal{A}}^\prime = \left((1-\lambda)\mathcal{A}_{c} + \lambda\mathcal{A}_{s}\right) * \mathcal{M} + \mathcal{A}_{c} * (1-\mathcal{M}),
\end{equation}
where $\lambda$ is an instance-specific weight, following the random mix weight in MixStyle~\cite{zhou2021domain}. Finally, the novel domain feature $\hat{z}^\prime$ is generated by combining different style information from arbitrary source domains with unaffected content information via inverse Fourier transformation: $\hat{z}^\prime = \mathcal{F}^{-1}(\hat{\mathcal{A}}^\prime, \mathcal{P}_c)$.

\subsection{Domain-invariance-guided Backpropagation}

The motivation behind Domain-invariance-guided Backpropagation (DIGB) is that the model optimization direction is sensitive to the distribution shift~\cite{choi2022improving}. The main idea is to distinguish both domain-specific and domain-invariant parameters by comparing their evolution paths on different domain data. As aforementioned, the proposed DDC module generates adequate pairs of contrastive samples from different distributions that are then fed into a siamese network, and the corresponding predictions $\hat{y}$ and $\hat{y}^\prime$ are supervised by the same label $y$. The individual classification error $\ell_\theta$ for the $j$-th data sample $(x_i^j, y_i^j)$ from domain $D_i\in \mathcal{D}_s$ is calculated as:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:loss}
    \ell_\theta(f_\theta(x_i^j), y_i^j) = -y_i^j log(\sigma(f_\theta(x_i^j;\theta))),
\end{equation}
where $\sigma$ denotes the softmax function. Note that the classification error of the contrastive sample of $(x_i^j, y_i^j)$ is formulated similarly as Eq.~\ref{eq:loss} with its unique prediction as $f^\prime_\theta(x_i^j)$. As for the backpropagation algorithm employing gradient descent, the gradient vector $\boldsymbol{g}^i_l = \nabla_{\theta_l}\ell_\theta(f_\theta(x_i^j), y_i^j)$ for the $l$-th layer represents the optimization direction of search space $\theta_l$, where $l\in \{1, \ldots,L\}$ and $L$ denotes the total number of layers. Then the layer-wise sensitivity correlated to the domain shift can be viewed as the correlation between two optimization directions for the parameters of each layer, such as $\boldsymbol{g}^{i}_l$ and $\boldsymbol{g}^{\prime i}_l$. Following~\cite{choi2022improving}, the cosine similarity $s^i_l$ is utilized to represent the correlation between the two gradient vectors:
\begin{equation}
    s^i_l =\frac{\boldsymbol{g}_l^i \cdot \boldsymbol{g}_l^{\prime i}}{\left\|\boldsymbol{g}_l^i\right\|\left\|\boldsymbol{g}_l^{\prime i}\right\|} \in \mathbb{R}.
\end{equation}
Here, we intentionally use a continuous interval to distinguish domain-specific and domain-invariant model parameters rather than discrete values. Specifically, the calculated cosine similarities are processed with a min-max normalization and formed into an enhancement vector $\boldsymbol{w} \in \mathbb{R}^L$ with the range of $\left[0,1\right]$. Thus the parameters can be identified depends on the vector $\boldsymbol{w}$. $\theta_l$ tend to represent domain-invariant parameters when the value of $w_l$ is greater, and vice versa.

Recall that the layer-wise domain-invariant parameters are calculated by the similarities between two contrastive gradient vectors, and we determine to assign importance weights to each of the individual layers during the whole training process. A deeper insight is that the domain-invariant parameters are more important than the domain-specific parameters considering to strengthen the generalization and alleviate the influence of domain shift. Specifically, the total gradients $\hat{\boldsymbol{g}}_l$ produced by $\ell_\theta$ and $\ell_\theta^\prime$ are re-weighted by the enhancement vector before sending to the conventional optimizer (i.e., SGD): $\hat{\boldsymbol{g}}_l = (\boldsymbol{g} + \boldsymbol{g}^\prime_l) \cdot w_l$. Furthermore, to avoid unstable measurement, the similarity vector $\boldsymbol{w}$ is updated via exponential moving average: $\boldsymbol{w} = \beta \cdot \boldsymbol{w} + (1-\beta) \cdot \hat{\boldsymbol{w}}$, where $\hat{\boldsymbol{w}}$ is the estimation from current mini-batch, and $\beta$ is the momentum hyper-parameter with default $0.999$.

\begin{table}[t]
\caption{Performance comparison with other methods for domain generalization.}
\label{tab:sota}
\huge
\centering
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{c|ccccc|ccccc|ccccc}
\toprule
Dataset & \multicolumn{10}{c}{PACS} \vline & \multicolumn{5}{c}{Office-Home} \\ \midrule
Backbone & \multicolumn{5}{c}{ResNet18} \vline & \multicolumn{5}{c}{ResNet50} \vline & \multicolumn{5}{c}{ResNet18} \\ \midrule
Target Domain & A  & C & P & S & Avg. & A  & C & P & S & Avg. & A & C &  P & R & Avg. \\ \midrule
Baseline  &  77.0 &75.9 &96.0 &69.2 &79.5 &86.2 &78.7 &97.7 &70.6 &83.3 & 58.9 &49.4 &74.3 &76.2 &64.7 \\
MixStyle~\cite{zhou2021domain} &84.1 &78.8 &96.1 &75.9 &83.7 &- &- &- &- &- &58.7 &53.4 &74.2 &75.9 &65.5 \\
DSU~\cite{li2022uncertainty} & 83.6 &79.6 &95.8 &77.6 &84.1 &- &- &- &- &- & 60.2 &54.8 &74.1 &75.1 &66.1 \\
FACT~\cite{QinweiXu2021AFF} & 85.4 &78.4 &95.2 &79.2 &84.6 &89.6 &81.8 &96.8 &84.5 &88.2 & 60.3 &54.9 &74.5 &76.6 &66.6 \\
RSC~\cite{huang2020self} & 83.4 &80.3 &96.0 &80.9 &85.2 &87.9 &82.2  &97.9 &83.4 &87.9 &- &- &- &- &- \\
FSDCL~\cite{jeon2021feature} & 85.3 &81.3 &95.6 &81.2 &85.9 &88.5 &83.8 &96.6 &82.9 &88.0 & 60.2 &53.5 &74.4 &76.7 &66.2 \\
MVDG~\cite{zhang2021more} &85.6 &80.0 &95.5 &\textbf{85.1} &86.6 &89.3 &84.2 &97.4 &\textbf{86.4} &89.3 & 60.3 &54.3 &75.1 &77.5 &66.8 \\
TAF-Cal~\cite{zhao2022test} &85.7 &\textbf{82.6} &96.1 &82.6 &86.8 &90.5 &84.9 &97.8 &83.8 &89.3 & 61.5 &\textbf{55.0} &74.9 &77.0 &67.1 \\ \midrule
Ours &\textbf{87.1} &81.6 &\textbf{96.5} &83.6 &\textbf{87.2} &\textbf{90.8} &\textbf{85.0} &\textbf{97.9} &85.7 &\textbf{89.9} & \textbf{63.5}  &52.4 &\textbf{76.0} &\textbf{78.4} &\textbf{67.6} \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}

\section{Experiments}
\label{sec:exp}
In this section, we evaluate our methods on two popular domain generalization benchmarks, and analyze the effectiveness from a wide range of aspects.

\subsection{Datasets and Implementation Details}
PACS~\cite{li2017deeper} consists of 9,991 images from 4 domains with different image styles and 7 classes. Office-Home~\cite{finn2017model} is a larger and more challenging dataset with 4 domains. Each domain involves 65 categories of objects found in office and home.

We adopt ResNet-18 and ResNet-50 pre-trained on ImageNet as our backbone following previous work~\cite{zhou2021domain, QinweiXu2021AFF}. We train the network with Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) optimizer and set the batch size to 64. The initial learning rate is 0.002 with cosine decay rule for 50 epochs. We use the common leave-one-domain-out evaluation to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Specifically, we select three domains as the source for training, and the remaining one as the target. All reported results are the average of three runs with different random seeds following previous work~\cite{zhou2021domain}.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{images/visualization3.pdf}
   \caption{(a) denotes the visualization of enhancement vectors. (b) shows the comparison of flatness between baseline and our method. (c) visualizes the clustering results of learned feature vectors from baseline model and our model.}
\label{fig:vis}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Comparison with State-of-the-art Methods}
\textbf{PACS:} The results are shown in Table~\ref{tab:sota}. Compared with the baseline of vanilla ResNet-18, our method achieves significant improvements of 10.1\% on art painting, 5.7\% on cartoon, and 14.4\% on sketch. Eventually, the average accuracy exceeds the baseline of 7.7\% which demonstrates the effectiveness of our method.
When it comes to the widely used methods, our method beats most of them by a large margin, including MixStyle~\cite{zhou2021domain}, DSU~\cite{li2022uncertainty}. Significantly, our method also surpasses the latest state-of-the-art (SOTA) TAF-Cal~\cite{zhao2022test} with 0.4\% on ResNet-18, and MVDG~\cite{zhang2021more} with 0.6\% on ResNet-50.

\noindent
\textbf{Office-Home:} As shown in Table~\ref{tab:sota} that our method performs the best results on three domains (Art, Product, and Real-world), and achieves SOTA average accuracy of 67.6\%. Overall comparisons verify the effectiveness of DDC and DIGB.

\subsection{Ablation Study and Further Analysis}\label{sec:analysis}
In this section, we analyze the effectiveness of each proposed component based on PACS benchmark. For all experiments, we use the ImageNet pre-trained ResNet-18 as backbone.

\noindent
\textbf{Ablation Study:} In order to investigate the role of each component, we conduct an ablation study on PACS datset. As shown in Table~\ref{tab:analysis}(a), by applying the samples generated from DDC as augmentations the model achieves obvious improvements over the baseline, demonstrating that increasing the diversity of source domain is an effective way, which agrees with recent works~\cite{zhou2021domain, li2022uncertainty}. Furthermore, the DIGB can further enhance the performance by 2.3\%. It reveals that exploring and emphasizing domain-invariant parameters empower our model to better generalize on novel domains. Eventually, with the help of Multi-view prediction (MVP) ~\cite{zhang2021more}, we achieve a new SOTA with an averaged performance of 87.2\%.

\noindent
\textbf{Effectiveness Analysis:} We also apply our DIGB module to another data augmentation methods~\cite{zhou2021domain, li2022uncertainty} that employing different domain decomposition methods. The results in Table~\ref{tab:analysis}(b) show that our module cooperates smoothly with the new domain decomposition method and achieves promising performance improvement (especially on sketch that has an extensive domain shift), which indicates that strengthening domain-invariant parameters is universal and effective enough to cope with many existing augmentation methods.

\noindent
\textbf{Robust Analysis:} We perform robust evaluation on a new benchmark for robustness in real-world Out-of-Distribution Shifts~\cite{zhao2021robin}. In Table~\ref{tab:analysis}(c), our method achieves satisfactory improvement with the average accuracy of six real-world domain shifts compared to the baseline and MixStyle~\cite{zhou2021domain}. It indicates that our method is robust to varied domain shifts, not only the limited domain gap dominated by style information.

\noindent
\textbf{Domain Invariance Analysis:} Fig.~\ref{fig:vis}(a) visualizes the enhancement vector $\boldsymbol{w}$ trained on PACS dataset. The similarity scores of shallow layers are observed to be lower than the values of deep layers, indicating that the parameters in deeper layers tend to be more domain-invariant. This observation is consistent with the fact that shallow layers tend to extract low-level features while the deep layers capture more high-level information. Thus strengthening the domain-invariant parameters can help the model capture the domain-invariant information to tackle overfitting.

\noindent
\textbf{Generalization Analysis:} To verify the robustness and generalization of our model, we conduct an experiment on the test domain of PACS via computing the loss gap between the original parameters and perturbed parameters, i.e., $\mathbb{E}_{\theta^{\prime}=\theta+\epsilon}\left[\ell_\theta-\ell_{\theta^\prime}\right]$~\cite{cha2021swad, zhang2021more}, where $\epsilon$ denotes the sampled perturbation from a Gaussian distribution. Note that the value of loss gap indicates the flatness of learned minima. The visualization results in Fig.~\ref{fig:vis}(b) show that our method find a flatter minima than both baseline and MixStyle~\cite{zhou2021domain}. Our method can help the model be more robust towards perturbation.

\noindent
\textbf{Feature Visualization:} We also visualize the learned representations with t-SNE~\cite{van2008visualizing} in Fig.~\ref{fig:vis}(c). It is obvious that although baseline method achieves a satisfactory clustering results, the classification boundaries of certain categories are unclear due to the domain shift. By contrast, all the classification boundaries of our model are more clear and the latent features are more compact.

\begin{table}[t]
\caption{Ablation study and further analysis. Note that $*$ represents the reproduced results.}
\label{tab:analysis}
\centering
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\linewidth}

  \resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
    \Large
    \begin{tabular}{c|ccccc}
    \toprule
    Method & A  & C & P & S & Avg. \\ \midrule
    Baseline &77.0 &75.9 &96.0 &69.2 &79.5 \\
    +DDC &83.4 &78.6 &95.2 &77.4 & 83.7 \\
    +DIGB & 85.1 &80.6 &96.2 &81.9 &86.0 \\
    +MVP &\textbf{87.1} &\textbf{81.6} &\textbf{96.5} &\textbf{83.6} &\textbf{87.2} \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}}
    \scriptsize
    \centerline{(a) Ablation study}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
  \resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
  \Large
    \begin{tabular}{c|ccccc}
    \toprule
    Method & A  & C & P & S & Avg. \\ \midrule
    MixStyle*~\cite{zhou2021domain} &82.5 &79.4 &96.0 &71.1 &82.2 \\
    MixStyle+DIGB &83.1 &80.5 &96.4 &75.4 & 83.9 \\ \midrule
    DSU*~\cite{li2022uncertainty} & 81.5 &80.0 &96.0 &76.6 &83.5 \\
    DSU+DIGB &83.7 &81.8 &96.2 &77.5 &84.8 \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    }
    \scriptsize
    \centerline{(b) Applying DIGB to other methods}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.95\linewidth}
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
    \Large
    \begin{tabular}{ccccccccc}
    \toprule
    Methods & iid & shape & pose & texture & context & weather & occlusion & Avg. \\ \midrule
    Baseline & 91.9 & 84.4 & 90.5 & 88.4 & 82.2 &83.9 &70.5 & 83.3 \\
    MixStyle~\cite{zhou2021domain} & 91.3 & 83.4 & 88.4 & 87.8 & 82.2 &83.5 &68.3 & 82.3 \\ \midrule
    Ours & \textbf{92.2} & \textbf{85.2} & \textbf{90.5} & \textbf{89.5} & \textbf{85.4} & \textbf{85.9} &70.0 & \textbf{84.4} \\  \bottomrule

    \end{tabular}
    }
    \scriptsize
    \centerline{(c) Results comparison on ROBIN dataset}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusion}
In this paper, a novel framework is developed to identify and strengthen the domain-invariant parameters to relieve the overfitting on limited source data for domain generalization. Our extensive experiments and analysis have demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method.

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Garden Plant Identifier by timfisher 01-Mar-2011 [10-31] This app would allow you to identify a plant by directing you to a database which would by combination of q and a and picture matching give you the plant name of something you might see while visiting a garden for example. It could then advise on growing conditions to allow you to establish suitability and finally direct you to the nearest nursery or garden centre selling the plant.
Collect All Button by Sparkle 01-Mar-2011 [04-48] An integrated button with the Zynga programs to collect all prizes, objects, etc. available.
Notification App for Emails by AnujaK 28-Feb-2011 [07-13] An app that will be integrated with your email system- email read alert! How often do you encounter the situation- you keep waiting eagerly for a reply and wonder whether the recipient of your email has even read it or not? I'm sure very often. This app will send a notification to sender once recipient(s) opens the email. If you feel your email will take at least 5 minutes to read properly you can set additional option of notifying you the time interval for which the email is kept open. So no need to keep on refreshing your mailbox for a reply! You'll know once your email has been opened. Alarm for those who tend to delete emails before even opening them!!
Tag-cloud for Your Emails by Developer 28-Feb-2011 [06-46] Add tags to your email just like a blog and send it. The recipient will receive the email along with those tags. As against the current way of manually setting labels for email this email management system will do it for you. And yes you've the option of modifying or deleting any of the tags. You can view emails as per the tags. Your email cloud will be tagged. Such an awesome user experience and time saving system!
Oia -> Organize in Apps by aneo9988 25-Feb-2011 [01-53] An app that organizes data based on categories. The app sorts out and groups: bookmarks, documents, pictures, music, and more. Thousands of categories can be programed in, such as, Political, Entertainment, Business, etc. You feed it a folder, and choose five or so categories, and it divides the information in separate folders. No more will you be spending hours toiling away on your computer organizing files!
Social networking - life after death. by OldFossil 24-Feb-2011 [09-36] Do social networking websites handle death of people who have profiles? How do you know if the person you just followed on twitter is still alive? Here is the idea of a web app: it will handle your after-death life on social networks. After you are pronounced dead, your next kin or person you trust can login in the app and launch a program on your behalf... It might delete your profiles, or it might mark them somehow. Or it might post a few farewell status updates like �I am sorry I am gone, but I will leave in your harts - I hope you miss me guys!�.
Move Anywhere, Work from Any PC by Developer 23-Feb-2011 [10-58] The worst times I feel in developing an app are the ones when I'm being relocated or my PC has been changed. It starts from installing java, IDE (Eclipse), configuring the path, checkouts and so on. It will be a real pain-killer if a full-fledged online development environment is available. Online editor just like a desktop one(fast plus all features), your own copy of code available to you at any time from any machine...wow! Check-in will mean code moving from your private copy to the shared branch. Whoa, no worries and time spending on configuration! Move anywhere, continue coding from anywhere!!
For online gamers by Matt 14-Feb-2011 [09-16] An app that when started within specified online games will examine the users playing style vs. that of other players to determine the most effective ways to change strategy and actions to carry out that strategy. The idea is to have an application help you learn how to play better, faster.
Firefox Ad-On for Integration of Social Media Browser tabs by JForbis 11-Feb-2011 [16-47] So I noticed on the train the other day that a guy leaving Google had his lap-top up watching a video. Well, I couldn't help but watch the video and noticed that in Firefox, his tabs looked like this: Gmail, Facebook, YouTube, Blogger, and Twitter. Hey...that's what my tabs often look like. Later that day, I saw another person on the train with similar tabs going in Firefox. Well, it's easy enough to bookmark my tabs in the browser and set up FF to remember all my login creds for each site. However, the tabs begin to overwhelm my "top of browser" real-estate and I have to click on each of them (right click mind you) to load as a new tab. I then have to submit my log-in credentials. Here's my idea. Take all the common email/social media sites: Gmail, FB, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, YouTube, Blogger, WordPress, etc and integrate them under one umbrella or tab. The end-user can then set up the log-in credentials one time (for each social site they set up in this app). They can then have one (1) tab in their browser entitled "social favs" or whatever they name it. When they fire up their browser, they can then click the tab, it will ask for one time login/auth via a button...and then launch all the tabs across firefox...logged in and ready to go. Simple, efficient, and manageable.
Drop to kindle by Tim 11-Feb-2011 [07-28] Web-based software that can convert the most commonly used ebook formats to the .prc file that is accessible, for download, through the kindle web browser. The application should provide up to 25gb of cloud-based storage with the ability to upgrade at a reasonable fee. The key files to convert are chm, html and pdf, as these are the most difficult to convert to the prc format without compromising the books integrity This application would provide a service that had no competition and a definite market.
I'm Everywhere All At Once! Where Are Am I?? by Matt 09-Feb-2011 [15-47] An app that will search the users PC for cookies etc. and then searches the internet to find as many of the websites as possible to which the user has "been opted-in" or actually joined and used a given email address or username.
Snooze Tracker by elephant 01-Feb-2011 [14-32] Track how many times you press your snooze button in the mornings. Trend averages and graph them out. Allow you to tweet your number. Work towards a goal of less snooze presses.
'NappKIN' - Mobile/Tablet based childrens virtual character by Heybridge1 26-Jan-2011 [21-32] Accessible for free via smartphones / tablets, a virtual character that can be created from scratch using pre-supplied templates. Feed, love and play with your NappKIN and receive controlled messages from it advising on what is needed to make it happy. Utilising Kindle type technology, allow users (children - 7-12 years approx) to create stories and publish them about their NappKIN - pure fantasy, fun and excitement stories and the advertures their NappKIN get up to. Stories are checked prior to publication and subscribers can vote for their favourites to encourage children to learn to write stories. Commercial opportunities offer publication rights to create children's stories available online and licencing of toys and associated products. It's all about the enjoyment of reading, writing and fun - incorporating potentially English lessons in schools and so on.
Get on Your Way with the Freeway Finder! by Erin M. 25-Jan-2011 [06-11] Never be late again to that important destination! The Freeway Finder application would be a great way to plan ahead before any trip in any unknown area. It would specifically highlight down to the lane you need to be in for easy freeway access. Also while pinpointing noticeable landmarks you should be passing nearby. You will need to choose the freeway name/number and direction(N,S,E,W) of the final destination for this application to work efficiently. The Freeway Finder also works much differently than a navigation system for it will be much more precise as a guide for travelers through the interactive map! Included extras are instant updates of Freeway closures, traffic news and number of lanes to help you always find your way on and off those busy freeways with ease. The Freeway Finder should be available all throughout the United States. This new web app can shave minutes to hours off your trip so if your heading to an appointment, visiting a friend, a shopping mall or just driving on an unfamiliar road you can feel 100% certain you know where you are going from the start to make a timely destination at it's end!
News at your fingertips by Dave 25-Jan-2011 [03-04] As an avid RSS reader (nearly 200 feeds) I am always trying to find a new way to organize and de-clutter my reading bin. I would love to see a chrome or firefox add-on to Google reader that uses one of the Semantic web APIs (like OpenAmplify or similar) to help me separate the wheat from the chaff. Similar to the way Pandora figures out what kind of music I like by my thumb up-ing songs, I would love to have only the relevant articles pop up. I could also see this being a standalone web app like "Reeder."
Advertisement in Facebook Chat by Deepak 24-Jan-2011 [12-51] There should be paid to chat on facebook. Where Advertisers can pay to show their Ads in our Facebook chat Boxs.
CloudSecure by Lalit Kale-ATechieThought 23-Jan-2011 [18-22] Basically, right now we use authentication mechanizms like user name and password or solutions like openId. But insted of that ,What my idea is to build a service solution which will provide fingureprints as authentication mechanism for multiple websites and it will also integrate with solutions like OpenId.
Guardian Angel_ by IBScipio 18-Jan-2011 [23-20] An application that lives in cyberspace and (using data the user provides) figures out where in cyberspace the user most frequently directly or indirectly uses the internet where it acts as a Guardian Angel. If two digits are transposed when inputting data to the company time clock, it will fix the digits between last input and pressing the 'Enter' key. Everywhere you go you would be presented with the occasional option of bypassing or opting out of having one's electronic data passively recorded for any purpose the user finds offensive. With options allowing the application to be hyper-vigilant when one's iPhone is traveling through high density areas where information theft using passive data collection technologies is known to occur.
Alternative application for iPad_ by IBScipio 18-Jan-2011 [14-57] An application that allows the use of an iPad as a hot-plate.
Print a list of all follower/following by IBScipio 18-Jan-2011 [10-14] A simple app that will allow different ways of formatting (.txt , .xls, .rtf or .doc?) and printing of a text based lists of followers/following. An option to include or exclude avatars or descriptions. The follower or following list would have a couple of sections; "Mutual relationship", "They follow, you aren't", and "You follow, they aren't". The ability to also list recent unfollowers and unfollowed (back a selectable number of days) would also be helpful. many other apps fall short of a followers list that is formatted or unformatted text based lists to allow cross-referencing externally.


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Russell: I want to show I'm a superstar
Written by Boxing Social Staff on 28th May 2021.
Super-lightweight puncher Gary Antuanne Russell is hoping to make his big breakthrough when he meets Jovanie Santiago in a 10-rounder on the Nordine Oubaali vs Nonito Donaire bill at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, tomorrow night.
The surname will be familiar, but until now Russell, younger brother of gifted WBC featherweight champion Gary, has fought early on undercards awaiting his opportunity.
Russell, a 2016 U.S. Olympian, has built an eye-catching 13-0, 13 KOs record in the shadows, but will step into the limelight to meet capable Puerto Rican Santiago (14-1-1, 10 KOs) on Saturday's Showtime broadcast in America.
Santiago gave Adrien Broner a torrid night in February with his body-punching and aggression before losing on the cards, and the charismatic Russell believes a war is in prospect tomorrow.
"I'm in the hurt business. He's a slugger. If he wants to come in there and slug with me, he will feel my power. He will see how intelligent I am. Not just mentally, but physically with my hands. Like I said, I'm in the hurt business. I come to hurt," said Russell.
"Pardon my lack of Spanish, but what you are going to see is, 'la violencia'. He's going to bring his pressure. He's going to bring punches in bunches and I believe that's all he can bring. If he's been training and trying to perfect himself for my style of fighting, that's fine. You're not supposed to come in here one-dimensional. A diamond shines from all sides.
"The only thing I can say is this venue is going to promote blood, sweat and tears and the desire of people to be great. I'm definitely one of them. I've been in the gym giving my blood, my sweat and my tears and I'm bringing all of that to this venue come Saturday night.
"I want to show that I'm the cream of the crop. I'm a superstar. The light hasn't been shining on me because there's a lot of other things going on. Until then, you're going to have to wait and see. Come Saturday, it will be a great show. There will be some sparks and fireworks. I have an opponent that's not willing to lay down. If he's not willing to, I must make him lay down."
Photo: Sean Michael Ham/TGB Promotions.


The mark L/N (Little Nemo) is a mark signifying "Nemo Gold Seal Quality" belonged to the Brier Manufacturing Company. This company produced high quality brooches, necklaces, bracelets, dress clips, earrings, tiaras, hair clips, etc. and was located in Province, Rhode Island. The Nemo mark was first used in 1913.
The Lisner jewelry mark was first used in 1935, a mark of D. Lisner & Co in New York. They used their mark in block print and script and it is the mark of Lisner & Richelieu. The quality of the jewelry they made ranged from very good to above average. They made much of their jewelry in the 1950's and the quality was lacking in the lower end of their carded jewelry. They did make some well designed and above average costume jewelry. The Richelieu line of jewelry would rank with some of the best manufactures. "LISNER" in block was the mark first used in 1935. "Lisner"in script was first used in 1938, and then in 1959 the mark used most was "Lisner", in a block type letter with a long L. These marks may appear on jewelry made by Lisner over a period of 55 plus years and it is not possible to date a item by the mark alone. Molds and findings were kept and stamping dies were rarely disposed of and there fore they were used again and again at later dates. Lisner pieces often have colorful rhinestones (including aurora borealis stones) and molded plastic/lucite stones.
Joseph J. Mazer Company was a high-quality costume jewelry company founded in 1927 in New York. Their early pieces are mared Mazer Bros and the later pieces marked MAZER or JOMAZ. The company went out of business in 1970's.
MCClelland Barclay Jewelry is extremely rare and among the best costume jewelry made in America. He created jewelry for only six years. His life ending in World War II.
Miriam Haskell (1899-1981) was an elegant artist who began selling jewelry when she ran a gift shop in 1924 in the McAlpin Hotel at Herald Square, New York. She moved to West 57th Street where she supervised production of her costume jewelry as designed by Frank Hess, and in 1933 moved again to 392 Fifth Avenue where she remained until the 1960's. Miriam Haskell jewelry has always been noted for the detailing, which directly translated into the time it took to make and thus the cost, and for the asymmetry of many of their designs. In the early years, Haskell jewelry was not marked and production was limited. There are distinct characteristics an expert looks for including the design itself which often incorporates surprises or irregularities. Quality is always evident with finer quality materials and all prong set in the design. Haskell jewelry is known for its use of elaborate filigree and careful wiring, all handmade and accomodating a variety of designs. Haskell filigree was typically electroplated goldtone metal in an antique gold finish. She purchased her beads mostly from France and Venice, Italy, while most crystals came from Bohemia. The advent of World War II forced Haskell to sometimes use alternative materials including for the first time plastics, and she purchased more of her beads and crystals from sources closer to home. In the late 1940s, Miriam Haskell jewelry started to be marked for the first time including an incised "Miriam Haskell" on the hook, "Miriam Haskell" in a crescent shaped cartouche and an oval stamp "Miriam Haskell" on the clasp. The company was sold to Frank Fialkoff in 1990 and is still producing today, making some of the older designs such as the Retro line introduced in the early 90s as well as doing custom work.
Monet is a high-quality costume jewelry manufacturer founded by Jay and Michael Chernow and began making jewelry in 1929. The mark Monet was first used in 1937. Monet developed the very comfortable "friction ear clip" for non-pierced earrings and the "barrel clutch" for pierced earrings. This company has been sold many times.
Napier-Bliss was a costume jewelry company which began production in the 1910's. It was headed by James H. Napier from 1920 until 1960. The company was bought by Victoria Creations in the 1980's.
The firm was founded in New York City in the 1940's by Robert Levy, David Jaffe and Irving Landsman as Fashioncraft jewelry. Irving Landsman left in 1951 and the name of the firm became Robert Originals, Inc. The jewelry was never cheap. In the mid 1940's, a pin and earring set would sell around $50.00. The firm supplied jewelry to the motion picture industry including the 1952 oscar nominated "Elia Kazan movie" Viva Zapata" fearturing Marlon Brando and Jean Peters. Levy retired in 1976 and the firm became Ellen designs until 1984.
Sarah Coventry received its name from Charles H. Stuart, the founder of Emmons Home Fashion. Sarah was named after his grand daughter where as Emmons was named after his wife, Caroline Emmons. The mark for "Emmons" was first used in 1948 and Emmons was incorporated in February of 1949, with Sarah Coventry coming into being, November of the same year. They started their business under home fashion shows and maintained the way they did business till 1984, and were sold to a Chicago based firm who produced jewelry for a Canadian company using the same name. Sarah Coventry continued making fine jewelry with precious gemstones under P&B Manufactures. The home shows were discontinued in 1984.
The first known marks were "Coventry" used in 1949, for both men's and ladies jewelry. The next known mark was "Sarah Coventry" and in 1950 the mark of "SC" was first used. Then sometime around 1951 the mark of just "Sarah" was used and they continued to incorporate the mark into later jewellery. The Mark "SC" was still in use in 1953 for costume jewelry, and in 1960 the mark of "Sarah Cov" came into existence.
The mark of "SAC" has been attributed to Sarah Coventry jewelry but there are no records indicating when it was used but the mark existed in the mid 1950s and was used to the 1960s. This is most likely because the name of of Charles Stuart's grand-daughter was Sarah Ann.
Emmons and Sarah Coventry did not design or manufacture their own jewelry but purchased their designs that were manufactured by other producers of costume jewelry around the Providence, Rhode Island area.
The Richelieu mark was first used in 1911 and the pieces were made by the Joseph H. Meyer Bros. company in New York.
Sherman, a Canadian costume jewelry company, began production in 1947 until 1981. Their pieces are high-quality, expensive and very collectible. They use exquisite colorful stones and the pieces are beautifully designed.
The company is founded around 1918 as Trifari and Krussman later in 1920's Carl Fishel joins company and becomes Trifari Krussman and Fishel. In early 1930 Alfred Phillipe becomes head designer after joining the company, and under his leadership the real jewelry look is born. He introduced his famous crown pin in 1941, and the success of the company was almost certain from that time on. It became the second largest company, second only to Coro, but the quality was to belong to Trifari. The crown above the T was to become their trademark.
WEISS - Albert Weiss. Weiss is one of the premier designers of top quality costume jewelry, on the par with Eisenberg, Boucher and other great designers of the 40's and 50's. Weiss jewelry was a 1940s company and discontinued business about 1971, they were a much underrated name in the costume jewelry business but some of their jewelry was purchased from Hollywood Jewelry Co and Weiss applied their signature to it. Located in New York, NY. they created a low end line and high end line of costume jewelry and also made some high quality collectible items. Their out put was no where near Trifari and Coro but they did maintain a very good line of jewelry. The first mark used was "WEISS" in block print, later came the mark of "Weiss" in script and "Albert Weiss" or A W Co. with the W looking some what like a crown. The later mark was introduced sometime in 1951 and used by the president of the company, Albert Weiss.
D. Vendome was the superior line of jewelry. The mark was used as early as 1944 on charm bracelets and faux pearl jewelry. The Vendome line which began in the 1950's did not become popular until the early 1960's largely due to beautiful designs introduced by Helen Marion, Vendome's principal designer. Vendome replaced Corocraft which up to that time marked the higher quality jewelry made by Coro. Vendome jewelry used the best of imported rhinestones and faceted crystal beads. The clarity and brilliance of the stones and top quality metal work combined in artistically expressive designs were the main factors behind Vendome's success. Vendome jewelry is highly collectible and should continue to rise in prices.
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Of the 149,410 business administration professionals employed in New York, 710 work in New Paltz. The number of business administration professionals in New Paltz has grown by 3% from 2006 to 2010. As the number of business administration professionals in New Paltz has increased, overall employment in New Paltz has also increased.
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Business administration professionals in New Paltz earn a median salary of $86,325 per year. The 10% of business administration professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $51,720 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately 175% higher salaries.
New Paltz business administration professionals have earnings that are higher than the salaries earned by others in related fields, on average.
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What can Website Designers learn about User Interface from Games Designers? It's an easy-enough question, but the answer, of course, isn't so simple. Firstly, you're not comparing like for like.
People who play games typically spend dozens – and sometimes hundreds – of hours so doing; whereas people who visit a website usually want to be done in a matter of minutes. A UI which works for one, would not necessarily be appropriate for the other.
So, what's unique about visiting a website? What does our unsuspecting user secretly want?
Aarron Walter, in his influential book on web design, called Designing for Emotion, identifies what he calls "a hierarchy of user needs" which states that the fundamental needs, upon which all web-design builds, are Functionality and Reliability. No one will, presumably, disagree with that since a website – like any other piece of design – needs to be fit for purpose, as and when needed.
Once that is nailed, Walter argues, the next important feature is Usability. Now, some sites are more usable than others, but this is because Usability is allied to Motivation. Why are you even visiting that site?
Council and Government websites, for example, are notoriously labyrinthine, and finding one specific page can be a real trial – but the user is typically motivated by need – so they will stick with it until they find their goal.
A shopping website… not so much. If you want to shop for shoes – you want, ideally, to be no more than two menu clicks away from festoons of footwear.
The superior Motivation – which Walter identifies as Pleasure, but which other commentators call Delight – is at the pinnacle of the pyramid, and can only be achieved if all three stages below it all work.
But, even then, Delight isn't guaranteed. Achieving that is the secret sauce which goes in the mix and lifts the whole recipe.
The responsibility for delivering Delight falls on the Usability – the User Interface.
As Prof. Steve Peters explains – in his delightfully eccentric book The Chimp Paradox – our emotions influence our behaviour much more rapidly than our intellect. Instinct will always beat Reason. So, when designers talk about creating an "emotional experience", it's not just some touchy-feely after-thought, it's cutting through to the heart of a successful interface.
When a user visits a website – there is not likely to be a lot of anticipation. Websites are rarely launched after months (or years) of pre-release hype. Redesigned websites are not unveiled as sequels to existing successful websites. Websites don't have trailers with millions of likes on YouTube. That sense of cultivated anticipation comes from the movie industry and has been adopted by the video game industry.
What a website can expect from a user is, by contrast, a flicker of casual interest, tempered by indifference and scepticism.
Great content delivered in a delightful, emotionally engaging way can immediately dissipate that user apathy. If you've taken the trouble to present your design to the user in a way that makes it especially relevant to them – what you've really created is a human-to-human interaction. Revealing the human being behind your website – behind your business – is the way to engender trust in a cynical and apathetic world.
Using something simple like hover menus or tooltips, to help customise the user's visit to the site, are relatively easy wins. Simply remembering the users name and personalising their visit, goes a long way to creating that human-to-human experience.
Video game menus are quite different compared to website menus. Or so you might think. But, of course, they're doing the same thing – they're helping you navigate and make choices by offering you options.
Some of these are exquisitely complex – Crusader Kings II, for example, is a strategy game whereby users can spend months playing a game which (in game time) spans generations. The menu offers literally dozens of customisable permutations and game play options, as befitting such a long-term endeavour.
You could argue that the interface for a game like this can afford to be impenetrable, because the players are going to spend the time learning it.
But, a first-person shooter game, like Destiny 2, is a much more adrenalised experience, so its menu is far simpler, designed to help the user to make quicker modifications, achieve quicker gratification, then get back into the thick of the game.
How hard is it to code some element of instant gratification into web design?
Look at the glory days of physical media – when Easter Eggs were hidden on the menus of DVD movies. Finding these treats became an Easter-egg hunt, with bragging-rights being automatically issued to whoever found them. This added an element of Gamification, even before that term was coined.
The most elegant (and rewarding) of these, was included on the disc of Terminator II: Judgement Day. The DVD included the Theatrical version of the film and the Extended Cut, but the menu also included a secret feature, where you used your remote control to enter the date of Judgement Day: August 29th, 1997 – as 82997 and, bingo – a new panel opened, allowing you to watch an even longer third version of the film.
Gamification is a great way to elicit a pleasure response from a user. Games are fun. We humans are hard-wired to enjoy mastering tasks, to being demonstrably better than other people and to receiving rewards.
How can this be implemented into website UI?
One of the simplest and most effective ways – is to reward users with points or badges, which can add-up to real-world benefits, such as discounts or free-shipping.
Think about eBay – that gives you feedback scores and star ratings, which relate to how efficient and trustworthy you are as a trader. The higher the number (and, crucially, the higher the percentage of your 'positive feedback') the more likely you are to be trusted by other retailers. Earning those points, then, is good for business!
You probably have a LinkedIn account. Has that told you that your profile isn't up to strength? That little status bar is there to create a sense of competitiveness, of wanting to be better than the other guy. But that's a positive thing, because it makes your profile more impressive – which makes you more impressive.
Remember FarmVille? That Facebook game played a major role in acclimatising people to the still-relatively-new social media platform. Dwell-time increased, new users ventured onto Facebook for the first time to play the game; it even brought older, harder-to-reach users on board. Farmville introduced a lot of people to the idea of in-game purchases, which would go on to have far-reaching repercussions for mobile gaming.
By 2011, FarmVille had 750 million players and was responsible for 10% of Facebook's income. The genius of the game, was that users had to come back every day, or their crops and animals would die.
The game also encouraged you to make new friends through Facebook, so that you could then collaborate with them on improving your farm.
The game and the platform grew exponentially, at the same time; the one inter-linked with the other.
This was an example of the blurred-lines between website and video game, where both benefited from the UI of the other – and both generated a pleasure response in the user.
Thinking about Facebook. They deliberately wrote gamification into their code. As Sean Parker famously said of the website he co-founded with Mark Zuckerberg: they deliberately created the 'Like' button to give users "a little dopamine hit". That 'buzz', that moment of acceptance, of validation, would encourage users to come back for more. It made each visit to Facebook a Delight.
Moving on, to the way Facebook works today, and you'll find that Gamification is at the heart of the race for Organic Reach. Polls are a tried and trusted method for generating user interaction. If you'll forgive us for referring to our own Facebook feed – you'll see an example of this in the question we asked about teamwork – to tie-in with the release of 2018's Avengers movie.
This isn't about feeling superior to other users, so much as having your say; airing your opinion because, as we know, everyone else on the internet is wrong!
Unsurprisingly, such polls create polarised results. But, for more open questions, on issues for which there are subtler shades of opinion – Instagram has introduced the Emoji Slider.
This has already proven itself useful to businesses, as a method of 'soft' Market Research – a notoriously difficult thing to get casual social media users to engage with. Gamifying your research makes it fun, which makes it work.
The Emoji Slider is just the latest application for those funny little yellow faces that pepper our phone and social media screens. Emojis evolved from so-called 'emoticons' (short for 'emotional icons') which – back in the very, very early days of the internet and limited character-counts for texting – was a way of using punctuation to quickly communicate emotion.
Emojis are simply a more developed, more expressive, form of that. The official Unicode Standard list now includes almost 3,000 emoji characters which, together, form the language of Emotion.
And Emotion is what we're really talking about.
So, when it comes to web design, the message is clear: Make it fun and they will come.


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package com.reactnativenavigation.views.element.animators;

import android.animation.Animator;
import android.graphics.Point;
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import com.facebook.react.views.text.ReactTextView;
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Former head of Chilean school wins ESU International Oracy Teacher Award
The English-Speaking Union is delighted to announce David Massiah, then headmaster of Redland School in Santiago, Chile, as the winner of the ESU International Oracy Teacher Award 2019. In his application, David highlighted how the role of oracy (speaking and listening sills) is not just giving individuals skills, but empowering them to bring about social change. The values of leadership and service are made central to an active and activist culture of oracy.
We're also pleased to congratulate Liudmyla Dzhus, an English Teacher from Inhulske School, in Ustynivka district in rural Ukraine, who has been awarded a judges' commendation. Liudmyla demonstrates a passion for learning and development, in herself and her pupils. She has drawn ideas from conferences, seminars and other sources to put interesting, engaging oracy activities at the heart of her work.
The judging panel was delighted by the passion, knowledge and dedication evidenced in the applications. Chair judge Gavin Illsley, ESU Head of Programmes, noted that 'All the entrants this year have brought innovation, enthusiasm and insight to their work in making spoken language skills a central part of teaching and learning. The ESU talks about the importance of oracy in helping young people engage with the world and to reach their full potential and David's application stood out for the way in which he has made constructive engagement with social and political issues central to his oracy work. He is a leader, creating many more thoughtful, rational leaders, to everyone's benefit.'
The International Oracy Teacher Award, launched during the ESU's centenary year, aims to recognise educational excellence and outreach in the field of oracy across the diverse ESU global network. Through this award, the ESU seeks to recognise, encourage and develop the work of international teachers who are generating social impact through the advancement of English oracy skills in their students. Each year's winner receives financial grants to enable them to grow the impact and reach of their work, and we're delighted to be able to support them in this endeavour.


Silk has been valued for millennia, but in recent years it's gained attention from the scientific community as well. That's because it's an extraordinarily strong material when woven together like in bulletproof vests, but it seems silk can also be used for a variety of purposes inside our bodies too.The potential of silk is more than just protecting the outside of our anatomy, however, and researchers are now engineering silk so it can one day heal our wounds, hold up our bones, and become part of our bodies.
In a recent study from Purdue University, scientists bio-engineered silkworms to spin a form of light-activated silk that disinfects. They first identified all-natural proteins that could be activated by a specific type of light, which kicks off a chemical reaction that kills pathogens. Then they inserted this protein, mKate 2, into the DNA of the silkworms, which caused them to produce a red, glowing silk that's activated by green light.
In their tests, the team put E. coli bacteria on the red silk and shined a green light on it for an hour. What they realized is that the silk created a natural hydrogen peroxide-like effect to disinfect the bacteria, dropping its survival rate by 45 per cent, the study reported.
For now, the drawback is that the activated silk can't different between harmful and benign pathogens, just like hydrogen peroxide, and scientists don't yet know the minimum time they need to shine a light for the silk to be effective. However, it's still an exciting discovery, as the new kind of silk could have a variety of applications, like in air and water purifiers. In another recent paper, Kim and his team also figured out the exact physical properties that make silk so cooling. This could be manipulated to make silk even more effective at cooling, which is useful to treat inflammation. That, combined with the light-activated disinfectant properties, could make silk an advanced bandage of the future.
It doesn't end there either. In a study from the University of Connecticut, researchers discovered they could use silk to prop up broken or fractured body parts, instead of traditional metals like stainless steel and titanium. These metals are stiff and can sometimes even cause fractures themselves after being installed, according to the research head Mei Wei. Not to mention that you need another surgery to take out the metal once the bone has healed.
Instead, Wei and her team created a new kind of silk that's strong enough to hold bones together, but is also flexible to avoid causing damage. In addition, it degrades within the body after a year, meaning there's no need for a follow up surgery for removal. To do this, they combined a protein found in spider silk called fibrin, with a form of plastic and a type of calcium that's found in our bones. The result is a material much stronger than bone, and one that's still bio-degradable within our bodies.
The only problem is that silk is expensive because of how hard it is to raise silkworms (or spiders for that matter), but scientists are working on that problem too. Daniel Söderberg, a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, think we can get around that problem by combining silk with the nano cellulose within trees. It helps make the silk stronger, without having to harvest as much of it. In fact, his hybrid material is as strong as Kevlar, which is used in bulletproof vests.
Most importantly though, he believes that it can one day be used to replace body parts. While silk breaks down in the natural world, the nano cellulose prevents this from happening inside the human body. Yet it's safe enough that cells will continue to grow on and around it, meaning it could be used to replace parts that need to remain strong and flexible, like tendons.
All we're waiting for at this point is for silk harvesting to become more economical. When that happens, we could witness a revolution in medicine, all on the backs of two little insects.


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Residences and Open Calls
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BUENOS AIRES – MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES CELEBRATES LEÓN FERRARI'S CENTENARY
The National Museum of Fine Arts presents a series of programs, activities, virtual talks and exhibitions to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the renowned Argentine artist's birth (1920-2020).
The anthological exhibition "León Ferrari. Recurrences", curated by Cecilia Rabossi and Andrés Duprat scheduled for April 2020, had to be postponed due to the global emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and will inaugurate the 2022 season of the Museum.
"Leon Ferrari. Recurrences" gives an account of the formal searches, and the concerns and obsessions that spanned more than half a century of the artist's prolific production. The forms of violence, power abusing, injustices, religions' intolerance and the tragedy of war are some of the axes that Ferrari addressed in his works and writings with grace, lucidity and self-confidence, and that will be present in this exhibition.
In the entrance hall of the Bellas Artes, and as a symbol of the celebrations, his most emblematic work, "Western and Christian Civilization" (Ferrari, 1965) was mounted, so that, even when the Museum is closed to visitors, the artwork can be observed from the sidewalk. In 2021, this piece will be part of an exhibition that will tour three important museums in Europe - the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Centre Pompidou, in Paris -, to later return to the Bellas Artes where it will occupy a central place in the 2022 anthological exhibition.
Simultaneously, on the website (bellasartes.gob.ar) and on the institution's social networks, the Museum will progressively share information about León Ferrari: works, writings, audiovisual material and testimonies from friends, colleagues, curators and other personalities that evoke and remember him.
Andrés Duprat, director of the Fine Arts, put in words about León Ferrari:
"I had the joy of being his friend and knowing him in private. In addition to being a great artist, he was a man of exceptional qualities, broad generosity and a keen intelligence marked by extraordinary nobility. He was someone absolutely committed not only to his work, but to anyone who required his help, promoting young artists, even financially assisting those who needed it. Studious, prolific, supportive, owner of a remarkable lucidity and sense of humor, at times fierce, without ties, typical of the freethinker that he was. His engineering training gave him method and rigor; nothing is casual or superficial in his works, the fruit of meditations that have matured sometimes for decades and of technical, artisan work, obsessively cultivated to perfection.
El hombre apareció, 1964 - Tinta y collage sobre papel. - Colección familia Ferrari. Imagen Acuerdo FALFAA-CELS.
Sin título, de la serie "Homens", 11/2//1982 - Letraset sobre papel - 33,1 x 48 cm - Colección Familia Ferrari
Sin título, de la serie "Nunca Más", 1995 - Collage sobre papel - 26,7 x 25,4 cm - Colección familia Ferrari
Sin título. - Escrito en braille sobre fotografía de Man Ray. - 28 x 35,5 cm - Colección Familia Ferrari
Sin título, de la serie "Releitura de la Biblia", Noviembre 1986 - Collage sobre papel - 25 x 24 cm - Colección Familia Ferrari
"Infierno", de la serie "Ideas para infiernos", 2004 - Jaula con palomas de plástico y figuras de santos - 34 x 75,5 x 30 cm - Colección familia Ferrari
In his career he put his aptitude in various trades at stake. A multidisciplinary artist, he was a painter, printmaker, draftsman, sculptor, also a great theorist and controversialist. He ventured into other disciplines, such as music, dramaturgy, film production, and essay writing. His formal experimentations included carvings and ceramics; wire structures conceived as geometric constructions and abstract drawings; overflowing writings, transcriptions and calligraphies; collages, Brailles and assemblages that, by putting dissimilar elements in dialogue, generate new meanings, not exempt from humor and denunciation; paranoid architecture sketches, impossible city designs and expanded polyurethane planets, among other searches. He was definitely a humanist, a contemporary Renaissance-style personality, interested in everything that concerns man and his circumstances".
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Hitting a good collar shot is something that will require practice. Beginners may quickly learn how challenging hitting a shot of this nature can be. This is the area around the golf course or the green's edge. In most cases you can make some changes to your stance and choke down as you swing. You technique may vary depending on the condition of the greens and the direction you want the ball to go. The good news is there are a few things you can do to improve chances of hitting a good shot from the collar with the following tips.
Change up your grip. How you usually hit the ball won't be effective at this point. You may need to try a few different grips until you can find something more suitable. Your grip makes a difference because it will help you achieve more control over ball movement.
Use your stance to play into the play. Pay attention to body placements before you take your shot. This may also vary from what you would usually do but pay more attention to your legs and how you want to address the ball. You can use this to help you play into the shot a little easier.
Consider changing irons depending on the hole you are playing and your position on the collar. This can help you achieve more control of the shot. You may have at least one other iron in mind when preparing for the shot that can get the job done with more contact being made with the ball.
Watch how you hit the ball and consider changing the angle of the club head. Some may suggest trying to hit the ball with the tip of the club head. This could help you get the ball moving to a further direction if the target is further out. Certain areas of the club head may be useful once you know how to hit with it.
Review techniques pros use. The pros have a few favorite ways to take this shot. You can read about them in reputable golf magazines. A few of them also have videos to provide further insight on how to position your body to make good contact with the ball.
Practice. The best way to see results even if you don't take these types of shots often is to practice.


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Preparing The Battlefield
Jay Tea September 15, 2010 Politics 30 Comments
There's an old saying, attributed to Josef Stalin: "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."
It's an important lesson when dealing with politics. When honesty is no longer taken for granted, then those who control the system truly make the decisions.
But there's another meta level even beyond that one that comes into play when it comes to manipulating elections: who decides who gets to vote?
In any system, whoever sets the rules has a tremendous power to rig the system in their favor. And we're coming up on another opportunity to redefine those fundamental rules.
It's 2010. That means we had our decennial census, and the results of that will have a tremendous effect on our political system.
The Constitution dictates that membership in the House of Representatives shall be based upon the population of the several states. That means that every ten years, the distribution of the seats in the House has to be re-jiggered. The Census hasn't released any numbers as yet, but the predictions are significant: Texas is expected to pick up four House seats;
Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington, one each; Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania will lose one; and Ohio will lose two.
That's a major shift — eleven seats will move.
But those numbers aren't graven in stone. The Census could surprise us, and those predictions could be off.
It was never said explicitly, but I believe that was a factor in the early days of the Obama administration. Initially, they reached out to Senator Judd Gregg (D-NH R-NH, my homey) and asked him to serve as Secretary of Commerce. Gregg initially accepted the nomination, but angrily (well, as angrily as he gets — he's a former tax lawyer, and rather bloodless by nature) withdrew after the Obama administration announced that it was taking the oversight of the census away from the Secretary of Commerce and instead directly running it from the White House.
Why would the Obama administration first agree to have such a staunch Republican like Gregg in such a key position, then change their minds? I suspect that they initially didn't realize the Census fell under his purview. Then, when it all fell together, they pushed and pushed him until he withdrew.
But all that is just context for the thesis here. This isn't about whta has happened so far, but what is coming next.
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Redistricting has two phases. What I've described above is the machinations that cover the first one. The effects won't be felt until the 2012 election cycle. And what will happen between the Census final numbers are released and that election cycle is what is the focus here.
After every census, in every state, even if the total number of Representatives doesn't change, the Congressional district lines are redrawn. The borders shift, and sitting representatives can sometimes find themselves facing each other as two (or sometimes even more) living within the same district.
Drawing those lines is a very important process. And it's not the Census that draws those lines. Nor is it the House, or any part of the federal government. Nope, it's the state legislatures that set the districts.
Which is why NPR ran such a sob piece on Sunday, talking about how awful it might be if the Republicans get to set those boundaries. The tone is clear: if the Republicans get control of state legislatures, it could corrupt the process terribly. The presumption, of course, is that if the Democrats control it, it'll be much fairer and more respectable.
And, I suspect, it might be why Steven L. Taylor of Outside The Beltway also brought up redistricting as well.
There are no real rules for redistricting; the courts have ruled that the districts have to be roughly equal in population and make some sort of contiguous sense (demographically or geographically), but other than that, "gerrymandering" is pretty much the rule rather than the exception.
My favorite example was the plan Massachusetts Republicans put forth back in 1990. They had to deal with going from 11 to 10 seats, and the plan the Republicans put forth not only had each district within five people of each other, but made sure that each sitting Democrat representative would have to compete with a a fellow incumbent — not one was left alone in their district. It was a work of art, and would have caused the Democrats no end of trouble. So, naturally, it went nowhere.
It's an odd thing, that so much power at the federal level will be decided this fall in literally thousands of individual races all around the country. This November, when we go to the polls to elect our state representatives, we will — in a way — be deciding the shape of the future on a national level.
Odd, as in I don't think it has a parallel anywhere in the world.
But certainly not odd, as in disturbing. That's what NPR and others are trying to sell — that the thought that if one party prevails here, it will be a terrible catastrophe and the corruption of a hitherto-pristine process. That letting the matter be resolved in what is possibly the most small-d democratic fashion possible is incredibly dangerous.
I personally find it quite comforting to know that I, as an individual, a nobody in the middle of nowhere, can help shape the next ten years of our government.
Only in America, my friends. Only in America.
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Cruise ships offer one of the most relaxing ways to get away. But we sometimes hear about terrible trouble on the seas when it comes to health and safety. As we reported in January, an analysis by the CDC shows that more cruise ships failed health inspections in 2017 than at any other time in the past decade.
If you're thinking about booking a cruise soon, you don't have to guess about which ships are safe or have had health scares in the past. That's because the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention makes the information publicly available.
The CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) conducts surprise inspections on ships throughout the year. The VSP has jurisdiction over all cruise ships with 13 or more passengers and those with foreign itineraries that include U.S. ports.
The VSP will generate a report on all ships (100 passengers or more) sailing from a foreign port to one in the United States. As part of the program, at least 24 hours before arrival, all cruise ships must report the number of gastrointestinal illnesses, including if there are zero. Ships must notify the CDC if the number of gastrointestinal illnesses surpass 2% of the number of passengers and crew. For diarrhea, the threshold is 3%.
Similar to a restaurant inspection report, these cruise ship write-ups document deficiencies, including kitchen sanitation, galley issues and general safety concerns. There are also corrective reports that are issued as a follow-up.
And yes, there's also information about which ships had norovirus outbreaks and gastroenteritis incidents over the years.
Find out the very latest about any 2018 outbreaks here (scroll down).
The VSP has a scorecard for every cruise line in a searchable database. Just like at school, top scores rate 100. If you see anything under 80, it is generally cause for concern.
For quick reference, this Scored 100 Report shows cruise ships that have scored a perfect 100 over the past 12 months.
As an example of some of the things the CDC's report highlights, this green sheet of a Disney cruise shows that there was a violation in the "Children's Area-Anyone Can Cook" activities.
Wash those hands: The CDC says if water and soap are NOT available (perhaps when you dock and venture inland), use an ethanol alcohol-based hand sanitizer, preferably a gel. It should be at least 60% ethanol.
If you're not feeling well before the trip: Consult your health professional to find out whether it is safe for you to sail. It may be best for you to stay home, especially if you're contagious.
If you're not feeling well during the trip: If you feel sick, don't keep it to yourself. Inform the ship's medical facility so you can get the help you need. And follow the medical staff's recommendations.


The social media marketing environment is diverse and constantly evolving. In order to help understand what strategies you should be putting into play into 2016, let's take a look at the 5 trends that have dominated in 2015.
Twitter Advertising: How can it help you increase engagement?
With over 500 million tweets being sent each and every day, Twitter is a place for people to instantaneously share information and connect with people and businesses around the world. It is also increasingly becoming a large platform for businesses to engage in advertising in order to increase engagement, sales and customers.
Using Facebook advertising as a means to promote your brand and products is a great method. Though to get the most out of your digital advertising efforts there are some rules to go by when doing so in order to optimise your ads and get the most bang for your buck.
Using Facebook as a tool to develop your restaurant business is essential in today's digital savvy environment, however to the untrained eye it can be a slightly daunting task. So 360 has come to the rescue, and here we'll give you a run through of the basics to start your Facebook journey to success.
With December well and truly underway our calendars are filling up quicker than Dunny at the buffet line and with everyone sharing stories of events, drinks and parties from the night before it got me thinking that surely we aren't all been on our best behaviour all of the time. Are we?
Who doesn't like the idea of saving a buck or two? Facebook offers are specials and discounts that you can set up from your Facebook business page. Facebook offers are available for people who have 50 or more likes on a local business or place page. Likers of your page are able to view these deals which they can claim and then use. You can set your offer to be redeemable in store, online, or both, depending on what you choose to set it on. But let's dig a little deeper.


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Too Many Blooms
Author: Daly, Catherine R.
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Binding Type: Hardcover
Annotation: Delphinium "Del" Bloom works in the family flower shop, where she must handle the order of a spoiled bride for her wedding, whose junior bridesmaid happens to be Del's nemesis.
Target Grade: 3-4
Grade level: 3-4
Bargain Category: Chapter Books, Early Elementary, Growing Up, Middle School, Reference, Upper Elementary
Grade level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Reviewed by Publishers Weekly Reviews (PW Reviews 2011 January #5)
In this launch title of the Petal Pushers series, Del (short for Delphinium) is the eldest of four Bloom sisters, all named for flowers (as are mother Daisy, grandmother Iris, and great-aunt Lily). Seventh-grader Del works part-time at her grandparents' flower shop, her "absolute favorite place in the world to be." Given the novel's proliferation of all things floral, it's not entirely surprising that, despite the drama that arises, Daly's story can be overly rosy. Strong-willed Del is worried when her grandparents take an extended vacation, leaving her disorganized mother in charge of the shop ("I was the only one who knew anything about the store," she insists). Del steps in to help when a haughty bride-to-be demands "one of a kind" flowers for her high society wedding, in which Del's uppity "arch-nemesis" is a junior bridesmaid. As her sisters pitch in, Del resents their encroachment, yet comes to appreciate the benefits of cooperating as a family. Though the story often has the feel of a Disney Channel sitcom, Del's timidity toward her new crush at school credibly balances her self-assuredness. Also available: Flower Feud. Ages 8–12. (Mar.)
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You've customised your cover letter to the role and company, drafted compelling opening and closing lines, and even figured out how to address the most frequent issues about writing cover letters.
But your job is not yet done. Once you've got a working draft, it's time to grab your red pen. Double check your cover letter to make sure you're not using any of the words and phrases below that might sabotage your changes of securing a job interview.
Why avoid this phrase?: If you don't have the name of the person to whom you can address your cover letter, you should make every effort to find it using Google, the social media (LinkedIn, Facebook), company website, the telephone, a contact within the company, or whatever other means you have. Using a generic salutation can create a negative first impression and may suggest that you're not quite resourceful to find out who the Hiring Manager or Recruiter is for the role.
A better alternative: "Dear Mr. Jones," or "Dear Ms. Fox" (Indicate the real name of the person to whom you are addressing the letter).
Why is this better? By addressing the Hiring Manager or Recruiter by name, you're able to create a personal connection and it also shows that you put in the extra work to find out the recipient of your cover letter.
Why avoid this phrase?: Opinion phrases show a lack of confidence. This adds a level of doubt to your sentence, which is not exactly the kind of message you want to convey to your prospective employer.
Why is this better? These phrases show assertiveness and conviction without sounding arrogant or pretentious. These also eliminate any element of uncertainty, ultimately securing the trust and confidence of your potential employer.
Why avoid this phrase?: Avoid using language that your recipient will have to look up in the dictionary, or that will overcomplicate the message of your cover letter. Applicants who use highfalutin words in their writing are thought of as untrustworthy and overcompensating by their colleagues.
Why is this better? Writing in clear and simple English will guarantee that Hiring Managers and Recruiters can relate to you as an articulate human, and not as an alien from another planet. It's always best to write in a way that enables the employer to understand what you are saying without the need for them to speculate.
Why avoid this phrase?: Most applicants unconsciously use this phrase when submitting their cover letter. It's a phrase that shows a lack of confidence and comes across as being apologetic. This phrase, especially when used in the opening line, is also generic and unmemorable, not giving the Hiring Manager or Recruiter something to get excited about or be intrigued by.
Why is this better? If you're genuinely interested about a specific industry, attracted to the company's brands, or have used their products or services before, this is a great opportunity to say so. Employers value real enthusiasm since it often translates to highly motivated and successful employees.
"As you can see on my resume" – This is a common filler phrase. But if the Hiring Manager can see something on your resume, announcing its presence is not necessary.
"Really, truly, deeply, totally, very" – Flowery language and excessive adverbs can come across as insincere. A sentence without these fillers is more succinct.
Excellent cover letters create impression that attracts potential employers to proceed reading your resume. On the contrary, bad cover letters repel recruiters. You can control how your cover letter introduces you by avoiding these undesirable words and phrases. Why not start revisiting your cover letter now?


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Maria Mimikou
National Technical University of Athens
Experimental Basin (X-Basin)
The Experimental Basin (X-Basin) covered an area of 15.17 km2 in the Eastern Attica region and was operated since 2005 by the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources Management. The X-Basin that was mainly a rural region was initially equipped with three stand-alone raingauges and two streamflow gauges (one at the centroid and another one at the outlet of the catchment). Specialized staff of the CHI team carried out additional in situ and laboratory hydrological, hydrogeological and chemical measurements for the area, using a properly equipped Mobile Van. Measurements included soil infiltration capacity and hydraulic conductivity, discharge groundwater level, measurements of the basic water quality parameters (pH, T, salinity, Ca, Mg, nitrates, chlorides, phosphorous content etc.). Due to the near-natural character of the X-Basin's area, data from the catchment were used for the assessment of the hydrological regime and climate and landuse change effects in a typical Mediterranean region.
Since 2011, the operation of the X-Basin was incorporated in the Hydrological Observatory of Athens and all relevant measurements for that area are now accessible via the website of the Observatory.
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We love Psychologies Magazine, and feature in it often, with ads and editorial. Mantra Founder, Jo Stroud, has been a long-term subscriber, as she loves its mix of interesting features and wellbeing content. These are some of the Mantra necklaces that have featured recently in its pages.