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SPECIAL REPORT: Demonstrators have plenty to express
By Jim Rue
Editor's note: Laguna Beach resident Jim Rue attended the Presidential Civil Forum Aug. 16 for the Coastline Pilot. Here is his story.
I arrived at the Saddleback Church on foot, having parked in a shopping center nearby. A friend volunteering at the event had suggested that would work most smoothly for me. But when I explained to the policeman at the main entrance that I was headed to the media credentialing center to pick up a press pass, he shrugged.
"Security is tight and I can't let you pass unless you have either a ticket or a media credential. Maybe you could call your friend to come outside and bring you your pass?"
I explained I had left my phone in the car as I had been instructed. He shrugged again.
Then I realized that my friend in the media center had also left her phone behind. A 90-minute wild goose chase in the midday heat ensued, involving walkie-talkies, a shuttle bus, a taxicab and a number of well-wishers and advice-givers. The volunteers and police tried to be helpful. They gave me water. I could not reach the media center.
Eventually I had to admit that the media center and my window of opportunity had both closed. The management of the event had gotten the better of me. I would not see the event.
But I could see another story emerging at the corner of Saddleback Parkway and Portola Drive. A gaggle of demonstrators, 75 to 100 strong when I arrived, was growing steadily in size and volume on all four corners of the main intersection. The first sign I saw said "Free Palestine!"
Then, "Let Bob Barr debate!" Then a group of 20 or more red-shirted "DividedWeFail" advocates waived AARP signs while their leaders yelled at them through a battery-powered bullhorn. There was plenty of honking, yelling and chanting. Somewhere in the background someone beat a rapid tattoo on a snare drum. The assembly was peaceable if noisy. The only arrests outside the gate occurred after an altercation between groups of right-to-life advocates and anti-Iraq War demonstrators became physical.
The demonstrating groups were numerous and diverse. There may have been as many as 1,000 people assembled on the street by 5 p.m. when the forum was scheduled to begin inside at the main building called the Refinery.
The protesters were a far more colorful group than those ticket-holders still wending their ways onto the campus. One woman had traveled from Pasadena for the demonstration. The tattoo on her bicep showed a cartoon figure like the Pillsbury Doughboy brandishing a semiautomatic firearm.
There was a Lady Liberty, and a small patrol of American "commandos" with their faces covered. A portly fellow in a Lincoln Navigator and a lot of "bling" had come for the event and stayed for the demonstration, as I had. "My counterpart assured me a ticket would be waiting, but it wasn't," he said.
One demonstrator said she was a doctor. She told me repeatedly, "It's getting ugly. There's gonna be trouble, I can see. It's gonna get ugly." I think she may have been disappointed when it never did get ugly.
I could see how she would expect violence and arrests. The police were tense and hyper-vigilant — one squad on T3 personal mobility vehicles and another on horseback. Much larger numbers were in cars or on motorcycles, preventing demonstrators from going onto the campus or spilling into the street. A group of communists and socialists was in attendance. A small core group of 9/11 conspiracy theorists handed out fliers saying, "Have you been lied to enough?"
The atheists were there. War critic groups Code Pink and ANSWER brandished signs proclaiming "No more war for empire," "No war on Iran," and "US out of Afghanistan," while hollering at police and the adjacent group of pro-life advocates. Even the hate group God Hates Fags was in attendance with signs damning the candidates of both major parties. Laguna's Progressive Democrat Diane Valentino asked one of the horsemen, "Why don't we get any horses on our side of the street? Are we being too good?"
Someone from the "Vietnam Veterans Against the War" characterized the happening as a "Be-in." One of their numbers led a long and enthusiastic but entirely ambiguous chant of "Fired up! Ready to go!"
The Libertarians were there, the Greens also. Also, various unions for Obama were there (most notably firefighters), but almost no one was there specifically boosting McCain. Apparently most of his supporters were inside. A few drove the boulevard gawking at the demonstrators and shouting valuable advice like "Get a job!"
By 6 p.m. the crowd had begun to thin as demonstrators headed off in the directions of their TiVo machines to watch the historic forum.
Walking across one quiet intersection on the way to my car I remarked to the motorcycle officer idling on the side of the road, "Lot of sound and fury back there..." Wordlessly he turned his face away from me and lit a cigarette.


I wonder when "Part 3" will be written??
What about "HOUSE"?.........that finale was GRRRREAT!
West Wing was a bit anticlimactic, but somewhat realistic, I suppose.
NCIS--I really don't know why I watch this show, but I do. Gotta agree with you that the Gibbs reaction to 9/11 was very powerful. I don't think the show will make it without him.
Am new to Bones (came in mid-season), but enjoyed the finale.
SVU was good (LOVED the Tom Cruise angle). Benson and Stabler will never get together--I think the Law & Order Universe would explode or something. Side note: I was pretty impressed with the creative ways they used to hide her pregnancy.
CSI--eh, whatever. Good show, nothing remarkable. I've already forgotten the storyline.


First, I'd cut real estate taxes for city property owners by one-half mill, or approximately $750,000. Second, I'd put $1 million in a "rainy day" fund so the city has cash reserves for those times cash is tight (it would be repaid if borrowed from) or a special project arose that needed funding. Finally, I would take the remaining $4.2 million and plug it into city projects like streets and parks.


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Westburne and partners are presenting a symposium on technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, computers and data from attack in the industrial space.
The event takes place June 21 in the BMO Centre's Palomino Room, 20 Roundup Way SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2W1.
Claroty Networks's Brian Richwine. Gain extreme visibility to uncover advanced threats and malicious activity. Utilize real-time monitoring to detect human error and operational issues.
Tempered Networks's Matt Senechal. Identity is the Future of Networking. Tempered Networks is pioneering the Identity-Defined Network market and driving a new identity paradigm, based on the host itself not a spoofable IP address.
Stratus' Gary Fort. Cyber security and high availability: why is the host and "always on" availability critical when implementing Cyber Security in Operational Technology?
Cisco's Robert Barton. Industrial security in the age of cyber warfare: this session will examine key industrial exploits that have emerged in recent years and what lessons can be learned. Also, how a systematic approach to industrial security that is built on best practices can help protect critical assets from cyber crime.
Tosibox's Bill Behn. Your private OT highway. The IOT is simply a matter of connections. Toxibox' mission is to create the world's best and most secure remote connections between devices.
Westburne's Jeff Brown. Intro to secure control system design — industry best practices for industrial control system (ICS) security. Threat mitigation through hardware and network design.


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The rugrat race
Working-class families are coming to resemble middle-class families in one crucial way
Oct 3rd 2020 | words 1530
LIKE MANY children around the age of two, Madison has decided not to do what her mother wants. She will not speak above a whisper. She does not want to read Big Red Barn. She will not identify her colours or her shapes, even though she knows them. So, for half an hour, her mother patiently cajoles, persuades, distracts and redirects. You want me to read to you? What kind of sound does the cow make? Are you going to sing? Whats this?
It would be a familiar scene in a pushy, upper-middle-class home. But this is a working-class black family in a poor district of Long Island, east of New York City. The careful cultivation of Madison reflects a change in her household. Her mother, Joy, says that she did little to prepare her two older children for school, assuming that they would be taught everything they needed to know. She is determined not to make the same mistake again.
Across the rich world, working-class parents have reached the same conclusion. They expect more of their children than in the past, and treat them differently. Gradually, they have adopted child-raising habits normally associated with middle-class parents. That largely unheralded change has probably mitigated the harm done to poorer children by covid-19 and the school closures it prompted. Unfortunately, some damage has been done anyway.
In 2003 Annette Lareau, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, published an astonishing book about child-raising. Unequal Childhoods showed that working-class parentswhether they were white or black, poor and welfare-dependent or with steady jobsthought and behaved differently from middle-class ones. Most assumed that their children would develop naturally, and that their job was to keep them happy and safe. Middle-class parents, by contrast, engaged in what Ms Lareau called concerted cultivation, stimulating, stretching and scheduling their progeny to within an inch of their lives.
Middle-class child-raising habits such as endlessly pointing out new things and answering childrens questions with other questions are easily mocked. They are also highly effective. Jill Gilkerson is the chief researcher at LENA, an organisation that measures childrens and adults speech using small digital recorders. By controlling for social class, she finds that 14% of the variance in adolescents IQ scores can be explained by the frequency of conversational turns in their speech at 18-24 monthsa measure of their interactions with adults. The effect of toddler talk on adolescents verbal comprehension was stronger: it explained 27% of the variance.
Fortunately, the ideal of concerted cultivation seems to have spread. In 2018 Patrick Ishizuka of Cornell University presented American parents with domestic vignettes and asked what they thought of them. In one vignette, a girl who complains about being bored after school is told to go outside and play with her friends; in another, the bored girl is pushed into music lessons and sport. Mr Ishizuka found that highly educated and thinly educated parents differed hardly at all in their responses to these scenarios. Almost all thought the pushy parent was better.
Poorer parents are putting in more time, too. Sociologists Giulia Maria Dotti Sani and Judith Treas have data for 11 Western countries. In all but one (France) mothers without university educations are spending more time caring for their children than in the past. The Centre for Time Use Research has found a concertina pattern in Britain. In the mid-1970s highly educated and thinly educated mothers alike spent little time interacting with their children. Over the following decade the highly educated changed their behaviour, opening a large lead over everyone else. The less-educated then closed the gap.
Toms Cano, a sociologist at the University of Frankfurt, suggests that child-raising norms are trickling down the social scale, much as liberal attitudes to divorce did in the second half of the 20th century. He has found that working-class Spanish parents are putting in more time on developmental child-care activities (such as reading and playing). Fathers in particular began to do more following the financial crisis, which hit Spain especially hard. They may have had more time for playing because so many had lost their jobs.
All this attention may be helping children at school. Two scholars, Sean Reardon and Ximena Portilla, have shown that in America the gap between the test scores of the most privileged and least privileged children upon entry to nursery closed slightly between 1998 and 2010. In Britain all children in year one of schoolaged five or sixare doing better in phonics tests than they were a decade ago. Those who are entitled to free school meals because of their parents poverty have advanced more.
All they wanna do is go the distance
Working-class parents might have changed their behaviour in response to market forces. In America the wage premium for completing a college degree has risen from 29% to 45% since 1979. Not surprisingly, poorer parents have become more ambitious for their children. The proportion of parents in the poorest quintile of Americas population who expect their children to get no further than high school fell from 24% in 1998-99 to just 11% in 2010-11.
Another possibility is that training has changed attitudes and behaviour. Joy is being assisted by an organisation called ParentChild+, which has been sending books and toys to poor families, and guiding parents to play in more stimulating ways, since the 1960s. It now caters to 8,500 households in America each year and is expanding elsewhere. Evaluations of ParentChild+ and similar programmes have mostly shown that they work. They are too small to have much of an impact nationally. But they may have helped change norms by spreading the idea that reading and playing with children are important.
Day care, which usually happens outside childrens homes, is common enough to make a difference. It is becoming more so as governments promote it. In the OECD the proportion of three-year-olds enrolled in pre-primary education rose from 62% in 2005 to 70% in 2014. As well as affecting children directly, these programmes could be changing their parents behaviour. A large evaluation of Head Start, Americas programme for poor children, found that enrolling three-year-olds raised the proportion who were read to at home.
Another possible explanation for the change is that the working class is different. Sarah Walzer, the chief executive of ParentChild+, says that her outfit encounters many more immigrant families than it used to. Immigrant parents are often ambitious for their offspring, enduring hardship and loneliness to give them better lives. Dina, the mother of a three-year-old boy, moved to America from El Salvador. She does not have a job, and her husband works in a pizza parlour, making the family squarely working class. But Dina, who went to college in El Salvador, has the aspirations of a middle-class parent.
Just as working-class children were catching up, covid-19 hit. School-age children were sent home to households where parents were already juggling pre-school children and their own work. This has been hardest on the poor. Academics at Harvard University discovered that American children did less work on a popular maths website in March and April, with the biggest decline in poor areas. The National Foundation for Educational Research surveyed British teachers in May, two months after the lockdown began. More than half reported that poor children were less engaged with their homework than others.
But if the teachers were right about poorer children doing less work during lockdown (and they might not have beenfew kept close tabs on their charges), it was probably not because parents lacked dedication or ambition. A British survey of almost 3,700 people, known as Understanding Society, found that 30% of parents with no more than GCSE qualifications spent at least two hours a day helping with home schooling during the lockdown. That proportion is a little higher than the 28% of parents with degrees who said the same. The parents might be exaggerating. But another survey, of children, found the same pattern. As in Spain after the financial crisis, they may have had more time because so many were furloughed or laid off.
Can you tell me all I need to know?
A likelier explanation for the widening gap is that schools asked less of poorer children. Another study of Britain by two sociologists, Sait Bayrakdar and Ayse Guveli, confirmed that the children of less-educated parents did less work during lockdown. Bangladeshi and Pakistani children (who are mostly working class) did especially little. But the researchers found that the single biggest influence on how much work children did was not how educated their parents were but how much work their schools assigned.
Working-class parents have learned to bring up their children in a more stimulating way. The next thing they need to learn from the middle classes is how to nag their childrens teachers.
Economist | They have adopted their child-rearing habits

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This past week has been very emotional for me ... It was the 1 yr anniversary of the Boston Bombings. All the coverage on ESPN and just remembering the day and being so close to such tragedy and having my kids there .... Gasp!
I fell so guilty leaving my boys here with Nana especially since it is Easter but I also know if I took them with me I would not preform well on Monday! I know Nana will take amazing care of them and I am excited they will be with our family celebrating Easter but the guilt of missing out is hard!
My fabulous friend and president of " Team Stacey Black " dropped off the most delicious treats!!!
And today on Facebook my dear friend Leslie T. posted the nicest post for me!!! It is really because of her that I am able to go to Boston this weekend ... I was scheduled to work and with it being Easter weekend I almost died when I realized I had to work ... But she agreed to work my weekend for me!!!!! LOVE!!!!
MIZUNO is truly the most amazing! I know now I will have a mezamashii experience in Boston! AND the best part is these sneaks match my Oiselle race day outfit!!!!!!!!!!! I hardly ever match and normally don't care but this is exciting!
See ... exact color of my shorts! It is like they were made for each other!
Make sure to stop by the Mizuno booth at the expo ... they will have a ton of fun things going on there!
Also checkout the NUUN booth on Sunday to meet Kara Goucher!!!
And make sure to pick up your Oiselle gear and special Boston tshirt!!!
Best of luck to everyone headed to Boston .. I hope to meet many new running friends!
Happy Running and have a WICKED race!


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ML es un lenguaje de programación de propósito general de la familia de los lenguajes de programación funcional desarrollado por Robin Milner y otros a finales de los años 1970 en la Universidad de Edimburgo. ML es el acrónimo inglés de metalenguaje dado que fue concebido como el lenguaje para desarrollar tácticas de demostración en el sistema LCF (El lenguaje para el cual ML era metalenguaje es pplambda, una combinación del cálculo de predicados de primer orden y el lambda-cálculo polimórfico sencillamente tipificado).

Frecuentemente se clasifica a ML como un lenguaje funcional impuro dado que permite programar imperativamente con efecto colateral, a diferencia de otros lenguajes de programación funcional, tales como Haskell.

Entre las características de ML se incluyen evaluación por valor, álgebra de funciones, manejo automatizado de memoria por medio de recolección de basura, polimorfismo parametrizado, análisis de estático de tipos, inferencia de tipos, tipos de datos algebraicos, llamada por patrones y manejo de excepciones. Esta combinación particular de conceptos hace que sea posible producir una de los mejores compiladores actualmente disponibles.

En la actualidad varios lenguajes de la familia ML están disponibles, principalmente Standard ML (SML) y Ocaml (Ocaml contiene la sintaxis de ML como un subconjunto). Varias ideas aparecidas en ML han influido el diseño de otros lenguajes, tales como Cyclone y Nemerle.

Los lenguajes de la familia ML se aplican principalmente en diseño y manipulación de lenguajes de programación (compiladores, analizadores, demostradores de teoremas), así como en bioinformática, sistemas financieros, protocolos de sincronización, etc.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 pruebas comparativas entre varios lenguajes (inglés)

Lenguajes de programación
Acrónimos de informática
Software de 1973
Universidad de Edimburgo

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The Chapter Presidents' Council is available for TAANA chapter presidents.
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Open to members who practice plaintiff or defense litigation and deals with litigation practice issues such as discovery, depositions, experts, and trials.
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The Archives Committee coordinates a collection of TAANA correspondence, publications, papers and reports, financial records, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, videocassettes and audio-cassettes at the Burns Library – Boston College, Massachusetts.
The Conference Planning Committee collaborates with staff to plan national meetings and educational programs. http://www.taana.org/conference.
Focuses on retention and new member development.
Prepares slate of candidates for Board of Directors, conducts the election process.


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MEMOCODE'21
19th ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design
Nov 20-22, Co-located with FM 2021
Website is up
Welcome to MEMOCODE'21
The OpenToc for MEMOCODE'21 are available now.
The 19th ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design will be held at Beijing in China from November 20 to 22, 2021, colocated with FM'21.
Over the last decade, the boundaries between computer system components, such as hardware, software, firmware, middleware, and applications, have blurred. This evolution in system design and development practices led in 2014 to a change in the title and scope of the MEMOCODE conference from its original focus on hardware/software co-design to its new focus on formal methods and models for developing computer systems and their components. MEMOCODE's objective is to emphasize the importance of models and methodologies in correct system design and development, and to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in all aspects of computer system development, to exchange ideas, research results and lessons learned.
Unfortunately, both FM and MEMOCODE 2021 will be held online after analyzing the current status of the pandemic.
The Steering Committee(SC) is composed of:
SC Chair
Dr. Jean-Pierre Talpin, Inria
SC Members
Prof. Pierluigi Nuzzo, University of Southern California
Prof. Partha Roop, University of Auckland
Prof. Klaus Schneider, TU Kaiserslautern
Prof. Naijun Zhan, Institute of Software CAS
The Organizing Committee of MEMOCODE'21 is composed of
General Co-Chairs: Prof. S. Arun-Kumar, IIT, Delhi; Prof. Dominique Mery, LORIA, France
Programme Committee Co-Chairs: Prof. Indranil Saha, IIT, Kanpur; Prof. Lijun Zhang, Institute of Software, CAS
Publicity Chair: Dr. Bai Xue, Institute of Software CAS
Organising committee Chair: Dr. Bohua Zhan, Institute of Software, CAS
Finance Chair: Dr. Shuling Wang, Institute of Software, CAS
Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. The Program Committee will select 1-2 papers for the Best Paper Award of MEMOCODE'21.
Information on eighteen previous editions of MEMOCODE is located here.
MEMOCODE '21: Proceedings of the 19th ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design
Full Citation in the ACM Digital Library
Polynomial word-level verification of arithmetic circuits
Mohammed Barhoush
Alireza Mahzoon
Rolf Drechsler
Verifying the functional correctness of a circuit is often the most time-consuming part of the design process. Recently, world-level formal verification methods, e.g., Binary Moment Diagram (BMD) and Symbolic Computer Algebra (SCA) have reported very good results for proving the correctness of arithmetic circuits. However, these techniques still frequently fail due to memory or time requirements. The unknown complexity bounds of these techniques make it impossible to predict before invoking the verification tool whether it will successfully terminate or run for an indefinite amount of time.
In this paper, we formally prove that for integer arithmetic circuits, the entire verification process requires at most linear space and quadratic time with respect to the size of the circuit function. This is shown for the two main word-level verification methods: backward construction using BMD and backward substitution using SCA. We support the architectures which are used in the implementation of integer polynomial operations, e.g., X3 - XY2 + XY. Finally, we show in practice that the required space and run times of the word-level methods match the predicted results in theory when it comes to the verification of different arithmetic circuits, including exponentiation circuits with different power values (XP : 2 ≤ P ≤ 7) and more complicated circuits (e.g., X2 + XY + X).
Simplification of numeric variables for PLC model checking
Ignacio D. Lopez-Miguel
Borja Fernández Adiego
Jean-Charles Tournier
Enrique Blanco Viñuela
Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
Software model checking has recently started to be applied in the verification of programmable logic controller (PLC) programs. It works efficiently when the number of input variables is limited, their interaction is small and, thus, the number of states the program can reach is not large. As observed in the large code base of the CERN industrial PLC applications, this is usually not the case: it thus leads to the well-known state-space explosion problem, making it impossible to perform model checking. One of the main reasons that causes state-space explosion is the inclusion of numeric variables due to the wide range of values they can take. In this paper, we propose an approach to discretize PLC input numeric variables (modelled as non-deterministic). This discretization is complemented with a set of transformations on the control-flow automaton that models the PLC program so that no extra behaviours are added. This approach is then quantitatively evaluated with a set of empirical tests using the PLC model checking framework PLCverif and three different state-of-the-art model checkers (CBMC, nuXmv, and Theta), showing beneficial results for BDD-based model checkers.
Enforcement FSMs: specification and verification of non-functional properties of program executions on MPSoCs
Khalil Esper
Stefan Wildermann
Jürgen Teich
Many embedded system applications impose hard real-time, energy or safety requirements on corresponding programs typically concurrently executed on a given MPSoC target platform. Even when mutually isolating applications in space or time, the enforcement of such properties, e.g., by adjusting the number of processors allocated to a program or by scaling the voltage/frequency mode of involved processors, is a difficult problem to solve, particularly in view of typically largely varying environmental input (workload) per execution. In this paper, we formalize the related control problem using finite state machine models for the uncertain environment determining the workload, the system response (feedback), as well as the enforcer strategy. The contributions of this paper are as follows: a) Rather than trace-based simulation, the uncertain environment is modeled by a discrete-time Markov chain (DTMC) as a random process to characterize possible input sequences an application may experience. b) A number of important verification goals to analyze different enforcer FSMs are formulated in PCTL for the resulting stochastic verification problem, i.e., the likelihood of violating a timing or energy constraint, or the expected number of steps for a system to return to a given execution time corridor. c) Applying stochastic model checking, i.e., PRISM to analyze and compare enforcer FSMs in these properties, and finally d) proposing an approach for reducing the environment DTMC by partitioning equivalent environmental states (i.e., input states leading to an equal system response in each MPSoC mode) such that verification times can be reduced by orders of magnitude to just a few ms for real-world examples.
LION: real-time I/O transfer control for massively parallel processor arrays
Dominik Walter
The performance of many accelerator architectures depends on the communication with external memory. During execution, new I/O data is continuously fetched forth and back to memory. This data exchange is very often performance-critical and a careful orchestration thus vital. To satisfy the I/O demand for accelerators of loop nests, it was shown that the individual reads and writes can be merged into larger blocks, which are subsequently transferred by a single DMA transfer. Furthermore, the order in which such DMA transfers must be issued, was shown to be reducible to a real-time task scheduling problem to be solved at run time. Rather than just concepts, we investigate in this paper efficient algorithms, data structures and their implementation in hardware of such a programmable Loop I/O Controller architecture called LION that only needs to be synthesized once for each processor array size and I/O buffer configuration, thus supporting a large class of processor arrays. Based on a proposed heap-based priority queue, LION is able to issue every 6 cycles a new DMA request to a memory bus. Even on a simple FPGA prototype running at just 200 MHz, this allows for more than 33 million DMA requests to be issued per second. Since the execution time of a typical DMA request is in general at least one order of magnitude longer, we can conclude that this rate is sufficient to fully utilize a given memory interface. Finally, we present implementations on FPGA and also 22nm FDX ASIC showing that the overall overhead of a LION typically amounts to less than 5% of an overall processor array design.
Learning optimal decisions for stochastic hybrid systems
Mathis Niehage
Arnd Hartmanns
Anne Remke
We apply reinforcement learning to approximate the optimal probability that a stochastic hybrid system satisfies a temporal logic formula. We consider systems with (non)linear continuous dynamics, random events following general continuous probability distributions, and discrete nondeterministic choices. We present a discretized view of states to the learner, but simulate the continuous system. Once we have learned a near-optimal scheduler resolving the choices, we use statistical model checking to estimate its probability of satisfying the formula. We implemented the approach using Q-learning in the tools HYPEG and modes, which support Petri net- and hybrid automata-based models, respectively. Via two case studies, we show the feasibility of the approach, and compare its performance and effectiveness to existing analytical techniques for a linear model. We find that our new approach quickly finds near-optimal prophetic as well as non-prophetic schedulers, which maximize or minimize the probability that a specific signal temporal logic property is satisfied.
A secure insulin infusion system using verification monitors
Abhinandan panda
Srinivas Pinisetty
Partha Roop
Wearable and implantable medical devices are being increasingly deployed for diagnosis, monitoring, and to provide therapy for critical medical conditions. Such medical devices are examples of safety-critical, cyber-physical systems. In this paper we focus on insulin infusion systems (IISs), which are used by diabetics to maintain safe blood glucose levels. These systems support wireless features introducing potential vulnerabilities. Although these devices go through rigorous safety certification processes, these are not able to mitigate security threats. Based on published literature, attackers can remotely command to inject an incorrect amount of insulin thereby posing threat to a patient's life. While prior work based on formal methods have been proposed to detect potential attack vectors using different forms of static analysis, these have limitations in preventing attacks at run-time. Also, as these devices are safety critical, it is not possible to apply security patches, when new types of attacks are detected, due to the need for recertification.
This paper addresses these limitations by developing a formal framework for the detection of cyber-physical attacks on an IIS. First, we propose a wearable device that senses the familiar ECG to detect attacks. Thus, this device is separate from the insulin infusion system, ensuring no need for recertification of IISs. To facilitate the design of this device, we establish a correlation of ECG intervals and blood glucose levels using statistical analysis. This helps us in proposing a framework for security policy mining using the developed statistical analysis. This paves the way for the design of formal verification monitors for IISs for the first time. We perform performance evaluation of the verification monitor, which proves the technical feasibility for the design of wearable devices for attack detection of IISs. Our approach is amenable to the application of security patches, when new attack vectors are detected, making the approach ideal for run-time monitoring of medical CPSs.
Translating structured sequential programs to dataflow graphs
Klaus Schneider
In this paper, a translation from structured sequential programs to equivalent dataflow process networks (DPNs) is presented that is based on a carefully chosen set of nodes including load/store operations to access a shared global memory. For every data structure stored in the main memory, we use corresponding tokens to enforce the sequential ordering of load/store operations accessing that data structure as far as needed. Except for the load/store nodes, all nodes obey the Kahn principle so that they are deterministic in the sense that the same inputs are always mapped to the same outputs regardless of the execution schedule of the nodes. Due to the sequential ordering of load/store nodes, determinacy is also maintained by them. Moreover, the generated DPNs are quasi-static, i.e., they have schedules that are bounded in a very strict sense: For every statement of the sequential program, the corresponding DPN behaves like a homogeneous synchronous actor, i.e., it consumes one value of each input port and will finally provide one value on each output port. Hence, no more than one value needs to be stored in each buffer.
Online monitoring of spatio-temporal properties for imprecise signals
Ennio Visconti
Ezio Bartocci
Michele Loreti
Laura Nenzi
From biological systems to cyber-physical systems, monitoring the behavior of such dynamical systems often requires reasoning about complex spatio-temporal properties of physical and computational entities that are dynamically interconnected and arranged in a particular spatial configuration. Spatio-Temporal Reach and Escape Logic (STREL) is a recent logic-based formal language designed to specify and reason about spatio-temporal properties. STREL considers each system's entity as a node of a dynamic weighted graph representing its spatial arrangement. Each node generates a set of mixed-analog signals describing the evolution over time of computational and physical quantities characterizing the node's behavior. While there are offline algorithms available for monitoring STREL specifications over logged simulation traces, here we investigate for the first time an online algorithm enabling the runtime verification during the system's execution or simulation. Our approach extends the original framework by considering imprecise signals and by enhancing the logics' semantics with the possibility to express partial guarantees about the conformance of the system's behavior with its specification. Finally, we demonstrate our approach in a real-world environmental monitoring case study.
Verified functional programming of an IoT operating system's bootloader
Shenghao Yuan
Jean-Pierre Talpin
The fault of one device on a grid may incur severe economical or physical damages. Among the many critical components in such IoT devices, the operating system's bootloader comes first to initiate the trusted function of the device on the network. However, a bootloader uses hardware-dependent features that make its functional correctness proof difficult. This paper uses verified programming to automate the verification of both the C libraries and assembly boot-sequence of such a, real-world, bootloader in an operating system for ARM-based IoT devices: RIoT. We first define the ARM ISA specification, semantics and properties in F* to model its critical assembly code boot sequence. We then use Low*, a DSL rendering a C-like memory model in F*, to implement the complete bootloader library and verify its functional correctness and memory safety. Other than fixing potential faults and vulnerabilities in the source C and ASM bootloader, our evaluation provides an optimized and formally documented code structure, a reasonable specification/implementation ratio, a high degree of proof automation and an equally efficient generated code.
Controller verification meets controller code: a case study
Felix Freiberger
Stefan Schupp
Holger Hermanns
Erika Ábrahám
Cyber-physical systems are notoriously hard to verify due to the complex interaction between continuous physical behavior and discrete control. A widespread and important class is formed by digital controllers that operate on fixed control cycles to interact with the physical environment they are embedded in. This paper presents a case study for integrating such controllers into a rigorous verification method for cyber-physical systems, using flowpipe-based verification methods to verify legally binding requirements for electrified vehicles to a custom bike design. The controller is integrated in the underlying model in a way that correctly represents the input discretization performed by any digital controller.
Translation of continuous function charts to imperative synchronous quartz programs
Marcel Christian Werner
Programmable logic controllers operating in a sequential execution scheme are widely used for various applications in industrial environments with real-time requirements. The graphical programming languages described in the third part of IEC 61131 are often intended to perform open and closed loop control tasks. Continuous Function Charts (CFCs) represent an additional language accepted in practice which can be interpreted as an extension of IEC 61131-3 Function Block Diagrams. Those charts allow more flexible positioning and interconnection of function blocks, but can quickly become difficult to manage. Furthermore, the sequential execution order forces a sequential processing of possible independent and thus possibly parallel program paths. The question arises whether a translation of existing CFCs to synchronous programs considering independent actions can lead to a more manageable software model. While current formalization approaches for CFCs primarily focus on verification, the focus of this approach is on restructuring and possible reuse in engineering. This paper introduces a possible automated translation of CFCs to imperative synchronous Quartz programs and outlines the potential for reducing the states of equivalent extended finite state machines through restructuring.
Design and formal verification of a copland-based attestation protocol
Adam Petz
Grant Jurgensen
Perry Alexander
We present the design and formal analysis of a remote attestation protocol and accompanying security architecture that generate evidence of trustworthy execution for legacy software. For formal guarantees of measurement ordering and cryptographic evidence strength, we leverage the Copland language and Copland Virtual Machine execution semantics. For isolation of attestation mechanisms we design a layered attestation architecture that leverages the seL4 microkernel. The formal properties of the protocol and architecture together serve to discharge assumptions made by an existing higher-level model-finding tool to characterize all ways an active adversary can corrupt a target and go undetected. As a proof of concept, we instantiate this analysis framework with a specific Copland protocol and security architecture to measure a legacy flight planning application. By leveraging components that are amenable to formal analysis, we demonstrate a principled way to design an attestation protocol and argue for its end-to-end correctness.
Sampling of shape expressions with ShapEx
Nicolas Basset
Thao Dang
Felix Gigler
Cristinel Mateis
Dejan Ničković
In this paper we present ShapEx, a tool that generates random behaviors from shape expressions, a formal specification language for describing sophisticated temporal behaviors of CPS. The tool samples a random behavior in two steps: (1) it first explores the space of qualitative parameterized shapes and then (2) instantiates parameters by sampling a possibly non-linear constraint. We implement several sampling strategies in the tool that we present in the paper and demonstrate its applicability on two use scenarios.
SEESAW: a tool for detecting memory vulnerabilities in protocol stack implementations
Farhaan Fowze
Tuba Yavuz
As the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices proliferate, an in-depth understanding of the IoT attack surface has become quintessential for dealing with the security and reliability risks. IoT devices and components execute implementations of various communication protocols. Vulnerabilities in the protocol stack implementations form an important part of the IoT attack surface. Therefore, finding memory errors in such implementations is essential for improving the IoT security and reliability. This paper presents a tool, SEESAW, that is built on top of a static analysis tool and a symbolic execution engine to achieve scalable analysis of protocol stack implementations. SEESAW leverages the API model of the analyzed code base to perform component-level analysis. SEESAW has been applied to the USB and Bluetooth modules within the Linux kernel. SEESAW can reproduce known memory vulnerabilities in a more scalable way compared to baseline symbolic execution.
Formal modelling of attack scenarios and mitigation strategies in IEEE 1588
Kelvin Anto
Partha S. Roop
Akshya K. Swain
IEEE 1588 is a time synchronization protocol that is extensively used by many Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). However, this protocol is prone to various types of attacks. We focus on a specific type of Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack, where the attacker introduces random delays to the messages being exchanged between a master and a slave. Such attacks have been modelled previously and some mitigation strategies have also been developed. However, the proposed methods work only under constant delay attacks and the developed mitigation strategies are ad-hoc. We propose the first formal framework for modelling and mitigating time delay attacks in IEEE 1588. Initially, the master, the slave and the communication medium are modelled as Timed Automata (TA) assuming the absence of any attacks. Subsequently, a generic attacker is modelled as a TA, which can formally represent various attacks including constant delay, linear delay and exponential delay. Finally, system identification methods of control theory is used to design proportional controllers for mitigating the effects of time delay attacks. We use model checking to ensure the resilience of protocol to time delay attacks using the proposed mitigation strategy.


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EWE Baskets 71
Local time: 20:00 EWE ARENA
Le Mans made it to the Last 16 in Group A by edging EWE Baskets Oldenburg 71-73 on the road on Tuesday. Le Mans finished second in Group A with a 4-2 record and advanced to the next round, where its new opponents will be Goettingen, Aris, Group C's runner-up. Oldenburg was fourth in this group with a 1-5 record. Ben Dewar led the winners with 17 points. Alex Acker added 13 while JP Batista had 10 for Le Mans. Two-time Eurocup champion Mindaugas Lukauskis led Oldenburg with 21 points. Rickey Paulding added 13 while Oliver Stevic had 10 for the hosts, that led 41-38 at halftime. A 0-10 run allowed Le Mans to get a 45-52 lead right after the break. Michalis Kakiouzis helped Le Mans to get a 54-64 margin after 30 minutes. Oldenburg rallied in crunch time and free throws by Lukauskis tied it at 71-71. Marc-Antoine Pellin became the game hero by hitting the game-winning free throws down the stretch.
Acker got Le Mans going with a jumper and Batista copied him soon after that for a 0-4 Le Mans lead. Chris McNaughton sank a jumper that Dewar bettered with a triple. Stevic shined with a put-back layup and McNaughton got Oldenburg within 6-7. Alain Koffi sank a jumper but Paulding answered from downtown and Lukauskis scored off a steal to give the hosts their first lead, 11-9. McNaughton and Stevic kept pacing Oldenburg with consecutive baskets but Acker and Dewar allowed Le Mans to regain the lead, 15-18. Louis Campbell buried a three-pointer but Pellin and Dewar helped Le Mans to restore a 18-22 lead after 10 minutes. Robin Smeulders dunked it early in the second quarter but a put-back basket by Thierry Rupert and a jumper by Dewar gave Le Mans a 22-26 edge. Lukauskis struck from downtown and Eddie Gill added a three-point play in an 8-0 run that allowed Oldenburg to regain the lead, 30-26. Pellin and Lukauskis traded baskets but a layup-plus-foul by Charles Kahudi kept Le Mans as close as 32-31. Dewar and Rupert shined with back-to-back baskets but a triple by Daniel Hein and a layup by Lukauskis provided another lead change, 37-35. An unstoppable Dewar buried a triple but Lukauskis followed a jumper with free throws for a 41-38 Oldenburg lead at halftime.
Back-to-back baskets by Batista put Le Mans back ahead, 41-42, right after the break. Stevic scored again and McNaughton added a layup but Antoine Diot answered from downtown for a 45-45 tie. Batista stayed unstoppable and got some help from Acker and a red hot Diot to give Le Mans a 45-52 lead, after a 0-10 run. Stevic tried to change things and Paulding downed a three-pointer that brought Oldenburg within 50-52. Koffi hit free throws, igniting a 0-8 run in which Kakiouzis and Acker buried respective triples for a 50-60 score. Kakiouzis singlehandedly allowed Le Mans to keep a 54-64 margin after 30 minutes. Gill shined with a layup and Lukauskis added a jumper but a three-pointer by Dewar kept Le Mans way ahead, 58-67. Paulding scored down low and bettered Batista's layup with a triple, good for a 63-69 score. Paulding stayed on fire and got some help from Lukauskis in a 6-0 run that brought the hosts as close as 69-70 already in the final minute. Acker split free throws but Lukauskis did not miss from the foul line for a 71-71 tie. Le Mans called timeout and found a go-to guy in Pellin, who drew a foul and calmly made free throws. Oldenburg had a last chance to win the game but Paulding missed from downtown at the buzzer.
Referees: JUNGEBRAND, CARL; LAURINAVICIUS, JURGIS; DRAGOJEVIC, IGOR
EWE Baskets 18 23 13 17
Le Mans 22 16 26 9
Le Mans 22 38 64 73
EWE Baskets
4 MICIC, DJORDJE DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
5 LUKAUSKIS, MINDAUGAS 36:57 21 6/7 1/6 6/6 1 2 3 3 4 5 1 4 23
7 GILL, EDDIE 25:49 5 2/3 0/2 1/1 1 1 5 2 2 1 5 12
9 NJEI, ACHA DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
12 SMEULDERS, ROBIN 15:16 8 4/8 1 1 1 2 3 1 2
13 CAMPBELL, LOUIS 31:49 3 0/2 1/4 5 5 3 4 1 1 2 2
17 STEVIC, OLIVER 30:05 10 5/11 0/2 4 2 6 1 2 1 5 1 6
19 HAIN, DANIEL 5:36 3 1/1 1 1 4
23 PAULDING, RICKEY 30:13 13 2/5 3/9 3 3 1 3 2 2 3 1 9
32 McNAUGHTON, CHRIS 24:15 8 4/5 2 8 10 3 4 2 12
Totals 200:00 71 23/41 6/22 7/9 7 25 32 14 11 16 2 4 18 16 72
Head coach: KRUNIC, PREDRAG
5 KAHUDI, CHARLES 13:10 3 1/3 0/1 1/1 1 1 1 1 1
6 DIOT, ANTOINE 22:19 7 2/3 1/2 3 3 3 3 4 4 1 7
7 KOFFI, ALAIN 21:41 4 1/1 2/2 1 3 4 4 4 8
9 ACKER, ALEX 30:43 13 4/6 1/4 2/3 6 2 1 4 14
10 DEWAR, BEN 28:22 17 3/4 3/9 2/2 2 4 6 2 2 1 3 1 17
11 PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE 22:03 6 2/3 2/2 1 5 6 5 2 7 2 3 12
12 RUPERT, THIERRY 19:43 6 3/7 2 3 5 2 1 3 1 12
13 BATISTA, J.P. 18:03 10 5/13 0/1 1 3 4 1 1 1 2 2 4
15 KAHUDI, HENRI 3:47
20 KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS 20:09 7 1/4 1/3 2/2 2 4 6 1 1 8
Totals 200:00 73 20/41 7/20 12/15 10 26 36 16 9 18 4 2 16 18 83
48.8% 35% 80%
Head coach: JACKSON, JD
KRUNIC, PREDRAG
"This was a good game, especially for the fans. I'm sorry that we lost a close game, I would have liked to finish the Eurocup season with a win. My team played well in the first half and the fourth quarter. We made to many mistakes and gave up too many easy baskets in the third. Plus, some of my players were sick this week. Nonetheless I want to congratulate my players for a strong performance tonight."
JACKSON, JD
"This was a very important win for us. We needed this for our confidence, because we are not in a good position in the French league. But I think we played a good eurocup season so far. We won four out of six games. I wish Oldenburg all the best and think that with the addition of those two players, the team will pick it up a notch after Christmas!"
McNAUGHTON, CHRIS
"We wanted to get out with our second win in this competition. It was close and we had the chance to win in the last seconds, but Le Mans defended to good. I think we played a very good first half and a good fourth quarter. Only the third quarter we can not be satisfied with. 73 points at home is too much."
DEWAR, BEN
"We knew this game would be much tougher then the first game at our arena. Oldenburg got a very good team with some strong big men. Eddie Gill seems to be a good addiction to the roster. The guards were playing very aggressive, what made it very hard for us to play our game. But we hit some difficult shots and won the game. Now we are looking forward to the Last 16."
REGULAR SEASON LAST 16 QUARTERFINALS FINALS
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UNICS Kazan 89
Hemofarm Stada 80
Besiktas Istanbul 91
Goettingen 86
Siauliai 70
Budivelnik 71
Gran Canaria 2014 62
Buducnost m:tel 60
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Hapoel Gilboa Galil 70
Cedevita Zagreb 88
Azovmash Mariupol 84
Bennet Cantu 75
Galatasaray Istanbul 72
GasTerra Flames 57
Panellinios Athens 63
Asefa Estudiantes 87
Chorale Roanne 60
Benetton Treviso 77
Hapoel Jerusalem 70
Cajasol Seville 84
CEZ Nymburk 90
Krasnye Krylia 68
Anwil Wloclawek 81
Pepsi Caserta 71


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Veteran actor Ranjan Ramanayake has won the SLIM Nielson People's Choice Actor's Award for the 11th consecutive year. This is the first time that an actor has won the award 11 times in a row. This is a new record.
Previopusly, his uncle Wijaya Kumaranatunge won the Sarasavi film award five times for the most popular actor.
The latest film that Ranjan Ramanayake acted in was Dr. Navariyan which was screened last year (2017).


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Software & Analytics
Plug-and-Play Grid Batteries Thanks to 1Energy's Software
V2Green founder David Kaplan sees his new startup's mission as standardizing energy storage.
Jeff St. John May 23, 2013
Jeff St. John
Reporter covering the green technology space, with a particular focus on smart grid, demand response, energy storage, renewable energy and technology to integrate distributed, intermittent green energy into the grid.
Why do batteries for the grid cost so much more, on a per-kilowatt-hour basis, than batteries for laptops, or even for electric vehicles? It's not the cost of the battery technologies themselves, or even necessarily what grid customers are demanding from them.
Instead, it's that today's grid-scale battery projects are almost all designed, built and operated as standalone projects, with mostly proprietary and sometimes single-source technologies. If automakers and computer companies tried to build products that way, they'd go out of business. What's more, the mass market for reliable, standardized, battery-powered laptops would have never developed (the jury is still out on the mass market for EVs).
David Kaplan, CEO of Seattle-based startup 1Energy, believes that software can unlock the same kind of scale and interoperability opportunities for grid-scale batteries -- at least, in terms that battery makers and their utility customers can relate to.
"We envision a future when there are various storage sockets, if you will...and battery manufacturers can sell energy storage in the same way a transformer manufacturer would sell catalog products to the utility today," Kaplan said at Wednesday's Electricity Storage Association (ESA) annual conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
Founded in 2011, the internally funded startup signed up public utility Snohomish PUD as a test customer last year, along with French grid giant Alstom. This week, it added inverter maker Parker-Hannifin to its list of partners. The project underway isn't that big -- it consists of one substation, with a set of batteries from yet-to-be announced suppliers, aimed at providing an eventual 1 megawatt of storage.
But underlying it is a software platform designed to add five, ten, or twenty more substations, or to add new batteries to each in different combinations, as the need arises, Kaplan said. 1Energy will provide software and system engineering to the project, as well as lead selection of future partners for batteries, inverters and other components. While 1Energy's list of battery and power systems partners is still small today, the firm is in talks with different vendors, as well as participating in the various standards bodies (IEEE, IEC, etc.) involved, he said.
As for creating the interconnections between these future standardized storage systems, utility SCADA systems and back-office platforms, and to third parties like energy traders and demand response aggregators, "There's room for a software supplier to tie it all together," Kaplan said.
From V2G to MESA
A former Microsoft software developer who helped build SQL Server, Access, and the company's internet services platform, Kaplan brings an interesting perspective to the grid-battery nexus. In 2006, he started V2Green, which built software to manage the charging and discharging of EV batteries based on power pricing, owner preferences and grid requirements. V2Green tested its software with partners like Seattle City Light and Xcel Energy before it was acquired in 2008 by GridPoint, the well-funded startup that has since bought several other startups, only to let their technology languish without any visible growth.
While his relationship with GridPoint ended in a lawsuit, the acquisition did give Kaplan the financial wherewithal to pursue other green interests for a while, Kaplan told me Wednesday. That included spending time working as a grid technologist for Snohomish PUD, where he turned his attention to the battery-grid connection.
That work led to 1Energy, as well as the idea for its Modular Energy Storage Architecture (MESA), which is being tested in the Snohomish PUD project. In simple terms, MESA installs software at each energy storage endpoint, integrates with utility grid operations systems such as SCADA and DMS, and manages the combination of the two via a cloud-based platform, he said.
At the energy storage endpoint, MESA collects voltage, current, temperature and other standard data from the battery, inverter and other components, he said. But the architecture should also allow extensibility and customization, to give "any vendor the ability to sell value-added portions of the interface that are unique to their equipment," he said.
On the utility side, MESA incorporates all the different energy storage endpoints into a series of operating modes, such as load firming, peak shaving, load following, economic dispatch and the like, he said. Again, the underlying architecture is meant to support upgrades and customization for individual utilities, he said.
"One of the key things you want is the notion of an energy brick," Kaplan noted -- a generic energy storage unit (ESU) that, regardless of its internal chemistry or operating characteristics, presents itself to the utility as a clear set of capabilities, costs, tradeoffs, probabilities and the like. Storage systems are just one of many means utilities have to choose from to solve various problems, he noted.
Getting to that point is a complicated affair, however. "You need a series of defined interfaces that are specific to the ESU, or energy brick, specific to the power conversion components, and ancillary services that can talk to other automation points in the system," he said. "These interfaces need to address the physical, electric, and communications capacities of connecting these various components."
Software for Grid Storage Heats Up
1Energy isn't the first to target the software side of grid storage, of course. To start with, every modern battery and inverter comes with its own software on board, which utilities can tap for supervision and control. Battery makers like A123, General Electric, Johnson Controls, Saft, LG, Panasonic, NGK, Samsung, Xtreme Power and others have built from there to add more sophisticated interfaces and controls aimed at meeting grid needs. In fact, startup Xtreme Power is selling off its battery factory in hopes of making battery management software its specialty.
Grid giants like GE, Siemens, S&C, ABB and Schneider Electric are all involved in battery energy storage, though they're coming at it from different angles, and working with different partners -- GE is using Xtreme's software to support its Durathon sodium-metal batteries, for example. Other players in the space include BYD, the Chinese automaker and solar panel manufacturer, which has also built one of the world's biggest battery storage projects in China.
Many of these projects could support a more modular approach to energy storage. Greensmith is providing its battery-agnostic energy storage management software for utilities including San Diego Gas & Electric, Hawaii Electric and Southern Co., to name one example, and S&C Electric has built an energy storage product line, built around other vendors' batteries, that scales from cargo-container-sized utility substation units to refrigerator-sized community energy storage units.
Software also helps tie energy storage into the IT platforms that run the grid's energy markets. AES Energy Storage, which has deployed 120 megawatts of grid battery-based storage projects around the world, recently unveiled its internal Storage Operating System (sOS) software that includes market modules that match batteries to the specific programs and economic incentives available across Texas, New York, New England and the mid-Atlantic region. (AES said that it built its own software because it couldn't find what it wanted in the marketplace.)
Grid-scale storage can also be building-scale storage, by the way. We've got a host of startups (Stem and GELI are two notable ones) working on software to optimize on-site energy storage systems to avoid peak demand charges, meet demand response calls, or keep the lights on during emergencies -- or, perhaps, all three at different times. Linking batteries with rooftop solar panels is also a growing trend.
Just how a startup like 1Energy fits into this equation is hard to predict. Certainly it has set its sights on a lofty goal. As Dan Rastler of the Electric Power Research Institute noted in a Q&A after Kaplan's presentation, the industry as a whole is slowly moving from proprietary to standards-based technologies, leaving 1Energy with the challenge of scaling to meet that growth.
"I think the biggest [challenge] we see is that nobody's tried it before," Kaplan said in response. The Snohomish PUD project is set to start next year, and represents the first chance for the company to test the software's capabilities, leaving it very early indeed in the race to become the operating system of grid energy storage everywhere. At the same time, the industry has been talking about this problem for years, so maybe 1Energy is right on time.
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There was little chaos in the house, all the women folks of the village gathered to participate & witness the virgin bathing ceremony of Madhab. He was getting married, but he was little upset. Upset not because he was not marrying a girl of his choice, but of the way he was getting married. It was not going to be magnificent as it was during his elder's brother Sudam's marriage a year before. Madhab was getting married by Tolakanya rites; a very simplistic way of marriage in which the bride unceremoniously arrives at the groom's house and the marriage takes place. Whereas his brother a year before enjoyed the privilege of Panikchadha rites where all the arrangements for Band, Baja & Barat were made.
A man marries once in life although few are there who manage have two ore even three in the lifetime, but for them also the first one is outstanding. For Madhab it was plight, it was the verdict that was given by his elder brother Sudam, who was then the shining star and the pride of the family.
Sudam works in some garment factory in Bangalore and lives along with his wife, Rupa, in the city, 1500km away from his village in Odisah. He had been telling over phone that it is difficult on his part to stay no longer than one day for the ceremony. He was even telling to drop off the plan of getting Madhab married for a year or two as he does not have any decent way of income as he has in Bangalore. But he was insisted by his parents.. He agreed, but just for a day and suggested to keep the marriage as simple as possible and to be done by Tolakanya rites. Since Sudam was elder and the city dweller, his suggestion was agreed by the family and relatives, but nobody asked about Madahb's wish.
Madhab wished of getting married as all his old friends did, his own brother did; to be groomed up like a king and riding in a hired Indica car decorated with rose petals and scented mogra flower, slowly moving along the Baratis, while his close friends do the "Nagin Dance" as the Band play to tune with full swing. Instead he had to wait for the bride to arrive along with her peers with a long veil over her face and both would be taken to the Mandap made at the courtyard with bamboo and coconut leaves cladding. How shameful. His friends must have been making joke of him. As he was thinking thus and wearing Kurta, Rupa, his sister-in-law, who had arrived just the day before along with her husband from Bangalore, entered his room.
"What Deverji, getting yourself ready for the bride? As I did for your brother a Year before....Ha Ha Ha" asked Rupa with satire.
Saying thus, Rupa left the room fanning the plight of poor Madhab.
Rupa married a year before to his brother. She was his brother's college love. They studied together. Her father was an orderly at the Tahasil's office. And Tahasil offices are always a good place of extra income under the table. Although her father never had a table in front of him, but managed to get something under the chair on which he sat at the office entrance.
As arranged, the bride along with her peers arrived on an auto-rickshaw and the very moment, the women folks roar up with auspicious tongue flickering sound of "Hulo Huli", conches were also blown by the village conch blowers. The bride took out her first step from the auto-rickshaw, she was wearing a yellow Sari with red border. It was a beautiful fair foot decorated with red Alata, at the border of the foot and at the gaps of the fingers. Her face was all covered with netted veil and she was slowly taken to the mandap at the courtyard. Madhab was also escorted by Rupa & other women to the mandap. Madhab got married to the Bride. There was a small feast arranged for the villagers and after dinner all went back home leaving few of close relatives at home.
It was the next day, Sudam got ready for the railway station along with his wife, Rupa. But mother intervened.
As always Sudam's logic was accepted.
"As you wish" replied mother sadly.
The couple bade farewell to the family. Rupa was happy to escape the village stay but she was unhappy for an unknown reason. She was unhappy from the very moment she had seen the face of her Devrani and overheard the village women saying she is nowhere nearer to the beauty of the Bride.
It was on the fourth day a nominal ritual was made to commence the marriage which allowed the couple to be with each other. The long day turned to evening and ultimately it became night. Although Madhav had seen her earlier briefly, but there was a thirst in his eyes to see her as much he can till he gets satisfied. His room was modestly decorated and the bed was neatly arranged. On the bed she was seated and waited for him. She stood up as Madhab entered the room. A beauty was standing before him. She was so graceful that even the heroines of the films will fail before her. She was wearing a red sari and with the pallu of which she had covered her head. She was looking down. She had very beautiful eyes. Her nose was long and upright and below it were the lips, the pink lips, like the petals of pink Champa. Her chin had small depression in-between. As he was admiring her face, she took a gulp, and his eyes carried him to her slender neck. He was about to go down further.
"Hey, Stop looking at me like that, you are embarrassing me" complained Madhab's newly wedded wife.
Madhab startled, his concentration broke. He was not at all expecting such a quick remark from her. Madhad was stupefied.
"What were you looking at?" she asked with a mischievous smile. As she smiled two beautiful dimples appeared in her cheeks. It was most mesmerizing moment for Madhab.
"You, look beautiful, Priya….Priyadarshani. You have such a big name." Said Madhab out of confusion and just to divert the discussion started by his newly wed.
"Yes, it's my nick name.
"mmmmm…..ok" saying thus she again gave a beautiful smile. As she smiled the dimples appeared again.
It was a turn on moment for Madhab. He took his newly wedded wife in his arms.
"Is it?!" she asked as she embraced her handsome husband. Within she was trembling. Her heart was throbbing faster.
"I am not; I was just pretending to be stronger" she told as she hid her face on his chest. Madhab smiled. He lifted chiumki's face with both of his hands while her eyes were still closed. He looked at her for a moment and kissed her pink lips with full passion. Chumki could not open her eyes in shyness, but her beautiful dimples in her face revealed her eternal happiness at that moment. And for Madhab, he completely forgot, few days before he was utterly sad about something.
Few months after when Sudam & Rupa came from Bangalore for some obvious reason, they found the house was glittering as Gold. Madhab was doing well in his modernized practice of agriculture and Chumki was handling the household chores and running a small tailoring training centre for the village women.


Growing up in the 1960's was a time of national turmoil in the United States. The nation was being torn apart by the threat of nuclear missiles pointing at our front doors, civil rights protests and riots and a war in Vietnam that was shredding the social fabric of the American way of life. What emerged and endured was not the violence and destruction in the cities nor the hatred that was perpetrated by anti-everything speeches but messages from the other side of the room. This was a different way to bring about positive changes and was far more effective and perpetual.
The most interesting point to consider is that their messages were not necessarily voluminous but simple messages, easily remembered and sticky. Sticky in that it has the ability to be easily remembered and quotable. Martin Luther King Jr.'s simple message of equality for all, crescendoed in his "I have a dream" speech in Washington D.C. and has continued to inspire millions over the decades. John Lennon's message "Give peace a chance" was simple and is as potent today as it was over 45 years ago. Nancy Reagan's anti-drug campaign simply shared "Just say no" and was instrumental in turning the tide against the tsunami of drug abuse. The messages have become more ubiquitous and far reaching than the individuals themselves. Their powerful words have touched more lives than these individuals could ever personally meet. And this is something that inspires me to share our message.
Changes for New Hope in the Peruvian Andes has helped hundreds of children over the years. We have a simple message "Haz lo Correcto-Do the right thing". Simple, inspiring and powerful. It is deliberately ambiguous to be able to cause a positive seed to be planted in each individual. Each person knows what they should be doing and the message encourages them to do it. Initially introduced to the children of our project to develop their attitudes and thinking toward positive living with great success, we shared it with the mayor of Huaraz who supported a citywide campaign promoting this message which reportedly made positive changes throughout the community. One person, one simple message has been proven time and time again to be able to create an inspired shift in people's thinking beyond measure.
The messages were spoken by courageous people who were not afraid of criticism or contrarian rebuttals. John Lennon's "Give peace a chance" rattled the cage of the warmongers' profiteering during the Vietnam war and even today. Martin Luther King Jr. took his racial equality campaign directly through the deep south of the United States where he inevitably and predictably would draw severe resistance. They were not intimidated by the resistance that they encountered.
So few are willing to take a stand for what they believe in, opting rather to get along by going along. But those who do, change entire societies, whole generations of people and colors the way we now see the world and life. Perhaps their forum was small, virtually unknown, their numbers of supporters a mere handful initially, but the message of hope, peace, equality and change was the ray of light into the darkness which was desperately needed at the time. Their light shines to this day, to a grateful people who are enlightened by the simple messages that they have left behind long after they have passed on. Today, we share a message of equally urgent and valuable. Haz lo correcto, do the right thing.
I would now like to invite and encourage you to join us in sharing our message, "Do the Right Thing" which has meant so much to the children here in the Peruvian Andes and the community of Huaraz. We have an advantage today that the great messages that have gone out to the world in generations past did not have, the internet. We can share this message via social networks which has the ability to spread across the world in minutes. And the cost is zero. We have already seen the effectiveness of this message on a small scale way up here in the Peruvian Andes. Imagine what can happen, in very positive ways, if each of us shared this message across the globe from wherever you are. Imagine the positive effect it will have in every village and community where the message will take root. And you can be a part of making that happen. "Do the Right Thing".
It is free to share this message with your friends across the globe of course and we enthusiastically encourage you to do so. However, if you would like to show your solidarity with our message and this movement, we would like to send you an orange wristband with the message "Haz lo Correcto" which means, Do the right thing, in Spanish, because we are in Peru. We simply ask for a donation of $5 (or more) which can be made right through our website by clicking the donate button. Please allow 4 weeks for delivery. Donations will be used to further our work here at Changes for New Hope for the benefit of the children of our project and share the message. Thank you kindly for your support.


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The most famous piece in the museum's collection is the Valþjófsstaður door, a carved pine door dating to 1150 AD. The intricately carved medieval church door depicts a Lion-Knight legend, where a knight slays a dragon to free a lion. It is the sole Icelandic carved door in existence to contain runic script carvings.
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No matter the day, no matter the weather, Maryclarie McCarthy is one very busy lady. She's Manager of Operations for Chain Store Maintenance (CSM), which specializies in facilities services for the retail, restaurant, and lodging industries. CSM started in 1991 with the mission to perform minor repairs in major cities. Twenty-five years later, CSM has performed more than 500,000 jobs in practically every city in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Success for Maryclaire is multidimensional; she knows she is doing things right when she sees a "fully staffed office with employees who have longevity at CSM and experience and knowledge of their job." Maryclaire also measures success by the high volume of service requests being managed to customer satisfaction. She says, "Success is retaining and increasing the volume of service requests from existing customers and new clients." CSM strives for an open, transparent, realistic, and honest environment with customers. "It's about learning our customer's needs and expectations and developing programs and processes that allow us to meet and, hopefully, exceed them." Finally, success at CSM means effectively managing a large contractor database so that the company is able to service customers quickly, even in remote areas of the country.


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First pool dedicated to teaching adults to swim to open in Sarasota
February 25, 2016 by Staff Reports
Former Flanzer Jewish Community Center facility scheduled to open on May 1
M. Ellen Dash. Contributed photo
The first pool dedicated specifically to teaching adults to swim is slated to open in Sarasota on April 16, a nonprofit organization based in Sarasota has announced.
"There is such a vast need for good adult swimming classes nation- and world-wide that a dedicated location is overdue," said M. Ellen Dash, CEO of Miracle Swimming for Adults Inc., in a news release, noting that 46 percent of American adults do not know how to swim.
Miracle Swimming has provided classes for adults since 1983; it will open and operate the pool, the release adds.
"There is no other place where adults can reliably overcome their fear of water and learn to swim in two to three weeks," Dash added of the facility in the release.
Most adults who cannot swim are either unfamiliar with the water or are afraid because of "previous unfortunate experiences," the release points out. "An afraid-in-water adult is one who cannot rest peacefully for five minutes in water over his/her head and at least ten feet from any wall or support," the release says.
Eighty percent of Americans who drown are adults, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2015, the release notes. "If adults learn to swim, chances are higher that whole families can be safe in water," the release adds.
Conventional lessons teach that learning to swim means learning strokes, such as freestyle and the backstroke, the release continues. "Miracle Swimming for Adults holds that learning to swim means becoming comfortable, confident, and safe in deep water and that though formal strokes are necessary for efficiency, they are irrelevant for safety," the release says.
The Miracle Swimming pool, which formerly belonged to the Flanzer Jewish Community Center of Sarasota, is located on McIntosh Road, the release notes. That facility "has come within a hair's breadth of being demolished on more than one occasion," the release adds.
"A beautiful pool like this deserves to be revived and open to serve the community," said Dash in the release.
Miracle Swimming is beginning a Kickstarter campaign this month to raise funds to resurface and renovate the facility, the release explains. "Planners say the pool will be open for annual memberships," the release continues. "Membership fees will be applied to pool maintenance," it adds.
Members may sign up for local programming, which will include beginning classes for adults; freestyle and pre-Masters swimming classes; lessons for expecting parents; classes for parents to learn to teach their children to swim; backyard pool safety classes; and lessons for children and teens "to prevent them from becoming adults who are afraid in water," the release points out.
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Flashbacks to Apollo: Navy's USS Arlington Recovers Orion Crew Module During Test
By Emily Carney, on August 16th, 2013
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Sailors (and guests, courtesy of a NASA Social) got to experience a touch of Apollo's golden days on Thursday, Aug. 15, as a strangely familiar sight bobbed in the water near Norfolk Naval Station's Pier 12. On this day, NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, which is a 16-foot, four-person upgrade of the Apollo design, was recovered into the well deck of the USS Arlington (LPD 24) during a stationary recovery test. This began what is described as a "historic" partnership between NASA and the Department of Defense, echoing the era of spaceflight when capsules were solely recovered by naval vessels.
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The USS Arlington, despite being commissioned last year, already has a spaceflight legacy. Its predecessor in name, a communications relay ship, assisted in the Apollo 8 recovery in December 1968 and the Apollo 11 recovery in 1969.
The U.S. Navy continues its rich spaceflight heritage with its involvement in the Orion recovery efforts. Aside from being directly involved with Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo recovery in the 1960s, many key players in spaceflight history—including the first American in space and moonwalker, Alan Shepard; first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong; and first space shuttle commander, John Young—were either naval officers or veterans. The Navy also has a strong presence in the world of unmanned spaceflight. More recently, on July 19, the service branch's heavyweight MUOS-2 communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Complex 41 by an Atlas V rocket, enhancing the ability for all military personnel to stay connected.
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// Copyright Yahoo. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
package com.yahoo.vespa.model.content;

import com.yahoo.config.model.api.ModelContext;
import com.yahoo.config.model.deploy.DeployState;
import com.yahoo.vespa.config.content.core.StorDistributormanagerConfig;
import com.yahoo.vespa.config.content.core.StorServerConfig;
import com.yahoo.config.model.producer.AbstractConfigProducer;
import com.yahoo.vespa.model.builder.xml.dom.ModelElement;
import com.yahoo.vespa.model.builder.xml.dom.VespaDomBuilder;
import com.yahoo.vespa.model.content.engines.PersistenceEngine;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import java.util.Optional;

/**
 * Represents specific configuration for a given distributor node.
 */
public class Distributor extends ContentNode implements StorDistributormanagerConfig.Producer {

    PersistenceEngine provider;

    public static class Builder extends VespaDomBuilder.DomConfigProducerBuilder<Distributor> {
        ModelElement clusterXml;
        PersistenceEngine persistenceProvider;

        public Builder(ModelElement clusterXml, PersistenceEngine persistenceProvider) {
            this.clusterXml = clusterXml;
            this.persistenceProvider = persistenceProvider;
        }

        @Override
        protected Distributor doBuild(DeployState deployState, AbstractConfigProducer ancestor, Element producerSpec) {
            return new Distributor(deployState.getProperties(), (DistributorCluster)ancestor, new ModelElement(producerSpec).integerAttribute("distribution-key"),
                                   clusterXml.integerAttribute("distributor-base-port"), persistenceProvider);
        }
    }

    Distributor(ModelContext.Properties properties, DistributorCluster parent, int distributionKey, Integer distributorBasePort, PersistenceEngine provider) {
        super(properties.featureFlags(), parent, parent.getClusterName(),
             StorageNode.rootFolder + parent.getClusterName() + "/distributor/" + distributionKey, distributionKey);

        this.provider = provider;

        if (distributorBasePort != null) {
            setBasePort(distributorBasePort);
        }
    }

    private int tuneNumDistributorStripes() {
        if (getHostResource() != null &&
                !getHostResource().realResources().isUnspecified()) {
            int cores = (int)getHostResource().realResources().vcpu();
            // This should match the calculation used when node flavor is not available:
            // storage/src/vespa/storage/common/bucket_stripe_utils.cpp
            if (cores <= 16) {
                return 1;
            } else if (cores <= 64) {
                return 2;
            } else {
                return 4;
            }
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void getConfig(StorServerConfig.Builder builder) {
        super.getConfig(builder);
        provider.getConfig(builder);
    }

    @Override
    public void getConfig(StorDistributormanagerConfig.Builder builder) {
        builder.num_distributor_stripes(tuneNumDistributorStripes());
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<String> getStartupCommand() {
        return Optional.of("exec sbin/vespa-distributord -c $VESPA_CONFIG_ID");
    }

}