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Resolution to Co-name Stretch of 168th Street to Healthcare Heroes Way Heads to City Council
The stretch of 168th Street between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue will soon have a new moniker. The local community has pushed to co-name the space Healthcare Heroes Way in recognition of the staff and faculty at CUIMC and NYP who have worked tirelessly on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic and all health care workers who call Washington Heights and Inwood home.
The movement began with Daryl Cochrane, who has called Washington Heights and Inwood home for more than 20 years. Cochrane is in his third term on Manhattan's Community Board 12, which serves Washington Heights and Inwood. He also serves on the board's Health & Environment Committee, where the conversation about an honorific co-naming began.
"When the pandemic came about, our committee was very involved with trying to keep up to date with what was happening and get resources out to the community as much as we could," Cochrane says. The idea for the co-naming came to him in the early days of the pandemic when out walking through the neighborhood.
"Looking at everything that was happening in those early days in March, April, and May with health care workers—especially with such a big presence like Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian—was really inspiring," he says. "People were clapping and banging on pots and pans at seven o'clock every night in our area. I just thought that this part of town would be a perfect fit for something like this."
Co-naming a street in Manhattan first requires a petition from the community. Cochrane set up a Change.org petition that quickly accrued support and signatures from community members. "We are lucky to have these wonderful health care workers. Life savers," one signer wrote.
A graphic thanking health care heroes from the Change.org petition started by Daryl Cochrane. (Image courtesy of Daryl Cochrane)
With the signatures on file, a collaborative process among community board members began. The Traffic & Transportation Committee considers all proposed co-namings, and the push for Healthcare Heroes Way received universal support.
"There was unanimous support for this unique co-naming," says Community Board 12 member Debby Nabavian. "We were all honored to be part of the process."
The proposal next received similar support at a general board meeting in late October. The resolution now goes to the New York City Council, and the community board anticipates no opposition.
In recognition of the many health care workers who live in Washington Heights and Inwood, the official resolutions acknowledges that "Northern Manhattan is home to many other residents who responded to the worst public health emergency of our time, including many who work in the health care professions beyond NYP & CUIMC, as well as numerous committed volunteers who from day one helped their more vulnerable neighbors meet their daily needs."
The resolution dedicates Healthcare Heroes Way to "the thousands of dedicated medical and nursing professionals, EMTs, social workers, administrators, custodial and food service staff, volunteers, and others vital to the continuity of care during our City's darkest hour."
The CUIMC Office of Government and Community Affairs plans to hold a ceremony marking the renaming in Spring 2021.
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const expect = require('unexpected');
const cldr = require('../lib/cldr');

describe('extractTerritories', () => {
  let territories;
  before(() => {
    territories = cldr.extractTerritories();
  });

  it('should export an object with entries keyed by their ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 code, and all having the "alpha2Code" property', () => {
    expect(territories, 'to have keys satisfying', /[A-Z]{2,2}/);

    Object.keys(territories).forEach((territoryId) => {
      expect(territoryId, 'to be', territories[territoryId].alpha2Code);
    });
  });

  describe('for territories with alpha3 and numeric code', () => {
    it('should export the alpha3Code and numericCode properties as strings', () => {
      expect(territories.US, 'to satisfy', {
        alpha3Code: 'USA',
        numericCode: '840',
      });
    });

    it('should include zero-padding for territories with a numeric code lower than 100', () => {
      expect(territories.AT, 'to satisfy', {
        numericCode: '040',
      });
    });
  });

  describe('for territories without alpha3 or without numeric code', () => {
    it('should not expose the numericCode or alpha3Code properties', () => {
      // Picked IC (Canary Islands) which currently has neither
      expect(territories.IC, 'not to have properties', [
        'numericCode',
        'alpha3Code',
      ]);
    });
  });

  it('should include historical territories as well as current - Burma and Myanmar', () => {
    expect(territories, 'to satisfy', {
      BU: {
        numericCode: '104',
        alpha3Code: 'BUR',
      },
      MM: {
        numericCode: '104',
        alpha3Code: 'MMR',
      },
    });
  });
});

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Where next for enterprise education?
www.nesta.org.uk/blog/where-next-for-enterprise-education/
Enterprise education has progressed remarkably in some areas. But while we know how to teach the tools, we don't yet do much to teach the attitude. And that attitude matters a lot.
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Chris led Nesta's research interests into how startups and new technologies can drive economic growth, and what this means for businesses, intermediaries and for the government.
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Charlotte carries out research projects to understand how startups and entrepreneurship can be supported across Europe.
Enterprise education has progressed remarkably in some areas. As one of us has written previously, university-level enterprise provision is hugely different now compared to a decade or two ago, thanks in part to the efforts of organisations like the National Association of College & University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) and Enterprise Educators UK (EEUK).
Through the work of business schools, accelerators and practical enterprise programmes, we know how to teach the fundamental tools of business and enterprise. Yet, while we know how to teach the tools, we don't really do much to teach the attitude. And that attitude matters a lot.
Why entrepreneurial attitudes and mindsets matter
On a national level, as we explained in our Digital City Index, there are substantial differences in attitude, with positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship being correlated with greater levels of entrepreneurship: all else being equal, the more that entrepreneurship is seen as desirable, feasible and socially beneficial, and the greater the average risk appetite, the more people who become entrepreneurs.
On an individual level, as we explored in our recent report, 'Motivations to Scale', the absence of a scaling mindset seems to be one of the key factors that stops more potential entrepreneurs from acting on their ideas, and prevents some entrepreneurs from scaling their businesses further.
Shaping mindsets early on
Such attitudes are the result of a complex mix of cultural, psychological and perhaps even physiological factors. Much is unknown. But one thing that does seem fairly clear is that such attitudes get more fixed as children enter adulthood. Much developmental psychology suggests that childhood and adolescence are crucial times in which to shape mindsets.
As a result, we may expect that the benefits of enterprise education are likely to be even greater when students are exposed to it at an earlier stage. While hard evidence for this is currently scarce (very few studies have attempted to measure the effect of enterprise education at primary school level), a recent paper by Bell et al demonstrated that "exposure to innovation during childhood has significant causal effects on children's propensities to invent"; studies have found similar relationships for entrepreneurship exist, too, with parental involvement in entrepreneurship significantly increasing the probability that children will follow suit.
In summary, as Nesta argued in a recent report, 'Opportunity Lost', we believe that early exposure to innovation and innovative entrepreneurship matters. This is important not just to sustain the next generation of entrepreneurs, but to equip students with the tools and mindsets to develop and act on innovative ideas, whether they end up pursuing a career in business, government or science.
Putting early enterprise education back on the policy agenda
Such beliefs have been echoed by various studies which have called for enterprise education to "begin at an early age when children are open to the ideas and influences which will shape their futures" (Enterprise For All 2014); warned that "exposure to entrepreneurship education...starting from youth...is imperative" (World Economic Forum 2009); called for enterprise to "be mandatory in the curriculum for 4 to 18 year olds" (APPG for microbusinesses 2014); and recommended that "Government should make sure that enterprise education is available throughout the education system – from primary school, right the way through to universities" (APPG for Entrepreneurship, 2019).
Yet despite these repeated calls, there has been surprisingly little systematic action to incorporate enterprise education within schools in the UK. A 2016 Ofsted report found that the "the key factors promoting successful enterprise education" were present in a mere four of the 40 schools visited.
Moreover, where programmes do exist, they are primarily positioned in terms of improving children's understanding of the world of work (as with the Careers and Enterprise Company, created in 2015) or financial literacy, rather than in terms of innovation and value creation.
Exciting progress has been made by some in developing programmes tailored to young children – like Citrus Saturday, Founders For Schools, inspiring the future, the fiver and tenner challenges. However, their uptake has not been as widespread as we might like. At the moment, enterprise education remains optional and there is no national strategy (education is a devolved responsibility within the Home Nations).
As a result of this lack of action and co-ordination, the UK currently lags behind its European counterparts when it comes to enterprise education during primary and secondary school. It ranks in the 12th place in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's 2018 review of basic school enterprise education, behind countries such as the Netherlands, Latvia, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland. The consequence of this, as the Ofsted report mentioned above noted, is that we risk dampening the country's future economic prosperity.
So what should we be doing?
We think that the time is right for a reset of the UK's enterprise education strategy, putting enterprise education back on the UK policy agenda. We would like to see:
Clear ownership of enterprise education within government: Historically, enterprise education has often fallen between the departments of education and business, resulting in no clear responsibility. Given the argument for bringing enterprise education earlier, into schools, we think that the Department for Education should take responsibility. The Department for Education (DfE) should set up an enterprise education taskforce to identify what works in early enterprise education and share good practice from existing initiatives. Members should include leading entrepreneurship stakeholders such as Young Enterprise, The Entrepreneurs Network, Gen-UK and the Careers and Enterprise Company, alongside representatives from programmes such as Founders for Schools.
Explicit recognition of the importance of enterprise education: We would like the new Secretary of State for Education to be ambitious and set a clear national target and strategy for enterprise education. Lessons learned from top-performing countries indicate that putting enterprise education on the map requires cross-ministerial collaboration and a clear national commitment. For example, in the Netherlands, the government allocated a specific budget to a national coordinating body to develop and implement enterprise education from elementary to university level.
Opportunities for every school-child to gain exposure to entrepreneurship: Building on Nesta's report, 'Opportunity Lost, we would like all young people to have the opportunity of at least one 'hands-on' experience of innovation and entrepreneurship during their time at school, as also called for in the European Commission's Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan. Such an experience can come in many forms, ranging from meeting business-owners to a national entrepreneurship-awareness week (perhaps coinciding with Global Entrepreneurship Week). We would like to see practical programmes that focus on broader entrepreneurial skills such as risk taking, persistence and creativity, rather than just the theoretical knowledge of how to run a business.
Evidence building: While it is clear that entrepreneurial skills and mindsets can be taught, the best way to teach them — especially at an early age — is uncertain. Best practices from international reviews (by the OECD and the European Commission) suggest that it should involve learning by doing, focus on developing mindsets and go beyond business creation. However, more research is needed into what works and how to make programs scalable on a national level. These actions should involve collecting data to identify existing initiatives and gaps in early enterprise education, for example by building on existing data collection mechanisms, such as the DfE's School Snapshot Surveys. Where more robust evidence is called for, this might be developed via programmes such as the Innovation Growth Lab (e.g. this trial in Ecuador), or a variant of the Business Basics programme (which funds programmes whilst also explicitly aiming to gather evidence for their impact in a systematic way).
Curriculum change: Finally, in the long-term, and depending on the recommendations of the task force, the government should consider making early enterprise education a mandatory part of the curriculum. This would strengthen the UK's position in enterprise education and make it a pioneering country, not just for existing entrepreneurs, but all potential ones.
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Misenos () ist eine Gestalt der griechischen Mythologie.

Er war erst der Trompeter des Hektor, nach dessen Tod wurde er der Gefährte des Aeneas.

Zusammen mit Aeneas kam Misenos nach Italien, wo er den Zorn des Triton auf sich zog, indem er auf dessen Instrument, einer Schneckentrompete, spielte. Der zornige Meeresgott ertränkte ihn kurzerhand, woraufhin Aeneas den Leichnam auf einem Vorgebirge bestatten ließ, das nach ihm Misenum genannt wurde.

Eine bei Strabon zitierte Tradition nennt Misenos als Gefährten des Odysseus, der bei einem Unfall an der Küste Kampaniens umkam.

Einzelnachweise

Person der griechischen Mythologie

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Q: regsub -all and proc I'm writing a recursive procedure, called "subliner3". To be simple it replaces:

*

*[object method] with Object->method()

*[object method:attr1 attr2 ...] with object->method(attr1,attr2,...)
It is recursive to replace (1) and (2) inside (2). Any attr may be like (1) or (2).
So, this code causes problem:
while {[regsub -all {\[([^\[\]:]+)[:]([^\[\]]+)\]} $subline "[subliner3 "\\1" "\\2"]" subline]} {}

This is supposed to find exactly (2) in subline (subline is an attribute list) and call function again for it. The problem is that, when subline is called with regsub's \1 and \2 subliner3 really gets "\1" and "\2", so looks like they are interpreted afted subliner3 call. How can I manage to call [subliner3 "\1" "\2"] with interpreted \1 & \2?
Sample Input:
[self runAction:[CCSequence actions:[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration:5], [CCCallFunc actionWithTarget:self selector:@selector(resetMessage)], nil]];

Output:
self->runAction(CCSequence::actions(CCDelayTime::actionWithDuration(5), CCCallFunc::actionWithTarget(self, @selector(resetMessage)), nil);

A: One of possible solutions is:
expr \"[regsub -all {(1)} "number 1" "[getSp \1]"]\"
So, at first, regsub manages to put (1) on \1 position. Then expr makes to call getSp. And it will be called not with \1, but with (1).
But to work with this solution I need to make sure, that string, returned by regsub has [ ] specified only for procedures, but it is not allways like that. For example string after regsub call may be like that:
[self runAction:[CCSequence actions:[subliner3 "CCDelayTime actionWithDuration" "5"],         [subliner3 "CCCallFunc actionWithTarget" "self selector:@selector(resetMessage)"], nil]];
Where only subliner3 - is a procedure.

A: You can do it (under some assumptions, such as no use of arrays) but you really need to work inside out and to put your substitution code in a loop.
# Your sample as input
set string {[self runAction:[CCSequence actions:[CCDelayTime actionWithDuration:5], [CCCallFunc actionWithTarget:self selector:@selector(resetMessage)], nil]];}

# Do most of the replacements, recursively.
#
# Note that some parts are changed to \001stripExtra stuff\002, because we need
# to do further processing on the arguments which can't quite be done in this
# looped [regsub].
while {[regsub -all {\[(\w+) (\w+):([^]]+)\]} $string \
        "\\1::\\2(\u0001stripExtra \\3\u0002)" string]} {}

# The further processing to do on arguments (removing selectors)
proc stripExtra args {
    foreach s $args {
        # The lack of a fourth argument means [regsub] returns the string
        lappend t [regsub {^\w+:(?!:)} [string trimright $s ","] {}]
    }
    return [join $t ","]
}
# Apply the further processing by converting to a substitutable string
set string [subst [string map {\u0001 "\[" \u0002 "\]"} $string]]

# Now transformed...
puts $string

The code above is rather brittle as it doesn't actually understand Objective-C, so you should check that its output is reasonable on your real input data…

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Posted on 8 July 2017 8 July 2017 by Stephanie Rodgers
Politics in the age of populism
Here's my speech notes from last night's Fabians Society panel in Wellington, comprising myself, Rob Egan and Bryce Edwards. A lot of it you will have read before if you're a regular! As always I didn't deliver this verbatim, but any rumours of a fellow Piko Consulting director having Facebook Lived my presentation are terrible lies and must not be countenanced.
Mike asked us to talk about the implications of the recent elections in the United States, the UK and France on our own little general election in September, and whether we're in an age of populism. I'm going to pull the old trick of immediately finding fault with the question, because I don't know what populism is. It's a word that gets applied to a certain style of politics, in a derogatory, if admiring manner. It describes politicians who are brash, loud, take cheap shots, and don't do politics properly. It's an elitist label for politics that appeal to people's baser instincts and aren't well-grounded or properly thought through.
Donald Trump is populist because he raves about immigrants and Muslims and building walls, and we all feel a bit smug because we're not stupid and thoughtless like those people who vote for him. Jeremy Corbyn wasn't really described as populist at all, because if anything his fault was being too thoughtful and unassuming and right up to the exit polls predicting a hung Parliament we all know he was completely unelectable. I admit I don't know a lot about French politics, but Macron was running against a bona fide fascist in a run-off presidential system which has a tendency to throw up extremists every now and then. Who knows what that means.
I'm less interested in whether we're in an age of populism and more what it says about us that we want to describe this time as an age of populism. Others call it a period of transition, and there's an excellent volume published by Bridget Williams Books and edited by Morgan Godfery called The Interregnum, which I confess I haven't read yet because I'm a terrible person. We are certainly in a time thanks to technology where people can get right in a politician's face, and politicians can talk to voters directly without being interpreted or framed by the media. It would be generous to say that this is an age of populism because politicians are forced to engage more with real people.
But we also use "populism" as a nice way to say "extremism", and that's very dangerous. We're accepting the idea that rightwing, authoritarian extremism like Trump's or Le Pen's is a valid expression of people's core ideals and instincts – those people who aren't serious and thoughtful about politics, like us. And the logic follows that in order to win, to be popular, we too have to pander to those instincts, even though we tell ourselves it's just what we have to do to get into power to fix the mess neoliberalism has made of the world.
That worries me. Because if we jump in without really understanding what's going on, we will be selling our souls and committing political suicide at the same time.
A good example, because it's a consistent issue across all these elections, including ours, is immigration. Trump promised to build a wall. Le Pen was blatantly xenophobic. The Leave campaign in the UK played on it. We're told this was the reason for those campaigns' varying, worrying levels of success. And, to be blunt, our own centre-left parties, if not promising to build a wall, have made pretty populist statements about the need to cut migrant numbers, and the danger of unbridled immigration on our country.
And if it works, why not? Well, firstly because racism is gross. But secondly because it doesn't.
I've talked at the Fabians before about values and framing, which is what all the cool kids are doing in progressive political communications. Essentially, if you take map fundamental human values – Common Cause in Australia has a really good one – on one side you've got intrinsic values like universalism, benevolence, equality. And on the other, extrinsic values like power, wealth, self-indulgence. I don't need to guess which motivates the people in this room, right? But the short version is all of us hold all of those values to a greater or lesser extent, and all of them can be triggered in us. What authoritarians like Donald Trump do is tap into values like security and social order – which are literally the opposite of the ones that drive progressives and collectivists. They hype up people's anxieties and fears and then tell them the answer is in those values, in being insular and xenophobic and antagonistic.
Via http://valuesandframes.org/handbook/2-how-values-work/
That's why anti-immigration rhetoric didn't work for Ed Miliband in the 2015 UK general election. Because Labour aren't meant to be narrow-minded and insecure and jealous. It cuts against our values, and people see that, so even if we say exactly what they want to hear, it rings hollow. Corbyn in 2017, in contrast, tapped into those core progressive values of benevolence and social justice and universalism – for the many, not the few – and said the solutions to our anxieties can be found in caring for one another.
It was authentic. And authenticity, as any number of articles about Bill English putting tinned spaghetti on pizza will tell you, is everything.
The question I ponder when polls show people are anxious about immigration is, what's behind it? Immigration in of itself is just the movement of people across borders. Are they worried about wages? Job losses? Housing pressure? Rents? Traffic? Crime? A loss of our national identity? All those things immigrants get blamed for.
What Corbyn did as well as play strongly to progressive values, is offer solutions to all those underlying anxieties which feed anti-migrant sentiment. You don't need to fear newcomers if housing and transport and industry and pay and corporate greed are getting sorted. You don't need to fear losing your identity if your identity is founded on community and collectivism.
We have to campaign on our values not just because they are good but because they are powerful. They are popular, if not populist. We've just hobbled ourselves by letting the right push their values into the mainstream and trying to mimic them. What Corbyn's near-win can show us is that there's a way to be popular and keep our integrity intact – because integrity is a much better vote-winner, in the short and long terms, than jumping on whichever bandwagon is rolling past.
What progressive political parties in New Zealand need to do – or needed to have done, because let's face it we've got two and a half months until the election – is present a clear alternative, not just to National but to the status quo. I'm sure Labour and the Greens think they are. But I don't think people – outside circles like these, of political nerds who actually read the policy – are seeing that. If there is one thing to learn from populism, or whatever we want to call it, it's that a consistent, bold message, which upsets the status quo and hits people right in the values, is what succeeds.
If there's a silver lining, it's in the old wisdom that oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them. And this government is teetering. Looking dishonest on housing and Pike River, heartless on mental health and the abuse of children in state care, lacking in ideas and bereft of their magical charisma leprechaun, John Key. It could be anyone's to win, and probably Winston's to decide. But for 2020 and beyond, the game is going to be completely changed, and we know from history that the right will adapt very quickly, so we're going to have to be even quicker.
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3 Replies to "Politics in the age of populism"
peterlepaysan says:
you conflate immigration with populism. Nz politicians dine out on our thriving economy which is reliant on economic statistics (and immigrants)
Populism is a media slogan that assumes that there is a ruling class.
Them and us , you know…
If there is such thing as populism there must be some thing that is unpopularism (self entitled ruling class is a possibility.
Immigration is an issue but not for employment issues in a direct sense
Immigration is important because it helps the govt look good in GDP terms
Stephanie Rodgers says:
I don't "conflate immigration with populism", I use immigration as an example of an issue which has been raised and framed in what some people would call populist ways. I even assert that populism isn't really a thing in the very first paragraph.
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After dialogue with Sinergia Animal, Burger King goes cage-free in Thailand
Burger King, one of the main fast-food chains in the world, has committed to going cage-free in Thailand after over a year of dialogue with Sinergia Animal. This policy applies to the already existing 115 Burger King restaurants and to future locations in Thailand owned by Minor International, the sole franchise owner of Burger King in the country. The transition should be finished by 2027.
Commitments like this have the potential to reduce the suffering of hens in Thailand. Currently, the majority of hens in Thailand are kept in a system called battery cages, which is considered one of the cruelest practices in animal agriculture. The system has already been banned in the whole European Union and in many states in the US.
Many international companies, such as Sodexo, Compass Group, and Unilever, have already committed to stop sourcing eggs from facilities that use cages worldwide, including Thailand.
Other companies whose commitments cover Thailand are Tesco Lotus and Subway. Tesco Lotus announced a cage-free commitment for Thailand and Malaysia last year. Subway has announced a commitment to source only cage-free eggs in their supply chain in Thailand and six other Asian countries, after a relentless campaign from Sinergia Animal.
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All the boxes in Ollie's magic library have dates on them. Ollie learns that a lot of the things in his boxes - especially things that upset or scare him, were put there when he was very little. Now that he is older with lots of super powers, they really aren't that scary any more!


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Q: Will a box with black or mirror lining have a higher temperature? Imagine having two boxes side by side out in the sun. Both boxes have cardboard as the floor and side surfaces. The top surface of the box is a piece of glass to allow in heat and insulate it. Each box contains a thermometer. If one box has the inside of it lined with mirrors (inside walls and bottom surface) and the other has the inside of the box lined with black paint (inside walls and bottom surface), which box will be hotter on the inside if left out for 5 minutes, as an example?

A: When a photon interacts with an atom, three things can happen:

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*elastic scattering, the photon will keep its energy and change angle

*inelastic scattering, the photon will give part of its energy to the atom and change angle

*absorption, the photon will transfer all its enregy to the absorbing atom (electron)
You are saying out on the sun, but let's just assume first we are talking about visible light, that interacts with the surfaces. Higher energy photons will go deeper into the material of the box and will do 2. inelasstic scattering, but it is not clear from your setup how thick the material of the box will be.
The black inside of the box will do 3 mostly, that is absorption. Most of the visible light will be absorbed by the black surface's atoms. In this case most of the visible light's energy will be transferred into the vibrational energy of the atoms and molecules of the black surface material (heat up).
Now the mirrored inside wall box will do mostly 2., that is inelastic scattering, where the energy of the photons will be kept, so mostly no energy will be transferred to the vibrational energies of the surface of the material of the mirrored inside walls. Now that is not completely true, because photons do exerpt pressure on the walls of the inside of the box, and transfer some of their momentum to the walls. Still, most of the photons' energy will be kept and will eventually (since the walls inside are mirrored) leave the box back to the outside via the glass on the top (I assume the glass is both ways seethrough).
So eventually the black inside box will have higher temperature.


This prompted an impromptu dialogue between both of us. During that conversation she expressed her thoughts about her own struggle with depression. The things she said really tugged on my heart strings but furthermore reaffirmed my desire to advocate for mental health awareness.
People struggling with mental health of any sort often if not always feel very isolated and misunderstood or not understood at all. Too many times people just don't understand what depression really is or what it means so in attempts to be helpful they end up being far more hurtful. I even touched on this in my last post Dummies Guide to Depression. It is incredibly frustrating to feel as if no one understands you.
I am here to remind you that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I understand, I understand so much that I am willing to share the sordid and unflattering details of my journey just so you whomever you might be, understands that this is not a battle you are enduring alone. Though our symptoms or disorders or struggles may differ; we're still fighting the same war.
This fight is not your own even when it feels like it is. If you don't have family or close friends as a support system; reach out to any online support group or contact any crisis center so that you can create your own support community. If you do have family and friends; EXPRESS yourself! Never silence your voice for fear of what others might say or think.
The most valuable tool we have is our voice, our experience. If we share it, explain it, we are providing people with knowledge that may benefit them or the next person. Every person will not accept it; but for every person who doesn't get it; there are thousands more who will. You never know who's life you might change just by by being honest about your own journey.
Mental health disease is nothing to be ashamed of. Every day you get up and keep going you are living testimony to just how resilient we can be.
You did an excellent job with this! The struggle is so real. Thank you for YOUR voice, and your courage. Thank God for your deftness with the pen.


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THE MAGIC RAIN's Top 10 Most Anticipated Games of 2020
With the new year and end of the decade well underway, 2020 is shaping up to be yet another stellar year in gaming. With the 8th generation of consoles now entering their final year before the next generation takes over, it's time to look at some of the biggest releases that we're going to see this year. And let me tell you, there are a lot.
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Google Stadia
After Keanu Reeves blew our socks off at E3 2019 by revealing his role in CD Projekt Red's latest project, he then announced a release date, April 16th 2020. However, now that we are so close to the release date, turns out that the game had been delayed, and will now be releasing on September 17 this year.
In case you haven't gotten up to speed yet, Cyberpunk 2077 is a massive first-person shooter RPG, where you play as V, the protagonist which can be customised to suit almost every player's tastes, whether it be in looks, skills or even personality. Set in the dystopian Night City, expect hundreds of hours of content. These are the same people who brought us The Witcher 3, after all.
Release Date: April 10
Platforms: PlayStation 4
At the time of writing this article, we just found out that the FF7 remake has been delayed. To April 10th this year. Which, if you've just been reading the last bit above, would have meant that it launches the same week as Cyberpunk 2077. Luckily, thanks to Cyberpunk's delayed release date, it now means that we'll be able to spend more time with FF7, and that's a good thing.
The FF7 remake has been teased for a very long time, since 2016. The time is now rapidly approaching where we'll be able to follow the adventures of Cloud and friends in glorious, glorious 4k definition.
The follow-up to 2017's Nioh and set to be a prequel to the first game's story, Nioh 2 is an action RPG developed by Team Ninja, the same people that brought us Dead or Alive, and the progenitor of ridiculously difficult action games, Ninja Gaiden. Nioh 2 looks to expand upon the great gameplay of the first game even further, and we won't even have to wait as long as we did for the first one.
Some call it an expansion. Some call it an entirely new game. Some just want more Persona 5. Royal has already enjoyed a few months of release in Japan, but the rest of the world will soon be getting it as the localization will release at the very end of March.
Persona 5 Royal adds a new character, Kasumi Yoshizawa, a 2nd-year student at Shujin Academy, who ties in to the Phantom Thieves in her own way, with new story elements, more activities, and even more to ensure that even as a Persona 5 veteran, you'll find more of it to enjoy.
Meanwhile, the Switch will see its first big release this year in March, with a brand new Animal Crossing game, of all things. New Horizons is the fifth main game in the series, and the latest major release since New Leaf dropped all the way back in 2013 (that's 7 years ago!)
With a bunch of new features (crafting, extensive player customisation) as well as the game adjusting its weather based on the player's real-life location, New Horizons is sure to keep Animal Crossing fans happy for a good long while.
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC
We arrive at our first launch title of the year, with the replacement for the Xbox One arriving this holiday season, what better way to welcome it than with a new mainline Halo game?
Halo Infinite will be part of its own story, set some years after the events of Halo 5: Guardians, with Master Chief being the central focus of it. Details are pretty scant, but knowing that there will be another "year of Halo" is always a good thing.
Release Date: March 6
In what seems to be a blooming trend for Pokemon since Let's Go Eevee! and Let's Go Pikachu!, Mystery Dungeon DX is a Switch remake of the very first Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team.
In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, you don't train Pokemon, you ARE the Pokemon! As you traverse through randomly generated dungeons, you'll form a rescue team (hence the name) of Pokemon by recruiting them to help on your adventures. You'll fight other Pokemon in turn-based battles and slowly unravel a mystery. Between this and Animal Crossing, the Switch seems to be getting off to a great year.
Release Date: April 3
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC
After last year's absolutely amazing Resident Evil 2 Remake, Capcom is back with another major retelling of another incredible game in the series. In Resident Evil 3, players will assume control of Jill Valentine, a S.T.A.R.S agent trying to escape Raccoon City, 24 hours before the events of RE2. The whole time she is being chased by a giant bio-weapon, codenamed Nemesis.
Knowing how terrifying it was to meet Mr.X in RE2, one can only wonder how much further on the horror scale stumbling upon Nemesis would be. Capcom is on a major upswing and here they are, hoping to prove that lightning doesn't just strike twice, it can strike as many times as they damn well please.
Release Date: February 6 (Japan)
One of the biggest names in Cygames, Granblue Fantasy continues to branch out into even more territory, and now it can mark 'fighting game' off that list. Though we'd have to wait a little longer for a localized English version, GBF Versus promises to deliver. With Arc System Works behind development (the guys who made Dragonball FighterZ and BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle), you know you'll have a great fighting game on your hands.
Another game on our list hit with a delay, Marvel's Avengers didn't quite blow us away during its reveal at E3 2019. However, opinions can change over time, and while it's not necessarily familiar, it's still recognizable.
One hopes SQUARE ENIX and Marvel can pull through, and deliver us an experience that truly makes us feel like an Avenger.
What are your most highly anticipated games this year? We'd like to know about it as well, so be sure to hit the comments and continue following the discussion!
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Food franchises account for a major portion of the franchise opportunities available today. In addition, they're very popular.
If you happen to be someone who's looking to become the owner of a food franchise, there are certain skills you'll need to possess. I'm going to highlight 3 of them.
When you own and operate a food franchise, the most important skill you'll need to possess is multi-tasking. Period.
Before I continue, I have a question for you.
Have you ever worked in food-service?
If you have, you already know that some of the things I listed above aren't generally done one by one in a smooth, orderly way. (Not in the food business, anyway) In other words, some of them need to be done at the same time.
For example, you may be prepping food for lunch hour, or doing employee training, when you're interrupted by a kitchen worker who tells you that the grease trap is clogged-and smelly, used grease is oozing out all over the kitchen floor. Guess who's' going to have to roll up her sleeves to fix the problem?
If you've never worked in food-service, you need to know that there are a lot of headaches. And they seem to pile-on around the same time.
But know this: If you're a good multi-tasker, you'll be able to deal with them as they come up.
According the National Restaurant Association, the turnover rate in food-service (in 2016) was around 70%. That means you'll be spending a lot of your* time doing hiring, firing, and employee training.
*If you play your cards right, you should be able to hire a manger to help with employee-related issues, eventually.
I know from my own experience in food-service that there is a ton of turnover. As long as you know that going in, and you're a good manager of people, you should be able to put together (and retain) a good core group of employees that will stay with you.
Today's consumers expect a lot. In addition, they hold the cards.
That's because there are more choices than ever before. If they don't like your product and/or your service, they'll take their money elsewhere-without hesitation.
In particular, first impressions really count. And that's where franchising excels, because franchisors have the resources to create great first impressions.
For example, did you know that Ray Kroc (of McDonald's fame) used to patrol the parking lots of his restaurants making sure there wasn't any litter? He knew that the outside areas of his restaurants were just as important as the inside. He was a clean-freak-and it paid off big.
And let's not forget the face-to-face customer service that's so important these days.
When a customer complains about your product or service, you need to be able to jump-in and rectify it immediately.
Your franchisor will provide specific procedures for dealing with customer complaints, but it's going to be up to you to present a solution to whatever the complaint is in a friendly manner. If you handle customer complaints correctly, (with a smile on your face) you have a good chance of them coming back.
The bottom line: Good customer service skills are a necessity for food franchise ownership. And if you're a good manager of employees, and can multi-task with ease, food franchise ownership could work out quite well for you.


The ASUS N550JV is the latest version of the performance/entertainment notebook N series from ASUS. It features a Haswell quad-core CPU with RAM expandable to 16GB and a replaceable HDD. The star of the show is the Full HD IPS screen, which is top-notch. Also, the entire case is made from aluminium and build quality is close to a MBP.
Linux runs rather well on the unit, but it took me some trial and error in order to get most of the features and components working properly on Fedora 19.
Update: The newest F19 kernel - 3.11.1-200 isn't supported by the bumblebee package and you will get poor battery life unless you manually echo "OFF" to /proc/acpi/bbswitch.
The main thing is to run a recent kernel and put acpi_osi="" in the kernel command line in grub. This will fix the backlight brightness and function keys. You may also have to manually load the asus-nb-wmi module in /etc/modules-load.d to ensure that the module load on boot.
Also, remember to take out any other ACPI kernel command line options you may have put in before, such as acpi_backlight as the keys will not work properly if you have those.
Also consider updating the BIOS to 206 as it has proven to be a stable configuration for me and the ACPI keys work consistently.
The patch fixing this issue has been accepted in Linus' tree and appears to be on track for the 3.11 kernel release.
After installing the modified kernel RPM that reverts the change (not necessary when the 3.11 kernel comes out), and then installing the bumblebee RPMS from http://techies.ncsu.edu/wiki/bumblebee, everything works as expected.
There is some information on how to get previous ASUS notebooks with an external subwoofer working under ALSA. However, I've not been able to get the subwoofer to work on the N550JV. If I do have some free time, might have a go at it. It's not a big issue for me, as it is a hassle to carry the subwoofer around, and on the desk I can connect the system to proper audio equipment that sounds much better than with the external subwoofer unit.
The really interesting thing about this system is that it allows the user to set the ATA security passwords. When the system is equipped with a Full Disk Encryption supporting SSD or HDD, the FDE support can be completely seemless. You can set both master and user passwords in the UEFI BIOS. I've replaced the original HDD with a 960GB Crucial M500 SSD with ATA security enabled. No problems with this setup so far.
The script above will turn on most of the power management setting. However, regarding SATA link power management, some SSDs (and maybe some HDDs as well) do not work well with min_power, and I have corrupted disks with this setting on. Currently, I'm using medium_power and this setting is fine for my M500 SSD so far. However, please do your own tests before turning on the SATA link power management - I left this commented out in the script above for this reason!
Update: It looks that that the kmod-staging driver for the rts5139 loads and detects the a block device, but does not actually detect media. So as of yet, the module isn't actually functional.
The card reader on the N550JV uses the RTS5139 chipset. As the driver for this is in staging, the module is not included in the default Fedora kernel. To fix this install kmod-staging from rpmfusion.org which should install the correct kmod-staging rpm for your current kernel. Be aware that this package sometimes lag behind the Fedora kernel.
I can confirm that this now work on Fedora since kernel 3.10.11.
With the new kernel, bluetooth is now working fine on the system. However, as the Atheros card only support single-band wifi, it may be a good option to upgrade to an Intel card that supports dual-band.


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A High Court judge has barred publication of leaked photographs allegedly hacked from Pippa Middleton's iCloud account.
The Duchess of Cambridge's sister took civil court action against a "person or persons unknown" after her iCloud account was reportedly hacked.
Police released a 35-year-old man on bail, pending further inquiries, after being arrested in Northamptonshire on Saturday on suspicion of an offense under the Computer Misuse Act.
Photographs allegedly stolen from Middleton include pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge and her children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
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Some 3,000 images were reportedly hacked from her iCloud account.
The Sun claims to have been offered the images in exchange for £50,000 ($65,000) within 48 hours.
Barrister Adam Wolanski, who led Middleton's legal team, said she thought there had been a "genuine hack."
He said there had been a "flagrant" and "criminal" act which had caused Middleton "considerable distress."
Middleton took legal action in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, where judges analyze privacy claims, among other issues.
High profile hacks have been regular affairs in recent years. One of the largest to date was the 2014 iCloud hack known as 'the fappening.'
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The word combines the M. Night Shyamalan film titled 'The Happening' with the word 'fapping' – internet slang for masturbation.
The massive leak included nude photos of Hollywood celebrities Jennifer Lawrence and Kirsten Dunst.
Also in 2014, around 200,000 images and videos from the photo messaging app Snapchat were stolen and released online.
In the summer, Middleton announced her engagement to hedge fund manager James Matthews, with a wedding planned next year.
Matthews is older brother to reality TV star Spencer Matthews, who has featured in the British show Made in Chelsea.
The banker manages his own firm, Eden Rock Capital Management, which has an office in Bermuda and runs a network of overseas subsidiaries, many in tax havens.


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'Dark Phoenix' Director Reveals What Those Cracks in Jean Grey's Face Signify
by Rishabh Naudiyal
The trailer of the new X-Men: Dark Phoenix has been released and the fans are absolutely going crazy with all the stuff they've shown to us in the trailer. Jean Grey looks like an absolute goddess in terms of the magnitude of the powers she have within her. There were a lot of Easter eggs in the trailer of the movie but there were many other things also who caught the eyes of the fans and one of them was the cracks on the face of Jean Grey.
But, Simon Kinberg explained the reasons behind those cracks while talking to Empire as the director revealed,
"That's not maximum Phoenix. That's a two or a three on the Dark Phoenix spectrum. It is a manifestation of her transformation from the Jean we know into Phoenix. Over the span of the movie we see different symptoms or iterations of that. The lines on her face let you know that Jean is losing control, and that force inside her is trying to escape, push through, and take over. Those cracks are almost as if something inside her that's more powerful than she is trying to push out of her body."
There is another scene in the trailer where Jean is either absorbing or unleashing a Phoenix-like power and we see those cracks again.
"Jean is in space, and what she's taking in is a cosmic force that she thinks is one thing, and over the course of the movie realizes is something far different, that our human science can't explain," Kinberg explains. "But she needs to find a way to control it or she'll destroy more than just her friends – and even our planet."
If we talk about the official character description of Dark Phoenix then we can see a lot of interesting things and we all wonder how they're going to show us the moment when Jean Grey will unleash the Phoenix force because as we all know that Phoenix is simply an unimaginable power and should be in good hands because it can cause a lot of damage, a lot of serious damage my friends. Down below is the characterization:
"In Dark Phoenix, the X-Men face their one of the most formidable and powerful foes of all-time as: One of their team members turns into that foe and that was none other than, Jean Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns back to his home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable.
Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean spiraling out of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling apart, they must find a way to unite — not only to save Jean's soul, but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force and rule the galaxy."
Sophie Turner who is playing the role of Jean Grey has told something about the movie and all the things which she felt during the course of shooting,
"This movie is kind of a lot more emotion-based, much more grounded," Turner explained. "This one is really character-driven – a really emotional story about a girl battling with a deadly mix of mental health problems and being a superhero. It's such a departure from the last movie.
It's Sophie Turner's on-screen partner Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), who told us something about the movie and the way in which the director is leading the movie in as he said in an interview with Collider that,
"Everyone was on the same page with the idea that we were approaching it as much more of a grounded drama versus a superhero movie. Something that's getting old with those universes and all the Marvel movies is that they all look the same and they're all doing the same thing. We really wanted to shake it up, in that sense, and take a different approach to this. Simon Kinberg, who wrote the past three X-Men, directed Dark Phoenix, and I'm super, super excited about it. I think it will turn out well and that it will be different X-Men than we've ever seen before, so that's exciting."
The movie is going to be released on June 7, 2019.
Rishabh Naudiyal
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Hifiman HE1000se Review - A Planar Like Nothing Else
Review written by Andrew Park (@Resolve)
Review unit provided on loan for evaluation by headphones.com and "The HEADPHONE Community" Preview Program.
Having been thoroughly impressed with some of the more recent HiFiMAN planar magnetic headphones, namely the Ananda and the Arya , I've become increasingly interested to hear what a top of the line flagship from the same company could do. I was never able to get into the HE1000 line of headphones - mostly because of the sheer size of the cups - but now that I've had a bit more experience with that style, the technical ability of this type of headphone has had my attention. With the recognition that currently the Susvara is their top planar flagship, the HE1000se (HEKse) is actually the newest HiFiMAN offering that takes both the 'stealth magnet' innovation from the Susvara and the latest ultra-thin diaphragm development, and implements them in the somewhat lighter, oval-shaped style of the rest of their high end line. The HEKse is also considerably easier to drive, and so while the HEKse isn't the most expensive HiFiMAN planar, it may perhaps be the most interesting, and the most technologically advanced.
This review primarily focuses on the degree to which the differences between the lower end models and the HEKse are noticeable, and ultimately to determine if it's worth saving for. I've also been paying close attention to how well the HEKse does in comparison to some other high end planars I've enjoyed such as the Audeze LCD4, and the Rosson Audio RAD-0.
Driver Type - Planar Magnetic
Design - Over-Ear (Circumaural)
Sensitivity - 96 DB
Impedance - 35 Ohms
Cables - 3.5mm Single Ended, 6.35mm Single Ended, XLR 4-pin Balanced
Connectors - 3.5mm
FLAC Library, TIDAL (HiFi and Master) - iFi iDSD Micro Black Label -> Cayin IHA-6 -> HE1000se
For the HEKse I've been listening to a lot more music with cellos, violins, and other orchestral instruments, but I've also been going through the whole Bill Frisell catalogue on Tidal, which has some decent recordings. I've also listened to my usual grouping of instrument-focused jazz tracks from Michael Wollny, Tingval Trio, and Julian Lage, as well as some vocal standouts from Alexis Cole, Stacey Kent. In particular I've been really enjoying the recent album from Laurent Coulondre titled "Michel on my mind". For heavier material it's been a lot of Periphery, and of course, the latest Tool tracks.
Design, Build & Comfort
The HEKse uses the same design shape as its predecessor (and the HE1000 V2). As much as I find this cup shape to be less than ideal, given its massive size, it has to be said that I don't mind it as much as I thought - at least after my initial hesitancy.
While still slightly on the heavy side at over 400g, the HEKse does reasonably well for comfort, and actually I find it to be better than the Arya, in spite of the slight weight increase. This is helped by the improvements to the headband, and for some reason the clamping on the side of the top of my head I felt from the Arya isn't as noticeable with the HEKse. At the same time, the design of the headpiece system is still not at all my preference. The sliding side pieces to the headband don't feel particularly secure, and when they are set in an optimal position for the cups on my ears, half the headphone reaches my jaw. This is an odd experience, but on the whole not the worst, and it's still an improvement over just about every other headphone I've experienced at this price - except for maybe the Meze Empyrean.
The build quality is also an improvement over the Arya, which felt cheap by comparison, however I'm personally not a big fan of the wood inlay. Sleek but sturdy is a good design choice to aim for, and HiFiMAN continues to miss that target. Still, the window shade grille and yoke system feels much more sturdy than the lower end models and that's a very good thing. While they haven't had a great track record for build and quality control, it's clear that HiFiMAN has made some effort to make the HEKse feel premium, even though that effort won't fully satisfy those of us who want it to feel as good as it sounds. This is still a far cry from the build quality of the Audeze LCD4 - but maybe that's how you keep the weight down.
On that subject, HiFiMAN have somehow managed to use a double sided magnet structure without making the headphone unbearably heavy, and that's a very good thing in my opinion. Supposedly the HEKse also uses what HiFiMAN have dubbed the "stealth magnet" that was implemented in the Susvara. The idea here is that the magnet shape is designed in such a way that it minimizes interference (wave diffraction) with the sound being produced. This appears to be done by rounding the edges of the magnets, reducing the overall area that could break up the wave. This makes me wonder if there's any other magnetic 'drive' trade-off necessary to achieve such a design, and if this means gaining a benefit in detail at the cost of speed (or some other technical category). In any case, this is so far only the second implementation of this idea, and if the HEKse and Susvara demonstrate a successful proof of concept in the performance department, I can see it being implemented throughout the rest of the line.
Coming from the Arya, my expectation for the HEKse was that it would yield a slight increase in performance at most, and that the point of this headphone is primarily to be a 'premium' Arya. Part of this expectation comes from some reports of this headphone being less distinguishable from the Arya than the Arya is from the Ananda. That expectation was wildly inaccurate.
Detail Retrieval - 9.9/10
I was impressed with the Arya's technical ability, but the HEKse is clearly a categorical step up in terms of detail retrieval. I've come to learn that not everyone notices detail improvements, or at least not right away, and so the best way I can describe the difference is that the HEKse represents instrument texture with more clarity and distinction than the Arya does. This is especially noticeable in the treble, and for instruments like trumpets, violins, or anything acoustic where there is a lot of textural nuance in the recording. These elements come through on the HEKse better than almost anything I've ever heard. In fact I'll go as far as to say this is the best detail retrieval for high frequencies I've heard, and it does for treble what the LCD4 does for bass.
Speed & Dynamics - 9/10
The HEKse has what I can only describe as a 'softer' presentation, which is a departure from their older models like the HE-500 and HE-6. But that doesn't mean it's not a fast headphone. In fact, the HEKse is surprisingly fast, to the point where it can catch you off guard a bit. The same goes for its dynamics. For some tracks it feels like it doesn't hit with much authority, but then for other tracks it slams surprisingly hard. My guess is that if the track in question makes use of certain frequencies in the mid and sub-bass, it's more likely to give that satisfying rumble. Moreover, the microdynamics are also quite good. Nuances for the slightest incremental volume intervals in the mix come through more distinctly than what something like the Ananda is able to do.
Stage & Imaging - 9.8/10
Just like the Arya, the HEKse has a very spacious stage, possibly even more spacious. My favorite quality of the Arya was that it provides a lot of depth information, and the HEKse does that while also throwing wider and more distinctly to the sides - rather than more in front of me like the Arya. In that sense the HEKse is similar to the HD800s. Structural definition for the images is also unsurprisingly excellent, and instrument separation is some of the best I've heard. I find that planars tend to do a better job at this when compared to dynamics, and only the Utopia has really been able to demonstrate the same ability. If anyone has an opportunity to try the HEKse, make sure to listen to the new Tool track "Chocolate Chip Trip" - this is easily one of the craziest and most visceral experiences of soundstage and imagining prowess I've ever come across. Curiously, the images on the HEKse are also quite large, and in particular they're a lot taller than on most headphones. This could be due to the cup size/shape as well.
Timbre - 8.5/10
This is an interesting one. The HEKse is one of the most resolving and highly detailed planars I've heard, and because of that, the planar timbre comes across a bit more strongly. Those who love that natural ZMF tone won't be as into this. But on the plus side, the HEKse doesn't exhibit any of the dryness I had always associated with HiFiMAN planars in the past, and that's a welcome improvement. I had said that while both the Ananda and the Arya have improved in this area over predecessors, it wasn't fully gone, but with the HEKse my feeling is that it is gone entirely.
This measurement was done using the MiniDSP EARS rig, which should not be compared to other systems and is not to be taken as an industry standard measurement system. This is the HEQ compensation, which is a target curve similar to that of the Harman target
Tonality and frequency response is where the HEKse stumbles a bit in my opinion. In general it's closer to a diffuse field target than a typical consumer curve, and I can normally get on board with this type of tuning. However there are two issues in the treble that throw things off. The first is that there's a noticeable peak at around 6khz. This adds a bit of shimmer for certain instruments, but importantly it throws off the tonality for snare drum hits. I had the same problem with the original HD800, and a lot of people who found that unpleasant will likely have an issue with this as well. Keep in mind that the MiniDSP EARS rig used here has a tendency to show a 4.5khz peak on just about every headphone, so that elevation is not as extreme in reality. But this fact also means the 6khz peak is emphasized a bit more than is shown on the graph, and this is responsible for some shrillness for many recordings - even the high quality ones. My instinct is that an elevation here works well for certain types of classical music, but throws things off for just about everything else.
The second problem is that the region above 10khz is overemphasized. It's not as extreme as what's going on with the LCD4, and the tonal balance isn't thrown off as much because the lower treble energy is still very present with the HEKse. But I find that this causes a similar problem I had with the LCD4, where the tonal focus for cymbal hits is less distinct in favor of the splash/sizzle/sparkle qualities that reach 12-13khz. So for this reason I bring the 'air' region down by a few dB to bring it in line with how I naturally hear cymbals.
Thankfully there's absolutely no sibilance with the HEKse, and this is illustrated by the lack of a peak at 8.5khz, which is often where consonant sounds can be the most unpleasant. But for some reason I prefer a tuning to that region that has a very consistent rise at 8.5khz, and then another consistent drop towards 10khz, similar to what's going on with the Ananda - kind of like a smooth yet consistent gradual peak. In fact, I still strongly believe that the Ananda has the best and most realistic overall tuning of all HiFiMAN products to date, especially in the 8.5khz consonant region. So I simply applied an EQ that gets the HEKse's frequency response extremely close to that of the Ananda, and I find it to be a substantial improvement.
Interestingly, when you do this (this one was easy to EQ), you do lose a little bit of the stage. So it could very well be the case that the HEkse is deliberately tuned the way that it is to achieve a bigger sense of space. However, I find that it's not a trade-off I prefer, because it creates this effect where certain instruments that should be focused in one spot are somehow spaced out and pulled apart in ways they shouldn't be. Applying the moderate EQ reducing 6khz, 12.5khz, and boosting 8.5khz slightly to get the frequency response closer to that of the Ananda focuses those instruments together to be more appropriately placed for a more cohesive presentation.
Of course, the bass is well extended and I quite enjoy the slight midrange emphasis, but these areas simply sound amazing, and I have absolutely no complaints there. Those who prefer the Harman target may want to elevate the bass slightly below 100hz.
My last point about the HEKse's tonality is that I get the feeling this headphone cheats a bit. Its performance is so incredibly good in terms of detail retrieval that it gets away with not being as appropriately tuned for genres that aren't classical and orchestral music. If the detail wasn't as good as it is, some of the shrillness may be more annoying than it actually is, and I can see the first listen of this headphone being very enjoyable for many even without EQ.
Score - 8.5/10 for classical music, 6/10 for everything else.
HiFiMAN Arya - The HEKse and the Arya sound very different from one another. The Arya has a more agreeable tonality, and while it also takes a bit of EQ, it has overall better tonal balance to my ears for accurately representing instruments. It still has a bit of a 5khz peak that can be reduced to improve snare drum representation, and there's a slight bump around 9khz that emphasizes consonant edges that can be reduced, but not much else beyond that. Thankfully the HEKse does outperform the Arya in terms of technical ability by a noticeable margin. Both in terms of detail retrieval and overall stage width, the HEKse is more surgical and precise, and it has that extremely addictive texture representation to it that few other headphones can do. With EQ, the HEKse is clearly the better headphone, and if you are comfortable making a few adjustments, its technical ability is enough to make it worth it.
HiFiMAN Ananda - The Ananda also uses a newer, thinner diaphragm - like the HEKse - and it's currently my sub $1000 benchmark headphone. For tonality, I haven't found anything I like better than the Ananda, but the HEKse outperforms it by a wide margin in terms of microdynamics, detail, stage and imaging. The Ananda doesn't have nearly the same depth capabilities or what some describe as 'blackness of background'. The HEKse also has quite a bit more 'air' up top, which is an extremely addicting quality, and the Ananda has neither the frequency response nor the detail capability to compete.
Audeze LCD4 - In many ways the HEKse is a counterpart to the LCD4. For technical ability, the HEKse does in the treble what the LCD4 does for the bass, each representing the pinnacle of detail retrieval capabilities for their respective specialization frequency ranges. Of course, the LCD4 also does quite well in the treble - it's just not as noticeable due to the somewhat incoherent tonal balance. Still, without EQ I think many would prefer the default tonality of the LCD4 for its more agreeable presentation across a wider range of genres - even though the HEKse is more cohesive for tonal balance specifically for classical and orchestral music. This is an interesting one to come to a conclusion on, but if I had to choose between the two I would go with the HEKse. It hits the mark on more performant categories that matter to me (a more lifelike and spacious stage), and is about equal in the rest. I do give the LCD4 the edge in terms of speed, slightly, and perhaps more substantially in terms of dynamic slam and impact in the bass, but I think the more lifelike stage of the HEKse is worth the trade off. And of course, the HEKse is far more comfortable for longer sessions.
Rosson Audio RAD-0 - The RAD-0 is just a hair shy of the detail retrieval capabilities of the HEKse and the LCD4, but it's very close, and the RAD-0's tonal balance without EQ is more appropriate for instrument representation than both of them. The HEKse wins out more noticeably on stage space, depth imaging, and treble detail - and the HEKse is also more comfortable given its considerably lower weight. But for those looking for a warmer presentation, the RAD-0 may be the better choice. In some ways these two complement each other, even with my EQ applied to the HEKse that brings instrumental focus together a bit, and switching between the two is quite enjoyable.
The HEKse is undeniably a detail monster, and its performant qualities make up for its stumbles in terms of tonality and frequency response. It's a distinct step up from the performance of the Arya, even if the Arya has a more agreeable tonality for a wider range of genres.
When you consider how this headphone is positioned against the LCD4, it's like they're two sides of the same coin: one focuses on bass detail, and the other one on treble detail. Both are flawed, and require a bit of EQ, but both are also so incredibly detailed in their respective specialties that they do warrant the empirical questions audiophiles often ask one another. The phrase "but have you heard the LCD4?" can comfortably now also include or be countered with "but have you heard the HEKse?". We can only hope that one day someone comes out with a headphone that achieves the best aspects of both.
For those of us willing to EQ a bit, this is a welcome alternative to the LCD4 - at a much lower weight - and it gets my thorough recommendation. For those who are unwilling to EQ, this one might be a pass unless you're specifically listening to classical and orchestral music.
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Victor Nov 07, 2019
Hi, I read your review and I definitely feel the shrillness that you describe but am otherwise happy with the 1000se. I was hoping you could maybe share the EQ settings you used to tame the 1000se. I'm use equalizer APO and would really appreciate it. Great blog!
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by Debi Moore March 5, 2017, 12:40 pm
If you're a fan of the paranormal, you should be well aware of the "dibbuk box" that gained infamy from a 2004 story in the Los Angeles Times. It went on to spawn the movie The Possession, and now it's been acquired by one of the most famous names in the haunted memorabilia biz: Zak Bagans, who plans to add the box to his Haunted Museum.
Per TMZ, Zak bought the wine cabinet allegedly haunted by a dibbuk (or dybbuk) from the guys who lent its evil backstory to the 2012 horror film. "Dybbuk" literally means "an attachment, a cleaving to something"; a dybbuk is thought to be the spirit of a person who, instead of drifting into the next realm, sticks around and enters the bodies of living people.
This particular item is commonly known as the "world's most haunted object," which explains why Zak reportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars for it. However, don't expect to see it opened up for the public when touring his Las Vegas-based Haunted Museum. According to TMZ, he's genuinely too terrified to do that. But if you're brave enough – and over 18 – you'll be able to sign a waiver to view it.
Zak's massive Haunted Museum, set to open soon, will also hold such oddities as an actual mummy, Peggy the Doll, Michael Jackson's death scene chair, Ed Gein's cauldron, Dr. Jack Kervorkian's van, a throng of working antique mechanical dolls, and much more.
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It's always good to know where you are. If you're hiking on trails, here are the techniques I use to keep track of where I am at all times.
Locate, purchase, and carry the most detailed, up-to-date, and accurate trail map for the area you're visiting. Whenever possible, spend the few extra dollars to purchase a waterproof map made from plastic (good) or Tyvek (the best) for their resistance to wear and tear.
Don't fold and refold your map repeatedly as you go, which is a hassle and starts to wear out your map along the creases. Fold it once so that most, if not all, of the area you're visiting is face up. And don't be afraid of creating new folds in the process—this actually helps preserve your map over the long-term by avoiding over-use along the existing folds.
This protects it from wear-and-tear and, if it's paper, keeps it dry. Zip-lock freezer bags are the thickest and most durable.
Follow your progress and mark your location as you go, especially any time you reach a known landmark or trail junctions.
Develop a sense of how long it takes you to hike a mile over different terrain, which allows you to estimate your approximate location based on the time you've traveled from your last known location. For example, I know that it takes me about 20 minutes to hike a mile on gentle terrain, increasingly more over steeper and rougher terrain.
Staying aware of the angle and direction of surrounding slopes can help you refine your location on the map, especially in areas like the Northeast that feature a lot of topography.
On sunny days, you can keep track of this as you move by monitoring the sun's location. On cloudy days you'll need a compass. This is helpful to ensure that you're hiking the right direction on the right trail.
Of course, knowing your precise coordinates makes it easy to pinpoint your location on a map, but it does take a small amount of time and hassle to do so. If you're carrying a GPS unit, by all means use it from time to time, but consider it a secondary tool to the skills and basics outlined above.


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Customers expect to find increasingly local food, produced near them, in their local stores. The availability of local food is an important value for many customers, since the production of local food and local companies will maintain the vitality of the area.
"Local competence and the efforts of entrepreneurs are valued. Local products are often considered to be authentic and traditional; there is a sense of loyalty and love for one's home region," says Katja Tapio from SOK Retail chain management.
The myth of all stores in a chain being similar lives strong. The chain operations bring efficiency and consistency to many things, but still, the product range always reflects our customer base. Work on the product range in S Group's grocery stores is carried out on two levels: the chain's product range is the responsibility of the assortment managers and procurement managers in S Group's retail chain management, and the cooperatives enrich the product range with local products and work to meet the needs of their customer base.
"A small store located in a city centre may focus on snacks and products offered for meeting the daily needs. In rural areas, stores may resemble the old-time general stores, which also sell soil and tools," says assortment manager Juha Nieminen of SOK Retail chain management.
"At best, the product range meets customers' all basic needs, feels right and is an extensive combination of the most sought-after and most economical products, as well as the best local products," Nieminen says.


In 2015 I travelled to Shenzhen in China to learn more about 5G mobile technology at Huawei's headquarters. Huawei's brand is best known in New Zealand for phone handsets. That is only part of the company's story. Huawei is also the world's largest telecoms-equipment-maker and a world-scale economic powerhouse. Spark New Zealand and 2degrees use Huawei kit to power their cellular networks. Moreover, Huawei is leading the charge towards next generation mobile networks.
Everyone in the phone business always knew there would be a generation to follow 4G. Cellular technology is far from done. Yet at the time of my visit 5G was still a new idea only starting to take shape. In 2015 many telcos around the world were still finishing their 4G networks. The hype machine hadn't kicked in and technologists were still batting ideas around. Some concepts were just that: concepts.
Wang also said the goal was to get latency down to 1 ms and to support data speeds of up to 10 Gbps. This second goal has since been changed to 20 Gbps. Most of the other numbers remain as planned in 2015.
As any physics student will be able to tell you, light, or radio waves, travels through a vacuum at about 300 kilometres in a millisecond. The speed through air is not much different. The original 5G target speed of 10 Gbps is ten times the speed of today's fastest home fibre connections. The newer 20 Gbps target is twenty times faster. Without getting deeper into electromagnetic physics or engineering, these goals are ambitious. You can't push wireless data that fast with the existing mobile radio spectrum. There isn't enough free bandwidth for three carriers to hit these targets in densely populated areas.
Which means carriers need to find new spectrum if they are to deliver 5G. Or, more to the point, government's have to reorganise existing spectrum allocations. In most cases they then sell it to carriers in an auction. New Zealand's Radio Spectrum Management, part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, is already working on 5G plans. So is the Commerce Commission. Telecommunications Commissioner Dr Stephen Gale said: "We believe the power to regulate remains an important competition safeguard, especially with 5G networks and potential new entrants on the horizon".
Spectrum isn't cheap. Governments usually auction it in blocks at a time. Each block sits in a separate band of spectrum. The last New Zealand government wisely decided not to cash in on the last big spectrum auction for blocks in the 700 Mhz band. That left carriers with the funds to exploit the new bandwidth almost straight away. Contrast this with the UK where bidder spent £1.4 billion buying 5G spectrum. This was more than twice the anticipated cost. The winning bidders spent money they could have used for the capital expense of building a network. It's likely to mean a slower build and higher costs for users.
In the past different services have run in different frequency bands. One of the features of 5G is that carriers will be able to mash together greater amounts of bandwidth from different bands. Or to use their language: aggregate spectrum. This already happens a little with 4G. Spectrum aggregation is central to 5G. Aggregation opens the door to merging what now may seem like different technologies, in particular cellular and wi-fi. How that works in practice will be interesting. In the next post on 5G we'll look more at the spectrum issue.


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CBN Increases Currency In Circulation By N418bn
The Currency in Circulation rose by N418bn from N2.91tn in December, 2020, to N3.33tn in December, 2021, according to figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The CBN data showed that currency in circulation had increased by 19.06 per cent from N2.44tn recorded as of December, 2019.
The CBN said in its report on currency operations that, "the growth in CIC reflected the continued dominance of cash in the economy."
The report further read in part, "Analysis of the CIC shows that a greater proportion was in higher denomination banknotes (N100, N200, N500 and N1000). The higher denomination banknotes together accounted for 63.47 per cent and 98.08 per cent of the total CIC, in terms of volume and value, respectively.
"The volume of lower denomination banknotes (N5, N10, N20, N50) accounted for 28.43 per cent of the total CIC and 1.92 per cent, in terms of value as at end-December 2020."
According to the CBN, electronic payment options were introduced with a major aim of reducing the amount of naira notes used for transactions, but not to eliminate cash usage.
Cashless transactions using the e-payments, the CBN said, would help to increase convenience, provide more service options, reduce risk of cash-related crimes, and provide cheaper access to (out-of-branch) banking services and access to credit.
The CBN defines currency in circulation as currency outside the vaults of the central bank, that is, all legal tender currency in the hands of the general public and in the vaults of the Deposit Money Banks.
The CBN said it employed the "accounting/statistical/withdrawals & deposits approach" to compute the currency in circulation in Nigeria.
It said this approach involved tracking the movements of currency in circulation on a transaction-by-transaction basis.
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According to the CBN, for every withdrawal made by a Deposit Money Bank at one of CBN's branches, an increase in CIC is recorded; and for every deposit made by a DMB at one of CBN's branches, a decrease in CIC is recorded.
The transactions are all recorded in the CBN's CIC account, and the balance on the account at any point in time represents the country's currency in circulation.
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