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Mark Morrisroe (Malden, Massachusetts, 10 de gener de 1959 - Jersey City, Nova Jersey, 24 de juliol de 1989) va ser un artista estatunidenc, conegut per les seves actuacions artístiques i pel seu treball com a fotògraf. Va contribuir al desenvolupament de la cultura punk a Boston en la dècada de 1970 i a la gran eclosió mundial del punk a Nova York a mitjan anys 1980. Al moment de la seva mort, la producció artística de Morrisroe rondava les 2000 obres. Com a fotògraf, pertany a l'anomenada escola de Boston. La seva obra es caracteritza per l'experimentalisme i per la seva naturalitat a l'hora d'abordar assumptes com la vida marginal, l'homosexualitat, la prostitució masculina o la malaltia.

Biografia
La seva mare era addicta a les drogues i era inquilina d'Albert DeSalvo, el criminal conegut com l'Estrangulador de Boston (Morrisroe sovint assegurava ser el seu fill il·legítim). Amb quinze anys va abandonar la casa materna i va començar a prostituir-se sota el nom de Mark Dirt. Quan tenia disset anys, va rebre un tret per l'esquena d'un dels seus clients. Se li va clavar la bala prop de la seva columna vertebral per a tota la vida. Aquest fet va influir poderosament en l'art de Morrisroe, que sovint va incorporar a les seves obres imatges de prostituts joves i de radiografies del seu pit ferit. Morrisroe va estudiar a l'Escola del Museu de Belles Arts de Boston, on va fer amistat amb altres alumnes que aviat es convertirien en artistes famosos, com Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Stephen Tashjian (conegut com a Tabboo!, amb qui fundarà el duo de drag-queens "Clam Twins"), Gail Thacker i Pat Hearn. El xicot de Morrisroe en l'etapa de Boston va ser l'artista Johnathan Pierson, que després va canviar el seu nom a Jack Pierson.
Durant el seu temps d'estudis, va realitzar actuacions sota l'aparença de drag queen, interpretant un personatge de la seva invenció que va anomenar Sweet Raspberry. Va cofundar amb Lynelle White una revista titulada Dirt Magazine, en la qual publicaven notícies falses i xafarderies sobre famosos, especialment de Boston.

Morrisroe, malalt de sida va morir el juliol de 1989. Les seves cendres es van escampar a McMinnville (Oregon), a la granja del seu últim xicot, Ramsey McPhillips.

Carrera fotogràfica
Va començar quan va rebre un patrocini de l'empresa Polaroid, que li va proporcionar pel·lícules i rodets per a la seva càmera instantània. Gràcies a això va poder experimentar noves tècniques fotogràfiques, amb muntatges, retalls, manipulant amb pintura les imatges, afegint notes escrites a mà, dedicatòries, anotacions biogràfiques, realitzant muntatges amb dos negatius sobre un mateix assumpte (el que ell va anomenat fotos "entrepà", etc.). Les fotografies de Morrisroe gairebé sempre són retrats que posseeixen un destacat component autobiogràfic. Excepcionalment, va fer algun paisatge o alguna foto exterior. El seu tema principal és ell mateix i els seus amics i amants, l'ambient de marginalitat en el qual es desenvolupa la seva vida, captat sempre amb gran immediatesa i sinceritat, sense defugir l'escabrós. La seva obra és un testimoni d'autoafirmació: mostra comportaments mal vists per la societat (homosexualitat, drogues, prostitució) amb un nou tipus de realisme que influirà poderosament en el desenvolupament de la fotografia.

Exposicions
A partir de 1985, la seva obra es va exhibir a la galeria Pat Hearn, on va tenir exposicions individuals el 1986 i 1988 i va participar en altres col·lectives, com la comissariada per Robert Mapplethorpe titulada Split Vision (1985) o la comissariada per Nan Goldin Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing (1989).

Després de la seva mort, se li va dedicar una exposició a l'Escola de Boston (1995), a càrrec de Lia Gangitono.

Altres exposicions importants de la seva obra han estat:
 1997: Mark Morrisroe, 1959 - 1989, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlín.
 1997: My Life: Mark Morrisroe, Polaroids 1977 - 1989, MOCA, Los Angeles.
 2010: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Suïssa.
 2011: Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On. A càrrec de Richard Birkett i Stefan Kalmar. Artists Space. Nova York.
 2012: Mark Morrisroe. Vila Stuck, Munic.

Filmografia
Entre 1981 i 1984, Morrisroe va gravar en súper 8 tres pel·lícules de baix pressupost, titulades The Laziest Girl in Town (1981), Hello from Bertha (1983) i Nymph-O-Maniac (1984). Aquestes pel·lícules mostren influències de John Waters i Jack Smith.

El 2002 el director Curtis Burz va rodar un curt sobre l'obra fotogràfica de Morrisroe titulat Mark Morrisroe. Polaroids 1959-1989.

Referències

Bibliografia
 ADAMS, Brooks: «Beautiful, dangerous People» en Art in America, marzo de 2011. ISSN 0004-3214.
 JOSELIT, David: «Mark Morrisroe's photographic masquerade», en The passionate camera: photography and bodies of desire, Deborah Bright (ed.), Routledge, 1998.
 MARTÍNEZ OLIVA, Jesús: El desaliento del guerrero: representaciones de la masculinidad en el arte de las décadas de los 80 y 90. Ana García Avilés, 2005.
 McCANN, Mark: «Multiple Exposure: Mark Morrisroe», The New York Times, 10 de marzo de 2011.
 McPHILLIPS, Ramsey: «How turned out the limelight. The tragi-comedy of Mark Morrisroe», en Loss Within Loss: Artists In The Age Of Aids (Edmund White, ed.). The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

Enllaços externs
 VILLENA, Luis Antonio: «En la flor del malditismo, el fotógrafo Mark Morrisroe», 11 de desembre de 2013.

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Fotògrafs estatunidencs
Punk
Comtat de Middlesex (Massachusetts)
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This Ricci Law Firm post is the first in a series to address the high numbers of North Carolina heroes diagnosed every year with PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is a disorder that some people develop after experiencing a shocking, scary, or dangerous event. Due to the very nature of their important work, the brave and strong workers in fields like law enforcement, first responders, firefighters, and emergency medicine, risk contracting PTSD.
Nearly 1 in 4 police officers has thoughts of suicide at some point in their life.
Law enforcement officers should be aware of the risks and should be vigilant in seeking help if they believe they have developed PTSD or any related condition.
Some other problems closely associated with PTSD include panic disorders, alcoholism, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide. In the case of law enforcement officers, many victims lose the ability to hold or see a weapon; to drive a car; or to enter certain premises if they remind the officer of the scene of the event. In other cases, law enforcement officers experience personality changes, distance themselves from friends and family, and become easily angered.
Many law enforcement officers now understand their increased risk and regularly seek medical or psychiatric treatment for their conditions. As more information about PTSD comes to light, law enforcement officers increasingly seek psychiatric support, counseling, peer mentoring, and group therapy. North Carolina law enforcement officers who develop PTSD because of experiencing an accident, witnessing an act of violence, or undergoing some other traumatic event while performing their job duties may be eligible for workers' compensation benefits. These benefits, which may include disability payments and medical costs, often assist them during their recovery.
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Education, food and shelter: a minimal list of the things provided to us by our school. There are always going to be students complaining about how much work they have to do or the not-so-luxurious living of dorm life. Nevertheless, I have heard complaining about the food and our access to it more than anything else thus far into the school year.
You may not be worried about the "freshman 15" right now, but maybe you should be. Last year, we were introduced to the concept of new meal plans. Everyone nodded, and as fall approached, people made what seemed like logical choices for their nutrition. Nevertheless, none of us could have foreseen the seemingly growing number of pitfalls in their actual implementation. Our meal plans almost coerce us into the all-you-can-eat dining halls.
Sorry to break it to you, but if you have the eight-meal plan you're limited, big time. And if you have the 12-meal plan, well, you're basically being forced to eat at Sherman or Lower Usdan. Just consider the 12-meal plan for a moment, one of the cheapest options for a meal plan. You have to eat about twice a day at either Sherman or Lower Usdan to use all of your meals. Almost every person I know is left with meals at the end of the week. I think it would make so much more sense if we could use our extra meals towards lessening the cost of eating in other places such as Upper Usdan, Einstein's or Starbucks. This begs the question, why are meal equivalencies gone? I know they were a bit confusing, but people figured it out, and there must be ways of simplifying it other than just getting rid of them entirely. Maybe if equivalencies were still around, meal plans would be a little more user-friendly.
Meal plans are expensive, and I understand why they seem necessary. Everyone needs to eat, but I think it would make more sense to pay for something we're satisfied with. I don't think wanting a flexible option, which allows us to have a choice in where or what we eat, is too much to ask for. Imagine if students got "satisfaction guaranteed" with the purchase of their meal plan. I'm pretty sure Sodexo would be dishing out a lot of refunds to Brandeis students right now.
So it's old news that the all-you-can-eat dining halls are offering to-go containers. That way you can get food with your meals without being contained to the "food cage" of Lower Usdan or stuck in Sherman, trying to find a table for an hour. Nonetheless, did you know that you're going to have to pay for those containers? It's only $4, which doesn't break the bank, but still, after paying so much for our meal plans, it isn't fair for them to expect us to contribute even more. It's a one-time fee for a container. You can bring back your dirty container in exchange for a token, which will get you another reusable container after that. Containers are being offered to make dining a more convenient and hopefully less stressful experience. Yet personally, I'm not fond of the idea of having to invest more into an already considerably hefty cost to eat on campus.
So the eight-meal plan may cost less than last year's 10-meal plan, but you are also getting a lot less for your dollar. Previously, a meal plan with fewer meals would be companioned with a higher number of points. It makes sense to have points compensate for a lack of meals. That way someone like me, who's on the eight-meal plan, can still afford to get food. Eight meals and 600 points is a pretty substantial fund. The problem lies in the high prices. The C-store, for example, can charge eight points (read: dollars) for a jar of guacamole because its only competition is a 20-minute walk away at Chipotle. These high prices are also in the deli, the coffee shops and everywhere else. This leaves people backed into a corner. I'll pay the high prices, but eventually I'll run out of points, and unfortunately, it'll be faster than I would like it to be.
These changes to our school were meant to improve the quality of life on campus, but as Boudaie suggests, functionality may be sacrificed for the sake of these advancements. They have changed our dining, a primary source of food for most people on campus. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that once people get used to the new system, it'll get better, but as they currently are, there are flaws that just cannot be ignored.


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Q: Prove a graph is connected if $\deg(x) + \deg(y) \geq n-1$ One of my workshop questions in preparation for my exams is:
For any non-adjacent nodes $x,y$ on a simple graph G on $n$ vertices. We have $\deg(x) + \deg(y) \geq n-1$ Prove that G is connected.
Now I understand what the question is asking however during trying to think about how it works, I found that in a connected graph: take graph 9 From the picture below, if the bottom $2$ nodes are $x$ and $y$, but we made it a 5 node disconnected graph. Then we have $\deg(x) + \deg(y) = 2 + 2 = 4 = 5-1 = 4$ so the equation holds, but the graph is disconnected. I'm unsure what I am missing. Any help would be appreciated thank you.

A: This is an answer given by logarithm in comments:
Prove the contrapositive. Assume that A,B are two different connected components of G. Take $x\in A$ and $y\in B$. Then the degree of x is not more than |A|-1 and the degree of y is not more than $|B|-1$. Therefore, $$\deg(x)+\deg(y)\leq |A|-1+|B|-1=|A\cup B|-2\leq|G|-2,$$ where the equation $|A|+|B|=|A\cup B|$ follows due to A and B being disjoint.

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Q: iptables - fall back to stateless filtering Is it possible to make iptables fall back to stateless filtering under load, during an attack etc, when the connection tracking tables are full and new connections are about to be dropped?
I'm aware that this would have some serious security implications, and the fallback rules should therefore be selected very conservatively. Also, NAT would unavoidably break when disabling connection tracking, but this is not an issue here (the host in question is an actual firewall).
Any solution would likely have two parts:

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*React to a full state table within iptables (That is, without parsing logs and modifying rules via a cron job or daemon)

*Disable all or some stateful rules, or add some new, higher priority rules that accept packets before state tracking is applied

Can that be done? If not, is there a better way than detecting a table overflow via some kind of log parsing and reacting by insertion or deletion of rules, or unloading of the connection tracking module?

A: If you're running into a full connection tracking table, then simply enlarge it.
Set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf or a file which it includes:
net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 131072

(Raise the number until you have enough space.)
On much older Linux servers, you must use the equivalent old deprecated sysctl:
net.ipv4.ip_conntrack_max = 131072

To apply the change, reboot or run:
sysctl -p

A: Under high load, especially with lots of connections, yes it will begin to slow down. So going stateless is a good idea.
Sadly there is no way to fallback to stateless filtering on the fly. However, you can simply skip the states for heavy traffics: udp, port 80, ... using the NOTRACK target.
Under very high load, I would recommend to go fully stateless if possible.


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Lina Jafari, Lorena Stancu
Turkey Pharmaceuticals & Biopharmaceuticals 2020
After managing a national economic crisis in 2018, Turkey pushed forward with concentrated efforts to boost its economy ahead of the republic's 100 years anniversary in 2023, by when Turkey aims to become one of the world's top ten economies. The pharmaceutical industry is one of the key sectors identified in realizing this goal and, with the government and the industry's goals aligned, drug makers have been incentivized to increase their exports quotas and branch out into the biotech space.
Valued at approximately 40.7 billion lira (US$6 billion), the Turkish pharmaceuticals industry represents around 0.5% of the global pharmaceutical market of US$1.2 trillion, having grown steadily in the past decade. Besides increasing its output, the industry has also committed to more R&D projects and manufacturing higher-value drugs. In 2018, Turkey was recognized as part of the international PIC(s) alliance of pharmaceutical jurisdictions, taking a seat on the global scene while simultaneously rolling out its localization policy.
In early 2020, Turkey is facing one of its greatest challenges to date due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Global supply disruption, capital flight, and what is said to be the greatest global economic crisis since the Great Depression, all threaten the industry. In particular, biotech players will be less able to avail the crisis because of their reliance on external funding. However, Turkey's drug producers have repeatedly proven resilient despite unfavorable conditions. Local and international manufacturers operating in the country are already taking an active role in the fight against the virus.
GBR conducted much of the research for this publication prior to the COVID-19 outbreak and we have tried to update the report with new perspectives caused by the pandemic wherever possible. What is already clear, however, is that Turkey's pharma industry will play a more important role than ever before in the years to come. Labs and production lines remain staffed as Turkey's pharma companies endeavor to provide the country's hospitals with the drugs and supplies that they need during this crisis period. The fact that, so far, they have been so successful in doing so is itself a testament to the strength that the industry has already achieved.
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Antoine Balthazar Joachim, baron d'André (2 July 1759 – 16 July 1825) was a French royalist politician.

Biography

Early life
He was born in Aix-en-Provence on 2 July 1759.

Career
At the onset of the French Revolution he was a conseiller at the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence. Elected by the Second Estate as a representative of the sénéchaussée of Aix-en-Provence to the Estates-General of 1789 (also elected from Aix was the comte de Mirabeau, who though he was a nobleman was elected by the Third Estate). Following the example of Philippe, duc d'Orléans, he joined the Third Estate which became the National Constituent Assembly.

He was elected president of the National Assembly three times (1–16 August 1790; 22 December 1790 – 4 January 1791; 10–27 May 1791) and he was the second most prolific speaker, addressing the Assembly on 497 occasions (only Armand-Gaston Camus spoke more frequently). He was one of the prominent partisans pressing for a constitutional monarchy, and supported the faction known as the Monarchiens. The attempted royal flight to Varennes (20–21 June 1791) caused a crisis of faith in the monarchy, and inspired him to vote with the majority to suppress the royal executive power. Along with Adrien Duport and François Denis Tronchet he was selected to conduct the interview with Louis XVI in the aftermath. After the close of session for the National Assembly he remained in Paris, where he founded a large grocery business (épicerie), for which the journalists of the Left dubbed him "l'Épicier".

Accused of hoarding and suspected to plotting with the royalist émigrés, he emigrated himself, at first to Great Britain and then to Switzerland, where he placed himself in the service of the comte de Provence. In this capacity he became an active royalist; through him the British spymaster William Wickham directed the funds intended to support counter-revolutionary propaganda. Under the French Directory he returned to France in February 1797 to take in hand the electoral campaign of the royalist party, with some success, though he was not elected to the Council of Five Hundred.

After the Coup of 18 fructidor (4 September 1797) he escaped arrest by fleeing once more to Switzerland, and remained abroad for a decade, faithful to the comte de Provence, now proclaimed "Louis XVIII" by the royalists. After Napoleon's victory at Wagram (July 1809), D'André permitted his son Antoine Joseph Maurice d'André to serve in the Imperial army, while he occupied himself with establishing a model farm near Vienna.

With the Bourbon Restoration he followed Louis XVIII to France, and was pardoned for his defection,  1809–1814, and appointed general director of police, and superindendant of the Maison du Roi.

Death
He died at Aix-en-Provence on 16 July 1825.

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Every morning I pass a paint splatter that makes me think of the Misfits, but in my version the man had syphilis, an affliction which eventually corrodes the skull. I don't like punk, or at least I don't understand it; feels bourgeois almost, like not wearing a shirt and screaming seems like a privilege, and if you still have food at the end of the day, then thank you Safeway and why you bitchin'? When I was 17, it was a pretty bad year. I was listening to hair bands, reading Penthouse letters, and testing my small yellow middle-finger for the first time.
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2- Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
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4- University of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Lunar eclipse visible from Kenai this week
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VVS Laxman is into his fifth year as mentor of Sunrisers Hyderabad. In this interaction with a group of journalists, he speaks about the challenges of the job, demarcated coaching responsibilities, and keeping the team environment stable.
Can you talk about the conversations you have with the batting group?
The communication is very simple - take responsibility, don't leave it to the next batsman, make sure the number of dot balls is less, and look to put pressure on the bowling always. Look to take singles, rotate the strike, and whenever the opportunity comes, go and play your natural game. You want one of the top three to play till the end. Once that happens, you have a set batsman in the middle and around him the other batsmen can come and express themselves. And that's been our strength.
If you see, the batting has been very consistent right from the first match. And you're not dependent on one or two batsmen. Whoever went in - whether it is KW [Kane Williamson], [David] Warner, Shikhar, Yuvraj or Moises Henriques - has played some important knocks for the franchise. Naman Ojha played a fantastic knock against KXIP, when we were under pressure. [Deepak] Hooda did a couple of finishing jobs for us.
No. 6 and 7 didn't get many batting opportunities, which is a positive. That means that the top five have done the job well for us.
As part of the coaching staff, how do you ensure, regardless of wins and losses, that there is a certain tempo created within the team? How do you recognise when you need to go and talk and when to take a step back?
Win or lose, you have to be very consistent with your communication. So we don't really talk about the results. We talk about the processes, we talk about the execution of our plans. We will just address that instead of the result, how much we were able to achieve in terms of our game plan, and if at all we didn't achieve, what was the reason? So it is more of an interaction than actually dictating to the players, and it has been very good. That's why our environment is very relaxed, because if you are inconsistent with your outcome, or if you are not equanimous with outcome, then you create a panic within the team environment. We never ever want to do it, we never did that.
"We try to keep team meetings as specific as possible [...] and we never have a team meeting for more than 15-20 minutes"
How do you demarcate coaching responsibilities within the group?
Tom [Moody] is the head coach. Simon [Helmot] is the assistant coach, Murali [Muttiah Muralitharan] is the bowling coach and I am the mentor. Tom runs the meetings, Tom runs the practice sessions. Me, Murali and Tom sit together and develop the strategy, along with David Warner. Then the strategy is put across to the team and we have a team meeting where everyone contributes. Everyone contributes in the team meeting, where we discuss each and every batsman and also each and every bowler we are going to face.
Are the team meetings long?
No, we try to keep team meetings as specific as possible. You are playing the same team twice - it is more about understanding the opposition teams we are going to play, and we do that in the pre-season camp. Once the tournament starts it is very specific and we never have a team meeting for more than 15-20 minutes.
What was the focus during the auction this year?
One area which was a matter of concern for us was our spin-bowling department, and we were very clear that Rashid [Khan] was an excellent prospect. He was someone doing excellent work for Afghanistan, not only restricting the flow of runs but also picking up the wickets of some good batsmen. That's why we wanted Rashid to be there.
We got [Mohammad] Nabi in this year because we wanted a spin-bowling allrounder. Then we had CJ [Chris Jordan] and Ben Laughlin because we know that they can be the perfect replacement for Mustafizur [Rahman] when he left. Fizz was excellent for us last year, but we also knew that he wasn't going to be a part of the tournament for a long time. Because he was in Sri Lanka, he was going to join the team later and was going to leave early. Both CJ and Laughlin are good yorker bowlers and we wanted these guys who are good at the death and with the new ball to be part of the squad.
It's just about identifying the right skill set and making sure that the security is there. Irrespective of how talented or experienced they are, it's important to give confidence to the player. We are not judging the player by one or two performances. That's the philosophy of Sunrisers. While people may or may not agree, we want to give that security to the player and give him enough chances where he can showcase his talent.
Is there an unchecked box?
One area I feel we would like more results is, some of our uncapped batsmen have not realised their potential or not played to their potential. While the bowlers have done well, I feel with the amount of security and opportunities the uncapped batsmen get in our franchise, they have not been able to deliver as much as we would love them to. That's something we are very keen on communicating to them that [there is] no pressure but it is also important for you to realise that we want you go out there and express yourselves, and we don't want to judge you on one or two matches.
What is the most difficult or challenging part of your job?
I have never ever found it challenging at all. I won't say it's a challenge or difficult, but I feel for the players who don't get an opportunity for the entire season to play a single match. I was also one of them when I was playing for Kochi Tuskers or when I played for Deccan Chargers. I didn't get the number of matches I thought I deserved, or I wanted to get to showcase what I can do for the franchise.
So I feel for those players. Tom, Murali, and as a franchise we feel for them. We are very inclusive, so those players are also very important for us. But unfortunately they won't get a game. And it's a positive because if certain players are not getting a game, it means the players who get a game are doing well. That's why we don't chop and change much. But we feel for those players - they are wanted and they are part of the family.


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Jaguars rookie Leonard Fournette is first 1,000-yard rusher since 2011
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Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette just passed the 1,000-yard mark in the second quarter of a Week 17 matchup against the Tennessee Titans.
Fournette is the first 1,000-yard rusher since 2011 when Maurice Jones-Drew went for 1,606 yards on the ground and won the NFL rushing title. He's missed three games this season due to injury or team-imposed penalty and has been limited in several others. He's averaging just under 4.0 yards per carry and has 10 total touchdowns on the year.
The Jaguars' run game has been underperforming as of late, but they still lead the NFL with 145.2 yards per game coming into Week 17. Chris Ivory is the second-leading rusher for this team, finishing the season with 382 yards, Blake Bortles is third with 313 so far, and T.J. Yeldon and Corey Grant are tied for fourth with 248 yards each.
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Diplomatic row brews as Morocco recalls ambassador to Nigeria
Morocco on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Nigeria for immediate consultations over an issue that is fast developing into a diplomatic row.
The country's foreign affairs ministry accused the Nigerian government of allegedly using King Mohammed the 6th in an election campaign.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday released a statement that President Goodluck Jonathan was not snubbed by the Moroccan monarch but had indeed spoken to him.
In a surprise twist however, Morocco's foreign ministry responded by saying there has never been a phone conversation between the two men.
HOMELAND NEWS was told by the Nigerian foreign ministry spokesperson said the Federal Government had not been notified of the development.
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What meaningful opportunities will metaverse technologies offer manufacturing?
As a New Year dawns, the resounding cry from manufacturers is: Where are the people? Far and away, the top challenge facing manufacturers in 2023 will be the ongoing skilled labor shortage. Experts say there simply are not enough people to fill manufacturing roles, especially amidst reshoring efforts. The labor shortage is one of many moving pieces shaping the manufacturing workforce—and the workforce as a whole—and these shifts, combined with the convergence of technology trends in Industry 4.0 and the IoT (Internet of Things) and national manufacturing trends like reshoring efforts, are all coming to a head.
Meanwhile, the metaverse is trending not only in the social media-verse but also in enterprise circles. What meaningful opportunities will metaverse technologies offer in the manufacturing space? How will what's happening in metaverse intersect with what's happening in the manufacturing workforce?
2023 Manufacturing Trends to Watch
In the next year, Mark Schuerman, senior manager of business development for Molex, says trends impacting the manufacturing space will include the workforce's desire for flexibility, rising costs of labor due to shortages and impact of inflation, the availability of and need to invest in smart manufacturing technologies, an awareness within manufacturing companies of their vulnerability to disruptions (in large part because of the pandemic), and a general shortage of workers, both skilled and unskilled. "All the above factors are driving the desire and requirement for increasing levels of automation at manufacturing companies to mitigate risk exposure to labor and supply chain disruptions while driving operational efficiencies higher," Schuerman says. "The trend is toward using automation to produce more with a smaller workforce."
And while automation and Industry 4.0 are important trends in manufacturing, Jeannine Kunz, chief workforce development officer at SME, stresses manufacturers still need people to enable their digital transformations. "There simply aren't enough people to fill roles," Kunz says. "Automation and Industry 4.0 (are becoming) important aspects of rethinking how we do things. However, we still need people for automation and digitization. And those people need to be part of the change."
Kunz says right now, there is a significant shift in what people expect from their employers. "I personally think we are overlooking what is happening with the 'worker' themselves," she explains. "Individual priorities, beliefs, and lifestyles are changing. Their expectations and social contract with their employer are changing. […] The nature of work was already shifting with the new generations entering the workforce, and with the changes related to Covid, the workforce challenges have grown. This creates a myriad of challenges to address in finding, developing, and retaining a skilled and engaged workforce to drive our industry forward."
The pandemic, the changing employee-employer relationship, the economy—it's all part of what's happening in workforce as a whole, but the manufacturing space in particular is suffering. A 2021 study by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute anticipated that 2.1 million manufacturing jobs could go unfilled by 2030 due to skilled labor shortages and a wave of baby-boomer retirements.
Tony Schmitz, professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and joint faculty at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, says this reality is partly because manufacturing has not been promoted as a viable career to high school students in recent decades. "This has produced a shortage of students entering four-year and two-year manufacturing education programs," Schmitz explains. "Second, manufacturing has changed significantly in recent decades. It is now mostly a digital enterprise that requires new skill sets than the training received by the baby boomers that make up much of the manufacturing workforce. We need to recruit, but we need to make sure we're recruiting using an accurate representation of the field and its opportunities."
Manufacturing is a high-tech, high-reward career that leverages the latest technologies, and it matters a lot. U.S. manufacturing influences the nation's economy and its global viability as a competitive force. Schmitz points to competitions like the SEC Machining Competition held in November as examples of how universities are working to raise up the new generation of manufacturing workforce.
Liz Stuck, senior director of workforce development at MxD, says one consequence of the critical skills shortage that shouldn't be overlooked is the corresponding security risk to the manufacturing sector. "The growing skills gap becomes even more concerning when considering that manufacturing is the most targeted sector for cyber-attacks," she says. "Thirty-five percent of cyber-espionage attacks in the U.S. are targeted at manufacturing, the largest of any single sector."
Reshoring is compounding the workforce problem. Conrad Leiva, vice president of ecosystem and workforce education at CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute, says: "In general, we've had an increase of manufacturing coming back to the country through reshoring. And a lot of that has been driven by the realization that we've had overexposure to risk in our supply chain during the pandemic disruption. […] Manufacturing fell out of fashion because we were sending it offshore for so many years, and now that we're trying to make things again, the labor's not there. It takes a few years to build up the interest and the talent pipeline."
With boomers retiring and not enough workers coming in, the skills gap between the new generation and the old, and all of this amidst reshoring, it's no wonder experts cite workforce issues over and over as the top manufacturing trend to watch in 2023. However, no trend happens in a vacuum. Trends evolve simultaneously and often intersect to form new trends. One example is how workforce trends in manufacturing and the buzz about the metaverse are creating a fascinating dialogue about what could be.
Making Way for the Industrial Metaverse
Precedence Research estimates the global metaverse market will exceed $1.3 trillion by 2030, which is up from $51.69 billion in 2021. MxD's Stuck defines the industrial metaverse as the ability to combine virtual technologies like VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), and digital twins with real life to improve processes and increase efficiencies. She says: "The industrial metaverse allows collaboration between a digital environment and a real-world environment in a way that can potentially prevent problems from happening to begin with by analyzing the data and outputs from the digital environment and applying them to the real-world environment."
John Liu, principal investigator at MIT's LEAP (Learning Engineering and Practice) Group, a lecturer in MIT's Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, and a scientist at the MITx Digital Learning Lab, describes the industrial metaverse as an evolution of the digital representation of whole systems composed of environments, products, processes.
"Think 'digital twin', but now, instead of the typical single machine or process, it could be a whole factory, transportation system, or energy grid," Liu explains. "Of course, simulating and optimizing production lines has also been used in the industry for some time now. The industrial metaverse is a step forward in that it includes increased complexity and power. It will integrate into one package aspects such as physics-based behavior, material types, human ergonomics, and photo-realistic models."
Liu imagines the industrial metaverse impacting the workforce in three areas: type of work, education and training, and pipeline. First, he says, the type of work will change. "I imagine we would see the emergence of new occupations like digital thread or digital twin engineers or a greater focus on human ergonomics and productivity to fully virtual and hybrid interactions," he says. "We will probably see in the next 10 years the establishment of best practices on how to interpret and sift through richer and more complex data and how to drive these insights towards decisions."
Second, the industrial metaverse will impact education and training in manufacturing. Liu says as industries spawn new technologies at a dizzying pace, companies cannot thrive without a nimble workforce, and one way to make a workforce nimbler is to leverage innovative solutions that improve education, training, and productivity. "The workforce needs to more quickly adapt to new technology, digitally upskill, and learn to work better with automation," says Liu. "And how to do all of this at scale? Having a seamless integration between the virtual and physical worlds is perfect for the workforce to learn these competencies. […] The metaverse could enable education and training for the workforce with an authenticity, connectedness, and scale we haven't seen before."
Finally, there's the industrial metaverse's potential impact on the manufacturing workforce pipeline. Liu says manufacturing is struggling to recruit new workers at a rate that matches retirement rates and local surges in demand, and part of the issue is that manufacturing has "an image problem". While manufacturing is advancing, the public still thinks manufacturing is dirty, dangerous, and dark.
4 Ways the Metaverse Will Intersect with Manufacturing
Mark Schuerman of Molex lists four ways manufacturing and metaverse will intersect.
During the design process, the industrial metaverse will serve as a tool to optimize ergonomics and overall worker health and safety. It will also allow manufacturing engineers to virtually test different production strategies in terms of choices of equipment and use of manual vs. automated systems to achieve more efficient production strategies upon implementation.
AR/VR tools will be used for worker training to help them practice and improve production, as well as maintenance techniques.
AR/VR tools will also be used to assist workers during the production and maintenance processes themselves. For example, AR goggles can direct workers through each stage of a manufacturing process, helping to inform them of which steps need to be performed and when, as well as performing a quality-control function by monitoring and confirming all parts are installed in the correct order and to the proper manufacturing specifications. If a step is missed or a part is not installed properly, the line can be stopped and corrective actions can be communicated to workers in realtime.
The industrial metaverse also provides opportunities for suppliers to provide remote, virtual assistance to line workers when diagnosing and troubleshooting equipment in need of repair. A specialist from a supplier can remotely "go online" and work with a maintenance person virtually in the metaverse to observe the problem and devise a corrective strategy with the end-user maintenance team without having to travel to the facility.
"I see the metaverse potentially impacting the workforce pipeline in two ways," Liu adds. "One, if you can experience manufacturing in the virtual world with the same realism as that of the physical, job seekers and young people can—not just become aware—but experience for themselves the greatest manufacturing work has to offer. A child could roleplay as a robotics engineer, or a high school student could already begin learning what it takes to succeed in manufacturing operations. Second—and this is more of a moonshot—you might be able to open up remote work for physical work. Today, remote work is commonly available for work like software development or project coordination. But when it comes to physical work, of course you have to be there. Many people won't move for a job, especially if they're entry-level. That's why the accessible workforce for a plant is largely constrained to a region. But if you combine virtual 100% operational transparency, low latency networks, and advanced robotics, could someone in Atlanta work in a Detroit factory as if she were there? The option to offer remote physical work could take a locally concentrated spike of job demand and re-distribute it across the nation to better match supply. And if physical work can be done virtually, we could open up physical work to new populations like the physically disabled."
Salim Awad, president and CEO of SPINNER North America, says an engaged and skilled workforce are fundamental elements to the future of manufacturing, and metaverse will play a role in creating an engaged, skilled workforce, as well as creating other valuable opportunities. "The metaverse, although still in its infancy, presents meaningful opportunities for advanced manufacturing, where it can be utilized for training, simulations, and process development," Awad says.
Collaboration in manufacturing will also benefit from metaverse technologies. For instance, Awad describes how older and soon-to-be-retired workers possess immense knowledge that must be transferred to the incoming workforce. "A great way to make this transfer of knowledge and experience is to build multigenerational teams where an exchange of ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching, can take place in a healthy ecosystem," he adds. "Manufacturing leaders must create the conditions for this exchange and intentionally build the teams that allow a successful and collaborative transition."
MIT's Liu agrees the industrial metaverse has far-reaching implications for collaboration in manufacturing and beyond. "Colleagues from around the world will now be able to work in the same virtual world, troubleshooting the same real-world problem or trying out different ideas together," he explains. "And information that is not normally available to the naked eye is now readily visualized, so groups can more easily extract the most useful insights from complex data and make better decisions."
But while the metaverse demonstrates exciting potential and some early successes, Liu points out the collection of technologies that compose it are still nascent, and no one knows what it will really turn out to be. "As a whole, we humans have a spotty record towards making accurate predictions," Liu says. "It's easier to discuss potential and harder to accurately predict what the metaverse will turn out to be and the greatest ways it will actually impact the industry."
CESMII's Leiva says there's no need to wait for a metaverse to realize a lot of value with digital transformation and smart manufacturing technologies. "It's easy to get fascinated with the potential of future technologies, but we don't want to forget that right now there are a lot of opportunities to implement smart manufacturing technologies that are available today," he says. "It more practical than ever for small- to medium-sized manufacturers to modernize their practices and become more digital-ready for today's connected digital supply chain. I get excited too about (the) future, but there is a lot of stuff to do right now and a lot of technology available that is helping manufacturers today."
Links for Further Learning:
Deloitte's "Creating pathways for tomorrow's workforce today: Beyond reskilling in manufacturing"
NAM's 2022 3rd Quarter Manufacturers' Outlook Survey
Precedence Research metaverse market research
Gartner's "What Is a Metaverse? And Should You Be Buying In?"
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DALLAS MAVERICKS: STATE OF THE FRANCHISE
Projected Cap Space (before luxury tax): $33.4 million
Background: In a flurry of moves over the last few years, the Dallas Mavericks have built a very impressive starting five around all-time great PF Dirk Nowitzki, despite striking out on countless big names in free agency. First it was the signing of unwanted SG Monta Ellis on an extremely reasonable 3 year/$27 million deal. After a first round exit with too much of the scoring load placed on Ellis and Nowitzki, Dirk decided to take a major pay cut, signing 3 year/$25 million deal with Dallas, despite rumors of 4 year/$88 million offers from Houston and LA. This allowed the Mavericks to give SF Chandler Parsons a necessary overpay, to the tune of 3 years/$45 million. Then the Mavericks dealt PG Jose Calderon and a couple of prospects and second round picks in a deal that brought defensive anchor C Tyson Chandler back to Dallas. The center played a major role in the Mavericks' championship season in 2011, where Nowitzki was named Finals MVP. The only position where they did not have a star, or at least, a quality starting player, was PG. This problem was quickly solved just a couple of months into this season, as the Mavericks traded away a couple of picks and several role players to the Boston Celtics in a deal involving pass-first PG Rajon Rondo. The starting five was complete, but the draft picks and role players were not.
Current Financial State: Both Chandler's and Rondo's contracts expire at the end of this year, and assuming they want to re-sign, most of that $29 million will go towards ensuring these two defensive studs stick around. Rondo's current $13 million seems fair, although he could command a million or two more per year over three or maybe four years. Chandler, on the other hand, is making $14.6 million a year, and for a guy who barely scores in the double digits, he's due for a pay cut. Something to the tune of a two or three year contract with $11 or $12 million per year would make sense. Monta Ellis has a player option for $9 million that he will likely take, and even if he doesn't, Dallas could always give him a longer-term contract for about the same value. So it seems likely that keeping Rondo and Tyson around takes $26 million out of that $33.4 million the Mavericks have before they hit the luxury tax. However, outspoken owner Mark Cuban will probably be more than willing to dive into the luxury tax for the better of the team.
Targets: As mentioned above, the main goals for Dallas in free agency are to re-sign Rondo and Chandler, as well to as bolster their bench in order to aid their playoff hopes. After trading PF/C Brandan Wright to the Boston Celtics as part of the deal for Rondo, the Mavericks lack a big man off the bench who can relieve the aging Dirk and Chandler of minutes and protect the rim as well as Wright has done. Fortunately for Dallas, Wright is on the last year of his contract and becomes a free agent this summer. He can be acquired for something like a 2 year/$10 million deal. Wright is perfect for Dallas because he already knows the system and plays well in it, too. Before getting Rondo, Dallas was having a historically great year on the offensive side of the ball. However, on the other side, they were below average. Although they improved their defense by adding Rondo, they still have two below average defenders on the wings in Ellis and Parsons. They can plug this hole by signing SG/SF Iman Shumpert (CLE), a defensive specialist. Shumpert, however, is extremely offensively challenged, and shouldn't be handed a contract worth over $5-6 million annually over 2 or 3 years, even though he is restricted to Cleveland. Lastly, Dallas needs a point guard who can score off the bench to lead the second unit and make up for Rondo's lack of scoring. PG Nate Robinson fits this role and could be signed to a 2 year/$4 million deal, as he's actually a free agent who the Mavericks can sign right now. His ability to score off the bench at PG could be the final piece in the Mavericks' quest for the championship.
The Fit: Wright fits perfectly for Dallas because he has played for them before and is the type of big man they need off the bench. He can protect the rim and is excellent in their pick and roll. Before being traded to Boston, he was averaging above 70% shooting from the field. Shumpert is another beautiful fit for Dallas because he and Chandler were teammates in New York a couple of years back. He is the defensive stopper they need on the wing to make up for Ellis and Parsons' struggles on that side of the ball. Nate Robinson would mesh well in Dallas because he can score, which helps to make up for Rondo's deficiency in that department. If Dallas can maintain their starting 5 and repair their bench this offseason, they will be in good shape to win the title.


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