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C-MART: Benchmarking the Cloud
by Andrew Turner, Andrew Fox, John Payne, Hyong S. Kim
"... Abstract—Cloud computing environments provide on-demand resource provisioning, allowing applications to elastically scale. However, application benchmarks currently being used to test cloud management systems are not designed for this purpose. This results in resource underprovisioning and quality-o ..."
-of-service (QoS) violations when systems tested using these benchmarks are deployed in production environments. We present C-MART, a benchmark designed to emulate a modern web application running in a cloud computing environment. It is designed using the cloud computing paradigm of elastic scalability at every
Particle swarm optimization
by James Kennedy, Russell Eberhart , 1995
"... eberhart @ engr.iupui.edu A concept for the optimization of nonlinear functions using particle swarm methodology is introduced. The evolution of several paradigms is outlined, and an implementation of one of the paradigms is discussed. Benchmark testing of the paradigm is described, and applications ..."
eberhart @ engr.iupui.edu A concept for the optimization of nonlinear functions using particle swarm methodology is introduced. The evolution of several paradigms is outlined, and an implementation of one of the paradigms is discussed. Benchmark testing of the paradigm is described
TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones
by William Enck, Landon P. Cox, Jaeyeon Jung, et al. , 2010
"... Today's smartphone operating systems fail to provide users with adequate control and visibility into how third-party applications use their private data. We present TaintDroid, an efficient, system-wide dynamic taint tracking and analysis system for the popular Android platform that can simultaneous ..."
simultaneously track multiple sources of sensitive data. TaintDroid's efficiency to perform real-time analysis stems from its novel system design that leverages the mobile platform's virtualized system architecture. TaintDroid incurs only 14 % performance overhead on a CPU-bound micro-benchmark with little
The modern industrial revolution, exit, and the failure of internal control systems
by Michael C. Jensen - JOURNAL OF FINANCE , 1993
"... Since 1973 technological, political, regulatory, and economic forces have been changing the worldwide economy in a fashion comparable to the changes experienced during the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution. As in the nineteenth century, we are experiencing declining costs, increaing average ( ..."
Since 1973 technological, political, regulatory, and economic forces have been changing the worldwide economy in a fashion comparable to the changes experienced during the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution. As in the nineteenth century, we are experiencing declining costs, increaing average (but decreasing marginal) productivity of labor, reduced growth rates of labor income, excess capacity, and the requirement for downsizing and exit. The last two decades indicate corporate internal control systems have failed to deal effectively with these changes, especially slow growth and the requirement for exit. The next several decades pose a major challenge for Western firms and political systems as these forces continue to work their way through the worldwide economy.
An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output
by Olivier Blanchard, Roberto Perotti - QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS , 2002
"... This paper characterizes the dynamic effects of shocks in government spending and taxes on U. S. activity in the postwar period. It does so by using a mixed structural VAR/event study approach. Identification is achieved by using institutional information about the tax and transfer systems to identi ..."
This paper characterizes the dynamic effects of shocks in government spending and taxes on U. S. activity in the postwar period. It does so by using a mixed structural VAR/event study approach. Identification is achieved by using institutional information about the tax and transfer systems to identify the automatic response of taxes and spending to activity, and, by implication, to infer fiscal shocks. The results consistently show positive government spending shocks as having a positive effect on output, and positive tax shocks as having a negative effect. One result has a distinctly nonstandard flavor: both increases in taxes and increases in government spending have a strong negative effect on investment spending.
Valgrind: A framework for heavyweight dynamic binary instrumentation
by Nicholas Nethercote, Julian Seward - In Proceedings of the 2007 Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference , 2007
"... Dynamic binary instrumentation (DBI) frameworks make it easy to build dynamic binary analysis (DBA) tools such as checkers and profilers. Much of the focus on DBI frameworks has been on performance; little attention has been paid to their capabilities. As a result, we believe the potential of DBI ha ..."
Dynamic binary instrumentation (DBI) frameworks make it easy to build dynamic binary analysis (DBA) tools such as checkers and profilers. Much of the focus on DBI frameworks has been on performance; little attention has been paid to their capabilities. As a result, we believe the potential of DBI has not been fully exploited. In this paper we describe Valgrind, a DBI framework designed for building heavyweight DBA tools. We focus on its unique support for shadow values—a powerful but previously little-studied and difficult-to-implement DBA technique, which requires a tool to shadow every register and memory value with another value that describes it. This support accounts for several crucial design features that distinguish Valgrind from other DBI frameworks. Because of these features, lightweight tools built with Valgrind run comparatively slowly, but Valgrind can be used to build more interesting, heavyweight tools that are difficult or impossible to build with other DBI frameworks such as Pin and DynamoRIO. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.5 [Software Engineering]: Testing and Debugging—debugging aids, monitors; D.3.4
Local features and kernels for classification of texture and object categories: a comprehensive study
by J. Zhang, S. Lazebnik, C. Schmid - International Journal of Computer Vision , 2007
"... Recently, methods based on local image features have shown promise for texture and object recognition tasks. This paper presents a large-scale evaluation of an approach that represents images as distributions (signatures or histograms) of features extracted from a sparse set of keypoint locations an ..."
Recently, methods based on local image features have shown promise for texture and object recognition tasks. This paper presents a large-scale evaluation of an approach that represents images as distributions (signatures or histograms) of features extracted from a sparse set of keypoint locations and learns a Support Vector Machine classifier with kernels based on two effective measures for comparing distributions, the Earth Mover's Distance and the χ 2 distance. We first evaluate the performance of our approach with different keypoint detectors and descriptors, as well as different kernels and classifiers. We then conduct a comparative evaluation with several state-of-the-art recognition methods on four texture and five object databases. On most of these databases, our implementation exceeds the best reported results and achieves comparable performance on the rest. Finally, we investigate the influence of background correlations on recognition performance via extensive tests on the PASCAL database, for which ground-truth object localization information is available. Our experiments demonstrate that image representations based on distributions of local features are surprisingly effective for classification of texture and object images under challenging real-world conditions, including significant intra-class variations and substantial background clutter.
2003: Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late Nineteenth Century
by N. A. Rayner, D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton, C. K. Foll, L. V. Alex, D. P. Rowell, A. Kaplan - J. Geophysical Research
"... data set, HadISST1, and the nighttime marine air temperature (NMAT) data set, HadMAT1. HadISST1 replaces the global sea ice and sea surface temperature (GISST) data sets and is a unique combination of monthly globally complete fields of SST and sea ice concentration on a 1 ° latitude-longitude grid ..."
data set, HadISST1, and the nighttime marine air temperature (NMAT) data set, HadMAT1. HadISST1 replaces the global sea ice and sea surface temperature (GISST) data sets and is a unique combination of monthly globally complete fields of SST and sea ice concentration on a 1 ° latitude-longitude grid from 1871. The companion HadMAT1 runs monthly from 1856 on a 5 ° latitude-longitude grid and incorporates new corrections for the effect on NMAT of increasing deck (and hence measurement) heights. HadISST1 and HadMAT1 temperatures are reconstructed using a two-stage reducedspace optimal interpolation procedure, followed by superposition of quality-improved gridded observations onto the reconstructions to restore local detail. The sea ice fields are made more homogeneous by compensating satellite microwave-based sea ice concentrations for the impact of surface melt effects on retrievals in the Arctic and for algorithm deficiencies in the Antarctic and by making the historical in situ concentrations consistent with the satellite data. SSTs near sea ice are estimated using statistical relationships between SST and sea ice concentration. HadISST1 compares well with other published analyses, capturing trends in global, hemispheric, and regional SST well,
Shape Matching and Object Recognition Using Shape Contexts
by Serge Belongie, Jitendra Malik, Jan Puzicha - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , 2001
"... We present a novel approach to measuring similarity between shapes and exploit it for object recognition. In our framework, the measurement of similarity is preceded by (1) solv- ing for correspondences between points on the two shapes, (2) using the correspondences to estimate an aligning transform ..."
We present a novel approach to measuring similarity between shapes and exploit it for object recognition. In our framework, the measurement of similarity is preceded by (1) solv- ing for correspondences between points on the two shapes, (2) using the correspondences to estimate an aligning transform. In order to solve the correspondence problem, we attach a descriptor, the shape context, to each point. The shape context at a reference point captures the distribution of the remaining points relative to it, thus offering a globally discriminative characterization. Corresponding points on two similar shapes will have similar shape con- texts, enabling us to solve for correspondences as an optimal assignment problem. Given the point correspondences, we estimate the transformation that best aligns the two shapes; reg- ularized thin plate splines provide a flexible class of transformation maps for this purpose. The dissimilarity between the two shapes is computed as a sum of matching errors between corresponding points, together with a term measuring the magnitude of the aligning trans- form. We treat recognition in a nearest-neighbor classification framework as the problem of finding the stored prototype shape that is maximally similar to that in the image. Results are presented for silhouettes, trademarks, handwritten digits and the COIL dataset.


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La cronometro maschile Elite dei Campionati del mondo di ciclismo su strada 1994 fu corsa il 25 agosto 1994 in Italia, con arrivo a Catania, su un percorso di 42 km. L'oro andò al britannico Chris Boardman, che vinse con il tempo di 49'34" alla media di 50,832 km/h, l'argento all'italiano Andrea Chiurato e terzo fu il tedesco Jan Ullrich.

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Q: Viewing Passing Postgres Uniqueness Index Checks I have a rails application with a migration to set a uniqueness index on the model for (some_field, some_timestamp). When I insert a row into the table, is there a way to see the postgres code that runs this uniqueness check for a passing case?
 hi = 'hi'
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Do the first insert
 SampleTable.create(some_field: hi, timestamp: timestamp)

When we do a subsequent insert, I want to see the postgres log that checks the uniqueness index. Currently, I see the uniquness index output for a failing case, but not a passing case. Is it possible to see the passing case?
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In an ideal world, I'd like to see the granular output of 'hello' != 'hi', so uniqueness index is fine. Is this possible?
Example of logs for a (similar) failure case

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All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One #1 Recap
You can't make an omniverse without breaking a few cosmic eggs. Case in point – hanging by a thread at the farthest edge of all that is, the broken shell of what was once God Doom's reality… the Battlerealm. Time and physics have ruptured here. Become… treacherous. It's a very dangerous place to find yourself trapped in. He should know… Maestro (My-STRO) is the biggest danger here. In the distant past – most would call it the present here, he was called the Hulk. It's complicated, but if his plans work out, he'll have a simpler name… God.
He watches as his opponent's pawn enters into the area. His name is Venom. A version of Eddie Brock that killed Spider-Man long ago. He's crazy, which makes Maestro wonder if crazy is what is needed. But who is crazier than Venom?
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In prison, and before that, in the home, Cletus Kasady didn't have much choice when he got up and when he went to sleep. But now he makes his own hours. He likes to sleep until noon. But he's not lazy. He just likes to get a good eight hours of snack time in. Every night.
Meanwhile, in the Watapur Valley within Afghanistan, some soldiers are preforming a rescue. They are fired upon, but thanks to a new sonic defense system, the missiles are destroyed in midair. They land and the rescue is declared a success. The leader of this operation is a man named Colonel John Jameson, and he is approached by a special agent Claire Dixon, of the FBI. Jameson and the sonic defense system are needed back home, to help catch a monster.
Carnage wakes up, late in the day. It's not a problem to be sleeping so late and being up all night, so long as he can find somewhere that serves breakfast all day. After all, a man has to eat.
Observing this, Maestro decides there is such a thing as too crazy. The Collector appears behind him, and the former Hulk wants to clarify something. The Collector is one of the Elders of the Universe – a cosmic kidnapper with a multiversal reach. Maestro wants to make sure he understands his brother's rules. Each player is allowed five contestants, to fight in a battleground of their choosing. Gambling for the ultimate prize. One champion is in play – it is up to the Maestro to select four more. And the elder wants them to be… collectible. Maestro has just the fighters in mind…
In Haddonfield, Illinois, some children are trick or treating. They encounter two kids, one of which has the best costume they've ever seen. The raccoon doesn't look very realistic, but the giant tree is amazing. They are impressed. Rocket is not. He threatens the kids, but they assume the gun is some sci-fi prop. So the two Guardians get down to business. Turns out one of the kids is an alien in disguise. As the others flee, the alien attacks Rocket and manages to escape. It manages to set himself up in a graveyard, and takes the mind of various kids in the area. They begin to attack, so the Guardians flee. Rocket Raccoon mentions just how much he hates Earth.
The Collector is not impressed. A talking tree and rodent are not collectibles. He tells Maestro he has a whole multiverse to draw from, and needs to think bigger. But that's not Maestro's style. While the Collector's brother pulls champions from many different universe, which fosters dissent and division, Maestro wants one team, from one dimension. He asks if the Collector has any suggestions, and the Elder does.
In the Himalayas, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Struck-herr) who is selling a weapon that can target specific genetics. Batroc the Leaper arrives, and apologizes for being late. He was unavoidably detained. Earlier, the mercenary was on the run in the former grounds of Arcade's Murderworld. SHIELD agents manage to take him down, and perform a retinal scan on the man. In the present, Strucker performs a retinal scan as well, and at first it doesn't work. Luckily, the SHIELD agent Leo Fitz is able to upload Batroc's optical data and it passes on the second try.
Ten minutes later, Batroc has successfully purchased a map to the genetic bomb. They would have arrested Strucker as well, but didn't have the manpower. The mission was only to buy the map to the genetic bomb, and Phil Coulson declares it to be a success. Meanwhile, Leo Fitz reports in to an unknown source, confirmed that SHIELD will be busy with this new intel. And they don't suspect a thing…
Maestro scoffs at this. SHIELD may have a nice database of heroes on call, and their own agents are competent enough, but he is worried that if one of their agents or contacts disappears, the agency will notice, and maybe come looking for him or her. And Maestro can't have that. They need people that nobody will miss. And the Collector has just the right people in mind.
36,000 feet above the Atlantic, Flight SA 99 is hit by a storm of Terrigan Energy. This stuff is pretty harmless, so everybody puts on their oxygen masks. But one of the passengers suddenly begins to transform. The flight lands without further incident, and Crystal is called in by the military. The inhuman has cocooned himself, and when he emerges, he'll have new powers. He comes out of the cocoon as an old man, but is only supposed to be twenty-three. He collapses, and a medic rushes in to help the man. When the Inhuman inadvertently touches the woman helping him, he drains the youth out of her.
Crystal explains that this must be his new power, but now he has to make a choice. The medic is old and dying now, and needs to be saved. However, the young man is terrified of being old again. Everything hurt, he couldn't see or hear. He insists he is not a bad person, so Crystal demands that he prove it. The young man gives the youthful energy back to the medic, who is restored, and Crystal says that this means he is a good person. And that's a good start.
Maestro remembers the Inhumans. They have a nice assortment of powers, but somebody will notice if one of them goes missing. Medusa always kept a close eye on her people. They're also unseasoned, and Maestro wants a real fighter. The Collector knows of such a man…
How the superheroes do this? Don't they have jobs? Maybe they're all just rich. Maybe they only need a couple hours of sleep at night, or maybe they don't have any family to worry about. Samuel Chung isn't so lucky. He has to work, and has a sister to worry about. The two fight, as Sam is an illegal immigrant, and his sister eventually goes to bed. He knows he won't be getting any more sleep after this, so he decides he might as well do something productive. He gets to work. He's been working on a suit since he was twelve. It was supposed to be his big break, until he found out how much it costs to file a patent, and how easy it is to steal inventions from immigrants who need to stay off the radar of the government. But Sam invented a miracle. An invisibility suit. If he were an American, he'd probably be a billionaire. But as it stand now, half of his paycheck goes to buying batteries just to keep the damn thing working.
He gears up and sets out into Chinatown. His town. He turns invisible, and looks for someone to help. The problem is that Sam is untrained. He's been looking for other heroes to help him, but they're tough to find. He goes to Hell's Kitchen, and is amazed to see Daredevil in action. He's blown away at what he sees, but doesn't know how to approach the vigilante. Suddenly, the hero turns to greet him. This shocks Sam, who should be invisible, and in that moment, the young man accidentally falls of the edge of a building. Luckily, Matt saves the young man.
Maestro laughs at this. Daredevil? Why bother with the student, when they have the master. Why do they need a depressed lawyer? But the Collector is not amused. If Maestro doesn't like his choices, than he can make his own. However, if they lose this contest, the former Hulk loses his life. Maestro says not to worry, he likes to pick winners. Stick emerges victorious over Venom, and his team is declared as the winner of this match. Game on.
Hello and welcome to Comic Island! My name is Arden, and this is my recap, and review, of All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One #1!
Okay, let's get this title out of the way. I was okay with Marvel Point One. I was frustrated with All-New Marvel Point One happening a year later. Now? I'm furious. Marvel seems stuck perpetually re-branding itself and forcing out as many issues with a #1 attached to the cover as they can. It's insane, and becoming a real hassle for casual readers to keep up. It's getting to be too much happening too fast, and I'm really getting annoyed at this.
But that issue could be a whole video on its own. Let's talk about the actual comic. So both Marvel and DC do occasionally have preview issues like this. Usually it's just a collection of various short previews advertising some new titles coming out. Marvel is essentially doing that here, but they actually at least tried to weave this all together using the Contest of Champions as a framing device. All told, I do like that idea, but it didn't really work out. Here we have Maestro declaring himself the future God of Battlerealm, with access to the entire multiverse and all those amazing characters and ideas. And what does he do with this? Oh, he checks in on what Daredevil and SHIELD are up to and complains about how he's worried they might chase after him like some kind of frightened pup. It's ridiculous, and the whole thing feels quite disjointed as a result.
The art is amazing though, and some of the previews do really stand out. The Daredevil part is by far the best, and I really like the idea of Matt training this new hero. That looks cool. Everything else… eh, I could take it or leave it. They all come across as okay at best, and totally forced at worst. It's hard for me to even pretend I'm excited about any of these. Oh boy, Marvel's new mascots are getting their own series. The Inhumans and SHIELD have their own series because that fits with Marvel's movie and TV show goals…. okay? But you know what? I don't give a fuck about Agents of SHIELD. Never have, never will. I don't get what people see in it, so having this crap shoved down our throat is rapidly shifting from mildly annoying to UNBEARABLE. The Contest of Champions is a big event name and that's probably going to sell a lot of comics but and while aspects of it are intriguing I can't same I'm all that eager for a big epic story on the heels of Secret Wars. And Carnage is… well, he's Carnage, but there's no way that series will be as fun or exciting as his tie-in with AXIS was, so… pass. So out of the six series that Marvel is showcasing here, there's only one I have any interest in. And that's a terrible sign overall.
The whole thing feels like a bit of a mess, and it doesn't help that about about a dozen writers and artists have their names attached to this behemoth of a comic. And while Marvel has done a reasonable job of keeping the X-Men and Fantastic Four involved in their comics, that was very evident in Secret Wars and Time Runs Out, it seriously bothers me that the only characters that appear in this comic are ones that Marvel owns the rights to or has a deal with Sony over. That's sketchy as hell. Not a single X-Man appears in this story, nor does anyone else Marvel doesn't have plans for. Even this set of files that shows up in one panel exclusively contains names Marvel owns the rights over. It's a bit sickening, to be honest. This is such obvious vertical integration. And I get that Marvel is a business and they have every right to do this, but I have every right not to like it, too. And no, the X-Men aren't going anywhere, but it's becoming very obvious where Marvel's priorities are going to lie.
This comic retails at a very high price due to the fact that it is extra long, and the whole thing should just be called "Marvel's Marketing Strategy for Q4 2015." That has about the same ring to it as All-New, All-Different Point One anyways, but this literally feels like a big advertisement that PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED TO PAY FOR! To quote Shakespeare, "fuck that noise." So yes, this comic is frustrating.
So here's what I'm making out of this whole Post Secret Wars nonsense. I'm ignoring all of this. Joey and I will do what we've always done, which is pick out a few series that we like, and that will be that. We'll just go about making some bigger and more ambitious projects without letting all this hype bog us down with time wasters like this. No, I don't recommend this advertisement, er, comic. Don't pay for ads guys. Marvel is supposed to pay for its own marketing, but they know enough of their fans will buy anything that looks like it could be important, so they pull crap like this. Nuh-uh. I'm not buying into this, literally or figuratively. The emperor has no clothes. They're just trying to sell whatever movies and TV shows are on the horizon. It's poop, and the smell is getting everywhere!
Gah, it's so frustrating. Yes, it actually isn't that bad for what it is. And it's not like I didn't get this comic expecting it not to be a series of previews. But they're so aggressively mediocre that all I thought while I was reading this thing is how obvious it is that this is all just cynical corporate nonsense. And that's… bullshit. I don't know how else to put it. If they were giving this out for free in comic book stores, I actually wouldn't mind this. That would be okay, and it kind of works as a set of previews quite well. But it represents everything wrong with Marvel these days. Overpriced comics, a focus on the movie rights Marvel owns over what people actually want, and an outright refusal to really try and tell stories that they can't in the movies. Now it feels like they're chasing their own shadow. Trying to make comics based on movies that were based on the comics to begin with. There's no logic to that! I had fun with Secret Wars, and thought it showed somebody was doing something right over at Marvel. They still are. Invincible Iron Man was a great start, and I'm sure some other excellent titles will come from the post-Secret Wars comics. But most of this looks like pulp, and it's really hard to look at something like this and not be at least a little worried or annoyed.
Alright, I've had enough ranting for one day. Let me know what you guys think in the comments section below, and don't forget to like, subscribe, and keep reading comics.

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Although some people think the Consumer Electronics Show is great, Don Reisinger offers a reality check and tells you why it's not everything you think it is.
For those of you who have made it to CES at least once in your life, you probably know all about the amount walking and waiting in line and shoving that goes in to any good trip to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.
For those of you who haven't been lucky enough to enjoy the horror that is CES, allow me to fill you in on why it's an utter waste of time. Is it a nice networking opportunity? Sure. But beyond that, the world of CES is marked by pure crap.
Don't believe me? Let me help you work it out. With thousands of exhibitors from companies that enjoy billions of dollars in revenue and others that don't make a dime, we're lucky to come out of CES with a handful of products that are truly great.
Now, is that to say that there aren't any interesting products that you find yourself saying, "wow, that's pretty cool" to? Not necessarily. But when it comes right down to it, how many of those products will make it into the mainstream and how many are actually worth using when it's all said and done?
How many times can I walk past a company's booth while they try to sell me on another iPod dock or yet another accessory? Sadly, it seems to get worse with each step.
Over the entire history of CES, very few have closed with a truly revolutionary product hitting the wire that people actually care about. And to make matters worse, 2008 looks like it's just more of the same.
While I was walking through one hall of the monstrous show floor, I walked through booths that purported to offer the "next great" plasma or "the world's best" iPod dock. Are you kidding me? Sure, your company may be able to do something special with either one of these categories, but where's the innovation? Why can't I find the stand out product that makes me go "wow"?
Let me ask you something: if most companies are offering more of the same, how can consumers find it within themselves to do jump on a no-name company's bandwagon? If you ask me, it just solidifies the fact that major companies will continue to stay on top because no one is willing (or is it able?) to venture out into a new category. Frankly, it's sad.
Let me guess -- if you're someone who has never gone to CES, but you watch the coverage each year, you wish you could go to see all the products that are coming out this year? Let me fill you in on something -- it's not that spectacular.
The truth is that CES is nothing more than an over-sized bundle of annoyances if you're actively trying to find one product to see how it works. In fact, I could actually learn more about the products and the companies by reading CES coverage online than wasting my time being there.
And before you tell me how wonderful it must be, did you know that CES is spread across Las Vegas, which means you'll need to walk quite a bit? Did you know that you'll be battling almost 200,000 people just to get where you want to go? Did you know that Las Vegas is brutally expensive? And perhaps most glaring, did you know that you'll need to sift your way through PR crap just to figure out if a product is worthwhile or not? Trust me, it's not as glamorous as you think.
Do I dislike CES? Yes. And whether you want to believe it or not, practically everything related to the show, save for the occasional fun party, is something that I could easily live without.
Personally? I'd like to see this show chewed up and spit out in much smaller pieces.


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Why the Premier Division?
The Premier Division elevates the development of roundnet, allowing us to showcase the best athletes and providing beginner and intermediate players a goal to aspire to.
How does a player earn Premier status?
2019 Qualification
In tournaments with a Premier division:
Teams qualify for Premier by finishing in the top 2 of a sanctioned event's Advanced division. Only the top two teams earn Premier, even if one or both of the top two teams had a Premier player on the roster.
In tournaments without a Premier division:
The top 8 teams from Advanced will qualify/re-qualify for Premier.
*All 2019 sanctioned events will include a Premier division (as long as there are at least 8 teams signed up).
2019 Re-qualification
To re-qualify for Premier status a player needs to:
Compete in the Pro Division of a sanctioned event.
Win (or earn a bye) in the first round of bracket play of a sanctioned event's Premier division.
When there is a Premier division, players cannot re-qualify for Premier through the Advanced division.
To earn or re-qualify for Premier status at Nationals 2019 a player needs to:
Compete in the Pro Division
Place in the top 16 of the Premier Division
Place in the top 2 of the Advanced Division
Mashup teams can compete in the Premier Division as long as both members have previously met the criteria.
The top 2018 International players earned Premier for the 2019 season. These players include: James Docking & Andy Hunter (AUS), Tom Rogers & Tommy Nichols (UK), Nils Grimm, Nico Hullman, David Friesen, Soren Volkerson, Lukas Schmandra and Stefan Re (Germany).
What are the benefits of Premier status?
Play against top competition Exclusive access to invite only tournaments Inclusion in power pools at SRA Sanctioned events Greater coverage and exposure in blogs, podcasts, power rankings, etc. Opportunity to win bigger cash prizes.
How long does a player retain Premier status?
Premier status will last 12 months from the point of qualification. For example, if you qualified in February of 2018 you'd be considered Premier through February of 2019 (e.g. Teams that qualify for Premier on 2/17/18 retain the status through 2/28/19).
Are there restrictions on Premier players?
Premier qualified players are not allowed to play in the Intermediate division.
When a Premier division is present:
Premier qualified teams are not allowed to play in the Advanced division.
A Premier player that meets the following criteria over the previous 12-month span (Upper Premier) is not allowed to play in the advanced division:
Compete in the Pro division at Nationals 2018
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Y-Cam Evo review
This diminutive security camera does just about everything right, and offers free cloud recording. Here's our Y-Cam Evo review.
No other security cameras come with seven days of free cloud recording
By Jim Martin, Editor | 27 Jun 2016
Should I buy the Y-Cam Evo?
The Evo is a good all-round indoor home security camera you can buy thanks to a combination of hardware, software and the free seven-day cloud recording. Just note this now lasts for 12 months.
Y-Cam Evo full review
The Evo is a new indoor security camera that's part of Y-Cam's HomeMonitor range. It's tiny and has a few handy new features that make it one of the best home security cameras around.
Important update: Y-Cam has just changed its policy on free cloud storage. Previously it offered seven-day rolling storage for free, which made it the most generous of any smart security camera. Now, it says it cannot afford to do this for longer than one year. After that the storage costs £2.99 per month per camera, or £4.99 per month if you opt for the Plus Premium service (this is a 50 percent discount off the usual price and the deal lasts for one year).
What does this change mean? It means that after the first year of ownership you will have to pay the subscription fee, just as you do with Nest cameras. Without a subscription the camera will work, but only for motion alerts and live monitoring. There is no way to record to local storage such as an SD card or NAS drive. The subscription cost is still lower than Nest's but Nest's cameras (and app) are arguably better than Y-Cam's.
Also, note that Y-Cam cameras don't record continuously like the Nest Cam: it only records and saves clips when motion is detected.
Y-Cam Evo review: Price
You can buy the Evo directly from Y-Cam for £129.99. This is the same price as the old Indoor HDS.
The price includes seven days of rolling cloud storage for ONE YEAR.
Y-Cam Evo review: Features
The first thing to note about the Evo is that it's tiny. It's the smallest home security camera I've reviewed, and one that can be mounted almost anywhere without being obtrusive. Note that it isn't waterproof: if you need an outdoor camera, check out the Y-Cam HD Pro.
The stand is clever, too. In the box is a small bracket that's designed to be screwed to a wall. As it's magnetic, you can easily pull the camera (with its stand) off this bracket and relocate it somewhere else temporarily.
And as it uses a standard tripod thread, you can use other mounts (but probably not a tripod).
There are two other significant upgrades compared to the Indoor HDS: Bluetooth and a speaker.
Bluetooth means you can set up the Evo from your phone. No longer do you have to first connect the camera to your router using a network cable as with previous Y-Cam models. The new app has a slick interface which makes phone-based setup a breeze: I had the Evo up and running within three minutes of unboxing it.
For those without an existing Y-Cam account, you'll need to allocate a few extra minutes to create a free account.
The second update – the speaker – will enable 2-way audio, although this isn't yet implemented in the app. An update is coming soon that will let you talk back, and this will bring the Evo more in line with the current competition, much of which already offers 2-way audio. With the older Y-Cam models, you could only listen in to what was happening.
As you'd expect, infrared LEDs are used for night vision, so the Evo can capture the action even when the lights are off.
A feature introduced a little while ago is location recording. This uses your phone's location to disable recording when you return home and enable it when you leave. It's a good idea, apart from the fact that it doesn't take other family members into account so it works on the location of only one phone.
Y-Cam Evo review: Performance
When I first heard that the Evo - the first new camera in Y-Cam's range for a couple of years - wasn't going to have a 1080p sensor, I couldn't hide my disappointment. However, it's worth bearing in mind that many 1080p cameras which record to the cloud don't benefit from the extra resolution as the video is stored and streamed at 720p (or lower).
Still, the ultimate security camera – as far as I'm concerned – would offer a way to record top-quality video locally and only scale down to steam it over your broadband connection.
If one exists, I'm willing to bet it doesn't work as well as the HomeMonitor system. Y-Cam recently released a new app with an updated interface and it's one of the best you'll find.
The 'home' screen shows a thumbnail preview from your camera(s) and you can tap the power button underneath to quickly disable or enable a particular camera. The thumbnails update to show what's happening live after a couple of seconds of opening the app. Tapping on the 'play' button brings up the live view along with a list of recently recorded video clips.
A further tap on any recorded clip starts that playing and the new app lets you download it straight to your iPhone or Android device, a feature that's particularly handy and one you don't get with many of the Evo's rivals.
Unlike in the old app, you can now change most of the camera's settings without having to use a PC or laptop and use the web portal. In particular you can set and adjust up to two zones to monitor for motion, and tweak the sensitivity using your phone's touch screen.
It would still be nicer to have more flexibility when defining the areas to monitor: SpotCam and Nest both offer different approaches. With the Evo, you're often forced to select a bigger area than you really want to because you're limited to horizontal and vertical lines.
However, it's a minor gripe as the motion detection works reliably. Over the course of the last two years that I've been using the HomeMonitor system it has only missed a couple of events, so the absence of continuous recording isn't particularly noticeable.
Cleverly, Y-Cam uses a memory buffer in the camera so it can record the few seconds before motion is detected in order for you to see the whole event. My only complaint is that clips often cut off after 30 seconds or so. Typically that's long enough to see what you need to, but occasionally it would have been nice if it had continued recording.
In the app there's a record button that lets you manually record what's happening for up to five minutes.
Y-Cam says video quality is better than the Indoor HDS and Outdoor HD Pro, and it is. There's a bit more detail and - perhaps through better image processing - everything is sharper. A bigger impact is the wider field of view from the new lens - now 100 degrees rather than 87 on the Indoor HDS.
The only option missing from the app is the recording schedule. Via the web portal you can choose when the Evo is on and off, but since you can easily turn it on and off through the app, it's hardly a problem.
In terms of alerts, you have the option of a notification on your phone, an email or both. You can select all these options via the app. Currently there's no IFTTT integration so the Evo is very much a standalone product that works in its own ecosystem. For most people, that's absolutely fine, while for geeks who want more advanced options, it's a slight limitation.
Y-Cam Evo: Specs
IP Camera Colour, 100° field of view Resolution: 1280x720 Field of view: 100° Video codec: H.264 (MPEG4) Night Vision: Up to 8m Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4Ghz, Bluetooth 4.1 2-way audio: Coming in a future software update. Dimensions: 52 x 52 x 28mm (camera only) Dimensions: 52 x 70 x 57mm (with stand) Weight: 96g (with stand)
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Born in Dublin, Bernadette Madden graduated from the National College of Art and Design, where she studied painting. She works through the medium of screen printing (on paper) and batik (on linen). She had her first solo show in Dublin and has continued to exhibit regularly throughout Ireland as well as abroad. Countries in which she has shown her work include the United States of America, Norway, Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Bernadette is represented in numerous private and public collections, including Aer Lingus, the Arts Council, the Ulster Museum, the National Self Portrait Collection, the Office of Public Works, Electric Ireland and the County Council collections of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Laois and Louth. She served a three year term on the Board of the National College of Art and Design, and two three year terms on the Cultural Relations Committee of the Department of Art, Sport and Tourism Awards include the Macauley Fellowship, awarded by the Arts Council and a Cultural Relations Committee grant.
Batik is the ancient art of patterning fabric. Images are drawn on the cloth with molten wax and when the cloth is then immersed in a cold–water dye, the waxed areas resist the colour, thus making a pattern. The process is repeated for every new colour. When the batik is finished, all the wax is removed, mainly with boiling water. The batiks in this exhibition have been dyed an average of ten times.
Silk screen printing is a type of stencil printing. A gauze screen (originally silk, now usually nylon) is fixed tautly onto a rectangular wooden frame. A design is applied to the gauze, this can be a simple paper stencil or a liquid which hardens when painted on. The frame is laid flat on a sheet of paper, printing ink is poured on to the gauze and forced through to the paper using a rubber blade called a squeegee. Since a single screen cannot be easily inked in more than one colour, this is usually done by successive printings using a different screen for each colour. The screen prints in this exhibition are made in a varied edition (V.E.),where the basic image remains the same , but the colours are sometimes changed, making each print slightly different.
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Elizabeth Murray is aboard a new flotilla to highlight the illegality of the 12-year old blockade that is choking the people of Gaza.
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The coronavirus is continuing to increase around the globe, noting that the spike in cases over the last month and a half means there could be a spike in deaths, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday.
"In April and May, we were dealing with 100,000 cases a day," Dr. Michael Ryan said during a Tuesday press briefing. "Today we're dealing with 200,000 a day."
"What we've seen during the month of June is an acceleration in the number of cases, what hasn't accelerated with that yet, are the number of deaths."
Ryan said that coronavirus related deaths appear to be stable, but he warned this could be due to the amount of "lag time" it takes for virus to run its course.
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Yellowstone Star Jefferson White to Host Hit Show's Official 'Behind-the-Scenes' Podcast
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The podcast, covering "everything from rodeo to ranching to reservation," is set to premiere Thursday
By Ally Mauch and Mark Gray December 06, 2021 11:00 AM
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Yellowstone fans, rejoice!
The hit show has an official podcast on the way, hosted by star Jefferson White and premiering Thursday, PEOPLE exclusively reveals.
"I am excited to announce that I am hosting the official Yellowstone podcast," White, who plays Jimmy Hurdstrom, says in the new trailer for the podcast. "As you dig into all things Yellowstone on all your screens, I'm going to be bringing you behind the scenes stories from all of your favorite cast, crew and more."
He continues, "But this isn't just your typical recap show, we are going to unpack the world of Yellowstone, everything from rodeo to ranching to reservation. This is about getting the full picture of the culture and the community that surround the show."
Each episode of the podcast will feature a different Yellowstone cast member, "to take you behind the scenes like you have never heard before," White says.
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Jen Landon, Ryan Bingham and Jefferson White photographed at the Yellowstone cast dinner
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During a cast dinner at Delilah at Wynn Las Vegas, Cole Hauser, who stars as Rip Wheeler on the Paramount+ series, opened up to PEOPLE about what it has been like to work with White and see him grow.
"Your growth in four years — just coming from me, Cole, not Rip — you have grown beautifully," he said. "I'm proud of you, man. I said it in the show, but I love you. I mean that from my heart."
Hauser, 46, continued, "I look forward to seeing you grow in the cinematic world and also behind it and in front. You're special."
Luke Grimes, who plays Kayce Dutton, shared that the entire cast has become a family over the four seasons of filming.
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"I think everyone who's on the show is so happy to be there," he said. "We do feel like a family. You know, you spend a lot of time with people when you make a film or especially a television show because you go year after year, you know?"
"It's been four years that we'll spend 12 hours a day together for months at a time. Some real bonds get created," Grimes, 37, added.
Those bonds will be especially evident throughout the podcast.
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In addition to featuring stars from the show like Hauser, Grimes, Kelly Reilly and more, the podcast will also dive into the upcoming Yellowstone prequel series, 1883, starring Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Sam Elliott.
Wynn Resorts, which is sponsoring the podcast, is set to host the global premiere of 1883 on Dec. 11.
Episode one of the official Yellowstone podcast, produced by 101 Studios and Paramount Network, drops Friday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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More investigating, more information, still trying to just keep it straight and not feel too overwhelmed.
A few more articles I found at Momentum Mag, an online biking magazine. Looks very stylish and 'cool'.
What to look for in an upright bike.
Getting used to upright bikes.
A review of 15 upright bikes. Not necessarily geared (oh, ho ho) towards commuters, but a little more information to help understand the playing field also helped. I wish these had been put in order of price, or that the price had been listed on the main page. Frankly, most of these are nowhere near what I can put towards a new bike.
All reviewed in October 2012 and the prices reflect that (in USD).
Biria Citibike 700C $500 The green is to-die-for. But may be too heavy for the uphills on my ride.
Bobbin Birdie 3 Speed $650 A 3 speed isn't going to cut it for my commute.
Cooper Oporto $1,700 Yeah, when there's a comma in the price, this one gets crossed off.
Felt Verza Regency $700 Beautiful, but sounds too heavy, insufficient brakes for what I need, not enough speeds.
Gazelle Tour Populair T8 $1,400 Lovely design, waaay to pricey for these pockets.
Globe Daily 3 $830 Gorgeous, but still a little rich for me.
Handsome Devil Complete $1,200 We've been over the cost issue. I don't like the style. So, doesn't matter.
Norco City Glide 8 $890 An 8 speed bike, blue is so pretty in the Womens frame.
Novara Gotham 2012 $1,300 Another gorgeous bike, removed from my choices by price.
Opus Zermatt $665 Really pretty and convenient features.
Public C7 $600 Doesn't come with a rear rack... tsk tsk. Bright colors make Public's bikes into candy.
Sillgey Belle $750 + shipping But being a 3 speed, it's off my list.
Viva Juliett Classic $1,300 Holy cow, this looks like it jumped out of the Belle Epoque!
And so the quest continues. Of all of these I'm thinking the Opus Zermatt looks like the best choice. But there's nowhere around here to try one out. My search continues!


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How Bill Gates is engineering the Earth to resist climate change
Brightening marine clouds to reflect more sunlight? Coating the Earth with a solar shield of sulphate particles? From the new book Earthmasters, how science -- and Bill Gates -- could tackle climate change.
Geoengineering — deliberate, large-scale interventions in the Earth's climate system to counter the effects of global warming — is now the subject of extensive research around the world. If nations seem unable to implement plan A, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, then, some believe, we must prepare plan B — schemes such as fertilising the oceans so they soak up more carbon dioxide, brightening marine clouds so they reflect more sunlight, or coating the Earth with a solar shield of sulphate particles.
Although still in its early days, the constituency for geoengineering is now developing around a network of individuals with personal, institutional and financial links. At the centre of the network is a pair of North American scientists actively engaged in geoengineering research: David Keith and Ken Caldeira.
Keith and Caldeira have been dominant voices in virtually every inquiry into and report on geoengineering. They have been prominent expert witnesses at the opinion-forming inquiries by the British and American legislatures, and their views have helped frame the deliberations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as it grapples for the first time with the scientific and ethical tangle that is climate engineering.
In short, Keith and Caldeira have become the "go-to" guys on climate engineering. Such is their influence over the global debate that author Eli Kintisch has dubbed them the "geoclique". While they are not as gung-ho as some other geoengineering advocates, their research and advocacy lead in only one direction. And the truth is the weight of history is on their side. The urge for mastery over nature is inscribed in the climate engineering project, and it is this urge that will overwhelm the best efforts of reluctant geoengineers.
David Keith is a physicist, entrepreneur and professor of public policy. For many years he was based at the University of Calgary before moving to Harvard. Although there is no doubting his brilliance as a scientist, his views are sometimes hard to pin down. While convinced of the validity of climate science, he seems to adopt a nonchalant stance towards its impacts on humans. "I'm not sure that global warming is such a threat to human civilisation … human beings are a remarkably adaptable species … If it is just the human race you're worried about, I'm not sure global warming is such a big problem."
He expects that humans will be engaged in "planetary management" via climate engineering and what remains of the natural world will be managed like a garden, a development he seems to accept with equanimity. Keith is pushing ahead with plans to test sulphate aerosol spraying in New Mexico.
"Is it better to let the Greenland ice sheet collapse and let the polar bears drown their way to extinction, or to spray some sulphur particles in the stratosphere?"
Ken Caldeira is an atmospheric scientist based at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University, to which he moved in 2005 after 10 years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. At Livermore, a Cold War nuclear weapons facility, he came under the influence of Lowell Wood, the legendary "weaponeer" nicknamed "Dr Evil". Caldeira too is fully aware of climate science and seems much more alarmed than Keith at the harm global warming will cause to humans.
On the question of planetary management, though, his opinions seem to fluctuate. He says that thinking of geoengineering as a substitute for an emissions reduction is "crazy", but he has been unable to pinpoint "the one really bad thing that argues against geoengineering the climate". He is quoted as saying that sulphate aerosol spraying "seems to be a dystopic world out of a science fiction story", but also that "I am not clear on what the 'greenest' path is. Is it better to let the Greenland ice sheet collapse and let the polar bears drown their way to extinction, or to spray some sulphur particles in the stratosphere?"
For some years Keith and Caldeira have been Bill Gates' principal source of expert knowledge on climate change. From a series of briefings Gates has learned of the danger the world faces and what might be done about global warming. He was persuaded to commit several million dollars to finance research into geoengineering, a fund managed by Keith and Caldeira.
Gates is now the world's leading financial supporter of geoengineering research. He is an investor in Silver Lining, a company pursuing marine cloud brightening methods. Blurring the boundary between disinterested research and financial reward that increasingly characterises geoengineering, one of the more detailed research papers on marine cloud brightening includes 10 authors affiliated with Silver Lining.
Gates is also an investor in Carbon Engineering Ltd, a start-up company formed by David Keith to develop technology to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air on an industrial scale.
In addition to advising Gates and dispensing his research funds, Ken Caldeira is linked to Gates through a firm known as Intellectual Ventures, formed by former Microsoft employees and led by Nathan Myhrvold, one-time chief technology officer at Microsoft. Caldeira is listed as an "inventor" at Intellectual Ventures. Lowell Wood, once Myhrvold's academic mentor, retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2007 to team up with Intellectual Ventures. Gates is an investor.
The company, whose motto is "inventors have the power to change the world", has developed the "StratoShield", a hose suspended by blimps in the sky to deliver sulphate aerosols. The device is marketed as "a practical, low-cost way to reverse catastrophic warming of the Arctic — or the entire planet". Intellectual Ventures has patented several geoengineering concepts, including an ocean pump for bringing cold seawater to the surface. That patent lists Caldeira, Myhrvold and Gates as inventors.
Gates has been criticised for "dissing" renewable energy and energy efficiency measures like household insulation as solutions to global warming. He is less interested in "old technologies", even those with proven capacity, and dismissed solar energy as "cute". He prefers to support "innovative solutions", breakthroughs yet to be developed by whiz-kids, even though the experts agree the obstacle is not the absence of innovative alternatives to fossil fuels but the policies to ensure they are taken up.Gates sees climate change as a technical problem that requires some kind of "killer app", magical thinking according to some. Gates epitomises an emerging force in the push for an engineered climate — behind the genuflecting to "mitigation first", the lure of the technofix is irresistible.
Richard Branson is another billionaire who hopes to save the world with a technofix. He sees himself as "a committed crusader and ambassador of crucial and urgent social as well as environmental issues". Branson's Virgin Earth Challenge has offered a $25 million prize to whoever can develop the best plan to extract carbon from the atmosphere. Of the 11 finalists in the competition, four propose direct air capture methods, and four are based on biochar, a type of charcoal.
Of more long-term significance, oil companies, anticipating a shift in the political landscape, are quietly backing research into geoengineering. Royal Dutch Shell is funding study of liming the seas, a technology aimed at countering the oceans' acidification so that they can soak up more carbon dioxide.
The chief scientist at the oil giant BP, Steven Koonin, was the convener of an expert meeting for the Novim Group, a non-profit scientific corporation, which in 2009 produced an influential report on climate engineering as a response to climate emergencies. The authors felt the need to declare that in playing a prominent role Koonin had no conflict of interest, arguing, implausibly, that it is not possible to say that promoting research into geoengineering has any bearing on policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and thus BP's bottom line. In 2009 Koonin was appointed Under-Secretary for Science at the United States Department of Energy.
Despite ExxonMobil's long campaign to discredit climate science –in 2006 the Royal Society felt the need to write to the oil giant asking it to honour its promise to cease funding dozens of groups that had "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence" — it too has now inserted itself into climate engineering.
The corporation's point man on geoengineering is Haroon Kheshgi, who leads its Global Climate Change program. A chemical engineer, Kheshgi was recruited to Exxon in 1986 from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is equivocal about whether human-induced climate change is anything to worry about. In 1995, ensconced at Exxon, he was the first to propose liming the oceans as a means of reducing acidification due to escalating atmospheric carbon.
"It is clear, even at this early stage, that burgeoning commercial engagement in geoengineering is creating a constituency with an interest in more research …."
Through Kheshgi, Exxon has begun to influence "independent" reports into geoengineering, such as the 2007 NASA report on solar radiation management organised by Caldeira. The oil company also funded a report concluding that sulphate aerosol spraying would be a much cheaper response to global warming than phasing out fossil fuels. Its CEO, Rex Tillerson, has described climate change as an "engineering problem" with "engineering solutions".
Regulation moves more slowly than commerce, and in recent years there has been a flurry of patents taken out over methods to engineer the climate. Some of them are so broad that, if enforceable, they would place fertilisation of the oceans in the hands of one man. Another man holds a patent with the description: "Use of artificial satellites in earth orbits adaptively to modify the effect that solar radiation would otherwise have on Earth's weather."
Most people would assume that if anyone is to own a technology to control the amount of sunlight reaching the planet it should be government, rather than Franklin Y. K. Chen of One Meadow Glen Road, Northport, New York. The US Patent and Trademark Office disagrees. So does Ken Caldeira, who cannot see that patenting a solar shield is any different from patenting a new drug.
In 2010 Shobita Parthasarathy and co-authors noted a sharp increase in geoengineering patents in recent years and warned that, as in the case of biotechnology, the patents owned by private companies and individuals are on track to become the de facto form of governance of geoengineering. We are approaching a situation in which international efforts to protect humanity from climate catastrophe could depend on whether or not one company wants to sell its intellectual property.
It is clear, even at this early stage, that burgeoning commercial engagement in geoengineering is creating a constituency with an interest in more research and, eventually, deployment. Such a lobby is naturally predisposed to argue that pursuing mitigation is "unrealistic" or "politically impossible" and that therefore climate engineering is the sensible alternative, if only so that we can "be prepared".
Already the chorus of demands for public funding of research is loud; every inquiry and report calls for large amounts of it. It is fair to expect that if we reach the stage of deployment, any move to terminate it (due, for example, to evidence of unexpected environmental damage) would be fought by the new industry with complaints of asset devaluation and job losses.
Today it may seem absurd that factors like these should play a role in deciding the fate of the entire planet, but the history of environmental policy-making shows that these kinds of decisions are never based solely on public safety. As President Dwight Eisenhower warned in 1961, there is a "danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite".
*This is an extract from Clive Hamilton's new Earthmasters, published by Allen & Unwin and released this week
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I think the Greeks called it " hubris", and like Icarus , i suspect these semi insane geeks may end up falling back to earth . Witness our helplessness in the face of major events these past few years . Many prior civilisations on earth have trod this well worn path of self delusion .
Andybob
I always thought that geoengineering was a crazy idea that would prompt everyone to implement avoidance mechanisms for less cost and no adverse impact. Just because we're not doing those things, doesn't make it less crazy.
Mark Duffett
Somewhat strange that Hamilton omits any mention of Gates' and Branson's efforts to promote innovative nuclear energy as a climate response, at least from this extract. Maybe he covers this elsewhere in his book.
Roger Clifton
Are you a sucker for spin? For heavens sake, do your arithmetic…
There are 40 gigatons per annum of CO2 to bury. How much area is to be dedicated to sequestration — a thousand square kilometres? Okay, that comes to 40 tons per square metre per year of CO2 that has to be captured and buried. That is every year, year after year, without ever escaping.
Who would be silly enough to believe that! Could it be that we actually want the emissions to continue, and would shout nonsense rather than admit being party to an environmental crime of historic proportion?
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I wonder how much more insanity we will tolerate from our dear leaders.
It seems like madness is a bit like a drug. Tolerance increases with exposure.


In deciding a business structure it essentially comes down to whether you are looking to work with somebody else and the level of liability as an owner you want to undertake. Most small businesses will start off as a partnership or as an individual working as a sole trader. It is important to note, depending on the structure undertaken, there are different requirements regarding their registration and agreements between partners.
Sole traders can register for an ABN or can use their already existing TFN. If undertaking a partnership, along with registering for an ABN it is recommended that the relationship is governed using a partnership agreement.
Consider the market that you are planning to move into. Consider who your competitors are and whether there are others doing the same thing as you are. If there are, look at their prices and how you can differentiate yourself from them. Perhaps you might not be able to compete financially, this might be the step where the idea might not seem feasible.
If you have a business name, logo or distinctive product, it is crucial that these pieces of intellectual property are protected. Consider applying for a trademark where you wish to protect signs, your business name or your logo. Alternatively, if you have a particular product that is your invention you can apply for a patent.
It is most likely that the internet will be a vital source to establishing and marketing your product or service. Establishing a website and using social media is therefore a must. In some circumstances, it may be worth paying to promote social media posts and advertisements on platforms like Facebook and Google.
Registering your company through LawPath gives business owners access to a range of partner offers including website offers for getting your hands on a domain.
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This year the winter in Toronto was extremely nasty.
There were a couple days when the weather hit record low temperatures. Since freezing cold temperatures and construction don't mix the site at Allen Ave was secured and prepared for the next stage of construction: pouring the footings and foundation.
The role of the footings and foundation is to provide a solid base to which the structure of the house will be attached. They help disperse the load into the ground to keep any water below grade level out of the livable space. The footings must rest on level, undisturbed soil. There must not be any standing water. If you find yourself building a foundation in the winter time it is extremely crucial to keep the ground from freezing. A housing foundation built on frozen ground is likely to shift, crack or worse.
Due to these frosty conditions we "winterized" the site. Winterizing a construction site involves insulating the ground in thermal blankets, and erecting tarps with automatic heaters that automatically activate when the temperature falls below a set threshold.
Looking at the two week forecast it was going to be between -10 °C and – 30 °C for the next two weeks. What better time than now to take a vacation with my family? I traveled to Miami for a week to soak up the sun while my business partner headed further south to Panama. It was a perfect retreat away from the cold, to help rejuvenate the body and mind.
That's a picture of my wonderful, amazing girlfriend and I together.
Once we returned from our brief getaway it looked as though the cold spell was finally coming to an end. The site at Allen was shielded well from the cold, and our Weather Network forecast was predicting between -5°C and +5°C the following week. It was go time!
We wasted no time scheduling the foundation crew. COFA Construction pictured below does our concrete work. In one day the footings were formed and poured. These guys have a long background in construction (their fathers were all builders) and a very strong work ethic.
In two days the footings were stripped, site was prepped and foundation forms erected.
The next day the foundation walls were poured, then covered in thermal blankets. These are then given some time to cure before the forms are removed.
Once the forms were hauled away gravel was delivered, the foundation was waterproofed, and again covered in thermal blankets. That's the finished product!
In our next post we'll discuss the rest of the foundation process. Stay tuned!


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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
Prepared By: James Owen, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison
1 Call to Order:
2 Welcome and Housekeeping Items
3 Governance Committee Update
4 Chapters, Financial Controls, and Movement-Wide Transparency:
4.1 Controversial Content
4.2 Executive Session
4.3 Movement Roles
4.4 Strategy Update and Review
4.5 Introduction to Community and Community Health
The Board of Trustees met for its regularly scheduled meeting on Friday and Saturday, October 8-9, 2010 at the Wikimedia Foundation office in San Francisco.
Ting Chen- Chair of the Board of Trustees
Stu West- Vice Chair and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees
Samuel Klein- Executive Secretary of the Board of Trustees
Jimmy Wales- Founder/Trustee
Jan-Bart de Vreede- Trustee
Kat Walsh- Trustee
Arne Klempert- Trustee
Matt Halprin- Trustee
Bishakha Datta- Trustee
Phoebe Ayers- Trustee
Others present for all or part of the meeting:
Sue Gardner- Wikimedia Foundation; Executive Director
James Owen- Wikimedia Foundation; Executive Assistant & Board Liaison
Erik Moeller- Wikimedia Foundation; Deputy Director
Barry Newstead- Wikimedia Foundation; Chief Global Development Officer
Zack Exley- Wikimedia Foundation; Chief Community Officer
Veronique Kessler- Wikimedia Foundation; Chief Financial and Operating Officer
Jim Schwarz- Consultant on Board evaluation, Board Source
Robert Harris- Consultant on the Controversial Content Project
Dory Harris- Consultant on the Controversial Content Project
Jon Hugget- Consultant on the Movement Roles Project
Austin Hair- Facilitator on the Movement Roles Project
A quorum having been determined, the meeting was called to order at 09:15 by Ting Chen, who presided over the meeting.
Welcome and Housekeeping Items
Ting Chen welcomed the Board and outlined the key items from the agenda. Samuel Klein provided a brief update on the state of the minutes- and note- taking process. Samuel noted the July 2010 meeting minutes were approved during the August 31, 2010 Board IRC meeting. No additional housekeeping items were addressed.
Governance Committee Update
Matt Halprin, Chair of the Board Governance Committee, provided a brief update on the progress of the Governance Committee. The BGC introduced a recommendation to standardize Trustee term lengths for all Trustees to two year terms. After a robust discussion the Board accepted this recommendation. It also directed the Governance Committee to develop a detailed set of recommendations around both balancing the term of appointed and community members and instituting processes for board member evaluation and replacement. The Board asked the Governance Committee to present details and recommendations to the Board prior to the end of the year.
Approved: Arne Klempert, Jimmy Wales, Kat Walsh, Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, Ting Chen Recused: Bishakha Datta, Matt Halprin, Stu West, Jan-Bart de Vreede
The BGC recommended an evaluation process for Board members, to be carried out by Jim Schwarz of Board Source. Jim explained the process and how results would be shared. It was generally agreed that Trustee feedback would be made available to all trustees and the Executive Director. The Board chose to conduct annual evaluations by June of each year, starting next year.
Chapters, Financial Controls, and Movement-Wide Transparency:
Stu West led a discussion about chapters, financial controls and movement-wide transparency. The topic was first raised at a meeting of the Audit Committee, prompted by a desire to ensure financial and other controls are in place to appropriately steward the increased donations flowing into and throughout the Wikimedia movement. Erik Moeller, Barry Newstead, Veronique Kessler and Zack Exley joined the Board meeting for this agenda item. Stu laid out some basic information about the Wikimedia chapters, including an assessment of potential risks associated with current roles-and-responsibilities between chapters and the Wikimedia Foundation. This was followed by an extensive discussion, including the legal status of the chapters, current fundraising practices, and the current state of chapters' reporting mechanisms for both activities and finances.
It was agreed that the Wikimedia movement should continue to actively refine and improve its financial practices, to achieve greater transparency, openness and accountability, and to mitigate risk to the movement. The Board agreed to promote transparency, openness and accountability, and passed a resolution on the fundraising principles guiding the Foundation and our movement:
Resolution: Wikimedia fundraising principles
Controversial Content
In May the Board had directed the ED to commission a study on controversial content. The recommendations stemming from the study were presented by Robert Harris and Dory Harris, the consultants hired to undertake it. They led a three-hour discussion of the study, and presented their observations and eleven recommendations.
Robert and Dory recommended that no changes be made to the manner in which text-based "controversial" content is handled in the Wikimedia projects, because the definitions and procedures currently in place to deal with this content are working. They also made a number of recommendations for action that falls within the bailiwick of the Wikimedia community: recommending that Wikimedia consider development of a Wikijunior project and that Commons admins consider how to improve implementation of some policies and how they are applied. And they recommended that the Foundation support technical developments to allow users to opt into a system that would let them to hide classes of images from their own view.
The Board welcomed the thoroughness and intelligence the Harrises brought to the work, and the care taken with this report, including the public presentation of the recommendations to the community and the highlighting of unresolved questions about Commons mission, scope, and growth rate.
The Board undertook an exercise to capture the level of agreement around the appropriateness of each recommendation. Half of them were uncontroversial, while others required further discussion. To further this discussion beyond the meeting, the Board set up a working group led by Jan-Bart (as group Chair), Phoebe and Kat, to work with Robert and Dory to identify next steps. The Board asked this working group to make an initial report to the Board by November 6, 2010.
During each Board meeting, as general good practice, the Board holds an executive session without the Executive Director and her assistant.
Movement Roles
The Movement Roles working group led by Arne Klempert presented an update on its current work and a proposal for the coming year. Jon Huggett and Austin Hair joined for a discussion of the progress made by the working group to date. The Board reviewed the proposal and approved the direction of this group, and encouraged all interested parties, particularly chapters and other stakeholders outlined in the proposal, to engage in the process.
Proposal: Movement roles working group/Proposal
Strategy Update and Review
Sue Gardner presented the Board with the final version of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-2015 strategy plan. The Board reviewed the document and held brief discussions on the publication and distribution of the final plan. The Board thanked Sue and the Wikimedia community for their dedication and commitment to the Strategy development project.
Resolution: Strategy project
Introduction to Community and Community Health
Samuel briefly introduced the Board to a discussion on community and community health. This included a discussion about the development of a policy prohibiting on and off-wiki harassment of Wikimedia project participants, and addressing aggressive global behaviors. Phoebe offered to work with the Foundation's community department and Wikimedia community members to develop a draft policy and to obtain feedback and support. The Board acknowledged the importance of community health as a topic for further evaluation before adjourning.


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Вакідзасі () — короткий традиційний японський меч. В основному використовувався самураями та носився на поясі.

Довжина клинка — від 30 см до 61 см. Загальна довжина 50—80 см. Вакідзасі схожий формою на катану. Його носили в парі з катаною, затикаючи за пояс лезом вгору.

Часто мечі вакідзасі і катана робив один майстер, мечі мали якісне оформлення і один стиль. Цю пару мечів називали дайсьо, що в перекладі означало «довгий — короткий» або «великий — малий». А якщо мечі виготовлялися різними майстрами, то їх вже не можна було називати дайсьо. У дайсьо вакідзасі використовувався як короткий меч (сьото).

Самураї використовували вакідзасі як зброю тоді, коли катана була недоступна або непридатна.

У ранні періоди японської історії замість вакідзасі носився малий меч танто. Також коли самурай одягав обладунки, замість катани та вакідзасі зазвичай використовувався таті та танто. Входивши в приміщення, воїн залишав катану у слуги або на спеціальній підставці. Вакідзасі ж завжди залишався при самураї, його знімали лише у випадку, якщо самурай залишався в приміщенні на тривалий період часу.

Для зручного носіння декількох мечів (катани, вакідзасі й танто), японцями були винайдені різні способи носіння мечів. Мечі фіксувалися за допомогою шнура саґео, який просмикувався через скобу куріґата, яка перебувала на лицьовій стороні піхов. Такі способи фіксації, не дозволяли мечу впасти на землю і при цьому залишали торс вільним.

Феодали часто називали цей меч «охоронцем своєї честі», оскільки він використовувався для сеппуку. Деякі школи фехтування вчили використовувати  катану і вакідзасі одночасно (дивіться Міямото Мусасі).

На відміну від катани, яку могли носити лише самураї, вакідзасі був дозволений купцям та ремісникам. Вони використовували цей меч як повноцінну зброю, бо за статусом не мали права носити катану.

Література
 Носов К.С. Вооружение самураев. — СПб.: Полигон, 2001.
 Лайбле Т.Меч. Большая иллюстрированная энциклопедия. /Перевод с нем./ - М.: Омега, 2008. - 232 с

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News Roundup: Frozen Eggs, Killing Finland and Will.i.Puls
Posted by Dan Swinhoe
on October 17 2014
A roundup of the week's tech news including Twitpic's Death Rattle and NSA Headlines.
Tech Workers & Frozen Eggs
There's been a few surveys lately that build up a nice picture of what a tech worker wants. According to Robert Half Technology, most IT professionals want to work at midsize companies, not startups, while another survey found London is the city of dreams for tech workers. Another study of US tech CEOs found that Twitter is the most overvalued tech company, Uber is the most exciting startup, Teslas are the car to have and "Disrupt" is the buzzword to avoid. They think China is the most promising tech scene, don't have Google Glass or drones but do use iOS.
In an unexpected move, Apple and Facebook are to offer female employees the chance to freeze their eggs while they get on with their careers. It's caused a lot of discussion; some saying it's great, others saying it's invasive and creepy. I'm still on the fence. But if the women at these tech companies are happy about it, that's all that matters really.
Twitpic's Final Death Rattle
It all seems to be going on the big enterprise space. We've had the splits of HP and Symantec and the rumoured super merger of EMC with either Dell or HP, which Reuters is now claiming is definitely off. Quite how a split and super merger would have worked and whether one led to the other being called off is hard to say.
Also not happening is the resurrection of Twitpic. First there was a dispute with Twitter and claims it was too close for good, then came a saviour who was going to acquire the company. But fate has thrown a spanner in the works. "It's with a heavy heart that I announce again that Twitpic will be shutting down," said founder Noah Everett in a blog post. "We were almost certain we had found a new home for Twitpic, but agreeable terms could not be met. I'm sincerely sorry (and embarrassed) for the circumstances leading up to this, from our initial shutdown announcement to an acquisition false alarm." What a strange old tale.
Meanwhile Qualcomm is splashing out $2.5 billion for UK chipmaker CSR, Reddit (which now counts Snoop Dogg and Jared Leto amongst its investors) snapped up the unofficial Reddit app Alien Blue and rebranded it as the official Reddit app, Box is acquiring Med-tech company MedXT, EMC is buying Cloudscaling and Docker has taken over Koality.
The usual dose of NSA headlines:
There's a new doc on the Snowden leaks. In it we learn Snowden's girlfriend is in Moscow with him, while Glenn Greenwald says there is to be a second NSA leaker. You can also see Snowden's original emails to documentary maker Laura Poitras. He also seems to be a bit regretful about the whole thing.
- The NSA has saboteurs working for private companies in China, Germany, and South Korea.
- Former NSA director Keith Alexander has invested a lot of money in tech companies you've never heard of.
- The NSA won't tell you what they've already told you. 'Cus secrecy.
- The UN is unimpressed by all the mass surveillance going on in the US.
- UK police have access to people's phone data without a warrant through an automated database.
- The FBI doesn't like companies encrypting customer data, may try and prevent it happening.
- Google's Eric Schmidt is worried that all this spying is "going to end up breaking the internet."
Verbatim – Finland, Flattery and Generosity
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is still in the news for his comments about women and pay rises. This week an internal memo circulated apologizing for his words and outlined how he's going to increase diversity and equal pay within the company.
That the people of Finland have a chip on their shoulder over Microsoft's handling of Nokia is understandable. That they have beef with Apple over it is a more confusing, but it seems Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has just that. "I guess one could say that the iPhone killed Nokia and the iPad killed the Finnish paper industry, but we'll make a comeback," he told CNBC this week.
Apple have more urgent fights to pick. Jony Ive, Apple's head of design, called out Xiaomi for its Apple-like designs. "I don't see it as flattery," he said at a conference. "I think it's theft, and it's lazy." Xiaomi has said in the past that claims over copying the Cupertino company were "sweeping sensationalist statements."
U2 frontman Bono is sorry for foisting his music upon anyone who thought it was a good idea to have an iTunes account. "I had this beautiful idea and we got carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing," he said on Facebook. "Drop of megalomania, touch of generosity, dash of self-promotion, and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years mightn't be heard." U2: Proof there is such a thing as too much generosity.
In more Apple news, one developer thinks he knows why people don't want to download iOS8. "It's a nerd release," said developer Andrew Clark. "Home Kit and Health Kit are useless until all the accessory-makers get on board. Extensions and third-party keyboards are great, but a casual user isn't going to understand or care about them. iCloud Photo Library will be huge but it's in beta and is switched off by default."
Elsewhere Google's Eric Schmidt clearly thinks a lot more of Amazon than he does Bing or Yahoo! "Many people think our main competition is Bing or Yahoo. But, really, our biggest search competitor is Amazon," he said in a speech in Berlin.
Huawei's Guo Ping isn't sweating over a US band. "People around the world can enjoy Huawei's products and services," he told the BBC. "If one country can't, I feel it may be a bit unfair for their consumers. But for Huawei, it's not very important." He also added he would be ready when the US decided to change their minds.
British businesswoman Martha Lane Fox isn't a fan of the internet. Too many men. She told the Radio Academy's Radio Festival in Salford that she felt uneasy "that something that is now fundamental, like the water, for everybody's daily life has been entirely produced by men."
Will.i.Phone
Apple can show off thinner iPads and Google can talk about Lollipop all they want, but it's all about Will.i.Am this week. The Black Eyed Peas singer launched a standalone smartwatch, Puls, debuted at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference. The smart bangle does all the things you expect a 'normal' smartwatch to do, but has a bit more fashion sense than most of its rivals.
A Novel BlackBerry
Finally, an author in South Africa wrote a whole novel using a BlackBerry. He enjoyed the experience so much he's going to write the next one on a BlackBerry too. That's a lot of words on a little screen. Rather him than me.
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Q: Triple Integrals - When does order of integration not matter? In general, I know that for the triple integral $$\iiint f(x,y,z)dxdydz$$ the order of integration cannot be changed arbitrarily. However, if we know that the bounds are constants and that $$f(x,y,z)=f(x)g(y)h(z)$$ then can we rewrite the triple integral as $$\int f(x)dx \cdot \int g(y)dy \cdot \int h(z)dz$$ with the respective bounds?
I've seen several questions on MathStackExchange regarding change of order for triple integrals with nonconstant bounds, but I just wanted to verify that this is correct because I've encountered this type of integral several times in my physics course. Thanks!

A: Yes, $\int_a^b\int_c^d\int_s^t f(x)g(y)h(z) dzdydx= \int_a^b\int_c^d\left(\int_s^t f(x)g(y)h(z)dz\right)dydx$ and, since f(x) and g(y) do not depend upon z, that is the same as $\int_a^b\int_c^df(x)g(y)\left(\int_s^t f(x)g(y)h(z)dz\right)dydx$.  Now, $\int_s^t h(z)dz$ is a number, call it "P", so we can factor it out of the integral and write $P\int_a^b\int_c^d f(x)g(y) dydz= P\int_a^b f(x)\left(\int_c^d g(y)dy\right)dx$ and do the same thing again.


This week, for Dairy Month, we featured some sweet dairy desserts for your 4th of July parties.
First up is a quick and easy snack for the kids, Strawberry Yogurt Freezer Cups.
These Skinny Raspberry Cheesecake Bars are the perfect treat for sharing.
Frozen Smoothie Bars are a wonderful breakfast on summer mornings.
Whip up this Chocolate Frozen Yogurt for an icy treat on hot days.
These Lemon Pie Popsicles are light and refreshing when you're by the pool.
No one will guess this Chocolate Greek Yogurt Pie is healthy.
Use in-season peaches to make refreshing Creamy Peach & Honey Popsicles.


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