text:
Home> Storage
Samsung SM951 (512GB) PCIe SSD Review
by Kristian Vättö on February 24, 2015 8:00 AM EST
Introduction & The Drive AnandTech 2015 Client SSD Suite Performance Consistency AnandTech Storage Bench - The Destroyer AnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy AnandTech Storage Bench - Light Random Performance Sequential Performance Mixed Read/Write Performance ATTO & AS-SSD Thermal Throttling & TRIM Validation Final Words
The PCIe SSD revolution is upon us. So far nearly every controller vendor has shown off its PCIe SSD controller design and the latest news I've heard is that we'll be seeing a large number of PCIe SSDs from numerous manufacturers in the second half of 2015 (watch out for Computex and Flash Memory Summit). Samsung got a head start in 2013 with the introduction of the XP941 and to-date the company is still the only manufacturer that is shipping a PCIe 2.0 x4 client SSD in volume. There are a couple of Marvell based PCIe 2.0 x2 products on the market from SanDisk and Plextor, but none that can truly challenge the XP941 in performance.
Despite being an OEM-only product, the XP941 has been relatively popular among enthusiasts. The performance upgrade over a SATA 6 Gbps drive is significant enough that it has been worth the premium for a user with IO intensive workload. The truth is that SATA 6 Gbps has been saturated for quite some time already, so PCIe and namely the XP941 has been the only way to improve single-drive IO performance affordably (faster PCIe SSD exist, but due to their enterprise focus the prices make them unreachable for the majority).
Today we have the successor of the XP941 in the house. The SM951 made its first appearance at Samsung SSD Global Summit in July 2014 where it was touted to be the first client SSD with NVMe support. Unfortunately, Samsung changed its initial plans and the SM951 as it's known today does not support NVMe, but it still provides an upgrade from PCIe Gen2 to Gen3, which theoretically doubles the available bandwidth. Samsung is tight-lipped about the reasoning behind the decision to dump NVMe support, but from what I understand the current chipsets don't have proper NVMe support by default. It's likely that Samsung's PC OEM partners wanted to stick with known AHCI command set for improved compatibility, so Samsung decided to push the introduction of client NVMe SSD a bit further back.
Some motherboard manufacturers have gone through the extra steps to update their BIOSes with NVMe support, but I haven't been able to get a detailed answer of what exactly needs to be changed to enable NVMe on current chipsets. Anyway, the SM951 is not NVMe enabled and will not gain NVMe support later either, so for now there isn't a single client-oriented NVMe SSD. Samsung has, however, stated that the company is working on a client NVMe SSDs, which means we may seen one soon after all.
The SM951 is an OEM-only product just like its predecessor. Currently the drive is not available through retail channel yet, but Lenovo uses the drive in its ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop, which is how we got our early review sample. The drive will be available through RamCity within the next few months and the latest I've heard is that the first batch should be delivered in late May. I was told the pricing will be about 10% higher than what the XP941 currently sells for, which would translate to a bit over a dollar per gigabyte. The pricing will ultimately depend on Samsung's production capacity and demand, so it's too early to quote any exact prices and I will provide an update once the SM951 is available for order and the final pricing is out. Furthermore, since our sample came through Lenovo and carries a Lenovo specific firmware, I will also be reviewing the 'vanilla' version from RamCity to make sure our results reflect the model that is available for purchase.
Samsung SM951 Specifications
Form Factor M.2 2280 (double-sided)
Controller Samsung S4LN058A01 (PCIe 3.0 x4 AHCI)
NAND Samsung 19nm 64Gbit MLC
Sequential Read 2,000MB/s 2,150MB/s 2,150MB/s
Sequential Write 600MB/s 1,200MB/s 1,500MB/s
4KB Random Read 90K IOPS 90K IOPS 90K IOPS
4KB Random Write 70K IOPS 70K IOPS 70K IOPS
L1.2 Power Consumption 2mW 2mW 2mW
Idle Power Consumption 50mW
Active Power Consumption 6.5W
Encryption N/A
Similar to the XP941, the SM951 comes in the M.2 2280 form factor and is available in capacities of 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. The lack of a 1TB model is another change from the original product plan, but it's entirely possible that a 1TB SKU will follow later. Performance wise Samsung claims up to 2.15GB/s read and 1500MB/s, which is nearly twice the throughput of the XP941. However, it's nowhere near the maximum bandwidth of the PCIe 3.0 x4 bus, though, which should be about 3.2GB/s (PCIe only has ~80% efficiency with overhead after the 128b/132b scheme used by PCIe 3.0).
Because the SM951 is an OEM product, the warranty and endurance limitation are specified by the reseller instead of Samsung. We will know more when the drive is available, but I would expect RamCity to offer the same three-year warranty and 72TB endurance as it does for the XP941.
In addition to PCIe 3.0, the SM951 adds support for PCIe L1.2 power state. That is essentially a PCIe version of DevSleep (but it's not limited to just storage devices) and it allows for power consumption as low as 10µW per lane. In the case of the SM951 the L1.2 power consumption is 2mW, which that translates to 500µW per lane, so there seems to be room for further improvement, but the important news is that the L1.2 power state brings the slumber power consumption to the same level as DevSleep. The L1.2 also has lower exit latency at 70µs (i.e. how long it takes for the drive to be fully powered on again), whereas the DevSleep requirement is 20ms.
Surprisingly, the SM951 doesn't make the transition to 3D V-NAND like the rest of Samsung SSDs we've seen lately. It's still utilizing planar NAND, which I believe is the same 19nm 64Gbit MLC NAND as in the XP941. There have been some reports claiming that the SM951 uses 16nm NAND based on the change in the generation character (i.e. the last character, which was C in the XP941) of the part number, but because the capacity per die is 64Gbit I'm very doubtful that the process node has changed. It wouldn't make sense to build a 64Gbit die at 16nm process because the peripheral circuitry does not scale as well as the memory array does, which would result in very low array efficiency. In other words, a 128Gbit die at 16nm would be substantially more economical than 64Gbit, hence I believe that the NAND in the SM951 is merely a second iteration of 19nm 64Gbit die. Besides, Samsung already has 3D NAND technology and is pushing it very aggressively, so investing on a new planar NAND node wouldn't be too logical either.
Bootable? Yes
When the XP941 was released, the number one issue with the drive was the lack of boot support. Because the XP941 was never designed for retail, it didn't have its own legacy drivers that load prior to the motherboard BIOS to enable boot support on any system, and hence the XP941 required a BIOS update from the motherboard manufacturer in order to be used as a boot drive. To date, most Z97 and X99 based motherboards have a BIOS that supports booting from the XP941 (RamCity has an extensive list on the topic), although unfortunately AMD and older Intel chipsets are not supported.
I can confirm that the SM951 is also bootable on a supported motherboard. I tested this with an ASUS Z97 Deluxe using the latest 2205 BIOS and the SM951 shows up like any other drive in the boot menu. I suspect that any motherboard that can boot from the XP941 will also work with the SM951, but obviously I can't guarantee that at this point.
I also verified that the SM951 is bootable in tower Mac Pros (2012 and earlier).
AnandTech 2015 Client SSD Suite Introduction & The Drive AnandTech 2015 Client SSD Suite Performance Consistency AnandTech Storage Bench - The Destroyer AnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy AnandTech Storage Bench - Light Random Performance Sequential Performance Mixed Read/Write Performance ATTO & AS-SSD Thermal Throttling & TRIM Validation Final Words
DanNeely - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
"In any case, I strongly recommend having a decent amount of airflow inside the case. My system only has two case fans (one front and one rear) and I run it with the side panels off for faster accessibility, so mine isn't an ideal setup for maximum airflow."
With the space between a pair of PCIe x16 slots appearing to have become the most popular spot to put M2 slots I worry that thermal throttling might end up being worse for a lot of end user systems than on your testbench because it'll be getting broiled by GPUs. OTOH even with a GPU looming overhead, it should be possible to slap an aftermarket heatsink on using thermal tape. My parts box has a few I think would work that I've salvaged from random hardware (single wide GPUs???) over the years; if you've got anything similar lying around I'd be curious if it'd be able to fix the throttling problem.
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
I have a couple Plextor M6e Black Edition drives, which are basically M.2 adapters with an M.2 SSD and a quite massive heatsink. I currently have my hands full because of upcoming NDAs, but I can certainly try to test the SM951 with a heatsink and the case fully assembled before it starts to ship.
Ok, I'd definitely be interested in seeing an update when you've got the time. Thanks.
Railgun - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
While I can see it's a case of something is better than nothing, given the mounting options of an M.2 drive, a couple of chips will not get any direct cooling benefit. In fact, they're sitting in a space where virtually zero airflow will be happening.
The Plextor solution. and any like it is all well and good, but for those that utilize a native M.2 port on any given mobo, they're kind of out of luck. As it turns out, I also have a GPU blocking just above mine for any decent sized passive cooling; 8cm at best. Maybe that's enough, but the two chips on the other side have the potential to simply cook.
Depends if it's the flash chips or the ram/controller that're overheating. I think the latter two are on top and heat sinkable.
jhoff80 - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
It'd be even worse too for many of the mini-ITX boards that are putting the M.2 slot underneath the board.
I mean, something like M.2 is ideal for these smaller cases where cabling can become an issue, so having the slot on the bottom of the board combined with a drive needing airflow sounds like grounds for a disaster.
extide - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
Yeah I bet it's the controller that is being throttled, because IT is overheating, not the actual NAND chips.
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
I second this motion. Prefereably as a seperate article so I don't miss it (I only get to AT via RSS nowadays)
rpg1966 - Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - link
Maybe a dumb question, but: the 512GB drive has 4 storage chips (two on the front, two on the back), therefore each chip stores 128GB. If the NAND chips are 64Gbit (8GB), that means there are 16 packages in each chip - is that right?
That is correct. Samsung has been using 16-die packages for quite some time now in various products.


text:
Avnet to Distribute Red Hat Open Source Solutions in Brazil
Apr 5, 2016 – SAO PAULO – Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, announced today that it has expanded its distribution agreement with Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading open source provider, to include Brazil. Avnet began distributing Red Hat in 2007, and has helped the company expand its market presence in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.K.
Under the expanded agreement, Avnet will now distribute the full range of Red Hat solutions in Brazil, including operating system platforms, virtualization, middleware, storage and cloud solutions – such as OpenStack and OpenShift. Avnet partners will be able to offer their customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures based on open source technologies, with a focus on security, ease of management and a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) through a subscription-based model.
"CIOs and IT departments around the world rely on Red Hat to deliver solutions that meet their business needs with regard to performance and security," said Carlos Negri, general manager of Avnet Technology Solutions, Brazil. "Avnet's commitment to its channel partners and integrators is to develop and deliver business solutions that combine high-value-added services with cutting-edge software solutions and hardware. With this distribution agreement with Red Hat, we'll be able to provide our partners with an expanded solutions portfolio to better develop data center solutions for the evolving technology market."
"With this partnership, we have the opportunity to introduce the benefits of Red Hat solutions to a broader range of customers," said Silvio Mota, director of Alliances and Channels at Red Hat. "Avnet will help us demonstrate how our subscription-based model will allow partners to provide their customers with high-quality, proven products with the cost-flexibility they desire. Working together with Avnet, our partners can leverage Avnet's Demo Center capabilities in Brazil to show Red Hat solutions to their end customers and allow them to see first-hand how Red Hat will work in their environments by facilitating onsite testing."
Red Hat is expanding its channel program in Brazil. As a result, Avnet's business partners will be invited to participate in Red Hat's channel program. To support this, Avnet will be offering a training platform and access to OPEN certification (Red Hat Online Partner Enablement Network), which helps partners gain a deeper understanding of how they can innovatively solve their customers' business challenges with Red Hat technologies.
All brands and trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks, and are the properties of their respective owners. Avnet disclaims any proprietary interest in marks other than its own.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
About Avnet, Inc.
From components to cloud and design to disposal, Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), accelerates the success of customers who build, sell and use technology globally by providing them with a comprehensive portfolio of innovative products, services and solutions. Avnet is a Fortune 500 company with revenues of $27.9 billion for the fiscal year 2015. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.
SOURCE: Avnet

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
@-webkit-keyframes cube-transition {
  25% {
    -webkit-transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
            transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
  }
  50% {
    -webkit-transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
            transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
  }
  75% {
    -webkit-transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
            transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
  }
  100% {
    -webkit-transform : rotate(360deg);
            transform : rotate(360deg);
  }
}

@-moz-keyframes cube-transition {
  25% {
    -moz-transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
         transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
  }
  50% {
    -moz-transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
         transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
  }
  75% {
    -moz-transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
         transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
  }
  100% {
    -moz-transform : rotate(360deg);
         transform : rotate(360deg);
  }
}

@-o-keyframes cube-transition {
  25% {
    -o-transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
       transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
  }
  50% {
    -o-transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
       transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
  }
  75% {
    -o-transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
       transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
  }
  100% {
    -o-transform : rotate(360deg);
       transform : rotate(360deg);
  }
}

@keyframes cube-transition {
  25% {
    -webkit-transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
       -moz-transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
         -o-transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
            transform : translateX(-50px) scale(0.5) rotate(90deg);
  }
  50% {
    -webkit-transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
       -moz-transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
         -o-transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
            transform : translate(-50px, 50px) rotate(180deg);
  }
  75% {
    -webkit-transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
       -moz-transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
         -o-transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
            transform : translateY(50px) scale(0.5) rotate(270deg);
  }
  100% {
    -webkit-transform : rotate(360deg);
       -moz-transform : rotate(360deg);
         -o-transform : rotate(360deg);
            transform : rotate(360deg);
  }
}

.cube-transition {
  position : relative;
  -webkit-transform : translate(25px, -25px);
     -moz-transform : translate(25px, -25px);
      -ms-transform : translate(25px, -25px);
       -o-transform : translate(25px, -25px);
          transform : translate(25px, -25px);
}
.cube-transition > div {
  -webkit-animation-fill-mode : both;
     -moz-animation-fill-mode : both;
       -o-animation-fill-mode : both;
          animation-fill-mode : both;
  width : 10px;
  height : 10px;
  position : absolute;
  top : -5px;
  right : -5px;
  background-color : #404E67;
  -webkit-animation : cube-transition 1.6s 0s infinite ease-in-out;
     -moz-animation : cube-transition 1.6s 0s infinite ease-in-out;
       -o-animation : cube-transition 1.6s 0s infinite ease-in-out;
          animation : cube-transition 1.6s 0s infinite ease-in-out;
}
.cube-transition > div:last-child {
  -webkit-animation-delay : -0.8s;
     -moz-animation-delay : -0.8s;
       -o-animation-delay : -0.8s;
          animation-delay : -0.8s;
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


For solo and small physician practices, the recently published proposed rule for how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to implement the Medicare and Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (MACRA) set off some alarm bells. According to the proposed rule's regulatory impact analysis, 87 percent of solo practice clinicians who are eligible for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) – one of two payment tracks under MACRA – will receive a penalty; for groups of two to nine clinicians, the percentage is almost 70 percent.
• Clinicians or groups that have $10,000 or less in Medicare charges and 100 Medicare patients or fewer are excluded from the MIPS payment adjustment.
• When a practice is scored for MIPS, it will only be scored for categories where it has a sufficient number of applicable measures and activities.
• Small groups will have more flexibility within each of the MIPS performance categories. For example, CMS will calculate only two population measures based on claims data for solo physicians and groups of nine or fewer physicians instead of the three population measures required for larger groups under the quality performance category of MIPS.
CMS also notes that the proposed rule allows small practices or practices in rural or healthcare professional shortage areas to participate in the Advanced APM track – and receive incentive payments – by providing special rules for these practices to qualify as Advanced APMs under medical home models.
Ironically, CMS plans to delay implementing one provision of MACRA specifically intended to help solo and small group practices succeed under MIPS. Specifically, MACRA allows MIPS-eligible professionals to combine into "virtual" groups to participate in the payment track. However, as noted in the fact sheet and the proposed rule, CMS will not make this option available until the second year of the program.


text:
Latest News Rantt Rundown Interviews Opinion Unpresidented
Rantt Community About Us Contact Us
Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Denier, To Head E.P.A. Because Of Course
Trump is making good on his promise to destroy the E.P.A. from the inside out
by: David Martinez on December 8, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump has decided on Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma Attorney General and climate change "skeptic", to head the Environmental Protection Agency. A clear signal to many that Trump may indeed make good on his promise to defund and ultimately dismantle much of the E.P.A. as we know it. Pruitt's appointment comes a few days after a widely publicized, and encouraging, meeting between Trump and Al Gore at Trump Tower. High hopes of a shift in Trump's thinking on the issue of climate change have been slashed by this new addition to the Trump team.
In any other world, Pruitt's appointment would be a strange one. He's made a career out of suing the E.P.A. to block clean air and water regulations and his deep affiliation with the fossil fuel industry is a main concern among environmental activists. Trump supporters (and donors), however, see this move as a step in the right direction towards abolishing the E.P.A. and federal environmental regulations altogether. Pruitt, an outspoken advocate of states rights, believes states have constitutional rights to control their own levels of pollution. Interestingly, his defense of states rights fall by the wayside when discussing the legalization of marijuana.
Environmental activists around the country are not taking the news of Pruitt's nomination lightly. Many have taken to Twitter to voice their concerns:
At the risk of being dramatic. Scott Pruitt at EPA is an existential threat to the planet
— @danpfeiffer
Trump's nominee to lead EPA, Scott Pruitt, is a climate denier who's worked closely with the fossil fuel industry. That's sad and dangerous.
— @SenSanders
Scott Pruitt is a climate change denier, has spent entire career fighting against clean U.S. water & power. Unbelievably bad choice for @EPA
— @RepAdamSchiff
EPA nom Scott Pruitt stands with big oil & climate deniers, not American families who fight for #CleanAir & #CleanWater
— @SenSchumer
Sometimes 'puppet of industry' is a metaphor. Sometimes it's literal. Meet Scott Pruitt, new head of the EPA https://t.co/twWQTZv9KK
— @billmckibben
Very bad news for planet Earth and climate change. https://t.co/3Gj8webWsK
— @GeorgeTakei
What this news means for the fight against climate change remains to be seen — but it'll likely do nothing to help calm the 64% of Americans that are worried about global warming and its impending dire consequences.
President-elect Trump is expected to name his choice for Secretary of State next week. So far, this guy is one of the main contenders for the job.
News // Climate Change / Environment / Epa / Global Warming
by: David Martinez
Rantt contributor | Political-junkie | Musician | Dog-dad
Subscribe To Rantt
$3 - Get Our Daily Newsletter
$10 - Join Our Community Newsroom (30-Day Free Trial)
Public Option, Explained
The House Ways and Means Committee, Explained
Pelosi Gambled And Won On The Impeachment Delay
Who Is Lisa Murkowski And Where Does She Stand On Impeachment?
The Traumatizing Effect Gun Violence Has On Children
A Complete Analysis Of Trump's 155th Unpresidented Week As POTUS
About Rantt
Rantt Media is an independently owned news company that launched in October 2016. We analyze the news, shed light on injustices, and tell the stories that matter to you.
Unpresidented
Subscribe + Support
Donate to Rantt
Contact Privacy Terms About
© 2020 Rantt Media Inc.


text:
Home / Research / Research Areas / Environmental Inequities and Injustice
Air Pollution and Cardio-respiratory Diseases
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Disease
Biosecurity and Emerging Threats
Carcinogens and Cancer
Chronic Disease Etiology and Prevention
Community Sustainability, Resilience, and Preparedness
Energy Management and Alternative Technologies
Environmental Chemistry, Microbiology and Ecology
Environmental Inequities and Injustice
Environmental Resource Quality
Epigenetic Regulation in Environmental Diseases
Exposure Sciences and Environmental Epidemiology
Food and Agricultural Systems
Geomorphology, Geochemistry, and Hydrology
Risk Sciences and Public Policy
Toxicology, Physiology, and Cell Biology
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health
Communities are often disproportionately impacted by environmental and occupational hazards based on income, race, national origin, and other factors. Public health researchers have a vital role to play in understanding exposures and rates of negative health outcomes in different populations. Our research aims to increase understanding of these inequities and potential solutions among community members, policymakers, and other stakeholders.
Research Highlight
Community-Driven Environmental Protection: Reducing the P.A.I.N. of the Built Environment in Low-Income African-American Communities in North Carolina
Urban planning has focused on built environment issues in cities such as urban sprawl, availability of green space, and infrastructure for physical activity. However, in small southern towns, there are built environment issues which currently either are understudied or completely neglected by researchers. This article describes the built environment issues that burden unserved and underserved communities of color in North Carolina.
Our researchers use a case study of Mebane, NC to describe how neighborhoods of color in this small town have been impacted by environmental injustice through the denial of basic amenities, particularly sewer and water services, and overburdened by unhealthy land uses through inequities in the use of extraterritorial jurisdiction and annexation statutes. These planning inequities create public health risks for residents and nearby populations.
Jessie Buckley, PhD
Dr. Buckley's research is grounded in the developmental origins of health and disease framework and focuses on determining effects of early life exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals. She is actively engaged in evaluating the environmental obesogen hypothesis, which posits that chemical exposures during critical developmental windows can result in permanent changes that predispose individuals toward obesity.
Jillian Fry, PhD
Fry is interested in research that contributes to understanding the impacts of food animal production on environmental public health, especially in terms of disparities and environmental justice; resource use; effectiveness of regulation and policy processes relevant to food animal production at the local, state, and federal levels.
Chris Heaney, PhD
Heaney's focus are community-driven research, environmental justice, water quality, and environmental epidemiology.
Genee Smith, PhD
Dr. Smith explores disease patterns with the aim to expand upon the knowledge of understudied relationships between climate change and infectious respiratory diseases, including conditions such as Tuberculosis and Influenza. Her research examines how climate change has the ability to modify exposure to disease, alter host susceptibility to disease, and impact disease morbidity.


text:
Q: Scene rendering strangely in babylonjs So, I've loaded my scene I made in Blender into Babylonjs, and it's producing some interesting effects. Basically, I am trying to apply gravity and such to the scene, move the player to it's proper location, and make the entire scene lit and visible, but none of that is working. This is the script:
var BABYLON;
var canvas = document.getElementById('gamecanvas');
var engine = new BABYLON.Engine(canvas, true);
var player_height = 2;
var player_speed = 1;
var player_inertia = 0.9;

function INIT_GAME(){
    BABYLON.SceneLoader.Load('Scenes/', 'zombie_map.babylon', engine, function(newScene){
        var scene = newScene;
        var light = new BABYLON.PointLight('light', new BABYLON.Vector3(0,0,10), scene);
        var player = new BABYLON.FreeCamera('player', new BABYLON.Vector3(1,1,1), scene);
        scene.activeCamera = player;
        scene.activeCamera.attachControl(canvas, true);
        scene.enablePhysics();
        scene.setGravity(new BABYLON.Vector3(0, -10, 0));
        player.ellipsoid = new BABYLON.Vector3(1, player_height, 1);
        player.checkCollisions = true;
        player.applyGravity = true;
        player.keysUp = [87];
        player.keysDown = [83];
        player.keysLeft = [65];
        player.keysRight = [68];
        player.inertia = player_inertia;
        player.speed = player_speed;
        newScene.executeWhenReady(function(){
            engine.runRenderLoop(function(){
                newScene.render();
            });
        });
    });

canvas.height = window.innerHeight;
canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
canvas.requestPointerLock = canvas.requestPointerLock || canvas.mozRequestPointerLock;
canvas.requestPointerLock();

window.addEventListener('resize', function(){
    engine.resize();
});

}
The questions I have are:

*

*How do I make the render distance higher, so that I can view the
whole scene?

*Why are none of my scene properties working (gravity, movement, etc.)?

A: Your player camera should be set as the active camera:
var player = new BABYLON.FreeCamera('player', new BABYLON.Vector3(1,1,1), scene);
scene.activeCamera = player;
scene.activeCamera.attachControl(canvas, true);

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Lionsgate's 'Chaos Walking', Starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, is "Unreleasable", So They're Spending Millions More on Reshoots
Posted on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 by Ben Pearson
Chaos Walking, the film adaptation of Patrick Ness's young adult book trilogy, has been in development since 2011. Director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) and actors Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland came on board in 2016 and it started filming the next year, with an intended release date of March 1, 2019. As you may have noticed, that date has come and gone and the film still hasn't hit theaters.
Now we know why. According to a new report, the film was "deemed unreleasable" in its initial form, and after spending $100 million already, Lionsgate is now spending millions more on three weeks of reshoots. Yikes. Read More »
'Justice League' Reshoots Make Up 15-20% of the Movie
Posted on Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 by Ben Pearson
The making of Warner Bros.' long-brewing Justice League is as fraught with drama as almost anything you'll see in a theater this year. Following financially successful but critically despised movies like Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, DC Films changed its tactics and wanted to lighten things up a little bit. Part of that decision involved hiring Joss Whedon to come in and rewrite sections of the film's screenplay, and ultimately Whedon stepped into the director's chair to direct reshoots when original director Zack Snyder stepped away due to a death in the family.
Those reshoots and their impact on the movie have become a central talking point for fans and we've spent a long time speculating about what the final film will look like. Some of us have seen it already, but now, just a few days from its official release, one of the movie's producers has come forward and revealed the ratio of Whedon's Justice League reshoots to the footage Snyder originally shot for the superhero sequel.
Michael K. Williams' Role Cut from 'Han Solo' Movie During Reshoots
Posted on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 by Hoai-Tran Bui
Michael K. Williams has been cut from the Han Solo movie amid reshoots with new director Ron Howard. The Emmy nominee for The Night Of and The Wire alum was a last-minute addition to the Star Wars standalone movie, with his casting announcement only being revealed in March of this year.
However, Williams could not accommodate the reshoots schedule currently being overseen by Howard, who stepped in after original directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller left the project. This resulted in his character being cut altogether.


text:
Cherokee grad Jessica Woodard BOMBS OUT, moves into all-time collegiate top-10, finishes close second in NCAA shot put!!!!!
June 8, 2018 sjtcaweb
Cherokee graduate Jessica Woodard took second in the NCAA women's shot put with a PR of 61-3 1/2, which makes her one of the top 10 collegiate women EVER.
This is the SIXTH time Woodard has earned All-America status during her brilliant career at Oklahoma. She earned All-America honors with a top-eight finish in six straight NCAA Championship meets, indoors and outdoors.
She's already graduated and is competing this year as a post-graduate senior. She'll finish her career Saturday, when she competes in the discus. That starts at 6:05 p.m. EST.
Woodard finished second to one of the world's top throwers, Arizona State's Maggie Ewen, who is ranked No. 4 in the world at 63-10. The second-place finish is Woodard's best ever at an NCAA Championships.
Woodard broke her PR of 60-0 1/4 set at last year's Big 12 Conference Championships in Lawrence, Kans.
Her 61-3 1/2 moves her into the No. 14 spot in the world, according to the IAAF 2018 international performance list
She now ranks No. 4 among U.S. women and No. 22 all-time among U.S. women.
It's also No. 10 all-time among U.S. collegians, according to the USTFCCCA all-time list.
Woodard threw 56-10, foul and 55-11 3/4 in the trials and was sitting in fourth going into the finals. She moved into second with a 58-8 and stayed there with her 61-3 1/2 and a final-throw 54-10 3/4.
Ewen, the collegiate record holder, had the two-best throws of the competition with a 61-5 3/4 and a 62-10 3/4 on her first two throws. Ewen is also the collegiate record holder in the hammer throw but fouled out at Regionals and didn't get a legal mark.
Edward came within about a foot of the Oklahoma school record of 62-2 1/2, set by Tia Brooks at the 2013 NCAA West Regionals in Austin. Brooks is the No. 5 woman in U.S. collegiate track history.
UCLA freshman Alyssa Wilson gave New Jersey two of the top five finishers. Wilson, a graduate of Donovan Catholic in Toms River, took fifth with a personal-best 56-5 3/4. She was fourth earlier in the day in the hammer throw at 219-9, also a PR.
This is the second time in two days a former South Jersey shot put star finished a close second at the NCAA Track Championships. On Wednesday, Delsea graduate Josh Awotunde finished second in the men's shot.
Here is a look at Woodard's six career All-America performances:
2018 Outdoors – 2nd, 61-3 1/2
2018 Indoors – 3rd, 57-0
2017 Outdoors – 8th, 56-6
2017 Indoors – 5th, 57-6 3/4
2016 Outdoors – 3rd, 58-8
2016 Indoors – 8th, 55-10 3/4
Previous Article On final throw of his brilliant collegiate career, Delsea grad Josh Awotunde improves from 7th to 2nd in NCAA Championships shot put!!!!!
Next Article Meet records, all-time winners, all-time M-of-C performance lists, winningest athletes, order of events, meet program, entry list … EVERYTHING you need for the Meet of Champions is HERE one click away!!!!!


text:
Q: Summerize Time in area i just have huge data of technitions that can be OnSite or OnTheWay ,
i want to summerize in witch site they been and for how long.
Example:
id        UpdateTime            UserName    SiteID
488565  2019-02-18 19:07:24.000 stephen      null
488388  2019-02-18 17:34:52.000 stephen      297
488558  2019-02-18 18:06:48.000 stephen      297
488565  2019-02-18 18:07:24.000 stephen      297
488565  2019-02-18 14:07:24.000 stephen      null
483170  2019-02-18 13:53:14.000 stephen      299
488565  2019-02-18 11:07:24.000 stephen      null
483170  2019-02-18 10:53:14.000 stephen      297

the technition was in 297 twice this day , i want to get this result  per tech (End Time is the when i got Null or Diffrent SiteID):
UserName    InComeTime                 TimeInSite(min)     SiteID
stephen      2019-02-18 10:53:14.000     14                 297
stephen      2019-02-18 13:53:14.000     14                 299
stephen      2019-02-18 17:34:52.000     153                 297

thanks,
eyal

A: Can't comment because no reputation :( ?!? so I'll post as answer although some questions remain. In principle you can work along the lines of joining null-value site records onto not-null site records. If you can't warrant that null-value siteIds mean 'exit' and not-null siteIds mean entry then there is no 'starting point' and you'd need to do a table scan. If you can warrant it (or deal with exceptions separately) then the query could take on the following form:
select t1.UserName,
    t1.UpdateTime as EntryTime,
    t2.UpdateTime as ExitTime,
    datediff(MI, t1.UpdateTime, t2.UpdateTime) as TimeInSite,
    t1.SiteId
from TimeTable t1
join TimeTable t2 on t2.id in
    (select id from TimeTable
        where
            -- want the same user
            UserName = t1.UserName
            -- site id null/different means 'exited site'
            and (siteId is null)
            -- now get the entry with the minium update time that is greater than the entry time
            and UpdateTime = (select min(UpdateTime) from TimeTable where UpdateTime > t1.UpdateTime
        )
    )
where t1.SiteId is not null
order by EntryTime

This does not take into account that you can have multiple 'not-null' siteIds for the same visit (i.e. the three 297s). Ideally this should be avoided. If you can't then you could first collate those entries into a temp table to only pick the the first entry time.
The above query outputs the following (SQL server, note that I have added entry and exit time for clarity). It is not 100% what you wanted because of the multiple 297s, but maybe it gets you started. Out of time now, maybe someone else can provide a 100% solution. Good luck!
UserName     EntryTime               ExitTime                TimeInSite  SiteId
------------ ----------------------- ----------------------- ----------- -----------
stephen      2019-02-18 10:53:14.000 2019-02-18 11:07:24.000 14          297
stephen      2019-02-18 13:53:14.000 2019-02-18 14:07:24.000 14          299
stephen      2019-02-18 18:07:24.000 2019-02-18 19:07:24.000 60          297

A: You can do this with window functions.  You want to assign groups to the rows and then aggregate.  How is the grouping defined?
In this case, you want to include the next NULL value in the group.  So, a definition that works for you is the number of NULL values accumulated in reverse order.  That is:
select t.*,
       sum(case when siteId is null then 1 else 0 end) over (partition by userName order by updatetime desc) as grp
from t;

Then you can aggregate to get what you want:
select username, min(siteid) as siteid,
       min(updatetime) as incometime,
       datediff(minute, min(updatetime), max(updatetime)) as minutes
from (select t.*,
             sum(case when siteId is null then 1 else 0 end) over (partition by userName order by updatetime desc) as grp
      from t
     ) t;


The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland in a consistent way.
SIMD provides a wealth of information to help improve the understanding about the outcomes and circumstances of people living in the most deprived areas in Scotland. This information is often used to inform policy and funding decisions at both a national and local level.
What does SIMD say about Perth and Kinross?
Perth and Kinross as a whole is one of the more affluent local authority areas in Scotland however using small area statistics shows areas of Perth City Centre, Perth City North and Rattray are classed as being as being in the 20% most Deprived areas to live in Scotland. The Table below for results by locality and Perth and Kinross wide.
It is worth noting that areas that can appear to be affluent on the Index are often home to people facing poverty and other inequalities, and areas that appear to be at a disadvantage often contain affluent pockets. This is important to note when using SIMD especially in rural areas which have a large catchment area and contain a diverse range of people facing different financial and social circumstances. See the maps below for more information.
Click the images below to enlarge. An Interactive map can be found here.


From left to right: Ahmed Saad CEO and Bahaa Galal CTO, happy winners. (Images by Maya Rahal).
New startups need contacts, and the bigger the better.
Helping those in the creative sector make their mark, Wamda organised the 'Startup Alley' at this week's Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity.
Ten startups, most UAE-based, got the chance to exhibit their work and directly interact with some of the biggest advertising agencies in the region.
The core Startup Alley event was a pitching competition with Arabic-focused social media monitoring platform Crowd Analyzer taking first prize - a ticket to attend international creativity festival Cannes Lions in June.
Dubai Lynx main stage and exhibition space.
"We are delighted to have partnered with Wamda to bring the startup community to Dubai Lynx for the first time," said Emna Farmer, the festival director, in a statement.
An annual event now in its 10th year, Dubai Lynx brings together the advertising and communications sectors; it gives clients an opportunity to connect with the creative community and gain useful advertising insights for their own campaigns.
The festival, which took place March 6-8 at the Madinat Jumeirah Arena in Dubai, is part of the Lions Festivals stable, which also includes Cannes Lions, Spikes Asia, Eurobest and the Asia Effectiveness Awards.
Many startups attending Dubai Lynx received for the first time mentorship from regional and international experts from the creative industry.
The 10 startups at Startup Alley were 360MEA, AlphaApps, Crowd Analyzer, Et3arraf, Kanari, Metaphorio, Mini Exchange, Seez, Tarifah and Taskspotting.
On March 8, the last day of the event, Wamda organized a pitching competition, during which each of the startups presented a five minute pitch to three international experts: James Welch, managing director of Blue Logic, Kei Shimada global director of innovation and business development at Dentsu, and Matias Penas, scouting partner at Turn8.
After the pitching competition Wamda had a quick chat with the entrepreneurs and the mentors, discussing the good and the bad in startups' pitches, here are some of the insights gathered.
"Pitch your startup as if you are telling a story in three stages; beginning, middle and end. Start with why it is great and who would benefit from it. You need to look happy and enjoying every second, while staying away from arrogance and ignorance." - James Welch.
Most entrepreneurs agreed that learning the pitch by heart makes the presentation go smooth and feel easier.
"You either improvise all the way while working on strong transitions, or learn it all by heart if you have enough time. Middle ground is very risky when pitching. Rehearse several times, study the tone and jokes." - Cedric Maalouf, CEO Et3arraf.
"Practice makes perfect, and being funny was a good element of us winning many competitions so far, like once I was running out of time, so I just skipped a slide in a funny way." - Bahaa Galal, CTO Crowd Analayzer.
"The more you do it the better you get at it. Preparation goes a long way, prepare, prepare, prepare. Give yourself twice as much time and make sure you practice one day before to sleep on it." - Subhi Farah, managing director Kanari.
Khaled Zaatarah, founder of 360MEA during his pitch.
Focusing on the innovation and achievements of the technology linking them to revenue numbers and time restrictions, is also a strategy followed by many entrepreneurs.
"Highlight the business value and achievements, in addition to your next steps and milestones." - Mostafa Khalifa, chief business development officier Ta3rifa.
"Knowing your business with confidence and delivering in a real honest way makes the message come across as authentic. Know your numbers by heart and get very comfortable with them to deliver them positively." - Sarah Jones, CEO Mini Exchange.
Energy and confidence are key.
"Put a lot of energy to show your passion, be fearless because you are the one to know the most out of your company." - Khaled Zaatarah, 360MEA.
"People who are embarrassed don't do good. If you are the brand ambassador of your startup you have to be proud of pitching, and have the ability to convince." - Kei Shimada, managing director Blue Logic.
Dubai's Impact BBDO, won Agency of the Year, and also won gold for the Twitter Live Young Lynx Competition and for an interactive campaign 'Goodbye bad luck' for Loto Libanais.
J. Walter Thompson MEA was named Network of the Year, with their Beirut office taking home three Grand Prix prizes for 'The Good Note' for Bou Khalil Supermarket in the categories of PR, Direct and Integrated.


text:
Why we shouldn't fear the future of work
MIT task force wraps up with a final conference, sounds note of optimism that new ideas, better policies can help sustain good careers.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
Caption: The virtual conference, AI and the Work of the Future Congress, was held on November 18, 2020. "We're not going to run out of work," said Elisabeth Beck Reynolds, executive director of the task force, and executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center, pictured on the right. Also pictured: John Van Reenen, MIT Sloan Professor of Applied Economics and Department of Economics; Jeff Wilke, CEO, Amazon Worldwide Consumer; U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, Co-Chair, Congressional Future of Work Caucus; and Karen Mills, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School and Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Credits: Image: MIT News
Caption: "Work has become a lot more fragile," said James Manyika, top right, a senior partner at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, chair of the McKinsey Global Institute, and a member of McKinsey's board of directors. "This has affected both middle-wage and lower-wage workers." Also pictured: David Autor, Co-chair, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and MIT Professor of Economics; Fareed Zakaria, Host, CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS; and Susan Houseman, Vice President and Director of Research, W.E. Upjohn Institute.
Caption: In general, most workers are "not seeming to share in the prosperity that improved technology has got us," said Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus and 1987 Nobel laureate in economics, in recorded remarks shown during the conference.
Caption: "One of the most important skills or approaches that we need to talk about is how to make sure that people know how to think, how to learn, how to adapt," said Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Also pictured: Paul Osterman, Professor of Human Resources and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Andrew McAfee, Co-Director, IDE and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management; Frida Polli, CEO and Founder, Pymetrics; and Juan Salgado, Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago.
Caption: "Increased wages reduce turnover in an industry that has some of the highest turnover rates in any industry in the United States," said Saru Jayaraman, president of the advocacy group One Fair Wage and director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
Caption: "Technology is not something that happens to us," said David Mindell, task force co-chair, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT. "It's something we shape and create." Also pictures are Elisabeth Reynolds and David Autor.
Caption: "You can't say, 'AI did it,'" said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, on left, in a taped conversation with Autor. "We, as creators of AI, first and foremost have a set of design principles."
Caption: "I don't think we should contrain technological progress, because it is a competitive advantage of nations, and we have to let innovation thrive. We have to let technology proceed," said Indra Nooyi, the former chairman and CEO of Pepsico. Also pictured: Jason Jackson, Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT; Volkmar Denner, Chairman of the Board, Robert Bosch GMBH; and Yasheng Huang, MIT Sloan Professor of Global Economics and Management.
The virtual conference, AI and the Work of the Future Congress, was held on November 18, 2020. "We're not going to run out of work," said Elisabeth Beck Reynolds, executive director of the task force, and executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center, pictured on the right. Also pictured: John Van Reenen, MIT Sloan Professor of Applied Economics and Department of Economics; Jeff Wilke, CEO, Amazon Worldwide Consumer; U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, Co-Chair, Congressional Future of Work Caucus; and Karen Mills, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School and Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Image: MIT News
"Work has become a lot more fragile," said James Manyika, top right, a senior partner at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, chair of the McKinsey Global Institute, and a member of McKinsey's board of directors. "This has affected both middle-wage and lower-wage workers." Also pictured: David Autor, Co-chair, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and MIT Professor of Economics; Fareed Zakaria, Host, CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS; and Susan Houseman, Vice President and Director of Research, W.E. Upjohn Institute.
In general, most workers are "not seeming to share in the prosperity that improved technology has got us," said Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus and 1987 Nobel laureate in economics, in recorded remarks shown during the conference.
"One of the most important skills or approaches that we need to talk about is how to make sure that people know how to think, how to learn, how to adapt," said Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Also pictured: Paul Osterman, Professor of Human Resources and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Andrew McAfee, Co-Director, IDE and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management; Frida Polli, CEO and Founder, Pymetrics; and Juan Salgado, Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago.
"Increased wages reduce turnover in an industry that has some of the highest turnover rates in any industry in the United States," said Saru Jayaraman, president of the advocacy group One Fair Wage and director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
"Technology is not something that happens to us," said David Mindell, task force co-chair, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT. "It's something we shape and create." Also pictured are Elisabeth Reynolds and David Autor.
"You can't say, 'AI did it,'" said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, on left, in a taped conversation with Autor. "We, as creators of AI, first and foremost have a set of design principles."
"I don't think we should contrain technological progress, because it is a competitive advantage of nations, and we have to let innovation thrive. We have to let technology proceed," said Indra Nooyi, the former chairman and CEO of Pepsico. Also pictured: Jason Jackson, Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT; Volkmar Denner, Chairman of the Board, Robert Bosch GMBH; and Yasheng Huang, MIT Sloan Professor of Global Economics and Management.
The American workforce is at a crossroads. Digitization and automation have replaced millions of middle-class jobs, while wages have stagnated for many who remain employed. A lot of labor has become insecure, low-income freelance work.
Yet there is reason for optimism on behalf of workers, as scholars and business leaders outlined in an MIT conference on Wednesday. Automation and artificial intelligence do not just replace jobs; they also create them. And many labor, education, and safety-net policies could help workers greatly as well.
That was the outlook of many participants at the conference, the "AI and the Work of the Future Congress," marking the release of the final report of MIT's Task Force on the Work of the Future. The report concludes that there is no technology-driven jobs wipeout on the horizon, but new policies are needed to match the steady march of innovation; technology has mostly helped white-collar workers, but not the rest of the work force in the U.S.
"We're not going to run out of work," Elisabeth Beck Reynolds, executive director of the task force, and executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center, said Wednesday.
She added: "Clearly the distributional effects of technological change are uneven. We've seen the reduction of middle-skill jobs [due] to automation, [along with] jobs in manufacturing, administration, in clerical work, while we've seen an increase in jobs for those with higher education and higher skill sets. … Our challenge is to try to train [workers] and make sure we have workers in good positions for those jobs."
Indeed, the notion of social responsibility was a leading motif of the conference, which drew an audience of about 1,500 online viewers.
"I believe that those of us who are technologists, and who educate tomorrow's technologists, have a special role to play," said MIT President L. Rafael Reif, in his introductory remarks at the conference. "It means that, while we are teaching students, in every field, to be fluent in the use of AI strategies and tools, we must be sure that we equip tomorrow's technologists with equal fluency in the cultural values and ethical principles that should ground and govern how those tools are designed and how they're used."
The daylong event was organized by MIT's Task Force on the Work of the Future, along with the Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Conditions on the ground
The report notes that over the last four decades, innovation has driven increases in productivity, but that earnings have not followed in step. Since 1978, overall U.S. productivity has risen by 66 percent; yet over the same time, compensation for production and nonsupervisory workers has only risen by 10 percent.
"Work has become a lot more fragile," said James Manyika, a senior partner at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, chair of the McKinsey Global Institute, and a member of McKinsey's board of directors. "This has affected both middle-wage and lower-wage workers."
To be sure, information technology in particular has helped people in engineering, design, medicine, marketing, and many other white-collar fields; and while middle-income jobs have become more scarce, service-sector jobs have expanded but tend to be lower-income.
"Certainly the United States is a good place for high-wage workers to be, but not for lower-wage [workers] and those in the middle," said Susan Houseman, vice president and director of research at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. "We should be concerned about the growth of nontraditional work arangements."
Moreover, "The U.S. doesn't seem to be getting a very positive return on its inequality," said David Autor, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, associate head of MIT's Department of Economics, and a co-chair of the task force. "That is, we have a lot of inequality, but we do not have faster growth."
That said, Solow observed, "There's room for a lot of ingenuity here, because since the nature of employment has changed, as we become a service economy rather than a goods-producing economy, there's room for innovation in how to organize union work. … More active enforcement of antitrust laws, to try to increase the degree of competition in the production of goods and services, would also have the effect of improving the prospects for wages and salaries."
He added: "The main factor in the disturbance in the distribution of incomes is probably not technological change."
But if there is room for policy interventions to ease the social jolts resulting from technology, which ones make the most sense? In general terms, some conference participants advocated for an openness to market-driven technological change, paired with a substantial safety net to help people handle those disruptive waves of innovation.
"The real fundamental shift is, we have to think of service jobs the way 100 years ago we thought about manufacturing jobs. In other words, we have to start putting in place … protections and benefits," said Fareed Zakaria, author and host of the CNN show, "Fareed Zakaria GPS." He added, "Ultimately, that is the only way you are going to really address this problem. We are not going to bring back tens of millions of manufacturing jobs to the United States. We are going to take these service jobs and make them better jobs. And companies can do that."
One conference panel focused on the support of education, particularly public universities and community colleges, where traditionally overlooked pools of workplace talent reside.
"One of the most important skills or approaches that we need to talk about is how to make sure that people know how to think, how to learn, how to adapt," said Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. That said, he noted, people receiving a broad college education can also receive specialist certificates and credentials in particular technical areas and add layers to their skills that are more closely linked to evolving job opportunities. "Both are very important," he noted.
Juan Salgado, chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago, a group of community colleges, pointed out that there are 11.8 million community college students in America — many of whom already hold jobs and have workplace skills in addition to the academic skills they are acquiring.
"It's about the assets that are in our institutions, our students, and the fact that we're not paying enough attention to them," said Salgado.
"We know what works," said Paul Osterman, a professor of human resources and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, pointing out that many training programs, internships, and other work-directed educational programs have been rigorously assessed and proven to be effective. "It's taking what we know works and making it work at scale."
Saru Jayaraman, president of the advocacy group One Fair Wage and director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, noted that simply raising the minimum wage, especially for food service workers, would have multiple benefits that only start with the increased earnings for roughly 10 percent of the workforce.
"Increased wages reduce turnover in an industry that has some of the highest turnover rates in any industry in the United States," said Jayaraman, adding that better wages have "increased employee morale, [and] increased employee productivity and consumer service."
Karen Mills, a senior fellow at the Harvard Business School and a former administrator of the Small Business Administration, suggested that good policies are especially important for small businesses, which may not be able to capitalize on technology as much as bigger firms.
"In the jobs of the future, not all robots are going to be serving you coffee," said Mills. "There's still going to be Main Street." She emphasized the continued need for supportive policies for small businesses, including access to health care for employees and access to capital for firm founders, which would also help small businesses owned by women and people of color.
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, who will start her third term as a congresswoman in January, helped found the Congressional Future of Work Caucus, and suggested there is more bipartisan support for federal action than observers may suspect.
"We launched the caucus right before Covid-19 struck," she said. "We literally had standing room only. Democrats, Republicans, we had the council on Black mayors, we had the unions, AFL-CIO, just this diversity, academics — I held up your [interim] report — there was this common agreement that we need to have the conversation."
"Something we shape and create"
The conference also included extended discussion about the state of technology itself, especially artificial intelligence, examining its paths of progress and forms of deployment.
"Technology is not something that happens to us," said David Mindell, task force co-chair, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT. "It's something we shape and create."
"You can't say, 'AI did it,'" said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in a taped conversation with Autor. "We, as creators of AI, first and foremost have a set of design principles. … We have to go from ethics to actual engineering and design and [a] process that allows us to be more accountable."
Related: MIT forum examines the rise of automation in the workplace
A number of conference participants suggested that we should be careful to construct policies that don't rein in technological advances, but can ameliorate their effects.
"I don't think we should constrain technological progress, because it is a competitive advantage of nations, and we have to let innovation thrive. We have to let technology proceed," said Indra Nooyi, the former chairman and CEO of Pepsico. "At best, what we can do is anticipate the negative consequences of technology ... and put in some checks and balances."
As a few conference panelists noted throughout the event, the overlapping issues of work, technology, and inequality have become even more complicated and relevant during the Covid-19 pandemic, with roughly one-third of the work force able to work more securely from home, while many service workers and others have to perform their jobs in person.
Surveying the employment landscape of 2020, Nooyi noted, "In many ways Covid has exacerbated all the societal divides." Indeed, Reynolds said, "We believe this work is more important, not less important, in the time of Covid."
Overall, the task force members noted, making the work of the future better is a task that starts today.
"I really come away from this concerned about the direction [of work], but optimistic about our ability to change it," Autor said.
Axios reporter Bryan Walsh writes that during the virtual AI and the Work of the Future Congress, Elisabeth Reynolds, executive director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, noted that "education and training are central to helping the current and next generation thrive in the labor market."
Full story via Axios →
AI and the Future of Work Congress
MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future
Special events and guest speakers
School of Humanities Arts and Social Science
Report outlines route toward better jobs, wider prosperity
The urban job escalator has stopped moving
The changing world of work
MIT report examines how to make technology work for society
MIT launches Task Force on the Work of the Future


text:
A14 at Stowmarket to close TODAY as more temporary bridge repairs take place
Matt Reason
Published: 1:05 AM September 1, 2017
Traffic chaos in Stowmarket after the closure of the A14 on August 23, 2017. Picture: MATT REASON - Credit: Archant
The A14 westbound carriageway is set to close at Stowmarket today, as Highways England work to carry out more repairs to a damaged bridge joint.
The temporary repairs, which are hoped to shore up the joint on the Hill House Viaduct, come after emergency repairs on August 23 brought the town to a standstill.
The carriageway will be shut in the westbound direction between junction 50 and 49 from 8pm tonight (September 1) until 6am tomorrow.
A spokesman for Highways England's said their road maintenance team will be working hard to carry out further, longer term repairs to the bridge, which carries the A14 over the railway between the two junctions, following temporary repairs completed last week.
They said the work will help secure the joint until a planned permanent repair can be carried out.
Drivers planning journeys through the area overnight are advised to allow plenty of extra time to reach their destination, or to use an alternative route to avoid this area if possible.
A fully signed diversion will be in place between the two junctions via the A1120 and the A1308.
• For the latest information up to date traffic information, drivers should stay tuned to local radio, or follow Highways England in Twitter @HighwaysEAST


How To Do A/B Testing in Push Notification?
Push notifications are increasingly gaining attention for a number of reasons. Well-defined push notification can help a business grow faster. And when it comes to connecting with your users you are likely to make assumptions on what notifications would work best for your site. Experimenting with your notification would help you decide what kind of notification your subscribers/audiences enjoy the most. Run A/B Testing in Push Notification using PushEngage platform. Check out the recent update on AB Testing of notification.
PushEngage will now help you to do A/B Testing in Push Notifications. Our analytics would help you deploy push using which you can test and analyze multiple version of different notifications in real time. A/B testing allows you to do experiments in Push Notifications by changing the notification title, message, image. You can experiment by using Large image notification or a normal notification, or with multiple CTA/multi-action notification. You can then track CTR to decide which variant works best so that you can continue with the same. With AB testing, you can find out which notification works and this may lead to reducing the push notification unsubscribe rate as well.
What is A/B testing and How you can use it?
A/B Testing in push notification is the comparison of one or more versions of push notification to see which one performs better. These notifications are sent to two groups randomly. For example, if you have 200 subscribers a group of 100 users will receive Notification A and another group of 100 users will receive Notification B. You can think about what kind of message your audience will respond to. You can frame questions, be playful or keep a simple test as your notification title and message. These groups of subscribers will be selected randomly and based on the performance of the notification that is on comparing the CTR you can send similar notification for the same type of campaigns.
Login to your PushEngage Dashboard and navigate to Notifications > New AB Notification.
Then add the notification title, message, URL, and image for Notification A. once this is done you can select another type of notification title, message, URL, and image for notification B. You can try adding a different image or another notification image can be Large Image Notification or with multiple CTA and different texts.
Once this is done Click on Submit and notification will be sent to your Subscribers.
After some time you can navigate to Notifications> Sent Notification and check which notification out of two has the higher view and click count.
The notification with higher CTR performs better and then for further campaigns you can choose the same time of notification. Keep iterating and updating your tests to make your messages as engaging as they can possibly be.
Segment your users based on their demographics, buying pattern or site actions. Then you can send A/B test notification. It would help you achieve better results.
Do not overuse A/B Testing by using it before each and every campaign.
Plan to run a test with a large number of variants, ensure you are targeting a large audience. It would give you better results.
How To Integrate Web Push Notification on a BigCommerce Website?


text:
Cast3M (Castem) est un logiciel de simulation numérique utilisé en mécanique des structures, et développé par le Département de Modélisation des Systèmes et Structures (DM2S), autrefois Département Mécanique et Technologie (DMT), du Commissariat français à l'Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA). Il est mis à disposition gracieusement pour l'enseignement et la recherche.

Il utilise la méthode des éléments finis pour résoudre différents types de problèmes scientifiques.

Historique

Cast3M est développé depuis les années 80 par l'ancien Département Mécanique et Technologie (DMT) du Commissariat français à l'Énergie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) . Le langage de programmation utilisé pour développer Cast3M est le langage ESOPE, extension du langage Fortran 77 .

Originellement désigné CASTEM2000, dans sa version actuelle ce logiciel est appelé Cast3M. De nouvelles versions sont proposées annuellement au téléchargement, garantissant la compatibilité avec la plupart des systèmes d'exploitation.

Fonctionnement de Cast3M

Cast3M utilise le langage Gibiane pour décrire les données et les opérations. Cast3M, contrairement à la plupart des codes éléments finis, est rédigé entièrement en Français.
Cast3M est à la fois un programme de maillage, un programme de calcul et un programme de visualisation des résultats.

Son fonctionnement repose sur l'utilisation de processus élémentaires : les OPERATEURS et les DIRECTIVES. Les informations sont appelées OBJETS. Les opérateurs opèrent sur l'espace des objets.
 Les OBJETS sont nommés par l'utilisateur. Ils sont typés (exemples : nombre entier, flottant, point, ligne, maillage, matrice de rigidité, déformée…), ce qui permet aux opérateurs de les exploiter et de vérifier la syntaxe des données.
 Les OPERATEURS ont un nom. Ils créent un ou plusieurs objets dont les noms sont choisis par l'utilisateur. La seule condition de fonctionnement d'un opérateur dépend de l'existence de l'information au moment de son utilisation. L'utilisation d'un opérateur s'écrira toujours :
{nom du (des) résultat(s)} = {nom de l'opérateur} {nom de(s) l'information(s)} ;
Le point-virgule indique la fin de l'instruction élémentaire.
 Les DIRECTIVES modifient un ou plusieurs objets existants ou produisent une sortie sur une unité logique (écran, imprimante, …). Elles ne créent pas de nouveaux objets.

Il n'y a aucune distinction entre les opérateurs ou directives de pré-traitement, de calcul et de post-traitement, ils peuvent donc être utilisés à tout moment du programme selon les besoins du problème.

Les opérateurs ne sont qu'une classe particulière d'objets.

Chaque processus possède une notice (en français et en anglais), disponible sur la page : Notice Cast3M

Organisation d'un calcul

Contrairement à d'autres logiciels d'éléments finis, Cast3M ne possède pas d'interface graphique permettant de poser le problème désiré facilement, ce qui rend ce logiciel un peu difficile d'utilisation pour un débutant. Cast3M ne possède pas d'éditeur de texte propre mais plusieurs modules ont été développés dans des éditeurs libres pour faciliter son utilisation, et sont disponibles dans sa rubrique 'Utilitaires'. Pour réaliser un calcul avec Cast3M, il faut créer un fichier texte (avec un éditeur de texte), l'enregistrer au format .dgibi puis le lancer avec Cast3M.
Nous décrivons donc ici le contenu du fichier .dgibi que l'on devra lancer dans Cast3M. L'organisation d'un calcul se fait de la manière suivante :
 Choix de la géométrie et du maillage : définition des points, lignes, surfaces… et choix du type de maillage.
 Définition du modèle mathématique et physique : données caractérisant le modèle, propriétés matérielles, conditions aux limites, conditions initiales…
 Résolution du problème discrétisé : calcul des matrices de rigidité et de masse, assemblage, application des chargements, résolution.
 Analyse et post-traitement des résultats.

Le fait que l'on puisse utiliser à tout moment du programme n'importe lequel des opérateurs (qu'il soit de type mailleur, définition de modèle, visualisation…) permet de nombreuses facilités telles que :
 la visualisation des informations à toutes les étapes de manière à contrôler les données introduites et le déroulement du calcul,
 l'archivage et la restauration des informations afin d'être capable d'interrompre un calcul et de le continuer ultérieurement,
 la possibilité d'itérer dans les étapes désirées.

C'est dans cette mesure que Cast3M dépasse donc les limites d'adaptabilité offertes par les codes de calcul conventionnels.

Institutions utilisant Cast3M

Des cours s'appuyant sur Cast3M sont donnés dans de nombreux établissements d'enseignement supérieur préparant leurs élèves à la recherche en mécanique :
 École supérieure d'électricité
École centrale Paris
 École centrale Nantes
 École normale supérieure de Cachan (départements de Génie Civil et de Génie Mécanique).
 École des Ponts ParisTech
 Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
 École polytechnique
 ENSTA ParisTech
 École des Mines de Paris
 ENSIB
 ENSICAEN (École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Caen)
 ENSTIB
 École spéciale des travaux publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie
 Institut supérieur aquitain du bâtiment et des travaux publics
 Institut national des sciences appliquées
 Université de Limoges
 ENSIATE
 Polytech'Montpellier
 Polytech' Marseille (département Génie Civil)
 EPF (Sceaux)
 ENSIACET
 Université d'Artois
 Université de Bretagne-Sud
 Université de Poitiers
 Université Clermont-Auvergne
 Université de Lille
 Polytech Tours

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Forum d'entraide des utilisateurs de Cast3M

Logiciel de calcul numérique
Logiciel de calcul mécanique

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Did referee Mike Dean celebrated Tottenham's goal VS Arsenal?
What club will Eden Hazard join?
The end of Abidal's career..?
Who has the best chance to win the Europa League?
Again Refs Help Real Madrid to win!


Many people have a love-hate relationship when it comes to money. Some look at money as the be-all and end-all, constantly chasing and seeking more of it. Others see money as the enemy, spending more than they make and ignoring the debt that continues to pile up.
Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum, if you let money control your life you will never be happy.
The secret to creating a healthy relationship with money, like any good relationship, is creating the right mindset and attitude.
Money won't create success. The freedom to make it will.


PARIS (Reuters) - An armed man was holed up in a hotel in the southern French town of Bollene on Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the local police prefecture said.
"A deranged man is holed up in the Formule 1 hotel," the spokeswoman told Reuters, referring to a cheap motel chain.
The man's motives were not immediately known and police were at the scene, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) north of Marseille, she added.
The hotel near the A7 motorway was evacuated and the man was thought to be armed with a knife and may have an explosive device, a local gendarme officer said separately.
"The man is thought to have had a row with the manager," a local officer added. "We are waiting for negotiators."
The hotel has been cordoned off and the Marseille bomb squad was on its way, he said.
France has been on high alert for security threats ever since gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in a series of attacks last November claimed by Islamic State.


Catecholamines can result in ventricular tachyarrhythmias. We examined whether noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation (NVNS) can prevent epinephrine-induced ventricular tachycardia (VT) in a canine model.
Fourteen open-chest anesthetized dogs were randomly designed into NVNS group (NVNS plus epinephrine injection, n=7) and control group (sham stimulation plus epinephrine injection, n=7). NVNS was performed for 1 hour before the administration of epinephrine. T-wave alternans (TWA) level, VT prevalence, the VT threshold (according to the dose of epinephrine administered), left stellate ganglion (LSG) function and neural activity were compared between the two groups.
Compared to baseline, NVNS for 1 hour significantly attenuated LSG function and neural activity, whereas no significant change was shown after 1 hour of sham stimulation. Injection of epinephrine resulted in a significant increase in TWA level and LSG neural activity in the control group, which were attenuated in the NVNS group. NVNS dramatically decreased VT prevalence and increased VT threshold when compared to the control group. In addition, NVNS eliminated the VT-associated hypotension.
NVNS could prevent catecholamine-induced VT, possibly by suppressing LSG activity.


Wholesale Evening Bags fron China Customized With Your Logo!
Stunning AAA rhinestone studded satin style clutch purse with detachable shoulder chain. We offer a dazzling selection of evening bags, evening purses, accessories, and jewelry for your special occasion. Customized designs and specifications are welcome and we accepted OEM orders. Please email us for more enquiries.


AirCheckWiFi Tester's intuitive user interface and management platform provides instant and actionable information.
Arrow Electronics Inc, has announced that it now offers a range of portable network analysis and troubleshooting tools in the Middle East, from NetScout Systems Inc, a maker of service assurance and cybersecurity solutions.
According to the value-added distributor, the growing use of smart devices for personal and business purposes is driving a huge demand for WiFi networks in enterprises, residential buildings, public spaces, and in-flight and in-rail transportation. The company said IT professionals and front-line technicians, with limited resources and budget are often faced with increasing challenges to monitor and troubleshoot WiFi network issues.
Among NetScout's innovative tools is AirCheck WiFi Tester, a rugged handheld device that can provide IT with an instant view of test results including network availability, connectivity, utilisation, security settings, rogue hunting, and interference detection, stated NetScout.
"NetScout's service assurance and cybersecurity solutions are helping service providers, enterprises and government agencies from around the world drive ROI on their network and broader IT initiatives while reducing the tangible risks associated with downtime, poor service quality and compromised security, said Abhishek Hajra, NetScout's regional director for Middle East and Africa. "We are pleased to extend our successful relationship with Arrow as one of our key EMEA value-added distributors and deepen our reach to customers by bringing our products and solutions to customers in the gulf region."
The vendor said AirCheckWiFi Tester's intuitive user interface and management platform provides instant and actionable information not only removes the complexity of wireless troubleshooting but also helps IT professionals and front-line technicians timely rectifying network connectivity issues.
Arrow Electronics is a value-added distributor and solutions enabler for network and security, server, virtualisation, storage, data management and cloud covering 27 countries in EMEA.


text:
California fires grow to historic heights
24 August 2020 By Phoebe French
Two groups of fires burning across multiple Californian counties and threatening vineyards in the state have now grown to become the second- and third-largest blazes in state history.
Image: The 130-year-old Nichelini Vineyards in Napa, which suffered some damage in the fires.
The LNU Lightning Complex, which includes the Hennessey and Walbridge fires, now covers an area of 347,630 acres across five counties, including Napa, Sonoma and Solano, according to Cal Fire. LNU is now the second-largest fire to burn in California since records began in 1932.
The so-called SCU Lightning Complex, which is also burning across five counties including Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin and Stanislaus, now covers almost 344,000 acres, making it California's third-largest fire.
The two fires are now 21% and 10% contained respectively.
The CZU Lightning Complex is also causing widespread damage in San Mateo and Santa Cruz and now covers an area of 74,000 acres. It has destroyed 163 structures, and damaged a further 12.
Among them was the home of Bradley Brown, the winemaker at Big Basin Vineyards. However, he shared images on social media taken by a neighbour, appearing to show that his winery had survived.
"The whole 2019 vintage is inside the winery," Brown told the San Francisco Chronicle. "We finished bottling 2,000 cases the day before the evacuation order." The fate of the winery's vines, and whether the estate will be able to produce wine this year, remains uncertain.
La Borgata Winery and Distillery in Solano was not so lucky, losing its vineyard, winery, distillery, equipment and inventory in the LNU fires.
A statement posted on social media read: "Somehow our main building (our home) was untouched by the fire but we lost all of our other buildings, including the winery & distillery, and our vineyard. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to us from around the world. We are devastated for our neighbors and friends who have lost everything. We are all safe. Our goats, chickens, cats and dogs are safe. We are still in shock and deeply saddened for all who were affected by this fire. We are eternally grateful to the firefighters who came just in the nick of time to help us control the inevitable burn of our winery in a way that no doubt saved our home."
Somehow our main building (our home) was untouched by the fire but we lost all of our other buildings, including the winery & distillery, and our vineyard. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to us from around the world. We are devastated for our neighbors and friends who have lost everything. We are all safe. Our goats, chickens, cats and dogs are safe. We are still in shock and deeply saddened for all who were affected by this fire. We are eternally grateful to the firefighters who came just in the nick of time to help us control the inevitable burn of our winery in a way that no doubt saved our home. Thank you to the firefighters from San Francisco and from Orange, CA – who got the call at 5am the day before to drive 10 hours north to help families and businesses like ours. 🙏🏼❤
A post shared by La Borgata Winery & Distillery (@laborgatawinery) on Aug 20, 2020 at 7:00am PDT
With the exception of some damage at Napa wineries including Brown Estate, Somerston Estate and Nichelini Vineyards, for the most part, producers have been able to continue with this year's harvest. Meanwhile, in its latest statement, industry group Sonoma County Winegrowers said it was continuing to monitor the fires.
"Our thoughts are with our winegrowers and farmworkers being impacted around the county," the statement read. "Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation has reopened our Farmworker Resiliency Fund to help agriculture employees who have experienced a loss of home, wages or financial hardship related to fires or evacuations."
The link to this fund is here.
Further alerts were also issued for Monterey county over the weekend, with the River fire (48,424 acres, 20% contained) and Carmel fire (6,695 acres, 15% contained) continuing to increase in size, with parts of the Santa Lucia Highlands AVA ordered to evacuate.
As a result of the destruction, US President Donald Trump has declared a major disaster and released federal aid to help fight the fires. At least six people are believed to have been killed.
CALIFORNIA FIRES: WINERIES IN SANTA CRUZ UNDER THREAT
CALIFORNIA FIRES: SONOMA WINERIES EVACUATED MID-HARVEST
FIRE THREATENS NAPA VINEYARDS AS CALIFORNIA STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED
Kendall Jenner introduces her 818 Tequila brand to Dubai


dangerousmeta! || MessyNessyChic: Honeymooning on the Battlefields of WWII.
MessyNessyChic: Honeymooning on the Battlefields of WWII.
Bit weird, but fascinating from our time-perspective.
<< Previous entry: Gawker: Video Shows Unarmed Black Man Pleading With Arms Raised Before Getting Shot by Police.


text:
Q: Sampling with replacement using python X, y = load_data(return_X_y=True)
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X,y,
                                                test_size=0.3, random_state=123,
                                            shuffle=True)
def sample(X,y):
# code attempt
 train_index = sorted(np.random.permutation(len(X)))
 test_index = [i for i in range(0,len(X)) if i not in train_index]
for i in range(0,len(X)):
# train, validation set split
    x_trn, x_val = X[train_index], X[test_index]
    y_trn, y_val = y[train_inex], y[test_index]

return x_trn , x_val, y_trn, y_val

then call it as
sample(X_train, y_train)

Fill in the code  to uniformly draw samples with replacement from the training data. The size of the sampled dataset should be equal to the training dataset size.

A: Based on what the assignment says, this is all you need.  You pick indicies at random, then return the points at those indices.
def sample(X,y):
    picks = np.random.randint(0,len(X),len(X))
    return X[picks], y[picks]


text:
Le xian de Sishui (泗水县 ; pinyin : Sìshuǐ Xiàn) est un district administratif de la province du Shandong en Chine. Il est placé sous la juridiction de la ville-préfecture de Jining.

Démographie
La population du district était de  en 1999.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Lien externe
  Site gouvernemental

Sishui


Rip The Runway (RTR) held on 19th July, 2013 at the African Bar, Oriental hotel, Lekki, Lagos. The show which was powered by BET was a collision of Music and Fashion. The idea behind RTR is having artistes perform while models walk the runway in various designers' outfits. It started with a Red carpet with TolaMeora where the guests had their pictures taken and were interviewed. Designers at the show include Xzomo couture, Old Religion, Niole, Vanity, Zeus, Blaze, Bend down select, Ankara freak, XnO's and RetroDream. There was also an Art exhibition by Claire Idera and Bleek. Among those billed to perform at the show were Yung L, Kryptic kids, Haywire and the most anticipated of all, Burna boy. Unfortunately, he did not get to perform, apparently, this was due to some misunderstandings that took place backstage. Some designers who were present at the event also did not get to showcase their designs on the runway. This left them disappointed as the show had been highly anticipated. Despite all the shortcomings, the show was generally a fun one as the guests were entertained by the artistes that got to perform!


text:
Home/FC Barcelona News
Lionel Messi reveals Joan Laporta's comments hurt him
By Mudeet Arora
Messi has spoken up about his Barcelona exit in detail / ATPImages/GettyImages
Paris Saint-Germain star Lionel Messi has spoken up about his ill-fated Barcelona exit for the first time since making the transfer to France.
The Argentine maestro, while revealing he dreams of becoming the technical director of the club in the future, also said that Barcelona president Joan Laporta's comments after his departure hurt him badly.
"His (Laporta's) words hurt me. I don't deserve that.", Messi told Spanish newspaper Sport.
"I've always said I'd like to come back and help the club in any way I could. I want to be useful, to help. So that it goes well with FC Barcelona. I think it would be nice to be technical director, but I'm not sure if I can get that role and if I can get it at Barça. But if there's an opportunity, I'm definitely open to it. I love Barcelona, really hope the club gets healthy again and continues to be one of the best in the world.
"The truth is that, as I explained when I left, I did everything possible to stay," said Messi.
"I was never asked to play for free. I was asked to pay my salary with fifty percent. I did that without any problem. That's how I wanted to help FC Barcelona. It was my and my family's desire to stay in Barcelona. The president's words were really not okay. They hurt me.
"It felt like Laporta took the ball from me but then didn't know what to do with it. He just didn't have to say those things. Now people may think I've caused doubt. I don't deserve that."
TransfersPSGFC Barcelona NewsHomePage


Skate wheels mounted to various configurations of channels and angles comprise what is commonly known in the industry as flo rail conveyors. 12 gauge galvanized steel frame. One of these may be adaptable to your unique system.


The Outnumbered cohosts just couldn't stop talking about Hillary Clinton during a discussion that was ostensibly about the millions of dollars that have been funneled to Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen in an apparent pay-to-play scheme.
Guest Zac Petkanas did a great job of describing the seriousness of the situation which includes half a million dollars paid to Cohen, within weeks of the election, from a business tied to a Russian oligarch under sanctions for interfering with the 2016 election. But just as importantly, Petkanas called out Fox's tactics, something every Democrat should do who appears on the network.
Petkanas said the difference is there's an investigation into whether there was "illegal coordination" between the Trump team and the Kremlin. As he again tried to explain why the Russian payment was suspicious, cohost Harris Faulkner interrupted.
Not surprisingly, the couch erupted with cries of innocence. When Petkanas didn't buy it, Faulkner changed deflections. This time, she was oh, so concerned about the leaking of Cohen's financial information to Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels attorney.
There's no defending the leak. But it pales in comparison to a possible pay-to-play scheme involving the Russians and Donald Trump. If only Petkanas had hammered Fox a little harder for its deflections of a very important story. The squawking he engendered from the pushback he did make indicates these people can't take the kind of questioning they dish out.
Enjoy watching the propagandists get put on defense below, from the May 10, 2018 Outnumbered. Underneath is Rachel Maddow's terrific exploration of the dubious payments to Cohen, from the May 9, 2018 The Rachel Maddow Show.
I've heard that Stormy Daniels' attorney has asked Hannity for an invitation to appear on his programme. So far, Hannity hasn't responded (I've heard).
Journalists would be seriously handicapped without leaks. And it's important to remember that leakers are often motivated by disgust with whatever is being leaked: the Watergate story got out because a leaker simply couldn't stand aside and accept what was being swept under that carpet. We would never have known anything about it without his leaks.
So far, most of the leaks considered legitimate by the silly foxies have turned out to be groundless, totally made up, bogus. I expect the same adverse outcome to occur with regard to leaks they consider bogus.
There IS a defence of Avenatti's release of the bank stuff. There is no way in the world this highly credentialled attorney would hobble his client's case if it raised the possibility of important evidence being excluded. He may be using the media as part of his plan of action, taunting Trump and his Keystone Kops minions into behaving even more recklessly, but not to torpedo his own ship.
He must have received this information under the normal function of 'discovery' and there cannot have been any suppression order on that particular evidence. Absolutely guaranteed.
The Trump administration, rather than draining the swamp, is turning out to be the most corrupt in American history. House Republicans are working feverishly to end the investigation and Trump himself keeps maneuvering to find a way to fire Mueller without risking impeachment.
It's telling in this environment that Trump TV – which has asserted all along there's nothing to see regarding Russia so let's move along – is now running out of wallpaper to mask the corruption of the colorful cast of characters Trump surrounds himself with. So Fox diverts attention to Hillary fantasizing that the next investigation into her, unlike all which proceeded it, will find her guilty has hell. Just like #Benghazi!, eh, Fox?


Ratiraaj, 02 Oct 20131.Body structure is so bad. 2. Internal memory 3gb. 3. Downloading speed is poor. 4. Someti... moreI agery with u sir.
surender, 05 Oct 2013 very very nice phone.anyone help me . This model does not supports any call recorders.plz.Yes,this pho dos't support of any call recorder .bcz i have allready download call recorder software but this is not suppored.
MUKUL, 04 Oct 2013is this mobile support temple run 2 and subway surfers etc? Plz... replyyes mukul this phone support the temple run 2 and all version of subway surfer ..... i m telling u thats why because i hv this phone its cool and nice.
Anonymous, 03 Oct 2013is this phone really having internal 3 gb...this phone sometimes hangout Whom does the phone hangout with?
1.Body structure is so bad.
3. Downloading speed is poor.
from avg antivirus, backup/save the app on sd card. when you need lnstal/uninstal it.
no call recorder app working..i tried many call recorder app. please inform me on bbjoshi1995@gmail.com when you got WORKING call recorder app.
Total of 530 user reviews and opinions for Samsung Galaxy Y Plus S5303.


text:
Q: Django share unpicklable objects between requests I am currently working on a Django project that will hopefully make some transformations to videofiles thru the web. To make the transformation to the videos, I am using opencv's python API and I am also uing Dajax to perform ajax requests.
In the ajax requests file i have the following code:
    @dajaxice_register
    def transform_and_show(request, filename, folder, frame_count, img_number):
        detector = Detector(filename) //Object which uses opencv API
        dajax = Dajax()
        generated_file = detector.detect_people_by_frame(folder, str(img_number))
        dajax.assign('#video', 'src', '/media/generated'+folder+generated_file)
        return dajax.json()

The idea is to tranform videos frame by frame and to display each transformed frame in the browser in an img tag giving the sensation to the user that he/she is watching the transformed video, so this method is called in a javascript loop.
The problem is that in this approach, the object "detector" is reinitialized in every iteration so it only generates the image corresponding to the first frame of the video. My idea was to workaround this issue by making "detector" persistent between requests so that the pointer to the next frame of the video wouldn't be set to 0 on every request.
The problem is that Dectector object is not picklable, meaning that it cannot be cached or saved to a session object.
Is there anything I can do to make it persistent between requests?
NOTE: I have considered using HTTP push approaches like APE or Orbit but since this is just an investigation project there is no real concern about performance.

A: Have you tried a module level variable to store the object?
Make "detector" a global at the file level.
detector = None

def transform():
    global detector
    if detector is None:
        detector = Detector(filename)
    file = detector.detect(....)


SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2018 — Domino Data Lab, provider of an open data science platform, has announced Domino 3.0 featuring Domino Launchpad, a module designed to help companies maximize the impact of their data science investments by addressing the operational challenges and bottlenecks they face getting models into production.
Despite the massive investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, most organizations have been unable to see significant return. A recent BCG and MIT Sloan survey found that nearly 85 percent of the executives surveyed believe AI will offer their organization a competitive advantage, yet only five percent of companies extensively utilize AI models in their business.
Domino 3.0 fills the gaps between AI investment, execution, and competitive advantage by eliminating the model delivery bottleneck.
Accelerating model iteration velocity with automatic model versioning and full reproducibility of experimental history for faster, continuous model iteration.
Domino was recently named a leader in the Forrester Wave report "Notebook-based Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Solutions" by Forrester Research.
To learn more about Domino 3.0, register for the webinar, "How Leading Organizations Are Solving the ModelOps Challenge", featuring Forrester Research, Bayer Worldwide, and Domino on November 14 at 10:00 a.m. PST. Register here.