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Q: Product of matrices of a linear operator and of its inverse Why if a linear operator $\phi$ is an isomorphism and we multiply the matrices of $\phi$ and of $\phi^{-1}$ in any basis, the result is $E$ the matrix that has $1$ on the diagonal and everything else is $0$.

A: The matrix $M_{WV}(\phi)$ of a linear transformation $\phi:E\to F$ in bases $V$ of $E$ and $W$ of $F$ is defined such that
$$[\phi(x)]_W=M_{WV}(\phi)\cdot[x]_V$$ where $[x]_W$ denotes the coordinates of $x$ is the basis $V$, and $[\phi(x)]_W$ the coordinates of $\phi(x)$ in $W$.
Then $$I\cdot[x]_W=[x]_W=[\phi\circ \phi^{-1}(x)]_W=M_{WV}(\phi)\cdot[\phi^{-1}(x)]_V=M_{WV}\cdot(\phi)M_{VW}(\phi^{-1})\cdot[x]_W$$
for all $x$. Therefore
$$I=M_{WV}(\phi)\cdot M_{VW}(\phi^{-1}).$$

A: I think i figured it out $\phi(x)$=Basis.Matrix.Cordinates,let the matrices be A and B,however we have the equality $\phi(x).\phi^{-1}(y)$=$yx$ then A.B=1 and q.e.d?

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InfoQ Homepage News Secure Microkernel seL4 Reaches Version 7
Secure Microkernel seL4 Reaches Version 7
Kevin Neaton
Version 7.0.0 of the seL4 microkernel has been released, bringing with it an alternate CMake-based build system with support for out-of-source builds and interactive configuration. Support for standalone ia32 builds and aarch64 specific documentation are also included in this release.
seL4 is a high-assurance open-source microkernel with strong isolation guarantees backed up by an end-to-end proof. In practice, this means that the seL4 codebase is bug-free in that it will behave as specified given that the proof assumptions are met. As such, it has been used to isolate critical trusted components from untrusted components running on the same processor.
The seL4 microkernel has been developed, maintained and formally verified by NICTA (now the Trustworthy Systems Group at Data61) and is owned by General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S). NICTA and GDC4S decided to open-source seL4 in 2014 "in the hope that this will help everyone to build more dependable (safe, secure, reliable) computer systems."
The initial proof of functional correctness was completed in 2009 via the L4.verified project, showing that the code correctly implements the formal kernel specification. Subsequent work resulted in a comprehensive formal verification of the kernel by proving both that the specification satisfies desirable high-level security properties such as "availability, authority confinement, integrity, and confidentiality" and that those properties survive translation to the code and binary levels. The combined result is the first end-to-end proof of a general-purpose operating system kernel. Notably, the proof has continued to grow and evolve alongside the kernel for over a decade, making it the first proof at this scale to do so.
By design, the seL4 kernel has retained a high degree of performance despite the massive verification effort, which has actually aided the implementation of performance optimizations. Properties and invariants provided by the existing proof were used to inform the worst case execution time (WCET) analysis of the kernel resulting in improvements to the kernel implementation and further reductions in the WCET. Similarly, a fastpath was added to automatically speed up inter-process communication (IPC) when possible. The proof was then extended to verify that the kernel behavior conforms to the specification, whether the fastpath is used or not. The result of this effort is a provably fast, secure, and reliable kernel with application areas including defense, automotive, avionics, medical devices, and industrial automation.
In the US, over $2.3 million has been awarded through the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program to fund defense projects related to seL4. In one such project, the SMACCM team used seL4 to build "highly hack-resilient" unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The team used seL4 to isolate a virtualized Linux instance running non-critical code from critical code running on the same "mission board". The Blue Team was able to operate the seL4-based system effectively while the Red Team attempted to hack it. The system was developed using a normal quadcopter and later transferred to the Unmanned Little Bird (ULB) autonomous helicopter developed by Boeing. But seL4 is not just for defense contractors. With support for the Raspberry Pi 3, the development of safe, secure, and reliable seL4-based systems is within the reach of students as well.
Although seL4 represents the state-of the art in secure operating systems development, it is minimal by definition and does not include all of the things that make using a fully featured operating system like Linux convenient, such as support for a wide range of devices and easy inter-process communication.
The status of ongoing development and verification efforts is provided by the development and verification roadmap which is updated frequently. Answers to common questions can be found on the project's FAQ page.
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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson criticized so-called sanctuary policies that prohibits cities like San Francisco from cooperating with federal authorities in immigration investigations or arrests unless required by law or a warrant.
Criticizing sanctuary policies, Johnson said any city's such policies are counterproductive to public safety and unacceptable.
Speaking at the Commonwealth Club in downtown San Francisco, Johnson said, "It is counterproductive to public safety to have this level of resistance to working with our immigration enforcement personnel. It is simply in my judgment not acceptable to have no policy of cooperation with immigration enforcement."
He stressed that cities' cooperation with Homeland Security officials was essential to get criminals off the streets.
San Francisco's sanctuary policy came under fire after the shooting death of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, who was fatally shot by illegal Mexican immigrant Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez as she walked with her father along the city's waterfront.
The shooting triggered a national debate over the city's sanctuary policy after it was revealed Lopez-Sanchez was out on the streets after the city's Sherriff disregarded a request from federal immigration authorities to keep him locked up.
Lopez-Sanchez, who has been deported five times to Mexico, claims that he fired the gun accidentally and that he had no intention to kill Steinle.
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Implanting electrodes into a pea-sized part of the brain can dramatically improve life for people with severe cervical dystonia, according to the results of a pilot study led by Jill Ostrem and Philip Starr at the University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Nowadays, people with cervical dystonia can be treated with medications or injections of botulinum toxin, which interrupt signals from the brain that cause these spasms. However, those treatments do not provide adequate relief for all patients.
Over the last decade, doctors at the University of California and elsewhere have turned to deep brain stimulation to help people with debilitating dystonia; also used to treat Parkinson's disease and the neurological disorder essential tremor.
"This target is very widely used for Parkinson's disease but not widely used for dystonia," said Starr, professor of neurological surgery, University of California, and senior author of the paper.
The study, led by Ostrem, associate professor of neurology, University of California, involved nine patients followed for one year after surgery. "Patients in this study had failed medical treatments, but with the surgery, they were able to improve their movements and quality of life—as well as overcome some of their disability and pain," said Ostrem.
Video analysis and standard measures of dystonia showed the surgeries lowered pain, reduced spasms and improved the overall quality of life without causing serious side effects.
The team is now planning to enrol more patients into a longer study following outcomes for three years post-surgery.


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Margaret Meek or Margaret Meek Spencer (14 January 1925 – 4 May 2020) was a British educationalist in the field of literacy.

Life
Meek was born in Leven, Fife to Robert and Elisabeth Meek. Margaret Meek Spencer, who wrote under the name Margaret Meek, was an influential educationalist and author in the field of literacy. She studied English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh before becoming a teacher. Her specialism became the teaching of reading and during her academic career she wrote and lectured about the ways that children learn reading skills. She taught at the Institute of Education, University of London from 1968 until retirement in 1990, when she became Emeritus Reader in Education.

Early life and career
At the age of 10, Meek and her family moved to Dunfermline. After her studies at Edinburgh Meek took a job at Haberdashers' Aske's school for girls (in Acton, London) where she taught English from 1950 until 1954. On leaving that role, she moved to the University of Leeds as a research assistant for the educationist Roy Niblett, then on to the University of Bristol where she worked in teacher education. She married Patrick Spencer in 1960. It was at the School of Education, London University where she started to tutor and lecture students who have become prominent figures in the field of children's literature. The UK Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009, Michael Rosen states that she supervised his postgraduate work and continued that support through her life. She was also the editor of "The School Librarian" where she reviewed the work of children's authors, for example, David Almond's book The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean.

Books
 The Cool Web (1978)
 Learning to Read  (1982),
 On Being Literate (1971),
 How Texts Teach What Readers Learn (1988),
.   Language and Literacy in the Primary School (1988) with Colin Mills. Routledge/Falmer
 Coming of Age in Children's Literature,  with Victor Watson,
 Information and Book Learning (2003),

Awards
Eleanor Farjeon Award for Services to Children's Literature (1971)

References

1925 births
2020 deaths
People from Leven, Fife
Academics of the University of London
21st-century British educators
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

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Counter-Protesters Face Off Against Far Right in Tense Rally
One day after the tragedy in Charlottesville, Seattleites show up to shut down white supremacy.
By Alex Garland • August 14, 2017 7:00 am
Tags: Resistance
A planned "Freedom Rally" in Seattle Sunday took on a heightened sense of importance after Saturday's events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a large gathering of white supremacist groups devolved into a brawl and resulted in the death of a counter-protester, allegedly caused by a Nazi sympathizer.
Officers from the Seattle Police Department were prepared for confrontation as ralliers and counter-demonstrators descended on downtown Seattle. Before the end of the day, officers had deployed pepper spray and blastballs and made three arrests, but reported that there were no serious injuries or property destruction.
Hosted by Portland-based group Patriot Prayer, the Westlake Park rally was planned well before the events in Charlottesville took place and was not directly affiliated with the "Unite the Right" organizers responsible for that rally. Yet, the group has espoused a reactionary far-right message at events throughout the summer, attracting counter-protesters in tense stand-offs that have devolved into violence. The group was positioned to do the same at the Freedom Rally. "The West Coast has slowly been infected with communist ideologies throughout our entire culture," a description of the event read, in part. " … These liberal strongholds run off of hatred and negativity."
The event, led by Joey Gibson, an organizer with Patriot Prayer and Warriors for Freedom, attracted between 40 and 50 supporters by midafternoon, including members of Oathkeepers and Proud Boys, as well as alt-right adherents, some sporting KEK flags and wearing Pepe shirts.
Not far away, a group of nearly 1,000 counter protesters, including anti-fascists and local union members, as well as families and religious groups, gathered in Denny Park and began marching toward Westlake Park.
Here is how it went down.
The march, which included Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien and mayoral candidates Cary Moon and Nikkita Oliver, left Denny Park and traveled West on Westlake Avenue. There, Seattle Police blocked any southbound route, preventing the protesters from an intended confrontation with the Westlake group. Marchers, diverted to Lenora Street, were guided past the Amazon Biospheres. The lead group attempted to make its way through an alley behind the Westin, but were stopped by a wall of SPD on bikes. Pepper spray was deployed for the first time.
The massive counter protest, which grew in numbers as it moved, continued under the Monorail and once again attempted to head south, this time on Fourth Avenue, but was blocked by a phalanx of SPD officers, some on bikes, many on foot, and all wearing riot gear. A small group attempted to walk down the sidewalk and were again met with a wall of SPD on bicycles. The officers again pepper sprayed the crowd, this time arresting a man, pushing him down and against the wall of Cinerama.
Eventually, the officers allowed the march to move south on Second Avenue, but stopped any easterly progress. At Pine, the crowd grew frustrated with the constant blockades and let loose with silly string and glitter, lightly coating a few SPD blocking the street. SPD responded with more pepper spray, this time adding in a few blast balls containing pepper gas. At least two blast balls were deployed, one towards the middle of the crowd.
A dispersal order was given by SPD not long after the second blast ball was deployed, but the protesters refused to leave. Minutes after the dispersal order, a voice came over a megaphone and told the crowd, "the Nazis have left." A cheer went up throughout the crowd.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away in Westlake, the Patriot Prayer group had in fact not yet left. The group was surrounded by upwards of 500 counter protesters, some of whom said they were prevented from meeting with the larger march after arriving from other parts of the city.
Speakers took their turns at a microphone connected to a modest P.A. system. Ralliers and counter protestor took turns speaking, although with such small numbers, Trump supporters, Proud Boys, and street preachers were quickly overwhelmed with boos, shouts of "bullshit," and chants of "Nazi." Cheers and claps were in no short supply when a speaker denounced white supremacy or declared that "black lives matter."
Small groups of Proud Boys and counter demonstrators gathered throughout the park, some attempting discourse, while others shouted and cursed at each other. Make America Great Again hats were ripped off Proud Boy heads, the crowd surged forward, moving the metal barricades out of their way, surrounding the Patriot Prayer group. Eventually SPD moved in, struggling to separate the two groups.
It was minutes after SPD formed a protective line between the two groups that the few dozen remaining Patriot Prayer group members were escorted between two lines of police out of Westlake Park and down Fourth Avenue. The crowd soon broke apart and dispersed.
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Looking for a recipe for healthy Texas pecan pie? I grew up in Texas and I know pecan pie. But I wanted a a healthy Texas pecan pie. I swapped out the corn syrup with honey, grass-fed butter and cream. Not only is it much tastier, it's much better for you.
Nothing says Texas like pecan pie. Okay, that's not exactly true. I can think of lots of things that say Texas. Armadillos, longhorns, Willie Nelson, chili, pickup trucks and gun racks, two-stepping, and nachos (invented in Texas). Those all say Texas.
But real Texas pecan pie has got to be one of the very best things in my home state. Texans may not be modest but we do know good pecan pie (that's "PEE-can" in Texas).
And this healthy Texas Pecan Pie makes a delicious dessert for the holidays. This Christmas, I'm going home to Texas. I'll be getting our fill of Texas comfort food from my childhood: migas and Texas BBQ, pecan pralines, chili, quesadillas, and chicken fried chicken with fried okra, mashed potatoes and cornbread. And of course, Texas pecan pie.
Even Yankees love pecan pie. It happens to be my Jewish New Yorker husband's favorite, and his step-father's favorite. (Along with their lox and bagels.) I made this pie for them last Christmas, served with homemade vanilla ice cream. They gave it their hearty approval.
Click here for my recipe for perfect pie crust recipe.
1. Soak the nuts overnight (7-10 hours) in a mason jar filled with warm filtered water and a little sea salt.
2. Drain and rinse the nuts.
3. Spread on a baking sheet (use a Silpat mat if using an aluminum baking sheet) and dry in oven on the lowest heat setting or in your dehydrator for 12-24 hours.
1. Follow the directions to make the pie crust. Blind bake it for 10-15 minutes then let it cool.
2. Arrange the soaked and dried pecans, top sides up, in concentric circles, into the pie crust.
3. Set a medium saucepan on the stove on low heat. Add the egg yolks, honey, sugar, molasses, butter, cream and sea salt.
4. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon as you let mixture thicken (do not let it boil) for 7-10 minutes.
5. Add the vanilla and remove from heat.
6. Pour the mixture onto the pecans in the pie crust.
8. Let cool for at least 45 minutes before cutting.
9. Serve with homemade whipped cream (cream whipped with a little maple syrup or honey and a pinch of sea salt) or homemade vanilla ice cream.
I modified this pecan pie recipe from the pecan pie recipe in Rose Levy Beranbaum's wonderful and indispensable cookbook, The Pie and Pastry Bible. To make the recipe healthier, I replaced the corn syrup and brown sugar with natural unrefined sweeteners: honey, organic cane sugar, and molasses. I also use real butter and lard in my pie crust. No Crisco in this kitchen!
I used caramelized honey I found at a local beekeeper's stall at the farmer's market. Caramelized honey doesn't have the enzymes that raw honey has but since you're baking the pie, it does not matter. And caramelized honey has a richer, deeper flavor than raw honey. And like molasses, it is richer in minerals than regular honey. But you can use regular honey or raw honey.
I also used soaked and dried pecans. I soaked them overnight in warm filtered water with a little sea salt. Soaking nuts makes them more digestible, makes the nutrients more absorbable, and reduces the enzyme inhibitors naturally found in nuts.
You don't have to soak and dry the pecans — it's optional. If you do want to use soaked and dried pecans, make sure you give yourself an extra day to make this recipe.
Love the recipe, very well adapted. Pecans are great nuts to soak because they tend to be affordable, and easier to find un-pasteurized (as opposed to almonds). I'll have to tuck this one away. Maybe my family will enjoy a delectable pecan pie for Christmas. (And I'll sneak away with the leftovers….if there are any!) Thanks for the recipe, Ann Marie!
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I like your blog, Elizabeth…..and Cheeseslaves pecan pie looks great.
This looks like a great recipe! My husband loves pecan pie. I think you've inspired me to surprise him with this pie for Christmas. thanks much!
This sounds really good. I've never made pecan pie in my life, but I think DH would be quite happy if I did.
I love pecan pie! (The more food blogs I read, the more foods I'm discovering I love.) Have a wonderful trip!
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Maybe the reason I've never liked pecan pie (ducking thrown objects) – and yes, I'm in Texas! – is because I've never had homemade. Ann Marie, this sounds delicious! My native Texan dh and native Texan dc would love this – gosh, I think even *I* would enjoy it! Thanks for sharing your recipe.
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I was born in Austin, TX… but moved to CA when I was 2. Anyway, have fun and enjoy yourselves!!! I've never been a big pecan pie fan, but yours would probably win me over :o) Can't wait to meet you in person shortly after you get back!
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That looks almost exactly like my recipe! =) My great grandmother made pecan pies and I often wondered what she used before corn syrup became so cheap and available. I'm 5th generation Texan and I wish I had a hold of her recipes still… I know there are some amazing gems in there including her sweet corn corn bread and fried chicken…. oh and don't forget the fried okra!
Have fun here in Texas! We live just outside of Austin. While you are here you should check out Olivia's which is supposed to be a great NT friendly restaurant. My husband did all their electrical installation when they were building the restaurant. There is also Terra Burger for a quick bite, they use a ton of organic produce and ground beef.
that sounds like a good restaurant. That is on my wish list, to go to an all organic restaurant.
I am so excited about this recipe! I love pecan pie but haven't been able to have it in awhile because I'm gluten & corn intolerant. I found GF bread mix but didn't know what to do about the corn syrup so I just gave up at Thanksgiving. Now I can make this for Christmas! Yay!
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Agreed. They make the best pecan pie in Texas. I've never been brave enough to try and make one myself however. I will have to give this recipe a try, thanks!
Be amazing if you could drop by!
Oh I can hardly wait to finish volunteering all of the holidays and then I am going to make this. On my first and only trip to Texas my friend ok friends brother loved the goo and the crust I loved the pecans and was crust glue free. We now know who got the gold medal nutrient dense end of that deal :-] Thank you for the adaptogenic recipes again.
I searched everywhere for a non-corn syrup pecan pie recipe for Thanksgiving last year. https://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pecan-Pie-V/Detail.aspx was my lifesaver. The pecan pies turn out fine with out the corn syrup…though my dad had a fit about there not being the dark Karo syrup in it. Thanks another option!
I am so excited to have this recipe. I have lived in TX since middle school and my husband is a native. Pecan pie is always on the table at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I have been on the look out for a recipe sans corn syrup as I'm transitioning to Real Food. Thanks for sharing this–we even have some local pecans to use!
oh that would be nice to have your own pecans……..which means they would be organic, I am thinking.
Maybe 'cuz I'm a New Englander, I experimented and made pecan pie this Thanksgiving with maple syrup, and it was glorious. With a couple of eggs in there for body, it sets up nicely, and the flavor is off the map. Maybe I'll try your idea of using half Sucanat and a little molasses next time, and see how that goes!
ooo, I bet maple syrup in the pie was good.
After searching online for 30 minutes I found only one non-CS based pecan pie recipe. I made it for my parent's anniversary last week and my mom didn't like the taste of the brown sugar-based recipe. I will give your version a try (and keep it for myself ;-) ) – thanks for this!
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K – you are welcome! Happy New Year!
this sounds a lot better than the sticky sweet pecan pies I've tasted. I don't eat pecan pie cause they're so sweet.
OK…Maybe I am daft. ( a strong possibility!) But I can not find the temperature to bake this pie. I would love to try this today. Are there really No pecans on top of the pie??? I have never had Texas pecan pie before…so I am not sure what to expect.
Hello! Thanks for the wonderful recipes! I was wondering about using maple syrup instead of the sucanant, and just follow the rest of the recipe as it is. Will that work you think?
Just found your website off my mom's blog, www.realfoodhouston.com. Love pecan pie and can't wait to try this recipe! Just one question, though. What's "blind bake" mean?
can you update the recipe to include the oven temp?


Home > News & Events > Blog > MEET THE HOTTEST HIGH-TECH DEVICE … CARDBOARD!
The path to substrate stardom started about a year ago, when Google jumped into the virtual reality "space" with its a VR/3D Google Cardboard viewer. Seen mostly as a novelty at first, the device got a big boost this past November 7 when it was delivered for free to 1.3 million hardcopy subscribers of The New York Sunday Times.
The Times used the promotion to present its first VR-based journalistic piece, "The Displaced" (an article about the flight of Syrian emigrants). Editors hailed the viewing experience in VR/3D/360o as more "empathic" for the readers.
Now, isn't it interesting that two forms of paper-based substrates – corrugated cardboard and newsprint – combined to launch the next evolution in journalistic virtual reality? Imagine that!
Even Times editors are on board (no pun intended). "The great irony here is that it takes a print newspaper – a 164-year old business – and its still remarkable distribution system to deliver one of the most advanced digital storytelling technologies to more than a million people," said Meredith Kopit Levien, executive vice president and chief revenue officer for The New York Times Company.
The Google Cardboard device has two built in plastic lenses and, when folded into place, holds an iOS or Android smartphone. Peering through the viewer is somewhat reminiscent of looking at color slides through the old-school old Viewmaster.
But is it Really Virtual Reality?
As with most things high-tech, the jury for Google Cardboard is undergoing a no holds barred debate over its merits. Opinions range from support, curiosity, and some envy – "I just canceled my Times a month ago. Arrrghhh!" – to dismissal and harsh criticism.
One reviewer took issue with its labeling as a "VR" device – Don't call it VR; it's only a very crude 360o viewer. Others predict a wave of nausea and dizziness among users for the disorienting interaction.
Long View Benefit for Print Providers?
One thing for sure, advertisers are paying close attention to the prospects for Google Cardboard as a marketing tool. And, who knows, the Cardboard Era could mean additional niche work for converters and print providers. So, what's your view?


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MON 20 - 1 - 2020
Source: The Daily Star
Look at the bigger picture in Syria
By Rami G. Khouri
The big question being asked by many in the international, especially American, media is whether the United States will now respond and engage militarily in Syria, due to the reports of the use of chemical weapons there. I suspect both parts of that question are the wrong issues to focus on, for neither chemical weapons use nor prospective American involvement strike me as the most significant elements of the Syria conflict that should grab our attention.
The Syria conflict has certainly crossed a significant red line, but not the one that President Barack Obama has defined in terms of the use of chemical weapons. The red line that has now been breached is the active, direct participation of neighboring powers in Syria's 2-year-old war. The key words here are "active" and "direct," because neighbors have been fighting each other in Syria and Lebanon through proxy parties for decades.
This should trigger our acknowledgment of bigger-picture worries of the worst-case scenario that is slowly taking shape before our eyes: As the civil war in Syria increasingly settles down into a vicious sectarian barbarism fest with a growing element of Al-Qaeda-like militants, neighboring countries such as Lebanon and Jordan are feeling the intense pressures of refugee flows and are starting to panic; others, such as Hezbollah and Israel, are directly participating in aspects of the war; and, those who are arming and funding the parties – Iran, Turkey, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar – are beginning to talk about how they will react to all this.
The big fear now is that the world's biggest proxy war of the past century is dangerously approaching shedding its proxy status and morphing into direct combat that involves the U.S., Iran, Syria's government and opposition forces, Israel, Hezbollah, Russia, Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, to name only the main potential antagonists.
The immediately dramatic elements in this picture are that Hezbollah declared last week that it would continue to fight inside Syria (to protect Lebanese Shiites there and defend Shiite shrines, it says), and Israel has actively entered into the fighting, with its two consecutive airstrikes against targets inside Syria in the past week (to prevent the transfer of advanced missiles from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah, it says). One of my rules of thumb of observing which way the wind blows in the Middle East is now in active operative mode: When Hezbollah and Israel are both actively fighting in the same third country, and Iran and the United States are both actively warning about their determination to act to protect their allies and their interests in that same third country, it is time to make another pot of coffee and make sure you have plenty of fresh batteries at home for your transistor radio.
The slow and continuing escalation in the fighting in and around Syria should come as no surprise. Largely due to the wily ways of the late President Hafez Assad, Syria has played a pivotal regional and global strategic role for over half a century, in both constructive and destructive ways. Today, this web of Syrian connections has simply been transposed into the realm of active warfare, as Syria's same multiple regional and global partners and linkages now engage in proxy fighting – and bursts of direct warfare – inside Syria, instead of diplomacy and strategic bargaining via Syria.
Recent history suggests that countries such as the U.S., Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia are perfectly willing to engage in savage, destructive warfare through proxies in third countries (for instance Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Palestine, for starters), and we can now add Syria to that list. The likelihood is high that we will continue to witness episodic military action inside Syria by regional players. The main dangers now are that some of those actors (Iran, Israel, Hezbollah and the U.S. are the main candidates) might decide to take on each other, Syria could collapse into a Somalia-like ruined state, and Al-Qaeda-like militant-terrorist groups now fighting Assad under the banner of the Syrian uprising might gain strong footholds inside parts of the country.
There will be plenty of time for hand-wringing and blame in due course, but this might be a good time to remember a few things so that we can avoid acting like idiots and going through this scenario again a few years down the road: If we had resolved the Palestine-Israeli conflict in the 1980s, many of these regional tensions would not exist. If the Soviets, Europeans and Americans had not actively supported Arab autocrats for half a century, many of these regional actors would never have been able to achieve their current status. If the Soviets had not invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and the Anglo-American-led combination had not attacked Iraq in 2003, the appeal and reach of Salafist militants probably would not have attained their current levels.
So what the U.S. might do in response to chemical weapons use in Syria strikes me as pretty marginal in a much larger and older problem– that of thugs in power, and bullies supporting them from abroad.
Rami G. Khouri is published twice weekly by THE DAILY STAR. He can be followed on Twitter @RamiKhouri.
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As a species, it sometimes seems as if we're staring down the climate in a terrifying game of chicken when what we should be doing is taking it by the hand, asking if it's Ok and doing our very utmost to make it feel as comfortable as possible.
Because the alternative is almost unthinkable. And yet brilliant scientists around the world are doing exactly that with increasing levels of alarm and despair. They are thinking the unthinkable and articulating exactly what that might look like, feel like and be like, to us, as a species.
That's leading to an increasing trend in eco-anxiety. But perhaps the word 'trend' gives a temporary or superfluous sense to this experience. Perhaps we should define it as it is: a sincere mental-health condition in which the number of people affected are expressing serious, and valid concerns about the state of our climate and its capacity to sustain human life on Earth.
And if an existential threat to the existence of human life on Earth, i.e. the survival of your kids, wasn't enough to inspire some kind of anxiety then who knows what is.
Is it just Media Hysteria?
Unfortunately it's not possible to attribute the cause of this anxiety to a hysterical media cynically intent on whipping the public into a frenzy in order to get views in order to sell advertising space. Nor can we simply say we did not know about the problem in advance. In fact we can pretty much see in real-time the building pace and intensity of the unfolding climate disaster which, in turn, is leading to increasing levels of eco-anxiety.
Wildfires, Australia
From the decades-long Californian drought intensifying wildfires on America's west coast to the apocalyptic scenes in 2019-20, when the entire continent of Australia burned, we, are all observing with our very own eyes and ears the catastrophic consequences of ignoring the climate. This is backed up by mountains of research and has been highlighted in Nature.com which reports on the body of evidence beginning to underscore the very clear link between climate change, global warming and an increased incidence of wildfire around the world.
It builds on a body of work that goes back 30 years:
Evidence has been growing for decades that climate change will exacerbate Australia's fire seasons. A prescient paragraph in a 2008 government-commissioned climate report that compiled evidence from the previous 30 years warned that fire seasons would start earlier, end later and be more intense2. "This effect increases over time, but should be directly observable by 2020," noted the report, authored by Ross Garnaut, an economist at the University of Melbourne.
It is an accepted scientific fact that the climate is changing. It is an actual physical, sensory and emotional experience for those involved in the climate change front-line. From fighting wildfires to dealing with droughts and floods around the world there is little doubt that the climate is changing and rapidly so. Even for those not on the front line it is abundantly apparent each year as the Earth rotates on it's axis, the summers are getting hotter and the winters warmer.
And the cumulative consequence of these indisputable facts are that people of all ages are beginning to feel an anxiety akin to having had experienced a traumatic event.
Climate Change & Eco-Anxiety: is there a link?
Research on causes, effects and impacts of eco-anxiety is ongoing but an academic research paper from the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability has been produced with the purpose of outlining the implications of climate change on our ecosystems, economies and societies. The paper, by Professor Jem Bendall, "Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy", explores a number of extreme scenarios and concludes:
Disruptive impacts from climate change are now inevitable. Geoengineering is likely to be ineffective or counter-productive. Therefore, the mainstream climate policy community now recognises the need to work much more on adaptation to the effects of climate change. That must now rapidly permeate the broader field of people engaged in sustainable development.
As practitioners, researchers and educators. In assessing how our approaches could evolve, we need to appreciate what kind of adaptation is possible. Recent research suggests that human societies will experience disruptions to their basic functioning within less than ten years due to climate stress. Such disruptions include increased levels of malnutrition, starvation, disease, civil conflict and war – and will not avoid affluent Nations.
A list of resources are provided, by Professor Bendell, the sustainability academic at the University of Cumbria, to give support to those struggling to adapt to the consequences of climate change. And the reason for this cataclysmic tone? It's all around… In the air we breath and the water we drink, the planet is heating up.
Anyone over the age of 20 will have realised that since the year 2000, a mere 20 years away, we have experienced 17 of the most-hottest years on record but, if some reason inexplicable to common sense, you find yourself still in denial then we only have to review the temperature figures:
Politicians vs People
And yet politicians in power from Trump in America to Bolsanaro in Brazil continue to disbelieve the effects of climate change unfolding all around. Whilst some powerful politicians ignore the rapidly changing world it can seem as though it is up to younger people, those who will face the full force of this change, to demand those in power act more forcefully.
Greta Thunberg, in 2018, became the voice of the environmental counter-movement against powerful politicians refusing to act, as she insisted:
"Adults keep saying, we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don't want your hope, I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic."
Greta Thunberg, 2018
And rightly so. For too long there has been a business as usual approach that has been far too relaxed in terms of working toward mitigating the problem of climate change caused by human activities. The counter-argument may be that it's impossible to enact meaningful changes from individuals working within a capitalist system (that facilities climate change) but it is time for us all to question the risks inherent within that approach.
However, for the most part governments around the world are comprised of leaders and politicians that the people have elected. With more than half of the world's countries operating under democratic systems, we the people, have the power in our hands to effect an enormous change in our approach to the climate that would coerce the rest of the world to take action.
Politicians around the world can easily be accused of inaction, scapegoats who are incapable of changing the system. But they simply represent the interests of their electorates. If we want the system to change, then we have to change the system.
When we begin to make our collective interest in the climate much more apparent then the collective voice of societies around the world demanding real action will make itself heard.
Eco-Anxiety & its Psychological Effects
Eco-anxiety is inevitably a part of the solution. It's a reflection of the dissonance, the growing chasm between the will of the people, and the politicians, and their self-interest. It is the 'panic' Greta tells the world we should all be experiencing and it is the overwhelming nature of the problem and our seeming inability to meaningfully deal with the problem that is contributing to this anxiety. It is the motivation we need.
The growing condition of 'eco-anxiety' has been described by Psychology Today as:
a fairly recent psychological disorder afflicting an increasing number of individuals who worry about the environmental crisis. It's an understandable reaction to ones growing awareness of climate change and the global problems that result from damage to the ecosystem. While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) does not include "ecoanxiety" as a specific diagnosis some people are expressing high levels of stress over climate change with symptoms including panic attacks, obsessive thinking, loss of appetite, and insomnia.
It's a disorder that is exacerbated, as with many anxieties, by our sense of powerlessness in not being able to deal with the situation. Powerlessness if an overwhelming sense of helplessness in a stressful situation. This can contribute to anxiety and stress and removes our ability to exert free will. Slowly this weakens our confidence, our resolve and our capacity for dealing with the problems that confront us.
Whilst eco-anxiety has only been recently defined as a specific disorder, studies show that wider anxieties are on the increase with evidence that up to 33.7% of the population are affected by an anxiety during their lifetime.
A detailed investigation into the issue was produced in 2017, with the report, Mental health and our changing climate: Impacts, implications, and guidance which aimed to increase our 'awareness of the psychological impacts of climate change on human mental health and well-being.'
The report conducted an in-depth investigation into all aspects of climate change and how it impacts human mental-health, covering aspects such as physical health, mental health and community health. Some of the key conclusions from the report form the basis for a response which can help individuals contribute towards tackling climate change:
Build belief in one's own resilience;
Foster optimism;
Cultivate active coping and self-regulation skills;
Maintain practices that help to provide a sense of meaning;
Promote connectedness to family, place, culture, and community.
But it is in perhaps the final section of the report when Psychiatrist Lise Van Susteren, MD, points out the situation and makes a moral entreaty to the mental health community. Susteren writes:
Each day, our world devolves more quickly toward disruption from climate change. The news is coming at us from all sides— CO2 emissions climbing, record-high temperatures, oceans increasingly acidifying, coral reefs dying, ice sheets melting, failing nations, the massive displacement of people. Those least responsible for the crisis will hurt the most—the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the emotionally vulnerable. The psychological toll is becoming more apparent—but much is being overlooked.
Mental health professionals help people face reality, because we know living in denial can ruin a person's life. As the climate crisis unfolds, we see people whose anger, anxiety, and depression, caused by the shortcomings of a previous generation, prevent them from leading productive lives themselves. We know about trauma from repeated exposure to horrifying events. We are trained, we are ethically bound, to respond to emergencies.
This is a passionately expressed sentiment that can be extrapolated to all professionals across all sectors. But when we are all operating within a system in which it feels difficult to effect real change it can also feel difficult to imagine what the solutions might look like at an individual level.
Top 10 Things You Can do
1. Vote, vote, vote.
The most effective way for societies to introduce climate friendly policies and start transitioning to a carbon free infrastructure that limits our impact on the environment will be to elect politicians whose first priority is the environment we inhabit. And across Europe Green Parties are making big political strides in recent elections which could result in radical actions across the European Continent. So do your thing, join your local Green party, campaign, protest, get political and most importantly vote for a greener government.
2. Identify your most important values and live in a way that respects those values.
One of the biggest causes of eco-anxiety can be the guilt we feel over wishing to live in an idealised way that is in harmony with the environment and then realising the full extent of our polluting, carbon emitting ways. Once we start to live in a way that is more in alignment with the values we hold dear we can begin to feel less anxious about the damage we are causing. Cut back on the stuff you buy, limit the plastic you waste or try visiting a plastic free cosmetics store, such as Lush. If we start to cut out the waste in our personal lives it will build pressure on companies and regulators to respond with a legal framework that supports a greener approach.
3. Power your home with renewable energy.
There are literally tons of green energy companies on the market now and in the mere space of a few mouse-clicks you can transition your energy provider from one that uses dirty fossil fuels to a new provider that only uses renewable energy. EON UK, as of 2019, will power more than 3 million homes with renewable energy in one of the biggest energy switches to date. You can elect to receive renewable energy, if not already, by checking with your current provider and making sure you switch to a tariff, or company, that only uses clean, carbon free renewable energy.
Just imagine, the screen your reading this on could be powered by wind!
4. Make your online life renewable
If you are a website owner or manage websites then make switching your hosting provider to a company that only uses renewable energy a priority. Companies like GreenGeeks, advertised throughout this site, provide anyone who owns a website with the ability to make sure their site is powered by renewable technology. And they are going above and beyond the carbon neutral aim. By making a commitment to provide more than 3 times the amount of energy they use from renewable sources, GreenGeeks is a carbon negative company.
(Disclosure: This website is independently owned and operated and may receive compensation from GreenGeeks should you take out a hosting product by clicking this link).
5. Reduce your flying, or don't fly at all
Greta Thunberg made international headlines when she made a double crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 2019 to attend a climate conference in New York City. This is credited with greatly promoting the concept of Flygskam, or 'flight shame' — a social 'shame' or pressure to consider alternative methods of transport that are carbon neutral in order to avoid adding to the carbon emissions already in the atmosphere. So reduce your flying or consider not flying at all. The world is open to explore and perhaps we should all appreciate the journey as much as the destination.
6. Take a minimalist approach to life
Adopt a more minimalist approach to your possessions, your stuff and your and life. If we can learn to live with less, we can help the environment. Minimalism can transform your life by helping you to learn to live with less and that has an immediate beneficial impact on the environment because when we click buy on amazon or any other online platform we initiate a whole series of actions that have some degree of environmental cost. Check out our post about Minimalism: and how to save the planet by living with less.
7. Have fewer children or no children at all.
There is little doubt that the human overpopulation problem is at the heart of all environmental problems we are experiencing today, however making the decision to reduce the number of children you have, or to have no children at all, is a very personal decision that is up to each individual. What we can be certain of is that the world, and all future generations who will live on it, face an uncertain future trying to support 10 billion humans and having children it the number 1 contributing factor to CO2 emissions.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people, and harder – and ultimately impossible – to solve with ever more people.
8. Cut out red meat and dairy.
Agriculture contributes up to 9% of the globe's CO2 emissions but when you take into account the cost of transporting food, the emissions that creates, and the whole industrialised network that supports the farming industry in bringing food to your plate then the emissions could, in fact, be a lot higher.
Making dietary choices is a very personal choice and it's trying to be vegetarian or vegan is something many of us can struggle to implement. The diversity of cuisine through-out the world shows us that the human race can adapt to all sorts of foods and, from an individual perspective, we have the power within our hands, and our mouths, to reduce the environmental impact of the food we eat. The groundbreaking documentary Cowspiracy reveals the hidden environmental impact of farming, with cows, sheep and pigs providing the biggest CO2 footprint against a reduced footprint for chickens. So if you need to start somewhere focus on cutting out red meat in order to make an instant reduction in your carbon footprint.
9. Support rewilding projects and tree planting
We can all protect and care for wild spaces regardless of where we live. The life-giving foundations of many wild spaces around the world are trees.
Trees are amazing. They give us so much that they literally act to geo-engineer the planet and help make it a hospitable place for lifeforms including us and countless other species of flora and fauna. And like some kind of horror film house-guest we cut them down at the first opportunity. Still in doubt? Check out The AWESOME power of trees and 10 reasons to love them.
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But trees alone will not provide complete ecosystems without us providing the space for all natural processes to thrive.
We can take inspiration from rewilding projects around the world, taking root and providing havens for wildlife.
From the Knepp Estate in England to the vast Patagonia National Park in South America rewilding is a concept that is growing in size and scope. Research from Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is also beginning to show that this accidental rewilding reserve can have hugely beneficial consequences when we allow nature the time and space for its life-force to take over.
10. An environmental mindset
Adopt an environmental mindset to help change systems not individuals. Ultimately until we start living in a way that takes all living things into account we will find it difficult to rationalise the huge, fundamental changes that need to take place within our global societies over the coming decades.
We must stop considering the problem of climate change as an issue that individual consumer choices will make go away. In order to reduce and eliminate our carbon emissions, in order to value, respect and appreciate the true beauty of the natural world we need to build our understanding of the environment and the natural world into our lifestyles from the day we are born.
Our education systems, our workplaces, our governments, societies, cultures and communities need to completely transition to an agenda that places the environment at the very core of their priorities. When we live in a world where we respect and value each living thing and all have a mindset that accepts our place in the fundamental structure of the living world then, instead of experiencing anxiety about the state of the environment, we may experience something different. An awe-inspiring appreciation of nature's beauty and fragility and a deep awareness and understanding of the interconnectedness of life.
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The e-version of our "Imaging and Vision Handbook" has been available in the Apple iBookstore since the beginning of 2014. The new App called Vision Docs goes one step further and provides easy and safe delivery of documents and publications for all interested customers. Vision Docs is available as a free download via Google Play, the Apple App Store and the Windows Store.
E-version of the "Imaging and Vision Handbook"
Initially Vision Docs includes the e-version of STEMMER IMAGING's roughly 450-page "Imaging and Vision Handbook". The entire book is divided into nine individual books or chapters for easier and more comfortable handling. There are plans to offer the company's newsletters and other important material and documentation via the new platform in the future.
Just like the iBook version the e-version of the Imaging and Vision handbook allows comfortable searching for technical terms and content; it allows for bookmarking preferred pages and contains other useful features as well as interesting links.
Thanks to the mobile availability of material offered by Vision Docs, machine vision users have quick access to many facts and background information offering significant benefits for the planning and realisation of machine vision solutions.


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Hideaway is a gated residential community located north of Interstate 20 about thirteen miles northwest of Tyler in northwestern Smith County. Historically this land had been part of a large plantation settled on by future Texas governor Richard B. Hubbard Jr. and his parents in the 1850s. More than a century later, in the late 1960s, developer James Fair began the community, built around three small man-made lakes. The development, often referred to as Hide-A-Way Lake, was first incorporated in 1969 by Hideaway Homeowners, Inc., and Hideaway Lake Club, Inc. It covered an area of over 1,300 acres with more than 1,900 authorized lots. Amenities included a golf course and clubhouse, a lodge, and other recreational features. Hideaway Community Church, a nondenominational church, served residents of different faiths. In 2000 the two incorporated entities of Hideaway Homeowners, Inc., and Hideaway Lake Club, Inc., merged, and the city incorporated under the organization of Hideaway Lake Club, Inc. Hideaway has a mayor-council form of government as well as a twelve-member board of directors. Private security and a volunteer fire department also serve the community. In 2000 Hideaway had a population of 3,800.
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National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said his office is reviewing legislation that would start the process of requiring providers of critical information and communications technology to make certain security features standard in their offerings. "When you buy a car today, you don't have to independently negotiate for an air safety […]
National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said his office is reviewing legislation that would start the process of requiring providers of critical information and communications technology to make certain security features standard in their offerings.
"When you buy a car today, you don't have to independently negotiate for an air safety bag or a seatbelt or anti-lock brakes, it comes built in," Inglis said. "We're going to do the same thing, I'm sure, in commercial infrastructure that has a security critical, a life critical, responsibility to play."
Inglis spoke Monday at an event hosted by the Information Technology Industry Council, or ITI, as part of his effort to engage the private sector in a collaborative approach to cybersecurity.
As demonstrated through its establishment and resourcing of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the government has relied heavily on the idea that organizations would voluntarily take measures to improve the cybersecurity of their enterprises. But the interdependence of various critical infrastructure sectors—and the potential for cascading effects when foundational information and communications technology within the ecosystem is targeted—have pushed some agencies, and members of Congress, to consider asserting their regulatory authority.
In the United Kingdom, the dynamic has led financial-sector regulators to take a more active role in overseeing cloud service providers.
"We've determined that those things that provide critical services to the public, at some point, kind of benefit from not just the enlightened self interest of companies who want to deliver a safe product," Inglis said. "At some point in every one of those [critical industries like automobile manufacturing] we have specified the remaining features which are not discretionary. Air safety bags, seatbelts are in cars largely because they are specified as mandatory components of those automobiles."
Inglis acknowledged it would be a lot more difficult to determine how such mandates should be applied to commercial information and communications technology, because of the breadth of their use across industry. But, he said, his office is providing counsel on proposals that are starting to do just that.
"We're working our way through that at the moment. You can see that actually kind of then in the form of the various legislative and policy kind of recommendations that are coming at us," he said, noting most of the policy measures are in the form of proposed rules seeking advice on what counts as "truly critical."
"I think that we're going to find that there are some non-discretionary components we will, at the end of the day, do like we have done in other industries of consequence, and specify in the minimalist way that is required, those things that must be done," he said.
Reacting to Inglis' comments, ITI President and CEO Jason Oxman, said that "makes good sense." But the representative of a high-profile ITI-member company disagreed.
"Can I just say I really hate analogies?" Helen Patton, an advisory chief information security officer for Cisco said from an industry panel following Inglis' conversation with Oxman.
The automobile analogy referencing simple but effective measures like seatbelts has long been used by advocates of regulations to improve cybersecurity, not just from the enterprise level—such as federal agencies and other critical infrastructure customers—but from the design phases that occur earlier in the supply chain. But Patton argued against its suitability for an approach to cybersecurity that insists on facilitating a subjective assessment and acceptance of risk.
"I think the problem with every analogy like that is that every individual makes a choice, whether they're going to read a food label, or wear a seatbelt, or use their brakes, or whatever the analogy is," Patton said. "The reality is when you're trying to run a security program within an organization, you have to take that organization's risk tolerance into account. So it's good to get information out in front of folks, but it's really up to them whether or not they choose to act on it or not … not every security recommendation from a federal agency or a best practice is going to be adopted by an organization because they've got better things to do with their time and resources."
Inglis drove home his point by highlighting the plight of ransomware victims across the country, many of which were caught up in supply-chain attacks, such as an incident last summer involving Kesaya, which provides IT management software for enterprises.
"We need to make sure that we allocate the responsibility across all of those, as opposed to leaving it to that poor soul at the end of the whip chain who, because no one else has brought down the risk, is at that moment in time facing up against a ransomware threat that they never thought they'd have to prepare for, that they have no basis to respond to because the infrastructure they're using isn't inherently resilient and robust," he said. "We need to do what we've done in other domains of interest, which is to figure out what we owe each other."
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2018 TVS Apache RR 310 launched at Rs 2.05 lakh
TVS Motor's Joint MD Sudarshan Venu with CEO K.N. Radhakrishnan at the launch of the TVS Apache RR 310 in Chennai on Wednesday. Photo: PTI
TVS Motor Co. Ltd on Wednesday launched the Apache RR 310, marking its foray into the super-premium motorcycle segment.
According to TVS Motor CEO K.N. Radhakrishnan, the TVS Apache RR 310 shares a "common platform" TVS and BMW Motorrad, which tied up in April 2013 to develop sub-500cc motorcycles. "The project (cost) for the development of this (TVS Apache RR310) would be around Rs 400 crore," Radhakrishnan told reporters in Chennai.
In April 2013, TVS Motor announced a strategic partnership with BMW Motorrad to manufacture sub-500cc bikes for domestic and global markets. TVS Motor has invested about €20 million in the alliance.
The TVS Apache RR 310 uses the same 313cc, liquid and oil-cooled single-cylinder engine as the BMW G 310 R that is mounted inclined towards the rear, a first for any motorcycle in India. Its outputs are identical too, at 34 PS and 27.5 Nm. The engine comes mated to a six-speed gearbox. The TVS Apache RR310 is equipped with twin projector headlamps is the first fully faired motorcycle offered by TVS Motor. The bike is priced at Rs2.05 lakh (ex-showroom), Radhakrishnan said, adding the pricing would vary from "state to state". The motorcycle would be hit the road by end of this month, he said.
According to Radhakrishnan, the premium motorcycle segment accounts for 14% (bikes in the 150cc to 500cc) of the total motorcycle category in the country and is growing at 10% every year.
TVS Motor is looking to sell 10,000 units of the Apache RR 310 over the next one year, joint managing director, Sudarshan Venu. "It will happen in a phased manner," Venu said to a query on whether the firm would look at shipping the bike to overseas markets.
According to Venu, TVS has enough capacity to produce the motorcycle at its facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. The company would also be launching an upgraded variant of the existing Apache 160cc "very soon", Venu added, but declined to elaborate.
TVS Motor, at present, retails Apache RTR 160, RTR 180 and RTR 200. It also sells TVS Victor, Star City+ in the commuter segment. The company also sells scooters under the Scooty, WEGO and Jupiter brands.
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Recruiting in college football is a lot easier if a school can show kids that they produce NFL players and no school has more players on this week's NFL divisional playoff rosters than Alabama.
With 13 players on the eight rosters, Alabama is easily outpacing the next-closest schools, Wisconsin, Oregon, and North Carolina, with nine each.
As for this year's college football playoff game, Oregon already has bragging rights over Ohio State, who has eight former players still alive in the NFL playoffs, one fewer than Oregon.


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Today in OpenGov: Russian corruption protests, the importance of visitor logs, and more
by Sunlight Foundation Mar 27, 2017 8:01 am
In today's edition, we follow protests against official corruption in Russia, argue for the disclosure of visitor logs at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, ask for more contract disclosure, and more…
Journalists, opposition leader held in wake of anti-corruption protests in Russia. Hundreds of people — including opposition leader Alexei Navalny — were arrested in Russia over the weekend as protests erupted over allegations of corruption involving Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. (The Hill) "Sunday's rallies appeared to be the largest since 2012, when tens of thousands came out against the Kremlin over allegations of widespread vote fraud." (Bloomberg) An American journalist covering the protests for The Guardian were apparently among those arrested on Sunday. (Twitter) The EU and U.S. State Department condemned the arrests and called on Russia to release detained protesters (POLITICO, The Hill).
Korean prosecutors seek to detain ousted President Park. On Monday, "South Korean prosecutors sought to arrest former President Park Geun-hye over allegations that she abused her powers and colluded with her longtime friend and former aides to get bribes from the nation's top businesses." (Bloomberg)
Portugal takes participatory budgeting nation-wide. Portugal has announced the world's first participatory budget on a national scale. The project will let people submit ideas for what the government should spend its money on, and then vote on which ideas are adopted.(apolitical.co via Nathanial Heller)
Trumpland
Sunlight supports the MAR-A-LAGO Act, visitor log transparency. On Friday, "Sunlight announced its support for the Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness (MAR-A-LAGO) Act. This bill would require the White House to publish the visitor logs that are collected by the Secret Service when members of the public are vetted to enter 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue." (Sunlight Foundation) The bill has currently attracted only Democratic co-sponsors (The Hill), but as Sunlight's Alex Howard noted disclosure of White House visitor logs has been a bipartisan issue since the Obama era.
Trump could end FOIA fights, will probably support precedent instead. "President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) is fighting against Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits seeking politically-charged Obama-era documents like those linked to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's scandals." Trump could move to end existing secrecy, but he probably won't according to a number of transparency advocates including Sunlight's Alex Howard, who explained that "An administration, even in a change of party, inherits legal positions…It's not uncommon for it to remain consistent." (The Daily Caller)
Watchdogs urge Ivanka Trump to take on official position to avoid ethics issues. "A group of government watchdogs says the White House must give President Trump's daughter Ivanka an official title or risk conflicts of interest with her business ventures." (The Hill)
Elsewhere in Washington
Bipartisan group urges reappointment of Obama-era Special Counsel. Last week, "Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., a longtime whistleblower advocate who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.," chairs of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus sent a letter to White House Counsel Don McGhan II urging him to reappoint Carolyn Lerner as head of the Office of Special Counsel. "The senators credited Lerner's office with saving more than $200 million taxpayer dollars that otherwise would have been lost to fraud or mismanagement, and noted that the Judiciary Committee last year had approved her renomination." (Government Executive)
Legislation would provide needed contract transparency. "Last week, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced the "Contractor Accountability and Transparency Act of 2017" (S. 651)," the bill is supported by Sunlight, the Project on Government Oversight, and seven "other bipartisan groups…". It will "expand the contracting information available on USASpending.gov (which now only offers summaries of contracts), make the contract information more accessible and readable, and help reduce Freedom of Information Act backlogs." (Project on Government Oversight)
Sunlight and friends talk data on Federal News Radio. Tune in to hear Alex Howard's thoughts on the multiple meanings of accessibility, Hudson Hollister on data transparency & Robert Dolan on data visualization. We hope you'll download, comment and share.. (Federal News Radio)
Kushner tapped to lead Trump innovation office. The new White House office will work with private sector partners, including "Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff" and is "expected to pull ideas from the business world and may consider privatizing some government functions." (The Hill)
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package ean

import (
	"errors"

	"github.com/boombuler/barcode"
	"github.com/boombuler/barcode/utils"
)

type encodedNumber struct {
	LeftOdd  []bool
	LeftEven []bool
	Right    []bool
	CheckSum []bool
}

var encoderTable = map[rune]encodedNumber{
	'0': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, false, false, true, true, false, true},
		[]bool{false, true, false, false, true, true, true},
		[]bool{true, true, true, false, false, true, false},
		[]bool{false, false, false, false, false, false},
	},
	'1': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, false, true, true, false, false, true},
		[]bool{false, true, true, false, false, true, true},
		[]bool{true, true, false, false, true, true, false},
		[]bool{false, false, true, false, true, true},
	},
	'2': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, false, true, false, false, true, true},
		[]bool{false, false, true, true, false, true, true},
		[]bool{true, true, false, true, true, false, false},
		[]bool{false, false, true, true, false, true},
	},
	'3': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, true, true, true, true, false, true},
		[]bool{false, true, false, false, false, false, true},
		[]bool{true, false, false, false, false, true, false},
		[]bool{false, false, true, true, true, false},
	},
	'4': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, true, false, false, false, true, true},
		[]bool{false, false, true, true, true, false, true},
		[]bool{true, false, true, true, true, false, false},
		[]bool{false, true, false, false, true, true},
	},
	'5': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, true, true, false, false, false, true},
		[]bool{false, true, true, true, false, false, true},
		[]bool{true, false, false, true, true, true, false},
		[]bool{false, true, true, false, false, true},
	},
	'6': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, true, false, true, true, true, true},
		[]bool{false, false, false, false, true, false, true},
		[]bool{true, false, true, false, false, false, false},
		[]bool{false, true, true, true, false, false},
	},
	'7': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, true, true, true, false, true, true},
		[]bool{false, false, true, false, false, false, true},
		[]bool{true, false, false, false, true, false, false},
		[]bool{false, true, false, true, false, true},
	},
	'8': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, true, true, false, true, true, true},
		[]bool{false, false, false, true, false, false, true},
		[]bool{true, false, false, true, false, false, false},
		[]bool{false, true, false, true, true, false},
	},
	'9': encodedNumber{
		[]bool{false, false, false, true, false, true, true},
		[]bool{false, false, true, false, true, true, true},
		[]bool{true, true, true, false, true, false, false},
		[]bool{false, true, true, false, true, false},
	},
}

func calcCheckNum(code string) rune {
	x3 := len(code) == 7
	sum := 0
	for _, r := range code {
		curNum := utils.RuneToInt(r)
		if curNum < 0 || curNum > 9 {
			return 'B'
		}
		if x3 {
			curNum = curNum * 3
		}
		x3 = !x3
		sum += curNum
	}

	return utils.IntToRune((10 - (sum % 10)) % 10)
}

func encodeEAN8(code string) *utils.BitList {
	result := new(utils.BitList)
	result.AddBit(true, false, true)

	for cpos, r := range code {
		num, ok := encoderTable[r]
		if !ok {
			return nil
		}
		var data []bool
		if cpos < 4 {
			data = num.LeftOdd
		} else {
			data = num.Right
		}

		if cpos == 4 {
			result.AddBit(false, true, false, true, false)
		}
		result.AddBit(data...)
	}
	result.AddBit(true, false, true)

	return result
}

func encodeEAN13(code string) *utils.BitList {
	result := new(utils.BitList)
	result.AddBit(true, false, true)

	var firstNum []bool
	for cpos, r := range code {
		num, ok := encoderTable[r]
		if !ok {
			return nil
		}
		if cpos == 0 {
			firstNum = num.CheckSum
			continue
		}

		var data []bool
		if cpos < 7 { // Left
			if firstNum[cpos-1] {
				data = num.LeftEven
			} else {
				data = num.LeftOdd
			}
		} else {
			data = num.Right
		}

		if cpos == 7 {
			result.AddBit(false, true, false, true, false)
		}
		result.AddBit(data...)
	}
	result.AddBit(true, false, true)
	return result
}

// Encode returns a EAN 8 or EAN 13 barcode for the given code
func Encode(code string) (barcode.BarcodeIntCS, error) {
	var checkSum int
	if len(code) == 7 || len(code) == 12 {
		code += string(calcCheckNum(code))
		checkSum = utils.RuneToInt(calcCheckNum(code))
	} else if len(code) == 8 || len(code) == 13 {
		check := code[0 : len(code)-1]
		check += string(calcCheckNum(check))
		if check != code {
			return nil, errors.New("checksum missmatch")
		}
		checkSum = utils.RuneToInt(rune(code[len(code)-1]))
	}

	if len(code) == 8 {
		result := encodeEAN8(code)
		if result != nil {
			return utils.New1DCodeIntCheckSum(barcode.TypeEAN8, code, result, checkSum), nil
		}
	} else if len(code) == 13 {
		result := encodeEAN13(code)
		if result != nil {
			return utils.New1DCodeIntCheckSum(barcode.TypeEAN13, code, result, checkSum), nil
		}
	}
	return nil, errors.New("invalid ean code data")
}

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Our 2018 volunteer programme is already in full swing with several groups getting stuck-in to volunteer work in Kenya and, as you might expect, this is increasing as the year progresses. With a lot of educational groups travelling with African Adventures, the various holidays throughout the academic calendar can be busy periods in-country and this Easter is no exception. Here's a brief run-down of just some of the work the soon-to-be travelling volunteers will be getting up to.
We have several groups focusing their efforts on the teaching volunteering role, including two PGCE groups, full of trainee teachers, whose help will be particularly valuable.
"Trainee teachers can make a real impact by bringing their experiences and educational insights to our partner projects in Africa." Lucy Mace – Senior Groups Manager at African Adventures and former teacher.
Teaching volunteers will be helping out at Aklorbordzi, Ashata, Dornorgbor and Little Roses in Ghana and Chaddy Mission in Kenya.
As well as all that great work going on in the classrooms, assisting the local teaching staff, we also have groups of volunteers focusing on the building and renovation role. As well as educational groups, we also have some football club community trusts travelling during this Easter volunteer programme. These community trusts can use volunteering trips to raise funds for their domestic charities as well. Derby County Community Trust, who travel to Kenya regularly with African Adventures, are a great example – they recently won Midlands Checkatrade Community Club of the Year, partly for the amazing building and renovation work they have done at St Trizah in Kenya.
We have significant building and renovation programmes taking place at Dedzidi, with volunteers helping to finish off the new classroom block, in Ghana, and at The Walk Centre, Chaddy Mission and Cherish, in Kenya.


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Internationalt / Louisiana – Architecture and landscape
Louisiana – Architecture and landscape
As you walk around Louisiana today, the location of buildings and landscape seems to be firm and unchanging, as if it had always been such. But under the apparently self-evident environment lies an epic story of creation and innovation that goes back to the Napoleonic Wars. The museum now publishes a comprehensive and groundbreaking book, Louisiana – Architecture and Landscape, where the American architect, author and expert on modern Nordic architecture Michael Sheridan tells the story of the museum's long creation. It is the story of a museum that has grown organically in keeping with the evolution of contemporary art and the vision of the museum's founder, Knud W. Jensen. Today, everyone wants to be like the museum in Humlebæk – but how did Louisiana become Louisiana?
By Michael Sheridan
Other titles by Michael Sheridan


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Displaying 101 - 125 of 260 records
Abram Fisher Student Information Card
Student information card of Abram Fisher, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on December 24, 1904 and departed on March 26, 1910.
Charles Conequah Student File
Student file of Charles Conequah, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on December 24, 1904 and departed on March 17, 1906. The file contains a student information card and correspondence.
Charles Conequah Student Information Card
Student information card of Charles Conequah, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on December 24, 1904 and departed on March 17, 1906.
Laurence Deerday Student File
Student file of Laurence Deerday, a member of the Winnebago Nation, who entered the school on August 24, 1905, and departed on July 5, 1910. The file contains a student information card, an outing record, an application for enrollment, a trade/position record card, a report after leaving, a progress/conduct card, medical/physical records, and a…
Laurence Deerday Student Information Card
Student information card of Laurence Deerday, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on August 24, 1905 and departed on July 5, 1910. The file indicates Deerday was living in San Diego, California in 1913.
Lawrence Deerday Progress Card
Progress card of Lawrence Deerday, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on August 24, 1905.
George La Vatta Progress Card
Progress card of George La Vatta, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on August 25, 1905.
George La Vatta Student File
Student file of George La Vatta, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on August 25, 1905, and ultimately departed on June 16, 1913. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, correspondence, trade/position record cards, progress/conduct cards, an…
George La Vatta Student Information Card
Student information card of George La Vatta, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on August 25, 1905 and ultimately departed on June 16, 1913. The file indicates La Vatta was living in Ross Fork, Idaho in 1914.
Elizabeth La Vatta Progress Cards
Progress cards of Elizabeth La Vatta, a member of the Bannock Nation, who entered the school on August 29, 1905.
Note: Although one card indicates that La Vatta was a member of the Shoshone Nation and entered the school on September 22, 1912, other records show that she first enrolled at Carlisle on August 29.
Bannock, Shoshone
Elizabeth La Vatta Student Information Card
Student information card of Elizabeth La Vatta, a member of the Bannock (here Shoshone) Nation, who entered the school on September 20, 1912 and departed on May 27, 1913.
Note: Other records show La Vatta first enrolled at Carlisle on August 29,1905 and left on July 3, 1911.
Shoshone, Bannock
Emma La Vatta Student File
Student file of Emma La Vatta, a member of the Bannock Nation, who entered the school on August 29, 1905 and departed on June 19, 1911. The file contains outing records, student information cards, correspondence, medical records, a progress/conduct card, an application for enrollment, an outing evaluation, a trade card, a returned student…
Edward Sorrell Progress Card
Progress card of Edward Sorrell, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on August 30, 1905.
Edward Sorrell Student File
Student file of Edward Sorrell, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on August 30, 1905, graduated in 1907, and ultimately departed on January 21, 1908. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a financial transaction, a report after leaving, a…
Edward Sorrell Student Information Card
Student information card of Edward Sorrell, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on August 30, 1905 and departed on January 21, 1908. The file indicates Sorrell had graduated in 1907, studied tailoring, and was living in Inkom, Idaho in 1913.
Benton La Vatta Progress Card
Progress card of Benton La Vatta, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on June 8, 1906.
Note: Although this card shows an arrival date of September, his file and information card suggest that he actually arrived on June 8.
Benton La Vatta Student File
Student file of Benton La Vatta, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on June 8, 1906 and departed on June 21, 1911. The file contains a student information card, an outing record, an application for enrollment, a financial transaction, correspondence, a progress/conduct card and a news clipping that indicates La Vatta was…
Benton La Vatta Student Information Card
Student information card of Benton La Vatta, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on June 8, 1906 and departed on June 21, 1911.
Emma Rainey Progress Card
Progress card of Emma Rainey, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on October 14, 1906.
Emma Rainey Student File
Student file of Emma Rainey, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on October 14, 1906 and departed on January 23, 1908. The file contains news clippings, a student information card, an application for enrollment, and a report after leaving indicating Rainey was touring with an opera company throughout the West, writing a play…
Shoshone, Shoshone (Idaho)
Emma Rainey Student Information Card
Student information card of Emma Rainey, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on October 14, 1906 and departed on January 23, 1908.
Rose La Rose Progress Card
Progress card of Rose (here Rosa) La Rose, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on October 14, 1906.
Rose La Rose Student File
Student file of Rose La Rose, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on October 14, 1906, and departed on June 19, 1911. The file contains a student information card, returned student surveys, an outing evaluation, an outing record, a progress/conduct card, correspondence from Rosa's outing patron and about Rosa's life after…
Charles Rainey Progress Card
Progress card of Charles Rainey, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on November 9, 1906.
Charles Rainey Student File
Student file of Charles Rainey, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on November 9, 1906, and departed on August 13, 1907. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, correspondence related to Rainey's deployment to the Philippines, news clippings, an application for enrollment, a report after…


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The Dog Ate Rick Reilly's Compendium Of Column Ideas
Filed to: EspnFiled to: Espn
Rick Reilly
Don Ohlmeyer
Remember when Rick Reilly punched up an old Sports Illustrated column and filed it fresh for ESPN? Don Ohlmeyer, the Worldwide Leader's ombudsman, sure does, and he's here to console everyone. It was all just a big misunderstanding.
Rick Reilly® Gives Himself Another Tongue-Bath
In 2007, Reilly® mailed in a Sports Illustrated column in which he counted off everything he loves…
First, let's review Reilly's most recent case of pass-it-on. In 2007, Reilly filled SI's backpage with a column about why he loved sports, and then three weeks ago, he pulled off a similar shebang for ESPN. The columns were eerily similar. Some might say that they were pretty much the same column. For some reason, this upset the fine readers of The Mag and The Dotcom. They swarmed Ohlmeyer's inbox — Bah! Humbug! — and the ombudsman decided to address the topic in his yearly monthly column with ESPN's official response:
Reilly also provoked some angry feedback from readers concerning an article that appeared in ESPN The Magazine and later on ESPN.com. Some of you, as well as some bloggers, accused him of plagiarizing a column he had written earlier in his career while at Sports Illustrated. Even though it seems difficult to plagiarize yourself, a response was still in order.
Rob King, ESPN.com vice president and editor-in-chief, said he and Gary Belsky, editor of ESPN The Magazine, "looked into this immediately" and concluded that the column — headlined "Why I love sports" — was a case of "uncharacteristic carelessness."
"Rick, who is noodling with column ideas all the time, keeps an ongoing file of works in progress, some more fully fleshed-out than others," King said. "In this instance, Rick, seeking an evergreen idea for an upcoming issue of The Magazine, inadvertently chose a set of notes he'd forgotten he'd used in a previous assignment. Rick expressed no small degree of embarrassment, and I can assure you we will put more rigorous checks in place to ensure that this won't happen again."
OK, then.
We'll speed past the specious mea culpa, the fact that there's still no explanatory note on the column and the reality that, ahem, Reilly has robbed the SI Vault before. Perhaps we can forget about that, but it's Ohlmeyer's duty, as the public editor of a ginormous media entity that pays its columnists "ridonkulous" money, to outline the various ethical misdeeds here and slap the culprits on the wrist. There's a reason why Ohlmeyer's predecessor, Le Anne Schreiber, left as a beloved ombudsman: She never minced words, and throughout, it was evident that her first loyalty was to ESPN's readers, the public she represented. Her dispatch was hardly just a confessional for ESPN's top brass — absolve yourself and move along — but rather, she was meticulous and methodical in her arguments criticizing and bolstering the network. The ombudsman, in short, is employed to keep the media organization accountable, not to simply serve as a glorified mouthpiece. Naturally, in this particular case, Ohlmeyer offers no judgment on the transgression or the way the aftermath was handled. I guess that burden falls on the rest of us.
Rick Reilly Takes A Page From His Own Book
Last year, ESPN paid Rick Reilly "ridonkulous" money to write an original 800-word weekly …
So, to steal Ohlmeyer's preferred sign-off: Until next time...
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Home > News > October 22 - Lecture by Kurt Mitman: "The Fiscal Multiplier"
October 22 - Lecture by Kurt Mitman: "The Fiscal Multiplier"
The Banque de France - PSE Chair is glad to invite you to an online lecture (Zoom) given by Kurt Mitman (Stockholm University) on October 22, 2020. The lecture will be discussed by Adrien Auclert (Stanford University) and will be followed by a Q&A session.
The Fiscal Multiplier
Date: October 22, 2020 ; 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
The conference will be online (Zoom). To attend the live session, please register via this link.
Download the related working paper (in pdf):
Kurt Mitman is an Associate Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University, a Researcher at the University of Oslo, a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. His research focuses broadly on macroeconomics. He is particularly interested in housing, household debt and default, and labor market dynamics. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies, an Associate Editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
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