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China and America Are Failing the Pandemic Test
Published On: April 8, 2020 09:17 AM NPT By: Joseph S Nye, Jr
Joseph S Nye, Jr
The contributor for Republica.
news@myrepublica.com
What could cause a US-China war?
Biden's Asian triangle
How will Biden intervene?
Can Joe Biden's America be trusted?
Post-pandemic geopolitics
COVID-19 does not care about the nationality of the humans it kills, and no global response will succeed without some degree of cooperation between the US and China
CAMBRIDGE – COVID-19 is confronting humanity with its most severe test since 1918 when an
influenza pandemic killed more people than died in World War I. Yet the top leaders of the world's two largest economies, China and the United States, have failed the first round.
The initial reaction of both Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump was denial. Crucial time for testing and containment was wasted, and opportunities for international cooperation were squandered.
Instead, after costly national lockdowns, the two leaders engaged in propaganda battles with each other. China's foreign ministry blamed the US military for the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, and Trump called it the "Chinese virus." Yet COVID-19 does not care about the nationality of the humans it kills, and no global response will succeed without some degree of cooperation between the US and China.
Bilateral relations were already deteriorating rapidly when the virus hit. Trump's 2017 National Security Strategy focused on great power competition with China. Many Americans of both major political parties agree that Trump was correct to punish China for cybertheft of intellectual property, coerced intellectual property transfer, and unfair trade practices such as subsidized credit to state-owned enterprises.
Reciprocity does need to be enforced. If China can ban Google and Facebook from its market for security reasons, the US can take similar steps against Huawei or ZTE. Anger and mistrust festers in both countries' capitals.
But what the COVID-19 crisis teaches us is that this competitive approach to national security is inadequate. And COVID-19 is not the only example. The information revolution and globalization are changing world politics dramatically.
While trade wars have set back economic globalization, environmental globalization, reflected in pandemics and climate change, obeys the laws of biology and physics, not politics. In a world where borders are becoming more porous to everything from drugs and illicit financial flows to infectious diseases and cyber terrorism, countries must use their soft power of attraction to develop networks and institutions that address the new threats.
As technology expert Richard Danzig points out, "Pathogens, AI systems, computer viruses, and radiation that others may accidentally release could become as much our problem as theirs. Agreed reporting systems, shared controls, common contingency plans, norms, and treaties must be pursued as a means of moderating our numerous mutual risks." Tariffs and border walls cannot solve these problems.
On transnational issues like COVID-19 and climate change, power becomes a positive-sum game. It is not enough to think of power over others; one must also consider power with others. On many transnational issues, empowering others helps a country accomplish its own goals. For example, all can benefit if others improve their energy efficiency, or improve their public health systems.
All leaders have a responsibility to put their country's interests first, but the important moral question is how broadly or narrowly they choose to define those interests. Both China and the US are responding to COVID-19 with an inclination toward short-term, zero-sum, competitive approaches, and too little attention to international institutions and cooperation. As I show in my new book, Do Morals Matter?,
Trump has interpreted "America First" too narrowly, stepping back from the long-term, enlightened self- interest that marked the post-1945 US approach designed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower.
Cooperation is, however, possible between geopolitical and ideological rivals. For example, during the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union both supported a United Nations program that eradicated smallpox. After the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, the US and China established a web of cooperative relations between national health authorities, and they worked together to combat the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Attacks by new viruses can come in waves, and the second wave of the flu pandemic a century ago was more lethal than the first. There is much we do not know about the new coronavirus. There could be seasonal surges between the northern and southern hemispheres. When the Global North has a respite, the virus (or a mutation) may move south, and then spread northward again with the change in weather. In any case, we must be prepared for a multiyear battle, which will require sharing information, developing and producing therapies and vaccines, and manufacturing and distributing medical supplies and equipment.
The current COVID-19 crisis will continue to test US and Chinese leaders. To ensure they pass it, both sides should de-escalate the propaganda wars that sow mistrust and inhibit cooperation, and articulate the importance of "power with" rather than "over" others. They should plan for future waves of the coronavirus and establish bilateral and multilateral frameworks to enhance collaboration. And they should recognize that helping developing countries cope with COVID-19 is in everyone's interest because viral reservoirs anywhere will place people in jeopardy everywhere.
Both for self-interested and humanitarian reasons, the US and China should announce generous contributions to a major new UN coronavirus fund that is open to all countries. And they should jointly lead the G20 in funding it.
Lastly, given how much humans still must learn from each other about this new virus, the US and China should restore the rich web of contacts among scientists and medical professionals that existed a decade ago. It would also be wise to form a binational high-level commission on COVID-19, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, to provide political cover and cut through bureaucratic red tape.
Chinese and American leaders botched the first round of their COVID-19 examination. But it is not too late for them to learn how to do better.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a professor at Harvard, is the author of Do Morals Matter, Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump.
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020.
www.project-syndicate.org
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One of the most popular topics on the minds of modern management is employee engagement and happiness. Numerous studies and research have been undertaken and shown that there is low employee engagement across the world. What does low employee engagement mean and how does this effect any business enterprise?
Low employee engagement can lead to and has a direct effect on productivity, waited resources, and most of all create a toxic environment that noineividual want to be part of or contribute to. It is for this reason that it is crucial for all managers to have a better understanding of what their employees want and what they value in their jobs.
So what do employees need, want and care about when it comes to their jobs?
One survey done by Tinypulse in 2013 revealed that most employees had transparency on the top of their list when it came to employee engagement.
A SAP survey came to the conclusion that compensation was most that mattered to employees.
There have been numerous studies done to ascertain what employees want out of their jobs and what they value most. A recent study done by Boston Consulting Group, one of the most comprehensive, found that the most important factor for employee happiness on the job is the feeling of appreciation for the work they are doing.
In the survey, the Boston Consulting Group separated their 26 factors into several categories and the results showed that the top factors were "work environment" or "job content and opportunities." What is interesting that came out of this study, contrary to many other studies undertaken previously which revealed that compensation as the #1 factor for employee happiness, the Boston Consulting Group placed this factor at #8. What this reveals, gone are the days where you can pay an employee large sum of money, treat them badly, and then expect them to do their jobs given the high salary.
Globally, there is a shift in the balance of power from the organization towards the employees. Today, there are numerous choices and opportunities for individuals to evaluate when seeking to make a living. Instead of working for big corporate, individuals can now do, for example, choose to join a small growing startup, become a freelancer, drive for Uber, create their own product and sell it on Easy, Amazon, or Ebay.
The reality of the current work environment is that cash is no longer the #1 factor to attract employees to a company. It is time for all organization to re-evaluate the way they treat their employees and ways to create a more desirable and engaging place to work.
Training and education programs when considering your employees can be quite a tremendous drain on your precious time and also limited resources. Before you write off the very thought of assisting and helping your employees learn additional skills, take into account the ways that skill-based training can positively affect your employees along with your company.
Training lends a hand with the recruiting process. If you're dedicated to education and learning, you'll be a great deal more ready to employ a desirable candidate who lacks a particular skill. Training courses at the same time tends to make your company more appealing in the eyes of prospective employees because doing so demonstrates them they may have space to progress and accept new opportunities. On top of that, teaching existing personnel could quite possibly reduce the need to hire new staff.
Training benefits long-time staff members. You realize you'll be more prepared to promote existing employees who may have learned new skills and are also ready to undertake new challenges.
Training reduces turnover. Employees who usually do not obtain assistance or have difficulty learning the ropes tend to be more prone to leave your organization. Employees are much less likely to depart should they have an opportunity to learn additional skills and additionally keep up to date within their industry.
Education enhances job satisfaction. Investing time and money in employees' skills makes them feel valued as well as appreciated, and it also challenges them to learn more and get more involved in their particular jobs. Greater job fulfillment ultimately results in reduced turnover and better work productivity.
Training increases employee productivity. Along with learning how to complete new tasks and undertake additional responsibility, employees can certainly learn advanced methods to assist them to accomplish common tasks more efficiently. For instance, sending your bookkeeper for an advanced Excel class may also help him or her to learn techniques to simplify the accounting processes and procedures.
Education reduces the dependence on employee supervision. Not only does skill-based education teach employees how to do their particular jobs better, but also , it helps them work a lot more independently and develop a can-do mind-set.


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Q: Using property list from expl3 I'm trying to use a property list from expl3 however, I have a very simple example that fails.
Can anyone help me understand my error?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expl3}
\usepackage{xparse}

\ExplSyntaxOn
% define a propery list
\prop_new:N \my_tooltip_prop
%
\NewDocumentCommand{\CSetA}{mm}{
    \prop_gput:Nnn \my_tooltip_prop {#1} {#2}
}
%
\NewDocumentCommand{\CGetA}{m}{
    \prop_get:NnN \my_tooltip_prop {#1}
}
%
%
% Altenative
%
\cs_new_protected:Npn \CSetB #1#2 {
    \prop_gput:Nnn \my_tooltip_prop {#1} {#2}
}
%
\cs_new:Npn \CGetB #1 {
    \prop_get:NnN \my_tooltip_prop {#1}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}

Hello

%\CSetA{key1}{value1}
%\CGetA{key1} % same error as with \CGetB{key2}

\CSetB{key2}{value2}
\CGetB{key2}

\end{document}

The error message is
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000].
\par ->valu
           e2
l.40 \end{document}

My system is running Kubuntu 16.10.

A: The correct way is with \prop_item:Nn:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expl3}
\usepackage{xparse}

\ExplSyntaxOn
% define a propery list
\prop_new:N \g_leal_tooltip_prop
%
\NewDocumentCommand{\CSet}{mm}
 {
  \prop_gput:Nnn \g_leal_tooltip_prop {#1} {#2}
 }
%
\NewDocumentCommand{\CGet}{m}
 {
  \prop_item:Nn \g_leal_tooltip_prop {#1}
 }
\ExplSyntaxOff

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}

Hello

\CSet{key1}{value1}
\CGet{key1}

\CSet{key2}{value2}
\CGet{key2}

\end{document}

The \prop_item:Nn function has been introduced on 2014-07-17; if you get it is undefined, your TeX distribution is lagging behind.
An almost equivalent version would be with the help of a token list variable:
\tl_new:N \l_leal_tooltip_temp_tl
\NewDocumentCommand{\CGet}{m}
 {
  \prop_get:NnN \g_leal_tooltip_prop {#1} \l_leal_tooltip_temp_tl
  \tl_use:N \l_leal_tooltip_temp_tl
 }

A: In ConTeXt you get property lists with a high-level interface.
\starttext

\setvariables
  [tooltip]
  [
    key1=value1,
    key2=value2,
  ]

\getvariable{tooltip}{key1}
\getvariable{tooltip}{key2}

\stoptext

A: You can achieve something similar to my ConTeXt answer with LuaLaTeX.  To parse the key-value list, I still use utilities.parsers.settings_to_hash from ConTeXt.  To do so, I have to import the necessary ConTeXt core files, namely
dofile(kpse.find_file("l-lpeg.lua"))
dofile(kpse.find_file("util-sto.lua"))
dofile(kpse.find_file("util-prs.lua"))

The following code is very generic and has an interface similar to the ConTeXt version.  It should be easy to repurpose it.
\documentclass{article}

\directlua{
dofile(kpse.find_file("l-lpeg.lua"))
dofile(kpse.find_file("util-sto.lua"))
dofile(kpse.find_file("util-prs.lua"))

uservariables         = uservariables or {}
uservariables.content = uservariables.content or {}

function uservariables.put(namespace,keyvals)
    local input = utilities.parsers.settings_to_hash(keyvals)

    uservariables.content[namespace] = uservariables.content[namespace] or {}

    for k,v in pairs(input) do
        uservariables.content[namespace][k] = v
    end
end

function uservariables.get(namespace,k)
    tex.sprint(uservariables.content[namespace][k] or "")
end
}

\newcommand\setvariables[2]{%
  \directlua{uservariables.put(\unexpanded{[==[#1]==], [==[#2]==]})}}

\newcommand\getvariable[2]{%
  \directlua{uservariables.get(\unexpanded{[==[#1]==], [==[#2]==]})}}

\begin{document}

\setvariables
  {tooltip}
  {
    key1=value1,
    key2=value2,
  }

\getvariable{tooltip}{key1}
\getvariable{tooltip}{key2}

\end{document}

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1.4 Your referral link will be provided to you by email upon signing up and it will also be available on your Habito refer a friend page. Your Habito refer a friend page can be found here: https://www.habito.com/refer. Please sign in to get your link.
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2.1 For each successful referral through your unique URL you will be entitled to a £100 cash reward. The friend that successfully completes their Habito mortgage application will also be entitled to £100 cash. The rewards will be delivered to you through our cash rewards partner.
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otherwise attempt to avoid this agreement or the terms of the refer a friend programme.
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Thomas Leaf
R. Knight
14 cm high by 10 cm wide
Eighth illustration for Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree, facing page 144 (recto, where signature k meets signature l in the gatherings).
Passage illustrated: "Finally came a weak lath-like form, trotting and stumbling along with one shoulder forward and his head inclined to the left, his arms dangling nervelessly in the wind as if they were empty sleeves. This was Thomas Leaf." [Part the First, "Winter," Chapter 1, "Mellstock Lane," p. 6]
See commentary below.
Photograph, caption, and commentary by Philip V. Allingham
[You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Although the figure of the well-intentioned but inept village fool is mere window dressing in the cast of characters who constitute the Mellstock Quire, Hardy develops this type into a fully realised individual whose character interacts with the principals and affects the course of the plot — Abel Whittle in The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886). A virtual skeleton in a smock-frock, Thomas Leaf is the surviving member of thirteen siblings, and, given his extreme leanness, probably is the character in the book lowest on the social scale, a member of the "labouring folk" elevated by his musical ability to become a named member of the Mellstock Quire.
Hardy, Thomas. Under The Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1870). Il. R. Knight. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878.
Hardy, Thomas. Under The Greenwood Tree, or, The Mellstock Quire — A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872). Ed. Anna Winchcombe. Houndmills, Basingstoke, and London: Macmillan Education, 1978. [All citations from the 1878 Chatto and Windus edition have been checked against this following readily available paperback edition.]
Millgate, Michael. Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited. Oxford: Oxford U. P., 2004.
Pinion, F. B. A Hardy Companion: A Guide to the Works of Thomas Hardy and Their Background. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1968, rpt. 1984.
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1954, rpt. 1965.
Wright, Sarah Bird. Thomas Hardy A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 2002.
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After Attorney General William Barr let the nation know that the Mueller found no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway quickly called for the resignation of Trump's #1 accuser, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
In response to Conway's call for his resignation, Schiff acted like a defiant child and publicly claimed that he still firmly believes that Trump colluded with Russia.
For the pat 2-years, Schiff claimed to have evidence to prove it, but no evidence was ever given to Mueller or made public.
President Trump and a number of House Republicans have joined Conway in calling for Schiff to resign due to his lying and leaking information, none of which proved any collusion.
"Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress!" Trump wrote on Twitter on March 28.
The president issued the message as nine Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee sent Schiff a letter calling on him to step down from his post as chairman of the committee.
I would love to see President Trump, via his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, file a federal lawsuit against Schiff on the grounds that he repeatedly slandered Trump with his false accusations for the sole purpose of defaming Trump's character.
If private citizens can be sued for slander and libel, then shouldn't politicians also be subject to similar lawsuits?
After all, they are supposed to be the example of abiding by the law, not the exception and it's time to start holding politicians accountable for their intentional lies.


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Antonio Fazio aka "Ato" is an Italian art director and designer, born in Switzerland in 1984. He studied graphic and product design at Eracom in Lausanne and graduated in 2010. He has lived, worked and lectured in Paris, New York and Milan and is now based in Lausanne. He collaborates with brands such as Prada, Versace, Maserati, Swatch, Hennessy, Adidas, the NBA and Eterna, to name a few.
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"I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process."
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Breaking News: Acclaimed Spanish Golfer Murdered on Iowa Course, suspect charged!
A 22-year-old man was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of former Iowa State women's golfer Celia Barquin Arozamena.
Barquin Arozamena, 22, was found dead Monday at a golf course in Ames, Iowa. Her body had several stab wounds to the head, neck and upper torso, according to police.
Collin Daniel Richards was charged in her death and made his initial appearance at Story County Courthouse in Nevada, Iowa, on Tuesday. Bond was set at $5 million.
Barquin Arozamena completed her Iowa State career in the spring. The Big 12 champion and Iowa State's female athlete of the year was attacked while golfing at Coldwater Golf Course on Monday morning.
Other golfers had noticed a lone golf bag with nobody around it and police were called. Officers found Barquin Arozamena's body in a pond near the ninth hole.
A short time later, officers encountered Richards in a homeless camp near the course after a police dog tracked Barquin Arozamena's scent to the area. Richards had fresh cuts and scratches consistent with fighting and also tried to conceal his left hand from officers, according to an Ames police criminal complaint.
One of the people police spoke to said Richards showed up at his home on Monday appearing "disheveled and covered in blood, sand and water." He said Richards used the shower and left with his clothes in a backpack.
Barquin Arozamena, a native of Spain, recently became the third women's golfer in Iowa State history to play in the U.S. Women's Open. She shot rounds of 76 and 75 for a 7-over 151 at Shoal Creek and missed the cut by three strokes.
The campus community was devastated by the tragic death of Barquin Arozamena, who was a three-time first-team All-Big 12 academic selection, in addition to her golfing accomplishments.
Women's golf coach Christie Martens also paid tribute.
Barquin Arozamena also had earned an invitation to the 2019 Women's British Open because of her victory at the European Ladies' Amateur Championship in July.


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Q: iPhone - User Defaults and UIImages I've been developing an iPhone app for the last few months. Recently I wanted to up performance and cache a few of the images that are used in the UI. The images are downloaded randomly from the web by the user so I can't add specific images to the project. I'm also already using NSUserDefaults to save other info within the app.
So now I'm attempting to save a dictionary of UIImages to my NSUserDefaults object and get...
-[UIImage encodeWithCoder:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance
I then decided to subclass UIImage with a class named UISaveableImage and implement NSCoding. So now I'm at...
@implementation UISaveableImage

-(void)encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *)encoder
{
   [encoder encodeObject:super forKey:@"image"];
}

-(id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)decoder
{
    if (self=[super init]){
        super =  [decoder decodeObjectForKey:@"image"];
    }
    return self;
}

@end

which isn't any better than where I started. If I was able to convert an UIImage to NSData I would be good, but all I can find are function like UIImagePNGRepresentation which require me to know what type of image this was. Something that UIImage doesn't allow me to do. Thoughts? I feel like I might have wandered down the wrong path...

A: You don't want to store images in NSUserDefaults. They're big blobs of data, and NSUserDefaults is stored as a plist; you want to write small bits of info to it.
You should write the images to disk, and then store the filenames to defaults:
NSString   *filename = myImageFilename;
[UIImagePNGRepresentation(image) writeToFile: myImageFilename atomically];
[[NSUserDefaults standardDefaults] setObject: myImageFilename forKey: @"lastImageFilename"];

A: Stumbling upon this a year later.  I would add (in case someone else stumbles here as well) that you should store the images in the cache directory and avoid iTunes trying to back them up.
- (NSString *)pathForSearchPath:(NSSearchPathDirectory)searchPath {
  NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(searchPath, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
  NSString *directoryPath = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
  return directoryPath;
}

- (NSString *)cacheDirectoryPath {
  return [self pathForSearchPath:NSCachesDirectory];
}


I simply cannot wait to show Kerryn and Tristan's wedding in Cornwall. To be precise, they got married at St. Frida Church in Grampound (Cornwall) and then had their reception in a Tipi marquee on a beautiful east Roseland, over looking Mevagissey. Kerryn's attention to detail was beyond incredible…literally everywhere you looked it was all personally customised with their names on and the things they both love in life (you'll see what I mean when their wedding gets blogged).
So, on the subject of full weddings being blogged, we've had some time off recently and, even though we're currently in Australia for a wedding, we're slowly getting back to work - keep your eyes peeled!
Here's a couple of teasers from their day!


The planet's premier MMA promotion has added a heavyweight shootout between Stefan Struve (Pictured) and Mark Hunt to their UFC 146 roster. The main card for the May 26th extravaganza will feature only 265-pound affairs.
Struve will be riding a two-fight winning streak into the matchup. "The Skyscraper" has rattled off victories in four of his last five outings.
Hunt owns a mediocre 8-7 professional record, but it's the baddest 8-7 mark known to mankind. After getting submitted by Sean McCorkle in his Octagon debut, the 37-year-old has managed to win three consecutive scraps.
Shane Del Rosario vs. Gabriel Gonzaga, Roy Nelson vs. Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva and Cain Velasquez vs. Frank Mir round out the event's five showcase fights.


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Q: Setting Result rows dynamically in dependency of cell content I have to tables in Redshift, articles and clicks:
articles
| articleID | authorID |
| 100       |   2      |
| 101       |   2      |
| 102       |   6      |
| 103       |   7      |
| 104       |   2      |

clicks
|articleID  | category |
|100        | "mail"   |
|100        | "mail"   |
|100        | "rss"    |
|101        | "rss"    |
|101        | "mail"   |
|101        | "app"    |
|101        | "app"    |

Now I want to aggregate for each articleID the number of clicks per category as well as the total amount of clicks with this query
SELECT clicks.articleID,
ANY_VALUE(article.authorID) AS authorID,

COUNT(CASE WHEN clicks.category ='rss' THEN 1 END) as rss,
COUNT(CASE WHEN clicks.category ='mail' THEN 1 END) as mail,
COUNT(CASE WHEN clicks.category ='app' THEN 1 END) as app,

COUNT(clicks.articleID) AS total
FROM clicks
INNER JOIN articles
ON clicks.articleID = articles.articleID

GROUP BY clicks.articleID

It results in
| articleID | authorID  | rss   | mail  | app   | total |
| 100       | 2         | 1     | 2     | 0     |   3   |
| 101       | 2         | 1     | 1     | 2     |   4   |

which is fine.
Now I want to set the category colums dynamically. So when an additional category in "clicks" appears, e.g. "facebook",
I do not have to alter the query for getting
| articleID | authorID  | rss   | mail  | app   | facebook  | total |
| 100       | 2         | 1     | 2     | 0     |   1       |   4   |
| 101       | 2         | 1     | 1     | 2     |   0       |   4   |

I found this one
WITH categories AS (SELECT category from clicks GROUP BY category)

as a prefix to the query
But how do I access categories in the main query, something like
WITH categories AS (SELECT category from clicks GROUP BY category)

SELECT clicks.articleID,
ANY_VALUE(article.authorID) AS authorID,

--pseudocode
FOREACH(categories AS category)
    COUNT(CASE WHEN clicks.category =$category THEN 1 END) as $category
ENDFOREACH
--//pseudocode

COUNT(clicks.articleID) AS total
FROM clicks
INNER JOIN articles
ON clicks.articleID = articles.articleID

GROUP BY clicks.articleID

?
Of course I could first query all categories and then run a query for each category, but I hope that there is a more elegant way

A: Two things - first there is now PIVOT functionality in Redshift so you can don't need all those case statements.  So it would look like:
select *
from (
  select category, c.articleid, authorid
  from clicks c
  join articles a on c.articleid = a.articleid)
    PIVOT ( count(category) for category in ('rss', 'mail', 'app') );

The second thing is that you want dynamic SQL.  You see the list of categories is "baked" into the SQL either as the PIVOT list or the GROUP BY list or ... this isn't something that can be made dynamic inside the database.  So you will need to have something gather the list of categories and then issue the SQL for the final query.  Lambda can be this something but so can many other tools.  Like so:
select '\'' || listagg(distinct category, '\',\'') || '\'' from clicks;

then something takes this list and creates the query from a template such as:
select *
from (
  select category, c.articleid, authorid
  from clicks c
  join articles a on c.articleid = a.articleid)
    PIVOT ( count(category) for category in (<INSERT RESULT FROM ABOVE HERE>) );

Sorry this is the best you can do.  Queries are compiled BEFORE any data is seen.


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Shift is a large outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra, located in King City, Ontario, Canada about 30 kilometers north of Toronto. The work was commissioned in 1970 by art collector Roger Davidson and installed on his family property. Shift consists of six large concrete forms, each 20 centimetres thick and 1.5 metres high, zigzagging over the northwest portion of the  property's rolling countryside. In 1990 the Township of King voted to designate Shift and the surrounding land as a protected cultural landscape under the Ontario Heritage Act. The property is now owned by a Toronto-based developer who announced in 2010 that they appeal the decision of the Ontario Conservation Review board with plans to develop the property for housing, necessitating the removal of Shift. In 2013 the Township of King voted to prepare a bylaw to designate Shift as protected under the Ontario Heritage Act, preventing its destruction or alteration.

History
In the summer of 1970 Serra and artist Joan Jonas visited the site, a 13-acre potato farm in King Township. They discovered that if two people walked the distance of the land towards each other while keeping each other in view, they had to negotiate the contours of the land and walked in a zigzagged path. This determined the topographical definition of the space and the finished work would be the maximum distance two people could occupy while still in view of one another. The sculpture's construction began in 1970 and ended in 1972.

In 1973 Serra discussed Shift in Art in America:

What I wanted was a dialectic between one's perception of the place in totality and one's relation to the field as walked. The result is a way of measuring oneself against the indeterminancy of the land. As one follows the work farther into the field, one is forced to shift and turn with the work and look back across the elevational drop. From the top of the hill, looking back across he valley, images and thoughts are remembered which were initiated by the consciousness of having experienced them.

The land was owned by the family of Roger Davidson, an art collector. Serra approached Davidson with an idea to use the land for a site-specific sculpture. Davidson agreed in exchange for two of Serra's smaller sculptures. Ownership of the work was undetermined and as there was no contract, Serra understood that the work would be preserved on the land by the Davidson family and that the land would not be sold and would be accessible to the public.

In 1974, the land, registered in Davidson's mother's name, was sold to Hickory Hill Investments, a land developer. Land registry records made no mention of an artwork on the property.  The Ontario government listed the land as protected under the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act as a green space, while Shift is protected under Canadian copyright law as Serra is a landowner in Nova Scotia. The Toronto-based developer announced in 2010 planned to develop the property for housing. Shift and the surrounding land was designated a protected cultural landscape under the Ontario Heritage Act. In 2013 the Township of King voted to prepare a bylaw to designate Shift as protected under the Ontario Heritage Act, preventing its destruction or alteration.

Description
Shift is made of concrete, the first of two concrete works Serra has created. He considers concrete to be too architectural for sculpture and usually works in steel. In both cases, Serra used concrete owing to the architectural scale of the works and the horizontal emphasis. Each of the six concrete sections is 60 inches in height and 8 inches in width while the length varies from 90 feet to 240 feet. These were built based on a land survey that Serra had commissioned. The sculpture is divided into two sections each containing three segments.

Shift was ignored for the most part by locals since the Davidsons sold the land. Residents thought it was a leftover foundation and the work survived in obscurity until talk of developing the land in the 1990s brought attention to the work's importance. The developers did not realize the value of the work when the land was purchased. Serra's studio estimates that a commission of this nature would now be valued at between US$7 and US$8 million.

Although protected from development, the sculpture is the target of vandalism and environmental exposure. In 2018, the sculpture was found to have cracks and scratches, as well as the "encroachment of weeds". No maintenance is performed on the sculpture.

Notes

References

Bibliography
 Krauss, Rosalind E. "Richard Serra, a translation." The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1985. 261-276.

External links

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 Sculpture in Nature: Richard Serra in King City, Ontario

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Modem Wars
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Alternate Titles: Dan Bunten's Modem Wars
Company: Ozark Softscape / Electronic Arts
Theme: Multiplayer / Science Fiction / War
Licence: Shareware
Review by Mr Creosote (2009-04-18)
I usually try to present each game in its original version, i.e. on the system it was initially developed for. For Modem Wars, that would be the C64. However, I have to admit I can't get that version to work in my emulator - most likely due to my inability to set it up to emulate a modem connection. Since writing a review purely from memory violates the standards of the site, I had to go with the IBM PC port released a little later - please excuse this slip and if anyone can lend a hand getting the C64 version to run, feel free to drop me a line.
Further on the version I'm reviewing (and offering for download) here: This version has been released as 'Shareware' by lead designer Dani Bunten herself in 1996. This release has had the original copy protection 'cracked' by Dan Hite, collaborator of the original version - the game's source code had already been lost by then. As for it being Shareware, Dani writes: "I hope you enjoy it enough to give copies to your friends. My lawyer instructs me, however, to remind you this is copyrighted software and in order to remain legal you should send $5 to me" (read the full story in the readme.txt included in the download). Two years after writing this, she died. It doesn't get much 'more Abandonware' than this.
So, let's at last talk about the game itself (and as a final remark: I remember the original C64 version to be pretty much identical). Modem Wars is a groundbreaking war game: It was way ahead of its time, because it allowed two human players to compete against each other not via split screen or in a turn based manner, but in real time on two networked computers. As the name indicates, the computers have to be linked with modems, or null modems alternatively. That way, each player can use his own monitor / TV and keyboard exclusively, and the game can be played over long distances as well.
In different scenarios, each player takes over a robot army consisting of four basic unit types. Grunts are basically 'foot soldiers', Riders are 'cavalry' (i.e. faster), Boomers are artillery and Spys are unarmed reconnaissance units. Additionally, there is one special unit: the Comcen. That's your 'command centre', i.e. a transporter vehicle from which you give your orders. The Comcen itself doesn't have regular weapons, but you can launch two things from it: Missiles and Drones. Drones can do further reconnaissance and you can explode them at will, doing damage to a four square radius. Missilies can be used to target specific units (e.g. to shoot down enemy Drones). It is each side's goal to destroy the enemy Comcen while protecting its own.
The game offers quite a few tactical devices. For example, the terrain can offer cover for sneak attacks or slow the enemy down. Units can be grouped and put into formation. They can be commanded to dig themselves in (for better defense), to go into 'blitz' mode (for faster movement) or to enable camouflage. And, once again, you only see what your units see.
With a game like this, it has to be explicitely noted that there is a single player mode as well. In that case, the computer takes over the role of the enemy army. Mind you that the game was designed to be played against another human, though, i.e. the AI isn't great. Enough for basic training (which is, incidently, how this mode is labelled in the game itself).
The relatively weak AI is often cited as the main reason why the game didn't do well commercially. While that may have been one aspect, here's another thought: Who owned a modem in the late 80s? And of those few people, who could (or was willing to) pay for all those expensive modem calls to play against a friend? Which makes Modem Wars an example of the work of a true visionary - but technology and people's mindset (and also the phone companies with their payment structure) weren't ready at that time yet. Too bad, because the game was also ahead of its time gameplay-wise. When the term 'real time strategy' was coined many years later and the genre really took off, those games released then were all a lot more shallow than this ancestor (and an AI was usually non-existent in those games). Pity, because Modem Wars had shown the right direction... and been ignored.
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On 22nd March, on the occasion of World Water Day, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. (NABARD) in collaboration with Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and other local organisations launched Jalme Jeevanam (Water is Life) campaign in around 1,00,000 villages across 200 districts to create awareness about conservation and preservation of water resources. Communication Tool kits developed by CEE were provided to all the organisations for effective implemetation of the campaign activities. A number of stakeholders like the officials from Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Gramsabha. blocklevel agriculture department, coperative banks, ASHA and Anganwadi workers also actively participated in the campaign.
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Initiating the campaign with a rally, the group walked around the village to identify spots where water was being wasted.Then, several meetings moderated by the self help groups were conducted to understand the water shortage problems faced by the communities. Keeping in mind the conclusions drawn through observations and the meetings held, water conservation strategy was developed through several activities by the villagers. Resource mapping of the village was undertaken with inputs from different community members .
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Approximations on demography of the village and amount of rainfall received were drawn through intensive discussions. Our team members explained and carried out demonstrations for efficient water management practices like recharging of groundwater, rainwater harvesting, methods of wastewater recycling, and construction of trenches, bunds, check dams and farm ponds. Few farmers who had already adopted such practices shared their experiences with others.
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Asha Kandathil, M.D.
Department Radiology
Asha Kandathil, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Cardiothoracic Imaging Division. Her clinical interests include lung cancer screening, diagnosis, and post-treatment follow-up.
Originally from India, Dr. Kandathil earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) degree from Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, where she remained to perform her residency in radiology. She received advanced training in breast imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), abdominal imaging, nuclear medicine, and cardiothoracic radiology through fellowship programs at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.
Prior to joining the UT Southwestern faculty in 2015, Dr. Kandathil was an Associate Professor of Radiology at Christian Medical College and a Medical Officer at CSI Mission Hospital in Karakonam, India.
Dr. Kandathil's research interests include lung cancer, as well as the identification of imaging biomarkers to predict post-anesthesia complications and obstacles faced by patients who have received a transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Her research has resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, as well as a book chapter in Functional Imaging in Oncology.
At UT Southwestern, Dr. Kandathil serves on several academic and hospital committees, including the Medical School Admission Committee, the Thoracic Tumor Board, the Pulmonary Nodule Task Force, and the Lung Cancer Screening Task Force.
She is a member of national and international professional organizations, including the Radiological Society of North America, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, the American College of Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and the Society of Thoracic Radiology.
In addition, Dr. Kandathil is a reviewer for several medical publications, including the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, the European Journal of Radiology, and the American Journal of Radiology. She has contributed to the textbook CT Angiography: New Approaches to Aortic Disease from Valve to Abdominal Bifurcation.
Christian Medical College (1988)
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University of Michigan Health System (2011), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mri)
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Parrots around the world are uniting to chew, destroy and dismantle this bird toy and send it back to the world it came from.
What a wonderful bird toy for birds that love to chew, shred and most importantly have a fun time playing with their toys.
Bird toy measures: 15" Long by 8" Wide and contains small wood slices, medium wood slices, large wood slices, two palm leaf shredder discs and jumbo beads. Strung on nickel plated chain and on super safe Poly Rope.
UFO Bird Toy for Amazon and African Grey Parrots5Diane ReevesMay 29, 2018Hershall has loved her toy. She has allowed her feathers to come in on her breast. Yeaaaa Of course now there is not much left except shreds on the floor. Lol Thanks so much for your site and your interest in my sweet baby.
UFO Bird Toy for Amazon and African Grey Parrots5MarkApril 10, 2018Did you know that Funtime Birdy can customize a bird toy for you? That's just what they did for me and my bird. My bird loves the palm leaf shredder disks on the UFO. I explained to Ann that I would like two toys with extra palm chews. She specially designed the UFO bird toy with that in mind. 4 chew palms Leaf Shredder disks on a chain. I am so grateful to funtime Birdy for being able to do this. I used to buy my bird toys at large pet chains, now I only order from funtime Birdy. Thank you!
UFO Bird Toy for Amazon and African Grey Parrots5Mark K.March 10, 2018My African Gray loves this toy, so much fun shredding the palm wheel, I had to order more to satisfy his beak!
UFO Bird Toy for Amazon and African Grey Parrots5Mark K.February 1, 2017My African Grey is crunching on it as we speak, good chew toy.
UFO Bird Toy for Amazon and African Grey Parrots5barbaraJuly 1, 2016This is the second one that Cupie has had and he loves it more than ever. He is an African Grey, and it keeps him entertained for hours. I highly recommend this toy!


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8 Very British Christmas tradtions
Laura Dean-Osgood
These charming festive customs prove there's more to a British Christmas than just turkey and trees. Do you have any quirky traditions near you?
Porthcawl Christmas swim
As you sip a glass of bubbly this Christmas Day, raise a toast to the swimmers braving the Bristol Channel for their annual chilly dip.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Porthcawl's Christmas swim, which sees a huge crowd gather to watch hundreds of swimmers splash into the sea on the south coast of Wales. Many come to brave the freezing temperatures, and lots of them wear fancy dress to raise money for charity. In recent times, the water has ranged between -10C in 2010 to 11C a year later—when, as the swim's chairwoman Nicola Willis says, "There were more people in the sea than most summer bank holidays."
Of course, it's not just the water that entrants must contend with—there's also a half-mile dash to the edge and back when the tide is low. With all this in mind, will you join in?
Visit christmasswim.org for details
Firemen and fishermen football match
Every year since 1893, Scarborough's South Bay beach has hosted a football match between the fishermen and firemen of the town. The game takes place on Boxing Day morning, and there's only one rule that matters: "You must wear a top hat," says captain and organiser Billy Blades. "Anything goes—you can kick, push, gouge. But if that top hat comes off, you get a free kick against you."
The game was originally set up to help raise funds for the families of the five fishermen who perished aboard the Eveyln & Maud during a storm in November 1893.
"They raised £11/9/6d, which was a lot, and it all went to the widows and orphans," says Billy. "We've continued it ever since." The "firemen" of the original game were the men who stoked the fires on the steam trawlers. "They kept warm while the others were catching fish in the cold, so there was plenty of rivalry between the teams," says Billy. The sides now consist of fishermen and those who want to take part in the well-loved tradition. These days, it collects funds to help local older people over the winter months.
Visit fishermenandfiremen.co.uk for details
Black Santa sit out, Belfast Cathedral
The steps of stunning Belfast cathedral have become the site of a ritual that's raised millions of pounds for charity since it began 38 years ago. Each year, the cathedral's dean takes to the steps for his annual "sit out", collecting donations for local causes.
The charity vigil, which lasts several days in the run up to Christmas, was started by Dean Sammy Crooks in 1976, who was concerned with how funds were being directed to costly maintenance work rather than helping others. He decided to sit in front of the cathedral asking for donations—and it worked.
Dressed in a traditional black cloak, he became known as Black Santa, and the custom has been maintained by the subsequent deans of the cathedral every year since.
Visit belfastcathedral.org for details
Christmas Day concert
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Joyful singing and cheer reverberate on Eastbourne's popular promenade every Christmas morning, at a concert that dates back to 1935. The festive ensembles, held at the town's grand old bandstand, have formed part of the Christmas schedule ever since the beautiful domed structure was first built.
The concert attracts thousands of visitors, who fill the middle and upper balconies to sing carols together with the Eastbourne Silver Band—a long-established concert troop. The event serves as a perfect activity to share
with family, friends, locals and visitors.
"These concerts have such a great atmosphere," says councillor Carolyn Heaps. "They're very popular as a pre-dinner delight."
Like many bandstands around the country, Eastbourne's has an illustrious history. The semi-circle structure replaced an iron bandstand from 1882 known as the Bird Cage. The first concerts attracted over 10,000 people, and today it still draws big crowds—running around 170 shows throughout the year, including on Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
Visit eastbournebandstand.co.uk for details
Pudding ride
A relatively new fixture in the festive calendar, this Christmas-morning bike ride takes in the sights of London on one of the few days it's free of commuters and double-decker buses. Matthew Hilton, owner of MiCycle in Islington, north London, has been running the ride for four years.
"We start at Tower Bridge and weave our way over all the bridges," says Matthew. "We take it gently, as we're quite a mixed bunch of cyclists. And we often bump into other cycle groups who are doing the same thing, which is nice." Once the work's been done, everyone is invited back to the shop for hot mince pies and mulled wine
"It's a great way to start Christmas day," claims Matthew. Though it's free to take part, riders are invited to make a donation, big or small—all of which goes to charity.
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Visit micycle.org.uk for details
River of light parade
The residents of Caerphilly, South Wales, mark the beginning of Christmas with the spectacular River of Light parade—now in its 14th year. The parade draws thousands to watch as children proudly display the lanterns they've crafted in the workshops held in the run up to the event.
"We have people of all ages coming to the workshops," says artist Andy O'Rourke. "Some families come back year after year and are now getting quite expert at making their lanterns."
The parade is praised for engendering community spirit, and includes samba in the streets and a grand fireworks display that closes the event at Caerphilly Castle.
Visit caerphilly.gov.uk for details
Grantchester, Cambridge
A challenge between locals back in 1960 started the rather obscure tradition of barrel racing that's still very much alive today. Teams from Grantchester and surrounding villages compete by rolling their barrels along the 500-yard course in a relay. Though the custom lost steam in the mid-Seventies, it was resurrected in 2004 and continues to be a popular fixture in the town's festivities—taking place every Boxing Day.
"It's a fantastic tradition and we need to keep it alive," says local Sarah Dampier. "Everyone gets involved and the organiser does a great job."
Visit grantchester.org.uk for details
Pagham pram race
It was over a drink one night in 1946 that a group of locals decided they wanted to raise money for local charities in Pagham.
The pram race, which sees pairs of competitors complete a course as quickly as possible (one in a pram and one pushing), attracts hundreds of entrants. The rules are simple: you must stop at each of the three pubs along the way for a pint. And though it's not compulsory, fancy dress is taken very seriously by some.
"We've had life-size Lego men," says Andrew Goodwill, treasurer of the Pram Race organisation. "And one year we were even visited by Roman soldiers, who insisted on marching the entire course."
"The race is entrenched in local history," Andrew continues, "and it's all about raising money for local causes. But it does get quite competitive. Some teams compete the course in under 30 minutes—and that's including the three pints!"
Visit paghampramrace.com for details
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Join us for the next Downtown Voices Coalition Steering Committee meeting, Saturday, October 14, starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Roosevelt Commons Clubhouse, 825 N. 6th Avenue. This month we'll have a few presentations on "hot" topics, plus check up on things happening around town since we last met. Come share your thoughts and what you know.
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M3: Movements, Moments + Maps (Part 02)
AIA South Dakota Scholarship Winner 2021 During the Fall 2021 semester the sixth years at South Dakota State University explored their own independent projects. Each student selected their own topic to develop throughout the semester. I also worked through mine during the summer prior as a part of the AIA Enrichment Award Scholarship. The project …
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In Memoriam 2021
As we continue to navigate our new normal with post 2020-21, we wanted to take a moment to remember those architects within South Dakota that have passed this last year. As we look forward to the future of what 2022 has in store for us, we are grateful for the lasting impact these individuals had …
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Call for Presentations!
Present at Design in the Hills, 2022 AIA SD Annual Convention AIA South Dakota has issued a Call for Presentations for Design in the Hills, planned for July 14-15, 2022, and the AIA South Dakota Annual Convention and Expo, scheduled for Sept. 15-16, 2022.Those who have knowledge and insight that may be of value to …
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2021 AIASD Peoples' Choice Award
The South Dakota Veterans Cemetery is the first federally funded, state-owned and operated, veterans cemetery in South Dakota. This 60-acre property offers a picturesque setting in northereastern Sioux Falls, conveniently located along Interstate 90. The cemetery will serve veterans throughout the state and around the country, as there is no state residency requirement to be …
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AIASD Award Winner: NSU Regional Sports Complex
Post and images submitted by CO-OP Architects. The Northern State University Regional Sports Complex includes a new on-campus DII football stadium, with seating for 4,000 fans with flexible berms to handle larger crowds. Suites, loge boxes, premier club seating, press level amenities, locker rooms, Champions Lounge, and concessions are also included in the design. In …
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AIASD Award Winner: Sauna Cube
Post and images submitted by Robert Arlt Architect. The sauna cube is a self-designed and built project sited in the backyard of our central Sioux Falls Midcentury ranch house. The project started out imagined as a garden shed but changed during covid after taking a trip in the summer of 2020 and spending time at a …
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2021 AIA SD Presidential Award Winner: Goss Opera House, Watertown SD
Celebrations in Architecture: Goss Opera House, Watertown SD receives recognition from AIA SD President, Tom Hurlbert at 2021 AIA SD Convention. (Content submitted by RSA) Every once in a while, we as Architects become involved in a project that changes our perspective on the value of somebody's passion for a project, and how it can …
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SDSU Chicoine AME Renaming Ceremony
(Cover image courtesy of SDSU) Over the past weekend, South Dakota State University officially celebrated the naming of the Chicoine Architecture, Mathematics & Engineering Hall with a ceremony honoring the 19th President of SDSU. Serving as President from 2007–2016, David Chicoine was instrumental in the founding of the Department of Architecture in 2010 and believed …
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Arlt, Kramer recognized as Young Architect Award winners
AIA South Dakota is awarding South Dakota architects Robert Arlt, AIA, CPHC, and Chase Kramer, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA each with the chapter's Young Architect Award for their leadership, service and contributions to the architecture profession and the community as a whole. Arlt and Kramer will be honored during the AIA South Dakota Design Awards …
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We would like to inform you that Premier Hazel Jenkins is still at the rehab centre in Bloemfontein. She is responding well to the medication and treatment at the rehab centre. She is doing fine and we are certain that the rehab centre will assist to restore her to full health.
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Jay-Z Disheartened by Colin Kaepernick for Turning Workout Into 'Publicity Stunt'
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The Roc Nation founder was previously reported to have pressured the NFL to set up a workout for the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback to give him a chance to return to the league.
AceShowbiz - Jay-Z is reportedly upset at the way Colin Kaepernick handled the NFL's workout on Saturday, November 16. Sources tell TMZ that the hip-hop mogul was disappointed the athlete "turned a legitimate workout into a publicity stunt."
As reported before, the Roc Nation founder pressured the National Football League to set up the workout for the 32-year-old quarterback to give Colin an opportunity after leaving the San Francisco 49er for free agent in 2017. The athlete has never been hired following the kneeling controversy.
The workout was scheduled to take place on Saturday at Falcons' training facility, with all the NFL teams present to evaluate his readiness and level of interest in resuming his NFL career. However, Colin moved the location to a high school that was 60 miles away in Riverdale, Georgia.
He said the change was made to allow media coverage during the session as the workout at the training facility would have been closed to journalists. "Our biggest thing with everything today was making sure we had transparency with what went on. We weren't getting that elsewhere so we came out here," Colin told the media following his workout.
The league said in a statement that it was not informed of his decision to change the location prior to his public announcement. The NFL was disappointed by Colin's decision because the workout was "designed to give Colin what he has consistently said he wants."
Following Colin's move, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith blasted the athlete, claiming that he "doesn't want to play" football and only "wants to be a martyr." Stephen added, "But guess what, it ain't working this time."
"This man wanted a chance. Twenty-five teams show up in Georgia at the Atlanta Falcons practice facility-state of the art facility, NFL personnel, equipment, video, everything, and what does Colin Kaepernick do? Because of some issue with a liability waiver, Colin Kaepernick wants to change the venue," Stephen continued. "You don't want to work. You just want to make noise and you want to control the narrative."
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The objectives were achieved and the short film came into production shortly after, being very successful in different festivals.
For logistical reasons I was not able to participate in the final film, Neither the art director and character designer of this clip, Maikol De Sousa.


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Tongseng: It's a very simple and useful program which reads multiple touches (I believe glass trackpads in current Macbooks can track up to 11 fingers) and converts that into TUIO messages. You can select the destination address and port for the messages.
… and then hide-on-lock the buttons (Command+K) and leave only the max.tab patch in the vissible area of the Max for Live plugin.
This way the interface works and looks pretty neat. Next step is to assign the MIDI controlls in the usual way. I included a "Send X" switch for every x-y pad in order to make the mapping easier, because sometimes is difficult to transmit only one CC if both x and y are active.
You might want to edit the patch to fit your needs (for example, to add more pages, change the controller number ranges, etc.). It would be nice if you share any cool modifications you make!
Feel free to contact me or comment here if you have any questions.
For the Live.Tab object right click it and send to back, you might want to select the option ignore on click as well….
I'll include it in a forthcoming version of the patch.
I'm dying to get this to work but i must be doing something wrong. tonseng is running but it doesn't seem like i'm receiving midi from the touchpad. i have reaktor after the patch in the chain with skrewell ensemble and xy variables in cc 5 and 6. i selected the first layer so that the 1st xypad corresponds to those cc's but nada. couldnt get the send x to work either, guess I must be missing something obvious. any suggestions?
I updated my post. I think the solution could be there now.
I have followed the directions as closely as I can, but I can't get Ableton to recognize any MIDI input. Do you have a step by step process to get this to work correctly? I have activated IAC bus on my Mac, but I'm not exactly sure what to do in Ableton to get it to work correctly. I can provide you with screenshots if you want. My email address is zacingraham@gmail.com – I would really love to get this working.
sometimes, udpreceive + udpsend native objects are very enough.
I tested that in some cases, cnmat stuff is requires, in other cases not!
did you try without TUIO interface and directly with an hi object?
You are right about updsend/receive. I'll tweak the next version of the controller to just use those. I don't think (or have not yet found) a HID driver for touchpads which supports multitouch. That's why I decided to use Tongseng. Besides that, Tongseng is free and open source, and doesn't use much system resources.
So is there anyway to use an external trackpad i.e. a drawing tablet?
Not really. It might work with the magic trackpad, but I haven't tested it yet. However there is another solution you might use. Check out Osculator (www.osculator.net). It supports several devices, including some Wacom tablets.


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The Media Cube's VC in Residence
Enterprise Equity Venture Capital (EEVC)
Contact for EEVC
Enterprise Equity Venture Capital (EEVC) is a venture capital firm with funds under management totalling €100m. EEVC has invested in almost 90 companies with over 300 tranches of capital, with many of our CEOs and founders based in or significantly operating from North America and other locations.
As an early-stage Tech investor, EEVC invests in IoT /ICT, big data, enterprise B2B, SaaS, wireless/mobile, FinTech and MedTech enterprises. The EEVC team is led by Conor O'Connor and Tom Shinkwin in Dublin (both based in the Media Cube) and by Frank Walsh in Cork.
EEVC have investment syndication experience with North American and European investors.
For further details about EEVC see www.enterpriseequity.ie
Our Role with the IADT Media Cube
As the in-house VC, Enterprise Equity works closely with Media Cube personnel in co-ordinating the popular networking event VC in Residence Series which involves a series of short lunch-time sessions with a panel of funding experts who seek to address everything a start-up needs to know about raising funding.
In helping to further develop the start-up innovation community and ethos at the Media Cube, EEVC plays an educational role with start-ups, and actively seeks to mentor with some of the participants and Cubists as appropriate. We see our role as helping to guide start-ups and their promoters in their initial and/or subsequent approaches with funders. We facilitate start-ups to become 'investor ready' through ongoing engagement.
EEVC has been on the judging panel of several IADT Student Enterprise Bootcamps, and has guest lectured to the business and entrepreneurship class to encourage more business ownership among the IADT campus students.
The EEVC team
Conor O'Connor - Partner
Conor is a General Partner with Enterprise Equity VC which he joined in 1991.
He is a Chartered Accountant and a member of CFA Society Ireland, CFA Society UK and CFA Institute.
Prior to joining Enterprise Equity VC he worked with PwC Ireland and in corporate finance.
Conor has led, structured and negotiated many of Enterprise Equity's 300 tranches of equity capital in 88 portfolio companies.
Through a number of Funds Enterprise Equity has typically invested €250k to €2m in high growth Irish SME's.
Enterprise Equity has invested in many of Ireland's high growth technology companies including;
StoryToys (acquired by Team17), Keelvar (holding acquired by consortium of US/UK/European growth capital investors; SensL (acquired by OnSemi); Phorest (holding acquired by Susquehanna Growth Equity); Movidius (acquired by Intel); EMBO Medical (acquired by Bard); Duolog (acquired by ARM); FMC Tech (acquired by GE).
Conor has served two terms as Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association as well as representing Ireland on the Board of Invest Europe.
Conor is a keen open water swimmer and occasional tennis player.
Tom Shinkwin - Partner
Tom is a General Partner with Enterprise Equity, Ireland's longest established VC firm, and he is based in Dublin.
His experience covers cloud based and real time intelligence software and chip based technologies deployed in consumer applications and other general software applications.
Tom works closely with the Boards of a number of investee companies in the software and mobile communications areas including Alpha Wireless and Polecat, and previously with the boards of Phorest, Movidius (acquired by Intel), and Converser (acquired by Swrve).
Tom has over twenty five years' experience covering banking, property and early stage technology VC. His expertise includes corporate finance and M&A, as well as working with and investing in new start-ups and established businesses.
He worked for many years in London and Dublin with Morgan Stanley and Ulster Bank Group, as well as in the past with a civil engineering contractor and was co-founder of an active boutique corporate advisory firm.
An honours graduate of both UCD and Trinity College Dublin, he enjoys many things French and is a regular skier and cyclist in the Pyrenees.
Email: tom@enterpriseequity.ieLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomshinkwin/