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Pass the crisps: UK Election watch
Russell Brown, 10:07 May 5, 2010
Britain's election campaign has been short, sharp – and most surprising. David Cameron's amble to victory was tripped up by Nick Clegg, while everyone wants to psychoanalyse Gordon Brown. What will happen in tomorrow's vote? And will happen next?
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Stephen Fry offers a blessed blessay: earnest, overwrought and still quite elegant.
giovanni tiso, 10:14 May 5, 2010
I'm yawning with excitement just thinking about this one!
I predict the thread will get fewer hits than the Obama thing.
(Also: this guide to the candidates from Charlie Brooker is quite excellent.)
Don Christie, 10:16 May 5, 2010
Gordon Brown finally hit some straps.
What is interesting to NZ is how the British public are finally realising how fundamentally undemocratic a system FPP is. And yet, coverage of that aspect in our press is pathetic.
Craig Ranapia, 10:18 May 5, 2010
God love the fragrant old whoopsie, but I did have to have a little giggle at (paraphrasing several thousands words) "some of my best friends are Tories and they're lovely people but they're still voting for a pack of lying bigot cave trolls." Which is rather insulting, petal.
Anyway, no matter who wins the puppy will get it regardless.
Really? That seems to be the only aspect getting any play at all, because actual policies aren't getting much play that I can see. Oh, and Nick Clegg is really cute -- or something.
Emma Hart, 10:25 May 5, 2010
The BBC Friday Night Comedy Podcast is currently running four days a week (severely impacting on my productivity) running the Vote Now Show. This is basically how I get all my information on the British elections.
how the British public are finally realising how fundamentally undemocratic a system FPP is
This is what's really fascinating me: that the sheer three-horse-raceness of it is creating a real awareness of and pressure for electoral reform in Britain. Which would be ace, and is the reason I'm hoping the Lib Dems do really well.
Which is rather insulting, petal.
I'm pretty sure it was meant to be.
Well, yes it would be if Fry wasn't so congenitally nice he felt compelled to wrap him rather mild nastiness in the UK's entire cotton wool supply. :)
They haven't quite caught up on the language front, though.
Even the electoral reform campaign still talks about a "hung Parliament", even as it points out that 10 of the 16 countries with AAA international credit ratings have "hung" Parliaments (ie: no single party has an absolute majority) and 12 have proportional systems. The noose imagery seems less than productive to me.
The noose imagery seems less than productive to me.
Certainly -- especially when nobody really has a clue what the hell is going to happen. Dare I say it, but there's a hell of a lot of time, money and hot air expended on polls that are fundamentally irrelevant. To make even a wild guess about where a lot of marginals will fall, and how they might affect the final composition of the next Parliament, requires a lot more nerd-fu than I've got time or energy to pull out.
Though if you're interested there's an unlikely but no impossible scenario where Labour can come third in the popular vote but still score a plurality of seats.
jon_knox, 11:01 May 5, 2010
Some of the billboards have been beyond my belief, such as National Service for 16 year olds and "I like their plans to help families". I can't recall seeing anyone other than the Tories advertising, other than the odd spoof in Central Londonistan.
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Oh. Is that what "hung" means? Man, I had this thing all wrong.
I can't recall seeing anyone other than the Tories advertising, other than the odd spoof in Central Londonistan.
That's partly down to one of the quirks of the British system -- TV and radio advertising are banned during the campaign.
Them's a nice "quirks".
No doubt it's because they hate freedom of speech in the UK.
What do you mean? They still ought to be able to compete on equal footing on the billboard advertising. What I read somewhere (Private Eye, I think) was that the Tories were able to spend close to the cap (14 million pounds?) and Labour nowhere near that due to its dire financial straits.
BenWilson, 11:42 May 5, 2010
Can't be. That would be a "hanged parliament".
That's what I thought, but I don't dare point this kind of thing out.
Not even in jest?
No. I never joke about grammar.
Their election seems quite strange. First time the debate has been televised (which would raise the question of why they had the debate before that, did it get broadcast on radio and did anyone listen?). No advertising.
And yet on the daily show a week or so ago, they showed the hi-tech talking heads analysis playing with interactive shit on TV. Actually looked cool and vaguely intelligent, as compared to some of what the US channels do where it's playing with toys but making no sense.
I think you'll find that there's just the ordinary 'hung parliament', which is what we get after an election while the minor parties sort out who they're going with. Perfectly normal.
What appears likely in the UK is a 'well hung parliament'. Which is where after the elections everyone goes "holy fuck, what do we do now, we don't have a government!" and then a week later it all gets sorted out something like mature adults and the media go on about it for years while everyone pats themselves on the back.
John Fouhy, 12:46 May 5, 2010
Terry Pratchett does:
Salzella shrugged. 'We've got to do this properly. Did you know Dr Undershaft was strangled before he was hung?'
'Hanged,' said Bucket, without thinking. 'Men are hanged. It's dead meat that's hung.'
'Indeed?' said Salzella. 'I appreciate the information. Well, poor old Undershaft was strangled, apparently. And then he was hung.'
Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 87 posts Report Reply
recordari, 12:57 May 5, 2010
Apropos of nothing, while hanging pictures in a rather notable politicians house, on completion of the task they commented, 'well hung young man!'
Yes. Thank you.
81stcolumn, 13:13 May 5, 2010
A whole generation of Britons acquired an allergy to "hung parliaments" and Liberal politics on the strength of the infamous 1974 first general election. Despite the fact that the parliament appeared doomed and any coalition at best unlikely; Ted Heath, the Prime minister of the day tried to form a coalition, he failed. Whether he should have tried and why he failed is a matter of some debate, but certainly in our house, the liberals got the blame, due in no small part I suspect to the efforts of the Tory press. The link to the election also includes a link to Jeremy Thorpe the then Liberal leader, his life and related scandal makes colourful reading. In terms of serious scandal New Zealand may yet have some catching up to do.
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GLOUSTER, Ohio — Headed into the postseason on a high note.
In its regular season finale, the Eastern girls basketball team claimed a 65-31 decision over Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division host Trimble, on Thursday night in Athens County.
Eastern (18-3, 14-2 TVC Hocking) doubled up the Lady Tomcats (7-14, 4-11) in the opening quarter, outscoring the hosts by a 10-5 count.
The Lady Eagles went on a 14-to-10 run in the second quarter, expanding their lead to 24-15 by halftime. The EHS lead was increased to 16 points, at 42-28, by the end of the third quarter.
Eastern finished strong, outscoring THS 23-to-3 over the final eight minutes of play, to cap off the 65-31 victory.
The Lady Eagles were led by sophomore Elizabeth Collins with 22 points, on 11 two-point field goals. Next for EHS was Becca Pullins with 12 points, on a quartet of three pointers.
Jess Parker scored 11 points in the win, Laura Pullins added nine, while Alyson Bailey and Kelsey Casto contributed seven and four points respectively.
Sydney Hardy led the hosts with eight points, followed by Emily Ward with six and Skylar Moore with five. Kaitlyn Spears and Kym Williams both marked four points for Trimble, Breanna Brammer chipped in with three points, while Calen Campbell scored one point.
From the free throw line, Eastern was 6-of-15 (40 percent) and Trimble was 10-of-14 (71.4 percent).
The Green, White and Gold also defeated Trimble on January 9, by a 60-34 final, in Tuppers Plains.
Eastern returns to action in the sectional final, on February 18, at Meigs High School. The second-seeded Lady Eagles will face the winner of 10th-seeded South Gallia and seventh-seeded Miller.
After wrapping up their regular season with Southern, on Saturday, the eighth-seeded Lady Tomcats will face ninth-seeded Ironton St. Joseph on Monday, at MHS.


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Through the policy, the minister has directed the country's regulators Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and the Competition Commission to develop rules for a secondary market for the spectrum that will ensure that the resultant transactions do not negatively impact competition.
"The Regulator must put in place a regulatory framework which clarifies spectrum trading rules between licensees and promote approaches that prohibit monopolization of spectrum, dominance, and anti-competitive behaviours in the market," the policy document states.
The policy document also has provisions against spectrum hoarding and misuse, stating that licensed spectrum that is unused for a period of more than 24 months will be subjected to the use it or lose it principle.
In a bid to free up spectrum to ensure that South Africa realizes the benefits of rapid technological changes in telecommunications, the policy document also presented a schedule to shut off 2G and 3G networks in the country.
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Reports: Liverpool could make Ruben Neves "the best-paid teenager in world football"
Liverpool's interest in Porto midfielder Ruben Neves is mounting, according to reports, after the club were encouraged to make an approach.
Neves, the 18-year-old Portuguese, could become the "best-paid teenager in world football" if a proposed move to Liverpool is secured.
That is according to the Mirror's European correspondent Ed Malyon, who claims that the Reds have already gauged Neves' interest in a possible move to Merseyside, with this being "welcomed by the player's entourage."
"Neves, 18, has attracted the interest of some of Europe's biggest clubs for his playmaking abilities but Liverpool are the first to make their interest known in a deal that, provisionally, could make Neves the best-paid teenager in world football," Malyon writes.
"The Reds are long-term admirers of the teenager…and stepped up their watching of the youngster in the second half of 2015."
Neves is Porto's youngest-ever captain, Primeira Liga goalscorer and Champions League debutant, underlining his ability and potential.
An intelligent, deep-lying midfielder, Neves would offer new Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp another defensive-midfield option, but unlike current incumbent Lucas Leiva, he would give the Reds a more progressive element in the engine room.
At just 18, Neves' price tag of just under £30 million is decidedly steep, however.
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But if Klopp and the Reds' transfer committee decide that he is likely to develop into a top-level player, this may be a worthy investment.
According to Malyon, Klopp may have already given the green light to pursue this deal.
"While Liverpool's interest pre-dates Jurgen Klopp, the fact that the wheels have been put into motion to secure Neves suggests that the new Anfield boss has given his blessing," he continues.
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Any room at the inn for Homeless Jesus in Dublin?
Tim Schmalz is hoping the capital can find a home for his controversial statue, an ambition that is especially pertinent after the death of a homeless man near the Dáil
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Somebody called the cops on Jesus in Davidson, North Carolina, where one resident reported "him" to the police, mistaking the life-size bronze by Canadian sculptor Tim Schmalz for an actual vagrant. "Jesus is not a helpless person who needs our help. We need someone who is capable of meeting our needs, not someone who is also needy," complained the woman, Cindy Castano Swannack.
Other residents called it an "insulting" depiction that "demeaned" their upscale neighbourhood, where the sculpture was placed outside St Alban's Episcopalian church. But the rector of St Alban's, Rev David Buck, stood by his decision to accept the sculpture: "We believe that Jesus was, in essence, a homeless person." He quoted the Book of Matthew: "As you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me."
Now the religious sculpture that has divided communities in the US and London is looking for a home in Dublin. Homeless Jesus is, in its own way, as shocking as Andre Serrano's Piss Christ and David Mach's flammable head of Jesus made of matchsticks. Homeless Jesus, rejected by cathedrals in New York and Toronto, is quickly becoming as revealing of its resident city's culture as a Banksy piece.
"I visually translate the gospels, and I work at finding the best way to give visual representation of Christian concepts," says Schmalz, speaking from his studio in the countryside outside Toronto.
New-look Jesus
His depiction of Jesus may be challenging for some of those accustomed to traditional religious art in which a glorified chocolate-box Christ is enthroned in finery, bathed in light and painted in gaudy colours. Jesus is often depicted in the West as a Brad Pitt or Christian Bale lookalike.
The cliche of Jesus is Warner Sallman's wavy haired, blue-eyed Head of Christ, which has been reproduced half a billion times since it was created in 1940, and which some credit with having the power to dispel evil. Along with the Catholic Divine Mercy and Sacred Heart images, it is part of a 20th and 21st century visualisation that Schmalz calls "tacky".
It's daring to attempt not just a new image of Jesus but to disseminate it worldwide, but that's what Schmalz is doing, with the help of a mystery Episcopalian benefactor, who is giving 12 Homeless Jesuses to cities around the world, free of charge, including shipping.
Pope Francis was one of the first to give Homeless Jesus a good review. In a gold-leafed Vatican boasting the grandeur of da Vinci and Michelangelo, Pope Francis was so overcome by Homeless Jesus when Schmalz presented him with a scale model during a Mass audience. In the midst of the crowd, the Holy Father stopped, lay a hand on the statue, closed his eyes and prayed. Schmalz was awe- struck. A completed bronze is now set to be placed on the Via della Conciliazione, the grand approach to the Vatican.
"At first glance you think it's a real person on a park bench; at second glance you see it's a sculpture; and, at third glance, you see the holes in the feet and realise it is Christ. These three moments of realisation are part of the aesthetic experience," says Fr Michael Czerny of the Vatican.
The moment when the viewer realises the figure is Christ "reminds us that we look at the homeless but we don't see", he adds.
Public suggest places
"We hope to find the perfect home in Ireland, " says Schmalz, whose bronze of Matt Talbot, patron saint of addicts, is in the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin. Molesworth Street, near Leinster House, where a homeless man was found dead last week, seems apt.
The rule set by Schmalz and his funding patron is that the Irish public suggest places for the sculpture, which readers are invited to do through The Irish Times. The benefactor, with Schmalz, will then choose one of the nominated sites for the sculpture, which costs $22,000. The benefactor will also pay shipping. Nominations can include church grounds of any denomination and public areas.
"I think it's fantastic. I would love to see it in Stephen's Green," says Fr Peter McVerry, who has devoted his life to the homeless. "The difficulty of putting it by a Catholic church here is the lack of concern that the church has for homeless people. So I think it's ironic putting it outside a [Catholic] church. In Stephen's Green, people sleep on benches, so it would appear like someone on a bench. It's also a place where people sit and contemplate."
"I think the statue is absolutely beautiful. It goes beyond religion," says Dermot Dunne, the dean of Christ Church, who recently slept rough to highlight the plight of the homeless. He would welcome Homeless Jesus on the grounds of the cathedral. "We are in the centre of the city, where I'm seeing homelessness all the time, and it's getting worse. Forty families a week are going homeless."
The ecumenical nature of the offer of Homeless Jesus to Dublin is "hugely significant", he adds. "I like to think of it as postdenominational. We are in a postdenominational age and the issue of homelessness is one that can transcend religion and raise this awareness to the next level."
"I would support the sculpture coming to Dublin, and I think it would go down well," says lord mayor Christy Burke, who would like to see it on Custom House Quay near the famine statues, and near where homeless people sleep on the Custom House steps.
The protocol, according to city manager Owen Keegan, is for the statue to be first considered by the City Council's Art and Culture Advisory Group, who make recommendations to the Arts Strategic Policy Committee, with the ultimate decision resting with the full City Council.
Schmalz is well-used to the controversy that accompanies the offer of a Homeless Jesus to a city. The sculpture was rejected by St Martin-in-the-Fields on the grounds that people were not allowed to sleep on benches outside or within the church, and thus would open St Martin-in-the-Fields to ridicule.
"It's like they were saying, 'Homeless people aren't allowed to sleep on benches, so why should Jesus?'" says Schmalz.
He quotes Oscar Wilde, who once said that the people of London didn't see the fog until the painters started painting it.
Schmalz had no religious upbringing, but in his teens he began to feel a calling gradually grow, and in his 20s considered the Catholic priesthood. He is now a devout Catholic, and is married and has two young children.
"I have asked myself concerning the Jesus sculpture going viral: why now? Maybe it's that we've never had more space between the rich and poor."
In London, after being considered and rejected by the oldest parish in London, St Andrew, Holborn; and by St Bartholomew's and St Paul's, where "red tape" prevented acceptance; Homeless Jesus was finally given a home by Westminster Central Hall, headquarters of the English Methodist Church, which faces Westminster Abbey.
"One problem people had was that the sculpture makes them uncomfortable because it crystallises the problem. The sculpture supposedly 'objectifies' the homeless, but it's objectifying them as sacred human beings by using Jesus himself, who said, 'When you see the hungry, the homeless, you are seeing me'."
Apart from raising the question of whether it may be as Christ-like for churches to offer places to sleep as places to pray, the rejections signal the political correctness that can wrap Homeless Jesus in red tape rather than giving him a place to lay his head.
At 18, Schmalz won a national competition for a scholarship to Ontario College of Art and Design, but left after three months because he couldn't stand the "nihilistic" approach to art he found there. Schmalz is largely self-taught as a result, and he tries to communicate to Christians and non-Christians alike, blurring the lines between sacred and secular. It pleases him to hear comments such as, "I'm not religious but I like this".
He was inspired to create Homeless Jesus after having a spiritual epiphany in the middle of the busiest street in the busiest city in Canada. He saw a homeless person wrapped up and lying down, and, as if seeing this for the first time, he reacted viscerally. "It was shocking, I was shaking. I thought that I saw Jesus, and that carried with me. I'm a sculptor, so I have to express this experience through art so other people can come to that same heightened awareness."
A 100ft-tall St Patrick
In Ireland, his sculptures of Celtic saints are at Knock Shrine in Co Mayo, and Co Kildare is home to his St Brigid of Kildare. He had rather audaciously hoped to create a 100ft-tall St Patrick on Croagh Patrick as a gift from the American people to Ireland, but the sculpture was rejected by locals. It would have been the tallest St Patrick in the world, and just 24ft shy of Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer.
After going viral due to controversy surrounding it, Homeless Jesus has quickly become the sculpture for which Schmalz is best known, and installations are planned for Washington DC at the behest of Cardinal Donald Wuerl; in a Lutheran church in Phoenix, Arizona; and in Montgomery, Alabama, where it will be placed to honour Martin Luther King. Dublin would be in good company were it to accept the sculpture, and Schmalz believes that its religious nature should not put people off.
"The appeal of Homeless Jesus is closing the gap even more between Catholics and other Christians," says Schmalz. "It is also a way to bring the message to people who would not ordinarily walk into a church. It's a message for the homeless as well: that they are sacred."
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With an emphasis on big-ticket items such as tax cuts and infrastructure in a bid to win the upcoming election, the federal budget was sadly lacking in measures to support startups with very little in the way of direct assistance for the Australian innovation industry.
While there were some positives — most notably in the increased support for women in STEM and an increase in funding for export market development grants (EMDGs) — it is difficult to see that this budget will have any lasting positive impact on the startup community.
Interesting — given the recent heated debate — was Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's silence on the Research & Development Tax Incentive prompted by his predecessors or any plans for the measure on budget night.
However, any lack of commentary on the measure doesn't mean the future of the incentive is certain. Past governments have seen R&D tax incentive cuts as an easy way to boost their fiscal coffers and it is important to note before the budget, the government had planned to tie the R&D tax credit to company tax rate. Given the announcement on Tuesday night that the company tax rate for SMEs with an annual turnover of less than $50 million would be reduced to 25% by 2021-22, any resurrection of these plans to tie the incentive to the company tax rate would be bad news for Australian startups.
This ongoing uncertainty surrounding the R&D tax incentive is unwelcome. It remains the most important non-dilutive funding from the federal goverment for start-ups. As an example, in Uniseed-backed companies, it has accounted for more than any other government scheme with $44.8 million of non-dilutive funding received. Unlike grants, the R&D tax incentive provides an important form of cashflow certainty — companies can rely on incentives and plan for them — unlike grants, which they can apply for but might not receive.
One can only hope the outlined increase in expenditure on the incentive in Treasury Budget Paper 1.16 — from the "estimated actual" for 2018-19 of $1,967 million to a forecast $2,410 million in 2022-23 — will not result in pressure on any government going forward to make reductions to these levels.
The $60 million boost for EMDGs was a particularly positive standout given the scheme has remained frozen at $131 million since 2013-14 — despite a 70% increase in applications. EMDGs are an important source of funding for growing Australian companies as many of them rely on this to assist their exporting and business development overseas. According to the Export Consultants Association, companies such as Atlassian, Cochlear and Blackmores used EMDGs in their early days to generate brand awareness overseas, and the grant generates $40 in export income for every dollar spent.
But while commercialisation was noted as a priority, the devil will be in the detail — it will be interesting to see how these measures will actually directly support commercialisation and address the ongoing problem of commercialisation of fantastic research and science done right here in Australia instead of overseas.
Equally, there were some health-related measures that could have some positive flow-on effects to the biotech industry — namely, the $80 billion for the Children's Cancer Centre in Sydney, along with a 'heart kids project' and funding for mental health and youth suicide.
In addition, the $354 million to be spent on clinical trials for rare cancers, rare diseases and unmet needs, $23 million for tackling anti-microbial resistance and drug-resistant tuberculosis and $444.6 million to researchers "to make breakthrough discoveries, develop their skills and progress their careers" are also welcome measures for emerging Australian life sciences companies.
However, overall, this budget doesn't score well in terms of having any cohesive long-term support measures for the Australian startup community. Measures announced were piecemeal at best, and once again, the future of the R&D tax incentive remains uncertain. At the very least, we can say that a lack of cuts to support fiscal measures — as other governments have pursued in the past — is welcome.
NOW READ: R&D debacle: Will Aussie startups be dissuaded from taking advantage of tax incentive?
Peter is chief executive officer at Uniseed, venture fund operating at the Universities of Melbourne, Queensland and New South Wales.


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What would it be like to control musical expression using nothing but the position of your guitar in 3D space? Well, let's protoype something and find out!
I wanted to be able to control 3 effect parameter in real time, I wanted to do this using how I positioned my guitar. So one thing was clear, I was going to need a few things.
This was going to be key to this project, i would be able to take the carteasan (X-Y-Z) coodinates of objects in 3D space, and map those to servo positions changing how a guitar effect sounds, in real time, without touching the pedal.
First things first, you will need a computer to drive the Walabot, for this project i'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 (here in refered to at RPi) due to the built in WiFi and general extra oomph.
This may take a while to complete, so go and have a nice cup of tea.
https://walabot.com/getting-started and download the Raspberry Pi Installer Package.
3. we need to start configuring the RPi to use the i2c bus.
Why Python? well, as it's super easy to code, fast to get running and there's loads of good python examples available! i'd never used it before and was soon up and running in no time.
Now the RPi is configured for what we want, the next step is to configure Python to have access to the Walabot API, LCD Servo interfaces.
Why do we need to used a servo driver? Well, for an RPi a couple of reasons.
2. Timings of the PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) that control the servos position are very important. As the RPi doesn't use a realtime OS (there may be interrupts and such) the timings a not accurate and can make the servos twitch nervously. A dedicated driver allows accurate control, but also allows for up to 16 servos to be added, so this is great for expansion.
Using the graphical explorer, copy the python folder out of the zip file into you new sunfounder folder.
One problem. Blynk is not currently supported on the Python platform, bugger. But fear not! i was able to find a nice little work around that allows remote control and remote parameter input! it is a littl hacky, but hey, this is hackster right?!
First step is to download the Blynk app from your favourite app store.
Second, sign up for an account. Once that is done, open the app and start a new project, choosing Raspberry Pi 3 as the hardware. The app will allocate you an access token (you will need this to put in your code). Once you have done that. you will need to set up the app as shown in the images. This is how it will interface with the Walabot.
The Blynk Service should now be running.
And finally, we need to add this script to the /etc/rc.local file that we tinkered with earlier.
Well this has been a steep learning curve, but has been so worth it.
Interfaced the Python on the Raspberry Pi with the Blynk IoT service. This is not officially supported so there is some limits to it's functions. Still works great though!
Have a go yourself. This isn't limited to guitar effects, i can be used with any instrument with any effect.
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Austin, TX – May 1, 2017 – Synapse, the creators of the Learning Experience Design System (LXDS), announced that they will be speaking at the ASU + GSV Education Technology Summit on May 8-10 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Learner retention is perhaps the most important metric to measure the success of L&D initiatives. However, as we've covered in this blog before, the vast majority -- often as high as 90 percent -- of new skills are lost within a year if not reinforced by practical follow-ups or assessments.
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The pressure to produce smaller batch quantities of printed packaging has never been so great due to the ever increasing financial burden of redundant stock.
This costly exposure is driven through continuous regulatory changes, unpredictable forecasts and the need to refresh packaging designs in order to entice the customer. In reverse the pressure has never been greater to reduce spend on packaging, improve cash flow whilst maintaining margins and compete with overseas low cost producers.
These overwhelming forces have created the need for the new and exciting short run printed folding carton supplier Reelvision Print.
The life blood of our business is the team who share a common vision that success is achieved through a continuous commitment to the highest quality standards supported by service levels that exceed client's expectations.
The business is built round a core group of industry specialists from the fields of quality, sales, production and finance. These individuals have combined to create a market leading company focused on meeting the needs of its customers and advancing the technology of the in-line one-pass production process.
Our clients span a broad number of industries but they share a common requirement.
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Reelvision's company ethos is geared around quality assurance which stems from the unique one pass production process through to the individual members of staff.
Manufacturing from a self contained factory unit the Reelvision company policy is to offer a quick reliable secure service compliant to ISO9001:2015 and PS9000:2016 pharmaceutical good manufacturing practice.
Reelvision believe in a no compromise attitude to quality and subsequently BSI were contracted to audit the Quality System to ensure all procedures were independently challenged.
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Darren delivered our final draft of the plans today, working in the cut for the slab and the resultant levels around the house it looks to sit very nicely into the spot we selected as the housing site.
It's big though, overall the development pocket is 13.2 metres deep and 47.5 metres wide with 3 levels across the width to allow for the fall away in the block. The house itself is 30×9.6 metres. In that space we have 5 bedrooms, craft/hobby room, pantry/store room, laundry, 3 way bathroom and an ensuite with a very generous walk in robe.
Each bedroom is a minimum of 4.2×3.6 metres, allowing for the kids to have their own pesonal space as we only have 1 large open plan communal family area. This area is 10.5×9 metres and includes the kitchen, dining and lounge area as one space.
Adjacent to this is a 9×9 metre verandah/outdoor room. We are tossing up whether to deck or pave this area, paving being a better option for a bushfire zone, decking is the nicer option for living with. This outdoor room spans across to the shed, with a 6.6×6 metre car parking space and a 6.6×3.6 metre workshop area for me.
Total roof area is 576 metres give or take a few pieces. With last years drought record low rainfall this will still allow us to catch some 200 000 litres of rain per year, more than enough for household, animal and garden usage.
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N. Y., January 18, 2019– New York Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announces an extension to the application cutoff date for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) NY Tribal Initiative. The new application cutoff date will be January 31, 2019.
The conservation practices and conservation activity plans (CAPs) available under the set-aside will include all practices and plans offered in all of NY NRCS EQIP funding codes with an emphasis on soil health, wildlife habitat enhancement and forest management.
Funds will only be available to qualifying tribal government applicants or tribal members managing lands, within the territories of the eight federally recognized American Indian tribes and nations, in New York.
These include: the Seneca Nation of Indians, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, the Tuscarora Indian Nation, the Cayuga Nation of New York, the Onondaga Nation, the Oneida Indian Nation, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, and the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
Individuals of American Indian ancestry, managing lands off tribal territories, may apply for the General EQIP. Non-American Indian operators of tribal lands may be eligible as participants in Tribal set-aside EQIP contracts, provided tribal governments or members are also participants in the contract.
Tribal set-aside applications will be due by January 31, 2019. Tribal government representatives and individual tribal members interesting in program applications or more details should contact their local USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service office.
Applications accepted after January 31, 2019 will be considered in the next signup. All applications are competitive and are ranked based on national, state and locally identified resource priorities and the overall benefit to the environment.


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Q: Chat app vs REST app - use a thread in an Activity or a thread in a Service? In Virgil Dobjanschi's talk, "Developing Android REST client applications" (link here), he said a few things that took me by surprise. Including:

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*Don't run http queries in threads spawned by your activities.  Instead, communicate with a service to do them, and store the information in a ContentProvider.  Use a ContentObserver to be notified of changes.

*Always perform long running tasks in a Service, never in your Activity.

*Stop your Service when you're done with it.
I understand that he was talking about a REST API, but I'm trying to make it fit with some other ideas I've had for apps.   One of APIs I've been using uses long-polling for their chat interface.  There is a loop http queries, most of which will time out.
This means that, as long as the app hasn't been killed by the OS, or the user hasn't specifically turned off the chat feature, I'll never be done with the Service, and it will stay open forever.  This seems less than optimal.
Long question short:
For a chat application that uses long polling to simulate push and immediate response, is it still best practice to use a Service to perform the HTTP queries, and store the information in a ContentProvider?

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Don't run http queries in threads
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I have yet to view the presentation, though I have reviewed the slides. I have serious reservations about the ContentProvider portion of the proposed architecture.

Always perform long running tasks in a
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Everybody has their pet "always" and "never" statements, myself included. I would hesitate to put this in the "always" category. Using a Service as a home base of long-running tasks is a fine strategy, but it too has its issues (e.g., in a screen rotation, unbindService() will destroy the Service before the next bindService() kicks in, if there are no other bound connections, leaving you with gobs and gobs of connection bookkeeping if you have a complex app).

For a chat application that uses long
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It is a practice. IMHO, the jury is still very much out as to whether it is a best practice.


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Get data responsibility out of IT? Bad idea.
November 13, 2012 By brenda michelson
Recently, I dusted off my soapbox to respond to Thomas C. Redman's post Get Responsibility for Data Out of IT:
"As companies devote increasing time and energy in gathering massive quantities of data, many neglect a critical first step: Get most responsibility for data out of the IT Department."
…"Since this step flies in the face of most current practice and may seem counterintuitive, I want to explain carefully. First, it seems obvious enough that one ought to put management of data (or anything else for that matter) as close to the action as possible."
…"In a somewhat different vein, management responsibility should lie with the parties that have the most to gain or lose. Business departments gain mightily when they create new value from data. In contrast, IT reaps little reward when data is used to improve a product, service, or decision."
I disagree with Redman on two points. Read about them at HPIO: Getting data responsibility out of IT is dangerous – Input Output.
Filed Under: active information Tagged With: archive_0
Link Collection — November 11, 2012
Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets
"Dremel is a scalable, interactive ad-hoc query system for analysis of read-only nested data. By combining multi-level execution trees and columnar data layout, it is capable of running aggregation queries over trillion-row tables in seconds. The system scales to thousands of CPUs and petabytes of data, and has thousands of users at Google. In this paper, we describe the architecture and implementation of Dremel, and explain how it complements MapReduce-based computing."
tags: dremel google hadoop realtime impala
Cloudera Impala: Real-Time Queries in Apache Hadoop, For Real | Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise | Cloudera
"After a long period of intense engineering effort and user feedback, we are very pleased, and proud, to announce the Cloudera Impala project. This technology is a revolutionary one for Hadoop users, and we do not take that claim lightly.
When Google published its Dremel paper in 2010, we were as inspired as the rest of the community by the technical vision to bring real-time, ad hoc query capability to Apache Hadoop, complementing traditional MapReduce batch processing. Today, we are announcing a fully functional, open-sourced codebase that delivers on that vision – and, we believe, a bit more – which we call Cloudera Impala."
tags: hadoop Cloudera impala
Obama Wins: How Chicago's Data-Driven Campaign Triumphed | TIME.com
"On Nov. 4, a group of senior campaign advisers agreed to describe their cutting-edge efforts with TIME on the condition that they not be named and that the information not be published until after the winner was declared. What they revealed as they pulled back the curtain was a massive data effort that helped Obama raise $1 billion, remade the process of targeting TV ads and created detailed models of swing-state voters that could be used to increase the effectiveness of everything from phone calls and door knocks to direct mailings and social media."
tags: obama datamining bigdata campaigns
Accelerating Insights in the New World of Data – The Official Microsoft Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
In-memory DB tech from Microsoft — Hekaton:
"In-memory computing is a core element of Microsoft's strategy to deliver a data platform that enables customers to analyze all types of data while also accelerating time to insight. Our approach to in-memory computing is to provide a complete portfolio for all application patterns, built into our existing products that enable rapid insights on any data, structured or unstructured. We've been delivering advanced in-memory technologies as part of SQL Server since 2010. Since then, we have shipped more than 1.5 million units to customers, making it the most pervasive data platform of its kind with in-memory technologies built in.
Furthering Microsoft's commitment to deliver in-memory solutions as part of our data platform, today we are introducing Project codenamed "Hekaton," available in the next major release of SQL Server. Currently in private technology preview with a small set of customers, "Hekaton" will complete Microsoft's portfolio of in-memory capabilities across analytics and transactional scenarios. It will provide breakthrough performance gains of up to 50 times, and because it will be built into SQL Server, customers won't need to buy specialized hardware or software and will be able to easily migrate existing applications to benefit from the dramatic gains in performance."
tags: microsoft in-memory dbms
Answer three 'why' questions: Abstract thinking can make you more politically moderate
"The researchers used techniques known to induce an abstract mindset in people, Preston said. Previous studies had shown that asking people to think broadly about a subject (with "why" rather than "how" questions, for example) makes it easier for them to look at an issue from different perspectives.
" 'Why' questions make people think more in terms of the big picture, more in terms of intentions and goals, whereas more concrete 'how' questions are focused on something very specific, something right in front of you, basically," Preston said.
Previous research showed that abstract thinking enhances creativity and open-mindedness, but this is the first study to test its power to moderate political beliefs, Preston said."
tags: thinking
Nate Silver-Led Statistics Men Crush Pundits in Election – Bloomberg
"Silver, the computer expert who gave Obama a 90 percent chance of winning re-election, predicted on his blog, FiveThirtyEight (for the number of seats in the Electoral College), that the president would receive 51 percent of the popular vote as he called each of the 50 states, including all nine battlegrounds."
tags: natesilver statistics prediction elections
The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President : All Tech Considered : NPR
"Some milestone moments in journalism converged 60 years ago on election night in the run between Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and Democratic Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson. It was the first coast-to-coast television broadcast of a presidential election. Walter Cronkite anchored his first election night broadcast for CBS.
And it was the first time computers were brought in to help predict the outcome. That event in 1952 helped usher in the computer age, but it wasn't exactly love at first sight…"
tags: elections prediction technology
Data is the new coal — abundant, dirty and diffic


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Q: Has anyone implemented __getzone() for IAR Embedded Workbench for MSP430? I am having to deal with some time conversions in my application. I would like to stick to using standard library functions as much as possible. Right now I am using a time_t structure as my system time base. However, some devices can sync time to my device, and that time may or may not be UTC. Also, my device will sync time to another device and that time WILL always be UTC.
Anyway, I can ask the user what the time zone is of the time that is being synced to my device and whether or not they use DST. When my device gets a time sync I can use mktime to directly generate my time stamp (my device system time needs to match the time they are syncing for time stamping purposes, otherwise I have to constantly do conversions), and then from that I can use gmtime() to get the UTC time if I know my time sync came from a non-UTC source. The trouble is by default localtime() and gmtime() are going to return the same value because the library is going to by default think it is in straight UTC time and there are not DST or timezone offsets.
So, I think the way to deal with this is to implement and overwrite the library __getzone function.
From page 106 of EW430_CompilerReference.pdf

To make the __time32, __time64, and date functions work, you must implement the
  functions clock, __time32, __time64, and __getzone. Whether you use __time32
  or __time64 depends on which interface you use for time_t, see time.h, page 304.
...
The default implementation of __getzone specifies UTC (Coordinated Universal
  Time) as the time zone.

Q1: Am I on the right track in my reasoning, that the best way to do what I want is to implement this __getzone function?
The reason I am balking is because the value returned by __getzone is an oddball string w/ formatting like this:

:[XXX[:YYY[:NNN[:DST[:DST ...]]]]]

Where XXX is the standard timezone name (e.g. GMT-5 for EST), YYY is the daylight savings timezone name (e.g. GMT-4 for EST), NNN is a numeric offset from UTC in the form HHMM (and could have a - symbol)., and then DST specifies a string of options for daylight savings time rules that has its own irritating formatting.
Anyway, this should be pretty straight forward for me right now because I am only worried about Canada and the US who have the same DST rules.
Q2: Does anyone have any sample code for forming that string so I can check my understanding of this?

A: Here is my implementation of __getzone(). So now my system time base will be UTC. When the user configures my system I ask them what their local time if the time source is NOT providing UTC. Then when they supply a time sync to my system, the time they supply will get converted to UTC by a call to MKTIME (which will take into account DST rules). Then when the time is rendered back to the user it will be done through a call to localtime().
Another thing we learned in the process of implementing this is that IAR's implementation of MKTIME() will call __getzone(), but the DST rules will not be considered unless you set tm_isdst to '-1'. -1 makes the call to MKTIME() figure out whether to apply DST based on the rule.
/*!
* \brief Overrides default library function __getzone to support different time
* zones and DST rules.
* \returns Pointer to a const string containing the timezone + dst rules
*
* This function supports all time zones and DST rules for the U.S. and Canada.
*
* \par IAR Notes
* The return value should be a string on the following form:
* \code
* :[XXX[:YYY[:NNN[:DST[:DST ...]]]]]
* \endcode
* \par
* Where \b XXX is the standard time-zone name, \b YYY is the daylight
* savings time-zone name, \b NNN is the time zone offset, and the DSTs
* are the daylight savings time rules. Daylight savings time will add
* one hour to the normal time.
* \par
* The time zone offset \b NNN is specified as a number relative to UTC,
* possibly negative (east is positive), on the format HHMM, where HH
* is hours and MM is minutes.
* \par
* The DSTs specifes a set of rules for how daylight savings time is
* applied. The rules must be sorted in increasing date order starting
* from the earliest date. The first rule for a specific year will
* enable DST, the next will disable it, and so on. Each rule is on
* the following form:
* \code
*   [(YYYY)]MMDD[HH][-W|+W]
* \endcode
*
* * \b (YYYY) is the first year the daylight savings rule was applied.
*      It is optional. If not specified it will default to the same
*      year as the previous rule or zero if no previous rule.
* * \b MM is the month number (1-12).
* * \b DD is the day of the month (1-31).
* * \b HH is the hour number in a 24-hour day (optional, defaults to 0).
* * \b +/-W specifies the day of the week the rule takes effect (where
*      Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, etc). +W means that the rule applies
*      to the first such day on or after the specified date and -W
*      strictly before the date. If this is not specified, the rule
*      will take effect on the exact date, regardless of the day of
*      the week.
*
* \par Example
* U.S. Eastern Standard time is UTC -5. Eastern Daylight time is UTC -4.
* Daylight time goes into affect on the second sunday of March at 2:00AM local
* time. Daylight time ends on the first sunday of November at 2:00AM local
* time. The law that defines this went into affect in 2007.
* Therefore here is how the DST string is constructed:
* | \| | STD Time | \| | DST Time | \| | UTC Offset | \| | DST Rule Year | Month DST Starts | Day DST Starts | Hour DST Starts | Day of Week | \| | Month DST Ends | Day DST Ends | Hour DST Ends | Day of Week |
* |----|----------|----|----------|----|------------|----|---------------|------------------|----------------|-----------------|-------------|----|----------------|--------------|---------------|-------------|
* | :  |  XXX     | :  | YYY      | :  | NNN        | :  | (YYYY)        | MM               | DD*            | HH              | +/-W**      | :  | MM             | DD           | HH            | +/-W        |
* | :  |  GMT-5   | :  | GMT-4    | :  | -0500      | :  | (2007)        | 03               | 08             | 02              | +0          | :  | 11             | 01           | 02            | +0          |
* - * An 8 for the day means that DST will start around the 8th day of the
*   month. Or that the +/-W parameter is relative to the 8th day of the month.
* - ** A + here means that the DST rule will start \b on or \b after the
*   previously specified day (the 8th). 0 means that it should happen on a
*   sunday. Therefore if the 8th is a sunday (and the 8th cannot be the first
*   sunday of the month) then the rule will take affect on that day - or it
*   will happen on the very next sunday.
* \par
* Result:
* \code
* :GMT-5:GMT-4:-0500:(2007)030802+0:110102+0
* \endcode
*
* \sa
* - time_zones - Supported time zones
*/
const char8_t * __getzone(void)
{
    const char8_t *current_zone = NULL;
    static const char8_t dst_time_zones[][50] =
    {
        // UTC time
        ":GMT+0:GMT+0:0000:0",
        // Newfoundland Standard Time UTC – 3:30
        ":GMT-3:GMT-2:-0330:(2007)030802+0:110102+0",
        // Atlantic Standard Time, UTC – 4
        ":GMT-4:GMT-3:-0400:(2007)030802+0:110102+0",
        // Eastern Standard Time, UTC – 5
        ":GMT-5:GMT-4:-0500:(2007)030802+0:110102+0",
        // Central Standard Time, UTC – 6
        ":GMT-6:GMT-5:-0600:(2007)030802+0:110102+0",
        // Mountain Standard Time, UTC – 7
        ":GMT-7:GMT-6:-0700:(2007)030802+0:110102+0",
        // Pacific Standard Time, UTC – 8
        ":GMT-8:GMT-7:-0800:(2007)030802+0:110102+0",
        // Alaska Standard Time, UTC – 9
        ":GMT-9:GMT-8:-0900:(2007)030802+0:110102+0",
        // Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, UTC – 10
        ":GMT-10:GMT-9:-1000:(2007)030802+0:110102+0"
    };

    static const char8_t std_time_zones[][20] =
    {
        // UTC time
        ":GMT+0:GMT+0:0000",
        // Newfoundland Standard Time UTC – 3:30
        ":GMT-3:GMT-2:-0330",
        // Atlantic Standard Time, UTC – 4
        ":GMT-4:GMT-3:-0400",
        // Eastern Standard Time, UTC – 5
        ":GMT-5:GMT-4:-0500",
        // Central Standard Time, UTC – 6
        ":GMT-6:GMT-5:-0600",
        // Mountain Standard Time, UTC – 7
        ":GMT-7:GMT-6:-0700",
        // Pacific Standard Time, UTC – 8
        ":GMT-8:GMT-7:-0800",
        // Alaska Standard Time, UTC – 9
        ":GMT-9:GMT-8:-0900",
        // Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, UTC – 10
        ":GMT-10:GMT-9:-1000"
    };

    switch(get_config()->time_zone)
    {
        case NST:
        {
            if(get_config()->b_dst)
            {
                current_zone = dst_time_zones[NST];
            }
            else
            {
                current_zone = std_time_zones[NST];
            }
        }
        break;

        case AST:
        {
            if(get_config()->b_dst)
            {
                current_zone = dst_time_zones[AST];
            }
            else
            {
                current_zone = std_time_zones[AST];
            }
        }
        break;

        case EST:
        {
            if(get_config()->b_dst)
            {
                current_zone = dst_time_zones[EST];
            }
            else
            {
                current_zone = std_time_zones[EST];
            }
        }
        break;

        case CST:
        {
            if(get_config()->b_dst)
            {
                current_zone = dst_time_zones[CST];
            }
            else
            {
                current_zone = std_time_zones[CST];
            }
        }
        break;

        case MST:
        {
            if(get_config()->b_dst)
            {
                current_zone = dst_time_zones[MST];
            }
            else
            {
                current_zone = std_time_zones[MST];
            }
        }
        break;

        case PST:
        {
            if(get_config()->b_dst)
            {
                current_zone = dst_time_zones[PST];
            }
            else
            {
                current_zone = std_time_zones[PST];
            }
        }
        break;

        case AKST:
        {
            if(get_config()->b_dst)
            {
                current_zone = dst_time_zones[AKST];
            }
            else
            {
                current_zone = std_time_zones[AKST];
            }
        }
        break;

        case HAST:
        {
            if(get_config()->b_dst)
            {
                current_zone = dst_time_zones[HAST];
            }
            else
            {
                current_zone = std_time_zones[HAST];
            }
        }
        break;

        case UTC:
        default:
            current_zone = std_time_zones[UTC];
        break;
    }

    return current_zone;
}

A: The Ukraine rule above is not quite right as it will not work with Sundays that fall on the 31st. If you read the rules in the getzone.c -W means the Sunday strictly before this date.

+/-W specifies the day of the week the rule takes effect (where
    Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, etc). +W means that the rule applies
    to the first such day on or after the specified date and -W
    strictly before the date. If this is not specified, the rule
    will take effect on the exact date, regardless of the day of
    the week.

The correct rule would be as follows
char const * __getzone()
{
    return ":GMT+2:GMT+3:0200:(1996)032503+0:102504+0";
  // Ukraine; rule: (last Sun (March | October) )
}

A: char const * __getzone()
{
        return ":GMT+2:GMT+3:0200:(1996)033103-0:103104-0";

    // Ukraine; rule: (last Sun (March | October) )
}

A: For Germany you can use:
char const * __getzone() {
  return ":GMT+1:GMT+2:0100:032502+0:102502+0";
}

Either the Ukraine one is wrong or mine, but i tested mine with an actual device and got the right results. Here my Tests:
//Forward
time_t ts = 1490489997L;//26.03.2017-01:59:57 3 seconds before dst
struct tm* pre = localtime(&ts);

time_t after = ts + 5L;//wait 5 seconds -> 26.03.2017-03:00:02
struct tm* post = localtime(&after);

//Backward
time_t ts = 1509238797L;//29.10.2017-02:59:57 3 seconds before dst
struct tm* pre = localtime(&ts);

time_t after = ts + 5L;//wait 5 seconds -> 29.10.2017-02:00:02
struct tm* post = localtime(&after);

Best regards
Michael


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver his speech from Red Fort on 15th Aug.
The Netaji Subhash Marg,Lothian Road ,SP Mukharjee Marg and Chandni Chowk ,Nishad Raj Marg and Esplanade Road and its Link Road will be closed from 5:00 to 9:00 in the morning.
Movement of goods vehicles between Nizamuddin Bridge and Wazirabad Bridge will be prohibited from Tuesday midnight to 11 am on Wednesday. Parking facilities will not be available at the Delhi Metro Station till 2 pm.
However, the railway station, bus station and hospitals near the venue of Independence Day function roads will remain open.