Newhouse presenting on her book Chaos and Culture at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in Athens, Greece alongside Renzo Piano, Annabelle Selldorf, Adam Weinberg, Yiorgis Yerolymbos, John Peponis, and Andreas Kourkoulas. Courtesy of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
As a writer and critic, Newhouse examines architecture through structural, social, and political lenses. From her first book, Wallace Harrison, Architect, in 1989, to her most recent book published in 2017, Chaos and Culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Newhouse examines a range of historical periods, geographic regions, and architectural styles. Chaos and Culture, for example, zooms in on the complex process of designing and building the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens, Greece by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Surface magazine described Chaos and Culture as "the kind of architecture book the world needs more of." Overlooking the Hudson River, we spoke with Newhouse in her One World Trade Center office about her architectural publishing, writing process, and next title in the works.
Sarah Rafson: The list of books you've written is substantial, with each diving deeply into a distinct subject. Can you describe the process of writing the first, Wallace K. Harrison, Architect?
Victoria Newhouse: It was my first book, and I had no idea what I was doing. It began with the lunch where I met Wallace Harrison. I was trapped in a blizzard at the house of a friend, Hester Diamond, and Wallace Harrison was one of the guests. It was only four of us—Hester and her husband, Wally, and myself—and I was totally drawn to him. He was probably in his eighties then, but he was so articulate and charming and interesting. I remember coming home and telling my husband that I wanted to write his biography. He said, "You better think long and hard before you get into something like that." Oh boy, was he right. It was very, very difficult.
I wrote it before computers became as sophisticated as they are now. I can't tell you how many months it took me to put together the endnotes—they were all on catalogue cards. I remember sitting on the floor trying to line things up. It was a whole other world. Edgar Kaufmann Jr., who had commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build Fallingwater for his family, was tremendously helpful. I'd never written anything before that.
I met with Harrison dozens, if not hundreds of times. At that point he was more or less retired, so he had plenty of time. He really enjoyed the process. It was something to fill his time; the whole book came from him. It was a chance to put all of his work together.
Did you read biographies to prepare?
I probably should have, but I didn't think of it as a biography. That's why I called it Wallace K. Harrison, Architect—because I wanted it to be a discussion of his work rather than a biography. Wally passed away before the book was published. His wife was still around though, and she was very happy with it.
I can't tell you how many people have told me that they were influenced by this book—architects, of course, and people in New York who were fascinated by all the New York projects and personalities in the book. If I had any models for the tone of the writing, it was The New Yorker. I love the writing in The New Yorker.
Books written by Victoria Newhouse at her One World Trade Center office. Courtesy of Victoria Newhouse.
By the time you wrote Wallace K. Harrison, Architect, you had already been on the other side of the process, reviewing manuscripts and publishing books. How did you first break into architecture publishing?
In the sixties, I was an editor with George Braziller, handling projects that had nothing to do with architecture. I had started working for him in Paris, supervising a big project he had there—the drawings of the Louvre in three volumes: French, Northern, and Italian. I ended up translating those books from the French. I was there in 1968 during the riots. George was an idealist, and he was always trying to publish books related to political and economic issues of the time. Working with him then was wonderful, and it was a very exciting time.
When I came back to New York, he threw a book on architecture onto my desk. It had been left by the architecture editor, who had been fired abruptly. She had several projects that were in progress. While on that book, I realized that I really liked working on architecture because at the time there was so much less published on architecture than on art. Art had been covered backward and forward, but architecture was a growing field.
I quickly concluded that if I were going to continue working in architecture, I would have to go back to school, so I stopped working for George and went to Columbia University for my master's in architectural history. Going back to school as a mature student was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
It was an interesting subject; I studied the small buildings that Louis Kahn used to experiment with some basic ideas. I had half a dozen examples of these small designs that he then applied to larger projects.
That could have been a book in itself! You started the Architectural History Foundation in 1977 and still serve as president. What was the impetus for the foundation?
The people I met at Columbia helped shape my vision for the foundation—George Collins and Edgar Kaufmann Jr., among others, really got me started. There were such a wonderful faculty up there.
We responded to the need to publish scholarly books, which had a limited sales potential. What spurred the decision to create that foundation was the fact that Henry Russell Hitchcock, the renowned architectural historian, had been working for years on a book on Netherlandish architecture. He had a contract for it with a Midwestern publisher, but practically the day he was ready to hand it in, the publisher went belly-up. Things were very tough at that time for publishing, especially scholarly publishing. That was the real inspiration for creating the foundation—to have scholars publish serious works on architectural history.
So I became a publisher. I was living in a townhouse on Seventieth Street then, and I had two women helping me—Julianne Griffin and Karen Banks. We produced our own books, usually publishing about two or three books a year.
What was the first book the foundation produced?
It was Sebastiano Serlio's The Five Books of Architecture, a manuscript in the Avery Library. One of our editors was a wonderful Avery Library librarian named Adolf Placzek. He had the idea that this would be our first book, and it was a tremendous success. We received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for it.
Newhouse presenting on her book Chaos and Culture at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in Athens, Greece. Courtesy of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Many of your books have won prestigious awards, not just the first one.
Well, it was a fabulous thing to have done. Of all my accomplishments, creating that foundation was probably the most important. We weren't following any kind of subject in particular. Our concern was people who needed some sort of support, financially, in order to be able to publish. Most often it was a need for money for photography. Since I know a lot of people in the architecture world, interesting things would come across my desk quite frequently. I passed along to the editors things that I thought were particularly noteworthy. We had a great board—Adolf Placzek, Vincent Scully, Spiro Kostof, Christoph Frommel, Hank Millon.
Our most important publication was the four volumes of Le Corbusier's sketchbooks. The Le Corbusier Foundation had been trying for years to publish them, and every publisher they approached wanted to do them as facsimiles, which was prohibitively expensive. I suggested publishing them as part of a larger book, grouping four or five of these sketchbooks in one volume. That made it possible.
How has the foundation changed since it began?
We started the foundation because there was a financial need—even university presses were turning down worthwhile projects because of financial problems. By the time we had been publishing for almost twenty years, the scene had changed. We realized that we were competing with university presses, which wasn't what we wanted to do at all.
But the foundation still exists. We have a different editorial board. We still have a modest income coming in from our backlist, so we can offer small grants, usually about $5,000, for photography.
Shortly after closing the publishing operation, in 1998 you published your second book, Towards a New Museum, which is now in its second edition. What spurred that book?
There was a very specific reason for that book. I was outraged by the new addition to the Guggenheim. In fact, I fought it with Edgar Kaufmann Jr.: we persuaded them to change the design. All of the newspapers called the first design an "old-fashioned toilet" because it looked like a water tank. I still think it's a disgrace the way they stuck this unsightly addition to this architectural masterpiece, but at least it's not quite as offensive.
That is why I wrote my next book. By that time, I had been married for a number of years, and my husband Si and I spent a lot of time in museums and art galleries. I thought what was happening with museum expansions was a big problem. That became the chapter "Wings That Don't Fly." A lot of the predictions I made in that book all those years ago have come true. People no longer go to art museums for the art. They go to meet a friend or a family member, and then maybe they visit the galleries together. Maybe not. Maybe they just go to the cafe or bookstore. I predicted all of that in that book.
Chaos and Culture book cover spread draft. Courtesy of The Monacelli Press.
It was a multiyear book project, just like Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls and your most recent book, Chaos & Culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, which blends those two themes together quite nicely.
Yes, they all took three or four years. Now I am deeply involved in my current project: new parks inaugurated in the last decade or two, built on an existing structure. We want to showcase this phenomenon internationally.
The High Line is of course the obvious example, which I will not be writing about because so much has been written about it already. But there are two linear parks, one in Detroit and one in Chicago, both based on the same idea—an abandoned railroad—which are also interesting. Our preliminary list is quite impressive. Certainly, we want to include China, that's for sure.
What is the impact you hope your new book will have? What is the impact you envision for your writing?
For each one of my books, I have hoped to raise awareness about the subject at hand. I wanted to give Harrison his due as an architect and as a man of exceptional integrity; I wanted Towards a New Museum to call attention to the impact of architecture on the contents of museums. Art and the Power of Placement took this idea one step further—to demonstrate how the way an artwork is placed alters its appearance. Site and Sound explains how architecture and acoustics affect sound; Chaos and Culture reveals the complexity of designing and constructing a cultural venue. My next book—on new public parks—will show how landscape design can help correct environmental problems, such as water control.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, view from east. Courtesy of Bill Barekas.


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Cross Canadian Ragweed & Many, Many Friends Sing 'Boys From Oklahoma' in 2003
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It was only uploaded last month, but this video not having a million views already is a national travesty. This might just be the most important Texas and Red Dirt video ever uploaded to YouTube.
Back in 2003 Cross Canadian Ragweed was the hottest band in the scene and breaking out nationally. During a CD/DVD combo recording at Shadow Canyon in College Station the guys brought out nearly every-damn-body, including Wade Bowen, Stoney LaRue, Bleu Edmondson, Jason Boland, and Randy Rogers to sing "Boys From Oklahoma." It's amazing.
Looking for more context about this video we found a 2004 Q&A with Cody Canada at Lone Star Music Magazine, "Soul Gravy, Ragweed's second outing for Nashville-based major label Universal South, as well as the band's first live DVD. Soul Gravy features a baker's dozen new studio tracks, including a storming cover of Hubbard's "Wanna Rock & Roll" and a new version of one of Ragweed's best songs, "Alabama" (originally featured on the band's independently released Highway 377 CD). The 16-song DVD, recorded before a rabid, packed-to-the-walls crowd at College Station's Shadow Canyon, will be packaged as a free bonus disc with a limited-edition run of Soul Gravy, after which it will be sold separately."
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We are proud to announce the five nominees for the 2018 Bingham Ray New Talent Award. This year's nominees have been shortlisted for their work in the fields of Directing, Acting and Producing.
Bingham Ray, throughout his career at October films, United Artists and Sidney Kimmel, always managed to block off the week to attend the Fleadh annually. From the early Claddagh Palace days, he witnessed our passion for film, drive and independent spirit, and recognising it as his own, became our greatest stalwart. Bingham gave so much of his time to mentoring filmmakers over the years at the Galway Film Fair, listening, advising, believing and encouraging. The Irish film community benefited hugely from Bingham's wealth of knowledge across the complete spectrum of the film industry and the many friendships that he made along the way is a testament to his generosity in sharing his experience.
The inaugural Bingham Ray New Talent Award was given to Gerard Barrett by Bingham's daughters, Annabel and Becca, for Pilgrim Hill, which went on to worldwide success.
Around Here is a rural coming-of-age drama in which Michael Murray faces down school bullies, isolation and a dysfunctional family to find community, love and confidence.
The Devil's Doorway is a found footage horror film set in the autumn of 1960. Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for "fallen women". They uncovered something much more horrific however, as their attention turned to a 16-year-old pregnant girl exhibiting signs of demonic possession.
The Dig is a Northern Irish thriller about a man convicted of murder, who returns home to find the victim's father still searching for the body on his land.
A teen drama about two estranged sisters, home alone for their last summer together before adulthood beckons.
The debut feature drama from the director who took home the Best Documentary award in 2013, Cellar Door is about a woman racing from young love to tortured loss and back again, as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church.
The winner of the 2018 Bingham Ray New Talent Award will be announced at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony of the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh at 6:30pm on Sunday July 15th.


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Home South Asian Collection (SJSU) Page 1
Audio-visual resources catalog, 1977.
Committee of Concerned Indian Students
300 ESHLEMAN HALL
BERKELEY,  CALIFORNIA    94720
AUDIO-VISUAL RESOURCES CATALOG, 1977
Waves of Revolution
1975. Directed and produced by Anand Patwardhan.  30 minutes, b/w, 16 mm
sound film.  RENTAL: $35.  PURCHASE: $200. 1
Waves of Revolution is an "underground" documentary film on the anti-
government Bihar movement in India. The film consists of footage of demonstrations, police charges, interviews and songs sung by students and villagers of Bihar, and speeches of the movement's leader, Jayaprakash Narayan.
It covers one year of the movement -- from March 1974 to March 1975 -- and
documents the rising struggle of the students and villagers of Bihar to
demand a greater share in the control of their destiny. The film further
documents people organizing at the community level to help themselves, and
^attempts to radicalize the social attitudes of workers and peasants toward
'such issues as caste, dowry, and landownership. Finally, it illustrates '
the repression of the ruling class and the movement's response.
India: Democracy or Dictatorship?
1976. Directed by Sharat G. Lin, produced by CCIS and KQED-TV.  30 minutes,
colour, 3/4-inch video cassette tape.2 RENTAL: $10.  PURCHASE: $50.
India: Democracy or Dictatorship? examines India's contemporary socioeconomic problems and the resultant popular unrest of 1974-75 in the post-
Independence historical context. A convincing case is made, with the aid
of colour slides, that the declaration of emergency in June 1975 was an
almost inevitable outgrowth of the increasing contradictions in Indian society.
It was the logical response of one segment of India's ruling elites to the
growing popular unrest as exemplified by the Bihar movement. Scenes have
been taken from the film "Waves of Revolution" to focus on a trend of growing
political awareness of the Indian people — a growing realization that the
people would have to take into their own hands waht governments at both the
state and central levels have failed to accomplish. Finally, an interview
poses some brief questions and comments in regard to the political opposition
in India, growing authoritarianism, and the curtailment of civil liberties.
India: Of Myth and Reality
1976.  Directed and produced by SASA and NIC.  30 minutes, audio cassette.
No rental.  PURCHASE: $6.
India: Of Myth and Reality briefly describes the historical development
of India's social and political institutions from communal society to the
rise of feudalism, through the Moghul and British empires, to the present.
Musical selections provide the background to this short story of the struggle
of the people of India.
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Transcript Committee of Concerned Indian Students 300 ESHLEMAN HALL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720 AUDIO-VISUAL RESOURCES CATALOG, 1977 Waves of Revolution 1975. Directed and produced by Anand Patwardhan. 30 minutes, b/w, 16 mm sound film. RENTAL: $35. PURCHASE: $200. 1 Waves of Revolution is an "underground" documentary film on the anti- government Bihar movement in India. The film consists of footage of demonstrations, police charges, interviews and songs sung by students and villagers of Bihar, and speeches of the movement's leader, Jayaprakash Narayan. It covers one year of the movement -- from March 1974 to March 1975 -- and documents the rising struggle of the students and villagers of Bihar to demand a greater share in the control of their destiny. The film further documents people organizing at the community level to help themselves, and ^attempts to radicalize the social attitudes of workers and peasants toward 'such issues as caste, dowry, and landownership. Finally, it illustrates ' the repression of the ruling class and the movement's response. India: Democracy or Dictatorship? 1976. Directed by Sharat G. Lin, produced by CCIS and KQED-TV. 30 minutes, colour, 3/4-inch video cassette tape.2 RENTAL: $10. PURCHASE: $50. India: Democracy or Dictatorship? examines India's contemporary socioeconomic problems and the resultant popular unrest of 1974-75 in the post- Independence historical context. A convincing case is made, with the aid of colour slides, that the declaration of emergency in June 1975 was an almost inevitable outgrowth of the increasing contradictions in Indian society. It was the logical response of one segment of India's ruling elites to the growing popular unrest as exemplified by the Bihar movement. Scenes have been taken from the film "Waves of Revolution" to focus on a trend of growing political awareness of the Indian people — a growing realization that the people would have to take into their own hands waht governments at both the state and central levels have failed to accomplish. Finally, an interview poses some brief questions and comments in regard to the political opposition in India, growing authoritarianism, and the curtailment of civil liberties. India: Of Myth and Reality 1976. Directed and produced by SASA and NIC. 30 minutes, audio cassette. No rental. PURCHASE: $6. India: Of Myth and Reality briefly describes the historical development of India's social and political institutions from communal society to the rise of feudalism, through the Moghul and British empires, to the present. Musical selections provide the background to this short story of the struggle of the people of India.
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Home / News / Appeals court upholds ban on felons possessing guns (UPDATE)
Appeals court upholds ban on felons possessing guns (UPDATE)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's ban on felons possessing firearms is constitutional and extends to all felons, including nonviolent ones, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday in a case involving a man convicted of forging checks.
Keeping guns out of felons' hands is a key part of the government's duty to protect people, the 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled, adding that no state law banning felons from possessing firearms has ever been struck down.
The decision stems from a case involving a felon who went hunting with his father's gun.
Thomas Pocian, 44, of Hartford was convicted of forging checks in 1986. In November 2008, he used his father's gun to shoot two deer. He registered the deer with the state Department of Natural Resources and was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Pocian asked Washington County Circuit Judge Todd K. Martens to dismiss the case, arguing the ban is unconstitutionally broad and shouldn't apply to him because he wasn't a violent felon. Martens refused.
Pocian raised the same arguments to the appeals court. He contended that a pair of U.S. Supreme Court decisions striking down handgun bans in Washington, D.C., and Chicago reiterated the right to bear arms and establishing that potential restrictions would have to meet a tougher level of scrutiny.
He noted that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has since used a stricter standard to determine whether weapon restrictions are legal, ruling a law is valid only if it's substantially related to an important government objective.
The state appeals court noted that it upheld the Wisconsin ban's constitutionality in a 2004 case, ruling then that the ban was a reasonable extension of the state's police powers. The court said it applied the new, tougher analysis in Pocian's case and this time concluded Wisconsin's ban is substantially related to the government's responsibility to keep the public safe.
The court also said no state law banning felons from possessing firearms has ever been struck down, and the 7th Circuit ruled in 2010 that categorically banning felons from possessing guns is constitutional.
"If Pocian wants to the change the law, the proper route is through the legislature," the ruling said.
As for Pocian's argument that he shouldn't be subject to the ban because he didn't commit a violent crime, the court ruled that state lawmakers defined his forgery crime as a felony.
"As such, Pocian has legislatively lost his right to possess a firearm," the ruling said.
Pocian's attorney, Craig Powell, said he was disappointed with the state appeals court's decision and would talk with Pocian about appealing to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, saying Pocian still has a strong case.
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Orlando, Fla. – February 20, 2013 - Alexa Eastwood, legal assistant with The Health Law Firm, delivered a presentation to more than 200 people at the Orlando PechaKucha. The event took place on Friday, February 8, 2013, at The Orange Studio on Mills Avenue in Orlando. PechaKucha is a new international phenomenon that is sweeping the nation.
PechaKucha features some of the most interesting people in Orlando presenting on a wide variety of subjects. Ms. Eastwood was one of ten presenters. Each presenter prepared 20 slides and had 20 seconds to talk about each. Ms. Eastwood gave her presentation on "Becoming a Savage." She spoke about her experiences in preparing for and completing an intense six mile obstacle run, called the Savage Race, while coping with lifelong asthma. Her humorous presentation, illustrated with a number of self-reflective slides, brought down the house.
In 2003, two architects, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, held the first PechaKucha in Tokyo. It was originally created as a forum for fellow architects to share ideas in a timely manner, with a strictly enforced time limit of 400 seconds each. PechaKucha is now in more than 500 cities across the world, and presenters can talk about any topic they are passionate about.
With offices in Altamonte Springs, Orlando and Pensacola, Florida, and Fort Collins, Colorado, The Health Law Firm exclusively represents health care providers. Services provided by the firm include representation in DOH investigations, reviewing and negotiating employment contracts, professional license and credential defense, representation at both formal and informal administrative hearings, peer review defense, Medicare and Medicaid audits, formation of corporations and limited liability companies (LLCs), medical board hearings and other matters of Health Law.
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Podcast: Energy leaders discuss industry transformation
By Elisabeth Kindig
Energy is undergoing an important transformation driven by the introduction of renewables, deregulation, and increased attention to climate impact. This shift is assisted by new advances in technology, such as cloud computing, IoT, and big data. In this podcast episode of Tech Lightning Rounds, Beth Kindig speaks to the company Chevron, where technology is being leveraged in transformative ways including with the use of drones and Augmented Reality. She also speaks to innogy Ventures, a company that has been supplying central power for over a century and making strategic investments to take on the next era of decentralized power production with data interoperability. Her third interview is with Schneider Electric on what is involved with distributing power for edge computing.
Chevron's Gorgon Project, which uses advanced engineering to maximize production and distribution of natural gas
How Chevron uses data to move fluids safely and effectively, and to monitor equipment
How innogy Ventures is investing in the future of decentralized power
The future of data-driven business models and data interoperability
Challenges in distributing power to 5G microdata centers
Schneider Electric's plans to assist a more open architecture for data centers
00:01 Beth: You have a project called the Gorgon Project. What have sensors and advanced process controls done to contribute to value there?
00:13 Michelle: What's amazing is sensors now are everywhere. If you look at what's happened over the last few years, the price and availability of sensors has dropped. We have over a million sensors across Chevron right now. We expect that over the next five years, we're gonna see that to grow at a rate of at least 100,000 sensors per year. What we can do with this data, especially given the changes in cloud technology, the changes in artificial intelligence, machine learning, is amazing. When I look at advanced process control… And if you're not familiar with advanced process control, think of it like adaptive cruise control on your car. And we can now put that on our plants. We've been doing it for years in downstream, but with the rising of sensors, you can do it even more. For example, in our LNG facility in Australia, we were able to use advanced process control to create $240 million of value in 2018. That's huge. When you can do that, again, across all of your big plants, it makes a huge value difference.
01:25 Beth: Can you give us a little bit of background about that project? What is it exactly, and why did you initiate that project?
01:33 Michelle: That project… LNG, liquefied natural gas, it's a way of moving energy across the ocean on boats. We have a very big plant in Australia, and one of the things we found is… Similar to your car, if you can run your car with cruise control, it gives you more control, it allows you to stay within the control limits, the speed limit. With adaptive cruise control, which some of us have on our new cars nowadays, it allows you to sense the car that's coming in front of you and automatically slow down. When you can put that sort of control on a big facility, it allows you to run it safer, it allows you to run it more reliably, it allows the operator to have more control of the plant, because they're focused on the one-offs when something… An anomaly happens. It allows the plant to run much, much smoother and safer. And by having a smoother and safer running plant, you can get more throughput out of the plant, which translates into more value.
02:42 Beth: Most companies today are data companies. What kind of data do you use to improve operations? What does that look like?
02:51 Michelle: It's funny. I've been with the company for 19 years, and for 19 years, I've seen that Chevron is a data company. When you look at our fields across the world, in Bakersfield alone, in San Joaquin Valley, we have thousands of wells. We have always tried to collect as much data as we could on our wells, but that expands much beyond wells. If you look at our entire value chain, if you start from the rock itself, we have sensors that are down inside the walls telling us how the wells are producing, how the fluid's producing. We've got sensors at the surface telling us about our pressures, our temperatures, acoustics, the sounds. That goes on to the pipelines. It allows us to make sure that we are moving our fluids safely and effectively. That goes all the way into our plants and then our refineries, and then even our point of sale. We are collecting data on absolutely every aspect of the facility.
04:00 Michelle: It allows us just loads and loads and loads of data and information, which we can bring together to do advanced analytics. One amazing example, we have big compressors that help us compress our gas, whether they'd be offshore or onshore. We now have a center in Houston and a few others around the world which take that data in real time, analyze it, and let the fields know if they see an anomaly, so we can actually take the equipment down before it breaks. It's like getting a warning light in your car, except we're doing it on big equipment. We saved $40 million last year monitoring our machines.
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04:57 Beth: And do you use drones at Chevron?
05:00 Michelle: Yes. Our digital program spans lots of areas of technology, like I mentioned before, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Industrial Internet of Things. Drones and robots are another big piece. We recently showcased one of these really cool drones which you can actually use inside of a confined space. By confined space, I mean inside of a tank or a vessel. And what's amazing is a process for collecting data, which used to take multiple people going down into a tank to collect the data, I can now send a drone in and have it send data to the people outside of the tank.
05:42 Beth: Do you have any examples on augmented reality that you can talk about or…
05:45 Michelle: Oh, yeah. Probably the coolest one I've seen is through our partnership with Microsoft, and it's called the HoloLens. The HoloLens allows you to be out in the field, and I want you to think of a field location offshore, you're out in the middle of essentially, nowhere, and you put on this HoloLens, and you're paired with a person back in Houston who's also wearing a HoloLens. You, out in the field, can be looking at a piece of equipment, and the person back in the office can see what you see. And when they point their finger in front of their HoloLens, you can see their hand coming out in front of you and they can pull up an instruction manual, a repair manual, and it shows up in front of you. You can have somebody out in the field troubleshooting on a piece of equipment, getting real-time support from one of our subject matter experts that's sitting back in Houston. No need to fly offshore, no need to worry about visas and travel. You're able to get that expertise real-time through these, basically, augmented reality goggles.
07:06 Beth: Globally, what are the energy needs in the regions where you invest? Can you tell us, globally speaking, what do you see going on with energy, whether that's Europe, Asia?
07:16 Florian: Yep. The reason why, after 110 years, we need innovation, is… What's happening right now across the globe, in the US, in Europe, in Asia, is a move from a very central energy system, very centralised energy system, where you have huge factories that produce a lot of electrons that are connected with thick cables that then ship the electrons via cables that are getting smaller and smaller, as when you come to the end customer, and then sell them to end customers. That's the old model. This is shifting rapidly to a de-central model where you have renewable generation on rooftops or community solar or industrial-scale solar or wind farms that are just everywhere. Now this old model doesn't work anymore. And I think you can, on the distribution sides or electricity grids, this is like you have a one-way street, and everybody knows it's a one-way street, and all of a sudden you have two-way traffic. So, because in the electricity case, the electrons, they don't go only from A to B, but now they also go from B to A and from B to D, and so that has changed the landscape dramatically, and it's a big, big challenge.
08:37 Florian: Now, the next mega-trend and also challenge for this industry will be immobility, electric cars. Driving an electric car is great, but you need to charge it. Where are the electrons coming from? Well, the electrons come from the energy system, and the amount of additional load that is put on the local infrastructure via electric cars is very, very significant. Now the question is, how can we enable immobility, that people can charge the cars when they want to charge them and when they need to charge them without producing massive problems, blackouts, hardware blowing up? Which, by the way, happens already. Also, in the Bay Area, there are some nice videos on YouTube where you see the stuff that's on the pole blowing up because you had five guys showing up at six o'clock, plugging in their Teslas at the same time. Now that's a very visible example of the problem. And you have immobility push in China, you have it in Europe, also in the US, customers will demand these cars, and the system has to somehow deal with that.
10:33 Beth: How is data informing energy infrastructure? Can you give us a few examples?
10:38 Florian: Sure. That's why we came up with the idea of data-driven business models, because if you look to energy systems, they are very data-rich. There's a lot of data coming from the hardware in the field. Just picture a wind farm. Each of these wind turbines has hundreds of sensors that produce massive amounts of data. Then you have grids. You have a lot of sensors in the grids these days, they produce a lot of data. Then you have consumers that have connected devices in their homes or a car that is connected. If you have a Tesla, it produces data all the time, what you're doing, where you're going, when you're charging. There is a massive amount of data that is produced by the system. Today, there's really no very easy accessibility of this data, end-to-end management of the data, because you have different value chains with sometimes different owners of different segments of the value chain. It's a very fragmented data space. It's not like Facebook, where Facebook has all the data, yeah, and they can do a lot of things with it because it's in one hand. Here it's completely fragmented.
11:57 Florian: The interoperability technology from Intertrust is very helpful to break up the silos in a way that people feel comfortable with the silos being broken up, because you need to share data with others, but you need to ensure that you still keep the ownership. You don't want other people to walk away with your data. That needs technology to secure that, and you wanna know who gets access to your data. You need to have digital rights management in place. Now, the reason why we invested is because they are very knowledgeable and very capable of enabling the monetisation of digital assets. They have proven that in other verticals, like entertainment media. And that's where typical in the past, you found monetisation models around digital assets. And what we found out is that we can use the same technology that works for an app store, like an Apple App Store or a Google app store, to monetise digital assets, also for data assets that we own and operate.
13:01 Florian: Things like data interoperability, trusted data management, secure data management are things that are very important for us, because we operate critical infrastructure or we own customer-related data, assets which needs to be protected. But in order to unlock the value that is in the data, you need to have these technologies in place. That has developed very, very nicely. I think it's the biggest success story that our company has. Why? Because we took the technology, we incubated the technology around the energy vertical, which is where we come in, where we have certain expertise. And then out of that, we started, we developed a new product, which we tested with customers, of course, and turned that, in some cases, into a new business.
13:54 Beth: What will IoT connections do for the energy space? What are you most excited about here?
14:00 Florian: Yeah, I'm most excited about that we get more data and more connectivity. Let's say, in the old world, you had a TV, you had a fridge, you had an oven, you had appliances that were not connected. In the future, they will be connected, because the device manufacturers simply connect everything. I was at CES, there is a connected toilet, there's a connected bathtub. Everything is connected. And it will take time before these things will penetrate the homes, but it will come, because it will just be a built-in feature. This means you get more and more information about usage of energy. And that's what we are interested in. We are… We don't try to socially profile people, for example, what they watch on a television that's irrelevant for other people, not for us. We would like to know when do people use electricity, because with that information, we can help stabilise the energy system, which is under this enormous amount of pressure, because of this shift from a central to a de-central system.
15:09 Florian: And I think the the biggest lever is with cars, with electric cars, because they demand the most loads. In this transformation, this explosion of IoTs, sensors, and also IoT data, I think will at the end help us to have a hopefully, a more reliable, a cheaper, a more efficient, a better energy system in the future.
15:33 Beth: Can you put into context how the demand for power is increasing? How is our current electrical system up to par or not up to par for demand?
15:42 Steve: I think IT is driving a lot more of the power needs going into [15:48] ____, it'll drive a lot more going forward. Currently, it's about 2% of the worldwide demand for power and we've seen forecasts that it's going up to eight or nine percent. And a lot of that is being driven from Edge applications. We have applications from data collection and content delivery of the Edge with IoT emerging, and millions of IoT devices proliferating the need to move power from centralized out to the Edge is a big challenge.
16:19 Beth: Yeah, exactly. From a power distribution point of view, what will micro-data centers do? Will they increase power consumption?
16:28 Steve: In the past, you've had a lot of factories and a lot of big industry that's located closer to sub-stations. They're strategically located where the power is. As things move out, an example would be like a farm that's implementing IoT management system for agriculture. They're gonna be deploying thousands of systems, they're gonna have a data center there. They may need 10 megawatts of power at that site where they may not have needed that in the past. There's a need to beef up the power distributions towards the edge of the power grids. We're seeing a lot of that today. And with applications like 5G coming, where we're gonna have to deploy hundreds of thousands and even millions of these micro data centers globally, it's gonna be a tremendous challenge to bring enough power to those Edge sites.
17:24 Beth: Just dialing more into making 5G micro data centers more efficient, can you give me a comparison with the level of power consumption we have now, versus how that will look with 5G in the future?
17:36 Steve: Sure. With 5G, like I said, we're gonna have to deploy micro data centers at scale, and we're involved with projects for 10,000 pieces of micro data center. If you take, say, an application or a deployment that's 2,000 pieces and say each one of those is 10 kilowatts, that's 20 megawatts of power. We've had a lot of experience in larger data centers, making those as efficient as possible and refining them over the years. With micro data centers, it's a little bit different. It's more of a design challenge than a deployment, and then tweak it, and then optimise it. You wanna do in integration of the power, the cooling equipment, you wanna use the enclosures for the environment. You wanna use the latest battery technology, and you wanna use the most innovative cooling technologies in these designs. The result would be a design that's optimised to be able to deliver the application as efficiently as possible.
18:52 Steve: And we also have advanced software tools now that we're using to gauge the performance of those data centers. Now, when you have that many data centers deployed, thousands of data centers deployed, it's very impractical to have the data center management systems on site, so we have cloud-based systems now. We're taking the data from these micro data centers and we're creating a simple and easy access point to the cloud, where you could look at all of your micro data centers together, and see if they're operating at the optimal efficiency and the efficiency that they were designed to do, and if there's any problems that arise. It's a whole new type of approach to data center management, going from one data center with hundreds of thousands of access points, to the access points being distributed to the many different locations.
19:52 Beth: What does the global rollout look like for Schneider? Will you primarily be putting the micro data centers in Europe, or the United States, or what's the roll-out plan for data center architecture globally?
20:04 Steve: Well, 5G is actually interesting, 'cause it's a new architecture that needs, relies heavily on a data center architecture. And the old telco was kind of a country club, it was very closed. There was the carriers and then the telco equipment providers. With 5G, it's more of an open system. And with an open system, there's a lot of deployments of these MEC data centers, the IT part of it is actually standard servers, or white-box type servers, or whatever you wanna call 'em. It opens up this 5G architecture for more players, like the traditional IT vendors are now looking for a way in to participate. Schneider's dealing with… We're dealing with the traditional Telco, we're dealing with the traditional equipment providers, we're also dealing with the IT providers, we're also dealing with the cable TV companies that are trying to also get involved with the 5G rollout.
21:03 Steve: And then you have the internet giants. Then the giants are all looking at, "Hey, the telco providers are not really that experienced with deploying these data centers at scale, so maybe it's something we could do to break into this market." Because the market… The projected rollout's is estimated to be over $300 billion of equipment. Everyone wants a piece of it. And Schneider's kind of perfectly positioned, 'cause we're here to support across the board, anyone that wants to have a stake in the game. What I didn't really mention was that the initial rollouts could actually be LTE advanced, or they could be four-and-a-half, some people are calling it four-and-a-half G. And the reason that will work with 5G is because the software is disaggregated from the hardware. You could deploy a four-and-a-half G application now, and that's what… Like AT&T is calling 5GE, and some people are calling it pre-5G. The speeds are gonna get a lot faster as we roll out these new micro data centers. And then when the 5G software is more readily available, they'll flip it over to the new 5G software.
Analyzing air quality data using Python Pandas and Plotly


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Q: How do i make a radio button link to a page using a button How do i make a radio button which can link to a page each radio button having being linked to a website and when i press a button i want it to direct me to the selected radio buttons link and i do not want it to be onclick i want it to direct me when i press the button. I have tried doing this but i need help.
This is what i tried:

Which part of the building do you want cleaning

<form name="frmSite" style="float: left; margin-top: 5px;">

    <input type="radio" name="site" value="1" id="radio_btn_1" style="float: left; clear: both;" />
    The whole building

    <input type="radio" name="site" value="1" id="radio_btn_1" style="float: left; clear: both;" />
    Kithcen

    Submit

</form>

Here is what i have tried https://jsfiddle.net/nb7jmfxp/

A: Here is the fieldset documentation.
Html code:
<form>
  <fieldset>
    <legend>Choose your Website</legend>

    <input type="radio" id="youtube" name="monster">
    Youtube

    <input type="radio" id="google" name="monster">
    Google

  </fieldset>
</form>
<button id="go_to_website">
  Go to website
</button>

Js code:
  $("#go_to_website").click(function(event) {
    var link_id = $("input[name='monster']:checked").attr("id");
    if (link_id) {
      switch (link_id) {
        case "youtube":
          // code block
          window.location.href = 'www.youtube.com';
          break;
        case "google":
          // code block
          window.location.href = 'www.google.com';
          break;
        default:
          // code block
      }
    } else {
      alert("please pick an option")
    }
  })

Jsfiddle link: https://jsfiddle.net/pc62oL74/4/
Hope that it helps.

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I got it in blue and I really do like it. The zippers work smoothly and it has lots of room and organization. The only thing that concerns me is that it is relatively heavy, even when empty so I am not sure it will be comfortable once all my stuff is in there. The blue color is really nice and the bag does seem to be made well. I will put all my stuff in it and carry it for a couple of days to decide if the weight will bother me, and if it does, I will sadly return it.
All the returned bags will show up at the outlets in Florida. I live within 30 minutes of 3 of them. I will look at them – and there will be tons of them. Every time joy and iman do a bag thousands of them are returned. Same complaints every time. HSN and joy count on a continual influx of new customers to sell this stuff to.
Mine arrived today and I have to return it. : ( The nameplate is not only WAY off to one side but almost vertical. The bigger problem is the slice in the leather on the back side of the bag….I wouldn't pay any price for a bag with ripped leather.
I saw the holes too and thought "that's so it doesn't rip when you open the side all the way". The thing is the section next to the middle of the bag does NOT have holes in the bottom (at least mine doesn't) so put your loose stuff there.
Mine had a crooked nameplate, but it wasn't enough to make me return it. I'm still keeping mine. ??
It is sad to see all the negative reviews though. I think they were oversold by the presentation and expected way more than what it really was. And it seems that a lot were just wowed and perhaps bought on impulse, not really understanding that the purse was an organizer.
One review suggested taking the pockets out so they could fit a wallet in there… I guess they didn't read the description or heard something different in the presentation. Any other purse out there would fit a wallet and sunglass case, etc… the pockets are what make this purse!
And the holes – I knew about the holes before I bought it. It was shown during the montage with the different models showing the colors. The model with the camel color had the purse opened wide and from the angle I could plainly see that the cloth connecting the inner sections didn't go all the way down. I guess I'm just really observant as it seems others didn't catch that.
Oh, and the leather… so many slights about the leather. It's a $50 purse… unless one is buying a used/vintage luxury purse, there is no way a $50 purse this size will have top grain leather. It just… no, just no! This is most likely second grain or split leather, but for the price, it's nice enough.
Hopefully, more of us who are pleased with the purse will chime in and this thread will be noticed. It would be nice to have this purse back. Or at least one that is closer to this size. The previous J&I purses were just too big for me.
The reviews are still pouring in…many of them negative. Other than the gusset not going all the way down to the bottom, I felt like the presentations showed most features of the bag. It was shown multiple times that the open areas are for tablets, phones, etc. And people are complaining about the gold hardware. I don't get that at all. Could they not see that it was gold when they were watching the presentations or looking at the item on their devices? Complaints about the tassel…good grief…again…it was shown in every photo and presentation! It would be nice if it had a double zipper, but then again…anyone could see that it didn't before it was ordered. I just don't understand people. We'll probably be lucky if it is ever reordered or even revamped with all these complaints…all because people don't study photos or pay attention during presentations. I mean, good grief…this was a $50 bag…what did people expect? Now…a crooked name plate, zipper issues, something not sewn correctly…that's different.
I wonder what they are doing with all the returned bags. I would love to pick some more up at a discounted price. I've read that there is an HSN outlet "somewhere," but it is certainly not near me.
I wish they get it back in stock so I can exchange it for another color. I got it in the lavender berry but it looks like a hot pink color.
Might be a nice bag but I don't like the logo on it. No logo. Color options were really good. Is the leather a nice smooth real leather or does it have a plastic like feel?
No, this is certainly not Gucci or LV – it's not even on par with Coach or Michael Kors. What it comes close to is Banana Republic or the non-Italian, unbranded leather purses at TJ or DSW. And for the TSV price point, that's really what I was expecting.
The quality of the leather is similar to Mundi or Buxton. It's lovely and buttery smooth, but not as thick. I think it will hold up though.
The true strength of this purse is in the design and organization – which is what I bought it for: the pockets. The beautiful design is quite a plus, too! I googled leather organizer purses and could not find one as lovely. The ones I could find were quite hideous (think mullet hairstyle) and only had 3-4 pockets. This one is lovely with its classic silhouette.
The craftsmanship is not great, but not bad either. The leather is smooth and the stitching even. It does have some string ends showing here and there, but I tucked them in. The lining is a bit thin, but not as thin as cheaper bags. The zippers work well and sit straight. The Joy&Iman bar I could have done without, especially since its crooked, but I wear it facing in anyway. The gold hardware is pretty and not too bright – the color is just slightly more yellow than my Bellezza jewelry.
Overall, I'm pleasantly surprised with how much I'm liking it. It has some weight to it but not as heavy as a Dooney (sadly why my Dooney is in the closet). The straps are the perfect length for me and worn with the strap at its longest, cross body, it falls right at my hips. I'm 5'2. Measuring from the top of my head down, my natural waist falls at slightly above half my height.
I'm looking forward to carrying it around during the holidays and do hope it will last. I have a feeling that the strap will get the most wear, but it can easily be replaced with a gold chain belt. I mainly bought it as a travel purse, but am going to put it to the test. It's a keeper for now.
Received my River Blue bag today, really pretty shade. It weighs just under 1 1/2 lbs. empty, about 3 1/2 lbs. with all my stuff in it including my wallet and change purse. The mirror has protective plastic on both sides. You need to bend back a small part of the frame so you can grab the edge with your nail to peel it off. If you don't remove it the mirror looks scratchy and you can't really see much.
I switched from a 10 oz. baggallini, so this will take a little getting used to. I'll see how it goes for the next 6-7 weeks or so.
My spicy gold came today, and I like it. The gold hardware looks good with this color. Now…is it Coach or Michael Kors quality? No. But is it worth the TS price? Imo, yes. I don't think it's heavy, and the storage and arrangement are amazing. My zippers work smoothly I think it looks just like what was presented on TV and my iPad concerning quality, color, leather texture, and lining. This photo doesn't quite capture the true color, but it is kind of the color of dull egg yolk.
I ordered several colors but only the gold arrived so far. It is beautiful. I just love the size and it looks like it will be convenient when out and about. I have to say, though, that mine doesn't have that leather smell at all.
I got my bag today in the equestrian cognac. Very nice color. This bag is my first Joy and Iman item. I don't feel it's heavy on it's own. I'm sure as I put stuff in that weight will be added. Leather is always heavier than non leather bags. I'm not certain that the strap and tassel is made of the same leather. The leather on the bag is smooth and has a soft feel to it. It appears to be worth the TS price.
trixi888……. isn't that blue beautiful!
I hate to hear that it's heavy. Mine is supposed to arrive tomorrow. I ordered the red/burgundy. If it's heavy, it'll go back. I got away from heavy bags and downsized this year. The organization looked wonderful. I carry two Lugs bags now that I absolutely love. Stay tuned!
Mine's supposed to be delivered tomorrow. I got blue too. I was going to order the blush but was concerned about dye transfer, since I wear jeans almost all the time.


Welcome to this year's Spring Chocolate Bash a.k.a. My Easter Eggstravaganza~! Just like every year, I used the Spring Holidays as an excuse to dish out delicious little representatives of my "Summer Chocolates" recipe collection to every chocoholic and sweet tooth I know – and, just like every year, the recipes for each bite will appear here, one after another, starting with my personal pick and continuing in the order my chocolate-covered friends, family and of course you request them.
Oh boy, it's that time of the year again~! Certain markers, especially the smaller ones like the upcoming Valentine's Day always startle me in a "didn't we just do this like… yesterday?"-kind of way. The bigger holidays always seem sooo~ far away but, at least to me, the small ones really make the passing of time blatantly obvious. So, Valentine's Day in just a bit over a week – as always a reason for Hubby and me not to do what extensive pink, flowery and chocolatey media bombardment expects us to do~!
So, after last week's mammoth post – here's to hoping you guys enjoyed it anyways~! – I turned on my heel, so to speak, and crunched my grey cells for a while in order to find the speediest and possibly non-fussiest member of my Chocolates & Fruit Bites recipe collection.
In the aftermath of last weekends heat blast, I've noticed some of my circuits and tastebuds having obviously taken a more thorough scramble than I first thought. For example, even though the temperatures have dropped to reasonable levels, at least as far as end-of-April goes with close-to-zero-degrees night breezes, I can't get myself to close the windows at night. Most of the members of my – admittedly small, but cherished – shoe collection have sort of a… sinister? Confining! look to them after just one weekend of flipflop-freedom for my feet.
Birds singing, beautifully arranged flowerbeds all but exploding with colors, bees buzzing around, nosy bunnies zipping around every patch of green in town whenever they think nobody's watching, temperatures rising… finally it's that time of the year again~! I know "Easter" doesn't necessarily mean "Spring" around the globe, but our corner of the world serves that pretty fairytale-painted cliché perfectly.
Romantics, lovers, chocoholics, rejoice! Valentine's Day is nigh~! While basically everyone I know is firmly rooted on the rather jaded "It's just a holiday for the greeting card / flower / chocolate industry" side of the matter, exactly the same people also spend the exact same holiday trying to hide the fact that they're doing something of the exact same shape, size and color the "hopeless victims of the ad-powered machinery" do for their loved ones.
Oh dear… my time-perception seems to have taken a serious hit this year! It seems like I've just finished my Summer Chocolate Box and all of a sudden I'm covered in chocolate yet again! The Christmas markets around town have opened their gates last weekend and the wonderful aromas of roasting nuts, spiced wine and freshly baked goods wafting through the festively decorated streets are making me wonder where the last couple of months have gone.
All right! As the days are getting shorter and the temperatures are going down, I decided this would be a good time to share this year's summer-chocolate-box crown-grabber with you guys to bring back some rolled-up sunshine to the approaching winter months whenever you might need a lift! I have to say, I was somewhat surprised at the major ruckus these simple bites caused amongst my test-sub… ahem. Customers.


Please note that bulk importing should not be used for awarding body certifications such as BCS. In this instance, the Administrator - Downloading Users section should be referred to.
When importing users, start by making an Excel file that contains the users to import. The first line contains the column names as shown below.
The first column should be 'systemname' and contain the usernames that are to be used by the Candidates.
path – path to the folder where the candidate will reside. Subfolders are separated by /.
The file should be saved as a CSV ready for import. Now we can switch to ATLAS Cloud.
Select the group on the tree structure that the users will be imported into.
Click the Choose file Please note that this screen shows the list of Supported Headers on the right hand side of the screen.
The users will then appear in the tree structure folder selected. If there are any errors please return back to the import file and make the changes required and reimport.


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A tale of two choices
Posted on January 29, 2015 by ATCz
Oil prices tumble, the Russian economy is in recession, the Russian elite is nervous, but Vladimir Putin is smart enough to avoid the traps that the Soviet Union fell into – in a nutshell, this is the argument of Richard Sakwa's opinion piece, published in The Guardian three weeks ago. There's no way out of this crisis and Putin will soon have to handpick a successor, argues Alexander Morozov on openDemocracy. Between these two, somewhat extreme opinions that supposedly contain some wishful thinking, we have seen a myriad of scenarios emerging in the past month about the end game of the crisis in Ukraine. All of them sound somewhat plausible, yet it is difficult to argue that one of them has significantly higher chances of happening than the rest. This ambiguity paints a perfect picture of Russia at the beginning of 2015.
To borrow a metaphor from Erwin Schrödinger, Russia is a closed box that presently contains both the possibility of Putin's fall and that of Putin's "outwitting" the West by transforming Russia. Both cannot exist at the same time, yet, with the box is closed at this point, it is impossible to tell in which state Russia exists at the moment. Nevertheless, the mere fact that these possibilities are mentioned shows the gravity of the situation the Russian political elite is in today. They show that the internal balance of a previously solid Russian political system was tilted. And the last time this happened, things did not work out well for Mikhail Gorbachev.
The castling and its aftermath
One of the biggest errors that this blog has committed was having failed to anticipate the "castling" of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev in 2011. In 2009-10, while far from being the real leader of Russia, Medvedev's circles seemed to have taken root in the highest echelons of the Russian state. The global economic crisis forced what then seemed to be the first phase of a large-scale restructuring. Privatisation was launched. Some of the direct links between the political and business elite were severed. The political system opened up a little. In short, Russia seemed to be at the threshold of a reform era. Reforms were going to be cautious, slow and uncertain, but reforms nonetheless. And then came 2011. Oil prices recovered to their pre-crisis levels, while the crisis continued in Europe, providing a pretext to Russia's fiscal conservatives to cancel privatisation and for hardliners to re-establish themselves as the dominant political force. Medvedev had to go, Putin returned. Thus goes a somewhat simplified version of the story.
To this day, I am convinced that for a long time, Plan A was for Medvedev to stay on as president and for Putin to keep his influence as the essential mediator of Russian politics, but to gradually phase himself out of politics. The Russia of 2010, to return to the previous metaphor – included both the possibility of a reformed state and a third presidential term for Putin. My mistake was therefore not that I failed to see the "obvious" return of a "power-hungry" Putin from the beginning. The error I committed was assuming that changes built into the system during the crisis were more difficult to reverse than they actually were. In fact, it was, and it still is, the system that had the inertia, and not the reform drive. I was not the only Russia-watcher to have forgotten about this back then. And I hope I am not the only one to have learned from my mistake.
A vicious circle
The castling made the Russian political system more Putin-centred than it had been, but it also marked its limits. The president, popular as he was, arguably lacked the overwhelming public trust and elite support that characterised his first two terms, partly because the social pact that it was based on withered, and partly because the priorities of the Russian political and business elite supposedly changed. As I have repeatedly underlined on this blog, a considerable part of Russian voters was annoyed by the castling (as evidenced by large-scale protests in 2011-12) and so was a part of the elite – nonetheless, as there was no alternative available, both groups made peace with Putin's return to the presidency. But this was patience, not enthusiasm, and screws needed considerable tightening to remain in place: this did not only mean cracking down on the opposition, but also a crackdown on the elite.
The crisis in Ukraine and especially the annexation of Crimea opened a door for the president, allowing him to replace the lukewarm support he had with unfettered enthusiasm. Propaganda helped to pump his approval ratings to previously unseen heights. More importantly, the political system, while largely unchanged, received a new guiding principle, an inner logic, a core myth, if you like, that helped to interpret news, explain undesired events and rally nationalists, a considerable part of whom had been flirting with the opposition, around the government. More importantly, just like the Chechen War, it helped to strengthen the president's standing. The castling gave people the feeling that politics was, in fact, all about Putin. Crimea and the legends around it gave many the feeling that he had the legitimacy he needed for this. However, by doing so, he also equated himself with this myth.
By upsetting the balance of the system, Putin may have put it on a crash course. As the former Kremlin pundit, Gleb Pavlovsky cleverly put it in an interview last December, Putin's system was built on globalisation. First on its benefits and then on its criticism. Anchoring a system or putting the blame on an external force is convenient, but it will also trap the leaders of the system. Russia can now only move from one form of this system to another, said Pavlovsky. And it is far from certain that Putin will succeed. In fact, things do not look good. Even if global oil prices rebound, the prospects of the Eurasian Union look increasingly dire, with Belarus even threatening to leave the Union and Kazakhstan increasingly wary. Russia's newfound friendship with China is by no means a partnership of equals. Meanwhile, both citizens and the elite are asked to "be patient" until the situation takes a turn for the better, while the prospects for this are dubious at best.
Whatever form the present economic and political system takes – call it Asian pivot or Eurasian Union – it will remain essentially extractive and kept on life support by globalisation and the hunger of emerging markets for energy. At the same time, it will remain relatively isolated for as long as its leader's legitimacy is based on virulent anti-Westernism and an expansive foreign policy. If none of these elements change, Russia's next couple of years will be critical and potentially implosive.
The choice of what to remove
The president is not able to take a decision on this alone. As I blogged at the end of last year, some parts of the Russian elite are interested in continuing the war, while others are not. Even if Putin did recognise the need to change certain elements of the system – which is not too likely in a system plagued by the lack of constructive feedback – changing the very basis of its legitimacy would still be extremely difficult. Without that, however, certain sanctions will remain in place as long as Putin occupies the Kremlin. Change would almost certainly mean changing the system or changing the man at the helm of it.
Putin is trying. The measures, announced in his speech before the Russian parliament were supposed to give the impression that liberalisation had started. However, so far this is nothing more than a Potemkin façade. The cornerstones remain in place: Bashneft was forcibly nationalised last year, and fiscal measures announced by the finance ministry in January touch everything but the sacred heading of the Russian budget: the modernisation of the military aimed to satisfy the Ministry of Defence and the arms industry that, according to one Kremlin pundit, have become Putin's closest associates in the past months. "Delaying reforms too long and upping defence spending in response to the exaggerated western threat drove the Soviet Union into oblivion." – says Sakwa in the article quoted above. This is exactly what is happening, despite the cautious reforms announced in December. Putin does not look like someone who is about to step aside, either. One of the many readings of the jailing (and subsequent freeing) of Vladimir Yevtushenkov, the owner of the Sistema holding last year – besides the nationalisation of Bashneft that I mentioned – is that it was a message sent to those in the elite opposed to Putin's policies but, so far, silent.
It certainly looked like that: Yevtushenkov was jailed in September, shortly after the downing of Flight MH17 led to unexpectedly strict sanctions against Russia, Ukrainian military gains and an almost visible uproar in the Russian elite that had been told by Putin that he could read the West and thus manage risks. He could not. And while the situation in Europe is different, as today's meeting of the EU Council showed, last week's shelling of Mariupol's residential areas may just be a similar turning point.
Today's Russia includes both the possibility of Putin's finding his way out of the crisis and that of his fall. The castling was a sobering enough lesson for me not to pass a judgement at this point. But the necessity of change does not mean that something will inevitably be changed, either. In that case, however, 2015 will certainly be a disastrous year.
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Broad Patent Clouds Landscape Over Incentive Marketing - InternetNews.
New questions were raised in the competitive market for online incentives this afternoon when the U.S. Patent Office granted protection over the distribution of incentives connected with Internet advertising to CyberGold. The patent gives CyberGold the sole right to pay online incentives to consumers including cash, points, frequent flyer miles or other forms of compensation.
CyberGold spokeswoman Colette Sandstedt said that while the patent has been eagerly awaited, "we are still in a stage where we are studying what the patent means." The company filed for patent protection in December, 1995. Sandstedt said the company would consider licensing the technology to competitors and is currently studying "whether anyone is in infringment and what the licensing process should be like."
A spokesperson for rival incentive marketer NetCentives said the company was still studying the ruling and was not prepared to comment. NetCentives has agreements with Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and United Airlines awarding frequent flyer miles to Web surfers who shop at partner's sites. NetCentives current partners include Garden Escape, 1-800-Flowers, eTrade and Music Boulevard.
CyberGold awards consumers cash payments by credit card or in CyberCash for visiting sites within the companies' network of affiliated Web sites. Disney Blast, Match.com, and Alexa are current clients of CyberGold. Users who register with CyberGold can accumulate rewards by visiting the sites that are currently in the network. For example, a registered CyberGold user earns fifty cents for visiting Alexa's site and downloading Alex software.
More than 780,000 people have registered with CyberGold, according to the company, which is privately held.


So what about cruise activities for seniors. There are a number of senior citizen activities out there. Even though you get older does not mean what it used to mean in the past. In many cases, the popular stereotype of senior citizens relaxing in a nursing home is thrown right out the window.
As medical developments have helped to increase life expectancy, more and more senior citizens are making the decision to get out and enjoy life. So, there is what you call senior citizen activities.
If you are a senior citizen, you are likely to know that there are a number of fun and exciting senior citizen activities. One of those activities includes travel. Each year, a large number of senior citizens are take a vacation getaway. These getaways may include guided tours, traveling with friends, or vacationing solo. If you are looking for extra excitement, you may want to consider vacationing aboard a cruise ship.
One of the many cruise activities for seniors, found on most cruise ships, includes fine dining. Fine dinning halls and restaurants are often elegant in design, décor, and food. Many of the fine dining restaurants found on cruise ships have a dress code. This dress code may not require elegant evening wear, but jeans and t-shirts may not be allowed. If you enjoy dining with touch of class, you many enjoy the elegant dinning restaurants found on most cruise ships.
Dancing is another cruise activities for seniors that may offer you and other seniors some enjoyment. Almost all cruises come equipped with a dance hall. In fact, many cruise ships have multiple dancing facilities. You may be able to receive dance lessons with a trained professional or spend the night dancing away with your friends and family. Themed dances are exciting. On extended cruises, you may find that the crew designates a specific type of dancing for the night.
A spa visit may put the finishing touches on your cruise ship vacation. Almost all cruise ships come equipped with a spa. Cruise spas are similar to the day spas that can be found in or around your hometown. At an onboard spa, you could get a haircut, have your hair styled for an elegant event, or get a massage. Spa visits are enjoyed by individuals of all ages. If you book a cruise and you are interested in visiting the cruise's spa, you are encouraged to make a reservation ahead of time. Your reservation will ensure that you are able to enjoy this popular cruise ship activity.
Cruise activities for seniors, services, and facilities are important, but so are the destinations you will be visiting. Depending on the length of the cruise, most cruise ships stop at numerous ports along the way.
At these ports, you are usually granted time away from the ship. Selecting a cruise ship with beautiful, relaxing weather is a great way for you to enjoy your trip. If the right cruise ship is selected, you could spend your time away from the ship walking along the beach or visiting with local residents.


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Ten Steps to Energy Savings and Sustainability for...
The Architect of the Capitol's Legacy of Sustainability began with the setting...
A Legacy of Service
You never forget your first real job. A good one, with a good mentor, can...
David Lynn
Seventh Architect of the Capitol
November 10, 1873, Wheeling, West Virginia
May 25, 1961, Washington, D.C.
Appointed by President Calvin Coolidge, August 22, 1923 Retired September 30, 1954
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David Lynn was appointed Architect of the Capitol in 1923 by President Calvin Coolidge to fill the vacancy caused by Elliott Woods' death. Like his predecessor, Lynn was not an architect but had worked his way up through the ranks to become the agency's number one assistant at the time of his predecessor's death. Lynn's tenure was marked by the growth of the U.S. Capitol Grounds and the construction of major buildings for the U.S. House of Representatives (the Longworth House Office Building), the U.S. Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the U.S. Botanic Garden. In addition, the First Street wing of the Russell Senate Office Building was built, the Capitol Power Plant was enlarged, and construction on the Dirksen Senate Office Building was begun. The U.S. Capitol Grounds were again expanded, and underground parking for Senate employees was provided. Lynn also supervised the redesign and reconstruction of the House and Senate Chambers.
Born in 1873 in West Virginia and raised in Maryland, Lynn started his career at the U.S. Capitol soon after finishing high school. He began as a laborer and rose to the rank of engineer by 1910. After 31 years as head of the agency, Lynn retired in 1954 and died in 1961.
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Hi, my name is Andre. Many of my clients like mobile training for their busy schedules or dislike of the gym setting. I have tons of equipment, set up and breakdown is about 5 minutes. I also change the workout very time so my clients never get bored and never hit plateaus.


Chef Works' award-winning business model includes value-added services such as custom embroidery, alterations and silk screening for their customers on virtually any apparel item that they distribute to their clients – which includes more than 100,000 items. This poses significant challenges from a distribution standpoint because they are managing the fulfillment of customer orders that includes items with and without value-added services. For example, this might include embroidering a restaurant's name and a chef's name on a garment.
As a leading supplier of chef apparel, Chef Works fulfills global orders from their two distribution centers. The main distribution center for the last 10 years is located in Poway, Calif., and now a new distribution center has been added in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.
Chef Works annually moves more than 12 million units through their U.S. distribution center and a significant percentage of those units have value-added services. All of this is done in a 35,000-square-foot distribution center with only 30 distribution associates splitting two shifts.
Chef Works began automating its distribution center in 2007. In addition to moving to a larger facility, the transition included implementing a Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Warehouse Control System (WCS). These new capabilities included RF mobile device barcode scanning, real-time inventory tracking, inventory allocation, paperless pick tickets, order consolidation and improved order picking efficiency and accuracy thanks to White Systems Horizontal Carousels for order fulfillment.
Chef Works partnered with Intek to implement their Supply Chain Execution Software for the WMS/WCS software solution and White Systems for the horizontal carousel solution. This partnership provided seamless integration to all of the automation equipment, as well as their Sage 300 ERP and Logistyx Technologies shipping and parcel manifesting system.
Prior to implementing Intek's WMS/WCS, Chef Works was picking orders using printed pick tickets and physical locations labeled with each SKU. They relied on employees to locate each SKU and to climb a ladder, when necessary, to complete the pick. Order priorities were handled manually using the printed pick tickets. –As you can imagine, this was a cumbersome and time-consuming process.
The transformation took approximately six months to complete. With two pods of three horizontal carousels each, one operator has access to more than 3,000 pick locations. Picking accuracy quickly rose to 98.9 percent after implementing the horizontal carousels with pick to light. This has enabled them to provide excellent accuracy to their customers. In addition, they have added almost 200 Flow Rack pick faces to accommodate high-moving items. This enables the simultaneous replenishment of pick faces while continuing to pick orders. Chef Works' goal was not to reduce staff, but to keep pace with the growth while maximizing the working space and inventory.
The system has been expanded to include an automated order consolidation storage system utilizing additional White Systems Horizontal Carousels and a White Systems Storbot automated robotic storage system. This expanded system, which integrates with Intek's software, was instrumental in driving efficiency with one of the more difficult aspects of the operation — picking customer orders that include items with and without value-added services.
This order profile is very common and the White Systems Storbot solution with horizontal carousels enabled Chef Works to stage and store value-added service items (i.e. embroidered items) for orders. From there they could automatically release and process the associated non-value-added service items for picking and consolidating the completed order (i.e. an order that includes value- and non-value-added items).
Intek and White Systems were selected as the solutions for Chef Works. The integration planning and implementation fit the required timeline and provided growth capacity for five years. Intek provided integration with the customized embroidery process, which requires passing detailed instructions between multiple databases, and the Chef Works Sage 300 ERP. Some level of modification was required to accomplish this task while maintaining the integrity of Intek's software for support and future upgrades. This integration provided additional tracking and data analysis tools such as real-time order status for customers, cycle counting, order inventory transactions, operator performance and the ability to quarantine product electronically (eliminating the need to manually move products to special locations).
Many of Intek's configurations are accessible to the user to set up and modify with changing business conditions. Intek and White Systems utilize robust, proven technologies to reduce any operations downtime. Both have sufficient customer support systems in place to take care of most day-to-day issues, and both systems integrated with Chef Works' information technology automation. This allowed the straightforward addition of more conveyors, carousels, and automation well past the initial installation.
Intek's Supply Chain Execution system brings everything together and fully integrates the entire operation from receiving through shipping and everything in between. This includes the White Systems Horizontal Carousels for picking and the Horizontal Carousels and StorBot for order staging and consolidation, Sage 300 ERP, Logistyx Technologies shipping and manifesting system, and all RF Mobile Device operations for the fast-moving flow rack picking and high bay/narrow aisle racking system.
It is clear this has been a successful venture for all parties involved because Chef Works is in its 10th year partnering with Intek and White Systems – a relationship that has extended well beyond the five-year growth requirement. Chef Works has quadrupled its business during that time while distribution associates have doubled. Safe to say, they are happy with the operational accuracies the Intek and White Systems solutions provide.


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Q: using firebase in project the datais not getting inserted into firebase database I have given the insert code of firebase, but the data is not getting inserted into firebase database.
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_newregistration);
        UserName = findViewById(R.id.UserName);
        Empid = findViewById(R.id.Empid);
        phoneno = findViewById(R.id.Phoneno);
        Emailid = findViewById(R.id.Emailid);
        Newpassword = findViewById(R.id.newpassword);
        btn_back = findViewById(R.id.btn_back);
        btnreg = findViewById(R.id.btnreg);
        member= new Member();
        reff= FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference().child("Member");
        reff.addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener()

        {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                if(dataSnapshot.exists())
                    maxid=(dataSnapshot.getChildrenCount());

            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(@NonNull DatabaseError databaseError) {

            }
        });
        btnreg.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
            reff.child(String.valueOf(maxid+1)).setValue(member);
                member.setUserName(UserName.getText().toString().trim());
                member.setEmailid(Emailid.getText().toString().trim());
                member.setEmpid(Empid.getText().toString().trim());
                member.setPhoneno(phoneno.getText().toString().trim());
              member.setNewpassword(Newpassword.getText().toString().trim());
                Toast.makeText(Newregistration.this,"Data Inserted Succesfully",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                startActivity(new Intent(Newregistration.this, LoginActivity.class));

            }
        });

        btn_back.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                startActivity(new Intent(Newregistration.this, LoginActivity.class));
            }
        });

    }
}

The app gets crashed when we hit register and the expected result should insert in to firebase realtime database.

A: *

*You should post the logcat to show the error as well

*You called setValue(member) before actually putting values into member


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Significance of Bcl10 gene mutations in the clinical diagnosis of MALT-type ocular adnexal lymphoma in the Chinese population
R.L. Wei
Y.L. Pi
Q. Guo
Genet. Mol. Res. 12 (2) : 1194-1204 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4238/2013.April.12.6
Wei R.L.
Pi Y.L.
Guo Q.
(2013). Significance of Bcl10 gene mutations in the clinical diagnosis of MALT-type ocular adnexal lymphoma in the Chinese population. Genet. Mol. Res. 12(2): gmr2326. https://doi.org/10.4238/2013.April.12.6
We investigated the expression of Bcl10 gene mutations in mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue-type ocular adnexal lymphoma (OAL), atypical lymphoid hyperplasia (ALH), and reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) in the Chinese population and its role in clinical diagnosis and pathogenesis. Forty-three samples were collected during patient surgeries. Pathological diagnosis confirmed OAL in 23 cases, ALH in 10 cases, and RLH in 10 cases. Normal peripheral lymph tissues from 12 cases were used as negative controls. Bcl10 gene expression was examined using molecular biological methods, and DNA sequences and mutations were compared with published data. The protein expression of Bcl10 and nuclear factor kappaB (NF-κB) were detected with immunohistological and immunofluorescence colocalization. Bcl10 gene expression was detected in 15 OAL cases. Novel mutations were found in 11 cases. Notably, 1 mutation, which matched a published mutation, was detected in 1 ALH case; 1 novel mutation was found in 1 RLH case; and no Bcl10 gene mutation was found in controls. Most novel mutations were truncation mutations, resulting in a truncated protein product of 99 amino acids (compared to the full-length 233 amino acids; GenBank accession No. EF189176). Results of tests for abnormal Bcl10 gene expression in nuclei or cytoplasm were consistent with changes in NF-κB translocation. This report is the first of newly discovered mutations in the Bcl10 gene in the Chinese population. The distribution of the mutations is consistent with and more sensitive than that of the pathological diagnosis. These mutations can be used to identify the stage and clinical characteristics even when morphological changes are absent.
Bcl10 gene
Mucosa-associated lymphatic tissue
Combined detection of p53, p16, Rb, and EGFR mutations in lung cancer by suspension microarray
Bovine papillomavirus in beef cattle: first description of BPV-12 and putative type BAPV8 in Brazil
Selection of peptides for serological detection of equine infectious anemia
Clinical significance of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis
Assessment of BCL2/J(H) translocation in healthy individuals exposed to low-level radiation of 137CsCl in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil