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"The Mumbai Project": Aka, How Journalism Can be Saved
The winter term at Ryerson University in Toronto has just ended, and with it, the departure of a group of Masters candidates in journalism who I had the real pleasure of teaching.
The course was officially entitled "JRN 8108 - Journalism Workshop." It was a weekly six-hour session where we were supposed to "workshop" ideas in journalism. I was given pretty much carte blanche to design whatever I wanted.
I thought about this for weeks and tried to figure out what would be useful, challenging, important - even fun. But journalism is in a period of such wrenching transition, it seemed the height of escapism to engage these young people who are on the verge of entering the unknown with silly exercises about non-verbal narratives, or slide shows. A public policy outcome seemed more useful and urgent.
When the events in Mumbai, India occurred last November, the answer was obvious: I would ask the class to design a template for covering a breaking news story. It must involve all platforms: text, audio, video plus new media forms including wikis, blogs, flickr, twitter and all forms of user generated content. It had to be accountable and transparent. It had to have a business plan.
The results were, I believe, transformative. When the class presented their results to the chair of the department and the head of graduate studies, the results were impressive.
I originally planned to invite two or three "real" industry leaders, but the students resisted. They were worried that if the project failed, it might adversely affect their ability get jobs. They needn't have worried.
I am enclosing the summary by the group's leader Adrian Ma. This collaborative effort shows that the next generation of journalists are inventive and entrepreneurial. I am more optimistic about the future of journalism today than I was when I first walked into the class back in early January.
Here is the description of the Mumbai Project aka - "One Stop Media":
OneStopMedia
Journalism workshop presentation backgrounder
This document contains brief summations of each group's research, findings and recommendations.
1.0. Breaking News
The Breaking News group focused on analyzing existing newsrooms' practices for dealing with breaking events, and streamlining the process to successfully transition early information into contextualized verified content as quickly as possible.
The group discussed protocol for a breaking news event and which standards to employ when parsing out information in the early hours. Accordingly, the group examined the processes of several different news organizations, such as The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Sportsnet and The Canadian Press.
Building upon those organizations' standards as a foundation, the group developed a specialized set of procedures for a breaking news event:
 OneStopMedia ("the site") will be completely transparent about the verification of information and the origins of that information. If a report is only sourced from a post on Twitter, that caveat should accompany the information. This is true whether the information is presented in a traditional news story, or in another form elsewhere on the site.
 Within the organization, a new or updated resource list will be compiled and distributed quickly. This will consist of a source list of policy experts on the subject, in addition to key early information sources such as bloggers and tweeters on the ground at the event. The resource list will be maintained as a wiki (although it will only be available to access and edit within the organization, not to the outside world).
 Early reports will be packaged together based on live information coming in from Twitter, Facebook and other user-generated sources. This will be similar to the existing practice of running stories based on police band information before a reporter can be sent to the scene. The faster this early story goes live, the more quickly OneStopMedia will have a template for sites such as Google News or individual bloggers to aggregate. The story will then be updated as more information is posted and verified. For Example:
 BREAKING NEWS: TERRORIST ATTACK IN MUMBAI
27 November, 2008, 00:39:49 a.m.
Mumbai—Chaos reigns in Mumbai, India's financial capital, amid reports of a massive coordinated terrorist attack. According to unconfirmed reports from Twitter, terrorists have struck several locations including Nariman House, a business and residential complex in the city's south end. As many as 200 people are reported dead, and hundreds more injured by gunfire. A group calling themselves the Mujahedeen has claimed responsibility.
 OneStopMedia would issue breaking news alerts on social networking sites through the organization's personal contacts in order to spread news of the story. This is important because we want ours to be the link that gets "retweeted" and circulated elsewhere.
 As events progress, we start presenting information in different ways:
 Short video feeds of packaged news stories questioning our correspondents on the ground as we gain access. Videos would be cycled away from the top of the page as the info becomes stale.
 "Live hits" that provide as much information as possible.
 Continued coverage at key points in time throughout event (ie 12 hours in, 24 hours in, 36 hours in, etc.).
 This may include live/raw footage of the area or event if available.
 Focus on further verification and expansion of information. Switch from user-generated content to more in-depth analysis from our reporters.
 As information accumulates, an ever-evolving timeline becomes a key feature of the main page.
 All material in the timeline is colour-coded to indicate the level of verification.
 Information will be updated both into the past and as news breaks. As new information becomes available it will be added to the most recent end of the timeline; as old information becomes updated/verified/disproven, it will be modified where it appears earlier in the timeline.
 Mousing over words on the timeline will pop-up small windows containing more information or links. For example, mousing over "Mumbai" would give you information on the city, its geography and history. Presenting breaking news in these ways gives readers information in an accessible format (in a news feed, such as those used in an RSS reader, on Facebook, or on Twitter), but with a more organized and information-rich presentation.
Members: Geri Anderson, Daniel Kaszor, Marit Mitchell, John McGrath, Andrew Wallace
2.0. User Generated Content
As technology changes and media technology becomes more prevalent among the general public, the nature of breaking news is also changing. The first images broadcast now often come from cell phone cameras, and the quickest updates from Twitter feeds.
Research tells us Internet users enjoy being able to react to the material they see, read and hear, and to contribute their own content. Furthermore, the percentage of people who said they value each of these things increases significantly as we narrow the demographic slice to the younger generation. That means the importance of allowing readers to interact with and contribute to online news will only increase over the next few decades for news organizations hoping to attract readership.
News outlets can benefit tremendously by capitalizing on user-generated content (UGC), especially during breaking news events. Allowing users to contribute content can increase both the breadth and depth of coverage, and give news organizations access to information, photos and videos before reporters arrive on the scene. Online news media must take advantage of this immediacy in order to stay competitive within the news industry.
As a fairly new development, however, UGC brings with it practical and ethical issues that require careful deliberation. For example, what are the tools currently available, and which ones should a news outlet incorporate into its website? How can UGC be incorporated and managed in a way that does not overwhelm the reader, but is user-friendly and beneficial? How can a news outlet maintain the balance between moderation and censorship?
The OneStopNews model represents a selection of UGC that we believe to be the most valuable of the technology currently available, and the best ways to manage them. Some of the features worth highlighting here include the NewsTrust blog aggregator, threaded discussion board, interactive map, and filtered Twitter feed.
The NewsTrust blog aggregator points readers to blogs that have been rated most credible by those familiar with the topic or the source, thereby helping them sort through what is available and recommending only the best. The discussion board encourages readers to contribute to threads initiated and monitored by journalists, in an attempt to guide discussions toward a deeper exploration of important issues related to a major news event. The interactive map allows readers to contribute information and content from different locations within Mumbai, which manages UGC geographically, and in so doing paints a more diverse and complete picture of how the events unfolded than text, audio or video would allow. The Twitter feed comes from a single reporter (who can re-Tweet important information that he or she receives from other Twitter users) rather than the public at large, in order to avoid the publication of unverified rumours, as well as a flood of Tweets that would make it difficult for readers to follow and use. Each of these elements emphasizes the importance of selection, focus and moderation in managing UGC.
Communities are built around user contribution, and are designed to seek information and stimulate discussion. There are several models for managing these communities, each with different sets of benefits and costs—any journalistic enterprise that attempts to build an online community of users must tackle the decision of moderation before the site launches, and build a comprehensive set of guidelines and standards that address as many possible concerns as possible before the conversation begins. Public journalism projects are also bringing journalists into new legal territory. Generally, sites are not being held responsible for comments posted online unless they refuse to delete questionable posts, but this is an emerging issue and the legal situation is still evolving. For more details on standards and best practices for managing community, see the full write-up.
By understanding the strengths of user-generated content, and finding the best practices for managing it, news organizations can capitalize on the potential benefits of new technology while continuing to uphold high journalistic standards and serving its readers.
Members: Miriam Boon, Connie Fan, Jackie Johnstone, Rana Latif, Jennifer MacMillan, David Psutka, Jennifer Walter.
3.0. Context
According to the Principles of Journalism, a list compiled by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, truth-telling is a journalist's first obligation. "Journalistic truth," as the Pew Center refers to it, "is a process that begins with the professional discipline of assembling and verifying facts." But the process doesn't end there, even in a breaking news situation. Once data is collected and fact-checked, journalists must help their audience answer the final 'W': Why.
This last step is becoming more important as the amount of available news and information increases. In an environment where news can be written by almost anyone, contextual analysis is a valuable and necessary addition to a news website. As the Pew Center explains, "As citizens encounter an ever greater flow of data, they have more need – not less – for identifiable sources dedicated to verifying that information and putting into context."
OneStopNews, as the title suggests, is meant to provide all the answers to users' questions about the Mumbai attacks. Instead of leaving the website in favour of Wikipedia, users can stick around and read backgrounders on Mumbai and its people, once they've been brought up to date with the information on the attacks. The contextual components of OneStopNews help users situate the Mumbai attacks in a broader cultural, geographic and historical framework.
The "context" components include a soundslide, combining audio recordings and photographs from the event. We have also created a list of facts and general historical information about Mumbai and India, arranged in an easy-to-maneuver chart. "Mumbai by the Numbers" is a list of basic facts about Mumbai in the form of a Harper's index. We have come up with ideas for three blogs that will provide three different kinds of analysis, from citizen accounts of life in Mumbai, to experts' takes on the events. Finally, we have added an aggregation of stories from major news outlets, which would link users to longer-form features from other respected news sites. This places OneStopNews in a trusted, transparent and open online community.
Members: Sarah Bridge, Hannah Classen, Josh Hume, Jessica Johnston, Joseph Loiero, Ashley Walters.
4.0. Business Model
In the course of this project, this group (and the class as a whole) reached a consensus about charging readers for online content: in short, it's not feasible. "Pay walls" that prevent readers from accessing content prior to buying it are just that—walls that hinder efficient flow of information.
Since we want to attract the greatest number of readers, and not drive away the search engines that lead readers to us, erecting a barrier to content is self-destructive. And to state a point that has been made already in numerous articles about the problem of how to make journalism profitable again, readers have never actually supported news financially. Advertisers have. We have therefore focused our efforts on an advertising model for supporting Internet journalism.
Note that in the case of a breaking news event like the Mumbai attacks, ads must be selected with sensitivity to the seriousness of the story. Ads for frivolous products or with light-hearted messages would be in poor taste alongside reports of a great disaster.
Research shows that advertisers are holding back when it comes to devoting their resources to online marketing. Hence, there is a lot of room for growth in online advertising. If we can attract readers to the site and give them reason to spend time on it, we can also offer advertisers a valuable audience.
Currently, social networking sites attract the most Internet users. One of the most compelling aspects of the web is its ability to bring people together and let them share information and interact with each other. It makes sense, then, to combine the social networking function with breaking news. User-generated content must play a pivotal role in the breaking news site, and it must be easy for people to contribute to the discussion—and to the news itself.
The challenge is doing so in a way that allows us to indicate the distinction between content that is journalistically sound (reliable, clearly written and well-sourced, for example) and user-generated or social content—much as newspapers delineate between opinion pieces and hard news articles.
Using our interactive tool, readers can take note of what other people have commented on or recommended. They can also join the discussion more actively by adding their own comments. In theory, at least, the tool attracts more eyeballs to the site, and keeps them there. It increases the "stickiness" factor of the breaking news destination: giving people opportunity to engage with the content and with their social group will keep them on the site longer and motivate them to return. (Note: readers can also interact with ads on the site: they can choose to skip ads they find offensive or irrelevant, or tag those they find useful.)
At the same time, the tool keeps user-generated content visually distinct from other content on the site, to help readers properly evaluate what they read.
Members: Rehana Begg, Riva Finkelstein, Amy Fuller, Carolyn Morris, Morgan Passi, Theresa Suzuki, Christiana Wiens.


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NBC's hit program The Biggest Loser shocked its TV audience last week when it revealed that the winner, Rachel Frederickson, dropped nearly 155 pounds, or almost 60 percent of her starting body weight, during the course of the program, Time.com reports.
The article questioned whether Frederickson's speedy weight loss from nearly 260 pounds down to 105 was really safe, and what physically happens to the human body when it shrinks down to half its size.
Frederickson's new height to weight ratio, or body mass index (BMI), put her slightly below the threshold of what most doctors consider a "healthy" weight, so if you thought The Biggest Loser winner looked a bit too skinny, you're right.
Still, trimming down does hold a number of health benefits. Weight loss experts say Frederickson's first 20 to 35 pounds would have been accompanied with immediate improvements to her blood pressure, blood sugar and breathing. What's more, with each additional pound a person loses, physicians can see improvements in virtually every organ system in the body.
Frederickson's appetite also probably changed for the better. That's because swapping out foods such as white breads and chips with more complex carbs from beans, veggies and whole grains tends to make people feel less hungry and more satisfied with less food.
In addition, doctors suggest that the mental health effects for Frederickson might have been immeasurable. Studies show that when people go on a healthy diet, the neurotransmitters in their brain work better. Another benefit to Frederickson includes not being subjected to the stigma our society levels against people who are obese.
But health experts say Frederickson and her fellow competitors who lose large chunks of weight may still have work to continue healing their bodies. Serious health problems, such as heart issues, valve dilations and diabetes, must still be addressed long after the pounds melt away.
For Frederickson, physical therapy may also be needed to help repair her muscle and skeletal systems. Our bodies aren't meant to carry a lot of excess weight, and Frederickson's lower extremities probably underwent a significant amount of stress when she was working out while overweight.
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But first, since we're talking interviews...I'll stay just for a moment on the subject of "questions asked by the candidate during the interview."
For the record, yes, we do encourage candidates to ask thoughtful questions. It is assumed that the candidate will come to the interview fully prepared. A large part of the preparation should come in the form of "research." Do yourself a big favor - research the company prior to the interview, then use your noggin.' Hoovers.com can be a great tool for this type of activity - research your employer of choice and take notes. Use the notes to develop insightful questions that will let the interviewer know you've done your homework.
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She obviously didn't have a good "feel" for where we were in the interview process.
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#Training Programme
#World Rafting
1st Worldwide Conference About Training For River Guide And Coach
WRF is honored and proud to announce that on Wednesday 29/07, Thursday 30/07, Friday 31/07, Saturday 1/08 and Sunday 2/08/2020 will take place the 1st worldwide conference from the World Rafting Federation about training for River Guide and Coach, in l'Argentière la Bessée in France and on the Dora Baltea river in Italy.
This conference is an important step in the recently history of the WRF, the governing body for all aspect of Sport Rafting, especially international competitions, leisure and recreational rafting, and all others disciplines directly connected to Rafting.
This event will allow us to present and explain the structure of the WRF Training Programme for River Guide and Coach, in order to create a dynamic and positive relationship between the WRF members, to share practices and open debates over the training of the river guides and coaches, in the perspective to reach the WRF main goals which are the achieving common training standards for River Guide and Coach, and the international mobility for the technicians and athletes.
Regarding the specificity of the topics, this conference is destinated only to the responsible of the National Training Commission of the Rafting Federation members of the WRF, which will receive by mail the invitation and the programme of this event.
Step by step growing and performing!
#Armenia
#European Rafting
Successful meetings for Rafting development in Armenia
On 17th February the President of the World Rafting Federation Danilo Barmaz met the deputy president of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Armenia Mr. Grigoryan, in presence of the President of Armenian National Rafting Federation, Mr. Sedrak Zakaryan, the executive director of Armenian National Rafting federation, Mr. Karen Mkrtchyan, and the president of the rafting club "Noy", Mr. Vazgen Khachikyan. In the town of Alaverdi, in the northeastern part of Alaverdi the rafting development opportunities were discussed, including the opening of a new rafting center on the shores of Debed river canyon 1000 meters above sea level, surrounded by high mountains and green forests. The local authorities really appreciated our movement and the mayor of Alaverdi, Mr. Sasun Khechumyan, is considering the foundation of a rafting school there, in the future.
The good river level, surrounded by churches and historical buildings, led Mr Barmaz to a discussion about organising international competitions on Debed.
In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, the WRF President, the Armenian Federation President Sedrak Zakaryan and the members of the board Vazgen Khachikyan and Suren Danielyan visited the Armenian University of Physical Culture and Sport, welcomed by the Rector, Mr. David Khitaryan, the Vice-rector, Mr. Gagik Sargsyan, who also represented the Armenian Ski Federation.
The recently opened "Sport Tourism" speciality of the University started considering the possibility to include our sport, including lectures and seminars, and the opportunity to teach rafting to rescuers, that would be a mutually beneficial offer.
"I am very thankful for the warm hospitality everyone I met in Armenia offered me and I am amazed by the enormous potential of this beautiful country".
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#Slunj
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Balkans are calling: Bulgaria Grand Prix, straight after Slunj
Whitewater is already calling from the Balkans: 2 months and we'll be back in the water!
From 20th to 22th March Croatia will open the WRF season with the Euro Cup in Slunj, where Korana river flows straight into the Slunjčica, drawing the amazing waterfalls we fell in love with 2 years ago, at the first WRF event in 2018.
The beginning of the season will not stop there for many rafters: Bulgarian teams will go straight from Slunj to their National Champs, but not alone.
The Struma river will host the first Grand Prix of the World Rafting year: from 27th to 29th March Slalom, RX and Downriver will not only decide the Bulgaria's names you will meet in Solkan at the World Champs, but also inaugurate the international season for the National teams who will join the event. Every National team is warmly invited to paddle in the Kresna Gorge, where the whitewater flows from the Vitosha mountains into the 3rd level rapids of a 18 kms green natural scenario.


Reds signed powerful central defender Joe on a two-year contract in July 2015 from Woking, where he made more than 250 appearances and won an England C cap.
A succession of knee injuries restricted him to 13 appearances in his first season with the club but he signed a new two-year contract with the option of an extra year in March 2017.
Chesterfield programmes now on sale!
"It was good to be back out on the field"


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Christmas, 1483: Roger the Chapman is looking forward to twelve days of peace and celebration with his wife and children in Bristol. The family is particularly excited by the arrival of a troupe of mummers, who will perform their plays in the outer ward of the castle throughout the festival. But the gruesome murders of two of the town's most prominent and venerable citizens, both veterans of the French wars, scupper Roger's hopes as he is gradually drawn into the hunt for the killer.
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Forced to flee, denied entry to Arab countries, and unable to return to their homeland, former Palestinian residents of Iraq are on the Iraqi-Syrian border, still waiting for somewhere to go.
The place is called al-Hol camp. The Palestinian embassy in Lebanon said it knew nothing about these Palestinians. UNRWA said they were not registered with it. How come?
We contacted the young man, named Firas Saidam, to ask. A few days later – the web in Syria is not in good shape – we succeeded. He replied that after Israel occupied Palestine in 1948, the Iraqi government undertook to care for Palestinians in its territory, in return for not contributing to UNRWA.
Then came the American occupation, followed by anarchy and the outbreak of sectarian violence, especially after the bombing of Shia shrines. "The Palestinians were in trouble twice over. They were Sunni, and they were 'Saddam's pets.' Either way, we had to escape," he said.
Three refugee camps were initially established on the Iraqi-Syrian border: Al-Waleed camp on the Iraqi side; al-Tanf camp in the no-man's land in between the two countries' territories, and al-Hol some ten kilometers inside Syria and 50 kilometers east of the town of al-Hasaka.
"We are the left-over people from al-Tanf," said Firas. He was referring to the closure of the al-Tanf camp by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in early 2010, after it arranged for the resettlement of most of the inhabitants to third countries. Others were moved to al-Hol, where 215 people remain today, including around 100 who have no solution to their cases in sight, according to Firas.
As Firas and fellow Palestinian refugees in Iraq were not placed under UNRWA's jurisdiction in 1948, they are being dealt with by UNHCR. It provides refugees with one of three possible solutions: return to the country they came from, settlement in the host country, or resettlement in a third. Many of the displaced Palestinians in the border camps opted for the third option after 2006, when the Arab League signed an agreement with UNHCR stating that this would not prejudice their right of return to Palestine. But according to Firas, the resettlement program was discontinued when there were only some 200 cases left to process, due to a change of priorities at UNHCR.
How about settling in Syria? "We are grateful to the Syrians for hosting us for seven years even though they were not obliged to," he said. "But Syria in its current state is not a solution." Al-Hol camp is adjacent to a Syrian army base that recently came under attack from gunmen (on the night of April 28). Residents are in real danger, and living conditions are poor, with plastic sheets used as roofing. They feel abandoned by UNHCR.
According to Firas, the Commission only began paying serious attention to the plight of the refugees at al-Hol after they staged a strike in 2008. Resettlement then began to places like Canada, Australia and Sweden – as no nearer country was prepared to take them. A handful of the al-Hol camp's residents have been there since 2006, and are still waiting for countries to accept them.
But with the issue of the Iraqi-Palestinian refugees fading from the media and the international public eye, fewer potential host-states countries have been prepared to consider taking them in. More than two thirds of the 215 remaining at al-Hol are women and children.
UNHCR reportedly tried to promote the idea of arranging for them to be moved permanently to Damascus. But this fell through as a result of events in Syria. While it is unclear if the Commission is indeed still seeking such a solution, it is one the remaining refugees themselves strongly oppose – for legal, practical, personal reasons.
Firas charged that the UNHCR had conveyed the false impression that all the cases in the camp had been resolved. In 2010, it offered some of them a chance of going to the United States, but many turned that down because they had been detained by US forces during the occupation, and for other reasons related to immigration procedures. He said the refugees had tried to reason with UNHCR, but facing an unknown future and worsening conditions, they decided to stage an open-ended protest, possibly leading to a hunger strike.
Their principal demand is to be resettled in countries where they have relatives – mostly outside the Arab world, as the supposedly "fellow" Arab states have refused to receive them, and they cannot go back to their occupied homeland.
In the meantime, they want to be moved to a safe location outside Syria, where having already fled persecution and death in Iraq, they now face new dangers.
Their case, incidentally, has not been taken up by any Palestinian agency, official or unofficial.


The Memorial Union was created in 1922 by William T. Proudfoot from the Des Moines firm of Proudfoot, Rawson &lifier Souers. It had been the designated design firm for that Iowa Board of your practice (now known as the Board of Regents).
The Memorial Union was one of the numerous structures created by Proudfoot's firm for Iowa educational facilities, which is only some of the Proudfoot building at Iowa Condition College – Beardshear and Curtiss Halls are the work of his firm.
The classic style architecture from the Memorial Union reflects the Greek and Roman influences utilized by many designers, not just in America, but through the civilized world. Posts with Corinthian capitals, Paladian home windows, triangular pediments, and formally balanced facades really are a couple of significant particulars denoting the classic style.
Consistent with the careful arrange for the central campus area, the Memorial Union around the south accented the design and style and materials utilized in Beardshear Hall towards the west, MacKay Hall towards the north and Curtiss Hall towards the east - the 4 compass points around central campus.
The classical north facade from the Memorial Union was carried out three phases, and it wasn't until 1964 the building finally looked the way in which Proudfoot had imagined it. Once the Union opened up in 1928, Gold Star Hall, the memorial, stuck from the front from the building, a lengthy corridor entrance. In 1953, the region west of Gold Star Hall was added, as well as in 1964, the region towards the east was completed. It's a compliment towards the Union's leadership that no compromises in materials were created throughout the 36 years intervening years!
The 1966, 1974 and 1978 additions (the parking ramp and shown-glass southeast additions) specified for by Brooks, Borg &lifier Skiles of Des Moines, the firm that increased from Proudfoot's original company. These additions clearly reflect design trends from the sixties and 70s.


To bring forth prosperity through modern Electronics and Communication Technology by imparting valuebased education,innovation and become a world-class technical department.
M1–Technical Education and research: To impart technical education to face the challenges of the modern technology and research.
M2–Leadership quality: To provide research exposure through industry institute interactions.
M3-Entrepreneurship: To inculcate the spirit of innovation and creativity among students to become entrepreneurs.
PEO1: EMPLOYABILITY: To innovate the students to take more than just imagination and to give superior technical education for tomorrow's competitive world.
PEO2: HIGHER STUDIES:To prepare the students with high stand ard education to associate with global industry needed.
PEO3: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEADERSHIP: To train the student with perfection and state-of -the art technology keeping in the changing and demand ing trends.
PEO4: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS:To create innovative thinkers in Electronics and Communication for new projects to meet the needs of the society.
PO1: Engineering knowledge: Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and Electronics and communication engineering to the solution of Engineering problems.
PO2: Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review literature and analyze Electronics and communication engineering problems to design, conduct experiments, analyze data and interpret data.
PO3: Design /development of solutions:Design solution for Electronics and communication engineering problems and design system component of processes that meet the desired needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal and the environmental considerations.
PO4: Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions in Electronics and communication engineering.
PO5: Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to Electronics and communication engineering activities with an understand ingof the limitations.
PO6: The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to Electronics and communication engineering practice.
PO7: Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the Electronics and communication engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge and need for sustainable development.
PO8: Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to prof essional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the Electronics and communication engineering practice.
PO9: Individual and team work: Function affectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings in Electronics and communication engineering.
PO10: Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering committee and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write affective reports and design documentation; make effective presentations in Electronics and communication engineering.
PO11: Project Management and finance:Demonstrate knowledge & understand ingof the electronics and communication engineering principles and management principles and apply these to one's own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments in Electronics and communication engineering.
PO12: Life – long learning: Recognize the need for, and the preparation and ability to engage in independent research and lifelong learning in the broadest contest of technological changes in Electronics and communication engineering.
The graduates of the program would have a successful professionalcareer in Electronics and Communication Engineering and related fields like VLSI Design, Microprocessor and Microcontroller, Embedded System, Wireless Networks, Communication System, etc….
The graduates would have capability to learn and adapt to design and develop the needs of real time technologies and also pursue higher studies, researches and as entrepreneurs.
professional individually and interact with their peers in other disciplines in industry and society to meet social awareness and responsibility for the economic growth of the country.
It's Technological advancement that has shrunk the world and it is no wonder that at the click of the mouse, one could get the glimpse of their near and dear ones miles away in their drawing rooms. Electronics and Communication Engineering has undergone a host of admirable changes. Interactive sessions, conduct of seminars, workshops etc. are the added academic exercises dwelt upon by the Department, in the making of an engineer beyond compare.
On behalf of my colleagues, I am delighted to welcome you to the Departmental website of Electronics and Communication Engineering. This website is intended to serve several different constituencies of the Department which include our current students, faculty and Course contents.
The objectives for the establishment of the Department are in line with the vision of MEC to become an exemplary institute of nationally acknowledged stature and excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. Furthermore, our academic program and learning environment have been designed to contribute to the quality and intellectual development of the students. We are actively engaged in an exciting and forward looking program of teaching and research.
I hope that the information on these pages reflect this vision and will motivate you to learn more about us with a view to participating in our programs – either as a student, a member of staff, or industry collaborator or sponsor. If you have an opportunity to visit us in person, you are assured of a warm welcome. If you have any comments or suggestions, please email us to hodece@mec.ac.in. We appreciate your interest and your input.
The Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering takes a great Smugness in turning out successful areas who can tender their best service with boundless competence and utilizing energy. In order to equip our students with the most current in this ephemeral technological field we have set up a state-of-the-art laboratory, which is upgraded periodically. The mission of the Department is to provide Futuristic Technical Education to all our students and instill in them a sense of leadership, entrepreneurship and research to dedicate their lives and services for the betterment of their families and the nation.
The faculty members and students are regularly engaged in presenting and publishing papers in National and International Journals and Conferences. Research works are being carried out in Wireless technology in Network Simulator. The Department regularly applies and receives fund from AICTE, CSIR for projects and seminars. During the year 2012, AICTE Sponsored for various seminar topics like Wireless technology, DIP, VLSI. Guest lectures and industrial visits are arranged regularly to students for up-gradation of knowledge on latest technologies available in the market on the thrust areas like VLSI Design, Wireless Mobile Communication, Digital Image Processing, etc. The students are encouraged for all round excellence in all extracurricular activities.
The PG Program was started in the year 2009 with team of highly qualified, dedicated and Enthusiastic faculty members as well as with well equipped laboratories. This Programme is having technology and business in a state of flux, speed of thought and competitiveness are the criteria, which separates the best from the rest. In order to equip our students with the most current trends and techniques in this ephemeral technological field we have set up a state-of-the-art laboratory, which is upgraded periodically. We have also added latest topics like Digital Image Processing and Embedded Technology to keep students aware of the recent changes.
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Design Entry and simulation of sequential logic circuits (counters, PRBS Generators, accumulators). Test bench creation, functional verification, and concepts of concurrent and sequential execution to be highlighted.
Synthesis, P & R and Post P & R simulation for all the blocks/codes developed in Expt. No. 1 and No. 2 given above. Concepts of FPGA floor plan, critical path, design gate count, I/O configuration and pin assignment to be taught in this experiment.
Generation of configuration/fuse files for all the blocks/codes developed as part of Expt.1. and Expt. 2. FPGA devices must be configured and hardware tested for the blocks/codes developed as part of Expt. 1. and Expt. 2. The correctness of the inputs and outputs for each of the blocks must be demonstrated atleast on oscilloscopes (logic analyzer preferred).
Schematic Entry and SPICE simulation of MOS differential amplifier. Determination of gain, bandwidth, output impedance and CMRR.
Layout of a simple CMOS inverter, parasitic extraction and simulation.
Design of a 10 bit number controlled oscillator using standard cell approach, simulation followed by study of synthesis reports.
Wireless LAN protocols. To create scenario and study the performance of network with CSMA / CA protocol and compare with CSMA/CD protocols.
Implementation of Linear and Cyclic Codes.
Reflex klystron or Gunn diode characteristics and basic microwave parameter measurement such as VSWR, frequency, wavelength.
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US West Coast fires: Is Trump right to blame forest management?on October 14, 2020 at 7:56 am
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President Trump has sought to highlight forest management rather than climate change as the key factor explaining the wildfires burning across California, Oregon and Washington states.
When asked during a visit to California about the role of climate change, Mr Trump said: "I think this is more of a [forest] management situation."
However, a recent review of research into the causes of these fires suggests rising temperatures are playing a major role.
So is President Trump right to point to poor forest management?
Firstly, most forest in California, Oregon and Washington isn't the responsibility of the state authorities – in fact, their share of forest land is small.
In California state, the federal government owns nearly 58% of the 33 million acres of forest, according to the state governor's office. The state itself owns just three per cent, with the rest owned by private individuals or companies or Native American groups.
There's a similar picture in Oregon, with significant proportions of forest land in federal rather than state hands, as well as under private ownership.
And in Washington state, only 12% of forest land is in the hands of the state authorities, with 43% federally-owned and 36% in private hands.
Federal agencies like the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Parks Service are responsible for the upkeep of federally-owned land, and as far as private forest land is concerned, it's up to the owners to manage these areas.
State and federal agencies have programmes and regulations to encourage co-operation and best practice when it comes to managing private forested areas, including reducing the threat of wildfires.
But there've also been funding cuts to federal agencies under President Trump, although the administration has given some more money for specific programmes to reduce the risk of wildfires.
Two years ago, President Trump also criticised California's forest management. He pointed to Finland, where he said they raked and cleared the forests to prevent fires.
Finland is not directly comparable to California due to differences in climate, types of vegetation and land use.
But experts believe there are issues with forest management practice and land use in California and elsewhere.
Scott Stephens, a leading authority on wildfires, at the University of California, has for some years questioned forest management priorities in the state.
He's pointed to the large number of dead trees left standing due to drought and disease, as a serious fire risk that needs to be addressed.
Prof Stefan Doerr, a wildfires expert at Swansea University, highlights the modern practice of total fire suppression, at the expense of allowing some limited fires to burn and create firebreaks.
"For centuries, Native American peoples would burn parts of the forest… and that would thin out more flammable vegetation and make forests less dense.
"But the emphasis has been on putting out any fires – and with climate change this has now created a tinderbox of vegetation," says Prof Doerr.
The US Forest Service has been trying to rectify this in recent years through setting fires in what's called "controlled" or "prescribed" burning.
However, there are questions about whether enough resources are being devoted to this, and if it's really come too late in the day to prevent major fires.
John Bailey, a wildfire expert at Oregon State University, told the BBC that while prescribed burning has been carried out in Oregon, "it's probably not enough to keep up with the amount of fuel accumulating on the landscape each year."
The Governor of Washington State, Jay Inslee, has acknowledged that "there are places where it makes sense that we thin our timber. And we are doing that."
But he also criticised President Trump for highlighting this factor, rather than climate change: "These are climate [change] fires."
A recent scientific review of more than 100 studies done since 2013 showed that climate change was driving an increase in the frequency and severity of the type of weather likely to lead to fires.
California now has greater exposure to fire risks than before humans started altering the climate, the authors say.
Drier, warmer conditions lead to vegetation drying out and becoming more flammable. Add to that the fact that winter seasons when it rains or snows are getting shorter by the year.
In terms of loss of life and damage to property, the worst fires in the state have all been in the past 10 years or so – except for one fire in 1991 in Alameda County.
And this year, there have also been unusually strong winds combined with periods of drought across parts of the western US. Six of the largest fires recorded in California have all happened this year.
Prof Doerr says a combination of drier, hotter and windy conditions is the key factor in these recent fires.
He adds that even in areas where there have been attempts to reduce flammable material in forests, it's not clear how much difference this would have made.
"The bottom line remains that the extreme meteorological conditions are the main drivers for these extreme fires."
One important factor is the increasing number of people moving out of urban areas to live near forests, known as the wildland-urban interface.
A 2018 study for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the US, estimated about one in three homes were now in such areas.
This population movement poses several problems:
more fires risk being started accidentally near forested or other areas with flammable material
an increasing likelihood of the destruction of residential property if a fire starts
it becomes harder to set controlled fires to burn off excess vegetation
A report in 2015 for the US Department of Agriculture warned that the expansion of the wildland-urban interface "has increased the likelihood that wildfires will threaten structures and people."
This article was originally published in November 2018. It has been extensively revised.
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In a small town, Cremona, in the northern Italy, a boy was born. They named him Paolo. He was born deaf.
For a deaf child, there were no many prospects. There were five children in the family and only the two oldest ones were sent to school. When he was 10, Paolo was sent to the local violin maker to help him and learn the craft of violin making. No one expected anything more from him.
The old violin maker became very fond of Paolo. He liked the boy's inquisitive mind, hard work and persistence. Even when the dark surrounded the city and the candle light was not enough to continue working, the boy would not stop. Paolo also rarely talked. There were days when the two of them didn't exchange a word or sign. And the teacher loved it. He had his own peace which was not disturbed by the boy's presence. And what was even more important, Paolo showed a great talent for violin making. As the months were passing by, the teacher noticed that his student's violins were getting better and better and he knew that one day, Paolo would be better violin maker than him. He had that rare talent for details and as if he hadn't been deaf, he could feel the wood and strings as if he had been the one to play the instrument. He would carve scrolls in the most unusual ways. Rarely would he make them curly. He preferred carving leaves and flowers instead on the top of violin. And an f-hole was something he did even better. This small hole that he was making helped the sound go through it so smoothly and beautifully that it seemed as if it had been a nightingale's voice. The way he was choosing the maple wood was extraordinary. He would stroke gently the piece of maple wood, and hold it in his hands for a while as if checking its pulse to see if the piece was alive enough to produce the magnificent sound. Then, he would place it on the working table, explore every corner of it, as if looking for an unacceptable deformity, and finally when he made sure there was no such a deformity, he would boil it. And he would always boil it a little bit longer and at a lower temperature than his teacher. At the beginning, his teacher was angry because Paolo didn't follow his instructions but then he let him do it his own way. After boiling the wood, Paolo did what his teacher showed him. He would use potassium silicate as a ground and then he would cover it completely with vernice bianca. This strengthened the inside and outside of a violin and the beloved tones later came out of it. It was a pleasure to watch him work. His hands were sliding over the wooden surface and his eyes were fixed on one specific spot, undisturbed by the noise outside. He seemed a kind of transfixed by the beauty of an artifact that he produced. He was in love with the craft of violin making. And his teacher's heart was full.
When Paolo was 18, his teacher, who was already old, got a bad fever which knocked him down. He didn't suffer for a long time. After a few days of fighting the illness, he passed away. After his teacher died, Paolo had to deal with so many things. All the remaining work, negotiations with customers, payments, wood supply. And he was not as good in these tasks as he was in violin making. Violin making was the only thing he knew to do very well. The teacher's cousin, Giovani, a sturdy young man, with a very red face and a lot of pimples on it, took over all the financial things and customers. But he knew nothing about violin making. The teacher used to carefully chose his clients, avoiding those new rich who had nothing to do with music but wanted to have all musical instruments displayed in their houses in order to show off. They usually had some very strange requests. They wanted the violin to be bigger or smaller than it was normal, and decorated in a ridiculous way, and made from the tree that was growing in their own garden. The teacher would just ridicule this kind of people and he would not care about how rich or powerful they were. Violin making was an artistic craft and those people didn't know anything about art. However, the teacher's cousin was greedy and sleazy and he knew that those people don't hesitate to spend a lot of money for things they wanted. And he wanted money more than anything. Paolo was not in a situation to quit what he was doing. First of all, he loved his job, and as long as he didn't have to deal with people's demands but just focus on the very process of violin making, he felt fine. And second, his family couldn't help him. They didn't have enough money sometimes, not enough even for food. He often brought them food and whatever they needed. Therefore, he decided to continue doing what he only knew to do.
In the middle of summer, when the sun was mercilessly burning the ground and heating the air, a famous rich man from Rome came to Cremona. He had heard about the deaf man who was making some of the best violins. He wanted to order one violin for his younger sister. The two of them, a brother and sister, arrived in Cremona one sunny day. They rented a house in the center of Cremona and planned to stay there for a few months, as long as it took a violin to be ready. The young man was a bit snobbish and uptight. But his younger sister, who was 16, was a lovely creature. She was not only physically beautiful, but very well-mannered, always smiling, and wishing "good day" to everyone whom she saw on the street. She was curious and loved talking with Cremona's flower sellers and people at the local market. In a few days, she got fans from all over Cremona. Everyone talked about a lovely young "signorina" Rosanna. When the brother and sister came for the first time to the Paolo's workshop, Giovani, anticipating a lot of money coming, made the workshop sightseeing tour and special speech for them. They didn't seem impressed or interested in hearing so much about the place, which was pretty simple and dirty, or about his cousin, Paolo's teacher, who was famous all around Italy. They were more eager to meet Paolo and order a violin for Rosanna. They ignored Giovani and went directly to Paolo who looked at them calmly and waited to hear what they wanted. But Paolo didn't fail to notice how beautiful Rosanna was. And how kind and polite. She was smiling all the time, looking Paolo directly in the eyes, and letting her brother talk. Paolo blushed and pretended to look at what the brother was drawing on a shabby piece of paper. But actually, he was stealthily looking over his shoulder and trying to see what Rosanna was doing. Rosanna was looking around and touching some of violins that Paolo worked on. She was investigated them, and admired them with a smile and eyes wide open. And Paolo, seeing her excitement, knew that she was one of his kind. She loved violins and probably, she loved music. He was almost sure that she would be, if she already wasn't, a great violin player. When the brother drew everything he wanted and had to show Paolo, the two of them wished him good bye and left. Paolo's heart was beating fast. For the first time in his life, a woman, instead of a violin, impressed him and made a turmoil of his emotions.
The next few weeks, Paolo was focused on making a violin for Rosanna. He felt light-headed and was sweating every time she came to see the violin progress. She would spend an hour, sometimes two, watching Paolo working. And in her eyes, one could see that she admired his work. He wanted even to help him but he refused that. Her presence was distraction and he couldn't really stay focused on what he was doing but he loved to have her around, no matter that he was only productive when she was not there. But she was his muse and inspiration. Thinking about her, he made the perfect shape and arching of the violin. He knew that this violin would be his masterpiece. Rosanna was happy to come by almost every day and watch Paolo working. She liked the way this young man created violins. He seemed kind of talking to them in some alien and silent language that only he understood. He treated violins as if they had been alive and he touched the wood as if he had petted a dog. His movements were slow and steady. And he always seemed so focused no matter what happened around him. In some strange way, she grew very fond of him. And he let her spend time in his workshop and even communicated with her, once in a while, in his own sign language.They shared a love for violins. If he was from her own world, she would easily fall in love with him, but she avoided thinking about this because she knew that there was a world of difference between them.
The violin making took a bit longer than expected, since Paolo, on purpose, didn't hurry to finish this special violin. And Rosanna didn't complain, since she enjoyed Cremona and all its peculiarities. And she enjoyed spending time with Paolo in his workshop and watching him working. However, Rosanna's brother started getting anxious to go back to Rome. He missed parties, heavy drinking, social life that Crermona didn't offer him. He started pushing Paolo to finish the violin as soon as possible. And Paolo had no choice.
The masterpiece was ready, and both Rosanna and her brother were happy. They praised Paolo and the violin and were very generous when paying for it. Paolo didn't care about money but Giovani certainly did. Paolo was sad since he knew he might never again see Rosanna. Before they left, Rosanna came to the Paolo's workshop to say good bye. She wanted to hug him but found it inappropriate. Instead, they shook hands good bye and she gave him her white handkerchief with a small red rose flower in one corner of it. Paolo's hands were trembling and he felt as if the ground beneath him will open and swallow him. His heart was pounding fiercely in his chest. He didn't want her to go. But he had to let her go.
The next few weeks he couldn't make himself eat anything. He got sick and had to stay in bed for some days. Giovani was not happy. The clients were waiting for their violins and he wanted their money. So as soon as Paolo started feeling better, he started working again. And work helped him not to think too much about Rosanna. Or at least he thought so.
Years passed. Paolo was already in his thirties but he never met a woman that triggered his heart like Rosanna had done. He didn't think about getting married. Anyway, there were no many women who wanted a deaf husband. And he suppressed his physical desires somehow. Only he knew how he managed to do that.
One day, very early in the morning, Giovani opened the door of the workshop and entered the room where Paolo was working. He was all excited. Some strange happiness and excitement radiated from him, and Paolo knew that money must have been the reason for that. He told Paolo that "signora" Rosanna was coming to make another order. She wanted another violin. Paolo was taken completely by surprise when he heard the news. It had been so long...His heart started pounding fiercely. He touched his chest, there were he kept the handkerchief that Rosanna had given to him, in a small pocket. It was his greatest treasure. He started remembering her face, lips, eyes, cheeks, eyebrows, hair. He could see them clearly as if she had been standing in front of him. He didn't forget any part of her. He had a vivid picture of her in his mind.
The day when she arrived was one of the most exciting days in his life. A river of emotions flooded over him. However, she didn't come alone. She visited his workshop the very same day when she arrived. She came with her husband and a little girl. Like mother, like daughter. Paolo was looking at the little girl and remembered the first time Rosanna had come to his workshop. She was a bit older than her daughter now, but she had the same elegance, curiosity, smile as her mother. Paolo was happy and sad. He realized, even though, he had somehow suspected before, that she was married and not anymore that young girl who had taken his heart. But she was still gorgeous and he couldn't help noticing that he was still deep in love with her. But his heart started aching. He didn't want to see her with another man and he wanted to always keep an image of her as a young free girl.
Rosanna was very excited and honestly happy to see Paolo. She introduced him to her husband and daughter and called him a "genius". Her broad smile and shiny eyes showed Paolo that she was happy. And he felt sad that he didn't make her happy instead of someone else. But soon enough, he discarded these thoughts and told himself to stop behaving silly. He always knew that what he felt for her would never be enough. They were as different as chalk and cheese. Anyway, Rosanna wanted Paolo to make a violin for her daughter. She didn't want to draw anything or write anything. She didn't give him any instructions. She let him make the violin however he wished. He was satisfied. She trusted him.
He worked hard and didn't want to waste time. He wanted to finish his work as soon as possible. It was not that he really wanted her to leave Cremona, but her staying there also made him suffer. She had a family and her own life and he was stuck in a moment. He still loved her the way he had so many years ago. However, She would come every day to his workshop to see the progress of the violin. Sometimes she would come alone but often with her husband and daughter. One rainy day, she came to the workshop alone. Paolo tried to ignore her and didn't move his eyes from the violin he was working on. But he was not focused. His hands trembled and he couldn't calm his pounding heart. She came close to him and sat in a chair just a meter far from Paolo. He couldn't work like that and he stopped, went outside for a moment, took a deep breath and when he came back he saw her sitting in the same chair with the half-finished violin in her hands. She told him the violin already looked amazing. He didn't react to this remark. Then she left the violin where she had found it and took his hand. She told him she was sorry if she did something wrong. She told him she admired him and if the circumstance were not as they were she would fall in love with him. He didn't want to hear this. For him, she was an angel, with pure heart and pure thoughts, who didn't care about material and social differences between people. He knew that they couldn't be together, and they never could. He knew that she knew this but he didn't want to hear her telling him that. He still wanted to have the illusion of not being sure what she thought. He wanted to believe that she had got married and never showed him that she had cared about him because of the pressure form her family. He wanted to believe that they had pushed her to get married to another man. But now he knew that it had been her will. Some strange anger overcame him. He opened the door and showed her that he wanted her to leave. He couldn't work while she was there. She didn't say anything. She just left.
Paolo finished the violin in record time. He told Giovani that he would like to stay at home for few days since he didn't feel well and therefore, Giovani was supposed to deliver the violin to Rosanna and her family. Paolo didn't want to see her.
Rosanna was sad when she realized that she would not see Paolo to thank him personally. He made an absolutely beautiful violin for her daughter. But she had to accept his wish. She had no right to request more than that from him. When the day of their departure arrived, she came one more time to the workshop, which was empty and somehow sad without Paolo. She sat in a chair and breathed the air filled with the scent of maple wood. She touched the wooden pieces scattered around and finally after half an hour, she left.
Within the next few decades Cremona got few more violin making factories. But Paolo was known as the best violin maker even though he was getting old and he couldn't keep up the same pace of work he had had when he had been younger. But clients didn't complain. They respected him and knew that his violins were worth waiting for. Paolo's health, however, started to decline dramatically.
Rosanna was a well-known violin player and violin teacher in Rome. Her daughter was a famous violin player as well and she traveled all around Europe until she finally settled down in Paris. Rosanna's husband died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Rosanna lived alone for many years. Her only companions were violins and her students. She was pretty happy but there was something that bothered her deeply. She often thought about Paolo and wondered if he ever forgave her. That thought disturbed her. And she decided to travel to Cremona and visit him.
Rosanna arrived in Cremona one beautiful April day. Cherry blossoms colored this charming city and she, for a moment, felt like a 16-year-old girl who used to talk and laugh with locals, play her violin for her brother and watch Paolo making violins. The same day she settled down in a hotel in the very center of Cremona, she decided to visit Paolo's workshop. When she came in front of it, she noticed that the outside building didn't change much since the last time she had been there. But she noticed that the workshop was closed. She walked around the building and didn't find anyone. Since she didn't know where Paolo lived, and even if she knew she was a bit shy to go directly to his house, she decided to visit Giovni and find out why the workshop was closed. When she arrived to his house, first, he couldn't recognize her but when she mentioned her own name he remembered and apologized. Many many years passed since he had seen her. He and his wife invited her for a cup of tea. Rosanna told him that she had been to the workshop and that she was surprised to find it closed. And the man told her that it was hard for him to find an appropriate violin maker after Paolo's death. When she heard that Paolo had died, Rosanna for a moment stopped breathing. The shock left her out of breath. Her hands started trembling and the cup she was holding fell down and broke into pieces. Giovani and his wife approached her asking if she was alright and if they should call the doctor. They laid her down on a sofa and after few minutes Rosanna started feeling better. They were surprised and a bit scared. Once she managed to sit up again, she found out that two years ago, Paolo had died of pneumonia. He had been in bed for almost a month before he had passed away. Rosanna didn't speak a lot after. She was mostly listening absent-mindedly her hosts and when she felt ready to walk again, she thanked them for hospitality and asked them to come and visit her violin music academy. She left them her card.
 A scroll is the decoratively carved the beginning of neck of certain stringed instruments, mainly members of the violin family.
 An F-hole is a sound hole in instruments from the violin family. It is an opening in the upper sound board.
 Vernice bianca is a type of sealer varnish used in violin making. It is mainly prepared with a mix of egg white and gum arabic.


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Q: Can not plus with #define variable directly At top of my ViewController, I have define a MESSAGE_SIZE like this
#define IPHONE [UIDevice currentDevice].userInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone
#define MESSAGE_SIZE IPHONE ? 12 : 13

Inside a method, I try to access to MESSAGE_SIZE by 2 ways. It seems the same but produce different result
float size = MESSAGE_SIZE + 2;
NSLog(@"size = %f",size);

float size2 = MESSAGE_SIZE;
float size3 = size2 + 2;
NSLog(@"size3 = %f",size3);

I test on IPHONE and here is the Log
2016-05-27 14:59:02.992 EarCrush[8278:135453] size = 12.000000
2016-05-27 14:59:02.992 EarCrush[8278:135453] size3 = 14.000000

Hope someone explains why this happened. Any help or suggestion would be great appreciated.

A: Preprocessor macros are fancy text-replacement commands.  What happens at compile time is that
float size = MESSAGE_SIZE + 2;
NSLog(@"size = %f",size);

becomes
float size = IPHONE ? 12 : 13 + 2;
NSLog(@"size = %f",size);

I assume that IPHONE evaluates to true, so you get 12.
In the second case
float size2 = MESSAGE_SIZE;
float size3 = size2 + 2;
NSLog(@"size3 = %f",size3);

becomes
float size2 = IPHONE ? 12 : 13;  // 12
float size3 = size2 + 2;         // 14
NSLog(@"size3 = %f",size3);

You can improve your macro by use of parentheses.
#define MESSAGE_SIZE (IPHONE ? 12 : 13)

Now the first example becomes
float size = (IPHONE ? 12 : 13) + 2;
NSLog(@"size = %f",size);

which will give the expected answer of 14.

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Owen Meyer, Sports Reporter
The Chicago Bears went up against the Detroit Lions on Sunday as their first regular season game. Both teams have made big offseason changes with their rosters and coaching staff. The Lions had the first points of the game with a 27-yard field goal from Matt Prater. Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky had a rough first quarter, missing high and low with most of his passes, but the run game made an impact with the two speed backs: Tarik Cohen and David Montgomery.
In the second quarter of play, things started to heat up for Trubisky, having multiple completed passes on third down. The Bears passing game finally started rolling, but so did the Lions. Matthew Stafford went 24/42 with 297 yards, with a touchdown and an interception. Two new additions to this team were Detroit's running backs: a future hall of famer Adrian Peterson and 2020 second-round pick D'andre Swift. Peterson made the most impact on the ground, having 14 rushes for 93 yards, although Swift ran for his first touchdown of many during the second quarter.
The Lions held the bears to 6 points all the way up until the end of the third quarter. At the start of the fourth quarter, the score was 23-6 in favor of the Lions. Out of nowhere, Chicago came marching down the field and scored a touchdown pass from Trubisky to Jimmy Graham. With a 4th & 17 situation for the Lions, they decide to punt the ball. Next series for Chicago, Trubisky scrambled out of the pocket on the left side for a 20-yard run and a facemask penalty by the Lions for an extra 15 yards. Then the Bears ended up punting on a fumble by Trubisky, recovering the ball was Charles Leno Jr.
With four minutes to go in the final quarter, the Lions decided to have Matt Prater try and attempt a 55 yard field goal to go up by 13, but he missed it right. Trubisky and the Bears rolled down the field in one minute, scoring a touchdown via a pass from Trubisky to Javon Wims. Next possession for the Lions, with 2:45 to go in the fourth, Stafford looked down the middle of the field and threw a pass to Marvin Jones Jr. that got intercepted by Kyle Fuller at the Lions 42-yard line. The Bears now had two minutes to get something productive going, and they did just that with 1:57 to go. Trubisky's pass to Anthony Miller was completed for a 27-yard touchdown, and the Bears now had their first lead of the game with a score of 27-23.
Now would've been a great time for Stafford and the Lions to execute in crunch time. They started the drive with a third-down conversion thanks to a 32-yard pass from Stafford to Danny Amendola, the former Patriot, which brought Detroit to Chicago's 16-yard line. Stafford stayed in the pocket and looked left to see D'andre Swift wide open heading towards the endzone; he made the throw, but Swift dropped the football. Thanks to this, the Bears walked away with a 27-23 win to open the season.
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Today's topic is three things I want to say to different people. I wasn't sure if it meant 3 things total or three per person, so I choose 3 people to say three things to each!
To my mom: 1) Take a break sometimes, you need it! 2) Thanks for always listening and helping me become more of an adult, even though I'm across the country. 3) Thanks for sending me cards, food and what not every now and then while I'm at university.
To my roommate: 1) Thanks for not judging me even when I'm being a giant klutz 2) Thanks for listening in all our chats, especially the late night ones 3) I'm going to miss you when you transfer next year, so your floor better be prepped for a few sleepovers!
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