Assoc. Prof. Piotr Sułkowski, a theoretical physicist, talks to Patrycja Dołowy and Olaf Szewczyk.
PATRYCJA DOŁOWY, OLAF SZEWCZYK: We are in a room of the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Physics in Pasteur Street, within four walls, with a floor and a ceiling. But how many dimensions are we really in?
PIOTR SUŁKOWSKI: Some theories I deal with predict that in fact there could be more than four dimensions. According to string theory, there should be ten. It's worth noting that this number consistently follows from the principles of quantum mechanics forming the foundation of this theory (it's not an arbitrarily chosen number). Therefore physicists are trying to understand why we only experience four of those ten dimensions and to explain how whatever occurs in the six invisible dimensions translates into what happens in the other four. Because it has to, in one way or another.
String theory raises many hopes as being a theory that describes the world in the most complete way, but some also say it lacks the elegance and simplicity that we might expect from fundamental rules governing physics.
String theory itself is simple and its foundations very elegant. What is complicated is some of its problems, for instance those related to the six dimensions we cannot see or experience. It's true that for some time we have lacked experimental data on the basis of which we could develop the phenomenological aspects of this theory. Among other things, contrary to initial hopes, due to the difference between the scales we are able to study in experiments and those that are supposed to correspond to the lengths of elementary strings, it hasn't been possible to derive the Standard Model of elementary particles from the assumptions of string theory; the model has been known for several dozen years and was recently confirmed once again by the discovery of the Higgs boson. It's worth underlining, however, that string theory research has led to significant discoveries in the closely related quantum field theory, which in a sense is a universal language of contemporary physics and the foundation of many other areas of physics, e.g. elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics or statistical physics.
The Standard Model is one of the most important theories of contemporary physics. It describes the physics of elementary particles – the fundamental components of matter. How is your field – string theory – related to it?
There is no strict boundary – at least as far as the development of theoretical ideas and concepts is concerned – between string theory and elementary particle theory as well as many other areas of contemporary physics. As I mentioned, string theory is closely linked to quantum field theory. Ignoring the connection would be artificial and scientifically unfounded. Great physicists studying string theory have made and still make major discoveries in other areas: elementary particle physics, gravity, condensed matter physics. They are open to different directions of research and are interested in anything important and engaging.
Some say that not much that's new has happened in theoretical physics in the last quarter of a century. The most famous discovery of recent years – the Higgs boson – only confirmed a theory developed fifty years ago. This is an unprecedented situation in over two centuries of the history of modern science.
I wouldn't call the present pace of development in physics unprecedented. Today, elementary particle physics notwithstanding, breakthrough discoveries are made in many other areas of physics. Elementary particle physics, as the name indicates, studies the smallest components of matter and, generally speaking, what happens on very small distance scales. Equally interesting and no less fundamental questions apply to what happens at very large distances, in processes occurring on cosmic scales. In this context, the discovery of gravity waves in the past year is extremely important, for example. One of the first people to study their properties, back in the 1950s, was Professor Andrzej Trautman from our faculty, and their detection today undoubtedly marks the start of a new field and opens the way to completely new ways of studying the Universe. The pace of discovery of extrasolar planets has been extraordinary in recent years as well, and also the related development of research on the possibility of life existing on them, which has already given rise to a new field that has been called astrobiology. It's also fascinating to find how matter organizes itself on intermediate scales – such phenomena are studied within fields including condensed matter physics, atomic and nuclear physics, quantum optics, biophysics. These fields are developing very quickly at present and we can say that mainly the research conducted within them translates into extremely dynamic progress in technology, telecommunications or medicine. Perhaps the aforementioned new research areas will give a new impulse to elementary particle physics. Such hopes are being pinned on another young field in particular, called astroparticle physics, which tries to explain the relationships between the properties of the fundamental building blocks of matter and the things we observe looking at the sky. Meanwhile, it's true that today we don't discover as many new particles as we did a few decades ago.
We have reached such scales of energy in which new particles do not appear in experiments – it seems that's just the property of our Universe. Therefore our task is to study it the way it is, and not the way we'd like it to be. Of course various hypotheses exist saying that new particles should appear for even greater energies, but so far we have no access to them. Our equipment, in particular the Large Hadron Collider at CERN thanks to which we found the Higgs boson, has attained such parameters and dimensions that it's very hard to push the boundary even further. However, research on elementary particles and the funding assigned to it has been and still is worth it. It's hard to overestimate its impact on the development of contemporary civilization. It's worth underlining and reminding all sceptics that funding earmarked for the construction and maintenance of research accelerators is only a small fraction of the money spent on the construction and operation of accelerators used for medical purposes (including cancer treatment) and in industry. Besides, it was the need to analyse enormous amounts of data at CERN that led to the birth of the Internet. That only confirms how difficult it is to predict the impact of fundamental research on the development of science and even on everyday life.
If you were to say something about the research for which you received the prestigious five-year ERC (European Research Council) grant, where would you start?
My field is theoretical and mathematical physics – including string theory and the quantum field theory I mentioned before – and their relation to mathematics. In particular, in the past few years I have been studying the relation between physics and mathematical knot theory. Mathematicians are trying to classify and somehow describe all knots – configurations that can be tied on an ordinary piece of string. Though it might seem like a mundane problem, knot theory is a very important branch of mathematics, while the problem of knot classification is extremely difficult and closely tied to many other areas of maths. It also turns out that the formalism of contemporary physics provides extremely effective tools and inspiration related to knot theory problems. Using the methods of theoretical physics we are trying to answer questions posed by mathematicians: how to distinguish different knots and classify them, e.g. we are looking for what we call knot invariants, which are simple objects (like numbers or functions) that characterize a given knot and set it apart from others. This is one of the problems in the project financed from the ERC grant that I am implementing.
What is the effect of this research? For example, what does the problem of knot classification involve?
And have been for a very long time?
Already more than 25 years ago, in 1990, the Fields Medal – considered the mathematical equivalent of a Nobel Prize – was awarded for this kind of work. At about the same time, physicists realised that some results obtained within quantum field theory reproduced and largely generalised the knot invariants known to mathematicians. In physics theories you calculate the probabilities of certain processes – and those mathematical knot invariants turned out to correspond, from a physical viewpoint, to the probability of the movement of particles (described by some peculiar theories) along knotted trajectories. Such a physical interpretation enabled many specific results to be obtained, which mathematicians started to analyse. My research concerns precisely this type of problem. Perhaps it sounds like an abstraction, but as I mentioned, knots and their invariants play a role in many other fields – hence the need to be able to distinguish and characterize knots.
Lately, biophysicists in particular, who also deal with knots – those forming in DNA and in proteins. Among the researchers studying these problems is my wife Joanna Sułkowska as well as myself (though it's not the main subject of my research) – as you can see, knots can connect and bind people in different ways (laughs). For a long time scientists used to think knots couldn't form in proteins; however, a great many have been found in recent years. Proteins are long chains that are slightly similar to Christmas tree paper chains, composed of a few dozen to several hundred amino acids. They assume a three-dimensional form in space, and how they work in the body depends on the shape. Therefore one can ask: Can a given shape of protein form a knot, can different kinds of knots form in proteins, what purpose could this serve, is the existence of knots related to a protein's function and how? In other fields, people study different properties of knots, which are also computer-modelled, e.g. their stretching strength. In all these problems it is essential to use mathematical knot invariants. Therefore we can hope that the results of our research will also become important one day in seemingly distant fields.
What specifically does your work look like? With experimental physicists it's obvious, they sit in a lab, set things up, fiddle with things, observe, record. But you calculate, is that right?
I conduct theoretical research which consists mainly in calculating, or proving certain relationships or theorems. I work with pen and paper, and also with a computer, e.g. when carrying out symbolic computation. I head a research team of almost twenty people, ten of whom work at the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Physics and the others at various centres abroad. There are many important problems and questions in physics that it would be good to answer but we often don't know how to go about it. Therefore we try to build simpler models or theories that may not answer the most important question but will bring us closer to it, enable us to understand the essence of a given problem in a simpler example. It's usually worth understanding something first on a simpler example. For instance, certain physics theories describe our world which is four-dimensional (if we take time as one of those dimensions). They are often hard to solve, so models that are easier to analyse are considered, with a smaller number of dimensions, e.g. two or three, that can help understand the essence of certain phenomena.
How does the typical grant system relate to this specific kind of research?
Of course there are many ongoing discussions on how a grant system should work. Systems for financing science are different in different countries and probably none are perfect – the problem is a complicated one. The system in Poland has pros and cons. One of its drawbacks is the temporary nature of grants. Funding is usually granted for two, three years, which can be hard for experimental physicists, for example. They purchase expensive equipment with their grant money and once the funding period is over, they have to consider how to ensure that it is used effectively. There is some pressure stemming from the fact that scientists are regularly, and very often, held accountable for the effects of their work. The emphasis is sometimes on making sure they obtain and present new results quickly. In reality, important discoveries are seldom made within any defined time frame; it often takes quite a lot of time, it can depend on accident or good luck. On the one hand, it would be best to leave scientists to themselves; if they have talent and motivation they are sure to arrive at something important with time – not necessarily every individual separately, but as a community holding discussions and sharing knowledge – regardless of the number of publications written in the meantime, or the number of citations. However, of course given the increasingly mass nature of scientific research, it's understandable that there has to be some form of checking it, and research is an investment that has to be accounted for somehow. A good grant system should definitely promote scientific excellence in a systemic way: there should be open competitions with transparent and merit-based criteria; risky research should be appreciated, as it can lead to breakthrough discoveries, though it can also turn out to be a blind alley.
What kind of support is the most important and the best investment in your field?
The main thing is to find an important subject. Many ideas emerge during scientific meetings with other people – the exchange of thoughts is very important in my field. When scientists talk to one another it often turns out that one person knows one thing, another knows something else, and something new and significant arises from the meeting. Grants enable us to exchange ideas in this way – in my field, they serve mainly to finance travel, conferences and meetings with associates. It is exactly support for contacts among scientists and the development of collaboration that is provided, for example, by various programmes of the Foundation for Polish Science that I had the pleasure of benefiting from: START, HOMING PLUS, as well as INTER which combines interdisciplinary research with the popularization of science.
Exactly. But how do you popularize mathematics? Or theoretical physics? It must be very hard!
I run an initiative called Ask a Physicist (http://zapytajfizyka.fuw.edu.pl/), which thanks to a grant from another FNP programme – eNgage – I've been able to expand to include lectures popularizing physics, delivered in our faculty by leading scientists. So far the lecturers have included professors Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski, Michał Heller, Aleksander Wolszczan, Magdalena Fikus. In December (2016) an Ask a Physicist lecture will be given by Prof. Roger Penrose – I encourage everyone to attend! The lectures are about one hour long and afterwards you can ask questions, of which there are always many. It turns out that lots of people are interested in the lectures – people of various ages attend: pupils, students, senior citizens, parents with children. It's been a great and very pleasant surprise. Sometimes the audience is so large that some have to sit in another lecture hall and watch a broadcast from a camera. I think this kind of activity is worth developing at many universities, also in smaller towns. If it is properly publicized and promoted, there are sure to be many attendees. That's why other science popularization initiatives are also very valuable, e.g. science festivals. I think it's very important that we invite people to come here, to our faculties, to the university. It makes them feel they are being treated with respect and they can have genuine contact with things that usually go on behind the closed doors of offices and laboratories.
You also talk about science to people who aren't scientists.
Yes. I take part in meetings with people interested in physics and in radio programmes, I write texts, I answer questions from internet users on the Ask a Physicist website.
What do people ask about?
We get a lot of questions, some are very surprising. They concern the latest discoveries reported by the media, topics as mysterious as the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, mathematical and philosophical issues, and also daily life – how telephones and cars work, natural phenomena. These questions are answered by a team of specialists, which I coordinate, from different fields of physics.
What do you think fascinates people so much in maths or physics?
A fascination with physics is nothing more than a fascination with the world around us. Mathematics is essential for an accurate description of that world. Once we satisfy our basics needs – we get our sleep and are properly fed – we start wondering about the things going on around us.
I don't see myself that way and I wouldn't call scientists priests; but it is true that our civilization is technical. It's hard to say what would happen to this civilization if scientists were to suddenly disappear, and with them all the knowledge they have gathered and passed on to successive generations. Yes, you can say that scientists keep the mechanisms of civilizational progress in motion.
Associate Professor PIOTR SUŁKOWSKI (born 1978 in Warsaw), works at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, heading a research group carrying out the "Quantum Fields and Knot Homologies" research project financed with a grant from the ERC. A beneficiary of FNP programmes: START (2009), HOMING Plus (2011), INTER (2012), Ideas for Poland (2014), eNgage (2014).


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Here's what Washingtonians have to say about I-937 and Washington's clean energy standards. To see more videos about the benefits, visit CleanEnergyRising.org.


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Herbert M. Jones
Herbert Monroe Jones was born July 22, 1914 in Phillipsburg, Missouri. His father, an oil-drilling superintendent, worked for Shell Oil Company. In 1925, Mr. Jones was 11 years old when the family moved to Klulong, in Sumatra, Indonesia, a town he describes as being "carved out of the heart of the jungle." It was a big change for the Missouri paperboy.
In 1931, serendipity took the family to Las Vegas. The youngest of three children, Mr. Jones worked summers in high school and college at jobs generated by the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam. It was the Great Depression. His first job was as a mess hall waiter for a dam concessionaire; he graduated to a "puddler," and a power hose man—the last two being difficult, dangerous jobs involving the concrete pour of the dam itself. After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1940, he was steered to law school at the University of Arizona-Tucson when his brother's friend, Howard Cannon, said that he needed to get "some useful law." Arizona, Cannon said, had the best mining and water law instructors in the country.
Mr. Jones's early career path was not in a straight line, but zigzagged throughout the 1940s and '50s. In World War II, Mr. Jones saw extensive action in the Pacific—experiences he still would not talk about at the time of his oral history. In December 1945, he returned home an Army colonel. He remained in the reserves, which resulted in a transfer to the U.S. Air Force, redeployment after law school in the Korean action, advancement to the rank of major, and appointment as staff judge advocate for Nellis Air Force Base.
After graduating from law school in 1947, Mr. Jones started work as a deputy district attorney in Las Vegas, followed by private practice with his brother Clifford. He describes his first years in private practice as working the "mud detail," a.k.a. the divorce trade. Work was his trademark. Still a staff judge advocate at Nellis, he talks about working at his private practice at night.
The long, hard hours of work continued for numerous years at 15-16 hours a day, six days a week. Still, there was family, and Mr. Jones speaks fondly of his wife and children, the deaths of his only daughter and his wife, and remarriage. He recalls an active social and civic life as Las Vegas grew.
Mr. Jones is a lively storyteller with war stories about traditional law as well as "British war brides" and the Krupp Diamond theft. He recalls the growth of Nevada gaming from a local business to a global corporate interest, and the "eye in the sky." He comments on what it means to be an advocate for clients, and he adamantly defends Las Vegas; to him, it is not "Sin City," but a town of churches, Boy Scouts, and Rotary Clubs.
At the time of Mr. Jones's oral history interview, he was ninety years old, and enjoying his status as a founder of one of Nevada's oldest and largest law firms, the Jones Vargas Law Firm. After Mr. Jones's death in 2008, his partner, Joe Brown, said that Mr. Jones was a "model of gentlemanly conduct, humility, exemplary behavior and integrity—a lawyer's lawyer."
For readers who are interested in examining the unaltered records, copies of the recorded interviews are available in the Special Collections department of the UNR Library.
Patrick Carlton conducted this oral history interview with Nevada attorney Herbert M. Jones on August 23, 2004, at Mr. Jones's office in Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of the Nevada Legal Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society (NJCHS), the Nevada Judicial Historical Society (NJHS), and the UNOHP. Begun in 2001, the project was intended to record the life stories of leading members of Nevada's legal profession and to educate the public about law and the courts by making those stories widely available through various media.
Members of the boards of NJHS and NJCHS compiled and vetted lists of potential narrators, ultimately selecting representatives from both the state and federal benches and bars. The UNOHP, under the direction of Tom King and his successor Mary Larson, recommended interviewers, most of whom were professional oral historians, and donated equipment and transcription services. Brad Williams, of NJCHS, coordinated the project from its inception. Susan Southwick, of NJHS, oversaw that group's participation. Patricia Cooper-Smith completed the copyediting and introductions. Alicia Barber, Director of the UNOHP since 2009, supervised the project's final publication and dissemination. The project was made possible by a generous challenge grant from the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, with matching funds provided by the U.S. District Court for Nevada Attorney Admissions Fund, the Washoe County Courthouse Preservation Fund, and the Nevada State Bar. Thanks go to Susan Southwick and the Board of Trustees of NJHS, and to Patrick Carlton, who interviewed Herbert M. Jones.
Interviewee: Herbert M. Jones
Interviewed: 2004
Interviewer: Patrick Carlton
UNOHP Catalog #227
This introduction is reprinted with permission from the University of Nevada Oral History Archive, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Nevada, Reno. The full oral history transcript was created for the Nevada Legal Oral History Project. Click here for the full oral history transcript.
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EMILIA PHILLIPS
Stratum (Method)
What we see we know somewhat
Be it but a little --
What we don't surmise we do
Though it shows so fickle
After a dig the archaeologists toss in something of this
World with the backfill so that later excavations aren't nuanced
By previous efforts. A water bottle, Lay's bag. At Hisarlık--
ATrojan in its chintzy foil. The object not of but now
And ordinary, indelible. The great finds then must all be marked
By objects from without. A walking stick dropped
In terror or awe by one of the Chinese laborers at Lintong,
Or even, if you set your mind's dial to it, you can tune in to the image
Of Howard Carter's handgun in its final resting place a kilometer
Outside Tutankhamen's. And consequently, the new archaeologists
Will someday dig for the old archaeologists—Timexes and ink
Wells and unopened cans of beer or beans, trowels and footballs
Among the long catalogue of half-advances, half-defeats in looking
For god(s) or man, whichever came first or last. Or them between.
81 The Paris-American
Emilia Phillips is the author of Signaletics, forthcoming from the University of Akron Press in August 2013, and two chapbooks including Bestiary of Gall, forthcoming from Sundress Publications in April 2013. Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, Hayden's Ferry Review, Green Mountains Review, The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. She teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University where she received her MFA in 2012 and serves as the prose editor of 32 Poems. She will join Gettysburg College in August as the 2013–2014 Emerging Writer Lecturer.
Next week's poet:


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Andromeda. Odilon Redon.
THE RESCUE OF ANDROMEDA
Polydectes, king of the island of Seriphos, lusted for Danae, the mother of Perseus. Wishing to pursue the mother unchallenged, the king devised a way to be rid of her son. He held a banquet where he required from each guest the gift of a horse. Perseus had none and so promised to bring some other offering instead. Polydectes demanded the head of the Medusa.
The Medusa was once a beautiful woman who fell in love with Poseidon. They had a tryst in the temple of Athena and when the goddess found the pair, she transformed her into a Gorgon.
A Gorgon was a winged beast who had a tangle of serpents for hair and whose visage was so monstrous that it turned the beholder into stone. Since no mortal had ever survived a battle with the Medusa, Polydectes was certain that this quest would be the death of Perseus. However, before he left, Athena and Hermes gave Perseus two weapons especially suited for the battle: a highly polished shield and the adamantine sword.
In order to locate the Medusa, Perseus first visited the Graeae, the three blind sisters of the Gorgons. The Graeae shared one eye and one tooth. As they were passing the eye back and forth, Perseus seized it. He agreed to return it in exchange for the location of the Gorgons. The sisters reluctantly complied and our hero embarked for the lair of the Medusa.
All three Gorgons were sleeping when Perseus entered their cave. Rather than risking his death by looking directly in the Medusa's face, he beheaded her by using his divine shield as a mirror. He quickly stowed the severed head in a bag as proof of his conquest for Polydectes. The other two Gorgons awoke and chased Perseus but the Medusa's magical blood transformed into the mythic horse Pegasus and on his winged back, he escaped.
During the return to Seriphos, Perseus stopped in the kingdom of Ethiopia. Queen Cassiopaeia had brought a curse on the kingdom by bragging that she was equal in beauty to the goddess Aphrodite. Aphrodite punished the kingdom by sending a treacherous sea serpent. An oracle told Cassiopaeia, in order to save the kingdom, she must chain her daughter Andromeda to a rock at sea for the monster to devour.
With the help of Pegasus, Perseus battled the sea serpent and won. He then freed Andromeda and claimed her as his bride. However, she was already betrothed to Phineus. At the wedding, a quarrel broke out between the two men and Perseus unveiled the Medusa, turning his rival into stone.
Ultimately Perseus returned to his homeland of Seriphos. When he arrived, he learned that Polydectes was pursuing his mother so violently that she had gone into hiding. Perseus then killed the king with the head of the Medusa.


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Tax bill closes Irish Exchange
Irish Exchange closed after liquor permit pulled because of unpaid state taxes.
CANTON Failure to pay a state tax bill likely led to last week's closing of Irish Exchange restaurant.
The Division of Liquor Control in the Ohio Department of Commerce told the business in January that its liquor license would be pulled because the restaurant at 3824 Tuscarawas St. W was "delinquent in filing a sales of withholding tax return or liable for outstanding sales of withholding tax, penalties or interest."
The business appealed the filing, but eventually had its liquor permit renewal rejected on July 7, according to officials with the Division of Liquor Control. The permit was issued to KAB 1, doing business as Irish Exchange.
Department of taxation officials declined to comment on the unpaid taxes or status of the case.
A Facebook post by Irish Exchange's owners on Saturday announced the closing. A letter to customers said the business has been experiencing "difficult times" and now is under audit. The letter said the restaurant is closed until further notice.
Long-time bartender Bonnie Schneiders and her brother-in-law Drew Schneiders bought the business at the end of 2011 from Jill and Brian Keller.
In a separate action, the Schneiders and KAB 1 had a judgment for $7,721 filed against them earlier this month in Massillon Municipal Court by One HAK Co., which is a business owned by Jill Keller.
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Once again I think I'll be alone in preferring the action-packed second half of the "morality play" two-parter (i.e., this episode and "Cold Blood") to the clumsy, uneventful, implausible setup of the first half (i.e., "The Rebel Flesh" and "The Hungry Earth"). I think it's easier to make the case for this one, though: even if you get nothing out of the more genuinely moving moments, chiefly the bit where that one fellow's ganger has to take over for him in the fathering department, you can still probably enjoy the terrific banter between the two Doctors and the competition between the two Cleves.
I hated Jen in the first half, so I had no regrets about seeing her turn monstrous in this half. I didn't quite understand Amy's lack of concern about Rory's apparent affection (nursely concern, yeah right) for Jen, though the ultimate revelation about what was going on with Amy provided a half-explanation, I suppose. This was quite a long way to go to set up an impostor, though, so I assume the Flesh will continue to play a role beyond this in the arc story.
What else is there to say, really? Lots of urgent imminent explosions and deadly gases, some thoughtful cover-your-ass stuff with the wounded Jen (so yes, Amy can cut herself in that pirate episode), and most importantly a resolution that more or less makes sense given that these are not just evil duplicates of people but the people themselves, incarnated in false bodies. I guess if I'd thought more of the setup I might have been more disappointed by the outcome, but as it is I was just happy we got out with some measure of grace.
I try not to read other reviews or discussion of the episodes before I post mine, but I've broken that rule today and seen comments to the effect that Rory and Amy are really very stupid and unpleasant (to say the least) this time around. I'd agree. I really am not very fond of the two of them at all these days and it's getting worse. I wouldn't be shocked if this turned out to be their last season with the Doctor.
I've also seen comments about how the Doctor's action at the very end of this seems to undermine the morality tale, though I've also seen comments about how Amy's ganger wasn't the same as the others.
Still, it raised a thought for me about this era. Was this bit, as the speculation goes, Moffat's arc segment tacked onto the end of the regular episode? If so, what's up with his conception of the Doctor as a guy who points guns (or gets excited when others do) and makes grandiose threats? See "The Eleventh Hour," "Time of the Angels," "The Pandorica Opens," "Day of the Moon," and now this. I don't like this trend.
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Who is Ada?
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The name Ada can be found across our website, our emails and ever our selection algorithm. But who is the real Ada?
Ada is a reference to Ada Lovelace aka the world's first programmer. She was born in 1815 to an aristocratic family in London. She never knew her father personally but her mother was a well heeled society girl. As a result she lived a largely privileged life, rubbing shoulders with the upper echelons of society.
As part of the aristocratic circles of the UK she received something that most young girls of the time didn't: an education. Said education was broad enough to include not only academic subjects but also travelling. One of her favourite subjects was maths and she had the privilege of being taught by Augustus De Morgan himself who happened to be the first professor of mathematics at the University of London. She spent her time honing her maths skills until she met Charles Babbage.
Babbage was a catalyst for the rest of Ada's life. His work on the Analytical Engine was what focused Ada's work around what was later to be known as the first attempt in programming.
Her life was unfortunately cut short before she was able to see her completion of her work and Babbage himself never managed to progress his work significantly without her.
Ada Lovelace may be a controversial figure for some historians who doubt her contribution in the fields of mathematics and programming. There is no doubt, however, that had she not been failed by her health so early she would have managed to help Babbage bring more of his work to life.
After her death her work was largely forgotten due to her family's efforts to gather and destroy her notes. Her work was, however, resurfaced in the 20th century when programming started becoming a subject of study for more prominent scholars such as Alan Turing.
Had she not been failed by her health so early she would have managed to help Babbage bring more of his work to life.
Things you might not have known about Ada Lovelace:
There is quite a lot of literature around Ada Lovelace nowadays. We have collected a few facts that would require the reader to do some digging into her life.
To the wider public Ada might not be the most famous member of her immediate family. In fact, her own father was an infamous poet known around the world as Lord Byron. His life was shrouded in intrigue and he was rumored to be living a rockstar lifestyle whilst in the UK. Incredibly, he later became an outstanding figure of the Greek Revolution of the 1820's leading armies against the Ottoman empire, where he died. His poetry is still being taught in Greek schools as part of the curriculum
She unfortunately died quite young at the age of 36, possibly from cervical cancer. Out of some weird coincidence her father had also died exactly at the same age. Contrary to her own mother's wishes she made provisions to be buried close to him in the family plot
Ada was part of the high society of her day, well known for participating in partis and ceremonies. However, she was only widely recognised as a mathematician and programmer long after her death
Turing was one of the most prominent scholars to take inspiration from Ada Lovelace's work. He apparently read her Notes and she became a crucial part of his 1950 Turing Test Paper. The famous Lady Lovelace's Objection was mentioned by Turing as a way to establish that computers were not capable of original computation. This essentially means that machines can only produce what they have already programmed by a human to produce
Since resurfaced by Turing Ada's name started gathering more publicity and by the 1980s, the US Department of Defense had named an emerging programming language after her.
For more details on Ada Lovelace's notes, there is an excellent piece on Wired which provides a well crafted assessment of her work. Its written by Stephen Wolfram who is clearly someone with an outstanding grasp on math and technology and provides for a great window into her life.
Ada and Adadot
Ada is quite an important figure for us here at Adadot. In fact if you are reading this you have most likely come across her at least once on the website.
Ada is the name for all the machine based technology that runs across our product. From the website chatbot who can answer questions on the spot, to the customer service automated email sequences confirming transactions, Ada is here to help navigate the website and direct the users to the right place faster.
More importantly Ada is the algorithm that powers our selection engine. The algorithm takes into consideration a large amount of factors including, but not limited to, vertical expertise, years of experience, channel qualification, size of monthly budgets managed and many more.
The purpose of the Ada algorithm is to ensure that each project or client gets matched to the best marketer possible seamlessly.
Why Ada
Ada's work and life reflects our core values of Simplicity, Excellence and Trust. Simplicity stems from the way she approached complex mathematical problems aiming to infuse some structure in Babbage's workings. Excellence refers to the dedication with which she approached her Notes. The detail in which she captured the logic of each statement is what allows us today to piece together her contribution despite a few of the documents not having survived over the years. Her relationship with Babbage was largely built on trust. She was a person who was able to inspire trust and build lifelong connections to the ones around her, a skill few people are blessed with.
Ada is the algorithm that powers our selection engine. The algorithm takes into consideration a large amount of factors including, but not limited to, vertical expertise, years of experience, channel qualification, size of monthly budgets managed and many more.
Ada was also a woman during a time when women were largely excluded from participating in academia and working life. As a company we aim to level the playing field. Our algorithm removes bias from the selection of the perfect marketing team. The selection is based purely on data around skills and performance but other variables such as gender or age are completely removed from the equation. Because our work is project based as well are remote we provide a platform for traditionally underrepresented parts of the workforce such as new mothers.
We believe in removing the barriers to growth for both businesses and experts. And Ada herself didn't let any of the limitations of the times hold her back from pursuing a life of achievement.
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How to compose music for video games
Scoring interactive games brings unique challenges, says Winifred Phillips
By Jesse Singal Globe Correspondent,March 23, 2014, 12:00 a.m.
Left, Winifred Phillips at work in her studio.
Video games are a spectacularly visual medium. From deadly mechanized juggernauts crashing across the charred landscapes in "Titanfall" to a remarkably detailed pigskin spiraling into receivers' arms in "Madden NFL 25," graphics are most players' chief connection to the world of any individual game.
But graphics, of course, are only part of the story. As games have grown more complex and immersive, their soundtracks have kept up: not just ultra-realistic car squeals and gunshots, but, increasingly, sophisticated musical scores written by professional composers. The best game scores are dynamic works of art in their own right, responding seamlessly to the player's on-screen maneuvers, quieting in anticipation of a big battle or swelling in victory after it has been won.
The wider world has started to notice. In 2012, the soundtrack for the PlayStation 3 game "Journey" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media category—a first for a video game score—going head-to-head against film soundtracks written by heavyweight composers like John Williams and Hans Zimmer.
As the industry grows, talented musical minds who in the past would have been drawn to concert halls or conservatory professorships are instead learning the new, tricky skillset required of the game-music composer. One of them is Winifred Phillips, a longtime composer for film, TV, and big-budget video games including "Assassin's Creed Liberation." Game music, she believes, is just as much a vehicle for creative expression as other kinds of composition—albeit one that comes with challenges and opportunities not found in more "traditional" composition environments.
Phillips is the author of "A Composer's Guide to Game Music," out this month from MIT Press—the first book designed to help experienced musicians brave the transition to the world of game composing. She spoke with Ideas from her recording studio in New York City.
Soundtracks for video games such as "Journey" and "The Last of Us" are now sold as stand-alone albums.
IDEAS: There are a lot of people who still consider video game music to be just sort of bleeps and bloops.
PHILLIPS: It did start very much as a "bleep and bloop" world, but it has evolved quite considerably since then. I think the area of game music has progressed at the same level that games themselves have progressed....So now we're looking at very complex compositions, sometimes full orchestras, live musicians. Sometimes some really innovative use of electronics, and lots of interesting sound generation. So it's a marvelous forum for expression and for artistic experimentation.
IDEAS: What games did you see as major breakthroughs in terms of their soundtracks?
PHILLIPS: I think everyone really took notice of video game music in "Final Fantasy VII." That's a fairly early game, but it really arrested the attention of the game players in the final boss battle music with the villain, Sephiroth, when a live choir burst forth singing the villain's name. That was something that was quite unexpected in games of that time, and I remember when I played that game and heard that, I was startled. It was very unnerving and exciting at the same time.
IDEAS: What makes for a really good, powerful game score? What underwhelms you?
PHILLIPS: The best game scores are the ones in which the composer is able to express his or her best artistic inspiration. So those are the kind that take you by surprise and intrigue you with different uses of instruments or different textures, different ideas, unexpected choices. That's the kind of music that I think is the best game music. If you're asking me what I think underwhelms...when game music isn't given a chance to participate in the whole experience. When it's relegated to being very background, not as interacting with the rest of the video game. Sometimes game music can be extremely communicative to the player about what's going on in the game, how they're interacting with the mechanics, the kind of goals that they have to pursue. Music can really have a conversation with the player.
IDEAS: How would you describe a hypothetical game composer today?
PHILLIPS: Well, I think we're all game fans, first and foremost. We appreciate video games. We enjoy them. Some of us are avid gamers, and that really helps because it draws us to the profession. It makes us want to be video game composers, but I think there are also a lot of people who are crossing over from film and television composition and are discovering game music as a viable means of expression and a great career path. There are also electronic musicians and DJs who started out in that world.
IDEAS: Your book points out that composing for games makes demands that other kinds of music don't.
PHILLIPS: The music needs to be able to react instantly to changes in the intensity or to different modes of gameplay. Exploration, combat, puzzle solving, stealth. This kind of reactivity that music needs to have forces the composer to look at music sometimes in terms of its component elements, to separate out the music into different parallel levels of musicality. To separate instruments into different channels which can be triggered depending upon what's going on in the game. That kind of mental state for a composer is thoroughly different than the way a composer would think of music for any other form of visual entertainment.
IDEAS: It sounds like you're forced to juggle different considerations in a much more tricky way.
PHILLIPS: Yeah. It is trickier, but it's also quite interesting for a game composer, because it really does force us to think about music in very different ways than a composer for television and film would. So that, I think, has the potential to allow us to be inspired creatively in directions that composers for other media might not explore.
IDEAS: There are a couple songs from "Final Fantasy II" for Super Nintendo that really burrowed into me at a young age, and if you go on YouTube, there are live orchestras performing them.
PHILLIPS: Yeah, it's fantastic. There are several series of video game concerts that travel the world performing this music, and there's more music being created that's suitable to concert performance all the time.
IDEAS: It sounds like you've also enjoyed the quirkiness and enthusiasm of gamers and game developers themselves.
PHILLIPS: That's really very exciting for me, just watching all of the circus and the craziness that can happen at game conventions, game industry conventions, where you'll see T-shirts fired out of cannons and warrior men and women in full medieval garb and just marvelous, huge displays of visual pyrotechnics. It's just so raw, and that's what's so great about it. There's no reserve. Game developers and gamers themselves, they don't do things halfway.
Jesse Singal can be reached at jesse.r.singal@gmail.com.


I have spent some time on the rudder board, but there are a lot of discussions out there and it's easy to get off the subject and on to another. Having said that, I'll go through it again and see what I can find.
I think that I've seen a rudder that has been braced like this one time and I'll state upfront that I don't know anything about it, but it would seem to me that when you get to this point it's time start thinking about a replacement and that's what I'm inclined to want to do anyway. The shoe and the bronze couplings that hold the rudder in line seem to be a pretty fair shape and the fitting is snug. Although I haven't sailed this boat yet, the rudder doesn't seem to have any play or looseness from the tiller.
You mention a company that will build a new one from fiberglass. Out of curiosity, what do they want to charge and have you any idea of the turn around time?
When I spoke to Bob at Foss Foam I was willing to provide the silicon bronze shaft (because I wanted to make sure I got the alloy I wanted) and I was told it would cost between $2,000.00 and $2,500.00 plus another $1,200.00 for the mold which he verified he did not have to match what I needed. That is when I decided to build my own. But I have been a woodworker all my life so for me that is not a problem.
I'm guessing in the current lousy economy we have here in Florida (which is also where Foss Foam is located) they could turn it around in a couple three weeks.
I recently became owner of an Ariel. I just fell in love with this old beauty and I want to restore her to her former self. I want to do as much original nice quality wood and finishes as I can while rebuilding her. I need to replace the rudder, but I'm not sure where to start. Can you tell me what's important to know about the 6/4 quartersawn mahogany. I'm not even sure where to find this wood. Please let me know some hints about finding and working with this wood.
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As you can see our hard working forum administrator has merged this thread with the main one on the topic. And because of it there is probably a lot more information here now than you will be able to read in even a couple of sittings.
But to answer the specific questions you asked me, and since I don't know how much you already know or not I will go into detail. I'm sorry if I am wasting your time telling you things you already know.
I decided to use quartersawn mahogany because it is much more stable than flat sawn mahogany. Most people know that wood shrinks and expands as it takes on and gives off moisture. What many people do not know is that the amount of movement varies based on the orientation to the growth rings. For example, for all practical purposes wood will not shrink or expand in its length. While not 100% true the amount of change is so small it usually is not worth considering.
Take a look at the drawing below. If you were looking at the end of a log that was being cut into lumber you can see the boards I have labeled as flat sawn have a different orientation to the growth rings than the boards I have labeled as quartersawn. The growth rings are for the most part perpendicular to the face of the board in the quartersawn boards and they run more parallel to the face of the board in the flat sawn. Flat sawn boards will shrink and expand almost twice what a quartersawn board will. In addition because of the orientation of the growth rings they will tend to cup and warp much more than quartersawn boards.
To illustrate my point you could expect an 8" wide flat sawn board to expand by .05" when it goes from 8% moisture content (a good level for furniture building) to 28% (saturation point) while a quartersawn board would only expand by .03".
As far as where to buy the material that depends on where you live. Some parts of the country have much better access to lumber than others. I would look first in the yellow pages for hardwood lumber retailers. Then call cabinet shops in the area if you cannot locate anyone you can buy from direct. They will often sell you what you need with a small markup for their trouble. And if all else fails do like I did and search on the web.
Thank you very much for all the information you've provided. It is all very helpful. I hope to get started on this project soon, but I'll take a little time to digest all the details first.
Original Ariel/Commander rudders lasted 45 years (so far!) as two relatively unprotected planks of brown wood under water.
You want Honduras Mahogany (swietenia macroplylla) lumber to replace an original rudder.
You need a reputable dealer. Go where furniture and cabinet people go. Don't trust big box.
You want straight grain 5/4 or 1 1/2" lumber to begin with. Any "honduras" you see in a lumber store has had its "quartersawn" pieces culled for veneer and high end furniture before it got there.
However swietenia macrophylla is the MOST STABLE WOOD IN THE WORLD.
You may find boards that have SOME quartersawn characteristics, I would go for those.
But you won't have cupping issues with the correct mahogany and stuff you choose from off center of these huge trees.
Do NOT build your rudder with african, indonesian or philippine "mahogany". These are either punky or snakes or both. These are NOT mahogany.
Use a substitute (spanish cedar, orange wood, locust, yellow pine, etc.) at your peril.
Use ALL SILICON BRONZE rod, allthread, bolts, lags, screws. NO stainless steel.
If you replicate the original rudder, yours will last another 45 years under water!!!!
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I agree Honduras mahogany is the correct material to use. But I think lumping African mahogany in with indonesian and phillippine is a bit harsh treatment for African mahogany. Khaya spp. (it's scientific name) and it's close cousins Khaya anthotheca, K. grandifoliola, K. ivorensis, K. senegalensis which are all brought into this country under the name African Mahogany are used all over in boat building. Just about every wood database you can find lists boat building as one of the primary uses for African mahogany. Here is a good example.
I purchased two Honduras mahogany boards and cut out a rudder. This wood seems very light (soft) and dry compared to the two African mahogany boards I also have. The reason I bought the A. mahogany was because the H. Mahogany seemed to feel like a soft wood while the A mahogany had a heavy and very oily feel.
I took a scrap of the H mahogany and threw it in a low wet spot in the pasture last summer and it has been lying in the water and sunlight for about 11 months. I assumed it would be absorbing moisture and begin to decay however other than some color fading from sunlight it appears to have picked up little to no moisture that I can determine. This wood has surprised me, now I'm confused as to which would make the best rudder.
Both of these woods were purchased on EBAY from Sergio exotic woods in Miami, Fl Also, Jerry thanks for explaining quartersawn.
Thank you very much! I'm having trouble finding a source for mahogany in New England. I'm from Connecticut. I haven't found any suppliers through eBay yet. Maybe one of you knows a good one??
These guys may not be within a short drive but they can UPS the material to you.
I also had good luck getting mahogany for a rebuild of our vintage dyer dink from boulter plywood in Somerville, MA http://www.boulterplywood.com/.
All the above have keel hung rudders, and some are not even a one piece shaft.
Ebb? I know our beloved vessels have them. Could this strap be unique to how our "original" rudders were made? Pearson didn't build composite rudders on ours, if they had, do you think they would have found it necessary to add the strap?
I ask your input, as I'm not building an original configuration but rather a new composite, cored, sheathed and the likes.


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Netflix Is Showing Viewers Love and Life Behind Bars With Jailbirds
The new series follows inmates as the live and love while incarcerated
By Chris Harnick Apr 26, 2019 3:34 PMTags
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Netflix is taking you back to jail, but this isn't Litchfield. Move over, Orange Is the New Black, and get ready for Jailbirds.
Hailing from 44 Blue Productions, the same production company as everybody's favorite guilty pleasure Lock Up, Jailbirds goes inside the Sacramento County Jail with its more than 2,400 male and female inmates. Ten percent of them are women. And in the Sacramento County Jail, incarcerated women fight the power—and one another—while trying to make the best out of life. Sometimes that involves finding love…behind the bars.
"It's in human nature for inmates here to break rules. We can't catch everything," a corrections officer says in the trailer below.
What You Should Be Watching on Netflix
The trailer features some of the inmates viewers will get to know, they're locked up on charges ranging from assault with a deadly weapon, murder and robbery and home invasion. It's a new look at life behind bars, including how contraband is passed through toilets, how people communicate through toilets (yes, you read that right), and how the imprisoned find love despite the regulations of the jail.
"These people are different in here, these is like wild baboons," an inmate says in the trailer.
It's not all fun and games, there's very real threats in jail and cameras capture it all.
"We might be locked up physically, but mentally and emotionally, I'm rolling," an inmate says.
Jailbirds premieres May 10 on Netflix.


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Molecule from ancient bacteria-like cells may shed new light on sexual reproduction
Crystal structure of Fusexin1. Archaeal species with fusexins thrive in hypersaline environments like salt lakes, oceans and salterns. Credit: Luca Jovine.
Egg-sperm fusion, a key feature of sexual reproduction in plants and animals, may have originated from an ancient form of genetic exchange. An entirely new perspective on the evolution of sex may be opened by the results.
"Archaeal proteins with fusion activity might help us to understand how cells evolved from simple forms to complex life forms, and how sexual reproduction evolved from simple forms to complex life forms," says the researcher.
Sexual reproduction ends with the fusion of egg and sperm, specialized cells that carry the genetic information for the next generation. Plants and animals use fusogens to control when and where cell fusion occurs.
A molecule is an important ancestral molecule.
According to a new study, archaea, the cells that are thought to have originated more than 3 billion years ago, can contain a type of fusogen that has previously been found in viruses, plants and arthropods.
Computational evolutionary biology, AlphaFold-based protein modeling, X-ray crystallography, and functional studies were used by the researchers to show that Fsx1 is a legit fusogen. It is able to promote cell-cell fusion when expressed in other cell types because it is similar to the HAP2 fusogen.
For more than 150 years, gamete fusion has fascinated humankind. We wondered if this key molecule came from a virus or if it was used in plants and animals.
The discovery that ancient creatures like archaea can also contain a HAP2-likeprotein now raises a third intriguing possibility that is related to the ancestral molecule from which viral, plant, and invertebrate animal fusogens derive.
Sex's beginning.
The study was a collaboration between academic research groups from Israel, Argentina, Uruguay, and Switzerland, as well as the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France and the UK-based artificial intelligence company DeepMind.
The next step will be to figure out what Fsx1 and HAP2 are doing in nature if they combine archaeal cells. In order to establish the origin of Fsx1 and HAP2, parallel studies are needed.
More information: David Moi et al, Discovery of archaeal fusexins homologous to eukaryotic HAP2/GCS1 gamete fusion proteins, Nature Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31564-1 Journal information: Nature Communications
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Author Interview: Elizabeth Barone
Meet Elizabeth Barone, Author of The Nanny with the Skull Tattoos
BBB: Tell us about yourself.
EB: My name is Elizabeth Barone and I write contemporary New Adult romance, featuring sassy belles who chose a different path in life. When I was little, I wanted nothing more than to be an author, but growing up in a dying city, I thought I should go for something more practical. I didn't think that I could make a living telling stories. So I hopped from trade to trade, never fully satisfied. Then in 2007, I felt the first excruciating twinges of what would turn out to be arthritis. I was eighteen. I spent the next nine years seeing specialists in hopes of receiving a diagnosis and maybe even treatment. Meanwhile, I couldn't hold down a normal job. My body was no longer strong enough to handle it.
Through it all, I never stopped writing. In the summer of 2011, I sat on the couch playing The Sims 2 and mourning my recent job loss. I'd built a career out of designing and developing websites, and without it, I didn't know who I was anymore. Around that same time, I started learning about self-publishing. It seemed really cool, and with my coding and graphic design skills, I had an advantage. In 2012 I self-published my debut novel, and I've been hooked ever since.
Since then, I've released five novels, several short stories, and a serial. In 2015 I signed with Booktrope. Though my arthritis has progressed, I haven't let it stop me from doing what I love.
BBB: What inspired your book, The Nanny with the Skull Tattoos?
EB: I have a lot of friends and family who are single parents. I'm especially in awe of my brother-in-law, who has been raising his daughter since her infancy. Our society is super supportive of single moms, but rarely give a nod to the single dad. Those guys need more love. I was in the middle of working on another book when all of a sudden, I thought: What if a guy who was a teenage dad wanted to go to college while raising his daughter alone? How would he juggle a toddler, school, his career, and maybe even romance? Then I thought: What if he hired a live-in nanny on Craigslist and fell in love with her? Would it work out? I had to know.
I made myself finish the other project, but I wrote Max's story in just a few weeks. He's a single dad who loves music but settles for becoming a teacher instead. I knew what it's like to give up your dream to pursue a more practical career, so I understood where he was coming from. It was so much fun to write. I especially enjoyed writing the scenes where Max and Savannah go back and forth.
BBB: What other books have you written?
EB: This spring, Booktrope will be releasing the first two books in my South of Forever series, Diving Into Him and Savannah's Song. (Yep—Max and Savannah show up!) It's a rock star series, with each book focusing on a different couple in the band. I have a couple other standalones, and another series in progress about a college student who gets custody of her little sister when their bipolar mother is forcibly committed. I also write Young Adult suspense and romance under the name Kaylene Campbell.
EB: At the moment I'm writing a standalone romance set in a bakery. Here's my working hook:
A waitress and the guy who stole her dream job and broke her heart years ago must work together when they inherit a bakery.
I'm also wrapping up edits for Diving Into Him.
EB: I'm kind of a blogaholic and a social media junkie. You can get in touch with me in the following places:
Website: http://elizabethbarone.net
Blog: http://thecrazychronicles.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/elizabethbarone
Facebook: http://facebook.com/elizabethbaronebooks
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Q: How to restrict internet access in a VPC with a nat gateway? I have setup a VPC with two subnets public and private. There are many lambdas in the VPC and a few of them needs internet access. So I added NAT gateway on the VPC. However, it makes every lambda to be able to get internet access. How can I control which lambdas can have internet access in the VPC with a NAT gateway?

A: I assume that the lambdas need access to certain resources in the subnet in which they are deployed.
If that's the case, then I suggest you create a security group with the desired settings and assign that security group to all lambdas which you want to restrict access for.
If that's not the case, you can simply remove the VPC association at the lambda level.

A: NAT gateways do not have security groups (SGs) nor access policies. Thus, you can't control access to the internet using NAT. But there are some surrogate measures you can consider:

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*Create a private subnet without a route to the NAT and place your lambda functions there. Without the route to NAT, nothing from this subnet will be able to communicate with the internet.

*Create a special SG with custom outgoing rule, e.g. allow only outgoing traffic to CIDR of your VPC, or to SGs which they are only allowed to communicate with.

*Create dedicate private VPC only for lambda functions, and peer it with your primary VPC. VPC peering is not-transitive, which means that your functions won't be able to use NAT from the primary VPC.

A: Simple answer: Any AWS Lambda function connected to a public subnet will not have access to the Internet.
This is because the route table for the public subnet does not send traffic through the NAT Gateway, and the Lambda function itself is unable to use the Internet Gateway to access the Internet.

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They said it: Top sports quotes from November 2021 – The Daily Gazette
They said it: Top sports quotes from November 2021
From each month this year, The Daily Gazette sports department is compiling the 10 quotes from our interview subjects that stuck out the most for us, based on how they either made us think or laugh — or some combination of both.
Selected quotes come both from reporting for stories that appeared in The Daily Gazette and interviews associated with episodes of "The Parting Schotts Podcast." Not all quotes used were previously published.
"I get a chance to do it and they pay me for it. It's crazy. I'm a lucky guy."
— Dwayne Killings, on Nov. 4, regarding his status as a first-year head coach with the UAlbany men's basketball program before the club's first game of the 2021-22 season.
"Just to watch what they were going through, my wife and I kept looking at each other, and we were like, 'Please, get this done tonight so we don't have to be like that tomorrow night.'"
— Bob Anderson, on Nov. 4, recalling watching the emotions experienced by the family of Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Max Fried during Game 6 of this year's World Series — and knowing his son, Shenendehowa High School graduate Ian Anderson, would start the if-necessary Game 7. The Braves won the series in six games; Ian Anderson was the winning pitcher in Game 3.
"I could write a book about this season, about all the things that've gone wrong, or not gone the way we expected."
— Fonda-Fultonville football coach Sean Thompson, on Nov. 9, describing a season in which his team had more than half of its regular-season games either rescheduled or canceled, only for the Braves to make their way to the Section II Class C Super Bowl.
"I had a tryout [Monday], and we're here now."
— RPI placekicker Trevor Bisson, on Nov. 13, who joined the football team five days earlier after finishing his men's soccer season for the Engineers, then hit the game-winning 36-yard field goal as time expired against Union to give RPI a 19-17 win to claim the Dutchman Shoes Trophy, the Liberty League championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs.
"I've run these roads a thousand times, so it's cool that there's a race that runs up Grand [Boulevard] and through Central Park. Yeah, it's just like being back in high school and running with teammates again, just being on the roads."
— Niskayuna native Lou Serafini, after winning the MVP Health Care Stockade-athon in Schenectady on Nov. 14
"Every single player got better every single practice and every single game. It was a team. We didn't rely on one player."
— Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake field hockey coach Kelly Vrooman, on Nov. 14, after her team won the program's first state championship since 1987.
"It's huge. I was very lucky to grow up where I grew up [in Oakville, Ontario]. Those resources were so easily available to me. But not every kid has that opportunity, and especially in this area. Even though I'm not from the area, I want to give those kids that opportunity where they can fulfill their dreams, and feel important and better themselves if those opportunities aren't there."
— Union hockey senior forward Josh Kosack on his fundraiser for the COCOA House in Schenectady, on Nov. 15
"A few people mentioned [the 300-win milestone] to me, but I didn't do it for me. The kids do it. The players do it. That's their record."
— Lise Williams, on Nov. 18, on why concluding her coaching career with the Scotia-Glenville girls' soccer program just a few wins shy of 300 didn't bother her. A Scotia-Glenville graduate, Williams coached the Tartans for 21 seasons; the program finished 297-76-23 with her at the helm and won three Section II championships.
"The lights are brighter, but that's about it."
— Siena men's basketball player Andrew Platek, after returning to the Times Union Center on Nov. 22 for the Saints' home opener against Harvard, his first game there since his Guilderland High team lost to Shenendehowa in the 2015 Section II Class AA championship game.
"This building is always in my heart."
— Mark Sausville, on Nov. 30, regarding coaching his Scotia-Glenville boys' basketball team at Schenectady High School, where Sausville was the head coach for a dozen years and led the Patriots to the 2001 state championship.
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Every Manager Should Have a Leadership Coach
By Michelle Vitus and Christy Tonge June 28, 2018 December 19, 2018
Editor's Note: It's an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We're reposting each of the top 30 articles through January 2nd. This is No. 17 of the 800 articles posted in 2018. You can find the complete list here.
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From athletes to actors, everyone improves with a good coach. More companies should invest in their potential future leaders, not just the lucky few who break through to the corner office.
Will was a young up-and-coming director at a brand-name technology company.
Articulate and polished, he was well-liked by both his executive team and direct reports. Will's career was soaring, and so was his confidence. He didn't consider himself in need of development and only engaged in leadership coaching to check a box along the executive path. Upon beginning his coaching engagement, Will was surprised to discover a significant misalignment between his perception of himself and his reputation among his peers. His colleagues reported finding him untrustworthy and sharp-elbowed, willing to do anything to surpass his team's goals — even to the detriment of the broader organization. Because of his strained peer relationships, company leaders were reluctant to promote him further; yet because he exceeded functional department benchmarks, constructive feedback hadn't surfaced in annual reviews. Will's career had hit a ceiling, and he didn't even know it.
In the tech sector, as in other industries, many bright, competent professionals sail through their early careers, only to plateau a few years later due to under-developed and highly coachable soft skills like self-awareness, consensus-building and executive presence. Whereas most companies reserve coaching only for senior executives, Will's company invested heavily in training and development. As part of those efforts, they contracted with coaches who engaged with mid-level professionals to achieve the following goals:
Facilitate self-awareness, which, according to executive search firm Korn Ferry, is the most commonly coached topic among CEOs. According to former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt, "The one thing people are never good at is seeing themselves as others see them. A coach really, really helps." Coaches help professionals realize when and why they engage in behaviors, which helps stimulate long-term behavior change.
Learn to apply theory to real-world application. Leadership classes, workshops and books are helpful, but just as watching basketball can't transform someone into an NBA champion, reading about leadership can't transform professionals into great leaders. It takes sustained, active practice, rigor and iteration to improve in any significant way.
Improve within the confines of a safe space. Most professionals want to project strength, both to direct reports and to the managers evaluating their success. Coaching by someone outside the reporting structure creates a safe space for leaders to be vulnerable, assess themselves honestly, and change long-standing behaviors.
Push themselves past their comfort zones. A coach will encourage consistent reinforcement of new behaviors to prevent the leader from falling back into old, negative patterns. It often takes a firm push to get a leader to engage in tough conversations she may prefer to avoid or delegate even when it feels uncomfortable.
Coaching is a great opportunity for HR business partners, learning & development (L&D) teams and business leaders. In fact, in many companies, mid-level coaching engagements are funded by business unit budgets, not central L&D budgets. However, not every mid-level manager is appropriate or ready for coaching. It requires time, openness to feedback and a genuine commitment to growth.
Coaches also vary in quality and return on investment. It is important to ask for referrals, check references, review credentials, and conduct interviews to learn about coaching style and typical engagement format. Ineffective coaches breed dependency; strong coaches empower.
Will was fortunate. His company invested in him, enabling him to tackle his challenges before they impeded his advancement. Through coaching, Will came to understand that his drive for his team's success, while well-intentioned, was perceived by his peers as domineering and grandstanding. He gained perspective on the broader business objectives and the value of supporting versus outshining his peers. He began softening his approach with colleagues and building alliances where previously he'd built walls. Six months later, he was promoted to senior director.
It isn't just Will who was fortunate. His peers now enjoy working with him, his team reports to a stronger leader, and the company saves money and resources by promoting from within rather than recruiting outside the company. Better leaders have more engaged, motivated and productive employees. And employees who believe their employers invest in them and help them develop not only perform better; they also stay longer. As Will's experience demonstrates, coaching should not only be reserved for the C-suite. Everyone — from first-time managers to seasoned CEOs — improves with a good coach
Michelle Vitus
Michelle Vitus is founder and CEO of Slate Advisers, an impact-driven leadership and career coaching firm on a mission to empower leaders to thrive.
Previously, Michelle was director of business development at two startups and, prior to that, a vice president at Wells Fargo Commercial Banking.
Michelle holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BSB in Finance from the University of Minnesota.
Christy Tonge
Christy Tonge is a veteran executive coach for Silicon Valley tech leaders and the podcast host of LeadersGetReal.com.
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