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Edited by Peter Hoskin
Provides essential background information on external beam planning physics and dosimetry
Includes site specific chapters covering all major cancer sites treated with this modality
Emphasizes practical guidance, key for use in clinical practice
Full colour with over 150 illustrations to aid understanding
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Covers new techniques including details of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), image guided radiotherapy (IGRT), and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)
Brand new chapter on Proton Therapy
Complete revision of all chapters to ensure that they reflect current guidelines and practice
External beam therapy is the most common form of radiotherapy, delivering ionizing radiation such as high-energy x-rays, gamma rays, or electron beams directly into the location of the patient's tumour. Now in its third edition, this book is an essential, practical guide to external beam radiotherapy planning and delivery, covering the rapid technological advances made in recent years.
The initial chapters give a detailed insight into the fundamentals of clinical radiotherapy. This is followed by systematic details for each tumour site commonly treated with radiotherapy, covering indications, treatment, and planning. The final chapter covers the all important aspect of quality assurance in radiotherapy delivery.
This third edition has been fully updated and revised to reflect new techniques, including details of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), image guided radiotherapy (IGRT), stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), and proton therapy.
Written by experts in each field, External Beam Therapy is an invaluable companion to professionals and trainees in medical physics, therapeutic radiology, and clinical or radiation oncology.
Radiotherapy remains the major non-surgical treatment modality for the management of malignant disease. It is based on the application of the principles of applied physics, radiobiology, and tumour biology to clinical practice. Each volume in the series takes the reader through the basic principles of the use of ionizing radiation and then develops this by individual sites. This series of practical handbooks is aimed at physicians both training and practising in radiotherapy, as well as medical physics, dosimetrists, radiographers, and senior nurses.
1:Introduction, Peter Hoskin
2:Basic Physics, Karen Venables
3:Treatment, delivery, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, and image-guided radiotherapy, Yat Man Tsang
4:Proton Therapy, Ranald MacKay and Alex Aitkenhead
5:Breast Radiotherapy, Charlotte Coles, Murray Brunt, Anna Kirby, Sara Lightowlers, and Nicola Twyman
6:Radiotherapy for thoracic tumours, Kevin Franks, Fiona McDonald, and Gerard G. Hanna
7:Upper GI., Stephen Falk
8:Rectal cancer, Rob Glynne-Jones and Mark Harrison
9:Squamous cell carcinoma of the anus, Rob Glynne-Jones and Mark Harrison
10:Prostate cancer, Alison Tree, Linus Benjamin, and David Dearnaley
11:Bladder cancer, Nicholas James, David Fackrell, and Anjali Zarkar
12:Testis, Peter Hoskin
13:Penis, Peter Hoskin
14:Uterus Endometrium and Cervix, Melanie Powell and Alexandra Taylor
15:Vulva and vagina, Peter Hoskin
16:Lymphomas, Richard W. Tsang, Mary K. Gospodarowicz, and Peter Hoskin
17:Central nervous system tumours, Neil G Burnet, Fiona Harris, Mark B Pinkham, Kate E Burton, and Gillian A Whitfield
18:Head and neck cancer, Christopher Nutting and Dorothy Gujral
19:Skin cancer, Carie Corner, Hannah Tharmalingham, and Peter Hoskin
20:Sarcomas of soft tissue and bone, James Wylie
21:Principles of paediatric radiation oncology, Henry C Mandeville
22:Radiotherapy planning for metastatic disease, Peter Hoskin
23:Quality assurance in radiotherapy, Patricia Díez and Edwin GA Aird
Edited by Peter Hoskin, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Professor in Clinical Oncology, University of Manchester, and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK and The Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester UK
Peter Hoskin has extensive clinical experience in the use of modern techniques for radiotherapy delivery. He undertakes both national and international teaching courses in the subject and is a clinical lead for the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) radiotherapy quality assurance programme. An experienced teacher and examiner in clinical oncology, he currently chairs the fellowship Examination Board for the Royal College of Radiologists. Peter Hoskin is the series editor for the Radiotherapy in Practice series.
Edwin GA Aird, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
Adam Aitkenhead, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust & Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Manchester, UK
Linus Benjamin, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
Murray Brunt, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and Keele University, Keele, UK
Neil G Burnet, University of Manchester, Manchester Cancer Research Centre and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
Kate E Burton, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
Charlotte Coles, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
Carie Corner, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
David Dearnaley, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Patricia Díez, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
David Fackrell, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Stephen Falk, Bristol Oncology Centre, Bristol, UK
Kevin Franks, St James's Institute of Oncology, Leeds, UK
Rob Glynne-Jones, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, UK
Mary K. Gospodarowicz, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Dorothy Gujral, Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Gerard G. Hanna, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
Fiona Harris, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
Mark Harrison, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
Peter J Hoskin, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Middlesex, and Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Nicholas James, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Anna Kirby, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
Sara Lightowlers, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK, and Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Ranald MacKay, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust & Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Manchester, UK
Henry C Mandeville, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Fiona McDonald, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Christopher Nutting, Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Mark B Pinkham, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, and University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Melanie Powell, Barts Health NHS Trust, Barts Institute of Cancer, Barts and The London Medical School, London, UK
Alexandra Taylor, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Hannah Tharmalingham, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK and the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Alison Tree, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Yat Man Tsang, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
Richard W. Tsang, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Nicola Twyman, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
Karen Venables, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
Gillian A Whitfield, University of Manchester, Manchester Cancer Research Centre and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
James Wylie, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
Anjali Zarkar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
"this book is an essential, practical guide to external beam radiotherapy ... Written by experts in each field, External Beam Therapy is an invaluable companion to professionals and trainees in medical physics, therapeutic radiology, and clinical or radiation oncology." - Anticancer Research
Radiotherapy in Practice - Imaging
Peter Hoskin, Vicky Goh
Jonathan S. Zager, Ragini Kudchadkar, Vernon K. Sondak
MRI Atlas of Pediatric Brain Maturation and Anatomy
Julie A. Matsumoto, Cree M. Gaskin, Derek Kreitel, S. Lowell Kahn
Karen Simpson, Keith Budd
Radiotherapy in Practice - Brachytherapy
Peter Hoskin, Catherine Coyle
Advancing the Science of Implementation across the Cancer Continuum
David A. Chambers, Cynthia A. Vinson, Wynne E. Norton
Psychosocial Care of Cancer Survivors
Cheryl Krauter
Physics for Clinical Oncology
Amen Sibtain, Andrew Morgan, Niall MacDougall
Managing Prostate Cancer
Andrew J. Roth
50 Imaging Studies Every Doctor Should Know
Christoph I. Lee, Michael E. Hochman
Apar K. Ganti, David E. Gerber
Radiotherapy in practice - radioisotope therapy
Peter J Hoskin
Physical Aspects of Care
Betty R. Ferrell, Judith A. Paice
Spine Imaging
Shivani Gupta, Daniel M. Sciubba, Mark M. Mikhael, Savvas Nicolaou
Cancer Epidemiology
Amr Soliman, David Schottenfeld, Paolo Boffetta
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Brooklyn man killed mom, stabbed dad in fight over shoes: police
By Tina Moore, Craig McCarthy and Natalie O'Neill
May 26, 2019 | 4:49pm | Updated May 27, 2019 | 9:20am
Officials at the scene of the stabbing in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Mark Mellone
'Womb Raiders' charged with murder of baby they allegedly ripped from pregnant teen
Queens mom gets 4 to 12 years for death of 1-year-old daughter
Suspect in Bianca Devins slaying moved from hospital to jail
A Brooklyn man killed his mother and stabbed his father during an argument over shoes, a police source said Sunday.
Oscar Rodriguez Jr., 55, is suspected of flying into a fit of rage and plunging a knife into his 77-year-old mother, Maria Rodriguez, when she tried to break up a fight between the two men at the family's Bushwick apartment late Friday or early Saturday, a high-ranking source said.
Rodriguez Jr. had just returned home barefoot when his father, Oscar Rodriguez, questioned why he wasn't wearing any footwear, the source said.
The enraged son allegedly knifed his dad in the arms and chest, then fatally stabbed his mother and fled, according to the source.
The elderly couple lay covered in blood until their son-in-law, Artelio Reyes, 63, discovered them Saturday evening inside the apartment at Garden and Noll streets, the source said. Reyes had climbed through a window at the home after becoming worried that he couldn't reach them by phone, the source said.
The father, who suffered serious injuries, told police his son attacked them, the source said.
Police arrested Rodriguez Jr. after receiving an unrelated 911 call about a violent and emotionally disturbed person wandering around the area Saturday. Cops didn't know at the time that Rodriguez Jr. was linked to the murder and took him to the psychiatric unit of Woodhull Hospital.
A neighbor said Rodriguez Jr. had clashed with his mom in the past.
"They did not get along," said the neighbor, who identified herself only as Sarah. "I am shocked she's gone. [It's] horrible."
Rodriguez Jr., who is still in the psych unit, had not been charged with a crime Sunday, the police source said. The hospital is not cooperating, so cops have yet to speak with him, the source said.
Detectives are trying to get a search warrant to retrieve the suspected bloody pajamas that Rodriguez was wearing at the time of the crime and when he was picked up, the source said.
A hospital spokesman told The Post he was looking into the matter.
Additional reporting by C.J. Sullivan
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Consumers Union tests found no correlation between nanomaterial content and sun protection. Manufactured nanomaterials are widely used in sunscreen to make sun-blocking ingredients like titanium dioxide and zinc oxide rub on clear instead of white. While these nanomaterials don't improve sun protection, they exhibit different fundamental physical, biological, and chemical properties than their larger counterparts. Very few nanomaterials have been adequately tested, though available data shows their small size makes them more able to enter lungs, pass through cell membranes, and possibly penetrate damaged or sun-burnt skin.
Studies have raised red flags about the environmental impacts that may stem from the release of nanomaterials into broader ecosystems. Once released into the environment, many nanomaterials may persist and accumulate as pollutants in air, soil or water. A 2006 study demonstrated that some forms of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (popular ingredients in nano-sunscreens) are toxic to algae and water fleas, especially after exposure to UV light. Algae and water fleas are a vital part of marine ecosystems.
Further concerns have been raised about risks to workers who produce nano-containing products. Workers handling nanomaterials are likely to be exposed at much higher levels than the general public, and on a more consistent basis. There are currently no established safe levels of exposure to nanomaterials and no reliable systems and equipment to protect workers from harmful levels of exposure.
Consumers need to know that manufactured nanoscale zinc and titanium oxides are not necessarily the most effective or safest choice for effective sun protection. They are also not the only option. Besides several different carbon-based active ingredients, consumers can also look for larger-scale, more opaque metal-oxide based sunscreens (e.g. titanium dioxide or zinc oxide which are 'inorganic' and do not contain carbon atoms), although without mandatory labeling these may be very hard to find (at least in the U.S.).


The medical advancement that has saved thousands of lives over the past century is now crumbling, leaving in its wake annual health care costs of $21 to $34 billion in the United States. Antibiotics, once a panacea for bacterial infections, are becoming increasingly ineffective as genes for resistance spread. The mortality rate for one antibiotic resistant infection, carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriacea (CRE), is an astonishing fifty percent. Unless novel antimicrobial therapies are implemented, mortality rates for antibiotic resistant infections will rise.
Antibiotic resistance stems from a variety of factors including some that are preventable. Worldwide phenomena such as overprescription and misuse of antibiotics facilitate natural selection for resistant strains of bacteria. In some countries, antibiotics are even available over the counter for citizens to self-medicate – a phenomenon that encourages improper dosage. Antibiotic use enhances the survivability of strains that have resistance genes over those that do not. Therefore, it is imperative to carefully select the proper antibiotic treatment plan for a given infection.
In spite of the resistance crisis, few pharmaceutical companies are actively conducting antibiotic discovery research due to tedious techniques and frequent failures. The revolutionary technology of genome mining may change this. Genome mining involves sequencing a bacteria's genome and scanning it for "cryptic" biosynthetic clusters whose precise product is unknown (see Figure 1). Biosynthetic clusters contain genes for biosynthetic pathways that yield natural products, some of which have antibiotic properties. By analyzing these clusters, researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign found 19 new natural products in 4 years. Although further research needs to be conducted on the natural products discovered, the study establishes genome mining as an efficient method of discovering potential antibiotics.
Schematic of the genome mining process. Scientists harvest bacteria from the environment and analyze the genome of each strain for novel biosynthetic clusters (Source).
However, doctors can bypass antibiotics entirely through exploiting bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. Phage therapy has been used since the early 1900s in Eastern Europe. Each phage has a host range of bacteria species that it can infect, allowing doctors to select the appropriate phage for a given infection. Such specificity facilitates avoidance of dysbiosis, a condition frequently attributed to antibiotic use, wherein the patient's helpful bacteria suffer. Furthermore, phage therapy is fairly cost-effective and has low risk for adverse side effects if the phage used has a lytic life cycle.
A study by Smith and Huggins of Houghton Poultry Research Station in Cambridgeshire on intramuscular and intracerebral Escherichia coli infections in mice showed that one dose of phage lysate combatted the infection better than four major antibiotics. Nevertheless, scientists must be careful as not all bacteriophages promulgate a positive outcome. Whereas lytic phages replicate and lyse their host shortly after infection, temperate phages integrate their genome with the host genome. Since this integration permits temperate phages to deliver toxin-encoding genes to the host bacteria, effectively augmenting the host's arsenal, temperate phages are higher risk candidates for phage therapy.
Genome mining presents a promising frontier in a field that has seen few significant discoveries over recent decades. While it is undeniably beneficial to discover novel antibiotics, resistance to these compounds will arise. In the words of Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, an associate director at the Center for Disease Control, it is entirely plausible that "the end of antibiotics" is nigh. Consequently, it is imperative to pursue phage therapy and other novel methods alongside antibiotic discovery research. Broadening treatment horizons will save lives and reduce healthcare costs.


A DIY jeans kit with stretch denim, metal zipper, jeans buttons, and rivets.
Care Instructions:Before sewing, prewash your stretch denim in hot water and a hot tumble dry cycle to preshrink the fabric. Once your jeans are sewn, machine wash cold with like colors. Tumble dry low or line dry. Hot steam iron to press.


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Q: ng-bind span not updated on changing the object's property In the following code, i change the object's property on clicking the 'tab' element, but the corresponding ngbind span is not getting updated. Do i have to call some function to update the view?
HTML:

  ...

    <tabpanel selector="obj">

junk

super

    </tabpanel>

JS:
var cf = angular.module('splx', []);

function Application($scope) {
  $scope.obj = {val: "something"};
}

cf.directive('tabpanel', function() {
  return {
    restrict: 'AE',
    scope: {
      selector: '='
    },
    controller: ['$scope', function($scope) {}]
  };
});

cf.directive('tab', function() {
  return {
    require: '^tabpanel',
    restrict: 'AE',
    scope: true,
    link: function(scope, elem, attrs) {
      elem.bind('click', function() {
        scope.$parent.selector.val = "newthing";
      });
    }
  };
});

A: cf.directive('tab', function() {
  return {
    require: '^tabpanel',
    restrict: 'AE',
    scope: true,
    link: function(scope, elem, attrs) {
      elem.bind('click', function() {
        scope.$apply(function () {
          scope.$parent.selector.val = "newthing";
        });
      });
    }
  };
});

That works for me. Just missing a little scope.$apply in there.
Might want to have a look at https://coderwall.com/p/ngisma if you find yourself using/having trouble with '$apply already in progress'.
If you want to change the value to what you clicked on, I'd do something like this:
scope.$parent.selector.val = attrs.tab;

As opposed to:
scope.$parent.selector.val = "newthing";

And then you can change your markup to look like this:
<tabpanel selector="obj">

junk

super

</tabpanel>

Hope that helps!

A: First problem: you are not binding your controller to your app.
You need cf.controller('Application', Application);.
Also you need ng-controller="Application" in HTML on a parent of that span and the tabpanel directive.
Second problem: after changing that scope variable in your click event you need to
scope.$apply() to let Angular know something changed and it needs to $digest it.
You can check out my version here.

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Opulence and aspiration meet the slower charms of the Indian old country way. There were many moments of grand-scale and improvisation, which would suddenly dissolve into song. An interesting and beautiful shoot, making the most of Central London and the river, and starring Akshay Kumar, Richi Kapur, and Katrina Kaif.


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Bob Odenkirk Talks Tuco's Return With EW; Vince Gilligan Teases Next Episodes to THR
This week, Bob Odenkirk and Peter Gould talk Tuco's return with Entertainment Weekly, while Vince Gilligan teases the next episodes to The Hollywood Reporter. Plus, Michelle MacLaren and Raymond Cruz discuss Episode 2. Read on for more:
• Entertainment Weekly talks Tuco's return with Peter Gould and Bob Odenkirk, who cautions, "I'm always looking forward to seeing Tuco, but I've got to say: Nacho is scary on a whole other level. He's an incredibly frightening character, but there's wheels turning in his head, which in some ways makes him scarier."
• Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Peter Gould reveals that Jimmy is "a character whose secret weapon is his mouth. Bob probably learns more dialogue for a single episode than most actors have in a season. He comes in and he's letter perfect every time." And Vince Gilligan teases that the Episode 2 montage has a character who "will be very important in episode four."
• Michelle MacLaren talks to The Hollywood Reporter about directing the Episode 2 montage, which is meant to show that Jimmy is "a hard-working, dedicated lawyer. He's a good guy. He's trying to do the right thing and he cares deeply. The guy just can't get a break."
• The Hollywood Reporter interviews Raymond Cruz, who says of playing Tuco again that it's "a great character, but to try to pull it off is really difficult. It's really high-energy. It's relentless. It's very physical and it wears you out. You get very drained."
• Raymond Cruz, also interviewed by The Daily Beast, says, "I've never looked at Tuco as being a bad guy. I've always seen him as the hero of his own story, and someone who has to defend what he's fighting for, and who will go to any length to protect what he needs to protect."
• Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould explain to The Hollywood Reporter why they decided to bring Tuco back and whether there will be more scenes of "present-day" Saul in Omaha.
• Bob Odenkirk tells The Hollywood Reporter that Jimmy's "got more stumbling to do. He is not on an upward trajectory. He is on a jolting upward trajectory and he's expelling fuel cells as he goes and it's bursting into flames all around him."
• Huffington Post checks in with Jonathan Banks and Michael McKean, with Banks declaring that returning to Mike was "not as challenging as I thought it might be because you're going to learn a lot about Mike. When you meet him in Saul, Mike already has a hard edge."
• Vince Gilligan and Bob Odenkirk talk to Entertainment Weekly about the opening to the series premiere, with Odenkirk noting that he was "glad to see he [Saul] was somewhere in the world, and it just made me happy to know where he ended up."
• The Hollywood Reporter interviews Bob Odenkirk, who says Jimmy isn't successful when the series starts because he's "a square peg in a round hole. He needs to find a square hole. He's not in the right place. He's not being given the opportunity to be all that he can be."
• Entertainment Weekly reports that the series premiere is the highest-rated series debut in cable history, with 6.9 million viewers and a 3.4 rating in the ages 18-49 demographic. Episode 2 was the No. 1 show on cable on Monday in the 18-49 demo, according to Variety.
• Speaking with The Washington Post, Jonathan Banks says he thought Better Call Saul was "a great idea, selfishly, because I love the character of Mike. I was in right away. It was a character that I so enjoyed doing. There was no question."
• Forbes interviews Jonathan Banks, who says, "I like that you don't know much about Mike. You don't know what or where and I like that mystery."
• Jonathan Banks tells Metro, "Mike knows he lost his soul, and Mike doesn't forgive himself. At the same time, buried in there is a decent man who does some really horrible things, but if he has a flaw, it's…I don't think he thinks he can save other people, but he does have a tendency to try to protect them."
• CNN declares that Bob Odenkirk "delivered an Emmy-worthy performance" in the series premiere.
• Huffington Post talks to Michael Mando about his character, Nacho, whose "big ambitions put him on a collision course with Jimmy McGill (who obviously becomes Saul Goodman), and their confrontation could lead to very dire consequences for both of them."
• Yahoo TV reveals "the four big shout-outs to Breaking Bad we noticed in Saul's first episode."
• After watching the series premiere, Bustle has eight questions about Jimmy McGill's journey to the events of Breaking Bad.
• USA Today highlights Better Call Saul's connection with Cinnabon.
• The Washington Post examines the "visual language" of Better Call Saul and quotes Peter Gould saying, "We try to think of ways to use color in this show that maybe has a slightly different theme to it or different elements."
• The Associated Press notes that Albuquerque is especially excited about Better Call Saul because local officials are hoping the prequel "sparks more interest" in the city.
• For recaps and reviews of the series premiere, "Uno," check out A.V. Club, Channel Guide Magazine, The Daily Beast, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, HitFix, Moviepilot, The New York Times, People, Stuff.co.nz, TVLine and Vulture.
• For recaps and reviews of Season 1, Episode 2, "Mijo," check out A.V. Club, Channel Guide Magazine, The Daily Beast, Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, HitFix, New York Daily News, Paste Magazine, The Telegraph, USA Today and Vulture.
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Profile of Shelley Westman
Principal, Cybersecurity, at EY
Shelley Westman is currently a Principal/Partner at EY in its Cybersecurity practice, where she has been since joining EY in September 2017. Prior to EY, Shelley served as Senior Vice President, Alliances & Field Operations at Protegrity, where she stayed for about a year. Most notably, Shelley spent 18 years with IBM, ending her time with them as Vice President, Operations & Strategic Initiatives, IBM Security. As part of this role, Shelley led the University Programs for IBM Security and was involved in several IBM boards and committees on hiring and skills. She was the founder of "WISE" — Women in Security Excelling, an IBM group devoted to advancing women in security. Prior to joining IBM, she practiced law in Raleigh for five years, concentrating her practice in the area of civil litigation.
In 2016, Shelley was appointed to a three-year term on the Board on Higher Education & Workforce for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. She is a 2016 Honoree of "40 over 40" and received a 2016 Executive Women's Forum Women of Influence Award in the category of Security Corporate Practitioner.
Articles by Shelley Westman
Bridging the Cybersecurity Talent Gap
There's no one surefire way of fixing the problem, which endangers everyone's security. There are, however, several options we should try.


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export const SEMVER_REGEX_STRING = '\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+'
export const BITCOIN_CORE = 'bitcoin-core-'
export const SUMS_FILENAME = 'SHA256SUMS.asc'

export let PACKAGE_ENDING
switch (os.platform()) {
  case 'darwin':
    PACKAGE_ENDING = 'osx64.tar.gz'
    break
  case 'win32':
    PACKAGE_ENDING = os.arch() === 'x64' ? 'win64.zip' : 'win32.zip'
    break
  case 'linux':
    PACKAGE_ENDING = os.arch() === 'x64' ? 'linux64.tar.gz' : 'linux32.tar.gz'
    break
  default:
    throw new Error(`Unsupported platform ${os.platform()}`)
}

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Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?
I've seen the polar ends of America in only a short time here in Manhattan... the rich with their fur and big cars... the poor lying on the streets. It breaks your heart.
We are called to care... called to give a damn about those less fortunate than ourselves. Its not about me anymore... its about us.
Thing is too... everything my heart desires is around me... but what would it benefit me if I lose me [my soul... my essence] in the trade off?
Who dares to throw the stone?
Grace to forgive my own!


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This expanding and highly rated HE College was recruiting a new Director to join the Board. They had a number of internal and external candidates and approached Ashley Hoyle to provide objective information to the selection panel to support their recruitment process.


How many shots does it take for Rick and Morty treasure Justin Roiland to transform into "drunk Rick?" Series co-creator Dan Harmon brings us some answers courtesy of a boozy burpy video.
In a bid to method act (not in the unpleasant Jared Leto condom way) playing an even drunker version of Rick (if that's possible) on a future episode of Rick and Morty, Roiland attempts to get into character by guzzling a number of shots. As the recording progresses, there's a bit of disagreement on whether or not this sh*tfaced Morty still sounds sober. As you might suspect, it's the drinking party making that complaint.
"Can you try to read this one on-script?" asks associate producer Sydney Ryan as things get increasingly sloshed.
"Man, f*ck you!" Roiland responds with a cheery tone.
Billed as the "least productive" and "messiest record day in the history of the show, this silly exercise may have been difficult to deal with as a co-worker, but it's loads of fun to watch.. Fair warning, there's not much Morty dialogue. It's more drunken rants about death and "the next prezzo." It's a fun slice of video and something to gawk at while binge eating McDonald's Szechuan dipping sauce.


In 2006, Common Ground Corona was founded as a satellite location of Common Ground. Reverend Danell Wheeler pioneered the center and has grown it into a thriving spiritual and wellness center serving many in the Corona/Norco area and Inland Empire.
The original vision and mission of Common Ground is in place and expanding in a unique way at Common Ground Corona. Since its founding, Common Ground Corona has moved from a small space in a local women's club into a beautiful setting in an historical area, and as of September 2014, they have relocated to a significantly larger facility that better meets the needs of the spiritual community.
Common Ground continues to champion the efforts of Reverend Danell and Common Ground Corona.


Born in Birmingham, I now live in rural Gloucestershire. I wrote my first novel (First Breath) shortly before being made redundant by Gloucestershire County Council. Prior to this, I had worked as a Classroom Assistant for twenty five years and I now wondered how I was now going to fill my time. I found that I was worrying needlessly. Since finishing full time employment I have penned four novels and two collections of short stories all published as e-books. Four of them were later published as traditional paperback books.
My constant companion as I write is my Jack Russell rescue dog Woody He is quite happy to lie nearby in companionable silence whilst I delve into my imagination.
I am a member of the Dean Writers Circle and from time to time I write short stories as part of my 'homework'. Some of these stories have been published as a collection entitled 'Purgatory'. My most recent collection of short stories is based on the age old Christmas Carol, The 12 Days of Christmas. A third collection of short stories entitled Just in Time is about to be published.
Although in the main my genre is Fantasy Romance, my short stories cover many different genres from contemporary fiction to sci-fi. I have also submitted a short story to an Anthology published to raise money for two worthy charities.
I am presently working on my sixth novel as yet untitled.
On a personal level I am married to Gary and have one daughter, Demelza (yes I am a Poldark fan) and a four year old granddaughter, Georgiana.
Do I miss working? Not likely, I'm having far too much fun writing.
The 12 Days of Christmas is a collection of short stories each using the words of the Christmas carol as a theme. Most have little to do with Christmas itself and one or two are quite dark. The book is available in both e book and paperback format. …here are the links to Maureen's Amazon author page together with her website below. Also the links to purchase the book.
Today's guest on Seumas Gallacher's blog is author Maureen Turner and she has a festive treat in the form of her book of short stories The Twelve Days of Christmas.
An author friend also featured on Seumas' blog, Maureen Turner. We got to know each other via Twitter and reading each other's books. I've read all of her books and they are fabulous, I love her writing style. This one has some wonderful stories. I particularly liked Two Turtle Doves and Three French Hens.


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Best Of 2012/Technoccult Gift Guide
December 18, 2012 / Klint Finley
It's the end of the year, which is a good time to reflect on what my favorite bits of media were for the year. I figure this list can also double as a guide for any last minute gifts.
I'm sure there's stuff I'm forgetting in each category, so I may update this again later. Feel free to recommend stuff I might've missed!
Comics:
This was a big year for artist/writer Brandon Graham. Three of his releases were favorites of mine this year:
King City, which was the subject of my interview with Graham.
Prophet, a book written by Graham with a rotating cast of artists.
Escalator a collection of short stories written and drawn by Graham. I think this is actually my favorite of the three.
Besides all the Graham stuff, I really liked Casanova Volume 3: Avaritia by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba.
I haven't finished Hawkeye – Volume 1: My Life As A Weapon by Fraction and David Aja yet, but I'm enjoying it so far.
Also, I haven't read Glory Volume 1: The Once and Future Destroyer by Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
I don't buy very many single issues, but here are some that I bought and liked:
COPRA # 1 by Michel Fiffe. This was a pleasant surprise. I hadn't heard of Fiffe before I saw it promoted by Floating World Comics. It reminds me a bit of Graham's Prophet in that it's an indie artists' take on super hero comics of the past. I haven't read the second issue yet but plan to pick it up soon. There's a preview of issue 1 here and issue 2 here.
Secret Voice # 1 by Zack Soto. If you don't feel like paying, you can check this one out online, along side The Yankee and other great stuff at Study Group Comics.
The Secret History of DB Cooper # 1. Really dug the first issue, still waiting for the trade paperback.
Bruxa: Victimzeyez, a free digital album that I've mentioned before. Elements of dubstep and chopped and screwed hip hop with a trace of witch house.
Monoloake: Ghosts. Minimal techno with a hint of dubstep.
Filistine: Loot. I'm not sure how to explain this one — a fusion of lots of different styles of electronic music from all over the world.
The Swans: The Seer. New album from an old school no wave band.
Tweaker: Call the Time Eternity. Long awaited third solo album from Trent Reznor's former right-hand man.
I bough X-TG's DESERTSHORE / THE FINAL REPORT, but because I've been working on my own album I haven't listened to it yet.
I didn't see many movies this year, and I liked even fewer. Here are the ones I liked:
Cabin in the Woods. Technically I guess this came out in 2011, but I think most of us saw it this year.
I haven't seen The Master yet but want to.
I didn't read many new books this year, but I did read and like:
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption by Clay A. Johnson
An American Vampire in Juarez: Getting My Teeth Pulled In Mexico's Most Notorious Border Town
Psychopomp Volume One: Cracked Plate by Amanda Sledz. My interview with her is here and an excerpt from the book is here.
The Rise of Siri by Shlok Vaidya. Science fiction that reads more like design fiction — this is all about the ideas, not the characters. Already a little dated since Apple has announced that it's bringing some of its manufacturing back to the U.S.
Neuromancer Casting? Cyberpunks Weigh In
Damage from Planet Damage asked his "22 major arcana of cyberpunk" who they thought should be cast in a Neuromancer movie. I was honored to be included.
[CASE]
Klint: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Anabelle Cat: I love Cillian Murphy-superb choice and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Matt: An Unknown Rob: As for Case, the only person even slightly close to the target age that I feel could pull it off would be Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I think a lot of that has to do with his role in Brick, which was seriously perfect. M1k3y: Ryan Gosling as Case, if only to see him cyberpunk'd up. But mostly because he's talented as shit.
Majority verdict? Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Planet Damage: (Warning: some of the sidebar images may be NSFW)
Trailer for Film Adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Radio Free Albemuth
March 2, 2011 / Klint Finley
io9: First trailer for Philip K. Dick's Radio Free Albemuth with Alanis Morissette
A few years ago I would have been excited to see something like this coming to the mainstream. Now I cringe with the anticipation of the tedious conversations with n00bs and normals that this film will probably lead me into. Not to mention the the probability that it will become a Truther/Tea Partier favorite instead of a mind opener. One more sign that I'm getting old, or at least jaded.
Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis teaming up to write screenplay about Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake
October 15, 2009 / Klint Finley
Gus Van Sant and author Bret Easton Ellis will team to write a feature about the double suicide of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
PalmStar Entertainment, Celluloid Dreams and K5 Film have acquired screen rights to "The Golden Suicides," a Vanity Fair article written by Nancy Jo Sales. […]
The couple descended into a paranoid spiral when the artists developed a consuming belief that government and religious organizations were conspiring against them. She killed herself in 2007. Blake found her body on the floor of their bedroom, and walked into the Atlantic Ocean a week later, ending his life.
Variety: Scribes make suicide pact
Previously:
Vanity Fair coverage of the deaths of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake
Dead Woman Blogging: Theresa Duncan at 10 Zen Monkeys
(via Jorn Barger)
Dave Gibbons interview plus new Dave Gibbons art
January 28, 2009 / Klint Finley
We would talk at great length every time Alan started to script an issue, he'd run by how he thought it might be broken down, then I'd give him my suggestions on that, and then based on the various thing we were talking about – we would both go off into reminiscences, and speculations about how we came through music to comics to childhood experiences to vague feelings about things – somehow we'd come back to the topic of Watchmen again, and this stuff, largely contextual and largely sort of, er, mood as much as anything, would find its way into the finished comic book. We just talked and talked a lot, and then Alan typed and typed a lot and I drew and drew a lot. And then John Higgins – I shouldn't leave him out – he coloured and coloured a lot, and I very much would talk things through with him, and then just leave him to his own devices. I think good collaborations are like that; you have to trust what the other guy's going to do, have him put into it, stir the pot, throw in what you've got and leave it alone.
Full Story: The Quietus
Plus: New Dave Gibbons art on Ain't It Cool
Radio Free Albemuth movie, starring Alanis Morissette, in post-production
Another Philip K. Dick movie is coming soon: Radio Free Albemuth, starring Alanis Morissette as Sylvia, Jonathan Scarfe as Nicholas Brady, and Shea Whigham as Philip K. Dick himself.
Official movie site
IMDB entry
(Thanks Joe)
Fox Eyes Keanu Reeves to Star in a Cowboy Bebop Movie
January 18, 2009 / TiamatsVision
"Twentieth Century Fox is bringing the Japanese anime TV series Cowboy Bebop to the big screen, with The Day the Earth Stood Still star Keanu Reeves attached to star as a bounty hunter traveling through space in 2071, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
One of the big titles in anime, Bebop is set in a time where "astral gates" make interstellar travel possible. Humanity, decimated by a lunar explosion resulting from a gate accident, spread out across the solar system, as did crime, which gave rise to the use of bounty hunters. Reeves would play Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter and former member of a crime syndicate."
(via SciFi Wire. Thanks JK!)
Inside The Church of Satan
May 10, 2008 / TiamatsVision
"New, controversial footage, from within the Church of Satan, has been released. It has been more than forty years since in-depth footage of the Church was shot, and a new Satanic ritual has been documented and publicly presented for the first time. It's revealed and confirmed that public servants and various celebrities are, or have been, members of the Satanic Church, including Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jayne Mansfield. In interviews leading up to the un-cut ritual, one Satanist says, if there is a God who feels Satanists should roast in hell, "He can go _ himself," and that all people are not created equal. Another said Christianity is "like a rabies."
The footage was captured by independent filmmaker Joshua P. Warren. He was granted unprecedented access to the Church, traveling internationally to live with Satanists and document the most intimate aspects of their philosophy. He has now released it in his new documentary, Inside the Church of Satan."
(via Alternative Approaches)
("Inside The Church of Satan" site)
Lead singer of Iron Maiden directing movie about the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley
February 14, 2008 / Klint Finley
s the lead singer from Iron Maiden the new Rob Zombie? Bruce Dickinson, the old school hard rock band's lead singer, penned the screenplay for Chemical Wedding, an occult thriller which, according to Variety, "stars Simon Callow as the reincarnated Aleister Crowley, an occult scholar who was once labeled as the most evil man in Britain." Crowley wasn't just "an occult scholar." His very existence struck fear into the hearts of the U.K. residents throughout his lifetime.
Full Story: Monster Fest.
(Thanks Danny Chaoflux).
Watchmen: Movie Stills to Comic Panels Comparison
December 8, 2007 / Klint Finley
Geeknerd compares recently released Watchmen movie still with panels from the comic.
(via Shatter).


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Q: Creating a datadog dashboard using REST API I am trying to create a dashboard in datadog using the REST API described here: http://docs.datadoghq.com/api/#timeboards
Whatever I do, however, I keep getting a 400 response back with a message "Invalid JSON input". I have simplified my json to just a few required fields, and empty "graphs" section, and that still doesn't work.
Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong here?
curl -i -X POST 'https://app.datadoghq.com/api/v1/dash?api_key=<key>&application_key=<the_key>' -d '{"dash":{"title":"Foo","description":"bar","graphs":[]}}'
Response
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:27:29 GMT
DD-POOL: dogweb_sameorig
Pragma: no-cache
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15724800;
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X-DD-VERSION: 34.34544
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Content-Length: 34
Connection: keep-alive

{"errors": ["Invalid JSON input"]}

A: You need to pass Content-Type as a header with the request, as shown in the docs
$ curl -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" 'https://app.datadoghq.com/api/v1/dash?api_key=<key>&application_key=<key>' -d '{"dash":{"title":"Foo","description":"bar","graphs":[]}}'

Response:
{"errors": ["The parameter 'title' is required"]}

Your data is also not formatted according to the docs (there should be no dash field at the top level, for starters).


I made the disk image to avoid future problem, but some days before i googled "how to create system restore point" and i found an article at https://windowsclassroom.com/system-restore-point-windows-10/ . I read the full post i got the way to create restore point. This is also a way to keep your PC safe.
I I think you are right. I should make disk image to ignore future problem. Thanks for the support guys.
I agreed with your point. I regularly save my important files in external drive. My problem is my computer create problem frequently. That's why I need to make restore point, because currently it is in best stage.
Yes! I got you. That's my point. Today my computer is working fine and I want to make restore point. If in future it will create problem I would like to come to this restore point.
Someone told me that if I make system restore point and in future my laptop will create problem, then restore the laptop at previous restore point. The laptop will behave like it was behaving at the time of making restore point. So at present it is working fine but I can't trust on my laptop , That's why I want to create restore point to avoid future trouble.


/>/well matched load. It was a view which always drew a lot of "flak"
You did not misunderstand at all. My earlier statements about high losses with differential flux were WRONG, and based on some careless experiments I did more than ten years ago before I started working with ferrites in any serious way. Based on questions from others, I recently set up careful tests with bifilar wound chokes on several types of cores and found losses due to differential flux to be VERY small. What I learned that I was mistaken about is that there is virtually no LEAKAGE FLUX -- that is, VIRTUALLY ALL of the flux from one winding couples to the other, so flux in the core perfectly cancels for a differential signal.
No misunderstanding at all, It is new. I simply did more work and learned more things about how these things work. That's one of the great benefits of publishing things -- when you miss something or get it wrong, people tell you about it and you learn something in the process. :) I've always liked to say that "he who does nothing does nothing wrong."
Hats off to Brown for identifying and 'fessing up to a problem in his earlier work.
———. June 2010. A ham's guide to RFI, ferrites, baluns, and audio interfacing R5a.
———. 2008b. RF Two Wire Transmission Line Loss Calculator. https://owenduffy.net/calc/tl/twllc.htm (accessed (20/10/11).
Owen Duffy 1995, 2014. All rights reserved. Disclaimer.


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Q: Thread Quantum? What is a thread quantum, and how can I identify it on my system?

A: Check out this tutorial on thread quanta and scheduling
In particular:

Each thread has a quantum, which is effectively how long it is allowed to keep hold of the CPU if:
it remains runnable;
the scheduler determines that no other thread needs to run on that CPU instead.

A: I don't know how to identify, but I know what a Thread Quantum is.
Multithreading, or parallelism in general, is not "true" parallelism on a single-core computer (nor it is on a dual-core when there are more than 2 threads, nor it is on a quad-core when there are more than 4 threads, etc.).
The Operating System keeps track of a list of threads. Each thread has a priority. The list will execute the topmost thread on the list. The thread will execute for as long as allowed by the Thread Quantum. When a thread is finished executing, it will move down to the bottom of the list.
Thread Quantum will determine how long a thread may run on a sequential system. Higher priority threads have higher Quantums and thus run longer.

A: Thread Quantum is the amount of time that the schedule allows a thread to run before scheduling a different thread to run.
What are threads?
Platform Builder: Setting the Default Thread Quantum
As far as editing goes...There is a registry setting in windows that allows priority changing:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control /
  PriorityControl / Win32PrioritySeparation

0 Foreground and background applications equally responsive
1 Foreground application more reponsive than background
2 Best foreground application response time

A: Give a look at Round Robin Scheduling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_scheduling
I think this may be what you are asking about. quantum is the unit of time give to each process to execute.

A: How do you measure length? velocity? mass? It is the same thing with threads and processes.
A quantum is a unit of time. Programmers don't talk about the time that each thread is supposed to work in seconds, milliseconds or microseconds but in abstract unit of time called quantum.


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WRC exit in sight for Volkswagen?
Team OD | Updated: October 28, 2016, 09:59 AM IST
Volkswagen might exit the World Rally Championship sooner than expected
One of the outcomes of the emissions scandal that Volkswagen found itself embroiled in, since the matter came to light in September 2015, appears to be cost cutting. The losses that the company has faced in the nature of fines, and by way of recalls and part replacements, has been to the tune of several billions. As a result of which cost cutting has become one of the prime focusses for the Volkswagen Group - extending across all its brands - with one of the main areas being motorsport. The announcement that Audi Sport was withdrawing from the World Endurance Championship (which includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans) at the end of the 2016 season, choosing instead to focus on the FIA Formula E Championship came as something of a surprise to many. But the budgetary restrictions could go far beyond just this.
Julien Ingrassia and Sebastien Ogier celebrated their fourth rally world title at Rally Spain earlier this year
German motorsport website Motorsport-Total.com has now reported that the possibility of Volkswagen exiting the World Rally Championship is fairly strong. Volkswagen has dominated the WRC since they debuted in 2013, with Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia taking the title every year since, most recently being crowned champions in 2016 after winning Rally Spain. The report carried by Motorsport-Total says that it is highly likely that Volkswagen will end their commitment to the World Rally Championship at the end of the 2017 season of rallying at the latest. It is reported that the possibility of an earlier exit is unlikely, since the team has already progressed far into the development and testing of their new car for the upcoming season of motorsport. However, the possibility that they might exit the sport sometime at the end of the 2016 season is not being ruled out.
Volkswagen Motorsport had declared, in June 2014, their intent to compete in the World Rally Championship until 2019. However, Motorsport-Total has also mentioned in their report that when they asked a Volkswagen representative at the Wales Rally GB if this was still the case, they were told that it might not be. The spokesperson declared instead that the Volkswagen Group was going through difficult times, and that it was impossible to see into the future.
Audi will end their very successful 18 year stint at Le Mans at the end of the 2016 season
Will we be surprised to see Volkswagen exit the World Rally Championship? Well, no. The timing of it all might be just right, given that they will get to go out on a high note, having dominated the sport for the past few years. And, there's another little trend that we've observed as far as the exit of top team management goes.
Back in November 2015, Audi extended their motorsport boss, Dr Wolfgang Ullrich's contract till 2017. Ullrich, who turned 65 in 2015, is one of the few members of the Volkswagen Group who were allowed to stay past their official retirement age, possibly to oversee the end of the team's LMP1 project, and be part of the initial shift in direction towards the WEC.
Meanwhile, in April 2016 it was announced that Leena Gade, Audi's Le Mans winning motorsport engineer, would leave the team after the 2016 edition of the big race, moving onto a role with Bentley. Gade's departure is something that Audi might have avoided, if their WEC exit hadn't already been planned.
Motorsport director, Jost Capito, left Volkswagen for McLaren earlier this year
Similarly, Volkwagen's motorsport director, Jost Capito, who had been a large part of the team's success, and could very likely have played a critical role in how the team performed in the 2017 season (when WRC's new rules come into play) announced he was leaving the team, switching to McLaren's Formula 1 programme, back in January 2016. Capito's last rally with the team was in August, and he took over as CEO of McLaren in September this year, being replaced by Sven Smeets at Volkswagen.
Just as Gade's mid-season exit could have been a sign of things to come at Audi, Capito's mid-season departure could also signal an end of things as they are at Volkswagen. For now, though, there is no official news on the team's commitment to motorsport, or possible exit. Signs, however, seem to point to an exit. We will have to wait and watch.
Tags: motorsport | Volkswagen | Volkswagen World Rally Championship | WRC 2016 | VW Group | VW WRC exit | Audi | Wolfgang Ullrich | Jost Capito | Leena Gade | Sven Smeets
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St. Patrick's Day Special: Who's The Toughest Irish Superhero?
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following guest column was provided by comic book historian Alan Kistler, who never ceases to amaze us with his knowledge of all things comics. In order to determine the victor in in his "Last Man Standing" scenario, he painstakingly compared each combatant's powers, how they would interact with other combatants' powers, and each character's equipment, history and tendencies. Basically, he spent a lot more time thinking about this than you will spend reading it — so we hope you enjoy it!
The drinks have been served. The music is on. But this St. Patrick's Day is different. This day, we find out which Irish superhero (or superhero of Irish heritage) will be the last man standing!
Molly Fitzgerald (a.k.a. Shamrock) steps into the battlefield. Born in Dunshaughlin, Molly is able to call on the spirits of innocent people who died in war and terrorist attacks. With their help, she is able to alter probability in her favor and cause bad luck for her enemies. As soon as she arrives, Shamrock is attacked by Daredevil (a.k.a. Matt Murdock), the Irish-Catholic vigilante of Hell's Kitchen who's blind but compensates with the rest of his superhuman senses.
Daredevil throws his billy club with incredible accuracy, but to his surprise, it somehow misses his opponent. Daredevil then attempts a flying kick at Shamrock. Somehow his balance is off, and Daredevil winds up missing the mark entirely, leaving him open for an attack from behind as Molly picks up a nearby trashcan and bashes it across his head, knocking him out — all because of bad luck.
A second later, Theresa Cassidy (a.k.a. Siryn) of County Mayo arrives on the scene. Shamrock figures this will be no problem, but her powers are only good for a 20-foot radius and Siryn, who is a mutant blessed with sonic abilities identical to her dead father Banshee (the former X-Men team member), is an expert with long-distance attacks. Flying high above Shamrock, Siryn delivers a sonic cry from her lips that easily knocks out her opponent. Shamrock is down.
Siryn turns to see who else is around and just barely dodges a discus-like shield, the famous weapon of Steve Rogers, the Irish-American from New York also known as Captain America. Though he has no actual superhuman powers, Siryn is cautious because she knows that Cap is a super-soldier, biologically engineered to be as strong, fast and agile as a human being can be, and with expert skills in martial arts, acrobatics and military strategy.
Just as Cap's shield returns to him like a boomerang, Siryn delivers another sonic attack. But Cap's shield is made of a unique alloy called vibranium, which actually absorbs sound and kinetic force. Having rendered Siryn's attack useless, Cap tosses his shield at her again and she narrowly dodges. But poor Siryn doesn't realize that Captain America planned for this. The shield bounces off the side of a building, then ricochets off a nearby fire escape before it finally hits the girl from behind, knocking her out cold.
Cap readies for his next opponent, when suddenly the scene changes. He is no longer in a city street, but on a battlefield in the European Theatre, surrounded by Nazis.
Has he traveled back in time? Nope — it's an illusion cast by Liam McHugh (a.k.a. Jack O'Lantern), a hero with mystical abilities. Despite being a great fighter, Cap is disoriented by the illusion that surrounds him and it becomes worse when his perceptions are clouded by fog and gouts of flame.
In just a few moments, he could get his bearings but it's already too late. Jack O'Lantern flies onto the scene and uses both his momentum and superhuman strength to knock out Cap with a sucker punch.
Satisfied that he has won, the Ireland native dispels with his illusion and is eager to relax at a pub with friends. But suddenly, green chains appear out of thin air, shackling him. The chains have been created by the Green Lantern named Kyle Rayner, an American of Mexican-Irish heritage who wields one of the most powerful weapons in the universe on his finger: an Oan power ring.
Jack O'Lantern bursts out of the chains with his super-strength and fires a gout of flame at Kyle. Kyle blocks it by creating a green-shield. Jack O'Lantern flies up to deck Kyle, but the Green Lantern creates a green-skinned version of Conan the Barbarian and a green-skinned Tarzan, who both tackle Jack O'Lantern to the ground. Jack destroys them with flames and is ready to renew his attack when he's suddenly encased in an air-tight green bubble. Before he can pull back his flames, the oxygen is all burnt up and Jack falls unconscious, unable to breathe.
And with that, Kyle Rayner shakes his head, amazed that this man thought he could take on a Green Lantern who's learned from Superman and Batman and helped save the universe more than once. With the fighting over, Kyle deposits Jack O'Lantern on top of the pile of unconscious heroes and then goes off to grab a Shamrock Shake before he meets up with his buddy Wally West at the bar.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, people!
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MEMOIRS BY STEPHANIE KLEIN STRAIGHT UP AND DIRTY EXCERPT
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Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir
By Stephanie Klein
Chapter One: A Pair And A Spare
IT WAS APRIL FOOL'S DAY, 2003-FOURTEEN DAYS FROM TAX time-and the biggest joke of a day. I sat on the floor of his closet, my head between the hems of his pants. His suede loafers made imprints on the backs of my thighs. I'd bought him those herringbone pants at a Zanella sample sale, that reversible leather belt, and all those fine sweaters and tailored shirts. I'd shop with an index card of his sizes so he wouldn't need to return things. I wanted to make him happy.
He'd said pleats were outdated and told me to return them, but you can't return samples, so they remained, tags intact, toward the back of his closet. I could touch the grain of his wooden shoe trees, finger his cashmere sweaters, and cry into his shirts. I still had his things. His smell was still there, but he was a stranger.
The ties were the hardest part to leave. I'd bought more than a handful of them for him in Paris, when he'd proposed marriage to me at the Eiffel Tower in June of 1998. Charvet, Ferragamo, and Hermes were all he'd wear. I didn't know from any of it. Unlike him, I wasn't raised on a diet of designer. So I made an effort by introducing him to Etro ties, hoping he'd tell people I'd turned him onto something new. But he didn't like Etro-he liked what he knew. "I'm sorry Stephanie, but your taste, uh . . ." he said shaking his head in disproval, "it's from hunger."
"You know how when you're starving you'll eat anything?"
"Well," then he closed the lid on the tie box and pushed it toward me as he said, "you're looking at anything."
My twenty-eight-year-old husband Gabriel Rosen never pretended to be a retrosexual. I mean the boy was a hardcore metrosexual before its emergence in the lexicon. He always knew from hair product and thread count. Then he joined a new gym and never missed a tanning appointment. For the five and a half years we'd been together, I'd occasionally joke when he revealed his chest at the beach: "Oh look, you decided to wear a Gap sweater." Back then, he was too fixated on his bald spot and Propecia to ever contemplate hair removal. But suddenly, after two and a half years of marriage, his Palm calendar included laser sessions for his arms, chest, and back. A foreign cologne hung heavy in the air, clinging to his new Prada button-down. His new shirt wasn't red, but the flag was. The signs were there, an article straight from a woman's magazine:
• JOINS A GYM
• VISITS A TANNING SALON
• SPORTS A NEW HAIRSTYLE
• WEARS HAIR PRODUCT AND COLOGNE MORE OFTEN
• PURCHASES VARIOUS NEW AND DIFFERENT CLOTHES
• SUDDENLY AND INEXPLICABLY CHANGES HIS CLOTHING STYLE
He wasn't gay. He was cheating. I didn't say adultery. I didn't say sex. I said cheating as in living as if I weren't in his life.
WHEN I CONFRONTED GABE, HE SWORE. NOT "SHIT" OR "oh, fuck." He swore, "Nothing . . . happened." In his pause between "Nothing" and "happened" he was devising the next lie. "Nothing," I would later discover, consisted of movie premieres, courtside seats at Madison Square Garden, Bungalow 8, text messages, late night phone calls, meeting her friends, and a string of missed electronic pages. "Happened" was a forty-three-year-old socialite. If recklessness were currency, he could have purchased all of Prada. When tax season approached, he had nothing left to expense. I'd already written him off. Dependents: 0.
Enough with his designer closet; none of it was mine anymore. I needed to finish packing. As I sat cross-legged on our hardwood floor, I smelled packing tape and was surrounded by brown. Brown packing boxes, brown shadows cast on barren walls, left only with brown rusted picture hooks and sun rings, revealing what was no longer there. Depleted from a day of instructing movers which boxes would go to storage and which would go to my new smaller apartment across town, I sat alone. All I had were the keys I'd need to turn in and the last wheel of brown tape in my hands. I sealed my last box, the Gabe box-full of vacation itineraries, smiling photographs, our certificate of marriage, old tax returns, printed e-mails, and folded notes signed with xxx's, ooo's, and Always. The box was leaving the Upper East Side and heading for storage. I was heading to the Upper West without any of it. I closed the door behind me.
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Q: Angular 2 - Post request - Unsupported media type when sending request to Jersey Dears,
I am sending a post request from Angular 2 to a Java service using Jersey .
Angular code :
 saveProjectDetails(info: any) {
    const body = JSON.stringify(info);
    const headers = new Headers();
    headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    alert(body);
    return this.http.post(this.postUrl, body, headers).map((response: Response) => response.text());
  }

Form Input used :

        <input class="form-control" or="effort" name="effort" placeholder="Enter effort" value="208" #effort>

        <input class="form-control" for="crc" name="crc" placeholder="Enter CRC" value="CRC06" #crc>

        <button class="form-control" id="Save" class="btn btn-primary" (click)="onSubmit(effort.value, crc.value)">Save project details</button>

 Response obtained from server is : {{projectSaveResponse}}

Jersey code :
@POST
    @Path("/saveProjectInfo/{projectId}/{application}")
    @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    @JsonRawValue
    public String saveProjectInfo(@PathParam("projectId") String projectId,
            @PathParam("application") String application,
            @FormParam("effort") String effort, @FormParam("crc") String crc,
            @Context HttpServletRequest request) {

        System.out.println("Effort provided : " + effort);
        System.out.println("CRC provided : " + effort);

        return "Project description saved successfully";
    }

Data being sent is : {"effort": "208", "crc": "123"}
I am getting the error "415 -Unsupported media type" in Angular application
POST http://localhost:8080/ProjectDashboard/rest/jsonServices/saveProjectInfo/134001D01/OPTA 415 (Unsupported Media Type)

Could you please spot the issue.
Update :
I am using the Jersey JAX-RS 2.0 RI bundle .
I am already using genson as JSON provider.
Moreover, the same post call works from postman but is not working and giving error from Angular 2 http service call.

A: Dears, I have found the issue with the code. The problem is with both the POST method and the angular HTTP call .
1) The @POST method has been changed to below
    @POST
    @Path("/saveProjectInfo/{projectId}/{application}")
    @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    @JsonRawValue
    public String saveProjectInfo(SaveBean input,
            @PathParam("projectId") String projectId,
            @PathParam("application") String application) {

        System.out.println("ProjectId provided : " + projectId);
        System.out.println("Application provided : " + application);
        System.out.println("Effort : " + input.getEffort());
        System.out.println("CRC : " + input.getCrc());

        return "Project description saved successfully";
    }

and the headers are now sent properly in the angular http post call as below as an object instead of a variable
saveProjectDetails(info: any) {
    const body = JSON.stringify(info);
    const headers = new Headers();
    headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    alert(body);
    return this.http.post(this.postUrl, body, {headers: headers}).map((response: Response) => response.text());
  }


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Europa como estado de ánimo
Europe as a state of mind
Autor: Luis Hernández Español
Blog of José Fariña: https://elblogdefarina.blogspot.com.es/2017/12/europa-como-estado-de-animo.html
This article of Pr. Fariña is framed within the activities carried out within the subject of the Protection of the Urban Heritage and the Natural Environment. The article is a complement of the colloquium that he carries out with his students. From the beginning, the professor develops a very critical essay with the policy developed by European institutions within the framework of culture.
The most important action in recent years developed in terms of culture by the EU, the European Year of Cultural Heritage, which takes place during 2018, has as its main objective to make available to all Europeans their heritage, considering changes in the digital revolution and globalization.
Pr. Fariña makes a detailed and chronological review of the main cultural policies, begins with the approval process of a European Agenda for culture where the main strategic objectives are established (promotion of diversity and intercultural dialogue, culture as a channel of development of creativity and the promotion of culture as an essential element of the international relations of the EU). Pr. Fariña criticizes that the Council of Europe carries out a common policy destined to promote diversity, since this diversity would be one of the intrinsic characteristics of the U.E. It also critically criticizes both the second and the third objective established by the Council of Europe in 2007.
Between 2008 and 2010, a series of priority areas of action were established (improving the mobility of artists and cultural professionals, taking advantage of the potential of cultural industries, the promotion of cultural heritage, multilingualism, digitalisation, cultural tourism and educational synergies). These fields of action are interesting for Pr. Fariña but he thinks that the European institutions have overestimated their power by thinking that they could carry out all these actions in a very short period of time.
The culture is not the competence of the U.E but of the member states and for this reason the so-called MAC (Open Methods of Coordination) were created. The steps to be taken by these MACs are to agree on a series of common objectives, to monitor progress and to encourage mutual learning. The MAC is included in the resolution establishing a series of triennial work plans (Period 2008-2010, Period 2011-2014 and Period 2015-2018). From these three-year plans arose the Forums of Culture that have not had an excessive impact but have allowed to maintain a place of exchange between the affected countries. As of 2015, the U.E promotes dialogues between the European Commission and the cultural sector, Voices of Culture, which have not had the expected impact either.
In the years that have elapsed since 2007 and 2015, European policies at a European level could be said to have been highly criticizable since all of them have planned great objectives but the results have not been as expected.
Up to this point in the article, Pr. Fariña has only analyzed the theoretical framework of European policies but has not talked about what really matters, that is, Mr. Money. Now he cites a series of economic data that European cultural institutions have invested. Pr. Fariña accepts that he has invested a sum of important money, but he does not know, if the amount of money has had the expected results.
The first major policy at the European level was the Culture 2000 Program, which focused on supporting artistic and cultural projects. This program was preceded by some pilot programs such as the Kaleidoscope (1994), Ariane (1997) or Rafael (1997). It is assumed that the Culture 2000 Program was created to promote a European cultural identity. Among the initiatives of this program, I can mention the European Capital of Culture.
In recent years, the U.E has a line of action that focuses on the development of specific actions such as the European Heritage Days, the Cultural Heritage Award of the U.E and the European Heritage Label. In the following lines of the article, Pr. Fariña, criticizes these lines of action. The last paragraphs of the article are devoted to analyzing the declaration of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.
After his criticism of this celebration, the author proposes a series of possible solutions and possible actions to solve this situation of great crisis in European cultural management, which would be respect, without the need for intercultural dialogue and secondly , the creation of a common culture that does not imply the practical disappearance of regional or local cultures. He concludes by saying that the current situation in Europe, in cultural matters, is disastrous and of depression, which requires a critical analysis and an urgent step by the operating room to change the course and to begin to develop policies that are effective and realistic.
José Fariña Tojo
Máster Interuniversitario El Patrimonio Cultural en el siglo XXI: Gestión e Investigación
mcalleva@ucm.es
Centro / Universidad
E.T.S. de Arquitectura UPM
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When I was approached about developing an interview that involved a theme loosely constructed around the concept of documentation, curator Andy Beach along with his weblogs Reference Library and Stork Bites Man immediately came to mind. As a unique case within an excessively large cloud of blogs out there, Andy Beach curates content that proclaims a sense of selflessness that is shown particularly well through the cataloging of his experiences in fatherhood.
By not only taking form through the context of a single theme, Beach is able to provide his readership with inspiring content that is refreshing, honest, and doesn't beg you to perceive him as a personality bound to the Internet's ever-useless popularity contest.
Jabari: A photo you've published simply titled Wooding from 1982 is a reflection on you with your sister and dad in the family tool crib. Can you talk a little about what life was like growing up a Beach?
Andy: Ha. There were a lot of jokes: "Sandy Beach", "Son of a Beach", etc. I had a good, small-town Michigan life; lots of bike riding, playing in the yard, throwing rocks and watching semi trucks go by. Freedom. I look back at that photograph that my Mom must have taken and my Dad is about the age I am now. And in that photo, my sister and I are the ages of my own daughters now. This is in the basement of the same house where my Dad and his friends built an addition to add two bedrooms for our growing family. He liked his workbench area and enjoyed his particular way of arranging and displaying his things. But he knew how to use those tools and often did. I don't feel as grown-up as my parents seemed then. I still feel like I'm trying to figure things out.
Did you study any facet of design or art formally in school?
I ended up attending five different colleges and switched my studies from engineering to graphic design, yet still graduated in only four and a half years. I ended up with a BFA but no real art education. I thought I knew exactly what I wanted and needed out of an education, so I did what I could do get through it quickly. I tried to learn without making any mistakes. I was wrong, of course. That way of working makes it very hard to be creative and expressive and honest. Learning from missteps and failures and then adjusting, not abandoning, when things go wrong is how you grow.
I remember being obsessed with The Zone System in photography classes; I kept trying to capture and reproduce what I saw with the naked eye. I wasn't trying to make art or even trying to make a "good" photo, I just wanted the photograph to look like what I saw with my eyes. It is kind of pointless exercise, but it still fascinates and frustrates me — the way people take pictures of their goods for eBay and in the way architectural spaces are (mis)represented in magazines, it is a kind of documentation that drives me wild.
I catch a sense that your inspirations are centered on both utilitarianism and the playful moments within the everyday. Explain how these ideas influence your praxis and theories in art and design?
I don't think I've ever been all that interested in the fantastic. I like projects with a purpose. Whatever process I have definitely comes from being a keen observer and wanting to find a solution to a problem, but never without humor. You're right; I like to find the playful moments within something dry or even boring. I feel free to think and inspired when I'm driving long stretches of highway between Pennsylvania and Michigan. Focused on the road and the limited landscape is a perfect structure for finding or creating playful moments.
Stork Bites Man is quite unique in being a blog that features content that within its intimacy is the certainty that it will evolve over time. How did the blog come about and as your children grow older what would you like to see come out of its existence?
Absolutely. I started the blog to keep track of things, but Stork Bites Man quickly became more about experience and emotion. There are still a lot of objects, but often those are just a symbol of something else that's on my mind. Or a reminder of something my daughters did or said. The blog has become a place to share experiences and ideas rather than things.
The idea of a reference library refers to a place where things are documented, archived, and researched on site. How is the concept of a reference library reflected within your blogging methodology?
Well that was the whole point at the very beginning. I started Reference Library because I was looking for a way to organize the thousands of images on my computer. It could have just as easily ended up as a flickr account or a well-organized iPhoto library. I liked the idea of tagging and making it somewhat public. A week later I had visitors and it became a Blog. I wanted it to be a tool; an archive of images I could go back to again and again for research. It naturally evolved into something else, and just like Stork Bites Man, Reference Library is more about experiences than objects. It may look like an image or object blog to most people; the tags are only rough chunks of meaning. For me these things are very personal and have significance beyond what it is shown on the blog. I can go back in the archive to certain weeks or individual posts and be reminded of something funny my daughter said, the house we almost bought, or the fire I almost started. It is still a tool, but for me it's more about processing my own ideas than being an "inspiration" resource.
Before having the luxury to document your interests and memorable activities through various web-based narratives, how would you compile the artifacts that you felt needed to be revisited?
That's why I had to start the blog. I was keeping three-ring binders but it was such a static archive. I couldn't do anything with them. I wasn't able to compile or archive anything in a satisfying way. I needed a structure. "To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now." Jason Fulford shared that quote with me and it's a perfect fit for how the blog works and for what I need to do to make it keep working.
Do you try to maintain a physical reference library at home?
I try. But I am not as organized as you might expect. There are piles and piles. And stacks of books on top of the piles. My grandma was a hoarder. It's in my blood.
eBay plays a big role in your hunt for objects and clothing, can you name a few of your most memorable finds?
Years before I started the blog, I was outbid on a chair (a "Domus" dining chair by Ilmari Tapiovaara). I contacted the high bidder hoping he might change his/her mind and let me have it. Turns out it was the artist Robert Gober. I always thought that was funny. I still know his eBay name and sometimes check out what he's bidding on.
One of the favorite things I actually won is a weird, folky painting of the Apollo 11 astronauts, the "Heroes of Technology". The seller listed it as "prison art" but no one really knows where it came from. I put in a bid for what I was willing to pay and ended up winning it for much less, which is the way you hope that eBay will always work.
Can you explain your relationship to curating?
It's an uneasy one. I want things to be a certain way; my way. It's a selfish and arrogant belief that I can make something better. I always liked the slogan for the giant corporation BASF: "We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better." I have been fortunate to be involved with projects where someone has let me try to do that. I'm more comfortable as an editor or gatherer, than a creator.
Do you feel the term curator can be adjusted in order to include the growing ideation of the "blogger"?
Unfortunately, yeah. Every blogger with a good eye is not a curator, no matter how many pop-up shops he's done. The other day I was introduced to someone as "a curator" and it made me uneasy. I have worked with real curators, wickedly smart visual and performing arts curators, and I am not part of that club. I tend to explain things by saying: "I have a blog".
I enjoyed the "Kinder" supplement you curated in Apartamento #04, what were some of your goals when it came to deciding what to feature in the section?
Thank you. I looked at it like a problem that needed a solution, not like a curatorial intervention. (I don't make the kids section. I make the kids section better.) My goals were also selfish. I had talked to Geoff McFetridge a year or so earlier about some of the furniture and things he had made for his daughter. I thought it was a great idea for a book or something, so when "Kinder" came up it was a perfect opportunity to get Geoff to share some of those things. I really wanted Andy Rementer to make a coloring book. I loved Enzo Mari; can we talk to Enzo Mari? Yes. I loved the workshops and art-making parties Jordi Ferreiro had done, so I wanted to include him. It all came together very easily. I had the lineup in my head in about 30 seconds. I knew what would be good: things I couldn't do myself. I think I kind of live vicariously through these "curatorial" projects.
Have you ever considered doing a print publication or book of your own?
I found your mini-exhibition project with Kiosk also very interesting. Can you explain how the Reference Library shop developed?
Yes; it was my mailman's fault. My wife had ordered some things from KIOSK for my birthday, but they got lost in the mail. When we stopped by the shop to pick up replacements, I met Alisa who owns/runs KIOSK and we started chatting. Almost every Reference Library project has started the same way: someone says "we should do something together sometime." She was just starting her Mini-Exhibition series; a few months later I was on the schedule to open a shop on Black Friday (the traditionally brutal day-after-Thanksgiving shopping day).
We're expecting a new baby boy at the end of November! I plan to finish some projects this fall then take a long break from the Internet and being a blogger/curator/whatever.
Too Blessed 2 Be Stressed!


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Government commits £1.8m to aviation security innovation
Eight projects have been awarded funding to create technology that could bolster airport security and speed up passenger screening
bc investmentBC transportBC travel and leisureBC Midlands
Katherine Lofthouse	 2:40pm 23rd Feb 2018
Teams are using technology like machine learning and sophisticated imaging
Cutting-edge security technology could mean passengers see shorter queues and faster, more effective airport screening processes.
Eight projects have been awarded £1.8 million in government funding to develop innovative technology, which has the potential to bolster airport security while also speeding up the screening process for passengers.
The projects all apply novel approaches to aviation security which have the potential to improve threat detection capabilities.
In addition, some of the projects have the potential to reduce the length of time passengers spend undergoing security checks.
One of the successful recipients of the funding is a small team based in Derbyshire, Security Screening Technologies, whose project uses sophisticated imaging to scan shoes for explosive materials.
The step-on shoe scanner being developed by the company can rapidly form high-contrast images of footwear which can then be analysed by computers that have been 'taught' to recognise threats.
Any shoes which are flagged as having areas of concern could then undergo secondary screening.
The project could ultimately mean that passengers would no longer need to remove their shoes before going through airport central search, leading to reduced queuing times and a more customer-friendly experience.
Aviation Minister Baroness Sugg said: "This latest £1.8 million of funding invests in innovative projects that will ensure we are continuing to capitalise on pioneering research. The aim is to have a safer and smoother travel experience for air passengers.
"The safety of people travelling on all modes of transport is our top priority and the Future Aviation Security Solutions programme is just one example of the huge importance we place on the security of passengers.
"We have a proud history of the early adoption and use of cutting edge technology and this programme is helping to ensure we continue to lead the way in airport security."
The funding is part of the 5-year Future Aviation Security Solutions (FASS) programme, a multi-million pound initiative which seeks new solutions to strengthen aviation security.
It will go towards supporting a range of projects with pioneering ideas to reduce security threats in airports.
These include the use of electromagnetic imaging to detect items of concern in luggage, filtering samples of gas taken from cargo containers to test for explosives, and using machine learning techniques to identify threats on people and in bags.
A joint Department for Transport and Home Office programme, FASS works closely with industry to fund research and encourage innovation.
Security Minister, Ben Wallace said: "We are determined to harness the power of innovation and this ambitious programme will help us continue to use the best technologies as part of our aviation security.
"Our work in this area is just one example of how the government is supporting industry, academia and small enterprises to improve our resilience and strengthen our defences against terrorism."
Another of the successful recipients of the funding is a team based in Wales called Sequestim who have designed an alternative walk-through people screening system. State of the art technology within the device could reduce the need for manual checks and mean passengers do not have to remove outer clothing.
The project could also benefit passengers by speeding up the screening process and reducing the risk of false alarms which can cause disruption to passengers and screening processes.
As passengers move past a highly-sensitive camera, the natural radiation from their bodies is measured and turned in to an image. Computer learning can be applied to detect the presence of any threat the passenger may be carrying.
Each project team will have 12 months to develop their technology into a fully functioning prototype that could be trialled at airports.
The eight projects receiving funding – including two from UCL – include Durham University, University College London, SEADM (with Smiths Detection),Sequestim, Scanna MSc, Security Screening Technologies, University of Cambridge.
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