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Мише́ль (Михаи́л) де Кастельбажа́к (; , Монтастрюк,  — , Периньи, Франция) — священнослужитель Русской православной церкви заграницей, митрофорный протоиерей, настоятель Церкви святых апостолов Петра и Павла в Виши.

Биография
Принадлежит к древнему гасконскому дворянскому роду. Родился 19 марта 1928 году в небольшом городке Монтастрюк в Гаскони в родовом поместье в Гасконии на границе Франции и Испании, где у его отца было немного земли, доставшейся по наследству. Там он жил до семнадцати лет.

Окончил Парижскую школу политических наук и Богословский институт святого Дионисия. Работал в Министерстве иностранных дел Франции.

Женился на Христиане (Chistiane, урожд. Donin Rosiere). В браке родилось четверо детей.

Духовные искания привели к конфликту, а затем к разрыву с католичеством, что было весьма болезненно воспринято его семьёй. Пробовал многие учения, но «оставался неприкаянным духовно». Так продолжалось пока Мишель не пришёл в православный храм.

В 1964 году принял священный сан от архиепископа Иоанна (Максимовича). Служил в западнообрядной Кафолической православной церкви Франции, состоявшей в ведении РПЦЗ. После отделения КПЦФ от РПЦЗ остался верен Русской Зарубежной Церкви и перешёл на восточный обряд.

Чтобы содержать семью, ему долгое время приходилось совмещать светскую работу и Служение. Он работал и ночным сторожем, и президентом завода по производству хрусталя под Парижем, и секретарём префекта. А в воскресенье заходил в алтарь, чтобы служить Литургию.

С 14 декабря 1981 по март 1985 года — клирик и помощник настоятеля храма Воскресения Христа в Мёдоне.

В 1985 году отказался от светской работы, чтобы полностью посвятить себя священническому служению, и поселился близ города Виши, где он построил небольшую церковь в честь святых апостолов Петра и Павла, освященную архиепископом Женевским и Западно-Европейским Антонием (Бартошевичем) в 1986 году.

В 1991 году упомянут настоятелем Лапалисского Петропавловского храма. Оставался им в начале 2000-х годов, окормляя также Парижскую часовню святителя Иоанна Шанхайского.

26-27 июня 1992 году возглавил делегацию РПЦЗ на торжествах по случаю канонизации румынского старостильного митрополита Гликерия (Тэнасе).

В апреле 2001 года за отказ поминать своего правящего архиерея (епископа Амвросия) был подвергнут вместе со своим сыном протоиереем Квентином временному запрещению в священнослужении. Стал одним из немногих клириков Западно-Европейской епархии РПЦЗ, вернувшихся из раскола РПЦЗ(В), под угрозой извержения из священного сана.

В середине 2000-х овдовел. Во второй половине 2000-х годов пребывал на покое и приезжал служить в церкви святого Иоанна Русского в Лионе, когда настоятель Квентин де Кастельбажак не мог служить из-за занятости на работе.

Обустроил в своём семейном доме недалеко от города Виши домовой храм святых Апостолов Петра и Павла.

23 ноября 2008 года в храме Воскресения Христова в Мёдоне епископом Женевским и Западно-Европейским Михаилом награждён митрой.

Двое из четверых его детей связали жизнь со служением Церкви. Квентин стал священником в храме Иоанна Русского в Лионе, а дочь Катрин — монахиней в одном из греческих монастырей.

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Killer distractions
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"Distracted driving is a deadly epidemic on America's roadways, and our youngest drivers are often the most at risk," said David Strickland, NHTSA administrator. "When you're driving, your attention should always be on the road — not on a phone. "
According to the organization:
—Car crashes are the No. 1 killer of American teens, with an average of 11 American teens dying each day as a result.
—Nearly 5,500 people died in 2009 in crashes involving a distracted driver.
—Driver distraction contributes to 25 percent of all police-reported traffic crashes.
—Inexperienced drivers under age 20 have the highest proportion of distraction-related fatal crashes. —Gazette staff
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Acalolepta permutans — вид жуков-усачей из подсемейства ламиин. Распространён в Китае, Японии, на Тайване и во Вьетнаме. Кормовым растением личинок является альбиция ленкоранская.

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Acalolepta
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Bluespotted Flathead, Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus McCulloch, 1922
Scientific name: Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus
Alternative name/s:
Eastern Blue-spotted Flathead, Longnose Flathead, Red Spotted Flathead, Sand Flathead
Mark McGrouther
Bluespotted Flatheads caught on hook and line off Harrington, New South Wales, December 2001. Image: John Pogonoski
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caeruleopunctatus
Platycephalus
Platycephalidae
Subphylum
The species grows to 68 cm in length.
The temperate marine flatheads can be quite a challenge to identify. The Bluespotted Flathead usually has scattered blue spots on the back and a distinctive pattern of dark blotches on the tail.
The Bluespotted Flathead can be recognised by its sandy colour, scattered blue spots, and the series of elongated dark blotches on the tail. The blotches become progressively larger towards the bottom of the fin. The lower preopercular spine is distinctly longer than the upper.
The Bluespotted Flathead is found on sandy bottoms from shallow coastal bays and estuaries to well offshore.
The species is officially recorded from southern Queensland to eastern Victoria but may occur as far west as eastern South Australia.
The map below shows the Australian distribution of the species based on public sightings and specimens in Australian Museums. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Feeding and diet
It eats crustaceans and other fishes.
Economic impacts
The Bluespotted Flathead is a commercial trawl species which is marketed in Australia under the name Blue-spotted Flathead.
Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life: the plants and animals of temperate waters. Reed Books. Pp. 544.
Gomon, M.F., Bray, D. & R.H. Kuiter (Eds). 2008. The Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Reed New Holland. Pp. 928.
Hutchins, B. & R. Swainston. 1986. Sea Fishes of Southern Australia. Complete Field Guide for Anglers and Divers. Swainston Publishing. Pp. 180.
Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-Eastern Australia. Crawford House Press. Pp. 437.
Tyler, J.C. 1970. Abnormal fin and vertebral growth structures in Plectognath fishes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 122(4): 249-271.
Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & R.D. Ward. 1999. Australian Seafood Handbook, an identification guide to domestic species. CSIRO Marine Research. Pp. 461.
fishes of sydney harbour Platycephalidae fish
Giant Squirrelfish, Ostichthys japonicus (Cuvier, 1829)
Birdsnout Whalefish, Rhamphocetichthys savagei
Mosaic Leatherjacket, Eubalichthys mosaicus (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886)
Tadpole Coffinfish, Chaunacops melanostomus (Caruso, 1989)
Billfish skeleton
Crested Hornshark, Heterodontus galeatus (Günther, 1870)
Swarthy Parrotfish, Scarus niger Forsskål, 1775
Longnose Trevally, Carangoides chrysophrys (Cuvier, 1833)
Blue Scissortail, Assessor macneilli Whitley, 1935
Classification, Diversity And Biology Of Lanternfishes
Cirrhitidae - Hawkfishes
Fish bones
Fishes of Sydney Harbour
This table lists all known species recorded in Sydney Harbour.
Tiger Flathead, Platycephalus richardsoni Castelnau, 1872
Fish Gonads
The gonads are the organs that produce sex cells.
Fish Dissections
The dissections of two fishes are available as slide shows.
Bluespotted Coral Trout, Plectropomus laevis (Lacépède, 1801)
On a collection of Papuan dragonflies (Odonata) made by the late Mr. Allan R. McCulloch in 1922–3, with descriptions of new species
Dusky Flathead, Platycephalus fuscus Cuvier, 1829
Deepsea Flathead, Hoplichthys haswelli McCulloch, 1907
Mud Flathead, Ambiserrula jugosa (McCulloch 1914)
Purple Eelgoby, Taenioides purpurascens (De Vis, 1884)
Dissection of a Bluespotted Flathead
The dissection consists of three parts: an external examination, the internal organs, and the mouth and gills.
Marbled Flathead, Platycephalus marmoratus Stead, 1908


Purchasing marijuana online is not the illegal, undercover operation it was a few years ago. Now that California legalized recreational use on January 1 this year, acquiring marijuana products has never been easier. As with everything in life, though, there are positives and negatives. You may not need a doctor's letter anymore, but know that fraudsters are simply thriving in this new marketplace.
Ordering marijuana delivery can be risky. After all, you are handing out your address. Payments are not always secure. A marijuana sale could just be a low-grade weed. You could pay for top quality and get the worst. You could receive nothing at all. For these reasons, it is vitally important that you understand how to find legitimate websites when you buy marijuana online, as well as how to use them.
If you are purchasing marijuana online, the most basic fact to remember is that you must find a reputable website. One with a license to operate legally, which guarantees quality and holds the company accountable for its services. Many claims made online are either outright lies or half-truths. You will need to do some research to make sure nobody is swindling you.
Obtaining marijuana products has been extremely difficult for years. It always involved extensive paperwork, medical verification, personal validation and email confirmation, which deterred most would-be buyers. Fortunately, buying marijuana online has never been simpler than it is now. The hassles that made weed shopping so trying in the past no longer exists today.
Now, you only need to sign up to create an account. Nobody should be asking you for anything but your name and your email address. That is all. Once you have confirmed your new account via an email sent to your inbox, you will have access to the highest quality marijuana products available and can have them delivered to directly to your door within 45 minutes or, if you live in a remote area, the next day.
You want to use a website that has a license to operate legally. Anyone older than 21-years of age has the right to buy marijuana products for recreational purposes. Now that weed is legal in California, and medicinally, recreationally or both in most other states, it is clear that most of the population is using cannabis and the old stigmas surrounding it are fast disappearing.
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Hedge funds are known to underperform the bull markets but that's not because they are terrible at stock picking. Hedge funds underperform because their net exposure in only 40-70% and they charge exorbitant fees. No one knows what the future holds and how market participants will react to the bountiful news that floods in each day. However, hedge funds' consensus picks on average deliver market beating returns. For example in the first 2.5 months of this year the Standard and Poor's 500 Index returned approximately 13.1% (including dividend payments). Conversely, hedge funds' top 15 large-cap stock picks generated a return of 19.7% during the same 2.5-month period, with 86% of these stock picks outperforming the broader market benchmark. Interestingly, an average long/short hedge fund returned only 5% due to the hedges they implemented and the large fees they charged. If you pay attention to the actual hedge fund returns (5%) versus the returns of their long stock picks, you might believe that it is a waste of time to analyze hedge funds' purchases. We know better. That's why we scrutinize hedge fund sentiment before we invest in a stock like Energy Transfer L.P. (NYSE:ET).
Energy Transfer L.P. (NYSE:ET) was in 30 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of December. ET investors should be aware of an increase in hedge fund sentiment of late. There were 22 hedge funds in our database with ET positions at the end of the previous quarter. Our calculations also showed that ET isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
We're going to take a peek at the new hedge fund action encompassing Energy Transfer L.P. (NYSE:ET).
What does the smart money think about Energy Transfer L.P. (NYSE:ET)?
At the end of the fourth quarter, a total of 30 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 36% from one quarter earlier. On the other hand, there were a total of 15 hedge funds with a bullish position in ET a year ago. With hedge funds' positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a select group of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were boosting their stakes meaningfully (or already accumulated large positions).
More specifically, Zimmer Partners was the largest shareholder of Energy Transfer L.P. (NYSE:ET), with a stake worth $117.9 million reported as of the end of September. Trailing Zimmer Partners was Point72 Asset Management, which amassed a stake valued at $112.9 million. Appaloosa Management LP, Nokota Management, and Magnetar Capital were also very fond of the stock, giving the stock large weights in their portfolios.
Consequently, key money managers were leading the bulls' herd. Arrowstreet Capital, managed by Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell, assembled the most outsized position in Energy Transfer L.P. (NYSE:ET). Arrowstreet Capital had $42 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Eric W. Mandelblatt and Gaurav Kapadia's Soroban Capital Partners also initiated a $16.3 million position during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new ET investors: Tsachy Mishal's TAM Capital Management, Matthew Halbower's Pentwater Capital Management, and Thiru Ramakrishnan's TVR Capital.
Let's check out hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as Energy Transfer L.P. (NYSE:ET) but similarly valued. These stocks are Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT), Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL), Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI), and Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU). This group of stocks' market values resemble ET's market value.
As you can see these stocks had an average of 48 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $2503 million. That figure was $741 million in ET's case. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU) is the least popular one with only 31 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Energy Transfer L.P. (NYSE:ET) is even less popular than PRU though hedge fund sentiment towards the stock is improving dramatically as several hedge funds initiated brand new positions in the stock. Our calculations showed that top 15 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 19.7% through March 15th and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 6.6 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on ET, though not to the same extent, as the stock returned 16.4% and outperformed the market as well.
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Exeter renal unit celebrates 40 years
DR Harry Hill (left) cuts the cake with patient Chris Phillipson to celebrate the 40th anniversary with clinical lead Dr Richard D'Souza (far right).
STAFF and patients at the Royal Devon & Exeter hospital have celebrated a special milestone – 40 years of the Exeter Kidney Unit serving the community.
Four decades ago the specialist unit started with only two dialysis machines and looked after less than 50 renal patients.
Today the services provide life saving treatment to thousands of patients with five satellite units across Devon, a dedicated 26-bed ward at the RD&E Wonford hospital site and a brand new state of the art haemodialysis unit at the RD&E Heavitree hospital.
Royal Devon & Exeter Renal Lead Clinician Dr Richard D'Souza said: "It has been a fantastic 40 years and everyone over the years has helped contribute to the incredible service we have today.
"I would like to thank staff for all their hard work and dedication and give huge thanks to the Exeter Kidney Patient Association, whose incredible support has been invaluable to patients and staff over the years."
Chris Phillipson, who started dialysis treatment in Exeter in 1973 and has been a transplant success for 31 years, said at the 40th anniversary celebration event: "It's both strange and lovely to be back and see all these old faces."
Mr Phillipson said: "I was only about 24 when I started dialysis and you didn't know too much about it all back then.
"I had dialysis for six hours, three times a week for four years. You spend a lot of time with the staff and other patients and I remember it really felt like one big family together, there to support one another."
Dr Harry Hall was one of the founding consultants of the original Exeter Kidney Unit at Dean Clarke House in the city centre.
Dr Hall said: "The biggest moment in renal medicine was the realisation that people could survive chronic renal failure, that dialysis could work and keep people alive and well. It was a very exciting time in medicine.
"I thought it ridiculous we didn't have dialysis treatment for our patients. When the department was given a donation from a patient's relative it helped to buy our first dialysis machine and the Exeter Kidney Unit began from there.
"There have been such tremendous achievements from humble beginnings and I still remember the very first patient having their dialysis treatment.
"It is wonderful to come back and see how much the kidney unit has increased."
Professor Anthony Nichols was renal consultant at the Exeter Kidney Unit for 26 years.
He joined the team when it moved from Whipton hospital to its current location at the RD&E Wonford in 1983.
Dr Nichols said: "It was a very exciting time to be joining the team, the new unit was just opening and the services were expanding.
"It was the first time that treatment for chronic dialysis, acute renal failure and transplant were all on one site.
"When I first began we had a very restricted service with 11 beds and seven dialysis stations. It is amazing to see how far it has come from such a small unit to a huge life-saving service for the Devon community."


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- All rooms at Hotel Residence Empedocle are soundproofed. Each bathroom comes with bathrobe and toiletry set. Some rooms offer a balcony.
- Breakfast includes freshly baked pastries and cappuccino coffee. Guests can use the shared kitchen facilities at extra cost.
- Hotel is surrounded by shops, restaurants and bars.
- The Cathedral is 900 metres away, and the Political Sciences Faculty of the University of Messina is just around the corner.
-The hotel is 1.5 km to Messina Centrale Train Station, and a 10-minute taxi ride to the port. Free public parking is available nearby.
Please contact the Reception from Monday to Saturday 07:00 am - 02:00 pm to inform about your arrival time. This property offers, for guests arriving outside of normal check-in hours and on Sunday, self-service check-in and an access code for the entrance The guests, during the stay, can use an emergency number h24. For more details, please contact the property (Monday – Saturday 7:00 am – 02:00 pm) using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
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One of the new ticket machines which will accept cards as well as coins.
I am devoting this column to on-street parking in Harrogate town centre. It is a timely subject in view of a report coming to NYCC executive members later this summer. The report is likely to recommend an extension to on-street parking charges to include Sundays and possibly evenings.
First some background to this subject.
Pay and display charging started in Harrogate in 1994/5. Before that, display discs were used to limit the time vehicles could be parked on town centre streets.
Free disc parking still exists over a wide area of the town and there are no plans to change that.
Long before pay and display was introduced by NYCC, Harrogate Borough Council charged drivers to park in its car parks seven days a week, although the incentive to use these specially built car parks was low when there was free parking on the streets.
The car parks had one major advantage over disc parking – drivers could pay to park for as long as they wished, whilst disc parking was time-restricted.
Nevertheless, for traffic management reasons, the decision was taken over 20 years ago to introduce pay and display parking controls, which had the effect of encouraging drivers to use off-street car parks built specially for them.
At the same time it discouraged the growing practice of drivers circling the town looking for a free disc space, adding to the congestion which was getting worse and worse as car ownership increased, visitor numbers rose, and the population of the town grew larger.
The introduction of on-street charging also brought with it another major advantage – it encouraged the regular turnover of premium town centre parking spaces so that those who wished to drive into town to visit shops or restaurants or any other business reliant upon visitors' spending could find a parking space easily.
Additionally, it created surpluses each year to be used to pay for improvements in bus and rail services, highways safety schemes, other measures designed to ease congestion and manage traffic, and to encourage cycling, walking and the use of public transport.
Back then, very few town centre shops would open on a Sunday. Today many do and Sundays in Harrogate town centre look like any other day of the week. Some would say that it is even busier. Indeed trying to find a free on-street parking space on a Sunday after 10am is very difficult and there are more and more cars driving round looking for a space on a day when the car parks have lots of room.
Harrogate's recently adopted Town Centre Strategy and Masterplan stresses that the street scene could be greatly improved by getting vehicles off the roads into its underused car parks. It also recommends the use of park and ride facilities, which the town lacks.
It is against this background that the county's highways officers will report to me and my fellow executive members on proposals to extend on-street charging.
I stress that no decisions have been taken and that, before doing so, my colleagues and I will wish to see evidence to back up the report's recommendations.
I am fully aware that there are concerns about introducing additional parking charges, including on the part of this newspaper, and these will, of course, be taken into consideration.
There are suggestions that free disc parking on Sundays and evenings would be the solution to managing the traffic. Apart from taking us back to the unsatisfactory arrangements of 20 years ago, the costs of new signage and of rigorous enforcement would have to be met by the council taxpayer.
Earlier this month, we endorsed the allocation of £3.5m from on-street parking surpluses to help pay for twin-tracking the Harrogate-York railway line east of Knaresborough by 2019. £1m a year is also being given towards the county's £8m bill for the concessionary fares scheme for bus pass holders. £0.5m a year will fund the preparation of bids for major schemes like a Harrogate relief road or a park and ride facility as the town's masterplan suggests.
The surpluses have paid for new user-friendly parking ticket machines which will accept credit cards – a major advantage for our visitors who hitherto had to use coins only.
For the first time, we have allocated £100k every year to schemes to promote cycling and walking, and a further £100k a year to measures to combat air pollution in problem areas like Woodlands Corner and Bond End in Knaresborough.
The results of the traffic surveys taken in April will be published on the NYCC website later this month. The report to the executive is due to be finalised in July and published well in advance of the likely date of the executive meeting on August 16.
The process will be transparent, the meeting public.


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Berkeley scientist questions safety of bottled water
A review of Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, by Peter H. Gleick
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Put down that bottle of water, please, take a deep breath, and listen up. It'll only take a few minutes, and when I'm done, you may never pick up a bottle of water again.
"Bottled water? This is a problem?" Yes, to Berkeley scientist Peter Gleick, co-founder and president of the world-renowned Pacific Institute, "bottled water is a symptom of a larger set of issues: the long-term decay of our public water systems, inequitable access to safe water around the world, our susceptibility to advertising and marketing, and a society trained from birth to buy, consume, and throw away. . . Suburban shoppers in America lug cases of plastic water bottle from the grocery store back to homes supplied with unlimited piped potable water in a sad and unintentional parody of the labor of girls and women in Africa, who spend countless backbreaking hours carrying containers of filthy water from distant contaminated sources to homes with no water at all."
Bottling water on a large scale is a relatively new phenomenon. "In the late 1970s," Gleick writes, "around 350 million gallons of bottled water were sold in the United States — almost entirely sparkling mineral water and large bottles to supply office water coolers. . . In 2008, nearly 9 billion [author's emphasis] gallons of bottled water were packaged and sold in the United States and five times this amount was sold around the world." That's a 25-fold increase in three decades, and "Americans now drink more bottled water than milk or beer." (Betcha didn't know that, did you? I sure didn't!) Now, "data on beverage consumption reveals that on average, each of us is actually drinking around 36 gallons per year less tap water."
Gleick notes that "when we do actually look, we find evidence that there are potentially serious quality problems with bottled water. . . [However], [t]he system for testing and monitoring the quality of bottled water is so flawed that we simply have no comprehensive assessment of actual bottled water quality."
So, why hasn't somebody done something about this? It turns out that the FDA is the culprit. Bottled water falls within the FDA's purview. Gleick cites a study by the Government Accountability Office to the effect that "while the FDA does very few actual inspections of water bottlers, the few they conducted between 2000 and 2008 found problems a remarkable 35 percent of the time. Even this warning sign led to 'little enforcement action.'"
OK, maybe you feel bottled water tastes better than water from the tap. But you're probably fooling yourself. As Gleick reports, "test after test shows the same things: people think they don't like tap water, but they do. Or they think they can distinguish the taste of their favorite bottled water, but they can't." Just check out "bottled water taste test" on YouTube, if you don't believe this.
Here, then, are the Top Ten Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water:
10. Tap water is free, and bottled water isn't.
9. The quality of tap water is rigorously regulated, and bottled water's isn't.
8. Discarded plastic water bottles end up in landfills or on roadsides by the billions. For example, "Berkeley (population 114,000) sends around six tons of PET [the plastic used in water bottles] a week to plastics recyclers — much of it used water bottles."
7. Large scale water-bottlers sometimes drain aquifers and cause wells to run dry in communities where their plants are located.
6. Large corporations such as Nestle (Pure Life), Coca-Cola (Dasani), and PepsiCo (Aquafina) own the major bottled water brands and suck in massive profits, making them even larger.
5. Most bottled waters are marketed in a misleading way. For examples, "Yosemite" brand water is actually municipal tap water from Los Angeles.
4. "Making the plastic for a liter bottle of water actually takes three or four more liters of water itself."
3. If you live in California "and buy Fiji Water, the energy cost of transporting the water to you is equal to the energy embodied in the plastic bottle itself." If it's Evian water instead, the energy expended is even greater.
2. The total energy cost of bottled water, including the materials used, the production process, and the transportation, "is a thousand times larger than the energy required to procure, process, treat, and deliver tap water."
1. Smart restaurateurs like Alice Waters are starting to ban bottled water on their tables. And who are you going to believe if you won't believe Alice?
So, are you ready now to reconsider the balance between the convenience of bottled water and the safety of tap water? Chances are the water from your tap is a much better bet. That's certainly the case where I live in Berkeley.
Our own personal considerations aside, Gleick draws policy implications from his study of bottled water. He advocates five major reforms: state-of-the-art tap water systems; smarter water regulations; truthful labeling; consumer protection; and lower environmental impact.
If you've heard of Peter Gleick, it may be because you came across his name when he won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant — or perhaps in connection with global warming, international development, national security, California's water resources, or something else to do with water. Gleick, editor of the biennial sourcebook The World's Water for many years, is widely acknowledged to be the world's leading authority on that subject. However unfortunately, it's a little more likely you heard Gleick's name during the flurry of news awhile back — his true "15 minutes of fame" — that a group of right-wing climate change-deniers had caught him masquerading as a supporter on their website. That nasty little brouhaha soon boiled over, and sensible people — I count myself as one — never thought it amounted to much, anyway.
So, what now? Are you going to finish that bottle of water, drink up any others you've still got around the house, and switch to using the tap? No? Think about it!
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Tagged as beverage consumption, bottled water, bottling water, business, Coca-Cola, consumer protection, current-events, Nestle, Nonfiction, office water coolers, PepsiCo, Peter Gleick, plastic water bottle, public water systems, sparkling mineral water, water, water resources
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The how-to-guide to "the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid"
A review of Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
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Back in 2004, a respected marketing professor at the University of Michigan named C. K. Prahalad raised eyebrows in the business community with a widely-read book titled The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. In 25 words or less, he postulated that multinational corporations could grow their markets and their bottom line by reaching out to the billions of poor people who crowd emerging nations across the globe. Much of Prahalad's book consisted of "case studies" — written by his graduate students — that purported to support his thesis. Unfortunately, practically none of them did.
Here, eight years later, is the book that Prahalad — now, unfortunately, deceased — should have written. Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and Trimble, a younger Tuck faculty member, have formulated a concept they call "reverse innovation" that is the key to doing business in those emerging markets that excited Prahalad's lust. Their book, too, is dominated by case studies, but in this case the examples do a good job of illustrating how multinational companies have successfully developed products that gained a foothold in developing countries — though by no means necessarily at "the bottom of the pyramid."
"Reverse innovation" — an ethnocentric term — begins with the conventional wisdom that business innovation takes place in rich countries but asserts that transnational corporations wishing to become established in developing markets must cast off traditional thinking and develop products and services within those markets and base them on the needs and wants of people living there. Govindarajan and Trimble advocate reverse innovation as the alternative to exporting rich-country products and services with minor adjustments, a strategy that many companies have found unsuccessful. (The authors call this strategy "glocalization.")
The case studies in Reverse Innovation span a wide range of needs, desires, and prices. The authors write about an extremely inexpensive electrocardiograph machine developed and marketed in India by GE Healthcare, lightweight enough for use by individual physicians on rounds in villages. They relate the story of the development from scratch of a lentil-based new snack food by PepsiCo in India, and of a new automotive "infotainment" system crafted through an international effort by Harman and eventually purchased by Toyota. Other examples include Procter & Gamble, Logitech, and the nonprofit Partners in Health.
Most of the case studies are great stories, even if they are better illustrations of how multinational corporations can make more money than they are of how poor people in emerging nations can gain access to needed goods and services at affordable prices. However, the bulk of Reverse Innovation is given over to discussion about change management in large corporations: it's clear that the real challenge these companies face in growing their markets is to get around the massive barriers thrown up by organizations that are too large, too successful, and too set in their ways. The authors write, "Reverse innovation begins not with inventing, but with forgetting . . . You must let go of the dominant logic that has served you well in rich countries . . . Reverse innovation is what we call clean-slate innovation."
Govindarajan and Trimble make it clear that the only way for a transnational company to bring about reverse innovation is to (1) start with a champion at the top, usually the CEO; (2) appoint a brilliant and politically savvy person to head up an "LGT," by which the authors do not mean to suggest gender preference but simply to abbreviate "Local Growth Team;" (3) recruit to the team a group of mavericks willing to ignore the conventional rules; and (4) work on site in one of the major emerging markets, far, far from headquarters.
Reverse Innovation is well-organized, well-written, and delivers on its promise. Why, then, have I awarded this book only three @@@ out of 5? Out of pique, perhaps, more than anything else. For one thing, the do's and don'ts of management in large organizations are . . . well, for me, the only apt word is boring. And I can't get past my aggravation that this is yet one more instance of brilliant minds being lashed to the task of making the rich richer.
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Tagged as Big Business, business, c k prahalad, China, Dartmouth, GE, Harman, India, innovation, Logitech, Management, marketing, multinational corporations, new products, Nonfiction, Partners in Health, PepsiCo, poverty, the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, transnational corporations, Tuck School of Business, vijay govindarajan
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The right to social security  is recognized as a human right and establishes the right to social security assistance for those unable to work due to sickness, disability, maternity, employment injury, unemployment or old age. Social security systems provided for by states consist of social insurance programs, which provide earned benefits for workers and their families by employment contributions, and/or social assistance programs which provide non-contributory benefits designed to provide minimum levels of social security to persons unable to access social insurance.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognises the right to social security in articles 22, which states that:
"Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security
 and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality."
And article 25, which enshrines the right to an adequate standard of living, stating that:
"(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection."

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) recognises "the right of everyone to social security, including social insurance." The right to social security is furthermore recognised in Article 10, which states that "special protection should be accorded to mothers during a reasonable period before and after childbirth. During such period working mothers should be accorded paid leave or leave with adequate social security benefits." State parties to the ICESCR have the obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the right to social security. In the General Comment no 19 (2007) On the Right to Social Security the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights clarified that the right to social security as enshrined in the ICESCR encompasses:
"the right to access and maintain benefits, whether in cash or in kind, from (a) lack of work-related income caused by sickness, disability, maternity, employment injury, unemployment, old age, or death of a family member; (b) unaffordable access to health care; (c) insufficient family support, particularly children and adult dependents"
Social security is understood to encompass the following nine branches: adequate health service, disability benefits, old age benefits, unemployment benefits, employment injury insurance, family and child support, maternity benefits, disability protections, and provisions for survivors and orphans. State parties to the ICESCR have the obligation to fulfil the right to social security by adopting "the necessary measures, including the implementation of a social security scheme". State parties must ensure that "the social security system will be adequate, accessible for everyone and will cover social risks and contingencies". State parties also have an obligation to facilitate the right to social security by sufficiently "recognizing this right within the national political and legal systems, preferably by way of legislative implementation" and "adopting a national social security strategy".

Other international human rights instruments
The right to social security is also recognised in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination which in article five requires that State parties must prohibit and eliminate racial discrimination in all of its forms, and to guarantee the right of everyone "without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of... the right to public health, medical care, social security and social services". The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women enshrines the right to social security for women in article 11, stating that women have "the right to social security, particularly in cases of retirement, unemployment, sickness, invalidity and old age and other incapacity to work, as well as the right to paid leave."

The Convention on the Rights of the Child enshrines the right of children to social security in article 26, stating that:
"(1) States Parties shall recognize for every child the right to benefit from social security, including social insurance, and shall take the necessary measures to achieve the full realization of this right in accordance with their national law.
(2) The benefits should, where appropriate, be granted, taking into account the resources and the circumstances of the child and persons having responsibility for the maintenance of the child, as well as any other consideration relevant to an application for benefits made by or on behalf of the child."
The Convention further elaborates on the right of children to social security in article 18 in relation to working parents, stating that "States Parties shall render appropriate assistance to parents and legal guardians in the performance of their child-rearing responsibilities and shall ensure the development of institutions, facilities and services for the care of children." According to the Convention "States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that children of working parents have the right to benefit from child-care services and facilities for which they are eligible." Article 20 of the Convention makes provisions for the right to social security of children without parents, stating that "A child temporarily or permanently deprived of his or her family environment, or in whose own best interests cannot be allowed to remain in that environment, shall be entitled to special protection and assistance provided by the State." And that "States Parties shall in accordance with their national laws ensure alternative care for such a child."

Relationship with other rights
The right to social security is interrelated and interdependent with other economic, social and cultural rights, in particular the right to an adequate standard of living, including the right to food and the right to housing, the right to work, and the right to protection of the family. According to the UN Human Rights Committee article 26 of the  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on discrimination applies to the right to social security. In a General Comment from 2000 the Committee highlighted the right to social security as an area where women are frequently subject of discrimination.

Implementation
Globally the access to social security is low and 80 percent of the global population have no access to any formal social security protection.

See also
 Right to health
 Right to water
 Right to work
 Basic Income

References

Human rights by issue


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Afnic Registrar Day is back
On January 10, the new edition of Registrar Day was held, organized by AFNIC, the registry of the .FR extension, this event is mainly intended for registrars. While the event was usually held in December, this new edition, which was both accessible in person and remotely, and which took place after the pandemic period, was held at the beginning of this year, a way to place ourselves "in a new dynamic," according to Pierre Bonis, AFNIC's Director General. The Registra... Read More
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The .FR counts today 4 million domain names
Managed by AFNIC (acronym for Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération – French Association for Cooperative Internet Naming, the French Network Information Center), the favorite extension of the French people has reached 4 million registered domain names! Every week, between 12,000 and 16,000 new .FR domain names are registered. The .FR has become a reference domain, with a market share in France of nearly 40%, which has been growing for several years, particular... Read More
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Phishing, slamming and other fraudulent e-mails: stay alert during the end-of-year holidays
Every year, the end of year holidays announce the upsurge of fraudulent e-mails mass campaigns. Indeed, cybercriminals try to profit from these periods when the vigilance is sometimes lowering, to launch phishing e-mails. What are phishing and slamming? Phishing is used by cybercriminals to obtain personal information in order to commit an identity theft. In the world of phishing (for 73% of companies this is the main entry vector for attacks in 2021), the slammi... Read More
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Nameshield will be present at the FIC North America – On November the 1st and 2nd 2022 in Montreal
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Author Aurélie TranPosted on 13 October 2022 13 October 2022 Categories Cybersecurity, NewsTags FIC, FIC North America
ICANN75, a dense summit before the ITU plenipotentiary meeting
Barely three months after the ICANN74 summit in The Hague, the one in Kuala Lumpur, 75th edition, has just been held. A second summit in hybrid mode, a mix of face-to-face and remote that claims almost 2000 participants from 112 countries, 60% of which were present on the spot. As if to better exist, two weeks before the particularly important appointment of a new secretary general at the head of the International Telecommunication Union, the technical counterpart of ICANN, ICANN proposed a ... Read More
Author Arnaud WittersheimPosted on 29 September 2022 29 September 2022 Categories Domain names, NewsTags ICANN, ICANN75
Nameshield will be present at the Brand Protection Congress – On October the 19th and 20th, 2022 in Nice
The global outbreak of COVID-19 has given cybercriminals the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to sell counterfeit products. Protecting the organization's intellectual property and consumers' trust is now more important than ever. The Brand Protection Congress is a high-class brand protection event which aims to allow brand owners to discuss the industry challenges they are facing and their potential solutions. This 7th edition will take place in Nice, at the Hotel Le Negr... Read More
Author Aurélie TranPosted on 14 September 2022 14 September 2022 Categories NewsTags Brand Protection Congress, Nameshield
You still have until September, the 20th to register your .AU domain name identical to your .COM.AU!
The priority allocation period for .AU direct closes on 20 September 2022. If you hold a domain name in any other .au namespace (eg. com.au, org.au, id.au etc.), created prior to 24 March 2022, you are able to apply for Priority Status to register its exact match in .au direct until this date. Domains on priority hold will be released on Monday 3 October 2022. To be eligible to register a domain name in .au direct (forexample.au), the registrant must have an Australian presence as def... Read More
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[New gTLD] Launch of .KIDS
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ICANN74 between lessons of the pandemic and awareness of the richness of the Internet
Between ICANN66 in Montreal, Canada and ICANN74 in The Hague, Netherlands, thirty-two months and seven summits will have passed exclusively online. In 2020, the prospect of a return to face-to-face meetings was already being discussed under the heading of 'hybrid mode', a mixture of face-to-face and remote meetings. The question remained as to when this could be implemented. A more favorable health context was needed, with all the questions posed by covid variants and its repeat... Read More
Author Arnaud WittersheimPosted on 13 July 2022 13 July 2022 Categories Domain names, NewsTags ICANN, ICANN74, ODP, SSAD
In recent years, ICANN, the regulator of a "universal resolution" of the Internet for all Internet users, has been confronted with new difficulties that are weakening the body and its model. Its mode of operation has had to be adapted to an unprecedented global pandemic and its model of a global Internet is now being questioned by the growing desire of states to emancipate themselves from it, with the tragic conflict in Ukraine pushing the Urals a little further away from the Ro... Read More


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Icebreaker crowd (1900s)
Opening shots from the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Kari Peter Conrad von Bagh (1943 –2014) documentary "Helsinki, ikuisesti" ("Helsinki Forever" 2008) show a crowd admiring (and soon being chased by) the icebreaker Tarmo in Helsinki, Finland.
Apparently filmed in the 1920s.
The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense.
The voiceover quoting Eino Leino towards the end is not related to this footage in particular.
It translates roughly as: "We do not live only in the present. The past – with all its memories, events and experiences – lives in us And often it just might so happen that the past is stronger than the present"
Russia's nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika, said to be the world's biggest and most powerful, has returned to St. Petersburg after a two-day test run.
Arktika, ordered by state nuclear company Rosatom and meant to transport liquefied natural gas from the Arctic, is 173 meters long and 15 meters high.
The run tested the vessel's functioning and maneuverability, said Mustafa Kashka, general director of Atomflot, the company which runs Russia's icebreaking fleet.
However, the nuclear-propelled ship, which can supposedly break through almost 3 meters of ice, was fueled by diesel oil on its maiden voyage.
Inaugurated in 2016, Arktika is the first vessel in a project aimed at allowing year-round navigation in the Northeast Passage -- a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans traversing the Arctic following Russia's coast.
The Arctic holds huge oil and natural-gas reserves that are being eyed by Russia and other countries, including the United States, Canada, and Norway.
The plan will also make it easier for Russia to deliver hydrocarbons to Southeast Asia.
The final tests for Arktika are scheduled for March and April and it is set to start operating in May. Two other similar vessels -- the Ural and the Sibir -- are under construction.
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Mahira Khan's fandom hit a jackpot on Wednesday night when the actress opened an #askmahira session on Twitter. The actress who is currently busy hopping from one film shoot to another was returning to Peshawar after finishing the recent spell of another shoot in Lahore. Fans took full advantage of the golden opportunity and bombarded her with sweet queries.
Take a look at who asked what and how the 'Superstar' responded.
Someone inquired her what was she thinking when she dropped the 'bomb' of a selfie with none other than Fawad Khan? Well… guess what Mahira has a BTS of it as well!
Also, those who are eagerly waiting to see Mahira speak Punjabi in The Legend of Maula Jatt (TLMJ), gear up as the actress has this to say about her Punjabi speaking skills.
And do you know what she intends to keep as a souvenir from the sets of TLMJ?
What she thinks about her performance as Mukkho Jatti?
We also found out that Mahira loves romantic movies!
Though Mahira mentioned that she is eating Chapli Kebabs in Peshawar, there were other food recommendations too!
Guess who she finds brave in the industry?


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The RSNA MIRC Source Code
Revision as of 18:49, 27 August 2012 by Johnperry (Talk | contribs)
This article describes how to obtain and build the RSNA MIRC software. It is intended for programmers, and it assumes familiarity with Java and Ant.
There are two different MIRC implementations. The older one, MIRC1, runs as a collection of webapps under Tomcat. The new one, MIRC2, runs as a plugin to CTP. MIRC1 is at its end of life; all developers and users are asked to concentrate on MIRC2.
The software for CTP and both MIRC implementations is open source. All the software written by the RSNA for the project is released under the RSNA Public License. It is maintained on GitHub.
1 CTP/MIRC
To build CTP/MIRC, you must obtain copies of both the CTP repository and the MIRC2 repository from GitHub. Both repositories must be placed on the same disk in such a way that they share the same parent directory. CTP must be built first, and then MIRC can be built.
See Extending CTP for instructions on obtaining the CTP source code. After unpacking the zip file, rename the top-level directory, which will have long name, to CTP.
To obtain the source code of the MIRC plugin, go to http://github.com/johnperry/MIRC2 and click the Downloads button.
When you download the MIRC2 repository from GitHub, you obtain a zip file containing a directory tree full of the sources and libraries for building the plugin. The top of the directory tree has a complicated name that includes the letters MIRC2. After unpacking the zip file, rename the top-level directory to MIRC2. The directory contains several subdirectories. The source code is in the source directory, which has three subdirectories, one each for the Java sources, the files required by the application, and the default CTP configuration file used when CTP hosts a MIRC site.
Building CTP and MIRC requires the Java 1.5 JDK and Ant. Running CTP with the MIRC plugin requires the JRE and the JAI ImageIO Tools.
The Ant build file for CTP is in the MIRC2 directory and is called build.xml. To build the software on a Windows system, launch a command window, navigate to the MIRC2 directory, and enter ant all.
The build file contains several targets. The all target does a clean build of everything, including the installer and the Javadocs.
The Javadocs can be accessed with a browser by opening the file:
MIRC2/documentation/index.html
The installer, which installs both CTP and the MIRC plugin in the same operation, is located in the products directory.
2 Tomcat/MIRC
[This section is deprecated. It is maintained here only because some of the tools are built using this repository. In time, each of the tools will have its own repository.]
To obtain the source code for the Tomcat/MIRC webapps, go to http://github.com/johnperry/MIRC1 and click the Downloads button.
The build procedure is similar to that for the CTP MIRC plugin: unpack the zip file, launch a command window, navigate to the top-level directory (a long name containing MIRC1), and enter ant all.
The result of the build will be many installers placed in the products directory, one installer each for MIRC and the various tools.
The build process creates many libraries and products. The key products are:
MIRCsite-installer-full.jar – the complete installer for a MIRC site, including all the standard libraries and the database. This product is therefore fairly large - about 35MB.
FieldCenter-installer.jar – the complete installer for the clinical trials FieldCenter program. This program is a generic instance. To configure it for a specific clinical trial, one would modify the Help.html, anonymizer.properties, and fieldcenter.properties files to provide instructions specific to the trial.
DicomEditor-installer.jar – the complete installer for the DicomEditor program, a standalone DICOM viewer, anonymizer, and editor intended primarily as a tool for examining and modifying the dataset elements in a DICOM object or group of objects.
FileSender-installer.jar – the complete installer for the FileSender program, a tool for sending files using the DICOM, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols.
HttpTest.jar – a self-contained tool for trying to find a way through a proxy server and generally conjugating the HTTP protocol.
Decipher.jar – a self-contained tool for deciphering the encrypted database file used by the anonymizer in both the MIRC site software and the FieldCenter program.
AuditLogger.jar – a self-contained example program that acts as a receiver for PHI audit trail export objects. This program is not useful on its own; it is intended only to demonstrate how to receive an exported MIRC audit trail event. Sites needing to capture such events can use this code as a starting point for writing an interface to their audit trail systems.
ExportManager-installer.jar – the complete installer for the ExportManager program, an implementation of the IHE TCE Export Manager actor.
In addition to the products named above, there are several minor products which are primarily for testing, including HttpReceiver.jar and ManifestGenerator-installer.jar. These are not intended for production use but may be helpful in some situations.
3 Getting Help
If you have questions about something, probably others will as well. Please go to the RSNA Forum site (http://forums.rsna.org), navigate to the MIRC Developers' Corner forum and post a message there. The MIRC development team monitors all the MIRC forums and tries to provide rapid responses to problems and questions.
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(illustration: Andy Singer)
The kid loved basketball. He never had a basketball to speak of, but the school had plenty. The kid had a favorite. It was old, smooth, and had the feel of rough paper. It bounced as high as any of the new ones. The kid felt alive when it bounced back perfectly.
The kid knew the concrete playing field—all the broken spaces and the cracking cover of the court. The kid knew how to angle and fly by the arms and legs of others. All for that beautiful sound: swoosh.
On the court, the kid was calm and in control. On the court, the kid was happy.
Looking forward to school days put a target on the kid's back. Enjoying the quiet of the library put a target on the kid's back. Finishing homework put a target on the kid's back. Not being dark enough put a target on the kid's back. Writing clearly, knowing answers, being quiet, everything put a target on the kid's back.
But on the court, the kid was free. The kid had skills that shamed them all. And one day the kid beat the best. One day, one hour, one game, the kid was king.
Lunch hour was almost over. All the white bread, crackers, and apple juice—over. The focus for the kid was the court. The court was broken in places, pieces here and there, grass growing through the concrete. Torn nets on the rims. The backboards, bruised metal, were older than anybody on the court.
The kid saw Sam waiting at the other side of the court. The teams were made over lunch, the kid on one, Sam on the other. It was a long rivalry, a heated rivalry, played out every day on the court. The kid and Sam were never on a team together. Never.
A penny was flipped and the kid's team got the ball. The game began.
It was a whirl of arms and legs, of torn jeans and busted shoes, of dirty hands and long hair. The fouls were flying, hits on the head with elbows, slaps on the arms leaving red marks.
Sam got the ball, his team was on the lead, and Sam made a three shot. The kid was getting angry; had to focus, just needed two threes to get ahead.
The kid got the ball from the out and headed for the rim. Sam came out to the left and attacked, almost got the ball, but the kid passed it and his teammate made a shot. Now the kid felt a rumble. Sam had the ball and the kid watched. Sam's wrist spun as he bounced the ball, a weakness. Sam ran for the rim, and the kid slid by and reached in, sliced the ball away from Sam and headed for the rim. Swoosh.
The call: five minutes left for recess.
Sam stood in the court dumbstruck. No one ever took the ball from him. His team had the out and the kid took it from Sam again, another slice and pass, a three shot made.
The kid walked away from the court.
Elena Cisneros is an MFA student at Hamline University in Saint Paul.


in the forest deep and river clear. A personable sort, he befriended the Indians.
him. Not big on farming was old Dan'l, left that grind to Rebecca and the kids.
had to eat home-raised chicken.
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Who came up with the name Dream Theater?
In the early stages of their career, Dream Theater were known as Majesty (named after Mike's description of the song "Bastille Day" by Rush). However, before the recording of When Dream and Day Unite another band named Majesty got in contact with DT ordering them to change their name.
Various names were considered ("Glasser" was the band's official name for about a week), but the honour of being the person that suggested "Dream Theater" goes to Mike Portnoy's father, Howard Portnoy. He suggested the name based on the (now-demolished) theater in Monterrey, California. The name stuck. Mike got a message on his answering machine from his father telling him about a movie theater in California called the Dream theater, and the band liked it so much they used it for their band name.
In 2002 the theater was demolished, much to the dismay of local DT fans.


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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
Our imagination and concepts of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are transforming our vision of the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything (IoE) and so-called smart cities. The concepts are simultaneously appealing and puzzling. The appeal comes from the ability to apply computing and communications technologies in numerous ways and on a wide scale to improve life. The puzzling aspect is how to achieve it. If we can sense anything, and actuate anything, what useful things can we do? One example is to empower anyone to track people and things valuable to them (their child on a bicycle, a truck, stolen property) using information gleaned from a smart city's collective pool of sensors and to initiate some appropriate actions. There are many similar time-sensitive, distributed computing tasks in a smart city or other IoT networks that involve interaction with spatially distributed nodes \cite{weiss2015time}. Many such applications written by various programmers should be able to share the city-wide CPS infrastructure. Thus each CPS node will accept snippets of code from separately-created programs to run in a coordinated way with other nodes in the system. For instance, one programmer may be interested in taking a picture at 4:00 pm while another programmer is interested in sensing the temperature in the environs of the same CPS node at 4:00 pm. How do we make all this possible, especially when the programs are being developed separately and without coordination? How do we know, for example, if the combined functionality is even possible? How do we make programming these geographically distributed time-sensitive systems easier? Programming CPS is difficult because it combines the complexities of distributed programming and time-sensitive programming -- both of which bring portability and scalability issues \cite{shrivastava2016time}. What is a good distributed-timing application programming interface (API) that can ease this burden? Can such an API offer clean semantics for reasoning about the time-related behavior of these programs? In this paper, we explore these questions.

\section{Need for Timing and Synchronization API}
\label{sec:Need}
Consider the example of a smart city in which a transportation company wants to ``observe'' one of its assets, in this case, an en route truck. Imagine that they have the authority to dynamically recruit pools of separately-installed and -managed cameras that may be found around the smart city (\emph{e.g.,} on buildings, poles) to get a 3-D video view of the truck's movement. These scattered CPS nodes can be fused to become a federated cyber-physical system (FCPS) which can sense, compute, communicate and actuate as an integrated whole. But even the simple notion of collecting video from cameras near the truck will involve enrolling more cameras over time as the truck moves. We call such a system a \emph(dynamically) federated cyber-physical system (DFCPS). Figure~\ref{fig:DFCPS} depicts the truck moving around the city and how the notion of ``nearby cameras'' must evolve. Network boundaries between sets of separately-managed cameras are depicted with solid green lines.  The dotted blue line show the trajectory of the truck.

\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{smartcity}
\caption{Dynamically enrolling separately-managed cameras scattered around a city to track a truck}
\label{fig:DFCPS}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure*}[t]
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    \begin{tabular}{|p{0.80\textwidth}|}
    \hline\\}
    {\\\\\hline
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    \begin{boxed}
    \textbf{loop\{}\hfill \\
    \qquad {\fontfamily{qcr}\selectfont\small// assume (x,y) is the predicted position of the object} \hfill \\
    \qquad S = getSensors(x, y, 100); {\fontfamily{qcr}\selectfont\small// get sensors within 100 meters of (x,y)}\hfill \\
    \qquad A = emptySet(sizeOf(S)); {\fontfamily{qcr}\selectfont\small// empty set of images}\hfill \\
    \qquad withSynchronization(S, 1us, self) \{\hfill \\
    \qquad \qquad{\fontfamily{qcr}\selectfont\small // within this block, the sensors will synchronize to 1 us accuracy}\hfill \\

    \qquad \qquad a = simultaneously(S.captureImage());\hfill \\
    \qquad \}\hfill \\
    \qquad 3DImage = create3DImage(A);\hfill \\
    \qquad 3Dmodel.addImage(3DImage);\hfill \\
    \qquad (x',y') = predictNextPosition(x, y, A, t); {\fontfamily{qcr}\selectfont\small// new predicted position} \hfill \\
    \qquad if ((x'y') == (x,y)) break; else (x'y') = (x,y);\hfill \\
    \} {\fontfamily{qcr}\selectfont\small // end loop} \hfill

    \end{boxed}
    \caption{Pseudo-code for tracking a moving object using scattered cameras in the city.}
    \label{fig:code1}
    \vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure*}

One approach to dynamic federation is to impose some sort of hierarchy -- within co-located clusters, one node can serve as a leader to be responsible for in-cluster synchronization and global communication. This leader could arrange for the other nodes to take pictures at specified times. The leader gathers these frames and constructs a dynamic 3-D model from which estimates of the future position of the object can be made.

The typical approach would be to write application-specific code for each participating node together with code to coordinate the actions of these nodes.  Verification and validation of separate applications working together is challenging because it necessitates specification of the overall system's behavior.  Testing is likewise challenging. A better approach and, we dare say, one that might be more acceptable to the millions of programmers who might invest their efforts in the creation of such smart city apps, is to develop one \emph{integrated} application that can be verified and then, separately, decomposed and distributed to the nodes on which it will run.  Representative pseudocode is shown in Figure~\ref{fig:code1}. While the pseudocode may seem simple, it highlights important opportunities and challenges that emerge from the very nature of programming a geographically-distributed aggregate of computing resources. In this section, we will discuss challenges of adding timing concepts to the programming language as well as achieving synchronization for a scattered time-sensitive system.

\subsection{Time-related Programming and Synchronization}
To achieve deterministic timing on IoT/CPS devices, timing must be made a correctness criterion and not just a performance factor. Hence, by making timing constraints \cite{mehrabian2017timestamp} and requirements part of the formal model/program, reasoning about about and verifying timing requirements becomes possible. Correctly defined, the semantics of timing primitives in specification models determine whether correctness properties can be checked by inherent construction, symbolic analysis, explicit simulation, or only in the implementation. However, as long as the timing specification is not a part of the programming language, whether a system implementation meets the timing requirements or not, can only be checked by testing after building the whole system.

Programmers of the future will have to make the system achieve correct timing despite the fact that today's popular languages lack mechanisms for expressing the needed time-related concepts. For example, in C, we lack the following concepts:
\\ \\ {\fontfamily{qcr}\selectfont
printf(''hello world $\backslash$n'', @4:35 PM);}\\ \\
Even if programmers had such expressive power, making good on their intent will require new mechanisms in the underlying network and devices. For applications similar to our example, nearby CPS nodes only need to be synchronized among themselves and do not need to be synchronized to the time server nor to coordinated universal time (UTC). We simply need to create the conditions under which they all take photos at essentially the same instant.

Other applications may need synchronization to an external reference (\emph{e.g.,} UTC). For instance, a user may be interested in polling data at exactly 11:00 AM. Therefore, all sensing/actuating nodes of FCPS must have a common understanding of real time and must execute the sensing/actuating code exactly at the specified time regardless of worst-case execution time (WCET) of the underlying computation platform \cite{Wilhelm:2008}, network delay, local clock drift, and so on. Since time-related concepts are absent from today programming languages, programmers must handle these matters outside of the language.

\subsection{Cost-Power Efficiency}
As sensors proliferate in a smart city, the cost of providing each one with a wired power connection will become overwhelming \cite{Iannucci2017-CSS}. Devices that operate for years on batteries and/or harvest energy will be preferred. A very closely related issue for small in-the-environment sensors and actuators is the power-cost of achieving time awareness. Time synchronization between two or more devices necessitates frequent communication.  As the need for precision increases, so does the power-cost of achieving it. Further, we must accept that energy-constrained devices must be \emph{mostly off}, implying that such devices either need to invest power in precise, low-drift internal clocks or plan to wake up ``just in time'' to perform over-the-network resynchronization.  It is likely to be power-advantageous for nodes to be continuously only loosely synchronized to UTC--with just enough power put into the local clock to enable in-time wakeup, wireless synchronization, and the on-time capturing of the picture (after which time-keeping can revert back to low precision).

It will be important to develop power-efficient solutions for implementing the behind-the-scenes (runtime) mechanisms that will reliably achieve application-level timing precision at the lowest-possible power levels and without introducing jitter or timing errors.

\subsection{Support for Heterogeneity}
Returning to our truck-tracking example, it unlikely that the \textit{borrowed} cameras will be identical--same vendor, same programming interface, same functionality, same performance. Rather, in the information-sharing economy of this smart city, cameras and other sensors are likely to be dissimilar.  It is already difficult enough to imagine fusing the data, but DFCPS compounds the programmer's challenges by requiring the management of timing across an array of dissimilar devices.  This is an uncommon, rather than a common, software engineering skill set.  We are, then, left with the conundrum that the domain (DFCPS) requires programmer-management of time, yet programmers and their tools (languages, compilers, run-time systems) are ill-prepared for this.  Viewing this as an architectural problem, we seek a solution that only requires that the programmer specify the timing \emph{intent} (\emph{do these three things at the same time}) and leaves to the run-time mechanisms the realization of these requirements.  As we will see, this necessitates some minimal augmentation of the timing mechanisms in computing and communications equipment.  Precision protocols for network-based transport of time information (\emph{e.g.,} PTP/IEEE-1588) similarly identify the need for specific hardware support.

\subsection{Multi-Tenancy: Code Block Multiplexing}
Our tracking example and others suggest that significant value will be derived from recruiting sensors/actuators dynamically, and making them sense or take action in a synchronized fashion. As the value of the smart city catches on, our programmer won't be the only one using the cameras. It is likely that many apps in this smart city will want to concurrently share some or all of the cameras. At that point, our carefully-synchronized application will be faced with the challenge of sharing the hardware with other concurrent applications. While sharing an IoT device (\emph{e.g.,} a motion sensor, a camera) across applications may seem simple, different applications will impose differing and possibly conflicting requirements with respect to time. At a minimum, we imagine the need to discover potential conflicts, harmonize them when possible and signal irreconcilable conflicts otherwise.

As a starting point, if programmer-derived timing requirements are expressed cleanly and clearly, we can imagine compiling and run-time tools that will enable this sorting-out of separately-created timing constraints that come together on a single hardware device.  But there are subtle complications.  Imagine that code block $b1$ seeks to run on a given node (say, one of our cameras) and, per the programmer's intent, it is synchronized to some reference clock $c1$.  But along comes code block $b2$ from a totally different application that also seeks to run on this same camera.  Alarmingly, its programmer has elected to use a different and possibly incompatible (with $c1$) reference clock $c2$.  These clocks may differ in frequency, phase and/or epoch--and for good reasons known to their programmers.  In this case, we must go beyond considerations of simply sharing the computing resources (by traditional virtualization techniques, for instance) to embracing the notion that clocks themselves must be virtualized--allowing for a separate clock per code block.  The run-time system must somehow deal with issues of non-synchronization among these reference clocks.

\begin{figure*}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.8\columnwidth]{overall.PNG}
\caption{The proposed architecture. High-level programs are decomposed to an intermediate-level form in which time-based operations are explicitly represented. }
\label{fig:overall}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure*}

\section{Our Approach}
\label{sec:our approach}
Our approach advances the concept of an easily-programmed federated cyber-physical system (FCPS) that hides the inherent complexities of synchronization of distributed actions. We model a FCPS as a tuple \textit{(C, E, B)} in which:
\\
$C= \{c_1,c_2, ...\}$ is the set of reference clocks. each clock is characterized by its frequency, phase, jitter, etc.
\\
$E=\{e_1,e_2,...\}$ is the set of computing, storage, actuating and sensing ensembles (think: nodes.  More on this below.), each of which has its own set of local clocks.
\\
$B=\{b_1,b_2,...\}$ is the set of computational blocks (program fragments) within which actions can be scheduled to take place at specific times.

We use the term \emph{ensemble} to capture the notion of an element that has computing, storage, communication and timing capabilities that allow it to accept one or more code blocks. It is worth noting that our notion of ensemble is intentionally broad and is intended to abstract the hardware for sensor and actuator nodes (including the computing, storage, and communication chips associated with them), network-resident computing facilities such as would be necessary to implement fog computing or cloudlets, and cloud computing equipment such as would be found in large, virtualized data centers. We specifically contemplate the additional possibility of dynamically migrating code blocks from ensemble to ensemble, implying a notion of common base functionality. We use the term ensemble instance to denote an invocation of a code block on a particular ensemble with a particular ensemble-local clock.

By characterizing ensembles in this way, we enable the possibility of taking a single program and breaking it into pieces that run concurrently in the cloud, in the network, and in the devices. Note that this is different than the traditional model in which the cloud code is written by one team, the device code is written as part of the development of a power-constrained embedded system, and the network is largely un-programmable by non-specialist developers. We imagine, as a possible outcome of this research, the creation of a reference architecture for ensembles that could aid in assuring growing interoperability among future smart city elements.

As depicted in Figure~\ref{fig:overall}, programs written in a suitable high-level language with constructs will be translated into a dataflow graph. Dataflow provides a clear dependency-driven graph interpretation framework to which we seek to add reference clock synchronization semantics. A simple formulation is to decompose FCPS meta-programs into graphs in which each node represents the instance of a code block on a specific ensemble. Synchronization and simultaneity dependencies to reference clocks can be explicitly represented. Synchronization, when established, will yield tokens that become part of the firing rules for the respective nodes, while simultaneity has to be ensured by programming and analysis. Ensembles are depicted in green. As an example, a sub-domain involving a network ensemble, a sensor ensemble, and an actuator ensemble is shown in red. System operations such as code block placement and synchronization are handled by the Run-Time Manager (RTM). Feedback from network elements to the RTM facilitate improved synchronization (dotted arrow).

At the language level, timing semantics for functionality that are commonly used can be categorized as \cite{mehrabian2017timestamp}:

\noindent\textbf{Frequency-based sensing/actuating.} Utilization of periodic actions is very common in IoT applications and is characterized as ``take an action every $x$ nano, Micro or Milliseconds.'' Certain frequencies of sensing or actuating are required to achieve desired Quality of Control (QoC).

\noindent\textbf{Syntonization and Synchronization.} Certain levels of synchronization are required for many applications, however, high precision time synchronization in a large scale system will cause network traffic and consequently network delay is less predictable. This problem may be addressed by defining variable synchronization levels for ensembles.

\noindent\textbf{Simultaneous sensing/actuating.} Performing two or more concurrent actions is very common in Multi-Agent Systems which are widely used for different purposes like Distributed Learning and Problem Solving, Decentralized Control, Formation Control, and the like. Hence, as a functionality, the application must push code blocks into ensembles so that desired actions be taken simultaneously.

\noindent\textbf{Latency-based sensing/actuating.}
In time-sensitive applications, sensor information and results computed from the sensors are valid for only a specific temporal interval, necessitating bounded or fixed latency constraints on communication and computation. Timeliness, or the temporal limits of the application to communicate information or execute an action can be described through \textit{latency-based} specifications.

At the network level, in assimilating information across a smart city, the nanosecond-scale of computation is dwarfed by the tens- to hundreds of milliseconds needed to actually traverse network connections across a city. The worst-case round-trip time for a cyber-physical control loop (sensing, computing, and acting) can easily exceed 1000 milliseconds, making classical cloud-based cyber-physical systems useless for cases requiring response times in the deep sub-second regime. One important and promising approach to reduce CPS latency when mobile networks are involved, is moving the computation into the network itself so as to expose the trade-off between the network latency, amount of computation on end-devices, and the network bandwidth requirements. \textit{Cloudlets} \cite{satyanarayanan2014cloudlets} and \textit{fog computing} \cite{bonomi2012fog} have motivated research in this area.

While programmer specification of timing reaquirements is necessary, it is not sufficient.  The nodes and network impose constraints.  As such, we seek to extract information about both latency and latency variability in real time from the FCPS and to feed this information in a usable form back to the programmer. We argue that most realistic networks exhibit time-varying behavior and that knowledge of the current state of the network can be used in dynamically optimizing how a distributed program works.

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Tea for me. Coffee gives me headaches sometimes.
coffee in the morning. sometimes tea in the afternoon. tea, could be lipton or chinese tea. it depends on my mood.
Coffee with cream in the morning.
Herbal tea in the afternoon/evening and in front of the woodstove on snowy days.
Coffee morning, noon and evening.
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