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Minku
Thoughts on design by the founder of Minku (minku.com)
Author: Minku
How I learned computing Part I
When I was 7, my mum enrolled my sister and me in a computer programming course (sister was 9 or had just turned 10). I was below the minimum age for the class, but I was also at that tag-along stage where I just go with my sister where she goes so mum has some hours to not be driving us somewhere, and can focus on her work, or having a summer (this was Lagos, where December is almost as hot as June, but work with me).
Well, so we learned a language called BASIC, Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. I loved counting in tens, which I had to do for each line of code, and I loved for statements and GO TO commands, and drawing flow diagrams, gosh did I love drawing flow diagrams! We had a class test and I remember scoring 7 or 7-and-a-half out of 10 and the teacher praising me to high heavens because everyone had assumed I had just come there to play Pacman and Prince of Persia and Space Invaders while I waited for my sister to learn stuff. Yet there I was, learning.
So that was my first experience with programming, well, besides playing around with some punch cards my dad had lying around the house for whatever reason. Fast forward to when I was 14 or 15, and my dad, who along with my mum likes to buy us all the best things, got us an iMac G3 for the house. The mini living room at the top of the stairs suddenly became the place to be in our house — whether to watch my sisters be Ryu and E. Honda at a very early version of Street Fighter, or to try my hands at yet another web site design using FrontPage. Our internet connection was still choppy at best, you'd literally read two pages of a novel while waiting for one light page to load. But it was the late 1990s and there was this beautiful new world of motion and interactivity, and beyond Solitaire and Microsoft Word's Marching Ants text effect, we were a real part of it.
2001, I was taking a gap year at home before university. Our good family friend asked what I would like him to bring me from the States. At that specific time in history, Manolo Blahnik X Timberland heeled boots were new and in, and every Nigerian high-school girl wanted a pair. As did I. Yet I said I wanted a programming book. Let's pause here to absorb the painful asceticism inherent in this decision. I had it in mind to study computer science at university, and I had been learning JavaScript at Aptech, a local computing school, but still. Disciplina pura y sencilla.
First year of University, I moved countries. I was also learning assembly language, which was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. When I was 7, I had read in my sister's France Afrique textbook, a short story of a girl who goes to Paris, and I had decided to myself then that I wanted to learn French, possibly with dreams of going to Paris. Learning a core computing language was like preparing to go to the Paris of computers; I just didn't know then how long and fulfilling a journey I was embarking on.
Author MinkuCategories Minku lifePosted on July 20, 2017 February 20, 2019 3 Comments
"The car was grippy" and other F1 comments
Formula 1 is amazing and I'm so happy the season has kicked off. I was watching the driver comments at the end of today's Sochi GP Q3 (qualifying round 3) and it's just so cool to see what relationship each has with their car, their team, their teammmate, and with winning/victory.
Oh, and I've watched Esteban Ocon of Force India race for all the seasons he's been in F1, only to realise via watching this interview clip that he has a face beneath the helmet! Same thing McLaren's Vandoorne, though this is only his first or his second season. We'll probably see more of Force India's drivers; besides having just an amazingly pink livery, their car also seems to be delivering its drivers into the points quite a few times this season.
Kvyat sounds like he should have auditioned for the role of Elliot Alderson in Mr. Robot – so robotic is the sputnikified quality of his commentary on his performance.
My fave commentary was Alonso's. No one is still hyping the McLaren-Honda collab as something that will prove magical a la Ayrton Senna days (of McLaren-Honda), and that is a relief because the whole heritage thing seemed kind of forced without a strong car to back up the hype. But it seems the guy who says things like "it was like driving a truck" seems to like his car's performance this weekend. He said the car was "grippy" – an anglicization similar to "trippy" (hallucinative)? I'm at a loss for words. Ok, he meant it felt balanced and grounded including in corners, and that the tyres had good grip and the car didn't vibrate more than is usual for an F1 car. But still, seeing him come up with his own vocab is pretty fun. Also, he said "my performance right now is quite ok and I feel very competitive." I just really like the quite ok bit :)
Vandoorne said we'll try to do our best from the back tomorrow, I think, you know, we can only do better from there…" You don't say. I do wish McLaren Honda the best.
When Vettel is happy, he's just bursting with it, can't hide it. It's exciting that Ferrari is challenging Mercedes, and look at all that visibility that Kaspersky is getting…
Valterri Bottas is still getting the hang of this whole interview and visibility shindig. Like, what, I have to stand and answer questions about my performance and the car and how easy/hard it was to qualify third? Ok, well. I guess. I'm not in Kansas (Williams, where you can go season-in-season-out without ever seeing an interviewer's microphone) anymore.
Lewis gives the best interviews in my opinion. When he does well, he thanks and acknowledges the team publicly. When his performance isn't great, he splits the blame between himself and the car. Today in the interview it was mostly blame for himself. I hope he's in top tip shape tomorrow.
All in all, I'm pretty hyped for Sochi GP. I think despite the fewer chances for overtaking that the Sochi circuit presents, this could be a good race.
Author MinkuCategories Minku lifePosted on April 29, 2017 September 6, 2017 Leave a comment
A different photo shoot than the ones I usually do.
This has been a pretty amazing week, with trips to get fabric for work, attendance of social media week lagos events, and a photo shoot that I had been conceiving in my mind's eye for months.
It's hard to know how everything would come together: this top, those pants, that hairstyle, those ad-hoc aso-oke earrings, that backdrop, this camera lens versus that one… until you're there, on set, just click-click-clicking.
Akor, the model brought it. This was a different photo shoot than the ones I usually do, because it was as much about the clothes as the bags. A Minku bag and clothing collection. I can't wait to present the full lookbook. These are some grainy shots of the camera viewer, because I couldn't really wait to say, "here, dear Minku loyalist, is a sneak peek before everyone else gets to know, of what you can expect to see on the Minku social media pages, web site, and hopefully some press, in the time to come." So I hope you're liking it all as much as I am.
Model: Akor
Photographer: Kunmi
Listening to the Cut the Rope mobile game soundtrack.
Getting some much-deserved yoghurt (Akor) and vanilla ice-cream (me) on our return from the photo shoot site. When I was a kid, the best part of church was after-church when my parents would buy my siblings and I these ice-creams from the ice-cream bicycle man. It was always a bummer when our favorite flavor was sold out. Still is.
Author MinkuCategories Bag details, In the atelier, Minku lifePosted on March 6, 2017 March 7, 2017 Leave a comment
Out on a disorderly artistic limb
For my most recent birthday, some of my friends presciently gave me a sketchpad.
Although I thought nothing of it at the time, I recently took a break from bag making to return to my first love: art. In the new year, I hope to develop my own illustrative style, and I'm glad that stylistically, illustration seems to give me a broad space in which to explore. I hope to stay in this space and explore it a bit longer.
There will still be bags, not to worry.
Listening to Lead Belly's Christmas is A-Coming.
Author MinkuCategories In the atelierPosted on December 31, 2016 1 Comment
MMXVI: The Year of Verstappen
2016 is the Year of Max Verstappen.
He's the man whose headstrong defensive drives we grew to dislike, yet whose aggressive overtakes had us singing his praises… all in the span of five races.
He won't let you overtake him; yet he won't let you not let him overtake you.
Fearless at 300km/hr (not cool, bro) as he is on a dripping wet circuit (dude, he's like Hamilton… or Senna!), he's at his best when he's aggressor trying to overtake, not so much as rookie karter vacillating on the track to ensure you don't get past him.
The FIA rules on changing direction under braking were changed only last month thanks to Verstappen and his defensive maneuvering, and definitely to cheers from other drivers. Yet guess who got caught in the FIA's net the very next race after the rule change? You'll be forgiven for thinking it was Max if you can't tell your Vettels from your Verstappens.
This guy's drives, man. After yesterday's race, you saw him smile. It was that full-faced smize, the likes of which I haven't seen since Vettel took second place in Canada, you know, the race where he (Vettel) had swerved to avoid the suicidal seagulls and all. Not one to jump, faux-levitate, fist-pump, DAB, or do a Tebow like one of the other nimbler-limbed drivers, Verstappen wears his mood 95% in his face and 5% in his intonation. Often this season, his expression was smug, sullen, tightened, unwelcoming. After the Brazilian GP on the Interlagos Circuit yesterday, that is to say, after he out-strategized Perez, Sainz, an increasingly whiny Vettel… and even Rosberg in that brief moment before his team called over the radio to piss on his parade — often by overtaking around the outside of the track, a part F1 drivers would normally avoid for its wetness and low grip but which Verstappen was bold enough to exploit successfully thanks to negative wheel camber keeping it dryer and with better grip than other drivers dared to imagine — he had that full-faced, I-woke-up-like-this, daddy-Jos-can-you-see-how-I'm-making-you-proud? smile. And this time, the world was full-on smiling with him.
There's an episode of Mad Men where Don Draper says, "If you don't like what they're saying about you, change the conversation." Verstappen is the best manager of his own image, and the way he has made us go from hating his driving style to admiring his gut, sheer force of will, and gosh, amazing driving talent, all in the span of the 2016 Formula 1 Championship season, is something that should make it to the case study blurbs of business texts for years to come.
Apparently I need to watch more karting because Verstappen, the straight-from-karting-to-F1 kid, is pulling some hot karting overtaking moves that us who like F1 would do well to get schooled on.
Hamilton, man. I'm so used to his amazing drives that what he did in leading this utterly wet-track race from start to finish (at times up to 8 full seconds ahead of the driver behind him) might not be getting all the laudatory glory it truly deserves.
Still on Hamilton, his first win in Brazil, Si Señor! And his 52nd F1 win, now sandwiching him between Schumacher and Alain Prost as the driver with the second most F1 wins of all time :-D Proud gal shimmy.
RED BULL. Guys, time and again, your pit stop strategy sucks. Who are the strategists for Ricciardo and Verstappen? How does anyone really think that when a Red Bull successfully comes between the two Mercedes is a good time to pit for sissy things like a tyre switch from wets to intermediates? Especially on a wet track with a high likelihood that some aquaplaning car or the other would have the safety car rolling out sooner or later (and you can capitalize on a free pit stop)? Also, was a simple weather forecast for more rain not available to these guys? It's becoming laughable how often they deprive their drivers of a good fighting chance for a higher podium finish; and in the process, deprive us viewers of what could be some seat-edge racing in a season monopolized by Mercedes 1-2's.
A three-and-a-half hour race, God, I must love F1.
Red Bull gives you wings.
Author MinkuCategories Bag detailsPosted on November 14, 2016 December 23, 2018 Leave a comment
Mastering Mobile
It's 3:30am. The team I'm a member of, The Blue Shakamakas, just won a quiz. I came up with the Shakamakas part of the name: it reminded me of when I was eight or nine, and my younger siblings and I would invent random tunes, infuse them with meaningless words, then belt them out like rockstars using a stick or a doll for a microphone and jumping on dining furniture for rockstar effect.
So yeah, Shakamakas.
We really felt like champs tonight, a productive winning energy that I channeled into tackling the challenge of getting minku.com to look good on mobile (you should know, I'm the Minku web designer and developer). It so happened that I broke the code a while ago while trying to achieve this very goal. Not prepared to upgrade my desktop design knowledge with some responsive web design skills, I switched back to the safe desktop version, something that resulted in a dreadful user experience for mobile: expanding text; dealing with increased cognitive load; horizontal scrolling!!!
I know, I know, I apologize.
At university, I learned several programming languages. Still, we were more likely to do a project in Prolog (to understand the structure of artificial intelligence programming languages) than we were to build a site. The latter was something you did in your spare time, or learned at a technical institute.
I had a lot of self-developed web development experience, because I was drawn to the immediate rewards it offered vis-a-vis, say, C++. So I had picked it up on my own in the late 90s… it also helped that we had a computer at home as early as 1998/1999, an Apple iMac G3 — one of those green, curved and translucent-backed beauties.
One thing that caught us millennial programmers by surprise was the advent of web for mobile. I remember even Facebook struggling with a mobile strategy as late as 2014 [article]. All my programming to date has been for desktop. Yes, the company I worked for as early as 2009 was already starting to develop mobile-friendly sites for our clients, but those were the cool kids brandishing the fine steel of their cutting-edge government projects, while most of us did conventional desktop web enhancement and expansion.
I don't approach things thinking they are hard. Well, except reading maps, a task that's easy to delegate, and at which I'm even getting better. So I knew I would upgrade my webdev skills; I just hadn't dedicated time to it yet.
Coding always takes time: you do, you undo, you save versions, you redo, you keep trying until it's how you want it. Now the mobile version of minku.com is up and running. I still need to make some tweaks, which you will notice when you visit the site. Nonetheless, @media query is fast becoming my bff, and the site on a mobile device is fast looking how I want it. Thanks for your patience, and I hope you like the mobile-friendly site :-)
Author MinkuCategories Minku lifePosted on September 27, 2016 July 7, 2017 Leave a comment
Verstappen and other quirks at F1's Spa-Francorchamps
Where does one start in reviewing a race that felt like those season premieres that give you two episodes of your favorite show in one sitting? Belgian GP, with its two starts including one brought on by an epic (safe) crash that triggered a red flag, a safety car, and a 17-minute mid-race recess to repair a guardrail, was just that.
I'll back-pat myself for calling that Alonso and Hamilton's teams would take advantage of their back-of-grid starts, to place them on medium tyres for the start of the race. Track temperatures were 40 degrees celsius, afterall, and since they didn't qualify in top ten at Saturday's Q2, they could choose their starting tyres for Sunday's race.
So 2pm and the race starts — start 1 of 2, though we don't know this by then. Don't know what opening-lap strategy Vettel was pulling off in the starting seconds, but it somehow put his Ferrari teammate Kimi in Verstappen's way early in the race, something I'll rather not see happen at all because, well, Kimi is a nice guy. After Kubica, he was racing's best poker face. And I don't like to see him angry, but Verstappen seems to bring it out in him all the time. He was so angry during this race that the swear-filter was too slow to catch the stream of expletives he directed at li'l Max via team radio. I saw a commenter refer to Max as Vercrashen, by the way. I'm trying to be nice, but he needs to be schooled on F1 racing etiquette. However I don't expect Red Bull to take the bull by the horns, unfortunately. Let's hold that thought…
SAINZ BUILDZ BRITZ
In the 90s we had cable TV and thus it was that I got a catchy Heinz baked beans ad stuck in my head, one that ended with "Heinz Buildz Britz." Sainz had one of the best race starts of his F1 career today, but his car began to disintegrate following a puncture… tyre, then rear wing, till he had to retire. Jenson Button had to retire too. So did Wehrlein of Manor Racing, a driver whose style I've started to warm up to. F1 is like a TV series in yet another way: gradual character development. You start the season just seeing the new drivers' names and teams; and admiring their cars' livery. Especially drivers of cars that usually don't finish in the points. Then as the season progresses, you catch a rare interview, see the driver walk disappointedly to the pits after a crash or celebrate an uncharacteristic podium win, and suddenly there's a personality beneath the helmet and livery. Wehrlein will still have some great races ahead of him despite today's disappointment, I'm sure. It sucks that he took out Button's McLaren too.
On the sixth lap, Magnussen's Renault spun from 180mph to a smoky high-impact halt in a tyre barrier. Besides being a long circuit (4.35 miles; most of the season's other circuits are a bit under three miles), Spa is also a hilly circuit, undulating in places and giving less-experienced drivers a run for their Petrobras fuel. It was in one such spot, by Eau Rouge corner, that Kevin's yellow R.S. 2016 rammed dramatically into a tyre barrier, sealing how the Renault team would be spending the half-fortnight before Monza GP: rebuilding his chassis. Formula 1 is such a beautiful sport in how safe it is today. Kevin immediately moved to signal that he was conscious, and then nimbly jumped out of his cockpit, as he was approached by race stewards coming to check the extent of the damage. I recently tried to watch clips of some road cycling championships and if Formula 1 is a thriller to watch these days, road cycling is a horror movie.
Guardrail repair followed on lap 10, with teams taking advantage of the 17-minute recess to get their cars in tip-top shape. Hamilton, whose mediums had served him so well in his ascent from back-of-grid to fifth place, now switched to softs as track temperatures cooled. Verstappen was having a bad day, having started on supersofts (teammate Ricciardo got the lucky softs in this split-choice tyre strategy), and having picked up some front-wing damage in that opening sandwich in which he was preventable top bread (what this time, Max, your brakes didn't work? or you need a tutorial on how to time their use?). He'd be a cantankerous old man, but chap's only nineteen. Either way, an angry Max on the track is to be avoided, for the whimsical damage he might do to your rear wing or tyres or self esteem.
Am I player hatin' on Verstappen too much? Ok, I'll stop. See, I was screaming into my screen circa 2009 when Schumacher, on his comeback to F1, squeezed Rubens Barrichello into a wall before backing off. Damon Hill can tell you a few stories too, though their rivalry was before I became an F1-er. The teams and maybe even the FIA are saying nothing, possibly because rivalry is "good for the sport." Rivalry, yes, but not reckless racing, which is what Verstappen is building his young brand to be known for.
All in all, with its two race starts, red flag, scenic setting, and the temperature at Spa throwing in an unknown variable that meant the guys in the back who were smart enough to see it got some little starting advantage, this was a beautiful race. Why do I love F1? Let me count the ways. Listed near the top will be the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix at the Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps.
3rd place: Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes
2nd place: Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull Racing
1st place: Nico Rosberg of Mercedes
F1 Racing's Driver of the Day: Lewis Hamilton
Author MinkuCategories Minku life, Minku reviewsPosted on August 29, 2016 September 7, 2016 Leave a comment


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Q: Access Running service and call its method? I've created a service that sends location in back ground now

i want to create a method in my ACTIVITY which will access the
  currently running instance of service and will call its method

Say Location Service having Methode
SendLocation()
{
/// to do
}

Now in Activity A:

Service s = getCurrentRunningServiceInstance // something like this

and call its method
s.SendLocation();

A: You can't call a method on a Service directly. What you need to do is bind to the Service.
In your Service, override onBind() and have it return a valid IBinder then use this in a client/server fashion.
See the docs for Services particularly with respect to Creating a Bound Service and also the docs for Bound Services.

A: Method calling of service is not recommended, Instead of this, follow below steps
1) create an BroadcastReciever in Activity.
2) from service when location changed, send a broadcast intent with location extras,
3) listen it from Receiver in Activity and update activiy accordingly.

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LAHORE - Punjab government has announced to build two technical education universities in the province in a bid to impart youths with market-oriented education to fight unemployment.
Minister for Industries, Commerce & Investment Miyan Aslam Iqbal made this announcement on Thursday.
He said that the initiative was taken under the government's 100-day plan.
"As per our 100-day plan, the government is going to set up or revive 10 technical universities in its tenure across the country, out of which four universities are to be constructed in Punjab," the minister said.
He explained that the cabinet had approved two out of the four proposed technical institutions to be established in the province.


That is the definition of the word selfish.
The word alone brings up feelings of shame. It feels like a dirty word. You never want to be considered selfish. What's worse than being called out for caring for yourself?!
There have been multiple times throughout my life where people have called me out for being selfish – for putting my needs before theirs.
There have been multiple times where I've felt self-conscious for being selfish. I notice myself taking actions or doing things where I know I will benefit.
Not big things at the expense of others, but rather choosing myself first.
I will never apologize for choosing myself first, because I am the most important person in my life.
I think we all need to adopt to this attitude a bit more. There is such a culture of shame surrounding the idea of putting our needs first before others. That being concerned with our own "personal profit or pleasure" is considered selfish and we should always be thinking about others before ourselves.
But how can we even begin to help others if we are not taking care of ourselves, first?
The biggest service we can do to humanity is to KNOW that we are the most important person in our lives, for once we can fill our own cup, we are able to fill others as well.
We must learn that in order to be selfless, we must be selfish first.


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Medical examiner blames police pressure for George Floyd's death
Updated: 7:38 PM PDT Apr 9, 2021
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER
today we're hearing from a critical witness for the prosecution and that's Hennepin County medical examiner. Dr Andrew baker. He says that he believes the main reason why George Floyd died was because of what was happening with his neck as well as a lack of oxygen. And that's the same thing we've been hearing for medical examiners for the past couple of days. Getting more damning testimony against Derek chauvin, a pivotal moment in the trial against Derek chauvin. As week two of testimony wraps up the prosecution looking to strengthen its argument that the former Minneapolis police officer used excessive force when he kept his knee on George Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. These are photographs of the left side of Mr Floyd's face. On day 10 of servin's trial to critical witnesses taking the stand, there is no evidence to suggest he would have died that night except for the interactions with law enforcement. A former assistant medical examiner testifying along with medical examiner Dr Andrew Baker who performed an autopsy on Floyd and ruled his death a homicide. Did you know anything resembling either a pill or pill fragments in the stomach contents? I did not Floyd's death certificate mentions other contributing conditions including heart disease and the presence of fentaNYL and meth. But on friday, former assistant medical examiner dr lindsey thomas testified, Floyd died due to the lack of oxygen. This is a death where both the heart and lungs stopped working and the point is that it's due to law enforcement, sub dual restraint and compression. And for the first time in court, the jury was able to get a firsthand look at the autopsy, photos of George Floyd. Now also dr baker says that he didn't see any big issues when it came to George Floyd's heart as well as any issues when it comes to drugs dismissing the claim from the, from the defense that the main reason why Floyd died was due to drug overdose or pre existing condition with his heart in Minneapolis. I'm Darryl forges
Warning: This video may contain violent and/or disturbing images with strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.The chief medical examiner who ruled George Floyd's death a homicide testified Friday that the way police held him down and compressed his neck "was just more than Mr. Floyd could take," given the condition of his heart.Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, took the stand at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin for pressing his knee on or close to Floyd's neck for what prosecutors said was as much as 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man lay pinned to the pavement last May.Asked about his finding that police "subdual, restraint and neck compression" led to Floyd's death, Baker said that Floyd had severe underlying heart disease and an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal to function, as well as narrowing of two heart arteries.Baker said being involved in a scuffle raises adrenaline, which asks the heart to beat even faster and supply more oxygen."And in my opinion, the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take by virtue of that, those heart conditions," the medical examiner said.Other medical experts, including a leading lung specialist, have gone further, testifying that Floyd died of asphyxia — or insufficient oxygen — because his breathing was constricted as he lay on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back, his face jammed against the ground and Chauvin's knee on his neck.Baker has not ruled asphyxiation as a cause of Floyd's death. And at one point, he said he is not an expert on lack of oxygen because he doesn't treat living people, and he would defer certain questions to experts on breathing.Baker also said that based on his viewing of the video, he believed Chauvin's knee was "primarily on the back, or the side or the area in between on Mr. Floyd's neck." And he said that in his opinion, the placement of Chauvin's knee would not have cut off Floyd's airway.Chauvin, 45, is charged with murder and manslaughter in Floyd's death May 25. Floyd was arrested outside a neighborhood market after being accused of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.Bystander video of Floyd crying that he couldn't breathe as onlookers yelled at the white officer to get off him sparked protests and scattered violence around the U.S.Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson has argued that the now-fired white officer did what he was trained to do and that Floyd's illegal drug use and underlying health conditions, not Chauvin's knee, killed him. And autopsy found fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd's system.Under cross-examination, Baker agreed with Nelson's statement that Floyd's heart disease, narrowed arteries and drug use "played a role" in Floyd's death, though he testified that those things did not cause the death.As he put it under questioning from the prosecution: "Mr. Floyd's use of fentanyl did not cause the subdual or neck restraint. His heart disease did not cause the the subdual or the neck restraint."A medical expert who testified Thursday said a healthy person subjected to what Floyd endured would have died.Baker testified that his examination of Floyd's heart found no "visible or microscopic previous damage" to the heart muscle. Baker also said he noticed no injury to Floyd's brain from either trauma or oxygen deprivation. And he said he did not notice any pills or pill fragments in Floyd's stomach.Baker also said he did not watch the harrowing video of the arrest before examining Floyd so that he would not be influenced by what he saw."I was aware that at least one video had gone viral on the internet, but I intentionally chose not to look at that until I had examined Mr. Floyd," he said. "I did not want to bias my exam by going in with any preconceived notions that might lead me down one pathway or another."Other medical experts called as prosecution witnesses have likewise blamed Floyd's death on the way he was pinned down on the ground.Dr. Lindsey Thomas, a forensic pathologist who retired in 2017 from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office and did not work on Floyd's case, testified earlier Friday that she agreed with Baker's findings, but was even more explicit, saying the "primary mechanism of death" was asphyxia, or insufficient oxygen.She said she reached that conclusion mostly from video that showed Floyd struggling to breathe."This is a death where both the heart and lungs stopped working. The point is, it's due to law enforcement subdual, restraint and compression," Thomas said.During cross-examination, Nelson asked Thomas about what could cause a heart to suddenly stop beating, noting that Floyd's bigger heart needed more blood and was working hard in a moment of stress and adrenaline, and that one of his arteries had a 90% blockage.Thomas said any blockage over 70% to 75% could be used to explain death, in the absence of another cause. But she also said some people can live just fine with an artery that is fully blocked.The defense attorney pressed Thomas by posing a hypothetical question."Let's assume you found Mr. Floyd dead in his residence. No police involvement, no drugs, right? The only thing you found would be these facts about his heart. What would you conclude to be the cause of death?" Nelson asked."In that very narrow set of circumstances, I would probably conclude that the cause of death was his heart disease," Thomas replied.In response to another hypothetical posed by Nelson, she agreed that she would certify Floyd's death as an overdose if there were no other explanations.But during re-questioning, prosecutor Jerry Blackwell ridiculed the defense attorney's hypotheticals and quickly got Thomas to repeat that the cause of Floyd's death was the restraint by police."Aren't those questions a lot like asking, 'Mrs. Lincoln, if we take John Wilkes Booth out of this' ..." Blackwell began, before Nelson objected.For the first time, a seat designated for Chauvin's family was occupied Friday, by a woman. She wasn't immediately identified. Chauvin's marriage ended in divorce in the months after Floyd's death.Also on Friday, Judge Peter Cahill called in a juror and questioned her about whether she had been subject to any outside influences. She replied that she briefly saw TV coverage with the sound off and said that her mother-in-law had texted her, "Looks like it was a bad day" but that she didn't reply.The judge allowed her to remain on the jury. ___Webber reported from Fenton, Michigan.
MINNEAPOLIS —
Warning: This video may contain violent and/or disturbing images with strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.
The chief medical examiner who ruled George Floyd's death a homicide testified Friday that the way police held him down and compressed his neck "was just more than Mr. Floyd could take," given the condition of his heart.
Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, took the stand at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin for pressing his knee on or close to Floyd's neck for what prosecutors said was as much as 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man lay pinned to the pavement last May.
Asked about his finding that police "subdual, restraint and neck compression" led to Floyd's death, Baker said that Floyd had severe underlying heart disease and an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal to function, as well as narrowing of two heart arteries.
Baker said being involved in a scuffle raises adrenaline, which asks the heart to beat even faster and supply more oxygen.
Lack of oxygen killed George Floyd, not drugs or bad heart, expert says
"And in my opinion, the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take by virtue of that, those heart conditions," the medical examiner said.
Other medical experts, including a leading lung specialist, have gone further, testifying that Floyd died of asphyxia — or insufficient oxygen — because his breathing was constricted as he lay on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back, his face jammed against the ground and Chauvin's knee on his neck.
Baker has not ruled asphyxiation as a cause of Floyd's death. And at one point, he said he is not an expert on lack of oxygen because he doesn't treat living people, and he would defer certain questions to experts on breathing.
Baker also said that based on his viewing of the video, he believed Chauvin's knee was "primarily on the back, or the side or the area in between on Mr. Floyd's neck." And he said that in his opinion, the placement of Chauvin's knee would not have cut off Floyd's airway.
George Floyd's death: What we learned during the 2nd week of Derek Chauvin's trial
Chauvin, 45, is charged with murder and manslaughter in Floyd's death May 25. Floyd was arrested outside a neighborhood market after being accused of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.
Bystander video of Floyd crying that he couldn't breathe as onlookers yelled at the white officer to get off him sparked protests and scattered violence around the U.S.
Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson has argued that the now-fired white officer did what he was trained to do and that Floyd's illegal drug use and underlying health conditions, not Chauvin's knee, killed him. And autopsy found fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd's system.
Expert testifies that Derek Chauvin never took knee off George Floyd's neck
Under cross-examination, Baker agreed with Nelson's statement that Floyd's heart disease, narrowed arteries and drug use "played a role" in Floyd's death, though he testified that those things did not cause the death.
As he put it under questioning from the prosecution: "Mr. Floyd's use of fentanyl did not cause the subdual or neck restraint. His heart disease did not cause the the subdual or the neck restraint."
A medical expert who testified Thursday said a healthy person subjected to what Floyd endured would have died.
Baker testified that his examination of Floyd's heart found no "visible or microscopic previous damage" to the heart muscle. Baker also said he noticed no injury to Floyd's brain from either trauma or oxygen deprivation. And he said he did not notice any pills or pill fragments in Floyd's stomach.
How the rest of the world is covering the Derek Chauvin trial
Baker also said he did not watch the harrowing video of the arrest before examining Floyd so that he would not be influenced by what he saw.
"I was aware that at least one video had gone viral on the internet, but I intentionally chose not to look at that until I had examined Mr. Floyd," he said. "I did not want to bias my exam by going in with any preconceived notions that might lead me down one pathway or another."
Other medical experts called as prosecution witnesses have likewise blamed Floyd's death on the way he was pinned down on the ground.
Dr. Lindsey Thomas, a forensic pathologist who retired in 2017 from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office and did not work on Floyd's case, testified earlier Friday that she agreed with Baker's findings, but was even more explicit, saying the "primary mechanism of death" was asphyxia, or insufficient oxygen.
EXPLAINER: Courtroom technology on display in Derek Chauvin trial
She said she reached that conclusion mostly from video that showed Floyd struggling to breathe.
"This is a death where both the heart and lungs stopped working. The point is, it's due to law enforcement subdual, restraint and compression," Thomas said.
During cross-examination, Nelson asked Thomas about what could cause a heart to suddenly stop beating, noting that Floyd's bigger heart needed more blood and was working hard in a moment of stress and adrenaline, and that one of his arteries had a 90% blockage.
Thomas said any blockage over 70% to 75% could be used to explain death, in the absence of another cause. But she also said some people can live just fine with an artery that is fully blocked.
Derek Chauvin trial coverage: Police chief says kneeling on George Floyd's neck violated policy
The defense attorney pressed Thomas by posing a hypothetical question.
"Let's assume you found Mr. Floyd dead in his residence. No police involvement, no drugs, right? The only thing you found would be these facts about his heart. What would you conclude to be the cause of death?" Nelson asked.
"In that very narrow set of circumstances, I would probably conclude that the cause of death was his heart disease," Thomas replied.
In response to another hypothetical posed by Nelson, she agreed that she would certify Floyd's death as an overdose if there were no other explanations.
But during re-questioning, prosecutor Jerry Blackwell ridiculed the defense attorney's hypotheticals and quickly got Thomas to repeat that the cause of Floyd's death was the restraint by police.
Chauvin trained to avoid neck pressure, police official testifies
"Aren't those questions a lot like asking, 'Mrs. Lincoln, if we take John Wilkes Booth out of this' ..." Blackwell began, before Nelson objected.
For the first time, a seat designated for Chauvin's family was occupied Friday, by a woman. She wasn't immediately identified. Chauvin's marriage ended in divorce in the months after Floyd's death.
Also on Friday, Judge Peter Cahill called in a juror and questioned her about whether she had been subject to any outside influences. She replied that she briefly saw TV coverage with the sound off and said that her mother-in-law had texted her, "Looks like it was a bad day" but that she didn't reply.
The judge allowed her to remain on the jury.
Webber reported from Fenton, Michigan.

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Getting what you wish for is a statement that people actually take for granted, but just to give you a heads up, people get what they wish for, be it knowingly or unknowingly. What you wished for is synonymous to a new home. One that would lead you to something called "learning experience".
I jumped into the year blindly, like a bat; remember the idioms we did in pre-primary i think as blind as a bat. That was me right there. Normally that would bother me, but it didn't. So life went on like it was the previous year. No changes, no nothing.
I think sometimes when you don't have goals or better yet objectives for yourself and your life, you just need to sit back relax and observe what is going on first. Don't force, sometimes not having resolutions is actually the best resolution.
It sounds lame, but that is what has taken me through this whole year (with no resolutions) … The reason I love my TGIF posts is because every Friday, I need to have something to write about in the "I wish, I hope, I pray" sections, I'm not an open book, I'm partially secretive, so I try to be as general as I can get, but deep inside I know what it is I'm wishing, I'm hoping and I'm praying for.
I would write them down in detail in my book as a prayer … Like I would sit on my bed one (many) evening or night and think of what I really really really want, and I write it down. I did it out of a hunger and desire inside me, what my mind and heart desire like the point they come to an agreement, though I was trying to pull it out as a joke on the blog, but on the book I was super duper serious. I prayed about anything and everything I was going through this year, the different aspects of my life as I would put it. I made wishes and had high hopes and I prayed for them to be actualized … and finally believing in God and myself!
It's at this point I figured so much about myself, that if I had actually made resolutions I wouldn't have achieved that. I still hold my thought that resolutions are over-rated … sometimes we make them out of pressure from our peers because that's the society's norm, or because it portrays you as organized and focused.
Wishes are the desires of your heart, Hope is what keeps you going and it retains that desire from your heart, Prayer is your heart, body and mind communicating with God … he gets to see your wishes and all the hope you have in them, and he takes it up from there. Like literally release all your burdens to him.
That has been my guide this year. And so far so good, this year has been the most fruitful year I've had, like everything I have managed to do and probably achieve was what was on my wish list. So I have psyche for the years to come now that I have figured my A+ strategy.
I believe wishes never die, the heart keeps desiring more and more … therefore the strategy is actually SMART – est!
Once what is in your mind connects with what is in your heart … you have the best deal of the year, just believe in God and yourself.
HAVE A SPLENDID DAY MY PEOPLE'S!


'Colorful Forest Abstract | Triptych Part 1' - Digital Art by Menega Sabidussi. Continuing my favorite theme of trees, this is a very colorful, long horizontal, panorama format, impressionistic abstract of a forest. The thin white stems could be aspens or birch trees. It was created as a commissioned piece, as a vibrant, nature themed statement piece of modern art for a contemporary decor.


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1989 The year of the crowd
New Statesman editor Jason Cowley introduces a special issue on the year that saw the Berlin Wall co
In July 1989 I graduated from university, and then, shortly afterwards, during that unusually warm and settled summer, set off to travel across Europe by train. The plan was to head east; something was stirring behind the Iron Curtain and I wanted to find out more about what was going on. On one journey I got as far as the Czechoslovakian border, only to be hauled off a train for not having a visa or any other official right of entry. I was kept in detention for a couple of hours in an austere and desolate room – as austere and desolate as the nation states the communists had created – before being bundled back on a train and returned to Vienna.
That year – the year of the crowd, as we call it in this special issue – there was a profound sense, for the first time in my lifetime, that the Cold War was coming to an end; that communist totalitarianism was collapsing. Also obvious was the imminent demise of entire political eras, with Europe's ageing dictators being toppled from within: Honecker, Zhivkov, Ceausescu and, eventually, Jaruzelski.
Worldwide, it was the year of the restless crowd. There were the rebellious crowds massing in the great cities of central and eastern Europe, their collective and heroic agitation for change precipitating the breach in November of the Berlin Wall. There were the crowds of courageous students, workers' groups and democracy campaigners in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, their aspirations so murderously suppressed by state dictatorship. (Here, the Chinese Communist Party responded with extreme violence; on 4 June tanks smashed into the square and many thousands of people died.) There were the crowds of frenzied mourners at the Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral in Tehran. There were the smaller crowds of marchers and book burners in Bradford, Yorkshire, inflamed by Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, their outrage a portent of a new kind of conflict between political Islam and liberal western imperialism (or
Jihad v McWorld, as it would later be caricatured). There was, too, the crowd at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, where, on a warm spring day in April, 96 people were crushed to death on the terraces as they gathered for an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
Towards the end of 1989 the American policy thinker and teleological historian Francis Fukuyama published his celebrated essay in which he declared that we in the west had reached the end of history, and were entering a period of rest as we worked together towards the universal goal of progress and world peace. For Fukuyama, history (by which he meant history as a battle between rival, world-transforming ideologies, not the innumerable small details and events of the everyday) had ended because the universal movement towards the realisation of human potential had found its ultimate expression in liberal democracy and
free-market capitalism as the only legitimate models for government. The essay was an exercise in wishful utopianism, but it was also characteristic of the more general mood of western triumphalism.
And yet nothing was certain; this feeling of being in suspension, of not knowing what would happen next, of living at the end of one world-historic era while waiting for another to begin – this sense, more personally, of having graduated and now to be on the cusp of adulthood at just this moment of quickening change: the feeling was heady. It felt as if the world was indeed in motion, not quite spinning out of control but in new and strange ways; a world turning, breaking apart and re-forming, a world in flux. l
Jason Cowley's memoir about the end of the Eighties, "The Last Game: Love, Death and Football", is published next month by Simon & Schuster (£14.99)
This article appears in the 16 March 2009 issue of the New Statesman, The year of the crowd


There is a current theory that is floating around all the science papers that is trying to imply that life might not have started on earth, and that it is entirely possible that it arrived on an asteroid that was knocked off of another planet billions of years ago, because—as it turns out— that life (the microscopic kind) has no problem going dormant as it hurtles through space. A recent paper that was published by Ronald Breslow suggests that if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had headed to a habitable planet, say the recently discovered one 20 light years away, there could be a super advanced race of dinosaurs just waiting to take over earth hanging out over there.
The problem, as I see it, with this theory is several fold: The first is that it is now modern dino-theory that most of those creatures simply evolved into birds. It has been known (although until recently improvable) that most of the more advanced dinosaurs had feathers, so asteroid or not they would have become something else given all that time, and not simply remained giant thunder lizards—much of the same way that humans are not apes any more. The second is that it has taken all of those millions of years for life to evolve from a mild offset of a sudden impact, and the mammals at that time were pretty much glorified rats. A couple million years from bacteria or RNA would be lucky to produce plant life, not FTL drive Raptors.


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Labrie Environmental Group ("Labrie") announces that Michael Eastabrook is the Chief Executive Officer and John Carroll as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
Lafayette, Georgia, USA - Mr. Eastabrook brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in industrial manufacturing. He was previously the CEO of 4Front Engineered Solutions, a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY, with 1,300 associates and manufacturing locations in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Michael Eastabrook holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Dallas.
Similarly, Mr. Carroll brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in industrial equipment sales through a highly successful distribution channel model and was most recently the Vice President of Sales and Marketing with 4Front Engineered Solutions. John Carroll graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science in Finance.
"We are excited for Michael and John to share their expertise and help us further build on Labrie's organizational strengths." Greg Gleason, Managing Partner, Wynnchurch Capital, L.P.
Francois D'Amours


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Kelly Kuo, 2009 Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award winner, led the Oregon Mozart Players in their annual 'Candlelight Baroque' event at the First Christian Church in Eugene, Ore.
Described as an opportunity to "bask in golden candlelight and let the mental knots of the season relax," the event featured work by Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
The group performed two concerts on December 19 and 20, offering a refreshing weekend that signaled the midway point of its season.
Kuo has been with the Oregon Mozart Players for three seasons.


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Would you like to create your future with us?
We are looking forward to receive your application until 31.05.2019.
Schaffner is a leader in the development and production of solutions that assure the efficient and reliable operation of high-performance electronic systems. The product range includes EMC components, upper harmonic filters and magnetic components for the growth markets of energy efficiency, automotive electronics, renewable energies and industrial applications.


Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's new release is a concert disc that chronicles his dynamic band, The E-Collective. Titled 'Live,' the album documents concerts in three U.S. cities that have been scarred by racial tension and gun violence.
No one applies more creative mojo to naming a band or a song—or conjuring out-of-the-box instrumentations to compose for—than Henry Threadgill.
Bobby Sanabria is understandably proud of his Puerto Rican roots and his Bronx upbringing. It's what launched his career, garnered him a few Grammy nominations along the way and informed his latest project: a triumphant, Latin-flavored reimagining of Leonard Bernstein's masterwork West Side Story.
Although there definitely was a change in the kind of music guitarist Grant Green made, it wasn't as cut-and-dried as dropping swing in favor of funk. Nor, if the audience response on these albums is any indication, did it involve abandoning jazz fans in favor of funk kids.


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package org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.rest.calendar;

import org.elasticsearch.client.node.NodeClient;
import org.elasticsearch.rest.BaseRestHandler;
import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.rest.action.RestToXContentListener;
import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.action.UpdateCalendarJobAction;
import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.calendars.Calendar;
import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.job.config.Job;
import org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.MachineLearning;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import static org.elasticsearch.rest.RestRequest.Method.DELETE;

public class RestDeleteCalendarJobAction extends BaseRestHandler {

    @Override
    public List<Route> routes() {
        return Collections.singletonList(
            new Route(DELETE, MachineLearning.BASE_PATH + "calendars/{" + Calendar.ID.getPreferredName() + "}/jobs/{" +
                Job.ID.getPreferredName() + "}")
        );
    }

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return "ml_delete_calendar_job_action";
    }

    @Override
    protected BaseRestHandler.RestChannelConsumer prepareRequest(RestRequest restRequest, NodeClient client) throws IOException {
        String calendarId = restRequest.param(Calendar.ID.getPreferredName());
        String jobId = restRequest.param(Job.ID.getPreferredName());
        UpdateCalendarJobAction.Request request =
                new UpdateCalendarJobAction.Request(calendarId, null, jobId);
        return channel -> client.execute(UpdateCalendarJobAction.INSTANCE, request, new RestToXContentListener<>(channel));
    }
}


devices executed in virtualised environments.
self-contained virtual machines running in general purpose servers.
management of installing new equipment.
these hindrances for network operators.
Virtualisation and Service Function Chaining (SFC).
and services within operator data-centres proposed in this document.
virtual assets (like virtual machines) into a private cloud.
pools to provide the same function in a reliable way.
composition of resilient VNFs within operators' datacentres.
building blocks and functional components.
dynamic and flexible network traffic engineering.
Figure 1: VNF Pool Orchestration Framework Architecture.
datacentres to be applied to network functions.
and virtualised components in the proposed architecture.
network applications on top of the SDN controller.
each new VNF chain requested by the orchestrator.
chains belonging to different tenants.
quality metrics; service latency metrics for VNF chain components.
each VNF in the chain.
snapshots of the VMs running the VNF.  Moreover, at runtime (i.e.
options have been identified so far: cold recovery and hot recovery.
The interaction with the SFC Classifier is left for further study.
and that no traffic will be lost during scale-down.
This draft does not have any IANA consideration.
service chains are left for further study.
Surendra, S., Tufail, M., Majee, S., Captari, C., and S.
Zong, N., Dunbar, L., Shore, M., Lopez, D., and G.
statement-06 (work in progress), July 2014.
and Communications , June 2014.


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HEA Director General Reappointed as Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance	Featured
HEA, Director General, UbuntuNet Alliance
Birbal Boniface Musoba
HEA Director General
The Association of African Universities (AAU), has appointed Professor Stephen Simukanga as Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance for a second term following the resolution by the UbuntuNet Alliance Board of Trustees to renew the term of office.
Article 8.1 of the constitution of UbuntuNet Alliance mandates the AAU to oversee the appointment of the Chairperson of the Alliance in collaboration with the Board of Trustees.
At its 61st meeting held on 8th September 2020, the Board of Trustees unanimously resolved to reappoint Prof. Stephan Simukanga, who serves as the Director General of the Higher Education Authority (HEA) in Zambia, for another three-year term of office until September 2023 following a satisfactory performance.
Professor Etienne Ehouan Ehile, AAU Secretary General, confirmed Prof. Simukanga's reappointment in a written communication dated 9th November, 2020.
Prof. Simukanga was first appointed Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance on 20th September, 2017, following a successful completion of a search process conducted by a Search Committee established by the AAU.
In his acceptance speech, Prof. Simukanga expressed gratitude to the UbuntuNet Alliance Board of Trustees and the rest of the community for entrusting him with the noble cause of Chairing what he described as an "important Network" and pleaded for continued support from the community.
In January 2019, Prof. Simukanga was elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of Science in developing countries becoming the first Zambian to be elected to this prestigious and elite academy.
Later in October, the HEA Director General was also elected Chairperson of the Natural Sciences (SC) commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) at the 40th Session of the General Conference that took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
Moreover, Prof. Simukanga is a United Kingdom Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and the Engineering Institution of Zambia and boasts of 26 years of experience in the mining industry and academia.
A former member of the Board of Trustees of the Alliance (2013-2015), he has previously served as Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Zambia (UNZA) and has been a visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town for 10 years. He also serves as Chairperson of ZCI Limited.
He received a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Metallurgy and Mineral Processing from UNZA in 1982 and 1986 respectively, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Process Metallurgy from the University of Strathcylde in the United Kingdom.
*This article was first published on 11th November, 2020, on https://ubuntunet.net/. HEA has republished it courtesy of UbuntuNet. All edits are those made by HEA.
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What Negative Impact Does Unethical Behavior Have in Information Technology?
By Damarious Page
Why Is Urbanization Important for New Businesses?
Advantages & Disadvantages to Outsourcing IT
Cyber Security Analyst's Salary Per Hour
The Disadvantages of Doing Business on the Internet
Regulations for a Bookkeeping Business
Information technology professionals face increasing security concerns such as external threats to organizations or internal espionage. However, unethical behavior by the information technology personnel within an institution can potentially be a more formidable threat than a curious or nosy hacker who has no ties to the company or hard access to its computer network. IT professionals design the networks and maintain the databases that businesses, schools and governments rely on to carry out various activities that concern the entities' operations. In fact, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, security concerns within organizations will be a driving factor for growth and hiring within the IT industry. Dishonest activity on the part of information technology specialists can have far-reaching and negative impacts.
Organizational Integrity
Businesses, schools and governments that have Internet presence commonly provide hyperlinks to statements about safety and security. Information technology professionals are the people who carry out and uphold these policies in most organizations. People hesitate to use an organization's Internet-based and e-commerce services if concerns exist about the integrity of these systems. Security breaches can occur at the hands of wayward IT employees within an organization, as well as in the form of hackers outside the company's firewalls. No matter the culprit, if end-users do not feel comfortable interacting with an organization's IT properties, businesses can lose profits, schools can lose the online teaching platform and governments can lose the efficiency and cost-savings of having public services available via the Internet.
Industry Integrity
Information technology is a profession and industry on its own, but IT services and products are integral to the workings of essentially every industry. Unethical behavior by IT personnel or hackers can bring entire industries to a halt, either delaying services or shutting down operations. For example, hospitals and the health-care industry are making a push to digitize patient care and medical records. Paper documentation is falling by the wayside. If medical databases are compromised, vital medical data may virtually disappear, adversely affecting the delivery of patient care. Many vital industries have data backup plans in place, but downtime can deal a crippling financial blow.
Academics, Research and Development
Universities and corporations have a symbiotic relationship; the two seemingly separate entities coordinate to establish what the next generation of graduating IT professionals need to know about the real world. Existing IT professionals who perform malevolent activities that negatively affect an industry might inadvertently disrupt the supply chain of new talent from colleges. For example, businesses that have suffered setbacks because of unethical behavior within the IT department may put a freeze on new IT hiring, which would affect the number of jobs offers graduating IT students receive out of college. In addition, businesses may cut back on research and development of new IT products, which affects computer science majors.
Businesses and academicians alike have trumpeted predictions about the world-changing effects of information technology for decades. More than a decade into the 21st century, the general consensus is that the Internet boom has come and gone, but IT still plays a very important role across society. You may hear the terms "developed nations" and "developing nations" mentioned in relation to computers and Internet technologies; IT professionals are helping major industrial countries maintain a standard of living and manage growth, while emerging economies are using information technology to lift citizens out of poverty. As such, unethical behavior in the IT industry can set the ambitions of entire regions back if governments and businesses cannot trust the people charged with securing and maintaining the technology.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Computer and Information Systems Managers
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical Records and Health Information Technicians
The New York Times: Study Says Technology Could Transform Society (June 1982)
The Economist: The Next Society
ZDNet: Information Technology Behind Global Shakeup: NYT Columnist
Damarious Page is a financial transcriptionist specializing in corporate quarterly earnings and financial results. Page holds a medical transcription certificate and has participated in an extensive career analysis and outplacement group workshop through Right Management. The West Corporation trained and certified him to handle customer support for home appliance clients.
Negative Effects Outsourcing Has on Organizations
Difference Between Internal & External Threats to an IT Database
What Do Telecommunication Organizations Do?
What Is the Use of a Mission Statement?
Global Employment Trends
E-Business Security Concerns
Planning in the Contemporary Organization
Outsourcing in the Telecommunication Industry
The Pros & Cons of Work Performance Through Computers
1 Negative Effects Outsourcing Has on Organizations
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Thank you so much! Now, I'm making them with dot printed fabrics.
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Thank you very much! Imade more those pouches and today, I made a new pouch!
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For frogs, I would only have one end of the zipper stick out. A pink zipper like a tongue, with a fly stuck on the end. Your cats are so cute!
very funny! I will sew something like this for a little girl.
Love it! As for the Frog one you are planning - how about a dragonfly zipper? ...wings poking out one side of the frogs mouth and the end of its body poking out the other side.
Can you please make a tutorial? I would love to make this! :) Please answer :D I love it!!
It is simply gorgeous, you are a genius!
How about a dog with a bone?
Or a house with the green zipper as grass and a little plant in a pot each side?
Or a little shop window with a zipper road in front and 2 cars?.....now you have got the ideas flowing!!!....I'll have to go and make one!!!
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Q: Bash Script: tar up folder and email it I am looking to create a bash script that I can use for a cronjob that will

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*Tar up a folder: tar -czf foldername-TIMESTAMP.tar.gz ~/public_html/foldername

*Email that as an attachment

*Delete the tar.gz

I have mail, mailx, rm, and tar commands as needed.
The purpose is basically as a back up of the file system to my email.

A: I use this because mutt usually not by default on Centos distribution and mail it's default.
FILENAME=foldername-$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H_%M_%S).tar.gz; \
tar -czf $FILENAME ~/public_html/foldername; \
cat $FILENAME | uuencode binario | mail -s "Backup /public_html/foldername" some@email.you.like; \
rm -f $FILENAME

A: Using mutt you could do it like this:
FILENAME=foldername-$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H_%M_%S).tar.gz
tar -czf $FILENAME ~/public_html/foldername
mutt -s "Some subject" -a $FILENAME some@email.you.like < preformatted_mail.txt


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A symbol from Greek myth representing how desire can never be satisfied.
"...Tantalus came and lived with the gods, and was permitted to ask for whatever he desired. But the man was so immoderately given to pleasures that he asked for these and for a life like that of the gods. At this Zeus was annoyed, but fulfilled his prayer because of his own promise; but to prevent him from enjoying any of the pleasures provided, and to keep him continually harassed, he hung a stone over his head which prevents him from ever reaching any of the pleasant things near by." —Greek fragment
"There [in hell] was Tantalus, who stood in a pool, his chin level with the water, yet he was parched with thirst, and found nothing to assuage it; for when he bowed his hoary head, eager to quaff, the water fled away, leaving the ground at his feet all dry. Tall trees laden with fruit stooped their heads to him, pears, pomegranates, apples, and luscious figs; but when with a sudden grasp he tried to seize them winds whirled them high above his reach." —Bullfinch's Mythology
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The No.1 Bestseller
THE SEQUEL TO THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER WORKING CLASS BOY It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan. In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Boy, Jimmy picks up the story of his life as he leaves Adelaide in the back of an old truck with a then unknown band called Cold Chisel.
A spellbinding and searingly honest reflection on success, fame and addiction; this self-penned memoir reveals how Jimmy Barnes used the fuel of childhood trauma to ignite and propel Australia's greatest rock'n'roll story. But beyond the combustible merry-go-round of fame, drugs and rehab, across the Cold Chisel, solo and soul years - this is a story about how it's never too late to try and put things right.
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Leave it to Jimmy Barnes to singlehandedly upend the rock-star memoir. The legendary rocker follows up 2016's unflinching Working Class Boy with a soul-searching account of the drinks, drugs and self-loathing that have dogged his adult life. While there are plenty of juicy revelations about Cold Chisel's fabled rise to fame, Barnesy balances accounts of pub-forged beginnings and stadium-conquering glory days with a hard look at his mistakes along the way. And after so long battling the darkness, the musician emerges with a renewed appreciation for what matters—and turns a corner that we found surprisingly universal.
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Whether you are a fan or not it's a book well worth reading. I laughed and cried. It's not always easy to read but the love he had for Jane and his kids is what got him through. A great talent and a great story teller. Thanks Jimmy for sharing your story
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Jimmy Barnes, Working Class Man.
Once again another awesome book about this great man. The life he led, music career, family life. Thanks once again for sharing your journey. Hoping for a third.
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Leaves an impact
The raw honesty of this memoir leaves you feeling like you've been through the wringer with Jimmy and come out the other end. It's the type of book that sits within you even after you've put it down. I enjoyed the insight into the songwriting process and meeting the who's who of the Australian music industry.
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Nationalism Research Papers
Nationalism research papers attempt to assess the value of nationalism and will have the usual essential elements of an introductory paragraph, body, concluding paragraph, and a list of references.
A common assignment on Nationalism is as follows:
Is nationalism a constructive or a destructive force? The research paper will have the usual essential elements of an introductory paragraph, body, concluding paragraph, and a list of references. The two aspects of this paper which you must pay particular attention to are that the details or facts which you use to develop your arguments that deal with Nationalism (absolutism and enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era).
This essay attempts to assess the value of nationalism. The question asked, "Is nationalism a dark force or does it promote social capital?" can be answered with a "both," but such an answer tells only part of the story. The real question respecting nationalism is whether or not the gains produced by its creation of "social capital," are outweighed by the fact that nationalism has historically been a source of xenophobia, narrow exclusivity of outlook, wars, and genocide.
Benn (1967) has noted that five versions of the term are in common use:
Nationalism as a feeling of loyalty to the nation;
Nationalism as a tendency to consider the interests of one's own nation as transcendent over the interests of all other nations;
Nationalism as an attitude that attaches particular importance to the distinctive culture of a nation;
Nationalism which, as a result of [3], places great importance on the preservation of national culture; and
Nationalism as a theory of anthropology that holds that human populations naturally divide into nations.
Taken in the aggregate all of these indicate that the term is a complex one and recognition of this complexity is important in any attempt to evaluate whether nationalism is a benign or a dark force in human affairs. If we ignore any of these senses, our evaluation will be skewed. For example, if we restrict ourselves to the first two senses, we are apt to equate nationalism with chauvinism and deny the many positive things that flow out of the third and fourth senses of the word. And, if we are to discard the fifth sense of the term from consideration, we are apt to render anything we say moot. For, if nationalism is indeed organic to human behavior, then arguments that it is a dark force are exercises in futility because nationalism will always be with us. Keeping these things in mind, let us see what nationalism's "historical record" looks like from a utilitarian point of view.
John Locke and the French Revolution term papers consider the famous French Philosopher's influence on the French Revolution.
Thomas Hobbes and the French Revolution research papers are custom written by Paper Masters.
Class Struggle and the French Revolution research papers discuss the role of the classes in the Revolution, as discussed by Karl Marx.
American and French Revolutions research papers that examine how revolutionary were the American Revolution and the French Revolution.
French Revolution and Napoleon Research Papers delve into an order placed on world history questions with specific source requirement information.
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Roman Dmowski - He was a right-wing nationalist who was instrumental in re-uniting partitioned Poland after the war, and an important political influence in the new nation.
History Essays - What were the main points of conservatism? It could be argued that Nationalism was the single most influential ideology to emerge in the nineteenth century.
Causes of World War I - An immediate sense of nationalism was imparted as the rivalries, hostility, and distrust among the big powers of Europe escalated.
Social Effects of WWI - Social Effects of WWI in Postwar Russia as well as other postwar countries were clearly indicative of the social and politically associative repercussions of the pursuit of independence and nationalism caused by World War I.
China and Human Rights Abuses - China and Human Rights Abuses research papers look at China's long history of abuse in the area of human rights.
Unification of Germany - The unification of Germany was made possible by strong feelings of nationalism running through the country at the time.
How to Write a Research Paper on Nationalism


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Bowling Report - Week ending 17th April
Ból Fada's Easter festival at Keady-Tassagh, Armagh, showcased some of the best bowling of the year so far. The sizable Cork contingent had a worthwhile trip winning their share of the spoils including the prestigious Joe McVeigh Cup, the feature event on the card. All-Ireland champion, Arthur McDonagh confirmed his status as the game's top exponent with an emphatic two-bowl victory over Colm Rafferty in Sunday's McVeigh Cup final. On a rain-soaked afternoon, the Fermoy man carried too much power for his northern counterpart and led the score from the opening shot. Earlier on Sunday in the Pete Grimley Cup, John O'Rourke reaffirmed his dominance over Mark Toal with a one bowl victory for 4,200. As the rain descended, Armagh's Darragh Gribben and Cork's David Hubbard took issue for a combined 15,000. Gribben came from a bowl down to win this one in the last shot.
Saturday's Joe McVeigh Cup semi-finals threw up an early surprise with the elimination of Thomas Mackle, the competition favourite, who went down to his fellow county man, Colm Rafferty. Mackle, unluckily it has to be said, had a bowl accidentally blocked at a vital juncture, but he still led the score past half-way. Rafferty came in front at the 'Creamery point' and doggedly held his lead to the finish. The second semi between the Corkmen, Arthur McDonagh and David Murphy was a thrilling encounter that ebbed and flowed from the off. Murphy had the better of it for almost two thirds of the way but never by a big margin. McDonagh put in a storming finish to take the verdict and the 50,000 total stake. There was victory for the Cork camp too in the Saturday morning score when Patrick Flood repeated his Marsh Road victory over Armagh's rising star, Eugene McVeigh. For a 12,000 total, Flood won by a bowl. Armagh came out on top in the womens doubles contest that closed out Saturday's bowling. Siobhan Mackle-Murphy and Dervla Mallon were two bowls too good for the Cork pairing of Claire O'Sullivan and Hannah Sexton. They played for a 20,000 total.
The opening Ból Fada score on Friday resulted in a good start for the hosts as Caoimhe Rafferty showed why she is a rising star in Armagh bowling when repeating her All-Ireland U16 success over Ellen Sexton with a last shot victory for a 2,700 total. In a cracking score the lead changed on numerous occasions and just twenty metres separated them with three to go. Caoimhe edged those vital last exchanges. The big doubles contest on Friday gave a handsome win to the visitors. For a 50,000 total, Armagh's Bryan and Paul O'Reilly led by fifty metres after five against Cork's Gary Daly and Gavin Twohig. Rossmore man, Twohig whose has an exemplary record in the north, hammered a ferocious seventh to take control and with Daly firing a massive tenth, a bowl of odds came in their favour. The O'Reilly's finished strongly but the Corkmen held out. In a third score on Friday, Armagh's Michael O'Neill defeated Cork's Michael O'Leary, last shot, for 3,000.
Lowney's Jewellers sponsored senior championship scores had a few significant mid-week results. Meghan Collins staked her claim at The Clubhouse on Tuesday evening with a hard-earned victory over Maria Nagle and in doing so threw group A wide open. Meghan, in her eighth season at the top level, had the edge in experience, but Rossscarbery's Maria, following her fine victory over Claire O'Sullivan at Drinagh, had plenty of support too as they played away for a combined €3,300. Meghan Collins showed good resilience in recovering from a wayward opener to keep the score level to the 'chips corner' as indeed did the Rosscarbery challenger when she looked in trouble heading for 'Clon cross'. Shot for shot it went past 'O'Riordan's' with just twenty metres separating them at the brow of the hill. From here, the Crossbarry lady made a decisive move firing a superb drive all the way to sight at the last bend. It was enough for a big last shot victory. Meghan's score with Claire O'Sullivan at Bauravilla will decide if this group will go to a three-way play-off. In group B, runner-up in the 2020 championship, Veronica O'Mahony overcame Emma Fitzpatrick in a thrilling duel in the rain at Beal na mBlath on Thursday. For a €700 total, Emma led for the first two, but little separated them at any point until Mallow contender, Veronica lined a huge cast to 'Jim O'Mahony's house' which gave her a bowl of odds leeway at a vital juncture. Emma has a must win against Hannah Sexton at Shannonvale to stay in contention. In the intermediate championship at The Clubhouse, Gretta Cormican showed she still retains some of the old fire as she recovered from a bowl deficit to win her group C contest with Helen Whyte. Three super shots from 'the chips' to 'Clon cross' wiped out the Reenascreena player's lead and set her on her way for a last shot victory. Helen, a champion too from decades past, has a score with Denise Murphy at Ballinacurra, to reignite her challenge.
Regional championship progressed too in Mid and West Cork divisions. The junior A championship in Mid Cork is always keenly contested and 2022 is no exception. Tom O'Donovan, Belgooly, staked his claim with an impressive quarterfinal win at Newcestown over Kieran Murphy. A tight contest in the early stages was turned decisively in O'Donovan's favour when he fired an incredible bowl from 'Allen's lane'. It propelled him to a two-bowl lead by 'O'Brien's cross' and when he followed with a screamer down the incline the semi-final spot as his. They played for a €1,600 total. At Castletownkenneigh on Sunday, David O'Mahony, Fivemilebridge, overcame John Shorten in another quarterfinal contest. For a €500 total, O'Mahony's piledriver past the 'old pub' gave him winning odds here. Mid Cork also had some high-profile junior B action with Noel O'Donovan and Bryan O'Halloran advancing to semi-final rounds. O'Donovan defeated Kenneth Murphy by two bowls for a €2,000 total at Ballinacurra, Upton on Monday evening. On Saturday at Beal na mBlath, O'Halloran's sixteen over the line had him with almost a bowl to spare on Brendan O'Neill. Their contest carried a €1,400 stake. Also, in Mid Cork championships in novice D, Brendan Hurley defeated Barry Collins, Michael Waugh defeated Mark Coleman and Fionn Dwyer defeated Kevin Browne all at Ballinacurra.
It was a busy weekend of championship action in the West Cork division. In the junior C grade at Kealkil, Drinagh's Humphrey O'Leary came from a bowl down to defeat Diarmuid Hurley, Togher Cross. O'Leary lined two terrific shots on the straight to turn this one around. In the same grade at Durrus, Chris Murray, a county junior C winner in 2012, overcame Kieran Hourihane in the last shot for a €2,300 total. In the U18 championship on the Inch road, Dunmanway, Con O'Sullivan won from Oisin Murphy and Brian O'Driscoll won from Brian O'Sullivan. In the novice C championship at Drinagh, Schull's Joseph O'Mahony defeated Martin Murphy, Togher Cross and in the same grade at Ballinacarriga, David Hourihane defeated Conor O'Connell. In the novice B championship at Durrus, Vincent Healy defeated Alan Keane in the last shot for €1,900. Paul Kingston won a cracking score with James O'Driscoll, Ahakeera, in the novice A championship at Drimoleague. For a €500 total it went to the last shot. Also, at Drimoleague in novice C, Paudie Crowley won from Conor O'Donovan. A couple of high-profile novice A scores at The Clubhouse and Derrinasafa resulted in wins for Sean O'Riordan and Ciaran Nyhan. O'Riordan on his home road, fell a bowl down to Chris Cronin's monstrous fourth to sight at the 'chips', but closed the gap before snatching victory with a magnificent last shot from blind sight. Ciaran Nyhan's win at Derrinasafa came after a mighty battle with Michael Carroll. This one went to the wire as well, Nyhan taking it in the final throw for an €1,100 stake. In other results from Derrinasafa, Eoin Murray defeated Morgan Hickey and Con Collins (jun) defeated Trevor Jagoe, both in Novice C, and Barry O'Donovan, Derrylahan, defeated David Deane in the novice D championship.
A contest of note took place at the Launder's lane venue, London when Paddy O'Driscoll whose parents hail from The Glen area of Cork city played Callum O'Donovan who has strong Dunmanway connections in two scores in the boys U14 championship. A first under-age venture for London in a very long time, the boys had a win each and will play a decider at a later date.
An important event on Saturday next is the conclusion of the latest series of under-age tournaments organised by Ted Hegarty. The Phale Road, Ballineen, a venue long synonymous with the bowling game, will host no less than 10 finals featuring young bowl-players drawn from regions right around the county. Events start at 3.00pm with the boys U18 final; between James O'Sullivan v Danny O'Donovan v Noel O'Driscoll; Finals follow in quick succession in the order as follows; Boy's U16, Cillian Kelleher v James Russell v Brian Horgan; Boy's U14, Daniel Wilmot v Cathal Creedon; Boys U12, Ross O'Brien v Tom McCarthy; Boys U10, Ryan Crowley v Brian Murphy v Tadg O'Farrell; Boys U10 County competition final, Jack Allen (Mid) v Eoghan Kelly (Gaeltacht); Boy's U8, Eoghan Kelly v Cillian Murray; U16/U18/junior ladies, Rosin O'Riordan v Ellen Sexton v Ailbhe O'Shea; Girls U14, Laura Sexton v Niamh O'Connell; Girls U12, Leila Foley v Danielle Crowley. Ted asks all finalists to note their scores.
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Эдуардо Кано де ла Пенья (; ) — испанский исторический живописец XIX века. Педагог.

Биография

Его отец служил главным архитектором города Севилья и, следуя по его стопам, Э. Кано начал изучать архитектуру. Обучался в Академии изобразительных искусств в Севилье, затем совершенствовал свои художественные навыки в Мадриде в Королевской академии изящных искусств Сан-Фернандо под руководством Карлоса Луиса Рибера-и-Феве, Хосе Мадрасо и Федерико Мадрасо.

Переехал в Париж, где создал две из своих самых известных работы — «Христофор Колумб в монастыре Ла Рабида», холст в романтическом стиле за который был удостоен Золотой медали на Национальной выставке изящных искусств в Мадриде в 1856 году (ныне хранится в Сенатском дворце в Мадриде) и «Похороны констебля дона Альваро де Луна», за который также был награждён Золотой медали на той же выставке в 1857 году (в настоящее время в музее Прадо в Мадриде). Вернувшись в Севилью, был назначен куратором городского Музея изящных искусств и профессором Академии изобразительных искусств в Севилье.

В числе его учеников были Николас Альперис и Хосе Вильегас Кордеро.

Творчество
Прославился как исторический живописец, портретист. В качестве иллюстратора сотрудничал с журналами El Arte en España , El Museo Universal и La Bonanza.

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