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Constraints are limitations or restrictions that emerge from within a system. Also known as "degrees of freedom," this is about the degree to which expectations, policies, processes, interactions, and relationships from inside the system allow agents to make choices about their own individual and group actions and behaviors. Constraints emerge in a system as a way to manage the "chaos" and uncertainty that exists, and shape the path of self-organization and the emergence of patterns across the system. Constraints influence patterns by shifting the speed, path, and direction of self-organization. If you want to change patterns of self-organization, you would either find ways to constrain the system more—make expectations more specific—or to decrease constraints—decrease specificity.
The Landscape Diagram offers a "map" for how constraints can shape relationships and action in a complex adaptive system. If constraints serve to increase agreement and certainty, their emergence will shift a system from upper right (unstable) to lower left (stable) on the diagram. Think about the emergence of a new product. Research folks explore new trends and possibilities (unstable, upper right) until they can begin to see some patterns begin to emerge. The concept then shows up in the emergent space, where the patterns become clearer and developers define and describe the new product. Ultimately the developers create specifications for manufacturing staff, who pull the process down into the lower left into production procedures and processes that are close to agreement and close to certainty. Say that over time, new technology or a design flaw requires that the product be re-examined. Manufacturing folks give the product back to development folks who bring in new ideas from the research folks to refine their design, create new specifications and send it back to manufacturing for continued production. The same general cycle describes the emergence of any pattern in human systems—products, poetry, rules and regulations, relationships, new ideas and concepts. Constraints from inside the system shape this path of emergence at all scales.
We think of constraints in one of three ways.
A system is Ideally Constrained when it has appropriate freedom to respond in coherent and productive ways.
A system is Overly Constrained when it is held too tightly, causing turbulence as parts of the system compete for limited time, space, and resources.
A system is Under Constrained when it is not held tightly enough, causing turbulence as parts of the system lose energy and productivity.
There is no pre-set level of constraint that a system "seeks" or that we can set as a benchmark for all similar systems. Acceptable degrees of freedom or appropriate levels of constraint are about fitness of the system in its immediate internal and external environments. A system that is ideally constrained is able to function productively, engaging in self-organizing and adaptive behavior that allows it the freedom to find the best "fit" in the greater environment. When a system is unable to find that level of fitness, conflict emerges and the sustainability of the system is in jeopardy.


After a few very restful and enjoyable days at British Hills, it was time to move on. We had almost achieved 'regular' status in the pub and our waistlines were expanding by the hour. It wasn't all indulgence, we did manage to get a few important admin things done too. We cancelled our Japanese cellphone contracts, booked a ferry from Japan to Korea and reserved an appointment at the China visa centre to hopefully secure our visas next month.
We had a late start on the 20th, after yet another fry up for breakfast at Natu's place. British Hills is up at 950 metres above sea level, so the first 20km were all downhill towards Shirakawa. After such a big brekkie, we didn't feel like lunch but we had a quick break outside a 7-11 when we crossed into Tokichi Prefecture after about 35km. The riding was nice, on minor roads running south parallel to the main road, Route 4.
Again, we didn't have a set goal in mind for the day's riding, we'd just planned to continue until we'd had enough and then find a nice spot to camp.
Typically, beautiful potential camp spots were all over the place through the early afternoon before we were ready to stop for the night. When we reached the town of Otawara at around 4 o'clock, we stopped into a supermarket to grab some supplies for dinner. From then on, the camp spots dried up. Cycling round the area proved fruitless, so we continued on our route, hoping to spot somewhere before the next town. Our smaller road then joined the busy 4 which gave us an unpleasant few kilometres, hugging the hard shoulder. Before long we came across a promising looking sports park in the town of Yaita, which we pulled into after around 80km for the day. We had Korean style noodles with kimchi for dinner and then pitched our tent under a picnic shelter – more rain in the forecast.
Again, rain through the night and into the following morning. We only had a short day taking us up to the historical city of Nikko. We were following route 461 which gradually climbed is way up to Nikko. The road was busy, but we had a really wide cycling lane alongside for most of the way.
We stopped in at a michi no eki halfway to use the internet (no cellphones now!) and have a break from the rain. We chatted to one of the guys working there who was a big Beatles fan and was excited to hear we're from England. It didn't look particularly nice outside, so we stuck around for a couple of hours and had some soba for lunch.
We'd hoped the drizzle would stop in the afternoon, but it didn't look like that was going to happen, so we reluctantly left the dry to hit the road again. We found a campsite just outside Nikko and handed over a couple of thousand yen to camp for the night. (it's in a National Park, so wild camping is technically illegal and so a bit trickier.) The plus side was that we could leave our panniers safely with our tent and cycle around Nikko with our bikes far lighter.
We headed into the old part of the city, a World Heritage Site. It was late afternoon, and still a little damp so, for a major tourist spot, it was very quiet. We had a couple of hours wandering though ancient forests looking at the shrines and temples to finish off the day.
The following day, we cheated a bit. We wanted to see Lake Chusenji and a waterfall that sits almost a vertical kilometre above Nikko. But, looking at the map and the 20+ switchbacks on the road, we decided to take a bus. Definitely the right move! The bus was straining up the road for a good 40 minutes and we were happy to let the engine take the strain instead of our legs. The sense of achievement would've been good, and the ride down even better, but I'm not ashamed!
The views of the waterfall and around the lake were spectacular. The sun was out through the morning so we had a wander around and then sat by the lake and had some lunch. After the bus ride back down we were reunited with our bikes and we left Nikko the same way we came in.
We decided to camp back at the same Michi no Eki at Shioya. Just now sitting here typing this, our Beatles loving friend from yesterday just came to say hello and gave us a couple of small grilled fish from the nextdoor food market. We'll pitch our tent in a little while once it starts to get dark.
From here, we've got 3 days or so to reach Tokyo.


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title: "Theming"
menu:
  main:
    parent: "getting-started"
---

## Your first Timber project

Let's start with your single post. Find this file:

```
wp-content/themes/{timber-starter-theme}/templates/single.twig
```

Brilliant! Open it up.

```twig
{% extends "base.twig" %}

{% block content %}
    <div class="content-wrapper">
        <article class="post-type-{{ post.post_type }}" id="post-{{ post.ID }}">
            <section class="article-content">
                <h1 class="article-h1">{{ post.title }}</h1>
                <h2 class="article-h2">{{ post.subtitle }}</h2>
                <p class="blog-author">
                	<span>By</span> {{ post.author.name }} <span>•</span> {{ post.post_date|date }}
                </p>
                {{ post.content }}
            </section>
        </article>
    </div>
{% endblock %}
```

**What did we just do?**

This is the fun part. Instead of calling stuff from the WordPress API like this:

```html
<h1 class="article-h1"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
```

We can do it like this in Twig:

```twig
<h1 class="article-h1">{{ post.title }}</h1>
```

WordPress wants you to interact with its API in a certain way, which sucks. Because soon you get things like:

```html
<h1 class="article-h1"><a href="<?php get_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
```

Okay, not _too_ terrible, but doesn't this (Timber) way look so much nicer?

```twig
<h1 class="article-h1"><a href="{{ post.link }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h1>
```

It get's better. Let's explain some other concepts.

```twig
{% extends "base.twig" %}
```

This means that `single.twig` is using `base.twig` as its parent template. That's why you don't see any `<head>`, `<header>`, or `<footer>` tags, those site-wide (usually) things are all controlled in `base.twig`. You can create any number of base files to extend from (the "base" naming convention is recommended, but not required).

What if you want modify `<head>`, etc? Read on to learn all about blocks.

## Blocks

Blocks are the single most important and powerful concept in managing your templates. The [official Twig Documentation](http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/templates.html#template-inheritance) has more details. Let's cover the basics.

In `single.twig` you see opening and closing block declarations that surround the main page contents.

```twig
{% block content %}
    {# other stuff here ... #}
{% endblock %}
```

If you were to peek into **base.twig** you would see a matching set of `{% block content %} / {% endblock %}` tags. **single.twig** is replacing the content of base's `{% block content %}` with its own.

### Nesting Blocks, Multiple Inheritance

This is when things get really cool. Whereas most people use PHP includes in a linear fashion, you can create infinite levels of nested blocks to particularly control your page templates. For example, let's say you occasionally want to replace the title/headline on your `single.twig` template with a custom image or typography.

For this demo, let's assume that the name of the page is "All about Jared" (making its slug `all-about-jared`). First, I'm going to surround the part of the template I want to control with block declarations:

**single.twig**

```twig
{% extends "base.twig" %}

{% block content %}
    <div class="content-wrapper">
        <article class="post-type-{{ post.post_type }}" id="post-{{ post.ID }}">
            <section class="article-content">
                {% block headline %}
                    <h1 class="article-h1">{{ post.title }}</h1>
                    <h2 class="article-h2">{{ post.subtitle }}</h2>
                {% endblock %}

                <p class="blog-author"><span>By</span> {{ post.author.name }} <span>•</span> {{ post.post_date|date }}</p>
                {{ post.content }}
            </section>
        </article>
    </div>
{% endblock %}
```

Compared to the earlier example of this page, we now have the `{% block headline %}` bit surrounding the `<h1>` and `<h2>`.

To inject my custom bit of markup, I'm going to create a file called `single-all-about-jared.twig` in the `views` directory. The logic for which template should be selected is controlled in `single.php` but generally follows WordPress conventions on Template Hierarchy. Inside that file, all I need is:

**single-all-about-jared.twig**

```twig
{% extends "single.twig" %}

{% block headline %}
	<h1><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/jareds-face.jpg" alt="Jared's Mug"/></h1>
{% endblock %}
```

So two big concepts going on here:

1. **Multiple Inheritance:** I'm extending `{% single.twig %}`, which itself extends `{% base.twig %}`. Thus we stay true to [DRY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself) and don't have very similar code between my two templates hanging around.
2. **Nested Blocks:** `{% block headline %}` is located inside `{% block content %}`. So while I'm replacing the headline, I get to keep all the other markup and variables found in the parent template.

What if you want to **add** to the block as opposed to replace? No prob, just call `{{ parent() }}` where the parent's content should go.

## The index page

Let's crack open **index.php** and see what's inside:

```php
<?php
$context = Timber::get_context();
$context['posts'] = Timber::get_posts();

Timber::render( 'index.twig', $context );
```

This is where we are going to handle the logic that powers our index file. Let's go step-by-step.

### Get the context

```php
<?php
$context = Timber::get_context();
```

This is going to return an object with a lot of the common things we need across the site. Things like the site name, the description or the navigation menu you'll want to start with each time (even if you over-write them later). You can do a `print_r( $context );` to see what's inside or open-up [**Timber.php**](https://github.com/timber/timber/blob/master/lib/Timber.php) to inspect for yourself.

### Grab your posts

```php
<?php
$context['posts'] = Timber::get_posts();
```

We're now going to grab the posts that are inside the loop and stick them inside our data object under the **posts** key.

## How to use Timber::get_posts()

### Use a WP_Query array

```php
<?php
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'tax_query' => array(
        'relation' => 'AND',
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'movie_genre',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => array( 'action', 'comedy' )
        ),
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'actor',
            'field' => 'id',
            'terms' => array( 103, 115, 206 ),
            'operator' => 'NOT IN'
        )
    )
);

$context['posts'] = Timber::get_posts( $args );
```

You can find all available options in the documentation for [WP_Query](http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query).

### Use a WP_Query string

```php
<?php
$args = 'post_type=movies&numberposts=8&orderby=rand';

$context['posts'] = Timber::get_posts( $args );
```

### Use Post ID numbers

```php
<?php
$ids = array( 14, 123, 234, 421, 811, 6 );

$context['posts'] = Timber::get_posts( $ids );
```

## Render

```php
<?php
Timber::render( 'index.twig', $context );
```

We're now telling Twig to find **index.twig** and send it our data object.

Timber will look first in the child theme and then falls back to the parent theme (same as WordPress logic). The official load order is:

1. User-defined locations
2. Directory of calling PHP script (but not theme)
3. Child theme
4. Parent theme
5. Directory of calling PHP script (including the theme)

Item 2 is inserted above others so that if you're using Timber in a plugin it will use the twig files in the plugin's directory.

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Edgar Hill Colonial has convenient location
Backyard has deck, professional landscaping and lighting
Edgar Hill Colonial has convenient location Backyard has deck, professional landscaping and lighting Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/2IhnfRI
J.J. Elek Realty Published 12:00 a.m. ET March 10, 2018
This three-bedroom Colonial has an eat-in country kitchen, one-and-a-half baths and sliders to a deck overlooking a landscaped backyard with lights.(Photo: ~Courtesy of J.J. Elek Realty)
WOODBRIDGE - When you're cooking dining or entertainingthe family, you're going to love this New England-style Colonial in the popular Edgar Hill Section of the township. Features include an eat-in country kitchen with a host of cabinets and appliances, an entertainer's dream living room and formal dining room, and a first-floor family room.
Other features include three private bedrooms on the sleeping level, one-and-a-half baths, a full basement, gas heat, carpeting over hardwood floors and a sliding glass door that leads to a deck that overlooks the professionally landscaped and lighted yard.
The Edgar hill Section is convenient to public and private schools, local shopping, New Jersey Transit bus or rail and all major highways, such as routes 35, 1 and 9, 27, 440, Interstate 287, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway, as well as to County Road 514.
READ: Robert Golden celebrates 20 years at J.J. Elek Realty
READ: Woodbridge duplex convenient to everything
Robert (Bob) Golden, Realtor Associate of J.J. Elek Realty, is marketing this home at $369,900. For additional information or to arrange an appointment, call Golden on his cell phone at 908-930-1017 or at the office at 732-596-2115.
J.J. Elek Realty is Middlesex County's largest single office independent broker, with offices at 117 Main St., Woodbridge. The brokerage has been serving the Woodbridge-Carteret-Perth Amboy-Central Jersey area since 1970. If you're thinking of buying or selling real estate, call Golden today..
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Compositional and functional diversity of canonical PRC1 complexes in mammals.
Inhibition of PCGF2 enhances granulocytic differentiation of acute promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 via induction of HOXA7.
Enhanced intratumoral expression of RNF2 is a favorable prognostic factor for patients with cutaneous melanoma?
The E3 Ligase RING1 Targets p53 for Degradation and Promotes Cancer Cell Proliferation and Survival.
Abnormal PcG protein expression in Hodgkin's lymphoma. Relation with E2F6 and NFkappaB transcription factors.
Distinct expression patterns of polycomb oncoproteins and their binding partners during the germinal center reaction.
Genomic DNA-chip hybridization in t(11;14)-positive mantle cell lymphomas shows a high frequency of aberrations and allows a refined characterization of consensus regions.
Site-specific expression of polycomb-group genes encoding the HPC-HPH/PRC1 complex in clinically defined primary nodal and cutaneous large B-cell lymphomas.
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Steve is a popular speaker on the conference circuit speaking internationally on a variety of topics including cloud computing, big data, e-commerce, development and of course, MongoDB. He is a published author, syndicated blogger (spf13.com) and frequently contributes to industry publications. Steve's work has been featured by the New York Times, Guardian UK, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb and more.


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Paul Weller Biography
(Singer, Songwriter, Musician)
Birthday: May 25, 1958 (Gemini)
Born In: Sheerwater
Paul Weller is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was part of the punk rocks bands and later on established himself as a solo artist. He was passionate about music as a child, and his inspirations were rock bands, 'The Who', 'The Beatles' and 'Small Faces'. Paul Weller learnt to play the guitar at a very young age and pursued his career in music immediately after his education. He is the co-founder of music bands 'The Jam' and 'Style Council', and following the dissolution of these groups he went on to establish himself as a solo artist. Paul Weller was instrumental in the mod revival; which was a popular music genre in the 1970s and 1980s. This led to him being fondly known as 'The Modfather'. His singing and skills as a songwriter have earned him several prestigious awards. Despite all this success, he is more popular in England, as his songs are deep-rooted in British culture, and thus appeal to a national audience rather than the international audience.
http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/raging-man-paul-weller-attacks-the-media-s-view-of-women-9376844.html
http://www.nme.com/
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Also Known As: John William Paul Weller Jr., Paul Weller The Modfather
Spouse/Ex-: Dee C. Lee, Hannah Andrews, Samantha Stock
father: John Weller
mother: Ann Weller
children: Bowie Weller, Dylan Weller, Jesamine Weller, John Paul Weller, Leah Weller, Nathaniel Weller, Stevie Weller
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education: The Bishop David Brown School
awards: 2010 - NME Award - Godlike Genius Award
2006 - Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music
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1984 - NME Award for Best Dressed
1983; 1982; 1981 - NME Award for Most Wonderful Human Being
1982 - NME Award for Best Dressed Male
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Paul Weller was born as John William Weller Jr., to John Weller and Ann Weller, on 25 May 1958, at Surrey England. Though he was initially named John, he was renamed Paul by his parents. His father was a taxi driver and his mother was a cleaner.
He completed his school education from the Maybury County First School and Sheerwater County Secondary school. Before he turned eleven, Paul Weller began playing the guitar.
In 1972, he formed the band 'The Jam' along with his friends Steve Brookes and Dave Waller. Initially the band was a five member team with the addition of Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton, and they performed at local clubs and gradually gained popularity and recognition in the locality. In 1976, Steve Brookes left the band.
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Paul Weller was part of the band 'The Jam' from the time of its conception, till 1982 when the band was dissolved. 'The Jam' was initiated at a time when multiple other bands in the punk rock genre had emerged, however, they did not stick to the punk rock crowd and the music they played made them a better fit in the new wave genre.
In 1977, the band released its first single 'In the City' and appeared in the UK Top 40 list. Two years later, with the release of the political single 'The Eton Rifles', the band made its way into the UK Top 10 list.
Paul Weller's lyrics and the incorporation of pop music played a major role in the success of the band. In 1980, the band released its initial No. 1 single 'Going Underground'.
The band's two singles 'That's Entertainment' and 'Just Who Is the 5 O'clock Hero?' reached No. 21 and No. 8 respectively in the UK singles chart despite not even being released as singles in the UK. The songs became popular purely on the strength of the import sales of the German and Dutch single releases.
In 1982, 'The Jam' was disbanded. The final single of the band titled 'Beat Surrender' went on to be a UK chart topper in the first week of its release.
The following year, he collaborated with keyboard player Mick Talbot and formed an English Band called 'The Style Council'. During his association with The Style Council, Paul Weller was able to experiment with various genres of music and most of the group's performances were well accepted.
'The Style Council' witnessed great success in Australia with their chart topper 'Shout to the Top' in 1984. However, towards the end of the 1980s the popularity of the group began to decline, and the band split in 1989.
Following the disbanding of The Style Council, Paul Weller began to explore music as a solo artist. After taking a break for a year, he went touring with drummer Steve White under the name 'The Paul Weller Movement', and began performing at clubs.
In 1990, he released 'Into Tomorrow' under his own independent label, 'Freedom High Records'. The single received positive and reaching UK Top 40 that year.
In 1992, he released his debut solo album titled 'Paul Weller', and began establishing himself as a lyricist and singer. The album debuted at 8th position at the UK charts.
The next year, he released his single album 'Wild Wood' that entered the UK Charts in the Number 2 position. The album contained multiple hit songs like 'Sunflower', 'Hung Up', and 'Wild Wood', and the album won several awards as well.
In 1995, with the album release 'Stanley Road'; he regained his position in the UK Charts as a bestseller after almost a decade. The album included chart topper singles like 'The Changingman' and 'You Do Something to Me'.
Paul Weller was greatly involved in the popularizing of a sub genre of rock and pop music called Britpop music. He was idolized by the public and many emerging artists of the time like Noel Gallagher of Oasis looked up to him.
In 1997, he released his next album 'Heavy Soul'. The album was a big hit and earned positive reviews. A year later he released the album 'Modern Classics: Greatest Hits'.
In 2000, he released his fifth album 'Heliocentric'. The following year he released his second live album 'Days of Speed' and embarked on a worldwide tour in connection with the same. In 2002, he released his next studio album 'Illumination'.
In 2004, he released a collection of covers named 'Studio 150'. It contained the covers of songs by Rose Royce, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan and Gil Scott-Heron to name a few. This was followed by an album release the following year under the title 'As Is Now' which was received well but failed to earn appreciation from the critics.
In 2006, the album 'Hit Parade' was released; the album included all the singles that were released by the bands 'The Jam' and 'The Style Council' and by Paul Weller himself as a solo artist. His next album '22 Dreams' was released two years later with the title track being 'Echoes Round the Sun'.
He made guest appearances in albums like in Dot Allison's album 'Room 71/2' in 2009, and he co-wrote the song 'Love's Got Me Crazy'. The following year he released his album 'Wake UpThe Nation', which earned critical as well as commercial success.
In 2012, he announced the release of a limited edition of 3000 copies of the 'Dragonfly EP'. The same year he released the album 'Sonik Kicks'. He also sang for the band 'The Moon' in their single 'Something Soon', that year.
In 2014, Paul Weller turned lyricist for Olly Murs's album 'Never Benn Better' and wrote the song 'Let Me In'. His current team members are Andy Lewis, Steve Cradock, Andy Crofts, Ben Gordelier and Steve Pilgrim.
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Paul Weller has achieved great success as a songwriter and singer. He was instrumental in the 1970s and 1980s mod revival His best known music albums are 'Wild Wood', 'Heavy Soul', 'As Is Now' and 'Sonik Kicks' to name a few.
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In 1984, Paul Weller founded his charity body called' The Council Collective'. The group has released records to support the UK Miners Strike.
In 2012, he performed with other artists at the Hammersmith Apollo for a crisis charity event.
In 2013, he participated in a stage performance and played the drums, in order to support the Teenage Cancer Trust.
He won the NME Award for 'Best Guitarist' for four consecutive years from 1979 to 1982. Similarly, he received the NME Award for 'Best Songwriter' in 1979, 1980, 1981and 1982.
He was awarded the BRIT Award for 'Best British Male Solo Artist' the years 1995, 1996 and 2009.
The NME Award for 'Best Male Singer' was awarded to him in 1980 and 1982.
He won the NME Award for 'Best Solo Artist' in 1995 and 1996.
He received the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' at the BRIT Awards 2006 for his 'outstanding contribution to music'.
In 2010, he won the 'Godlike Genius Award' at the NME Awards. The same year, he was awarded the 'Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award'.
He was in a relationship with singer Dee C. Lee and they married in 1987. They couple has two children named Leah and Nathaniel. Their relationship ended in a divorce in 1988.
In the mid-1990s, Paul Weller was romantically involved with Samantha Stock. They have two children Jesamine (born in 2000) and Stevie Mac (born in 2005). The couple separated ways in 2008.
In 2008, he began living with singer Hannah Andrews and subsequently got married in 2010 at Capri Islands. The couple has two twin sons named John Paul and Bowie, born on 14 January 2012.
He has a daughter named Dylan from his relationship with makeup artist Lucy.
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Daley Thompson was the world's greatest decathlete, so often displaying unparalleled competitive ability.
He was unbeaten at the decathlon for ten years, and won gold medals at Commonwealth, European and World Championships, set a decathlon World Record and won Olympic Gold twice (1980 & 1984).
Danny Green is the only boxer from Australia to win four professional boxing world titles in three weight divisions. One of the highest profile athletes in the country, greens laconic, affable laid back nature outside the ring belies his fierce and intense demeanour inside the ropes, his devastating power and aggressive instincts have earned him the well known moniker 'The Green Machine'.


In preparation for the upcoming election on June 12, 2018, The Bismarck Alliance for Neighborhood Schools sent questions to the ten School Board candidates.
How do you plan to address the projected continued growth of Bismarck's student population, especially in north Bismarck?
How do you plan to address the continually shifting school boundaries for Bismarck's elementary students?
In the face of looming budget pressures, do you see it as a Bismarck school board member's responsibility to advocate for K-12 education funding in state legislature?
In 2017, BPS administration figures erroneously suggested smaller neighborhood schools are significantly less efficient than large schools on Bismarck's outer edges, subjecting neighborhood schools to closure (the recommendation was later rejected by the school board). How do you plan to maintain the integrity of Bismarck's neighborhood schools?
Click images to read each candidate's response.
Candidates Travis Jensen, Steven Mayer, and Jay Volk did not respond.


UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE GREAT FLEET ACTION OFF JUTLAND ON MAY 31: I ADMIRAL BEATTY'S BATTLE-CRUISERS ENGAGING THE GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET.
In view of the recent publication of Admiral Jellicoe's despatch, and the remarkable interest of the photographs given above and a companion one on another page, it is needless to offer any apologies for the lateness of their appearance. They have, indeed, only just reached us. Their value is, of course, that they were taken, from the deck of a British war-ship, actually during the fiercest stress of the great battle, when Admiral Beatty's Battle-Cruiser Squadron was gallantly engaging the whole strength of the German High Seas Fleet.
Some of the ships are seen firing at the enemy, who are beyond them to thi right and not visible in the photographs. German shells dropping round our ships are throwing up huge columns of water, whose, enormous height is shown very clearly. These illustrations will enable our readers to realise, on the unimpeachable authority of the camera, the general appearance of a great fleet action under modern conditions of naval warfare.


May-Lan Tan studied fine art at Goldsmiths and works as a ghostwriter. Her stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story , the Atlas Review , the Reader , and Areté. She lives in Berlin.
Everyone in Tan's world is broken and searching for connection, though in the 11 haunting stories collected here, the results are rarely what they bargained for.With the eerie precision of oversaturated snapshots, each of Tan's stories captures a different moment of desperation—some otherworldly, others deceptively mundane. In "Legendary," which opens the collection, a woman studies her boyfriend's ex-girlfriends, searching for herself in their strange, unspoken sisterhood. In "Date Night," a little girl in Hong Kong spends the night with her Indonesian nanny—new to the country, thousands of miles from her own children—while her mother is out with a date. In "New Jersey," a teenage girl feels betrayed when her best friend loses her virginity to a boy. Other stories are stranger and more violent: "Laurens" follows a boy-Lauren and a girl-Lauren living brutally parallel lives: "They know how to skin things. Their fathers are hunters. The summer their mothers suicided, the Laurens went to SeaWorld San Diego, where they occupied the same quadrant of the bleachers during the Shamu show." Both their stories end with blood. In the viciously sad "DD-MM-YY," twin brothers have been competing for the same girl for years, though her own memories of this are shaky: She's brain-injured from a car accident. Formatted like a movie script and taking up nearly 50 pages, "Candy Glass" is perhaps the most quietly affecting story in the collection, and the loneliest, about a Hollywood actress who falls for her stunt double. "Maybe funhouse mirrors would be scarier if, instead of making you look bad, they made you look better," the actress observes, watching her doppelgänger. There is a gentle hesitancy to their relationship; in the end, the stunt double—a trans woman—will leave her, choosing to start fresh. "I'll stick a flag in my lawn and go to church every Sunday, and marry a man. I'll be part of the superstructure," she says. "I don't know how useful love is, in the long run."Visceral and demanding; an unsettling collection that knocks you off balance.
Debut A Berlin-based author with a background in fine arts, Tan looks at relationships with a satisfying honesty, neither too sentimental nor too darkly cynical; characters move their way through life and make their peace with it. The writing is mostly bright, loose-limbed, and engaging even though the subjects aren't always sparkly. A mother's date night out brings forth a daughter's wistfulness, a boy whose mother committed suicide believes he hears her voice when he and his father have a car accident, two sisters each get pregnant, but only one has the baby. In the emblematic opening story, a young woman becomes obsessed with her caddish boyfriend's former girlfriend, Holly—the only one in a long string of flings whose name he mentions—and secretly seeks her out. When she moves out after their breakup, she realizes, "I'm one of them now, a blade in the guts of some future girl." There's something vulnerable yet finally tough about this character, as there is about the protagonist of "Candy Glass," who's starring in a romcom-thriller that "arrive[s] in Miami a month behind schedule and four million over budget" and becomes fascinated by her stunt double. VERDICT Entertaining reading from a writer worth watching.


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Bartosz Regula
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of Nottingham, UK.
Email: bartosz.regula@ntu.edu.sg
Homepage: https://bartoszregula.me
Bartosz obtained his PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Nottingham in 2018, working under the supervision of Prof. Gerardo Adesso. He then joined Dr Mile Gu and his Quantum and Complexity Science group at NTU as a research fellow, later moving on to the NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in the same group. His research interests lie in quantum information theory, and in particular in the use of mathematical optimisation methods to characterise the advantages enabled by quantum mechanics in information processing.
Research Interests: Quantum information theory
PPF Project: Quantum resources: from mathematical foundations to operational characterisation
Abstract: The significance of quantum information science relies on the fact that certain properties of quantum systems can be used to improve our ability to manipulate information, allowing for the development of practical communication and computation tools which can surpass all classical technologies. Unfortunately, these properties — known as quantum resources — are very difficult to characterise in general, which often prevents us from being able to use them effectively. The goal of the project is therefore to develop a simplified, comprehensive approach to the description of resources in quantum information by exploiting the common mathematical structure behind them. Such a general formalism will lead to accessible methods for the characterisation of resources in a wide variety of physical settings, improving our understanding of quantum phenomena and helping us use them to our advantage in the processing of information
Géraldine Bouveret
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Imperial College London, UK.
Email: geraldine.bouveret@ntu.edu.sg
Dr Géraldine Bouveret is the Gopalakrishnan - Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also an Honorary Research Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE) and an elected member of the Senior Common Room at Wadham College, both at the University of Oxford. Dr Bouveret holds a PhD in mathematics from Imperial College London. She initially read financial engineering at ESSEC Business School and mathematics at Université Paris Dauphine and ENSAE ParisTech. Prior to joining the SPMS, Dr Bouveret has been a Research Associate at the SSEE, University of Oxford, for three years where she has worked for the Sustainable Finance Programme and developed her own research field at the intersection between finance, the economics of sustainability and mathematics. She has also conducted a work on epidemic networks at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Alongside academe, Dr Bouveret has held quantitative roles in both the investment banking and insurance sectors for several years within which she has successfully led diverse research projects in financial economics and financial mathematics.
Her research focuses on:
• Mathematics
• Economics of sustainability
PPF Project: Building a financial & economic system resilient to environmental risks
Abstract: This project aims at using mathematics, finance and the economics of sustainability to develop the technical foundations of a sustainable economic & financial system aligned with the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2015 and to be achieved by 2030. In particular, the project will investigate the impacts of environmental risks on the financial and economic system and build a comprehensive theoretical and numerical framework to guide over the short- to long-term run policymakers in the design of policies that constrain financial institutions to integrate these risks into their decision-making.
Jerzy Michal Dziekan
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Email: jdziekan@ntu.edu.sg
Jerzy is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at NTU School of Biological Sciences and his research focuses on the drug mechanism of action of antimalarial agents. Jerzy grew up in Warsaw, Poland and in 2007 moved to UK to pursue his studies, earning BSc and MSc degrees in Molecular Cell Biology and Bioscience Technology from the University of York. Thereafter, he relocated to Thailand to conduct clinical research on neglected tropical diseases at Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) within the Wellcome Trust-Mahidol-Oxford-Research network. This experience eventually led him to undertake doctoral studies in Singapore under supervision of Prof. Zbynek Bozdech, focusing on the molecular characterisation of antimalarial therapies and developing MS-CETSA as a tool for studying Plasmodium falciparum. He obtained his PhD from NTU in 2019 and stayed on to continue his work on this fascinating parasite.
• Infectious diseases
• Drug discovery and development
• Drug resistance
• Drug mechanisms of action
PPF Project: Mapping the druggable landscape of malaria parasite through thermal proteome profiling
Abstract: Collaborative efforts of academic, non-profit and industrial partners to identify new molecules with antimalarial properties could be considered one of the largest breakthroughs of the past decade in the field of antimalarial drug discovery. However, a critical bottleneck remains in the antimalarial drug development pipeline – the identification of their molecular targets and characterization of associated mechanisms of action (MoA). The cellular thermal shift assay (MS-CETSA) represents one of the best drug-target identification methodologies currently available and its application for the P. falciparum research has recently been showcased by our group1,2. The method is based on the notion that ligand binding to a protein increases its thermostability, which can be accurately measured via multiplexed mass spectrometry. Consequently, it allows identification of direct drug target engagement in an intracellular setting without any prior information on the site or mechanism of action of tested compound. The principal aim of this project is profiling the druggable proteome landscape of the malaria parasite to identify and characterise new potent druggable targets for the next generation of antimalarial therapies. Based on our previous work, we assembled a library of structurally diverse antimalarial drug candidates with undetermined MoA, which evoke distinct response profiles in treated parasites, suggesting different MoAs. Currently, we employ a multi-omics approach, consisting of MS-CETSA, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic profiling of drug-induced perturbations for these compounds to identify their respective molecular targets and to fully characterise how exactly they kill the parasite.
Kyle Meredith Morgan
Asian School of the Environment, NTU
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Email: kmorgan@ntu.edu.sg
Kyle Morgan is an AXA and Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian School of Environment (ASE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a marine scientist with research expertise in coral reef ecosystems and tropical coastlines. Prior to joining ASE, Kyle worked as a Research Fellow within the Tropical Coastal and Marine Geoscience group at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, where he investigated the distribution and historical development of turbid coral reefs on the central Great Barrier Reef. He obtained his PhD in Marine Science from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, by building a comprehensive calcium carbonate budget for an atoll reef in the Maldives. Kyle has conducted extensive field research throughout the Indian Ocean, Great Barrier Reef, Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. His research focuses on the relationship between coral reef ecology and coastal geomorphology in both clear-water and turbid environments, with particular interest in understanding processes that drive coral reef bioconstruction and sediment generation. More recently, he has begun to work within highly-urbanized settings to examine the impacts of rapid coastal development on coral reefs, and the potential resilience of these coral communities to future environmental change.
Research Interests: Focuses on the relationship between coral reef ecology and coastal geomorphology in both clear-water and turbid environments, with particular interest in understanding processes that drive coral reef bioconstruction and sediment generation
PPF Project: How stressed are Southeast Asian coral reefs? Assessing change on urban reefs within the Coral Triangle
Abstract: Southeast (SE) Asia is home to vast numbers of diverse coral reefs, but also some of the most densely populated coastlines in the world. The increasing urbanisation of these coasts has led to declining water quality (e.g. increased nutrients, pollutants and sediments) resulting in losses in coral cover and shifts in coral communities to stress-tolerant corals. To date, we have a very poor understanding of how these now stressed reefs will grow in the future and respond to climate change. Key questions are therefore whether these heavily-impacted coral reefs can: (1) retain coastal biodiversity; (2) grow vertically to keep up with projected rates of future sea level rise; and (3) continue to act as natural breakwater structures as reef health declines. A regional transdisciplinary evaluation of SE Asian coral reefs is imperative to characterise and evaluate future coastal vulnerability. I will conduct a "carbonate budget" assessment of reefs across inshore-offshore urban gradients, and between urban centres. The net balance of interacting constructive (e.g. coral growth) and destructive (e.g. biological erosion) budgetary processes can quantify the rate at which a reef will grow (positive budget), or erode (negative budget) over time. This information will further our ability to interpret the significance of reef degradation from human activities, and develop scientifically-based plans for the conservation and management of coral reefs and their adjacent coastlines. Singapore is an ideal location to base this study because it is strategically located within SE Asia and neighbours the "Coral Triangle", the world's centre of marine biodiversity.
Lim Jun Ying
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of California, Berkeley, US.
Email: junying.lim@ntu.edu.sg
Homepage: https://junyinglim.weebly.com
Jun Ying Lim graduated with a PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. His PhD work focused on the Hawaiian Islands, a "natural laboratory" with which he used to study the interplay between geologic and landscape dynamism and the tempo and mode of evolutionary dynamics. He later joined the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam as a post-doctoral researcher. Extending on the theme of ecosystem perturbation of his previous work, he led a study looking into the impact of frugivore extinction on modern day plant assemblages, and how Cenozoic climate change and the decline of tropical ecosystems worldwide have shaped the distribution and diversity of palms over millions of years. Jun Ying returned to his roots back in his native Singapore, joining Nanyang Technological University as a Presidential Post-doctoral Fellow in September of 2019, driven by his passion for the local flora and fauna. He now focuses his efforts on better understanding the myriad factors that make Southeast Asia one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, and how the incredibly precious biota of the region may be threatened through anthropogenic climate change and other stressors.
Research Interests: The diversity of the biota of any place and time is the product of a long and complex history of ecological and evolutionary "assembly". As this assembly typically occurs amid a backdrop of constant abiotic and biotic changes at multiple spatial and temporal scales, natural systems are constantly playing catch up, making them hard to understand from a single observational perspective. The role of ongoing, as well as past, environmental change in shaping ecological and evolutionary trajectories is thus something that I'm fascinated with, and I am interested in leveraging natural systems in disequilibrium to better understanding the general processes that shape biodiversity. My work is multi-disciplinary, uses a wide biological perspective (paleontological, phylogenetic, modern biodiversity data), and brings a wide array of analytical tools and approaches to bear on big questions in macroecology and macroevolution. This ranges from big-data biodiversity informatics, geospatial and other statistical models, phylogenetics, and population genomics.
PPF Project: The imprint of climatic history on South-East Asian (SEA) plant assemblages
Abstract: Sea-level has periodically risen and fallen with glacial cycles over the past million years. During periods of low sea-level, bathymetric data suggests that much of Southeast Asia was contiguous, very unlike the configuration today. The cyclical coalescence and separation of the islands of Southeast Asia likely has a huge impact over the dynamics of lowland rainforest ecosystems but this remains largely unexplored. A better understanding of how populations of lowland rainforest tree species have responded to change sin the Quaternary will shed valuable light on how Southeast Asian ecosystems have and are responding to past climatic legacy, and better allow us to predict how lowland ecosystems may respond in an era of future climate change and habitat fragmentation. For this project, I will use comprehensive population genomic data and powerful demographic models to infer the population size changes and connectivity of various lowland forest species across the Sunda Shelf.
Maya Jeitany
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of Paris Descartes (Paris 5), France.
Email: maya.jeitany@ntu.edu.sg
Maya Jeitany graduated in 2014 from Paris Descartes University (France) with a PhD degree in Molecular and Cell Biology. She carried out her PhD research at the CEA (Commissariat à l'énèrgie atomique) Institute thanks to a competitive funding scheme from the "IRTELIS PhD program". After her PhD, she joined the Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center (CRBM) for a first postdoctoral training, before moving to Singapore in 2016 for a second postdoctoral training at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at NUS. In October 2019, she joined NTU as a presidential postdoctoral fellow.
Research Interests: Overall, my research aims to find novel therapeutic strategies in cancers. To that end, I employ large-scale omics profiling to unravel new targetable regulatory mechanisms of a poorly known telomere maintenance pathway termed ALT (Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres), present in about 15% of cancer cells, but to which no clinical management is available. In addition, I seek to repurpose already approved anti-cancer drugs to novel cancer therapeutics applications. In both research angles, I strive to understand the cellular response as well as the mechanistic action of the drugs, and validate their safety and efficacy in xenografts in vivo models.
PPF Project: Uncovering oncogenic signaling in cancer cells using Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
Abstract: The ability to elongate telomeres and to bypass replicative senescence is one prominent feature of cancer cells. While most cancer cells achieve telomere elongation through the re-expression of telomerase, about 15% of all tumors (with a high prevalence in sarcomas and gliomas) rely on ALT (Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres). Previous studies have described specific characteristics of ALT cells (e.g. presence of telomeric C-circles) and an intrinsic involvement of DNA repair pathways, including homologous recombination and break-induced telomere synthesis. However, a deeper understanding of actionable targets specific to ALT tumors is still needed. Recent studies have compared ALT- to telomerase-positive cells in different cancers, but these comparisons were limited to either genetic or transcriptomic profiling. We now know that, in addition to genetic alterations, signalling modifications are fundamental drivers of malignant transformation and tumorigenesis. The aim of this study is to shed light on the unexplored world of signalling networks engaged in ALT cells and to identify addictive signalling that can be specifically targetable in ALT cancers.
Tan Kok Chuan Bobby
Previous Affiliation: PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Email: bobby.tan@ntu.edu.sg
Tan Kok Chuan Bobby obtained his Bachelor's degree in 2010 and then subsequently his Doctorate degree in 2014 from the National of University of Singapore. As a Ph.D. candidate, he was deeply involved in the study of the role that quantum correlations plays in various physical processes at the Center of Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore. He then moved to South Korea in 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University, where he was awarded the Brain Korea (BK) Fellowship and then subsequently the Korea Research Fellowship (KRF) by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea. In 2019, he was awarded the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and joined as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. His current research interest is the study of nonclassical quantum effects in continuous variable systems, and is exploring ways to exploit such nonclassical effects to address important applications such as in quantum metrology. More generally, his research primarily concerns the study of areas where quantum mechanics diverges from classical physics and finding novel fundamental or operationally useful interpretations for them.
Research Interests: Quantum Entanglement, Generalized Quantum Correlations, Quantum Coherence, Quantum Metrology, Quasiprobabilities Distributions, Nonclassical Light
PPF Project: Operational resource theory of quantum light
Abstract: The goal of this project proposal is to develop a resource theory of nonclassicality for quantum light. In spite of the plethora of resource theories that have been studied thus far, such as the resource theory of entanglement, the resource theory of nonclassicality of light is still at the nascent stage. For quantum light, the most classical states are typically considered to be the set of coherent states and states that cannot be interpreted as a coherent state or mixtures of coherent states are said to be nonclassical. Such nonclassical states have important applications, from optical quantum computing to quantum metrology. As part of this project. We seek methods of verifying and quantifying such quantum effects, find novel interpretations for them, and explore methods of exploiting nonclassical light sources to perform useful tasks.
Tong Jinchao
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Email: jctong@ntu.edu.sg
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=qZLZH3cAAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Jinchao TONG received his Ph.D. from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, majored in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics, following his B.S. degree from Central South University in 2010, majored in Applied Physics. In 2014, he was a Research Engineer with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he was upgraded as a Research Fellow in 2015 and then as a Senior Research Fellow in 2019. He is currently supported by Nanyang Technological University Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. His current research interests include infrared, millimeter & terahertz wave sensing, and applications based on optoelectrical semiconductors. He has published/co-published more than 40 journal and conference papers and co-authored 10 patents. He was awarded the National Encouragement Scholarship and China National Scholarship for undergraduates in 2008 and 2009, respectively.
Research Interests: Dr. Jinchao TONG's research interests are to develop novel and sensitive infrared, millimeter & terahertz wave sensing technologies for widespread applications such as imaging, spectroscopy, communication, and security. In particular, he is going to investigate surface plasmon assisted sensing technology by using antimonide-based III-V semiconductors as well as other semiconductor alloys facing industrial applications. Novel photonic structures based on metals or semiconductors will be integrated into sensors to explore high-performance and multifunctionality for his research.
PPF Project: Sensitive millimeter & terahertz wave sensors for walk-through security system
Abstract: Millimeter & terahertz wave owns lots of outstanding characteristics: (1) It is transparent for numerous commonly-used dielectric materials but opaque for metals, enabling its use in distinguishing metallic items such as knives and guns. (2) It is one of the most abundant areas of spectroscopic research, encompassing rotational and vibrational spectra of solids, liquids and gases, therefore, it can be used for identification of hazardous substances such as explosives through their characteristic molecular fingerprints. (3) It is harmless to humans owing to its low photon energy, enabling direct irradiation. These properties make millimeter & terahertz wave is of great significance in future security check. In this project, sensitive uncooled millimeter & terahertz sensors will be designed and fabricated, and then they will be extended into large two-dimensional sensor arrays. After combining with optics and electronics, millimeter & terahertz cameras will be developed for widespread applications such as security checking system, which can be used in lots of public and private places such as airports, train and subway stations, customs checking, and industrial facility entrances. This kind of system allows walk-through security checking, which can solve the issue of current X-ray based technology that requires separated checking formality for human body and belongings.
Venkata Rama Lakshmi Sravya Tekumalla
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU
Email: sravya.tekumalla@ntu.edu.sg
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=ifOMtREAAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Sravya is a Materials Scientist, working on unravelling the potential of different novel and advanced metallic materials for several applications suiting different requirements including that of aerospace, automobile, biomedical and electronic applications. She considers being a scientist an opportunity to do something significant in this world. It is the incentive of making millions of lives more comfortable and at the same time protecting this planet with environment-friendly solutions, that spurs her on every day. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the National University of Singapore (NUS) for her work on "Futuristic In-Situ and Ex-Situ Approaches for Synthesis of Superior Magnesium Nanocomposites". She later went on to do a Postdoctorate at NUS on "Ignition/Flame Resistant Materials for Aerospace/Defense Applications". She will be working on "Fatigue Behavior of Additively manufactured Beta type Titanium alloys for Biomedical Applications" as part of her Gopalakrishnan-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Sravya is extremely active in research as well as mentoring students in their research projects and has published over 20 Journal publications and 20 Conference proceedings. She has also been a recipient of several early career researcher awards/honorariums like the Asian Deans' Forum 2019 The Rising Stars, Sparrho's Early Career Researcher Hero, etc.
Research Interests: Processing, Microstructure, Mechanical Behavior, Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing, Material Design, Alloys and Composites, Light Metals.
PPF Project: Fatigue Behaviour of Additively Manufactured ß-type Titanium
Abstract: Titanium alloys are regarded as excellent bio-materials for implant applications owing to their lightweight, excellent biocompatibility, mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. However, they pose certain limitations like stress shielding effects due to the elastic mismatch (between the implant and the bone) and exorbitant prices for fabrication which limit their widespread application. To overcome this challenge and fully exploit the potential of these materials, this work aims to synthesize beta type Ti alloys with lower stiffness that better matches that of the bone using Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques. Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained visibility and has emerged, over the last decade, particularly for the relatively expensive structural metals such as Ti-based components. This is because it results in an estimated production savings up to 50%, by basically eliminating exorbitant machining costs and material loss and, thereby, reducing e.g. the buy to fly ratio from 10:1, 20:1 or even 40:1 (in many cases) to nearly 1:1. Through this work, additive manufacturing of beta type Ti alloys will be carried out through careful control of the microstructure and evaluation of the biomechanical properties such as fatigue to achieve a comprehensive understanding and potential of the materials. This research is intended to advance the current knowledge on AM beta-Ti alloys.
Xing Lantao
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Zhejiang University, China.
Email: lantao.xing@ntu.edu.sg
Lantao Xing received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2018. From 09/2015 to 09/2016, he was a Visiting Scholar in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From 11/2017 to 10/2019, he was with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, initially as an Occupational Trainee and then a Research Fellow. He is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at NTU.
Research Interests: His research interests include nonlinear system control, event-triggered control, and distributed control with applications in smart grid.
PPF Project: Distributed Voltage Regulation with Battery Energy Storage Systems
Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) energy is one of the fastest-growing renewable energy sources in the world. However, the high PV penetration level, especially in low-voltage (LV) distribution grid, is causing voltage over-rise problems. Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) provide a promising solution to maintaining voltage stability. Nevertheless, the existing distributed BESS control strategies for voltage regulation still have many constraints, such as vulnerable to communication link failures or inefficient in allocating limited network resources. Thus, this project aims to develop more reliable and efficient distributed control strategies for voltage regulation with BESSs.
Xing Zhutian
School of Computer Science and Engineering, NTU
Email: zhutian.xing@ntu.edu.sg
Homepage: https://frank-xing.info/
Frank Xing is currently Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow with School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to that, he worked as a machine learning specialist for one year at Continental. He obtained a PhD from Nanyang Technological University in 2019, a BSc in Information Management and a BA in Economics, both from Peking University in 2015. His research spans statistical natural language processing and sentiment analysis and their application to financial forecasting and optimization. What he is mostly known for are the concepts of "market views" and "semantic vines". Frank is well-published in major conferences in the area of Artificial Intelligence. He also diligently serves as Guest Editors for journals such as "Information Processing & Management" and "Applied Soft Computing". His recent survey on natural language based financial forecasting (NLFF) and book on intelligent asset management (IAM) have already attracted much attention in the research community of AI for finance.
Research Interests: Text mining, sentiment analysis, optimization, computational finance.
PPF Project: Innovative Approaches to Portfolio Optimization
Abstract: This project explores innovative approaches to portfolio optimization using textual data and AI algorithms. Instead of merely relying on the price data, the project attempts to build a domain-specific knowledge base. By leveraging human knowledge, we can interpret and jointly model key financial variables, i.e., expected returns, high-dimensional volatility, and risk tolerance, from new perspectives. Finally, it would bring about more robust and up-to-date asset allocation models.


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He quotes a vice president at Facebook, Elliot Schrage, who said statistics will be the "most powerful skill in the 21st century" and Hal Varian, Google's Chief Economist, who told the New York Times that statistician is one of the sexist jobs today.
For example, someone with statistical literacy will know that association is not causation and that data is more meaningful than anecdotes. Statistical literacy offers so many benefits—not only in our roles as professionals, but also as citizens, parents and consumers.
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Q: Can I get timestamps in a specific format In VB.Net, I'm using a MySqlDataAdapter to get a table of results from a query to a MySQL database on a server.
Some of the fields in the MySQL database are timestamps.
The data that's getting populated into the table that the MySqlDataAdapter churns out seems to give different end results for these timestamps, depending on the local date display settings of different users.
Is there a way of ensuring that I can get the recorded timestamp from the database in the original MySQL format, even if it's just as a string (eg. "2016-05-20 16:37:00")?

A: You could use String.Format(obj,"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss")

A: You can use DATE_FORMAT(date,format)
DATE_FORMAT(NOW(),'%b %d %Y %h:%i %p')

May 20  2016 06:09  PM

You case  "2016-05-20 16:37:00"
DATE_FORMAT( NOW(), '%Y-%m-%d $h:%i.%s')

see this http://www.w3schools.com/sql/func_date_format.asp for  format pattern

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package persistent.prestige.modules.edu.dao;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.ibatis.annotations.Param;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

import persistent.prestige.modules.edu.model.Organization;
import persistent.prestige.modules.edu.model.TeacherUser;
import persistent.prestige.platform.api.annotation.MybatisScan;
import persistent.prestige.platform.base.dao.Dao;

@Repository("demoDao")
@MybatisScan
public interface DemoDao extends Dao {

	/** 查询用户新 */
	TeacherUser findUser(@Param("dbPos") Integer dbPos, @Param("account") String account, @Param("password") String password);

	List<Organization> searchOrgs(@Param("dbPos") Integer dbPos, @Param("title") String title);

	/** 保存机构*/
	void saveOrg(Organization org);

}


March 13, 2018, 3:07 p.m.
Plus: Continued steady, unsexy growth for podcasts, The New York Times tries windowing with Caliphate, and in-car podcast listening is growing while audiobook listening stays flat.
By Nicholas Quah March 13, 2018, 3:07 p.m.
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 155, published March 13, 2018.
Infinite Dial 2018. In the run-up to every Infinite Dial — the annual report from Edison Research and Triton Digital presenting what is, in my opinion, the definitive sizing on podcast listenership due to its assiduousness and the simple fact of its continuity — my stomach tends to produce a little knot. Part of writing this newsletter every week involves a suspension of disbelief, some taming of the nagging sense that all of this is so new, so strange, so tentative. Now, I'm not the kind of person who is certain of anything, from the shape of the world in five years to the muffin I'm planning to eat once this issue goes out, and so in the lead-up to the report, I often find myself prepared for a severe reality check.
Looks like those preparations weren't necessary — at least not for another year. The numbers are in, and they continue to look good.
Will there ever be any other kind? The share of Americans who report listening to podcasts within the last month — which remains the key metric I track — is now 26 percent (73 million), up from 24 percent (67 million) the year before. To put it another way: a little more than a quarter of Americans can now broadly be considered active podcast listeners.
That said, it's a smaller year-over-year growth than the preceding period. The jump in podcast listenership between 2018 and 2017 is only two percentage points (or 6 million Americans), which is a little less than the three-percentage-point gain (or 10 million Americans) between 2017 and 2016.
Is this deceleration noteworthy? I'm not sure, but I think it's worth taking a step back and contextualize within the bigger picture: between 2014 and 2018, monthly American podcast listenership has grown by a whopping 73 percent.
No matter how you cut it, we've come a long way.
In the webinar, Edison Research SVP Tom Webster singled out the following data point as perhaps the most interesting in the entire deck: for weekly podcast listeners, the average number of podcasts consumed per week is now seven.
That's up from the average number of five podcasts that was recorded in the previous two editions of the report. This is a pretty exciting finding, suggesting that not only are more Americans consuming podcasts, but more podcasts are being consumed. Which is to say: new listeners who are brought into the ecosystem are also being spread around.
Webster theorizes that this development could have something to do with the daily podcast genre that's been growing over the past year or so. I agree with this assessment, but I'd broaden the theory: I think it's also the effect of growing podcast operations that have been more aggressive in being present within the lives of their audiences. This includes hard daily news products like Up First and The Daily, yes, but also high-output shops like Crooked Media, whose prolific multi-show publishing schedule blankets the media diets (and private lives) of their target audiences. In my mind, these efforts stand in contrast to podcasts that publish with comparatively less urgency and are designed more as intermittent experiences of delight and engagement — narrative shows, in other words, that fit into lives more like a magazine or a novella.
It's also worth considering how limited-run podcasts fit into this equation: S-Town, Dirty John, Heaven's Gate, Atlanta Monster, etc. Given that the Infinite Dial report is largely a measure of perception, I wonder how these shows are understood as part of a basic listening diet?
(3) A problem of retention?
I'm still thinking about the conundrum articulated by Eric Nuzum, Audible's SVP of original content, the last time I wrote up the Infinite Dial. In a nutshell, he argues that the big metric to watch is the disparity between Americans who report ever having tried out a podcast and Americans who report being monthly podcast listeners — in other words, a measure of the medium's ability to efficiently retain new listeners and expand its active consumer base.
From this breakdown, it's noticeable that the retention ratio has more or less kept steady within a tight range over the past three years, aside from a drop-off between 2015 and 2016. This suggests an ecosystem that hasn't really been able to improve upon its ability to proportionally retain new listeners despite the boom it's experiencing. I'm curious to hear what you think about this framing, though, or if I'm using this statistic incorrectly.
When people sample and don't habituate, it speaks to interest that isn't being met by the content that's available today. There either isn't enough variety of things for people to listen to — or there isn't enough of what they like to meet their appetite. With 350,000 podcasts, that seems like a strange thing to say, but the simple truth is that potential listeners aren't sticking with it — and there are only two potential reasons: not enough good stuff — or they simply can't find it. Ah, the old twin-problems of programming and discovery.
So, in the past, I've consistently argued against putting much stock into viewing discovery as the defining challenge of the podcast ecosystem, and for putting more stock into the issue of developing more types of programming for more types of people. Of course, it's not an either/or situation, and sure, you're totally free and justified to continue touting discovery as the final frontier. But I'd also encourage further interrogation of that perspective: what are we really asking for when we ask for better podcast discovery? Are we extending hope for a more aggressive platform that ultimately centralizes all knowledge, awareness, and conduct of podcast products? And to what extent are gripes of podcast discovery actually gripes against the relatively unexplored art of podcast marketing?
So, this is cool: as expressed in the webinar, 2018 marks the first time that podcasting overtook satellite radio in the car, 23 percent to 21 percent. Podcasting still comes behind online radio (28 percent), owned digital music (45 percent), CDs (49 percent), and that steady behemoth, AM/FM radio (82 percent).
In related news, the share of Americans with cars that feature in-dash information and entertainment systems is now 15 percent (or 42 million), up from 12 percent the year before.
Anyway, be sure to check out the slide in the report that tracks year-over-year changes for all these in-car audio source categories. Notice how podcasting, by growing from 19 percent in 2017 to 23 percent in 2018, represents the biggest jump across its largely flat or receding peers, and how these in-car podcasting gains track greater than podcasting's overall growth. There is so much room for growth here, and I think it has everything to do with the friction of the in-dash entertainment user experience. Watch that scene closely.
That Very Big question was posed during the presentation, and it's absolutely worth unpacking. This year, the share of Americans who report being familiar with the term "podcasting" is 60 percent (or 168 million), which is a far cry from the years when this stat stayed flat — between 2009 and 2014, that share was trapped within 45 percent and 48 percent.
Edison Research made it a point to emphasize how this data point on term-familiarity is a reflection of awareness, not comprehension, and so even though a big share of Americans report having heard of the concept, it's not any literal indication that they understand what it specifically means: the podcatchers, the RSS feeds, the distinction against streaming or broadcast radio, the amorphous and vibrant culture that has emerged from its component parts, and so on.
Which raises the question: what are we talking about when we talk about podcasting from a outward-facing perspective? What should we be talking about? Are we discussing a specific community or bundle of creators working within a particular paradigm of a shifting technological world, or are we referring more to a specific technology configuration of audio content distribution?
For what it's worth, and in case you haven't noticed, I've largely stacked my chips on the former — not only because I've found it infinitely more productive as a framework to ground my coverage in this newsletter, but also because it's the creative community that matters. The structural world will continue to change in vast and peculiar ways; the people, not so much. I think this is only going to become more true as we move forward in time and continue to see other platforms, technical infrastructures, and distributional opportunities converge to further interact and impact the identity of the space: from external platforms like Spotify and Pandora to the ruthlessly political world of the in-car dashboard, from new apps portending new ways of doing things to voice-first computing (née smart speakers), from in-closet productions to corporate products. It's all audio, but it's an audio of change.
And so, I'm less curious about podcasting's ceiling. As I've maintained before, I'm more curious about what we're going to call it — and how we're going to recognize it — in the years to come.
Speaking of smart speakers, they've totally arrived, having invaded the lives of Americans everywhere. Smart speaker ownership doubled over the last year, now at 18 percent (or 51 million). Notably, the report observed that "smart speaker adoption is growing at a faster rate than the early days of smartphones." Some of this might be attributable to the fact that Americans are probably more comfortable these days allowing intimate personal devices from major technology companies into their private lives, having already done so multiple times over. But it probably has more to do with the smart speaker — as a vessel of voice assistants (or voice-first computing) — being a particularly sticky product in the broader culture.
One thing to note: there was some discussion about the curious growth of Amazon Music's usage as an online audio brand — and how that indicates the strength of smart speakers in driving a certain of listening behavior. That's the upside to the fight to figure out the ecosystem: to reap the benefits of becoming the default presence, brand, or experience on this rapidly-growing device category.
Side note: I can't stop thinking about how Google Glass, in hindsight, is probably some sort of multiverse branching point. I wonder how that parallel universe looks like, and what that Nick Quah is doing right now.
This one's really cool: the share of American men who consider themselves monthly podcast listeners has stayed flat (27 percent), but the share of American women has increased year-over-year: 24 percent, up from 21 percent the year before.
The share of Americans aged 18-34 who don't own a radio receiver in the home is now 50 percent. A decade ago, in 2008, that share was six percent.
Among Americans who have ever listened to a podcast, 80 percent report typically consuming most or the entirety of a given episode. That's a little down from 85 percent last year. Y'all should square this against what you've been finding with the new Apple in-episode podcast analytics.
Only roughly one in five podcast listeners report speed-listening behaviors. Look, you're just special.
NPR One's brand awareness is flat at 20 percent, same as last year.
Also flat, interestingly enough: audiobook listening, which has hovered within 43 percent and 45 percent over the past four years. Shouts to Audible, one of podcasting's blue chip advertisers.
Okay, time to get out of this thread, lest Hot Pod becomes an Edison Research blog.
Scenes from another report. While the Infinite Dial remains the industry's gold standard report, I'm always hungry for more research. Atlantic Re:think, The Atlantic's creative marketing group, has commissioned an upcoming whitepaper that hopes to generate more insight into the behaviors and preferences of podcast listeners. In particular, the study hopes to contextualize their podcast consumption habits within their broader media diets.
The report takes pains to emphasize the thesis that these data points represent a world in which podcasts are outpacing — but not replacing — other forms of media, like television or digital news. This is in keeping with one of the fundamental arguments about podcasts: that it is the perfect medium to fill "in-between times" like commutes, exercising, cooking, etc. I think the thesis is broadly true, but with one caveat: we shouldn't forget that podcasting directly competes with other forms of "in-between time"-oriented content sources, like, say, AM/FM radio or maybe the social graces of your roommates.
Anyway, in addition to these findings, Atlantic Re:think's report also touches upon the halo effects of podcast advertising and views towards branded podcasts. So if you're interested in that kind of stuff, keep your eyes peeled for the report when it pubs.
All the news that's fit to serialize. New York Times Audio has announced its first serialized narrative nonfiction project: Caliphate, a limited-run documentary featuring the reporting of Rukmini Callimachi, the Times' stellar foreign correspondent and in-house expert — probably the expert — on the Islamic State.
The podcast is slated to debut later this spring, and working on the project are: Larissa Anderson, Wendy Dorr, Andy Mills, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Lisa Tobin, and Samantha Henig.
Take note: subscribers to the New York Times will have early access to the audio documentary. A spokesperson confirmed to me that subscribers can cash in on the first-listen through the Times' web and app platforms. This is the first time we're seeing the Times audio team attempt a version of windowing that explicitly loops a podcast's value proposition back into the organization's broader subscription-first business strategy. The exact structure of the window — that is, how long before non-subscribers get to listen — remains unclear. I should also note that this technical gambit naturally extends from the Times' recent move to ensure that it is able to directly distribute The Daily to listeners through its app.
I like this move, by the way, and here's why I think it's different from other windowing campaigns we've seen so far: the Times already has a strong subscriber base that's scattered across a range of media and platforms. As such, Caliphate isn't made to bear the burden of needing to drive new conversions and spark new lines of businesses to justify its investment. Furthermore, the fact that the Times' subscriber base is already significant means the project doesn't run the risk of artificially capping any potential momentum it might generate off the bat. This raises a broader question: are audio windowing strategies only unambiguously strong when its attached to a mature and developed subscriber base?
Anyway, for what it's worth: this is the kind of show I was hoping to see from the Times the very second I heard they were assembling an audio team. Vast in ambition and consideration of the medium it will use, the project is poised to be a fine example of what we can get when a huge news organization leverages its resources to build a podcast-first news product — and not a product whose form or function is derivative of a separate broadcast or legacy infrastructure.
Let me once again stan for Longform and re-up Rukmini Callimachi's amazing two-part interview on that show. It's one of my favorites from that podcast.
Song Exploder dropped a special episode last week breaking down The Daily's theme song. I heard that Sam Dolnick, the Times' assistant masthead editor and NYT Audio superfan, was partially responsible for this collaboration. Look, my favorite Song Exploders are theme song exploders, and you should probably pair this with Hrishikesh Hirway's unpacking of the Reply All theme.
Okay. Now I'm going to break my daily news podcast moratorium to talk about Techmeme. Let's go.
Rewrite this headline. Techmeme, the highly influential technology news aggregator read by everybody from Sundar Pichai to that dudebro who just launched an app, has rolled out a new daily podcast that, well, delivers you a snippy roundup of the day's most important tech news.
The show is called Techmeme Ride Home, and each edition — which runs between fifteen and twenty minutes — drops every weekday at 5 p.m. ET in its bid to hit the evening commute. Producing and hosting the podcast is Brian McCullough, the creator of the Internet History Podcast and author of the upcoming book How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone.
So, we both sort of brainstormed how to do it differently and we decided that Techmeme was good for two big use cases: quickly catching up on what was new in the world of tech; and — and I think this is crucial — giving the CONTEXT for what is going on… someone reported X, but someone else said Y about X, and someone else tweeted the real story about X. Here's what it all means. So, our whole mission was to build off of Techmeme's existing strengths: what did I miss, and what does it mean?
He also posed the question: "Though daily news wraps HAVE been done, has news aggregation been done in a major way in pods before?" It's a pretty interesting query, but if pressed, I'm tempted to think that the answer is yes, very much so, but mostly because I think the chat-show model that we see with the aforementioned Daily Tech News Show and TWiT — along with stuff like the Slate Gabfests that operates within other various news genres — represents a form of aggregation in its own way.
But I get where McCullough's coming from, and I have a sense that the kind of aggregation he's raising is a matter of flash efficiency: an audio product that allows for quick downloads of the news. That, I believe, we've seen emerge with growing Alexa's Flash Briefing content universe, and I suspect that's the trend Gabe Rivera is tracking.
Before I switch gears, I just wanted to link to Charlie Warzel's nifty profile on Rivera and Techmeme, which you can read on BuzzFeed.
Specific. McCullough was also eager to discuss what appears to be podcasting's gradual introduction to day-parting, the broadcast programming practice of dividing the day into separate temporal parts whose audience profile possess different traits and needs.
So, day-parting has been around since the 1920s because early on everybody realized that audiences have different expectations and different use cases for content at different times of the day. With podcasting, everyone fell in love with the time shifting aspect of the medium… But by focusing on that, producers ended up with a bias toward leisure listening (I'll listen to this when I'm ready and want to chill out) and they forgot about the day-parting lesson of filling a listener's need at a given time of day.
I fully credit The Daily for reminding everyone about this: oh, I can listen to a podcast in the morning and feel like I'm educated on the recent zeitgeist! We're trying to do a similar thing (in the reverse commute time) but the Ride Home moniker is just a suggested use case. Really, if you wanted to save up a week's worth of shows and binge on the weekend, clearly you can do that too. I do think producers will be thinking more about meeting needs around people's lives as they go through their day. THIS is the pod I take the gym. THIS is the pod I listen to to fall asleep (those exist BTW, and I find them fascinating!).
Shouts to Drew Ackerman's Sleep with Me, by the way.
Anyway, I think day-parting can be further situated within a broader trend of how daily podcast news products can further dig into use-case niches to trigger the next phase of evolution. Cutting deeper into temporal chunks is one way to do, but so is slicing the genre up based on regions and locales, as we can see with the case of KQED's recently-launch The Bay and ongoing efforts like AL.com's Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan.
There's no telling where else it can go.
Three updates from NPR: (1) Planet Money welcomes two new hosts: Sarah Gonzalez, formerly of WNYC, and Karen Duffin, formerly of This American Life; (2) Invisibilia is back with its fourth season; and (3) Hidden Brain celebrates its 100th episode.
I'm skipping SXSW this year — it's been an exhausting few months — but I hear there's a bunch of podcast stuff that's going on in Austin, including a couple of live shows and some announcements. Apple's Eddy Cue took the stage yesterday, but that didn't really generate anything particularly interesting for us. Still, it's always worth keeping an eye on Cupertino. When whales move, the tides shift, something something.
My reviews this week: West Cork from Audible, and from Marvel and Stitcher.
POSTED March 13, 2018, 3:07 p.m.
Quah, Nicholas. "Enough with the "round-robin hot takes": Techmeme tries a new kind of aggregation show." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 13 Mar. 2018. Web. 18 Apr. 2019.
Quah, Nicholas. "Enough with the "round-robin hot takes": Techmeme tries a new kind of aggregation show." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 13, 2018. Accessed April 18, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/enough-with-the-round-robin-hot-takes-techmeme-tries-a-new-kind-of-aggregation-show/.