If you stand outside on a clear night, can you see the Milky Way? If you live too close to a conurbation the chances are all you'll see are a few of the brighter stars, the full picture is only seen by those who live in isolated places. The problem is light pollution, scattered light from street lighting and other sources hiding the stars.
The view of the Milky Way is a good analogy for the state of the radio spectrum. If you turn on a radio receiver and tune to a spot between stations, you'll find a huge amount more noise in areas of human habitation than you will if you do the same thing in the middle of the countryside. The RF noise emitted by a significant amount of cheaper modern electronics is blanketing the airwaves and is in danger of rendering some frequencies unusable.
If you have ever designed a piece of electronics to comply with regulations for sale you might now point out that the requirements for RF interference imposed by codes from the FCC, CE mark etc. are very stringent, and therefore this should not be a significant problem. The unfortunate truth is though that a huge amount of equipment is finding its way into the hands of consumers which may bear an FCC logo or a CE mark but which has plainly had its bill-of-materials cost cut to the point at which its compliance with those rules is only notional. Next to the computer on which this is being written for example is a digital TV box from a well-known online retailer which has all the appropriate marks, but blankets tens of megahertz of spectrum with RF when it is in operation. It's not faulty but badly designed, and if you pause to imagine hundreds or thousands of such devices across your city you may begin to see the scale of the problem.
This situation has prompted the FCC Technological Advisory Council to investigate any changes to the radio noise floor to determine the scale of the problem. To this end they have posted a public notice (PDF) in which they have invited interested parties to respond with any evidence they may have.
We hope that quantifying the scale of the RF noise problem will result in some action to reduce its ill-effects. It is also to be hoped though that the response will not be an ever-tighter set of regulations but greater enforcement of those that already exist. It has become too easy to make, import, or sell equipment made with scant regard to RF emissions, and simply making the requirements tougher for those designers who make the effort to comply will not change anything.
This is the first time we've raised the problem of the ever-rising radio noise floor here at Hackaday. We have covered a possible solution though, if stray RF is really getting to you perhaps you'd like to move to the National Radio Quiet Zone.
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Il suo dipinto più noto è Hypatia (Ipazia) del 1885 che raffigura la filosofa greca e pagana Ipazia (IV-V secolo) nuda di fronte all'altare di una chiesa cristiana nei momenti che precedono il suo assassinio. La scena raffigurata da Mitchell è probabilmente ispirata al feuilleton di Charles Kingsley, Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face (Ipazia o Nuovi nemici dal vecchio volto, 1853). Il dipinto è attualmente conservato alla Laing Art Gallery di Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Jorge Eliécer Julio Rocha (ur. 4 kwietnia 1969 w El Retén) – były kolumbijski bokser kategorii koguciej, brązowy medalista letnich igrzysk olimpijskich w Seulu.

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First Time () is a 2012 Chinese romance film written and directed by Han Yan (韓延).

It is a remake of the 2003 South Korean film ...ing.

Plot
Song Shiqiao (Angelababy), 22, lives with her devoted mother, widowed shop owner Zheng Qing (Jiang Shan). Shiqiao, who always dreamed of being a ballet dancer, cannot exert herself physically as she suffers from form of myasthenia, a neuromuscular disease, that her father died of; the medication she takes also causes memory lapses. One day, at a charity fair, she bumps into Gong Ning (Mark Chao), a former high-school friend she always liked, and the two end up dating, despite the initial disapproval of her mother. Gong Ning dropped out of university to spend more time with a rock band he leads; also, his girlfriend, dancer Peng Wei (Cindy Yen), has dumped him because of his inability to focus his life. However, for Shiqiao, Gong Ning is the perfect partner.

Cast
Angelababy as Song Shiqiao
Mark Chao as Gong Ning / Lü Xia
Jiang Shan as Zheng Qing, Shiqiao's mother
Cindy Yen as Peng Wei, Gong Ning's ex-girlfriend
Allen Chao as Gong Ning's father
Tian Yuan as Gu Qi, rock band member
Bai Baihe as Wei Jiajia, rival rock singer
Huang Xuan as Li Rao, Peng Wei's new boyfriend
Zhao Yingjun as rock band member
Wu Xiaoliang
Fan Lin

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Chinese romance films
2012 romance films
2012 films
Chinese remakes of South Korean films
Films directed by Han Yan
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Li says when he first came to Australia there was only Cantonese food because most of the Chinese immigrants in the country then were from wealthier cities in southern China or Hong Kong. Now... 5. SOUTH AUSTRALIA To evade the Victorian Act of 1855 for the restriction of Chinese immigration, the shipping companies landed their Chinese passengers in Guichen Bay, South Australia, whence they travelled overland to the Victorian goldfields.
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When gold was found in Australia, people came from far away. Hundreds of people came to look for gold. This time was called the Gold Rush. It was a hard life digging for gold.... This brief history of the Chinese in Australia is designed to provide an introduction and context to the materials and information on the Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation website.
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"The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" is a song co-written and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. It was released in May 1996 as the lead single from Adams' seventh studio album, 18 til I Die (1996). The song peaked at number one in Canada, number six in the United Kingdom, and number 52 in the United States.

Adams was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance but lost to Beck's "Where It's At". Adams was also nominated for "Juno Award for Best Producer" (also for "Let's Make a Night to Remember"). The song is included on the soundtrack of the film Excess Baggage (1997) and has appeared on Adams' compilation albums The Best of Me and Anthology.

Critical reception
Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Adams' single output has been so ballad-heavy in recent years that it is easy to forget that he is a diehard rocker at the core. This first peek into his forthcoming "18 'Til I Die" collection is a fun reminder of that fact, as Adams tears through a hearty spree of blues-tinged pop beats and jittery guitars with the glee of a hormone-crazed kid in his first band." Another editor, Paul Verna noted that "Adam excels" on "the straight-ahead rocker". Daina Darzin from Cash Box described it as "a happy, driving rocker with a big, catchy hook".

Music video
The accompanying music video for "The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" was directed by Matthew Rolston, who also directed "Let's Make a Night to Remember". The video was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video. In an interview with Songfacts, Adams stated that the clip is his own favorite video. It features various male and female models (including Ana Cristina Oliveira) walking and dancing up and down a catwalk wearing sexy and outrageous outfits. It also features Adams in a bathroom sitting on the toilet with his guitar and standing in front of the mirror trying to do his hair. A shot from recording sessions is used as the cover of Adams' 18 til I Die album cover. The music video is shown in the film Red Corner (1997) starring Richard Gere.

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 Canadian, US, and Australian CD single
 "The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" (single version) – 3:24
 "Hey Elvis" – 3:23
 "I Want It All" – 4:46
 "The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" – 3:40

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A. "The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" (single version) – 3:24
B. "Hey Elvis" – 3:23

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 "The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" (single version)
 "Summer of '69"
 "Cuts Like a Knife"
 "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven"

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This was my first opportunity to field-test my new toy, the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII. It was an indoor event, with low light, and I wasn't able to move around freely. I must say, the lens' performance is remarkable. I was able to have good/usable shots at 200mm and 1/60s. That's just almost too good to be true. I can't even get the same results with my nifty fifty, and it's f/1.8.


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Juno Therapeutics quarterly loss narrows
Published: Feb. 29, 2016 at 4:52 p.m. ET
Josh Beckerman
Juno Therapeutics Inc. JUNO said its fourth-quarter loss narrowed as research and development costs declined.
Research costs fell to $75.6 million from $182.1 million, because of lower expenses for acquisition of technology.
Juno expects 2016 cash burn of $220 million to $250 million. The company said it had a strong year-end cash position of $1.22 billion.
Juno, which develops cancer treatments that use the body's own immune system to fight the disease, went public last December at $24 a share. In after-hours trading Monday, shares were flat at $35.17.
The company said its drug candidates progressed in 2015, with "encouraging data from our most advanced pipeline candidates, particularly in B cell malignancies."
Last June, Celgene Corp. (CELG) agreed to pay Juno $1 billion as an initial investment in a 10-year collaboration. The companies said they would initially focus on genetically engineering T cells to attack tumors, a strategy that has shown promise in treating leukemia and other cancers of the blood.
In January, Juno agreed to acquire biotechnology company AbVitro Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at roughly $125 million. Juno said the deal provides it with a next-generation single cell sequencing platform that increases its T cell capabilities.
Seattle-based Juno launched in 2013 with discoveries by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Seattle Children's Research Institute.
For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Juno posted a loss of $85.2 million, or 89 cents a share, compared with $191.9 million, or $13.68 a share, a year earlier.
Loss excluding items was 53 cents a share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected a loss excluding items of 45 cents a share.
Revenue was $4.15 million in the latest quarter. Juno didn't report any revenue in the 2014 quarter.
Write to Josh Beckerman at josh.beckerman@wsj.com

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Try as I might, I never have a good and/or definitive answer for this. There are just too many variants: location, number of animals, sociability of those animals, comfort level of accommodation, TV and media choices in the home, and so and so and so.
I can honestly not pick one.
However, there are other metrics I can easily use to pick 'The Most Something' of a housesit and this is one. Namely, it's been the shortest!
Initially intended to be a little over 24 hours, this short housesit at Wynnum West ended up falling about five hours short of two whole days. The family had forgotten that they had a Saturday morning obligation or two for their kids, and so rather than meandering slowly back from the Gold Coast on a pleasant Saturday morning/afternoon, they came barrelling back up the M1 early, and I'd barely (in two senses of the word) stepped out of the shower when they were back.
25 minutes later I was on the westbound platform at Lindum train station!
As mentioned many times here and at www.Facebook.com/BillTheHousesitter, 2017 has been the year of lots of short housesits – and they've never if ever come shorter than this one!
The family at Wynnum were only looking for someone to look after the house and pets for two nights, but this housesit broke up a week-long spell at the backpacker hostel in the CBD just nicely, so I jumped on the Cleveland line one Thursday morning and headed out west.
The place is a modern house in a quiet street with easy access to one of the most under-used dog parks I've ever encountered. The old Labrador and I ambled over to Evelyn Street on both days I was there, but in all that time we only saw one other patron. Which is a bit of a shame, as other parks I've frequented have been a buzzy hive of socialising (especially Upper Kedron and Hamilton, to name just two).
Looking after bearded dragons was a first for me, but I have to say that on balance I prefer them to snakes and most other non-dog, non-cat clients.


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Samsung snaps up UK's fabless chip maker CSR to better compete with Apple
Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated April 4, 2018
Adamant to strengthen its portfolio of wireless patents (that seem to be all the rage these days) and help differentiate its smartphone and mobile chip businesses, Samsung ponied up $310 million for the mobile business of Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) PLC, based out in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
With this transaction due for completion by the fourth quarter this year, Samsung will control CSR's patents related to Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS and obtain interesting handset technology that could help differentiate its flagship smartphones.
Samsung is of course embroiled in patent fights with Apple in courts across the world. At the same time, the company dedicates substantial resources to fabbing mobile chips found inside Apple's iOS devices.
Samsung appears keen on taking advantage of CSR's research and development capability as it looks to improve its own mobile chips, possibly leading to unique hardware features down the road…
Jung-Ah Lee reports for The Wall Street Journal from Seoul, South Korea:
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. has acquired the mobile-technology business of U.K.-based Cambridge Silicon Radio PLC for $310 million, as the smartphone giant seeks technology and patents to ensure its mobile chip and handset businesses stay competitive.
Through this acquisition, Samsung obtained CSR's handset connectivity and handset location technology, in addition to CSR's 21 wireless technology patents filed in the United States. It's also buying $34.4 million of CSR shares "to strengthen its ties" with the U.K. firm.
This brings to memory Apple, which now has a 9.2 percent stake in Imagination Technologies, a fabless British mobile graphics maker whose PowerVR GPUs power graphics in Apple's A4/A5 processors. Apple's ownership stake is also geared towards securing a key piece of technology that goes into the iPhone and iPad.
310 out of 2,547 CSR employees will move to Samsung as a result of this acquisition. Samsung has made its intentions known: this is an important technology transfer that will help advance custom chips ticking inside the company's popular mobile devices, namely the Galaxy lineup of smartphones and tablets.
Should Apple be worried?
Not for the time being, though it would seem Samsung is taking a page from Apple's book here. Cupertino over the past few years acquired several fabless semiconductor makers, including PA Semi and Intrinsity. As a result of both acquisitions, Apple set up a chip design unit that has since grown to over a thousand employees who customize mobile application processors.
Apple then outsources silicon manufacturing to Samsung, who gets to fab Ax-series of chips according to Cupertino's blueprints. Why outsource? Because fabbing chips is a hell of an expensive and risky biz. Besides, nothing beats Samsung's manufacturing capabilities, yields or the ability to ramp up production of mobile chips in response to demand.
The South Korean company sold 50 million smartphones in the June quarter alone, most of which run mobile chips Samsung developed and produced itself. That's on top of tens of millions of Ax-series chips Samsung builds each month for Apple. Henceforth, its ability to mass-produce mobile chips at acceptable yield rates and fair prices is the chief reason why Cupertino still relies on Samsung to fab custom silicon for iPhones, iPods and iPods.
And for all the talk of Apple dropping Samsung in favor of TSMC and order stoppage rumors, Samsung's components arm still enjoys the confidence of Tim Cook who continues to entrust them with chip making contracts worth billions of dollars.
Samsung Austin Semiconductor, a factory complex in Austin, Texas (the state's largest foreign investment), makes high-precision microchips for clients like Apple
This quote from CSR CEO Joep van Beurden is also telling:
I believe that under Samsung's ownership, the handset operations will be in a better position to prosper in the global handset market.
Though no immediate danger looms, Apple should keep in mind that Samsung's semiconductor-related acquisitions will eventually improve the Galaxy maker's ability to advance its custom chips with unique hardware features not available to anyone else.
Stephen Woo, president of System LSI Business at Samsung Electronics:
By leveraging CSR's research and development capability, Samsung will strengthen its application processor platform.
This is the strategy Apple's been pursuing for five years with the A4/A5 chips and it's been serving the company well. If Samsung catches up in this regard, any differentiating features stemming from Apple's customized silicon will no longer apply as Samsung will likely have them on its drawing board as well.
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Opponents of drug testing proposal question whether the program would be 'truly voluntary'
A committee passed a bill today that would allow state agencies to voluntarily adopt policies to randomly drug test their employees. Opponents of the bill warned, however, that the governor's support for the measure might undermine claims that the agencies would be acting voluntarily.
The bill's sponsor — state. Rep. Jimmie Smith, R-Lecanto — said during today's hearing that his bill is needed to change "the societal attitude towards drugs."
"There is a huge and obvious drug problem in the state of Florida," he told members of the committee. He said that anyone who is a state employee is making "serious decisions … no matter what they are doing" and should be subject to drug testing like employees in the private sector.
Opponents of the bill, however, claim the bill is attacking a subsection of the population without any evidence of a specific problem among those workers.
There is also the added complication that Gov. Rick Scott's office has been taking part in backing the legislation behind the scenes.
Legislators have said publicly that the governor's office has been lobbying for the measure and working to get the bill passed. Opponents of the proposal argued that this makes the opt-in provision of the law less voluntary than proponents are claiming.
During public testimony today, Rich Templin of Florida's AFL-CIO was asked by state Rep. Alan Williams whether he believes the policy is "truly voluntary" if the governor is telling legislators and government workers that he wants the bill passed.
Templin told Williams, D- Tallahassee, that he did not want to speculate as to how agency heads would act if the law is passed, however, he believes Scott's support does affect the voluntary clause of the bill.
"If I was an agency head serving at the pleasure of the governor and I knew the governor wanted this, I would do whatever I could to implement this program," Templin said.
The crux of criticism of the bill, however, remains the question of its constitutionality.
Ron Bilbao, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, told members of the committee that the bill remains "unconstitutional." Bilbao said that mandating random and suspicion-less drug testing for jobs, "absent a safety sensitive job … violates the Constitution."
"If this is passed," he reiterated on behalf of the ACLU, "it is an open invitation to litigation."
Templin echoed those remarks and pleaded with lawmakers to reconsider the bill.
"It is 100 percent certain that this will invite more expensive litigation," he siad. Templin also said that the law would be irresponsible because agencies would foot the bill for drug testing as they face budget cuts that are already cutting into services.
Voter registration changes by the numbers
Eighty-eight percent of American Crossroads funding since Sept. 1 came from just five donors
Proposed amendment would double time needed for lawyers to seek judgeships
A South Florida state senator is proposing a constitutional amendment that would double the amount of time someone must practice law before seeking a judgeship, according to the Florida Bar News.
Florida gets Affordable Care Act dollars for immunizations and tobacco cessation
Florida is getting another round of grants from the Affordable Care Act for public health. The state was awarded nearly $1 million for immunizations and a tobacco cessation program.


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"The power of AI is leveraged across our entire enterprise, and with a trusted partner like NEC, we gain the resources to expand its abilities at scale across our internal operations," said Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space. "By proactively analyzing telemetry data we are able to deliver our systems even faster and streamline the work that our employees do every day."
For several years, Lockheed Martin and NEC have been working together to evaluate the effectiveness of SIAT for early production testing and operational scenarios. As a result, Lockheed Martin has integrated SIAT into the Technology for Telemetry Analytics for Universal Artificial Intelligence (T-TAURI) AI service. This allows the organization to drive proactive anomaly detection during the design, development, production and test phase of spacecraft development even before applications in mission operations.
NEC's SIAT advanced analytics engine uses data collected from sensors to learn the behavior of systems, including computer systems, power plants, factories and buildings, enabling the system itself to automatically detect inconsistencies and prescribe resolutions. By integrating within Lockheed Martin's T-TAURI platform, a comprehensive time series analysis framework, the team can gain an exhaustive, holistic understanding of a system, creating a foundational system for other advanced technologies like system-level digital twins. Since the initial partnership between NEC and Lockheed Martin, the teams have already seen applications for early pathfinding to detect production anomalies and software regression testing.
"We're thrilled that the innovative SIAT developed by NEC provides value to Lockheed Martin as it addresses not only the development of complex systems, but also the uniqueness of deep space exploration," said Motoo Nishihara, executive vice president, CTO and Member of the Board, NEC Corporation. "Together, we are committed to strengthening our solution and finding new ways to apply this technology."
Proven AI Results
Lockheed Martin has already successfully applied this technology on several operations to date.
For example, the team used it to analyze the unprecedented amount of data that was produced by the Orion vehicle during testing. Within a four-hour period, T-TAURI and SIAT built a model of the vehicle's normal operations from nearly 150,000 sensors to establish over 22 billion logical relationships for analysis. The resulting models can be used to monitor all future tests of subsequent vehicles to compare expected and irregular behavior to analyze consistency and aid in regression analysis. Without these advanced AI and ML tools, it would be impossible for a single engineer to analyze massive amounts of data manually at the speed needed to analyze the data in its entirety.
Going forward, AI will continue to be applied on future missions in several ways, including future ground station support for customer satellite operations as well as expanding the application for human-rated systems to demonstrate an increase in speed of anomaly detection and root cause analysis on mission.
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Importance indeed. Infographics play an essential role in our data driven lives. They enable a greater understanding of our numbers, and bring context and relevance to our communications.
So, the biggie, what is an infographic? Or, let's start with what's not an infographic? An infographic is not just a series of numbers – although numbers are a fundamental feature. An infographic is also not just a big number with a smiley face next to it. An infographic is a visual representation of data that brings numbers to life, by adding meaning and context to make the data relevant and understandable to your audience. Got it? Ok, let's break it down.
It goes without saying that the infographic should be visually engaging. The aim: to make people read it and ensure they understand what they're reading. There are a few tricks that help this happen. Firstly, in today's landscape of visual stimulation, you need to work harder for people's attention. Yes, your data is important, but this does not guarantee you'll have people queuing around the corner to read it. Creating an ownable and arresting 'brand' infographic (we say brand, because almost everything you do should start with the word brand) is an absolute must. Secondly, your infographic should be original and imaginative. Think beyond a generic bar chart. How about using a graphic that visually reflects what your data is talking about. For example, data showing ice cream sales could be represented with a series of towered scoops. This immediate link to your data will help the understanding of what the numbers mean in a visual way. Lastly, your infographic must be legible and clear. Your designer may get carried away with their creativity (it happens), but whilst your data needs to look impactful and exciting, your numbers should never be overshadowed by the multicoloured ice cream tower.
We all want to create an award-winning infographic, or even just a great infographic, right? Well, it's not enough to make your graphs look spectacular and charts look dynamic, we need substance as well as style in this case. Time and resources are needed to explore the connections within your raw data and to bring out the story, this will take it to the next level. So before making your infographic sing and dance, a deep analysis that forms connections will add meaning and insight. For example, 75% of 35 year olds, that you asked, eat ice cream once a week. Your data also tells you that out of this 75%, 80% of those have young children. Your conclusion is now that 60% of your 35 year olds with small children, eat ice cream once a week – a higher percentage than those without small children (apologies for the simplistic example, but hey, we're starting with the basics!). The point is, that by combining data sources you can form interesting and more detailed assumptions to visualise.
So you have your design sorted, your numbers are connected and you have drawn conclusions – now to select the relevant bits that absolutely must appear in your infographic. Think about what you are communicating and what message you are reinforcing. Choose your best conclusions that do this job, helping to condense and streamline your graphic. This will also allow you to establish a hierarchy for the mass of graphs and charts in your design. The trick is all about scale and balance, highlighting with accent colours and muting the less important data. Structuring your graphic in this way will determine how your audience reads the information, controlling the user journey by implementing navigation and visual signposting. And, at this point, it's probably good to mention that an infographic lives in our printed brochures as well as in our digital world.
The boundaries are bursting with possibilities for your infographics, especially with our access to big data and advancements in interactive technologies. However, these fundamentals are a quick checklist to keep things simple and help you remember what's important. Bring your numbers to life, add meaning and context, and make it relevant to your audience and your message. If you need any help with this, we're here to help.


I have just bought a deactivated 1928 Thompson and was hoping someone could help me with a few details on it, it has no serial number this appears to have been ground off at some point - it has a Lyman battle sight, a smooth barrel and a cutts compensator - I take it from the first 2 features it would be late in the production run, could anyone pin down what kind of date those features would be combined? On the main body inside and out are markings of GEG in a circle - what does that stand for. Would a gun in this configuration have been supplied to Britain during WW2? I cant think of any pictures of 28's with smooth barrels.
Thanks for that - I do British WW2 in living history displays and I know ideally I would have a 28 with finned barrel and flip up type sight, I just wanted to know if the smooth barrel would be correct or if it was just a slight inaccuracy I would have to live with - the gun was only £200 when in theory it should have been nearer £800 so I wasnt going to argue over details.
Are you located in the U.K.? If so, is the gun deactivated according to the current rules or the old rules?
If the gun made it into British service, it should also have the appropriate British proofing on the barrel, typcially on the right side near the receiver.
I'm sure all manner of Thompsons were used by England and our Allies. I have a photo in a recently printed book of a British soldier in SE Pacific with an M1A1 Thompson. I have a Canadian proofed M1A1 shoulder stock with the characteristically British sling swivel on top and repair on the bottom.
Yup im in the UK, its an old spec deac - I had been planning getting one for a bit but the price tag put me off when I saw this one with a bit of surface rust for 1/4 the normal price I had to go for it. Their are no proof marks on the barrel. I know that all sorts of arms made their way into British soldiers hands so just about anything can be explained away but I am mainly looking at the main official supply of Thompsons rather than other means of obtaining one.
Are you the same Alistair who used to have a web pages selling deactivated Thompsons in the UK? Just curious.
The RLB stands for Lt. Colonel Roy L . Bowlin, who was the Army Inspector of Ordnance. His tenure was from 1940, until 1942.


"Whether you're heading in that direction yourself and want a taste of what's ahead, or you're an experimental/computational physicist who just wants to see what those theorists are up to, you've got to admire the dedication and enthusiasm Anthony Zee takes in his work on quantum field theory."
I've always been interested in popular books on physics. Ideas such as black holes and invisible curled-up dimensions stir the imaginations of thousands curious about the universe. With their interest piqued, many want to learn more about these concepts and their implications, but in doing so, they often hit a brick wall in the form of the massive tomes required to understand these complex topics. This is how Anthony Zee started as a student; however, he was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of Franz Mandl's Quantum Field Theory, which is accessible enough to provide an introduction to quantum field theory, and yet technical enough to allow him to tackle the other standard texts of the time.
Following in Mandl's footsteps, Zee wrote Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell to bring students up to date with the incredible growth of quantum field theory over the past few decades. With a breezy tone and plenty of humorous anecdotes, he covers pieces of a diverse collection of topics as opposed to providing a comprehensive study of the subject. He employs relatively simple and specific cases without relentless generalizations. Moreover, he is also very clear in terms of his notation and is particularly careful to warn the reader of any notation changes he does adopt for simplicity.
The first two parts of the text introduce the physical principles and mathematical techniques behind quantum field theory. Parts 3 and 4 extend the discussion to the physical arguments that relate the predictions to reality. In the next two sections, Zee shows that quantum field theory is not simply restricted to particle physics by connecting those field theories to a variety of topics in condensed-matter physics, from ferromagnets to superfluids. For the finale, Part 7 tackles the unification of the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces, finally incorporating gravity in Part 8. The last few pages also touch on string theory.
While this text is written for a graduate level quantum course, a properly supervised senior undergraduate could use this text in a directed study course.
Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of this book is simply the insight into how a theoretical physicist thinks. Whether you're heading in that direction yourself and want a taste of what's ahead, or you're an experimental/computational physicist who just wants to see what those theorists are up to, you've got to admire the dedication and enthusiasm Anthony Zee takes in his work on quantum field theory.


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Contributions to Chemistry and Mineralogy from the Laboratory of the United ...
Po avtorjih Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
fact that a solution of freshly precipitated magnesium pyrophosphate in excess of cold acetic acid is quantitatively precipitated on boiling, in a permanently insoluble form, while magnesium orthophosphate remains dissolved. The above weak acetic solution is mixed with magnesium acetate in excess, the precipitate dissolved by adding about one-fifth volume of strong acetic acid, and boiled a few minutes. The precipitated granular magnesium pyrophosphate is dissolved in nitric acid, in the manner described for the separation of the decomposition products of trimetaphosphimic acid, converted into silver salt and then into sodium salt. This, after several precipitations by alcohol, is recrystallized from water. A careful determination of the yield of pyrophosphoric acid in two experiments gave 13.5 and 16 per cent of the theoretical. For analysis the sodium salt was converted into silver pyrophosphate, which gave:
As before pointed out, this salt is not decomposed by acetic acid in the cold, or on short heating. If, however, its solution is heated for two or three hours with 30 per cent acetic acid and magnesium acetate, under the conditions mentioned under the magnesium salt, a granular precipitate is obtained, consisting of a mixture or double salt of magnesium pyrophosphate and iridodiphosphate, which does not perceptibly redissolve on cooling, while the liquid contains much orthophosphoric acid. The sodium pyrophosphate, separated from this by the above method, showed the characteristic form. For analysis it was converted into the silver salt, and gave:
Trimetaphosphimic acid and its decomposition products have been described in the precediug pages. Some account will now be given of the next higher member of the series, tetrametaphosphimic acid, P.N.O,H3, which results from the decomposition by water of tetraphosphonitrilic chloride, P.N.C. The molecular weight of the chloride having been established with certainty, that of the acid follows directly. Although the free acid crystallizes with 2 molecules of water, the silver salts and the acid potassium and ammonium salts are anhydrous and conform to the above formula.
Notwithstanding the proximity of these two acids in the series, and the general similarity of the chloronitrides from which they are derived, they differ exceedingly, trimetaphosphimic acid being extremely soluble, uncrystallizable, undergoing rapid spontaneous decomposition, and yielding but two series of salts; while tetrametaphosphimic acid is very difficultly soluble, highly crystalline, permanent when dry, offers marked resistance to the action of acids, and forms three series of salts, P.N,0,1,M2, P.N.O,1,M', and P.N.O.M'g. Those metals which form insoluble salts are precipitated from solutions of their chlorides or nitrates even by the free acid, but a very slight excess of either being required to make the precipitation complete. As is the case with trimetaphosphimic acid, the 8-atom silver salt exists in a white and a yellow modification, the former, however, being very unstable; these may be regarded as corresponding to the tautomeric forms (PN(OH)2). and (PO.NH.OH). Under the action of stronger acids it is ultimately converted into orthophosphoric acid and ammonia, but its great stabil. ity, and the instability of the intermediate products, have rendered the isolation of the latter impossible.
Experimental «lata for a discussion of the constitution of the acid are therefore almost wholly wanting. Presumably the phosphorus atoms in the nucleus P N, are united by nitrogen atoms, but whether they constitute a ring of 8 atoms can not be decided definitely in the absence of intermediate decomposition products. It is quite likely that the reason of the greater stability of the acid may be found in steric considerations, and in this connection it is interesting to observe that while P,N,0,H, is much more stable than P2N30.H., the reverse is true of the chloronitrides, for while P.N.Cl, also resists the action of boiling water and can be distilled with steam, it is perceptibly easier to saponify than PzN_C16. If we assume the formulas
for the acids, it is obvious that the nitrile configuration is more stable in a ring of 6 than in one of 8 atoms, while for the group -NH -PO(OH)-NI- the reverse is true.
EXPERIMENTAL PART.
Preparation of tetrametaphosphimic acid.- Tetraphosphonitrilic chloride can be saponified by alcoholic alkalies, but the yield of tetrametaphosphimic acid is poor, owing to the formation of ethers, which, however, can be decomposed by prolonged treatment. Satisfactory results are obtained by using an ethereal solution, which is agitated, in the manner described under trimetaphosphimic acid, with either water, ammonia, or a solution of ammonium acetate.
Decomposition by water.-As tetrametaphosphimic acid is not perceptibly attacked by cold hydrochloric acid, water may be used when it is desired to obtain the free acid directly. One part PN,C1, is dissolved in 15 volumes alcohol-free ether and gently agitated with 5 vol. umes water. Within half an hour needles of the free acid begin to separate from the aqueous portion, and after many hours the latter has become converted into a thick pasty mass of needles suspended in dilute hydrochloric acid. Chlorhydrines are formed as intermediate products, and these remain dissolved in the ether. It is not necessary to continue the agitation until they are completely decomposed; as soon as a few drops of the ether leave a residue wholly soluble in water, the ether is decanted and the aqueous portion filtered, the crystals being washed with 10 per cent hydrochloric acid or alcohol. The ethereal portion, containing the chlorhydrines, is evaporated cautiously. The chlorhydrines which remain as an oil from which crystals separate after complete removal of the ether, are dissolved in a little cold water and warmed, with addition of dilute hydrochloric acid, in which tetrametaphosphimic acid is much less soluble than in pure water. The separation of the acid is nearly complete after a few minutes. This portion is better crystallized than that obtained directly, but is otherwise the same. The acid may be recrystallized from hot water, but this is quite unnecessary. Yield, about theoretical.
Decomposition by ammonia.—The ethereal solution of the chloroni. tride is shaken for a short time with aqueous ammonia. This does not give chloramide as is the case with P3,Clo, but produces at once neutral ammonium tetrametaphosphimate, P.NO,H,(NH): +41,0, which is precipitated by adding alcohol and washed with dilute alcohol. The decomposition is complete in a few minutes.
Decomposition by ammonium acetate.-One part chloronitride, dissolved in 15 volumes ether, is agitated with a solution of 4 parts ammonium acetate in 8 parts water. After several hours crystals begin to separate. The final product is a mixture of acid ammonium salt with some neutral salt and some free acid, and is nearly insoluble in the strong salt solution. It is washed with alcohol, dissolved in dilute ammonia, and reprecipitated by alcohol. Yield, theoretical. Ammonium acetate is to be preferred to sodium acetate, as the sodium salt does not precipitate well with alcohol.
Chlorhydrines.- None of these were isolated. The oil left on distilling off the ether solidifies to plates as soon as the ether is completely removed. The crystalline substance is much more soluble in ether than the chloronitride, even momentary exposure to ether-vapor causing it to liquefy. It dissolves in cold water to a clear solution, from which, in a few minutes, or sooner on warming, tetrametaphosphimic acid is deposited. On one occasion the flask containing the chlorhydrines was placed in hot water and a current of dry air passed through. Some hydrochloric acid was given off, and on treatment with water incomplete solution occurred, a portion being converted into a sandy powder, which, under the microscope, was seen to consist of short, spindle-shaped crystals. This acid was insoluble in boiling water, and warm ammonia converted it without dissolving into an acicular ammonium salt, difficultly soluble in water and insoluble in an excess of ainmonia; nitric acid dissolved this salt, which was precipitated by ammonia in a bulky amorphous form like precipitated alumina, which quickly changed to needles. This ammonium salt was very slowly attacked by hot concentrated sulphuric acid, and contained 27.96 per cent phosphorus and 13.28 per cent nitrogen (P : N=4 : 4.2). Lack of material prevented further study of this finely crystallized acid, of the nature of which I can form no conjecture.
Tetrametaphosphimic acid, P.N.O,H,+2H,0.--The free acid may be prepared by the first method above described. It is not readily obtained pure by decomposing most of its soluble salts, as even in the presence of a large excess of acid more or less acid salt is deposited. Thus on dissolving neutral ammonium salt and adding a large excess of hot 5 per cent nitric acid, nearly pure acid salt was obtained. It may also be prepared by boiling the silver salt with much water, containing about the requisite amount of hydrochloric acid for its decomposition, and precipitating by further addition of the same acid to the filtrate.
The analytical methods are the same as those employed for trimetaphosphimates, but much longer heating with strong sulphuric acid is necessary because of its greater stability.
Analyses of four air-dried preparations gave:
1. P: N=4 : 4.02.
3. P:N: H=4 : 4.06 : 12.43. From chlorhydrine.
4. P:N: H=4 : 4 : 12.64. First method, from aqueous portion.
The crystal water is not given off in vacuo over sulphuric acid. At 100° it loses weight rapidly, then slowly, but the total loss never
reaches the theoretical, a portion of the water being taken up in pro-
ducing intramolecular changes.
Loss calculated for 2H2O
(1) Loss after twenty-four hours (weight constant).
9. 37 (2) Loss after seventy-eight hours (weight constant).
8.91 If rapidly heated to 130-140° the loss is still less, and is soon replaced by a gain; after thirty hours at this temperature a net increase of 11.15 per cent, corresponding to somewhat more than 2 molecules H,O, was observed, which must have come from the atmosphere. The product consisted of unchanged acid with ammonium phosphate and apparently pyrophosphate.
Tetrametaphosphimic acid forms colorless needles, either single or in radiating groups, and visible without a lens; they appear to consist of flat rectangularly terminated prisms. One hundred parts water at 200 dissolve 0.64 part crystallized acid; in boiling water it is somewhat more soluble, but is insoluble in alcohol. From its saturated aqueous solution it is partially precipitated by adding one of the stronger acids, and more rapidly if heated; 100 parts by weight of 10 per cent nitric acid at 20° dissolve only 0.26 part of the crystallized acid, but on decomposing its salts in the cold by an excess of acid it frequently dissolves completely and separates out later. Its saturated aqueous solution does not coagulate albumen. Boiling alkaline solutions cause no evolution of ammonia. Its stability toward acids is illustrated by the following: 0.1 gram, dissolved in 200 cubic centimeters water with 8 cubic centimeters strong nitric and soine hydrochloric acid, was evaporated to dryness on the water bath, whereby a large part was recov. ered unchanged; ten minutes' heating would have sufficed for the total decomposition of the same quantity of trimetaphosphimic acid. Nitrous acid has no perceptible action.
Di-potassium tetrametaphosphimate, P.1,0,H,K,.-The free acid dissolves easily in cold dilute caustic potash; on strongly acidifying with acetic acid the solution remains clear, but on warming the above salt is deposited as a heavy, sandy powder, consisting of microscopic thick rectangular (quadratic?) prisms with basal planes. It is very difficultly soluble even in boiling water.
The air-dried substance lost nothing at 100° and gave:
P:K == 4:2.03. The tetra-potassium salt formed large, flat, obliquely terminated plates, very soluble, and was not isolated.
Tetra-sodium tetrametaphosphimate, P.N.O,1,Nay + 21(+) 1,0.-The acid is suspended in a little water and an excess of dilute caustic soda


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South Korea Confirms Third Case of MERS Virus
By Lucy Westcott On 5/21/15 at 1:23 PM EDT
A customer wears a medical mask as he buys it at a pharmacy in Taif, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 1, 2014. Mohamed Alhwaity/Reuters
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Health officials in South Korea have confirmed a third case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) this week.
The two most recent cases in South Korea are people who became infected after being in contact with the first case, who tested positive for the virus following a trip to the Middle East, Reuters reports. One of the cases is the wife of the first patient. All three patients are in stable condition. Sixty-four other people, including medical workers treating the patients and family members, are in isolation, according to Yang Byung-guk, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is unclear if those people have already been tested for the disease or are being monitored for symptoms.
The first MERS case in South Korea was diagnosed on Wednesday after a man returned from a trip to Bahrain. On Thursday, the 63-year-old wife of the first patient and a 76-year-old man who shared a hospital room with the first patient were both diagnosed with MERS after their test results came back positive. The first patient is having less difficulty breathing now, infectious disease specialist Shin Hyoung-shik, who is in charge of treating the patients, told Reuters.
MERS, a coronavirus that causes mild to moderate respiratory illnesses and infects humans and animals, was first identified in the Middle East in 2012. There have been 1,118 confirmed cases of MERS worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Eight-five percent of the cases originated in Saudi Arabia, WHO says, and cases also have been confirmed in countries including Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Germany, Greece and the U.S. As of May 18, 423 people have died from the disease, according to WHO.
In February, the United Nations urged Saudi Arabia to do more to control an outbreak of MERS that infected more than 50 people that month.
MERS causes fever, diarrhea and breathing problems and can result in pneumonia or death. The precise way infections begin remains unclear, but a number of studies have suggested a link between humans and camels. WHO has advised that people with chronic illnesses avoid contact with camels when visiting farm or markets in areas where the disease is known to be present. MERS can be fatal in many cases and there is no cure or vaccine for the virus. There's also no standard treatment for MERS, but severe cases involve stabilizing vital organ functions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Earlier this week, health officials in the United Arab Emirates confirmed two new cases of MERS, Abu Dhabi news outlet The National reports. One of the cases was a 29-year-old man who transported camels from Oman.
Deadly MERS Virus May Be Airborne, Study Says


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Elizabeth Warren on Welfare & Poverty
Massachusetts Senator; head of CFPB
Not enough housing: build 3M units and no discrimination
Our housing problem is on the supply side, and that means the government stopped building affordable housing. I've got a plan for 3.2 million new housing units. They are for families, the poor, for seniors, for people with disabilities, for people coming back from being incarcerated. The government has subsidized housing for white people and said black people are cut out of the deal. When I built housing, it's about addressing what is wrong about government-sponsored discrimination. Source: November Democratic primary debate in Atlanta , Nov 20, 2019
Need funding to help LGBTQ homeless youth
We know that LGBTQ youth are far more likely to end up homeless. And we know that part of that is rejection by their families.
I propose to expand our funding that is specifically targeted to LGBTQ youth who are homeless. Source: CNN LGBT Town Hall , Oct 10, 2019
Wealth tax of two cents, to fund education and childcare
Q: Congressman Delaney, your estimated net worth is more than $65 million. That would make you subject to Senator Warren's proposed wealth tax on the assets of the richest 75,000 households. Is that fair?
DELANEY: I think wealthy Americans have to pay more. But the wealth tax will be fought in court forever. It's arguably unconstitutional.
WARREN: It's time to tax the top 0.1% of fortunes in this country. Your first $50 million, you can keep free and clear. But your 50 millionth and first dollar, you got to pitch in two cents. Two cents. What can America do with two cents? We can provide universal childcare from zero to five. We can raise the wages of every childcare worker and preschool teacher in this country. We can provide universal tuition-free college. We can put $50 billion into our historically black colleges and universities. It tells you how badly broken this economy is that two cents from the wealthiest in this country would let us invest in the rest of America. Source: July Democratic Primary debate (first night in Detroit) , Jul 30, 2019
Bankruptcy filers are squeezed by economy, not irresponsible
To Warren, bankruptcy filers generally aren't trying to get out of debts racked up irresponsibly. "Many people in bankruptcy were solid bill payers until something knocked their legs out from under them," she said while describing her research in 2000. "For 2/3 of these people, it was loss of a job, for 40% it was a serious medical problem and for 20% it was the economic fallout of divorce."
Warren, in her book "The Two-Income Trap", and on a blog called Warren Reports on the Middle Class, which she wrote with some collaborators, pushed [that] view. Her argument was that structural shifts in American family and economic life had made middle-class finances more fragile, leading to a spike in bankruptcies induced by job losses or medical problems. She castigated the [2005 Congressional bankruptcy] bill as exacerbating the middle-class squeeze and as being an example of a broken politics working for special interests rather than average Americans. In her book, Source: Vox.com on Warren's "The Two Income Trap" , May 6, 2019
Build 3.2 million new affordable housing units
Housing Plan -- Warren's housing plan would provide federal funding to build 3.2 million new affordable housing units, investing "$2 billion to support borrowers with negative equity on their mortgages, predominantly in suburban and rural communities," "down payment assistance to communities historically denied mortgages by the government," plus putting "$10 billion into a new competitive grant program that communities can use to build infrastructure, parks, roads, or schools." Source: Current Affairs magazine, 2019 article series , Apr 16, 2019
Government should subsidize new home building
I have a proposal to build about 3 million new housing units across America. We need to make a real investment in housing. In the same way that we think about health care as a basic human right, having a decent and safe place to live should be a basic human right. Independent analysis from Moody's says that we would lower rents across this country by about 10 percent -- that's across the board -- and we'd create an opportunity for more people to become buyers. Source: CNN Town Hall on 2020 Democratic presidential primary , Mar 18, 2019
Focus on poverty, not corporate profit: raise minimum wage
Today in America, a full-time minimum-wage job will not keep a mama and a baby out of poverty. I am in this fight because I believe that is wrong. Washington once asked the question, at least on minimum wage, "What does it take to support a family, to get a little toe in the door?" Today, they ask, "What will improve the profitability of giant multinational banks?" I want a government that doesn't work for giant multinational corporations. I want one that works for little families like mine. Source: CNN Town Hall on 2020 Democratic presidential primary , Mar 18, 2019
Address housing crisis by assisting cities & homebuyers
Warren's most intriguing plans concern housing. High rents in productive cities limit opportunity and economic growth. Warren proposes to coax cities into changing restrictive development rules for a share of a large pot of money--$10B in total--while also funding large public-housing developments. She also wants the federal government to assist first-time homebuyers in formerly segregated neighborhoods. Source: The Economist "Wonkish Populism," on 2020 Democratic primary , Feb 9, 2019
Rental market has discrimination just like housing market
Discrimination in the rental market is widely documented. This sort of discrimination has been going on for a long time: favoring white renters while turning away black renters, for instance, is pretty much what was happening in some of President Trump's apartment buildings back in the 1970s.
The housing collapse wiped out trillions of dollars in family wealth nationwide, but the crash hit African Americans and Latinos like a tidal wave. And the hit was doubly hard because these were the families that generation after generation, had already been aggressively discriminated against in housing. Restrictive deeds, land sales contracts, redlining--American history is littered with examples of housing laws and lending strategies that were designed to deny black and Hispanic families mortgages.
For most middle-class families in America, purchasing a home is the best way to build financial security. And it worked that way, for much of the twentieth century, at least for white Americans. Source: This Fight is Our Fight, by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, p. 40-1 , Apr 18, 2017
Strong safety net is needed now more than ever
The modern economy can be perilous, and a strong safety net is needed now more than ever. Strengthen disability coverage, retirement coverage, and paid sick leave. And for heaven's sake, get rid of the awful banker-backed bankruptcy law, so that when things go wrong, families at least have a chance at a fresh start. Source: The Two Income Trap, by Elizabeth Warren, p.xxii , Apr 12, 2016
Those in poverty fight for crumbs left over from the wealthy
The suggestion that we have become a country where those living in poverty fight each other for a handful of crumbs tossed off the tables of the very wealthy is fundamentally wrong. This is about our values, and our values tell us that we don't build a future by first deciding who among our most vulnerable will be left to starve. Source: Quotable Elizabeth Warren, by Frank Marshall, p.100 , Nov 18, 2014
Nobody should work full-time and still live in poverty
Q: Are the Republicans going to take back the senate?
SEN. WARREN: Take a look at the House if you want to see what happens when Republicans take over. What are they on now, is this their fiftieth vote to repeal Obamacare? That's not how you run a country. We have real issues we need to deal with. Minimum wage, student loan debt, equal pay for equal work, a little accountability for the big financial institutions.
Q: Your fans say you're a populist, but your critics say you're just basically a socialist.
WARREN: I just don't know where they get that. You know, look at the issues. Minimum wage? I just believe nobody should work full time and live in poverty. And you know what? Most of America agrees. Student loans, I don't think the U.S. government should be making tens of billions of dollars in profits off the backs of our students, which is what the current student loan system is doing. And I think most Americans agree with me on that. Source: Face the Nation 2014 interview: 2016 presidential hopefuls , May 11, 2014
Foreclosures made recession's biggest victims
The White House and Treasury fretted over what to do. Rescuing everyone from foreclosure was impossible; it would create huge moral hazard, not to mention costing taxpayers another trillion dollars. But Elizabeth Warren's congressional oversight panel was scathing in an October report. Warren said the administration's plan didn't keep pace with the huge flow of foreclosures and did little to help the recession's biggest victims: the unemployed and those with subprime mortgages.
By the end of his first term, Obama would likely be able to say that he helped a few million Americans avoid foreclosure. Of course it wouldn't be much to brag about because millions more would be forced from their homes. Source: The Promise: Obama Year One, by Jonathan Alter, p.319 , May 18, 2010
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NVIDIA Open-Source 'FLARE' (Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment), Providing A Common Computing Foundation For Federated Learning
Standard machine learning methods involve storing training data on a single machine or in a data center. Federated learning is a privacy-preserving technique that is especially useful when the training data is sparse, confidential, or less diverse.
NVIDIA open-source NVIDIA FLARE, which stands for Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment. It is a software development kit that enables remote parties to collaborate for developing more generalizable AI models. NVIDIA FLARE is the underlying engine in the NVIDIA Clara Train's federated learning software, which has been utilized for diverse AI applications such as medical imaging, genetic analysis, cancer, and COVID-19 research.
Researchers can use the SDK to customize their method for domain-specific applications by choosing from a variety of federated learning architectures. NVIDIA FLARE can also be used by platform developers to give consumers the distributed infrastructure needed to create a multi-party collaborative application.
Participants in federated learning collaborate to train or evaluate AI models without needing to share or pool their private datasets. NVIDIA FLARE supports a variety of distributed architectures, including peer-to-peer, cyclic, and server-client techniques, among others.
NVIDIA FLARE has been used in two federated learning collaborations:
NVIDIA collaborated with Roche Digital Pathology researchers on a successful internal simulation using whole slide images for classification
It also worked with Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands on an AI application identifying genetic variants associated with schizophrenia cases.
However, the server-client architecture is not appropriate for all federated learning applications. NVIDIA FLARE will make federated learning more accessible to a broader range of applications by supporting other architectures. The possible use cases include helping:
energy corporations analyze seismic and wellbore data,
Manufacturers optimize industrial processes
Financial firms improve fraud detection algorithms
The ability to speed federated learning research by open-sourcing NVIDIA FLARE is especially relevant in the healthcare sector, where access to multi-institutional datasets is critical, but patient privacy concerns can hinder data sharing.
NVIDIA FLARE can work with current AI projects, such as the open-source MONAI medical imaging platform. It will also be deployed in the following areas to power federated learning solutions:
The American College of Radiography (ACR) has collaborated with NVIDIA on federated learning research that uses artificial intelligence to radiology images for breast cancer and COVID-19 applications. It wants to make NVIDIA FLARE available through the ACR AI-LAB, a software platform used by society's tens of thousands of members.
Flywheel's Flywheel Exchange platform allows users to access and exchange data and biomedical research techniques, manage federated projects for training and research and select their chosen federated learning solution, including NVIDIA FLARE.
Taiwan Web Service Corporation offers a GPU-powered MLOps platform that allows users to use NVIDIA FLARE to execute federated learning.
The NVIDIA Inception program partner, Rhino Health, has integrated NVIDIA FLARE into its federated learning solution, assisting researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in developing an AI model that more accurately diagnoses brain aneurysms. In addition, it helps experts at the National Cancer Institute's Early Detection Research Network in developing and validating medical imaging AI models that detect early signs of pancreatic cancer.
By making NVIDIA FLARE open source, researchers and platform developers will have additional options to personalize their federated learning solutions, enabling cutting-edge AI in practically any industry.
Reference: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/11/29/federated-learning-ai-nvidia-flare/
Platform: https://developer.nvidia.com/flare
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The Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed Transform Ancient Egypt Into an Intreactive Museum
Ubisoft's Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt is a new educational and entertainment tool, which lets anyone explore the entire interactive 3D recreation of Ancient Egypt in Assassin's Creed Origins, free of conflict, time pressure or gameplay constraints. The Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt releases on February 20th, 2018 on PS4, Xbox and PC, at no cost for all owners of the Assassin's Creed Origins game, and it will also be available independently from the game on PC via the Uplay and Steam platforms for £15.99.
From Alexandria to Memphis, the Nile Delta to the Sand Sea, the Giza plateau to the Faiyum Oasis, the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt lets visitors either explore the rich world of Ancient Egypt at their will or follow the 75 themed tours devised by Ubisoft's creative teams in collaboration with History experts and Egyptologists.
"With the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt, we give everyone interested in Ancient Egypt the chance to enjoy its beauty and the realisation that video games can be a source of inspiring knowledge," explains Jean Guesdon, Creative Director of Assassin's Creed Origins and the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt.
Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt is a unique experience at the intersection of entertainment and learning. Interactivity, specific to the world of videogames, is at the heart of the experience, creating strong engagement with the content. This makes the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt a completely new type of edutainment tool.
"We've been in touch with teachers from the very first instalment of Assassin's Creed games. Many of them already used the games during their History classes but soon came to realise that what they needed was an easily accessible educative tool based in our historical reconstructions," explains Maxime Durand, in-house Historian at Ubisoft Montreal. "With the Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt, you can visualise and understand thousands of things from Egyptian history in their actual context. As both a game and a learning tool, it is quite a unique asset for teachers to integrate as part of their history classes."


I wasn't intending to do anything with these images but I've decided to use them to buy myself a little time, hopefully I will manage to take a quick look at VSCO FILM before I depart these shores. I promise, no more South Island posts after this one.........One of the few surprises my South Island trip threw up was the Banks Peninsula and in particular the French settlement of Akoroa and a little hamlet called Okains Bay. As I arrived quite late I decided to rise early and take a wander around on what turned out to be a rather gloomy morning.
As I've said I like the Leica M9 jpeg colours out of the camera but in all honesty I felt a little "exposed" not having the RAW files to play with. In future I will stick with my current method of shooting RAW + JPEG and using the JPEG's as a reference when I need it. Monochrom files were all RAW.
If seen a whole lot of the South Island now, I'm not a tourist guide by any means but if you're visiting and want a few pointers feel free to drop me a line.


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Good News! Trump Considering Rep. Mark Meadows for White House Chief of Staff
By Cassandra Fairbanks
President Donald Trump is floating the idea of naming Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, as his new Chief of Staff.
Citing three sources close to the president, Axios reported on Sunday evening that President Trump has been asking people privately who they think he should name to replace John Kelly. He has additionally been asking those close to him what they think of Meadows.
"Trump has asked confidants what they think about the idea of installing Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, as John Kelly's permanent replacement, according to these three sources. Trump has also mentioned three other candidates besides Meadows, according to a source with direct knowledge. I don't yet have their names," Axios reported.
Nick Ayers was previously believed to have been the favorite for the position, but on Sunday it was announced that he was out of the running as he could not commit to the job for two years. Instead, he is expected to run the pro-Trump super PAC America First.
"Thank you @realDonaldTrump, @VP, and my great colleagues for the honor to serve our Nation at The White House," Ayers Tweeted. "I will be departing at the end of the year but will work with the #MAGA team to advance the cause."
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Cassandra Fairbanks is a former leftist who came out in support of Donald Trump in 2016. She has been published in the International Business Times, RT, Sputnik, The Independent and countless other publications.
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		<title type="short" as="introduced">Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2009</title>
		<title type="short" as="introduced">District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2009</title>
		<title type="short" as="introduced">Executive Office of the President Appropriations Act, 2009</title>
		<title type="short" as="introduced">Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009</title>
		<title type="short" as="introduced">Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2009</title>
		<title type="official" as="introduced">Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.</title>
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Ghost Wars, Arlie Carstens' post-Juno project with Eric Fisher of Damien Jurado's band, added two more songs to its MySpace page, bringing the grand total to six. The newest entries are "Divide and Conquer," a Hüsker Dü cover that "we slowed it down till it sounds like a Nick Drake song," and "The Conductor," a lingering piano ballad. To those scoring at home, two more songs recallling the spacious feel of Juno's "The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow" and Talk Talk's Laughing Stock, like previous Ghost Wars songs "Virginia Long Exhale" and "Lay Down Your Weapons." If you're hoping for a Juno-esque guitar epic, have patience: I understand that more guitar-centric tracks wait in the wings.
If this glacial release of music seems cruel, here's a brief recap of why there isn't a tangible copy of Ghost Wars music in my (or your) hands right now: Carstens and Fisher had recorded the album on Fisher's laptop, which was stolen from him at a Jurado show in Toronto. The back-up external hard drive had data corruption issues, leaving them with raw, unorganized data. (Whether I would buy an album of such sounds is debatable.) Given that the project involves a wide variety of collaborators in a number of locales, the process of re-recoding this material has been arduous, but Carstens and company have been back in the studio several times since the hard drive disaster.
I'm still holding out a spot on my year-end list—whichever year it may be—for the (hopefully) inevitable Ghost Wars LP, given the strength of the available tracks, but I do wonder how much longer I'll have to wait.
Ghost Wars posted a new song on their MySpace page tonight. I've upped the song, "Virginia ,Long Exhale," as well. Put on some headphones so those clarinets don't get lost in the hum of the window fan.
There's also an update about the recording on the page (the short: the computer holding the ProTools sessions was stolen, the back-up hard drive is nearly unsalvageable, now the debate is between re-recording or slowly recovering past sessions), which may reconvene in August or September. Again, if Ghost Wars release an album in the next seven months, all of the other records are jockeying for second on my year-end list.


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"Gynaecological Surgery" in The Oxford Handbook of Day Surgery.
2012 The RCOG Sims Black Travelling Fellow when I went to Egypt to lecture and teach on Laparoscopic Surgery.
Over the years I have given many lectures around the world,mainly on endoscopic surgery with a particular focus on safety and training.
External Examiner MSc.in Advanced Gynaecological Endoscopic Surgery. University of Surrey from 2013.
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