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NZDF contingent to withdraw from Tonga
Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee and Defence Minister Mark Mitchell have announced that the Government has decided to bring home the group of New Zealand SAS troops in Tonga for a jungle training exercise as soon as possible.
"Rather than continuing on to do their scheduled training exercise we've concluded this is a time for Tonga to have some clear air, uncomplicated by the coincidental presence of NZDF personnel in the country," Mr Brownlee says.
"Tonga is clearly in a process of political transition and it's best we leave them to manage that without the added complication of a military training exercise going on.
"King Tupou VI has exercised his constitutional right to dissolve Parliament and we look forward to learning more in the days ahead about Tonga's plans for governance ahead of November's elections."
Defence Minister Mark Mitchell says that given the dissolution of government, it is prudent to withdraw from Tonga and carry out the joint training with Tonga at another time.
"The relationship between the NZ Defence Force and the Royal Tongan Defence Force remains strong," Mr Mitchell says.
"This is an annual exercise, with the planning for this year's event done in November last year, and we will reschedule it for a more suitable time in the future."
New High Commissioner to Fiji
Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee today announced the appointment of career diplomat Jonathan Curr as High Commissioner to Fiji.
"The Fiji – New Zealand relationship has warmed since 2014, with the reciprocal visits of former Prime Minister John Key and Prime Minister Bainimarama in 2016 a significant milestone," Mr Brownlee says.
"New Zealand's bilateral engagement with Fiji continues to grow in terms of two way trade, tourism, defence and development.
"New Zealanders travel to Fiji in ever increasing numbers to enjoy the sun and sea, and Fiji is our largest trade relationship in the Pacific.
"We also have close defence links in the Pacific and in international deployments," Mr Brownlee says.
In 2018 Fiji will be focused on national elections, for which New Zealand is providing technical assistance to the Fiji Electoral Office.
Mr Curr is currently Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, cross-accredited to the State of Israel, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Georgia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
He has also served at the New Zealand Embassy in Cairo and the New Zealand High Commission in Nuku'alofa.
New Consul-General to the French Pacific
Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee today announced the appointment of career diplomat Bruce Shepherd as Consul-General to New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna.
New Caledonia and French Polynesia are important partners for New Zealand in the Pacific, both as significant export markets and as full members of the Pacific Islands Forum," Mr Brownlee says.
"New Caledonia is New Zealand's closest neighbour, and will be holding a referendum on independence in 2018.
"A Joint Cooperation Plan was signed in September 2016 at the Pacific Islands Forum in Pohnpei which sets a framework for closer engagement and cooperation with New Caledonia.
"The Consul General will be working to strengthen those ties, and similarly with French Polynesia, with which New Zealand has strong historical and cultural links," Mr Brownlee says.
Mr Shepherd, who is of Ngati Kahu o Torongare descent, was most recently New Zealand's Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union, and has previously been posted to Myanmar, United Arab Emirates and Tonga.
Mr Shepherd has also worked in Geneva with the United Nations and will be based in Noumea, New Caledonia.
Speech to the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce – Global Connections Export Summit
When I met with UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson a few weeks ago, one of the things he wanted to talk about was how New Zealand had managed to bounce back so strongly after the Global Financial Crisis.
He was genuinely impressed with our country's fiscal management and the ability of this government to see the longer-term, bigger picture and allow the market to play out without excessive central government regulation.
We may be a small, geographically isolated country but we've been able to buck some of the global economic trends that many other nations have struggled with.
Three months ago, Finance Minister Steven Joyce delivered the National Government's ninth Budget.
He was able to present significant investments in public services and infrastructure as well as a $2 billion a year Family Incomes Package that will make a tangible difference to New Zealand families.
Our economy is performing well and that's a tribute to the hard work of New Zealanders.
We have experienced positive growth in all but one quarter over the last six years.
Being prudent, growing open trade negotiations and enabling businesses to be more innovative has paid off.
We've had a strong economic plan and now confident companies are investing, exporting and creating new skilled jobs
The Treasury is forecasting real GDP growth of 3.1 per cent on average for the next five years.
Global economic growth is projected by the World Bank to reach 2.7 per cent this year – up from 2.4 per cent in 2016 – and this has been supported by a recovery in manufacturing activity and commodity prices.
For most of the post WWII period, there had been a 2:1 trade to global GDP growth ratio. Following the global financial crisis this ratio evened up.
Global goods trade growth picked up pace in the second half of 2016 and has remained strong in 2017, supported by expanding manufacturing activity.
Global trade growth is expected to reach 4 per cent this year.
Underlying this, United States import growth is forecast to reach 6.2 per cent in 2017, while export growth from China is expected to rise by 3 per cent.
Despite our size, New Zealand is viewed as a leader in free trade and we back ourselves to negotiate large-scale agreements that provide our exporters, importers and regional economies with tangible benefits.
Earlier this year, the Prime Minister announced the Trade Agenda 2030 – an ambitious plan that aims to have free trade agreement cover 90 per cent of New Zealand's goods exports by 2030 – up from about 53 per cent at the moment.
To accomplish this means far more than sending our trade officials around the world.
It means forging meaningful relationships and maintaining the high standards we are known for.
The Trade Agenda package includes:
A new embassy in Dublin, Ireland and a new High Commission in Sri Lanka –these posts will support our trading relationship with the EU after Brexit and broaden our economic relationship with Sri Lanka; $35.3 million to the Ministry of Primary Industries to focus on boosting the value of our primary sector exports; $20 million for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to focus on improving market access, maximising benefits from existing FTAs and negotiating new ones, helping businesses internationalise and tackling non-tariff barriers; $6.7 million to strengthen our international networks across the globe and boost the availability of consular services for Kiwis overseas; The establishment of a Ministerial Advisory Group to ensure the public is better informed on trade issues; The development of a single point of contact to allow exporters to alert the Government to non-tariff barriers and to get better information and support.
As a Government, we're working hard to help create opportunities for our exporters to compete successfully on the world stage.
And we are incredibly proud to see New Zealanders succeed internationally.
There is so much to gain from advances in free trade, including jobs and higher incomes for New Zealanders and it's important that we take advantage of these global trends while we can.
The latest data suggests that improving global conditions are directly benefiting New Zealand traders.
New Zealand goods exports to China – our leading goods market – gained momentum in the last quarter, increasing 14 per cent to the year ending June 2017.
Goods exports to Australia, the US, Japan and Korea are all up in the last quarter and prices are generally increasing in the Global Dairy Trade auction with seven of the last ten auctions resulting in rising prices.
There are many positives that can be highlighted but, of course, there are still risks to global stability.
These include potential for countries to increase trade protection policies and financial sector variabilities, including mounting financial stability risks in China, political tensions and some very real security issues.
In the last few weeks, I've attended meetings in Indonesia and the Philippines that have focused on counter-terrorism, cross-border conflict, cyber security and other issues important to the Asia Pacific region, like the South China Sea and Korean peninsula.
It's very clear that all countries in that region except North Korea have no interest in any kind of conflict that would halt or redirect their economic growth.
With China, Russia, the US and Japan along with all ASEAN countries calling for dialogue and dampening of tensions. For each of them and for us, the trade agenda remains important.
While a lot of the international rhetoric may be about protectionism and the view that some major players are turning inwards, we now have a more interconnected world marketplace than ever before and the introduction of new measures appears to be slowing.
The latest World Trade Organisation monitoring report shows members introduced fewer trade restrictive measures in 2016 compared to 2015, when new measures averaged about 20 a month.
Since I assumed the Foreign Affairs portfolio about three months ago, we've launched free trade negotiations with the Pacific Alliance, of which Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru are members.
These four nations are home to 221 million consumers and have a combined GDP of US3.8 trillion.
The PACER Plus agreement has been signed to provide social and economic benefits to many Pacific nations.
The $55 million development package will also help cut red tape for New Zealand businesses and will establish a common set of trading rules.
Thailand and New Zealand have agreed to market access improvements for our exporters, we've started high-level talks with Washington under the Trump administration and we've solidified our position high up the queue for a post-Brexit FTA with the UK.
Earlier this year we signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership 11, and officials will be assessing the options to bring TPP11 into force.
TPP11 will ensure our exporters remain competitive in important markets and will support jobs in all regions of New Zealand.
In three years' time, New Zealand will be able to showcase its innovative products and services on the world stage at Dubai 2020 – a world expo that will likely attract 25 million visitors from across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
In short, the outlook for New Zealand exporters is bright and, as we all know, a strong export economy produces positive knock-on effects for every single New Zealander.
I hope many of you in this room share the confidence I have in our country and continue to work towards an even more prosperous future for New Zealand.
New HOM to Ethiopia and the African Union
Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee has today announced Mark Ramsden will be New Zealand's next Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union
"Our relationship with Ethiopia and the African Union has strengthened considerably since New Zealand established a diplomatic presence in Ethiopia in 2011," Mr Brownlee says.
"As a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council from 2014-2016, New Zealand closely engaged with Ethiopia and the African Union on peace and security issues of importance to Africa.
"New Zealand is focused on building on our trade and economic relationships.
"A growing number of New Zealand companies are interested in East Africa, including Fonterra that has established a joint venture in Ethiopia.
"We will continue our successful development partnership with the African Union and Ethiopia, building on the recent New Zealand-African Union Geothermal Partnership and dairy development activities with Ethiopia," Mr Brownlee says.
Mr Ramsden is currently the New Zealand High Commissioner to Fiji and has previously been posted to the Solomon Islands, New York, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu.
Mr Ramsden will also be accredited to Djibouti, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.
New Permanent Representative to the UN
Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee today announced the appointment of Craig Hawke as Permanent Representative to the New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.
"The New Zealand Permanent Mission is responsible for presenting and advocating New Zealand Government positions in the UN on a wide range of issues," Mr Brownlee says.
"Under Craig's leadership, New Zealand will continue to provide strong and effective representation to ensure our voice is heard, as it was in our recently completed two-year term on the UN Security Council.
"As a founding member of the UN, New Zealand has worked to ensure our stance on international peace and security, human rights, the environment and development is clearly understood.
"Craig will lead New Zealand's ongoing efforts to help make the UN more effective and relevant, including for small states and those in the Pacific.
"His work over the last two years as Principal Advisor, Small Island Developing States in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York will be invaluable in helping him achieve these aims," Mr Brownlee says.
Mr Hawke has worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 1989, most recently as Acting CEO and Deputy Secretary, International Development and Head of the New Zealand Development and Humanitarian Programme.
New Ambassador to Iran
New Zealand's new Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran is Hamish MacMaster, Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee announced today.
"New Zealand has a long-standing trade and economic relationship with Iran, established with the opening of our Embassy in Tehran in 1975," Mr Brownlee says.
"Since the easing of United Nations sanctions in 2016 there has been increased interest in the Iranian market by New Zealand exporters.
"Exports last year were $151 million and the first export of New Zealand lamb in decades was sent to Iran in May.
"There is real scope for the further diversification of our trade relationship with Iran and New Zealand's new Ambassador will play a key role in supporting this," Mr Brownlee says.
Mr MacMaster is currently the New Zealand Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and has previously been posted to Turkey and Iran.
Mr MacMaster will also be accredited to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Auckland to host APEC 2021 Leaders' Week
New Zealand will host APEC in 2021, with Leaders' Week to be held in Auckland from November 8 to 14, Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee says.
"With Auckland also set to host the America's Cup, 2021 will be a big year for the country's biggest city," Mr Brownlee says.
"We are announcing the dates as early as possible to provide some clarity for planning, which is already under way.
"APEC 2021 will be the largest event ever hosted by the New Zealand government and is a wonderful opportunity for New Zealand to shine on the international stage.
"APEC will bring world leaders to New Zealand and create significant opportunities to promote our economic interests with trading nations including China, the US and Japan.
"The Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing economic region in the world and APEC is its leading economic forum.
"APEC member economies account for almost half of all global trade, and more than 70 per cent of New Zealand's goods and services are exported to APEC economies.
"It is expected that APEC will attract up to 22,000 international attendees to the 12 significant APEC-related events held throughout the year, with around 10,000 attendees expected for Leaders' Week.
"While Auckland is confirmed to host the Leaders' Week, we intend to spread meetings and events across other large cities, including Christchurch, to showcase the very best of New Zealand's capability, innovation, culture and amazing landscapes," Mr Brownlee says.
Pacific foreign ministers meet ahead of Forum
Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee will tomorrow attend the annual Pacific Islands Forum – Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Fiji.
"As Foreign Minister I've made meeting with – or talking to – my Pacific counterparts a priority," Mr Brownlee says.
"This visit will help strengthen New Zealand's interests and relationships in the Pacific, including our support for economic development in the region.
"The Forum provides an opportunity for us to work with our Pacific neighbours on common challenges, including regional security, fisheries management and climate change.
"I look forward to the chance to discuss issues of mutual concern with many of my Pacific counterparts," Mr Brownlee says.
"The Pacific Islands Forum is an important voice for greater regional integration in the Pacific," Mr Brownlee says.
The Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting lays the groundwork for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, taking place in Apia from September 6- 8.
Pacific Islands Forum:
The Pacific Islands Forum was founded in 1971 as the South Pacific Forum. It is the preeminent Pacific regional organisation, bringing together 18 Pacific members, including Australia and New Zealand. The Forum has played an important role in sustainable fisheries management and supporting renewable energy. The Forum also supports regional security through the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands which concluded in June. For the first time French Polynesia and New Caledonia will attend this year's meetings as full Forum members. New Zealand and nine other members of the Pacific Islands Forum signed the PACER Plus trade and development agreement in Tonga in June.
Anniversary marked with ASEAN@50 fellowships
Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee has today marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by announcing the ASEAN@50 Fellowship Programme.
Mr Brownlee is currently in Manila, Philippines where he's attending ASEAN-New Zealand Ministerial consultations, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' Meeting and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum.
"New Zealand has a thriving relationship with ASEAN and is pleased to join in the 50th anniversary celebrations," Mr Brownlee says.
"These fellowships provide the opportunity for experts from the ASEAN region to exchange ideas and research in New Zealand on issues.
"The ASEAN@50 Fellowships will target leaders from ASEAN universities, research institutes, think-tanks and businesses to undertake research and public engagement in New Zealand throughout 2018.
"Collectively, ASEAN is New Zealand's fourth largest trading partner and the world's third largest population. Deepening connections with the region is essential for New Zealand's future prosperity."
The ASEAN@50 Fellowships will be run, in partnership, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the South-east Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence (CAPE), at Victoria University of Wellington.
The Southeast Asia CAPE was established this year as part of the New Zealand Government's Business Growth Agenda.
"Its goal is to support New Zealanders increase business, economic, trade, cultural, and political relationships in the region.
"The Southeast Asia CAPE is one of three centres in place across New Zealand universities – the North Asia CAPE and Latin America CAPE are the other two.
"Between them, the Government has allocated $34.5 million in funding over four years," Mr Brownlee says.
ASEAN is a political and economic community of 10 South-east Asian nations – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. The CAPEs will be directed collectively by the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Otago and the University of Waikato. Applications for the ASEAN@50 Fellowships will open later this year and the Fellows will arrive in New Zealand next year.


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Toca do Coelho is the expression of a grassroots movement. We aim to make parts of this world into a better and more sustainable place, through cooperation with nature and people.
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Discover more about how our community runs, our garden's grow, where we come from & our ethos.


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import rssiCalculation

class RssiCalculationTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_rssi_calculation_for_calibration_distance(self):
        txPower = 60
        calibrateDistance = 1
        self.assertEqual(rssiCalculation.distanceToRssi(txPower, calibrateDistance), txPower)

    def test_round_trip(self):
        txPower = 60
        distance = 77
        rssi = rssiCalculation.distanceToRssi(txPower, distance)
        distanceTrip = rssiCalculation.rssiToDistance(txPower, rssi)
        self.assertAlmostEqual(distance, distanceTrip)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

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The DELTA Act Is Helping Southwest Africa Combat Poachers And Conserve One Of The Most Important Rivers In The World
The Okavango River Basin is home to some of the most vibrant ecosystems in the world, and the most important. It provides water for more than 1 million Angolans, Botswanans, and Namibians, and the largest remaining population of elephants on the continent.
It's also under attack.
Poachers are driving wildlife to extinction, natural resources are being pillaged, and sustainable growth is being stifled. People of southwestern Africa have been facing high inflation, economic inequality, and a lack of job creation. Still, their environment may be in greater danger.
"Animals and poachers know no borders," Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) told congress. "In order for conservation efforts to be successful, we must take a transboundary approach."
The Okavango River Basin is home to one of the largest remaining African elephant populations in the world.
H.R. 4819, the Defending Economic Livelihoods and Threatened Animals (DELTA) Act is aimed at opening communication between the governments of southwest Africa, bringing the private sector and non-governmental stakeholders together, and helping them all develop a strategy to combat wildlife trafficking, promote sustainable natural resource and water management, and build inclusive economic growth.
The Okavango river provides water to over 1 million Africans.
The DELTA Act will also send U.S. assistance focusing on development through conservation, technical assistance, and anti-poaching support. Working with private companies in the region, the U.S. government will support conservation projects and stimulate development.
Source: PxHere
The river basin is a diverse ecosystem.
As reported in Borgen Magazine, the DELTA Act has five main goals:
To encourage federal agencies to work in conjunction with the governments of Angola, Botswana and Namibia to create improved natural resource management and wildlife conservation.
To add protection to the migration routes of elephants and other endangered species that live around the river basin.
To fight against poaching and trafficking of wildlife in the area.
To assist with human health and other development needs of the local communities around the river basin.
To generally stimulate the economic development in southern Africa, namely Angola, Botswana and Namibia, as well as the region around the river basin.
The DELTA Act supports anti-poaching efforts in southwest Africa.
"I was proud to be the author of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership Act of 2004," Royce said. "With that act, we saw that increased coordination across national borders can be successful in protecting critical landscapes and combating poaching threats. The DELTA Act looks to build on these proven successes."
Learn more about the Okavango delta in the video below.
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Most of the discussion around the White Paper and now the Health and Social Care Bill has centred around budgets going to GP Consortia and related topics.
GPs will also be more directly accountable to patients, who will be able to choose any GP practice they like, regardless of where they live.
When I first heard this idea floated almost 2 years ago, I thought there was no way it would be taken further than the brainstorming phase of policy development. As a policy, it appears like a parody: 'let's do something quite daft, let's do something which will really f*ck things up'. And yet, there it is.
I understand that to the general public this sounds like a good idea, what's not to like about it? But most people I have spoken to about this have realised the problems with it after a few minutes. The policy makers should know better.
The Chilcot Inquiry is currently taking its evidence: how were the decisions taken that led the UK to invade Iraq?
Of course it would never happen, but I wish in the future, should this 'choose your GP anywhere in England' policy be implemented, that there would be an Inquiry into the way that this policy was dreamt up and sold to the English (not British) public.
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Quick Review – Olympia's Racy 949 Carbon 29er with Xentis Wheels
Written by Zach Overholt June 21, 2013
At 120 years old, Olympia certainly has some history. The brand that is now relatively unknown in the US also has some history here as well, being imported through a bike shop in New York in the 70's and 80's. After a long hiatus, Olympia is continuing their resurgence in North America through the hands of Stage Race Distribution. Designed and made in Italy, the Olympia 949 is a prime example of the brand's line up which includes everything from e-bikes to road bikes.
We were offered a chance to check out this sub 18lb race machine that was equipped with Xentis Squad CC carbon wheels. How could we say no?
Our review bike was equipped with a full XX1 drivetrain, DT Swiss XRR470 carbon fork, and a combination of Ritchey WCS parts that made up the cockpit. This is pretty close to the stock XX1 build with the exception of the Xentis Squad 2.5 wheels. At 17.6 pounds with a rigid fork, there are lighter 29ers out there (mostly custom), but the weight was achieved without going to extremes for the components – and come on, it's under 18 pounds! Of course, the 949g weight of the frame (hence the name) means you could build it up lighter if you tried.
Something most super light frames don't have though, is a 12×142 rear axle – and at 64 grams it's one of the lightest we've seen. With such a light frame, the thru axle at the rear is part of what makes the bike so efficient. Little flex or wind up is detectable in the frame even during full sprints. In order to clean up the look for 1x drivetrains, the frame features a removable e-type front derailleur mount.
Cable routing is mostly external with the exception of the rear derailleur cable routed through the seat stay. It pops out of the stay just in front of the rear derailleur for a nice line to the stop.
The frame itself is a beautiful Italian made carbon design that is laid up in a single mold without any joints using a vacuum bag technique for a true monocoque frame. Like most carbon frames the 949 is built from different types of carbon including UD M30 in places for longitudinal stiffness, Toray T700 multiaxial carbon for improved torsional rigidity, and a Kevlar/carbon twill for vibration deadening.
As the only downer we ran into with the bike, we had a bit of trouble getting the headset to stay in adjustment. We were assured this was just a fluke, and not something they've encountered before. The 949 has a tapered head tube that was running a reducer headset for the 1 1/8″ fork.
Olympia opts for a press fit BB92 bottom bracket system rather than a BB30 or PF30. Also note the huge tire clearance.
Also being distributed through StageRace are the beautiful Austrian Xentis Squad 2.5 CC wheels. The 949 was equipped with one of their first prototype XD driver wheelsets in order to run XX1. The production hub will have a 5° engagement for the freehub which will eliminate our only concern on the prototype which had slower engagement.
Carbon rimmed and tubeless compatible, the rims have a 19mm internal width and do have an 80kg (176 lbs) limit for the super light 1360g CCs, though the non CC model has a higher 100kg (220 lb) rider+bike weight limit. The Squad CC 29er wheels weigh in at 1,360g with QR hubs, and 1450g with 15/X12 thru axles meaning the set on this bike was likely somewhere in the middle due to the QR front wheel but 142×12 rear.
Not exactly race attire, I know. What happens when bikes and clothes need to be tested the same day.
Originally on display at Sea Otter, the very bike we had in for quick review was built up for one of their racers and was built to fit her. As one of the, um, shorter members of our team I was asked to test the bike which turned out to be too small, even for me. I tend to straddle the line between small and medium on 29ers, and the Olympia 949 has a shorter top tube than most, with the small offering a very short 565mm ETT. If I were to get a bike for myself it would definitely be a medium instead of a small. The take away from this though, is that the small will fit shorter riders than most Small 29ers without toe overlap and with the ability to get the bar nice and low.
Even with the smaller size, the 949 exhibited some impressive qualities. In spite of its anorexic frame weight the frame was very stiff and the combination with the Xentis carbon wheels equaled a two wheeled rocket ship. Possibly the best way to sum up the 949 is that it handles much better than a sub 18lb bike should. It's hard to zero in on compliance when the bike is fitted with a rigid fork, but in the saddle the 949 frame felt more comfortable than a lot of hardtails while the super stiff DT Swiss fork transmitted every root, rock, and bump.
Personally, if you were to swap out the rigid for a light suspension fork, it would be a bike that I would be happy to own. Fortunately, all of Olympia's builds have Rock Shox suspension forks as standard equipment, with the option for the rigid or upgraded Rock Shox or Fox forks available as well. The Full spec list of all the models can be downloaded from the PDF on the 949 page, but essentially there are build kits from both Shimano and Sram from SLX and X.9 up to full XTR and XX1. A 949 Race XX1 build with a Rock Shox Reba RL 100mm and Stans ZTR/Crest wheels will retail for $6,999 which is very competitive with other similar speced bikes on the market.
Based on the performance of the 949, if the rest of Olympia's bikes ride as well as it does, Olympia will have no problem gaining a foothold in the US market.
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Zach Overholt is the Editor in Chief of Bikerumor. He has been writing about what's new in the bicycle world for 12+ years. Prior to that, Zach spent many years in the back of a bicycle shop building and repairing nearly every type of bike, while figuring out how to (occasionally) ride them.
Based in Ohio, Zach is now slowly introducing a new generation to cycling and still trying to figure out how to fit the most rides into a busy schedule as a new dad.
That is a pretty bike.
I personally think people are crazy for not running a shock up front. To each their own.
I think it needs a few more logos.
Stage Race can't even provide Lake shoes to US market and now this, good luck to you all trying to get this beast.
WHO makes the rear thru axle
might be tune?
Stage-Race
Official availability of the 949 will likely be September, though they are available for pre-order now, since they'll be brought in to the US in relatively small batches, being a hand-made frame after all.
@Matt – The 949 is available for order in a suspension-fork format as well.
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Materiality of Migration
The Misbaha
The Islamic prayer chain, often referred to as a misbaha, consist of 99 different small and large wooden beads, which are strung together on a fabric cord to form a chain. At the top of the chain is an approximately three-centimeter large, light brown piece of wood onto which a small light brown bead is attached. From this bead emerge two black cords, by which the chain can be held. The wooden beads of the chain are colored in different shades of brown and black.
The Islamic prayer chain comes from Mecca in Saudi Arabia; Monzer's uncle passed it on to him after his Hiǧra pilgrimage. Monzer utilizes the misbaha during his flight, whenever he wants to find peace and new strength and hope for the difficult next steps on his journey. He takes it in his hand, runs his thumb over each wooden bead and recites one of the 99 most beautiful names of Allah for each bead. With particularly flat, small wooden beads, he recites the Shahada, the creed: There is no god but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God.
During his time in Syria, the Islamic prayer chain has a primarily religious value: He recites the 99 most beautiful names of Allah, just as he prays five times a day, does not drink alcohol, and fasts in the month of Ramadan. In Egypt, the first stop of his escape, he performs this ritual several hundred timed a day; it gives him security and peace for the moment. On the rubber dinghy during the journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, he recites the names of Allah, performs supplications and recites the surahs that are particularly central to him.
With Monzer's new residence in Germany, his relationship to the subject of religion has changed. He himself says: "I am still a Muslim, but no longer religious" and asks himself questions like: "How could God let the war in Syria happen?" Today it is more important for him to be able to help people – so he does not recite the 99 most beautiful names of Allah several times a day, as in Egypt, but tries to shape his life through positive actions, such as using his interpreting skills in Friedland.
Basu and Coleman note that objects can reveal a person's altered ways of seeing and behaving – the "status" of a person becomes apparent, which in Monzer's case changed and developed through the experiences of his escape.1
While the misbaha once generated Monzer's religious reality2, today it brings to life the experiences of his journey as a refugee and is a memento of his hometown and his experiences. Thus, the misbaha is no longer in his pocket as a constant companion, but is now housed in Monzer's apartment in Eschwege. Nevertheless, it reminds him of the most important stations and events of his escape and it doesn't let him forget his hometown and his uncle.
Katharina Brunner
[1] Cf. Paul Basu und Simon Coleman: Introduction. Migrant Worlds, Material Cultures. In: Mobilities 3 (3). P. 323ff. London: Routledge.
[2] Sonia Hazard emphasizes that religious objects are not just "containers" of ascribed meanings, but are touched, heard and seen. They are thus not passive, but actively generate the reality of their owners (e.g., shaped by their own values and experiences) through their representational nature. See: : Sonia Hazard (2013): The Material Turn in the Study of Religion. In: Religion and Society. Advances in Research 4 (1). P. 69. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.
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The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
In 2010, SAP's BI product offerings – I use "product" to refer to product/service offerings of any type – were a mishmash of multiple overlapping products, technologies, chart libraries, visual styles, and interaction behaviors. Such situations are common after corporate acquisition sprees, and BOBJ was already a conglomeration of multiple recent acquisitions of its own. Xcelsius, originally from the acquired Infommersion, was a handy desktop-based product for building information dashboards – screens of summary analytic operational data – from data in Microsoft Excel files. This was SAP's most complete and visible product for visual analytics. However, its interaction model was from a previous computing generation, its styling was a cheap knockoff of Apple's OSX, its workflows were complex and cumbersome, and its performance with large data sets was poor. Other offerings included WebIntelligence, Crystal Reports, BusinessObjects Explorer, and a fragmented collection of other performance management applications and component libraries that enabled the publishing of quantitative information through files, websites, mobile devices, and embedding within business applications.
While SAP had no shortage of application demonstrations to show customers online and at conferences, and a rudimentary guideline for how to lay out dashboards, the company had no product user experience design strategy for how to leverage the sea change of new technological opportunities being brought to the industry.
A design language or design vocabulary is an overarching scheme or style that guides the design of a complement of products or architectural settings. Designers wishing to give their suite of products a unique but consistent look and feel define a design language for it, which can describe choices for design aspects such as materials, color schemes, shapes, patterns, textures, or layouts. They then follow the scheme in the design of each object in the suite.
Usually, design languages are not rigorously defined; the designer basically makes one thing in a similar manner as another. In other cases, they are followed strictly, so that the products gain a strong thematic quality. For example, although there is a great variety of unusual chess set designs, the pieces within a set are usually thematically consistent.
Sometimes, designers encourage others to follow their design languages when decorating or accessorizing. In the context of graphical user interfaces, for example, human interface guidelines can be thought of as design languages for applications.
In automobiles, the design language is often in the grille design. For instance, many BMW vehicles share a design language, including front-end styling consisting of a split kidney and four circular headlights. Some manufacturers have appropriated design language cues from rival firms.
Design languages are different from design vocabularies, in the same way as these terms are related in spoken/written languages. A design vocabulary is a set of distinct elements that, like words, can be combined into synthesized designs, as with written prose. Languages contain and govern vocabularies. Classical architecture is a design language, with a vocabulary of columns, column capitals and bases, pediments, architraves, cornices, triglyphs, metopes, volutes, pilasters, and other specialized filigree, along with a system for combining them into structures for different purposes. Vocabulary and language rules heavily influence the possible resulting forms of expression. While different languages can be adequately applied to all purposes, their natures can encourage or constrain the results of their use in systematic ways. English, for example, has great variety – or possibility for unique expression – due to its relatively large vocabulary and the layered influences of its Latin/ French and Old English/Germanic heritage. This makes it highly expressive, but also contradictory, inconsistent, and ambiguous, and thus its nuances are difficult to learn and master. German, in contrast, is very systematic and pure, well suited for precise, explicit, rational communication. While all languages are multi-purpose, some just lend themselves to certain means of expression, and even have distinct appearances in printed text form. Some Western typefaces are actually optimized – consciously or not – for the ideal rendering of certain languages. Some think that the typeface Bodoni looks best in Italian.
While many design languages are only appearance-based, LAVA includes fundamentally new interaction design components and behaviors. In fact, its appearance is intended to be as generic and minimal as possible in order to focus attention on the content itself versus its container and its styling. It is in effect a systematic, functional language for defining an entire experience – to the point where it can be described as a generic, comprehensive method for consuming quantitative content. Designing at the language level, delivered through concept designs along with standards and guidelines, is a different challenge than that of designing for freestanding, singular products. Instead of having full control of a specific, contained instance as with the latter, the former is about design influence that is spread in varying amounts across a suite or portfolio of products. Figuratively speaking, if designing for one product can make it 100% better, the same effort at the language level can make ten products 10% better, ten more products 10% better, etc. In the later chapters I will discuss the unique process considerations of working at this level.
LAVA is made up of five interdependent systems. Not all of the pieces of these systems are new or original – many are derived from current conventions in analytics and general digital design practice. I look at them and how they interrelate much in the way that Robert M. Pirsig did when describing the interrelated systems of a motorcycle in his 1974 book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. I first encountered Pirsig's cult classic in a textbook containing examples of good writing style, and the passage I quote is taken from that chapter. I've read the book many times and believe it is the best account available of the relationship between beauty, technology, and purpose – and thus about the nature of design itself. American graphic design legend Paul Rand was said to have struggled throughout his career trying to answer the question "am I an artist or a businessman?" The essence of being a designer, and one's personal identification with the profession, is about the balance between these two competing masters. While this dichotomy can be maddening, it's a big part of what makes design interesting.
The book reappeared as the first reading assignment in professor Sharon Poggenpohl's graduate graphic design seminar at Rhode Island School of Design – or RISD –, although not as a design manual per se but as an account of perseverance and how a person dedicated himself, to the point of exhaustion and mental breakdown, to reconciling seemingly conflicting personal and cultural viewpoints on work and life. It was also interesting to later hear a friend mention that not only was the book assigned in his Harvard Business School curriculum, but in particular the same chapter I had found in the writing textbook. Though I encourage all designers and anyone else to read it, few if any have ever finished it. Looking back, it appears that I've been on a much milder quest to understand the intersection of numbers with work and life.
The passage is below. Paraphrased, it says that a motorcycle consists of a number of interrelated systems. To understand how the motorcycle works you need to isolate and describe each system on its own, and then identify where and how each interacts with the others to enable the desired effect of cruising across the country on two wheels.
A motorcycle may be divided for purposes of classical rational analysis by means of its component assemblies and by means of its functions.
If divided by means of its component assemblies, its most basic division is into a power assembly and a running assembly.
The power assembly may be divided into the engine and the power-delivery system. The engine will be taken up first.
The engine consists of a housing containing a power train, a fuel-air system, an ignition system, a feedback system and a lubrication system.
The power train consists of cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, a crankshaft and a flywheel.
The fuel-air system components, which are part of the engine, consist of a gas tank and filter, an air cleaner, a carburetor, valves and exhaust pipes.
The ignition system consists of an alternator, a rectifier, a battery, a high-voltage coil and spark plugs.
The feedback system consists of a cam chain, a camshaft, tappets and a distributor.
The lubrication system consists of an oil pump and channels throughout the housing for distribution of the oil.
The power-delivery system accompanying the engine consists of a clutch, a transmission and a chain.
The supporting assembly accompanying the power assembly consists of a frame, including foot pegs, seat and fenders; a steering assembly; front and rear shock absorbers; wheels; control levers and cables; lights and horn; and speed and mileage indicators.
A motorcycle may be divided into normal running functions and special, operator-controlled functions.
Normal running functions may be divided into functions during the intake cycle, functions during the compression cycle, functions during the power cycle and functions during the exhaust cycle.
And so on. I could go on about which functions occur in their proper sequence during each of the four cycles, then go on to the operator-controlled functions and that would be a very summary description of the underlying form of a motorcycle. It would be extremely short and rudimentary, as descriptions of this sort go. Almost any one of the components mentioned can be expanded on indefinitely. I've read an entire engineering volume on Contact points alone, which are just a small but vital part of the distributor. There are other types of engines than the single-cylinder Otto engine described here: two-cycle engines, multiple-cylinder engines, diesel engines, Wankel engines – but this example is enough.
This description would cover the "what" of the motorcycle in terms of components, and the "how" of the engine in terms of functions. It would badly need a "where" analysis in the form of an illustration, and also a "why" analysis in the form of engineering principles that led to this particular conformation of parts. But the purpose here isn't exhaustively to analyze the motorcycle. It's to provide a starting point, an example of a mode of understanding of things which will itself become an object of analysis.
There's certainly nothing strange about this description at first hearing. It sounds like something from a beginning textbook on the subject, or perhaps a first lesson in a vocational course. What is unusual about it is seen when it ceases to be a mode of discourse and becomes an object of discourse. Then certain things can be pointed to.
The first thing to be observed about this description is so obvious you have to hold it down or it will drown out every other observation. This is: It is just duller than ditchwater. Yah—da, yah—da, yah—da, yah—da, yah, carburetor, gear ratio, compression, yah—da-yah, piston, plugs, intake, yah—da-yah, on and on and on. That is the romantic face of the classic mode. Dull, awkward and ugly. Few romantics get beyond that point.
But if you can hold down that most obvious observation, some other things can be noticed that do not at first appear.
The first is that the motorcycle, so described, is almost impossible to understand unless you already know how one works. The immediate surface impressions that are essential for primary understanding are gone. Only the underlying form is left.
The second is that the observer is missing. The description doesn't say that to see the piston you must remove the cylinder head. "You" aren't anywhere in the picture. Even the "operator" is a kind of personalityless robot whose performance of a function on the machine is completely mechanical. There are no real subjects in this description. Only objects exist that are independent of any observer.
The third is that the words "good" and "bad" and all their synonyms are completely absent. No value judgments have been expressed anywhere, only facts.
The fourth is that there is a knife moving here. A very deadly one; an intellectual scalpel so swift and so sharp you sometimes don't see it moving. You get the illusion that all those parts are just there and are being named as they exist. But they can be named quite differently and organized quite differently depending on how the knife moves.
For example, the feedback mechanism which includes the camshaft and cam chain and tappets and distributor exists only because of an unusual cut of this analytic knife. If you were to go to a motorcycle-parts department and ask them for a feedback assembly they wouldn't know what the hell you were talking about. They don't split it up that way. No two manufacturers ever split it up quite the same way and every mechanic is familiar with the problem of the part you can't buy because you can't find it because the manufacturer considers it a part of something else.
It is important to see this knife for what it is and not to be fooled into thinking that motorcycles or anything else are the way they are just because the knife happened to cut it up that way.
I was given the opportunity at SAP to re-construct the motorcycle of visual analytic consumption. The effort to understand and explain the essence of how LAVA can bring together logic, technology, and people eventually grew into the writing of this book. It's important to keep in mind that this work effort was very empirical in nature, starting out with very specific consulting efforts, with teams throughout the company from multiple business units needing advice on the design of dashboards and analytic applications. In carrying out these design consulting engagements, I discovered patterns in the underlying data structures being used and the ways that customers wanted to view and use the data. Leveraging the foundational approach of Edward Tufte and the more applied recommendations of Stephen Few, I found myself successfully re-using and refining the same set of basic designs with minor alterations to suit each project. Because SAP's overall strategy was about simplification, consolidation, consistency, and also about reaching more non-technical users at a massive scale, we evolved these early designs into an overall design language and gave it a name.
With the guidance and effort of colleagues from engineering, user experience, product management, demo creation, product marketing, and custom co-innovation development efforts with customers, pieces of LAVA were gradually developed over time, and are now making their way into products across the company. This was not a moon-shot corporate initiative, but rather a grass-roots networked collaboration that developed under the radar, through the volunteer help and passion of dozens of people.
What kept me going was continuing affirmation from customers and their users, and the enthusiasm of those in SAP that worked closely with these customers and intimately understood their needs and frustrations. Every answer in this effort required that the motorcycle be sliced apart and described in different ways, from the design approach to the technologies used to the product and marketing approach to organizational and political arrangements. Needless to say, in a big company like SAP this is not easy. As you will see, and as Christensen elaborates, a major reason that innovation is so rare is that it can newly mint winners and losers, often undercutting the prestige and influence of incumbent powers, who instinctively resist out of self-interest.
What I believe is new with LAVA is how existing BI elements, when combined with several newly-invented components and framed according to today's technical landscape and mass consumption trends, can create a synergistic whole that enables a fundamentally new experience. The BI product and technical landscape often ends up sounding a lot like Pirsig's catalog of what, where, and why with an element of exaggerated salesmanship thrown in. The catalytic element we provided was a product design prototype – a model of the motorcycle – as a vehicle to demonstrate how to engage individual users intimidated by BI – the observer – in the effort to understand the quantitative foundations of their work. The effort was none other than to do the hard work of bridging numbers and people, and building that work into products that entice, even seduce, skeptical users to invest in an unfamiliar activity.
The five systems I will describe I refer to as the Metric System (no, not that Metric System), the Visual System, the Organization System, the Interaction System, and the Value System. Later I'll explain and demonstrate them, along with the LAVA design language and several product design examples that use it. First, however, I'll provide some of the cultural, technical, and business context behind what is happening in the visual analytics field and how it led to the proposed solutions.


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The Memorial Hospital Foundation has received a $5,000 grant from the Union Pacific Foundation, the hospital reported in a news release.
The grant is part of $150,000 the Union Pacific Foundation granted to 28 Colorado nonprofit organizations in June.
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Nicole Kidman Delivers Eulogy at Dad Antony's Funeral: He Helped Me Through Tom Cruise Split, Was "On a Plane Hours After" Divorce
Nicole Kidman delivered an emotional eulogy at her father Antony's funeral on Friday, Sept. 19, in which she remembered how he helped her through her divorce from Tom Cruise in 2001. Stewart Cook/REX USA
Nicole Kidman delivered an emotional eulogy remembering her late father Antony on Friday, Sept. 19, at his funeral in Sydney, Australia.
Kidman, 47, recalled distinct moments in life when her father's presence was most comforting, including her painful 2001 divorce from ex-husband Tom Cruise. The Daily Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, and other Australian outlets reported that the Oscar-winning actress — affectionately referred to as "Niccy" by her father — remembered when Antony got "on a plane hours after I got divorced."
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Kidman and Cruise were married from 1990 to 2001, and in the years following their split, the actress has opened up about her emotional struggle. She told Marie Claire in 2011, "I was really damaged and not sure whether [love and marriage] was ever going to happen again to me."
The Australian actress told funeral-goers on Friday the advice her father gave her during that tumultuous time period. Antony said, "'Nic, it's going to be okay. It isn't what it could've been, it isn't what it should have been, it is what it is.'"
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Kidman said she would also buy her father expensive shirts, but labels meant nothing to the late clinical psychologist. "He is the reason I can't walk past someone on the street with their hands out without giving," Kidman told her fellow grievers.
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She revealed that her final face-to-face moment with her dad was during his visit to New York three weeks before his death. One night, Kidman came home and discovered that he had eaten all of the pizza they were going to share for dinner. "I am so grateful he came to New York," she said of her dad's last visit. "And I'm so glad he ate all that pizza."
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Dr. Antony Kidman died unexpectedly on Friday, Sept. 12, after collapsing in a Singapore hotel during a trip to see his youngest daughter Antonia. An insider close to Nicole told Us Weekly that the actress was "beside herself" and "beyond devastated" after learning of his death. "Keith [Urban] vowed to be with her as long as he needs to during this horrible time and he is supporting his wife to the fullest," the source added.
Indeed, Urban was right beside his wife at his father-in-law's funeral on Friday. According to the papers, the country megastar, 46, and Kidman performed "Amazing Grace" after her eulogy. The couple's two young daughters, Sunday and Faith, joined their parents at their grandfather's funeral, along with stars like Russell Crowe and his estranged wife Danielle Spencer.


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The Backfire Effect: Contradictory Facts Might Make Your Beliefs Stronger
Written by Austin Jesse Mitchell
It was Thomas Jefferson who said that an informed electorate is a prerequisite for democracy. But he assumed that people would change their minds when faced with facts and that their beliefs would proceed ever closer to the truth. It turns out that's not always the case.
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In 2010, political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler had two groups of people read articles about how Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. invasion. One group then read an article correcting that information: the 2004 Duelfer report, which confirmed that the country had no such weapons. Of conservatives who read only the first article, 34 percent believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the invasion. But of conservatives who read both, that number climbed to 64 percent. Contradictory information didn't change their beliefs; it actually strengthened them.
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Why is this? The backfire effect can be seen as the flipside of confirmation bias. Confirmation bias makes you seek out information that agrees with your preexisting beliefs. The backfire effect is what you do when information that doesn't agree with those beliefs finds you. In both cases, your mind protects you from the pain of being wrong, a state of inconsistency that psychologists call "cognitive dissonance."
As Thomas Gilovich wrote in his book "How We Know What Isn't So," we tend to frame new information in a way that agrees with whatever we already believe. There are multiple types of backfire effects:
The overkill backfire effect describes what happens when people stick to a simple rationale over a complex argument that is hard to process.
The familiarity backfire effect describes what happens when someone mistakenly remembers a falsehood as being true because they can't recall any of the specific arguments against it.
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We Are Fact-Resistant, Not Fact-Immune
The Oxford University Press has had trouble replicating the results of Nyhan and Riefler's study with other ideological groups and seems to offer a more optimistic picture of how facts affect argument-making. Further research seems to indicate that while most people are unwilling to drop lifelong beliefs at the first appearance of a contrary fact, the trustworthiness of the source and the fact's realistic implications make a significant difference. Likewise, a review of the research by the UK nonprofit Full Fact found that many studies didn't find evidence of the backfire effect, but those that did found it most often with contentious topics and ambiguous claims.
According to Phillip Tetlock and Barbara Mellers, the most important factor for sidestepping cognitive bias is an outside view. When contradictory facts are presented from within the system under scrutiny — as they were in Nyhan and Riefler's study — it's easy to dismiss them as propaganda or "fake news." When those facts come from a dispassionate, trustworthy, external source, they are more likely to inspire curiosity, which is the first step towards gaining real knowledge.
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CAIRO - Saudi Crοwn Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed cοoperatiοn between the two cοuntries in security, energy and investments, the Saudi press agency said early οn Friday.
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We imagined a future where smart-phones are an extension of our limbs. The phone hand is considered pure and not used for anything apart from tech. Instead of cheering before eating everyone takes a picture of their food. It's a cultural activity to photograph one's food and keep a digital diary. Therefore, we developed the Phone-Hand Decorum. To show a complete dining manner, a set of tools for one-hand dining kits was designed along with related choreography.
Senses: Food can still be tasted and smelled not really touched, but it's sight will be the most important thing. Science: People don't have a right and left hand anymore. Instead they just have a 'phone hand' and a regular hand. The former is used only for smart phones, making it's fingers very strong and leaving the rest of the hand weak. No food is hard enough to require a knife to cut into. Technique: Food doesn't change its purpose; it continues to be a form of nutrition focusing more on the visual expression than on the flavor. The science being eating remains the same, however the tools become minimal and more suited for eating with one hand.
Psychology: The disposition of food on the plate can be personally organized before taking the picture and eating. The state of mind is represented by the setting; example comfort food can be organized in a peaceful composition. Society: Because of common allergies and elimination of cutting we all end up eating the same food. It's a shared food culture for which you don't need different dishes. Food is served directly on the table and everyone can share the food and eat directly off it. This is done to simplify the act of sharing and serving as well as picture taking and positioning of the hand. Nature: The growing selfie trend brought people to reconsider the concept of documenting their everyday actions. Documenting everything has become the norm and sharing it online is a way of communication. We're always connected so we don't leave the phone alone even while eating. This gave a central role to the 'phone hand' even though it is not used for actual eating. This led to creating a new kind of table setting and etiquette while eating.


SEEING PAIN People with chronic pain (left) have higher levels of a protein linked with inflammation (orange and red) in their brains than people without chronic pain (right), a finding that could help improve treatments for the condition.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — High-tech brain imaging could improve treatments for chronic pain, new research suggests.
Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden and Harvard University have found that PET and MRI images can pinpoint cellular and molecular changes in the body and brain that accompany chronic pain. The scientists used chemical tracers that concentrate in the regions where chronic pain affects body and brain tissue. Measuring changes in the concentration of the tracers during a patient's treatment can show how well a therapy works, Harvard neuroscientist Clas Linnman said February 13 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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April 09, 2018 at 12:59 pm EDT
Man dies after shooting at K-9 Club Man dies after shooting at K-9 Club
JEFFERSON TWP. — The Montgomery County Coroner's Office has released the name of the man fatally shot early Sunday morning at the K-9 Club.
>>Man found shot in Dayton alley; injuries 'life-threatening,' police say
Bobby Avery, 67, of Dayton was pronounced dead at Miami Valley Hospital after he was shot at the club at 5100 Germantown Pike in Jefferson Twp. around 2 a.m.
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According to a release, a large fight occurred and several people with handguns began shooting at each other.
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Deputies have responded to the club 14 times since 2016 regarding shots fired, according to authorities.
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Q: Build checksum of array of long values I have an array of long values in my c# program. Now I need a checksum (the smaller the better) to see if all values are incuded in an other array I want to compare with.
It should be an easy checksum so I can use it with JavaScript/JQuery too. Is there a method/code snippet I can use?
Background:
I have a javascript ajax mvc project that connects periodically (every 10 seconds) to my c# webservice to get a list of long values and sends the last value it has. The long values are consecutive so I will only send the new ones since the last value the client has. But sometimes (1:1000) there is a new long value that is "older" and not consecutive. To avoid that the javascript will not get this value (as it gets only the newest values) I want to add a checksum to see if it has every value. If the checksum is not correct it should fetch the complete list again.

A: the simplest way:
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A: If entries are never deleted from the list, you can use count of all objects in the list as a "checksum".
But it seems better to me not to base retrieving new entries solely on the number would be better. You can base it on server time, so the server remembers when was an object added and the client request all new objects since x.

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