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Detailed cost-benefit figures have yet been released to back up the Transport Secretary's claims, but the Guardian was told on Friday  that carbon dioxide emissions from the policy would be 670,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, a figure that DfT officials called 'modest'. This was challenged in the same article by Jillian Anable, from the University of Aberdeen who - like most experts - uses a steady state model to analyse motorway traffic. She calculated that the effect would be an additional 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 per year: double the increase claimed by the DfT.


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Cancellation of Tollmien–Schlichting Waves in Direct Vicinity of a Plasma Actuator.
Acquisition of 3D Temperature Distributions in Fluid Flow Using Proton Resonance Frequency Thermometry.
Estimation of the measurement uncertainty in magnetic resonance velocimetry based on statistical models.
IR thermography for dynamic detection of laminar-turbulent transition.
In-flight active wave cancelation with delayed-x-LMS control algorithm in a laminar boundary layer.
Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators for In-Flight Transition Delay.
Non-invasive, laser-optical measurement system for highly resolved flow field and body force measurements.
Volumetric intake flow measurements of an IC engine using Magnetic Resonance Velocimetry.
Closed-Loop Performance Control of Dielectric-Barrier-Discharge Plasma Actuators.
Experimental Investigation of Helical Structures in Swirling Flows.
Determination of the phase-resolved body force produced by a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator.
Dreidimensionale Temperaturmessungen mittels MR Thermometrie.
Plasma actuators : from lab to flight.
Measuring Tollmien-Schlichting waves using phase-averaged particle image velocimetry.
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Capacitance and power consumption quantification of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuators.
Light Emission, Discharge Capacitance and Thrust Production of DBD Plasma Actuators.
In: AIAA 2011-155, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Sensitivity of an Asymmetric 3D Diffuser to Plasma-Actuator Induced Inlet Condition Perturbations.
Charakterisierung und Quantifizierung der Leistungsfähigkeit von DBD Plasma-Aktuatoren bei großen Strömungsgeschwindigkeiten.
Flowfield-Characteristics generated by DBD Plasma Actuators.
Experimental damping of boundary-layer oscillations using DBD plasma actuators.
Transition control using dielectric barrier discharge actuators.
Active Cancellation of Artificially Introduced Tollmien-Schlichting Waves Using Plasma Actuators.
Experimental Transition Delay Using Glow-Discharge Plasma Actuators.
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The Pattonville School District is using a concept called "performance contracts" to improve heating, air conditioning, lighting, plumbing and mechanical systems throughout the district while also saving money and reducing energy consumption.
Pattonville is in the midst of completing about $20 million in renovations and upgrades at buildings throughout the district using performance contracts as a method of funding the projects. Companies chosen by Pattonville to complete the work help identify issues and design improvements, and, by law, their work must save the district a corresponding amount of money over the next 15 years through reduced energy bills and fewer repairs/maintenance.
"The use of performance contracts is part of our ongoing focus on being good stewards of our district resources," said Ron Orr, Pattonville chief financial officer. "This allows our district to fund $20 million in needed infrastructure projects that improve the learning environment without any cost to our taxpayers."
Pattonville is working with two companies to complete the work: GRP and Navitas. GRP already completed work at Holman Middle School, Remington Traditional School and Willow Brook Elementary School and will also work on projects at Bridgeway and Drummond elementary schools, as well as the print shop, maintenance facility and the Pattonville Learning Center. Navitas is completing work at Parkwood and Rose Acres elementary schools, along with Pattonville Heights Middle School and Pattonville High School.
The work is being completed in conjunction with other facilities, updates and repairs made possible by a zero-tax-rate-increase bond issue approved by voters in 2017. For a list of all bond issue projects being completed with bond issue funds, go online at: https://www.psdr3.org/newsinfo/pdf/FacilitiesPlan2017.pdf.
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Chi Herculis, Latinized from χ Herculis, is a Sun-like star in the northern constellation of Hercules. Based upon an annual parallax shift of  as seen from Earth, it is located 51.6 light years from the Sun. The star is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.59. It has a relatively high proper motion, showing a transverse movement of 0.769 arc seconds per year and is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −56 km/s.

This is a suspected binary star system for which orbital elements have been published, listing a circular orbit with period of 51.3 days. However, sources do not confirm this and so the binarity remains in doubt. The observable component is a G-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of , indicating abnormal deficiencies in iron and the CH molecule. The surface magnetic activity for this star is distinctly lower than the typical level for regular stars, and hence it is considered a good candidate for being in a Maunder minimum phase.

Chi Herculis is an older star with an estimated age of 7.4 billion years and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 2.4. It has a mass slightly higher than the Sun and 1.7 times the Sun's radius. The star's photosphere is radiating 3.24 times the Sun's luminosity at an effective temperature of 5,837. Chi Herculis has been examined for the presence of an infrared excess that could indicate an orbiting debris disk, but none was found. The low metal content and a relatively high velocity of 80 kilometers per second suggest that the star is a visitor from another part of the Galaxy, and is just moving through the local neighborhood.

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Author Compares Jesus' Crucifixion to Black Lynchings During Book Signing and Discussion at Howard University
By Nick Westbrooks
Panelists from Howard University sat down with Dr. James Cone on Nov. 11 at the Andrew Rankin Chapel to discuss and critique the author's latest book The Cross and the Lynching Tree.
The panelists included Howard University professors Dr. Greg Carr of the Afro American Studies department, Dr. Ronald Hopson from the School of Divinity and Dr. Dana Williams of the English department as well as student Krystal Leaphart, the president of Howard's NAACP chapter.
Cone discussed the premise of the book, which compares the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to the historical lynchings of African Americans in the United States and the ironic relationship between the two. For certain Whites, religion justified the lynchings of Blacks, and in the midst of the terrorism, Black people used their faith and the symbolism of the cross to endure those distressing times, Cone asserted.
"Whites used Christianity to lynch Blacks, and Blacks used it to survive," Cone said.
Cone, a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York, describes the odd relationship as "the great paradox," and he said it is the source of his passion and inspiration for writing The Cross and the Lynching Tree. The author grew up in Arkansas, a southern state where lynchings were prevalent during the early and middle twentieth century. Although he was aware of the terrorist acts, further study peaked Cone's curiosity.
"After examining history, I asked myself how Blacks survived and remained sane despite the terror," Cone said. "Paradoxically, it was the cross."
Cone further connected the crucifixion and lynchings to the present by likening Jesus to African Americans, the Roman government to the United States government and identifying the "Prison Industrial Complex" as a form of lynching. Dr. Carr identified the death penalty as the method of execution saying, "The lynching tree is today's electric chair."
Characterizing the cross as a symbol of judgment rather than affirmation for the oppressed, Dr. Hopson argued that Blacks should worship Christ instead of the object of His crucifixion, and he told Black Christians to "imagine a noose or electric chair at the front of the church instead of a cross."
"My concern is that we have transformed the veneration of the victim to the veneration of the means of execution," Hopson said. "It is really time for us to loosen our grip on the veneration of the cross."
Leaphart spoke from a student's perspective addressing the need to close the "intergenerational communication" gap between older African Americans and the youth. Although the Howard senior said she's well read, she admitted a lack of knowledge concerning the Black experience as it relates to theology.
"I think the intergenerational gap was caused by us [youth] and our parents, because they didn't tell us the stories, and we didn't ask them to tell us, so we aren't sure of how to move forward," she said.
Dr. Williams praised Cone for making people aware of "the great paradox" and providing readers and scholars a space to discuss and critique his thoughts and findings. She also credited the author with positing the Black experience as a legitimate viewing of God and challenging the Black church to recognize its own Black experience.
The book signing and discussion was a part of the Black Presbyterians United and the Howard University School of Divinity's "A Liberation Theology Weekend." The programs included a discussion on "The Future of Black Theology" and a class on "The God of the Hip Hop Generation."
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Vanity Fair — After a decade of unprecedented success, Marvel Studios is at a pivotal moment: the looming farewell to some of its founding superheroes, and the rise of a new generation. Kevin Feige, the creative force behind the $13 billion franchise and a slew of Marvel stars, discusses its precarious beginnings, stumbles, and ever-expanding empire.
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The Infinity Stones have become very important to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the build up to Avengers: Infinity War, but fans aren't alone in their confusion about the all-important cosmic remnants. Thor: Ragnarok star Chris Hemsworth doesn't get it, either.
During a set visit the actor said that while Thor: Ragnarok connects to Avengers: Infinity War, they didn't want to get too stuck dealing with the Infinity Stones.
"We didn't wanna get bogged down in Infinity Stones and da-da-da-da, because I don't even understand that stuff a lot of the time," Hemsworth said.
Disney-Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok dominated social media buzz with an impressive 264,000 new conversations last week, according to media-measurement firm ComScore and its PreAct service.
Marvel released a new full trailer featuring both Thor and Hulk at the Marvel showcase at San Diego Comic-Con on July 22. Thor: Ragnarok is scheduled for release on November 3rd.
"Hunt for the Wilderpeople" helmer Taika Waititi directed the third standalone Thor movie, which seems to be quirkier and more offbeat than the first two, and is already drawing comparisons to "Guardians of the Galaxy." "Ragnarok" stars Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleton, Idris Elba, Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Karl Urban, and Anthony Hopkins.
It's that time of year when the biggest studios bring actors, directors and writers from their most anticipated blockbusters to tens of thousands of fans at San Diego Comic-Con.
None are as prominent as Marvel Studios. Marvel Entertainment, in general, has always dominated SDCC, but it's the company's studio division that has reinvigorated fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This year should be the same.
The question is what Marvel Studios plans to bring to SDCC. Speculation?
The Avengers: Infinity War | D23 attendees saw the first Infinity War trailer, and while there's a very good chance it will be shown again to Hall H attendees at SDCC, don't expect it to go online anytime soon. Marvel is notorious for not publishing its trailers online, instead keeping them exclusive to conventions.
Thor: Ragnarok | Don't expect Ragnarok to take up much of Marvel's panel as the release is right around the corner, so it doesn't need as much hyping up as other projects. However, there will be a "Thor: Ragnarok" SDCC presence — Tom Hiddleston, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and maybe even Jeff Goldblum will all be on hand.
Fans can also expect Captain Marvel, Black Panther and possibly Antman and the Wasp goodies.
Yesterday, Chris joined Marvel's Kevin Feige onstage during the D23 Expo to share an exclusive trailer of Avengers: Infinity War alongside other Marvel Cinematic Universe favorites, like Dave Bautista, Paul Bettany, Chadwick Boseman, Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Karen Gillan, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Holland, Pom Klementieff, Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan, and co-director Joe Russo. Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.
With Avengers: Infinity War set to go into production early in the New Year, a casting call has arrived online which claims to offer up details of the main cast for the Marvel superhero epic.
Now, it should be noted that this is not official from Marvel, and casting calls are often inaccurate; this could just be a case of the agency taking a guess based on who they expect to appear in the film – so any Spider-Man or Falcon fans out there, don't start panicking just yet!
Adding further weight to this being speculation is the absence of Cobie Smulders, who has already revealed that she'll be reprising the role of Maria Hill.
Disney has confirmed that it will make only one Avengers: Infinity movie rather than the two it had announced previously.
Disney said on Friday that it still plans to release Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War as planned on May 4, 2018. But what was slated to be the second part in that story, Avengers: Infinity War Part II, has now been renamed as an Untitled Avengers project while retaining the May 3, 2019 release date.
The two "Infinity War" movies were announced together in October, 2014, with both directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. Two months ago, the Russo brothers told the Uproxx site that the third and fourth Avengers were being retitled in part to clarify that the films would be two separate films rather than one large film split in half.
Production of "Avengers: Infinity War" is expected to begin later this year. The Russos are directing from a script by the writing team of Christopher Marcus and Stephen McFeely with a back story based on immensely powerful Infinity Gems described in various Marvel stories.
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December 20th, 2010-December 30th, 2010 From New Jersey to Hawaii!
From December 20, 2010- December 29, 2010 I went to Arizona, Nevada, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii. I and my family were originally supposed to go to Nairobi, Kenya. However, the snowy situation in Europe made that impossible.
December 20th, 2010: Therefore, instead my family went to Phoenix, Arizona instead and would eventually decide from there. When we arrived in Phoenix our plan was to leave on the 21st of December in 2010 to go to the Cayman Islands.
December 21st , 2010: Flights to Houston are full which was where our stop was in order to get to the Cayman Islands. We drove to the Grand Canyon instead. At the Grand Canyon it was very Foggy and Rainy, therefore we couldn't see the bottom. My family had some lunch at Wendy's. After visiting the Grand Canyon, we drove another 3.5 hours to Las Vegas hoping to make a flight to the Cayman Islands the next day on the 22nd. When we arrived we went to take a stroll down The STRIP ( Las Vegas BLVD) and ate at Panda Express. My family stayed at New York New York Hotel and Casino for the night.
December 22nd , 2010: My family and I went to the Airplane Shop to get me some model airplanes. Then we went and had lunch/breakfast at the Texas Station casino/resort buffet. We visited my Aunt Nadia hoping she wouldn't keep on talking non-sense. The only reason we visited her was because we thought my uncle was back from his service in Afghanistan We lied to her about us being at the airport all night because we figured out the flights were full to Houston again! We stayed at Mandalay Bay Casino and Resort.
December 23rd , 2010: 1 hour after my family left my aunt's house on Wednesday, my uncle Sultan arrived at the airport. He left my mom a message. My family and I visited him and my aunt again then we left Las Vegas and had some lunch at a buffet just outside Vegas. My family decided to depart for Honolulu, Hawaii from Orange County, California. We drove for 4 hours to Buena Park, California and visited my Uncle Zia and his family. Fortunately my aunt Lilomah and her kids and my grandma Hajia were vacationing there too. They were at my Uncle Zia's house. At about 10 PM, we left my Uncle Zia's house and went to my Uncle Homayoon's house to see him and stay for the night.
December 24th , 2010: At about 6 AM we headed to Orange County airport to get to Honolulu, Hawaii. Fortunately, the flight wasn't fully booked and we fit. When my family arrived in Honolulu we found out that 2 of my cousins were vacationing there at the same time. My cousin Omar drove us to a good hotel that my cousin Jacob was staying at. My dad took an hour nap compared to the 5 hour nap on the plane. My mom, sister, and I went to get supplies for Waikiki beach which was across from my hotel. After we got the equipment, my sister and I woke up my dad and we all headed for the beach. I swam in the ocean and my sister kept on splashing. I got kind of freaked out when I saw fish swimming beside me. I almost got out of the water when I saw that. For dinner we ate at Denny's. Finally we came back and slept at The Pacific Beach Hotel.
December 25th , 2010: It was Christmas day and my family rented a Ford Mustang and drove around the whole island of Oahu. We ate fish and chips for lunch. We stopped at several beaches and at Obama's hometown of Kailua. I saw where the Obamas get their snow cones from every day. When we made a full circle around the Island, we came back and climbed Diamond Head Crater. Earlier this morning my dad and I had jogged to the crater from our hotel which took about 3 hours. After climbing Diamond head, my family had dinner with my cousins and came back to our hotel for the night.
December 26th , 2010: My family and I returned the rental car and from there we had lunch at Chinatown Express. After that we did some shopping and my dad went back to our hotel along with my sister and took a 2.5 hour nap. Me and my mom came to get my dad and sister and then we had dinner at McDonald's.
December 27th , 2010: My family and I had lunch at Burger King. Then we all went to take one last dip at the beach. My dad went back to the hotel to take a nap for 2 hours while my mom, sister, and I did some more shopping. At 5 PM we left the hotel for the Airport. We had a flight to Newark, however it got cancelled due to some severe snow situations at the airport. Therefore we got lucky enough to get a flight to Houston.
December 28th , 2010: We arrived at Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport at 7 AM. The flights to Newark were half cancelled. Therefore we had to find an alternative. Fortunately we found a flight to Cincinnati, Ohio. We arrived in Cincinnati around 8 PM, however we were stuck waiting for our baggage cause the baggage claim was so old and cheap. From Cincinnati we drove to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and stayed there for the night.
December 29th , 2010: We drove all the way to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and returned our rental car and picked up our car. The snow was actually real bad. It took us 5 hours to drive to our house in Egg Harbor City, NJ which was only 2 hours away.
December 30th , 2010: We slept in and had some relatives visit from Canada around 8 PM.
From January 14th, 2010 – January 16th, 2010, my family and I went to Canada.
January 14th, 2010: My family and I drove to Newark Liberty International Airport which was about 2 hours away to take a flight to Toronto, Canada. We arrived at 10 PM and rented a Jeep Liberty from Alamo rent-a-car. Then we drove to Niagara Falls, Canada and arrived there at 12:18 AM. We drove around for a while and my dad took a stroll down the side of the Falls. Finally, we got a room at Hilton Niagara Fallsview Hotel.
January 15th, 2010: We woke up at 9 AM and my dad was jogging by the side of the falls. Then we went swimming at the pool and used the amazing water slide. Then we drove to Toronto, Canada again and did some shopping for traditional Afghan groceries. Finally we went to see family and stayed over ones house. The person's house we stayed at was pretty fun. They had this extremely funny video of this weird lady who my uncle had driven to work.
January 16th, 2010: We woke up at 9 AM and left our relatives house at 11 AM. From there we saw this amazing Chinese Mall. It had a lot of things at amazingly cheap prices. Then my parents bought me my favorite desert. Finally we headed to the airport and almost missed our flight because of the never ending terminal. We arrived back at the airport at 8 PM and home at 11:30 PM cause of us having to pick up our car and picking up the luggage.


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Massage therapy leaps in popularity as a treatment and a career
From Get Healthy:
By Angela Shawn-Chi Lu
Sitting in a hallway of the Cortiva Massage Therapy Center in downtown Chicago, Jennifer Kaminski appeared ebullient – ready to take on anything in fact.
Few would guess she had just spent an hour in a dimly lit room, relaxing on her back, in almost complete silence, while a therapist stroked her muscles. Massages, however, have become a routine part of her life for stress reduction and relaxation.
"I'd rather do this than take a pill," said Kaminski, associate dean of the business school at Robert Morris University in Chicago. "It's not just some fluff, downtown spa. They're actually doing something for your muscles. I always see this as a doctor's visit."
Clients such as Kaminski, massage therapists, statistics and studies are all now attesting to the benefits and growth of the massage therapy industry.
Recent research has suggested that massage therapy can effectively alleviate cancer-related pain, boost the immune system, lower blood pressure and stress levels, reduce headache frequency and ease alcohol withdrawal symptoms, among many other things.
Just one session of massage can decrease levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, and increase the number of white blood cells, according to a study released in fall by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
It's also a lucrative profession. Last month, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked massage therapy one of its top 10 careers for 2011. U.S. News and World Report named massage therapy one of the 50 best careers.
In fact, more growth is expected in massage therapy than most other industries over the next decade. The U.S. Labor Department estimates an expansion of almost 20 percent, with the addition of 23,200 jobs by 2018.
The American Massage Therapy Association reported that, in 2009, the industry was worth between $16 and $20 billion, up from $6 to $11 billion in 2005. From July 2008 through July 2009, an estimated 48 million American adults received at least one massage.
"Massage has become a lot more mainstream," said Peter Rubnitz, owner of the Urban Oasis Spas in Chicago. "I would guess that there are two or three times more people now receiving massage than there were back in 1992."
The greater demand for massage therapy services, industry insiders agree, results from the growing needs of aging baby boomers and the continuing emergence of medical studies that reveal the health benefits of massage therapy.
"It's becoming more recognized in the medical community for its powerful influence on the human body," said Debbie Huckeba, a massage therapist at Wrigleyville-based Southport Wellness Center. "Normal aches and pains can become chronic problems if they are not treated by massage, chiropractic or acupuncture. You don't necessarily need to take a pill or have surgery."
According to the American Massage Therapy Association's 2009 Consumer Survey Fact Sheet, 52 percent of people who discussed massage therapy with their doctors said their physicians strongly encouraged them to get a massage.
The public's increased awareness of massage therapy's health benefits comes partially from the Western world's recent fascination with wellness, or the holistic approach to physical, mental and social well-being that today involves alternative medicines such as massage therapy and acupuncture.
"I would say within the last decade, we've seen a trend more toward alternative medicine, which is preventative health care rather than the traditional model of sick care where you go to the doctor only when sick," said Christopher Wolcott, a chiropractor and instructor of research literacy at the National University of Health Sciences.
Wolcott and Rubnitz believe that health insurance companies will eventually cover massage therapy as a form of stress reduction and preventive care. Although, currently, insurance often doesn't cover treatments, which can cost $100 per session.
The appeal of complementary medicines such as massage therapy, other than relaxation, for many individuals, is that they allow patients to regain some control of their own bodies, and also lower their health care costs, said Ellen Letten, a program director at the Soma Institute National School of Clinical Massage Therapy in Chicago.
"One of the reasons why complementary modalities are becoming so popular is people are just tired of being sent home with a pill," she said. "Whereas when you work with complementary therapists, it's more about engaging in the treatment yourself. People also cannot afford $1,000 a month for some drugs that are being prescribed with surgery."
Others may turn to massage therapy to avoid the side effects of conventional medication, said Mike Hovi, Illinois chapter president for the American Massage Therapy Association.
"Look at all the commercials on TV for drugs," he said. "You hear what the drug can do and then listen to all the side effects, everything from a heart attack to strokes, to death to suicidal tendencies. Well, there are no real side effects to doing massage."
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This book is the first ever illustrated study devoted exclusively to the famous Mercedes 770K parade car used by Hitler during most of the 1930s, and into the 1940s, both in peace and war. Culled from the rich photo archives of Daimler-Benz -- and the Hermann Goring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Eva Braun Hitler albums on deposit in the U.S. -- this study depicts the 770K in fascinating images and detailed text. Volume 1 in this series covered the Mercedes-Benz G-4 cross-country touring car also used by Hitler and other top Nazi leaders.


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Jo Malone London is a British multinational cosmetics company, perfume and scented candle brand, founded by Jo Malone in 1990. It has been owned since 1999 by Estée Lauder. The brand is known for its perfumes, candles, bath products, and room scents.

History and media
The brand became popular in the United States following founder Jo Malone's appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In 1999, Jo Malone London (JML) sold the company to Estée Lauder Companies for "undisclosed millions". Malone continued to work for the brand as creative director until 2006,  and was barred from creating a new fragrance or skincare line for 5 years due to a non-compete agreement. She subsequently launched a new line, Jo Loves.

Until 2014, the perfumer Christine Nagel created 47 scents for Jo Malone including Wood Sage & Sea Salt (2014), a skin scent of salt lingering on the body after a day at the beach, that in 2015, the Marie Claire International Fragrance Awards honored as the year's most daring fragrance for women.

Marketing
Since 2012, the brand manager Jean-Guillaume Trottier, who joined Estee Lauder in 2004, and works for Jo Malone only and from London since 2012, accentuates the artisanal fragrance and surprising scents. Additionally Jo Malone has own shops. The brand is introduced in Brazil, China, Korea, Philippines and Israel.

The brand's first brand ambassadors were English supermodel and musician Karen Elson and model and actress Poppy Delevingne who have served as spokespersons for the brand.

In September 2020, actor John Boyega resigned as its global brand ambassador after the company replaced him with a Chinese actor in a version of an advertisement (designed to be shown in China) that he had created based on his upbringing in Peckham, London. The firm had earlier apologised to him for reshooting the commercial without his consent which it had called a "mistake". Jo Malone, the person, was greatly displeased by the incident saying "how dare [those associated with the brand]" do as they did without having spoken to Boyega about it. She further expressed dismay at the situation because she said people were confusing the brand and Malone herself and thought that Malone was responsible when in fact, as said in this article, she currently holds no position there.

References

External links
Official website

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1999 mergers and acquisitions


This month's round robin will occur on Monday, May 16th with the theme of Flores de Mayo – Floral Cocktails. For most of us, turning the page on the calendar from April to May means finally getting to say goodbye to the weeks on end of cold, gray drizzle that followed a winter of endless snow, or in the case of us on on the Pacific Rim, winter of endless rains. (Unless you are living up the glam life in LA or beach bumming in the O.C., in which case I hope you are enjoying that endless SUNSHINE. Grrr.) As the sun starts becoming more frequent and the temptation to play hooky mid-week gets stronger, nothing brightens the day better this time of year than the fresh blossoms hanging from the trees on the street and popping up in your neighborhood gardens. Goodbye cabin fever, hello springtime!
The challenge is to feature a cocktail that highlights a floral flavor profile or includes a floral derived ingredient, whether home-made or off the shelf. With the ever expanding catalogue of spirits (and the kitchen labs of home enthusiasts), there's a whole host of directions for you to choose from – elderflower liqueur, creme de violette, chamomile infused gin, hibiscus grenadine, rosewater, lavender syrup – or to create. With some luck, one of the garnish gurus will figure out a way to turn an orchid into a swizzle stick.
So if you want to join the virtual bar crawl, shoot me an email that includes a link to your blog entry for your drink to barmancometh (at) hotmail dot com, or post a comment to this entry by midnight on May 16th that includes the same. Also, please link back to the Mixology Monday website and include the MxMo logo. If you don't have your own blog, I can feature you here with a guest blog post, but I will need to receive your submission by May 14th. I will post a round-up of everyone's cocktails within a few days after, post haste.
This is what a beautiful day in the East Bay looks like.
This past autumn for my birthday, thanks to my better half, I had the good fortune to experience a triple dose of cocktail fun. First, dinner at Heaven's Dog, the Modern Chinese meets mixology venue from Charles Phan of Slanted Door fame. Followed by a book premiere party for Left Coast Libations which featured a cocktail list from the book, including a crazy-good Saffron Sandalwood Sour. Then concluding at Thad Vogler's Vulcan mind meld of locavore dinning meets locavore drinking at Bar Agricole. A fun time was had by all – from what I can remember!
Thankfully, it includes a few recipes that can be made on the relative spur of the moment – presuming you have access to a farmer's market, neighborhood greengrocer or – in our case – Chinatown produce stand. This one is an easy "modern" classic that is perfect for when the weather starts to take a turn for the springtime. Light, refreshing and festive. It's also a completely awesome green in color. What more could you want?
Shake with ice and strain through fine mesh seive.
Recipe courtesy of Jeffrey Morganthaler.


By the time UFC 101 rolls around, it will have been 14 months since we last saw The Ultimate Fighter 7 winner Amir Sadollah compete. Although his upset win against CB Dollaway on the TUF 7 Finale was the only win of his professional career, he knows the true tests are yet to come.
After taking home the UFC's six-figure contract, Sadollah took about five months off to allow his mind and body to recoup, then sufferred a minor injury that set him back, but he is good to go now.
To help him with the transition from reality TV star to true MMA fighter, Sadollah followed his "TUF 7" coach, and former "TUF 1" champ Forrest Griffin to Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas, Nevada. A place that he now calls home.
Sadollah knows that by winning the show, he now has a very large target on his back. Everyone will be gunning for him, trying to prove the only reason he is in the UFC is because he won the show.
Not only will training at Xtreme Couture, one of the most talented fight camps in all of MMA, help in Sadollah's development, but seeing Forrest on an everyday basis should be plenty of motivation for the rookie as well. Forrest was once in Sadollah's shoes and has managed to become the UFC light heavyweight champion. A true fairytale story.
Johny Hendricks will mark Sadollah's second professional opponent, and his second in the middleweight division. Sadollah is a small 185-pounder, and has already considered making the drop down to the 170-pound division, a weight that may be much more suitable for him.
Either way, his long journey to MMA stardom will officially begin on August 8th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
You can bet against him, however his entire life has been based on proving the naysayers wrong, but just take a look at where his starting point is.


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How to guess gender from a first name in PHP
December 31, 2009 By Pete Warden in Uncategorized	Leave a comment
Photo by Davezilla
If you've got someone's first name, it's possible to make a pretty accurate guess what their gender is. Obviously there's plenty of exceptions, Sean and Francis spring to mind, but for lots of applications you don't need 100% accuracy or coverage. In my case I want a better understanding the demographics of my users, so a figure that's within a few percent is fine.
There's a great Perl module called Text::GenderFromName that implements this idea, with accumulated wisdom dating all the way back to a 1991 awk script! I haven't found anything that fits well into my PHP projects though, so I finally bit the bullet and ported that Perl script to PHP. The result is up at
http://web.mailana.com/labs/genderfromname/
and you can get the source at
http://github.com/petewarden/genderfromname
Thanks to Eamon Daly and Jon Orwant for the original code, and apologies for the mechanical translation of Perl code to PHP. It's now painfully non-idiomatic, but it does work!
For best results you should also install the doublemetaphone PHP module, though it will function without it.
Introducing Fan Page Analytics
Fan Page Analytics is a new project I've just launched to help answer questions about Facebook pages. Here's some examples:
Which parts of the world have the most fans of God? In the US the map pretty clears shows the traditional Bible Belt, but looking worldwide the Phillipines is pretty god-fearing too.
How does ReadWriteWeb's fan base compare to TechCrunch's? From the map, RWW is much more broadly based, whereas TC's readership is heavily concentrated in the traditional US tech centers of California, Washington and Massachusetts. I only see one venture capital fan page in RWW's top 20 most related pages, but I count 8 in TC. On the other hand there's a couple of HR related pages for RWW, and none for TC, which suggests a less geeky audience.
That's all fascinating, but what problem does it solve? Suppose I'm planning the next DEMO conference. Glancing at the related pages shows that Charlene Li and Fred Wilson are people my audience care about, so they should be top of my list to attend and spread the word. ReadWriteWeb and GigaOm fans are more likely to be fans of DEMO than Techcrunch readers, so I might get more bang for my buck buying ad space on those sites. Looking at the locations, CA, WA and MA are way ahead, so I can craft some Facebook ads targeted only at those areas and tied in to some of the other related interests. I can even look at some examples of users in particular locations or with shared interests to understand if they're really my target market. These appear in the right side-bar when you click on an area or a location.
This is an initial release, so expect a few bugs, and it's not yet got complete coverage of fan pages, so apologies if yours isn't there yet. Hopefully you can still have some fun uncovering things like Glenn Beck's fan base in Outer Mongolia.
What can I find out about you if I know your email address?
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One of the least-understood developments of the last few years is the growth of databases of personal information linked to email addresses. Rapleaf is probably the leader in this field, but even Flickr lets companies search their API for users based on an email address. I wrote a service that queries all the data sources I could find to demonstrate how much is out there:
http://web.mailana.com/labs/findbyemail/
Give it a try for yourself, you might be surprised by how much companies can discover about you once they know your email address! Many services give out at least your full name and a location, which is often enough to get your address and a phone number from a service like whitepages.com.
How to make your intensity maps interactive
Google's Intensity Map charts are a really easy and clean way to show heat maps of geographic data. Unfortunately, there's no way to take the next step in the user experience, and let people mouse over and click on the maps to see additional information about a particular area.
To solve that problem, I've written a PHP script that extracts the country and state boundaries from the maps and constructs a Javascript function to return the state code for any point on the maps. You can see an example of this in practice at http://web.mailana.com/labs/mapclicker/ or you can download the complete source, including the boundary extractor.
The example page will show the state or country code for any point you move the mouse over on either of the maps, and if you click, will display an alert showing the name. It assumes your image has the maximum 440×220 dimensions, but you can apply scaling to the coordinates if you are using something smaller.
Create amazing Flash maps with Mercator
I've been using Google's simple map visualizer to picture some of the geographic data I'm gathering, but I've been looking for something more customizable and interactive. After a lot of searching, I finally found Mercator, an open-source flash library for creating maps. I've only been using it for a few hours, but already I'm very excited! It's not only very slick, with built-in animation and a clean look, it's also got a lot of depth, with data and graphics for an astonishing array of countries, states and cities.
The only down-side was getting started. The beginner's guide is aimed at someone with a deeper knowledge of Flash application building than me, and there was no 'hello world' example I could download, though there are several more advanced projects available. So, for anyone else out there who struggles with Flex basics here's a complete project for Flex Builder 3 that just creates and displays a Mercator map. You can see it running at the head of this post, or over at http://web.mailana.com/labs/mapview/
Manfred's done an excellent job on Mercator, it's a poster child for the quality of open-source projects, and I'm looking forward to creating some rich visualizations on top of it.
A shell script for building MongoDB from source
Photo by Christina Matheson
I've been working a lot with MongoDB lately, including some tinkering to add domain socket support. Unfortunately those modifications mean that I can't just use a binary download when I need to install it on a new machine, I have to build from source instead. There's general instructions on building for Fedora 8, but I found that yum had either versions that were too old for some packages like scons, or as with PCRE it ended up complaining about other programs requiring older versions than Mongo asked for.
As a result, I ended up creating a shell script to handle all the building steps required. This is pretty specific to my own environment and very hackish, but if you're running into the same sort of issues trying to use RPMs for all the dependencies, hopefully this will give you some hints on building from source.
Download Makemongo
# Builds MongoDB and its needed dependencies for Fedora 8
# By Pete Warden
# First, make sure we have git
yum install git
# Now grab the Mongo source from github
git clone git://github.com/mongodb/mongo.git
# Get an up-to-date version of Scons, yum installs a 0.97 version that doesn't work!
curl -L "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scons/scons/1.2.0.d20090919/scons-1.2.0.d20090919.tar.gz?use_mirror=cdnetworks-us-1" > scons-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar -xf scons-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd scons-1.2.0.d20090919/
# Scons relies on Python, so make sure that's present
yum install -y python-devel
python setup.py install
# Now grab boost sources - I do see some warnings in Mongo's config about this being out of date
yum install -y boost
yum install -y boost-devel
# Spidermonkey is needed for Javascript support, and there's no RPM
curl -O ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.7.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf js-1.7.0.tar.gz
cd js/src
make -f Makefile.ref
JS_DIST=/usr gmake -f Makefile.ref export
# You need an up-to-date version of PCRE, more recent than the one installed by yum
curl -O "ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.00.zip"
unzip pcre-8.00.zip
cd pcre-8.00
./configure --prefix=/usr
cd ../mongo
scons all
# On my AMIs there's old versions of PCRE libraries left lying around, so move them
mv /usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0 /usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0.original
ln -s /usr/lib/libpcrecpp.so.0 /usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0
# Create the database location and run Mongo
mkdir /mnt/data
mkdir /mnt/data/db
./mongod --dbpath=/mnt/data/db --bind_ip=/tmp/mongo.sock --port=0 &
# Now build the PHP drivers and add them to the php.ini
git clone git://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver.git
cd mongo-php-driver/
phpize
echo "" >> /etc/php.ini
echo "extension=mongo.so" >> /etc/php.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
St Mary's Glacier
December 14, 2009 By Pete Warden in Uncategorized	2 Comments
We had my parents to stay over Thanksgiving. They'd never been to Colorado before, so there was plenty to do around Boulder, but I also wanted a long weekend somewhere in the mountains. After digging around on the great Vacation Rentals by Owner site, I found a little two bedroom condo near Idaho Springs, about an hour from Denver.
We drove up the I70, then about 9 miles up a twisty mountain road to get to the little community of St Mary's Glacier. I have to admit my heart sank when I saw the building we were staying in, it looked like an apartment block from East Germany in the 1970's. That impression wasn't helped by the two abandoned cars across the street, next to a boarded-up cabin with broken windows, along with multiple for-sale signs in our building. Climbing upstairs to the condo, the door across the hall had been forced open, splintering the frame. We were pretty sure it was being used by squatters, since the door was permanently open, but towards the end of our stay we spoke to the building manager and they'd apparently just lost their keys!
I felt a flood of relief once we stepped inside, the place was beautiful. You can see a full tour on Randy's website, but he's done a fantastic job decorating. There was a dining nook with windows on three sides, giving a view of the lake and mountains, and the living room was great in the evening thanks to the roaring fireplace.
The real point of the trip was outside the condo. Even though there hadn't been much snow, we were up at 10,400 feet so there was some pretty wild terrain. We had new snow-shoes to try out, so we trekked up the glacier itself, to 11,700 feet. We're fairly certain that Thor is the only Chihuahua to make it up to the top of the glacier, and we were all stunned by the views from the plateau. The only off-note was a couple of jack-asses on quad bikes who decided to ride them up the glacier despite all the sign-posts, only to be driven off by irate hikers.
If you're looking for an authentic slice of old Colorado, St Mary's Glacier is pretty fascinating, with no pretensions, lots of history and more ghost towns nearby than I could count. It's somewhere with character – if you're looking for an adventurous mountain vacation off the beaten track I'd highly recommend it. It's definitely not Aspen, but that's it's charm!


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Q: Java run-time error " Non-terminating decimal expansion; no exact representable decimal result" in BigDecimal class it give me an error when choosing "Positive improper integration"or"Negative improper              integration"
the error is Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArithmeticException: Non-terminating decimal expansion; no exact representable decimal result.
 at java.math.BigDecimal.divide(BigDecimal.java:1603)
 at SE_Project_2.calculate(SE_Project_2.java:55)
 at SE_Project_2.main(SE_Project_2.java:45)

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 import java.math.BigDecimal;
 import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

 public class SE_Project_2 {

  private static BigDecimal C0 =   new BigDecimal("0.1713245");
  private static BigDecimal C1 =   new BigDecimal("0.3607616");
  private static BigDecimal C2 =   new BigDecimal("0.4679139");
  private static BigDecimal C3 =   new BigDecimal("0.4679139");
  private static BigDecimal C4 =   new BigDecimal("0.3607616");
  private static BigDecimal C5 =   new BigDecimal("0.1713245");
  private static BigDecimal X0 =   new BigDecimal("-0.932469514");
  private static BigDecimal X1 =   new BigDecimal("-0.661209386");
  private static BigDecimal X2 =   new BigDecimal("-0.238619186");
  private static BigDecimal X3 =   new BigDecimal("0.238619186");
  private static BigDecimal X4 =   new BigDecimal("0.661209386");
  private static BigDecimal X5 =   new BigDecimal("0.932469514");
  private static BigDecimal a=new BigDecimal("0"),b=new BigDecimal("0");
  private static int y;
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
         try{
          String[] o = {"Positive improper integration","Negative improper integration","Normal integration"};
          y = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null,"Welcome to my program! \nYahya Al-Buluwi\nIt can work for big decimal numbers.\n\nThis program will find the integral of: \nf(x)= 5x + 3 dx\nBy using the 6-points Gauss Legendre Quadrature formulae.\n\n What choise is prefered to you?","Welcome",JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION,JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,null,o,o[2]);
    BigDecimal sum = null;

if (y==2){
 a = new BigDecimal((String)JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Enter the value of a:","Enter the value of a", JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE));
       b = new BigDecimal((String)JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Enter the value of b:","Enter the value of b", JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE));
}
sum = calculate(X0,C0).add(calculate(X1,C1).add(calculate(X2,C2)).add(calculate(X3,C3).add(calculate(X4,C4).add(calculate(X5,C5)))));
System.out.println("y=" + y);
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The 6-points Gauss Legendre Quadrature formulae solution according to \na= " + a+"\nb= "+b+" \nis:   "+ sum,"Result",JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);

     }catch(Exception e){
      JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Ooops! an error has occured! the program will be terminated.","Error",JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
      calculate(X0,C0).add(calculate(X1,C1).add(calculate(X2,C2)).add(calculate(X3,C3).add(calculate(X4,C4).add(calculate(X5,C5)))));
System.out.println("y=" + y);
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The 6-points Gauss Legendre Quadrature formulae solution according to \na= " + a+"\nb= "+b+" \nis:   "+  calculate(X0,C0).add(calculate(X1,C1).add(calculate(X2,C2)).add(calculate(X3,C3).add(calculate(X4,C4).add(calculate(X5,C5))))),"Result",JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);

     }
 }
public static BigDecimal calculate(BigDecimal x, BigDecimal c){
  BigDecimal h = x.multiply(new BigDecimal("0.5"));
  if(y==0){
   //     PI= (1/(.5x)**2)*((5/(.5+.5x))+3)
   return (((new BigDecimal("1")).divide(h.pow(2))).multiply((new BigDecimal("3")).add((new BigDecimal("5")).divide((new BigDecimal("0.5")).add(h)))));
  }
  if(y==1){
   //        NI= (1/(-.5x)**2)*((5/(-.5-.5x))+3)
   return ((new BigDecimal("1").divide((h.negate()).pow(2))).multiply(new BigDecimal("3").add(new BigDecimal("5").divide(new BigDecimal("-0.5").add(h.negate())))));
  }

 BigDecimal sum = (b.add(a)).divide(new BigDecimal("2"));
    BigDecimal diff =(b.add(a.negate())).divide(new BigDecimal("2"));
    return c.multiply(diff.multiply((((diff.multiply(x)).add(sum)).multiply(new BigDecimal("5"))).add(new BigDecimal("3"))));

}
}

A: This happens when you do 1/3 on BigDecimal and don't specify how precise the result should be and what the round method should be like.
See javadoc (http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/math/BigDecimal.html)
You may use a MathContext object to wrap up precision and roundupMethod together. You may also choose to specify it directly. Add that information to constructor or when calling divide are both ok.

A: You probably need to use one of the divide methods that specify the rounding mode.
Read also here.

A: Divide method throws this exception if the resulting number have infinite decimal expansion. In this case, you need to provide a MathContext, which will define how the number will be rounded, so that it have a finite value.

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The First Graduates About Studying in The Educational Programs of Lviv IT Cluster
The Artificial Intelligence Systems at the Lviv Polytechnic National University and Data Science & Intelligent Systems at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv are one of the pilot educational programs implemented with the support of Lviv IT Cluster. In 2021, the first graduates of these educational programs got their Bachelor's degrees. The details of the educational process, collaboration with the tech industry, and challenges on the way of implementation of these programs are highlighted below.
In September 2016, professor of the Lviv Polytechnic National University Natalia Shakhovska and graduate of the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Director of Software Development Office at SoftServe Ivan Zagorodniy initiated the Artificial Intelligence Systems modernization. With the support of Lviv IT Cluster the workgroup of the IT specialists and the representatives of the Lviv Polytechnic National University was formed. This workgroup developed the education program for Artificial Intelligence Systems. The SoftServe, GlobalLogic, CIKLUM, N-IX, Epam companies significantly supported the program development. The Department of Artificial Intelligence Systems involved specialists from Epam, Intellias, Inoxoft, GlobalLogic, Solidbrain, Grammarly to give classes within the program. The program started in 2017, 136 students joined the program that year and 4 years later 88 of them got bachelor's degrees.
"I, as well as other tech industry representatives, could not predict the demand for our program graduates in the future while we have been modifying a particular education block of the Artificial Intelligence Systems. The first two courses give basic fundamental and professional education, allowing students to find themselves in various IT fields. Most of our students start working from the second-third year of studying and all of them are employed after graduation. Besides that, we took a risk and, together with SoftServe company, organized a dual form of education for 20 students, who, on the third year of studying, became a separate class," Natalia Shakhovska, the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Systems Department at the Lviv Polytechnic National University.
We were starting from the educational projects for the AI and IoT directions. The first one cost us a lot of effort and it took two years to form a team of experts, create the education program infrastructure and, of course, organize the educational process. More than 150 people were involved in the working process: the university experts, Lviv It Cluster, and Lviv IT companies. I am happy that during these four years of our work we had realized everything we planned and today we have first graduates, almost a hundred of them have got their bachelor's degrees and successfully work in Lviv tech companies," Ivan Zagorodniy, Director of Software Development Office at SoftServe and Artificial Intelligence Systems program lead from the tech industry.
Andriy Natiahlyi, a graduate of the Artificial Intelligence Systems program: "First of all, AIS is about the community of those who have chosen progress and development alongside getting a higher education degree. The principal value of the program is in its complexity. Students can fully form their curriculum vitae and gain tech and communication skills before they finish the university, thanks to the projects they do in small groups, and then present them to the experts each semester."
The Information Systems and Technologies program was developed by the lecturers of the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Technologies at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in cooperation with Lviv IT Cluster members, particularly SoftServe, GlobalLogic, PLVision, InfoPulse, Infineon Technologies, Vakoms, EPAM, and N-iX. The program is called innovative and unique because, after the first year of study, students can choose between 4 different directions in the tech field:
Internet of things;
Smart systems and solutions;
Data analysis;
Artificial intelligence and machine learning;
Since the program had no option for students to study for the cost of government, Lviv IT Cluster, in collaboration with Western NIS Enterprise Fund, held a competition for the entrants with the best grades to receive a scholarship for education for the first two years of studying. Lilia Leskin became the lucky one who had the opportunity to study for free.
"I want to thank Lviv IT Cluster and university teachers for giving me a chance to study in this program and winning the scholarship for the first two years of studying. I appreciate that professors and experts acknowledge my assiduousness because only the best students with good grades for independent external evaluation and those who showed excellent results during studying at university could have an opportunity to learn at no charge," says Liliya Leskiv, Data Science and Intelligent Systems graduate.
Also, the Infopulse Data Science & Machine Learning Lab allows students of the program to develop their projects related to processing large data sets; this lab was opened in February 2019 with the support of Infopulse, Lviv IT Cluster member company.
Ihor Olenych, Head of the Department of Radio-Electronic and Computer Systems, Faculty of Electronics and Computer Technologies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv about the program: "Educational program Information systems and technologies is the first program of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, developed and implemented under the sponsorship of Lviv IT Cluster. Our students have the possibility to use international academic mobility, combine learning and research activities, join workshops, summer and winter tech schools, take part in scientific groups, and present their scientific research results at the conferences."
"In 2017, at the initiative of Roman Shuvar, Head of the Department of Systems Design, we launched the education program DS&IS, the first program at the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Technologies, which was developed according to an entirely new approach. Professors, engineers, and Lviv It Cluster did a great job elaborating everything about the program: every lecture for each of four DS&IS education directions," Volodymyr Bigday, Principal Engineer, Infineon Technologies, Lead of DS&IS education program during 2018 – 2020.
"Throughout the offline studying at university (before the pandemic), we were visiting different events, having tours to the tech companies' offices, taking part in the workshops, lectures, and creating projects in cooperation with tech industry mentors. We even had a chance to visit the IT Arena conference twice! I am so grateful for gaining such an experience," Anastasia Senko, a graduate of Information systems and technologies specialty.
The project IT Expert of Lviv IT Cluster has seventeen innovative education programs at three universities of Lviv; three out of seventeen programs already have their graduates. Find more info about Lviv IT Cluster Bachelor's programs here.


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The NM Political Report (https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2018/05/14/scott-pruitts-ethics-violations-havent-stopped-his-rollbacks/)
Environmental Integrity Project
Scott Pruitt's ethics violations haven't stopped his rollbacks
By Maya L. Kapoor, High Country News | May 14, 2018
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Scott Pruitt speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Flickr / cc
Kevin Chmielewski knew when he was out at the Environmental Protection Agency. As he told Democratic members of Congress, it was when the former deputy chief of staff refused to retroactively approve a staff member's first-class travel from Morocco to the United States. Chmielewski, a 38-year-old former Coast Guard member, was placed on administrative leave without pay, later learning from news reports that he had been fired. A staunch Trump supporter, Chmielewski had tangled with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt over spending before: He'd previously dissuaded Pruitt from using EPA funds to contract with a private jet company for $100,000 per month. After his firing, Chmielewski turned whistleblower, meeting with congressional Democrats to detail EPA behaviors that he found to be unethical.
The alleged demoting or firing of employees who question Pruitt's expenses is just one of the controversies embroiling the administrator this spring. Pruitt is the subject of at least 11 ethics investigations into everything from giving raises, one of more than 70 percent, to aides even after the raises were nixed by the White House, to renting a Washington, D.C., condominium from an energy lobbyist's wife at a steeply discounted rate. Yet even as the scandals pile up, Pruitt continues to roll back pollution regulations that hamper industry agendas, and to weaken the science that supports his agency's work.
During two House budget hearings last month, Pruitt faced questions from lawmakers about ethics violations, including misuse of agency funds, and about his anti-science agenda. Pruitt placed responsibility for his spending decisions on his staff, including the installation of a $43,000 secure phone booth in his office, despite the existence of two other secure communications locations three floors away. Pruitt claimed he was unaware of the cost. He also attributed his first-class domestic travel to his security team, without explaining how first class is safer than coach class on a commercial flight. And according to the Associated Press, the administrator flies coach to Oklahoma when taking personal trips not footed by the EPA. The Environmental Integrity Project, a nonprofit watchdog organization, calculated that Pruitt's government-funded airfare alone cost more than $167,000 from March 2017 to February 2018.
Lawmakers aren't just concerned about Pruitt's ethics. They also question the administrator's anti-science agenda and his skepticism about human-caused climate change, including his assertion that people may benefit from a warming planet. During the hearings, House members criticized the scrubbing of climate change information from the EPA's website, the agency's instructions to employees to play up uncertainties around climate change in public presentations, and the erosion of scientific expertise at the EPA through staff changes.
Meanwhile, the Sierra Club recently released a trove of internal EPA communications, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, that underscores Pruitt's close ties to the fossil fuel industry. The documents reveal an agency that works with the fossil fuel industry and deregulation lobbyists to develop priorities, scheduling calls, meetings and appearances with organizations such as The Texas Oil and Gas Association and Occidental Petroleum Corporation's Board of Directors, and with conservative think-tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
As criticism of the agency has grown, several high-level EPA staffmembers have abandoned ship. In early April, Samantha K. Dravis, the EPA's regulatory reform officer tasked with reducing regulations (whose first-class international flight led to Chmielewski's firing) resigned. Dravis is currently under investigation for allegedly missing months of work while retaining a salary. Then, a week after Pruitt's House testimonies, press office head Liz Bowman and press deputy John Konkus stepped down, as did Albert "Kell" Kelly, who formerly oversaw the Superfund Site program, and Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta, the head of Pruitt's security detail.
But the swirl of controversies hasn't halted Pruitt's push to hobble the EPA. Even as his May congressional hearings unfolded, Pruitt signed a controversial new rule that many researchers and medical professionals worry will hamstring the agency's ability to use good science in its work, under the guise of increased transparency. The rule requires that the EPA only use data that is publicly available. This could restrict the agency's access to information, since most raw data belongs to the outside researchers, universities and private companies who conducted the studies, not the EPA. And it repeats the work of the preexisting independent peer-review process of scientific papers. Lawmakers also worry that the policy would expose private healthcare information about patients. In addition, the rule is expensive: EPA staff estimated that a bill introduced by Republican members of Congress with the same objectives would have cost $250 million per year. According to E&E News, Pruit signed his "secret science" rule before the Office of Management and Budget finished reviewing it, a detail that was quickly erased from OMB records.
Pruitt has worked since joining the agency to gut the Clean Power Plan, a rule that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30 percent in the next decade. And in March 2017, the EPA scrapped a requirement that glider kits — big rigs with new bodies and old diesel engines — meet higher fuel efficiency standards, justifying the decision with industry-backed emissions research contradicted by the EPA's own internal findings. Pruitt has continued, amid growing ethics scandals, to undo federal policies aimed at fighting climate change. In April, Pruitt announced a rollback of the Obama administration's rule requiring automakers to increase average fuel economy for vehicles to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
Pruitt has taken aim at other pollution regulations, too. In the wake of the 2013 chemical plant explosion in Texas that killed 14 people and injured 200, the Obama administration crafted stricter guidelines for storing hazardous chemicals. Last year, the EPA delayed implementing the rule until 2019. Recently, the EPA proposed weakening regulations of how coal ash, a toxic byproduct from coal-burning power plants, is stored, while also working to weaken regulations of benzene pollution in communities near petroleum refineries.
More than 180 members of Congress have called for Pruitt's resignation, including some Republican lawmakers. In a press release, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said that Pruitt "has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the taxpayers and spent it on special perks for himself, while trying to slash the budget for the health and safety programs his agency oversees."
Maya L. Kapoor is an associate editor for High Country News.
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On Friday, in response to a judge's order, the Department of Justice released data showing the authors, recipients, timing, and subject lines of a group of emails sent to and from the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. They show that in the weeks before the commission issued a controversial letter requesting sweeping voter data from the states, co-chair Kris Kobach and the commission's staff sought the input of Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams on "present and future" state data collection, and attached a draft of the letter for their review — at a moment when neither had yet been named to the commission.
The Interior secretary gave a closed-door speech to ALEC
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New EPA head has long history of ties to mining interests
Andrew Wheeler, a former coal and uranium mining lobbyist, has been named the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, after the abrupt resignation of Scott Pruitt. Pruitt announced his decision on Thursday, amid a series of ethics investigations into his improper use of taxpayer money and penchant for using employees to conduct personal errands.
Heinrich, Udall: EPA head Pruitt should resign
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House panel approves NM 'sanctuary' bill
A state House of Representatives panel approved a bill to bar local law enforcement agencies in New Mexico from enforcing federal immigration laws. The bill, which according to a fiscal analysis would prohibit state resources from being used against anyone "whose only violation is being in the United States illegally," passed on a party line 3-2 vote in the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee.
Deal reached for new dairy rule
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SCOTUS says Trump administration can't add citizenship question to Census—for now
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's attempt to add a question to the U.S. Census inquiring about respondents' citizenship—for now. The court released the ruling Thursday morning, on the final day of this year's term.
Tempests and fisticuffs: The history of NM's open U.S. Senate races
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A Taos-based water conservation group has been waiting for the EPA to make a decision about a stormwater permit for over five years, while pollution coming from urban stormwater runoff in Los Alamos County, the group alleges, continues to threaten water quality standards. Amigos Bravos wants a final determination from the EPA in response to a petition it filed with the agency back in 2014.
Feds continue environmental rollbacks with new methane emissions rule
Trump administration neuters nuclear safety board
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Lift the lid of your MacBook Pro to turn it on, or press Touch ID. Every time you start up, restart, or log out, you need to type your password to log in to your user account. After setting up Touch ID, as long as you're logged in, you can use your fingerprint instead of typing when you're asked for your password.
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Velvet Goldmine
Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowie esque glam superstar Brian Slade staged his own death and escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth of the enigmatic Slade's rise and fall. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.
Genre : Drama, Music
Actors : Christian Bale, Damian Suchet, Danny Nutt, Eddie Izzard, Emily Woof, Ewan McGregor, Janet McTeer, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Luke Morgan Oliver, Mairead McKinley, Michael Feast, Micko Westmoreland, Osheen Jones, Toni Collette, Wash Westmoreland
Director : June McDonald, Todd Haynes
Country : UK, USA
CBGB looks at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal (Alan Rickman) in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
June in January
A newly engaged bride dreamed of her wedding day with her late mother for her entire life, and is looking forward to planning every perfect detail to honor her mom's memory. But her special day is nearly ruined by her intimidating future mother-in-law and her fiancé's sudden work transfer, which pushes her perfect outdoor June wedding ceremony up to a January date — just three weeks away!
Operation Dumbo Drop
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime — to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, War
Notes on a Scandal
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Fist of Legend
Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in fact military occupation- after reading about the death of his kung-fu master Hou Ting-An in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa.
East of Finland
Three men meet on a night train on the border of Finland and Sweden. All three are concealing something, and a sudden confrontation amongst them leads to disastrous consequences, with two of them being forced to make a joint decision.
Country: Finland , Sweden
When a voyeuristic divorcee fixates on the lives of a perfect couple a far, she soon gets embroiled in a murder mystery that unfolds revealing truths about her own life.
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown — at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.
Country: UK , USA
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against all odds, hold back the forces until the Danish reinforcements can be mobilized. In the fatal hours, we follow second lieutenant Sand and his bicycle company – they will as the first Danish soldiers meet the enemy in combat on April 9th 1940.
United Passions
An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga celebrates the event that became the most popular sporting event in the world.
These Final Hours
What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller