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🔮 The rights, ownership, economics & responsibilities of data. A special special. ++ #181
I've been lucky enough to get to know the work of Jeni Tennison and The Open Data Institute a little during the past year or so. They are thinking very deeply about how to build trusted institutions and systems around data.
I believe this is vital work. A world where citizen-consumers understand the value and risks of data may get us to a higher energy level where we can use data to tackle causes of disease, unhappiness & inequality while maintaining a healthy balance of power between the individual, family & community and business. One where we (and policymakers) don't understand the range of ecosystems we can build around data (and the rules that govern them) lends itself to our lurching with ill-informed knee-jerk responses to real or imagined data abuses. Equally, a more nuanced understanding of the economics of data will allow better investments by firms and, in economist's terms, result in welfare gains.
I had hoped Jeni would cover for me during my summer vacation but diaries didn't work out. But I have learnt so much from the ODI, that I thought the opportunity to hear from Jeni while I am actually in London and able to write Exponential View was too good to pass up :)
Enjoy her Exponential View,
About Jeni
I'm Jeni (@JeniT), CEO of the Open Data Institute (ODI), which is an independent, international non-profit founded in 2012 by Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. We work with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem. This includes research and development to create practical tools and training for organisations who work with data; running sector programmes such as OpenActive that coordinate organisations to tackle social and economic problems with data; and bringing together people in peer networks to learn from each other.
Like many people who work at this intersection between data and society, I have a mixed background in fields such as psychology, AI (back in the days it was called knowledge engineering), software development (although I wouldn't call myself a computer scientist), international standards and board game design. I got introduced to the public policy implications of data through working on legislation.gov.uk and data.gov.uk. Now my work, and that of ODI, really focuses on how people, organisations and communities can use data to make better decisions and be protected from any harmful impacts.
How do we enable people and organisations to access data while preserving trust, particularly but not only with personal data? How do the rights of the individual interact with the rights of organisations and societies? This is my focus for this week's Exponential View.
🕳 Training data for machine learning means AI can be sexist and racist — for example in AI-driven dermatology, maternal healthcare or falsely matching black members of Congress to criminal mugshots. "Biases in data can reflect deep and hidden imbalances in institutional infrastructures and social power relations." Or sometimes deliberate fixing. Dataset creators can document how they sample data, but algorithm designers also have a responsibility to try to find ways to adjust. Want more? Read Made By Humans by (ODI alumnus) Ellen Broad.
📃 What if a society wants to embed bias in algorithms? Reportedly, Google plans to launch a censored search engine in China that will blacklist search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest. Google employees object. Would a code of ethics for data scientists help formalise the responsibility of those who create algorithms to think and act ethically?
🔮 In the UK, the Treasury has issued a discussion paper on the economic value of data, leading some to be concerned about a retreat from the UK's commitment to open public sector data when trading funds are making money off it. The relevant organisation here is Ordnance Survey, the UK's mapping agency. There were baby steps to more open geospatial data earlier in the year and a current consultation on making the UK a world leader in geospatial. Want more on the economics of data? Bill Gates recently reviewed Capitalism without Capital by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake which touches on data as an example of an intangible good. (Jonathan was one of the speakers at a recent workshop which we ran at ODI with Diane Coyle from the Bennett Institute (who also curated one previous EV dedicated to productivity in the digital age) exploring how both organisations and society should value data.)
Dept of data ownership
Seems like no one is happy with big tech having (sole) access to lots of personal data. Data about us can and should be used for our (individual or collective) good, but what institutions and regulations do we need to make that happen?
Health data gives good examples of the challenges and experimental approaches. The genomic data of people who gave DNA testing company 23andMe permission to pass it on for research of donated for research will be used by GlaxoSmithKline to design new drugs. Savvy is a co-operative where members share in the profits created from sharing data about their health. Some think it would help to give users easy access to data about them and let them port it to competing services. EFF thinks data portability and interoperability are anti-monopoly medicine. Others are concerned about the privacy impacts.
Should data about me be property that I can sell access to (managed by blockchains!)? Our only source of income when AI steals our jobs? A recent analysis by Charles Jones & Christopher Tonetti puts some economic theory and numbers behind the observable maximisation of data use by firms when they own it. It suggests individual data ownership will create a perfect market that balances economic benefit with privacy concerns. At ODI, we're sceptical. Data is seldom just about us. Society should benefit from it too. And it's pretty impossible to understand the implications of the controls over data we're already given; having data ownership won't change that.
Mariana Mazzucato argues for a national(ised?) data repository that sells personal data to tech companies and uses the profits to fund the digital economy. Aral Balkin objects to state as well as capitalist surveillance, and calls for a combination of regulation and support for ethical alternative services. Evgeny Morozov thinks a middle path is city-level personal data stores. The UK's AI review last year proposed data trusts. We're trying to work out what that means.
These and more approaches have been discussed in Helsinki at the MyData conference this week.
You're a nerd, right? Recite the story of 'the great calculator race'. See what fits (or doesn't) in women's jeans pockets and discuss your favourite statistics and how Amazon's pricing algorithms make high street prices change more rapidly too.
📈 Obligatory Bitcoin/blockchain facts: The Bitcoin network processes $1.3 trillion of transactions, more than Paypal. (But Paypal handled 7 billion transactions in 2017, compared to Bitcoin's 104 million.) And Bitcoin now consumes about 1% of global energy generation, about the same amount of energy as Austria.
Paul Cooper makes the real world magical with his illustrated historical Twitter threads. Read about the Red Zones left in France after WWI or the ritual of substitute kings in ancient Mesopotamia.
🕹 Want to play a game? Experience both the frustrations of referenda and occasional reminders of humanity's essentially cooperative nature by playing EmojiTetra or play through the post-summer Brexit options.
💤 And finally: a guaranteed way to fall asleep in 120 seconds.
Azeem's end note
I am spending a bit of time over the coming months thinking about data in the context of the new information age. I'm particularly curious about the full spectrum of issues from what personal rights around data usage should be, how those rights should be expressed and protected, especially in the context of derived attributes or characteristics the emerge from aggregated or population level data. I'm curious about collective data institutions like data exchanges, data trusts and data commons. I wonder about how business strategies might evolve beyond data network effects. And I'm intrigued by how data might be used in political & deliberative processes. And I want to understand better how we describe and unleash the economic value of data.
Happy to have discussions and, naturally, if you are working in a startup or token network looking at this problem, delighted to talk to you.
Before you disappear, please take a moment tothank Jeni on Twitter, Linkedin, or by forwarding this email to your colleagues and friends.
Have a fantastic September!
Azeem 🍂
P.S. I'll see you next week.


LONG BEACH >> Every month, Teamsters Local 848 pays an average of about $2,500 in energy bills to power its meeting hall on the 3800 block of Cherry Avenue.
This week, the Teamsters broke ground on the first Los Angeles County Property Assessed Clean Energy-funded energy-efficiency project, which will include new solar panels, a new "cool roof" and improved lighting.
The $236,350 project, financed with a property tax bill assessment, will create up to $75,000 in savings and allow the building be sustainable year-round, according to the county.
The county created a team of finance and community and economic development experts last October to help commercial property owners to develop more sustainable projects.
The Teamsters' project is the first of more than 29 projects being developed through PACE financing for more than $24 million worth of sustainable improvements, according to the county.
"With the project pipeline growing at an extraordinary rate, we are excited to see more property owners use PACE to make cost-effective energy-efficient upgrades that lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions," Howard Choy, General Manager of the Los Angeles County Office of Sustainability, said in a statement.
Teamsters Secretary-Treasurer Eric Tate said he was made aware of the program while inquiring about solar paneling for his own home.
The project was so successful that Local 848 is encouraging all of the other Southern California Teamsters Locals to install solar power panels on their buildings, Tate said.
The solar panels will create about 80 percent of the building while the cool roof will lower roof temperatures by about 20 degrees and the new lighting will reduce energy use by 38 percent annually, according to the county.


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In an attempt to apply some logic and give guidance for users the Fabricated Access Covers Association (FACTA) of which Wrekin is a member have produced definitions and loading categorisations in the form of classes for fabricated covers but not pressed tops.
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Q: Best way to implement RAII idiom in c# I have a class which manipulates a resource which is shared by multiple threads.  The threads pass around control of a mutex in order to manage access to the resource.  I would like to manage control of the mutex using the RAII idiom via a disposable object.
There is an additional caveat.  When the class begins an operation to manipulate the resource, it is possible that the operation is no longer necessary, or may no longer be performed.  This is the result of user action which occurs after the operation has been scheduled to be carried out -- no way around it unfortunately.  There are many different operations which might possibly be carried out, and all of them must acquire the mutex in this way.  I'm imagining it will look something like this, for example:
public void DoAnOperation()
{
    using(RAIIMutex raii = new RAIIMutex(TheMutex))
    {
        if(ShouldContinueOperation())
        {
            // Do operation-specific stuff
        }
    }
}

However, because I'm lazy, I'd like to not have to repeat that if(ShouldContinueOperation()) statement for each operation's function.  Is there a way to do this while keeping the // Do operation-specific stuff in the body of the using statement? That seems like the most readable way to write it.  For example, I don't want something like this (I'd prefer repeating the if statement if something like this is the only alternative):
public void DoAnOperation()
{
    var blaarm = new ObjectThatDoesStuffWithRAIIMutex(TheMutex, ActuallyDoAnOperation);
    blaarm.DoAnOperationWithTheMutex();
}
private void ActuallyDoAnOperation()
{
    // Do operation-specific stuff
}

A: It is not entirely clear what ShouldContinueOperation depends on, but assuming that it can be a static function (based on the example code provided in the question), you might like something along the lines of:
public static void TryOperation(Mutex mutex, Action action)
{
    using (RAIIMutex raii = new RAIIMutex(mutex))
    {
        if (ShouldContinueOperation())
            action();
    }
}

Which you can then use like:
RAIIMutex.TryOperation(TheMutex, () =>
{
    // Do operation-specific stuff
});

This combines the using and the ShouldContinueOperation check in one line for the caller. I'm not quite sure about the readability of the lambda syntax used, but that's a matter of personal preference.

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Q: Why does this canvas content get cut off when oriented sideways? I have an audio visualizer I've made and (I've increased the height cap of it so the problem is more clear) for some reason it just cuts off at a certain point and I haven't been able to figure it out. While the visualizer has this issue when oriented to the left like this, the problem does not exist when anchored normally to the bottom. Any help to figure this out would be greatly appreciated!
How it looks now \/

How I want the height to look (but sideways so its extends to the end of the canvas horizontally)  \/

This is the code for it:
<!DOCTYPE html>

        <meta charset="UTF-8">

        <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=DM Mono' rel='stylesheet'>
        <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Share Tech Mono' rel='stylesheet'>

             <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>

        <canvas id="audioCanvas"></canvas>

The code is based on this which gives a bit more detail on how the code works. The bar-values are coming from another script that store settings changes.
Updated with solution:
     ````html

 <head>
      <meta charset="UTF-8">
      <script src="properties.js"></script>
      <script src="clockRefresh.js"></script>

      <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=DM Mono' rel='stylesheet'>
      <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Share Tech Mono' rel='stylesheet'>

      <style>
           #time-panel {
                position: absolute;
                background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
                border-radius: 20px;

           }
           #hour, #min, #sec {
                font-family: 'dm mono';
                font-weight: 1000;
           }
           #clock {
                display: table;
                margin: 0 auto;
           }
           #audioCanvas {
                border-radius: 20px;
                background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
                position: absolute;
           }
      </style>

 </head>
 <body onload="clock()"  >
      <div id="time-panel">
           <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
           <span id="clock">
                <span id="hour"></span>
                <span id="min"></span>
                <span id="sec"></span>
           </span>
      </div>

      <!-- Canvas where visualizer is drawn -->
      <canvas id="audioCanvas"></canvas>

      <!-- Script that creates said visualizer -->
      <script>
           // Get the audio canvas once the page has loaded
           let audioCanvas = document.getElementById('audioCanvas');

           // Get the 2D context of the canvas to draw on it in wallpaperAudioListener
           let audioCanvasCtx = audioCanvas.getContext('2d');

           // Setting internal canvas resolution to user screen resolution
           // (CSS canvas size differs from internal canvas size)
           audioCanvas.height = window.innerHeight;
           audioCanvas.width = window.innerWidth;

           //temp canvas to store rotation data
           var offScreen = document.createElement("canvas"),
           offScreenCtx = offScreen.getContext("2d");

           function wallpaperAudioListener(audioArray) {
                audioCanvasCtx.clearRect(0, 0, audioCanvas.width, audioCanvas.height);

                if (sessionStorage.getItem("audio-orientation") == "left" ||
                     sessionStorage.getItem("audio-orientation") == "right") {

                     // Render bars along the full height of the canvas
                     var barWidth = Math.round(1.0 / 128.0 * audioCanvas.height);
                     var halfCount = audioArray.length / 2;
                }
                else {
                     // Render bars along the full width of the canvas
                     var barWidth = Math.round(1.0 / 128.0 * audioCanvas.width);
                     var halfCount = audioArray.length / 2;
                }
                // Begin with the left channel in red
                audioCanvasCtx.fillStyle = 'rgb(255,0,0)';
                // Iterate over the first 64 array elements (0 - 63) for the left channel audio data
                for (var i = 0; i < halfCount; i += parseInt(sessionStorage.getItem("bar-amount"))) {
                     // Create an audio bar with its hight depending on the audio volume level of the current frequency
                     var height = audioCanvas.height * Math.min(audioArray[i], 1) * sessionStorage.getItem("bar-height");
                     audioCanvasCtx.fillRect(barWidth * i, audioCanvas.height - height * sessionStorage.getItem("bar-distortion"), barWidth, height);
                }

                // Now draw the right channel in blue
                audioCanvasCtx.fillStyle = 'rgb(0,0,255)';
                // Iterate over the last 64 array elements (64 - 127) for the right channel audio data
                for (var i = halfCount; i < audioArray.length; i += parseInt(sessionStorage.getItem("bar-amount"))) {
                     // Create an audio bar with its hight depending on the audio volume level
                     // Using audioArray[191 - i] here to inverse the right channel for aesthetics
                     var height = audioCanvas.height * Math.min(audioArray[191 - i], 1) * sessionStorage.getItem("bar-height");
                     audioCanvasCtx.fillRect(barWidth * i, audioCanvas.height - height * sessionStorage.getItem("bar-distortion"), barWidth, height);
                }

                if (sessionStorage.getItem("audio-orientation") == "left") {

                     offScreen.width = audioCanvas.width;
                     offScreen.height = audioCanvas.height;
                     offScreenCtx.drawImage(audioCanvas, 0, 0, audioCanvas.width, audioCanvas.height);

                     // Now clear the portion to rotate.
                     audioCanvasCtx.clearRect(0, 0, audioCanvas.width, audioCanvas.height);

                     audioCanvasCtx.save();
                     // Translate (190/2 is half of the box we drew)
                     audioCanvasCtx.translate(audioCanvas.width, 0);

                     // Rotate it
                     audioCanvasCtx.rotate(90 * Math.PI / 180);

                     // Finally draw the image data from the temp canvas.
                     audioCanvasCtx.translate(audioCanvas.height / 45, -audioCanvas.width / 16);
                     audioCanvasCtx.width = audioCanvasCtx.width * 10;
                     audioCanvasCtx.drawImage(offScreen, 0, 0, audioCanvas.width, audioCanvas.height * 1.9);
                     audioCanvasCtx.restore();
                }
           }

           // Register the audio listener provided by Wallpaper Engine.
           window.wallpaperRegisterAudioListener(wallpaperAudioListener);
      </script>
 </body>

````

A: The main problem is that you're playing with the width & height of the canvas - and thus the size of your bars - at two different places:
 if (sessionStorage.getItem("audio-orientation") == "left" ||
   sessionStorage.getItem("audio-orientation") == "right") {

   var barWidth = Math.round(1.0 / 128.0 * audioCanvas.height);
   var halfCount = audioArray.length / 2;
 } else {
   // Render bars along the full width of the canvas
   var barWidth = Math.round(1.0 / 128.0 * audioCanvas.width);
   var halfCount = audioArray.length / 2;
 }

and later on as you finally draw the temporary canvas back to audioCanvas.
As we simply want to stretch the image to the available space if the canvas is rotated, we don't actually need a different barWidth. The stretching is happening at the drawImage() call by reversing the width & height.
As a side note - at the moment you're creating a new <canvas> element each time the audio listener fires. That's quite a lot. For performance reasons I'd recommend creating an OffscreenCanvas or a regular canvas once at startup and re-use that.
Here's an example:

let settings = {
  "audio-orientation": "left",
  "bar-amount": 1,
  "bar-distortion": 1,
  "bar-height": 1
}
let audioData = [];
for (let a = 0; a < 128; a++) {
  audioData.push((Math.sin(a / 8) + 1) / 2);
}

let audioCanvas = document.getElementById('audioCanvas');

let audioCanvasCtx = audioCanvas.getContext('2d');
audioCanvas.height = window.innerHeight;
audioCanvas.width = window.innerWidth;

var offScreen = document.createElement("canvas");
var offScreenContext = offScreen.getContext("2d");

function wallpaperAudioListener(audioArray) {
  audioCanvasCtx.clearRect(0, 0, audioCanvas.width, audioCanvas.height);

  var barWidth = Math.round(1.0 / 128.0 * audioCanvas.width);
  var halfCount = audioArray.length / 2;
  audioCanvasCtx.fillStyle = 'rgb(255,0,0)';

  for (var i = 0; i < halfCount; i += parseInt(settings["bar-amount"])) {
    var height = audioCanvas.height * Math.min(audioArray[i], 1) * settings["bar-height"];
    audioCanvasCtx.fillRect(barWidth * i, audioCanvas.height - height * settings["bar-distortion"], barWidth, height);
  }

  audioCanvasCtx.fillStyle = 'rgb(0,0,255)';
  for (var i = halfCount; i < audioArray.length; i += parseInt(settings["bar-amount"])) {
    var height = audioCanvas.height * Math.min(audioArray[191 - i], 1) * settings["bar-height"];
    audioCanvasCtx.fillRect(barWidth * i, audioCanvas.height - height * settings["bar-distortion"], barWidth, height);
  }

  if (settings["audio-orientation"] == "left") {
    offScreen.width = audioCanvas.width;
    offScreen.height = audioCanvas.height;
    offScreenContext.clearRect(0, 0, audioCanvas.width, audioCanvas.height);
    offScreenContext.drawImage(audioCanvas, 0, 0, audioCanvas.width, audioCanvas.height);
    audioCanvasCtx.clearRect(0, 0, audioCanvas.width, audioCanvas.height);
    audioCanvasCtx.save();
    audioCanvasCtx.translate(audioCanvas.width, 0);
    audioCanvasCtx.rotate(90 * Math.PI / 180);
    audioCanvasCtx.drawImage(offScreen, 0, 0, audioCanvas.height, audioCanvas.width);
    audioCanvasCtx.restore();
  }
}

wallpaperAudioListener(audioData);
<canvas id="audioCanvas"></canvas>


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Ambulance board retains attorney
Published 2:32 pm Friday, February 24, 2017
By Abigail Roberts
Photo by Abigail Whitehouse The Lincoln County Ambulance Board greets their new legal counsel attorney Neal Tucker.
STANFORD – Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Neal Tucker has agreed to serve as the Lincoln County Ambulance Board's legal counsel.
The ambulance board began looking for an attorney to help construct a set of bylaws for the board, as well as to address a local resident's concerns about the legality of the tax increase passed last year.
Vice Chairman Bob Floro was tasked with finding an attorney to assist with pending and ongoing matters during last month's meeting and after not hearing back from a Danville attorney, he approached Tucker.
"The KACO (Kentucky Association of Counties) attorney advised me, and asked me to share with the board, that we were now collecting taxes in excess of $1,000,000 a year and we would certainly be well-served to have legal representation here," Floro said Monday night.
Tucker was introduced during the regular meeting on Feb. 20 and a motion to retain him was unanimously approved.
"Neal and I have already spoken about several issues. One of the issues is the timing and propriety of our tax increase. Another issue is the need for our board to have specific operating rules and bylaws and the third issue would be meeting the requirements of the Open Meetings and Records law," Floro said.
Also discussed was the requirement for a new contract with a new entity once the new ambulance service is fully consolidated.
Tucker said he lives in Somerset and serves as the Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for the 28th Judicial District with the majority of his prosecution cases in Lincoln County.
"I'm proud to represent the board and grateful for the opportunity," he said.
Board members asked Tucker's opinion on the legal concerns presented by resident Dennis J. Miller but having just been retained, Tucker said he had only had two days to review so far.
"As far as the tax issue, I think it's obvious there were some things that weren't complied with," he said. "I think we would be prudent to get an opinion from the attorney general. Simply issue a request saying 'here's what happened, here's what the potential litigation claims could be, where do we stand? and essentially get an opinion."
Tucker said there is potential for litigation either way but he believes asking the Attorney General for an opinion could help minimize the board's risk.
Board member Ted Defosset agreed a solid opinion from Frankfort would be helpful in responding to Miller, as well as the public overall.
The board voted unanimously to take no further action regarding the recision or repayment of the ambulance tax increase originally passed on Aug. 11 last year and to seek a final ruling from the attorney general regarding the decision.
In other business, the board:
• Heard from Shelton that he attempted to speak with board member Larry Yantz, who has been consecutively absent from meetings. Shelton said he will speak with Yantz before the next meeting.
• Floro requested monthly financials of each ambulance service be given to board members.
• Scheduled a special-called budget meeting for Monday, March 13 at 7 p.m. at the courthouse. The next regular meeting is March 20 at 7 p.m.
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Standard Exploration Ltd. Announces Sedar Filing of Filing Statement
Standard Exploration Ltd.
Dec 19, 2018, 20:51 ET
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CALGARY, Dec. 19, 2018 /CNW/ - Standard Exploration Ltd. ("Standard" or the "Corporation") (SDE: TSXV) is pleased to announce that it has filed a filing statement (the "Filing Statement") under the Corporation's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com in respect of the non-brokered private placement of common shares ("Common Shares") and units of the Corporation; (ii) the appointment of a new management team and board of directors; and (iii) the acquisition by the Corporation of all of the limited partnership units of Gulf Pine Energy Partners, LP (collectively, the "Transaction").
Name Change and Consolidation
Subsequent to the completion of the Transaction, the Corporation intends to (i) complete a change of name of the Corporation from "Standard Exploration Ltd." to "Southern Energy Corp." (the "Name Change"); and (ii) complete a consolidation of the Common Shares on the basis of one post-consolidation Common Share for up to every 5 pre-consolidation Common Shares (the "Consolidation"). The Name Change and the Consolidation have each received the approval of the shareholders and is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV").
Trading Halt
The Common Shares of the Corporation have been halted from trading in accordance with the policies of the TSXV. The Corporation anticipates the halt to be lifted on January 2, 2019.
Reader Advisory
Completion of the Transaction is subject to a number of conditions, including but not limited to, final TSXV acceptance. There can be no assurance that the Transaction will be completed as proposed or at all.
Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the Filing Statement, any information released or received with respect to the Transaction may not be accurate or complete and should not be relied upon. Trading in the securities of the Corporation should be considered highly speculative.
The TSXV has in no way passed upon the merits of the Transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved of the contents of this news release.
Neither the TSXV nor its regulation services provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
SOURCE Standard Exploration Ltd.
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import { act, fireEvent, render } from '@testing-library/react';

import FontWeightPreviewer from 'pages/font-weight-previewer/FontWeightPreviewer';
import React from 'react';

describe('FontWeightPreviewer', () => {
  let container;
  let mockOnUpdateFamily;

  beforeAll(() => {
    mockOnUpdateFamily = jest.fn();
  });

  beforeEach(() => {
    container = render(
      <FontWeightPreviewer onUpdateFamily={mockOnUpdateFamily} />
    ).container;
  });

  afterEach(() => {
    mockOnUpdateFamily.mockClear();
  });

  it('should render properly with default props', () => {
    const input = container.querySelectorAll('input[type="text"].family');

    expect(container.querySelectorAll('form.choose-family')).toHaveLength(1);
    expect(input).toHaveLength(1);

    expect(container.querySelector('.family-under-test').textContent).toBe(
      'Avenir Next'
    );

    const style = window.getComputedStyle(
      container.querySelector('.displayed-font')
    );
    expect(style.fontFamily).toBe('Avenir Next');
  });

  it('should render properly with custom props', () => {
    container = render(<FontWeightPreviewer family="Helvetica Neue" />)
      .container;

    expect(container.querySelector('.family-under-test').textContent).toBe(
      'Helvetica Neue'
    );

    const style = window.getComputedStyle(
      container.querySelector('.displayed-font')
    );
    expect(style.fontFamily).toBe('Helvetica Neue');
  });

  describe('interactions', () => {
    it('should update properly when a new font is chosen', () => {
      const input = container.querySelector('input.family');

      act(() => {
        input.value = 'Georgia';
        fireEvent.click(container.querySelector('form.choose-family button'));
      });

      expect(container.querySelector('.family-under-test').textContent).toBe(
        'Georgia'
      );

      const style = window.getComputedStyle(
        container.querySelector('.displayed-font')
      );
      expect(style.fontFamily).toBe('Georgia');

      expect(mockOnUpdateFamily).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
    });

    it('should handle an empty input', () => {
      act(() => {
        fireEvent.submit(container.querySelector('form.choose-family'));
      });

      expect(container.querySelector('.family-under-test').textContent).toBe(
        'Avenir Next'
      );

      const style = window.getComputedStyle(
        container.querySelector('.displayed-font')
      );
      expect(style.fontFamily).toBe('Avenir Next');
    });

    it('should handle extraneous spaces', () => {
      const input = container.querySelector('input.family');

      act(() => {
        input.value = ' Palatino  ';
        fireEvent.submit(container.querySelector('form.choose-family'));
      });

      expect(input.value).toBe('Palatino');
      expect(container.querySelector('.family-under-test').textContent).toBe(
        'Palatino'
      );

      const style = window.getComputedStyle(
        container.querySelector('.displayed-font')
      );
      expect(style.fontFamily).toBe('Palatino');
    });

    it('should do nothing if only spaces are entered', () => {
      const input = container.querySelector('input.family');

      act(() => {
        input.value = '  ';
        fireEvent.submit(container.querySelector('form.choose-family'));
      });

      expect(input.value).toBe('');
      expect(container.querySelector('.family-under-test').textContent).toBe(
        'Avenir Next'
      );

      const style = window.getComputedStyle(
        container.querySelector('.displayed-font')
      );
      expect(style.fontFamily).toBe('Avenir Next');
    });
  });
});

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Jazz carrier Chorus Aviation posts flat Q2 results
Aug. 15, 2014, Halifax - Chorus Aviation Inc. has reported relatively flat adjusted profits for the second quarter, helped by a stronger Canadian dollar and lower airport and terminal fees.
Excluding one-time items, the Halifax-based airline, which operates
fights for Air Canada under the Jazz banner, had an adjusted
net income of $22.2 million for the three-month period ended June 30.
That amounted to 18 cents per share, slightly higher than
the $21.4 million, or 17 cents per share in the same quarter a year
Net income was $36.5 million, or 30 cents per share, compared with $7.9 million, or six cents per share, year over year.
Chorus said the net income had an
unrealized foreign exchange gain of $14.3 million versus an unrealized
foreign exchange loss of $13.5 million in the same period of 2013.
Operating revenue climbed nearly two per cent to $417.8 million from $410 million in the same quarter of 2013.
"Chorus continues to generate
positive operating income and cash flows from operations and I'm pleased
to report strong earnings and operational performance again this
quarter," president and CEO Joseph Randell said in a statement.
In a conference call with analysts following the
release, Randell and chief financial officer Rick Flynn said the
airline was continuing "productive" talks over its capacity purchase
agreement with Air Canada.
Their current contract does not expire until
Walter Spracklin, an analyst with RBC Capital
Markets, said the negotiations are one example of the way management is
"executing across their planned initiatives."
"CHR did not provide any
colour on potential contract revisions or when these changes could take
place," he wrote in a note. "However, we believe that any amendments
prior to 2020 would remove certain inefficiencies in the existing CPA
contract, which would be mutually beneficial and unlock shareholder
value."
Chorus operates Air Canada Express flights under
a capacity purchase agreement with Air Canada as well as a charter
service under the Jazz banner. It has a fleet of 122 aircraft. The
airline was formed in 2001 when Air Canada combined four regional
carriers into one.
Chorus Aviation reports fourth quarter profit
Chorus Aviation says future is solid despite challenges
Chorus Aviation faces uncertainty over AC arbitration
Chorus Aviation's profit drops 35% in Q4
M1 Composites Technology Inc
Pilot's prosthetic arm detaches during rocky U.K. landing
CAE posts lower Q1 profit; hikes dividend


Having a deep understanding of your team is an absolute necessity if you want to have productive, insightful and positive one to one conversations with them. In the second instalment of our four-part series, we're looking at how you can start to truly understand people.
Part One of this series set you up for successful conversations with your team. You've learned about goal-setting, listening, choosing the right environment, asking questions, taking notes and staying vulnerable.
Welcome to Part Two. This one's a daunting task, but it's absolutely necessary for productive conversations.
You've got to understand your team members on a deep, personal level.
You can't actively support and develop someone without understanding the journey they have been on. This context is vitally important: it will shape their thoughts, reactions and emotions.
What has their experience been like in previous jobs?
What was their relationship with their line manager then?
How did management behave in the business?
Why did they leave this job?
Who did they look up to? Why did they look up to them?
Have they always been in the same career?
What was their experience of education like?
Family & friends - what do they think about their chosen path? Are they supporters or are they detractors?
Understand that this stuff takes time. You obviously shouldn't be immediately rattling these questions off to a new hire - it will come across as overly intrusive and creepy. Instead, put it together like a puzzle over the course of months - or even years.
Do this for the right reasons. If you ever feel like you're trying to find out about someone's background simply because you're curious about their innermost thoughts and feelings, stop. You should be doing this to improve your ability to help someone, not to discover juicy tidbits of gossip.
When it gets down to it, the majority of people aren't really passionate about their jobs. Startups love to wax lyrical about their "passionate, driven employees", but being completely honest, I don't think anyone works for CharlieHR because they're fanatical about HR software.
Most people aren't particularly passionate about their current job. People are passionate about their hopes and dreams. If you want to create true long-term motivation, you must build ways for your business to help your team members progress towards their aspirations.
Where do they see themselves in the future?
What are their immediate goals?
What type of remuneration are they targeting? What lifestyle do they want to lead?
Do they see themselves progressing on a skill based track or leadership track?
Have they found the thing they are best at?
Are they fascinated by another industry?
Unfortunately, if you directly ask anyone these questions, they'll probably say "I don't know", or – even worse – will make up an inaccurate answer on the spot. Instead, give people space and allow them to rise to opportunities - and then ask them the question.
For example: someone in a junior role could be given a task outside their comfort zone – such as one with more responsibility, or one working in a different field. Then, after that task, you can ask them whether they would like to develop their skill in this area further. You'll get a much more productive answer than just asking them out-of-the-blue.
I've always believed that our strengths often manifest themselves as weaknesses.
Take me. I'm an empathetic individual. This is fantastic when it comes to building great relationships with people on our team. It's also a nightmare when I have to make hard decisions about the people I work with.
Another example: an old colleague of mine.
They were hell-bent on getting to an end result. They'd work with superhuman diligence and focus, and regularly completed seemingly insurmountable challenges. At the same time, this meant they had trouble with feedback, which they perceived as a barrier, disrupting their progress towards achieving a result.
When you're having an in-depth conversation, understanding someone's strengths, and how they can appear as weaknesses is a vital piece of information to hold in your mind. Knowing this will be able to provide criticism which feels positive, productive and informed.
It isn't your job to fix the weakness. Most real weaknesses are deeply ingrained, and can't actually be changed. Instead, focus on guiding both yourself and the team member towards an understanding of the weakness and its associated strength, and how it might impact their work and their team.
So now you know how to really understand your team. However, this information is useless unless you put it into practice - which is where we're heading next. The next two articles will teach you how to develop your team through two key concepts: support and challenge.


Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Taste of Seamless at the Arena Theater. This event showcased caterers from around the DMV area who are looking to feed your office. Before attending, it hadn't even crossed my mind to use Seamless for a work event. I had reserved it for days that I was simply too tired (lazy) to cook the $100 worth of groceries I had in my fridge. But I'm happy to report that I'm a changed woman.
I had an opportunity to speak with Nick Worswick, Vice President and General Manager of Seamless Corporate Accounts. He explained that this goes beyond food, this is about employee happiness and productivity. According to a survey conducted by Seamless, companies offering their employees food-based perks saw an increase in camaraderie and collaboration. When food is provided, more than half of the respondents said they would actually stay in the office longer.
This is great and all, but in the end, I just want to make things ridiculously easy for myself. And guess what? Seamless Corporate Catering actually does that. My favorite feature? People can choose food from different pre-selected restaurants. I love my office, but I'll lose my mind if we order from another diner. You want what everyone in this town wants – options. Seamless is a food matchmaker, helping you find the meal you want and need.
Let's get to why you're really reading this – food. Taste of Seamless featured food from Boulevard Catering, Cakelove, The Cakeroom, Geppetto Catering, Purple Onion, Saint Germain Catering, Taylor, VIPS Catering, W. Millar & Co. Catering, and Potbelly. Great and all, but nothing stood out. That is, until I got to To Your Taste.
I shy away from declaring favorites… until they feed me something delicious. Seriously, I wanted an entire meal from these guys. The first thing To Your Taste offered was the Argentinean BBQ Spoon.
That consisted of pan seared beef with their signature chimichurri sauce. Not supposed to eat it in one bite, but I lack etiquette, so I inhaled it. Next up was their chipotle chicken lettuce wrap with a basil avocado cream sauce. That's basically everything I like wrapped in lettuce, which can never go wrong.
My absolute favorite was the Coconut Crab Polpette – fried balls of shredded coconut and lump crab meat topped with a cilantro lime sauce.
Finally, the entire sampling ended with perfectly cooked chicken wings in pepperoni sauce. If it weren't for the never-ending line at their table, I would have gone back for multiple more servings.
If you need catering, these are your guys.


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Marking a Decade of "Plug-and-Play" Cluster Computing --> Click for Further Details
San Francisco, CA, USA - Apple WWDC - June 9, 2008 - Dauger Research, Inc., celebrates ten years of "plug-and-play" cluster computing at Apple's WWDC. In 1998, a time when the Bondi-blue iMac was new, two UCLA physicists invented the Mac cluster. As a side project, they "reinvented" the cluster computer to better advance their scientific research. Today, reincarnated as the patented Pooch (Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application) and Pooch Pro clustering software, the technology combines cutting edge supercomputing components like Open MPI and leverages the famed ease-of-use of the Macintosh, producing a solution so easy to use that children have built clusters using it.
"After clustering Macs for ten years, ours is still the simplest way to get into clustering", said Dr. Dean Dauger, President of Dauger Research, Inc. "For a decade, we produce reliable, accessible, 'ad hoc', powerful Mac clusters that continue to inspire others in academia, research, and industry. When we built the first Mac cluster ten years ago, we knew we had something great, and it was clear others could benefit. 2008 is a great time to look back and see what sprung from the seed we planted. We thank all the wonderful people who helped us with this vision."
Winner of IEEE Cluster's "most innovative software" award, Pooch technology set numerous milestones over the years. An indispensable component of the first OS X cluster solution, it was the first to use Bonjour network discovery for clusters, incorporate drag-and-drop with clustering, support automated "grid"-behavior from GUI apps, launch Universal Applications on mixed clusters of Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs, and apply clustering to directly accelerate multipass H.264 HD video encoding. It supports multicore, all OS X executable types, mpich, MPI/Pro, mpich/gm, LAM/MPI, Java, and Open MPI. Finally, the technology supports running Wolfram Research's Mathematica like modern supercomputing and accelerate compression from mainstream video editing applications.
On Wednesday evening of WWDC, Dauger Research presents a retrospective, "Ten Years of 'Plug-and-Play' Cluster Computing", in the Scientific Poster Session. See the website for accompanying materials as well as resources and tutorials on writing and running parallel code and full product details.
Profiled and honored on national television by the William Shatner-hosted "Keeping America Strong" show, Dauger Research, Inc. makes high-performance computation and visualization easy to use and accessible to users. Our award-winning team, to better accomplish our scientific goals, reinvented the cluster computer ten years ago, pioneering easy-to-use, high-performance clusters. Dauger Research, Inc., is committed to bridging the divides between the scientifically and technically complex and the mainstream.


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Distance from Wilberforce, OH to Cleveland, OH is 201Miles or 323 Km. You can get this distance about 3 hours 8 mins.
A car with an average MPG will needs 9.31 gallons of gas to get the route between these points.
The estimated cost of gas to get between Wilberforce, OH and Cleveland, OH is $21.13.
During the route, an average car will release 182.4 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is 0.91 pounds of CO2 per mile.


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1080p (Full HD) je soubor HDTV videorežimů s vysokým rozlišením, které jsou charakterizovány 1080 horizontálními (vodorovnými) liniemi vertikálního (svislého) rozlišení a progresivním skenováním, což znamená, že obraz se vytváří postupně a není tedy prokládaný jako v případě klasického 1080i zobrazení. Označení předpokládá širokoúhlý poměr 16 : 9, z kterého plyne rozlišení 1920×1080 (2,1 megapixelů).

Označení Full HD či 1080p může označovat schopnost přijímat 1080p signál a zobrazovat ho v původním rozlišení minimálně 1080 řádků, ale také schopnost zvětšení obsahu menšího rozlišení na 1080p. Certifikační logo HD ready společnosti DIGITALEUROPE vyžaduje u certifikovaných TV sestav podporu formátů 1080p24, 1080p50 a 1080p60 a krom jiných požadavků také původní rozlišení 1920×1080 pixelů. Počet snímků za sekundu je definován v názvu za písmenem "p" - tzn. 1080p30 přehrává 30 progresivních (plných) snímků za sekundu.

Vysílací standardy

Filmový průmysl stanovil 1080p24 jako základní formát pro digitální mastering a to jak v původní 24p tak i v 24PsF formě. 1080P24 se stala zavedených produkčním standardem pro digitální kinematografii a existuje spousta vybavení které zvládá zachytit a zpracovat 1080p24 signály. 1080p24 je nejspíš prvním univerzálním videostandardem v rámci celého světa.

Pro živá vysílání, progresivní scan o vysokém rozlišení, pracující s 1080p s rychlostí 50 až 60 snímků za sekundu, je nyní považován za budoucí standard pro snímání videa. EBU prohlašovala 1080p50 za produkční formát budoucnosti, protože zlepšuje rozlišení a nevyžaduje rozklad obrazu, umožňuje vysílací standard 1080i25 a 720p50 společně s 1080p50 i v současném rozpoložení a je kompatibilní s DCI formáty.

Produkční formát 1080p50/p60 bude vyžadovat zcela novou šíři výbavy studií a to včetně kamer, úložních a úpravních systémů a přispívajících linků (jako je Dual-link HD-SDI a 3G-SDI) jelikož zdvojnásobil tok dat ze současných 50 či 60 rozložených polí 1920×1080 z 1.485 Gb/s na přibližně 3 Gb/s za použití nekomprimovaného RGB kódování. Nejnovější revize SMPTE 274M a EBU Tech 3299 vyžadují YCbCr barevné prostředí a 4 : 2 : 2 barevnostní podvzorkování pro přenos signálů 1080p50 a 1080p60.

Nedávné studie ukazují, že pro digitální vysílání komprimované s H.264/AVC jsou v přenosové kmitočtové šířce úspory proloženého videa oproti plně progresivnímu videu minimální a to i při dvojnásobku snímků za sekundu, tzn. 1080p50 (50 progresivních snímků za sekundu) nám dává stejně velký datový tok jako 1080i50 (50 proložených snímků za sekundu).

ATSC
Ve Spojených státech, původní ATSC standardy pro HDTV podporovaly 1080p video, ale pouze při rychlosti 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97 a 30 snímků za sekundu (známé jako 1080p24, 1080p25, a 1080p30).

V červenci 2008, byla do ATSC standardů zahrnuta i H.264/MPEG-4 AVC komprese a 1080p při 50, 59.94 a 60 snímcích za sekundu (1080p50 a 1080p60). Některé rychlosti vyžadují H.264/AVC High Profile Level 4.2, zatímco standardní HDTV rychlosti vyžadují pouze Level 4.0 (úroveň 4.0)

Nepředpokládá se, že by tato úprava měla za následek masové rozšíření dostupnosti 1080p60, jelikož většina používaných digitálních přijímačů by byla schopna dekódovat pouze starší, méně účinný MPEG-2 codec, navíc je zde omezené množství frekvenčního rozsahu pro subkanály.

DVB
V Evropě byly signály 1080p25 podporovány DVB soustavou vysílacích standardů. Standard 1080p50 byl předpokládán jako nadčasový produkční formát a jako možný vysílací formát budoucnosti. 1080p50 vysílání by mělo potřebovat stejnou vlnovou šíři jako 1080i50 a pouze o 15-20% větší než je šíře potřebná pro signál 720p50 z důvodu velké efektivity komprese, přes to 1080p50 vyžaduje větší vlnovou šířku a efektivnější kodeky jako JPEG 2000, vysokorychlostní MPEG-2, či H.264/AVC a HEVC.

Od září 2009 ETSI a EBU, představitelé soustavy DVB, přidali podporu pro signál 1080p50, kódovaný s MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level 4.2 se Škálovatelnými video-kódovacími rozšířeními či VC-1 Pokročilou Profilovou kompresí. DVB také podporuje 1080p kódované za ATSC rychlostí 23.976, 24, 29.97, 30, 59.94 a 60 snímků za sekundu.

EBU požaduje, aby MPEG-4 AVC dekodéry alespoň nepadaly v přítomnosti paketů SVC či 1080p50. SVC umožňuje kompatibilitu s 1080p50 a 1080p60 vysíláním pro starší MPEG-4 AVC přijímače, které rozpoznají pouze základní SVC tok, kódovaný v nižším rozlišení či počtu snímků za sekundu a ignorují pakety které jsou navíc, zatímco novější hardware dekóduje celý signál.

Dostupnost

Vysílání
Ve Spojených státech zatím nefunguje vzdušné vysílání 1080p, všechny hlavní toky používají buď 720p60 či 1080i60, kódovaný pomocí MPEG-2. Na druhou stranu, satelitní služby (DirectTV, XstreamHD a Dish Network) upravují 1080p/24-30 formát s MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 v případě placených filmů, které jsou staženy předem pomocí satelitu či internetu. Momentálně žádný z poskytovatelů placené televize nevysílá v tomto formátu živě, jelikož mnoho MVPD, zvláště pak DBS a kabel, nemá přiměřenou kapacitu na to, aby mohl poskytovat vysílání živě, aniž by to negativně ovlivňovalo jejich stávající služby a také kvůli ceně používání větší vlnové šířky pro jeden 1080p/24 kanál než která by byla potřeba pro 1080i či dokonce 750p a pro těch relativně málo zákazníků, kteří mají potřebné vybavení, by se nevyplatilo takto využít jejich omezené kapacity.

Pro obsah pocházející z progresivně snímaného dvacetičtyř-snímkového zdroje, MPEG-2 nechává video kódovat jako 1080p24. Tyto progresivně kódované snímky jsou označeny metadaty, které radí dekodéru, jak je správně poskládat. Zatímco formální výstup dekódovacího procesu MPEG-2 je 1080i60, skutečný obsah je kódovaný jako 1080p24 a může být zobrazen jako takový, za použití procesu zvaného "inverse telecine",žádné informace nejsou ztraceny, jelikož vysílající je ten který obraz skládá.

Blu-ray disc medium
Blu-ray disky jsou schopny přenášet obsah 1080p HD a většina filmů, které na Blu-ray vyjdou, dávají 1080p Full HD obraz, pokud je přehrávač připojen k 1080p HDTV pomocí HDMI kabelu. Blu-ray umožňuje kódovat 1080p24, 1080i50, a 1080i60. Tento druh videa je obvykle přehráván rychlostí až 40 megabitů za sekundu.

Internetový obsah
Některé weby, včetně YouTube, umožňují klipům být nahrávány v 1080p. BitTorrent je také hojně využíván pro distribuci mnoha 1080p filmů, které byly zkopírovány z Blu-ray Disků či vysílacích zdrojů.

Na BitTorrentových stránkách, jako je The Pirate Bay, jsou k dispozici tisíce 1080p videí. Někdy ilegálně, ripované (zkopírované) z Blu-ray Disků.

Spotřebitelské televizory a projektory
V roce 2012, většina televizí v prodeji poskytuje 1080p vstupy, většinou pomocí HDMI, poskytující full HD rozlišení. Nyní je 1080p rozlišení k dispozici ve všech typech televizí, včetně plazmových, LCD, DLP přední a zadní projekce a LCD projekce.

Pro zobrazení filmových 1080i60 signálů, se schéma zvané "reverse telecine" začíná objevovat v některých novějších 1080p obrazovách, které zvládnou zobrazit obraz o skutečné kvalitě 1080p z filmově založeného 1080i60 programu. Stejně, obsah o 25 snímcích za sekundu při 1080i50 může být rozložena do obsahu 1080p bez ztráty kvality či rozlišení.

HD ready certifikační logo společnosti DIGITALEUROPE u certifikovaných TV sestav vyžaduje podporu formátů 1080p24, 1080p50, a 1080p60 bez chyb čtení a zkreslení obrazu.

Počítačové monitory
Většina širokoúhlých CRT a LCD monitorů umí zobrazovat 1080p obsah. Například, širokoúhlé WUXGA monitory podporují 1920×1200 rozlišení, které může zobrazit reprodukci 1080p formátu. Navíc, mnoho 23", 24" a 27" (690mm) širokoúhlých LCD monitorů, používá 1920×1200 jako základní rozlišení. Třicetipalcové obrazovky můžou zobrazovat až 2560×1600. Mnoho 27" monitorů má základní rozlišení 2560×1440 a operuje tedy na 1440p.

Herní video konzole
Předchozí generace herních konzolí jako PlayStation 3 od Sony a Xbox 360 od společnosti Microsoft umí zobrazovat hry a videa v 1080p. Nintendo Wii U, které má vyjít v roce 2012, bude také podporovat 1080p za pomoci HDMI. Pro všechny tyto konzole platí fakt, že tyto operace jsou prováděny pomocí HDMI spojení. Navíc, 1080p video je k dispozici na PS3 a Xbox 360 pomocí spojení analogové součástky / D-Terminálu (YPBPR), †‡stejně jako VGA spojení na Xbox 360. Na PS3, vývojáři musí poskytnout podporu pro specifické rozlišení na softwarové úrovni, jelikož zde není žádná hardwarová podpora, zatímco Xbox 360 tuto hardwarovou podporu poskytuje pomocí vestavěného zvětšovacího čipu.
Většina her na obou konzolích neběží na původním rozlišení 1080p a pouze pár vybraných her umožňuje tuto volbu kvůli ostatním omezením, jako např. Grafická paměť.

Jak PlayStation 3, tak Xbox 360 poskytuje videoslužby v 1080p. Sony poskytuje PlayStation Store VOD i přehrávání Blu-ray disků. Microsoft poskytuje Zune Video Marketplace pro okamžitý přístup k 1080p videoobsahu, ale neposkytuje přehrávání Blu-ray. Podporuje přehrávání nyní již nefunkčních HD DVD pomocí Xbox 360 HD DVD Player add-on. Obě konzole také nabízí podporu pro vysílání v 1080p v různých formátech pro domácí sítě z jiných počítačů, také pomocí USB spojení do externích datových úložišti.

^† V případě připojení pomocí analogové součástky, pouze systémová menu a hry jsou zobrazeny v 1080p, kvůli možným problémům s autorskými právy. Videa jsou zobrazována v menším rozlišení či v 1080i.

I když je 1080p výstup analogové součástky konzolemi podporován, většina zobrazovacího hardware akceptuje pouze spojení do 1080i.

Videokamery a fotoaparáty
Hodně spotřebních videokamer, profesionálních video a DSLR kamer a chytrých telefonů umí snímat 1080p24, 1080p25, či 1080p30 video které většinou kóduje do formátu progresivně segmentovaných snímků.

Nyní je na trhu několik spotřebních AVCHD/NXCAM videokamer, které umí snímat 1080p50 a 1080p60 video, včetně Panasonic HDC-TM700/HDC-HS700/HDC-SD700/HDC-SD600, HC-X900/HC-X800 a HC-V700/HC-V500 videokamer a HDC-Z10000 stereoskopické videokamery, Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2000 a Sony Handycam NEX-VG20, NEX-FS100 a NEX-EA50EH.

Profesionální digitální filmové kamery schopné snímat 1080p60 zahrnují Sony CineAlta F23 a Sony SRW9000 videokameru (s volitelnými 60p deskami pro zpracování) , Sony PMW-F3 videokameru, RED One/Epic/Scarlett a Canon EOS C500 kamery (ve dvou tisících módů snímání).
Digitální SLR kamery jako Sony Alpha 57, Sony Alpha 77 a Canon EOS-1D také umí nahrávat video v 1080p50 a 1080p60.

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Saudi oil price war aimed at U.S.
Global oil prices are tumbling amid signs that Saudi Arabia may be starting a price war designed to simultaneously punish competitors and maintain the kingdom's cash flow.
If history is any guide, this could go on for quite some time.
Of course, lower prices are fantastic for consumers. Energy is vital to a modern economy, and thousands of products are made from crude oil. Already, retail gasoline prices in California have drifted down 50 cents a gallon since June.
For producers, it's not so great. If prices fall too far, for too long, they could hit the pause button on the U.S. fracking revolution, which has created an estimated 1.7 million jobs and lifted the overall economy.
Last week oil futures traded below $84 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange for November deliveries of the benchmark West Texas Intermediate grade of crude. That's down nearly 22 percent from a peak of $107 in June, beyond the 20 percent threshold considered a bear market.
The big move has surprised many traders.
After all, war is spreading through the Middle East, threatening half the world's proven reserves. Russia has seized much of eastern Ukraine, and President Vladimir Putin recently disparaged the independent status of oil-rich Kazakhstan.
Yet for now, plenty of oil is flowing. Fear of disruption has yielded to the stubborn forces of supply and demand.
If anything, lower prices are overdue, says Fadel Gheit, veteran oil industry analyst at Oppenheimer Research.
"Despite the recent weakness, oil prices are still inflated, as they are much higher than marginal replacement cost plus an acceptable rate of return," Gheit said last week.
He estimates tensions caused by the Arab Spring uprisings that began in 2010 have added $25 per barrel to the average price of crude oil, producing $1 trillion in excess profits for Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries cartel.
This premium has retarded global economic growth. Yet it came at an opportune time for U.S. producers.
Adapting drilling innovations designed for natural gas, wildcatters figured out how to squeeze crude oil from vast shale formations in Texas and North Dakota.
Since 2011, U.S. companies have boosted production by 3 million barrels a day, adding roughly 4 percent to the world's supply.
Most was gobbled up by China, Brazil and India. But now their economies are slowing, putting the brakes on growth in energy consumption, while Europe and Japan face recessions.
Meanwhile, consumers have responded to high prices with long-term investments in higher mileage cars, energy efficient buildings and other conservation measures.
U.S. demand has been falling since 2005. And it's been sliding since November in the 34 developed countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
With production rising and overall consumption growth slowing, we may be entering a period of persistent lower prices. The oil industry has produced such cycles repeatedly over its 156-year history.
In the most recent example, the inflation-adjusted price of oil fell from $100 per barrel in 1980 to about $30 by 1986, and then bounced around under $40 until 2003, when the latest upward march began.
Nobody knows whether the world's oil market has reached a 1980-style tipping point. The behavior of Saudi Arabia could be key.
For most of the time since the 1970s, when OPEC began influencing prices, Saudi Arabia has been the "swing producer." Today it's capable of pumping 12 million barrels a day.
Officials increase or cut production to keep prices low enough to keep consumers hooked on oil, and high enough to maintain healthy profits.
But in the 1980s, widespread cheating by OPEC's other members, coupled with rising production from non-OPEC nations, prompted the Saudis to flood the market with oil. The move was calculated to cripple competitors and cut supplies in the long term.
Now the Saudis may be taking out the hammer again, and swinging it at U.S. producers.
Gheit, the analyst, estimates that producers in North Dakota's Bakken shale are profitable when prices are above $65 to $70 per barrel.
Other analysts say the break-even in the Eagle Ford shale in Texas is about $55, while drilling in other formations could shut down if prices stay much below $85 — the trading range last week.
Yet many projects already have sunk money into land and equipment, with output hedged using long-term contracts. They could keep pumping well after prices fall below theoretical costs.
As for Saudi Arabia, production costs are a closely guarded secret. Some say it's less than $10 a barrel. However, the International Monetary Fund recently estimated the kingdom needs to sell at an average $89 to balance its budget, according to Marketwatch.
Still, the kingdom could always borrow against its estimated 266 billion barrels of proven reserves. With spare production capacity of at least 2 million barrels a day, it can easily grab market share and keep the dollars flowing.
Indeed, last week the Saudis increased production, instead of cutting output to support prices, as many traders expected. Then they cut prices to 2008 levels for November shipments to Asia.
By the end of the week, global benchmark prices had tumbled, with U.S. futures dipping briefly below $84 a barrel Friday.
If lower prices disrupt output in the U.S. and elsewhere, the emerging glut would eventually shrink. Thus the stage will be set for another epoch of higher prices.
Much depends on the fortunes of emerging economies. If China and India bounce back strongly, there are 2 billion or so consumers just waiting to buy their first cars — more than enough to offset the move to green energy in developed nations.
Oil is still expensive by historic standards. Given high extraction costs in much of the world, how far down it can go is anybody's guess.
Yet since June, producers have been competing to cut prices. This is very good for consumers and the broader U.S. economy.


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Missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague is due to become a dad, according to his girlfriend.
Corrie has been missing since September after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
His girlfriend, April Oliver, 21, had been in a relationship with the 23-year-old for five months, and discovered she was expecting his child two weeks after his disappearance.
"I've had to make a massive decision by myself," Ms Oliver told the BBC. "I was hoping and praying that he'd come back so we could make the decision together."
Ms Oliver, who met the serviceman on a dating site, was on holiday in America when Mr McKeague went missing.
But she returned once she had heard the news that he'd disappeared, claiming that "it was out of character" and she was "quite worried".
Corrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart, attended the scan with Ms Oliver.
Ms Urquhart said that the excitement from the pregnancy news is "incredibly difficult" to balance with the search for the serviceman.


In this episode we discuss the challenges behind drawing Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" using Pastel Pencils. Learn about Colin's process in approaching a picture like this and which areas he found challenging and interesting to do.
It's a question that we've had a fair bit over the years that we've covered a little in blogs and podcasts. But in this post we wanted to talk a little in detail about whether using a grid system or tracing to produce your outline drawing is "cheating".
In this podcast Colin talks about his picture of the Curtain, Jug and Fruit by Paul Cézanne.
I ask why Colin choose this one, what challenges he faced and what tips he has for students attempting to follow along. We also touch on how Colin's finding working with new brands of pencils, the rules he's breaking and what new effects they're allowing him to achieve.
We read out your emails and answer your questions. Colin talks about his progression with the pastelmat paper and expansion into the cretacolor range of pastel pencils.
He also talks about impressionism and whether it's easy to do impressionistic paintings. We also offer advice to a student wanting to do an ambitious still life painting.
We get back into the swing of things with this podcast, it's been a little while and we hope to be doing more of them more frequently for you all!
In this episode we talk about the newest projects, working with Pastelmat, using polychromos pictures, watercolour paper weight and what lighting works best for working in the evenings.
It's been a while and in this podcast we have a good catch up and then answer some questions such as drawing larger pastel pencil pictures and is there such a thing as too much pastel?
We're so excited to reveal that the 3rd Demonstration picture is "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" by Édouard Manet!
Listen to us discuss the picture and how you too can learn how to draw masterpiece with pastel pencils.


Informal talk with Sahaja Yogis, in Kingsley and Ruth Flint's flat, Strasbourg (France), 1985, October 9th.
Shri Mataji: May God bless you all.
Today's program was very successful for us and I hope the same thing will happen in Frankfurt. It was a very successful program I must say, a lot of people they have got their Realization but the lecture was also very well done. So, it's all nice, I'm very happy with today's program.
Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ki!
Sahaja Yogis: Good night Shri Mataji.
Shri Mataji: Here, it's the road which is about thirty feet wide [10 meters], which looks like a little line here.
You can all see later on. Now, this road comes on this hill which is on top. And then from there, you see this valley, so big, you can't walk it's too big. From this side, flows a brook and there's a river flowing from this side. And this river goes and meets Vaitarna. And the river Vaitarna word is used always in the "shastras", in the scriptures as Bhavasagara.
So, "vai" means the Bhavasagara "tarana" means to cross over.
Shri Mataji: "Vai" means the Bhavasagara "vai".
Shri Mataji: "Vai". And "tarana" means the one that allows you to cross. "Vai – tarana".
I mean you will notice this that in India everything has a name and a symbol within. And it has a meaning, always it has a meaning. Now, you can see this for yourself now, for children.
But there are more trees than this, much more. This artist didn't show them because he said he wants to give an aerial view, so he didn't want to show so many trees. But the artist has not seen the place, just through inspiration he has done it.
I just drew out and showed him and he just made it. He's a Sahaja Yogi.
Shri Mataji: It has to go to Arnaud.
Sahaja Yogi: The photograph to Arnaud.
Shri Mataji: Who will take it? Raise your hands, to Arnaud.
Sahaja Yogi: Oh, maybe Marie can take it.
Shri Mataji: Yes, she's here. Who could be more reliable than her?
Shri Mataji: So now, I make a move. I say goodbye to you because I think if you are all coming you might land good but I wanted to go a little bit in the city and I'll have something to eat there, not much, I, with the children, had "channas" and everything. Then, we'll meet at the airport if possible, those who are coming.
Sahaja Yogi: Can we have the mantra, can we say the mantra?
Sahaja Yogi: Bolo Shri Mata Shri Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ki!
Shri Mataji: Can you bring the shopping I did.
Except for the small ones. All the treatise.
So I have some small presents for you all. Without the price.
That's for Kinsley for doing such a good job.
Sahaja Yogi: No, it's not a price Mother.
Shri Mataji: So, this one's for Ruth.
Kinsley: How did you know Mother, it's probably the most I needed, a lovely watch, in those days. I really wanted to bow. It's beautiful.
Shri Mataji: And this one is for Christine.
Come along, I'll make you wear. I'm not very good at all these things. I don't know how you do it if there's a double thing here. It's a double one, double latch.
Come along, I'll make you wear.
Sahaja Yogi: I like this Shri Mataji, absolutely.
Shri Mataji: [Laughter] Wear it now.
Sahaja Yogi: It seems too beautiful.
Shri Mataji: It suits you all right, I have to tell you.
Shri Mataji: Oh, so beautiful! He looks so nice.
It has a double latch, you see? So I'm taking out just one and I'll put on the one and the new one you have to do. I think it's for the safety. So, it should not fall off it has a double latch.
It's good, may God bless you.
May God bless you. Let's see and have it also.
Oh, you have put on weight I must say.
Yes, good, good, very good.
May God bless you. So thank you very much.
Sahaja Yogi: Mother, thank you.
Sahaja Yogi: Thank you Mother.
Shri Mataji: May God bless you, thank you.
I hope there's no price in that thing.
Sahaja Yogi: No, no, I've checked Mother.
No, I had a look on it.
Sahaja Yogi: Yes, no,no, no, it was on the others but not on this one, I've checked for you.
Sahaja Yogi: Thank you for coming Mother.
Shri Mataji: May God bless you all. May God bless you all.
Somebody is really unhappy, you can see that.
Yes, that's all. Why didn't we keep it inside that one in the box? And you want to lock it up also that thing.
Sahaja Yogi: Bolo Shri Jagadamba Shri Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ki!
Shri Mataji: Guido, let Me know, all right?
Guido: Yes, Shri Mataji; about Diwali? Diwali in Rome?
Shri Mataji: Diwali in Rome.


Hempstead, NY – Four members of the Hofstra Women's Lacrosse family were crowned champions today as Head Coach Shannon Smith, Assistant Coach Shanna Brady, along with alumni Kelsey Gregerson and Lindsay Scott all played for the Long Island Sound team that captured the first-ever United Women's Lacrosse League title on Sunday, July 31.
BALTIMORE (Sunday, July 31, 2016) – History was made on Sunday afternoon at Homewood Field on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., as the Long Island Sound defeated the Boston Storm in the inaugural United Women's Lacrosse League (UWLX) Championship Game, 13-8. With the win, Long Island became the first-ever champions in professional women's lacrosse history, and the team also saw goalie Devon Wills leave with additional hardware after being named the Most Valuable Player of the title match.
Long Island opened their account first in this contest, with Hillary Fratzke putting away the initial goal of the game. However, Kayla Treanor quickly answered with a pair of tallies for Boston before Katrina Dowd responded to make it level at two apiece. Treanor and Kristin Igoe then struck with back-to-back notches before an exchange between Alice Mercer and Kara Cannizzaro made it a 5-3 count in favor of Boston.
In the final five minutes of the opening half, the Sound finished out the first session with three straight scores, including a pair by Lindsay Scott and a third from Katie Rowan. With the late rally, Long Island took a 6-5 edge into the intermission.
The Sound continued that hot streak into the second half, with Kelly McPartland, Dowd and Fratzke recording the first three finishes of the frame to make it six consecutive goals and put up a 9-5 score line.
Despite the Long Island run, the resilient Storm maintained their focus and responded with three straight tallies from Igoe, Lauren Kahn and Treanor to close the gap to 9-8. However, the Sound would not allow Boston to get any closer.
Dowd first ended the Storm rally with her third finish of a hat trick, and Long Island then closed out the match with another three consecutive scores from Becca Block, Taryn VanThof and Alyssa Leonard to hang the final 13-8 count.
As the final seconds ticked off the clock and the horn sounded to conclude the inaugural season of the UWLX, the Sound sideline raced onto the field in jubilation, once they successfully doused head coachShannon Smith with a cooler of water, of course. Since the first weekend of the regular season, Long Island held at least a share of first place on the UWLX Table, and Sunday afternoon solidified them as the best team in professional women's lacrosse.
The UWLX now heads into its first offseason with many plans already in the works for its sophomore campaign. To keep up with all of the latest announcements as they occur, make sure to stay locked into UnitedWLax.com.


In essence, this means that you cannot take a photograph on your camera and simply put it straight on your website; there is a vital step you need to take in between taking the photo and adding it to your site. Most people do not have expensive image editing software on their computers (like Photoshop), but that does not mean that you can't optimise images!
Online Resizer – If you want a quick and very easy (but temporary) way to resize your photos online, this may be for you.


I want the User to be able to select something from a Combo Box and based on what is selected, have another combo box fill differently, based on what is chosen. For example: Say there are two combo boxes, one consisting of the US States and the other of the US cities. If the User selects New York from one Combo Box, I want the second Combo Box to fill with all the cities of New York. I was able to do a basic If statement, but I can only get the second Combo Box to fill with one so called city, and not show all the cities.
The whole idea, is to have whatever the User selects in the second Combo box added to a table with all the other related fields that are showing on the form too.
Search on this site for "cascading comboboxes". There are tons of references to this concept here.
Glad you got it worked out. Good luck with the rest of your project.
I didn't. I went over to the Candace Tripp web site and downloaded the two Cascade Combo Box examples. I read the code and I just can't believe there is not an easier way of doing this than that.
can currently read the other Combo Box and have the second Combo Box fill one item, by doing a simple If function, what more do I need to do with the IF statement to allow me to have multiple items display in the combo box at once as oppose to just one? Thanks!
Obviously, you have to change the names I have used in the above example to refer to things in your database.
Here is a small exaple of what the code is from the Candace website.
strSQL = "SELECT DISTINCT tblDemo.ColumnField FROM tblDemo "
strSQL = strSQL & " WHERE tblDemo.RowField = '" & cboRowField & "'"
strSQL = strSQL & " ORDER BY tblDemo.ColumnField;"
strSQLSF = "SELECT * FROM tblDemo2 "
strSQLSF = strSQLSF & " WHERE tblDemo2.RowField = '" & cboRowField & "'"
This code seems identical to what I posted except that the SQL is generated in VBA instead of being written directly into the rowsource property. If modified correctly, it should work the exact same way my code would.
Balaji, what you suggested almost works perfectly!!!!! When I choose a state, the relevant cities show in the second combo box. But if I CHANGE the State selection, the Cities in the second combo, does not get updated/changed. What kind of refresh or requery code do I need to add? Thanks again!
I figured out how to do it, by adding an On Got Focus Event and doing a Requery function to the second combo box. Make sense?
Yep, you have to requery the Cities combo after you change the State one. I would put the code in the After Update event of the City combo though. If you look thru the linked thread that Analyst gave you, it mentions that.
One other point. What Candace's example does is set the RowSousrce of the combo in code. there are some advantages to that, but it isn't the only way. But simply referencing the first combo in the query behind the second combo you accomplish the same thing.
Scott or Balaji, do either of you know of a reference book that consists only of all these VB codes, with examples for each. I used to have a Microsoft one for all the functions in Excel and that was great.
Scott, I added the code to the After Update event. Thanks!!!!
I have heard several people recommend the book by Grover Park George (look to the left of the posts). I learnt my access from the book Access 2000 programming for dummies and lots of trial and error (mostly the latter!). I browse through the help system of Access when I have some spare time and spend a lot of time on Utter Access to pick up more tips and tricks.


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Scientists find new drug that slows down Parkinson's disease
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In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers found potential new treatments that could slow the progression of Parkinson's disease.
They found that two different peptides (chains of amino acids) helped slow the spread of alpha-synuclein, a protein that occurs in abnormal protein deposits called Lewy bodies in the brain.
The study is from Rush University. One author is Kalipada Pahan, Ph.D.
Lewy bodies are hallmarks of Parkinson's disease, the most common movement disorder affecting about 1.2 million people in the United States and Canada.
Currently, there are no treatments that slow the progression of Parkinson's disease—they only treat the symptoms.
Lewy bodies are also linked to the development of Lewy body dementia and a rare neurological disorder called multiple system atrophy (MSA).
In the study, the team developed the new drugs known as TLR2-interacting domain of Myd88 (TIDM) and NEMO-binding domain (NBD).
The drugs, which were delivered through the nose, were found to slow inflammation in the brain and stop the spread of alpha-synuclein in mice with Parkinson's disease.
The treatments also improved the mice's gait, balance, and other motor functions.
The team says if these results can be replicated in patients, it would be a remarkable advance in the treatment of devastating neurological disorders.
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Rob Caggiano (Nova Iorque, 7 de novembro de 1976) é um músico americano, conhecido como o atual guitarrista da banda dinamarquesa de heavy metal Volbeat. Também foi guitarrista da banda de thrash metal Anthrax que fez parte da banda entre 2001 e 2005, retornando em 2007 e saindo novamente no dia 4 de janeiro de 2013, após terminar a gravação do EP Anthems. Sua primeira banda Profissional foi Boiler Room formada em 1996.

Discografia

Anthrax
 We've Come for You All (2003)
 Worship Music (2011)
 Anthems (EP) (2013)

Boiler Room
 Can't Breathe (2000)

The Damned Things
 Ironiclast (2010)

Volbeat
 Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies (2013)
Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie (2016)
Rewind, Replay, Rebound (2019)
Servant Of The Mind (2021)

Guitarristas de heavy metal
Guitarristas dos Estados Unidos
Guitarristas solo
Membros de Anthrax
Naturais de Nova Iorque (cidade)
Norte-americanos de ascendência italiana