How common are benign breast conditions (cysts, fibrocysts, fibroadenomas, lobular/ductal hyperplasia, fat necrosis, mastitis, sclerosing adenosis, intraductal papillomas , macromastia, granular cell tumors, fibrosis, radial scars, adenosis, duct ectasia, phyllodes tumors, lcis/lobular hyperplasia, calcifications, cyclical pain , etc) in transfeminine people taking full AA+E HRT or P or AA only HRT? Do you know anyone? How old were they and how old were they when they started what hormones ?
How common is breast cancer in trans girls too?
Pretty low I'd suspect. Very small test pool and most go stealth so you wont see much of an in depth study. Breast cancer is quite low from the limited studies they have done.
In my opinion, if you transitioned as a younger person, you should have the same incidence of all these problems. Since the total number of us is very small in comparison to the general population, the data is just not there.
For us older transitioners, there are some benefits to HRT that seem to mitigate some problems with the chronic diseases of the breasts, since we have not had female sized breasts very long.
There is some evidence both for and against any additional problems. Some trans women have had problems with non bio-identical Estrogens. But the bio-identical Estradiol is very safe and reported complications are much less than with Ethinylestradiol, for example.
Where can I find cancer studies in Trans women ?
That's very true, anyway , I would like to know more about bio-identical hormones , can you link me to some resources , please ?
Estradiol is bio-identical. Premarin and birth control pills are not.
For a resource just google WebMD or Wikipedia and search for Estradiol. If you have access to subscription medical sites such as Micromedex, it has more technical info than the public sites.


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Navy heroes: British submariners' WW2 resting place discovered by accident in North Sea
THE final resting place of 58 British seaman who were killed when their submarine sank in the Second World War has been discovered in the North Sea by accident.
PUBLISHED: 07:12, Sat, Nov 4, 2017 | UPDATED: 10:39, Sat, Nov 4, 2017
The icy tomb of 58 British submariners lost in WW2 has finally been rediscovered by accident
The wreck was stumbled upon 77 years after it disappeared by a group of Polish divers who were looking for one of their nation's lost submarines in the area.
A 3D radar scan showing the craft perfectly intact in 308ft of water has confirmed it to be HMS Narwhal which was attacked by the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain in July 1940.
The submarine left it's base in Blyth, Northumberland, tasked with the job of laying mines off German-occupied Norway.
But the Germans had cracked the Royal Navy's secret codes and were aware of Narwhal's potential route.
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Some further research on the wreck would be advisable
Tomasz Stachura
It was intercepted by a Dornier bomber and attacked on July 23. It sank with all hands 140 miles off the east coast of Scotland.
Earlier this year members of Santi Diving, a Polish-based group of deep-sea explorers, were carrying out a search for ORP Orzel (Eagle) when the found the Narwhal.
The Orzel has been missing since escaping the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Polish divers have spent the last 10 years looking for it without success.
Having made the potentially historic discovery the team are now looking to find the families of the 58 men whose remains are inside the wreck.
3D Radar scan of the stricken sub-matches the dimensions of the Narwhal
Tomasz Stachura, one of the divers behind the expedition, said: "We are very interested in any contact with HMS Narwhal staff relatives as it would be good to hear their stories.
"While we were searching for the ORP Eagle we found an unknown sub at a depth of around 308ft deep.
"At first we hoped it could be the Eagle, one of our own Polish submarines, but we soon found that the wreck was 13ft longer then Eagle, thus excluding it from the sought-after submarine.
"A better candidate for this wreck was the 290ft-long HMS Narwhal, a mine-laying submarine lost on in the vicinity patrol sometime after July 22, 1940.
"As far as we know the location of HMS Narwhal is still unknown.
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An abandoned train on the flat farm land where hanger A used to be, before the fire
"In my opinion some further research on the wreck would be advisable to ensure that the identity of this wreck can be established for sure.
"Hopefully this can help in confirming the fate of the crew lost with the submarine." The area it was found in along with the length and shape of the wreck appear to confirm it is the Narwhal.
At the time it was one of the Royal Navy's most fierce submarines during the 1930s. It was fitted with 12 torpedoes and was also fitted with a 4ins surface gun. It was skippered by Lieutenant Commander Ronald Burch.
HMS Narwhal is believed to have sunk the German U-boat, 'U-1', the first submarine built by the Third Reich, which disappeared on patrol on April 6, 1940.
George Malcomson, creator of archives with the National Museum of the Royal Navy, said he discovery represents just one of several British submarines that are still missing to this day.
Mr Malcomson said: "There were lots of British submarines and ships that were lost, not just during the Second World War, but the First World War also.
"During WWI there were 54 that went missing and that increased to around 70 during WWII.
"The problem is that they head into patrol areas, don't come back, and no one knows what happened to them.
"Finding them involves looking at enemy records among various other things, and in recent years there has been a steady trickle of submarine and ship wrecks being found. "The Polish team who discovered the Narwhal are so passionate about finding the Eagle and have a burning desire to locate it.
"That's is great to see, but unfortunately so many British vessels went missing during those years that if you were to try and find them all it would take up your whole life until you died."
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To ensure the BLM's valuable records do not "walk out the door," the EnaSys team recommended placing RFID tags on the folders and EnaSys Portal readers at every exit. With this system in place, any record that leaves the area can be wirelessly scanned and documented.
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ASCLME - Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project - ASCLME - Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project
Below is a categorised list of links to useful documents and websites related to Data and Information.
ASCLME Ecosystem reports ASCLME National Marine Ecosystem Diagnostic Analyses (MEDA)
ASCLME Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA)
ASCLME Strategic Action Programme (SAP)
ASCLME Data policy and plans ASCLME Principles and Guidelines for Data and Information Management
ASCLME Regional Data and Information Management Plan
ASCLME National Data management plans Comoros
ASCLME Spatial data African Marine Atlas Download GIS data sets for Africa
African Marine Atlas Demonstration Mapserver site
Spatial data and metadata search Search the Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse Mechanism regional portal
Find data for Comoros
Find data for Kenya
Find data for Madagascar
Find data for Mauritius
Find data for Mozambique
Find data for Tanzania
Find data for Seychelles
Find data for South Africa
Remotely sensed data ASCLME Landsat Image Server Search and download Landsat data optimised for marine and coastal applications
Marine Remote Sensing Unit
African Marine Information System Download data products
African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD)
Cruises and vessels POGO Directory of research vessels
POGO Planned cruises
POGO Cruise summary reports
ASCLME research cruises
ASCLME cruise results Cruise Data Spreadsheet
ACEP phase 1 cruise data
In-situ data Centre for In situ Observational Oceanography Moored instruments (metadata, raw data and data products)
Centre for In situ Observational Oceanography Ship data products (South Africa)
National Oceanographic data centres Comoros
SADCO Southern African Data Centre for Oceanography
WOD World Ocean Database
WOA World Ocean Atlas
RAMA The Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction
Projects Projects currently or recently active in the ASCLME region
Marine specialists Oceanexpert
Marine Literature OceanDocs
Important links ODINAFRICA Ocean Data and Information Network of Africa
PICO Panel for Integrated Coastal Observations
ACCESS Applied Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Science
ICAM IOC Portal for Integrated Coastal Area Management
ICAN International Coastal Atlas Network
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
African Ocean Portal
A large number (>130) reports and other useful documents are available from here.
A spreadsheet of the status and location of data from ASCLME research cruises is available here.
An inventory has been compiled of all the data sets collected during African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP) field activities, including ten ship-based cruises and three shore-based expeditions. The ACEP data inventory contains 258 records compiled by scientists, technicians and data managers, each of which describes a unique data set. The purpose of the data inventory was to document the primary products of the numerous multidisciplinary research activities funded by the first phase of ACEP that generated data sets of value to the countries of the Western Indian Ocean region. It has been used by the Programme to meet its responsibility to ensure that proper archives are kept, that data collected within the EEZs of each country are made available to those countries, and that specimens and samples are tracked.
Metadata records may be accessed from http://www.saeonocean.co.za/geonetwork
Dr TG Bornman
t.bornman@saiab.ac.za
African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme
In accordance with Programme principles and agreements, ACEP has:
1. Provided full sets of all data collected in each country to Nationally appointed National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs) which will be the primary contact for ACEP data sets.
2. Archived DVD copies of all ACEP cruise data at the regional host institution, the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) in their raw form (archive only, not for re-distribution).
3. Lodged specimens at National Collections for open access and study by scientists worldwide.
4. Incorporated fish specimen data into SAIAB's Specify database which contributes to the South African Biodiversity Information Facility (SABIF) and hence to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), thereby making species distribution data information immediately available as part of the online GBIF global data set.
5. Established that the four main avenues for data dissemination are:
a) National Oceanographic Data Centres (for data sets):
SADCO and Marine & Coastal Management, DEAT
2nd Floor, Foretrust Building , Martin Hammerschlag Rd ,
Foreshore,
8001, Cape Town
Email: marcel@oceanafrica.com; tammy@oceanafrica.com
Centro Nacional de Dados Oceanograficos (CENADO)
INAHINA
Av. Karl Marx, 153 C.P. 2089- Maputo
Tel. +258 2143 01 86/8
http://www.nodc-mozambique.org/
e-mail: smundlovo@inahina.gov.mz
The Tanzania National Oceanographic Data Centre
Institute of Marine Sciences
Zanzibar , TANZANIA
Phone 255-024-2232128/2230741
http://www.nodc-tanzania.org/
Email: director@ims.udsm.ac.tz
Kenya (although Kenyan scientists participated in ACEP, no data were collected in Kenyan waters)
The Kenya National Oceanographic Data Centre
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
P.O. Box 81651 - Code 80100,
Tel: +254 41 471129/475151-4
http://www.nodc-kenya.org/
Email: honganda@kmfri.co.ke
CNDO/CNDRS
MORONI BP 266 COMOROS
COMOROS ,
Phone: 269 73 09 61,
http://www.nodc-comoros.org/
E-mail: A_abdoulkarim@yahoo.fr; yahayaim@yahoo.fr
Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines
Université de Toliara
PO Box 141 , Route du Port
Tuléar , Madagascar
Email : j.bemiasa@odinafrica.net
b) The Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse Mechanism (for metadata): http://gridnairobi.unep.org/CHMPortal/
c) The African Marine Atlas (for metadata & open-access spatial data):
http://iodeweb2.vliz.be/omap/OMAP/index.htm and http://www.africanmarineatlas.net/
d) The Remote Sensing Server for Marine Sciences (for SST and Ocean Colour data) at http://www.rsmarinesa.org.za.
The commitment and contributions of all scientists, managers, students and learners, to the growing body of data & information for the Western Indian Ocean is gratefully acknowledged, and all who are interested are encouraged to explore the information portals listed above.
Data and Information Coordinators for each country will take primary responsibility for product delivery, with specialists giving input in key areas. Coordinators are responsible for determining the level and nature of support (funding, advice and/or meetings) provided by the ASCLME Project to enable the delivery of products on time.
Process of information synthesis for MEDA, TDA and SAP development
Figure 1: Process of information synthesis for MEDA, TDA and SAP development. Green blocks refer to national systems and products.
The content of the extended bibliography and the national metadatabase is determined by the table of contents of the MEDA.
Note that the MEDAs, TDA and SAP have been published:
National reviews: Sources of information
The national Marine Ecosystem Diagnostic Analyses (MEDAs) will be the synthesis of all current knowledge of the coast and ocean, related to ecosystem management. As described in Figure 1, information and data for the national MEDAs will be sourced from published literature, collected in the field, and/or mined from unpublished data and document repositories. The MEDA will also identify knowledge gaps and make recommendations for targeted activities to add to our knowledge of regionally important issues or ecosystem processes. These proposed activities should be rated on a scale of importance so that the Project Coordination Unit (PCU) can consider assistance towards addressing priority issues through early action, or incorporate recommendations into the SAP for implementation after the first phase of the ASCLME Project.
New data will be collected from both ship and shore-based expeditions, processed, and then written-up for peer-review and publication. The document Principles and guidelines for ASCLME data and information management, as agreed by ASCLME participating countries, guides this management plan, including the handling of new data collected with ASCLME Project funding.
Notes on repatriation of existing data to Western Indian Ocean countries
As outlined in the project document, this will be a specific request, facilitated by the ASCLME, for data repatriation to participating countries. Experiences and successes of the Global Ocean Data Rescue and Archaeology (GODAR) project of the IOC/UNESCO will be taken into account.
Data sets required for repatriation will be identified during the course of development of the MEDAs. In addition to the identification of data sets recommended for repatriation, a proposal with budget attached, must be submitted to the ASCLME PCU for the processing/interpretation of data for the purposes of informing the ASCLME MEDA.
Once received, data should be described and lodged at national data centres within a pre-defined time frame, and metadata must be made available online. See also National D&I Management Plans page.
Data and information management systems
Information and data in support of the MEDA will be drawn from many sources. A management framework is needed to make sure that there is a system for tracking and managing source information for the MEDAs and the TDA, so that the information resources for the ASCLME project documents remain available and useful for the ongoing benefit of participating countries engaged in the LME process.
Archiving and long term management of information systems and data sets sourced at national level should remain in national institutions. The primary sources of information for the MEDA are from national institutions or NGOs or their activities. Information/data will not be removed from their original source, and management systems will not be duplicated. For this reason, the focus of the ASCLME Project will be on synthesising and describing information (increasing awareness of information resources), promoting access to information, and supporting the good management and curation of existing data and information (through capacity building and training). The main users of scientific information in the LME process will be managers and scientists from national management and governance agencies, who will need to draw on sources of information to inform management/governance strategy and develop policy briefs.
In order for an overwhelming amount of information to be accessed, managed and disseminated in support of the LME process, a suite of management tools will be implemented. The four core systems that will be used by ASCLME Project participants will be:
• An extended bibliography (to describe and facilitate access to information)
• A metadatabase (to describe and facilitate access to data)
• The ASCLME inventory of new data (to monitor and track new data collected with ASCLME funding), and
• A Projects database (to manage information about other projects in the WIO region).
Information in these and other systems will be used to generate a series of information products in support of the ecosystem approach. The four core systems must be considered to be useful products in themselves, but further value addition and design is needed to produce specific information products that are required for the countries of the ASCLME Project. Further detail of the four core systems is provided below, and the Information Products page, reviews each of the information products in more detail.
Other projects and funders have generated important data resources for the countries of the Western Indian Ocean. At regional level, there is agreement or discussion with several of them to exchange data and/or resources with the ASCLME Project to better serve the interests of the region. This data exchange is described in Appendix IV (Data exchange and collaboration with other projects in the WIO region). Since this only addresses exchange at regional level, a similar table is included in each of the National D&I plans to describe collaboration in each country.
Extended bibliography
During the course of development of the MEDAs, numerous articles and papers, both published and unpublished, will be reviewed and used as sources of information. It will be useful to participating countries to have access to a database or extended bibliography of literature on LME-related issues, with detailed annotations on the content of literature entries.
Bibliographies should be maintained by a national institution (with offline and online access), but should be ultimately accessible via a regional, internet-based portal.
Input has been solicited from the IOC/UNESCO, UNEP, ReCoMaP, WIOMSA and SAEON regarding the adoption of an existing system OR the development of a database specifically for ASCLME purposes. The use of WEBLIS by SWIOFP and the resources in IOC portals and WIOfish are also acknowledged.
The choice of a system is an item on the agenda of the 2nd Working meeting of D&I Coordinators (Feb 09), after which an implementation plan will commence.
Metadatabases
A metadatabase is required for each country to track data sets that are used by the ASCLME Project in support of the MEDA, as well as in the development of national data products. Most participating countries have one or more marine-related metadata portals already implemented. Regional discussion about the overlap and synergies between portals developed by UN agencies in the Western Indian Ocean is already underway, particularly with the Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse Mechanism and ODINAFRICA (IOC/UNESCO).
Instead of developing a new, parallel system for the ASCLME Project, it is recommended that in each participating country, one of the existing discovery metadatabase systems already in place, be adopted as an interim measure (adopted as permanent if successful) for the ASCLME Project. This is on condition that the chosen system complies fully with published ISO and OGC standards, so that metadata portals are interoperable, irrespective of their operating systems and software. The proposed national metadatabase, and requirements for support (if any) from the ASCLME Project should be drawn up in each National D&I plan (see section 9 below). While it is acknowledged that SWIOFP proposed to use MEDI (IODE/UNESCO) (SWIOFP 2003), SWIOFP is now using Geonetwork. National policy on Spatial Data Infrastructures (Makanga and Smit 2008) should also be taken into account.
If an existing metadatabase is used, a flagging system must be implemented to indicate data sets which are a) of relevance to the ASCLME Project, and b) have been entered into the system on behalf of the ASCLME Project. This is necessary so that data inventories relevant to the ASCLME can be generated quickly and also so that work progress (the describing of additional data sets) can be monitored.
In countries where no functional metadatabase currently exists to serve the needs of the marine/coastal community, or where funding is required to make such a system fully functional, this should be specified in the national D&I Plan.
The ASCLME PCU will continue to work closely with ODINAFRICA (IOC/UNESCO), the Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse Mechanism and SWIOFP, to ensure that any targeted interventions that are necessary to increase access to coastal and marine-related metadata are done in the best interests of the region. Interoperability of metadata portals, funding, and participation in the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) will also be addressed at D&I meetings of regional projects.
ASCLME new data inventory
New data will be generated mainly from three sources:
Ship-based expeditions
Shore-based expeditions
Ongoing data collection for monitoring purposes
The ASCLME PCU will maintain an online inventory of these data sets for the reference of all Project participants. National D&I coordinators will maintain their national inventories of monitoring data against a regional template.
The data inventory for ship-based expeditions has been designed and is currently being populated with metadata from the 2008 NANSEN cruises. Templates for shore-based expeditions and monitoring data will only be drawn up at the implementation stage (as we don't know what the activities are yet).
WIO Projects database
A spreadsheet has been compiled of projects active (in more than one country) in the WIO that have some relevance to the ASCLME Project. This has been compiled by the ASCLME PCU, currently standing at >120 projects. Each country should contribute a list of projects at national or local level to complement the regional list. This will form part of the National D&I Plan.
A more detailed document entitled Summary of WIO regional projects has been compiled, also by the ASCLME PCU, to describe in detail the activities of key projects and areas of potential collaboration along thematic lines. Further contributions to this document are welcome, and regular updates will be made available online.
See also the WIO Projects Portal.


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Jesse: Havant helped my development
Jesse Kewley-Graham believes last season's loan spell at Saturday's opponents Havant & Waterlooville has seen him progress as a player.
The midfielder spent the latter part of the campaign at the Blue Square South outfit and is looking forward to returning to Westleigh Park.
"I was on loan there last year and I'm looking forward to seeing all the boys that were there again," Kewley-Graham told Chairboys Player.
"They brought me on really well. As a young player you need to get games under your belt. I got eight or nine games, as well as the 10 appearances for Wycombe.
"All a young player needs is games and hopefully this year I can keep going."
Saturday's trip to Havant is the Blues' first outing since the 1-1 draw with Port Vale 10 weeks ago and Kewley-Graham says the squad are in good shape ahead of their return to action.
He added: "Hopefully we can get off to a winning start. I don't know if we'll be playing 45 minutes or if Gaz will put a side out to play the full 90.
"We've been doing really well with our fitness so hopefully we can carry on and take it into the 45 minutes or 90 that we'll be playing.
"It's a lot different (match action to training). You see some of the players like Josh Scowen and Stu Lew on the pitch and they make up as much ground as anyone else on a team put together."
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Xstrata
China buys Glencore copper mine for $6 billion
A Chinese consortium bought the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru from Glencore Xstrata for $6 billion, the high end of analysts' forecasts in China's biggest acquisition of a mine, showing the strength of its long-term need for copper.
Glencore squeezes $2 billion out of Xstrata deal
Glencore will cut costs, shelve projects and squeeze more than expected from its record-breaking purchase of mining group Xstrata, lifting benefits from the deal to at least $2 billion in 2014. In an update on the $46 billion tie-
Glencore leads foreign investment in UK firms
Foreign investment in British companies hit a six-year high of 23.4 billion pounds ($36.4 billion) in the second quarter as the economy started to grow, though the bulk came from one deal - Glencore's takeover of Xstrata, data showed.
Glencore eyes finish line in marathon Xstrata deal
Shareholders in commodities trader Glencore have overwhelmingly approved its long-awaited $31 billion takeover of miner Xstrata, paving the way for one of the largest tie-ups in the sector to date. After nine months of tense negot
Qatar dodges shareholder duty on Glenstrata
(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.) Qatar is dodging its shareholder duty. The emirate successfully used its muscle to extract better terms from Glencore in the commodity trader&#
EU to decide on Glencore-Xstrata deal by Nov 8
EU antitrust regulators have set a Nov 8 deadline to decide on whether to allow trader Glencore's $33 billion takeover of miner Xstrata, after months of talks which the companies hope will help avoid forced sales or a lengthier, in-depth pro
Xstrata gives cautious blessing to $33bn Glencore bid
Mining group Xstrata gave its long-awaited blessing on Monday to a revised $33 billion bid from trader Glencore, bowing to investor pressure by changing the deal to ensure a payment plan to keep its top managers does not sink t
Xstrata wins more time over Glencore offer
Britain's takeover regulator has given mining group Xstrata an extra week to decide whether to accept the $36 billion revised offer from Glencore, prompting jitters over what is the latest twist in a seven-month saga. The unex
Qatar keeps Glencore guessing
Qatar, Xstrata's second-largest investor, has held back immediate support for Glencore's raised bid for the miner, despite an apparent rapprochement last week, saying in a rare statement on Tuesday it was still consider
Qatar yet to decide on Glencore-Xstrata deal
Investor Qatar said on Tuesday it had not yet decided whether to support Glencore's revised bid for Xstrata and would announce a decision in due course when it had considered all the implications.


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Nardo Fotaballklubb é um clube de futebol da região de Nardo, na cidade de Trontêmio. Foi fundado em 14 de Janeiro de 1971, atualmente contando com mais de 500 membros.

A equipe principal dispuita atualmente a segunda divisão masculina.

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The UK's Jihad - not so leaderless?
James Brandon of our* very own Quilliam Foundation has an article out in the Sentinel arguing that the self-starting terror attacks launched out of the UK weren't actually all that self-starting.
As the press release sent out by the Quilliam Foundation says: "Brandon's research shows that, while the leaders of terrorist plots such as the 7-7 and 21-7 bomb plots were mostly radicalised in the UK, they acquired their key bomb-making skills directly from al-Qaeda members in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region."
The bit that caught Londonstani's eye (because it seems to contradict what he found in six months of intensive meet and greets) was that: "evidence suggests that al-Qaeda continues to operate through a traditional hierarchical structure based on face-to-face contact – and that it may even still be able to directly recruit British Muslims at street-level in the UK."
But then the body of the article doesn't seem to substantiate that particular press release claim.
Most of the article seems culled from old press reports. And it fills Londonstani with dread when he sees academic type papers (supposedly serious) quoting as sources newspapers like the Independent, The Telegraph and The Mail (broke and don't really even try to pretend to be serious).
* By "our" the author is referring to the organisation's Britishness. And is not implying that Abu Muqawma owns the Quilliam Foundation, in any sense of the word. Promise.


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Em física e engenharia, um vetor de fase ou fasor, é uma representação de uma função senoidal cuja amplitude (A), frequência angular (ω) e fase (θ) são invariantes no tempo. É um subconjunto de um conceito mais geral chamado representação analítica. Fasores separam as dependências em A, ω e θ em três fatores independentes. Isto pode ser particularmente útil, porque o fator de frequência (que inclui a dependência da senoide em relação ao tempo) muitas vezes é comum a todos os componentes de uma combinação linear das sinusoides. Nessas situações, fasores permitem esse recurso comum ser fatorado para fora, deixando apenas as características A e θ. O resultado é que reduz a trigonometria à álgebra e equações diferenciais se tornam funções algébricas. O fasor de termo, portanto, muitas vezes se refere a apenas esses dois fatores. Em textos antigos, um fasor é também referido como um sinor.  A teoria de transformada fasorial foi desenvolvida por Charles Proteus Steinmetz trabalhando na General Electric no fim do século 19.

Trata-se da utilização de um vetor bidimensional para representar uma onda em movimento harmônico simples. Devido ao modelo matemático de uma onda em movimento harmônico simples

é possível identificar-se uma relação entre esse modelo e a projeção no eixo das abscissas do seguinte vetor

Ou seja, é possível representar uma onda de amplitude máxima  e ângulo de fase  através de um vetor de magnitude  e que perfaz o ângulo  com o eixo das abscissas, no sentido directo.

Definição
A fórmula de Euler indica que sinusóides podem ser representados matematicamente como a soma de duas funções de valores complexos:

ou como a parte real de uma das funções:

Como indicado acima, os ' fasores ' podem referir-se a    ou apenas ao complexo constante,    . Neste último caso, entende-se ser uma notação abreviada, a amplitude e a fase de uma senóide subjacente de codificação.

Um atalho ainda mais compacto é a notação de ângulo:

Aritmética de fasor

Multiplicação por uma constante (escalar)
Multiplicação do fasor   por uma constante complexa,   , produz outro fasor. Isso significa que seu único efeito é alterar a amplitude e a fase da senoide subjacente:

Em eletrônica,  representaria uma impedância, que é independente do tempo. Em particular não é a notação abreviada para outro fasor. Multiplicando um fasor corrente por uma impedância produz uma tensão de fasor. Mas o produto de dois fasores (ou quadratura de um fasor) representaria o produto de duas sinusóides, que é uma operação não-linear que produz novos componentes de freqüência. Notação de fasor só pode representar sistemas com uma freqüência, como um sistema linear estimulada por uma senóide.

Diferenciação e integração

A derivada do tempo ou integral de um fasor produz outro fasor. Por exemplo:

Portanto, na representação de fasor, a derivada do tempo de uma senóide fica apenas multiplicada pela constante, Da mesma forma, integrar um fasor corresponde à multiplicação por   O fator tempo-dependente, , não é afetado.
Quando resolvemos uma equação diferencial linear com  aritmética de fasor, nós estamos meramente fatorando    fora de todos os termos da equação e voltando a colocar na resposta. Por exemplo, considere a seguinte equação diferencial para a tensão através do capacitor num circuito RC:

Quando a fonte de tensão nesse circuito é sinusoidal:

devemos substituir:

onde o fasor    e o fasor  é a quantidade desconhecida a determinar.

Na notação abreviada do fasor, a equação diferencial se reduz a

Resolvendo para o fasor tensão capacitor dá:

Como vimos, o fator de multiplicação  representa as diferenças de amplitude e fase de  relativo à  e

Na forma de coordenadas polares, é:

, onde

Portanto:

Adição

A soma de vários fasores  produz outro fasor. Isso é porque a soma de sinusóides, com a mesma frequência é também uma senóide com a freqüência:

onde:

ou,através da lei dos cossenos no plano complexo (ou a identidade trigonométrica para diferenças de ângulo):

onde .

Um ponto chave é que A3 e θ3 não dependem ω ou t, que é o que possibilita a notação de fasor. A dependência de tempo e frequência pode ser suprimida e re-inserida para o resultado, enquanto as operações apenas usadas no meio são aqueles que produzem outro fasor. Na notação de ângulo, a operação mostrada acima está escrita:

Outra maneira de ver a adição é que dois vectores com coordenadas [A1 cos(ωt + θ1), A1 sin (ωt + θ1)] e [A2 cos(ωt + θ2), A2 sin (ωt + θ2)] são adicionados vetorialmente para produzir um vetor resultante com coordenadas [A3 cos(ωt + θ3), A3 sin (ωt + θ3)]. (ver animação)

Em física, este tipo de adição ocorre quando sinusóides interferem uns com os outros, de forma construtiva ou destrutiva. O conceito de vetor estático fornece percepções úteis sobre perguntas como esta: "que diferença de fase seria necessária entre três sinusóides idênticos para cancelamento perfeito?" Neste caso, basta imaginarmos três vetores de igual comprimento e colocando-os cabeça à cauda, de tal modo que a última cabeça combina com a cauda do primeiro. Claramente, a forma que satisfaz essas condições é um triângulo equilátero, então o ângulo entre cada fasor para o próximo é de 120 ° (2 π/3 radianos), ou um terço de um comprimento de onda λ/3. Assim a diferença de fase entre cada onda deve também ser 120 °, como é o caso de corrente trifásica.
Em outras palavras, o que isto mostra é:

No exemplo de três ondas, a diferença de fase entre a primeira e a última onda foi 240 graus, enquanto para duas ondas destrutivas a interferência acontece a 180 graus. No limite de muitas ondas, os fasores devem formar um círculo para a interferências destrutivas, para que o primeiro fasor seja quase paralelo com o último. Isso significa que, para muitas fontes, destrutivas interferências acontecem quando a primeira e a última onda diferem por 360 graus, um comprimento de onda completo. Isto é porque em único fenda difração, mínimos ocorrem quando a luz da borda distante viaja um comprimento de onda completo a mais que a luz vinda da fenda mais próxima.

Aplicações

Os fasores têm uma larga aplicação prática pois oferecem várias vantagens na manipulação e cálculo de ondas. Eis algumas vantagens:

Sobreposição de ondas
Graças à natureza vetorial dos fasores, o cálculo do efeito da sobreposição de ondas reduz-se a uma soma vetorial.

Derivação e determinação da velocidade e aceleração
Devido à natureza do modelo matemático da onda em movimento harmónico simples, das operações de derivação e das propriedades trigonométricas, a determinação da velocidade e aceleração duma partícula em movimento harmónico simples torna-se trivial. Derivando a expressão de  obtêm-se as seguintes expressões para a velocidade e aceleração:

A partir das relações trigonométricas deduz-se que a velocidade e a aceleração podem ser representados como vetores que prefazem um ângulo de  e  com o fasor posição e que possuem as magnitudes  e  respectivamente.

Funções senoidais
Uma função senoidal   é uma função periódica que oscila entre dois valores  e  , com a mesma forma de uma função seno ou cosseno, como mostra a figura abaixo.

A distância  entre dois máximos ou dois mínimos sucessivos é o período da função e o seu inverso,  , é a frequência.

Se designarmos por a distância entre o ponto no eixo do tempo, onde a função atinge o seu valor máximo  antes de
 , e a origem, a fase da função é:

Consequentemente, as funções sinusoidais têm todas a forma geral:

onde  é a frequência angular:

Repare que existem várias formas de representar a mesma função. Podíamos substituir
o cosseno por seno e subtrair   fase, sem alterar nada. Podíamos também inverter o sinal da frequência e da fase e somar ou subtrair à fase qualquer múltiplo de .

No entanto, para poder garantir que duas funções sinusoidais são iguais unicamente se
tiverem igual valor máximo, frequência e fase, vamos limitar-nos a usar unicamente a
função cosseno, frequências positivas e fases no intervalo  . Essas 3 escolhas são arbitrárias, mas habituais. Assim cada função sinusoidal é caraterizada por  e . Duas funções sinusoidais que não tenham o mesmo valor máximo, frequência angular e fase, serão necessariamente diferentes.

Circuitos elétricos em corrente alternada

Para circuitos elétricos sinusoidais em regime permanente, é possível a utilização do método fasorial para o estudo, evitando uma resolução com equações diferenciais. Os elementos elétricos (resistências, indutâncias e capacitâncias) serão representados por impedâncias, todos em uma mesma unidade (ohm).

Um fasor funciona como um vetor, onde o módulo é a intensidade da grandeza medida (tensão ou corrente) e o ângulo (com relação à horizontal) mede a defasagem da grandeza corrente elétrica em relação a Tensão Elétrica em um componente.

Notas de rodapé

Referências

Links externos

 Phasor Phactory
 Representação visual de fasores
 Notação polar e retangular

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Here Comes Santa Claus... But Where Does He Stop Before Scotch Plains-Fanwood?
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The defense of Canada and the United States is NORAD's top priority. NORAD is a binational U.S. and Canadian command charged with aerospace and maritime warning and aerospace control of North America as well as monitoring aerospace activity globally. However, every year during the holidays, NORAD assumes the supplementary mission of tracking Santa as he travels around the world.
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In latin Aquila audax means "bold eagle". The bird in this picture certainly fits that description having let me approach within a few metres before flying off very casually.
It's been a week of ups and downs for Centralian birdos. The "Disneyland" of Alice Springs birding destinations, the sewage ponds, has been temporarily closed following an increase in feral dogs.
This brief inconvenience has had an upside. I went birdwatching in a few spots that I haven't been for a while and turned up some corkers. After a trip out to the Rufous-crowned Emu-wren site (where that species has bred well lately) I got a look at a rare Flock Bronzewing as it flew over the car.
Around the back of the claypans were plenty of Mulga Parrots and a trio of Bourke's Parrots. Also, the swamps at Ilparpa have just been flooded by Power & Water. As this starts to dry off over the coming weeks we may have some more luck with the lurking Crakes and Rails that have been seen in the area over summer.
It looks like the sewage ponds might be re-opened in time for a wader count by April. When this finally goes ahead, the organisers will need expert birdos to do the counting and scribes to write up the lists. Send me an email if you think you'd like to help out.


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The issue of user experience today plays a major role of every web design attempt. Lacking a knowledge of interaction and user interface design is a cardinal sin – perhaps even more so when the website in question already has a very complicated structure. University and college websites are there to serve the students – they provide information, represent the academic or extracurricular aspects of a school and serve as gateways to the student and staff intranet system. Here are 5 essential UX questions web developers should ask themselves before designing an academic website.
1. Does every page communicate the identity, values and priorities of the school?
Remember that not all users will visit your homepage – they might be redirected to one of your pages from another source. Visiting individual department pages, subpages and microsites, users should always be able to identify the university brand by its name and logo.
All images featured on the website will convey a message about the main values of the school. If a school is known for athletics, use images of its sports events. Users generally appreciate large, high-quality images that don't scream 'stock photos', but represent something authentic about the college and its atmosphere.
2. Can users easily review the list of all majors and programs?
This is probably the most important point in academic web design. Universities and colleges usually offer a large number of majors, programs and courses, and web devs sometimes struggle to put it all together in a logical and streamlined manner.
It's important to help users find what they're looking for – they might not know which degree belongs to which school and so often miss out on courses and programs they were looking for. All programs should be grouped by school or field, and degree names must always be visible.
3. Does the website help users in achieving their goals?
When designing an academic website, it's important to identify the main tasks users will want to accomplish on the website and then follow them yourself, checking whether the process is smooth and uncomplicated.
If they're being redirected from one department website to another in search of an application form, try to make finding all they need easier. Beware of duplicate, contradictory or incomplete information – a university or college website often resembles a maze you can easily get lost in. Use personas or real users to test your website and spot potential problems.
4. Does the layout and written content convey the school's character?
In an effort to attract the right crowd, some university or college websites become a repository of advertisements and colourful buttons – trying (and failing) to look cool. Informal language and interaction might not work this time. Young adults choosing a college are well aware of its costs, and won't be impressed by a flashy surface lacking in substance.
Content should be clear, easy to navigate and serious, representing the school's attitude towards the accomplishments of its students. Instead of trying hard to sound like prospective students, you could post videos and interviews with current students speaking out about the school and its facilities. This is engaging and authentic, but also substantial, showing that you value the opinion of your students.
5. Is the About Us page interesting?
Often underestimated, in the context of academics the About Us page has the potential to become an engaging representation of the school. You might not realize it, but this is the page all prospective students go to when trying to decide whether the school is the right fit for them.
Make sure your content isn't long, boring and uninformative. Focus on the school's achievements and strengths, clearly present some key figures about the school and display information in a way that is scannable and easy to read. A video works great here – you can give users a sense of what it's like to study at your institution.
By asking yourself these 5 UX questions, you're bound to create an academic website that looks professional, speaks volumes about the school's values and provides lots of vital information in a clear and streamlined way.
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Disposition Disposal, guided by Mr. Bueller's infinite wisdom, is a broad personal exploration project with the simple goal of seeking and sharing new places and new ideas. Complacency is the enemy of progress and I'm taking aim. Enjoy!


Gunma offers many onsen hot spring resorts to its visitors. Of these, Takaragawa Onsen is popular among foreign guests. Their Rotenburo, or open-air baths are the reason for this popularity. The onsen became the setting of a very popular 2014 movie called, "THERMAE ROME", starring Hiroshi Abe, an Arnold Schwarzenegger-type Japanese actor. What makes Takaragawa Onsen stand out in the crowd is their four very large open-air baths situated along the river deep in the mountains.


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ECOO '19 R1 P4 - Bus Route
Problem types
Data Structures, Implementation
Every morning, Lisa drives a public bus from one terminal stop to the other. Through months of careful observation, she has noticed that the order in which buses complete the route isn't necessarily the order in which they started. It is possible for the first bus to arrive at the first stop to not be the first bus to leave the last stop due to delays along the route. To leave work as early as possible, Lisa would like to figure out which bus will finish the route first on a given morning.
The route has ~N~ bus stops (labelled ~1~ to ~N~) and ~M~ daily passengers. Each passenger gets on a bus at some stop and gets off at a later stop. Each morning, the buses (labelled 1, 2, 3, …) start at the first stop in 10-minute intervals, i.e., the ~k+1~st bus starts 10 minutes after the ~k~th bus.
A bus takes one minute to travel from one stop to the next. Each bus can carry 40 people. Passengers at a bus stop board the buses in the order that they arrive at the stop. A bus will only stop at a bus stop if it is not full and there is a passenger waiting at the stop, or if someone on the bus wants to get off at the stop. If a bus stops, it first lets off any passengers that want to get off the bus, then picks up as many passengers that it can. Stopping delays a bus by one minute, regardless of how many people it picks up or drops off. If multiple buses arrive at a stop at the same time, they would stop in increasing order of their indices (i.e., the bus with the lowest index stops first).
Can you help Lisa by figuring out which bus she should drive to complete the route first?
The input will contain 10 datasets. Each dataset begins with two integers ~N, M~ ~(1 \le N, M \le 500,000)~. The next ~M~ lines each contain two integers ~S, F~ ~(1 \le S < F \le N)~, which represent a passenger who wants to travel between stop ~S~ and stop ~F~. If multiple people start at the same stop, buses pick them up in the order that they are listed. For the first 4 datasets, ~N, M \le 1,000~.
For each dataset, output "Bus #X", where X is the index of the bus that will be the first to reach the last stop. If two buses tie for first, output the one with the lower index.
Sample Input (Two Datasets Shown)
Bus #1
Kirito commented on April 3, 2019, 5:37 p.m.
To discourage hardcoding, the testcases are now shuffled between runs.
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Genetically Transmitted Eye Diseases
by Federico Bartolomei
Interview with Prof. Marco Seri of the Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic.
It is possible to understand the importance of genetics in the development of diseases by considering estimates that indicate that in Europe 30 million people are diagnosed with a hereditary disease.
With the completion of the Human Genome Project, which allowed the complete codification of our DNA, today we are finally able to diagnose a greater number of genetically transmitted diseases:
"We can consider our DNA like an enormous book containing an impressive number of letters that shape the words of computed meaning which are our genes", explains Prof. Marco Seri, Director of the Operating Unit of Medical Genetics at Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic: "it is now possible to read all these words and see if a letter has changed, indicating the appearance of a word without sense, which means if we are facing the mutation of a gene that determines the presence of a non-functional protein and, consequently, of a genetic disease. DNA also has variables that do not determine, in a direct manner, the presence of a disease, but that can, in conjunction with environmental factors, predispose a person to a disease."
As far as eye diseases are concerned, we know that a good number of them are transmitted genetically and can cause important disabilities: "among the genetic eyes diseases which can be transmitted to members of a family, we find some forms of corneal dystrophy, glaucoma, cataracts, retinal degeneration among which retinitis pigmentosa.
"Heterogeneous genetics", in other words the fact that the same disease can be caused by mutations in various genes, also exists. If we take, for example, retinitis pigmentosa, we know that more than 100 genes have been described and are responsible for the eye affections. Often, from a clinical point of view, patients cannot be distinguished between one another, but from the genetics point of view, their forms are different sometimes even with a different modality of transmission."
Why would genetics counselling be important?
"There can be immediate effects on the individual as well as the family: it is possible to stabilize, for example, who are the healthy carriers of a disease and the risk to have a sick child if two healthy carriers of the same defect end up together."
What are future perspectives for genetic therapy?
"To know of an altered gene and consequently the protein that does not work could help understanding the mechanisms that cause the disease itself, that is its pathogenesis, and putting in place new therapeutic strategies, pharmacological or not.
Conceptually, genetic therapy would be a simple procedure based on modifying the altered gene in the cell affected by the disease.
In reality, it is a very complex process which application still today has remained isolated to a few cases."
At the present time, in Italy, experimentations are being conducted on a specific ocular pathology: "It is an experimentation for genetic therapy in patients with Leber's congenital amaurosis and a mutation of the gene RPE65, and it is lead by a team at the University of Naples and by the TIGEM lab in Naples as well. Data are very promising and we hope that in the future new experimentations will be carried out for other eye diseases."
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William Hague, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, gave an after-dinner speech to the CBI at Grosvenor House, London, in May 2012.
One of my first posts on this blog concerned a speech he had made at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. I was underwhelmed by it, because he had been merely a talking head for a dreary FCO Press Release. Sadly, although I have given a link for you to see that critique, I shall be deleting it very soon. The video is no longer available on YouTube – perhaps the FCO were mortally stung by my comments.
Hague is one of the finest speakers around, and I should dearly love to post a critique of him in glorious full flight. Shall we see whether he did justice to himself at this dinner?
For nearly three minutes at the very beginning we are treated to his outstanding speaking ability. He settles and primes the audience, firstly thanking the previous speaker – not with hollow platitudes but with specific references to what he said – then moving seamlessly into reminiscent anecdotes about Boris Johnson. It is masterly. He does it with brilliantly judged humour that is suitably self-deprecating and superbly timed; but the real proof of the pudding is in the effect on the audience. He has them hooting with laughter which, this early in the proceedings, is notoriously difficult. You need to be as good as a stand-up comedian to do that, and he is. And of course all this is shot from the hip.
Again seamlessly, and starting from around 2:45, he gently moves us from that stunning opening to what he is here for. His eyes gradually go down to the script his Civil Servants have prepared and by 3:30 he is firmly on the political message. The transition is interesting, because little flashes of the real man continue to peep out before being suppressed below the persona of the Statesman.
Whether it is because of a residual legacy of that brilliant opening, or because he had more personal control over the content of this speech I don't know; but even when the transition is complete and he is merely reading the script he is a little more animated than he was in that dreadful previous one on this blog. Nevertheless I feel my interest levels dropping steadily. He is reading to the CBI, and it might as well be a bed-time story.
William Hague being required to read a speech is like Frankel being harnessed to a milk-float. He'll make the delivery process more exciting, but the product will be just as bland.
Mark Steyn – brilliant, but he must tend to the spoke not to the wrote.
Mark Steyn is a Canadian journalist. He is a contrarian that actually believes in freedom and democracy, rather than the cushioned cages offered by the world's fashionable western bureaucracies.
On 29 February, 2012 he was speaking at a meeting of the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia.
English as she is spoke and English as she is wrote are subtly different languages. One of these days I shall write a full-scale essay on the subject; but for now I'd just like to return to a theme that I have oft – that's apocope, if you're interested – oft explored concerning a speaker being a talking head.
Steyn is reading his speech. He doesn't read all of it: now and then his face addresses the room and he goes off on one. When he does, the speech comes alive. The rest of the time it comparatively lacks oomph.
It forces you to structure the material in a format that you can remember, and as a byproduct you make it easier for your audience to digest.
This speech is only 35 minutes long, and if he had been taught how to do it Steyn could easily have shot it all from the hip.
I'd like to add to that list of bullet-points another factor that comes into play here. It amounts to a challenge. I suggested earlier that there was a lingual difference between written and spoken English. I contend that you can close your eyes, listen to Steyn, and know when he is speaking and when he is reading. There's a difference in the rhythm, the intensity, the sheer energy that comes out of the words. There's even a difference in the words. This is where those who have been taught, or taught themselves, skilfully to handle paper too often fail.
Mark Steyn handles paper better than Brendan O'Neill and less well than Boris; but till he finds himself having to make a range of different speeches, day after day, it's a wasted, indeed counter-productive skill. The skill he needs is learning to do without, and it continues to amaze me how few have it. In nearly fifty postings on this blog barely a handful of speakers have delivered without paper.
He writes brilliantly. He speaks very well, but less brilliantly. If he would only learn how to speak without paper, and trust himself to do it, his speaking would rise to the quality of his writing.
I will admit that there are occasions where it is appropriate, in fact better, to read the material. If you are quoting someone else at length, then by all means unashamedly do that from paper. I mention this because there is just such an example in this speech. At 9:35 Steyn quotes David Icke in an hilarious section that I would not have missed for anything.
In fact, I would not have missed the whole speech. It is brilliant; but particularly when he shoots from the hip.
P.S. [added 14/3/13] Since posting this, I have seen several instances of Steyn speaking without paper. He can do it. So why did he not do it here? I can only assume that he felt this high-profile event required greater security. That's a mistake: paperless speaking, properly prepared, is actually more secure than its scripted equivalent.
Yesterday I explained and enlarged upon my impatience with the practice of reading a speech from a script. I also told how there would be more examples in the next couple of weeks of speakers who would illustrate how much better they performed when shooting from the hip.
Today I want to focus on another matter that seems to have trended in this blog – and is destined to trend some more. I hate microphone popping. This is the name given to the little explosive sounds made by your percussive consonants – particularly 'P's – if you speak too directly into the microphone.
I've been trying to cast my mind back more than two decades to the days before I was trained for working on radio. One of the key things we were taught was how to prevent popping. I undoubtedly then became more sensitised to the sound; but how much did I mind it before? I don't remember. The reason this concerns me is that it may be that most people never consciously notice popping – till a busybody like me comes along, points it out, and ruins everything for them.
Nevertheless, even if they do not consciously pick it up, their subconscious will register whether one speaker just makes a more pleasant sound than another. My trainees quickly pick up on my argument that it is as easy to do things right as wrong; and because many of them are senior business people who are delivering presentations whose success or failure could make the difference of huge amounts of money, the few percentage points either way, made by 'right' and 'wrong', can be pretty critical.
The key to correct microphone technique is not to speak into a microphone, but to speak across it – or at least anywhere into its arc of sensitivity except into the thing itself. It's the sudden assault of a column of your breath that makes the pop. Don't do what Boris did in that example speech covered last week. The stereo mics had been aimed at his eyes – which should have been fine – but at the beginning of the speech he wrenched them down to point at his mouth. Aaagh! Wicked man!
You've seen microphones with sponge balls on them. That sponge is designed to make the mic more forgiving of bad technique than it would be otherwise. But it won't forgive the worst; and anyway why not develop habits that give it nothing to forgive? Right is as easy as wrong.
If you find yourself in a TV studio, and a sound engineer has clipped a lapel microphone on you, microphone technique no longer applies: you have no choice but to put yourself in that engineer's hands. Likewise if they equip you with an ear-set – one of those things that look as if you have a boil on your cheek. You will be asked to say something for a level check. The only thing you have to worry about is that the volume you use for that level check is near enough the same as you use when on air. Seems simple, but I could tell you stories…!
At any rate you should stand by for a severe rant coming soon in this blog, because someone who used to be the British Prime Minister, speaking at a conference, is wearing a lapel mic. He is not popping, but badly 'splashing'. That is another horror, wherein sibilant consonants – particularly 'S' – cause distortion in the sound system. As I stated earlier, with a lapel mic you are in the hands of the sound engineer who, in that case, should have been put out of our misery.
As you might have gathered, we have fun and games coming soon! I hope you find them entertaining and helpful.
Boris Johnson – fumbling fakery?
After I did my critique of Ken Livingstone I decided to find a speech by his opponent, Boris Johnson, for analysis. This appeared in the June '12 Auracle Newsletter.
Because my niche is the business world I wanted to work on a speech that could be termed 'formal'. This was not because I felt my readers would be bored by the style of his more spontaneous outpourings (quite the contrary!) but for reasons of relevance. For them to glean benefit from a critique of a speech, it needs to be as close as I can get it to the sort of speech they might find themselves having to give. It took a lengthy, time-consuming, highly entertaining and informative search to find it.
Boris is giving a keynote speech at the MIPIM Real Estate conference in Cannes, in March 2011.
His introduction by Christophe Chupot lasts precisely one minute, and there is a relevance there that I shall explore shortly.
I can sit here and pontificate on what Boris does right and what he does wrong; but I do so at peril of making a fool of myself. Have you seen this quite-well-known YouTube clip? Arnold Schwarzenegger, waiting to address a Conservative Party conference over a satellite link, hears Boris preceding him. He whispers to a bystander at his end that this man is "fumbling all over the place". When this was subsequently reported to Boris he dismissed criticism from a "monosyllabic Austrian cyborg". The proof of the pudding is a relatively flourishing London compared with a virtually bankrupt California. You always have to bear in mind that Boris is not only bright academically, but has proved to be adroit politically and competent in office. I could compile a considerable list of issues I would address were I advising him, but in the back of my mind I would have the sound of the positive response I keep hearing from his audience. Your audience is your market, and I am a devout believer in the market. I suspect very strongly that he would reply to most – if not all – of my points that they were deliberate devices achieving particular aims; and I'd have a devil of a task, trying to marshal arguments against his track record of proven popularity and electoral success.
Here, for instance, is something significant. How long was his allotted slot – twenty minutes? Probably – it usually is. His speech finishes as the digital counter hits 20:57. Subtract his introduction of exactly one minute. This means that Boris, after "fumbling all over the place" comes out 3 seconds before his deadline. Awesome accuracy! Who dares claim that was just luck?
He leaps out of his chair, takes possession of the lectern, and though he's at the height of his hump (yes, of course he has one!) and though he begins by thanking Christophe for the introduction, he is not looking at him but straight out front. When you are nervous there's huge pressure to seize a legitimate reason to look anywhere but at the audience, but he spurns it. Pause at 1:07, and you see him holding the lectern and leaning forward eagerly like a prop forward about to engage in a scrum. This is a man who is channelling all his nerves into transmitting his message.
1:23 Leave those bloody microphones alone, Boris! He points them at his mouth and for the rest of the speech they are popping like Rice Krispies. Actually, if the conference organisers knew their stuff, they would have better microphones. There are some that will not 'pop' whatever you do. They cost a little more, but hey! Here, though, I feel a dark suspicion creeping in: I looked at a lot of Boris' speeches while seeking this one, and in nearly all of them he 'popped'. Furthermore, in one of them he kept tapping for emphasis on the lectern to which the microphone was attached. The sound was thus conducted to the PA system and the resultant percussion was maddening! Please, Boris, don't tell me that you are doing this on purpose to keep people awake!
2:04 He shields his eyes to find someone in the audience. He does it several times during the speech. I'll say more about that later.
He is very good indeed at reading from a script, and yet sounding spontaneous (I'd prefer him not to be using a script at all, but he's a mayor in office and very busy). One of the devices he uses to achieve that – as part of his apparent fumbling – is interrupting himself with manic interjections. It's a form of anapodoton and his being a scholar of the classics you can bet your shirt (even in this lousy weather) that he knows not only the device but the word. And, lest you wanted me to illustrate anapodoton, I've stuck a couple of tame ones in this paragraph.
N.B. reading the script does mean that he 'pops' every time he lowers his face to the lectern.
7:57 He corrects himself unnecessarily – "In our preparation for…/…In the run-up to the Olympics…" In the process his eyes never leave the page. What's the betting that the correction was scripted as part of his brilliantly portrayed "fumbling"?
9:35 Penelope and her suitors. Trust a classical scholar to insert a reference to Homer's Odyssey. And look at the tiny mischievous smile that accompanies it!
12:18 More carefully-portrayed fumbling! "And we, and we, and we are on, and we are on a course, we are on a course…" Why do I claim it's carefully portrayed? I've seen him do that so often that it's almost a mannerism. This is one smart cookie who knows how to create a cuddly image.
13:31 Lovely joke! I won't spoil it for you; but if you want to go straight to it you need to start further back – say around 13:10.
20:57 Ends! That's a timing bull's-eye by any standards.
BUT … he had been intending to conduct a Q&A session at the end. He clearly has not read The Face & Tripod. I lament in my book that everyone in the whole world (except for my trainees) puts Q&A sessions at the wrong place in their presentations. I bow to no one, no not even the mayor of London, on this matter.
I said earlier that I would look at how Boris periodically shielded his eyes to find someone in the audience. I don't have a problem with that as such; but Boris does have a problem with stage lights. In this speech he has an almost constant dazzle-frown. It's not unusual: stage lights can feel rather over-bearing, and Boris – commendably – is intent on focussing on his audience. When I direct plays I sometimes teach my principals to 'love their lights'. You have to get into the counter-intuitive habit of actually widening your eyes to welcome the glare of the lights (your pupils will cope). That way, far from frowning, your facial expression remains more open. And you can make your eyes flash! I'm not joking: I could teach Boris how to make his eyes flash. But that might compromise his carefully nurtured fumble-image.
Lastly… Did you spot any sign of nerves? I did. There's one thing he does periodically – his hand comes up to stroke the back of his head. That is an indicator of stress, and I believe it's hard-wired into us: babies do it, though with babies it tends to signify tiredness. So be reassured: Boris is no more fearless than you. He has simply worked very successfully at concealing his fear. So can you.
Perhaps that's one reason his hair is always in its trademark mess.


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Q: Getin range while using uencode() function in Matlab I'm using uencode to quantize matrix this way:
quantized = uencode(impact_factor_matrix,5);

where impact_fator_matrix is a 512x512 matrix of floating point values basically between 0 and 3
a small fragment of this matrix looks like this:

0,0199035905058660     0,0172736449099186  0,0180819705503344
0,0622572806364690    1,13389341902768    1
0,0606586901989121    1,27920429813366    1

so using uencode gives me levels that I need but I can't figure what ranges is used by this function to assign values to quantization levels
to be specific for this 3x3 example I get

16 16 16
16 31 31
16 31 31

I can't find out what ranges are used to assiggn to quantization levels. How is this calculated.
Thanks in advance.

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