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Monoceros (en griego unicornio) es una constelación en el cielo nocturno invernal del hemisferio norte, rodeada por Orión al oeste, Géminis al norte, el Can Mayor al sur e Hydra hacia el este. Otras constelaciones limítrofes son el Can Menor, Lepus y Puppis.

Características destacables

La estrella más brillante de la constelación es α Monocerotis, una gigante amarillo-anaranjada diez veces más grande que el Sol situada a 144 años luz.
β Monocerotis constituye una estrella múltiple que puede ser resuelta con un pequeño telescopio. William Herschel descubrió su multiplicidad en 1781 y la describió como «una de las más bellas visiones en el cielo». Está integrada por tres estrellas blanco-azuladas casi idénticas, siendo el brillo conjunto del sistema (+3,74) superior al de α Monocerotis.

Distante unos 1000 años luz, ζ Monocerotis es una supergigante amarilla de tipo espectral G2Ib (donde la «b» indica que dentro de esta clase es de las menos luminosas) con una masa aproximada de 6,6 masas solares. También supergigante —aunque de tipo A0I— es 13 Monocerotis, cuya luminosidad es 17 000 veces superior a la del Sol.

La constelación contiene varias variables de gran interés. Así, S Monocerotis (15 Monocerotis) es un sistema binario masivo compuesto por dos estrellas muy calientes —de tipo espectral O7V y O9.5V— con un período orbital de 25 años.
En este sentido, la llamada Estrella de Plaskett (HD 47129) es uno de los sistemas binarios más masivos que se conocen: cada una de las componentes puede alcanzar una masa cercana a 50 masas solares.
R Monocerotis es también una masiva pero muy joven estrella T Tauri que se halla situada en el extremo de la nebulosa mixta de emisión y reflexión NGC 2261, conocida también como «Nebulosa variable de Hubble».
Asimismo, V700 Monocerotis (MWC 147) es una joven estrella Herbig Be que todavía no ha entrado en la secuencia principal y está en fase de acreción.
Por su parte, V838 Monocerotis es una supergigante roja que en 2002 sufrió un importante estallido cuyo origen no es bien conocido.

Monoceros cuenta con varias estrellas con planetas extrasolares: HD 52265 —llamada Citalá— es una enana amarilla de tipo G0V con un planeta de masa igual o mayor a la de Júpiter, mientras que HD 46375 es una binaria, alrededor de cuya componente principal se mueve un planeta que completa su órbita cada 72,6 horas.

Cerca del límite con Can Mayor se localiza el cúmulo abierto M50, descubierto en 1772 por Charles Messier, aunque probablemente fue observado con anterioridad por el astrónomo italiano Giovanni Cassini; está situado a 2900 años luz de la Tierra y tiene una edad aproximada de 140 millones de años.
NGC 2232 es otro brillante cúmulo abierto centrado en la estrella de tipo B2V 10 Monocerotis. Se encuentra en el cinturón de Gould a una distancia de 1060 años luz.

La Nebulosa Roseta —que recibe diversas designaciones NGC como 2237, 2238, 2239 y 2246— es una región HII grande y esférica. El cúmulo abierto NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) está estrechamente asociado con esta nebulosa, habiéndose formado a partir del gas circundante hace solo unos pocos millones de años. Sus dos estrellas principales son de tipo espectral O.

La denominación NGC 2264 comprende dos objetos diferentes: el cúmulo abierto conocido como Cúmulo Árbol Navideño y la Nebulosa del Cono. La nebulosa tiene una longitud de siete años luz y se encuentra a una distancia de 2500 años luz.
Otros dos objetos, el Cúmulo Copo de Nieve y la Nebulosa Piel de Zorro, también están englobados dentro de NGC 2264.

Igualmente encuadrada en Monoceros, NGC 2346 es una nebulosa planetaria informalmente conocida como Nebulosa Mariposa. En su centro tiene una estrella binaria cuyo período orbital es de 16,00 ± 0,03 días.
Asimismo, la Nebulosa Rectángulo Rojo es una protonebulosa planetaria así llamada por su forma característica y su aparente color desde la Tierra. Descubierta en 1973, en su centro se sitúa la estrella HD 44179, también binaria. Se encuentra aproximadamente a 2300 años luz de nosotros.

Estrellas principales

 α Monocerotis (Lucida / Ctesias), de magnitud visual 3,93, una estrella gigante amarillo-naranja a 144 años luz.
 β Monocerotis (Cerastes), impresionante sistema estelar triple formado por tres estrellas blanco-azuladas de magnitudes 4,7, 5,2 y 6,1, visibles con la ayuda de una pequeño telescopio.
 γ Monocerotis (Tempestris), de magnitud 3,98, también gigante naranja, pero mucho más alejada que α Monocerotis.
 δ Monocerotis (Kardegán), estrella blanca de la secuencia principal de magnitud 4,15.
 ε Monocerotis, estrella doble cuyas componentes, de magnitud 4,41 y 6,60, están separadas 12,1 segundos de arco.
 ζ Monocerotis, supergigante amarilla de magnitud 4,37.
 3 Monocerotis, estrella binaria cuya componente principal es una gigante azul de magnitud 4,98.
 13 Monocerotis, distante supergigante blanca 10.800 veces más luminosa que el Sol.
 19 Monocerotis, variable Beta Cephei de magnitud 4,99, también llamada V637 Monocerotis.
 20 Monocerotis, gigante naranja de magnitud 4,92.
 25 Monocerotis, gigante blanco-amarilla de magnitud 5,14.
 27 Monocerotis, gigante naranja de magnitud 4,94.
 28 Monocerotis (V645 Monocerotis), gigante naranja de magnitud 4,69; es una variable FK Comae Berenices.
 R Monocerotis, estrella variable inmersa en una nube de materia, situada en el extremo sur de la nebulosa NGC 2261.
 S Monocerotis (15 Monocerotis), distante estrella azul que forma parte de NGC 2264.
 T Monocerotis, variable cefeida cuya magnitud varía entre 5,58 y 6,62 en un ciclo de 27 días.
 U Monocerotis, variable RV Tauri cuyo brillo varía entre magnitud 6,1 y 8,8.
 W Monocerotis, estrella de carbono de magnitud media 9,95; es una variable irregular.
 RV Monocerotis, variable semirregular, también estrella de carbono.
 DD Monocerotis, binaria eclipsante de magnitud 11,1.
 V700 Monocerotis (MWC 147), joven estrella Herbig Ae/Be de 500 000 años de edad.
 V715 Monocerotis, gigante luminosa azul de magnitud 6,15.
 V789 Monocerotis, estrella binaria compuesta por dos enanas naranjas con intensa actividad cromosférica.
 V838 Monocerotis, estrella que sufrió un gran estallido en 2002; está situada a unos 20 000 años luz de distancia.
 Estrella de Plaskett (HR 2422), uno de los sistemas binarios más masivos que se conocen.
 HD 45652, estrella de magnitud 8,13 que alberga un sistema planetario.
 HD 46375, estrella subgigante naranja con un planeta extrasolar de tipo «júpiter caliente».
 HD 50064, estrella hipergigante azul poco estudiada.
 HD 52265, enana amarilla análoga al Sol alrededor de la cual se ha descubierto un gigante gaseoso.
 Ross 614 (V577 Monocerotis), enana roja también en las cercanías del Sistema Solar.
 Gliese 250, estrella binaria a 28,4 años luz, compuesta por una enana naranja y una enana roja.

Objetos de cielo profundo

 Cúmulo abierto M50, con una población estimada de 200 estrellas en el cuerpo principal, se encuentra a unos 2900 años luz del sistema solar.
 NGC 2232 es también un cúmulo abierto; con una veintena de estrellas, se encuentra a 1060 años luz. Otros cúmulos abiertos son NGC 2343, NGC 2349, NGC 2254 —distante 7100 años luz— y NGC 2506.
 Nebulosa Roseta (NGC 2237-9,46), una nebulosa difusa junto al cúmulo abierto NGC 2244, cuyas estrellas se han formado a partir del material de la nebulosa. La nebulosa, de más de 100 años luz de diámetro, posee muchos glóbulos de Bok en sus áreas oscuras.
 Nebulosa o bucle de Monoceros, resto de supernova antiguo adyacente a la nebulosa Roseta.
 Cúmulo Árbol Navideño y Nebulosa del Cono (NGC 2264), ambos objetos están asociados y se encuentran a unos 2500 años luz.
 NGC 2346, nebulosa planetaria en forma de mariposa. En el centro de esta nebulosa bipolar se sitúa una estrella binaria espectroscópica y la ionización proviene de la emisión ultravioleta de la estrella acompañante.
 Nebulosa Rectángulo Rojo (HD 44179), nebulosa protoplanetaria que al ser estudiada en detalle por el telescopio espacial Hubble muestra una compleja forma de aspa en vez de rectangular.

Historia

Monoceros es una constelación moderna, cuyo nombre se atribuye el astrónomo y teólogo neerlandés Petrus Plancius en 1613 y que fue registrada por Jakob Bartsch como Unicornio en su carta estelar de 1624. Sin embargo, Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers y Christian Ludwig Ideler indican que la constelación es  mucho más antigua, figurando como "el segundo caballo al sur de los Gemelos y el Cangrejo"  en escritos de 1564, y Joseph Justus Scaliger reseña haberla encontrado en una esfera de la antigua Persia.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 VISTA revela el secreto del Unicornio — ESO Foto noticia
 Información de Monoceros (en inglés).

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UK to rollout 24 hour vaccine scheme in London hospitals
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Syria regime unleashes its brutal air power on Idlib
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People look at the damage in the aftermath of an explosion at a base in an opposition-held area of the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Monday. (AFP)
BEIRUT: Regime forces upped the pressure on two of the last opposition bastions in Syria, with airstrikes in Idlib province and a move to break a siege near Damascus Monday.
Syrian and Russian aircraft pounded targets in the northwestern region of Idlib, pressing a week-old operation targeting the last province in the country to escape government control.
Raids Sunday left "at least 21 dead, including eight children and 11 members of the same family" west of the town of Sinjar in the southeast of the province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Regime and Russian strikes are continuing today on several parts of Idlib" province, Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based monitoring organization, told AFP.
Russian-backed regime forces launched an operation on the edge of Idlib province in the last days of 2017 and have retaken villages every day since.
After the collapse of Daesh group in both Syria and Iraq late last year, President Bashar Assad's regime is bent on restoring its grip over the country.
Idlib province, which borders Turkey, is almost entirely controlled by anti-government forces that are dominated by an outfit known as Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS).
An explosion on Sunday in the city of Idlib at a base for the group Ajnad Al-Qawqaz made up of fighters from the Caucasus that operates alongside HTS, left at least 34 dead, including 19 civilians, the Observatory said.
The initial death toll for the attack, the origins of which remain unclear, was 23 but the number went up on Monday when more bodies were found in the wreckage.
Abdel Rahman said the casualty count could yet rise because more victims were believed to be buried under the rubble and many of the wounded were in critical condition.
"Rescue teams are still sifting through the wreckage," he said.
It was not immediately clear whether the blast was caused by airstrikes or was the result of the kind of internal clashes that sometimes break out between different opposition factions.
After shrinking to barely a sixth of the country at the height of the nearly seven-year-old conflict, the areas under government control now cover more than 50 percent of Syrian territory.
Another pocket where opposition groups are still holding out, however, is Eastern Ghouta, a semi-rural area east of the capital Damascus that is home to some 400,000 people.
Rebels led by the Jaish Al-Islam group had in recent days surrounded the army's only military base in the area but the state news agency SANA said Monday the siege had been broken.
"Units from the Syrian Arab Army have brought an end to the encirclement of the Armored Vehicles Base in Harasta," it said, adding that operations were ongoing to fully secure the base.
According to the Observatory, the fighting in Harasta since the base was surrounded in late December left 72 regime fighters and 87 opposition men dead.
The shelling and bombardment of besieged Eastern Ghouta, where the humanitarian conditions have sharply deteriorated in recent months, has also claimed a heavy toll on civilians.
The latest casualties came on Monday when airstrikes killed a child and two other civilians in Madira, a village in Eastern Ghouta, the Observatory said.
More than 340,000 people have been killed and millions have been driven from their homes since Syria's conflict erupted with anti-government protests in 2011.
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Afghanistan urges Iran to halt use of its nationals as mercenaries in Syria
Germany expects return of over 100 children of Daesh fighters from Syria, Iraq
Syrian government troops capture 14 villages from rebels
Iran kicks off ground forces drill on coast of Gulf of Oman /node/1795016/middle-east
Commando units and airborne infantry were participating in the annual exercise along with air assets
TEHRAN: Iran's military kicked off a ground forces drill on Tuesday along the coast of the Gulf of Oman, state TV reported, the latest in a series of snap exercises that the country is holding amid escalating tensions over its nuclear program and Washington's pressure campaign against Tehran.
According to the report, commando units and airborne infantry were participating in the annual exercise, along with fighter jets, helicopters and military transport aircraft. Iran's National Army chief Abdolrahim Mousavi was overseeing the drill.
Iran has recently stepped up military drills as part of an effort to pressure President-elect Joe Biden over the nuclear deal that President Donald Trump pulled out of. Biden has said the US could rejoin the multinational accord meant to contain Iran's nuclear program.
On Saturday, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a drill, launching anti-warship ballistic missiles at a simulated target at a distance of some 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles) in the Indian Ocean, a day after the Guard's aerospace division launched surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and drones against "hypothetical enemy bases" in the country's vast central desert.
Last Thursday, Iran's navy fired cruise missiles as part of a naval drill in the Gulf of Oman, under surveillance of what appeared to be a US nuclear submarine. Earlier last week, the Guard's affiliated forces carried out a limited maneuver in the Arabian Gulf after a massive, drones-only drill across half of the country earlier in January.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have increased amid a series of incidents stemming from Trump's unilateral withdrawal from Iran's nuclear deal with world powers. In the final days of the Trump administration, Tehran seized a South Korean oil tanker and begun enriching uranium closer to weapons-grade levels, while the US sent B-52 bombers, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and a nuclear submarine into the region.
Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew the US from Iran's nuclear deal, in which Tehran had agreed to limit its uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Trump cited Iran's ballistic missile program among other issues in withdrawing from the accord.
When the US then stepped up economic sanctions, Iran gradually abandoned the limits that the deal had imposed on its nuclear development.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard holds ballistic missile drill amid tensions
Iran holds missile drill in Gulf of Oman amid tensions
Italy lauds decree on Palestinian elections

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AT LEAST 13 Ryanair passengers have been injured after a packed bus carrying travellers from their plane to a terminal at Frankfurt Airport collided with another vehicle on the tarmac.
Fire crews and ambulances descended on the scene after the collision.
Authorities say 72 passengers were on board when the smash happened.
Thirteen of them suffered injuries along with the driver of the other vehicle, thought to be a luggage hauler.
At least one person has been rushed to hospital for treatment.
The plane they were travelling on had landed from Seville.
Photos from the scene showed emergency service vehicles lining up to help the injured.
An investigation is underway into how the crash happened at Germany's largest airport.
Local media said initial reports indicated the hauler had ignored the bus's right of way.
The plane had landed at the airport just before 2pm local time (1pm GMT).
Frankfurt is one of the busiest airports in the world.
More than 60 million passengers pass through it every year to a host of major international destinations.
There have been several similar accidents reported at the airport before.
Local media said one occurred just last month when another passenger bus colluded with a vehicle, leaving 11 people injured.
In 2014, a minibus collided with a baggage hauler, leaving five people hurt.


Paul's daughter Ciara has a Fall Party every year on her farm this time of year. Everyone attending brings a soup in a crock pot to share, Ciara provides desserts, drinks and everything inbetween to make our get together perfect. We eat, we catch up with friends and we make beautiful memories to look back on.
All the little ones and their parents go on a hay ride through the farm, come back and warm themselves by the bonfire. It's the perfect celebration of Fall and all it's beauty. Thank you Ciara!
My soup contribution was Tuscan White Bean Bacon Soup. This soup is not only a hearty and delicious soup but easy to make. It's loaded with root vegetables, beans, bacon and CHEESE! It's a "stick to your ribs" soup that's perfect for the change in weather. Tuscan White Bean Bacon Soup…Enjoy!
Place the beans, onion, celery, carrot, garlic, potato, bay leaf and chicken stock in a large heavy duty sauce pan. Cook over medium high heat until vegetables are tender. Remove the bay leaf.
Using a food processor, scoop the vegetables with some broth by cup fulls into the food processor, process until smooth or the texture you prefer. You'll have to do this in 3 - 4 batches. Add the olive oil to the last batch, process to combine.
Place the processed soup back into the saucepan, add the Parmesan cheese, bacon and salt and pepper to taste. Heat until the parmesan is blended into the soup and it's heated through. Serve , refrigerate leftovers.
I love soup pitch-ins! This bean soup would fit right in with our usual offerings.
Wow this looks spicy and yum, great combo!
Thank you Richa, it's a wonderful soup.
Made it last night very yummy and super easy. I used a stick blender rather than blender!
Wonderful Nance!! Thank you for taking the time to come back and tell me, I appreciate it.


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Q: Anything Mouse Like Isn't Seen by Ubuntu 13.10 I have a upgraded 13.10 from 13.04 and today this issue of anything that is mouse-like is not seen by Ubuntu.  The only input device that works is my Wacom Tablet and it's pen.  I already checked for updates and have the latest updates for the Ubuntu system.
Here is the lsusb output:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b209 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 056a:00b8 Wacom Co., Ltd Intuos4 4x6
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

This is issue a bug or how to fix it?  I can't even use the Live USB of Ubuntu 13.10 to fix the issue.
EDIT 1: Seems that Ubuntu isn't seeing the clicks done by a mouse if it's the Wacom tablet.
EDIT 2: I think it's a bug but I need help to report it.
EDIT 3: Based on this question, https://askubuntu.com/questions/394918/mouses-problem?lq=1, it maybe be a bug.   I think it's been confirmed by someone else.  See edit 2, please.
EDIT 4: My trackpad is also broken on Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 13.10, but I know that is another conformed bug.

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The rest of the food was delicious as well (I apologize for being lazy about pictures – I was too busy stuffing my cinnamon-roll hole). The breakfast menu challenges visitors to be as creative as they dare in assembling enormous biscuit sandwiches with filling likes eggs, cheese, grilled tomatoes, sausage, honey ham, or chicken-fried steak. If you want they will also serve your sandwich on toast, a bagel, or an English muffin, but really, do I need to tell you what a bad decision that would be? Sides include grits, sawmill gravy and just about the best homefries I've ever had: perfectly cooked, dense with onions, and just a little bit spicy.
Oh, and if they're busy, never fear. It says right on the menu that take out is their "main GIG!" and they invite you to call ahead. Take that biscuit across and up the street to the beach for oceanfront dining. Just don't get sand in it, because believe me, you'll want every bite.
The Heavenly Biscuit is centrally located at the corner of Mango Street and Estero Boulevard in Fort Myers Beach, convenient to the water and to the bridge that crosses from the mainland. If you're staying in Fort Myers or Sanibel, it's worth a drive.
This post is for Wanderfood Wednesday at Wanderlust and Lipstick. Stop over there to see what else is cooking.
Many thanks to the Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau for covering most of the costs of our trip including breakfast at the Heavenly Biscuit (where they only accept cash; but there is an ATM if you're short on biscuit money).
mmmm, I'm hungry now! Love the look of that juice!
we need to go there – this is my kind of place! YUM!!
Looks like a wonderful place for breakfast when in Fort Myers. I love the sign about 'Unattended Children'. 🙂 Gotta show their sense of humor!
Oh I love this post. And what do you mean apologizing for lack of pictures? If you had any more, I'd be dying of hunger! Great motivation to travel to Fort Myers beach. I love these little local places with eccentric character.
I had read great reviews for this place so I planned on making a stop while I was on vacation in Fort Myers Beach. I stopped by on a Thursday morning just after 10am. I ordered two cinnamon rolls and I was told there would not be any ready for 30 minutes. Considering that this place is known for cinnamon rolls, I was very disappointed. I told the lady I would be back tomorrow and she said OK. I went back the next day and the place was closed, that might have been useful information to have when I stated that I would be back tomorrow, especially since that isn't a normal day off, the place was just closed. I rarely write reviews online but since the little hole in the wall places like this must rely on word of mouth, I didn't want anyone else to make the same mistake that I made.


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Latitude: 46° 32' 44" N Longitude: 13° 37' 53" E
Area use / Military Branches: 72 Bde Cmd + sub units
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Maribor; General Maister Barracks.
- 72nd Army Brigade
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Maribor Kadetnica
- Military Schools Centre
--Command and Staff School,
-- Officer School,
-- NCO School,
-- School of Foreign Languages,
-- Basic Training Centre,
-- Library and Information Centre,
-- E-Learning Section,
-- Military Museum.
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We work at the intersection of human computer interaction and personal fabrication tools.
Quantum Information Science Group
Our research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, and computational complexity theory more generally.
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CliNER: Clinical Concept Extraction
Clinical concept extraction (CCE) of named entities - such as problems, tests, and treatments - aids in forming an understanding of notes and provides a foundation for many downstream clinical decision-making tasks. Historically, this task has been posed as a standard named entity recognition (NER) sequence tagging problem, and solved with feature-based methods using hand-engineered domain knowledge. Recent advances, however, have demonstrated the efficacy of LSTM-based models for NER tasks, including CCE. This work presents CliNER 2.0, a simple-to-install, open-source tool for extracting concepts from clinical text. CliNER 2.0 uses a word- and character- level LSTM model, and achieves state-of-the-art performance. For ease of use, the tool also includes pre-trained models available for public use.
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Multi-robot path planning for robot swarms that can both fly and drive
Our system for generating ad hoc "cache hierarchies" increases processing speed while reducing energy consumption
Low-Power Speech Processing Circuits
The creation of low-power circuits capable of speech recognition and speaker verification will enable spoken interaction on a wide variety of devices in the era of Internet of Things.
Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals
What if we could control robots more intuitively, using just hand gestures and brainwaves?
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Shrinking deep learning's carbon footprint
Through innovation in software and hardware, researchers move to reduce the financial and environmental costs of modern artificial intelligence.
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Mueller named 2020 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
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Objects can now change colors like a chameleon
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory team creates new reprogrammable ink that lets objects change colors using light.
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Artificial intelligence could help data centers run far more efficiently
MIT system "learns" how to optimally allocate workloads across thousands of servers to cut costs, save energy.
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CSAIL's "RoCycle" system uses in-hand sensors to detect if an object is paper, metal or plastic.
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Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers
New architecture promises to cut in half the energy and physical space required to store and manage user data.
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Programming drones to fly in the face of uncertainty
CSAIL's NanoMap system enables drones to avoid obstacles while flying at 20 miles per hour, by more deeply integrating sensing and control.
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Voice control everywhere
The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people's chief means of interacting with their principal computing devices. In anticipation of the age of voice-controlled electronics, MIT researchers have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition. Whereas a cellphone running speech-recognition software might require about 1 watt of power, the new chip requires between 0.2 and 10 milliwatts, depending on the number of words it has to recognize.


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Quebec Autoroute 50
Autoroute 50
Autoroute de l'Outaouais
Maintained by Transports Québec
159 km (99 mi)
Existed
1975[1]–present
Major junctions
A-5 / Route 148 in Gatineau (Hull)
Route 344 in Grenville-sur-la-Rouge
A-15 (TCH) in Mirabel
Route 117 near Mirabel
Gatineau, L'Ange-Gardien, Lachute, Mirabel
Highway system
Quebec provincial highways
← A-40 A-55 →
Autoroute 50 between Fassett and Calumet in the Ottawa River Valley
Autoroute 50 (Autoroute de l'Outaouais) is an Autoroute in western Quebec, Canada. It links the City of Gatineau and Canada's National Capital Region to the Greater Montreal area.
Until November 2012, there were two distinct sections of A-50: one section running eastward from Hull and the other westward from Mirabel. The gap in the highway was filled on November 26, 2012, and the two-lane freeway opened for traffic on the full 159 km (98.8 mi) length.[2][3]
The route provides a freeway alternative to Route 148 that does not require crossing into Ontario, unlike the main Trans-Canada Highway route (A-40 / Hwy 417) from metropolitan Montreal.
2 Safety improvements
3 Exit list
Oswald Parent (a Liberal MP from Hull) originally proposed construction of the A-50 in 1962. Eight years later, Quebec Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand announced plans for construction. It was originally envisioned that the A-50 would extend over 400 km from L'Isle-aux-Allumettes at the Ontario border through Saint-Jérôme and Joliette along the Route 148 and 158 corridors to Berthierville and a junction with the A-40. The primary purpose of the A-50 was to connect Ottawa and the Outaouais with Montréal–Mirabel International Airport.
At the time, the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport was not yet built, and the national capital lacked highway access to an international air hub. Mirabel's rapid decline as an air hub as well as the Quebec government's decision in the 1970s to impose a moratorium on new autoroute construction resulted in a significantly truncated route for the A-50. Plans for extending the A-50 west of Hull and east of the A-15/TCH were abandoned. The exit numbers, however, are based on that original projected length of the autoroute.
Construction was completed in the fall of 2007 on the road that connects Highway 148 west of the Aylmer and Hull sectors to the A-50 at the Boulevard des Allumettières interchange.
One short section of Route 158 around Joliette was originally signed as A-50 as well until the project was abandoned. In addition, west of the current terminus, a four-lane at-grade expressway continues as Route 148 into the Aylmer section of Gatineau; it may become part of A-50 in the future.
A-50 is a four- to six-lane freeway through Gatineau up to Buckingham, the remainder is mostly a two-lane freeway. Many overpasses are built to accommodate a fully divided, four-lane highway in the future such that only one portion of the overpass is currently used. However, there have been demands for a four-lane highway for the new segment so it can be safer. The first two segments were built with only two lanes and a 2007 multi-fatality accident occurred on highway 148 near Buckingham, a section of highway that A-50 would bypass.[4]
Unusual for a limited-access highway, the A-50 contains two railway crossings at grade, both of the Quebec Gatineau Railway (QGRY). The first crosses the QGRY Lachute Subdivision between exits 260 and 272, at 45°39′04″N 74°13′45″W / 45.651008°N 74.229047°W / 45.651008; -74.229047, while the second crosses the QGRY St-Jerome Spur about 1 km west of exit 279, at 45°40′59″N 74°07′34″W / 45.682948°N 74.125982°W / 45.682948; -74.125982.
There has been some support to rename the highway Autoroute Maurice-Richard after historic Montreal Canadiens hockey player Maurice Richard, but the Commission de toponymie du Québec chose to wait until the section between Buckingham and Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours was finished before making a decision, and to date no renaming has happened.[5]
Safety improvements[edit]
Following a series of fatal collisions in 2007, it was announced that centreline rumble strips would be installed in various no-passing zones along Autoroute 50. This is the first installation of its kind in Quebec and serves as a pilot project.
The two at-grade intersections at km 281 and 283 were removed in 2016.
Exit list[edit]
Note: exit numbers in parentheses are unsigned.
This section contains a table that is missing mileposts for one or more junctions. Please help by adding the missing mileposts.
Outaouais Gatineau
(133) Rue Montcalm At-grade intersection; western terminus
134 Boulevard des Allumettières (formerly Boulevard Saint-Laurent) (Route 148 west) Westbound exit and eastbound entrance;
signed as exits 134-O (west) and 134-E (east)
west end of Route 148 concurrency
135 A-5 (Autoroute de la Gatineau) / Boulevard Maisonneuve – Centre-Ville, Ottawa, Maniwaki Exit 2 on A-5 (Autoroute de la Gatineau)
138 Rue Saint-Louis (Route 307)
139 Boulevard Maloney (Route 148 east) Eastbound exit, westbound entrance;
east end of Route 148 concurrency
140 Boulevard de La Gappe Westbound access to Route 148 east (Boulevard Maloney)
141 Boulevard de La Vérendrye Eastbound exit, westbound entrance
145 Montée Paiement
147 Boulevard Labrosse
150 Route 366 (Boulevard Lorrain)
154 Boulevard de l'Aéroport Access to Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport
159 Avenue des Laurentides
165 Rue Georges Eastbound exit, westbound entrance
166 Route 315 (Chemin de Masson / Avenue de Buckingham) to Route 148 Transition from 4 to 2 lanes or vice versa
171 Chemin Lépine
L'Ange-Gardien
174 Route 309 north / Chemin Doherty – Mont-Laurier
187 Route 317 – Ripon
197 Montée Papineau
205 Route 321 – Saint-André-Avellin Transition from 2 to 4 lanes or vice versa
210 Route 323 – Montebello, Mont-Tremblant Transition from 4 to 2 lanes or vice versa
216 Montée Fassett
Laurentides Grenville-sur-la-Rouge
226 Chemin Avoca
233 Chemin Kilmar
239 Route 344 south (Scotch Road / Chemin Scotch) to Route 148 – Grenville, Hawkesbury Connects to Ontario Highway 34
252 Montée Labranche
254 Route 148 (Rue Principale) – Lachute Transition from 2 to 4 lanes or vice versa
258 Route 327 (Avenue d'Argenteuil) – Saint-André-d'Argenteuil
260 Route 329 (Chemin Béthanie) – Centre-Ville, Mirabel (Saint-Hermas) Transition from 4 to 2 lanes or vice versa
272 Route 148 (Route Arthur-Sauvé) – Saint-Eustache
279 Chemin St-Simon
285 Boulevard Henri-Fabre – Mirabel International Airport Signed as exits 285-N (north) and 285-S (south) westbound;
transition from 2 to 4 lanes or vice versa
288 Boulevard Henri-Fabre
292 A-15 (TCH) (Autoroute des Laurentides) – Saint-Jérôme, Montreal Signed as exits 292-N (north) and 292-S (south);
exit 35 on A-15
(293) Route 117 (Boulevard Curé-Labelle) – Saint-Jérôme, Mirabel (Saint-Janvier) At-grade intersection; eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
Concurrency terminus
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^ "Répertoire des autoroutes du Québec" (in French). Transports Québec. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
^ "Ouverture du dernier tronçon de l'autoroute 50 | Ottawa–Gatineau" (in French). Radio-Canada. 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
^ "L'autoroute 50 est bel et bien une autoroute, soutient le MTQ | Ottawa–Gatineau" (in French). Radio-Canada. 2012-11-27. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
^ "Gatineau man, 61, dies in 14-vehicle crash". CBC News. 2007-03-15.
^ Communiqué: L'Autoroute 50 - Commission de toponymie Archived April 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved September 3, 2007
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Transports Quebec Autoroute 50 Project Description and Timeline (in French)
Transports Quebec Outaouais Projects Description and Timeline (in French)
A-50 at Exitlists.com
A-50 at Quebec Autoroutes
Transports Quebec Map ‹See Tfd›(in French)
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Q: Can non-intermediate representation code such as C++ run on a process virtual machine? I am progressing though the nand2tetris architecture course where they specify their own ISA called Hack, their own VM code(similar to the JVM), and finally a high-level object oriented language called Jack.
First, I developed an assembler, now I am creating a VM translator. Of course the book is
attempting to teach about the compilation/assembly process:
Jack -> VM code -> Hack Assembly -> Hack machine Code
The virtual machine is introduced in the book as such:

The basic idea is as follows: Instead of running on a real platform, the intermediate code is designed to run on a Virtual Machine. The VM is an abstract computer that does not exist for real, but can rather be realized on other computer platforms....
Specifically, one can formulate a virtual machine whose instructions are the intermediate processing steps into which high-level commands are decomposed.

Some wiki quotes as well:

Process virtual machines are designed to execute computer programs in a platform-independent environment...Its purpose is to provide a platform-independent programming environment that abstracts away details of the underlying hardware or operating system and allows a program to execute in the same way on any platform...A process VM provides a high-level abstraction – that of a high-level programming language (compared to the low-level ISA abstraction of the system VM)...Process virtual machines arose originally as abstract platforms for an intermediate language used as the intermediate representation of a program by a compiler; early examples date to around 1966.

I understand that the VM machine is not real. It must be realized by some implementation. In this case, using Hack assembly. I have been told this is "emulation".
Question:
Can non-intermediate represenation run on a virtual machine?
Or, does the concept of the virtual machine only make sense when referring to intermediate code?
Example:
In my book, they specify the language of the VM.
push constant 3
pop argument 4
call functionA 3

This runs on their virtual machine.
However, what if this language was actually C++?
Let's assume I have a compiler that compiles straight to machine code(e.g. something that isn't like Clang).
int x{5};
int y{x+2};

Doesn't high level code run on an abstract machine as well?
This code needs to be implemented for a specific platform just like the VM code I showed above.
If so, is this abstract machine considered a virtual machine?
I suspect that process virtual machines refer specifically to abstract machines that deal with intermediate representations. This is evidenced by the wiki quote: "Process virtual machines arose originally as abstract platforms for an intermediate language". If there is no IR, like when compiling C++ straight to my platform specific ISA, then there is no virtual machine.
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PETER PAN - A MUSICAL
Curve, Leicester, until Saturday, January 23, 2010
WHAT are the things that spring to mind when you think of Peter Pan? The Second Star to the Right, Following the Leader, that naughty little Barbie-doll fairy in a green tutu?
Yep, Disney's rather hijacked the entire story and cornered the market in iconic imagery and definitive songs. Which makes any attempt at refreshing the century-old tale with modern sensibilities and a new score about as futile as Captain Hook's efforts to kill Pan himself.
Unfortunately, composer-lyricist Julian Ronnie's sub-Lloyd Webber tunes and lazy rhyming couplets, together with a limp and unimaginative script by collaborator Paul Miller and director David Taylor, do little to help reclaim JM Barrie's original magical fantasy.
There's much to recommend this show, and it's plain to see where the budget's been spent. It looks fabulous, with sumptuous sets, backdrops and scenery from designer Simon Higlett, and the choreography by Bill Deamer is always sharp and full of energy.
In the pit, too, the seven-piece band under Chris Newton work Phil Edwards's orchestrations to their best advantage. But none of it, however hard-working the cast and crew, can make this a silk purse, and Lauren Samuels as a sweet Wendy and Spencer Charles Noll as a feisty, fisticuffing Peter are always fighting an uphill battle.
The pirates come out of it best, with Paul Baker an amusing enough Smee, but when you find yourself looking for bits of the set to admire in a production, you know there's something wrong at the heart of things.
Director Taylor shows nowhere near enough of a firm hand in pulling things together, and it's only when the dance numbers get going that there's any sense of cohesion. Taylor must also share the responsibility for not enough work going into the raw material, which leaves not only the workings of this inside-out venue on display, but also the mechanics of Peter's so-called flying.
For a show so heavily dependent on all the magic that theatre can muster, it's in serious need of a liberal sprinkling of fairy dust.
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Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire, until September 13, 2009
HAVING had a runaway success with Crazy For You earlier this summer, and with this latest Opera Show already a sell-out in the open-air hotel garden venue of Kilworth House Theatre, owners Celia and Richard Mackay have little to worry about on the commercial front.
Their own production company, To Be Productions, is staging this three-act entertainment under the direction of resident supremo Mitch Sebastian and musical director Matthew Freeman.
And with every visual, aural and technological trick in the book wrung from the evening's extravaganza, there's certainly plenty to warm up the otherwise autumnally chilly audiences.
For the purists, there'll be plenty to moan about too, with pre-recorded click tracks supplementing the live eight-piece orchestra and some wacky costumes and scenery adding diversions or distractions, depending on your point of view. This is unashamedly opera for the YouTube generation.
Four soloists voice a wide array of operatic arias, from Purcell to Puccini, in three diverse acts nominally, if bemusingly, assembled under the headings Baroque Beginners, The Recording Revolutions and Electronic Evolution. Among these voices, soprano Anna-Clare Monk and tenor Amar Muchhala excel, with quality performances confidently on top of their material.
Alongside the singers, five dancers are given weird and occasionally completely impenetrable things to do to help things along. Of these, only the second act – in which a 1940s Madrid homestead is evoked to the strains of a simulated radio broadcast – really hangs together properly, although elsewhere the dressings and visual knick-knacks prove impressive at times.
There are some stunning moments, among them Dido's Lament and Song to the Moon, but it's interesting that the most powerful musically are those with the least visual accompaniment. It's as if Sebastian can't quite convince himself that the arias are enough in themselves, so the whole artists' toolbox, from video projections to electric guitar solos, is splashed about on the Kilworth canvas with varying degrees of success.
A global tour of the show follows its premiere in the Leicestershire countryside. Goodness knows what the rest of the world will make of it.
Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire, until July 5, 2009
IT'S impossible to review a production at Kilworth House Theatre without taking into account the extraordinary context.
Opened in 2007 in the grounds of a luxury country house hotel, the venue is a well-appointed, beautifully designed open-air theatre nestled among the trees in a woody glade. However, although the auditorium is covered only by a vaulted, tent-like canopy and the lack of walls allows a chill breeze to blow through, the term "open-air" implies a temporariness that really doesn't apply to this wonderful whim of the property's owner, Celia Mackay.
With a necessarily short season limited by the weather, she has put together programmes that have so far included star circuit names such as Ken Dodd and Elkie Brooks, with a full in-house production at the heart of the schedule. And in two short years, it's really made its mark.
This summer, the glade is jumping to the sounds of George and Ira Gershwin and the posthumously manufactured show Crazy For You, which started life almost 80 years ago as Girl Crazy. Reinvented for Broadway in 1992 with a witty new book by Ken Ludwig, it's crammed with endlessly hummable tunes and a rollercoaster fun ride of a story about a wealthy New Yorker sent to Nevada to close a crumbling hick theatre.
Kilworth House has formed a partnership entitled To Be Productions, using the considerable talents of West End director Mitch Sebastian, and he helms this show with style and bags of energy. With a 12-piece pit band at his disposal, musical director Matthew Freeman wrings a dazzling soundscape out of the thumping score, and the entire creative team – sound, lights, set and costume – come up trumps with a production that looks every bit the professional barnstormer.
Among the huge cast, there are charming performances from the young leads, Cassidy Janson and Mark Stanford, but it's among the character parts that the show-stealing turns lie in wait. Michael Howe is a finely comic New York impresario with a fondness for the bottle, Cameron Jack a twinklingly villainous baddie, and there's a whole chorus line of cowboys and showgirls with enough song-and-dance talent to shake stages far more established than this one.
Celia Mackay's stated aim is to create "a production which will send you home with a spring in your step". Chilled bones notwithstanding, this vibrant, exciting, delightful show unquestionably fits that bill.
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Leading in a Digital Age
This module will equip students with critical theories and concepts to analyse and differentiate the strategic values of emerging technologies (cloud computing, social media, big data, the internet of things etc.), and evaluate different methods of aligning technological opportunities with business strategy; critically reflecting upon its impact on Leadership.
Managing in Practice
As a rule of thumb, training is formal and linear, it's to do with learning how to do something specific, relating to skill and competence. Training can be as simple as using a PC application and as complex as learning how to be a pilot.
Development however is often less structured and has a wider application, giving the individual the tools to do a range of things that relate to capability and competency, in this case across the range of management practices. It involves progression to a more advanced, mature or complex understanding, establishing a process that helps a student manage their development on an ongoing basis.
Study Visit
This module introduces course members to a series of quality-award winning organisations in the US, or other location as appropriate, and provides them with a practical insight into the methodologies and approaches employed in such organisations that have achieved transformational change and business excellence.
Leading Change Innovation and Transformation
The leading change innovation and transformation module encourages participants to shift paradigms, think beyond the "silo" and consider innovative approaches to business excellence. A range of analytical tools and techniques are discussed and used. At the same time implementation issues around continual improvement mechanisms are addressed.
People are the key to success. This module therefore addresses issues of strategic human resource management (SHRM). Critical linkages are examined between SHRM and approaches to organisation development.
Examples of best practice are incorporated for purposes of benchmarking. Innovative approaches to business excellence, strategic human resource management and change management underpin this module.
This module introduces and examines the principal concepts and theories of strategic marketing and its practical application to organisations to create value and competitive advantage.
Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
This module focuses on the principles and practices of good governance and business ethics. Recognising that Boards of Directors need to be accountable and responsible, acting with integrity whilst balancing the competing needs of a variety of stakeholders, this module gives participants the opportunity to explore best practice and critically evaluate their Board's performance. Standards of behaviour of Board members, as outlined by Nolan, will also be explored and personal practice assessed.
Strategic Financial Management can no longer be viewed as the preserve of accountants. The speed of change in the business environment means that organisations need to be agile and able to react quickly to changes in order to strengthen (or protect) competitive advantage.
This module focuses on the identification of the possible strategies capable of maximising an organisation's net present value, the allocation of scarce capital resources among the competing opportunities and the implementation and monitoring of the chosen strategy so as to achieve stated objectives.
Financial strategy is applicable to, and equally important in, organisations which do not seek distributable profits, emphasising that the key factor is the assessment of the value of the output of an entity and especially the excess of that value over the cost of inputs whether it be in the private, public, or social economy sector.
The module is theory based but practitioner focused and utilises a blend of participative learning strategies and methods.
Executive Coaching and Mentoring
This introductory module in executive coaching and mentoring affords participants the opportunity to further their knowledge and understanding of the coaching, mentoring and other associated literature. They will also be guided in a process of exploring themselves and their motivations and creating a personal development agenda to assist them to become reflective coach/mentor practitioners.
This is the final module of the MSc Executive Leadership students are provided with an introduction to research methods and the research process. As an outcome of this module, students will have produced their research idea in the form of a research proposal and action plan, carried out the research and written up their findings. The final document will include a reflective statement on learning from the research journey.
Applicants must:
(a)have gained:
(i) a second class honours degree or better from a university of the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, or from a recognised national awarding body, or from an institution of another country which has been recognised as being of an equivalent standard; or
(ii) an equivalent standard (normally 50%) in a Graduate Diploma, Graduate Certificate, Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma or an approved alternative qualification; and
(iii) five years of experience in a senior managerial/leadership role;
(b) provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English (GCSE grade C or equivalent, e.g. a minimum English level of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent, with no band score under 5.5);
or, as an alternative to (a) (i) or (a) (ii) and/or (b):
(c) in exceptional circumstances, where an individual has substantial and significant experiential learning, a portfolio of written evidence demonstrating the meeting of graduate qualities (including subject-specific outcomes, as determined by the Course Committee) may be considered as an alternative entrance route. Evidence used to demonstrate graduate qualities may not be used for exemption against modules within the programme.
Candidates are normally required to hold a current senior managerial position or aspiring to work in a senior role. If unemployed, candidates should have previously been employed in a senior management role normally within the last three years.
Candidates will be interviewed by the Course Director prior to acceptance on the programme.
Studies pursued and examinations passed in respect of other qualifications awarded by the University or by another university or other educational institution, or evidence from the accreditation of prior experiential learning, may be accepted as exempting candidates from part of the programme. However, participants must register for modules amounting to at least the final third of the credit value of the award.
No exemption shall be permitted from the dissertation.
Typically we require applicant for taught programmes to hold the equivalent of a UK first degree (usually in a relevant subject area). Please refer to the specific entry requirements for your chosen course of study as outlined in the online prospectus. We consider students who have good grades in the following:
Current students occupy relevant and worthwhile careers but this programme supports continued career development whereby some students have progressed to senior executive and boardroom positions following completion of the programme. For those who wish to maintain their links with academia, there is an option to pursue further studies at PhD level.
Graduates of the programme have written research papers and have presented at a number of International and Leadership Conferences.
Fees (total cost)
To find out more about fees related to this course please visit
https://www.ulster.ac.uk/apply/fees-and-finance/price-on-application
The fees for a typical masters programme do not apply as the MSc Executive Leadership includes a five day overseas residential programme to the Global Leadership Institute, Boston College, USA. Please contact the Course Director for information on the cost of this programme.
For further information on this programme, please contact:
Course Director: Dorothy McKee
M: +44 (0)75 4074 3138
E: dm.mckee@ulster.ac.uk
"The MSc in Executive Leadership opened up new opportunities for learning to lead with authenticity and belief. With the world around us constantly changing we all have a role to play, not just for the present but for the future, creating and supporting the right conditions to make a difference and succeed. This MSc programme will set you up for that journey."
Heather Weir, Chief Executive, NI Hospice
"Leadership in life and business is at times underrated. The MSc Executive Leadership gave me a greater understanding of myself as a person and a leader. The Masters made me more aware how to weave a company into a community where the positives are accentuated and the failures are recognised as potential for learning."
James Geraghty, MD Molloys Lifestyle Pharmacies and Health Stores


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Entrepreneurs|Women
TBI Team
This Competition is Fulfilling the Entrepreneurial Dreams of Indian Homemakers
A survey report conducted with 1,267 homemakers across the country, revealed that although 48% housewives have entrepreneurial dreams when they are young, only 1 out of 4 attempt at it.
This article has been sponsored by Britannia
Growing up in Tamil Nadu in the 1980s, Sumathi R was a stellar student throughout school and college. She always dreamt of giving back to society through her own eye care clinic and persisted in obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Optometry. Her focus and diligence eventually led to her becoming a scholar in her respective field, which she then followed up with an MBA degree in Hospital Management.
However, with marriage and motherhood, Sumathi realised that her family needed her undivided attention. After her second child was born, she quit her job to look after the children and the household. However, deep inside her heart, she always knew she wanted to get back to her first love — optometry. All she needed was the right opportunity at the right time!
Earlier this year, she came across an advertisement for Britannia Marie Gold's My Startup 2.0 contest and decided to submit her business idea for an eye care clinic in her town, Kanchipuram and as fate would have it, she ended up winning the prize money of Rs 10 lakh!
Sumathi is not alone with such an ambition. According to a 2018 survey, 48% of Indian homemakers had entrepreneurial dreams when they were young. The survey also revealed that 1 in 4 housewives try starting up their own businesses but often give up due to lack of support, financial difficulties, lack of confidence, or household responsibilities.
Picture for representation only
This initiative by Marie Gold wants to address this issue and propel homemakers to become homepreneurs. A homemaker is the nerve-centre of the family, the CEO of the house who ensures the daily smooth running of the home. She also has ambitions but they often take a backseat as the mountain of responsibilities stare at her every day.
'My Startup Contest' helps to fuel the ambitions of such homemakers by giving them financial support and functional training. A majority of winners from season 1 have already begun their entrepreneurial journey in various parts of the country. This year, in the second season, the top 10 homemakers won Rs 10 lakh each whereas the top 10,000 won customized online skill development programmes by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). On 29 and 30 June, the top 50 finalists presented their ideas to a jury in a virtual event after which the top 10 winners were announced.
Navy Doctor Helps Small Businesses Deliver as Fast as Amazon, Builds Rs 55 Cr Brand
Be it Sumathi, or Elakshi Phukan from Assam who wants to begin her own bakery and catering business, or Zarina MV from Telangana who plans to create linen wear for kids — these women and their inspiring stories are proof of the fact that nothing is beyond their reach. The My Startup 2.0 contest has given them a much-needed boost in making their dreams come true. #kyunkibahutkuchhaikarna.
Have a look at their inspiring journey:
Rs 11 Lakh Loss To Rs 10 Million Deal on Shark Tank: Story of Skippi Ice Pops
23-YO Brews Up Startup Success With Hot Chocolate That Empowers Organic Farmers
Chef Nitu Viluo of The Rumbling Spoons
Engineer Quits Job To Preserve Nagaland's Delicacies In Pickles, Sells To 14 Countries
Ecoloop founder Chandni Khandelwal
Eco-Friendly Bamboo, Sabai Grass Gift Packs Help Entrepreneur Earn Rs 2 Lakh/Month
Three Sisters Are Making a Fortune Selling 'Hing'; Earn Rs 25 Lakh a Month
Source: Sesame Workshop India
Journalist Quits Career, Dedicates 20 Years To Uplift Millions Of Children & Women
Edible Cutlery Startup Saves 90 Tons of Plastic From Entering Landfills
Microfibre Pollution from Laundry: It's Big. It's Bad. It Can Be Reduced by You
Assam Floods: Unique Bamboo Houses Help a Village Survive 7 Floods in 3 Years


Our vision is to inspire a commitment to learning and achievement among children, teens, and adults that has the power to change their lives and our community.
Our mission is to deliver exceptional educational and social development programs for children, teens, and adults. We offer early childhood education, health and nutrition awareness, before- and after-school programs, tutoring and mentoring, career and college readiness planning, and classes for English language learners.
We achieve our mission by partnering with parents; schools; local, state, and federal governments; faith-based institutions; and individuals, corporations, and foundations that share our belief that the entire community benefits when individuals are able to achieve their highest potential.
We are committed to transparency and low overhead costs, and are proud of our financial stewardship of Campagna Center funds.


Several years ago, at an illegal party outside of Austin, in the dark woods far from phone coverage or passersby, something terrible happened. For most, it was a tragedy, a fire that trapped and killed over a hundred people. But a few have always felt something else happened that night, more than just a fire.
The Night in Question will be run Saturday, November 16th, 2019. It will run at the concert and game site Cauldron's Keep outside of Austin, TX; with work-shopping and other pre-game preparation the afternoon before in the nearby town of Bastrop, TX.
The Night in Question is set in White Wolf's World of Darkness, and plays on the backdrop of a centuries-long war between the Camarilla, a sect of vampires instituting a vast conspiracy to keep the existence of vampires a secret from humanity, and the Sabbat, a sect of vampires who espouse their superiority over human 'cattle' and wage a holy war on the Camarilla in preparation for a prophesied end-of-days. Eschewing civility and politics, The Night in Question elects to instead explore the monstrosity and ferocity of the Sabbat and their dark agenda.
Most players will take on the roles of unknowing humans out for a night of dancing in the rural areas of central Texas who find themselves swept up in a frenzy of feeding and forced recruitment. Others will take on the roles of the monsters who walk among them searching not only for prey, but for those with the potential to serve as soldiers on the front lines of the coming battle with the Camarilla. Working together in a collaborative play-style known as Nordic LARP, players will explore the physical and emotional wounds vampires can inflict upon their victims and each other.
What terrible things did you do on the night in question?
The Night in Question aims to showcase a quintessentially-American take on the horror genre. It features a no-holds-barred approach to making the gruesome nature of horrific events as real as possible. To achieve this vision, The Night in Question has drawn inspiration and guidance from the growing emphasis on immersion and production value found in modern haunted attractions, such as haunted houses and scare mazes. By coordinating game design with experts in haunted attraction set design, prop-making, and costuming, The Night in Question offers a unique experience that is one part haunted house, one part immersive theatrical experience.
Jackalope Live Action Studios has enlisted the talent of local artists, set designers, creature creators and haunted house veterans to deliver a blood-soaked experience that will leave little to the imagination. The players will be immersed in professional effects and powerful visuals right out of a nightmare. From the gore of blood rituals to the grotesque creations of the Tzimisce, The Night in Question aims to overwhelm and terrify players – then invite them to take part in a unforgettable night of participatory horror.
In stark contrast to the formal refinement of Camarilla political games or the club atmosphere of many others – The Night In Question is about a old deer skull covered in blood hanging on a roughly made wooden wall. It is about biker leathers and Bowie knifes. It is about running through a field as fast as you can, knowing you are not within screaming distance of anything, watched only by the stars in the vast Texas night. It is tattoos, denim and places in backwoods you shouldn't have come to, and no one is coming to save you. They do not even know you are there.
We call our style Texas Splatterpunk. Splatterpunk is the horror genre that rebels against subtle or suggestive horror and the scariness of the unseen. Instead, it opts for a bloody aggressive intrusion of horror into the world. Mixing gruesome imagery with the commonplace, it creates a surreal combination of one's every-day life and absolute horror.
It comes from the brand of American horror that implies that on the back roads of the countryside, something terrible is happening and we just don't know about it. Chainsaw murderers, serial killers and bizarre backwater cults dwell just beyond the casual glance of city folk and passers-by. Old disused buildings sit in the middle of mismanaged fields as the winds blow grey clouds over the wide Texas sky. A shotgun blast rings out in the night, but most people just assume it is a good old boy blasting in his backyard. Cars pass stumbling figures in the night as they run down a country road, but no one ever stops.
A great deal of horror fiction has made use of this aesthetic of Middle America being inhabited by secret horrors. They include John Carpenter's Vampires, From Dusk Til Dawn, and the classic Near Dark. And then there are the unforgivingly Texan examples – The Devil's Rejects and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The message is this – Texas is big, it is empty and you are alone with the monsters out here.
This team will be advised by Bjarke Pedersen and Johanna Koljonen from Participation Design Agency (PDA), creators of the Diana Jones award-nominated Nordic Vampire game End of the Line and the immensely successful Enlightenment in Blood.
PDA will be helping guide the writing of the event, and help design safety techniques and workshops for the players. Great care is being taken to use consent and calibration techniques pioneered by Participation Design Agency and implemented successfully by Jackalope in high intensity games in the United States such as A War of Our Own. Using these techniques, The Night In Question will allow us to safely step into the darkness.
Jackalope Live Action Studios has experience running high intensity LARPs, including A War of Our Own, a charity experience based on civilians surviving in a war zone, based on the award-winning game This War of Mine.
The Night in Question will use The Jackalope Guide to LARPing Hard and Safe and will be governed by their event policies regarding safety and harassment.
Be one of the first to sign up and get $25 off the normal ticket price, plus be one of the first to be invited to pick your characters.
Our standard admission ticket. Players may have the opportunity to play either vampires or mortals at the beginning of the night, depending on how many slots fill up. But mortal characters are most likely – but tons of fun.
Want to be a scream queen? Think it's fun to be covered in blood and gore? Play as a human victim throughout the event. Blood bags will be given characters to portray as the victims of vampiric violence. You will live, scream and die several times during the night!
Blood bag players should be prepared for consensual physical contact and be comfortable dealing with blood, gore and simulated violence.
For those who wish to embody the monstrosity of the Sabbat. Perfect for die-hard fans of the Tzimisce or their flesh-crafted creations.
Want to die in good company?
Want to get together and be horrible with your friends?
Full refunds will be available up to two weeks before the event, minus transaction fees. A 10% cancellation fee may be applied, but will be waived at the staff's discretion.
After the refund deadline, refunds will only be issued at staff discretion, and be subject to a 50% cancellation fee unless there are extenuating circumstances.


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Remember the days when you would get so excited about seeing all the different costumes at school and finding the biggest bag to carry your trick-or-treating loot? I miss those days. This year, my plans for Halloween basically involve devouring chocolates and drowning in candy. So pretty much like when I was a kid, except now I have to pay for all of it.
Maybe I could watch a horror movie, except for the fact that I literally can't watch them. During the day, with friends, whatever – even the cheesiest of scary movies leaves me huddled in the corner with a blanket over my head. I'm that annoying person who closes their eyes and covers their ears but then ask what's happening every five seconds. Sorry, friends.
Anyways, no matter what your plans are this year, I hope you all have a great time and of course, stay safe. Whether you're a witch, a werewolf, a vampire, a zombie, or an empty bag of candy (me), have a very Happy Halloween!


Myron Zwibelman was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Myron focuses his practice on medical malpractice cases, and has been doing so for more than 30 years. He has won several multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for victims of medical negligence.
Myron is authorized to practice law in Missouri.
University of Missouri Law School, J.D.


This web page provides convenient access to property management services that are located throughout New York. Each New York property management service listing includes a company name and a website link as well as location and contact information. Because there are many property management services listed in New York, the following menu(s) can be used to locate a property management service in a particular county or city.
Before visiting any of these New York real estate organizations, be sure to verify their address and hours of operation. A property management service may have relocated or ceased operations, and business hours can sometimes vary seasonally and during holiday periods. So a quick phone call can often save you time and needless inconvenience.
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Q: AudioManager.setStreamVolume without showing sliders What flag should be set so that there is no soundEffect/vibration/show_ui when volume is adjusted?
audio.setStreamVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, 10, flag);

Is it FLAG_REMOVE_SOUND_AND_VIBRATE or
~FLAG_SHOW_UI|~FLAG_VIBRATE|~FLAG_PLAY_SOUND

A: you just need set flag to 0 and should work
audioManager.setStreamVolume(
            AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC,
            desiredLevel,
            0 // this should be 0 instead AudioManager.FLAG_SHOW_UI
        )

A: To remove the vibration and UI on mute, use:
audio.setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_SILENT);

It isn't possible to remove the sound/UI when setting the streamvolume back to normal.


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Our case have integrated stand so you can see movies & pictures anywhere by placing it on flat surface.
The Case Have Precised Cut Outs For Volume Button,Charging Port & Camera hole so that you can easily access all your phone interfaces even while the case is on.


An A3 size photobooth signage by us.
We had our hand on the wooden wall two days before the event in messy and unfinished condition. So within the short interval, we painted the frame and decided to cover it with wallpaper. But, after some consideration on budget and no time to search for wallpaper shop, we choose thick fabric (the one that people use to make curtain) instead. Then, on the event day, we managed to do some simple decoration to it as we were occupied with other duties on the day itself.
Oh, forgot to mention, we were the host.


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