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Artificial Metalloenzyme for Enantioselective Sulfoxidation Based on Vanadyl-Loaded Streptavidin
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8085-8088, 10.1021/ja8017219
Nature's catalysts are specifically evolved to carry out efficient and selective reactions. Recent developments in biotechnology have allowed the rapid optimization of existing enzymes for enantioselective processes. However, the ex nihilo creation of catalytic activity from a noncatalytic protein scaffold remains very challenging. Herein, we describe the creation of an artificial enzyme upon incorporation of a vanadyl ion into the biotin-binding pocket of streptavidin, a protein devoid of catalytic activity. The resulting artificial metalloenzyme catalyzes the enantioselective oxidation of prochiral sulfides with good enantioselectivities both for dialkyl and alkyl-aryl substrates (up to 93% enantiomeric excess). Electron paragmagnetic resonance spectroscopy, chemical modification, and mutagenesis studies suggest that the vanadyl ion is located within the biotin-binding pocket and interacts only via second coordination sphere contacts with streptavidin.
Metal: V
Ligand type: Water
Host protein: Streptavidin (Sav)
Anchoring strategy: Supramolecular
Max TON: 27
Asymmetric Catalytic Sulfoxidation by a Novel VIV8 Cluster Catalyst in the Presence of Serum Albumin: A Simple and Green Oxidation System
Bian, H.-D.; Huang, F.-P.
RSC Adv. 2016, 6, 44154-44162, 10.1039/C6RA08153C
Enantioselective oxidation of a series of alkyl aryl sulfides catalyzed by a novel VIV8 cluster is tested in an aqueous medium in the presence of serum albumin. The procedure is simple, environmentally friendly, selective, and highly reactive.
Ligand type: 1,2-diaminocyclohexane; OH; OMe; Oxide
Host protein: Bovine serum albumin (BSA)
Anchoring strategy: Undefined
Max TON: 140
Notes: Screening with different serum albumins.
Enantioselective Sulfoxidation Mediated by Vanadium-Incorporated Phytase: A Hydrolase Acting as a Peroxidase
Chem. Commun. 1998, 1891-1892, 10.1039/a804702b
Phytase (E.C. 3.1.3.8), which in vivo mediates the hydrolysis of phosphate esters, catalyses the enantioselective oxidation of thioanisole with H2O2, both in the presence and absence of vanadate ion, affording the S-sulfoxide in up to 66% ee at 100% conversion.
Ligand type: Undefined
Host protein: Phytase
Optimization: ---
Max TON: ~194
Ligand type: Oxide
The Rational Design of Semisynthetic Peroxidases
Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2000, 67, 87-96, 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(20000105)67:1<87::AID-BIT10>3.0.CO;2-8
A semisynthetic peroxidase was designed by exploiting the structural similarity of the active sites of vanadium dependent haloperoxidases and acid phosphatases. Incorporation of vanadate ion into the active site of phytase (E.C. 3.1.3.8), which mediates in vivo the hydrolysis of phosphate esters, leads to the formation of a semisynthetic peroxidase, which catalyzes the enantioselective oxidation of prochiral sulfides with H2O2 affording the S‐sulfoxide, e.g. in 66% ee at 100% conversion for thioanisole. Under reaction conditions the semi‐synthetic vanadium peroxidase is stable for over 3 days with only a slight decrease in turnover frequency. Polar water‐miscible cosolvents, such as methanol, dioxane, and dimethoxyethane, can be used in concentrations of 30% (v/v) at a small penalty in activity and enantioselectivity. Among the transition metal oxoanions that are known to be potent inhibitors, only vanadate resulted in a semisynthetic peroxidase when incorporated into phytase. A number of other acid phosphatases and hydrolases were tested for peroxidase activity, when incorporated with vanadate ion. Phytases from Aspergillus ficuum, A. fumigatus, and A. nidulans, sulfatase from Helix pomatia, and phospholipase D from cabbage catalyzed enantioselective oxygen transfer reactions when incorporated with vanadium. However, phytase from A. ficuum was unique in also catalyzing the enantioselective sulfoxidation, albeit at a lower rate, in the absence of vanadate ion.
Notes: Reaction performed in 30% organic co-solvent.
Vanadium-Catalysed Enantioselective Sulfoxidations: Rational Design of Biocatalytic and Biomimetic Systems
Top. Catal. 2000, 13, 259-265, 10.1023/A:1009094619249
Approaches to the rational design of vanadium-based biocatalytic and biomimetic model systems as catalysts for enantioselective oxidations are reviewed. Incorporation of vanadate ion into the active site of phytase (E.C. 3.1.3.8), which in vivo mediates the hydrolysis of phosphate esters, afforded a relatively stable and inexpensive semi-synthetic peroxidase. It catalysed the enantioselective oxidation of prochiral sulfides with H2O2 affording the S-sulfoxide, e.g., in 68% ee at 100% conversion for thioanisole. Amongst the transition metal oxoanions that are known to be potent inhibitors of phosphatases, only vanadate resulted in a semi-synthetic peroxidase, when incorporated into phytase. In a biomimetic approach, vanadium complexes of chiral Schiff's base complexes were encapsulated in the super cages of a hydrophobic zeolite Y. Unfortunately, these ship-in-a-bottle complexes afforded only racemic sulfoxide in the catalytic oxidation of thioanisole with H2O2.


I know, I know, I go on a lot about leadership. You are probably tired of hearing me already! The thing is, as I continue this incredible journey as the founder and CEO of MonkeyMedia Software, I am just so lucky to meet so many amazing leaders. Great leaders, with great ideas, teams and execution. So, this got me thinking about my own leadership abilities. After all, my job is to serve my team at MonkeyMedia Software.
Without the support structure in place at the highest level of your organization, mid-level managers and front-line employees at the store-level will have a hard time carrying out the mission of your catering strategy. They just won't be able to succeed and deliver results.
Top line leaders must not only be supportive, they must live to serve their team members and set them up for success in catering, just like any other business channel. Never lose sight of the big picture, and make sure that you wake up every day to serve your off-premise stakeholders if you want to realize positive results in your catering business.


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Celebrating 20 years – Interview With Ian Bradbury
Ian Bradbury, Associate Director of our Technology, Change & Transformation practice, recently celebrated his 20 year anniversary with psd group. In honour of this milestone, we sat down with Ian as he reflects on his journey from graduate to leading Executive recruitment specialist in the European Communications market.
You recently celebrated 20 years at psd – what do you remember about the early days?
My first days in Executive recruitment went very quickly. The overriding thing I remember was the excellent training and support I had during the first months, it was one of the reasons I joined the organisation. It was a real whirlwind – I came from a publishing firm and I had no recruitment experience, so learning about identifying the right talent and interviewing correctly was particularly useful. I came into a strong team and there were a lot of strong individuals, but a lot of support as well.
What pulled you into recruitment?
I was a graduate in a role selling advertising, and I joined an exhibition for recruitment. It was during the dot com boom and companies were hiring high volumes of IT staff. I had a lot to do with recruitment consultants from that point, and suddenly the idea that you could recruit 10, 15 people into a company struck me and I thought 'I can do that'. I saw an advert for psd and applied.
We hire a lot of graduates, what are your thoughts on that as a policy?
It's a great policy, particularly at psd where we have a blend of experienced Executive Search personnel and young fresh talent coming through, it works well. Graduates embrace technology at a faster rate and have a different view of the world as well. I believe it's important to bridge the gap between Generation X and Generation Z.
20 years is a long time – how has the working environment at psd changed?
As in many organisations, there is a lot more flexibility now which has changed the working environment. Given the nature of Executive recruitment and at times the hours needed to execute the job effectively, I find it's great to be able to come in early and do what you need to do to be successful, but to have the flexibility to leave early and lead the lifestyles that we all want to lead. That environment is really appreciated. The tools we use now to be more effective in our roles have also hugely changed the office environment – I remember the days when we used to load up the fax machine with CV's to be sent out! Everything is automated now.
You joined psd to develop a Dutch or Benelux ICT team practice, focusing on network operators and service providers within that region. Can you tell us about the current climate in that market?
I recruit management and executive level roles, or commercially orientated functions, into international organisations with a business unit in that region – with the occasional foray into Sweden. I think with the current political climate around Brexit, the Dutch technology market is performing quite well. We've seen a growth of data centres within the area, because there is good connectivity. Given the uncertainties of what's happening politically, organisations want to ensure that their data is physically held in the Netherlands.
How have the challenges of Executive recruitment changed over the last 20 years?
Recruitment really boils down to two main things; engaging with clients and going out and winning business, and of course the delivery. The fundamentals of the job are the same, but what has changed are the challenges we face now with competition such as the rise of the in-house recruiter, in-house talent acquisition teams, and perhaps a lower entry to market with tools like LinkedIn. It emphasises how important it is to build and nurture relationships. We can maintain strong relationships with clients and candidates, whereas in-house recruiters will have challenges with that as they're focused on that one role and that one story. When you call a client or candidate that you've had a relationship with for a number of years they will take your call because they know that you genuinely have something interesting to offer them.
You've placed some 350 people into new roles during your 20 years with psd, that's a lot of lives changed.
One of the most satisfying parts of the role is walking into a client's office and a huddle of people come over to say hello, and to thank you for making a difference to their careers.
What do you feel you still have to learn?
Breaking out and doing new things when you're very established in a particular sector can be challenging. You feel you might miss out on your bread and butter and the revenue that you rely on. The thing to learn is to take more risks and being less afraid of making mistakes. The more experience you have in a role the more concerned you can be that if you do make a mistake it's not as acceptable as perhaps it would be if you were new. So I think it's about breaking out of that mind-set and putting yourself out there.
Work life balance is becoming increasingly important to us all. What has it been like for you as a parent doing this job?
I have three kids and I've been fortunate to be able to do things such as parent evenings, and I was a Cub Scout leader for a number of years. I felt I had the flexibility to do those outside of work activities. I've been very happy about that over the last 20 years.
What do you enjoy most about the job?
As I mentioned earlier, it's a great feeling to walk into a client's office and think 'wow, I placed that whole team.' You feel like you've made a difference to someone's career. And I work with fantastic people at psd. I've been at the top of the league table, and the bottom of the league table – but wherever I've been I've always felt well supported, so long may that continue.
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psd announce Charity Partnership with Variety, the Children's Charity
psd is pleased to announce its new charity partner Variety, the Children's Charity, working to improve the lives of children and young people across the UK.
psd and Cash for Kids Partnership
Well done to psd Manchester who raised a fantastic £5,612 in 2018 for one of our chosen charities, Cash for Kids, who support disadvantaged and disabled children in the Greater Manchester area.
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CJEU, National law, revocation, Unitary character
CJEU: The EUTM unitary character requires a homogenous application of procedural rules, including in counterclaims for revocation.
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In the absence of specific EU provisions, EU national court shall apply in regard to EUTM registrations the applicable national law pursuant to art. 129 EU Reg. 2017/1001 (EUTM Regulation). However, this may lead to different national interpretations and treatment of EUTM registrations and affect the unitary character of the EU mark, and as we…
EU Trademark reform, EUTM, National law, Romania, Trademark
Overdue reform: at last Romania is set to transpose the Trade Mark Directive
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Yesterday, 2 July 2020, the European Commission announced that it will refer Romania to the CJEU for not implementing the Trade Mark Directive (Directive (EU) 2015/2436) – see here. While the deadline to transpose the Trade Mark Directive is long overdue – 14 January 2019, Romania is yet to proceed with this, making it the…
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HOLD ON TIGHT Denmark: The importance of obtaining a word mark registration for weak trademarks
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Two sports companies, Sports Group Denmark A/S ("Sports Group") and WaterNlife ApS ("WaterNlife") conflicted over the use of ENDURANCE as a trademark for sports clothing. Sports Group had registered the device trademark However, the trademark was not used as registered. Mostly, Sports Group used the mark in a much simpler and minimalistic version that looked…
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A "new" category of marks: historic
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The so called "growth decree" (decree-law no. 34/2019, amended by the Italian Parliament as law 58/2019 in June 2019) has introduced a new category of marks in Italy: "historic marks" defined as those marks registered or used continuously for a period of at least 50 years to market products or services "made by an Italian manufacturing company of excellence, which…
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Celebrity Names in Class 16
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With decision of 25th February 2019, the German Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht) has ruled on the registrability of a celebrity name for inter alia publications in class 16. The Bundespatentgericht is the appeals court for decisions of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA). Franziska van Almsick, one of the most successful swimmers of recent…
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Germany: Modernized Trademark Law
Bettina Clefsen (b/cl IP)/ February 4, 2019 February 4, 2019 /Leave a comment
On 14 January 2019, on the date of the deadline, the German Trademark Modernization Act entered into force (with the wonderfully uniquely German name of "Markenrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz" – short: "MaMoG"). The Trademark Modernization Act implements the mandatory and several optional provisions contained in the revised EU Trade Mark Directive 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015 in Germany….
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Philipp Plein v. Rezon Ltd – The first Bulgarian decision related to liability of intermediaries
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The Sofia City Court, Commercial Division reached a landmark decision on November 15, 2018, when it issued a judgement holding that the company REZON Ltd., which manages and operates the on-line marketplace <bazar.bg>, violated the rights of the trademark owner PHILIPP PLEIN. The breach occurred through the use of these trademarks in the commercial activity…
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Kiko raises an eyebrow to Wycon's makeover
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Earlier this year, the Court of Appeal of Milan upheld a 2015 ruling by the Court of Milan which recognized copyright protection of the concept store of Kiko, the Italian make-up brand, and blocked competitor Wycon from using similar store decor in its shops. (Court of Appeal decision no. 1543/18, Kiko-Wycon, March 26, 2018). Kiko's…


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Jones has no problems with Stags boss Evans
Hatters boss Nathan Jones
Published: 09:35 Thursday 20 April 2017
Hatters chief Nathan Jones brushed off his war of words with Mansfield Town chief Steve Evans during Monday's 1-1 draw at the One Call Stadium.
The pair had an angry touchline exchange during the second half, but Jones said: "I get on with Steve, off the pitch he's a little bit different to what he is there.
He's very entertaining on the side if you're not actually the opposing manager.
"He's an interesting character, he said something to me I took offence to, so we sorted it out, it's not a problem.
"Steve's a real big character, football needs those characters.
"He's got his side here, transformed them a bit, they are on the front foot and want to do something.
"It's a difficult game as whenever you play against a Steve Evans side, you know you're going to be in for a battle and a fight.
"You've got to be right at it and to be fair, our players did it well."
Speaking to the Mansfield official website afterwards, Evans felt his side should definitely have been awarded a penalty for Hatters skipper Scott Cuthbert twice holding George Taft in the area, saying: "We score a goal and how we've not got a penalty for holding our defenders from set plays is beyond me.
"In fairness, I didn't think it was a penalty at the time but having looked back at it, the referee's been given the opportunity to make a decision and he gives them it. The disappointment is that he gives it in one box and not the other.
"Both teams had good spells in the game, both teams dominated at certain times in the game. I think the pivotal moment, for me, was when we're one up and we should have a clear penalty (which isn't) given.
"It was two good teams out there – three good teams - I think the officials did well."
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Start Up No.1536: Facebook and Apple at odds as iOS 14.5 released, petrol from the air?, publishers reject Google's FLoC, and more
Posted on April 27, 2021 by charlesarthur
With renewables and microgeneration on the rise, Google reckons power grids need a "moonshot" to inject machine learning and more for future systems. Can it succeed? CC-licensed photo by sagesolar on Flickr.
A selection of 9 links for you. Friend or foe? I'm @charlesarthur on Twitter. Observations and links welcome.
• Why did so many news sites "pivot to video" in 2015?
• Would online discourse be nicer if algorithms weren't picking content?
• What sort of content do we really respond to?
How Mark Zuckerberg and Apple's CEO became foes • The New York Times
Mike Isaac and Jack Nicas:
At the center of the fight are the two C.E.O.s. Their differences have long been evident. Mr. Cook, 60, is a polished executive who rose through Apple's ranks by constructing efficient supply chains. Mr. Zuckerberg, 36, is a Harvard dropout who built a social-media empire with an anything-goes stance toward free speech.
Those contrasts have widened with their deeply divergent visions for the digital future. Mr. Cook wants people to pay a premium — often to Apple — for a safer, more private version of the internet. It is a strategy that keeps Apple firmly in control. But Mr. Zuckerberg champions an "open" internet where services like Facebook are effectively free. In that scenario, advertisers foot the bill.
The relationship between the chief executives has become increasingly chilly, people familiar with the men said. While Mr. Zuckerberg once took walks and dined with Steve Jobs, Apple's late co-founder, he does not do so with Mr. Cook. Mr. Cook regularly met with Larry Page, Google's co-founder, but he and Mr. Zuckerberg see each other infrequently at events like the Allen & Company conference, these people said.
The executives have also jabbed at each other. In 2017, a Washington political firm funded by Facebook and other Apple rivals published anonymous articles criticizing Mr. Cook and created a false campaign to draft him as a presidential candidate, presumably to upend his relationship with former President Donald J. Trump. And when Mr. Cook was asked by MSNBC in 2018 how he would deal with Facebook's privacy issues if he was in Mr. Zuckerberg's shoes, he replied, "I wouldn't be in this situation."
Very much the Irish saying of "I wouldn't start from here". Notable how the headline assumes everyone knows who Zuckerberg is, but not Cook. (That is, the title on the web page; the headline on the page does say Cook.)
Update your iPhone so you can tell apps to stop tracking you • Vice
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai:
Apple started rolling out the latest version of iOS (14.5) on Monday, which could become a watershed moment in the history of privacy on the internet. The new version of iOS makes tracking an opt-in feature. In other words, when you install an app on your iPhone, you will have to allow it to track you across other apps, and if you want, you can stop it from tracking you entirely.
This is the most aggressive pro-privacy step Apple has taken in years. Facebook hates it so much that it has launched a full-on PR campaign claiming this change will hurt small businesses.
For many people on the internet, however, this is actually good news. Ashkan Soltani, an independent privacy and security researcher, told Motherboard that this is "a great step, particularly the global option to block tracking via one step."
"It's in line with the Global Privacy Control project that I've been working on, and is required under the California Law," he said in an online chat. "In addition to technical mitigations, I'm looking forward to Apple supporting the legal right for consumers to opt-out so simply."
"Apple today is turning on enhanced privacy/transparency in apps. This is a great day for European policy ideas for cookie pop-up boxes, now deployed to millions of smartphones all around the world," Lukasz Olejnik, a security and privacy researcher, wrote on Twitter.
The feature is called App Tracking Transparency and in practice, it means that when you open apps you will be greeted with a new pop-up: "Allow [App Name] to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites?" The first choice is "Ask App Not to Track" and the second one is "Allow."
Choosing "Ask App not to Track" makes Apple disable the app from using our Apple device identifier, "a random string of letters and numbers assigned to our iPhones and that is used to track our activities across apps and websites," and lets the app developer know that you don't want them to track you in any way
So, let's see if the sky does indeed fall as Facebook predicted. (Here's a list of everything that's new.)
Why the electric grid needs a moonshot • Google X
Astro Teller runs Google X, the "moonshot factory":
Grid operators ensure that the supply of electricity to the grid stays in balance with the amount being used every moment of every day. One of the biggest challenges they face is that they have to manage and make decisions without full visibility into all the new and intermittent power sources coming onto the grid, like wind turbines or solar panels. And they don't have visibility into how energy is flowing in real time: there is no global map or end-to-end aggregated view that gives every operator a consistent, full view of what's happening on the grid from power plants down to the solar panels on your roof.
What you see happening on the grid depends on who's looking and from what vantage point. Everyone who manages, builds, regulates and provides electricity to our power system — from utilities to system operators — uses their own sets of tools and models of the system. And this is becoming a huge hindrance as operators are now orchestrating novel and unpredictable flows of power from billions of new devices both contributing to and drawing from the grid.
Finding a way to create a single view of this splintered system felt to us like a promising entry point for reimagining things. We think machine learning, artificial intelligence and advanced computing tools can help; in the last decade these technologies have powered the creation of virtual representations of real-world environments that act as super-efficient simulated testing grounds for new ideas and software.
"Moonshot factory" is quite the boast, and not really supported by the facts. Google X has tried lots of things and you'd be pushing it to say any has even achieved orbit. This is a big idea, but DeepMind has effectively pulled out of this space already. That's not encouraging.
Fuels from thin air: Prometheus joins the chase to make captured CO2 into net zero hydrocarbon fuels • Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane:
What is it? Prometheus removes CO2 from the air and turns it into zero-net carbon gasoline and jet fuel at a price that will compete with conventional fossil fuels used in transportation today. Because only renewable energy sources are used in its production, you get net zero carbon fuels.
How does it work? BMW reports that the process uses a solution of liquid water and CO2 that is exposed to an electrified copper plate. This catalyzes a reaction and produces fuel alcohols (mostly ethanol). Closely packed filters made from cylindrical carbon nanotubes embedded in plastic allow ethanol through while blocking water molecules. From there, the more concentrated solution of approximately 95% ethanol can be catalyzed with zeolite to join into more complex hydrocarbons, including gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel. This technique works at room temperature, while traditional methods of extraction require heat to distill it from a solution.
Founder Rob McGinnis speculated that even though the theoretical efficiency of Prometheus' system was only 50–60%, their less energy-intensive process could nevertheless considerably lower overall cost and be competitive with fossil fuels.
Why is it a big deal? As BMW notes, "The modularity of the approach will enable micro-cells of gasoline production where there is a surplus of renewable energy available."
What's difficult here? For one, the CO2 processing — it's aiming to use atmospheric CO2 not point source. That's tougher. So, the company has pioneered a DAC technology, that's short for Direct Air Capture. You have to process about 1600 pounds of air to capture a pound of CO2, so having a very passive process is a must.
As BMW noted that the "salvaged CO2 encounters renewable electricity in an electrochemical stack called the Faraday Reactor. The electricity "charges" the carbon with hydrogen molecules from the water to create long-chain alcohols, releasing pure oxygen.
Petrol contains around 2.3-2.6 kilos of carbon (dioxide? Perhaps) per litre. So this thing has to process 1600 x 2.4 kg = 3.8 tonnes of air to capture the equivalent amount of carbon for a single litre of petrol. Air weighs 1.29kg per cubic metre, so there's about 3.8kg in 3 cubic metres, hence 3.8 tonnes of air is 3,000 cubic metres. An Olympic swimming pool (50m, 25m wide, 2-3m deep) is 2,500 cubic metres. 120% of that to produce one litre of not-yet petrol.
Let's say it: that's insane. Even if it were completely passive, it would still make more sense just to capture the carbon and sequester it, and use the power for electric cars. They're actually more energy-efficient. (New working hypothesis: things called "Prometheus" are junk.)
Is an activist's pricey house news? Facebook alone decides • The New York Times
Ben Smith on how the NY Post is aggrieved that Facebook is blocking sharing of a post because it mentions a house, on which basis Facebook has a policy that the person mentioned can block it:
What Facebook's clash with The Post really revealed — and what surprised me — is that the platform does not defer, at all, to news organizations on questions of news judgment. A decision by The Post, or The New York Times, that someone's personal wealth is newsworthy carries no weight in the company's opaque enforcement mechanisms. Nor, Facebook's lawyer said, does a more nebulous and reasonable human judgment that the country has felt on edge for the last year and that a Black activist's concern for her own safety was justified. (The activist didn't respond to my inquiry but, in an Instagram post, called the reporting on her personal finances "doxxing" and a "tactic of terror.")
The point of Facebook's bureaucracy is to replace human judgment with a kind of strict corporate law. "The policy in this case prioritizes safety and privacy, and this enforcement shows how difficult these trade-offs can be," the company's vice president for communications, Tucker Bounds, said. "To help us understand if our policies are in the right place, we are referring the policy to the Oversight Board."
The board is a promising kind of supercourt that has yet to set much meaningful policy. So this rule could eventually change. (Get your stories deleted while you can!)
For now, though, the deletion seems to be an instance of how the company finds itself constantly debating the literal interpretation of its own, made-up rules rather than exercising any form of actual judgment. That came up again this spring in an internal report finding that Facebook hadn't cracked down on "Stop the Steal" splinter groups because they were all hovering below its "violation threshold."
I should note that when it comes to the article about the activist's house, Facebook waded into one of the trickiest areas of online speech, and one of the hardest calls for news organizations today.
Poor Facebook, forced to make decisions over policies that it dreamt up itself. Reddit has a similar policy (see No.3), which it enforces effectively: people who doxx someone (give out their personal details) get banned. Facebook could do that, of course.
Some publishers rejet FLoC while others are open to testing it
Kate Kaye:
Privacy concerns, potential discriminatory categorization of people and data control have some publishers including The Guardian joining web browsers in blocking Google's cookieless tracking and ad targeting method, FLoC. Meanwhile, The New York Times is among publishers open to testing FLoC, or Federated Learning of Cohorts, a method that categorizes groups of people based on their website visits and enables ad targeting and measurement in aggregate, rather than at an individual level. But as contributors to WordPress, which operates the foundation for millions of websites, also have mulled disabling FLoC, and as European regulators delay trials there, the anti-FLoC chorus grows louder.
"We've decided to opt-out of the FLOC trial, for the moment, as we assess the commercial and privacy implications of the technology," a Guardian News and Media spokesperson told Digiday. "As we learn more about the technology, we may seek to move to trial in the future, but we are also testing a range of other privacy-respecting identity solutions, as we seek to build out our future advertising strategy."
Google declined to comment on the record for this story.
…headwinds billow against the increasingly controversial FLoC technique. Facing concerns regarding compliance with data use and privacy restrictions in Europe, Google revealed in March that it will not make FLoC available for testing in countries where the General Data Protection Regulation and ePrivacy Directive are in place.
Privacy is suddenly quite a thing this year, isn't it? Almost as if some sort of tipping point had been reached.
Apple AirTags are about so much more than finding your keys • WIRED UK
Andrew Williams:
Car keys are just one implementation of the Apple U1 chip's UWB [ultrawideband wireless]. Apple offered us plenty more in a series of patents it filed towards the end of 2019, as reported by Patently Apple.
Diagrams in these filings show a series of Apple U1 trackers used to model the articulation of someone's body in front of a TV hooked up to some future version of the Apple TV box. Exercise platform Apple Fitness+ is already here, so how about using UWB to tell when you are performing yoga moves correctly in a virtual class, using a virtual on-screen avatar?
Another suggested application is to use UWB to find the fire extinguisher, fire exit or defibrillator in a building, presumably a hospital. Apple has already made major in-roads into healthcare organisations with Apple Health — particularly in the US — so why wouldn't it work its way deeper into their infrastructure?
The patent filing also details the use of multiple UWB sensors for posture analysis, with Apple U1 sensors dotted across the spine, arms, legs and head.
The contents of patents can never be taken as a guarantee something is going to be released, or is even actively being seriously developed. Some of these sound like a headache, and we don't fancy clipping a half-dozen sensors on for a yoga class, but the idea Apple U1 is not really for finding things is not our own. And these patents do lay out AirTag use more-or-less exactly as Apple announced at its launch event.
There are more obvious applications that may have already come to mind as you read this, too. Apple U1 devices could be used as objects or play pieces in an augmented reality game or app you play using Apple AR Glasses.
Take that idea further. An Apple U1 chip could sit in every shop shelf, identifying the products that sit on them. Ask Siri where to find the carrots, or a Hermès AirTag holder, and your Apple Glasses highlight them in your view, appearing to see through walls, showing stock levels and the price.
They could be used to map out the play field for virtual reality, AirTags marking out its limits at the corners of the room. HTC Vive uses dedicated laser-tracking boxes to similar effect, at far greater expense.
Your robot vacuum cleaner need never lose track of its home base again with the help of an Apple U1 chip. It could allow for ultimate energy saving home automation, turning off all appliances in rooms in which there are no beating hearts — assuming everyone in your family is Apple-obsessed enough to own an Apple Watch.
It's nice to dream, but Apple isn't in to "every shop shelf". It's into "let the shops stick UWB chips on their shelves and we'll leverage what they do". It's hard to see it making a robovac either – not computer-y enough, and too crowded a market. It hasn't even put the U1 chip in its new TV remote. Change is slow.
"Newsworthiness," Trump, and the Facebook Oversight Board • Columbia Journalism Review
Renee DiResta and Matt DeButts:
If Facebook's algorithms didn't relentlessly promote Trump's messages, they might not have gone viral, or at least not with the same alacrity. Just look at the past few months: by blocking Trump from their platforms, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants appear to have significantly reduced the media coverage about him. If social media made Trump newsworthy, we now know, too, that it can make him less so.
To escape from Facebook's circular logic of "newsworthiness," we have two choices: we can either redefine the term, or we can rethink how it is deployed as a justification in content moderation. The first option is tricky. Redefining a widely used term is hard, and would likely encounter resistance. Free speech advocates are understandably reluctant to enable platforms (or Facebook's Oversight Board, for that matter) to determine what is in "the public interest"—a phrase that often appears alongside "newsworthy." Many are quick to argue that the public interest is highly subjective or, alternately, that a large profit-seeking corporation may not be appropriately positioned to evaluate it. When the courts have been asked to define "legitimate public interest" in the context of libel cases, they have largely demurred, preferring to rely on editors' judgments and individual context. Unfortunately, that leaves us where we started. The second option—rethinking newsworthiness in content moderation—is more intriguing.
One possibility is to reverse Facebook's current position. Consider the following thought experiment: A Facebook user writes something to his audience of ten million. What he says is borderline harmful, though it's not a clear-cut case. Still, the speech is likely to be newsworthy—in our viral age, when ten million people begin talking about something it will probably become "news"—so the potential damage is high. Furthermore, once this speech has reached ten million accounts, it will become increasingly difficult to remove the message should it prove dangerous in the end. If another Facebook user, this person with an audience of ten, writes the same sentence, the speech is no different, but the potential harm is limited. If the message were to incite violence, the scale would be much more restricted, and Facebook would have an opportunity to intervene before it goes viral. In the latter case, someone's lack of newsworthiness should make the content more permissible, but in the current enforcement structure, paradoxically, the ordinary person with the small audience is more likely to be moderated and removed.
Which is the point: exceptions are made for the big accounts. Because they create "engagement" and hence revenue.
Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands • Axios
Sara Fischer:
Roku says Google is threatening the removal of YouTube TV to force Roku to grant preferential access to its consumer data moving forward.
It says Google has asked Roku to do things that it does not see replicated on other streaming competitors' platforms, like creating a dedicated search results row for YouTube within the Roku smart TV interface and giving YouTube search results more prominent placement.
Roku says Google has also required it to block search results from other streaming content providers while users are using the YouTube app on Roku's system. Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora.
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In response to the allegations, a YouTube TV spokesperson says, "We have been working with Roku in good faith to reach an agreement that benefits our viewers and their customers."
"Unfortunately, Roku often engages in these types of tactics in their negotiations. We're disappointed that they chose to make baseless claims while we continue our ongoing negotiations."
Those Google denials aren't very denial-y. I haven't seen Roku making claims like that in the past, either. Who gets hurt more if there's no YouTube on Roku? Roku isn't bigger than all the other smart TVs. But Roku users are unlikely to abandon their investment in it, which could include paid channels. So Google loses out. A bit. As does Roku.
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The problem with batteries is while they are energy *efficient* they are not energy *dense*. Fossil fuels still provide significantly more energy per gram than our best batteries. This is a big problem for air travel—the plane has to lift its fuel so you can't just add more batteries. If we want air travel in the future, we're going to need something like this or an order of magnitude improvement in batteries.
As for air volume, I think that problem is solved by the passive direct air capture—they don't have to store the air; they just suck the carbon out as the air moves through their system. So no need for Olympic size pools for storage.
(And the carbon in fossil fuels are hydrocarbons—no dioxide. When the fuel is burned in air the hydrogen-carbon molecular bonds are broken, releasing energy, and the carbon atoms form new bonds with oxygen atoms from the air. Some of those new molecules have a single oxygen atom—carbon monoxide—and some have two—carbon dioxide).


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The idea that girls can't do math is a great example of how our minds can trick us into acting in ways that are not helpful. So what can we do? Consider the following question: Do you want to let stereotypes and inaccurate beliefs get in your way (or your daughter's way) of pursuing a potentially very rewarding career? If not, try shifting your perspective.
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Q: Dynamic Naming of Fieldset I'm trying to get a form to dynamically add more input fields with id's that are also dynamically generated. I have most of it working except that the fieldset id's are taking on the name of the last input field instead the original fieldset (If you inspect the fieldset's id it says "fenceType2" instead of "fenceDescription2"). If anyone could explain where I'm going wrong it would be very much appreciated! Thanks so much! Here is a fiddle of the code - http://jsfiddle.net/gv0029/dyJjA/ - and here is the code:
HTML:

    <fieldset id="fenceDescripton">
        <legend>Fence Description

        </legend>Fence Description:
        <select name="fenceHeight" id="fenceHeight">
            <option value="select">Select Fence Height</option>
            <option value="6" id="fH6">6 Ft.</option>
        </select>
        <select name="fenceType" id="fenceType">
            <option value="select">Select Fence Type</option>
            <option value="wr1" id="wr1">WRC #1</option>
        </select>
    </fieldset>

<input type="button" id="btnAddFence" value="Add Another Fence" />
<input type="button" id="btnDelFence" value="Remove Fence" />

JS:
//Dynamic Fence Input Fields
$('#btnAddFence').click(function () {
    var num = $('.clonedInputFence').length; // how many "duplicatable" input fields we currently have
    var newNum = new Number(num + 1); // the numeric ID of the new input field being added

    // create the new element via clone(), and manipulate it's ID using newNum value
    var newElem = $('#inputFence' + num).clone().attr('id', 'inputFence' + newNum);

    //Fence Description
    newElem.children($("select[name=fenceHeight] option:selected")).attr('id', 'fenceHeight' + newNum).attr('name', 'fenceHeight' + newNum);
    newElem.children($("select[name=fenceType] option:selected")).attr('id', 'fenceType' + newNum).attr('name', 'fenceType' + newNum);
    $('#inputFence' + num).after(newElem);

    // enable the "remove" button
    //$('#btnDel').attr('disabled','');
    $('#btnDelFence').removeAttr('disabled');

    // business rule: you can only add 5 names
    //if (newNum == 5)
    //$('#btnAdd').attr('disabled','disabled');
});

$('#btnDelFence').click(function () {
    var num = $('.clonedInputFence').length; // how many "duplicatable" input fields we currently have
    $('#inputFence' + num).remove(); // remove the last element

    // enable the "add" button
    //$('#btnAdd').attr('disabled','');
    $('#btnAddFence').removeAttr('disabled');

    // if only one element remains, disable the "remove" button
    if (num - 1 == 1) $('#btnDelFence').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
});

$('#btnDelFence').attr('disabled', 'disabled');

Any and all help is appreciated! Thanks again!

A: Like this DEMO
  //Fence Description
  newElem.children('fieldset').attr('id', 'fenceDescripton'+newNum);
  newElem.children("select[name=fenceHeight] option:selected").attr('id', 'fenceHeight' +  newNum).attr('name', 'fenceHeight' + newNum);
  newElem.children("select[name=fenceType] option:selected").attr('id', 'fenceType' + newNum).attr('name', 'fenceType' + newNum);
  $('#inputFence' + num).after(newElem);

A: From .children()

The .children() method differs from .find() in that .children() only travels a single level down the DOM tree while .find() can traverse down multiple levels to select descendant elements (grandchildren, etc.) as well.

Since you give $(...) instead of just a selector string, children seems to select the direct children of the cloned div, which is fieldset.
So, you should make two changes

*

*use .find() instead of children

*use a selector string
newElem.find("select[name=fenceHeight]").attr('id', 'fenceHeight' + newNum).attr('name', 'fenceHeight' + newNum);
newElem.find("select[name=fenceType]").attr('id', 'fenceType' + newNum).attr('name', 'fenceType' + newNum);

See modified JSFiddle

A: Hey I actually figured out how to fix this.
Firstly I removed the separate id's between the different sections of the code to make it more manageable and then I changed the way I was trying to create the newElements from:
 newElem.children($("select[name=fenceHeight] option:selected")).attr('id', 'fenceHeight' + newNum).attr('name', 'fenceHeight' + newNum);

to:
newElem.find(':input[name="railQuantity"]').attr('id', 'railQuantity' + newNum).attr('name', 'railQuantity' + newNum);

the majore problem obviously being my selector. Thanks for y'all help! It was very much appreciated!

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Keith Lavern Rittgarn, 69, of Gordon, Nebraska, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at home by Gordon, Nebraska.
He was born to Robert & Kathryn (Arbuckle) Rittgarn on November 24, 1946 in Lexington, Nebraska. He was joined over the years by younger siblings Karen, Ken, and Kevin. He attended school and graduated high school in Elwood, Nebraska.
After high school, he was drafted and spent two years in the Navy. While stationed in Virginia, he was blessed with his first son, Robert Lin Rittgarn. After returning from Vietnam, he met his first love, Candis Jane Hardesty, by hitting her horse with his vehicle. They were married in 1975, and had a son Chad Curtis Rittgarn.
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In 1997, he heard the call of the mountains and moved to Grand Lake, Colorado. He worked for Winding River Resort for the next five years doing trail and sleigh rides. He loved doing the carriage rides for weddings. He met his second love, Diane Howell, in Colorado. He was an incredibly lucky man to have fallen in love with two amazing women during his life. Keith moved to Tabernash, Colorado and worked for the Y, Becky and Andy Arnold, and Beaver Village before retiring.
After retiring, Diane and Keith spent as much time as they could traveling in the fifth wheel through the southwest United States and visiting amazing friends and family that Keith loved dearly. Even after moving back to Nebraska to be closer to family, Colorado was still home and he returned every chance he got.
Keith was preceded in death by wife, Candis; brother, Kevin, father, Robert, and one brother-in-law John Flynn.
Remaining to mourn his passing are his mother, Kathryn; his 'lovey' Diane; sons, Rob (Darla) and Chad (Sara); seven grandchildren; Rochelle, Taylor, Zack, Charley, India, Aspen and Curtis; siblings Karen and Ken (Gwen); and many extended family and friends.
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Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Revels in Science at Husband Hill Summit as Opportunity Closes in on Erebus Crater
Spirit took this image of Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos in August 2005
Taking advantage of extra solar energy collected during the day, Spirit settled in for an evening of stargazing, photographing the two moons of Mars with her PanCam as they crossed the night sky on Sol 585/Aug. 26. Phobos is the brighter object on the right; Deimos is on the left. Scientists will use these enhanced-brightness images to better map the moons' orbital positions, learn more about their composition, and monitor the presence of nighttime clouds or haze.Credit: NASA / JPL / Cornell / Texas A&M
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Spirit has been checking out the summit of Husband Hill since arriving there late last month. "Spirit is perched as we speak right on the lip of Tennessee Valley - the very top of Tennessee Valley looking down into it from the summit," rover lead scientist Steve Squyres told The Planetary Society yesterday. In the midst of her studies of the summit and Tennessee Valley, the rover has been taking in the moons of Mars, producing an ever-growing picture collection of Phobos and Deimos.
On the other side of the planet, Opportunity is back on track after a sudden, unexpected shutdown toward the end of August, and no apparent worse for the wear -- even though the MER engineers don't know what happened. "It's an unresolved issue," said Joy Crisp, MER project scientist, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where the rovers were designed and built. "But," she added, "we haven't had any problems since then." In recent days, Opportunity has been tooling down the Erebus Highway and is now, at long last, closing in on Eerbus Crater.
Both rovers are in good health and power positive, with Spirit boasting 885 watt hours, and Opportunity 630. While it may seem that Opportunity is a bit sluggish, "it's plenty enough for us to do a lot," said Crisp in an interview yesterday. "This rover hasn't had a good cleaning event in a while, and it's looking a little dirtier."
As the winds have come and swept away layers of accumulated dust on the rovers' solar arrays, and the power levels have risen and dipped, the seasons have come and gone. And the once-daring hope that maybe the rovers could survive another year has almost turned into an assumption. The mission is now funded through September 2006. "The rovers could even go beyond that," mused Crisp. "We don't see anything [on the rovers] where we say - 'Here's the end of life.'" Even the Mössbauer spectrometer theoretically could keep going for another year, she noted. "With radioactive source life decaying, we would have to really pick our targets and spend a lot more time taking the measurements, but we should be able to get a reading." Still, as everyone in this business of space knows -- anything could happen anytime. For Squyres it's simple: "I never make promises."
Disclaimer stated, so far, for the rovers on Mars -- it's still all good.
Spirit from Gusev Crater
Spirit image taken atop Husband Hill in September 2005
Spirit took the images that went into this mosaic from the top of Husband Hill on Sol 603/Sept. 13. The picture shows undulating bands of dark and light sand, and sloping dunes. Scattered cobbles form an apron around a ridge of light-colored rock that stands in bold relief against distant plains. Spirit is looking north-northeast en route to examining more of the local geology of the Columbia Hills in Gusev Crater. The largest light-colored rock in the foreground is nicknamed Whittaker. The cliff beyond it and slightly to the left is called Tenzing. The highest rock on the ridge ahead has been dubbed Hillary. Science team members selected the nicknames in honor of the earliest climbers to scale Mount Everest on Earth.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/NMMNH
Since arriving at summit #1 during the final days of August, Spirit has been checking out targets around the highest of the two summits at Husband Hill, and of the surroundings beyond.
During the last several weeks, this robot field geologist has been taking a lot of pictures. Spirit completed the full 360-degree color panorama from the summit looking into Tennessee Valley early this month, and since then has conducted another stereo imaging campaign from a different vantage point.
Spirit has also been checking out a target called Irvine, as well as moving to other areas to look at interesting soil and drift targets with her microscopic imager. In addition to all that, the rover is taking a series of images that will be pulled together to produce a self-portrait.
On Sol 598/September 9, Spirit returned to Irvine. The science team decided the rover should further examine an area there dubbed Putative Dike, which may be a crack-like cut that often forms when magma from a volcano travels through or over another rock. So the rover checked it out and did some scuffs and turns and took a look at what she'd uncovered.
Spirit has also been "sprinkling in" some nighttime picture taking sessions of Martian moons, Crisp said, and is building quite a scrapbook of images of Phobos and Deimos. And throughout the month, the rover kept an eye on the dust accumulation among other things, and used her MI to take pictures of the capture and filter magnets (you can't see our little robot right now) and took readings with the APXS and Mössbauer on the capture magnet.
Around mid-month, Spirit slowed down a bit because she was put on restricted sols. These down days occur when the timing of the communications pass from the Odyssey orbiter is too late in the Earth day to gather vital location and health information about the rover after it executed recent commands; therefore, the team back on Earth must wait until the next day to make sure the rover is where she's supposed to be.
Nevertheless, by the end of Sol 605/Sept. 15, Spirit added a new accomplishment to her list of roving achievements by passing the 3-mile mark or 4,935 meters on her odometer.
Beyond her science research, Spirit successfully carried out some communication and engineering tests. In its orbit around the Sun, Mars comes in close to Earth for a few months once every two years, and this month Mars has been close enough that one-way communication travel time -- from the spacecraft at the planet to the Deep Space Network antennas on Earth -- is only about 5 minutes at lightspeed. This shorter communication travel time means that the rover team has plenty of communication-link margin to support a higher uplink rate, so early in the month, the telecom team changed the rover's uplink rate from 1000 bits per second to 2000 bits per second and Spirit was able to send small deluges of data.
Subsequently, Spirit performed two tests to validate the team's ability to send commands to the rover via the Mars Odyssey orbiter through the rover's ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio. Downlink through the Odyssey UHF relay has been the principal means for getting data from Spirit, but these tests were to experiment with communicating the other direction: sending commands to Spirit via Odyssey UHF relay. Indeed, it worked. The test was positive.
After her second investigation at Irvine, Spirit drove across the summit to the other side of the summit plateau and up to a target the team has dubbed Cliffhanger, "a beautiful drift," Squyres described. The science team will be looking closely at the images Spirit has returned from Cliffhanger, down to the grains they can see in the MI pictures, to try and better understand how the wind moves stuff around on this alien planet.
"Cliffhanger is really right at the lip of the summit plateau," Squyres said. "If you went just over Cliffhanger - 'Boom, you're down at Tennessee Valley,'" he continued. "So it was a well-chosen name. We've just finished doing a scuff of Cliffhanger with the wheels and then doing lots of IDD [instrument deployment device] measurements."
All in all, it's been a good month for Spirit, a month of basking in the glory of her ascension to the top of Husband Hill. From her current perch overlooking Tennessee Valley, the rover is collecting "long baseline stereo imaging," said Squyres, "taking images from several different positions to really try and nail the geometry of the interior of the valley. We're making a really good topographic map, so we will know where all the outcrops are with good geometry."
The plan now calls for Spirit to spend a little more time at the summit. "We'll hang around here for awhile longer, because there are a lot of interesting things up here," Crisp said. "We're expecting we might want to do some more robotic arm work, but it depends on what other targets we see up here."
In coming days, the rover is probably going to head toward the true summit, "which is a little outcrop that is actual highest point on the entire summit plateau," Squyres said. "Not to bag the summit, but because there are some good rock outcrops over there," he elaborated. "After that, we're going to head south." Where and how exactly have yet to be determined.
Down here on Earth, the MER team members will get together today for a planning meeting "to look at the slope maps and determine the interesting science things the team wants to hit," said Crisp. As always, "it's a matter of where it is okay to drive, what looks interesting, and what's a sensible path to take to hit things along the way."
Opportunity from Meridiani Planum
Opportunity cruising on the Erebus Highway
Opportunity is currently traveling southward over a pavement of outcrop dubbed the Erebus Highway. The rover's next target, Erebus Crater, lies less than 328 feet/100 meters south of its current position. This view is a mosaic produced from frames the rover took with her navigation camera On Sol 582/Sept. 13. It shows fractured blocks of ancient sedimentary rock separated by recent sand dunes.Credit: Image: NASA/JPL
Opportunity's recovery from the unexpected 'power-off' event on her Sol 563/August 24, appears complete, although the MER engineers still have no idea what caused the rover to suddenly just shut down.
"We proceeded very carefully, because we weren't sure what happened," explained Crisp. "We came back slowly. One day at a time we added functionality back, and each command we gave the rover executed beautifully."
By sol 570/Aug. 31, the rover had successfully performed observations with the panoramic camera (PanCam), navigation camera, and miniature thermal emission spectrometer (mini-TES) and had completed a short APXS integration, with the robotic arm stowed, and a 21-foot/6.5-meter blind drive.
The team took additional precautions with each sol's plan, including shutting down after the morning uplink, to save the high-gain antenna position, thus preventing an X-band fault in case of another anomaly, and waiting 15 minutes after wakeup to start any science activities. The rover responded as expected in all case. "Opportunity is okay," reported Crisp.
Once she was back in the saddle, Opportunity continued her journey east to the Erebus Highway. It was slow going at first because the rover team commanded the operations with post-anomaly restrictions in place, and because the rover has also been in restricted sol mode. And along the way, the rover, as has always been the plan, has stopped to take pictures with the PanCam and navigation camera, as well as remote sending with her mini-TES.
The week of September 11, Opportunity resumed normal operations, and began making significant progress toward Erebus Crater. In fact, that next sol, Monday, Sept. 12, the rovercompleted a 98-foot /30-meter drive that put her on the Erebus Highway' an outcrop-rich area that extends south toward the crater and provides the rover with a better surface to traverse. The rover's been heading south since then. "We are proceeding south toward Erebus Crater, and we've gotten to the point where we can see good outcrops exposed on both the western and southeastern rims of Erebus Crater," Squyres confirmed yesterday. The team has christened the patch of rocks on the southeast side of the crater, Vermillion Cliffs, and those on the southwest side they callthe Mogollon Rim.
Currently, "the rover is on the highway and just about at the rim," Squyres said. But Opportunity is going to stop and check out "a really beautiful exposure of bedrock that we named South Shetland," he said. "It's not quite on the actual lip of the crater, but it's very close. Most likely, we'll spend this weekend at South Shetland."
In coming days, Opportunity will continue her investigation of Erebus Crater.
"The inside looks like it's filled with sand-ripple dune things," Crisp noted. Just the kind of things that make the hair on the rover engineers' arms stand on end.
For now, the science team is waiting to get "closer images" to decide, Crisp added, "if we're going to go left around Erebus or right around Erebus, and that depends on what we see in terms of rock and what's drivable."
Down at mission control, the Sol 563 anomaly is still under investigation. But for Opportunity up on Mars, all's well that ends well.
Read more: Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars missions, Mission status, Space missions
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Vikes once again meet UBC with prestigious Brown Cup titles on the line
University of Victoria Vikes men's and women's rowing at Brown Cup Regatta (Fraser River, Vancouver B.C.)
For the first time since 2015 the University of Victoria Vikes men's and women's rowing teams will be out on the Fraser River to battle for the Brown Cup this coming weekend when they meet the UBC Thunderbirds in a quartet of head-to-head eight boat races scheduled for Saturday, April 7.
While the past two editions of the Brown Cup have taken place on the Vikes home waters of the Gorge Waterway, the crews from UVic will have to travel to enemy territory this weekend where they will compete on a course that runs along the Fraser River.
Modelled after the world-famous Cambridge vs. Oxford contest, so famous it is simply known as The Boat Race, the Brown Cup will see the Vikes and T-Birds break free of the usual lane racing of regular regattas and instead battle it out crew against crew along the twisting Fraser River.
"The Fraser is probably a little more fair than the Gorge but one boat will always have the advantage on an inside corner," said Vikes head coach Rick Crawley. "The main corner is slighter than the Gorge corner but our crew is strong enough to overcome that disadvantage if they are on the outside."
While UBC will definitely hold the home course advantage, both the men's and women's crews spent a weekend on the Fraser in the middle of February to gain familiarity with the waterway.
"We did Trial 8s to give our guys a sense of space and time," said Vikes head coach Aalbert Van Schothorst. "Trial 8s are absolutely key for preparing for success, but we will be putting the last pieces of our race-plan into place when we get there. Our practice Friday will solidify some of those key components."
The packed day of racing will begin with the women's reserves hitting the water at 10:15 a.m., followed by the men's reserves just ten minutes later.
The varsity women's race will then get underway at 10:45 a.m. with the varsity men's race capping off the day at 10:55 a.m.
Both of the marquee races, the men's and women's varsity contests, promise to once again go right down to the wire.
On the women's side, the Vikes have undoubtedly held an advantage over UBC throughout the season.
The varsity eight boat pulled off the sweep in the fall season, earning gold medals at both the Western Canadian University Rowing Championships as well as the Canadian University Rowing Championships. Not content to rest on their laurels, the team went to work over the winter and emerged back onto the water in grand style, capturing gold at the Elk Lake Spring Regatta in a time that was clocked as the fastest any women's eight boat has rowed on the lake that also serves as the Canadian National Team's practice grounds.
In a rivalry as steeped in tradition as this one is however, Crawley knows that his team can't get caught focusing on their past results.
"We are not taking anything for granted. UBC didn't go to the San Diego Crew Classic two weeks ago so they have been preparing specifically for the Brown Cup on their home course. I told my crew that you can expect UBC to challenge hard at the beginning of the race and that they just have to be relentless and push.
"Going in, we know we are fast but it's a different race on a different course and we don't know how UBC has developed."
On the flip side of that equation is the Vikes varsity men's boat, who will be hoping to overcome a talented UBC crew that bested them at both the WCURC's as well as the CURC's.
"That varsity eight is extremely solid, UBC has some great athletes in there and they did a really good job last fall," said Van Schothorst. "It will be two phenomenal crews going toe-to-toe and it is great to have this level of competition right next door."
A lot of hard work has been put in by the crew over the winter and Van Schothorst is pleased with the progress that the crew has made heading into the weekend.
"We are developing a level of maturity and familiarity throughout the year that you want to see. We are seeing new speed in our boat every day, and it's sustainable speed, so it's nice to see that progression happening as we get close to race day."
With this being the last regatta of the spring season for the Vikes, the Brown Cup will take on an added level of importance for a number of reasons.
For 35 years Crawley has been at the helm of the Vikes women's rowing program and this Brown Cup will mark his final regatta in charge of a team that he has dedicated his professional life too. In his time with the Vikes, 29 of Crawley's athletes have gone on to compete at Olympic Games and his program has captured 12 of a possible 21 Canadian University Rowing titles.
The race will also be the final one for seven graduating athletes who have all contributed immensely to the Vikes program.
Graduating from the women's team will be: Olivia King, Kirsten McKay and coxswain Cassidy Fernandes. King and Fernandes will be both be in the women's varsity boat, while McKay will row with the reserves.
On the men's side four captains will graduate from the program after the Brown Cup: Mark Davies, Adam Donaldson, Samuel Garber and Nickolas Lee.
"Losing that level of experience, leadership, what they've committed to the program and how the program has been built around them is pretty big," said Van Schothorst.
For Donaldson it will also be the final time that he and his brother Isaac suit up in the Vikes blue and gold with both brothers poised to play pivotal roles in the varsity crew.
Coach's Take
Rick Crawley, Vikes head coach
"I'm pretty sure UBC is going to work on going really hard at the beginning because that's where we have got them this year.
"We went over for Trial 8s so that the coxswains would become familiar with the course. We switched our boats from side to side to let them learn the currents and the fact that there might be a log in the middle of the river."
"We've always dedicated our Brown Cup to graduating athletes which will be Olivia King, Cassidy Fernandes and Kirsten McKay."
Aalbert Van Schothorst, Vikes head coach
"There's a perceived advantage on the Fraser River but if you're the better crew than it doesn't matter what side you get. We work hard to not need to worry about that."
"We are going to miss Taylor Perry and Patrick Keane in the crews. They are going through World Cup selection with the national team and that is going to have an impact, but we are confident in the crews that we have put together and are excited to see how they go."
All-Time Brown Cup Titles
UVic: 19
UBC: 7
Women's Varsity
Men's Reserves
UVic: 4
Women's Reserves
Vikes Boats
B: McKenna Simpson
2: Piper Battersby
3: Maxine Chapman
4: Emma Gray
5: Avalon Wasteneys
6: Larissa McKinlay
7: Olivia King
S: Caileigh Filmer
C: Cassidy Fernandes
B: Mathew Szymanowski
2: Lucien Brodeur
3: Tyler Adams
4: Adam Donaldson
5: Alec Stapff
6: Isaac Donaldson
7: Travis Gronsdahl
S: Daan Arscott
C: Skylar Presch
B: Reba Kingston
2: Makaela Smithers
3: Kirsten McKay
4: Judy Beestermoeller
5: Eliza-Jane Kitchen
6: Kirsten Edwards
7: Alex Hale
S: Layla Balooch
C: Hannah Kennedy
B: Chris Gulka
2: Sebastian Gulka
3: Idjen Cabral
4: Samuel Garber
5: Mark Davies
6: Christopher Clarke
7: Ellis Hollands
S: Alexander Sawers
C: Bailey Kulman
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Hyaluronic acid synthesis and secretion by rat liver fat storing cells (perisinusoidal lipocytes) in culture.
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Phillipps-University, Marburg, FRG.
The ability of rat liver fat storing cells to synthesize and to secrete hyaluronic acid was examined in monolayer cultures. The cells produce [3H] glucosamine-labeled hyaluronic acid, of which about 80% are secreted into the medium. The synthesis rate per cell (mg DNA) of labeled total glycosaminoglycans and hyaluronic acid in the medium increases significantly with culture time, but hyaluronic acid expressed as fraction of total glycosaminoglycans declines from about 0.70 in early cultures (up to the 4th day) down to 0.20 in advanced cultures. Cycloheximide increases and beta-D-xylopyranoside decreases significantly the fraction of hyaluronic acid in the medium, colchicine up to 5 microM was without effect. The synthesis of hyaluronic acid is a newly recognized function of this special type of sinusoidal liver cells. The results suggest that fat storing cells are likely to be a major source of hyaluronic acid in normal and probably also in injured liver.


Budgeting season is here. If you're curious how your peers will spend their marketing budgets in 2015, this infographic provides some insight.
It may only be October, but there are already Thanksgiving commercials on TV (thanks, Pier 1) and Christmas decorations in stores.
You know what that means. It's budgeting season.
To help you determine your priorities and strategies for next year, Ciceron created this infographic, which reveals how chief marketing officers (CMOs) plan to spend their time and money.
CMOs will increase their digital marketing budgets by 10.8 percent in 2015, and decrease their traditional marketing budgets by 3.6 percent.
CMOs will increase the amount they spend on marketing consultants by 4 percent next year.
CMOs predict social media will represent 21.4 percent of budgets in the next five years.
The infographic also says almost 100 percent (95 percent) of CMOs believe content marketing was important to their business in 2014, and that trend doesn't seem to be slowing down.


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Aberdeen Event: Find Out About Scotland's Citizens Assembly
By theorkneynews on December 4, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )
An event is to take place in Aberdeen on Thursday December 5th to raise awareness with the public about Scotland's Citizens Assembly. It is a subject we have been covering regularly in The Orkney News.Scotland's Citizens Assembly Holds its Latest Session
The aim of the Citizen's Assembly is 'to provide an opportunity to democratically work through the complex issues facing Scotland in a way that fosters consensus and understanding rather than division in society'.
Set up in 2019 the Assembly brings 100 ordinary people together to tackle three key questions:
what kind of country are we seeking to build
how can we best overcome the challenges we face, including those arising from Brexit
what further work should be carried out to give people the detail they need to make informed choices about the future of the country?
The Aberdeen event will look at the progress of the Citizens' Assembly from an independent perspective and attendees can hear updates from via the co-convenor David Martin.
It will be held in the auditorium of the King's College Conference Centre at the University of Aberdeen on Thursday December 5 and will be chaired by the University's Senior Governor Esther Roberton.
The experiences of Ireland's Citizen's Assembly and the constitutional changes which followed will also be discussed by the panel which includes Michela Palese from the Electoral Reform Society and Dr Clodagh Harris, Head of the Department of Government & Politics, University College Cork.
Esther Roberton said:
"At a time of increased political polarisation where people feel increasingly disconnected from politics and decision-making Citizens' Assemblies create a space for ordinary people to engage in the issue that affect them. They are a truly deliberative space where people can work through differences and find consensus.
"With the Citizens' Assembly for Scotland currently deliberating the future of our nation there has never been a more important time to discuss these methods and explore how more of our politics can be conducted in a more participatory way."
Citizens Assembly Co Conveners Kate Wimpress and David Martin
Willie Sullivan, Director of the Electoral Reform Society Scotland, said:
"For this Assembly to work it has to address communities across Scotland. We're creating an independent national conversation around it and it's essential that all us of join in. Citizens must shape Scotland's future, so it's time to open up this Citizens' Assembly to a vibrant debate.
"As in Ireland, this Assembly has the potential to take politics beyond the dusty corridors of power and into our communities. We want people and communities across Scotland to recognise that this Assembly is by and for them, to set out a path for the next stage in history.
"This general election, it's crucial to recognise politics goes beyond voting once every five years. Let's get this process right, engage with it and build a deeper democracy together."
Event Details: Title: "What is Scotland's Citizens' Assembly?"
Venue: 3BB Kings Auditorium, KCCC, 69 University Road, Aberdeen. AB24 3DR
Times: 5 December 2019, 6-8pm
For tickets to the free event click on this link: What is Scotland' Citizens Assembly?
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Tagged as: Aberdeen, Citizens Assembly, democracy
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Computing technology has been a backbone of our society. Its importance is hard to overemphasize. Today, we again confirm its extreme importance with recent advances in artificial intelligence and deep learning. Those emerging workloads impose an unprecedented amount of arithmetic complexity and data access beyond our existing computing systems can barely handle. Particularly, mobile and embedded computing systems will face a major challenge in achieving energy-efficient computing for truly enabling intelligent systems. In this seminar, we will outline the bottlenecks of energy-efficient computing, including the broken Dennard scaling and the memory wall problem. We will then discuss several approaches that our group has been working on, including hybrid analog-digital computing, in-memory computing, active leakage suppression in deeply scaled voltage circuits, and compact integrated power delivery circuits. We will introduce several test-chip prototypes and their measurement results.