If mobile 360°, virtual and augmented reality are the future, then Silicon Valley-based Advrtas, part of Outlyer Technologies, is making sure it's there to ride the tide in.
In fact, it was among the global startups featured at June's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Hosted for 64 years by the southern French city best known for its yearly film festival, the annual innovation event attracts not only Hollywood royalty, but also the best and the brightest in business and global finance.
Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund and Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg were both speakers this year, as were Dame Helen Mirren and Director Ron Howard.
Advrtas is self-described as "an end-to-end emerging technology ad solution," and the company's first foray in the travel industry has been a campaign for Business Events Denmark. Here, HOTEL MANAGEMENT talks to SVP Marketing & Strategic Development Laura Barton about how the hotel industry can leverage this new technology.
1. How does this platform create cost-efficiencies for a hotel client?
The Advrtas platform eliminates the need to invest directly in VR technology. There seems to be a misperception that building content for 360 degree and mobile VR advertising and marketing is cost prohibitive but this is not the case.
Another misconception is 360° ad experiences have to be video. 360° images can be used as well and are sometimes better. Our platform also enables brands to use existing 2D assets to create engaging 360° ads, eliminating any cost barrier to entry.
The same content used to create an immersive 360° ad can also be used for corporate sales, convention planning sales and for wedding and event planning. For example, instead of traveling to trade shows or clients, sales reps can easily share a link to a 360° experience(s) of their property.
Our technology also comes with one-touch VR mode, where the experience can be viewed in VR via a Google Cardboard or similar headset. So sales reps also have a new marketing and sales tool in their hands. They can easily and cost-effectively have company branded cardboard headsets made so prospects can view the property in VR for the cost of cardboard.
Hotels can also feature the same 360° ad content on their website as a marketing module or widget, engaging consumers with an immersive 360° ad then driving them to a more robust experience on their website.
2. How can these ads improve engagement rates on a hotel's website and how can working with a premium private marketplace help drive direct bookings for a hotel?
These ads are sticky. We've been running several campaigns for the travel vertical with big players and they're experiencing engagement rates on mobile and desktop that are significantly higher than traditional rich media ads, seeing numbers like 85-percent engagement, view time averages up to two minutes and click-through rates of 2.98 percent and higher.
As far as a premium private marketplace, hotels get the ability to be part of their own marketing strategies in that they are able to participate in where their ads are being shown. They can do advanced geo-targeting and retargeting as well.
3. Beyond VR tours of a hotel, does this format lend itself to other dynamic and creative ways to showcase a hotel?
We like to think that there are no limits to 360 VR ad formats and marketing modules can lend themselves to other dynamic ways to showcase a hotel.
4. The hotel industry has gained a reputation as being antiquated when it comes to technology and many hotels still don't prioritize mobile. So how do you plan to overcome this challenge to your business?
Mobile is the future, but we can help hotels engage their consumers today, with better levels of engagement, view times, interaction rates, and click-throughs on any device. So while properties or hotel brands that are late to the mobile game pull their mobile strategies together, they can still leverage today's technology today via desktop and anticipate better results than the traditional ads they have running.
Ultimately, it's about elevating and strengthening the consumer-brand relationship to new heights and reaching people where they are.


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Europe accelerates efforts in the race to dominate EV batteries
Laura Millan Lombrana, Chris Reiter and Richard Weiss
China's CATL is building Europe's biggest EV battery plant outside the German town of Arnstadt.
MADRID/BERLIN -- Outside the German town of Arnstadt, workers for China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) are building Europe's biggest electric-car battery plant.
The site, which covers an area equivalent to about 100 soccer fields, previously housed one of the continent's largest solar-panel factories.
During a visit in October, wooden crates filled with surplus equipment were stacked up outside the metal-clad structure to make way for car-battery-making equipment. Bulldozers swarmed a nearby lot to prep for construction of a new building.
The $2 billion project is one of about a half dozen battery factories under construction in Germany alone. It worries European policymakers, who are desperate to ensure their auto industry does not lose competitiveness in the transition to electric vehicles.
EV sales in Europe are expected to jump to 7.7 million in 2030 from just under half a million in 2019, according to forecasts from Bloomberg. Those vehicles will mainly be powered by batteries from Asian manufacturers such as CATL, unless European companies fight back and build a local supply chain.
EVs and clean transportation are at the heart of the European Union's Green Deal, a more than 1 trillion euro ($1.1 trillion) European Commission policy initiative aimed at making the EU carbon neutral by 2050. The plan includes replacing large power plants with smaller, more local, renewable energy sources while eliminating combustion engines in buses, cars and trucks.
After betting on diesel for too long, European politicians and the heads of Volkswagen Group, Daimler, and BMW are vowing to build a greener supply chain for all of those vehicles.
"If we let China own the battery, then we lose out on the centerpiece of electric cars," says German Deputy Economy Minister Thomas Bareiss. "I'm not sure that's the best approach for our auto industry."
Europe has only a patchwork of small battery players. The biggest chunk of the value of a European-made electric car belongs to Asia -- China, Korea and Japan account for more than 80 percent of the world's EV battery production, and companies such as CATL, LG Chem, and Samsung SDI control Europe's biggest battery factories.
To change that, the European Commission set up the Battery Alliance initiative. In December it approved 3.2 billion euros in aid for projects approved or currently under way at 17 companies, including BASF, BMW, and Fortum. The measure is meant to encourage greater investment in factories by these and other European companies.
German production
National governments are also committing large sums to battery efforts, especially in Germany. In early February its economy minister, Peter Altmaier, announced a 5 billion euro project for battery cells in Germany and France.
Altmaier has been a leading proponent of developing a local battery sector. The goal, as he sees it, is to build "the best and most sustainable batteries in Germany and Europe." There is no other option, he has said, if its automakers are to succeed.
European players, including Belgian materials technology company Umicore and BASF, make battery materials from catalysts to cathodes. But there is little mining of key ingredients such as lithium, and no capacity to turn those resources into high-quality vehicle batteries.
A desire to bring lithium and other materials closer to the production line is partly driving the efforts. "Lithium hydroxide doesn't travel well," say Andreas Scherer of AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group. "It doesn't like to sit in a bag in the belly of a ship for six weeks -- that's bad for quality."
Stringent environmental rules and community opposition to more mines could slow the momentum. Landowners and environmental groups fear the resulting emissions and pollution. Finland's Keliber in November postponed its planned initial public offering and the construction of a lithium mine on appeals against its environmental permit.
Some countries are pushing ahead. Support from the European Commission to mine battery metals -- and the potential riches -- motivated Dietrich Wanke to trade a career in Australian mining for the green hills of the Lavant valley in Wolfsberg, Austria.
Wanke is the CEO of European Lithium, a startup mining company that aims to become a supplier of raw material for batteries. It operates from an abandoned test tunnel in Austria, where government geologists looking for uranium in the 1980s found lithium instead.
"We won't be able to produce the absolute cheapest material. It is clearly a commodity mined in Europe, according to European laws and environmental standards," Wanke says. "It must be seen as a unique product, contributing to the reduction in CO2 emissions in Europe."
The Wolfsberg project is traditional hard-rock mining, with the ensuing environmental consequences.
Another startup, or junior, miner, Vulcan Energy Resources, claims it will produce the material with no CO2 emissions by adding lithium-extraction facilities to existing geothermal power plants feeding on underground reservoirs in southern Germany. The method is similar to what Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is researching in California's Salton Sea.
"By 2028, forecasters see Europe alone needing more lithium than is being produced in the entire world today," says Vulcan Energy's managing director, Francis Wedin.
Still, the efforts now could be too little, too late. "European manufacturers have dragged their feet," says Jose Lazuen, senior automotive practice analyst at Roskill. "Asian producers started taking positions in Europe two or three years ago, because they knew Europeans would need batteries."
While others are talking, the Chinese are busy building out capacity in Arnstadt for what is shaping up to be another clean energy fight. The battleground is a former solar panel factory where two previous German owners failed to compete against low-price competition from China.
As Germany's deputy economy minister, Bareiss, says, "It's about staying in the game and playing a role in a critical technology."
Geely, Foxconn aim to build cars for other automakers
Fiat Chrysler will source wire harnesses from new Japanese factories in Morocco
Blast kills one at factory run by unit of CATL

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Q: SQL Counting up rows resulting from a sub query SELECT Count the rows that are in this query --> (SELECT Family FROM BIRD GROUP BY Family)
FROM BIRD
Every time I just try and count that sub query I get an error saying that there is more than one resulting value.
I'm not sure how to count up the rows resulting from a sub query, any ideas?

A: You could put this sub-query in the from clause:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM   (SELECT   family
        FROM     bird
        GROUP BY family) t

But if you're just trying to get the number of different bird families you don't really need a subquery:
SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT family)
FROM   bird

A: Try this:
SELECT Count(*) as FamilyCount
FROM (SELECT Family FROM BIRD
      GROUP BY Family) Families

Count() returns the number of items in a group. Read more here.

A: try this for getting count, there is no need to sub-query for counting
select count( distinct family) from bird;

A: Assuming you just want a count of the rows, let's have a go at this:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT Family FROM BIRD GROUP BY Family)

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Q: passport facebook- Case when User is logged out from facebook I am using passport-facebook to handle facebook login for my website. Here is the relevant code:
Less Important:
passport.use(new FacebookStrategy({

            // pull in our app id and secret from our auth.js file
            clientID: configAuth.facebookAuth.clientID,
            clientSecret: configAuth.facebookAuth.clientSecret,
            callbackURL: configAuth.facebookAuth.callbackURL

        },

        // facebook will send back the token and profile
        function (token, refreshToken, profile, done) {

            // asynchronous
            process.nextTick(function () {
            //check for the user in db
            ...
            if(user found..){
               return done(null, user); // user found, return that user
            }
            else{
                        // if there is no user found with that email id, create them
                        var newUser = {};
                        ............
                        return done(null, newUser);
             }

Serialise Deserialise:
// used to serialize the user for the session
    passport.serializeUser(function (user, done) {
        console.log('serializing user.');
        done(null, user.id);
    });

    // used to deserialize the user
    passport.deserializeUser(function (id, done) {
        getDBHandle(function (db) {
            db.collection('users').findOne({'id':id}, function (err, user) {
                console.log('deserialize user.',id,user);
                done(err, user);
            });
        });
    });

Caller:
// route for facebook authentication and login
app.get('/auth/facebook', passport.authenticate('facebook', { scope : 'email' }));

// handle the callback after facebook has authenticated the user
app.get('/auth/facebook/callback',
    passport.authenticate('facebook', {
        successRedirect : '/profile',
        failureRedirect : '/'
    }));

Imporant:
Once the user is logged in, then the loggedin user info is saved in req.user as per passport.
 app.get('/isAuthenticated',function(req,res){
       ...
       res.send(req.user);
    });

Now lets say, user logs out from her facebook account, how would passport knows that logout event has occured.
Essentially, if a user logs out from fb, then even our app should consider the user to be not logged in.
I tried calling isAuthenticated after I logout my fb, passport still returns same user information.
How should I handle this situation?
Do I need to call /auth/facebook everytime to check whether user is authenticated,  instead of depending upon req.user?


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 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
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-->

<!-- app-client-ant.xml: contains targets for projects that produce
     application client module. This file is not meant to be included
     in a project directly.
     This file should only be included if this project is defining
     is.app-client.module property.
     @Author Inderjeet Singh  -->

<project name="app-client-ant" default="dummy-default">

  <property name="app.module" value="${build.dir}/${module.name}.jar"/>
  <property name="app-client.build.dir" value="${build.dir}/app-client"/>

  <dirname property="antfile.dir" file="${ant.file}"/>
  <available property="client.jar.in.acc.dir" file="${client.jar.dir}" type="dir"/>

  <condition property="app.client.jar" value="${antfile.dir}/${client.jar.dir}/${ac.jar}">
    <isset property="client.jar.in.acc.dir"/>
  </condition>

  <condition property="app.client.jar" value="${antfile.dir}/../${client.jar.dir}/${ac.jar}">
    <not>
        <isset property="client.jar.in.acc.dir"/>
    </not>
  </condition>

  <target name="run-app-client"
    description="run Application client">
    <antcall target="bpp-run-app-client">
        <param name="app-client.jar"
        value="${app.client.jar}" />
    </antcall>
  </target>

  <target name="-pre-clean">
  </target>

  <target name="package" depends="-post-compile"
    description="packages the archive appropriate to the given module">
    <mkdir dir="${app-client.build.dir}"/>
    <!-- copy in the compiled classes -->
    <copy todir="${app-client.build.dir}">
      <fileset dir="${build.classes.dir}"/>
    </copy>
    <delete file="${app.module}"/>
    <jar jarfile="${app.module}" basedir="${app-client.build.dir}" manifest="${src.conf}/MANIFEST.MF"/>
    <delete dir="${app-client.build.dir}"/>
  </target>

  <target name="dummy-default"/>

</project>

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St Andrew's rector Christine Leighton and general manager David Evan in front of the Centennial Chapel, which has been named as a finalist in the New Zealand Architecture Awards.
The chapel is one of the 48 short-listed buildings for this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards, placing in the public architecture category.
was an honour to have the chapel recognised on a national scale.
The new chapel opened in October 2016 after the old one was demolished due to earthquake damage.
said the school was "grateful" to have such a special gathering place.
And he said the finalist nomination was all the more special as the chapel was a post-quake building.
The winners of each category of the New Zealand Architecture Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Wellington on November 9.


Proposed standard falls one vote short of approval, preventing charge limit for A3 refrigerants from rising to 500 g from 150 g in commercial refrigeration.
In a vote concluded last Friday (April 12), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) rejected a proposal to increase the charge limit for flammable refrigerants to 500 g from 150 g in self-contained commercial refrigeration cabinets.
The vote ended a five-year process that many expected would result in a higher charge limit for flammable refrigerantslike propane under IEC's 60335-2-89 standard. The effort to raise the limit could be revisited, though it's fate is unclear at present.
The IEC vote – known as the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) phase – fell just one vote short of being approved. Out of 35 total votes cast by National Committees, nine (25.7%) voted against; for the proposal to be enacted, the opposing votes could not exceed 25%. The full results of he voting, including votes cast by each country, can be found here.
"The main outcome of a negative vote will be in itself another barrier for the deployment of climate-friendly alternatives to refrigerant gases," said ECOS (European Environmental Citizens' Organisation for Standardization) in a position paper co-signed by several NGOs, including NASRC, and companies (including shecco, publisher of this website) on March 4, 2019.
Participating members are obliged to vote at all stages and to contribute to standard development, while observer members follow the work, receive committee documents and have the right to submit comments. They also attend meetings and can vote.
Seven participating countries (Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, Turkey and the U.S.) voted against the charge increase as well as two observer countries (Serbia and Hungary). Ten countries abstained and six observer countries did not participate in the vote.
An amendment to the 60335-2-89 standard with a higher charge for flammable refrigerantshas been in development since 2014, when SC 61C created a Working Group (WG4) to address raising the charge limit. In July of 2018, the National Committees voted 75% in the affirmative (surpassing the two-thirds minimum) to increase the charge limit in an interim procedure called the committee draft for vote (CDV).
Zgliczynski declined to cite any particular group that lobbied against the charge increase, saying that each National Committee has "its own opinions and ideas." He did note that the safety of flammable refrigerants was a concern in the U.S. and Japan, though risk assessments showed that the requirements for the higher charge made it safer than the current 150-g charge limit.
The charge-limit increase to 500 g from 150 g would have applied to hydrocarbons like propane and isobutane. It would likely have widened the use of hydrocarbons as natural refrigerants worldwide by allowing a single circuit to be employed in larger cabinets, rather than multiple circuitsusing no more than 150 g of refrigerant.
However, even with the 150-g limit, hydrocarbon cabinets have proliferated around the world, and are becoming a growing presence in food stores and restaurants. "With 150 grams you can make a system up to 1.5 kW [0.4TR] in a medium-temperature unit," noted Zgliczynski. Using multiple compressors that can be used as needed in a larger cabinet is "not a bad solution," he added.
Had the higher charge limit been approved, it would have served as a model for individual countries to enact their own standards. "I don't expect any country to make its own local standard to address this problem," said Zgliczynski.
The standard, had it passed, would have also raised the charge limit for A2L (mildly flammable) refrigerants from 150 g to 1.2 kg. Only very small systems can operate with150 g of A2Ls, said Zgliczynski.
Last week's vote does not necessarily herald the end of the road for a higher charge limit for hydrocarbons.
Zgliczynski outlined three options that could be adopted by the SC 61C committee. One is that the Working Group will continue the standards-making process, first by addressing the comments made in the recent vote.
A second option is that the higher charge limit could be published as a "technical specification" rather than as a standard. "For me, this is not solving the problem," Zgliczynski said. And finally, the attempt to raise the charge could be cancelled, though even then it could be revived at a later point.
Zgliczynski hopes to get the charge issue on the agenda at the next plenary meeting of the SC 61C, which will take place May 28-29 in Vienna. The meeting was originally scheduled to address safety improvements in household fridges, including better back-panel materials and upgraded capacitors.
We are very disappointed by the news, especially to lose by such a small margin."
The IEC is proposing to increase the charge limit to 500g for A3 refrigerants.


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FYI: This is What the International Space Station Looks Like
by The Space Cadets | posted in: External Images, The Space Cadets | 0
We hear about it from time to time, but what do we really know about the International Space Station? For those to whom it is still just a name, behold…
This is what it looks like…
This is how big it is…
These are the pieces it is made of…
This is what is meant by international…
And this is how awesome it is to be around..
Questions? NASA and Wikipedia would love to tell you more.
Now Playing: Great Galactic Ghoul and the Human Errors
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Of humanity's 40 attempts to explore Mars to date, the success rate has been a disappointing 50%, which has prompted some to wonder if there is a space monster out there with a taste for probes.
Decide for yourself with the Mars Exploration Family Portrait below and learn more about our track record, including the time the Mars Climate Orbiter (#31) made it all the way to Mars only to burn up in its atmosphere due to a mix-up between imperial and metric units.
[Chart by Astrosaurus]
Enterprise to Build the Enterprise
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In the movie Star Trek: First Contact, a character asks Captain Picard how much it cost to build the Enterprise, and he replies, "The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century. The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves, and the rest of humanity." What do you think about that? – From Wired interview with Paul Krugman
What's the goal of BuildTheEnterprise.org?
Exactly what you might hope…
From the BTE site:
We have the technological reach to build the first generation of the spaceship known as the USS Enterprise – so let's do it.
Now that's the spirit. And based on early projections, it's only going to cost about a trillion dollars, which at $50 billion a year is pretty much peanuts, particularly considering the scale of the project.
But this is not the first time someone has made such a chart.
Back in 1992, developers were pushing to build a smaller version of the USS Enterprise as a tourist attraction in downtown Las Vegas, but the plan fell through when the studio got cold feet.
This time, however, the studio isn't involved and the idea is to build it in space, not Nevada, for the purpose of boldly and literally going where no person has gone before.
This first generation Enterprise can have 1g artificial gravity and ample living space. It can be as comfortable to live in as being on earth. A thousand people can be on board at once – either as crew members or as adventurous visitors. While the ship will not travel at warp speed, it can travel at a constant acceleration such that the ship can easily get to key points of interest in our solar system.
What's the plan?
9 years for research, 11 years for development and then Mars is ours in 90 days. What do you think about that indeed.
While Krugman was not optimistic about the immediately-distant future, why wait three centuries to do something we could technically achieve in our lifetime? We can create jobs and free up some parking spots all in one go.
What else do you need to know? How can you help? You'll find it all at BuildTheEnterprise.org.
[Thanks, Pete!, Vegas images from the Goddard Group via BoingBoing]
The Tomorrow-Today-Yesterday World
Long exposure shot from the International Space Station…
From NASA astronaut Don Pettit's ISS Star Trails photo set
[via PetaPixel]
The Evolution of the Moon (or Don't Look Now, But I Think We're Being Followed)
by The Space Cadets | posted in: The Space Cadets, Video | 0
Thanks to light pollution, we can't see much when we look up. … Might as well know more about what we can.
Also available with narration and a tour.
[NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center via Laughing Squid]
Living Outside of the Box
io9 put it best when they said, "Drop whatever you're doing and watch this."
That's not a movie, it's reality. In this case, the reality of a Solid Rocket Booster launching the Space Shuttle. But what about our reality? Why are the Solid Rocket Boosters having all the fun? Ask your representative that. Or even better, yourself.
Reality: It's far more interesting than anyone is letting on.
We Don't Know What the Rest of the Elephant Looks Like
What makes up 95% of the universe and can't be seen? … Good question.
["Dark Matters" – PhD Comics via BoingBoing]
Search for Restuarants: within 380 Million Light Years
Turns out you really haven't been anywhere. Below is an infrared view of your local universe of galaxies and dark matter out to 380 million light years. … Yeah, that isn't even everything. The observable universe was thought to go 14 billion light years out (equaling the age of the universe), is now considered to go 46 billion (age + 32 billion light years of universal expansion) and one estimate of what we can't see puts the universe's total diameter at 150 billion…
Now consider how much you are paying for your apartment. Square feet? Let's get off this rock!
[Image from Center for Astrophysics via New Scientist via Hacker News]
November Traffic Alert
If you're planning a trip in your spaceship in early November, keep your eye out for Asteroid 2005 YU55:
Oh, you don't have a spaceship… Never mind.
[NASA via BoingBoing]


Welcome to the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Health Services web page. This page contains health information that applies to all schools in Long Prairie-Grey Eagle school district.
School Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. School nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.
The mission of Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Health Services is to promote optimal health for optimal learning.
Services: Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary School, Elementary School, and St. Mary's School.
Services- Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Elementary School.


Life has become nothing but a futile exercise of wealth gathering. The activity has percolated to such an extent that the only thing we do in our life is to gather wealth.
If you observe a dove it does not eat when it is hungry it just keeps eating always, whether it is hungry or not. The moment it finds a piece of bread it devours it like a beast.
Man has also become like that. The only thought that runs through his mind is how to gather more weatlh? How to prevent wealth loss? What should I store and save for future?
By this he wastes most of his presentense and also dies without enjoying the vast wealth he gathered to enjoy.
There are people who buy things more than they can use. Take any middle class family it will have in its loft hundreds of unused vessels but there are people who doest have a container to drink water. If a middle class can hide so much of unused wealth what about the rich and elite?
We buy a ground in sholinganallur and another in singaperumal koil and we know for sure we can live at only one place at any time then why do you need two grounds? There are people whose entire life they spend in street platforms. You spend thousands on DVDs and home theaters when there are people who cant afford doctors for lack of few hundred rupees.
I want money. I want more money. All I want is money. Isn't there anything else in this world to spend time on? The thought about parents also results only in money. What insurance should I take for them? How much money should I give them everymonth? Do they need such a big house? When we keep wondering about these things there are 1000's of old people dying without proper care.
I keep reading in news papers about people who need 1 lakh rupees to save their sick child or sick adult. The people who read those advts have lakhs invested in banks, bonds and shares which cannot be used for any purpose. They will remain as papers or in this age data and will remain as data without helping anyone who is in need.
The imbalance in the society is too much to bear.
Unless otherwise we come out of the magic spell of money we wont know what we were missing.
There was one video clip on New York. This clip showed how New York looked when there was a blackout. Only then people looked at how the world was around them. They walked instead of taking tube. The entire New York looked new to them. We can experience this in our city. When the electricity goes off we can see people on streets. People see who is living in their neighbourhood. They talk to them. Children come out to play in the streets. Only when the plug is pulled comes the realisation. The moment the plug was on all goes back to old stage.
Money is the plug which is now driving the entire world. We need to pull the plug on it.
A happy new year. Very thoughtful post. I have thought the same many years. Where is an end to this?
money naalae many problems . blood sucking insect maadhiri dhaan idhuvum..


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Q: How to post application insights data to REST API instead of Azure from ASP.NET Core application? I have an ASP.NET Core 5.0 MVC web application and app insights enabled. I am trying to post application insights data to REST API, which I developed using nodejs.
My appsettings.json details are below. Here, API got trigger, but I'm not getting any body content (Insight's data).
Please guide me. Thanks in advance.
{
  "Logging": {
    "ApplicationInsights": {
      "LogLevel": {
        "Default": "Information",
        "Microsoft": "Warning",
        "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
      }
    },
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Warning",
      "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
    }
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*",
  "ApplicationInsights": {
    "InstrumentationKey": "123",
    "TelemetryChannel": {
      "EndpointAddress": "http://localhost:3000/v2/track"
    }
  }
}

A: *

*You won't be able to get the data directly through the application as
it will not send the application insights directly to you, but it
will save it in the storage account in form of blob storage.

*What you can do is either get the data directly through the storage
account or you can get data from the application insights.

*If you want to take data from the storage account, you will have to
use @azure/storage-blob npm package with node js .
const container = blobServiceClient.getContainerClient(containerName);
const blockBlob = container.getBlockBlobClient(blobName);
  const download = await blockBlob.download(0);

*you can get containername from the portal under containers section
of the storage account.

*Another way would be to run a query in the application insights. This can be achieved by making http requests and the request has to be authenticated by either azure ad token or the access key which is in the portal.
 HTTP GET  https://api.applicationinsights.io/v1/apps/{appId}/query?query={query}

Reference:
Export telemetry from Application Insights by Anton Fritz
Export data using Query


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exhibitions and public programs
Christopher Squier has been a Programs Director at Embark Gallery, Curatorial Associate at KunstWorks, and currently serves as Executive Director to the Carl Heidenreich Foundation. In addition, he has held positions at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art and the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and McBean Galleries. In 2015, he received the inaugural postgraduate Exhibitions Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute and Kadist Art Foundation. At Embark, he established the organization's first artist residency program in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, the Internet Archive, and Fort Mason Center for the Arts. He is currently based in New York City.
I Am Maneuvering With Difficulty
Angela Willetts
Embark Gallery
I Am Maneuvering With Difficulty addresses the history of the Fort Mason military site and the semiotics of naval codes. In researching Fort Mason's history and following conversations with National Park Service historians, Angela Willetts' explorations of the defunct military base led her to consider how the psychology of fear and defense systems currently operate within her own life. Borrowing military strategies and languages, her work underscores themes of vulnerability and protection through task-based performances, drawings, and handmade, site-specific flags. Read more.
Visions from the Pit
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Gabriel Christian
The San Francisco International Arts Festival, presented by Embark Gallery
Visions from the Pit are performative vignettes on chaos, the monstrous, and the apocalypse performed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Gabriel Christian. Allow Bhutto and Christian to calm your existential nerves with the news that the world has always been falling apart. With both gravity and humor, they present queer strategies for living and dying in the Anthropocene in this one-hour performance. Bhutto and Christian explore through sound and movement the effect of state sanctioned violence on the bodies it finds threatening. To imagine a single apocalypse at the end of our days is a privilege reserved for the cloistered, when there are those who live many apocalypses. With each one, we must stand back and confront each trauma moment by moment. Read more.
Fluid State
Martin Machado
May 30 – August 19, 2018
Main Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
Martin Machado is a visual artist and alumnus of San Francisco Art Institute who has travelled the world on international commercial vessels as a merchant mariner. His work takes the form of drawings, paintings, and photographs that offer a window into this often-overlooked system of global commerce that underpins modern life. Cumulatively, the works in this exhibition illustrate Machado's time at sea and his deep engagement with the people, places, and historical and cultural complexities of maritime exploration and trade. The exhibition's title, Fluid State, alludes to the state of flux that defines both a life at sea and the shifting tides of global capitalism. Read more.
Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns
Bill Fontana
February 16 – April 30, 2018
Gray Box Gallery & Main Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
As part of the year-long opening celebrations of SFAI's new Fort Mason Campus, internationally-renowned sound artist Bill Fontana's 1981 work Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns is re-presented in its original location on the eastern wall of Pier 2, now San Francisco Art Institute's Fort Mason campus. This temporally-specific installation layers and overlaps with the contemporary soundscape of the San Francisco waterfront. Read more.
Will Brown
Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute
The collective Will Brown invests their exhibition budget in the cryptocurrency Ethereum, making the investment's fluctuations visible in real time via an accompanying app which also controls elements inside the gallery. I commissioned and developed this project in collaboration with the artists over four years, and secured funding from two granting organizations. Read more.
Lurid Ecologies: Ways of Seeing the Bay
Tanja Geis
July 28 – August 19
Tanja Geis partnered with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) to develop an exhibition responding to their work monitoring, conserving and restoring the San Francisco Bay. For Embark, Geis reimagines the substrates set in the bay for colonization by Ostrea lurida, the native oyster, for a series of phantasmagoric drawings made using mud pigment from the Bay. These drawings are shown alongside a 3-channel video installation, shot in research tanks at the Romberg Tiburon Center. Read more.
Carole Doyle Peel: Memorial and Exhibition
Kala Art Institute
Carole Doyle Peel, the southern California-born Berkeley artist known especially for portraits and still lifes died on December 25, 2016. Peel was professor emerita at the California College of the Art, where she taught for over 40 years. Read more.
A Few Select Bits of All Knowledge: A Visual Archive
Christopher Nickel
For A Few Select Bits of All Knowledge: A Visual Archive, Nickel mines the image collection of the Internet Archive—an ever-expanding visual database of user generated digital (and digitized) media—for the raw materials to create large-scale scroll-like tableaus. These digital collages of seemingly unrelated images have been filtered through the eclectic categories employed by the Whole Earth Catalog—a publication that acted as compendium and how-to guide for the utopian visions enacted by the self-sufficient back-to-the-land communities of the 1960s and 70s. Visually drawing the two together acknowledges both the active role that the Whole Earth Catalog took in promoting digital networks as the emerging form for self-organizing communities, while also serving as a direct model for our current Internet-based aggregators, searches engines, and the non-hierarchical system the Internet Archive has applied to its multiple repositories as they seek to fulfill their mission of providing "Universal Access to All Knowledge." Read more.
The Anthropocene Style
Philippe Rahm
March 29 – May 19, 2018
Philippe Rahm: The Anthropocene Style is the first United States exhibition of internationally renowned Paris-based Swiss artist and architect Philippe Rahm. The exhibition manifests Rahm's ideas surrounding the urgency of climate change through an architecture and design process that takes climate, atmosphere, and physiology as its primary material. Read more.
Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances
Mariana Castillo Deball
April 14 – July 30, 2016
Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances presents an archaeological search for absence and a study in the gaps of memory. What role does chance—in the form of lapsed time, erosion, fragmentation, and human intervention—play in our subjective interpretation of history? By lingering on the unknown histories of artifacts, Deball underscores the effects of natural and social processes within archaeological narratives. The exhibition presents a new vision of archaeology—one that acknowledges ghosts, double visions, and multiple versions of history. Read more.


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New Horizons Captures New Data on Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69
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By NASA July 19, 2017
NASA's New Horizons team captured an event that's known as an occultation on an elusive target, an ancient Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69.
A primitive solar system object that's more four billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) away passed in front of a distant star as seen from Earth. Just before midnight Eastern Time Sunday (12:50 a.m. local time July 17), several telescopes deployed by the New Horizons team in a remote part of Argentina were in precisely the right place at the right time to catch its fleeting shadow — an event that's known as an occultation.
In a matter of seconds, NASA's New Horizons team captured new data on its elusive target, an ancient Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69. Weary but excited team members succeeded in detecting the spacecraft's next destination, in what's being called the most ambitious and challenging ground occultation observation campaign in history.
"So far we have five confirmed occultations," said Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, holding up five fingers as New Horizons scientists pored over the exhilarating initial data. Buie led a team of more than 60 observers who battled high winds and cold to set up a "picket fence" of 24 mobile telescopes in a remote region of Chubut and Santa Cruz, Argentina. Their goal: to spot the shadow of the mysterious Kuiper Belt object (KBO) where New Horizons will fly by on New Year's Day 2019 – to better understand its size, shape, orbit and the environment around it. Before these observations, only the Hubble Space Telescope successfully detected MU69, and even it had not been able to determine MU69's size or shape.
"It was the most historic occultation on the face of the Earth," said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science in a congratulatory call to the team. "You pulled it off and you made it happen."
Now you see it, now you don't: NASA's New Horizons team trained mobile telescopes on an unnamed star (center) from rural Argentina on July 17, 2017. A Kuiper Belt object 4.1 billion miles from Earth — known as 2014 MU69 — briefly blocked the light from the background star, in what's called an occultation. The time difference between frames is 200 milliseconds, or 0.2 seconds. This data helps scientists to better measure the shape, size and environment around the object; the New Horizons spacecraft will fly by this ancient relic of solar system formation on January 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The first MU69 occultation campaign scientist to see the telltale signature of MU69 was Amanda Zangari, a New Horizons co-investigator from SwRI, who said, "We nailed it spectacularly."
The New Horizons team enjoyed strong support from Argentinian scientists, government officials, and locals, who went above and beyond to ensure mission success. "I've been calling the people who helped us, our 'twelfth player,'" Buie said. "The Comodoro Rivadavia community came together and did some amazing things for us." A major national highway was closed for two hours to keep car headlights away. Street lights were turned off to ensure absolute darkness. People like the Intendente or Mayor of the Comodoro parked trucks as wind breaks. Said Buie, "The local people were a major team player."
"Planning for this complex astronomical deployment started just a few months ago and although the odds seem daunting — like finding a needle in a haystack — the team succeeded, thanks to the help of institutions like CONAE (Argentina's National Commission on Space Activities), and all the goodwill of the Argentinian people. This is another example of how space exploration brings out the best in us," said New Horizons Program Executive Adriana Ocampo.
This was the third of three ambitious occultation observations for New Horizons, and all contributed to the success of the campaign. On June 3, teams in both Argentina and South Africa attempted to observe MU69. On July 10, researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, studied the environment around MU69 while flying over the Pacific Ocean from Christchurch, New Zealand.
When New Horizons flies by it, MU69 will be the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft, over a billion miles farther from our sun than Pluto. This ancient Kuiper Belt object is not well understood, because it is faint (likely 14-25 miles or 22-40 kilometers across) and so far away. To study this distant object from Earth, the New Horizons team used Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia satellite data to calculate where MU69 would cast a shadow on Earth's surface. Both satellites were crucial to the occultation campaign.
It will take weeks for scientists to analyze the many datasets from the multi-faceted campaign. This advance observation is a critical step in flyby planning before the New Horizons spacecraft arrives at MU69 on January 1, 2019.
"This effort, spanning six months, three spacecraft, 24 portable ground-based telescopes, and NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory was the most challenging stellar occultation in the history of astronomy, but we did it!" said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from SwRI. "We spied the shape and size of 2014 MU69 for the first time, a Kuiper Belt scientific treasure we will explore just over 17 months from now. Thanks to this success we can now plan the upcoming flyby with much more confidence."
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Looks like Blizzard has decided to go against their tradition of announcing a new World of Warcraft expansion via Blizzcon, as they've recently announced that the next expansion will be announced during Gamescom 2015. I was really hoping for news about a new Diablo 3 expansion (yes I know about the 2.3 update), but I can understand why Blizzard wants to get a head start on this.
The current state of WoW is pretty bad, so much even the most die-hard players have stopped playing and that's saying something. The lack of interesting content, no additional 5-man dungeons for casuals and well…. the selfie stick? It's not hard to see why this announcement is coming sooner than later and I for one, as a former World of Warcraft player since day 1 (I've been clean since 1/3/2015), hope to hell that this expansion is worth it. And has us taking it to the Burning Legion this time….. or even under the Maelstrom, anything interesting.
So sit tight, you'll have your fill of Blizzard and World of Warcraft gamin news come August 6, 2015. And if you can't be there, no worries as Blizzard will be streaming the announcement. Just check out their nice and fancy Gamescom 2015 page (yes, really) over at http://blizzgc.com.
And here's a schedule for the stream, we just don't know what exactly will be streamed however.
Alright Blizzard, you've peeked my interest, let's see what you got! And it better be GOOD!


Abstract: This study was carried out to determinate the Tachinidae fauna of Sakarya Province in 2012 and 2013. Tachinids were collected in the region by sweeping with nets from various plants. As a result of this study, 7 genera and 8 species belonging to the subfamily of Exoristinae, 5 genera and 5 species belonging to the subfamily of Tachininae, 2 genera and 2 species belonging to the subfamily of Dexiinae, and 4 genera and 6 species belonging to the subfamily of Phasiinae were found. Two species among them, Meigenia incana (Fallen, 1810) and Exorista civilis (Rondani, 1859), were recorded for the first time in Turkey.


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Tsunamis in the World
Tsunamis in the World pp 197-216 | Cite as
Tsunami Intensity and Disasters
N. Shuto
Part of the Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research book series (NTHR, volume 1)
A tsunami intensity is defined as the logarithm of the local tsunami height to the base two. In terms of this tsunami intensity, important tsunami aspects are classified such as tsunami profiles near the shoreline, damage to individual houses made of wood, stone or reinforced concrete, damage percentage of wooden houses in a flooded area, damage percentage of fishing boats, damage to aquaculture rafts and effectiveness of tsunami control forests, based upon data from old documents of the past tsunamis.
Tsunami Height Fishing Boat Earthquake Tsunami Wooden House Damage Percentage
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The last few decades have seen a fundamental shift towards all things digital.
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Professional brand extends far beyond a CV – and even a LinkedIn profile for that matter. In a recent survey by CareerBuilder, 70% of employers confessed to using social media like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to vet candidates before hiring. What's more, 54% of those employers did not make a hire as a result of incriminating content seen on their pages.
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Obama, Early and Late Boomers, and Pluto generations
There are two articles in the latest Newsweek magazine that have inspired posts, so you'll get one tomorrow about the end of the happiness craze. Today, though, I am excited about Jonathan Alter's article about the battle between the Early Boomers versus the Late Boomers in the battle between Obama and Clinton.
Jill has been bemoaning just such a battle on her blog, where cohorts from both generation are duking it out over the Democratic candidates. The fact is, the Boomers that get the bad rap about being an admittedly self-indulgent and narcissistic generation are those of us born with Pluto in Leo. The late Boomers, the one Alter describes as "feeling like generational stepchildren . . . as if we arrived late at the '60s party after everything turned bitter."
These Boomers are those born with Pluto in Virgo (after October of 1956), and their generation has been marked by a strong resentment to those who came directly before them. This is no surprise, because Virgo doesn't like Leo much. Where Leo seeks the spotlight and takes center stage, demanding attention and adoration, Virgo is selfless and service-oriented and seeks only to serve others and live a life that is safe and orderly. The sign that Pluto falls in typically doesn't express our individual personality but it does reflect who we are as a generation.
The Leo nature doesn't have much thought for the future – it is anchored in the present and a need for pleasure and fun. Virgo, on the other hand, has a tendency to worry about the adequacy of available funds and planning for the future. Where Virgo is willing to work long hours toward a goal, Leo is more concerned with doing work that will allow the fullest expression of oneself. Where Leo seeks to express the Ego in the most perfect way, Virgo has an intense dislike of Ego expression, and herein lies the deepest difficulty between the two generations.
There are plenty of Boomers who weren't hippies, but that instinct for self-expression and living our own life has been a driving force for nearly everyone born during this time period (except for those with strong concentrations of earth and water signs). And it's no wonder that the Pluto in Virgo generation is resentful of the"entitlement and excess" and the squandering of resources that has been done under the Boomer reign.
The length of a generation shortened significantly during this period. Pluto was in Cancer, for example, nearly 25 years (between 1913 and 1939). Those with Pluto in Cancer sacrificed everything for family and country, both focuses of the Cancer archetype. Pluto was in Leo from 1939 until 1956, only 17 years, and then in Virgo for only 15 years, from 1956 until 1971. Jonathan Alter reports that demographers have concluded that generations are only 10-15 years rather than the 20 years used previously, and this makes sense given the acceleration of Pluto during these years and Pluto was in Sagittarius for only 13 years. (This trend is about to reverse, with Pluto traveling through Capricorn for 16 years. )
Obama's candidacy is reaching across aisles of race and gender; hopefully he can reach across the Pluto/Virgo aisle as well!
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Q: Understanding Universal Property and Universal Element (from Category Theory in Context, Riehl) I'm trying to understand universal Property and universal element as stated in Category Theory in Context.
The book states

So from what I understand, since $C(c, -)$ is representable, there exists natural isomorphism between $F$ and $C(c,-)$, call this natural isomorphism $\alpha$ And since by Yoneda, this $\alpha$ corresponds to some $x \in Fc$, which we call the universal element.
Is my understanding correct?
Also, am I correct in saying that universal elements are not unique, since there may be multiple natural isomorphism between $F$ and $C(c,-)$?
Also,

Also, here, then $\otimes$ is not unique, so I would think different $\otimes$ corresponds to different natural isomorphism, and hence different $\overline{f}$, is that right?
Thanks for your help!

A: I'm adding an answer to this question because I both agree and disagree with trujello's answer in the comments on the question.
I agree that the definition Riehl gives is somewhat opaque for a beginner, but I definitely disagree that the definition is bad. This is the definition that I use intuitively now, though it certainly wasn't the one I first learned (partly because I never saw a clear definition when I was learning, only a lot of examples).
I also think that if you start off with learning this definition you'll avoid a couple common misconceptions that I encountered in the past. For example, this definition makes the role of the universal element clear. A product is not just an object, but an object with a specific family of projections satisfying a property.
Some philosophy on definitions
What makes a definition good? One possible viewpoint is that a good mathematical definition is one that abstracts a bunch of common situations in some area of mathematics and identifies the key feature that allows you to understand them as being all examples of the same underlying concept.
A result of this viewpoint is that the definition can seem opaque when you aren't so familiar with the situations being abstracted to see how they all fit into this same concept. (For example, I've recently been introduced to the concept of triangulated categories, whose examples are the stable homotopy category, derived categories of complexes, and modular representation theory, none of which are particularly familiar to me, which makes understanding the definition a bit more difficult.)
How then can we understand such definitions?
The answer I'll give is in two parts, and I'll try to provide these in this answer.
First, understand the examples motivating the definition. A good algebra textbook doesn't just drop the definition of a group on students with no examples, and this definition of universal property is the same. It needs to be packaged with a long list of examples.
Second, the connection between the motivating examples and the definition needs to be made explicit.
With that said, let's get to answering the real question asked above, how to understand Riehl's definition, and what exactly is going on with universal elements/their uniqueness.
Motivating examples of universal properties
A note that all of these examples all are described as having universal properties whether presented in Riehl's form or not. Riehl's definition uses the name universal property because that is the name already in use for all the examples. I will therefore sort of have to use it in both the more traditional sense and in Riehl's sense, although they do turn out to be equivalent.
Also, I have a slight quibble of the precise wording of her definition, which may or may not be contributing to your confusion about the uniqueness of the universal element. I would say that the representing object $c$ is a universal object, the element $x\in F(c)$ is the universal element, and the pair $(c,x)$ has the universal property that it represents the functor $F$.
Products (more generally limits)
Let $C$ be a category, $x,y\in C$ objects. A product of $x$ and $y$ is an object
$x\times y$, and a pair of morphisms $\pi_1 : x\times y \to x$, $\pi_2:x\times y \to y$ such that the following universal property (not obviously in Riehl's sense) is satisfied:
For all objects $z$, with a pair of morphisms $p_1 : z\to x$ and $p_2:z\to y$, there is a unique morphism $(p_1,p_2): z\to x\times y$ such that $\pi_1(p_1,p_2) = p_1$, and $\pi_2(p_1,p_2)=p_2$.
Relating to Riehl's definition: We need a functor and a universal element.
The functor here is $C(-,x)\times C(-,y)$, where $C(x,y)$ is notation for the morphisms from $x$ to $y$ in the category $C$. In other words, this functor sends an object $z$ to pairs of morphisms $(p_1:z\to x, p_2:z\to y)$.
A representing object for $C(-,x)\times C(-,y)$ consists of a pair of an object $x\times y$ and a universal element $$(\pi_1,\pi_2)\in C(x\times y,x)\times C(x\times y,y),$$
such that $(\pi_1,\pi_2)$ defines a natural isomorphism
$$C(-,x\times y)\simeq C(-,x)\times C(_,y).$$
This property of the universal element translates into the fact that
morphisms $f:z\to x\times y$ correspond bijectively to pairs of maps $(f_1:z\to x,f_2:z\to y)$ via $f\mapsto (\pi_1\circ f,\pi_2\circ f)$, which is the first version of the universal property given in the definition of the product.
Free abelian groups (more generally free objects)
Let $S$ be a set. Let $U$ be the forgetful functor from abelian groups to sets. Let
$\newcommand\Z{\mathbb{Z}} \Z\{S\}$ denote the free abelian
group on the set $S$, with $[s]$ denoting the basis element corresponding to a given element $s\in S$.
The universal property (again, not obviously Riehl's definition, though equivalent)
of $\Z\{S\}$ is that for any abelian group $A$, and any map $\phi:S\to UA$, there is a unique morphism $\tilde{\phi}:\Z\{S\}\to A$ such that $\tilde{\phi}([s])=\phi(s)$.
Relating to Riehl's definition
The functor here is $\newcommand\Set{\mathbf{Set}} \Set(S,U-)$. The universal object should be $\Z\{S\}$, and the universal element should be a function $\psi : S\to U\Z\{S\}$,
which is $\psi(s)=[s]$. The natural transformation corresponding to $\psi$ sends a morphism $\tilde{\phi}:\Z\{S\}\to A$ to the function $s\mapsto \tilde{\phi}([s])$. The fact that this natural transformation is a natural isomorphism yields the version of the universal property above.
Tensor products
Again, we'll give the traditional definition of the tensor product.
The tensor product $V\otimes_k W$ of vector spaces $V$ and $W$ over a field $k$ is a vector space with a $k$-bilinear map $\otimes : V\times W\to V\otimes_k W$ such that for any $k$-bilinear map $\phi : V\times W\to U$, there is a unique linear map $\tilde{\phi}:V\otimes_k W\to U$ with $\phi =\tilde{\phi}\circ \otimes$.
Here the functor is $\newcommand\Bilin{\operatorname{Bilin}}\Bilin_k(V,W;-)$, the universal object is $\otimes$, the universal element is $\otimes$, and we see that the universal property is about a bijection between maps $\newcommand\Vect{\mathbf{Vect}}\Vect_k(V\otimes_kW,U)$ and $\Bilin_k(V,W;U)$.
There are of course many more examples of universal properties, but I'll leave this here.
Universal elements and their uniqueness
Firstly, universal objects and universal elements are often not unique, but they are unique up to unique isomorphism in a sense that I'll explain below.
First, an example of nonuniqueness. In the tensor product example we can take any automorphism of $V\otimes_k W$ as a $k$-vector space, $\alpha$, and $\alpha\circ \otimes$ will also be a universal element. The point to take away from this is that the tensor product is not just the object $V\otimes_k W$ (despite the somewhat misleading notation), it is the pair $(V\otimes_k W,\otimes)$. I.e. the pair of a universal object and a universal element. These pairs are not unique, but they are unique up to unique isomorphism, which is just about the best you can get in category theory.
Suppose $(c,x)$ is a representing pair for a functor $F$, and suppose $(c',x')$ is also a representing pair for $F$. Then there is a unique isomorphism $c\to c'$ such that $F(c\to c')$ sends $x$ to $x'$. The proof of this is an application of the Yoneda lemma:
We have natural isomorphisms
$$C(c,-)\simeq F\simeq C(c',-),$$
where the following elements correspond
$$1_c\leftrightarrow x\leftrightarrow \phi:c'\to c$$
$$\psi:c\to c'\leftrightarrow x'\leftrightarrow 1_{c'}.$$
Applying $\psi$ to the first correspondence, and $\phi$ to the second correspondence, we get
$$\psi \leftrightarrow F(\psi)(x)\leftrightarrow \psi\phi$$
$$\phi\psi\leftrightarrow F(\phi)(x')\leftrightarrow \phi.$$
Comparing these to the first pair of correspondences, we see that $\psi\phi = 1_{c'}$, $\phi\psi = 1_c$, and $F(\psi)(x) = x'$, which proves existence of the claimed isomorphism. Uniqueness is because if $F(\beta)(x)=x'$, then we would get $\beta \leftrightarrow x' \leftrightarrow \beta\phi$, which forces $\beta  = \psi$.


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By Elisa Lala
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Announcements Chris Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stood in the rotunda of New Jersey's Statehouse on Tuesday and announced plans for the building to receive a major facelift, NJ.com reports.
The 224-year-old building will undergo a $300 million renovation that will begin immediately. The project is expected to take up to four years to complete.
Christie reportedly called the building unsafe, citing its lack of sprinklers and a fire suppression system, and said that he's ashamed that it is in such dire condition.
The New Jersey Statehouse is the second-oldest continuously operated Statehouse in the country. NJ.com notes that the construction project will not affect the Assembly and Senate chambers, which were renovated in the early 1990s. Parts of the building date back to the 18th century.
Watch my announcement live from the State House Rotunda on @Livestream here: https://t.co/EojaVBX7AQ
— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) November 29, 2016
The announcement, while sincere, came off as a shock to some who had expected Christie to share something more substantive, like news of a potential White House position.
Christie to reporters, after announcing NJ Statehouse renovations: "I think maybe all of you thought I was announcing something else."
— Maddie Hanna (@maddiehanna) November 29, 2016
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Memi or MEMI may refer to:

 Memi Bečirovič (born 1961), Slovenian professional basketball coach
 Ministry of Energy (Brunei), formerly known as the Ministry of Energy, Manpower and Industry (MEMI)
 Khayali (died 1556), nicknamed Bekār Memi ("Memi the Bachelor"), Ottoman poet

See also
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 Memmi (disambiguation)
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var sinon = require("sinon");
var assert = require("assert");
var tl = require("azure-pipelines-task-lib");
var CodePush = require("./codepush-release");

const ACCESS_KEY        = "key123";
const APP_NAME          = "TestApp";
const PACKAGE_PATH      = "TestApp/www";
const APP_STORE_VERSION = "1.0.0";
const DEPLOYMENT_NAME   = "TestDeployment";
const DESCRIPTION       = "This is a Test App";
const ROLLOUT           = "25";
const IS_MANDATORY      = false;
const IS_DISABLED       = true;

describe("CodePush Deploy Task", function() {
  var spies = [];

  before(function() {
    // Silence console output from the build task.
    sinon.stub(CodePush, "log").callsFake(() => {});
  });

  afterEach(function() {
    // Restore all spied methods.
    spies.forEach(function(spy) {
      spy.restore();
    });
    spies = [];
  });

  function stubExecToFailOnCommandType(commandType) {
    // If commandType not specified, all will succeed.
    var execStub = sinon.stub(global, "exec").callsFake((command) => {
      return {
        code: !commandType || command.indexOf(commandType) == -1 ? 0 : 1,
        output: command
      }
    });

    spies.push(global.exec);
    return execStub;
  }

  function checkCommandsEqual(expectedCommands, execStub) {
    assert.equal(execStub.callCount, expectedCommands.length, "Expected " + expectedCommands.length + " commands, but executed " + execStub.callCount);
    expectedCommands.forEach(function(expectedCommand, i) {
      var actualCommand = execStub.getCall(i).args[0].substring(CodePush.commandPrefix.length + /*space*/1);
      assert.equal(expectedCommand, actualCommand, "Expected: " + expectedCommand + " Got: " + actualCommand);
    });
  }

  function performDeployTask(shouldFail) {
    var performDeployTaskSpy = sinon.spy(CodePush, "performDeployTask");
    spies.push(CodePush.performDeployTask)

    var tlSetResultSpy = sinon.stub(tl, "setResult").callsFake(() => {});
    spies.push(tl.setResult);

    try {
      CodePush.performDeployTask(ACCESS_KEY, APP_NAME, PACKAGE_PATH, APP_STORE_VERSION, DEPLOYMENT_NAME, DESCRIPTION, ROLLOUT, IS_MANDATORY, IS_DISABLED);
    } catch (e) {
      assert(shouldFail, "Threw an unexpected error");
    }

    if (shouldFail) {
      assert(performDeployTaskSpy.threw(), "Did not throw an error");
      assert.equal(tlSetResultSpy.called && tlSetResultSpy.firstCall.args[0], 1, "Did not set task result to 1 on failure");
    } else {
      assert(!tlSetResultSpy.called, "Should not set task result if task succeeds");
    }
  }

  it("Should invoke CLI to logout, login, release (with provided arguments), and logout", function() {
    var execStub = stubExecToFailOnCommandType(/*all succeed*/);

    performDeployTask();

    var expectedCommands = [
      "logout",
      "login --accessKey \"" + ACCESS_KEY + "\"",
      "release \"" + APP_NAME + "\" \"" + PACKAGE_PATH + "\" \"" + APP_STORE_VERSION + "\" --deploymentName \"" + DEPLOYMENT_NAME + "\" --description \"" + DESCRIPTION + "\" --rollout \"" + ROLLOUT + "\" --disabled",
      "logout"
    ];

    checkCommandsEqual(expectedCommands, execStub);
  });

  it("Logout failure should not cause task to terminate", function() {
    var execStub = stubExecToFailOnCommandType("logout");

    performDeployTask();

    var expectedCommands = [
      "logout",
      "login --accessKey \"" + ACCESS_KEY + "\"",
      "release \"" + APP_NAME + "\" \"" + PACKAGE_PATH + "\" \"" + APP_STORE_VERSION + "\" --deploymentName \"" + DEPLOYMENT_NAME + "\" --description \"" + DESCRIPTION + "\" --rollout \"" + ROLLOUT + "\" --disabled",
      "logout"
    ];

    checkCommandsEqual(expectedCommands, execStub);
  });

  it("Should logout and throw error if login fails", function() {
    var execStub = stubExecToFailOnCommandType("login")

    performDeployTask(/*shouldFail*/ true);

    var expectedCommands = [
      "logout",
      "login --accessKey \"" + ACCESS_KEY + "\"",
      "logout"
    ];

    checkCommandsEqual(expectedCommands, execStub);
  });

  it("Should logout and throw error if release fails", function() {
    var execStub = stubExecToFailOnCommandType("release");

    performDeployTask(/*shouldFail*/ true);

    var expectedCommands = [
      "logout",
      "login --accessKey \"" + ACCESS_KEY + "\"",
      "logout"
    ];

    checkCommandsEqual(expectedCommands, execStub);
  });
});


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The Institute of Interim Management (IIM) is a UK based professional body for those working in Interim Management in the United Kingdom and internationally.

History
The Institute of Interim Management was formed and launched in April 2001, with the encouragement and support of the Interim Management Association (IMA) and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Until August 2002, the IIM operated as a Special Interest Group through the CMI infrastructure. Given the IIM's growing need for greater emphasis on its own specialist area of management, and to facilitate a higher profile for Interim Management within industry and commerce, in August 2002, by mutual agreement with the CMI, the IIM pursued an independent status.

Activities

Activities for IIM Members and wider members of the Interim Management community are organised and run by its volunteer Board of Interim Managers and supporting community individuals. The IIM organised 75+ events from its formation to the end of the decade. Examples of such activities run by the IIM include the following:

2001 - "Understanding IR35", "Corporate Structures for Interims"
2002 - "The Legal Responsibilities of an Interim Director", "Interim Management & Winning Teams; Networking your way to Profitable Customers"
2003 - "The Changing Turnaround Landscape - What Interim Managers Need to Know", "The Changing Turnaround Landscape (Corporate Value)"
2004 - "Let me through…I'm an Expert!", "Rescue, Recovery, Renewal - Building Corporate Value"
2005 - "When the Going Gets Rough - Board Performance & the Role of the Non-Executive Director", "Succeed as an Interim"
2006 - "Private to Public: Making the Transition", "Fee Negotiation for Interim Managers"
2007 - "Turnaround and Special Situations - new opportunities in the SME sector", "UK Economic Forecast"
2008 - "The Money Laundering Regulations" (multiple events nationwide).
2009 - "IIM Case Study Competition and Finals Night". "IIM online community launched on LinkedIn".
2010 - "Launched Interim Management 'Local Nodes' events", "Campaigning to support Interim Management"
2011 - "Launched Interim Management 'Media Watch' and celebrated 10th Anniversary"
2012 - "Campaigned against changes to engagement and tax treatment of interim managers"'

Membership

The following membership categories exist for Managers and Directors:.

 Companion (CIIM) - This category is awarded by the Board of the Institute for significant and sustained contribution to the Institute of Interim Management.
Member (MIIM) - Requires a recognised management or professional qualification AND Is an established Interim manager, who can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the IIM a successful track record of Interim assignments AND Has at least three years' experience in board level/senior management positions OR May be without such a qualification but has at least six years' experience in board level/senior management positions.
 Associate (AIIM) - Requires a recognised management or professional qualification AND Can demonstrate a conscious career choice to be a professional Interim manager AND Has at least three years' experience in board level/senior management positions OR May be without such a qualification but has at least six years' experience in board level/senior management positions.
 Affiliate  - For employees of Corporate IIM Affiliates, requires no specific experience or qualifications for the individual.

References

External links
Institute of Interim Management
(LinkedIn group)

Management organizations
Interim Management


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Thermopylae is a narrow pass on the east coast of central Greece between the Kallídhromon massif and the Gulf of Maliakós, about 85 miles (136 kilometers) northwest of Athens (Athína). In ancient times its cliffs were by the sea, but silting has widened the distance to more than a mile. Its name, meaning "hot gates," is derived from its nearby hot sulfur springs that have water of bluish green color and supposed curative properties.
The pass, some 4 miles (6 kilometers) in length, has figured in numerous invasions. There, in August 480 bc, during the second Persian invasion of Greece, a small Greek force under the Spartan king Leonidas defended Attica and Boeotia against the southward advance of Xerxes' Persian army while Greek fleets at nearby Cape Artemesium fought off the attacking Persian navy. Leonidas's troops held the pass for three days until the Persians, guided along another mountain pass by the Greek traitor Ephialtes, outflanked them. Sending the majority of his troops to safety, Leonidas remained to delay the Persians with 300 Spartans, their helots (serfs), and 1,100 Boeotians, all of whom died in battle. Although the Persians won at Thermopylae and conquered central Greece, they suffered considerable losses in the battle, and most of the Greek troops and ships were able to escape to the Isthmus of Corinth to rejoin the main Greek forces. This battle became celebrated in history and literature as an example of heroic resistance against great odds. A large marble and bronze monument commemorating the battle was erected in 1955. In 279 bc the Greeks delayed the invading Celts at Thermopylae, and in 191 bc the Seleucid king Antiochus III fortified the pass against the Romans under Acilius Glabrio. Archaeologists in 1939 excavated spears and arrowheads at the site, supporting legend that the number of Persian fighters was so great that their arrows obscured the Sun.


American telecommunications company AT&T has confirmed it will not try and buy Vodafone, ending months of speculation.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was forced to confirm AT&T's intentions after the UK Takeover Panel – which supervises mergers and acquisitions to ensure fair treatment of shareholders – asked it to.
UK rules on takeovers mean AT&T must now wait six months before it can change its mind and make an offer – unless another company makes a bid for Vodafone.
The announcement, which saw Vodafone shares fall six per cent, ends months of speculation which began in October when Stephenson said he saw a "huge opportunity" to invest in mobile broadband in Europe.


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The Barbering and Cosmetology Act (Act) defines the scope of practice of cosmetology and its specialty branch of skin care. (California Business and Professions Code, section 7316 (b) and (c).) A person licensed as a cosmetologist or esthetician is required to limit their practice and services rendered to the public to only those areas for which they are licensed. (California Business and Professions Code, section 7317.) The Act confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery. (California Business and Professions Code, section 7320.) The Board's regulations specifically prohibit invasive procedures which results in the removal, destruction, incision, or piercing of a client's skin beyond the epidermis or the application of electricity which visibly contracts the muscle (Title 16, California Code of Regulations, section 991.) Licensed cosmetologists and estheticians are cautioned not to engage in any invasive procedures.
The use of electrical stimulation in providing skin care services falls within the practice of an esthetician under certain conditions. So long as the machines providing the electrical stimulation do not deliver an electrical current that will visibly contract the muscle of the body or face and/or result in the destruction or removal of the skin below the client's epidermis. The machines parameters must be set to stimulate the muscle not to contract the muscle.
Is my intent of service to beautify the skin?
Am I treating a disease or illness?
How is the product being advertised? Is the product being marketed as a cosmetic for beautification or does the advertising claim to treat, or cure an ailment?
A skin cream can advertise that it smooth's and beautifies your skin (cosmetic use), however, if it advertises that it will cure or treat acne it could be considered practice of medicine.
What is the consumer's perception of the product/machine? Why is the consumer purchasing the service and what does the consumer expect out of the service?
A machine could advertise that it assists in the penetration of hydrating moisturizers for the beautification of your skin (cosmetic use) however, if it claims to reduce cellulite or manage pain, it could be considered practice of medicine.
Do the ingredients cause the product to be considered practice of medicine?
A skin peeling agent could advertise that its use will remove unwanted dead skin cells and promote vibrant, glowing skin, (cosmetic use) however, if the skin peeling agent claims to remove brown spots or scarring, it could be considered practice of medicine.
The Board does not approve or regulate the sale of skin care machinery. Every year thousands of skin care machines are manufactured and brought into the United States. These machines may or may not have gone through proper testing and/or FDA approvals. Be diligent - make sure you know what you are buying. The Board does not have regulatory authority over the manufacturing and/or selling of machinery. It is the licensee's responsibility to know if they can use the purchased machine within their respective scope of practice.
Is the machine registered with the FDA and compliant with FDA requirements?
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Liveris Andritsos
Panathinaikos 1982 Euroleague semifinalist (final 6)
Liveris Andritsos (Greek Λιβέρης Ανδρίτσος; born December 31, 1959 in Athens, Greece) is a retired Greek basketball player.
Andritsos started his career with Esperos BC. In 1982, he moved to Panathinaikos BC where he won the Greek Championship in 1984 and the Greek Cup in 1983 and 1986.
He was a member of the Greece National Basketball Team that won the gold medal at Eurobasket 1987, and the silver medal at Eurobasket 1989. He also won 6th place in the 1990 FIBA World Championship. He ended his career as Greek international player after 182 caps, scoring 974 points.
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