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#1 | Randy Carlyle jokingly wondered how much 23.05.2019 02:07
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Albert Pujols hit a go-ahead, two-run home run, and C.J. Cron and pinch-hitter David Freese also homered against the Houston bullpen in the Angels eight-run seventh inning as Los Angeles beat the Astros 11-5 on Saturday night for their ninth straight home win. Pujols 511th homer tied him with Mel Ott for 23rd place on baseballs career list. Houston starter Scott Feldman left after six innings with a 5-2 lead and was replaced by Anthony Bass (1-1). Cron greeted Bass with a leadoff single before Freese batted for John McDonald and hit his first homer in 124 career at-bats at Angel Stadium and first in the majors as a pinch-hitter. Kole Calhoun followed with a single for his third hit of the game. Bass retired Mike Trout before Pujols drove out the next pitch for his 19th homer. He is one away from tying Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews on the career list. Tony Sipp, who surrendered Trouts walkoff homer in the ninth inning of the Astros 7-6 loss on Friday, gave up a walk to Josh Hamilton and an RBI double to Erick Aybar. After an intentional walk to Howie Kendrick, Josh Zeid came on and yielded Crons three-run homer. Trout, the 14th Angels batter in the seventh, struck out against Sipp with the bases loaded to end the teams most productive inning of the season after 55 minutes and 74 pitches. Michael Roth (1-0) pitched two perfect innings of relief for the victory after rejoining the Angels from the minors earlier Saturday. Los Angeles is a season-best 14 games over .500 and remains 3 1-2 games behind AL West-leading Oakland. Angels lefty Hector Santiago gave up five runs, six hits and three walks in five innings of his 11th start of a season in which he has been demoted to the bullpen and to the minors. He is 0-7, and his ERA jumped from 4.08 to 4.50. Feldman allowed two runs on six hits and struck out five without walking a batter. Chris Carter hit a grand slam for Houston. The Astros, who came in with an AL-worst .235 batting average, scored five runs in the third after the Angels took a 1-0 lead in the first on Pujols RBI single. Jason Castro tied it with an RBI double before Santiago hit George Springer on the left leg and gave up a single to Matt Dominguez. That set the stage for Carter, who also homered on Friday. Carter slammed his 15th homer of the season and second career grand slam. NOTES: Pujols hit his 542nd career double in the ninth, overtaking Rogers Hornsby for 30th place. ... The Angels became the fourth team to reach the 50-win mark, joining the As, Brewers and Dodgers. ... Freeses homer was the first by an Angels pinch-hitter since Chris Iannettas solo shot on Sept. 4, 2013. ... Roth was selected to the major league roster to replace LHP Rich Hill, who was designated for assignment. ... Former Angels 3B Troy Glaus, who hit a franchise record 47 home runs in 2000 and was the 2002 World Series MVP, threw a ceremonial first pitch. ... The Angels optioned RHP Cory Rasmus to Triple-A Salt Lake, after obtaining LHP Joe Thatcher and OF Tony Campana from Arizona in a trade that sent OF Zach Borenstein and RHP Joey Krehbiel to the Diamondbacks. Washington Redskins Jerseys . Cabrera-Bello shot a 1-over-par 73 and was caught by Webster, who carded 70 at Doha Golf Club for three-round totals of 12-under 204. They were only one stroke ahead of Adrien Saddier of France, the biggest mover with six birdies in his opening seven holes in a round of 64, South African Thomas Aiken (70) and Denmarks Thorbjorn Olesen (68) on a packed leaderboard. Sammy Baugh Jersey . 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That summer, the Raptors flipped Johnson to Sacramento for a second-rounder (used on UConn product DeAndre Daniels last month). He played briefly for the Kings and spent the start of the 2013-14 campaign in the D-League before joining the Memphis Grizzlies and reviving his career, averaging 7.4 points and 3.2 rebounds in 52 contests last season. Now, with a winning environment in place and a need at the small forward position, one that Johnson addresses, Casey and the Raptors have put the past behind them, believing the five-year vet will do the same. Having met with Casey, the Raptors are convinced Johnson has matured and recognizes the importance of this opportunity. It could be his last shot. "The number one thing with James, and weve had long discussions about that, is his role," Casey told reporters in Las Vegas, where his team is practicing ahead of their upcoming Summer League tournament. "He understands that now, which is great. In this business, theres never a person who youll say, Hey, Ill never coach that guy [again]." "Hes had his issues in the past," general manager Masai Ujiri reiterated, "but havent we all? We will help him get over them and this is a good opportunity for him. He has to take advantage of it." Newly re-signed point guard Kyle Lowry is a good example of what one can accomplish given the chance tto redeem themselves.ddddddddddddLowry clashed with Casey over playing time and philosophy during his subpar first season with Toronto before breaking out in a more defined role last year. "I think hes grown up," Lowry said of Johnson Thursday morning. "You get to the certain point, even myself, you get a maturity level that, it comes with age. I think hes going to be able to understand, listen, Im a lot older, Im more understanding of life and coach isnt going to make me this or make me that. At the end of the day, youre playing for the players, your teammates and the organization. I think coaching him will be fine. They will get along well." Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, a good friend of Johnson, were advocates of bringing him on board. Johnson - a big, versatile, defensive-minded forward - is the type of player the Raptors had been clamouring for and could alleviate some of the pressure from DeRozan and Terrence Ross, who were exposed by Joe Johnson and the Nets wings during their first-round playoff loss. Johnson, as you may recall, is a second-degree black belt, undefeated in seven MMA fights and 20 kickboxing matches. With a 6-foot-9, 245-pound frame, hes sure to strike fear in the eyes of the leagues top perimeter players, assuming he buys into his role as a defensive stopper. When Dave Joerger, Johnsons former coach in Memphis, was asked about the forwards reputation for occasionally trying to do too much on the offensive end, he joked, "I just let him do too much." "I just say, Go, wreck it," Joerger had told TSN.ca back in December. 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package ch21.atm;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;

/**
   A bank account has a balance that can be changed by
   deposits and withdrawals.
*/
public class BankAccount
{
   private int accountNumber;

   /**
      Constructs a bank account with a given balance.
      @param anAccountNumber the account number
   */
   public BankAccount(int anAccountNumber)
   {
      accountNumber = anAccountNumber;
   }

   /**
      Deposits money into a bank account.
      @param amount the amount to deposit
   */
   public void deposit(double amount)
         throws SQLException
   {
      Connection conn = SimpleDataSource.getConnection();
      try
      {
         PreparedStatement stat = conn.prepareStatement(
               "UPDATE Account"
               + " SET Balance = Balance + ?"
               + " WHERE Account_Number = ?");
         stat.setDouble(1, amount);
         stat.setInt(2, accountNumber);
         stat.executeUpdate();
      }
      finally
      {
         conn.close();
      }
   }

   /**
      Withdraws money from a bank account.
      @param amount the amount to withdraw
   */
   public void withdraw(double amount)
         throws SQLException
   {
      Connection conn = SimpleDataSource.getConnection();
      try
      {
         PreparedStatement stat = conn.prepareStatement(
               "UPDATE Account"
               + " SET Balance = Balance - ?"
               + " WHERE Account_Number = ?");
         stat.setDouble(1, amount);
         stat.setInt(2, accountNumber);
         stat.executeUpdate();
      }
      finally
      {
         conn.close();
      }
   }

   /**
      Gets the balance of a bank account.
      @return the account balance
   */
   public double getBalance()
         throws SQLException
   {
      Connection conn = SimpleDataSource.getConnection();
      try
      {
         double balance = 0;
         PreparedStatement stat = conn.prepareStatement(
               "SELECT Balance FROM Account WHERE Account_Number = ?");
         stat.setInt(1, accountNumber);
         ResultSet result = stat.executeQuery();
         if (result.next())
            balance = result.getDouble(1);
         return balance;
      }
      finally
      {
         conn.close();
      }
   }
}

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Stuart Prior's keynote address was certainly a highlight for me, but I learn from every single one of the presenters.
And, at the conference, foreigners were a majority. So much so, that it made it feel a little more like home.
Can't wait to attend next year's in Christchurch!
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Q: Ensuring IE-9 compatibility while end to end testing using phantomJS I am using PhantomJS (headless end to end testing),selenium webdriver,grunt(task runner) for my application testing. My requirement is that the application should be compatible with IE-9. I have to do headless testing because I'm using jenkins for continuous integration.

How do i make sure that my application will run perfectly on IE-9
  while testing on phantomJS ?

A: You can't use PhantomJS for testing compatibility with Internet Explorer, because it is a Webkit browser.
Since you're using Selenium, you should be able to use the IE WebDriver.
Some thoughts on why you can't even simulate IE in PhantomJS:

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*They are built on different base technologies. They use different rendering engines and both have different bugs when it comes to adhering to W3C specifications.

*JavaScript bugs may be simulatable, but this requires you to go ahead and fix all bugs that PhantomJS has in comparison to your specific IE version by exchanging the implementation of some browser APIs. You would also need to introduce some bugs that are present in your IE version, but not in PhantomJS again by exchanging implementation.

*CSS bugs can only be introduced if you change the WebKit implementation and compile it again. You would have to find them first.

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Team China win freestyle skiing mixed team aerials silver medal at Beijing 2022
Updated 13:35, 11-Feb-2022
L-R: Qi Guangpu, Xu Mengtao and Jia Zongyang of Team China react after competing in the freestyle skiing mixed team aerials final at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park A & M Stadium in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, February 10, 2022. /CFP
Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu of Team China won the silver medal in the inaugural freestyle skiing mixed team aerials final with 324.22 points at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park A & M Stadium in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province on Thursday.
Team USA pocketed the gold with 338.34 points while Team Canada got the bronze. "It gave me chills! It's so exciting," Ashley Caldwell of Team USA said of being the first-ever freestyle skiing mixed team aerials gold medalist at the Olympics.
"I feel incredible, it's almost dreamlike. We were all very anxious and excited to compete tonight and there was a lot of pre-competition jitters and we did exactly what we needed to do," she added. "We've got bronze and silver (in the past) but the gold has alluded us in the team aerials event and we've always had a degree of difficulty to be at the top of the podium but never executed it and we did it here when it counted."
Xu, Jia and Qi all completed their moves well in the air, but Jia's landing became the turning point of the competition. Instead of touching the ground with his skis and sliding to the end, he flipped forward first, which cost him a lot of points. Fortunately Jia recovered and didn't get injured.
"I wanted to do a good jump, I wanted to do it well," Jia said after the competition. "I felt like, 'yeah, that's it' right after the take-off so I tried to control it. But the moment I landed, I didn't know what went wrong. It's a real pity." He kept apologizing for the error, blaming himself for costing the team the gold. Xu was there consoling Jia after his jump.
For Team Canada, the bronze medal was a surprise as they were not among the favorites going into the competition. "I knew we were a strong team but we had never actually been in a final in these team events," said team member Marion Thenault. "First finals, first podium. I knew we were capable of doing it but we did it, so it's just awesome. I just can't believe I'm an Olympic medalist. It's crazy!"
Xu Mengtao of Team China competes in the freestyle skiing mixed team aerials final at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park A & M Stadium in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, February 10, 2022. /CFP
Jia Zongyang of Team China competes in the freestyle skiing mixed team aerials final at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park A & M Stadium in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, February 10, 2022. /CFP
Qi Guangpu of Team China competes in the freestyle skiing mixed team aerials final at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park A & M Stadium in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, February 10, 2022. /CFP


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Cepora quadricolor is een vlinder uit de familie van de witjes (Pieridae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1877 door Godman & Salvin.

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Enables the creation of plugins for [Owl Carousel v1](https://github.com/OwlFonk/OwlCarousel) by hooking into its event callbacks. May be used as a general guide for creating extensions for Javascript libraries that do not have plugin APIs.

## Authorship

Written by [Geoffrey Roberts](mailto:g.roberts@blackicemedia.com)

## License

MIT

## Features

* Allows Owl Carousel v1 to be extended in a modular fashion
* Supports reusable functions on a per-plugin basis

## Requirements

* jQuery
* Owl Carousel

## Installation

In the `<head>` of your page, after you set up your jQuery and Owl Carousel `<script>` items, add the following:

```html
<script type="text/javascript" src="owlcarousel-plugin.js"></script>
```

## Usage

To use this plugin architecture properly, you need to define your initial settings as an object, apply your plugins in turn to the settings, and then initialise Owl Carousel with those settings.

```javascript
var settings = {};
PluginA.applyTo(settings);
PluginB.applyTo(settings);
// ...
PluginX.applyTo(settings);
$(".owl-carousel").owlCarousel(settings);
```

Each of the plugins here has been created by creating a new `OwlPlugins.plugin` object.

The definition of OwlPlugins.plugin is as follows:

```javascript
var plugin = new OwlPlugins.plugin(callbackMap, reusableFunctions);
```

`callbackMap` represents a map (as a Javascript object) of callbacks that map to Owl Carousel events, such as `afterInit`, `afterUpdate` and so on. A callback can be a function, a name of a reusable function (we'll get to that soon), or an array of a mix of the two.

`reusableFunctions` is a map (as a Javascript object) of names of reusable functions to said functions. Keep in mind that you can do nested maps as long as your maps are always Javascript objects, and you call them using dot-separated strings eg. `foo.bar.baz`.

### Example

Let's define a simple plugin. It will contain do several things:

* After the carousel is initialised:
  * it will turn the `#debug` element green and pad it out a bit.
  * it will set the text of `#debug` to the combined text in each visible item in the carousel.
* Every time the carousel moves:
  * it will set the text of `#debug` to the combined text in each visible item in the carousel.

```javascript
var MyOwlCarouselPlugin = new OwlPlugins.plugin({
	afterInit: [
		function(){
			$('#debug').css({
				backgroundColor: '#cfc',
				padding: '1em'
			});
		},
		'updateDebug'
	],
	afterMove: 'updateDebug'
}, {
	updateDebug: function(){
		$('#debug').text("");
		for (var i = 0; i < this.visibleItems.length; i++) {
			var index = this.visibleItems[i],
			activeItem = this.$userItems[index];
			$('#debug').append($(activeItem).text());
		}
	}
});
```

Note how we've used a reusable function in our definition.

Now, we can apply our new plugin to the Owl Carousel object.

```javascript
var settings = {};
MyOwlCarouselPlugin.applyTo(settings);
$(".owl-carousel").owlCarousel(settings);
```

## Changelog

### v0.1.2

Fixed bug in variable naming

### v0.1.1

Added support for scoped reusables

### v0.1

Initial commit

## Caveats

Current implementation risks hitting the browser's Javascript stack depth limit if you add too many plugins.


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Making your own Media
An early descriptor for the social web was "small pieces, loosely joined", coined by Dave Weinberger, where pieces meant pages on the web and the joining was with links. If I put a link to Fiona's website here, then these two pages are joined in that you can follow that connection use it to build a map (as a search engine might to rank pages). But those pages were already joined socially in that I'm linked to Fiona because I have a relationship with her (she's my wife).
The connection is loosely joined because this is merely a web page. It might be around forever, or it might be deleted tomorrow. As could Fiona's site, were the domain to expire, or maybe she redesigns it and removed whatever it was I wanted to reference rendering my link useless. At the moment of publishing the connection is explicit and solid. As time passes it may or may not sustain. And that's fine.
"Small pieces, loosely joined" is a good example of using something that happens perfectly normally in human societies to show how online activity by humans works in the same way as offline activity. The only fundamental difference is the connection is structurally different. Instantaneous communication across continents is a radically different form of communication, but it still results in a connection between two or more people. And so on. If you think about your relationship with all the other people in whatever you define as your "community", with some notable exceptions what joins you will be fairly loose. We can lose contact for weeks or months or even years and often pick up where we left off. We don't need to check in every minute to keep the connection going. Loosely joined is good enough.
To me, "small pieces, loosely joined" was an instruction not to worry about link-rot and to embrace the ever-changing fluidity of the internet. As resources vanish or expire, new resources replace them. The churn of human activity will produce a situation where enough useful information about most topics will be available a sufficient amount of the time, give or take. Frustrations will occur at the edges, but for the most part you can find out what other films that actor has been in, or how Lagrangian points are caused by competing planetary gravitation forces.
Now, that's a nice general model, and it made a lot of sense in the early 2000s, but these days the Internet has drifted into large pieces, firmly joined, within which an ersatz copy of the Internet exists on their terms. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, all function in the same manner as the web, but without the mess. That can speed things up and eliminate problems of spam and authentication, but the trade-off is thorough commercialisation of the platform and its users. The landlord must make a profit, so activity must be optimised to produce that profit above all else. This faux-internet is a bit like democracy under neoliberal capitalism - we feel like we're free and have choices, but for some reason we're miserable.
As noted in the last post, I've finally cut my ties with the faux-internet and am looking how I might put things online in the future. What am I already doing? What choices do I have? Here's a quick list off the top of my head.
Blogging - I'm using Blot, a $20 a year service which monitors files in a Dropbox folder and turns them into a chronological weblog. I prefer writing in basic text-editors these days (Markdown has been a revelation over the last few years) so this suits me perfectly.
Websites - Nearly all my websites are generated using Jekyll which takes Markdown files, merges them with templates and produces a static HTML website. I was using Github to build and host them for free but have recently started generating them locally on my Mac and hosting on Updog which, like Blot, uses a Dropbox folder to sync and costs $24 per year. Jekyll is a bit tricksy to maintain so I wouldn't recommend it to a novice and I'm looking for something a bit more stable long-term to use instead (maybe Hugo?) But the neat thing about a service like Updog is you could break out your HTML for Dummies book from 1998, type some basic markup in Notepad or TextEdit, throw it up there and it will work.
Newsletter - I was using Tinyletter because it's a streamlined service, but it's owned by Mailchimp, who are full-on surveillance marketing and that shit is evil, and Tinyletter was never that streamlined. I've been using Buttondown recently and like it a lot because it's SO simple. All the cool kids seem to be using Substack which has a subscription model so you can generate income from your newsletter, which could be of interest if you're actually writing something worth paying for. I would always recommend using a reputable service for mass emails. If you use a personal email account you're more likely to get picked up as a spammer.
eBooks - I haven't published an eBook for a while now but if I wanted to it would be surprisingly easy. I use a note-taking app called Bear which uses Markdown for styles and can export in a variety of formats including epub files. This is the other eBook format from the Kindle's .mobi and is fairly well supported outside the Kindle ecosystem. And if you need to generate a Kindle book you can convert your epub to mobi fairly easily. Point being, generating a basic eBook is often as simple as generating a PDF.
PDFs - Don't underestimate the power of the humble PDF, especially if images and formatting are important to you. Designers produce PDFs to send to a printer knowing that it will print to spec. You can do the same with your digital zine - just export it as a beautiful PDF ready to print on people's laser printers, like this guy just did with his words. And, on a Mac anyway, you can get rid of Acrobat - all the tools you need are already available.
Audio - I'm not sure what the landscape is like these days for distributing audio. Podcasts are totally mainstream now, but that doesn't mean it's not all obfuscated for the beginner. The thing to remember is all that audio you're hearing online is just mp3 files (or something identical to mp3 files) and you can produce those easily using an application like Audacity. You can then go podcast-pro on Libsyn, upload them to a social service like Soundcloud or you can just pop it on Dropbox-or-similar and share the public link.
Video - I pay for a Vimeo account. I don't really use it to enough to justify it, but if I didn't have it things would be annoying, so it's a bit of a luxury. It also keeps me from using YouTube, which is evil and should be avoided unless you're really after hundreds of thousands of views and are prepared to sacrifice your sanity to get them. Like most services Vimeo is constantly trying to pivot to the professional market and offers services that no mortal needs, but it's nice and clean and consistent. My videos are produced using a hodgepodge of software. FFMPEG is the most gnarly and is good for automating repetitive stuff. I paid for Screenflow a few years ago as "better than iMovie but not Adobe-stupid expensive" drag-and-drop editor and it's served me well, though I'm sure other options are out there. I still use Quicktime 7 Pro for some things, a 15 year old (!) piece of Apple software that is awesome and will stop working with the next OS update, which is bullshit.
Photos - I edit my photos in Lightroom which I pay a significant amount of money for each year. There are probably cheaper options that are just as good, but I like Lightroom so am kinda locked in. I am interested in other semi-pro apps to recommend to students though. For online hosting I still use Flickr. What else is there? Seriously, given how massive photography is it's kinda astonishing that there isn't anything better than Flickr out there. Hell, I seriously considered just using Dropbox as my photo site at one point (but then Dropbox started filling their web pages with "collaboration" bullshit, so meh to that). If you were looking to get your photos out there in a manner you can control that isn't just a stream, I'd probably go with standard website publishing like the old days, or a PDF book. It's a weird time, but weird times are often good things in the long term.
I'll doubtless add things to this list as I remember things and welcome suggestions, but I guess the message I want to get across is there are many options and basic is often fine for what you need. Make something in some medium and make it available in a way that can be loosely joined to other things people have made.
And then maybe we can save the Internet from itself.
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Injection of 5,6-carboxyfluorescein illuminates the size and location of the Pl 9 cell in the lateral region of the dorsal pleural ganglion. Pd, Pedal ganglion; Ce, Cerebral ganglion; Pl, Pleural ganglion (Frost et al., 2003).
Color image from Lee AH, Megalou EV, Wang J, Frost WN. Axonal conduction block as a novel mechanism of prepulse inhibition. J Neurosci. 2012 Oct 31;32(44):15262-70.
The Pl 9 neuron type refers to one or two 70 micron cells located one or two cell layers below the dorsal surface of the pleural ganglion on each side of the brain.
Pl 9 is situated close to the region where Pleural Nerve 1 enters the ganglion.
Pl9 and its synaptic connectivity to Tritonia escape swim circuit. Bars correspond to excitatory connections, black circles to inhibitory synaptic connections, bars and circles correspond to multiple component PSPs. Presynaptic inhibition occurs where Pl 9 inhibitory synapses occur during S cell excitatory synapses (Frost et al., 2003).
Pl 9 is known to receive direct EPSPs from most or all of the ipsilateral S-cells and conversely, it produces fast IPSPs onto the entire S cell population.
Pl 9 can be identified in an isolated brain preparation by first impaling one or more S-cells with a microelectrode and then probing the cells below with another microelectrode for a cell that receives monosynaptic EPSPs from the S-cells and produces one-for-one fast IPSPs onto the S-cells.
Pleural 9 produces direct IPSPs onto the TR1, DRI and VSI-B interneurons.
Pl 9 is known to play a role in mediating prepulse inhibition (PPI) in Tritonia. Intracellular stimulation of Pl 9 mimics the inhibitory effects of skin prepulses on the S cell activity. Pl 9 can block the swim motor program, partly due to the cell's ability to reduce the efficacy of the excitatory S cell synapse onto the interneurons that initiate the stereotypic Tritonia escape response.
Place an intracellular electrode in an S-cell.
It can be identified by its production of 1-for-1, short and constant latency IPSPs onto the S-cell with each action potential, and its receipt of 1-for-1 short and constant latency EPSPs from ipsilateral S-cells.
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Clevertouch is pleased to announce the launch of Stage, a lightweight quick-to-launch collaboration and meeting tool that gets rid of the pain and frustration of difficult meeting access, now available on the Pro Series|E-CAP panels.
Stage now comes as standard with all our new Clevertouch Enterprise E-CAP touchscreens, providing users with the complete collaborative solution without any additional cost.
Shaun Marklew, sales and marketing director for Clevertouch comments, "The ease of conversation should flow in every meeting. Stage gives you all the benefits of video conferencing with the added ability to work on shared documents in real-time. This new browser-based collaborative meeting solution will give you the full in-room experience regardless of your location and device".
Dennis Mohi-VP Business Development at NUITEQ says, "We asked ourselves a simple question: Where does a business grow and thrive? In its ability to share information quickly and execute on decisions made in its internal meetings.
Stage lowers the barriers to enter a meeting and raises the playing field to offer a place for groups to come together, share ideas and deliver results."


Nicholas Ickle is back again and this time he is telling a very scary story. Just like before characters enter the story and they are anything but scary! Poor Nicholas Ickle wants his story to be filled with spooky, terrifying, frightening things like monsters and instead his story is filled with bright rainbows, delicious ice cream and cute rabbits. There is so much to enjoy with this story, exciting words, interesting illustrations and lovable characters make this book an absolute winner!


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Modern business can happen anywhere; increasingly it happens outside your office. So mobile access is critical to productivity.
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Seamless application deploymentgives a staff member fast access to specific applications and data. It's ideal for sales people and others using only one or two applications and accessing a company database.
A virtual private network (VPN) gives direct on-the-road access to a specific company database or other data. It supports local download to work on files offline and it's a lower cost option.
Mobile devices such as smart phone and pads (Apple, Android, Blackberry and others) can give mobile staff immediate access to emails, diaries, basic documents and core applications (via seamless application deployment).
Convenient, relatively low cost mobile devices are playing an increasing role in business and Silverfern is right on top of how to drive them for a business advantage. If you want to know which mobile technology will work best for you, ask us.


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What is the FlowCam?
People often ask us, "What is the FlowCam?" and we answer with one of the following:
an imaging flow cytometer
an imaging particle analyzer
a really cool microscope
the best thing since sliced bread
But really it's all of those things. The FlowCam is a flow imaging microscope that captures high-resolution digital images of nano- and microscopic particles suspended in a fluid stream.
From each particle image, 40+ physical parameters are calculated and can be analysed using our VisualSpreadsheet software.
The FlowCam 8000 series is comprised of multi-objective flow imaging microscopes capable of imaging particles 2 µm to 30 µm. The FlowCam 8400 is equipped with a laser for fluorescent cell analysis.
The first FlowCam was built back in 1998 by a group of scientists from Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences hankering for something that could easily and quickly perform phytoplankton analysis. Prior to the FlowCam, plankton analysis was primarily conducted using traditional microscopy (read: time and labor intensive).
Spring bloom plankton community from the Gulf of Maine, as imaged by the FlowCam at 10X.
Since the original prototype was developed in 1998, the FlowCam has developed (through many iterations) into what is currently a product line featuring four different models built for different applications. Today, over 500 FlowCams are used worldwide, helping oceanographic and freshwater researchers quickly enumerate, measure, characterize, classify, and identify microscopic aquatic organisms.
In 2008, Fluid Imaging Technologies launched it's first FlowCams into the biopharmaceutical market. It turns out that the same FlowCam technology that successfully characterized microscopic aquatic organisms for 15+ years also provides accurate characterization of proteins and other subvisible particles in biologics, biosimilars, vaccines, and other parenteral drugs. So much so that the FlowCam is trusted by the FDA to evaluate particle profiles of recalled drugs.
The FlowCam is used for formulation development, process troubleshooting, and QA/QC testing. The imaging capabilities of the FlowCam enables protein scientists to see the particles and visually verify their identification.
National Institute of Standards and Technology protein standards as imaged by the FlowCam Nano, our flow imaging microscope capable of imaging particles as small as 300 nm.
The FlowCam technology has also been used for numerous particle analysis applications, including printer toner, abrasive dusts, bacteria, and fragrance encapsulations.
Download the Ultimate Guide to Flow Imaging Microscopy to learn more information on FlowCam technology.


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Follow This files fifth climate resolution at Equinor
Five oil majors face same climate resolutions at AGMs in 2019
Follow This has filed a climate resolution for Norwegian oil major Equinor (formerly Statoil). The resolution is identical to resolutions already filed for BP and Shell, and similar to resolutions for ExxonMobil and Chevron, which Follow This has co-filed. All resolutions request the company to set targets for carbon emissions from operations and products (Scope 1, 2 and 3) aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement.
Summary of climate resolutions for 2019 filed with oil majors:
• BP (filed by Follow This, co-filed by ACCR)
• Shell (filed by Follow This, co-filed by ACCR)
• Chevron (co-filed by Follow This; lead-filer to be announced)
• ExxonMobil (filed by CA100+ members Church of England and New York state, source: (#) below, therefore Follow This withdrew its own similar resolution)
• Equinor (filed by Follow This, co-filed by ACCR)
Follow This has opted not to file unilaterally in the United States, where other investors have filed similar resolutions. Instead, Follow This has chosen to file in Norway. This brings the tally of oil majors facing similar climate resolutions to five. "These kind of resolutions should be on the agenda of all oil majors," said Mark van Baal of Follow This. "The oil and gas industry can make or break the Paris Climate Agreement, and their shareholders are the only ones who can call the oil and gas companies to action." He added, "We therefore hope investors will file the sixth and seventh resolution for other oil majors, for example Total and ENI, so we can speak of the seven sisters again," said van Baal.
Links to Media Coverage in Financial Times, Guardian, New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Responsible Investor: www.follow-this.org/en/media.
Note on Text of Resolutions
The texts of the CA100+ resolution for ExxonMobil includes identical specific requests to the text of Follow This resolutions for BP, Shell, and Equinor. These are indicated by bold/italics in the Follow This resolution, below:
Shareholder Resolution at 2019 AGM of ExxonMobil
filed by Church of England en New York State
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors, in annual reporting from 2020, include disclosure of short-, medium- and long-term greenhouse gas targets aligned with the greenhouse gas reduction goals established by the Paris Climate Agreement to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C.
This reporting should cover both the corporation's operations and products, omit proprietary information, and be prepared at reasonable cost. [read the supporting statement on the website of the New York State Comptroller]
Shareholder Resolution at 2019 AGM of
BP plc, Royal Dutch Shell plc, Equinor ASA ("the company")
filed by Follow This
Shareholders request the company to set and publish targets that are aligned with the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement to limit global warming to well below 2°C.
These targets need at least to cover the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the company's operations and the use of its energy products (Scope 1, 2, and 3), and to be intermediate and long-term. […]
You have our support. [read the complete resolution here]
"The fact that large institutional investors are now asking for the same things as Follow This since 2017 (Paris-aligned long-term targets for operations and products) is great news for fight against climate change," says Mark van Baal of Follow This.
"We were positively surprised to hear confirmation that CA100+ investors had filed a strong shareholder resolution. We were about to file a resolution at ExxonMobil ourselves (exactly the same as the resolutions for Shell, BP, and Equinor), but we withdrew ours, since two of the same can have an adverse effect. With Chevron we co-filed a similar resolution for the same reason."
"We're expecting that institutional investors that vote for the ExxonMobil and Chevron climate resolutions will also vote for our same requests for BP, Shell, and Equinor."
"With Shell, we have seen how effective these resolutions are in combination with strong engagement," said Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This.
Shell is the only oil major with a long-term emissions ambition for its products (Scope 3) and the only oil major that promised to set short-term emissions targets. Shell steps are truly industry-leading, however, not in line with the Paris Climate Agreement yet. Shell needs more shareholder support to set long-term targets that are truly aligned with 'Paris', as formulated in our resolution."
Follow This is a group of over 4,400 green shareholders that moved Shell to become the first oil and gas company in the world to promise emissions reduction targets, thanks to the support of large investors (for example, Aegon and Church of England) for our Climate Resolutions.
The Follow This Climate Resolutions read "shareholders request the company to align its targets with the Paris Climate Agreement". in 2018, the climate resolution for Shell got the support of six out of the ten biggest Dutch shareholders (Actiam, MN, Van Lanschot Kempen, NN-IP, Aegon, Blue Sky Group).
For 2019, Follow This filed three identical resolutions for BP, Shell and Equinor, co-filed a similar resolution for Chevron and endorses a similar resolution for ExxonMobil.
Free photos via www.follow-this.org/photos/
(#) Climate Action 100+ investors led by New York state & the Church of England have filed a shareholder resolution for ExxonMobil to set targets to reduce its emissions. Investors with $1.9tn AUM already back it, announced CA100+ on Twitter (@ActOnClimate100)
CA100+ (Climate Action 100+) is an initiative of large institutional investors to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. One of its coordinating partners is IIGCC (Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change) whose members include APG, Aegon, Actiam, CalPERS, and BlackRock. CA100+ members New York State and the Church of England were the lead-filers of the shareholder resolution for ExxonMobil.
ACCR (Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility) is an organization formed in 2012 to further corporate democracy. ACCR develops and deploys strategies to improve Australian listed companies' performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk indicators. In 2018, ACCR filed a similar resolution for the 2018 AGM of Origin Energy, that received 12% of the votes.
Mark van Baal2019-01-08T15:33:08+00:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: news|
Symposium – How investors can support oil majors to stop climate change
BP and Equinor under more pressure than Shell to set targets for all emissions, thanks to investors who supported the Follow This climate resolutions
Scope 3 or Not Scope 3?
How can investors support oil majors to commit to Paris?
New Follow This resolution test case for Shell's new course
"Scope Three" Emissions Are the Elephant in the Room, Says Founder of Follow This
Pensioenfondsen
Follow this wants to make the world sustainable quicker by making Shell a renewable energy company. We can achieve this by becoming shareholders in droves and to unite existing shareholders (like pension funds) behind this goal. Until Shell feels enough support to change course.


A Cork-based tech firm, whose sensors are being used by firms developing driverless cars, has been acquired in a multimillion euro deal.
SensL Technologies, which also develops products for medical, industrial and consumer markets, has been bought by On Semiconductor, a Nasdaq-listed Fortune 500 company headquartered in Arizona.
However, in recent years a key area of growth has been developing light detection and ranging (Lidar) products, which are a cornerstone of the technology behind autonomous vehicles.
Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed but industry insiders told The Irish Times it was a "high double-digit deal". A statement from On Semiconductor said it expected the acquisition would immediately add to its earnings per share.
SensL, whose clients include the European Space Agency, was spun out of the Tyndall National Institute in 2004. It was founded by Carl Jackson and Joe O'Keeffe, the latter of whom went on to enjoy success as a founder of Infiniled, which was acquired by Facebook-owned Oculus VR in 2016.
It's one of the leading suppliers of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) sensor technology for light-sensing applications. These sensors are used with extremely low levels of light and are deployed across medical imaging, 3D ranging and sensing, biophotonics and hazard and threat detection.
"We built the company making optical sensors that can be used in a whole bunch of different products," Mr Jackson told The Irish Times.
"We built the business on the back of our involvement in medical imaging, where we developed a key sensor that goes into PET scanners. We're also active in radiation detection, and three years ago started working on lidar products for the automotive market. This will be one of our core focuses going forward," he added.
SensL has developed a key sensor that allows a self-driving car to see ahead and determine what is on the road in front of it. A laser is used to scan the environment in and around the car and the SensL silicon sensor picks up the light when it returns. This allows the Lidar device to determine the shape of objects in front of the car.
While SensL's autonomous car technology was one big attraction for On Semiconductor, Mr Jackson stressed that the buyer was interested in all of its product lines.
"Everyone involved in the company following the deal will still be here and our staff are all really excited about being part of the On Semiconductor brand. I can't really imagine a better acquirer to help us going forward," he said.
SensL, which is now led by Bryan Campbell, employs 25 people in Cork. Its clients include the European Space Agency, for which it has won a number of contracts.
The revenue-generating company had previously received about €3.5 million in funding prior to the sale with Delta Partners its first big backer. Other investors included Enterprise Equity Venture Capital and Enterprise Ireland.
The Bank of Ireland-backed Delta fund had a 45 per cent stake in the company prior to the acquisition with management and employees owning the bulk of the remaining shares.
The VC firm provided the initial capital that allowed the company founders to leave their roles and capitalise on research they had done into silicon light sensors. It continued to invest in the companies in the following years as it expanded.
"It is some of the most remarkable technology to be developed and commercialised in Ireland in recent years," Delta lead partner Dermot Berkery said of the company.
Enterprise Ireland , which has also supported SensL for many years in the development of new innovative technology also welcomed news of the deal.
On Semiconductor said the acquisition would enable it to extend its market leadership in automotive sensing applications for advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving with expanded capabilities in imaging, radar and Lidar.
It intends to combine SensL's technology with radar technology acquired separately last year in a move that would position it to provide a "comprehensive set of solutions for next-generation highly autonomous vehicles and solidify its position as a leader in image sensing and ultrasonic park assistance".
"The entire SensL team, founded by Carl Jackson and led by Bryan Campbell, have done a great job in bringing SiPMs to market and we look forward to expanding their market success and continuing their product portfolio in Lidar, medical imaging and radiation detection," said Taner Ozcelik, senior vice president and general manager, of On Semiconductor 's Image Sensor group.


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Q: How to initailize a field to be used in other test spec file in protractor I have written below function in one of the page object file in Protractor.
  case 'History':
                          console.log('To do for History');
                          this.artifactsHistory.getText().then((text)=>{
                           console.log(text)
                           this.historyMessage = text
                           console.log('this.historyMessage is '+this.historyMessage)
                          })

Here i want to get the text in one of the field/variable and use the same in the spec file. I am trying to use 'this.historyMessage = text', but on using the same in the spec file, nothing is printed.
Could you please help me in this issue.

A: import { AppPage } from './app.po';
import { browser, logging, element,by } from 'protractor';

describe('workspace-project App', () => {
  let page: AppPage;
  let title;
  beforeEach(() => {
    page = new AppPage();
  });

  it('should display welcome message', async() => {
    page.navigateTo();
    title =  await page.getTitleText();
    console.log(title)
    expect(page.getTitleText()).toEqual('scriptless app is running!');
  });

  it('print the global title variable',()=>{
    console.log(title)
  })

  afterEach(async () => {
    // Assert that there are no errors emitted from the browser
    const logs = await browser.manage().logs().get(logging.Type.BROWSER);
    expect(logs).not.toContain(jasmine.objectContaining({
      level: logging.Level.SEVERE,
    } as logging.Entry));
  });
});

Declare a variable of global scope. Assign value to it in one it() and then use it in other.
And your console.log(text) prints something?


The upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian site of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain) has provided a set of well-preserved partial skeletons in anatomical connection or with a low dispersion of their skeletal elements. One partial skeleton is herein described and a new titanosaurian sauropod is established, Lohuecotitan pandafilandi. This titanosaur is diagnosed by eight autapomorphic features: dorsally and ventrally widened or bifurcated posterior centrodiapophyseal lamina in anterior and middle dorsal vertebrae; short postspinal lamina with a transversely expanded distal end represented by smooth scars in the dorsal vertebrae; anteriormost caudals with the medial spinoprezygapophyseal and medial spinopostzygapophyseal laminae ventrally connected with the prespinal and postspinal laminae, respectively; anterior caudal neural spines with a dorsal projection of the prespinal and postspinal laminae; anterior caudal neural spines bears a "greek-cross"-like cross-section; middle caudal centra having two round and rough structures in the dorsal edge of the posterior articulation, which extends to the dorsal surface of the centrum; the articular ends of the rami of the haemal arches are divided in two articular surfaces; and tuberosity between the anterior and the lateral trochanter of the fibula. The herein performed phylogenetic analysis considered L. pandafilandi as a member of Lithostrotia more derived than Malawisaurus. The known palaeodiversity of the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican titanosaurs is increasing, and further analyses focused on this group will be necessary to better understand the evolutionary history of European titanosaurs and to clarify their relationships within Titanosauria.
Type and only included species. Lohuecotitan pandafilandi sp. nov.
Etymology. Lohuecotitan from Lo Hueco (the type locality) and titan (the giants of the Greek mythology).
Lohuecotitan pandafilandi gen. et sp. nov.
(A). Appendicular bones of L. pandafilandi type specimen (HUE-EC-01): left ulna (HUE-03044) in lateral (B) and proximal (C) views; right femur (HUE-03108) in distal (D) and posterior (G) views; right ischium (HUE-03099) in lateral view (E); left pubis (HUE-03086) in anterior view (F); right fibula (HUE-03087) in proximal (H) and lateral (J) views; right tibia (HUE-03082) in proximal (I) and posterior (K) views. Scale bar: 10 cm.
Holotype. A partial skeleton disarticulated, but whose remains had low dispersion in the field. The complete set is referred as HUE-EC-01 and is composed of: three cervical vertebrae and neural arch fragments (HUE-03128, 03076, 03077, 03136); six dorsal vertebrae (HUE-03088, 03134/7, 03135); dorsal ribs (HUE-03045, 03081, 10017); sacral vertebrae fragments (HUE-03134); 20 caudal vertebrae (HUE-03020-29, 03052, 03101, 03114, 03134/1-6); haemal arches (HUE-03032-34, 03040, 03041, 03054, 03134/17, 03134/19); left ulna (HUE-03044); left and right ischia (HUE-03099, 03134/15); left pubis (HUE-03086); right femur (HUE-03108); right fibula (HUE-03087); right tibia (HUE-03082), and several other indeterminate remains (HUE-3043, 3046, 3067, 3083, 3084).
Etymology. The specific name pandafilandi refers to Pandafilando de la fosca vista, one of the characters in the novel "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha) written by Miguel de Cervantes and published in the early seventeenth century. Pandafilando is, in the mind of the protagonist, a giant against who he must fight.
Type locality and horizon. The Lo Hueco fossil site (Fuentes, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, central Spain) ( Fig. 1), Margas, Arcillas y Yesos de Villalba de la Sierra Formation, upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian.
Diagnosis. Member of Titanosauria, having the following autapomorphies (marked with an asterisk), as well as an unique combination of characters not seen in other titanosaurs: (1) posterior centrodiapophyseal lamina (pcdl) dorsally and ventrally widened (sometimes bifurcated) simultaneous in anterior and middle dorsal vertebrae (shared with Saltasaurus); (2) short postspinal lamina (posl) with a transversely expanded distal end represented by smooth scars in the dorsal vertebrae*; (3) anteriormost caudal vertebrae with the medial spinoprezygapophyseal lamina (med. sprl) and medial spinopostzygapophyseal lamina (med. spol) ventrally connected with the prespinal lamina (prsl) and posl, respectively*; (4) anterior neural spines on caudal vertebrae with a dorsal projection of the prsl and posl, resulting V-shaped outline in lateral view*; (5) anterior neural spines on caudal vertebrae bear a "greek-cross"-like cross-section*; (6) middle caudal vertebrae having two rough structures in the dorsal edge of the posterior articulation, which extends to the dorsal surface of the centrum*; (7) the articular ends of the rami of the posterior haemal arches are fully divided in two articular facets*; (8) tuberosity between the anterior and the lateral trochanter of the fibula (shared with Jainosaurus).
A new titanosaur, Lohuecotitan pandafilandi is described from the Upper Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican Island. This new taxon came from the Lo Hueco fossil site (upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian). This taxon is diagnosed by eight autapomorphic features highlighting the presence of short posl with a transversely expanded distal end represented by smooth scars in the dorsal vertebrae; anteriormost caudals with the med. sprl and med. spol ventrally connected with the prsl and posl, respectively; anterior neural spines with prsl and posl dorsally projected; double articular facets of the rami of the distal haemal arches.
Lohuecotitan is placed within Lithostrotia, and this position is supported by the presence of anterior and middle dorsal vertebrae with strongly and posteroventrally oriented (more than 40°) zygapophyseal articulation. Lohuecotitan is considered a more derived lithostrotian than Malawisaurus and is recovered in a polytomy with Opisthocoelicaudia, Alamosaurus, Trigonosaurus, Saltasaurinae and Nemegtosauridae. The phylogenetic relationships of the Ibero-Armorican titanosaurs remain uncertain. Future analyses focused on European titanosaur taxa will be important to better understand the evolutionary history of this group in the European territory and to clarify the relationships of these taxa with non-European titanosaurs.
Previous works confirm a high titanosaurian diversity in the Ibero-Armorican Island summarizing the recent discoveries from Spain and France: from one known titanosaurian taxon in Spain (Lirainosaurus) and two in France (Ampelosaurus and Atsinganosaurus) to, at least, six or seven taxa ( Díez Díaz et al., 2015). The diagnosis of Lohuecotitan is relevant to begin to update the titanosaurian diversity of Europe, and more specifically of the Iberian Peninsula.


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Open Source Economy
3 Quantitative Analysis
6 Requirements
An open source economy is defined as an economy in which the development of goods and services happens via open collaboration between enterprises and organizations on the global level. It is an economy where the rate of innovation across all sectors is significantly higher than the rate of innovation provided by proprietary research and development characteristic of the 20th century. In short, the open source economy is efficient: it avoids Competitive Waste - thereby optimizing not only production, but also - distribution. It is a paradigm that solves the last frontier of the human economy - distribution - being Distributive Rather Than Re-distributive.
An open source economy related to the work of Open Source Ecology is defined as a parallel economy that can gain a significant market share of global production, within a context of artificial scarcity that is charactisting of Business as Usual enterprises.
Rather than define a quantitative definition of the Open Source Economy in terms of market share - we define it qaulitatively. The qualitative norms are:
Patents are no longer secured because open collaboration and patents are incompatible. It becomes commonly understood that the innovation rate is higher when patents are not invoked, and as such, patents become a thing of the past.
Trade secrets no longer exist because open collaboration and trade secrets are incompatible. There is no incentive to secrecy as the value of transparency has emerged as more productive.
Non-disclosure agreements are no longer invoked, as entrepreneurs have recognized that walling up innovation is not consistent with the general good.
Opening of innovation has distributed economic prowess more widely across the globe. As a result of access to best practices across all areas of human endeavor, the difference between first and third world economies have been blurred. Small-minded corruption and lawlessness where the few benefit at the expense of many has largely been eradicated in formerly backward regions of the world. A first rate standards of living is available to all.
Decentralized economies have made economic localization more relevant to commerce. The stock market, derivative financial instruments, and speculation obsolete in the face of crowd-funding, social capital, place-based investment, and regenerative economics. Environmental and social regeneration has become valued more highly than degeneration.
Wholistic, integral, systems thinking has forged a more ecological relationship between economics and natural resources. Natural resources have been accepted as the source of wealth and objects of respect.
Global Military Spending has been largely converted from wartime ends to peaceful ends - such as Regenerative Development.
Quantitatively speaking, these are translated to the current statistics, and set points are proposed for the next economy:
Overall - for a quantification of the $940B economy required for a transition - see The Tipping Point
Military - 10x reduction from $2T to $200B, with another 10x reduction in the following decade. This is just a gross guess of a practical level that can be attained within 20 years (one generation) - based on transition from weaponry to livingry (as Buckminster Fuller claimed). That means transitioning from kicking ass (stealing products) to producing them instead. The latter is more compelling to those who have feelings.
Military - 10x reduction from $2T to $200B, with another 10x reduction in the following decade. This is just a guess of a practical level that can be attained within 20 years (one generations)
The open source economy is an economy that optimizes both production and distribution, while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. The open source economy is in essence a paradigm where communities utilize open source knowledge and tools to provide material prosperity without relying on global supply chains for essential resources.
See our work from the early days of Open Source Ecology - the Enterprise Plan Video of 2011:
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